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Maybe the better question is: "Agency owners, how sure are you that your staff can spot a phishing email in their inbox?"
Phishing attacks continue to be a genuine problem for all organizations both large and small. Insurance agencies are not immune.
It can be harder than you think to identify a phishing email. Phishing is an attempt to trick the email recipient into giving up personal information by pretending to be someone you know. The real question then becomes, "Can you tell a fake email from a real email?"
Phishing is bad, but it's not always easy to determine what might be a sketchy email and what might be a legitimate one. To help, Alphabet (Google's parent company) subsidiary Jigsaw has made a quiz to help teach people how to spot malicious emails better.
Google's Phishing Quiz
The Google quiz walks you through eight emails—some phishing, some real. Each of the emails included have been inspired by real-life phishing scams. When starting the quiz, you add a fake name and email to make the examples more realistic. None of this information is stored or leaves the site.
During the quiz, you can mouse over emails and links as you try to figure out which ones are the real deal.
The quiz probably won't be too challenging for those of you who keep up on this threat. However, the quiz can still get pretty tricky.
According to Google, one example is based on a legitimate Google security alert that appeared to be a phishing attack, while another was inspired by the email that Russian hackers used to dupe John Podesta to get access to Hillary Clinton's campaign. No one is immune from getting caught.
I was fooled by one of the eight emails in the test.
Fortunately, you can learn from your mistakes. After each question, you are provided tips on what you should look out for, including the smoking gun that should've tipped you off that an email was not legitimate.
Following are some resources that will help you and your fellow staff members pay attention to every email you receive.
You can click here take the Google Phishing Quiz.
NPR Planet Money Podcast: Episode 886: The Price of a Hack — This is an excellent show that talks about the emotional and financial hardships when a phishing attack is successful. It also has some good tips.
ACT Agency Cyber Guide 2.0 — Newly updated, this guide is specific for insurance agencies.
What steps do you take to keep vigilant when training employees on cyber security?


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Given the importance of cave crickets to subsurface ecosystems, the monitoring of their entrance populations over the long-term will provide park managers with an early warning of issues with cave ecosystem health, and contribute significantly toward managing and protecting the cave cricket populations. The network will focus long-term monitoring efforts on determining status and trends of cave cricket entrance population size, life stage, and sex ratio among 15 developed and undeveloped cave entrances at Mammoth Cave National Park during bienial visits. The network will also attempt to determine the potential effects of park management decisions on cave cricket populations within selected developed caves. Finally, the network will look for correlations between cave temperature, relative humidity and air flow trends, surface temperature, relative humidity and precipitation trends.
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Artist and illustrator Linsey Levendall constructs portraits by sketching hundreds of tiny patches of color, creating multi-hued landscapes that take the form of his subjects' hair and skin. The prismatic works show a range of human conditions, capturing everything from deep introspection to pure bliss. Levendall shares with Colossal that his works are inspired by a wide collection of interests including Salvador Dali, animation, graphic novels, and Cubism. The artist grew up in Cape Town's Cape Flats, however he now lives and works in rural Canada. You can see more of his portraits created in colored pencil and ink on Instagram and Behance.
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Road to Camp Bisco – John Church
It's late in the evening, and I find myself huddled under a lowered EZ-Up with two of my closest friends. The wind is howling around us as we struggle to keep the tent from lifting up into the night sky as the storm rages on. The sounds of the not-so-distant scream can be heard occasionally over the breaking of tent poles. Against my better judgment, I decided that it would be in some way beneficial to peak out from under our shelter to get a gauge of how things were progressing in the field. From under the edges of the aluminum frame, I looked upon the ensuing chaos that gripped the poor hippies and tree thuggers alike across the storm ravaged meadow. From the south came the sound of rope snapping under its limits, and I turned to see a tent launch into the air as if it were destined for the moon, only to crash down upon the devastated sea of tents 100 yards away. I dipped back under the EZ-Up and looked at my friends and calmly stated, "This is it boys. We're gonna die." I could think of no place that I'd rather be than Camp Bisco.
The storm of '07, which we all called a tornado but was later classified as a "severe wind shear," marked the scariest moment of the festival for me, next to being front row and three sheets to the wind for Infected Mushroom Live. But Camp Bisco meant so much more to me at the time and still does when I reflect upon it. I know now that it is a place of sordid dreams and musical love affairs. It is a wonderful melting pot of beeps, bops, drips and drops.
I was less than a year into the jam and electronic scene then and had only seen the Biscuits a handful of times. As you could expect, much of my time was spent wandering around aimlessly trying to come to grips with the craziness that only Camp can bring out in people. The Biscuits were my favorite band by this point, but I still had no idea what that meant.
During that amazing weekend on the hills outside of Mariaville, I came to an understanding of something that would take root in me for years to come, something that would come to be the basis for my decisions that led me to where I am today: the understanding of what love for a band really is. The idea that one can drop everything for a last minute show announcement or plan for a whole year to travel across the country for two sets of pure auditory bliss.
To this day, I hear people talk down on my favorite band and on the favorites of others. But aren't we really all the same? We have all found a sound, a place, and a band that makes us feel alive– a band that helps us create some of the best experiences of our lives. Memories that we will look back and smile upon for years to come. Memories that we will tell our children and our grandchildren. Memories that will become stories of how we were back in the day…
The truth of the matter is that it doesn't matter which band is bringing you to the festival. It doesn't matter which band you follow the rest of the year. We are all brought together for the same thing, which is this undying love and eternal search for the best show because it's not the pile, it's pilin' it high. We scour the tours, festivals and venues for that show that just utterly melts our brains, the show that leaves us speechless and unable to move at the end of the encore. In our astonishment, we retreat to our campsites to recall the highlights, yet nitpick on the mistakes we heard, as they played our favorite jams.
And for the record, my favorite would be a tie between HAB and Aceetobee. Go ahead, PT. Do your worst.
