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Instantly, my field of vision was filled with a giant man! He stared at me as if unsure what he was seeing. I tried waving to let him know I was friendly.
"OHMYGOSH!" he screamed, terror flooding his face.
I screamed as well, running to hide in the bathroom of my hotel room—very evidently not a hotel at all! I watched as the wall pulled away, and the giant reached into my room and felt around. I knew I had to get out of there fast. I dodged past the groping fingers and down the narrow hall. Nothing looked as it had been. There were only rooms on the front side now. I tumbled down the chunky staircase and reached the ground floor in time to hear a female voice speak to him.
"Jerry, what's wrong?"
"Wrong?" the hand pulled back and the wall slammed shut. The giant stood in front of the building as I spilled out the front door and onto the countertop. His movement blocked it from her view. "Nothing's wrong," the giant stammered nervously. "Why would anything be wrong?"
"Jerry, why did you scream?"
"Scream?" He hesitated, and I seized the opportunity to carefully lower myself off the edge of the counter and drop into his back pocket, alongside his wallet. "I—I have to get to work." Jerry turned quickly, probably checking to see if I was still in the house. When he turned around again, I saw that he had closed the window.
"Bye, honey," he said, striding out the door.
I had to slip out of his pocket as he slid into his car. I climbed across the emergency brake shaft to the passenger seat. He plopped his briefcase down almost on top of me.
"I'm seeing things," he muttered to himself, "It was just a—well, just...nothing. There wasn't really anything; I mean, what could fit in a dollhouse, really? It's just..." he sighed and gripped the steering wheel. "Stress," he finished, "office stress."
Creeping around to the handle of the briefcase, I found that the latch was large enough for me to reach in and release it. I climbed over the lip and landed amid piles of papers and folders. I had only just settled when I heard Jerry mutter, "I thought I'd already closed—" the briefcase snapped shut and I was both in darkness and complete silence.
I could mostly keep myself in one place while he was driving. I only wondered what I would do when he discovered me again.
Presently, the briefcase tipped upright, and I fell straight to the bottom. Jerry the giant was probably juggling a few other things too, because the case and its contents (including myself) slammed back and forth as well as up and down. I dodged as best I could, but in desperation I wedged myself in a corner of the case and hoped nothing would smash me. Yes, there were pretty exclusively papers and folders, but each was about one hundred feet long and weighed about as much as a piece of sheet metal.
Finally, the briefcase moved straight up like a freight elevator, and slammed down flat. I ended up, wedged as I was, head-down.
Just as I righted myself, the lid of the case flew up, carrying me partway with it. I landed on my rear end right in the middle of a paper. Jerry the giant was reading something on his computer screen as he reached for a sheaf of papers underneath me.
"Hi!" I shouted.
Jerry jumped so hard he hit the wall of his small cubicle and cowered on the floor.
"D-d-don't hurt me," he whimpered.
I could see the poor guy shaking, almost crying. I raised my hands to try to calm him, and he flinched like I was flinging magic at him.
"Dude," I tried to explain, "just relax, I'm not going to hurt you. My name is Laura," I said, pointing to myself.
Jerry's breath still came in short bursts. "I'm hallucinating," he muttered to himself. He fought to pull himself off the floor with shaking hands. "This is all—it's a dream. There is no such thing as a tiny, live, person; I'm going to wake up, and—"
The infuriated shriek caught him unawares and he yelled, "Yipes!" and slammed his briefcase shut, plunging me into darkness once more. I heard the woman's voice continue for several minutes, and then silence. The latch on the briefcase clicked, slowly; very timidly, the lid inched upward. I saw his enormous eyes, the size of satellite dishes, peeking through the slit, as if checking to see if I was really there. Still he did not open the lid all the way. I heard him psyching himself up for it.
"Okay, Jerry, you can do this. This is real life, Jerry, not something out of your imagination. Come on, Jerry; you're better than this. Okay..." He slowly lifted the lid.
I tried not to make any sudden moves that might scare him. He frowned when he saw me, like the expression one wears when trying to discern if a dustbunny is a spider.
"Hi," I said cautiously.
Jerry rolled his eyes. "Oh, dangit, you're still there!" He sat back and studied me as I crawled out onto his desk. Finally, he asked, "Are you, like my conscience or something?" His eyes widened as he considered the ramifications of such a thing. "This is about that one thing I did, and you're here to punish me with magic, right? With the teacher and the erasers—"
I couldn't stand all the crazy talk. "What? No! I don't have any idea what you're talking about, and I don't think I want to know! I'm not here to punish you—"
Without warning, his hand descended upon me. I could tell he had not calmed down much, if at all. He slammed me flat on the ground. Taking small strips of tape, he fastened my arms, my legs, and my waist to the desk. Then he pulled out a magnifying glass and examined me closely.
"Hey!" he cried, poking me roughly with his fingertip, "You don't have wings! You're not a fairy: are you a leprechaun?"
His strange behavior was freaking me out, but I couldn't do a thing about it. Try as I might, I couldn't pull my arms out. "Ow! Hey!" I struggled against the tape, "What on earth are you doing?"
He grinned childishly and set down the magnifying glass. "Ha! I've caught you, leprechaun, and now you must give me all your gold and I don't have to work at this stupid job any more!"
"Are you out of your mind?" I yelled. "I'm not a leprechaun, I'm not a fairy, or a pixie, or an elf, I'm not anything! I'm just a normal human being, and my name is Laura."
Jerry smiled condescendingly, as if he didn't believe me. "Okay, human," he scoffed, "What planet are you from?"
Finally, I wriggled my left arm free, and used that hand to free my right. With both hands I peeled the strip of tape off my waist, wary of Jerry's twitching hands on either side of me.
"I come from a place called Earth," I said.
Jerry snorted, "Whatever—this is Earth."
I stopped in the middle of freeing my ankles. "No—No, it can't be!" I spluttered. "Where are we?"
"America; Phantopolis, New York, to be precise."
He said it with such certainty, but by now I knew that this could not be real. I struggled to my feet. "No," I tried to correct him as my head spun, "see, that's where you're wrong. There is no Phantopolis, New York!"
Jerry's face did not change; he only blinked. "Yes, there is; we are here."
I shook my head, but everything was still spinning. "You've gotta understand," I tried to tell him, "This can't be Earth."
Jerry cocked an eyebrow. "How so?"
I stood as tall as I could. "In the real world, I'm five-foot-five," I said. "That would make you about seventy-five feet tall. That is not possible for a normal human being to be that tall. So you see, you are a giant, and this is not Earth."
Jerry laughed at this. "Seventy-five feet?" he repeated, "Is that how tall you think I am?"
Something about his tone gave me pause. "Well…" I found myself considerably less convinced, "yeah…I mean—"
"Laura," Jerry sighed, "I hate to be the one to tell you this." He opened his desk drawer and withdrew a ruler. He placed it on the desk next to me. "You're six inches high."
I glanced at the board next to me. I knew that under normal circumstances, I was around five feet, five inches. Yet as I stood there on the desk, there was the numeral 6, just above my line of vision. It was as big as my face; I could barely speak.
"Oh—but how did...No, this is impossible," my vision blurred, and I felt my legs turn to jelly. I probably would have collapsed right there on the desk if Jerry had not offered his hand. I sat heavily in his palm, and he lifted me carefully. In all my adventures, I had never expected to be in a situation quite like this. I found myself feeling Jerry's palm, just as Perissa had touched mine. Now I saw as she did, the large crevices and ridges in the palm, the deep lines of the fingerprint on his thumb.
