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Keep Flying - Unbreakable
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Our favorite punk-with-horns band is back at it! We've got the physical accompaniment to the new Keep Flying EP Unbreakable on a few awesome colorways.
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Elder Wirthlin had gone to bed at his Salt Lake City home, and died peacefully at about 11:30 p.m. of causes incident to age. His oldest daughter, Jane Wirthlin Parker, was present. A member of the family had been staying and caring for Elder Wirthlin, whose wife, Elisa Young Rogers Wirthlin, died in 2006.
He had continued to work at his office right up until the Thanksgiving holiday.
Funeral services will be held at noon on Friday, December 5, at the Tabernacle on Temple Square.
Elder Joseph B. Wirthlin was ordained an Apostle of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints on October 9, 1986. He was sustained and set apart as an Assistant to the Council of the Twelve Apostles on April 4, 1975 and served in that capacity until he was called to the First Quorum of the Seventy in April 1976. He was set apart in the Presidency of the First Quorum of the Seventy August 28, 1986, where he was serving when called to be an Apostle.
Elder Wirthlin was born in Salt Lake City on June 11, 1917 to Joseph L. and Madeline Bitner Wirthlin. His Father served as the Presiding Bishop of the Church.
Elder Wirthlin graduated from the University of Utah in Business Administration. He received from Brigham Young University a Doctorate of Christian Service Honoris Causa, April 26, 2001. He is an Eagle Scout. He was active in athletics in high school and played football (running back) at the University of Utah.
Before his call as a General Authority, he was a prominent business leader in Salt Lake City. He was also president of a trade association in Utah.
Elder Wirthlin served a mission to Germany, Austria, and Switzerland in the late 1930s. Among other positions in the stake and ward auxiliaries, he has served as a counselor in the Bonneville Ward bishopric and as bishop. He was a member of the Bonneville Stake high council and a member of the stake presidency. He served as a counselor in the General Sunday School Presidency until April 1975, when he was called as an Assistant to the Twelve.
He married Elisa Young Rogers May 26, 1941 in the Salt Lake Temple. They are the parents of eight children. Sister Wirthlin passed away on August 16, 2006.
Here is Elder Wirthlin talking about his father.
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Kathleen Doyle "Kathy" Bates is an American actress, comedian, and film director. She is well known for many roles, such as Molly Brown in Titanic.
For Disney, she played Mrs. Green in the 1990 Touchstone Pictures film, Dick Tracy, Miss Hannigan in the 1999 musical, Annie, and Queen Victoria in the 2004 comedy adventure film, Around the World in 80 Days. She also played Helen "Mama" Boucher in The Waterboy and Maurine Collier in The War at Home.
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I've come to realize that behind everything I make there is a story. So, while I fully intend for this to be about crafts, my crafts are usually inspired by the people in my life, and there will inevitably be anecdotes.
I may also post the occasional photo that makes me say, "Wow, I did that?" and I'll warn you, sometimes the exclamation is more about how incredibly gorgeous I think my child is than the photograph itself.
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The cost of land keeps increasing! In order to maximize the aesthetics, value, and utilization of your property, parking spaces are quite often located below grade. Pump stations and major sewer lines are usually located in low-lying areas. In such instances, excavating some depth below ground surface will invariably encounter groundwater. How do we remove the groundwater? Should we use wellpoints, wells, sumps, etc. to control the groundwater? How much groundwater do we have to remove to allow the excavation to continue? These and other questions can be answered by a Dewatering Plan. Some construction projects require a Dewatering Plan – other projects let the Contractor wing it! If due consideration is not given to the "means and methods" for dewatering a site beforehand, a construction project can be stopped long before completion.
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Wellpoint Dewatering System – Did not work here!
A good Dewatering Plan should include a review of available boring logs, soil laboratory tests, and/or hydraulic field tests for the area, and assess the capability of the soil/rock formations to allow water to pass through the matrix. The application of variations forms of "Type Curves" appropriate for the type of subsurface aquifer regime enables the assessment of the drawdown caused by feasible flow rates for the soil/rock formations. These calculations enable the assessment of the number of groundwater withdrawal points and their depth. Are these calculated depths practical or economical? Should wellpoints or wells be used?
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Project description:
École Guitare Modern WebSite
This website was created for the french Guitar School named École Guitare Modern.
Unlike many of our projects, this Website has only been designed. We did it with the WIX web page creation program.
The result has lived up to what we could expect using a "made-up" internet website creation program
Visit the Website and Get an idea of how it is by clicking on the following link: École Guitare Modern WebSite


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Though late winter is still upon us, I am starting to get ready. Today, I installed a RAM-Mount in my truck.
Coming Spring 2013
TwisterGeeks.net is my new storm chasing blog beginning spring 2013. After 20+ years of storm chasing in Minnesota and the upper midwest, it's time to up the game a bit. This year, I will be including live video streaming on my chases. This stream will be available via ChaserTV while I am out chasing. I will have at least 2 webcams on board, 1 mounted above the dash pointing straight out, and another in the vehicle for pointing at other things as needed (such as when the vehicle is not pointed at the storm or tornado).
After each storm chase, I will post photos and videos on this blog, as well as a recap of each chase.
In 2014, I will add even more equipment, including a roof mount, Mini-MesoDome camera system.
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What Is Visible by Kimberly Elkins
"Sarah was stung by the remark and realized she was being dismissed. Laura adored Dorothea Dix and was always on her best behavior for those visits. The reformer was nearly as devoted to Laura's cause as she was to helping the insane. Nearly ten years had passed since she'd brought about the changes to Massachusetts' asylums. Before her graphic reportage, the poor lunatics had been tied up, kept in pens, lashed, starved. Sarah read in the paper that Miss Dix was now establishing hospitals in Illinois and North Carolina.history.com/topics/womens-history/dorothea-lynde-dix


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Making SkyBreak Documentary Screening + Q&A with Zo!
Houston, TX - Friday, January 12, 2018
Doors: 6:30pm | Film Starts: 7pm
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Come get an early look at the award-winning documentary, Making SkyBreak, which takes you behind the scenes with Zo! and the crew of talented songwriters, producers, and vocalists who helped create this amazing album. Through the film, explore his hometown of Detroit to learn about Zo!'s humble beginnings, tour his home studio in Washington D.C., and travel to a host of cities from LA to Raleigh, NC. Get ready to take a journey through SkyBreak, one of the greatest contemporary soul albums of the year.
The screening will be followed by a live Q&A with Zo!
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Congratulations to those pupils who have had over 97% attendance with an outstanding behaviour record. 311 pupils have qualified for the this year's reward trips.
Pupils will be going to Tattershall Lakes Aqua Park, GoApe at Thetford, Tallington Lakes and the cinema and bowling at Peterborough. We hope they enjoy their day.


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Tottenham Hotspur boss Mauricio Pochettino happy to leave Wales with all three points
PUBLISHED: 16:00 03 January 2018
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The conditions at the Liberty Stadium were difficult, but Spurs managed to claim another Premier League victory... though luck was on their side
Mauricio Pochettino praised the effort of his Tottenham Hotspur team after they defeated Swansea City in the heavy rain in South Wales on Tuesday night.
Fernando Llorente opened the scoring for Spurs in the 12th minute with his first Premier League goal for the club at the home of his old side.
The Spanish striker headed in Christian Eriksen's free kick, but appeared to be in an offside position, which left Swansea frustrated.
Spurs managed to defend fairly well for the rest of the contest, however, before Dele Alli made it 2-0 with a minute left after receiving a superb through ball from substitute Harry Kane.
The talk afterwards, from a Swansea point of view, was regarding the opening goal and Pochettino said: "I didn't see it – people say it was offside? Maybe, but always in football, you need some luck to open the games up.
"It's true that Swansea can maybe complain and it's right to complain, but in football this can happen. I'm very pleased with the win because the conditions were difficult, but we deserved the victory."
Another contentious moment in the match at the Liberty Stadium was whether Davinson Sanchez should have been shown a second yellow card.
The Colombian was booked just past the half an hour mark and was fortunate not to see red in the 55th minute when Martin Olsson nipped in and Sanchez caught the Swansea ace late.
Referee Bobby Madley let the centre back off, but boss Pochettino had seen enough and withdrew the youngster in place of Victor Wanyama four minutes later.
"We were all worried about the second yellow card," said the Spurs manager in his post-match press conference.
"The first half yellow card wasn't bad, but the fans started putting pressure on the referee and it can be a problem, so I decided to take him off the pitch."
With Wanyama returning to make his first appearance since August, things are starting to look positive for Tottenham.
Rivals West Ham United will provide a tough test tomorrow (Thursday), but Spurs appear to be building up ahead of steam again.
Additional reporting by PA.
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text: joe.olka 0 Posted August 31, 2018 Report Share Posted August 31, 2018 I have inherited a project from an engineer who is no longer with my company. The system is a Vision120 communicating to a pc running windows 95. I am tasked with understanding this older system and start to implement updates. I have figured out 99% of the program and communications that is happening with the PC but there is one Command sent to the Vision 120 from the PC that I don't understand what it is for. PC: /00IDED. PLC: /A00IDVUN2A4500153. The ID Command is not covered in the standard PCOM manual. Is there a more thorough PCOM Manual Some Where? Thank you for any assistance. Quote Link to post Share on other sites