Some look upon our criticisms as youthful stupidity. Why would we talk trash on a band that has given us so much joy and driven our destinies in the way that the Disco Biscuits have for me? I'll tell you exactly why we do it. It is out of caring and love that we criticize. We want them to be the best. We hold these musicians on a pedestal because of how their music makes our souls feel alive on the highest tides and our spirits shimmer under the very moon and because in our minds, they already are the best. It surprises us when they provide anything less than perfection. There are others who share these feelings but for different artists. I guess what I am really trying to say is that it doesn't matter who you are raging to as long as you are raging. If the music has touched your soul and spirit as it has mine, then that is plenty sufficient. You have seen the light, and it shines upon your path as you go forth in the world. It drives you to push on when you are feeling down and it provides the harmonic soundtrack to your brightest days. It makes us feel alive when the whole rest of the world urges us to roll over and accept conformity.
Camp Bisco was where I discovered this. It happened so quickly on my first night there that I didn't even notice it at the time. I was walking from my rain soaked campsite searching for my friends when a random little "biscuette" stumbled up to me and said, "Welcome to Bischome." I laughed at what I thought at the time was probably the silliest statement I had ever heard. But there was wisdom in those dilated eyes and that botched attempt at a clever pun; wisdom that I, in my noobness, cast aside as mere eccentricity, like the preachings of a rambling homeless person on a street corner. Looking back though, she had it right. She had experienced something that would come to be what defines who I am today. Just as I'm sure it has for many of you. She knew what this place really was, even if I didn't.…
It's home.
And in less than a week and a half, we will all be going back there. So, my friends and family, get excited. We are going Home Again.
Thank you so much to John Church for his Road to Camp Bisco submission! Sensible Reason is still looking for a few more submissions to our Road to Camp Bisco (RtCB) series. Please submit posts to firstname.lastname@example.com. For more information on how to write your own and examples of last years posts check out this link!


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Rumors tell of Zephyrus, a beautiful and intoxicating woman who lives in a small island in the South Pacific. She's known to seduce all she meets, and not everyone who visits her leaves alive. In World War II, two soldiers become captivated by Zephyrus, and in the present, send one of their sons to investigate her recent appearance. Why has Zephyrus not aged a day since twenty years ago, and what plans does she have for the world?
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I've been having this problem for some time, and I can't find a solution or fix it, and now I'm wondering if what I'm trying to achieve is possible. So at our office we use a 2011iLS-IN router, and we have a VPN L2TP, ipsec connection set up. We also have a Samsung OfficeServ 7200 PBX server, connected to the router, for our phone system, that allows us to have IP telephones connected to it, from a remote location, for example, at homes of our employees. The IP telephone connects trough the public IP of our network at the office, and so does the VPN connection.
The problem occurs when someone from a remote location, connects to the VPN, the IP telephone will be kicked off, and will become unresponsive. If you are on a call on the IP telephone, and you connect to the VPN, from the same home network, the IP telephone connection will be dropped. So first I though it was a firewall rule we had on the router, and I even set the whole router up again, thinking it would fix the problem, but it still acts the same.
So now I don't have any ideas left, and I'm wondering if this even is possible to work together, since both the IP phone and a device connecting trough the VPN, connect to the same public IP, from the same home network.
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Mind Jar's make a great tool to help kids practice mindfulness.
It's also a great way to start a conversation about what a busy mind can feel like. All the different bits of glitter can represent all the thoughts, ideas, worries etc. we have. Sometimes our minds are busy and cloudy, just like when we shake up the jar. The way to settle the mind and feel clearer again is not to control the individual pieces of glitter, but to rest our attention on something steady like the breath (just like we rest the jar on the table). Then the mind (and the mind jar) will settle naturally by itself.
Watching a mind jar settle is also a great way to get to sleep!
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So ladies, with our fabulous new section wedding inspiration I posted some pictures last night of some nail inspiration for your special day. Just remember you want everything to be perfect down to the fine details and it will be so don't panic:)
Your hands are an important piece of your day seeing as that promise you are making with your one and only will be bound by your wedding band, therefore your nails are an important part of your day.
I think for your wedding day keep your nails looking natural, make sure to keep your hands well moisturised in the weeks leading up to your big day especially if you are working in a job like myself whereby half your day is spent washing your hands. You also want to prevent your tan on your special day going wrong on your hands as after you make that promise between the photographer wanting pictures and people wanting a glimpse of the ring you want to make sure your hands are ready.
Most of these looks are very natural and some of them also have a hint of sparkle which will bounce of your fabulous new ring. Keep your nails in good condition prior to the day, moisturise regularly, use a nail strengthener like Sally Hensen and keep your nails natural i.e. if you normally have short nails keep them short or if you normally have long nails keep them long. Shellac and gelish are probably the two most common type of long lasting nail polishes that women use for their big day, although keeping in mind if you normally get nail extensions maybe think about getting them looking natural and minimalist for your big day.
It is also important when planning your nails to get a trial prior to your big day, it will be an excuse to get them done for your hen night away 🙂
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HUGE THANK YOU to everyone that turned out for the Lawson's Finest 6th Anniversary event this weekend! WOW! From start (Mad Taco breakfast at 8am…wait, make that 5:15am for the earlier risers!) to finish (encore by the Grift at 11:10pm), you are seriously dedicated to your passion and enthusiasm for the beers you love!
Drum roll please…..the final numbers are in….and we raised $10,682 for charitable causes! Yes, just fantastic! We are donating $5,341 each to the Desmoid Tumor Research Foundation, and a local family in real need here in Valley through the Warren United Church.
We couldn't have done it without the amazing support of our lead sponsor THE MAD TACO, all of our incredible friends who helped throughout the lead up and during the event, our kind vendors at the market, The Grift band, The Valley Players theater, and more! Thank you!
Thank you, thank you, THANK YOU!
A few fun photos to share: The Grift rockin' it out, the early riser Mad Taco crew, and the starting line up for bottles at the market.