Jerry fidgeted in the silence. "So," he tried, "you don't know how you got shrunk? No, like, I dunno," he shrugged and rolled his eyes, "mad scientists running experiments or evil masterminds zapping people with shrink rays or anything like that?"
I shook my head. "No, nothing: I was normal size when I walked into a hotel and got a room and went to sleep." I tucked my knees against my chest as Jerry watched me closely.
"How did you get into my wife's dollhouse?"
I blinked and looked up at him. "Oh, that lady was your wife?" I asked dimly.
Jerry frowned as if I had asked a stupid question. "Yeah, she has been for almost five years now." He paused, "Why do you ask?"
I couldn't help smirking, "Well, the way you totally brushed her off and lied to her, I thought she might have been your girlfriend or a mistress or something."
"Well she's—" Just then, a woman's voice drew near the door. Jerry's eyes got wide, and he opened the shallow drawer at the middle of his desk, right beneath me. "Shoot, hide!" He did not wait for me to jump, but swept me in as a hulking form entered his cubicle. He didn't quite manage to close the drawer all the way before someone stopped in front of his desk. I could hear their whole conversation clearly over the rim of the drawer.
"Yes, Miss Werehauser?"
"Who are you talking to, Jerry?" The voice was the same woman who screamed at him earlier.
"Um," Jerry stammered. "No one; I mean... myself?"
The woman's voice went from sticky-sweet to harsh in a moment. "Then why are you talking at all?" She pounded on the desk as she railed at him. "Why aren't you working? Did you get those, ah, reports done last night like I told you?" Her voice weighed heavily on the word, in obvious hint.
I heard Jerry shuffling around in his briefcase. "Yes, here they are..."
As I waited, I made my way to the back of the drawer, where the rim did not quite extend to the top. The drawer was only three inches deep, so I could easily peek over the side. Two bulging feet stuffed into a pair of severe pumps met my eye. One foot tapped as Miss Werehauser clucked her tongue. "Oh, Jerry, you idiot! You entered these amounts wrong! All right, you can just stay late and enter them again."
"Yes, Miss Werehauser."
The shoes departed, and I scrambled for the front of the drawer as Jerry opened it. He lifted me onto the desk again, where a stack of papers lay, filled with columns of numbers and words.
"What was that all about?" I asked.
In just the few short minutes of the conversation, Jerry had lost all the excitement in his face. Now he just looked drained. "Galina Werehauser is my supervisor, the manager of this firm." He explained, "I'm one of the analysts."
I recalled the way she seemed to want his compliance with a secret project of some sort. "What does she want you to do?"
"This." Jerry pointed to the papers beneath me. I walked up and down the columns. Some numbers, I saw, were in dollar amounts, while others were in increments of a thousand.
"What do these numbers mean?"
Jerry sighed and slumped in his chair. "They're production reports, for the executive board. This is our expenses and profits, and these are our production records."
I noticed a singular feature of the records. "How come there are two columns of everything?"
Jerry was becoming more hesitant by the minute. I wondered what he had to hide. "Galina is one of two senior managers, but my department handles the business of both branches."
I shrugged, "These numbers look accurate to me." Not that I could really tell, but none of the amounts were particularly outlandish. I did see that the other branch seemed to consistently outperform Galina's office, both in lower expenses, and greater production and profits.
Jerry nodded, "They are. Galina wants me to tamper with them, because as long as I do it how she wants me to, no one will question them. She wants to make herself look better than Angelica Lindstrom, because the directors are discussing putting this whole company under sole management."
The whole plan became remarkably clear to me. "So," I guessed, "tweaking the numbers just slightly in her favor is not enough to put her beyond Angelica, she wants you to make Angelica look worse at the same time, so that separately, no one can notice the difference, but put them together like they are in this report—"
"Right." Jerry looked as miserable as a misbehaving dog due for a beating. I was puzzled by his submissiveness.
"Why can't you let the directors know?"
The man looked grim. "Because I am the only one who knows about this; even anonymous hints would let her know that I spilled." He sat back and ran a hand through his hair in agitation. "Let me explain this way: people like Galina, we call them kite-flyers."
By now the reasoning behind this term was easy for me to grasp. "They pull strings to get what they want?"
"Exactly, and Galina, well, she has a lot of strings, so if one is not pulling for her, the way she wants it to go—"
"She has no problem cutting it loose." Now I knew the source of his agitation.
Jerry nodded. "Worse than that," he added, "this particular little project means so much to her that she would gladly burn me if I so much as failed to swap the numbers to her satisfaction. I'd be ruined for the rest of my days!" He leaned forward and dropped his head into his palms.
The poor man was clearly at his wits' end. I watched him sitting there, completely under the thumb of someone who did not care the least about him; meanwhile, I could see how Galina's domination was probably what kept Jerry at work late, and made him stressed, which did nothing for his relationship with Cherry. I knew I had to do something to help him; why else would I be here?
"Jerry," I whispered, "I can help you."
He peeked at me from between his fingers. "You really think so?" he asked through his palms.
I was growing more confident by the minute. "Yes, I'm pretty sure I can."
This brought Jerry up short; he sat up and stared at me. "But what can you do?" he cried, "you're only six inches high!"
I shrugged, "So? Show me what you have to do, and I can help you with your workload!" At the very least I could take care of the more menial stuff that he had to do.
Jerry stared at me; I calculated the likelihood of the fact that, as much as he would rationally like to dismiss me, he could not ignore the fact that my sudden appearance was nothing short of miraculous. Besides, what could it hurt? He threw his hands up in surrender.
"Ah, what the heck," he acquiesced, "Why not?"


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Classified Staff Handbook: Full-Time, Classified Employment Basics
Probationary Period JMU Policy 1322
The probationary period is an introductory period of employment that allows the employee and JMU to determine if the employee is suited for the job. During the probationary period, employees may be terminated with or without cause, and without access to the State Grievance Procedure.
Employees who are hired/re-hired into a classified position must serve a 12-month probationary period, effective from the date of employment/re-employment. Employees who have completed a probationary period during their current employment, and who begin a new classified position with no break in service, are usually not required to serve a new probationary period.
The normal probationary period is 12 months; however, probationary periods may be extended for up to six additional months for performance reasons, if an employee is absent for an extended period, or if an employee moves to another position within the last six months of the 12-month period.
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Formal performance evaluations serve as an effective feedback tool to help the employee identify performance strengths and areas in need of further development. It may also enhance communication between employees and supervisors. The performance review period for non-probationary, classified employees is an annual cycle and runs each year from October 25 to October 24.
Supervisors review position descriptions at the beginning of the cycle. The position description is the basis for evaluating employee performance throughout the entire performance cycle.
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Wake up at 6am. Head downstairs to make coffee, turn on computer and work on my book A Hundred Reasons to Run 100km.
Head out the door for one-hour family trail run with spouse Tim and doggy Luka at 9am. A slight frost on the ground, clear trails and snowcapped mountains lit up by the sun.
Back home an hour later, drop off Tim and Luka, pick up bottle, gels and iPod and head out for another 80 minutes of pacey running on the trails.
Back home just before noon. Shower. Make big omelet with ham for me. And one for Luka without the spices and ham. Tim doesn't like omelets.