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TBY talks to Hasan Arat, Chairman of the Istanbul 2020 Olympic Bid Committee, on the city as the perfect candidate for an international event and the importance of better infrastructure and a young demographic as it vies for the prize.
BIOGRAPHYHasan Arat is the Chairman of the Istanbul 2020 Bid Committee and the Vice-President of the Turkish National Olympic Committee (NOC). His sporting background includes a professional basketball career at Beşiktaş Gymnastic Club (BJK), for which he also served as Vice-President. He is also the former Vice-President of the Turkish Basketball Federation. Previously, he studied Business Administration at Istanbul University and was awarded the title of "Businessman of the Year" in 1996 by Economist magazine, the National Productivity Center of Turkey, and Dünya newspaper. In addition, Arat is the Vice-President of the Affiliate Members of the UN World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) and an Executive Board member of the Turkish Tourism Investors Association (TYD).
This is Istanbul's fifth bid for the Olympics. What is different this time around?
Turkey's Olympic journey began more than two decades ago, but this time around, we have matched our 20-year dream with commitment and capacity. Istanbul is now ready to deliver. Every level of the government is aligned behind a shared vision for the city and the country's future. Hosting the Games is a core pillar of Turkey's long-term development program that culminates in the centenary of the republic in 2023. Istanbul has transformed itself since its last bid. The city has spent an average of $1.5 billion on transport upgrades every year since 2005, and by 2018 another $10 billion will have been spent on a series of groundbreaking projects: the third Bosphorus Bridge, the Haliç Metro, the Eurasia-Bosphorus road tunnel, the Marmaray rail tunnel, and a third international airport will all have made Istanbul better connected well before 2020. As a result, we have been able to guarantee athletes an average travel time of just 16 minutes to and from the venues; 51% of athletes will be accommodated within five minutes of their competition arenas. Istanbul has also earned a formidable reputation as a trusted host of some of the biggest events in world sports. We have shown time and again that we can provide the conditions athletes need to compete at their best, all with a unique Eurasian flavor that can't be found anywhere else. However, the most important difference is that this time around, all of Turkey is behind the bid. The level of government support for Istanbul 2020 is unprecedented in Turkey. For the first time ever, the bid to host the country's first-ever Olympic and Paralympic Games was launched personally by the Turkish Prime Minister, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. We have created a powerful public-private partnership (PPP); our team of national sponsors has contributed $20 million to the campaign, the largest private sector investment in any sports bid in Turkey's history. The people of Turkey also want the Games. According to our last domestic poll, 94% of respondents in Istanbul are in favor of hosting the Games, and 23 million Turkish sports fans have already expressed a desire to purchase Olympic tickets. A recent poll by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) suggests that 5 million young people under the age of 25 years back our bid in Istanbul alone. We have set the lowest ticket prices at just $10, so they will be accessible to as many people as possible. If we are given the honor of hosting the Games, the Olympic family can expect a truly unforgettable reception.
Why is it significant for Turkey to host the Games as an emerging market spanning two continents?
Turkey bid four times as an emerging market, but this time, Turkey is bidding as an emerged market. We are the fastest-growing European economy and the second fastest growing OECD economy, with 5.2% average annual economic growth between 2002 and 2011—that's 3.5 times the European average. Turkey is forecast to be a top-10 global economy by 2023. Istanbul 2020's vision isn't about aspiring to international standards—it's about setting new ones. Istanbul 2020 will be the first Olympic and Paralympic Games ever staged in Turkey or the region. It will immerse the Olympic family in a brand-new environment with a rich history and a fascinating culture, unlike any other city in the world. Istanbul 2020 will also be the first-ever Olympics in a nation where nearly 50% of the population is under the age of 25. This will connect fans with the untapped potential of Europe's youngest population and the market's exciting opportunities for the first time.
What are your plans to ensure that Istanbul's Olympic facilities are put to good use after the Games is over?
Istanbul would leave a profound and lasting legacy, not just for Istanbul and Turkey but also for the region and the entire Olympic movement. We plan to build 20 world-class venues and significantly upgrade a further five. They will be a major addition to the sports world's inventory, and they will empower Turkey and other nations in the region to realize a massive untapped sporting potential. Bringing the Games to Turkey would create a generation of opportunities for the region's youth. Istanbul 2020 would arrive at a unique moment in the history of Turkey and the region, three years out from the celebration of the Republic's centenary. Now is the perfect time for Istanbul.
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Sir Suma Chakrabarti, President, European Bank for Reconstruction & Development
Sustainable development is growth that doesn't burden our children or grandchildren. We at the EBRD believe that the current economic crisis is an opportunity for us all to have a close look at the way we manage our resources and build our future. And we are already doing exactly that in Turkey.read article
Volker Hammes, Head of BASF Business Center Turkey, Middle East & North Africa and CEO, BASF Türk
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Muharrem Dörtkaşlı, President & CEO, Turkish Aerospace Industries (TAI)
TBY talks to Muharrem Dörtkaşlı, President & CEO of Turkish Aerospace Industries (TAI), on the development of the company, major projects and accomplishments, and adding higher value-added products to the export list.read article
Binali Yıldırım, Minister of Transport, Maritime Affairs, and Communications, Turkey
TBY talks to Binali Yıldırım, Minister of Transport, Maritime Affairs, and Communications, on the benefits of high-speed trains, the possibility of becoming a maritime hub, and the importance of civil aviation.read article
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Nickel Champagne Cooler
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Size: 23 x 23cm (H/W)
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A smart leather and nickel champagne cooler - the ideal bucket to chill your perfect bottle. A lovely gift to celebrate a wedding, a 3rd anniversary or a special birthday, just remember to pop a chilled bottle in when you present your gift!
The nickel champagne cooler has a matching leather ice bucket and tray for a fabulous bar collection. The bucket is nickel with a leather handle and decoration.