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Hilton Partners with OSK Property and Employees Provident Fund Malaysia to Further Strengthen Melbourne Presence with Signing of Hilton Melbourne Square
600-room new-build hotel set to open in early 2023
SYDNEY and MCLEAN, Va. - Hilton (NYSE: HLT) today announced the signing of Hilton Melbourne Square. Hilton Melbourne Square will be a major meetings and events hotel and will join the recent signing of Hilton Melbourne Little Queen Street, reinforcing Hilton's push to strengthen its presence in the Melbourne market.
Hilton will manage the 600-room hotel under a management agreement with Yarra Park City, the joint venture company between OSK Property and EPF, and is slated to open in early 2023, with construction to commence 2020.
Located in the centre of Melbourne's Southbank precinct, on the corner of Power and Kavanagh Streets, the new-build hotel is part of a $2.8 billion mixed-use development comprising of residential, commercial, speciality retail and 3,700 square meters of open space parkland.
Hilton Melbourne Square is ideally located in close proximity to the Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre and Melbourne Arts Centre. The hotel is also a short walk across the river to the Docklands precinct, Southern Cross Station and Melbourne's central business and shopping districts.
"Having recently signed Hilton Melbourne Little Queen Street, we are thrilled to have now signed another Hilton Hotels & Resorts property with Hilton Melbourne Square, this time a major meetings and events property," said Heidi Kunkel, Vice President, Operations, Australasia, Hilton.
"Melbourne is an extremely important market and with two new Hilton Hotels & Resorts properties joining our existing DoubleTree by Hilton hotel on Flinders Street, we look forward to welcoming both business and leisure guests to all three unique properties."
Comprised of 600 spacious rooms, including 28 suites and one presidential suite, Hilton Melbourne Square will feature an executive lounge, four food and beverage outlets, including a rooftop bar and an all-day dining restaurant, a fitness centre, an indoor pool and extensive meetings and events spaces totalling over 2,800 square meters, including a 1,140-square-meter ballroom and a 840-square-meter junior ballroom.
Tan Sri Ong Leong Huat, Chairman, OSK Property, said, "We are delighted to have partnered with Hilton on this landmark hotel. This new hotel will offer extensive, state of the art convention facilities capable of hosting the world's largest conventions in addition to capitalising upon a very robust local demand for function facilities."
Tan Sri Ong added, "Hilton has an exceptional reputation in the meetings, incentives, conferences and exhibitions space and we are excited and confident to have Hilton driving this business within our new facility, together with 600 cutting edge hotel rooms. Hilton Melbourne Square is a superb complement to the broader Melbourne Square mixed-use precinct."
"Hilton Melbourne Square is an exciting addition to our Melbourne and wider Australasia portfolio and we are extremely pleased to be working with both OSK Property and EPF to bring our world-renowned Hilton Hotels & Resorts brand to Melbourne's Southbank area." said Guy Phillips, Senior Vice President, Development, Asia & Australasia, Hilton.
Hilton Melbourne Square will join 27 hotels presently operating under the Hilton portfolio throughout Australasia.
About Employees Provident Fund Malaysia
The Employees Provident Fund (EPF) is Malaysia's premier retirement savings fund to help its members achieve adequate savings for a comfortable retirement. This is in line with EPF's vision to help members achieve a better future and the mission to safeguard members' savings and deliver excellent services. The EPF has evolved significantly from transaction-centric to a professional fund management organisation with a strong focus on retirement security. The EPF is guided by a robust and professional governance framework when making investment decisions. It continues to play a catalytic role in the nation's economic growth and seeks to cultivate a savings and investment culture among its members to improve the country's financial literacy level. For more information, please visit our website www.kwsp.gov.my.
About OSK Property
OSK Group is a conglomerate with a solid business track record of over 50 years. The Group has diversified business interests in property development and investment, construction, industries, hospitality, and financial services, where it holds a strategic stake in RHB Bank, the fourth largest banking group in Malaysia. OSK Group has over 2,000 employees across its business operations in Malaysia, Vietnam and Australia. Its main holding company, OSK Holdings Berhad, is listed on the Main Market of Bursa Malaysia. OSK Property, which is the Group's property development and investment business, is one of the leading property groups in Malaysia. A multi-award winning developer known for its bold designs and solid reputation, OSK Property has delivered a broad range of properties across Malaysia, from large-scale townships to urban high-rise buildings, and has a portfolio of investment assets in hotels, retail and commercial office properties. For more information, please visit our website www.oskgroup.com.
About Hilton Hotels & Resorts
Hilton Hotels & Resorts has set the benchmark for hospitality around the world, providing new product innovations and services to meet guests' evolving needs. With 580 hotels across six continents, Hilton Hotels & Resorts properties are located in the world's most sought-after destinations for guests who know that where they stay matters. Hilton Honors members who book directly through preferred Hilton channels have access to instant benefits. Begin your journey at www.hiltonhotels.com, and learn more by visiting newsroom.hilton.com/hhr and following Hilton Hotels & Resorts on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.
About Hilton
Hilton (NYSE: HLT) is a leading global hospitality company with a portfolio of 18 world-class brands comprising more than 6,100 properties with more than 977,000 rooms, in 118 countries and territories. Dedicated to fulfilling its mission to be the world's most hospitable company, Hilton welcomed more than 3 billion guests in its 100-year history, earned a top spot on the 2019 World's Best Workplaces list, and was named the 2019 Global Industry Leader on the Dow Jones Sustainability Indices. Through the award-winning guest loyalty program Hilton Honors, more than 106 million members who book directly with Hilton can earn Points for hotel stays and experiences money can't buy, plus enjoy instant benefits, including digital check-in with room selection, Digital Key, and Connected Room. Visit newsroom.hilton.com for more information, and connect with Hilton on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram and YouTube.Download Article Photos
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CHEEKY librarians have told readers to borrow their Antony Worrall Thompson cookbooks – not nick them.
They sent out the message on Twitter after the celebrity chef was caught shoplifting.
The Ready Steady Cook star was given a caution for stealing cheese from a Tesco.
