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I've taken my fun where I've found it;
I've rogued an' I've ranged in my time;
-Rudyard Kipling
Good morning, all you Austrian Art-School Rejects! It is good of you to come. Did you know that today is International Back-to-School Supplies Day? I personally would like some sort of pen that I can use to write upside down. If you happen to find one while out school shopping (for yourself or a loved one), send it to me!
Many people are still pursuing Sunday's International Read Poetry to Someone you Love, although one reader wrote in that he tried out Rudyard Kipling's "The Ladies," and now has a black eye and no woman. Ouch! While an interesting poem, perhaps not the one you should use to woo. Try some Ben Johnson, instead.
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[Fagin Dupree marches on, with Chapter 2. I used to read a lot about writers "finding their voice," which I always took to be pretentious, but looking over Chapter 2 here I have to agree that at this point in the story there was no consistency. I knew what had happened to Fagin, but I didn't really know him. Yesterday the narration was ironic and almost leering, but this time it's….sassy! Of course I set the story up to be episodic, so in some ways the different tones aren't that bad, but reading once a month vs. once a day makes a big difference. Yesterday's chapter featured Vanderbilt mostly because my sister went there and I knew the area. Today's plot came about because I lived in a crash pad by the airport. In fact, at least 80% of this plot actually happened to me, and with most of the characters listed as named!]
Chapter Two: "there are some crimes…"
Fagin Dupree worked the intricate knot on his Italian silk tie in the semi-gloom, not really needing any light to create the perfect Triple Windsor. Fagin looked in the mirror and smiled to himself; even in the near dark, he could see the curved shadows of the hotel bed. Yes, Nashville had been a profitable trip, in more ways than one.
Finishing dressing and packing up the last few items, Fagin considered turning on the lamp and doing that "in-the-morning" thing. But why spoil a perfect day? Instead, Fagin opted to write a classy note, and placed it on the bathroom sink alongside one of the flowers from the shop. Simple. Elegant. Time to go.
Driving back to Atlanta, Fagin considered what to do about his "financial windfall." Helping the police made Fagin a good Public Citizen, but from years of reading detective novels and watching crime shows Fagin also knew that those helpful types were often suspects as well. Best to keep everything on the DL for a while.
Back at home, Fagin Dupree spent a few days pouring over real estate magazines and home furnishings catalogues. Would it be safe to buy a brand new house, or just redo the inside of this one? Fagin had always wanted a new stove, with two ovens like the Chefs on the Food Network…
The decision depended greatly on how much money was actually in those bags. Sadly, Fagin did not have much experience estimating large sums of cash, but he guessed about $250,000. There was only one way to find out.
Three days after arriving home Fagin opened safety deposit boxes at five different banks all over the city. He prepaid in cash for a year's service on each, and not one time was Fagin asked to provide photo ID. While this was a disturbing commentary on the security of the banking system, it suited Fagin just fine.
He also rented rooms in two "crash pads" near the airport. They were houses that held rooms for pilots who could not get back to their home city after a flight and did not want to pay through the nose for a hotel room. Thus, the interaction was sparse and Fagin found it easy to impersonate a pilot with the landlords (thank you Catch Me If You Can). Fagin was not quite sure if all of this cloak-and-dagger was really necessary, but it made him feel like a spy, and that was cool.
Over a week gone by now, and not a sign of heat from Johnny Law. If it were going to come, it would have. A bit nervous and a lot excited, Fagin went to the post office box he'd rented under an assumed name (Douglas Massey, in case you were wondering). Fagin signed for the package with his right hand (not his usual, but he had been practicing just in case they checked these sort of things), and drove to one of his crash pads, or as Fagin called them, "Safe Houses."
There, in his dingy room, Fagin put on latex gloves and began to count his money; not so much to avoid fingerprints as because of a Dateline special with Stone Phillips that horrified with lurid tales of what is actually on money.
Counting—and recounting—took almost 11 hours; you try it sometime. When he was through, Fagin had $ 768,488 sitting in front of him. His estimate had been a bit off.