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Tools of the trade
The first code editor that I ever used was visual studio.It was more of an Integrated development environment that was really the only effective way to program if you are doing anything in c#.It was really good at what it did but was painfully slow to load and sluggish to type in.Therefore when I started programming in nodejs I started looking for some lightweight general purpose code editors.
I was looking for an editor that was
- Very fast to load.
- Had a minimal interface.I don't like too many icons in my application.I like the focus on my code.
- That I can extend in simple ways like creating snippets for recurring peices of code or some custom themes to suit my prefrences.
- Had shortcuts for file management
Any discussion on code editors often boil down to one of the two editors Vim or emacs.And for good reason too.These text editors have been out there for decades and have years of development behind them.But I just found them too hard to get into.Emacs and vim can be very powerful once you learn how to use them.However the barrier for learning them is quite high.So I wanted an editor that is almost as powerful as vim but a lot more easier to use.After a lot of searching I found out these three editors that satisfied my needs.
Sublime text
Easily the most powerful text editor that I have come across.The perfect workflow that I used to imagine was easily possible with sublime text.The go to anything feature of the editor is so addictive that it changed the way I look at code editors.However there was one big problem that I had about sublime text it was the price.
Not the actual amount.I think that $70 is quite reasonable for the product that the dev is giving us.What I had trouble with was the actual method of payment.That is pay pal.Pay pal does not like me.It refuses to accept my card and I could not purchase a liscence for it.Sadly I had to look else where.
Brackets is interesting for a couple of reasons.First it is an open source project by Adobe.Second it is built on web technologies.Specifically nodejs,html and twitter bootstrap.The same technologies that I have built brislink on.So I am already in possession of all the skills that I need in order to extend the editor.Which is a big plus for me.Another thing that I liked about it was the quick edit feature that allows one edit the code from different files in line(that is from where the code is called).This feature is really useful and can save a lot of time.
However brackets is still in active development and there are certain things like the left hand tabbed interface that I don't like.All in all I will be using brackets in future but not just now.
Finally my search for code editors ended with textadept.Even though it is written in lua, a language that I am not familliar with, I had no trouble creating my first extensions,more like a theme but you know what I mean, for it within a day.
It is very light weight.The lightest of all the editors that I have mentioned and just takes 14 mb of memory.Just like sublime it has a command platte abeliet a bit crude.The user interface is minimalistic.Just like sublime there are no icons and the emphasis is on the writing.There are no tabs.All the files that are opened can are added into a buffer from where you can either quick open it by pressing cntrl+b or by cntrl+tab for cycling between the views that were previously opened.Snap open quicly adds all the files of the directory to a temporary buffer.
Right now textadept is the editor that I am going to to use.I have also decided to [contribute](https://github.cokind of a package manager for it.I wonder how sublime text does it?
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Vacuuming the floors is probably one of the most exhausting and hated chores that we do every day. Well, there is a solution to this. A Robotic Vacuum cleaner is a device that can make your life easy by doing the vacuum for you. These robotic vacuum cleaners might look small in size but they have amazing features and benefits. We are here to tell you the best robotic vacuum cleaner benefits for your home.
6 Reasons why you need a robotic vacuum cleaner: –
1.Everything is automated: – if you are bored or exhausted and don't want to work, the robotic vacuum cleaner is the perfect device for you. Everything inside that little device is automated. You will not have to touch a thing! You can just simply turn it on and let it clean. Even the charging system on the device is automatic. Whenever it needs to be charged, it will automatically go to the charging hub and charge itself. Only work you have to do it to empty the dust bag when its full.
2.Easy to clean Pet hair: – Those of you who have pets at home, such as cats or dogs, know how annoying it is to clean their hair from the floor. No matter how much you love your dog or cat, cleaning their hair from all over the floor is not fun. The robotic vacuum cleaner can help you in cleaning the pet hairs from your floor easily. You can just set it up and it will clean once or twice every day so the dust does not pile up on the floor. You do not even have to be present there for it to be cleaned. Some of these vacuums have sensors which will make it stay away from your pet food, so your pricey raw dog food is safe.
3.Self-Charging: – Robotic vacuum cleaners come with features that let them charge easily with no issues. You will not even have to do the work of picking it up and connecting to the charger. Whenever it is low on charge, it will crawl to the charging hub and charge itself.
4.Virtual Wall features: – With some of these devices you can use your smartphone and set-up virtual walls for the device. If you have a big apartment or house and you want the device to stay away from a certain part of your house then you can simply set up virtual walls and it will not cross them. This way the device can focus on cleaning only the part of the house it is assigned to.
5.Smart home assistant: – The robotic vacuum cleaner, just like any other smart home devices, can connect to your home Wifi. This way you will be able to control the device by using your smartphone. Using this feature, you can set the device to work even when you are outside. Just start the device using your app and when you come home, you have a freshly clean and mopped floor.
6.Durability: – Robotic vacuum cleaners are durable. They last for a really long time because they require no maintenance. They have sensors fitted inside the device which helps it prevent walls or any kind of obstacles on the floor. The main risk of the device getting hurt and stop working is if it falls down the stair. But these sensors work so well that the device detects the staircases and avoids them.
Conclusion: –
There you go, these are the top 6 benefits of having a robotic vacuum cleaner for your home. But of course, the more you pay, the better device you will get. Take time and figure out which one you want. Good luck!


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TxK gets the official name tag it's always deserved, but a monstrously high price and a lack of innovation sour the occasion.
If you are not a fan of simple arcade games, which it most undoubtedly is, you probably won't find much in Tempest 4000 to win you over. But for those who have any love for the series, and appreciation for the era of the arcade, you absolutely can't go wrong with this one. I prolonged this review longer than necessary because I just wasn't done playing it – and I'm still not. It's a winner.
I have spent countless hours playing TxK on Vita and it's one of my favourite games, so I'm disappointed that Tempest 4000 doesn't really add anything new, especially considering the higher price. It's still a great game and hopefully a patch will tone down the overzealous use of effects. This is worth a look if you are bored of cut scenes, collectables, and other frippery that clog up video games and want some serious old school arcade action.
Unfortunately, there won't be much to keep you blasting through the game once you've had a few longer sessions.
Even if it feels incomplete, Tempest 4000 is still worth playing. The visuals remain entrancing, the music is as powerful today as when it was released, and the task of clearing baddies from webs continues to be challenging. If you can look past the roughest levels, you'll find this to be a fun and highly memorable game. Here's hoping Llamasoft gives it a little post-release polish so it can become a modern classic, just like Tempest 2000.
Tempest 4000 is another Tempest game. If you are OK with that and perhaps need an excuse to retire the Vita version, then this package will be worth it. Otherwise this game feels like a relic that didn't really need the 4K upgrade.
Jeff Minter has been able to renew the classic Tempest formula, which becomes an excellent game even after 38 years. Unfortunately, the PC version has some small but annoying technical problems.
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A VR Tempest experience is a logical progression for the game that wouldn't fundamentally change the core nature of the game but it sure would enhance its trippiness.
Look, it's a fun game, filled with flashing lights and so much digital detritus you'll need a shower after one run. But the thing is, you've played this before – not in this form in 4K on this particular format, but Tempest is Tempest and Tempest 4000 doesn't really try to be anything else.
Jeff Minter's latest interpretation of this arcade classic still holds up as one of the best versions of Tempest to date, although the price and lack of changes from TxK both make it a difficult purchase to recommend at $30.


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Kenneth Bruce Gorelick who is mostly known by the stage name Kenny G is a renowned American saxophonist. In his 1986 album by the name Duotones, gave him a lot of financial success. Kenny G is one of the biggest selling instrumental musicians of our modern era and among the best-selling artists. He has achieved a worldwide sales of over seventy-five million records. Keep on reading to learn more on the net worth and earnings of Kenny G in 2020.
Early Life & Biography
Kenny G was born in the year 1956 on June 5th, and his place of birth is in Seattle Washington. The mother hailed Saskatchewan, Canada, and the family was Jewish, and Kenny grew up in the Seattle. The first time that he came in to contact with Saxophone was when he heard the performance on a show that was dubbed 'The Ed Sullivan Show.'
He began playing saxophone in the year 1966 when he was just ten years old. Kenny G schooled at the Whitworth Elementary School and later proceeded on to join Sharples Junior High School before joining the University of Washington in the hometown Seattle. After he joined high school, he failed in his attempt to join the jazz band within the first year. He also took private lessons on clarinet and saxophone from Johnny.
Personal Life
Kenny G tied the knot with Lyndie Benson in the year 1992, and this couple had two sons. In the year 2012, Benson filed for a legal separation, and the divorce was complete in 2012. He currently lives in Malibu California and is a very avid golfer and has a handicap of over 0.6. He has been able to participate in AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am tournament. Kenny G is a qualified aircraft pilot and has a sea plane that he always flies regularly.
Career, Awards & Nominations
Kenny started working as the sideman for the Love United Orchestra of the Barry White. He joined a band, Cold, Bold and Together. Kenny would, later on, start his solo career. In the 1980s, that was when he started to release his albums. Among the albums that he released included G-Force and Gravity of 1985. Later in the decade, he released Silhouette and Duotones in 1988 and 1986 respectively. In the year 1992, that was the time when he released an album that was titled Breathless and two years later, he released Miracles. #
In the year 1999, Kenny got to release two albums that were namely Classics in Key of G and Faith, At Last, and The Most Romantic Melodies. Later in the 2010s, albums that he has released were Heart and Soul. Kenny has worked with artists such as Aaron Neville and Weezer Toni. His concert tours included Moment of the Truth World Tour and Brazilian Tour. Kenny G has featured in the 'Release Hounds' that is an advertisement. For the same time, he has been able to appear in Super Bowl XLV in 2011.
Net Worth & Earnings
The net worth of Kenny G is estimated to be over $55 million. The primary source of this wealth has been from his career as a musician, and he has been rated among the highest paid musicians. As of the year 2016, Kenny had been able to record sales of over 48 million copies, and as of the year 2017, Kenny had sold over 75 million records.
Kenneth Gorelick is a well-experienced saxophonist, and he has been able to record very many albums. Among the most successful albums includes Duotones and Gravity. He has also written soundtrack and collaborated with some of the best musicians.