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Think Different, Be "Insanely Great"
BOOK REVIEW of Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson
by Mark David Major, The Outlaw Urbanist contributor
FULL DISCLOSURE: I am writing this review on my MacBook Pro with Retina Display with my iPhone and iPad Mini sitting near at hand while I listen to a shuffle of classical music in my iTunes Library. When I started writing this disclosure paragraph, I noticed my apps were syncing to all of my devices via iCloud, which finished well before I had completed this paragraph. I have been an unapologetic member of the Apple Cult since 1993.
A few times in Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson, the biographer and his subject admit there will be a lot that Jobs won't like in this authorized biography. Once again, Steve Jobs was right. Isaacson's biography is not a great product. The writing is often repetitive, even diverging into triviality on occasion, with the biographer/interviewees (except Jobs himself) all too eager to engage in 'Dime Store' Freudian psychoanalysis about the book's subject. At 656 pages, Isaacson's biography would have benefited from the same zeal for simplicity and minimalism (in terms of editing) that characterized so many of Apple's products during Jobs' two tenures at the company. In fact, Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson reads like Simon & Schuster rushed the book to market months ahead of schedule so it could financially capitalize on Jobs' death in late 2011. The release date is a mere two weeks after Jobs death on October 5, 2011. This is something Jobs would have never tolerated while he was alive. Isaacson's biography is not a bad book but it could have been "insanely great" like its subject. There are many useful, some wonderful insights (usually originating from Jobs himself) contained within, so it is well worth your time to read. In the end, what shines through in the book, despite its problems, is the genius and greatness of Steve Jobs.
Isaacson's fairly ridiculous thesis is Jobs was driven to greatness by a desire to prove his natural parents were wrong to put him up for adoption, which begs the question why there aren't more industry leaders with adoptive parents. Jobs is fairly dismissive of this line of thought. Isaacson's equally ridiculous aim is to get his subject to admit, "He is an asshole." We are all angels and assholes (some, more one than other). It is called being human so it's unclear why this is important. Jobs was a perfectionist but he never (thankfully) claimed he was perfect. Many of Jobs management techniques are tried, tested and effective even if Jobs' form of brutal honesty lacked a 'politeness' filter. Anyone successful, who has been in a leadership position, will recognize these techniques.
Isaacson devotes a considerable amount of words to Jobs' tendency to construct a "reality distortion field", an ability to weld or ignore reality to his wishes but also compel designers and engineers to do the seemingly impossible. We all construct "reality distortion fields" in an attempt to warp reality to our wishes. Some are more successful and ambitious at it than others. It is unclear why Isaacson finds this distinctive human trait so compelling other than the fact Jobs changed the reality of the way things work in this world. The fact is there are many people in the world, who simply cannot abide greatness in their presence. They seek to bring genius down to their level, a sort of "stupidity distortion field." Jobs would describe this as Grade C people bringing down the Grade A people around them to the average, "the ugly", or the "totally shit". Isaacson could easily devote an entire book to how otherwise seemingly intelligent people (like Bill Gates, who comes across as a decent and pleasant schmuck but a schmuck nonetheless) adopt stupid arguments, decisions, and positions to distort the greatness or genius of individuals around them. The fact is there are more like Steve Jobs out there but the herd is too busy trampling them under foot to recognize them. In the end, Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson is best when all aspects of Jobs (the good and the bad) filter through the biographer's gaze. Was Steve Jobs perfect? No, he was human. Personally, I never asked for Apple products to be perfect. I only asked that Apple products be the best in the world and, usually, they were. I never asked Steve Jobs to be anything than what he was: a brilliant businessman, an insight artist, and a (sometimes) source and (often) shepherd of technological innovation. In the end, what was remarkable about Steve Jobs was not that he changed the world but he changed the world in the face of the 'conventional wisdom', which is often polite code for the stupidity of the consensus. Frankly, I prefer to live in Jobs' reality. Along the way, he lived a remarkable life. Surely, that is enough. The world seems smaller without Steve Jobs in it. We have Jobs' Apple to thank for it but it is also a testament to the legacy of Steve Jobs. He will be missed.
I'm attaching video links to a couple of seminal moments in the life of Steve Jobs. First, the famous 1984 MacIntosh commercial, directed by Ridley Scott, which aired during the Super Bowl (above in the body of the review). Many in the trade (including TV Guide) say it is the greatest commercial ever. Second, is the famous commencement address Jobs gave at Stanford University in 2005 (see below). Remember: think different.
Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson
Simon & Schuster
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The Vast Fields of Ordinary (Hardcover)
Fans of Simon vs. The Homo Sapiens Agenda, I proffer you this gem of a book, dusted off from when I first read it years ago during a transitional summer of my own. One of the rare coming-of-age stories that takes place not in high school (we meet our narrator at the start of summer following his graduation), and draws from "rom-coms" and "coming out" stories without getting stuck in their sappier conventions, TVFOO is expertly woven with Nick Burd's vivid prose and brings us a main character both complicated and instantly recognizable. This one's for those who need a reminder that the world is ultimately vast, and that we never run out of room to be who we are.
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It?s Dade?s last summer at home. He has a crappy job at Food World, a ?boyfriend? who won?t publicly acknowledge his existence (maybe because Pablo also has a girlfriend), and parents on the verge of a divorce. College is Dade?s shining beacon of possibility, a horizon to keep him from floating away.
Then he meets the mysterious Alex Kincaid. Falling in real love finally lets Dade come out of the closet?and, ironically, ignites a ruthless passion in Pablo. But just when true happiness has set in, tragedy shatters the dreamy curtain of summer, and Dade will use every ounce of strength he?s gained to break from his past and start fresh with the future.
About the Author
Nick Burd attended the University of Iowa and received his MFA from The New School. He lives in Brooklyn, New York. The Vast Fields of Ordinary is his first novel.
