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Thank you for your interest in the financial recovery services of Attorney Dave Falvey of Financial Debt Options. Our goal is to help you get out of debt without being stressed over bankruptcy.
Dave Falvey has counseled thousands of Connecticut consumers about the process of bankruptcy and helped them determine when a bankruptcy filing makes sense for a consumer and when it does not.

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At Dan's Excavating Services we have a lot to offer in the way of service and services. We are excited to be able to share information about our Professional Dig Force, Dyk Bros Trucking and more on our new website! Sheree Lincoln from BrassWind Designs is customizing and installing an all new WordPress website for us.
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Most children are not getting the daily exercise recommended by the NHS and the promised Olympic legacy of a healthier, happier and more active nation has failed to materialise, according to figures from the Health Survey for England.
The 2012 survey of 8,000 adults and 2,000 children found that only 16% of girls aged five to 15 get the recommended hour of exercise a day, despite a nationwide push to get more playing sports. Only 21% of boys get the required exercise compared with 28% in 2008, falling to 14% for 13- to 15-year-olds.
Only 9% of boys and 10% of girls aged between two and four meet the requirement of three hours activity a day.
In 2012, 67% of men and 55% of women over 16 met recommended guidelines of at least two and a half hours a week of moderately intensive exercise. The researchers say in the report: "One of the planned legacies from the London 2012 Games was an increase in sports and exercise participation, including active travel (walking and cycling), by the general public across the country." But the report concludes: "The proportion meeting the recommendation was similar in 2008 and 2012, with no Olympic legacy yet apparent."
Inactivity among the UK population is estimated to cost the NHS £8.2bn in direct and indirect costs. The survey suggests many overweight people are not aware that they had a problem.
About 24% of men and 25% of women were obese, while 67% of men and 57% of women in England were either overweight or obese. More than a quarter of overweight men and a third of overweight women described themselves as a healthy size. Childhood and adolescent obesity was linked "directly to middle-age mortality and morbidity", according to the survey yet child obesity rates remain high.
Fourteen percent of boys and girls aged two-15 are classed as obese, and 28% as either overweight or obese. Nineteen per cent of boys and 17% of girls in the lowest income bracket were deemed to be obese compared with 8% and 7% respectively from the richest households.
The survey also noted that "most adults in Britain drink alcohol, at least occasionally, and alcohol has an established place in British social life". It found that 67% of men and 53% of women drank in the previous week, with 18% of men and 10% of women drinking on five or more days a week. In richer households, 81% of men and 69% of women had a drink in the last week compared with 51% and 39% in the lowest earning.
Eric Appleby, chief executive of Alcohol Concern, said alcohol abuse cost the NHS £3.5 bn a year. "These statistics show that there are still far too many of us drinking too much too often putting us at risk of serious health problems, like cancer and stroke.
"We're facing historically high levels of health harms caused by alcohol misuse, with over a million alcohol related hospital admissions each year; and we're one of the few European countries where liver disease is on the increase. If we're to turn this health crisis around we have to take action on alcohol sold at pocket money prices, its constant availability and get tough on alcohol advertising."


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A busy summer so far at Rutland Sailing School
What a fabulous place Rutland Sailing Club is to work and sail, in the last four weeks we have had some amazing weather and some fantastic events, last week we had the ISAF Team racing world championships, a fantastic spectacle to watch over 300 races achieved in the first 2 days of the event. A visit from Princess Anne, on the Monday, who came to see the team racing and Rutland Sailablity celebrating their, 20th anniversary. This week we have the NSSA event a national sailing event for children, with 300 children racing on the water again a fantastic spectacle, and great to see so many children enjoying sailing.
We are into our 4th week of children's holiday courses, we have in the last 4 weeks taught 100 plus children to sail, some total beginners, some improving their skills on from previous Royal Yachting Association courses. We have a few spaces left for children's courses throughout the summer holidays; give us a call if you're interested in having a go.
The adult courses have been equally as busy with over 20 adults doing 1.1 or 2.1 tuition, again in RYA courses, or introduction sessions, one of the best parts of the job is meeting different people from all over the world, only last week we had a family visiting the area from Australia, who we took out sailing on the water.
If you're interested in seeing Rutland from a different point spectacle why not come and have an introduction to sailing with us.
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I'm writing an embedded application and almost all of my RAM is used by global byte-arrays. When my firmware boots it starts by overwriting the whole BSS section in RAM with zeroes, which is completely unnecessary in my case.
Is there some way I can instruct the compiler that it doesn't need to zero-initialize certain arrays? I know this can also be solved by declaring them as pointers, and using malloc(), but there are several reasons I want to avoid that.


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While many would already consider the Jamaican superstar a legend for winning triple gold in Beijing and defending his 100m title here on Sunday, Bolt himself insists he also has to retain his 200m title.
And the 25 year-old looks an increasingly certain bet to do just that, effectively winning his semi-final tonight before halfway and almost jogging down the home straight to win in 20.18sec.
Team-mate Yohan Blake was the fastest qualifier after also slowing down markedly in winning the opening semi-final in 20.01, but Bolt has no doubts he will put his training partner in his place once again on Thursday.
"No doubt whatsoever," Bolt said. "I'm ready, this is my favourite event, so I'm looking forward to it."
Britain's Christian Malcolm missed out on the final after finishing third in his race in 20.51.
The 33 year-old Welshman said: "I'm disappointed. My last Olympic Games and it would have been nice to make the final but it wasn't to be.
"It's one of those things. I'm getting a bit older and it's not getting any easier.
There was better news for the home nation in the women's 1500m, with Lisa Dobriskey and Laura Weightman reaching the final as the world silver medallist Hannah England missed out.
Dobriskey, who has made a remarkable return to fitness after being diagnosed with potentially fatal blood clots on her lungs earlier this year, was fourth in the first semi-final to qualify automatically as England finished ninth.
Weightman endured an agonising wait as officials examined a photo finish in the second semi before going through as one of the two fastest losers in a new personal best of 4min 02.99sec. The 21 year-old edged out Slovakia's Lucia Klocova on the line, with both athletes given the same time.
Dobriskey said: "I've been stressed all day, I just wanted to make an Olympic final again. Last year was horrendous so I really sympathise with how Hannah's feeling at the moment because I know how it feels to be right at the bottom. I feel really sad for her."
A delighted Weightman, who is coached by former Olympic silver medallist Steve Cram, added: "I dipped on the line, I knew it was close. With 100m to go I saw the girl ahead of me and thought, 'I've got to catch you'.
"It's unbelievable (to be in the final). It's a dream to be at the Olympics. PB, Olympic final. What more can I say?"
England admitted the Achilles injury which saw her undergo surgery and spend five days in hospital earlier this year had cost her dearly, adding: "I didn't go on the track for five weeks, that's pretty hard to come back from and that showed today.
"It was just a gap too big in the whole of the season. I'd hoped I could make the final anyway and maybe I could have if I had run slightly better. It (the Achilles) is still sore, it's been sore every day since it happened, for the last 10 weeks.
"In the space of a minute it went from 'can I get a medal?' to 'can I even get here?'. It is great to be here, but I'm still gutted."


text: Carbon nanotubes have been attracting a lot of interest as electron transfer mediators to enhance electrochemical biosensing. The main reason behind this is usually recognized in terms of augmented electrochemical active surface area. The aim of this paper is to review other phenomena that occur at the electrochemical interface. Three distinct features of these phenomena mainly appear in electrochemical biosensing. We have applied the Cottrell, Randle-Sevčick, and Nernst effects to address these features. By using these features, several electrochemical biosensing systems are investigated. The differences among the proposed systems are presented and analyzed in light of these effects. We finally demonstrate that carbon nanotubes may induce completely opposite effects when dealing with different biosensing systems. This paper also shows that even seemingly small differences (e.g., changing metabolite as detected by the same enzyme) might result in opposite effects on the same carbon nanotube based sensor. Nevertheless, it is shown that carbon nanotubes, in some cases, confirm their exceptional nature in enhancing the sensor performance by orders of magnitude. Sensitivity increases from 87 ± 62 to 3718 ± 73 nA/μM ×cm2 and detection limit decreases from 7.5 ± 5.3 to 0,084 ± 0.002 μM in case of cyclophosphamide detected by the cytochromes P450 3A4.