Fagin had dreams of houses and cars and trips to the Bahamas, but he knew he had to be careful here. The money was still missing, and the guy who found the robbers could not suddenly start spending like a trophy wife. This had to be done right.
Wisely, Fagin brought several suitcases with him, under-packed with a few clothes and accessories that a pilot might need for a stopover. He filled the now-empty suitcases with the money, threw the gloves and markers into the original box, and went out to load up his car with the cash and the trash.
Outside, Fagin walked smartly with his head on a swivel. Like most cities, the area surrounding the airport catered to hotels and the crime that came with them. This was not a nice neighborhood, and Fagin felt conspicuous as a man loading up suitcases into a brand new Lincoln Navigator. Three months ago Fagin would have been terrified surrounded by this many poor black people, but with his newfound confidence, he might even try rapping. Well, maybe not that chillin' just yet, but Fagin was at ease with that aspect of the situation.
The bags were in the car and Fagin was getting ready to leave when he heard the screaming from next door. A man and woman were arguing, quite loudly, and it sounded like violence was imminent. Fagin was torn about what to do. His whole life he hated letting this stuff just go, but he had always been a coward. Because of the Parchment Fagin could now do something about it. Except there was this matter of a few hundred thousand dollars in the car.
Before Fagin could properly weigh that over the fight spilled outside. The man was dressed shabbily, in dirty dungarees and what they flippantly call a "wife-beater." He was dragging the woman by her arm roughly. She was dressed in something Fagin could not quite make out, but whatever the clothes they were half torn off her.
The woman tried to cover her nakedness and plead with the man between her sobs. "Vernard, please! Let me go!" Vernard was not having any of it.
"You gonna say that about me, bitch, why don't you say it out here in front'a everybody? Huh? What you got to say now? What? What?"
The woman said nothing; just cried quietly, lying half-prostrate on the ground. Even from thirty feet Fagin could smell the alcohol on Vernard. Fagin's fingers itched to do something.
"I'm goin' to Larry's." Vernard snarled. "Give me keys." The woman did not move fast enough, and the man roughly went through her clothes and found them. He got into a beat up Chevy, yelling, "You best be cleaned up and have dinner waiting when I get back!" Vernard tore off, driving over the curb and almost swiping a telephone pole on his way.
The woman did not move, but lay there, body wracked with sobs. Money or not, Fagin did not hesitate now. He walked up to her and offered his coat so she could cover up.
When he got there, Fagin almost threw up. The woman's lip was split wide open and one of her eyes was fast closing. Even a cursory glance showed fresh and old bruises all over her arms and shoulders.
"Why don't you call the police?" He asked quietly. She just looked at him blankly. A neighbor answered, a young girl no older than 16.
"It don't do no good. I called the police over a dozen times. They hauled him away at least for or five of 'em. Every time he back less'n a week."
Fagin nodded grimly. The inadequacies of the domestic violence laws were not news. He walked over to the girl, and kept his voice low, easily slipping into her slangy vernacular. "You go up in there and pack her clothes and anything else she might need. Not everything, but enough to get her by for a few days, aiight?"
The girl looked doubtful. Fagin tilted his head slightly and his eyes bored into her. "C'mon, girl. You wanna help or not?" She nodded. "Be quick, then." She moved.
Fagin went back to the woman on the ground and helped her up. She did not protest. She did not even seem to notice. Fagin led the woman over to his Navigator, and took a bottle of water from the front console. He wet his handkerchief and washed the blood off her face.
"What's your name?" Fagin asked gently. The woman tried to answer, but with her split lip, she could barely speak. Fagin finally shushed her and told her to rest.
The girl came out two minutes later with an old suitcase and a duffel purse. Fagin put these bags in the back with his own, and smiled wryly at the juxtaposition.
He asked, "What's her name?"
"Starla James."
"She have family somewhere?"
"Her daddy lives down in Macon," the girl began, "But you don't want to send her there. He liable to do worse than that for botherin' him."
"Anyone else?" Fagin pressed. "Somewhere Vernard and her daddy don't know?"