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The times have changed. Today American television tries to
exploit each and every "saucy" event from the headlines in
order to produce couple of uninspiring and formulaic TV
movies or mini-series. But in good old days saying "life is
stranger than fiction" had some value in screenwriter's
minds. At least this is impression you might get from a real
life event that inspired DOG DAY AFTERNOON, 1975 drama
directed by Sydney Lumet, probably one of the most legendary
films in the history of American cinema.
Plot begins in August 1972 when group of three men, led by
Sonny Wartzik (played by Al Pacino) enters First Savings
Bank in Brooklyn in order to rob it. Sonny used to work in a
bank and he is supposed to know all the tricks of trade,
making the whole operation routine. But things go bad from
the start, when one of the robbers simply chickens out and
runs, thus leaving Sonny with his silent and dim-witted
partner Sal (played by John Cazale) to finish the job. It
turns out that the bank vault is mostly empty, but this is
not the last unpleasant surprise for Sonny. Before he is
able to get out, the bank is surrounded by hundreds of
policemen led by Lt. Moretti (played by Charles Durning).
Sonny decides to find get out of this situation by taking
bank personnel as hostages and demanding plane that would
take him and Sal out of the country. But before FBI comes
and takes over the negotiations, situation gets out of
control - policemen around the bank are joined by thousands
of onlookers and the media soon starts reporting some
embarrassing details about Sonny's private life and truly
bizarre motive for his desperate act.
DOG DAY AFTERNOON has many trademarks of 1970s, era that is
often referenced as the Golden Age of American cinema. First
of all, the main role is played by Al Pacino in his prime,
while the supporting role is played by John Cazale,
character actor who appeared in few movies but nevertheless
managed to leave lasting impression on future generations of
filmophiles. The film is directed by Sydney Lumet in his
prime, and his style gives impression of a time when
filmmakers dared to employ techniques that would look
unacceptably "artsy" to present-day Hollywood. The movie
lacks musical soundtrack, almost entire plot takes place on
a single location and the genre shifts from comedy in the
beginning to the serious drama at the end.
Despite all of that, DOG DAY AFTERNOON works and it could be
enjoyed even by the audience unfamiliar to 1970s cinema.
Sydney Lumet, same as in his 1957 masterpiece 12 ANGRY MEN,
shows how he could overcome limitations of the plot with an
excellent casting and flawless direction. Real life
perpetrators of the robbery could be hardly anything other
than pathetic losers, but Pacino and Cazale bring a lot of
humanity while portraying and making the audience
sympathising with them, despite the obvious lunacy of their
actions. Lumet shows great talent for pacing that gives
"real-time" feeling to DOG DAY AFTERNOON while making the
film six times shorter than the real event. The audience is
never bored, thanks to the good script by Frank Pierson that
compensates the lack of action with good dialogue. Legendary
performances by Pacino and Cazale are well-matched by those
of Charles Durning and Chris Sarandon, but even the bit
parts are good. Sully Boyar is more than fine as duty-bound
bank manager Mulvaney, same as various actresses who are
very convincing in displaying symptoms of "Stockholm
Syndrome". but the most effective bit parts belong to the
actors playing FBI agents. Lance Henriksen is truly menacing
in one of his earliest role, and the exchange between
Pacino's character and Sheldon, FBI agent in charge played
by James Broderick, is simply chilling.
Perhaps the only major flaw of the film might be found in
its date. DOG DAY AFTERNOON, based on the true event, is a
film that could be best understood only in the context of
the times when it was produced. Early 1970s, although less
stormy than late 1960s, still represented the era of great
social change in America with anti-establishment behaviour
being fashionable among the large segments of society. Even
the most pathetic criminals were able to arouse popular
sympathy by couple of simple slogans, like "Attica", Sonny's
chant that brought very fresh memories of 1971 prison riot
that had ended with massacre of inmates. And for homosexual
community that had recently won the right to formally exist
Sonny became a hero simply because of the motive for his
totally insane and self- destructive action. In our
"politically correct" times, when the former miscasts and
minorities became part of social mainstream, DOG DAY
AFTERNOON can't be as effective as it was almost three
decades ago. But despite that, it is very good film could
still be viewed and enjoyed by latter generations.
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Yuri Alpha (ユリ・アルファ / yuri・α)Yuri is the vice-captain of the "Pleiades Six Stars," the battle maid squad of the Great Tomb of Nazarick.
She is a beauty with an intelligent look, wearing glasses and a choker. She wears her hair tied into a low-cropped bun at the back of her head. Lacking a metal plate in front of her skirt, her dress emphasizes mobility rather than defense. She is equipped with spiked gauntlets.
As shown in her karma value, Yuri is good-hearted and one of the two "safe" Pleiades to humans. Thus, she felt relief when Ainz said not to kill humans without proper reason. When given permission to do as she pleases, she chooses to help people in destitution. She uses "boku" as a first-person pronoun when speaking in private, revealing a somewhat childish nature.
Her behavior is strict like a teacher's. Due to her personality, she often works as a chairperson.
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Hope for the Hopeless
Relationships are everything in this part of the world, and having a couple of team members from the area helped us gain unprecedented access and freedom to move about. We had specifically looked for areas hardest hit by the lack of a good harvest, insecurity due to the conflict, and in need of a reassuring message of God's love and protection even in the midst of horrific circumstances. As mentioned, this led us on a path a couple of hours into the bush, but also to some genuinely grateful people. In both villages, older women came up to me and gave me a vigorous handshake to show their gratitude. The need was evident given the fact that there was not a single person even close to overweight anywhere. Most kids were in rags, some were naked. As always, in these circumstances you wish you had more to give, which is why the message of hope is so critical. On one quick trip you can't fix the situation, but you can provide immediate relief and restore hope.


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Cycling is a challenging sport, it requires perservence, consistency and a single minded focus that's often hard to maintain while working. Late 2016, I embarked on a 100 day program to get my fitness back on track before the start of the 2017 season. I'd let myself go, dropping fitness and gaining a few kilograms. Add that to a return to full-time work, and I was facing an uphill battle.
At the conclusion of the 100 days on December 28th, I had managed to shed the majority of the excess weight, but struggled to get my FTP back up to a competitive level. But I enter 2017 with an optimistic outlook, keen to race and help drive more events in Singapore.
The plan was to start the year with the Palau Indah 180, just outside Kuala Lumpur in mid-January. After renting a car to get myself up there, I made the tragic mistake of leaving my handing pump in the car. The course's rough roads meant punctures we common and frequent. I couldn't escape the odds, puncturing 15km into the race. Unaware at the time I had left my pump behind, I made a start to change the tube and waved through the support vehicles. Two minutes later I was stranded, unable to inflate my tyre. Race over at 15km.
The following weekend was a big event. The first ever URA CarFree Sunday Crit, around the 1.7km CBD circuit. I was like a kid in the weeks up to Christmas, excited at the though of Crit racing in the heart of Singapore. But with limited volunteers to help with official duties, I was faced with a tough choice. In the end, I opted to help out and took on commissiare duties for the race. I couldn't help but be jealous as the field rolled off the start.
Next came a work trip to Las Vegas, where I'd carry my bike with the aim of racing in California. On the weekend, there'd be a Road Race and Criterium in Santa Cruz. The week in Vegas was full of less than healthy habits, as a frantic week of activity keep me away from any noticeable training sessions and leaving me exhausted at its conclusion. Poor weather in the San Fran Bay Area resulted in dozens of cancelled flights, and unfortunately for me, my races as well. The first four races I had planned for the year had resulted in DNS or DNF.