text: Urulu - Sincerely 91 EP (Preview) | Exploited by Exploited published on 2012-07-23T12:13:56Z New on the scene, LA based producer Taylor Freels, better known as URULU, released his first EP "Across The Sky" on Exploited this March. The 3 track EP was a comfortable blend between old school house sensibilities and modern soul, creating something both easily accessible as well as culturally complex that did get likes from a variety of producers such as Deetron, Alex Jones, Jackson & His Computer Band, DJ Hell, Joe Goodart (Hot Chip) to name a few. Now URULU is back with a new 4 track-EP on Exploited: SINCERELY 91. Early Feedback: SKREAM: Sunday School is sicck! DJ SNEAK: Reason With Me, Sunday School. DEETRON: Killer oldschool house tracks. Nice! JESSE ROSE: Proper. Reminds me of being 17 again! Gonna go dig out some of those suburban garage smashes. Nice one. HUXLEY: Another Time and Sunday School do it for me. Will support. Thanks. RIVA STARR: Nice ep. thx. CHOPSTICK&JOHNJON: Love the whole EP! Especially 1991 has a dope vibe! NOIR: Super cool 90s sounding EP. Exploited delivers again..... MATTHEW DEAR: Great music. Thank you. LAURENT GARNIER: Good house EP -- will play. HOT SINCE 82: WOW. Amazing release... this is awesome. Playing at Fabric London 2night. This will get rinsed. Reason For Me….sick x HOT CHIP!: Sunday School sounds great. ADANA TWINS: Reason with me is the one. CLAPTONE: Nice Oldschool Tunes! DOCTOR DRU: Nice flashback! :) Great Ep , Taylor! Hard to pick a fav. I ll check it out. cheers, Dru. DJ T: thank you for good music! NTFO: yes! 'another time' run's very good! Will give a try this weekend! grazie! DJ LE ROI: Thx for the new ep! Reason with me is my fav! Thx for good music. AUDIOJACK: Really solid EP here with an old skool flava, diggin it! TILL VON SEIN: Another time is a bomb! But the whole release is dope...even doper than the last one he did .. Big up! FLASHMOB: Really nice pack. Will defo try "Another Time". Thanks ROUND TABLE KNIGHTS: Reason With Me is the one for me! Yeah! TOTALLY ENOURMOUS EXTINCT DINOSAURS: 1999991. KIKI: super! lovin´it all! GREYMATTER: YEah this is tasty, Reason With Me is the one for me thanks. BAG RAIDERS: NICEEEE. FRIENDLY FIRES: Time to reminisce. TRICKSKI: Sunday School is really cool! Will try it! DYED SOUNDOROM: 1991 and Another Time sounds great! Will play them. PAUL FRICK: Big Tunes. FRITZ ZANDER: I'll check them out. DAVID KENO: Hit. COCOLORES: Fätt! PEZZNER: So much good music here. HOMEWORK: Sorry for the late reply. Still massively in love with Urulu's sound. His musical spectrum far transcends time, taste and rusted genre conventions. Picking a specific favorite would be an insult. Will play these out and chart fo' real. MERCURY: What an amazing release. Reason With Me is an ultimate bomb. Already played it out and included it in our latest mix.... MUALLEM: Love the old school vibe of this one. Great package. Another time is the one for me to play. TIMO GARCIA: All killers here. JACQUES RENAULT: Another Time and Reason With Me are the ones for me. Keep going exploited. LA FLEUR: Loving the groove in 1991 to bits! Will definitely play out this weekend. Solid release. Another time is great too! Thank you for great music! BABY G: Wicked!!!!! SANTE: 1991! banger for me - reminds me on the good old days!!!!! ALEX BARCK: ( J-Nova ) - In the box !!! KAISERDISCO: Massive 3 track ep! Full support from the Kaisers of disco ;) DIRT CREW: Great ep! THE MEKANISM: This is a must have EP !! Amazing job VIADRINA: Yes, this is a great sound! Nice weapons for the forthcomig parties! Supported! WILD KATS: Cool package. Great oldschool vibes. COCOLORES: WOW! PHIL WEEKS: Reason with me sounds cool. Will play. KAROTTE: Great oldschool house tracks. Love it. DJ FEADZ: Let there be house ! RAY OKPARA: reason with me;) great track...will play 4 shure;) SASSE: My youth revisited - love it ! BENI: amazing, reason for me is dope RAINER TRÜBY: totally feeling this...hot! MARCIN CUBALLA: cool 90s inspired house tracks, Another Time is my pick tune here. Genre House Comment by VanAntahkarana (Vanessa Siqueira) Fantastic!!! 2015-03-16T04:03:24Z Comment by arianuova yess!! 2014-12-10T18:36:11Z Comment by rogger_frogger Such a tune. 2014-06-03T10:50:06Z Comment by CAREOMARY Soooooo goooood!! Songasm 2014-04-22T16:41:38Z Comment by felipeforero Vvv 2014-01-21T06:06:31Z Comment by phoebecarruthers ❤❤❤ 2013-10-29T20:58:27Z Comment by Gabby6221 Please make another song like this! 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The Cook house at The Sea Ranch was designed to meet the needs an active family with two young children, who wanted to take full advantage of coastal living. As The Sea Ranch reaches full build-out, the major design challenge is to create a sense of shelter and privacy amid an expansive meadow and between neighboring houses. A T-shaped floor plan was positioned to take full advantage of unobstructed ocean views and create sheltered outdoor spaces . Windows were positioned to let in maximum natural light, capture ridge and ocean views , while minimizing the sight of nearby structures and roadways from the principle spaces. The interior finishes are simple and warm, echoing the surrounding natural beauty. Scuba diving, hiking, and beach play meant a significant amount of sand would accompany the family home from their outings, so the architect designed an outdoor shower and an adjacent mud room to help contain the outdoor elements. Durable finishes such as the concrete floors are up to the challenge. The home is a tranquil vessel that cleverly accommodates both active engagement and calm respite from a busy weekday schedule.
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TV commercial featuring a disgraced ex-sprinter Ben Johnson was criticized by Australian anti-doping authority because it "made light of the use of drugs."
Ben Johnson got stripped of his 100m Olympic gold from Seoul of 1988 after he was tested positive for a banned steroid.
In the commercial, he makes a reference towards that incident when talking about a betting firm's mobile phone app "testing positive for speed and power again and again."
The betting company refused to back down and will not pull the ad.
Greg Hunt, Australia's federal sports minister, commented on the commercial being "utterly inappropriate", and an independent senator Nick Xenophon even wants to involve the Australian Communications and Media Authority.
"It is just wrong on so many levels – glorifying a drugs cheat, tying it in with gambling and promoting it to kids in a light-hearted way," said Xenophon.
An offical statement from Australian Sports Anti-Doping Authority also expressed that the advert "does not condone the message sent in this advertisement. This commercial makes light of the use of drugs in sport and sends a wrong message."
The betting firm, Sportsbet, disagreed as they did not "condone the use of performance-enhancing drugs" but still will make "no apologies for injecting some humour into advertising".


text: Smile makeover. Old crowns full mouth restoration this patient came in with the hope of a beautiful smile Healthy teeth and gums and achieved it in these pictures you can see the transformation the first step was a deep cleaning after that we were able to evaluate an treat the second picture you can see cavities after the restoration process patient had crowns done on upper and lower teeth . Now the patient is happy has gained his confidence and a beautiful smile and is living a healthy life style we were glad to help him achieve his goal . Below is a gallery of pictures of our full mouth reconstruction patients:


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By Amir D. Aczel
Illustrated. 178 pages. Harcourt. $23.
In previous books like ''Fermat's Last Theorem'' and ''The Mystery of the Aleph,'' the mathematician and science writer Amir D. Aczel has amused and edified readers with his clear explications of the profundities of numbers, especially those that led to enduring questions in mysticism and philosophy. In his new book, ''The Riddle of the Compass,'' Mr. Aczel shows his usual accessibility as he explores the origins and significance of the world's most important navigational tool.
There is fascinating material in this new book, not least Mr. Aczel's examination of the decades-old dispute about the identity of the inventor of the compass. His work certainly has temporal and geographical sweep. He deals with the early mentions of the compass by Italian poets of the late 13th and early 14th centuries, and he traces the interesting scholarly detective work that has been done to examine the most standard account of the compass's origin, notably the dubious claim that it was invented as a navigation device by a man named Flavio Gioia from the coastal Italian city of Amalfi.
In other words, there is much to learn in Mr. Aczel's new book. But this volume is less intriguing, a bit secondhand, compared with this author's earlier work. For one thing, the very notion of a riddle seems exaggerated here, an effort to squeeze as much mystery as possible from the subject. Not all interesting questions are riddles, including some of the interesting questions that Mr. Aczel seeks to answer, like where the concept of the directions used in navigation originated, or how sailors navigated before there were compasses.
He does give answers to those and other questions, but much of this book is a summary of already well-known history, like the rise of Venice as a great power and the story of Marco Polo's adventures in China. The writing lacks both precision and the richness of thought and reflection that makes for the best histories of science.
Mr. Aczel begins with some personal history about his childhood spent on ships that his father, a captain, steered to various Mediterranean and other ports, thereby imparting to his son a lifelong interest in navigation. One summer Friday, this interest led Mr. Aczel to a cultural center in Amalfi, where for the first time he was introduced to the idea that Flavio Gioia may never have existed. This leads him to the history of navigation and to the first of several questions he examines: ''How did navigators of antiquity find their way at sea in the days before the compass?''Continue reading the main story
The answer is interesting and includes Mr. Aczel's persuasive argument that, contrary to common belief, ancient sailors were not coast huggers; they did venture far out of sight of land, and therefore the navigation techniques that they devised -- from observing the flights of migratory birds to knowing the contours of the sea bottom -- were essential. But he doesn't do a very good job of providing sources for his material, and some of his explanations are so cryptic as to raise more questions than they answer.
How does he know, for example, that ''Norsemen discovered Iceland in A.D. 870 by following winds and birds''? What are the historical records for so precise a date and so precise a method? And what exactly does it mean to follow winds and birds? Are there birds that fly all the way from the European mainland to Iceland?
Mr. Aczel shows a good deal more precision when he discusses the interesting controversy surrounding the existence, or nonexistence, of Flavio Gioia, with the evidence stronger for his nonexistence. If the probably mythical Gioia was not the compass's inventor, who was? Nobody really knows. Mr. Aczel traces the earliest written reference to the compass to 1187, in ''De Naturis Rerum'' by Alexander Neckam, an English Augustinian monk. Mentions of the compass by Dante, who lived a century or so later, indicate that by the early 14th century the compass was known well enough to be used as a metaphor in ''The Divine Comedy.''
Mr. Aczel goes back to the Bible to explore the origins of the use of the four cardinal directions. The Etruscans, he says, were responsible for the appearance in the Renaissance of the diagrams known as wind roses, used in compasses to this day. Their Etruscan design, based on divination practices, led to the common 16-point navigation system, each point representing a different wind direction.
A 12-point system, he writes, was devised by one Aristotle Timos thenes, ''a sailor-scholar who lived around 250 B.C. and was chosen by Ptolemy II, king of Egypt, to be the chief pilot of his navy.'' But Mr. Aczel recognizes that the compass was invented not in Europe but in China, though he speculates that it was used there largely for feng shui -- the Chinese art of positioning objects according to the flow of spiritual energies -- and not for navigation.
Mr. Aczel's chapters on China are blemished by inconsistent transliterations and at least one factual mistake: he places the first unifying Chinese emperor, Qin Shi Huang Di, some 600 years before he actually lived and ruled. Yet he does uncover interesting material on China, like the technique devised there for making compasses in the shapes of turtles or soup ladles. But, again without precise documentation, he makes some startling statements. ''The Jesuits, who exerted control in China in the early 17th century, prohibited the reading of books on many subjects, including feng shui.'' It would be a surprise to many historians that the Jesuits were so powerful in China when the Qing Dynasty was at the height of its reign.
Interspersed with such dubiously sweeping statements is interesting information about the development of related maritime technologies, especially accurate nautical charts. But Mr. Aczel spends a good deal of his time giving cursory summaries of well-known historical occurrences: not just the rise of Venice as a world power and Marco Polo's journey to China, but also others like Vasco da Gama's voyage to India. And his main point -- that the compass was a terribly important invention that profoundly shaped the history of the world -- is an obvious one.
''The Riddle of the Compass'' is a worthy endeavor and a modestly instructive one, but it is without the sparkle of Mr. Aczel's previous books.Continue reading the main story


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DeCA recalls some ground beef in Europe commissaries
The Defense Commissary Agency is recalling 3,900 pounds of 93-percent ground beef and 93-percent ground beef patties with a production date of May, 4, 2018, from 18 DeCA Europe Area commissaries because a small piece of metal was discovered in a package sold at Spangdahlem Commissary, Germany.
The recall involves only 93-percent ground beef and only at the following 18 commissary locations: Ankara, Izmir and Incirlik, Turkey; Lakenheath and Mildenhall, England; Chievres, Belgium; Schinnen, the Netherlands; Hohenfels, Ansbach, Baumholder, Grafenwoehr, Patch, Ramstein, Spangdahlem, Vilseck, Vogelweh, and Wiesbaden, Germany; and Aviano, Italy.
"The safety of our customers is paramount. Signs have been posted in the stores alerting customers to return their purchased products to the store for a full refund." said Norman Brown, DeCA Europe director.


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As well as the many pubs and restaurants in Ruby Country there are a number of other places to sample the culinary delights of Ruby Country, making eating out in Ruby Country a delight.
Click on the links below to find out more.
Tucker's, Coles Mill, Holsworthy, Devon EX22 6LX Tel; 07493 733723
We serve good quality, locally sourced Devon fair that includes the Tucker's Full Devon all day breakfast, home made cakes, cream teas, hand-cut sandwiches and a lunchtime special menu. Typically, the lunch menu includes Tiddy Pasty, Ham and Leek pie, Omelettes and Homity Pie.
We are based on the site of the old Viaduct Cafe.
Opening times; Monday to Frday 9.00 – 16.30 Closed all day Tuesday Saturday and Sunday 9.00 – 13.00
The Bay of Bengal Tandoori Restaurant and Take Away
For fine Indian dining in Holsworty visit Bay of Bengal and experience the extensive menu on offer.
Blackberry Farm Shop
Located in Milton Damerel enjoy a fine selection of food and drink in the farm shop cafe and enjoy the goodies within and fine views from your seat. And with much more besides.
Lakeside Cafe and Bistro at Roadford Lake
Sit back and enjoy the views across Roadford Lake from the comfort of Lakeside Cafe and Bistro. With a fine selection of food and drink, and a variety of themed events this is the ideal place to spend a bit of time whilst exploring Roadford Lake Country Park, managed by South West Lakes Trust.
Tamar Lakes Cafe
A delicious range of light lunches, meals, desserts, homemade cakes, gluten-free alternatives, hot and cold drinks and Dunstaple Farm House Devon ice cream are all served in our comfortable cafe near Tamar Lakes in the north of Ruby Country, straddling the Devon/Cornwall border. Sunday roasts available. Walk and cycle around the lake, or enjoy water sports too.
Filter Through, 1 Fore Street, Holsworthy, Devon. Tel: 01409 259111
Filter Through pride themselves on a relaxed and friendly atmosphere.
ArtiSams Bakery, 30 The Square, Holsworthy EX22 6AN Tel: 07704 261291
Small craft bakery making delicious breads, decadent tarts, pastries, filled, handmade rolls, bacon rolls, hot sandwiches and more.
Hatherleigh Fish Bar, 9 Bridge Street, Hatherleigh. EX20 3HU Tel 01837 810944
Martin and Ginny welcome you to their family run businesswher we endeavour to provide the best Fish & Chips in the West Country at reasonable prices.
.Cafe de Ville with Cornucopia Deli
Cafe de Ville, 1 Market Street, Hatherleigh. EX20 3JN Tel. 01837 810582
A lovely little cafe with lots of character and very friendly owners.
Crisp and Dry
Crisp and Dry, 2 Fore Street, Holsworthy. EX22 6EB Tel. 01409 253969
Fish & Chips we had was excellent. Place was spotless and staff were really polite. Food rating was five (on door) so easy one to recommend. No parking outside but plenty of spaces in parking area if you cross road from shop then walk up little alley way (no distance at all)……..(testimonial…tripadvisor)
The Cow Shed Cafe,
New Market Road, EX22 7FA Holsworthy, Devon. Tel; 07773 080 017
Opened on September 3, 2014
Mon – Tue:
8:00 am – 3:00 pm
7:00 am – 4:00 pm
Thu – Fri:
8:00 am – 3:00 pm
Short Description
Brand new café/takeaway selling freshly cooked food at reasonable prices.
Spacious seating area, also available for functions/meetings.
Kids are welcome.
Food on the Go
2 High Street, Holsworthy. EX22 6EL Tel: 01409 253 108
We are a family run company based in Holsworthy, Devon.
Food On The Go is a well established business of 15 years and we have recently taken ownership of it.. We aim to provide the highest quality products and service to our customers.
Corner Cafe
4 Stanhope Square, Holsworthy. EX22 6AP Tel: 01409 253 969
Yet another visit to the best chippy in Devon , these guys never fail to supply excellent food be it their top quality fish and chips right down to their home made bread and cakes Served by the very charming staff Thanks again See you all next time….(testimonial..tripadvisor)
Country Dairy Kitchen
9 Bodmin Street, Holsworthy. EX22 6BB Tel: 01409 254 408
Pubs and inns
For pubs and inns click here.
Ruby Country Partnership is pleased to be supporting these businesses and would like to support more. If you are interested in working with Ruby Country Partnership to develop and promote your business please contact us at Holsworthy Information Centre on 01409 254185 or email us at email@example.com