The girl bit her lip and thought for a minute. "She told me once she had a sister named Janice in Seattle. Sometimes talked about going out there."
Fagin nodded. He turned to get in the car, but the girl tugged his arm. "Vernard come back and Starla's gone, he'll be awful furious. He knows I'm her friend. I'm scared of him." She sounded frightened.
"Where's that 'Larry's' he said he was going to?"
"It's a bar at one of the hotels."
"How long he usually there?"
"At least four or five hours."
Fagin nodded and said. "Don't worry. One thing at a time."
Fagin drove to the train station—the airport seemed too much for Starla to handle—and bought a one-way ticket to Seattle, first class all the way. He paid cash. Starla went to the restroom to change and put on some makeup. Fagin took three stacks of money, almost 80,000 dollars, and put them in one of her suitcases. He took another grand in twenties and put it in her purse.
She came back, looking still worse for wear, but okay to travel. Fagin looked at her. "I bought you a ticket to Seattle. You go out and see your sister. You DO NOT come back, you hear?" Starla nodded numbly.
"Your meals are covered, but there's some money in your purse for incidentals, and some more in your suitcase for when you get out there. Don't be flashing it around, okay? And keep those suitcases close to you. Lock up your room when you leave. I got you a room with a bed, by yourself, so no one will bother you."
Starla nodded gratefully, but then a look of apprehension came into her eyes. "What if he finds me? He told me once if I ever left him he'd hunt me down and kill me."
"Does he know about Janice in Seattle?"
"No, but…"she trailed off, tears forming in her eyes.
"Don't worry about it," Fagin told her decisively. "I'll take care of it."
"Who are you?" she asked as Fagin led her over to the platform. Fagin just looked at her for a moment.
"I'm the man with a plan." He said, and she got on the train.
Fagin had several stops to make. He went to a police-supply store and bought a taser. They were not supposed to sell those to people who were not law enforcement, but a couple of Benjamins aided the endeavor. Fagin then journeyed to a flea market and picked up a couple of large trunks, the kind you take to college. Finally, Fagin dropped by the local hardware store and bought a cordless power saw. It was a beauty.
Fagin dropped the stuff back at the crash pad, and then drove the car up to one of the hotels and parked it. He walked back to the house another way, and took stock of his gear. It was dark now, and Fagin took the taser and snuck into the house next door through the back. He left all the lights off, and sat down to wait.
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What you need to know about the $26.4 million program that's about to go into effect.
About Erie County's Next Generation Public Safety Radio System:
• The project began in 2014.
• The cost is $26.5 million.
• Erie County is paying for the project with a $19.4 million capital bond and more than $7 million from its reserves.
• It will replace a patchwork of radio communication systems used by police, fire, EMS and other first responders throughout Erie County, moving them to a digital platform.
• "Currently we have a system of systems. For example, the Erie Fire Department is on VHF. The Millcreek fire departments are on UHF. The city can't speak to Millcreek and Millcreek can't speak to the city and therefore they lack interoperable communications." — Erie County Director of Public Safety John Grappy.
• Safety forces will communicate within 56 different talk groups.
• Law enforcement talk groups will be encrypted.
• The project includes replacement and addition of dispatching consoles, communication towers, antennas, dishes, handheld radios, mobile radios and other equipment.
• It uses 10 existing and eight new communication towers. New tower sites are in the city of Corry, Union City borough, and Fairview, Greenfield, Harborcreek, Springfield, Girard, and Waterford townships.
• The new system is scheduled to be fully operation in the second quarter of 2019. It will be rolled out across five zones in the following order: the city of Erie, Millcreek Township (fire and EMS only), east Erie County, west Erie County and south Erie County.
• MCM Consulting Group was hired by the Erie County Department of Public Safety to serve as project consultant.
• E.F. Johnson won the contract to provide equipment for the project in August 2016.
• The project has been delayed by lengthy wait times to obtain licenses through the Federal Communications Commission. Those licenses also needed approval from the Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications Commission, said Michael McGrady of the MCM Consulting. Erie County received its final license in late December, a day before the federal government shut down for 35 days.