I started the year planning for a strong Tour be Bintan on March 3-5, but with such a disastrous start to the year, my preparation was looking horrible. My last chance to push myself was the February edition of the URA CarFree Crit, in the masters category. A field that would closely resemble the Masters field for Bintan. While I never had hopes of matching the strength of guys like Dohling, Khoo, Hashim, I had hoped to hang onto the main bunch, eight laps it was looking likely. But a split second lapse of judgement saw me in the wrong position as the field separated. Leaving me stranded, and trying to compile a chase group. There was a significant advantage to riding in a smaller group, as you could take faster lines into the circuits two corners.
My goal for the race was to test my legs, see if I could push them to stay in pack. Cycling is full of surprises, but I should have known this was going to be a challenge. While I was still in the back of the field, the Specialized Mavericks, Bastian Döhling had put in a strong demonstration of his current fitness. Chasing down a breakaway, before opening a controlling lead.
I was now working in a group of five, we kept the pace up, with most of us likely clinging to the hope that we could get ourselves back into the main battle. We did well to organize ourselves, but with limited race experience in the Singapore community, it was less effective than it could have been. I found myself thinking back to the Wednesday night before, cloaking down gaps to Firoz Loh as he smashed the WCR SR field on his Time Trial bike. As lap after lap we chased the swarm of little red lights ahead, I lost track of the lap count. With only the timer on my Garmin to help me gauge the remaining laps. Despite my best efforts, I couldn't make out a lap count board at the finish line either. It's likely it was there, but speeding through a abundant series of flashing lights, cow bells and cheers, I just couldn't focus enough to find it.
Conceding that gap to the main field, I thought I'd save up some power for one final lap burst. See if I could shoot off from the bell and put a decent gap between myself and my fellow group members. But with the constant ring of cow bells at the finish line, I never could distinguish the bell signaling the final lap. So imagine my surprise when we come around to are told its the finish of the race. Dam, I had missed another opportunity.
Racing a bike is an intense sport, it requires focus, attention to detail and punishes even a moments distraction. I'm by no means an experienced racer, but its' lesson like those I've encountered during the start to 2017 that will only build on my knowledge and experience. Racing isn't just about the legs, it's also about the head. Smarter racers know when to attack, and when to rest. They pay attention in crucial moments. Either way, I thoroughly enjoy the growth curve as I build on past experiences. No an ideal start to the year, but I've learnt a tonne. I know I'm slower and fatter than I was in June 2016, my challenge is to get back to those levels.
Next up is Tour de Bintan, March 3-5, followed by Tour de Phuket, March 17-19. Can't wait 🙂
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I've just read something that has made me rather frustrated, and as it is not the first time I've heard this sort of thing I thought it worth sharing my thoughts here. It was along the lines of:
"Suffering the pain of childbirth is pointless, so just get an epidural".
Let me take a moment here to point out that I have zero problem with women choosing to labour and birth however they wish, so long as that choice is a fully informed one. (And by fully informed I do not mean just what the Drs will tell you, what your friends have told you, or what you've read in a magazine – or blog! – Do your own research, and don't just read things that say what you want to hear, that is *not* the definition of informed). It's all very well harping on about it being someone's choice to do something, but again, unless that choice is a truly informed one, it is not truly a choice at all. And that's what it comes down to really. It's just not as simple as choosing between "the agony of childbirth" and popping a baby out without feeling a thing. There are many more factors involved, and interventions are not without risk.
This kind of comment assumes that all women experience labour and birth in the same way, which they clearly do not. One person will have a different pain tolerance level to the next. We are all different. We cannot equate our own experiences of birth to someone else's. Neither can we look at someone else in labour and say how they feel about it. This is something only the woman herself can judge. It also perpetuates the incredibly irritating idea that birth is always something horrific, to be feared and dreaded, that you *will* experience unbearable agony and should be very, very afraid. Saying that birth is excruciatingly painful is not helpful, yet it is often the overriding message we circulate about birth in our society. Just because one woman experienced it as such, does not mean the next woman will. Even one individual woman can experience two very different labours. How you experience labour is down to a lot of things – your own expectations (It is well known that fear greatly heightens perception of pain and if all you've been told is that it is awful, really what can you expect?), your previous experiences, how you have mentally and practically prepared for labour, your perceived level of control of the situation, your surroundings, who you have with you, how you are being treated. All of these things have a massive impact on how you feel and how things go. Birth is not just a mechanical process that will progress from A to B in X number of hours. It is as much a mental process as it is a physical one. All the right ingredients have to be in place for it to work smoothly and as it should. Imagine trying to make a baby with all the fear and scaremongering and interference that is involved in modern day birthing. It just wouldn't happen would it? You need to be "in the mood". All the same hormones and mental components needed to make a baby are needed to birth one. (Read more about hormones in labour here).
Epidurals significantly interfere with the hormones of labour and birth, turning it into a medically managed procedure rather than a physiological process. Perhaps if you don't care, understand or believe that our bodies have evolved complex mechanisms and structures to grow and birth our babies perfectly well by themselves, then you won't think twice about interfering with these processes, even with something so seemingly simple as an epidural (if inserting several inches of needle into your spine can ever be seen as simple). But there are consequences to messing with this process, some of which include slowing the progress of labour (yes, actually making it longer – for example with my first baby, as the epidural needle was going in I started to feel pushing urges, yet the epidural took effect, the pushing urge vanished and my baby wasn't born for several more hours, during which he became distressed), interfering with hormones vital to the birthing process, increasing the likelihood of instrumental or surgical delivery, double the risk of hemorrhaging, reduced chances of successful breastfeeding, and a whole host of others which I won't list for fear of being accused of a bias! Dr Sarah J Buckley has written a very informative article on epidural use, which is fully referenced and well worth reading if you wish to educate yourself further on the subject.
A woman who chooses not to have an epidural is not "choosing pain". This is just as wrong and disempowering as saying a woman who chose to have an epidural took the easy way out. The suggestion that going through labour without drugs is "pointless" is dismissive of the incredible process of birth and the sometimes bloody hard work we go through to achieve it. It suggests that researched choices are invalid compared to medically directed ones. We all have our own individual circumstances and reasons for our choices, as long as these choices are fully informed, that is what matters.
It really annoys me that there is this idea that women who don't have drugs in labour are somehow martyring themselves, or trying to be "better" than other women. It annoys me when women who have had epidurals act smugly towards the woman next to her who had a natural birth and made a lot of noise. For goodness sake people, since when was birth a competition? Similarly, someone like myself who believes that a natural physiological birth as nature intended is healthiest for most women and babies is not "judging" someone who has had a medically managed birth, nor am I trying to change anyone's mind. All I am interested in is accurate information, knowing that everyone who needs to has access to it and the freedom to make their choices from an informed position. MidwifeThinking put it very well in her article "Judging Birth" which she summarised with the following:
"There is no correct way to birth, or to behave during birth. As women and mothers we are subjected to more than enough judgement from others and ourselves. Perhaps it is time to start nurturing and supporting ourselves and others instead."
To conclude; I am not saying that birth is a breeze or that there is a right way to do it, as in the quote above. Just that there is more to it than projecting our own entirely valid experiences onto others, and suggesting how they should or shouldn't do it based on these. We cannot truly advocate for women or for ourselves if our view is immovable or we willingly ignore facts that do not fit in with our ideas. Our experiences are what they are, but we need to remember that a huge number of things will affect our experiences of labour and birth. Epidurals, like all interventions should be weighed up benefits Vs risks, not handed out as standard without any consideration of these factors.