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Scout Niblett is being calcinated.
"It's kind of an on-going process," she said during a phone interview from a coffee shop in her Portland, Ore., neighborhood.
On the cover of "The Calcination of Scout Niblett" (2010, Drag City), she's in a dark workshop with a welder's torch lit, and a look on her face that makes one wonder what she's going to burn/melt. "Welcome to my self-made sweatbox," she sings slowly in the title track, backed by a menacing electric guitar. "I've got to sweat it out, I'll cook those monsters out.
"Its a reference to a psychological, like, alchemy. It's about the inner work that people do on themselves, really," Niblett said.
A term from alchemy, calcination is a metallurgical process where a substance is heated near its melting point, to cause a chemical change.
"I guess this last album has been a period of shifting, kind of changing, for me," she said. It's a continual process for her, "but I feel like it's at a climax right now."
Good climax or bad? She laughed. "I didn't really see it as good or bad. Things have become really challenging in your life when there's obviously a need to grow or learn something ... When things seem bad, it's an opportunity to change in a good way."
This will be her first time in Kalamazoo. At The Strutt, she'll be with her drummer Dan Wilson. Also on the bill is Holy Sons, of Portland. "They are one of my favorite bands," she said, then admitted, "actually, it's my husband," Emil Amos, who is also the drummer for the band Om.
On record Niblett is dark, and sounds a bit scary. Via phone, her light English accent gives the impression that she might sing lilting alt-folk, not minimalist but aggressive introspective songs that alternate between somber quiet and bursts of electric guitar and primitive drumming.
She was born in Staffordshire, England, in 1973. She was classically trained on the piano, but "heavy discordant American bands, early '90s grunge era" made her want to play guitar, she said.
If you go
with Holy Sons (Portland, Ore.), Nwe Spryghts (Kalamazoo), Fiona Dickenson (Kalamazoo)
8 p.m. Sept. 30
The Strutt, 773 W. Michigan Ave.
Niblett has many influences, but a big one was Daniel Johnston, the singer/songwriter whose home recordings about devils and angels made him an icon to much of the indie-rock avant garde.
"There's something about his lyrics and melodies that really touch me," she said.
Niblett began recording in 2001, but when Steve Albini produced 2003's "I Am" and 2005's "Kidnapped by Neptune," she began to get comparisons to PJ Harvey and Cat Power.
The Albini-produced "Calcination" "is a harrowing, emotionally draining 51 minutes; it can't be judged on anything but its essences lyrically and musically, making it an abundantly successful endeavor," according to the four-and-a-half star Allmusic.com review.
It got a 7.3 from Pitchfork, which wrote, "Her music has always been lonely, introverted, and anguished, but the stakes seem much higher on this album, like it's a do-or-die scenario. To some extent, listening to 'The Calcination of Scout Niblett' is more like bearing witness to a ritual."
She likes "quiet to explosive sounds," Niblett said simply, and "questioning what I'm doing and who I am."


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Comments are one of the most important tools that readers have to interact with your site. Using comments on WordPress, they can leave feedback about pages and posts, and start conversations with other readers.
But interactivity isn't always a good thing – at least not on certain pages. When designing your WordPress site, you should think carefully about what sort of content should invite commentary. The most important question to ask when establishing comments on your site is:
How will comments affect the experience of my readers?
Let's say that I have a website dedicated exclusively to my cake company. I regularly update my blog with lots of lovely pictures and easy recipes. Having comments on my blog makes a lot of sense – people can compliment my craftsmanship, or suggest improvements, or exchange tasty recipes. This adds to the experience and creates a sense of community.
However, having comments on static pages – like price sheets and client lists – could be a recipe for trouble. At best, these types of comments are distractions from the main content on the page, and add almost nothing. What could anyone possibly have to say about my cake prices that would make it worth the time of other readers to read it? That sort of content belongs on Google Places or Yelp.
At worst, comments on static pages can reflect very poorly on your website. Maybe somebody thinks that my cakes are too expensive, or doesn't like one of my clients. It's the equivalent of someone scribbling "TOO EXPENSIVE" into a menu. So how can you disable comments on certain pages and posts?
Disabling Comments on WordPress
There are three easy ways to disable WordPress comments, depending on what theme you use, and what you want to accomplish.
1. Disable comments on all blog posts
You can access this option by going to Settings > Discussion from your WordPress dashboard. Uncheck "Allow people to post comments on new articles" to disable comments by default.
2. Disable comments on specific pages and posts
From your WordPress dashboard, click on either Pages or Posts. By hovering over the title of any particular post, you should see the "Quick Edit" option. Click on this and uncheck the "Allow Comments" option to disable comments on this page/post.
3. Disable WordPress comments in Genesis theme
Genesis also has easy options that allow you to disable comments. Go to Genesis > Theme Options, scroll down to "Comments and Trackbacks," and then uncheck the boxes that you want to disable.
Pretty simple! By selecting which pages and posts should have comments enabled, you can allow your readers the space to start conversations, without having them scribble all over your menus.
Next week, we'll take a look at some different WordPress plug-ins that make commenting easy and fun for your readers, while also discouraging spam and bad behaviour.
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Where can I find example programs for TINI?
Created May 4, 2012
Tim Rohaly
There are a number of nice examples which are distributed with the TINI firmware. In addition, here are some URLs where you can download other example programs:
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'Daily Yom Kippur will save our children', vote irresponsible Israeli parents
Why do we allow our young kids to ride electric bikes, on (either side of) a main road, at up to 35kph, with no helmet, whilst talking or texting on the phone, and with a younger brother/sister, or a friend, sitting straddled over the bike's cross bar, as a passenger, all wearing t-shirt, shorts, flip flops and big smiles, yet I need a driving license to be on the same road, with my car?
I had to slam on the brakes recently, to avoid 2 such "indestructibles". Judging by their "we're cool, nothing happened" grins, these kids had not understood that the gap between them having dinner-with-the-family, and at best, hospital, or at worst, their funeral, was less than 1 second.
There must be a good reason why a motorist is fined so heavily for talking on the phone when driving, and why motorcyclists must wear helmets, and usually choose protective clothing.
Is there something protecting these young cyclists and their impressed young passengers from being in serious personal danger, or from being a danger to others, that I don't know about?
It's not about the law
Whilst writing this article, I learned that as of 1st September 2014, the electric bike actually became legal in Israel, enabling regulations and limitations to be imposed. There's a ray of hope knowing that new bikes should cut off power at 25kph, riders need to be 14+, and a headlight, reflective rear light and bell, and possibly helmets, are now compulsory.
Knowing that the Israeli police and local authority municipality inspectors now have "special powers" to enforce the new regulation I'm "sure" has put everyone's mind at rest.
Images of a policeman trying to stop a kid who has no ID on him/her, riding a very manoeuvrable bike at up to 25kph (say) that has no ID on it, conjured up memories of the timeless "Tom & Jerry" cartoon series.
I'd like to know what fines or otherwise can be imposed for an electric bike offence, that I'm sure (yeah) must be harsh enough to go viral, acting as a country-wide deterrent. After all, you just need to know someone who "enjoyed" a NIS 1,000 fine for using the phone when driving, to think twice about doing it yourself.
I was riding home last night, coincidentally (?) next to Herzelia cemetery, when 4 happy-go-lucky young girls, each on her own electric bike, all without lights and helmets, sped towards me, together taking up the whole width of the lane. The frustration of the motorist behind them turned close to road rage, as the "Kitta yud paparazzi" taunted him, banging on his car as he slowly overtook.
I looked around for the specially empowered policeman or municipality inspector, and am still looking.
I'm an avid cyclist. It's not relevant for me if wearing a helmet, or using a bike light at night, is law or not. And even if it is, it's certainly not easily enforceable. But sometimes, common sense prevails, or at least it should.
I don't need to check the law to decide if to step off the pavement into oncoming traffic, and by the same common sense, I always wear a helmet when cycling, and always use a front and back light when riding in the dark.
I have a confession to make …
I have to humbly confess that several years ago, I did once ride my bike whilst on the phone; and what a lesson that turned out to be.
The phone was pressed against my right ear as I merrily chatted away, whilst "responsibly" riding on the pavement as I approached that very big Herzelia Pituach road junction. I was already "past the point of no return", transitioning from pavement to road, as the traffic lights silently changed to green. Without warnng, 3 cars took advantage of their pole position on the grid, accelerating directly into my path, wrestling with each other for first place during that sharp left turn, far more interested in not hitting each other, than looking out for me.
A reflex reaction instructed my left hand, the only one connected to the bike, to squeeze the brake; the front brake. There's a unique sensation; partly of acrobatics, and certainly of helplessness, when the front wheel locks and you are sent flying over the handlebars. Add a sprinkle of fear, as you see a rotating cavalry of cars charging towards you. Well before I'd hit the ground, I'd formulated a plan, based on multiple rolls and leaps, whilst also unclipping my pedals, to avoid heaven. No Olympic gold for that somersault with a half pike and a twist (the "unclip"), but I lived to write again.
"What's all the sudden noise?", queried my mum, in Manchester, "Sounds like the screeching of car brakes and car horns?".
"Just a traffic jam, mum", I white lied, silently celebrating that my impromptu plan had worked.
I thanked the concerned motorists who had stopped to check if my body needed repairing more than my now damaged phone, accepted my ribs will be painfully reminding me of this mishap for the next month, (turned out to be longer), and understood, "never again".
Legless kids?
It seems many kids have lost the use of their legs, as walking and simply pedalling to school has been replaced with electric bikes. Have you seen them too, winding through the rush hour traffic at 7:52am, trying to get to school on time? And how the ones responsibly using the pavements choose to dice with death at traffic lights, judging that they can accelerate to the other side of the road before the motorist, who has just seen a green light, actually makes contact.
We unreservedly donate our roads to cyclists 1 day a year, on Yom Kippur, and specifically because there are no cars on the road. As for the other 364 days, will it take a "very unhappy ending", for either the law to be changed, and when it is, to be enforced, or for parents to simply take responsibility for their own children?
Alternatively, we could simply protect our kids by making every day Yom Kippur.