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Seashell Trust's 10 out of 10: Cherylee Houston
To celebrate our decade as Seashell Trust, we are sharing ten top people who have been at the heart of our family during the last ten years – staff, volunteers, supporters and most importantly our extraordinary students and their families.
Let us know who else you think is 10 out of 10!
Seashell has marked its 10-year milestone by announcing Coronation Street star and disability advocate Cherylee Houston as our ambassador this year.
The arts, including drama, have always had an important role at Seashell Trust, giving our students who may struggle to communicate through speech other ways to express themselves.
The actress and activist has been connected to the trust in recent years through her creative collective TripleC - a Greater Manchester group of disabled and non-disabled actors trying to increase access to the arts for people with disabilities. They use theatre workshops, film and improvisation to encourage self-discovery.
Cherylee said: "I'm one of the founder members of TripleC. We did a seven-week trial with Seashell College students last year and because of the positive outcomes we have now been kindly funded by PZ Cussons to run weekly drama classes with the students from the school and college.
Creativity is vital to the development of our students and Cherylee agrees: "What is so exciting about the work we do, is it is student-led which encourages creativity and independent thought, therefore increasing confidence.
"I have seen the massive and incredible impact it can have on communication, social learning theory, self-advocacy and personal development. The way we work ensures each young person is at the centre of the work and it is driven from their ideas and responses."
It has turned out to be a match made in heaven for Seashell Trust and Cherylee's TripleC.
She said: "It is really exciting how Seashell has embraced the way that we work at TripleC and how they are keen to work with us because we are also people with disabilities who want to share our knowledge, learnings and to provide positive role models.
"I love the energy as soon as you enter Seashell, there is often a friendly face that's greeting you as they pass whilst you're waiting at reception. I thoroughly enjoy interacting with the young people."
From the minute a child or young person arrives here at Seashell we are working to prepare them for the day when they leave. Cherylee backs our vision of giving our students as many tools as possible to help them find their place in society.
She said: "I think Seashell are incredibly important in the work they do. It is imperative young people with disabilities are given the most opportunities to enable them to live their life to their full potential and participate in society as they have a lot to offer.
"If we keep excluding people from participating fully in society then society isn't getting the full benefit of all its citizens' input. I really like the ethos at Seashell where the young people are followed through their education and out into the community in terms of work."


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Back in the previous century now, I was going home after work. The traffic was unusually bad, no, I take that back; it was wretched beyond belief! When I was about 5 miles from my home the traffic came to a complete stand still. I was inching forward ever 30 seconds or so. But not to worry, I am prepared for this inevitability, which happens far more than I wish it did. I had a book, my current read. I started reading: reading and inching. I wasn't paying much attention to the traffic, to the vehicles around me, to the heat outside. I was racing along in the world of my book as I inched forward in the real world.
Finally, after about 30 minutes, I reached the right turn onto my street and put my book away. The red van in front of me also turned onto my street. I followed. Suddenly, about 500 feet down the street, the red van locked its tires coming to a screeching stop. I was shocked as this was completely unexpected. I hit my brakes full force and came to a safe stop without hitting the van. We just sat there. I wondered why the driver had stopped. I thought a child must have unexpectedly run out in front of the van, or maybe an animal, a pet. But surely the issue justifying the stop would have been resolved by now, yet here we still sat, stopped on the road. What was the deal?
I tried to look around in front of the van to see what had happened. Nothing was apparent. Finally, I decided to go around the stopped van. Perhaps the driver had mechanical failure. As I pulled around I could see no reason for the sudden stop. Perplexed, I looked up at the driver as I passed. The woman was in a rage. She was screaming at me. She alternated between shaking her fist at me and beating them on the steering wheel while making horrible faces, and she appeared to be swearing like a sailor.
My goodness. Why was she in a rage, and, even more odd, why was she directing her rage at me?! I had no clue at all. Bewildered by the strange sequence of events, I drove on, rounded the sharp curve, turned into my driveway and drove up into my carport, reflecting on the odd incident. As was my custom at the time, I got out of my car and started to walk down the driveway to get the day's junk mail. About half way down the driveway (literally, as I live on a steep hill), the woman in the red van rounded the curved driving very, very slowly. When she arrived near the entrance to my driveway, she stopped.
She was insane with rage. Still screaming, swearing, shaking her fist at me, pounding them on her steering wheel, giving me the finger, pointing at me, and gunning her van as if she were about to charge up the driveway to run over me. What the hell was wrong with this lunatic?! I had a serious lapse in judgment…
I was furious that she would threaten me, and for absolutely no reason whatsoever. I was suddenly walking down my driveway egging her on, gesturing for her to come on, to run over me. I was so angered by the fact that she would threaten me, that I was literally daring her, no, demanding that she carry out her threat.
She responded by becoming more enraged and out of control, if such were possible. She was gunning the van harder and longer. This, of course, sent my adrenaline through the roof. I was uttering language most unfit for the gentleman that I consider myself to be. I was determined not to back down, no matter what. Let her run over me. I dared her to do it both in what I said and my gestures. She wasn't going to back down. She decided to call my bluff. Only, I wasn't bluffing.
She floored her van and started charging up the hill that is my driveway. I was now completely enraged. How dare she! I kept walking directly toward her oncoming van, egging her on, gesturing for her to run over me, swearing as badly as she was, and looking her straight in the eyes. She charged her van up the driveway. I was not going to back down. Go ahead, run over me. She continued up the driveway.
Talk about out of control! At this point, we both were. At the last possible instant, she realized I wasn't backing down no matter what she did. She cut her steering wheel as hard as she could, actually struck me (just my little tummy) as she veered away, and, with all of my might, I slammed both of my fists on the short hood of her van hoping to dent the hell out of it. She ran over my metal mailbox, bending it over flat to the ground as she entered back onto the street and sped away at an extreme rate of speed. I hoped the metal post of my mailbox seriously dented the front of her van.
As she raced down the street, I desperately tried to read her tag, but the sun was directly in my eyes and, even shielding my eyes from the bright setting sun, I could only make out the first letter of the tag, X and the fact that it appeared to be a Florida tag. The graphic looked like an orange and not a peach.
I was stunned. I was shocked. What had just happened? What had caused all of this? Why did she start this whole situation? Had I actually done something of which I was totally unaware to cause her initial rage? Why had I responded in the way I did? I had never been in such a situation and had no idea this level of sheer raw emotional response lived inside of this mild mannered man called Tim.
As my mind raced, bathed in an adrenaline rush the likes of which I had seldom experienced before, I rapidly processed through all of this. One recurring thought kept returning to the forefront of my thinking: this lunatic knows where I live. What will she do? Will she burn down my house while I'm at work? Shoot out all of my windows? Will she stalk me? Who the hell is she?! What is she capable of doing? She was crazy. I decided the smartest thing to do was call the police. I wanted her arrested for wreckless driving, assault with a vehicle, and anything else with which she could be charged. I called 911.
I told the person who answered what had happened. She said an officer would call me and make a report. A few minutes later I received a call from one of my city's finest, who had an exceptionally thick accent. I could not understand much of what he said. I continuously had to ask him to repeat his question in my attempt to understand what he was asking. I actually had to ask him to repeat some things 4 and 5 times.
Additionally, he obviously had one of the police radios next to telephone as it was constantly blaring into my ear making understanding him all but utterly impossible. I was not impressed. I told him exactly what had happened: what she and I both did and said. I gave him the tag number fragment and asked that he be sure to write it in the report.
He stated that there was nothing that would be done about this, but that if I ever found out who she was to let them know. At least, that's what I think he said. He told me he would file the report in case any further incidents occurred.
But the story doesn't end here. The next day I told everyone at work what had happened. They were all utterly horrified at how stupid I had been. I was rather amazed myself as I am normally so logical and not easily excited. I desperately wanted to know who this woman in red was, and why she had responded to me the way she did.
Several weeks later my mother came up to visit. I told her what had happened. She too was disgusted at the stupidity of my response.
One morning, during my mom's visit, I was on my way to work. The weather was drizzly and dreary. I came to a stop at the light at the end of my street, waiting to turn onto the main road, right where the woman in red first slammed on her brakes weeks earlier. The light turned green and the three vehicles (I was the last one of them) made the left turn onto the main road. I was in my usual early morning on-the-way-to-work stupor and was not paying much attention to anything but the yucky weather. Unexpectedly, there was… an incident.
The red van that had been in front of me at the traffic light started blowing its horn. O my god! This was the same red van. It was the woman in red! She was now several cars ahead of me in the rush hour traffic, and I couldn't get close enough to read the tag. Cars in front of me blocked my view. The weather was drizzly and hazy. She was out of control. She was gunnning her van again at the car in front of her, seriously tailgating the car, and blowing her horn over and over again! She was angry at this driver for some reason. I couldn't get to her because she ran a red light at a major intersection to chase down the car that had been in front of her. She sped away into the drizzly haze as I came to a stop.
I had to know who this nut was. I told everyone at work. She must live near me. She was driving down my street again, this time on the way to work. I called my mother at the house and told her to go sit out in the front yard around 5:00pm and look for a red van.
The van had a bumper sticker that said I belong in the zoo. Damn, that was a fact! Cage this lunatic up! When I got home that evening, my mother was not in the front yard. I was so disappointed. I really wanted to catch this woman and turn her in to the police. She was dangerous. She was crazy. She was road rage.
After dropping off my briefcase and getting mother, we got in the car to go to a restaurant for dinner. As we backed to the end of my driveway, I was telling my mother how badly I wanted to catch the woman in the red van, that she was dangerous. I told her that she had to live around my neighborhood someplace. I wanted to talk mother into doing some detective work.
I had to stop at the end of the driveway to let the vehicle coming around the corner pass. I wasn't paying much attention because I was talking to mom. My mother said, Well, maybe this is her here. Yeah, right. Like that's going to happen: we are talking about her, and she suddenly appears coming around the very corner where she gunnned her van to run over me. The van passed by and I backed onto the street. O my god! It was her. I saw the Florida tag and the zoo bumper sticker. I was stunned!
She obviously feared I would recognize her because she sped down the road at outrageous speed, easily in excess of 60 miles an hour (in our 25 zone). I would never have been able to catch up with her had a car in front of her not stopped to turn left and had to wait until several oncoming cars passed. We got the tag number!! I had her! She sped away at high speed as we headed on to the restaurant.
I called the police. It took them 2 weeks to find my initial report. They had filed it in the wrong place, under theft or some such thing. I told them what had happened, and that they needed to do something before this person killed herself or someone else on the road. The tag did start with an X and was from Florida. The police said they could do nothing because, despite my request when I first reported this incident, the tag number fragment was not in the report. I was so disappointed and disgusted at the first officer's lack of professionalism.
I have never seen the woman in red again and will be most content if I never do. Hopefully she hasn't killed someone on the road. Despite the fact that the song is Lady in Red, I refer to her as my woman in red. She is anything but a lady.