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Local MP Jesse Norman today warmly welcomed the news that the Government is backing the project to build a new university in Herefordshire.
The Spending Review delivered by the Chancellor today committed to providing "dedicated support" for a new university focused on engineering in Hereford. This will allow the project to secure launch funding in 2016, subject to a business case.
In a letter to Jesse, the Chancellor wrote that he hopes "this will allow the institution to start teaching the engineering students of the future that our country needs before the end of the Parliament."
Commenting, Jesse said "This is massive news, and a real boost for the whole of Herefordshire.
"It has long been my dream for us to have a university of our own, and I have campaigned to make this happen since 2009. Along with the project team leaders I have been vigorously making the case over the past year to the Department of Business, Innovation and Skills, and also directly to the Chancellor.
"I'm delighted that the Government has now committed to supporting the project. This has the potential to be the most transformative project for our county since the construction of Hereford Cathedral.


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Oat plants with inflorescences
|Scientific classification
|Avena sativa
Oat, usually in the plural as oats, is any of the various plants of the genus Avena of the grass family (Poaceae), some of which are widely cultivated for their edible seeds (botanically a type of simple dry fruit called a caryopsis). In particular, oats refers to the common cereal plant Avena sativa, and to its edible grains, which are used for food, livestock feed, hay, pasture, and silage. Other well known plants of this genus are wild oat (A. fatua), red oat (A. byzantina), and wild red oat (A steriles). In all, there are about ten to fifteen Avena species and subspecies. This article will mainly be about A. sativa, which is one of the most important grain crops worldwide.
While oats are suitable for human consumption, used particularly as oatmeal and rolled oats, one of the most common uses is as livestock feed. In the United States, less than five percent of the total production is used for food, with most oats used for livestock feed (CNCPP 1999). Oats make up a large part of the diet of horses and are regularly fed to cattle as well. Oats are also used in some brands of dog and chicken feed.
Oats are the third most important grain crop in the United States (CNCPP 1999) and are seventh in weight of production worldwide, after maize, rice, wheat, barley, sorghum, and millet (FAO 2008). In 2007, almost 26 million metric tons of oats were produced worldwide (FAO 2008).
The true grasses known as oats, Avena sp., are native to Europe, Asia and northwest Africa. One species, Avena sativa is widely cultivated elsewhere, and several have become naturalized in many parts of the world. The wild ancestor of Avena sativa (common oat) and the closely-related minor crop, A. byzantina (red oat), is the hexaploid wild oat A. sterilis. Genetic evidence shows that the ancestral forms of A. sterilis grew in the Fertile Crescent of the Near East. Domesticated oats appear relatively late, and far from the Near East, in Bronze Age Europe. This is substantially later than wheat, and the early uses of oats appears to have been medicinal (CNCPP 1999). Oats, like rye, are usually considered a secondary crop; in other words, derived from a weed of the primary cereal domesticates wheat and barley. As these cereals spread westwards into cooler, wetter areas, this may have favored the oat weed component, leading to its eventual domestication (Zhou et al. 1999).
All oats have edible seeds, though they are small and hard to harvest in most species.
Oat plants are annual grasses. The main stem may grow to two or more feet, terminating in a large, generally loose panicle. A panicle is a compound raceme, a loose, much-branched indeterminate inflorescence with pedicellate flowers (and fruit) attached along the secondary branches—in other words, a branched cluster of flowers in which the branches are racemes. In oats, the panicle consists of a central stem (or rachis), side or rachis branches (which rise in whorls at the nodes), and spikelets in which the flowers and seeds are borne (CNCPP 1999). Each main stem and lateral stem ends in a spikelet, and spikelets also are found at the nodes of the branch stems; there may be 20 to 150 spikelets on one panicle (CNCPP 1999).
One species, Avena sativa, is of major commercial importance as a cereal grain. Four other species are grown as crops of minor or regional importance.
These species, called wild oats or oat-grasses, are nuisance weeds in cereal crops, as, being grasses like the crop, they cannot be chemically removed; any herbicide that would kill them would also damage the crop.
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|People's Republic of China
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UN Food & Agriculture Organisation
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations reports that the production of oat in 2007 was 25,991, 961 metric tons, which is up from 22,758,002 metric tons in 2006, but down considerably from the 1961 production of 49,588,769 metric tons. The area harvested in 2007 was 11,951,617 hectares (FAO 2008).
Oats are grown throughout the temperate zones. They have a lower summer heat requirement and greater tolerance of rain than other cereals like wheat, rye, or barley, so are particularly important in areas with cool, wet summers, such as Northwest Europe, even being grown successfully in Iceland.
Oats are an annual plant and can be planted either in autumn (for harvesting the next year) or in the spring (for early autumn harvest). For spring planting, an early start is important for good yields as oats will go dormant during the summer heat. Oats are cold-tolerant and will be unaffected by late frosts or snow.
Typically, in industrialized environments, about 125 to 175 kilograms/hectare (between 2.75 and 3.25 bushels per acre) are sown, either broadcast, drilled, or planted using an airseeder. Lower rates are used when underseeding with a legume. Somewhat higher rates can be used on the best soils, or where there are problems with weeds. Excessive sowing rates will lead to problems with lodging and may reduce yields.
Winter oats may be grown as an off-season groundcover and plowed under in the spring as a green fertilizer.
Oats remove substantial amounts of nitrogen from the soil. Usually 50 to 100 kilograms per hectare (45–90 pounds per acre) of nitrogen in the form of urea or anhydrous ammonia is sufficient to add to the soil, as oats uses about 1 pound per bushel per acre. A sufficient amount of nitrogen is particularly important for plant height and hence straw quality and yield. When the prior-year crop was a legume, or where ample manure is applied, nitrogen rates can be reduced somewhat.
Oats also remove phosphorus in the form of P2O5 at the rate of 0.25 pound per bushel per acre. Phosphate is thus added to the soil. Oats remove potash (K2O) at a rate of 0.19 pound per bushel per acre, which causes it to use 15 to 30 kilograms per hectare, or 13 to 27 pounds per acre.
The vigorous growth habit of oats will tend to choke out most weeds. A few tall broadleaf weeds, such as ragweed, goosegrass, wild mustard, and buttonweed (velvetleaf), can occasionally be a problem as they complicate harvest and reduce yields. These may be controlled with a modest application of a broadleaf herbicide such as 2,4-D while the weeds are still small.
Oats are relatively free from diseases and pests, with the exception being leaf diseases, such as leaf rust and stem rust. A few Lepidoptera caterpillars feed on the plants—e.g., rustic shoulder-knot (Apamea sordens) and setaceous Hebrew character (Xestia c-nigrum)—but these rarely become a major pest.
Modern harvest technique is a matter of available equipment, local tradition, and priorities. Best yields are attained by swathing, cutting the plants at about 10 centimeters (4 inches) above ground, and putting them into windrows with the grain all oriented the same way, when the kernels have reached 35 percent moisture, or when the greenest kernels are just turning cream-color. The windrows are left to dry in the sun for several days before being combined using a pickup header. Then the straw is baled.
Oats can also be left standing until completely ripe and then combined with a grain head. This will lead to greater field losses, as the grain falls from the heads, and to greater harvesting losses, as the grain is threshed out by the reel. Without a draper head, there will also be somewhat more damage to the straw since it will not be properly oriented as it enters the throat of the combine. Overall yield loss is 10–15 percent compared to proper swathing.