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Someday, I will figure out a way to blog fast enough to respond to things in real time instead of commenting on news from a month ago. Until then, this is what you get. Content note: sexual assault, misogyny, racism, slut-shaming.
Back at the beginning of August, the Waikato provincial rugby team, the Chiefs, hired a stripper for a social event in a place called Matamata. They sexually assaulted her and blocked her way when she tried to leave the venue. She has since lost her job, apparently for agreeing to let them touch her for an extra $50 under some duress, by the sound of it, and she didnt get the $50. There followed the predictable faux-scandalized response in the media and the usual nonsense about rugby-players being role models. I mean, theyre role models in the de facto sense that New Zealand males do, in fact, follow their example. Its nonsense to recommend that anyone should follow their example.
Yes. Yes, it is absolutely a rugby problem. That is exactly what Im saying. (OK, one qualification: it is a mens rugby problem. Id bet good money no womens rugby team would ever do this.) I would expand on this, but while I was busy on the previous post two other bloggers did it for me:
Which is why the Come on guys, were better than this tone of much of the mainstream media response to the Chiefs sexual assault scandal rings so hollow. Rugby is not better than this. Rugby is this. Rugby is where boys will be boys, and gay people will be abused, and women will be assaulted. And if you dont like it, that is because you and your PC mates are destroying Our Country, where whacking your kids and then leaving them in your car while you get pissed with The Boys is the only way to stop us turning into a society of Male Mothers...
Because on a very basic level we all know... that This Is What They Are Like, the ruggers. We all walked the school hall in fear of their approach, or sided with them so as not to fear... We all worked that hospitality job where The Boys descending on your bar / hotel / restaurant was the occasion for the spilling of blood and beer and piss and puke and the boss said to grin and bear it because its The Boys, and Boys Will Be Boys.
The incidents arising out of the Chiefs rugby teams Mad Monday celebrations in the Waikato town of Matamata have been presented to the public as the deeply regretted failure of a number of young sportsmen to live up to the ideals of their code.
Alternatively, the behaviour in question, far from being aberrant, could be seen as entirely consistent with the values of twenty-first century professional sport. These young men are paid to live in a hard culture where the slightest indication of softness will be taken as proof of either femininity, or queerness, or both... It wasnt an aberration it was the norm.
Trotter is the more eloquent writer, but for my money Vorn has captured a salient point that Trotter has missed. Yes, most sports are infected with a culture of toxic masculinity; but New Zealand rugby suffers from a more severe case of the disease than most. I gather there were some impressive acts of whats called sportsmanship in the Olympics this year (I avoided them as I generally do), and that most of them were actually sportswomanship. I also understand the New Zealand rugby team lost the first heat to Japan, which is amusing given that Kiwi rugby-heads hold Asian people in much the same low regard as women and gay men.
Mind you while were on the subject of rugby and race theres also a point which Vorns Against Rugby series has so far failed to mention, which Trotter brings up elsewhere. Trotter, Vorn, and I are all white. Trotter is a successful columnist, and Vorn a successful musician. Its all very well for us to shake our heads over the disproportionate honour given to rugby in New Zealand, when weve never faced racist stereotypes or colonial legacies hampering our progress in fields other than sports. My personal experience, from high school and pubs and other places where rugby cannot be avoided, is that Pākehā (white) rugby players and fans are orders of magnitude more crude and destructive than Māori or Pasifika rugby players or fans. But that doesnt erase the toxic masculinity in rugby culture, and it doesnt undo what happened in Matamata.
Predictably, some Chiefs spokesperson (name of Andrew Flexman) shortly after the incident came out with a public statement impugning the assault survivors integrity on the basis of her profession. His actual words: Her standing in the community and culpability is not beyond reproach. The value-system implicit in this statement is familiar to any New Zealander. Rugby-players stand at one end of the moral spectrum, and sex workers slouch at the other. Rugby-players, the myth goes, are strong, brave, honest, forthright. Sex workers in this myth are sleazy, greedy, dirty, and generally untrustworthy, though strippers perhaps not quite as much so as prostitutes or porn-stars.
Vorn replies, at length and with thumping sarcasm, that rugby-players and strippers both do essentially the same thing, i.e., they show off their bodily prowess for paying audiences consisting largely of excited, hooting men. This is great satire but not great analysis. Its like saying that carpentry and sewing both follow the same basic procedure: they do plan, measure, cut, attach but that doesnt make them interchangeable. The high moral standing granted to rugby-players and the low one given to strippers each illuminate core values in Pākehā culture.
Note, by the way, that what Flexman said is logically exactly the opposite of what Im afraid some other people said about the incident, which basically boils down to What did she expect, taking her clothes off in front of rugby-players? (Um, that shed be paid as per contract?) Im inserting this paragraph after mostly finishing the post, because Im embarrassed to say I didnt notice the contradiction for ages. Thats because both statements were used to support the same verdict, viz., the Chiefs were innocent red-blooded males out for a good time and the stripper had only herself to blame for what happened, if anything did happen. If the same conclusion seems to follow from two contradictory versions of the facts, thats a certain sign it isnt based on the facts. So what is it based on?
Rugby, Trotter and Vorn agree, is New Zealands religion a statement so true it has become a cliché, but one which for all that demands an explanation. Rugby doesnt offer an afterlife or a god to answer prayer, or an insight into the meaning of existence. What it does offer is a moral back-brace of sorts. Its a contact sport, and it requires rigorous strength and endurance training. So its reasonable to conclude that someone whos good at rugby must be dedicated, competitive, and brave about physical pain. Its when you equate these strengths with moral worth that rugby-worship comes adrift from reality.
Unfortunately, that equation is a central pillar of Western masculinity. Its held European armies together since they were first professionalized at the end of the Middle Ages: a man who refuses either to face death or to inflict it on his kings enemies is a coward who deserves to be shot. This attitude comes in very useful when you want to persuade men to sail to the other side of the world and drive innocent people off their land at gunpoint, which is Pākehā history in a nutshell. Its been reinforced by the supposition (baseless, but backed by a weight of tradition) that any man lacking so-called courage must also be cruel, treacherous, and sexually attracted to men.
This, I think, is the key to Flexmans otherwise bizarre view that its somehow implausible for rugby-players to commit sexual assault. Part of the courage myth is that all bullies are cowards, which obviously implies that rugby-players cannot be bullies since they are not cowards. Well-meaning adults tell boys this presumably in the hope that it will shame them out of bullying; but as a survivor of childhood bullying I can tell you its not true. I avoid sports because of the people it reminds me of. If youll excuse a Game of Thrones reference yes, many bullies are Joffrey Baratheon, but even more are Ramsay Bolton. Ramsay would definitely play rugby if he were real and lived in New Zealand. He would be the one goading his opponents into punching him so theyd get sent off. (And punching them too, obviously, but never when the ref was looking.)
The other half of the story is Flexmans insinuation that strippers are especially likely to lie about being sexually assaulted. Vorn is right on the money in pointing out what a silly insinuation this is; what he doesnt touch on is why so many people nevertheless believe it. What do strippers do? They take their clothes off for money. But Ive done that, and the artists sketching me were always professional. No, strippers display their bodies for mens sexual gratification. Thats what this is about.
There is a live debate within feminism whether sex work is legitimate or not, and it is one of those debates where both sides are certain the issue has already been settled. Being of the gender and sexuality that most sex work caters to, I have a conflict of interest in the matter. I dont know if I can do the question justice at all, and I certainly cant do it here. However, most New Zealanders dont subscribe to either feminist position, and the minority who believe in saving sex for marriage is no longer much larger than the minority who actually save sex for marriage. Even combined, the anti-sex-work feminists and the traditionalists cant account for the society-wide contempt in which sex workers are held.
Somehow, despite being a service which is in demand in every society, sex work has been reviled in the West since ancient times. This is the core contradiction of patriarchy: men want sex on demand from lots of women, but they dont want those women also having sex with other men. To this end, traditional sexual morality engages the disgust instinct, framing women who do have sex with more than one partner as impure, degraded, and lacking in self-control, like animals. Sex work is particularly perverse because it combines the animalistic evil of unrestrained sex with the soulless evil of taking money for whats supposed to be intimate.
Once again, the myth is a myth. Nothing happens to a womans body, or her personality, or her sense of ethics, or anything else, as a result of her having sex with more people than is socially acceptable. The anti-sex messages I got as an evangelical Christian teenager a little from my parents, far more from youth-group leaders and Christian writers and speakers were nearly all lies. (A lie repeated by someone who sincerely believes the liar is still a lie.)
The occasional truths, like Sex causes pregnancy and Sex doesnt make you a man, were rare gems in a slag-heap of Sex makes you dirty like a used tissue and Sex will destroy your life and Sex causes emotional problems which only marriage can prevent and, worst of all, Marriage counts as consent. I left the faith around when I turned 21 and started having sex shortly before I turned 23. I have not tested every single one of the religious messages, but those I have have turned out to be uniformly false. Taking money for sex makes a woman untrustworthy is not going to be the one true one.
So why is that, of all those lies, one of the maybe two that have continued to circulate in secular post-1960s New Zealand society? My best guess would be that a large proportion of sex workers clients are deceiving their partners about what theyre doing. To allay suspicion theyll talk and act, in their social lives as well as to their partners, as if the idea of them paying for sex is unthinkable, and that generally means affecting a disgust response. And disgust is a socially transmitted attitude. (If youre wondering, the other lie thats continued to circulate is of course Sex with someone of your own gender is unimaginably vile, which deserves a post or twenty to itself.)
If youre starting to wonder why this matters, remember what happened at Matamata. Cultural myths may be comforting, they may be useful, they may help organize society. But if theyre based on lies, people get hurt.