Praise For…
"A fascinating and dreamy first novel." -New York Times
"Bold. Engaging. Heartbreaking." -Ellen Hopkins, New York Times bestselling author of Crank
"A brilliant account of alienation and angst in the heartland." -Quest Magazine
"Nick Burd reaps a bounty from The Vast Fields of Ordinary." -Vanity Fair
"Burd is a terrific writer+he is a new talent to watch." -Booklist, starred review


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Good sight-reading involves comprehension, not just the ability to play right notes. I have trained serious conservatory-bound high school students to sight-read efficiently by ignoring the notes and concentrating on articulation and dynamics. The result is comprehension. In the case of my two young students sight-reading Schumann at the piano today it involved laughter -- right away! They were intrigued, motivated to go over the piece to get the notes right but for the right reason. They had a wonderful time. They got it.
The high school students who went on to take conservatory entrance sight-reading tests reported that the tester was sure they already knew the test material.
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Rapid Vienna stun Ajax 5-4 on aggregate to stay in contention for Champions League
- Rapid Vienna stunned Ajax Amsterdam 5-4 on aggregate in the 3rd round of the UEFA Champions League.
The Hague, Aug 5 (IANS) Ajax crashed out of the third qualifying round of the Champions League after losing 2-3 at home to Rapid Wien, with the first match in Vienna last Wednesday having ended in a 2-2 draw. Last week in Austria, Ajax gave away a 2-0 lead at half-time and this time in Amsterdam it was the other way around on Tuesday, reports Xinhua.
After Ajax midfielder Daley Sinkgraven had lost the ball on his own half, Rapid profited and Robert Beric scored in the 12th minute. Louis Schaub doubled the score in the 39th minute when his shot was deflected in by Joel Veltman.
Just like Rapid did one week ago, Ajax bounced back from the 2-0 deficit in the second half. Arek Milik volleyed home a cross from Mitchell Dijks in the 52nd minute and fifteen minutes from time, it was substitute Nemanja Gudelj to make it 2-2.
Ajax could enjoy the hope for extra time or even a win for only two minutes because Schaub secured Rapid's place in the next round with a well-placed shot into the upper far corner of the Ajax goal.
Rapid will now play in the final play-off round of the Champions League while Ajax go on to play in the preliminary round of the Europa League. Since the 2010-11 season, Ajax had continuously participated in the group phase of the Champions League. Dutch champions PSV will this season be the only representative from the Netherlands.Published 05 Aug 2015, 20:30 IST


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Heart services at Excela Health have been recognized by national, regional and local groups. Visit our page to learn more about our latest recognition!
Our cardiothoracic surgeons have the reputation for excellence in patient care and quality outcomes ― right here in Westmoreland
The care Excela Health offers you throughout your life and your children, addresses your individual needs, through pregnancy and the miracle of birth and beyond.
Robotic surgery at Excela Health can perform relatively complex operations with greater precision, better range of motion and increased visibility.
To promote community health and wellness, Excela Health provides a variety of community-based health screenings and wellness events like Wellness Check blood screenings, blood pressure, stroke, vision and bone density screenings.
Excela Health's Concussion Clinic has a double-sided objective of providing education to prevent concussion and using the latest techniques to treat and evaluate recovery.
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Our emergency medicine physicians and nurses who are dedicated to the care of patients with broken arms and "broken" hearts to stroke or sudden pain and more.
We perform more than 275,000 outpatient x-ray procedures a year through our of state-of-the-art technologies and attention to patient care from our highly skilled staff.
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The digestive system is the power plant that keeps the body going day by day. Call us today to learn more!
Welcome to MedCare Equipment Company, a premier provider of home medical equipment (HME), supplies and respiratory care products. Call us today to learn more!
When a medical emergency happens, it's good to know that help is close by. Excela Health's cutting edge emergency department is the best in the region!
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Heart services at Excela Health have been recognized by national, regional and local groups. Learn more about our most recent recognition.
Urgent orthopedic care for fractures and injuries are treated by surgeons specializing in reconstructive surgery, neurosurgery, hand surgery and foot and ankle surgery.
Welcome to MedCare Equipment Company, a premier provider of home medical equipment (HME), supplies and respiratory care products. As an innovative leader in HME, we can help those with a temporary need or chronic issues meet the demands of daily living in a variety of settings.
A hospitalist is a doctor who specializes in caring for hospitalized patients only. Excela Health hospitalists are board certified physicians with expertise in hospital-based medicine. Our hospitalists direct your care during your hospital stay and provide information related to your hospitalization to your primary care physician.
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Annually, more than 1,600 babies are delivered at the Family Additions Maternity Center and through it all, we offer individual sensitivity and care as well as professionalism and expertise.
Excela Health's Family Additions Maternity Center at our Westmoreland Hospital campus delivers award-winning quality care in family-friendly surroundings. To do that takes more than just a high level of attentive care. It also requires well-trained people, from physician specialists and physician's assistants to nurse practitioners, obstetrical nurses and other health care professionals.
Occupational therapy moves the patient toward greater independence. We teach the safest ways to perform daily activities, such as getting dressed, doing laundry, cooking and cleaning.
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Heart services at Excela Health have been recognized by national, regional and local groups and include:
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Excela Health offers a wide variety of health-related screenings, educational classes, support groups, a Speaker's Bureau and health fairs to make health care more accessible to the communities it serves. Through these venues, and others, you have the opportunity to pursue a course of wellness, find needed support, learn about Excela Health capabilities and how we can help, or discover unknown health conditions early on, so treatment can begin quickly while offering the best possible chance for
Do you have questions about pregnancy, labor and delivery? Baby Talk with MyExcelaDoc has been created to help answer those questions!
It all begins at the Excela Health Family Additions Maternity Center inside Excela Westmoreland Hospital where experienced nurses and on-site pediatricians work side by side with doctors to deliver right here in Westmoreland County.Take the baby tour today!
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As part of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010, non-profit hospitals, such as ours, are required to complete a Community Health Needs Assessment (CHNA) survey periodically. You can learn more about the results of the 2013 study and participate in the 2016 study by clicking the link above.
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Scoring Practice
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Glad you could enjoy theatre. When I was single I thoroughly enjoyed being involved in all sorts of productions, but marriage and children didn't allow me to indulge my "ham" inclinations.