Historical harvest methods involved cutting with a scythe or sickle, and threshing under the feet of cattle. Late nineteenth century and early twentieth century harvesting was performed using a binder. Oats were gathered into shocks and then collected and run through a stationary threshing machine.
After it is combined, the oats typically are transported to the farmyard using a grain truck, semi, or road train, where it is augered or conveyed into a bin for storage. Sometimes, when there is not enough bin-space, it is augered into portable grain rings, or piled on the ground. Oats can be safely stored at 12 percent moisture; at higher moisture levels, it must be aereated, or dried.
In the United States, Oats listed as No. 1 oats weighs 42 pounds per bushel, while No. 3 oats must weigh at least 38 pounds per bushel. If it weighs over 36 pounds per bushel, it is a No. 4, and anything under 36 pounds per bushel is graded as "light weight." Note, however, that oats are bought and sold, and yields are figured, on the basis of a bushel equal to 32 pounds in the United States. A Canadian bushel of oats, however, is 34 pounds.
Yields range from 60 to 80 bushels on marginal land, to 100 to 150 bushels per acre on high-producing land. The average production is 100 bushels per acre, or 3.5 metric tons per hectare.
Straw yields are variable, ranging from one to three metric tons per hectare, mainly due to available nutrients, and the variety used (some are short-strawed, meant specifically for straight-combining).
Oats processing is a relatively simple process, which follows the following typical procedure.
Historical attitudes towards oats as food for humans vary. Oat bread was first manufactured in England, where the first oat bread factory was established in 1899. In Scotland they were, and still are, held in high esteem, as a mainstay of the national diet. However, a traditional saying in England is that "oats are only fit to be fed to horses and Scotsmen," to which the Scottish riposte is "and England has the finest horses, and Scotland the finest men." Samuel Johnson notoriously defined oats in his Dictionary as "a grain, which in England is generally given to horses, but in Scotland supports the people." Given the centrality of oats in traditional Scottish cuisine, it is not surprising that in Scottish English, the word "corn," when otherwise unqualified, refers to oats, just as in England it refers to wheat and in North America and Australia, to maize (Partridge and Whitcut 1995).
Oats have numerous uses in food. Most commonly, they are rolled or crushed into oatmeal, or ground into fine oat flour. Oatmeal is chiefly eaten as porridge, but may also be used in a variety of baked goods, such as oatcakes, oatmeal cookies, and oat bread. Oats are also an ingredient in many cold cereals, in particular muesli and granola. Oats may also be consumed raw, and cookies with raw oats are becoming popular.
Oats are also occasionally used in Britain for brewing beer. Oatmeal stout is one variety brewed using a percentage of oats for the wort. The more rarely used Oat Malt is produced by the Thomas Fawcett & Sons Maltings and was used in the Maclay Oat Malt Stout before Maclay ceased independent brewing operations.
In Scotland, a dish called Sowans was made by soaking the husks from oats for a week so that the fine, floury part of the meal remained as sediment to be strained off, boiled, and eaten (Gauldie 1981).
Oats are also commonly used as feed for horses, where it is dehulled and rolled. Cattle are also fed oats, either whole, or ground into a coarse flour using a roller mill, burr mill, or hammer mill.
Oat straw is prized by cattle and horse producers as bedding, due to its soft, relatively dust-free, and absorbent nature. The straw can also be used for making corn dollies.
Oat extract can also be used to soothe skin conditions, such as skin lotions. It is the principal ingredient for the Aveeno line of products.
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|Energy 390 kcal 1630 kJ
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Oats are generally considered "healthy," or a health food, being touted commercially as nutritious. The discovery of the healthy cholesterol-lowering properties has led to wider appreciation of oats as human food.
Oat bran is the outer casing of the oat. Its consumption is believed to lower LDL ("bad") cholesterol, and possibly to reduce the risk of heart disease.
After reports found that oats can help lower cholesterol, an "oat bran craze" swept the United States in the late 1980s, peaking in 1989, when potato chips with added oat bran were marketed. The food fad was short-lived and faded by the early 1990s. The popularity of oatmeal and other oat products again increased after a January 1998 decision by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) when it issued its final rule allowing a health claim to be made on the labels of foods containing soluble fiber from whole oats (oat bran, oat flourm and rolled oats), noting that 3.00 grams of soluble fiber daily from these foods, in conjunction with a diet low in saturated fat, cholesterol, and fat may reduce the risk of heart disease. In order to qualify for the health claim, the whole oat-containing food must provide at least 0.75 grams of soluble fiber per serving. The soluble fiber in whole oats comprises a class of polysaccharides known as Beta-D-glucan.
Beta-D-glucans, usually referred to as beta-glucans, comprise a class of non-digestible polysaccharides widely found in nature in sources such as grains, barley, yeast, bacteria, algae, and mushrooms. In oats, barley, and other cereal grains, they are located primarily in the endosperm cell wall.
Oat beta-glucan is a soluble fiber. It is a viscous polysaccharide made up of units of the sugar D-glucose. Oat beta-glucan is comprised of mixed-linkage polysaccharides. This means that the bonds between the D-glucose or D-glucopyranosyl units are either beta-1, 3 linkages or beta-1, 4 linkages. This type of beta-glucan is also referred to as a mixed-linkage (1→3), (1→4)-beta-D-glucan. The (1→3)-linkages break up the uniform structure of the beta-D-glucan molecule and make it soluble and flexible. In comparison, the non-digestible polysaccharide cellulose is also a beta-glucan but is non-soluble. The reason that it is non-soluble is that cellulose consists only of (1→4)-beta-D-linkages. The percentages of beta-glucan in the various whole oat products are: oat bran, greater than 5.5 percent and up to 23.0 percent; rolled oats, about 4 percent; whole oat flour about 4 percent.
Oats, after corn (maize), have the highest lipid content of any cereal, being greater than 10 percent for oats and as high as 17 percent for some maize cultivars, compared to about 2–3 percent for wheat and most other cereals. The polar lipid content of oats (about 8–17 percent glycolipid and 10–20 percent phospholipid or a total of about 33 percent) is greater than that of other cereals since much of the lipid fraction is contained within the endosperm.
Oat is the only cereal containing a globulin or legume-like protein, avenalin, as the major (80 percent) storage protein. Globulins are characterized by water solubility; because of this property, oats may be turned into a milky liquid but not into bread. The more typical cereal proteins such as gluten and zein are prolamines (prolamins). The minor protein of oat is a prolamine: avenin.
Oat protein is nearly equivalent in quality to soy protein, which has been shown by the World Health Organization to be equal to meat, milk, and egg protein. The protein content of the hull-less oat kernel (groat) ranges from 12–24 percent, the highest among cereals (Lasztity 1999).
Coeliac disease, or celiac disease, is a disease often associated with ingestion of wheat, or more specifically a group of proteins labeled prolamines, or more commonly, gluten. The name of the disease comes from the Greek koiliakos, meaning "suffering in the bowels."
The role of oats in a gluten free diet remains controversial. Oats lack many of the prolamines found in wheat; however, oats do contain avenin (Rottmann 1996). Avenin is a prolamine that is toxic to the intestinal submucosa and can trigger a reaction in some celiacs (CSA 2008). A number of studies suggest that the presence of oats in gluten-free diet may be potentially harmful to individuals with coeliac disease (Silano et al. 2007; Arentz-Hansen et al. 2004).
However, there also are several studies suggesting that oats can be a part of a gluten free diet if it is pure (Hogberg et al. 2004). The first such study was published in 1995 (Janatuinen et al. 1995). A follow-up study indicated that it is safe to use oats even for a longer period (Janatuinen et al. 2002).