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John Fowles' highfalutin' phrase 'the relativity of recompense' has stuck in my mind for decades. That's a mighty fancy handle, yes, but the idea behind it is well worth remembering. And it can help you in your life or in the business of writing.
Here's what it means in plain English: While we can't control all that happens, we can adjust our perspective to see the good side of things as they are.
1) You wake up one day, suddenly fifty or sixty, and realize with horror that your dream of writing has fallen by the wayside. Fowles wouldn't have denied the advantages of succeeding while still young. But he would have listed the relative windfalls of succeeding later on in life: You'll have cleared much crap out of your system and be able to bring a rich harvest of life experience to bear upon your work...You'll be driven in powerful ways no twenty-year-old can equal...You'll be far less likely to make fatal mistakes with agents, editors or your fellow writers.
2) You've just quit smoking at age 40. On the one hand you feel justiably proud. On the other, you're tormented by all the times you've failed before and the twenty odd years you spent smoking. Once again, Fowles wouldn't have counseled denial. Yes, it would have been terrific if you'd never started at all or had succeeded the first time you quit. Then again, you've learned something from every prior attempt. You have an arsenal of skills to use against a formidable foe. And today you have something else you wouldn't have had twenty years ago: online support groups you can reach in minutes. One last point: when you were twenty, with a forever before you, you were beaten by the part of you that whispered that you could always quit tomorrow. Today you know that you don't have forever--and that you don't need the pain of failing and starting all over again.
Today Hotmail is down. I went into a funk. But then I did a mental pivot: I now had time to write this post and return to the rewrite of the third Boss MacTavin novel.
Try tipping your own hats today to the Fowles' wondrous Whichamallit of the Huh.


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What is a Right of Rescission
The right of rescission is a right, set forth by the Truth in Lending Act (TILA) under U.S. federal law, of a borrower to cancel a home equity loan or line of credit with a new lender, or to cancel a refinance transaction done with another lender other than the current mortgagee, within three days of closing. The right is provided on a no-questions-asked basis, and the lender must give up its claim to the property and refund all fees within 20 days of exercising the right of rescission.
The right of rescission applies only to the refinancing of a mortgage. It does not apply to the purchase of a new home. If a borrower wants to cancel a loan, he must do so at the latest on midnight of the third day following the completion of the refinancing, including having received a mandatory Truth in Lending disclosure from the lender and two copies of a notice advising him of his right to rescind.
Historical Context of the Right of Rescission
The TILA protects the public against inaccurate and unfair credit billing and credit card practices. Among other things, it requires lenders to provide borrowers with relevant information about their loans, along with the right to cancel loans. The right of rescission was created to protect consumers from unscrupulous lenders, giving borrowers a cooling-off period and the time to change their minds.
Not all mortgage transactions have the right of rescission. The right of rescission exists only on home equity loans, home equity lines of credit and refinances of existing mortgages in which the refinancing is done with a lender other than the current mortgagee. The right of rescission does not exist on a mortgage for the purchase of a home, a refinance transaction with the existing lender, a state agency mortgage, or a mortgage on a second home or investment property.
In 2010, the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform Act expanded the TILA to grant consumers added protections when taking out a high-cost mortgage. It also added provisions for pre-loan counseling.
How to Exercise the Right of Rescission
The TILA does not provide a formal way for consumers to exercise their right of rescission. However, the lender is obligated to give the borrower a notice advising of the right to rescind, and that notice should include the procedure used by the lender when a borrower wants to cancel a transaction. If it does not, the borrower must ensure that, in the three-day time frame, they make their intention to cancel the loan clear and do so in writing. Borrowers also have the obligation to prove that the notice was given during the right period and should, therefore, make sure that they can document the moment when the notice was sent.


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Childhelp® is a national nonprofit organization dedicated to helping victims of child abuse and neglect through advocacy, prevention, treatment and community outreach. For more than 50 years, Childhelp has helped bring hope and healing to millions of children across the country.
The Victory Junction Gang® Camp
Started by the famous Petty racing family, The Victory Junction Gang® Camp is a camp for terminally and chronically ill children. A member of the Association of Hole in the Wall Camps, the camp has grown into a free year-round camp for children and their families, and will continue to spread life-changing experiences to special children around the world.