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EPtalk by Dr. Jayne 11/1/18
November is Home Care & Hospice Month, so let's give a shout-out to members of the healthcare informatics community who work in those environments. From my time at Big Health System, it seems like hospital projects get all the recognition and the lion's share of the budget, while ancillaries like home health and hospice are struggling to even get support.
There are a number of challenges faced by these disciplines that make their work tricky – connectivity issues, mobile documentation, chart fragmentation, lack of coordination among prescribers and referring physicians, and more. Plus, there are the challenges inherent with going into people's homes and dealing with unpredictable (and sometimes dangerous) situations.
Our occupational health clinic works with a home care group and I've heard stories about home care teams that go the extra mile bringing food and personal care items to patients who are struggling to stay out of the hospital. Hats off to these vital members of the healthcare team and the informatics personnel who support them.
Whether it's related to the month of recognition or not, CMS released a rule finalizing changes to the Home Health Prospective Payment System. Claiming it will "strengthen and modernize Medicare," it made changes to coverage for remote patient monitoring, added home infusion therapy benefits, and updated payments for home health with a new case-mix system. Burden is also supposed to be reduced through fewer reporting measures for certifying physicians. The changes begin in calendar year 2020.
Building on the legacy of EMRAM, HIMSS Analytics releases a new Infrastructure Adoption Model called INFRAM. Along with AMAM and CCMM, the models are designed to measure organizational efforts to improve processes and outcomes through technology implementation and adoption. INFRAM is designed to assess technical infrastructure within health systems, benchmarking prior to go live on EMR (as HIMSS still calls them) systems. Subdomains assessed as part of the model include security, collaboration, wireless capabilities, data center, and transport.
The American Medical Association is providing $15 million in grants over five years to fund innovations in residency training. The Reimagining Residency Initiative aims to transform residency training to better prepare graduates for the healthcare system of the future. Depending on the specialty, graduating residents are often unprepared to operate in the "non-system" that we have going in the US – they may not have been trained on value-based care, coding in such a way that one can actually be paid, and working collaboratively with other physicians and members of the healthcare team.
AMA did this previously in a $12 million program with medical schools, leading to development of a "Health Systems Science" textbook and curriculum to teach physicians to work with emerging technology and how to participate in patient safety, quality improvement, and team care projects. The Request for Proposal will be distributed on January 3, 2019 with letters of intent due February 1. Medical schools, health systems, and medical specialty societies are invited to participate along with graduate medical education sponsors. Awards will be announced in June 2019.
NCQA announces availability of various datasets to help us with our analytics endeavors. The Quality Compass 2018 dataset includes HEDIS and CAHPS data, aiding benchmarking. The current set includes data for commercial, Medicare, and Medicaid submissions. Separate data is also available for CAHPS 5 OH Adult survey results for commercial and Medicaid payers. Also, there is a CAHPS Booklet includes benchmark data for Adult and Child CAHPS surveys. Last, the Health Insurance Plan Ratings 2018-2019 results include scores similar to the Medicare Five-Star Quality Rating System.
The American Medical Informatics Association announces its Inaugural Class of Fellows for the newly established FAMIA Applied Informatics Recognition Program. The program is designed "to recognize AMIA members who apply informatics skills and knowledge within their professional setting, who have demonstrated professional achievement and leadership, and who have contributed to the betterment of the organization." The recognition is open to physicians, nurses, pharmacists, and others within clinical informatics. Formal recognition will occur at the AMIA 2019 Clinical Informatics Conference in Atlanta, April 30-May 2, 2019. Some of my favorite people are on the list – congratulations to all!
As I've worked with youth in various community organizations over the last decade, I've seen the expansion of smartphones, with both positive and negative impacts on youth knowledge, exploration, and relationships. Time magazine reviews recent research on the impact of technology on young people's mental health, noting increased rates of diagnosis for depression and anxiety in those using screen-based devices for more than seven hours per day. The data is from a 2016 study looking at more than 40,000 children ages 2 to 17.
When doing a sanity check on the data, I originally balked at the seven-hour figure as an outlier, but the study notes that around 20 percent of youth aged 14 to 17 spend this amount of time on screens each day. Youth in this use category were also more easily distracted, had emotional lability, and had difficulty finishing tasks compared to those who spent only an hour a day on screens. Adolescents were more likely to have issues than younger children.
Every time I'm in an airport and see toddlers and young children glued to a phone or tablet while their parents are also glued to a phone, I want to scream. Maybe I'm turning into the local curmudgeon, but childhood is a time for wonder and explanation. I want to tell them to take their children over to the window and look together at what is going on around the airplane. Watch the baggage handlers and look for your bags. See how the plane gets refueled. Talk about the jobs people do and how everyone plays a part in getting you to your vacation or grandma's house or wherever.
Those behaviors in young childhood influence how individuals will use phones and devices as teens, and we know from numerous pieces of research that social media use is linked to low well being in teens and adolescents. There's nothing funnier than watching a group of teens stand in a circle and "group chat" instead of actually chatting face-to-face with each other. Funny, but sad. I'm glad that one of the organizations I work with is a no-phone zone for the most part, forcing young people to interact with each other and also with the adults supporting their adventures.
Weird news of the day: Having one's appendix removed has been linked to a nearly 20 percent lower risk of developing Parkinson's disease. Researchers noted that the appendix holds alpha-synuclein, which is thought to influence Parkinson's development. One working hypothesis is that the appendix participates in immune surveillance "contributes to Parkinson's through inflammation and microbiome alterations." It's not compelling enough to run out and have surgery, but I'll be interested to see where the data takes us.
What is your organization doing to celebrate Home Care & Hospice Month? Leave a comment or email me.
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Federal contractors responsible for the so-far notoriously glitchy HealthCare.gov, the health insurance marketplace website set up under the Affordable Care Act to provide insurance options in states that chose not to set up a site themselves, today testified before the GOP-controlled House Energy and Commerce Committee. They were there to answer for the considerable trouble the federal exchange site has experienced since launch–far more than in states like Colorado who built our own insurance exchanges. As Politico reports, both Republicans and Democrats had pointed questions about the federal exchange website's embarrassing failures:
Diana DeGette of Colorado agreed. "I want to stress that for the Affordable Care Act to work, these problems need to be fixed, and these problems need to be fixed fast," she said. "We need to see clear examples of improvement, and we need a timeline for when it will be functional."
While some Republicans had constructive questions, others couldn't resist taking political potshots that had more to do with their longstanding dogmatic opposition to health care reform that the subject at hand. Some veered into the downright silly with their (to put it mildly) highly speculative conclusions. We're sorry to report that includes Rep. Cory Gardner of Colorado:
Most of the Republicans managed to stay on point and stick to the important questions without drifting into Obamacare-bashing. But not all of them…
Ralph Hall of Texas noted that his constituents "hate the Obama law." Shimkus declared that "when [Nancy] Pelosi said we had to pass this law to find out what's in it, we're finding out."
Steve Scalise of Louisiana complained that "there are so many broken promises with this law. If you like what you have, you can keep it … Costs were going to be lower."
Even Cory Gardner of Colorado, who pried out an important admission from Campbell — that CGI had built a browsing feature and was asked to turn it off — didn't just suggest that decision helped break the website. He suggested it was something darker: a deliberate political decision "to hide the real cost of Obamacare from the American people." [Pols emphasis]
Got it? It couldn't possibly be that the exchange website was unable to cope with the traffic from actual insurance buyers, let alone millions more armchair policy wonks who would have sat there endlessly querying the system for idle pursuits if a "browsing" feature for insurance rates was enabled. You see, this wasn't incompetence, or inadequate planning, or anything boring like that at all. Like everything President Barack Obama has ever done since becoming president, the breakdowns at HealthCare.Gov are just a cover up for the really bad stuff!
If you get the feeling that even after these startup problems are fixed–pretty much no matter what happens–Gardner and friends are not going to be happy, that's probably because you're right. They won't ever be happy. The rule of Hanlon's Razor states, and we tend to agree, that one should "never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity." But in today's unhinged political climate, where's the fun in that?