Bread looks good. Reminds me I got a starter and made bread years ago. I was young -- didn't know the starter could be frozen, so was baking too much (and eating) in order to keep it alive. Then we moved out of state so I didn't try to keep it.


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Market Value for Mineral Rights
When you sell mineral rights it's important to understand the market value for mineral rights. The market value for mineral rights is difficult for many mineral owners to understand. The reason is that when you sell a home you can look at websites like Zillow and Trulia to see what your house is worth. When you sell mineral rights there is no website that can tell you the value of your property.
Things that do NOT indicate market value for mineral rights
If you want to understand market value for mineral rights it's important to understand what things do not indicate the true market value of your property. Here are a list of some of the most common things mineral owners base their property value on that are not correct:
Local Rumors: When you base the value of your property on local rumors you are setting yourself up for disappointment. The rumors that circulate locally are almost always referring to the most expensive and best property sold in the entire county. When a mineral owner is convinced their property is worth what everyone around them tells them they will likely never sell their mineral rights. Local rumors and what the market is actually willing to pay are two different things.
Outdated Information: Another common trap mineral owners fall into is believing their property is worth a certain amount because that's what they were offered a few years ago. The true market for mineral rights changes extremely rapidly. When the price of oil changes, the value of mineral rights can change dramatically as well. If you are basing the value of your property on what you were offered even a few months ago the value has likely changed.
Neighbors Property: When you value mineral rights based on what your neighbors property is worth, you can count on getting something entirely different. While it's true that your surrounding neighbors property should be valued approximately the same, there are still other factors. There factors include the timing, who is making the offer, your ability to negotiate, number of acres owned, whether you are leased, lease agreement terms, and many more. If you are leased at 12.5% and your neighbor is leased at 20% their property is worth a significant amount more than yours.
Online Forums: Another unreliable source of information about the value of your property is forums. Mineral rights forums are filled with information that's extremely unreliable. These forums tend to be filled with a lot of opinion and very little fact. A lot of the information being discussed is out of date, coming from a 3rd party, and coming from people who talk about mineral rights in forums and don't actually participate in the market. Keep in mind that forums are a great place to learn more about your mineral rights. It's simply important to understand that gauging the value of your property from these discussions will lead you down the wrong path.
How to determine market value for mineral rights
The true market value for mineral rights is based on what a buyer is willing and able to pay today for your property. There is no better indicator of the market value for mineral rights. When you find a buyer who is willing to purchase your property today for a set number, you now have a true market value for the property. You can dismiss all the other misinformation and rumors you heard until you are talking to an actual buyer who has the cash and is ready to buy.
As a mineral owner, it's key to understand that your property is only worth what someone is willing to pay. There are endless discussions taking place about the market value for mineral rights but only a real offer from a real buyer can give you that information.
How to Maximize the Market Value for Mineral Rights
Once you understand that rumors, forums, and hearsay to not indicate the true value of your property and you know only a true offer indicates value, how do you get the maximum value? When you sell mineral rights the key to getting maximum value is to get your property in front of a large audience of real buyers. When you get your property in front of a large audience of buyers it allows these individuals to compete against one another. This competition drives up the price as buyers bid against one another.
If you get your property in front of a large number of buyers, you can evaluate multiple real offers from buyers. This allows you to see the true market value of your property. You can evaluate all the offers and select the highest offer among the real offers you have. This is the maximum market value you can receive when you sell mineral rights.
Sell Mineral Rights at US Mineral Exchange
When you sell mineral rights at US Mineral Exchange, you are ensuring that you get the maximum market value for your property. Our company gets your property in front of our huge network of qualified mineral rights buyers. These buyers will help you determine the true market value for your property. Interested buyers will submit bids for your property and help form a picture of what the market is truly willing to pay today for your property.
We encourage you to learn more about US Mineral Exchange and then list your property for sale. There's no cost to list and we lay out exactly what to expect after listing. It's a risk free way to see what the true market value for mineral rights is.
Important Note: If you have an offer you are seriously considering accepting, our mineral rights auctions can quickly get you a better price in just 7 to 14 days!
Contact US Mineral Exchange:
If you have questions about your mineral rights, we're here to help! We speak with mineral owners every day and we look forward to hearing from you. Please don't hesitate to fill out the form below with any questions and our friendly team will respond quickly.
Free Mineral Rights Guide
You can also check out our online guide to mineral rights ownership in 2020.
Free Consultation
Common Questions
The more information you can provide about your property the better! We can give you a better idea about the value of selling mineral rights if you provide more information. The most important thing we need is for you to answer the questions and provide your state and county.
If you have the required documents to list, providing those is extremely helpful!
Absolutely not! When you inquire at US Mineral Exchange we will not be putting any pressure on you to sell. We will help answer any questions you have whether you are interested in selling or not.
At US Mineral Exchange, we take privacy very seriously. We will NEVER sell your information or use it without your consent. When you send us documentation or tell us about your property, that information does not go outside our company without your consent. Even when you list a property for sale on our website, we strictly control who has access to the information about your listing so that only legitimate buyers will be able to see property details.
Many mineral owners make the mistake of getting an offer and quickly selling. They then accept an offer far below market value because they felt pressure to sell. There is nearly always a better price available.
We have two types of listings available to help you sell mineral rights for the best price:
Auction Listing – Our auction listings are for just 7 to 14 days. If you have an offer in hand you are seriously considering, an auction listing is a quick way to get a better offer and ensure a smooth closing process. Learn more about our auction listings.
Standard Listing –  Our standard listings run for 30 days. These listings are ideal if you don't have an offer in hand or you are not in a rush to sell. Learn more about our standard listings.
The reason that so many mineral owners decide to sell mineral rights at US Mineral Exchange is access to our large network of mineral rights buyers. Our goal is to help you get top dollar for selling mineral rights by getting your property in front of a huge audience of buyers. This allows buyers to compete against one another which ensures you get fair market value for selling mineral rights.
There are absolutely no cost to list your property. When you locate a buyer by listing your property with us, we are paid a commission directly by the buyers closing agent. This means you never have any out of pocket expenses ever. We only get paid if we can get you a better price than the current offer you have in hand.