Notably, oats are frequently processed near wheat, barley and other grains, such that they become contaminated with other glutens. Because of this, the FAO's Codex Alimentarius Commission officially lists them as a crop containing gluten. Oats from areas where less wheat is grown, such as Ireland and Scotland, are less likely to be contaminated in this way. Oats are part of a gluten free diet in, for example, Finland and Sweden. In both of these countries there are "pure oat" products on the market.
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COVID-19 Updates & Event Information
**Matinee show added due to demand. On sale on Fri 24th June 2016**
MADHEADS UNITE! MADNESS CAN'T TOUCH US NOW 2016 UK TOUR with support from Lightning Seeds.
Britain's favourite pop band Madness have announced their first major arena tour in over two years which will see them play 11 dates across the UK this winter including a the Brighton Centre on Saturday 3 December.
The new tour will see the band showcase new tracks from their forthcoming album as well as playing all the hits and fan favourites.
Tickets can be purchased (subject to availability), in person over the counter at the Brighton Centre Box Office at the front of the venue on Kings Road, which is open Monday to Saturday 10am-4pm. Booking Fees are not applicable on payments made over the counter (in person) at the Venue Box Office during opening hours. If children under 14yrs are attending an event at the Brighton Centre, they must be accompanied by an adult (18yrs+).
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It's not quite midnight over here, so technically I'm still making my "one post a day" deadline! Tonight we had black bean burgers, left over ziti and a salad. You only get one picture because black bean burgers aren't the prettiest things. It's basically mashed-up black beans and seasoning.
It was our first time making and eating them and they weren't bad at all! Great for vegetarians or if you're just trying to eat less meat in general. My main intention was trying to sneak in some protein to the kids without them really noticing. It was a success, alhamdulillah!
Black Bean Burgers
1 celery stalk, chopped
1/2 onion, finely minced
1/2 bell pepper (green or red)
2 garlic cloves finely minced
1 tbsp cumin
1 can of black beans
1 tbsp chilli seasoning
1/2 -1 cup bread crumbs
1 egg
salt to taste
1. Preheat oven to 375. Saute onions, celery, bell peppers and garlic until softened.
2. Meanwhile, drain and rinse beans. Mash them with a fork or a potato masher until it becomes a thick paste. I left it a little chunky for texture.
3. Add in sauteed vegetables, seasoning, egg and bread crumbs. Shape into patties and place on baking sheet. Bake for 10 minutes on each side (mine were ready before 10 minutes, but I also made them thin and small).
* yes, I made my hamburgers with sandwich bread. It's all the same...kinda!


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Permit Office hours are 7:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Monday through Friday.
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Affidavit for POS (Exterior Inspection Violations)
Application for Hearing before the Macedonia Planning Commission
Basic Pool Requirements
BZA Application Packet [2020]
Change of Occupancy Permit Application
Commercial Construction/Additions/Alterations Permit Application
Contractor Registration 2020
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Electrical Permit Application
Engineering/Driveways/Waterproofing Application
Exterior Inspection Application
Fence Application & Neighbor Signature Sheet
Hydrant Permit Application
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Permanent Sign Permit Application
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Storage Shed Information
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Zoning Map
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A permit is a license granting legal permission to construct, enlarge, alter, repair or demolish a structure, or install, alter or repair electrical, mechanical, or plumbing systems located within a structure. Permits are required for most construction including, but not limited to the following:
* New construction * Additions * Alterations * Demolitions
* Electrical, mechanical and plumbing installation and/or repairs
* Detached garages * Patio enclosures * Decks * Fences * Sheds
* Swimming pools * Concrete and asphalt – new and replacement
Your project may require more than one permit depending on the scope of work being performed. If you have any questions about whether or not a permit is required, contact the Building Department at (330) 468-8360. Securing a permit assures you that each phase of the construction will be inspected for safety and code compliances. When applying for a permit, construction drawings and an application form must be submitted for review with the Building Department. Permit fees may be required upfront. The review period depends upon the scope of work.
The City of Macedonia does not require permits for the replacement of siding or windows; however, your contractor must be registered with the City of Macedonia for the current year prior to performing any work.
Sewer permits can be obtained from the Summit County Department of Environmental Services at (330) 926-2435.
Water permits can be obtained from the City of Cleveland Water Department at (216) 664-2444.
Please be reminded that when hiring a contractor to do any type of work on your property, the contractor is required to be registered with the City of Macedonia. Contractors can get registration information on our website or pick up a packet from the Building Department. Please feel free to call (330) 468-8363 or (330) 468-8364 if you would like a list of contractors that are already registered.
City of Macedonia Noxious Weeds Ordinance—- Section 909.04
Please be advised of Noxious Weeds Ordinance this year.
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Macedonia requires a point of sale inspection be performed before title transfer on any property within the City. The inspection is exterior only and we do not require someone be present for the inspection. You (or your realtor) will be required to fill out the Exterior Inspection Application (see application listed above). Any violations resulting from the inspection must be repaired within ninety days or assumed by the buyer. Inspections for residential properties cost $75 and commercial properties cost $150.
GARAGE SALES: You are not required to obtain a permit to hold a garage sale. However, City Ordinance allows garage sale signs be posted on your property only. If signs are found on utility poles, street corners, or anywhere other than your front yard you may be cited for littering.
HOMES FOR SALE: If your home is for sale, you are allowed one for sale sign on your property. The sign is to be located in your front yard and must be at least 25 feet from the street.
VEHICLES FOR SALE: Vehicles for sale are to be parked in your driveway. Vehicles parked in the front yard or tree lawn are prohibited.
BOATS, RV'S, TRAILERS, AND JET SKIS: These are not front yard items and are to be parked in rear or side yards only.
RUBBISH: Rubbish is not to be placed at the curb before 5:00 PM the evening before your scheduled pickup. Rubbish cans should be brought in no later than the evening of your designated pickup day.


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Honey Bee Observation Hive
This exhibit gives visitors a close-up look at one of nature's most interesting creatures that is so vital to our food source. Look for the queen, easily identified by the white dot on her back.
Beekeeping at the Museum has a long tradition and we have slowly been expanding our program. We have three full-size field hives on Museum property that give visitors the opportunity to observe the inner workings of an active hive. During the summer, we have hive openings every week and depending on the number of visitors, we open one or all three hives during each of these events.
The bee year at the Museum ends with the "Honey Bee Jamboree" held in October. This event has become a fun tradition in the Museum's calendar of events and features general information about bees and our program, honey tasting, displays and sale of bee related articles and, most importantly, it is the first day when you can buy jars of our own honey.
Bees, butterflies, and other pollinators - - so vital to agriculture - - need to be protected to ensure a healthy world. While Rachel Carson's "Silent Spring" warned of the threats to pollinating insects from the indiscriminate application of pesticides and herbicides, there may be other factors that need to be studied and understood to ensure their - - and our - - survival.
The fate of pollinators will always be a public concern.
This exhibit was made possible by the generosity of the FRIENDS OF THE CAPE COD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY.


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SmartSupport Network
We sell technical support services to consumers who are having issues with their computers.
Services include:
Infection Removal
PC Service (Setup, Troubleshooting, Maintenance)
Device Support
Internet Support
Network Support
Software Support
The challenge is not in finding help rather, finding the right help - it's in determining whom to call. With smartsupport, quality technical support is just a "click" away.
smartsupport signifies value, quality and guaranteed resolution for whatever technical problems you run into.