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A top Stanford officer given 3-year sentence
Laura Pendergest-Holt, who rose through the ranks to become chief investment officer under convicted swindler R. Allen Stanford, is headed to prison for obstructing the fraud investigation that brought down the global investment empire.
On Thursday, U.S. District Judge David Hittner sentenced Pendergest-Holt to three years in prison, followed by three years of supervised probation. Hittner dismissed 20 other counts against her, in line with a plea bargain agreement she reached with federal prosecutors.
A tearful and trembling Pendergest-Holt, 39, appeared before Hittner in June to plead guilty - just one week after Hittner sentenced her former boss, Stanford, to 110 years, all but certain to be a life sentence for the 62-year-old convict.
With her plea agreement in hand, she acknowledged obstructing the Securities and Exchange Commission investigation.
"I knew I was delaying the SEC," she said.
At the close of Thursday's hearing, Pendergest-Holt was taken into custody to begin serving her prison term.
The government values the global Stanford fraud at $5.9 billion in worthless certificates of deposit issued by Stanford International Bank in the Caribbean nation of Antigua, plus $1.3 billion in fictitious interest.
Pendergest-Holt joined Stanford Financial Group, an international financial services company based in Houston, as a research analyst at age 23, testimony showed. With a master's degree in mathematics, she received a series of promotions until she became chief investment officer in the spring of 2005.
During Stanford's criminal trial earlier this year, his former chief financial officer, James Davis, testified that he had met Pendergest-Holt as a teenager at the Baptist church in Mississippi where he taught a Bible class. He said he hired her at Stanford Financial about eight years later and he had an affair with her that lasted three years.
The criminal complaint against her describes a meeting of Stanford executives in early 2009, during which Pendergest-Holt agreed to give the SEC false testimony about the values of certain investments as the agency was closing in on Stanford International Bank and other Stanford operations.
"Holt corruptly took this action knowing that her testimony would impede the SEC's investigation of SIB, with the intention of delaying the SEC's attempts to secure testimony from Davis and Stanford, and in an effort to help SIB to continue operating," Assistant U.S. Attorney Jason Varnado said at the time of her guilty plea.
Varnado also noted that $350,000 of Pendergest-Holt's personal assets have been seized by a receiver appointed to recover what he can for defrauded Stanford investors.
Davis also has pleaded guilty and could be sentenced to as many as 30 years in prison for his crimes.
Two other Stanford co-defendants, former global controller Mark Kuhrt and former accounting chief Gil Lopez, are scheduled for a joint trial in Hittner's court on Oct. 1. Another defendant, Antiguan regulator Leroy King, awaits extradition.
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The Stanford case
The status of those accused of participating in a $7 billion investment fraud:
No. Name Title
1 R. Allen Stanford CEO
1 Sentenced to 110 years for masterminding
the fraud.
2 Laura Pendergest-Holt Investment chief
1 Sentenced to three years for obstructing
a Securities and Exchange Commission
3 James DavisCFO
1 Awaits sentencing after pleading guilty to
three felony counts.
4 Mark Kuhrt Global controller
1 Is scheduled for trial Oct. 1.
5 Gilberto LopezAccounting chief
1 Is scheduled for trial Oct. 1.
6 Leroy King Banking regulator
1 Is fighting extradition from the Caribbean
nation of Antigua.
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Union monuments at Gettysburg > New York > Infantry
"Warren Rifles"
The monument to the 95th New York Volunteer Infantry Regiment is west of Gettysburg on Reynolds Avenue south of the Railroad Cut. (39.837428° N, 77.248073° W; Google map; Tour map: North Reynolds Avenue) It was dedicated on July 1, 1893 by the State of New York.
Markers also show the regiment's location on Stone Avenue (Tour map: Stone & Meredith Avenues), at the corner of Doubleday and Wadsworth Avenues, on the corner of Chambersburg Pike and Seminary Avenue (Tour map: Seminary Ridge Avenue); and on the summit of Culp's Hill (Tour map: Culp's Hill North).
About the monument to the 95th New York
The monument stands 12′ tall, made of white granite topped with a sphere of polished Thousand Islands red granite. The sphere, the full moon symbol of the First Corps, rests on a carved granite knapsack. A smaller round First Corps symbol is on the front base of the monument. A bronze tablet of the Seal of the State of New York is on the top front, with bronze text tablets on the right and left sides.
The 95th New York at Gettysburg
The regiment was commanded at the Battle of Gettysburg by Colonel George H. Biddle. He was wounded on July 1st and Major Edward Pye took command.
The 95th brought 261 men to the field. It was one of the first Union infantry regiments to reach the battlefield, originally forming line of battle at 10 a.m. on July 1st at the site of the marker on Stone Avenue. But within a short time the Confederates of Davis' Brigade were starting to flank the Union position by moving through the railroad cut north of Chambersburg Pike. The 95th New York joined in a charge which drove them out, inflicting heavy losses.
The regiment reformed north of the cut at the site of the noon marker. But continuing Confederate pressure forced the Union line back to the area around the Seminary shown by the 4 p.m. marker, where the 95th supported the final First Corps artillery line before retreating throught Gettysburg to Cemetery Hill.
After reforming south of Gettysburg the regiment was sent to Culp's Hill, which it helped defend on July 2nd and 3rd.
Attached to the 2nd Brigade, 1st Division, 1st Corps, Army of the Potomac
From the front of the main monument:
95th New York Infantry.
2nd Brigade 1st Division 1st Corps
From the tablet on the left (north) side:
July 1, 1863.
This Regiment was formed south of the McPherson House and engaged the enemy at 10 a.m. at 10:30 a.m. changed front. Advanced to this position with the 84th New York and 6th Wisconsin. Repulsed and captured a large part of Davis' Mississippi Brigade in the railroad cut.
From the tablet on the right (south) side:
At noon, July 1st, held position on Oak Hill indicated by marker;
being outflanked moved to right of Seminary supporting Battery B, 4th U.S.
Retired from that position to Culp's Hill, where it remained during July 2nd and 3rd
Killed 7. Wounded 62. Missing 46.
Mustered in October 15, 1861.
Participated in 18 engagements
Mustered out July 16, 1865.
The Stone Avenue marker
From the Stone Avenue marker:
95th N.Y. Infantry
July 1st, 1863
The Doubleday Avenue marker
From the Doubleday Avenue marker:
95th N.Y. Infantry
July 1st, 1863 12 M.
The Seminary Avenue marker
From the Seminary Avenue marker:
95th N.Y. Infantry
July 1st, 1863
The Culp's Hill marker
From the Culp's Hill marker:
95th N.Y. Infantry
July 2 and 3
See more on the 95th New York Volunteer Infantry Regiment in the Civil War


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- 1815 W. Diehl Road, Suite 900, Naperville, IL 60563
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- October 25, 2018 at 9:00am - 10:45am
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Nailed that interview! Or did you? The saying is "The resume get you the interview, but the interview gets you the job." You worked a long time getting your resume "just right", presenting the best possible you. But, have you been working on how to present the best possible you during the interview? In this overview and Q&A session, you will gain insights into the interview/hiring manager's perspective on the interview. What opinions are they forming about you before you even sit down? How are your body language and paralanguage (voice tone, inflection volume, etc.) supporting or undermining your messages? From eye contact, to your handshake, to the shine on your shoes, it all goes into the mix that forms the important first impression that you make. This will be an important workshop to attend to prepare for that next interview and to debrief afterward.
Presenter – Job Coach and former Senior Vice President of Human Resources at Motorola, Jim Austgen.
Free to CCC members, $25 non-members.
25 Reasons You'll be Rejected From a Position and Never Be Told
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Map of bike paths / walking paths in the Terre Haute area
Recreational trails for walking, running and cycling in Terre Haute, Indiana
Terre Haute is located in Western Indiana. The city is situated along the Wabash River and is home to Indiana State Univesity.
National Road Heritage Trail
The National Road Heritage Trail is a 6.5-mile long multi-use paved pathway that spans between Downtown Terre Haute to Chamberlain Road. The trail wraps around the campus of Indiana State University and then heads east passing through residential neighborhoods. The trail goes by the Indiana State Memorial Stadium and the Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology.
The west end of the National Road Heritage Trail is located at the intersection of Cherry Street and N. 4th Street. The east end of the trail is located along Chamberlain Road to the south of Wabash Avenue.
Following are links to official off-site resources to find out more details about the recreational trails located in Terre Haute, Indiana.


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The symfony core team released new versions of three branches (1.2, 1.3 and 1.4) fixing a security vulnerability in the Doctrine admin generator. The new versions are 1.2.12, 1.3.3 and 1.4.3.
All our servers have been upgraded but if you are using the admin generator in your site, it is important that you clear the symfony cache. On shared hosting you can do so by login to the Control Panel and using Maestro. On a VPS, through SSH and as root run the following command: "cd /usr/local/php; git pull" and then clear your symfony cache.