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Student Volunteer Opportunities
Student Volunteer Opportunities
At Olathe Health, students have opportunities to volunteer their time and talent helping our staff provide quality care to patients.
Hospice House Student Volunteer Program
As a student Hospice House volunteer, you can provide assistance in the following areas: Front desk, house assistant and direct patient care. The volunteer coordinator will work with you to determine your placement.
Program Details
Please mail this application or drop it off in person to:
Olathe Health Hospice Care
Attn: Volunteer Coordinator
Southpark Medical Plaza
20920 W. 151st St, Suite 204
Olathe, KS 66061
You should be contacted within 14 days of receipt of the application. If you are not contacted within 14 days, please call the Hospice office at 913-324-8515.
- Front Desk
- House Assistant
- Direct Patient Care
- AGE: 16 years or older
- TIME COMMITMENT: A minimum of one year of continuous volunteer service
- BACKGROUND CHECK: A criminal background check must be successfully completed
- TRAINING: Attendance at Hospice Volunteer Training is required
- RESTRICTIONS: Volunteer positions may not be used to fulfill court-ordered community service
- HEALTH CLEARANCE: Volunteers are required to complete various health screenings prior to service (TB, MMRV). Volunteers are also required to receive an annual flu vaccine (or wear a mask during flu season from November through April).
- CONFIDENTIALITY: Volunteers are required to maintain confidentiality in their volunteer service.
Contact our Hospice Volunteer Coordinator:
Amy Potts
Student Ambassador Program
During the summer, Student Ambassadors are an important addition to Olathe Medical Center. Our summer program offers students the opportunity to give their time while gaining valuable experience within a hospital setting. Students gain great satisfaction from constructive service and develop a sense of civic responsibility while performing day to day non-medical functions in their assigned area.
Program Details
Request an application by contacting Abby Hardwick, Volunteer Services Manager, at firstname.lastname@example.com, or 913-791-4380. Student volunteer opportunities are limited and based upon department availability.
- AGE: 14 years of age or older (18+ is required in our Emergency Care Center) prior to March 1 and enrolled in high school or college courses.
- TIME COMMITMENT: Minimum of 4 hours a week during June and July (8 weeks total).
- APPLICATION PROCESS: Contact the Olathe Medical Center Volunteer Services Manager, Abby Hardwick, prior to February 15 of the year summer placement is desired to request an application packet.
- HEALTH CLEARANCES: Submit completed immunization form included in application packet.
- PARENTAL PERMISSION: Applicants under the age of 18 must submit a completed parental permission form.
- TRANSPORTATION: Must have reliable transportation and be dependable to arrive on time as scheduled. On-site parking is available.
- CONFIDENTIALITY: Student Ambassadors must abide by all patient confidentiality guidelines, customer service expectations and hospital policies.
- TRAINING: All Student Ambassadors are required to attend the student orientation on the date provided in your acceptance packet. Department specific training will also be provided upon placement.
- UNIFORM: All Student Ambassadors are required to wear an Olathe Medical Center polo provided at orientation.
Contact our Volunteer Services Coordinator:
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The Siren and the Specter
Jonathan Janz
Publication Date: September 6th 2018
Flame Tree Press
I received this book courtesy of NetGalley and Flame Tree Press in exchange for an honest review. My thoughts and opinions are my own.
This book has had a lot of love over social media and various book review sites; it has popped up on my news feed time and again with its 4 and 5 star reviews and I've seen numerous posts about how scary and terrifying it was, and I admit I was very excited to receive it in exchange for a review. I was a little late to the party with this, but thankfully it was still available to request via NetGalley.
To me, this was a story about a love lost, and the search for forgiveness, not from other people, but the journey to forgiving yourself. This was a story about moving on, finding peace, and closing the door on a dark chapter of your life.
Synopsis: "When David Caine, a celebrated skeptic of the supernatural, is invited by an old friend to spend a month in "the most haunted house in Virginia," he believes the case will be like any other. But the Alexander House is different. Built by a 1700s land baron to contain the madness and depravity of his eldest son, the house is plagued by shadows of the past and the lingering taint of bloodshed. David is haunted, as well. For twenty-two years ago, he turned away the woman he loved, and she took her life in sorrow. And David suspects she's followed him to the Alexander House."
I enjoyed it, I really did, although I personally didn't find it scary. From reviews I have read and various posts I have seen in relation to it, I had expected to be shaken to my very core by this one. To me it was a great story no doubt, with an eclectic mix of characters, ranging from the sweet, the decent, to the downright seedy. I found the majority of characters interesting; I became very fond of the lead protagonist, David Caine, as well as growing to love Jessica as the story developed.
Two characters I had problems with were Mr Templeton, the caretaker of Alexander House, and his daughter Alicia. To me, they felt to be 'filler'; they seemed to serve only a gratuitous purpose. The discovery of Alicia's severed head seemed to be inserted only for shock value and then her father who responds in anguish was a bit of a 'blink and you miss him' character, brought in to pad the scene out. One minute he was trying to kill David and Ralph, the next he was helping them escape the house. This was the one part of the book that felt a little messy to me, a tad pointless. Alicia's character hadn't been developed enough for me really to be bothered by her grim demise, it felt more like she was just introduced so she could be killed.
I wish more had been done with Ralph's character. After the revelation of what he had done, or more accurately, what he had allowed to be done, I really wished that his story had been allowed to develop a little more. I would have loved to see a bit more before his confession, and a lot more after. I think he was a decent guy overall, he had just made a bad decision to get through life – don't we all sometimes? We all have regrets, dark secrets that we want to stay hidden, sins we wish we could undo. A part of me wished that he hadn't have been killed the way he was, but again, it developed the story somewhat with regards to David and the undoing of his perpetual scepticism,so I can see why it was played out in such a way.