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This Shoe Literally Gets Better The More You Wear It
Some shoe trends come and go, but Sebago's have stood the test of time.
In high school, I had a basic set of fashion requirements: a fresh haircut, cool threads, and a decent pair of sneakers. Everything else that life threw at me, I just had to deal with as it came – like acne. Nowhere on my adolescent checklist did a pair of boat shoes appear – probably because, I dunno, I didn't own a boat. But more importantly: at the time, I couldn't afford them.
Related: Why You Need A Pair Of Boat Shoes In Your Closet ASAP
Sebago's, for me, were a status symbol. Most high-school students who could afford them made an effort to flaunt them in your face, while most of the rest of us were either (a) feverishly working to save up for a pair, or (b) totally not even trying to put in the hard labour required.
For some reason, boat shoes were deeply rooted in our (completely non-boat-owning) culture. They were an understated symbol of style, appreciated by those with a keen eye and better fashion sense than I had at the time; because – given how tiresome saving was, and how easily I was distracted by fads and video games – I shelved my dreams of ever owning a pair of Sebago's. Let alone a boat.
But now that I'm a lot older and a little bit wiser (maybe), I'm pleased to report that the boat shoes of yesteryear, and of my dreams, still hold their iconic status for boat guys and fashionistas alike. Chances are, some of them are still wearing the same shoes they wore back when they and I were at high school, as people are known to hang on to their Sebago's for decades. I mean, the shoe just gets better the more you wear it.
If It Ain't Broke…
Thankfully, nothing much has changed on the tried-and-tested Docksides design. It still features the same rawhide lace that wraps around your foot for added comfort and support, and the same non-slip rubber soles for added grip in any weather conditions. The only thing that's new is the range of colour combinations available, to match whatever your brain can come up with when choosing your next pair.
Fresh & Natural
I have an entire collection of Day-Glo running shoes (you can imagine how many people I upset during the course of my day). But as someone who generally prefers to colour-coordinate his wardrobe, not only is the Military Green colour-choice pleasing to look at, but I can blend in with nature if I feel the need. These shoes are waxed leather which means they are robust and smooth, and then a waxy finish is applied. Due to this soft scratch-sensitive finish, the leather quickly gets a vintage-patina, which gives it that classic look. It's a versatile option that goes with anything I throw at it – casual and playful by day, serious and sophisticated at night.
The Verdict
I'm now gladly taking a more relaxed approach to my wardrobe (though I miss being able to go for a quick 5-kay without changing my shoes). And at every future party, braai and random social intermingling, my Sebago's will be used ad nauseam to let everyone know how much my sense of style has matured.
Sebago's. Still the same shoe from my adolescence, handcrafted in exactly the same way for the last seventy-odd years.
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There were some pretty amazing view driving around the east part of Oahu on our way to the North Shore. China Man's Hat is the local name for the beautiful island just offshore in the picture above. The water is very shallow and I hear that on really low tides you can walk all the way to the island, but it was just deep enough for us to snorkel on this day. It was hard to see in the shallow, silty water but we did have a great find, a green lionfish hanging onto this rock (above right).
We stopped at Sunset Beach and Pipeline just to see the famous wave breaks. It was a very mellow day on the north shore but still some surfers were out. I jumped in for a quick surf session at Chun's Beach with my buddy Mark and scored some fun rights. Turtles were popping up all around me here.
The real underwater magic happened when we strapped on some scuba tanks and dove a site called Firehouse. It is named this because the entry is right behind an actual firehouse but the site is between Three Tables and Sharks Cove. A picture of sharks cove can be seen below.
Underwater here life clings to vertical rock faces and overhangs, as well as hiding inside cracks and crevices to avoid getting swept away from the famous north shore big waves. We found eels galore and a couple of nudibranchs including a beautiful red spot nudibranch (below right) which Heidi and I had never seen before.
It was an amazing feeling to get a chance to dive in a place where huge powerful waves make diving inaccessible for half the year.