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Home > Android Tablet Reviews > Google Nexus 10
What's hot: Superb display, fast performance, good ergonomics.
What's not: No microSD card slot, not terribly attractive.
Reviewed December 19, 2012 by Lisa Gade, Editor
in Chief (twitter: @lisagade)
The Nexus 10 is Google's first 10 inch tablet, and it's a winner. Made by Samsung, the tablet showcases Samsung's ability to make a very slim and appealing tablet with a blockbuster screen, minus the super-slippery gloss plastics found on Samsung brand tablets. The Nexus 10 has a 10.1" WQXGA 2560 x 1600 PLS display that's incredibly sharp, very bright and has balanced colors. It's every bit as good as the iPad with Retina Display when it comes to display quality. At 300 ppi, even tiny text is clear and easy to read and photos and videos look superb. Corning Gorilla Glass 2 and a bonded display make for a durable display.
Performance and Horsepower
This is the first Android product with the 1.7GHz Exynos 5 Dual CPU, and it's fast. Yes, it's only a dual core vs. the quad core Exynos 4 found in the Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1, Samsung Galaxy SIII and Galaxy Note II, but it not only benchmarks as well, but it feels supremely fast. Android 4.2 Jelly Bean with Project Butter speed optimizations no doubt help, but it makes our Nexus 7 running the same OS feel a tad sluggish. The Nexus 10 played 1080p MPEG4 high profile video, DivX video and YouTube 1080p streaming video perfectly to the internal display and to our HD TV via HDMI cable and it even played our 2560x 1440 4k ppi video test file using the stock video player. Nice. Challenging games like N.O.V.A. 3, GTA III, Bard's Tale (3.5 gig version) and Beach Buggy Blitz played smoothly with good frame rates. We definitely recommend this to gamers in the market for an Android tablet. The Nexus 10 has 2 gigs of RAM and your choice of 16 or 32 gigs of storage. The bad news? There's no microSD card slot and no USB host for external flash drives and hard drives.
* Note that GLBenchmark 2.1 scores tablets higher than version 2.7 used on the Nexus 10. Sunspider tests conducted with stock Android web browser, Nexus 10 and Xperia Tablet Z with Chrome that replaces the old standard Android web browser.
Additional Features and Pricing
While the Nexus 7 goes after the budget segment, the Nexus 10 isn't bargain-priced vs. competing Android tablets. The 16 gig is $399 and the 32 gig is $499. But you get top notch features for the price (other than the lack of external storage, which Google abhors). There's dual band WiFi with MIMO, Bluetooth, NFC with dual side NFC, a GPS and micro HDMI out. The tablet has a sharp 1.9MP front camera and a decent 5MP rear camera with LED flash that can shoot 1080p video and still captures simultaneously. The Nexus 10 has haptic feedback, an ambient light sensor, digital compass, gyro and an ample 9,000 mAh battery.
Design and Ergonomics
Front an aesthetic standpoint we're conflicted. On the one hand the tablet feels solid and strong and we adore the rubbery black soft touch finish on the back. It's thin at 0.35 inches and reasonably light at 1.33 pounds. But the rounded sizes look a little like a kid's tablet, the bezel is fairly large (though that does allow for plenty of space to grip the tablet) and it's neither pretty nor sexy. But it's well made with no flex and it feels absolutely great in hand. It's just not a head-turner. The buttons are easy to operate but aren't prone to accidental activation, and the Nexus 10 even has a notification LED below the display, a rarity on tablets. The tablet doesn't get hot, even when playing challenging 3D games or streaming HD video.
We love the front-facing stereo speakers that are similar to the Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 and Note 10.1 tablets: they line the sides of the display and thus aren't muffled by a table or your hands. Sound volume is good for a tablet and quality is decent. As always, the best sound quality comes from wired headphones and Bluetooth speakers and headphones, and there the Nexus 10 doesn't disappoint.
Deals and Shopping:
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Nexus 10 vs. Sony Xperia Tablet Z Comparison
Google Nexus 10 vs. Asus MeMO Pad Smart 10 Comparison Smackdown
Jelly Bean, Speed and What About Adobe Flash Player?
Stability and speed have been top notch after a rocky start where installing apps in groups of 10 has the tablet crash and reboot twice. Since then it's been silky smooth and responsive and stable. In fact, it's the quickest Android tablet we've tested in terms of actual user experience, and it doesn't feel slow compared to the iPad with Retina Display. The stock Chrome web browser is more prone to crashing than other apps, but so far it's been well behaved. Android 4.2 Jelly Bean and Chrome support HTML5 video but not Adobe Flash Player. We did install the free Boat browser and side-load Flash Player from Adobe's website and had success with Flash and sites like Amazon Instant Video.
Since this is a Google reference device, you get vanilla Android with no manufacturer UI add-ons like TouchWiz or HTC Sense. Advanced users and Android purists will love this: the tablet is easy to root and loading custom ROMs is straightforward. Average non-techie consumers might feel a little lost since there's no extra software bundle to get you going with Office docs, alternative video players or third party utilities. You can download these from the Google Play Store, but newbies may have no idea what apps to look for. Google's end user support is bare bones at best, making the tablet a better choice for Android veterans and those who frequent forums for peer support.
This is a WiFi-only tablet, and there's currently no 3G or 4G option. If you're not in WiFi range, you can use your smartphone's mobile hotspot feature, if you have it. We found the dual band WiFi 802.11b/g/n connection speed and range to be average, with good throughput on 5GHz 802.11n up to 35 feet from the wireless router, through 2 sheetrock walls. Beyond 35 feet, data speeds gradually taper off in an expected fashion.
The tablet also has NFC, which is handy for wireless transfers between NFC devices, but we suspect you won't be tapping the 1.4 lb. Nexus on the checkout terminal at the local Starbucks for Google Wallet payments. Bluetooth 3.0 works with keyboards, mice, game controllers (we tested it with the GameStop Bluetooth game controller for Android), headphones and speakers.
Everyone likes to make fun of 10 inch tablet cameras. Yes, it's a large device to wave around when shooting photos and video, but your best camera is the one that's handy. The front 1.9MP camera clearly shares DNA with the Samsung Galaxy S III and Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 front cameras. It's bright and sharp and makes for very good quality video chat over Google video chat and Skype. The rear 5MP camera won't win any resolution wars now that higher end smartphones sport 8MP cameras, but 5MP is enough to get reasonably detailed shots (assuming you can hold the big tablet still enough to avoid hand shake and blur). The back camera actually takes pleasing shots and it can shoot 1080p video. In fact, you can take still shots while filming video. Google's latest circular camera control UI leaves me cold: it requires fine motor coordination, something you don't want to deal with when trying to capture photos quickly and it's just not as easy as dedicated on-screen buttons. But it gets the job done and there are basic effects, white balance, EV along with panorama and 360 degree panorama options.
Battery Life
The tablet has a beefy 9,000 mAh Lithium Ion Polymer sealed inside its svelte chassis. In our tests battery life has been very good with average use that includes lots of web browsing, 1 hour of streaming video playback, background email and social network updates and 30 minutes of gaming. The tablet lasted us an average of 3 full days on a charge with moderate use. If you spend hours playing games like Dead Trigger or Need for Speed, the battery will run down sooner since gaming is the biggest power consumer.
Though the Nexus 10 has a Pogo Pin charger port on the bottom edge, that charger isn't included in the box and it doesn't seem to exist as of this writing. It would attach magnetically, much like the MS Surface RT tablet, but that's all we know since they aren't available for sale. You do get Samsung's standard 2 amp charger (the same that's been included with every Samsung Android tablet to date) and a USB to micro USB charging and data transfer cable.
Unlike Samsung-branded tablets that have a 30 pin proprietary multi-purpose port, the Nexus 10 uses the micro USB port for charging and data transfer over USB. That means Samsung's dongle adapters for USB host and keyboard docks will not work with the Nexus 10.
Comparing the Nexus 10 vs. the Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1
These are honestly two very different tablets once you move beyond the fact that they're both 10" Android tablets made by Samsung. The Note 10.1 is a much more consumer-focused product and the digital Wacom pen sets it apart from most other tablets on the market. Nexus products until recently targeted tech enthusiasts, particularly Android fans. The budget priced Nexus 7 brought the brand to the mainstream, but we still think of the 10" model as an enthusiast product.
Galaxy Note 10.1 Pro:
- Digital pen is a godsend for artists and avid note-takers. It's also very useful for digitally signing documents.
- Excellent custom software bundle: S-Note for notes and drawing, floating application feature, side-by-side app feature for multi-tasking. Plus a good set of starter apps including an MS Office compatible suite that makes life easier for novice users who don't have an established library of apps in their Google Play Store account.
- Solid performance and specs, microSD card slot for storage expansion and optional USB host with dongle adapter.
- Nice looking design. Available in two colors.
- Samsung has decent tech support, which is important for average users. Google's tech support is pretty weak: they'd rather send you to the brand maker for support which is ironic for Nexus Google-branded products.
Nexus 10 Pro:
- One of the best displays on the market, it's noticeably better than the Note 10.1 display. That doesn't mean the Note 10.1 has a poor display (it doesn't), rather than Nexus 10's display is just that fantastic.
- You'll be the first to get Android OS updates. It's also easy to root the tablet and load custom ROMs.
- Though the Galaxy Note 10.1 is a responsive tablet, the Nexus 10 feels even faster when navigating the UI, likely thanks to the clean OS without Samsung's TouchWiz UI on top.
- The Nexus 10 is grippy not slippery. Good for those who hate gloss plastics.
I'll be honest, I didn't expect to like the Google Nexus 10 that much. It isn't that I don't like Android, in fact Android is my main squeeze, but on paper the Nexus 10 didn't set my heart on fire. Once I got my hands on the tablet that changed. Why? The display is drop-dead gorgeous and it's faster and smoother than any other Android tablet on the market, including the Nexus 7 that seemed to get a little slower with the Android 4.2 update. The Nexus 10 also feels great in hand with friendly tapered sides, good balance, an excellent rubbery soft touch finish and moderate weight. I confess I don't much care for the industrial design, but I'll take good ergonomics over vanity any day.
Price: $399 for 16 gig and $499 for 32 gig
Website: www.google.com/nexus
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Display: 10.1" capacitive PLS screen. Resolution:
2560 x 1600. Supports both portrait and landscape modes via accelerometer, has ambient light sensor and gyro.
Battery: 9,000 Lithium
Ion rechargeable. Battery is not user replaceable.
Performance: 1.7GHz Exynos 5 Dual core CPU (5250) and 2 gigs RAM. 16 or 32 gigs internal storage.
Size: 10.39
x 6.99 x 0.35 inches. Weight: 1.33 pounds.
Camera: 1.9MP front camera and 5 megapixel rear camera with LED flash that can shoot 1080p video.
Audio: Built
in speaker, mic and 3.5mm standard stereo headphone
Networking: Integrated
WiFi 802.11b/g/n and Bluetooth 3.0.
Software: Android OS 4.2 Jelly Bean. Standard suite of Google Android applications including Chrome web browser, email, gmail, YouTube, Maps, Navigation, Gallery, Google Play Music, Google Play Movies, Search and the Google Play Store.
Expansion: None.
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