I really enjoyed the seedy Shelby family, Honey… oh dear lord, what a nightmare of a woman. Her bullish husband and her two innocent children, it was heartbreaking at times. Especially Ivy – the poor girl endured a lot. I really liked David's interaction with them, the inner monologue of deciding what to do, should he go to the police or not. It really fitted well with the sad times we live in, with this kind of family unit being everywhere. The sad truth nowadays is you find yourself torn, you might want to help, take a child in and feed them, make them feel safe for a little bit, but you can't. We now live in a world where if you so much as smile at a child you can be accused of all kinds. I have even read ridiculous news stories where a father was arrested for taking a picture of his own child in a park. We have created this madness, this world where we are all too scared of accusation and repercussion, to help people now. I appreciated that it was alluded to within the book, intentionally or otherwise.
The Siren aspect of the story is another part that I feel wasn't touched enough on. We only receive a brief synopsis of this during the book, and it felt a little like a Marvel post credit scene at the end.
Overall I very much enjoyed The Siren and the Specter. I have several issues with it, but with that, it's a great story. It is about love and loss, as well as the sad truths of some families and the twisted way friendships can end up. It didn't feel like a great ghost story, and I was definitely more interested and involved with the characters and the developing plot, rather than with the haunting, which just felt more like a secondary side story.
It's a fantastic read despite what I found to be flaws. It's interesting and thought provoking and does have a few horrifying moments near the end.
3/5 – not terribly scary but a great story nonetheless.
Lesley-Ann (Housewife of Horror)


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Dear Praying Friends,
In a recent class called "Applied Theology" I had to read the Institutes of the Christian Religion by John Calvin, a timely assignment as we celebrate the 500th anniversary of the Reformation this year. In addition to the reading, I had to write a 30-page paper on a topic from the Institutes. I wrote about the powerful biblical anthropology found in Book 3, Chapters 6-9: (6) "Life of a Christian;" (7) "A Summary of the Christian Life;" (8) "Of Bearing the Cross;" (9) "Of Meditating on the Future Life." I would encourage you to read that section if you have never done so. In the psychologized zeitgeist in which we live, Calvin's words will shock many ears, but will be a great encouragement to those who want to be radical disciples of Christ.
"[Calvin] became an expert on Man by
knowing God and His Word."
Calvin was a true master of the soul. He used the weapons of biblical theology and exegesis to expound a solid biblical anthropology. He knew how mankind functions. He did not become an expert after many years of Freudian analysis, nor did he become a master through years of secular education. He simply knew men through the information that he received in the Bible. He became an expert on man by knowing God and His Word. This makes perfect sense because man is made in the image of God. The very first words of his magnum opus highlight this understanding: "The knowledge of God and of ourselves mutually connected —the nature of this connection." (Institutes, Book 1, Chapter 1) If Calvin is correct, then a corollary truth must also be affirmed. A man who does not know the true God cannot truly understand man. Modern psychology is basically built on a Darwinian and secular worldview. Therefore, modern psychology does not understand man as God created him. There is an antithesis between biblical anthropology and secular anthropology. Freud, Jung, Rogers, May, Fromm, Maslow and company cannot be the true masters of the soul if John Calvin was a master of the psyche. Postmodernity may accept differing "truths," but in the real world which God made, genuine truth stands alone. Modern psychological gurus studied man apart from biblical presuppositions. Calvin went straight to the Bible to understand man. Sadly, many pastors still go to worldly experts in an attempt to be better pastors of the soul. Calvin believed that God's Word is sufficient to show man how to become more like God, his Creator and Father. This, he concluded, is the highest possible goal for human life. Why settle for anything less?
Please pray for us as we continue to encourage and teach future pastors to hold to biblical presuppositions about man and to use that truth in their pastoral counseling. The private ministry of the Word has too long been influenced by Freud and company rather than by God's Word and men like Calvin and John Owen. Since the biblical counseling option is new and just beginning in Brazil, many of the current pastors have taken courses in psychology to become better counselors. This leads to an obvious conflict, many consequences, and a hunger for real help. Thank you for your prayers and support as we desire to clarify these issues and practice true biblical, pastoral care for the glory of God.
Rev. Doug E. Leaman


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Men's top seeds Nikita Burmakin of Russia and Italian Tommaso Giovannini booked their place in the semi-finals of the International Tennis Federation Beach Tennis World Championships in Terracina, Italy with a 7-6, 6-4 victory against home pairing Simone Burini and Luca Cramarossa.
Cramarossa had been partnered with 2018 champion Antomi Ramos Viera of Spain in Terracina but a late change of plan saw him pair up with Burini in the qualifying draw.
"We are seeded number one so probably we have a lot of pressure, but we are doing our job," said Giovannini,
"We didn't lose any sets until the semi-finals, so we are happy.
"This is the first time that we are really a team.
🇮🇹 + 🇷🇺 = 🔥 + ❄— ITF (@ITF_Tennis) June 14, 2019
Top seeds Nikita Burmakin and Tommaso Giovannini are through to the ITF #BeachTennis World Championships semi-finals without dropping a set in Terracina
QF report ➡ https://t.co/rJrgMbwsME pic.twitter.com/5ONlRKajZX
"We are always positive, always smiling, so I'm very happy for that."
Italians Alessandro Calbucci and Michele Cappelletti have reached the final four without dropping a set after despatching eighth seeds Marcus Ferreira and Thales Oliveira Santos 6-1, 6-1.
In the women's event, German Maraike Biglmaier and her Brazilian partner Rafaella Miller looked set for a quick victory against Brazilian duo Joana Cortez and Marcela Vita when they led by a set and a break.
Their fifth-seeded rivals fought back and led the deciding set 2-0 before the third seeds responded to take a 6-0, 5-7, 6-3 victory.
Biglmaier and Miller will face second-seeded Italians Flaminia Daina and Nicole Nobile in the semi-finals after they defeated compatriots Martina Corbara and Ninny Valentini 6-3, 6-3 in the quarter-finals.
Italian top seeds Giulia Gasparri and Sofia Cimatti downed Brazilians Samantha Barijan and Patricia Diaz 7-5, 6-1.
In the last four they will face Italian fourth seeds Eva D'Elia and Veronica Visani.