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Cape Town - Highlands Park suffered a first defeat in their 2016/17 Absa Premiership campaign after losing 1-0 to Kaizer Chiefs at Makhulong Stadium on Wednesday night.
Amakhosi scored the goal in the second stanza through a penalty from George Lebese. In the wake of the defeat, the Lions of the North now sit at number 10 with three points from their win over Baroka FC last week.
Good attacking football was displayed by both sides in the first 10 minutes and winger Franklin Cale was set free in the box from a cross on the right, but his shot went straight to goalkeeper Itumeleng Khune.
Amakhosi displayed good touches in the middle of the park moving forward and were rewarded with a free kick, but keeper Tapuwa Kapini punched away Lebese's delivery in the 18th minute.
Towards the 30th minute, Collins Mbesuma received a pin point cross from Cale down the left flank, the Zambian rose well above Sibusiso Khumalo only to see his header over the crossbar.
Khune and Kapini made all the difference in the match as Khune collected another fine set piece from Cale with four minutes to go to the interval.
The visitors enjoyed ball possession upon their return from the tunnel and they were awarded a set piece in the 52nd minute which failed to yield a good result.
Chiefs continued their dominance and Auguston Leonard unfairly challenged William Twala in the box, the referee gave a penalty in the 64th minute.
Lebese took it and the left footed winger converted from the spot to hand Chiefs the deserved lead a minute later.
With six minutes to go, substitute Brandon Theron found himself in a good position following a long clearance from Kapini only to see his attempt straight into Khune's hands.
In the final minutes of the match, Khune denied Charlton Mashumba from a well taken set piece after he handled the ball out of the box as they claimed their first victory.
The win takes Steve Komphela's men to the sixth spot on the log table with four points from three matches.


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RINO Schwarzenegger as Obsolete as the T-800 Terminator Model – Should Join Democrats
source: thefilmstage Arnold Schwarzenegger is representative of everything wrong with the Republican Party, as the RINO embraces almost everything the Democrats do, while still remaining a Republican; being tolerated because of his celebrity status. His latest liberal rant was against oil companies he falsely accuses of "… knowingly killing people all over the world." Other than his rhetoric, he offers no proof of his allegations. Even though over 30,000 scientists signed a petition that concluded there is no human release of greenhouse gases, methane or carbon dioxide […]More info


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Australian Jewellery designer Samantha Wills went from a Byron Bay NSW flea market stall to becoming an international exporter. Here is her story
Australia's global jewellery tycoon
Samantha Wills grew up in small town NSW and now controls a global empire of jewellery from New York.
Think of women who have risen to the top of Australian entrepreneurship and the list gets thin fast.
Ever rarer is a woman who has succeeded with her own name as the brand, who has become a celebrity herself in the process.
Samantha Wills, who grew up in Port Macquarie and now lives in New York, is a tycoon of her time.
Samantha Wills' jewellery is now stocked in 80 countries. Photo: James Alcock
Personable, open and yet at also guarded and private, the 34-year-old businesswoman appears to effortlessly blend an air of celebrity with social media fanaticism and a unique product.
But she says success has been a hard slog and she wants the many young women who worship her to know just how difficult it's been.
"I think millennials are a generation of 'slashies'. They're a DJ/entrepreneur/fashion designer. With all those slashes between your job titles, you lose depth and integrity," she says.
"Narrow down what you want to be good at, then focus on that. It might not work for the first six months or the first 18 months but it took me 12 years to become an overnight success."
While she doesn't go into gruesome detail, Wills was clear that growing a business took a hit on her personal life.
"I think the downside of having success was that when my friends were going off and having a good time, my business was in its infancy so I couldn't have those normal early 20s experiences."
Early days
Wills started her company at the of age 21 after moving to Sydney.
"I was working in retail during the day and making jewellery at night to sell at the market. A friend offered me a spot at Australian Fashion Week which would cost $500. I though I would possibly make enough to cover the cost of the stall, but I ended up writing $18,000 of orders that day. I quit my job the next day."
Now Wills is turning over $10 million annually and is stocked in eighty countries around the world. She has offices in Japan, Korea, Europe, the US and Australia.
Wills credits much of her success to her business partner Geoff Bainbridge who was able to commercialise back-end production and helped launch her to into foreign markets.'
Celebrity sights
"Naively, when I first went to the US in 2010, I thought I was going over with a successful Australian brand and that would be enough. You think you can replicate that over there and it's not the case," says Wills.
"You need a much more refined offer. You need to know who your business competitors are and your media competitors. We ended up doing 18 months of research about the US before we moved our first order."
The orders started coming thick and fast once actress Eva Mendes was snapped on a red carpet wearing Wills' Bohemian Bardot ring. Wills' jewellery has also been worn by Katy Perry, Miranda Kerr, Lady Gaga, Kate Bosworth, Drew Barrymore and Jennifer Lopez.
"That ring Eva wore continues to be our best seller and we've made it now in 150 colours. It kind of became our signature piece."
Sometimes (and only sometimes…) the @samanthawillsofficial PR Department, let's me play with upcoming collections…. These are definitely my lust haves; the 'Spanish Moss Grande' earrings, in Amethyst + Rose Gold… Just added to the Waiting List at samanthawills.com (Which I'll too be joining, because they won't let me keep them). -SWx #SamanthaWills #SamanthaWillsOfficial ? @alimitton | ?? @stojb
Small-town Australian
Wills has recently signed to be an ambassador for Optus' Believe Big campaign targeting small businesses.
"We filmed a campaign flashing back to 2004 through to my life now. I really want people to know the struggles and hurdles of funding success."
While Wills credits her naivety for much of the company's strengths, she sometimes regrets the decision to get going without any formal business training.
"Every day I wish I'd studied business or management. But, I learn as I go. I might have learned the harder way on the job."
Asked why a New Yorker is the right person for this campaign, Wills says she still considers herself not just Australian but a "small-town" Australian.
"I still go to Port Macquarie five to six times a year because my family live there. We stock the range at one shop in Port Macquarie and every time I notice the town is really growing and evolving very quickly."
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Our lying PM David "we're all in this together" Cameron has apparently held a meeting with a few companies to make it look like he is trying to help create jobs. One of those companies is the predatory, job-destroying supermarket giant Tesco. As Liar Cameron has never had a proper job, he probably doesn't understand that for every job 'created' by Tesco, more than two jobs are lost as smaller shops close and suppliers, squeezed dry by Tesco's massive buying power, have to lay off workers to cut costs.
So, when Liar Cameron claims Tesco will 'create' 20,000 (or whatever the number is) jobs, what he's really saying is that over 40,000 real jobs will be destroyed and replaced by 20,000 Tesco minimum-wage shelf-stackers. It seems that Liar Cameron has about as much a grasp on economics as the lying buffoon Gordon "no more boom and bust" Brown.


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TAUNTON Town have confirmed that their league match with Swindon Supermarine, scheduled for tomorrow, has been postponed.
Chairman Kevin Sturmey told the County Gazette that there is three to four inches of snow on the pitch at the Viridor Stadium and a weather warning for ice tonight, so there is no chance of the game being played.
The Southern League has now rubber-stamped the postponement decision, and so the Peacocks' next fixture is away to Walton Casuals on Saturday, February 9 (ko 3pm).
WESTERN League sides Bishops Lydeard and Wellington AFC are also unlikely to play.
Lydeard had been due to host Keynsham Town and Wellington to entertain Plymouth Parkway, but that now seems unlikely.
Wellington tweeted this morning to say that:
Here's the scene ... the visit of @PlymouthParkway tomorrow could be slightly doubtful! pic.twitter.com/yZm4n49PTY
— Wellington AFC (@Wellington_AFC) February 1, 2019
The Somerset County League also took the decision at lunchtime today to postpone all of tomorrow's matches.
The league tweeted: "This decision has been taken by the directors in the interests of safety, not only of pitches but also travel to grounds."
That means a weekend off for Minehead AFC, Staplegrove and Watchet Town.