No matter what your issue is, what time of the day, which day of the week, or the make of your PC and/or related products, smartsupport solves it, each and every time.
Below are some sites in our field. Try to come up with some ideas based on the sites below and our current page http://www.smartsupport.com.
The homepage should introduce our company, provide our toll-free number, pricing, faq, and scope of services.
Please use content from http://www.smartsupport.com.
Please use top menu nav titles (IE. Home, About, Pricing, faq, and contact)
Please include "Connect Now" button in upper right corner below the nav bar.
The phone number 1-877-226-6480 should be placed throughout each page.
The "Connect Now" button on http://www.smartsupport.com should also be placed in the upper right corner.
Our target audience is:
Age - Anyone that uses a computer over the age of 18.
Technically challenged computer users. Help is the keyword here.
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Food For Thought. And Emotions, Actions, and Wellbeing
Here's food for thought in the literal sense: The food you eat directly affects your thoughts, emotions, behaviors, energy level, and overall wellbeing. The mind and body are intricately connected (beyond mere connection — they're one fluid system), and nourishing both keeps your feeling physically and mentally healthy. A crucial component of our overall health and wellbeing that many of us often overlook (I've been guilty) is nutrition. Food for healthy thoughts: You need good food for great functioning and quality of life.
Give your brain a steady supply of what it needs to function and thrive. A 58-second wellbeing tip:
What Does Food Do For Us?
The brain is powered by the food we eat. Protein, for example, is digested into amino acids which are used by the brain and gut to make the neurotransmitters behind our mental health. What we eat can provide energy or deplete it. It can make us feel positive and content or emotionally upset and stressed. Because nutrients (or lack of them) power the brain, what we eat affects the way we think. It really is incredible how deeply we are what we eat; indeed, nutritional psychiatry, or as Harvard instructor Dr. Uma Naidoo calls it, Psycho-Nutrition. It's important to note, though, that proper diet helps support and maintain mental health and wellbeing over time but is not a quick-fix cure for physical or mental illnesses.
Our energy comes from our diet. While caffeine can provide a surge of energy for many people, a steadier source of energy comes from protein and complex carbohydrates. Whole grains are digested more slowly than processed ones, and they are digested into glucose (sugar). A steady supply of glucose keeps us feeling evenly energized rather than experiencing energy spikes and drops throughout the day, fluctuations that leave us feeling physically and mentally unwell.
The right foods keep us alert and focused. Nutrition keeps us feeling emotionally even and shapes the nature of our thoughts (if the brain isn't functioning properly, our emotions and thoughts will be impacted). Eating well increases our motivation to do things and provides the energy we need to do them.
Other functions of nutritious eating include:
- a decrease in stress hormones like adrenaline and cortisol
- reduced blood pressure
- increased immune system functioning
- increases blood flow to the brain
So what should we eat? Happily, you don't have to adopt a freaky diet or force yourself to choke down something you hate. If eating is miserable, it's not good for your health no matter how many nutrients are packed into it. Think in terms of important categories, and then select what you like and find convenient within each one. Your brain and body need these general foods to thrive:
- Complex carbohydrates (whole grains)
- Protein
- Fruit
- Vegetables
- Omega-3 fatty acids
- Dairy
- Nuts and seeds
It's Not Just the Food Itself
What you eat is important. However, that's not the only thing that contributes to wellbeing when it comes to food. To enhance your physical and mental health, be intentional about what you eat, how you eat, and when you eat.
How you eat is important. Do you gulp something down on the run? Do you sit in front of a screen and eat without being aware of what you're doing? Or do you take time, even a few short minutes, to take a break from what you're doing to enjoy a mindful bite?
I used to think I didn't have time to eat small amounts throughout the day, and if I did give that a try, I'd do so at my desk. I didn't think I had time to take a break to eat. But then I tried it. It's nice. It's refreshing and resets my mind, and it allows me to destress by taking a few moments for mindful eating. Further, I supply myself with nutrients and energy to stay focused and productive. It truly does take just a few minutes, and it improves my day, my ability to work, and my general wellbeing.
When you eat is important as well. Eating small amounts several times a day (often referred to as grazing) is better for you than eating three big meals with nothing in between. With more regular intake, you keep your blood sugar level rather than causing it to rise after a meal and then crash, something that causes an emotional roller coaster and a sense of stress and anxiety.
Food for thought: Think in terms of what, how, and when you eat to nourish your brain and body. You'll think better, feel better, and do better. That is wellbeing.
Book connections:
Learn about mindful eating in The Mindfulness Workbook for Anxiety.
In My Life in a Nutshell: A Novel, Brian Cunningham's severe anxiety causes him to avoid the grocery store as much as possible. He built his own greenhouse in his yard and has a lavish garden. Both supply him with fruits and vegetables.
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Article Sources:
Depression and diet. (n.d.). WebMD. Retrieved April, 2018. from
Naidoo, U. (2016). Nutritional strategies to ease anxiety. Harvard Health Publishing, Harvard Medical
School. Retrieved May, 2018. from https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/nutritional-strategies-to-ease-anxiety-201604139441
Sathyanarayana Rao, T.S., Asha, M.R., Ramesh, B.N., & Jagannatha Rao, K.S. (2008). Understanding
nutrition, depression and mental illnesses. Indian Journal or Psychiatry, 50(2), 77-82. Retrieved April, 2018 from https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2738337/
Unger, K.V. & Cavender, L.H. (2015). Brain health for life: Beyond pills, politics, and popular diets.
Portland, OR: Inkwater Press.


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Lasers Are Us Limited is committed to ensuring that your privacy is protected. Should we ask you to provide certain information by which you can be identified when using this website, then you can be assured that it will only be used in accordance with this privacy statement.
Lasers Are Us Limited may change this policy from time to time by updating this page. You should check this page from time to time to ensure that you are happy with any changes. This policy is effective from 1 July 2008.
We may collect the following information:
name and job title
contact information including email address
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We require this information to understand your needs and provide you with a better service, and in particular for the following reasons:
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Diabetes Types
The three main types of diabetes are type 1 diabetes, type 2 diabetes, and gestational diabetes. A person who has type 1 diabetes must take insulin every day. Type 2 diabetes is the most common type, especially in people over the age of 40. The last of the diabetes types is gestational diabetes, which develops only during pregnancy.
The three main diabetes types are:
Type 1 diabetes is an autoimmune disease. An autoimmune disease results when the body's system for fighting infection (the immune system) turns against a part of the body. In diabetes, the immune system attacks the insulin-producing beta cells in the pancreas and destroys them. The pancreas then produces little or no insulin. A person who has type 1 diabetes must take insulin every day in order to live.
At present, scientists do not know exactly what causes the body's immune system to attack the beta cells, but they believe that autoimmune, genetic, and environmental factors, possibly viruses, are involved. This diabetes type accounts for about 5 percent to 10 percent of diagnosed diabetes in the United States. It develops most often in children and young adults, but can appear at any age.
Symptoms of type 1 diabetes usually develop over a short period, although beta cell destruction can begin years earlier. Type 1 diabetes symptoms include:
- Increased thirst and urination
- Constant hunger
- Weight loss
- Blurred vision
- Extreme fatigue.
If not diagnosed and given insulin, a person with type 1 diabetes can lapse into a life-threatening diabetic coma (also known as diabetic ketoacidosis).
Types of Diabetes
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