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Please feel free to bring in your own cake, cupcakes or ice cream to celebrate special occasions such as birthdays/team parties. For your convenience we also have Hershey's® Ice Cream Cakes or Nestle's® Cookie Cakes available for purchase with a 24hr. notice. NO other outside food or drink may be brought into the facility other than store bought cake, cupcakes or ice cream, NO EXCEPTIONS. Additional food items can be ordered for adult guests from our café menu or party add-ons. We try to accommodate special needs and food allergies to the best of our ability.
All of our birthday party packages are sold to accommodate 10 kids including the birthday honoree, however if you have a larger party you can add on additional children at a per person price up to a 25 person maximum, if you have over 25 persons please call for special group pricing.
Your party package is for up to 10 kids and you will receive all the items in the package as if you had 10 kids, but if you have less than 10 you can always save the passes for another day, as they never expire, or use them for yourself, other adult guests, or double the fun for the birthday honoree.
Birthday Party Schedule of Events;
1st – Private Party Room for the FIRST HOUR ONLY, this is the time with your host/hostess where he/she will make balloon animals, do games, serve drinks, pizza, popcorn & cake and open any presents.
2nd – Activities done at your leisure – (We highly recommend doing your go-kart ride as the first activity in order to receive it at as a VIP Ride, otherwise you will need to use the regular go-kart line as you will for all rides after the first one.) GoKarts, Mini-Golf or Gemstone Panning.
3rd – Gameroom – Arcade Games & Prize Redemption.
Each scheduled party package has the choice of reserving one of our 2 themed private party rooms. You will have your private party room along with your host/hostess for 1 hour at the start of the party, followed by activities & games done at your leisure. Most of our parties last between 2 and 2 1/2 hours, and that is usually a very good estimate to go with. However, depending on the package selected and the total number of guests and how busy the day is, it could take a little longer. Once you have your final headcount we can try to give you an estimated length of time.
Party rooms are reserved for up to 1 hour, at the beginning of your party. Seating in party room is guaranteed for guests participating in the party only, adult guests of the party may use the seating in the area if room is available, keeping in mind that our private party rooms have a 25 person maximum. Also, please remember that our Host/Hostesses sole responsibility is to the children.
We do have ride restrictions for the safety of all guests. To drive a Rookie Go-Kart you must be at least 48" tall. To drive a passenger in our Double Seater Go-Karts, you must be a licensed driver and at least 58" tall, passengers must be at least 3 years old and 36" tall.
Very seldom does inclement weather prevent us from completing our party package, as we do operate the Rookie and Double Seater go-karts during light rain. However, if the weather prohibits outside attractions from being used, then we will bring the party inside and turn in all the outdoor activity passes (fun passes) into Arcade eTokens and turn the party into a game room party.
Invitations are available to print from our website, or you can use the eVite link that comes in your confirmation email, we also have printed invitations with envelopes available for pick up only.
All that is required to bring is the kids the camera and the cake (unless purchased thru us). We supply all the paper products, utensils and stick candles, each one of our private party rooms is already themed so there is no need for additional decorations.
If you expect more than 10 guests or have adults that you would like to have food available for then YES! Please call 48 hrs prior to your scheduled party date to confirm your total number of guests. This way we can be ready with your food should you have more than the 10 guests/adults, we do feed your guests at the beginning of the party so we want to make sure you are not waiting on food to be prepared.
Please plan on arriving 10 minutes prior to the party start time. We also strongly suggest that when you send out your invitations you give your guests a time that starts 10 minutes prior to the actual party start time. Every minute of your child's party is designated for fun, fun and more fun. If anyone arrives late, those minutes will be lost forever. Our Host/Hostesses entertain several parties throughout the day, your party time slot is not adjustable. We do reserve the right to cancel the party as a no show, if you are more than 15 minutes late.
We suggest all party reservations be made at least 2 weeks in advance, however we can reserve party space if available with just 48 hours notice, but usually all the best slot times are full so we recommend booking as early as possible.


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Startech is one of the tuner who offers a package for Bentley Bentayga, where a specimen on this promo images is in Racing Green color with black Monostar S alloy wheels (23-inch wheels with Continental ContiSportContact 6 tires 295/35).
For Bentayga, Startech offers aero body kit (front spoiler, side skirts, rear diffuser, spoiler on the trunk …), sport exhaust system, suspension modifications (the car is lower by 25 mm) and elements for trimming the interior (leather, Alcantara, details of carbon fiber …).
It is also announced a kit for amplification of 6.0 liter W12 engine which has 447 kW/608hp and 900 Nm of torque, combined with the eight-speed automatic.


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Locust Angel
"Do you remember when we used to sing?"
Defeating space was never the answer. Defeating time, that was the trick.
"The Universe will pull itself apart," they said. Nope. The Big Stretch just pulled more dark matter and energy from…somewhere.
The Sun turned red and boiled away the oceans and the Moon had turned molten, hurling down fire and stone. These betrayals made Terra uninhabitable a long, long time ago.
But we were gone long before that. We aimed for the younger stars. Things were always changing anyway, may as well head to the new construction where you had a better chance of still finding it where you first saw it.
Food? Just lower the magnetic field, the artificial heliosphere, the other protective layers, surrounding you…you…your vessel. Same thing. Nom on some gamma rays for a millisecond, there are still plenty of those flying around. Minimal mass meant less need for e anyway, and made it easier to get closer to c.
Remove your hat–or if you prefer, halo–to eat. That's etiquette. You don't really miss shmeat, trust me.
Entertainment? If you get bored mapping the Universe, receiving from and sharing with all that data to and from your fellow travelers, you've got many zettabytes of historical data to choose from. Plenty of space to store more. Vistas unimaginable via the old telescopes.
Or you can just go to "sleep." You still need that, if you can call it that; mostly about data storage, internal subroutines that watch the watching, make sure there are no problems and that what gets stored is easily reaccessible if and when needed. Even that, though, only required an unnoticeably small downtick in processing power. Shutting down more fully had been more about old habits, had become a choice, a means of passing the time, a nod to the distant past.
'Fold space.' Ha! No. Lazy. Whimsical. Enjoy the ride. Adapt!
Traveling between galaxies is just a matter of time, and having rendered it meaningless, it's no matter at all. There's always plenty to do, plenty to keep that "mind" busy.
The mind. They had thought about reengineering what we once were. Making us more able to withstand the changes that Mother Nature, the Solar System and the greater Universe at large had in store for us. At least that was what they told us. They had even done so to an extent, though mostly it had been about reinventing old systems to make them seem new again; about becoming gods through control; about squeezing every last exploit out of human psychology, getting every last ounce of whatever it was everyone wanted.
Then had come virtual reality, an attempt to escape the eventual end. It hadn't worked, hooking the mind up to a machine, not quite the way it had been hoped.
That's it, monkeyboy. Try burying your head in the sand.
But then trying to place the whole thing into a machine had led to shedding bodies altogether. Now we can see x-rays, heat, the whole spectrum on a level that pure evolution had never been able to accomplish because it just wasn't necessary, not then.
Grandfather's axe? Maybe. But then biology was always changing, too, just mostly incrementally over aeons. And if brain states were static, we'd never have made it this far. Adapt or die.
Then, of course, immortality. How to slow down the copying of biological data so as to prolong life. Mostly for the elites of the time. One look at some of those mummies as time went on and the answer became obvious: Escape the bonds of the biological; leave behind the vulnerable parts. Evolve.
When the idea was first pitched all those years ago, it was viewed as a sort of death. Shedding the parts reliant on organic chemistry altogether just seemed like making a recording of a person. But the alternative had been to wait for some miracle to extend the tiny window that the Universe had permitted for life, fragile life, to exist, to struggle, and to thrive. Faced with the choices of almost certain oblivion and a life as a ghost inside a machine, it seemed obvious. We had built AIs that never really did much for us as they were; now we had become the AIs; the space aliens of yore; the ancient spirits.
From star dust we sprang. To star dust we returned.
What would we do when we reached our destinations? These were not necessarily the final ones, just the ones we elected to take as a group.
That would depend. We might decide to see if we couldn't kickstart some "life." First we would have to find spots that would at least be inhabitable to something; at the very least extremophiles. Then determine whether or not the conditions would change slowly enough for whatever we created to last. Then go away for a while and come back and see what had developed.
It was the one thing that made it all make sense. Why? Why are we here?
We are the Universe made conscious. Life is the means by which the Universe understands itself. It was just a matter of figuring out how to make that work past the conditions that had made more fragile biology possible.
We made it this far. It was just a matter of time, and we'd mostly conquered that.