• Another delay occurred in the winter of 2017-18 when a tower site at Elk Creek Access was damaged and needed to be relocated to the nearby Lake Erie Community Park.
• The system won't go live until all users have been trained on how to use the new equipment.
• With comments or questions about the project, call the Erie County Department of Public Safety at (814) 451-7920.
Sources: Erie County Department of Public Safety, Erie Times-News archives.


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The lock works fine with bluetooth if I am within 10 feet (NOT meters; something is wrong with antenna?)I am using iPhone X with iOS 12.0
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Around seven in ten American households consider themselves to be an eco-friendly household. Many people say they would like to be even greener and healthier and are encouraged by their children to improve their homes' eco-credentials. From improving your home ventilation to switching off appliances, there is so much more you can do to create a green and healthy home.
The average family home has indoor air quality levels equivalent to a major polluted city, according to a study by the University of Colorado Boulder. This poor air quality in our homes is often caused by dust, pet hair, cleaning chemicals, cigarette smoke, and poor ventilation. This can lead to allergies and asthma while also having a significant impact on your immune system, making you more susceptible to illnesses. By doing simple things like not using harsh cleaning chemicals, not smoking in the home, putting live plants around your home to naturally absorb pollutants and using an air purifier and humidifier, you can have a clean and green home.
While it may seem healthy to have a very clean home, using harsh chemical cleaners can pollute the environment and are harmful to your family's health. Some cleaning products release harmful ingredients which can contribute to headaches, allergies, and chronic respiratory problems. Meanwhile dangerous chemicals are released into the environment contributing to air and water pollution. So instead, look for non-toxic, biodegradable cleaning products or you can make your own cleaning solutions. Switch to baking soda for your general cleaning, use borax and white vinegar to clean the toilet and citrus oils or tea tree oil as a natural, gentle disinfectant.
Most Americans homes have at least 25 electronic devices. When they are plugged in, most of these devices will still be using energy, even if they have been switched off. This attributes to the average home using 90 million Btu of energy each year. To reduce the energy consumption in your household, simply unplug all appliances and devices when not in use. It will also help you save on your energy bill too.
You can extend your home's green credentials into the garden by growing your own fruit, vegetables, and herbs. While you are providing healthy food for your family to enjoy, working in your garden can help reduce soil erosion and air pollution. Avoid using chemical pesticides or fertilizers on your garden, instead choose organic, earth-friendly products. It shouldn't end there. After each meal, compost your kitchen food scraps so the waste doesn't end up in landfill where it will generate methane. Instead, feed it to your garden, your plants and flowers will appreciate it.
One of the biggest environmental issues in the news in recent years has been about plastic and the huge threat it poses to our environment. One single plastic bottle can take up to 1,000 years to fully biodegrade, contaminating the surrounding soil and groundwater in the process. Meanwhile, millions of plastic bottles end up in the ocean, devastating marine life. It isn't just plastic bottles that are harmful, all single-use plastic poses a serious threat to the environment. So instead, choose reusable bottles, snack bags, and metal straws to reduce your impact on the world.
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I just thought I'd share this with you all. It's an indie author's response to a bad (in her opinion, I didn't think it was so bad) review. Lots of swear words, abuse and bad grammar. Imagine what prospective publishers would think if they read this!
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text: Oh this year has been a whirlwind so far. We found out last January that Justin would actually be working in Dallas for a bit before we moved to Montreal. He traveled every week & lived the hotel life and came home to us on the weekends. We still planned to be in Montreal this past Summer, but found out sometime in April, that he would be needed in Dallas longer. So a couple weeks ago, we moved the whole family down to a Dallas suburb. Our moving date was set for our 9th anniversary. The movers got everything packed and we started driving that evening around 9:30. I was so thankful we had a good friend who lives in OKC that let us stay at her place that night (who was actually in Derby at the time), because I started to feel really nauseous during the drive, and Jonah and I both ended up getting sick. We made it to Dallas the next day after some much needed rest! My mom got to come visit for almost two weeks and we have the rental house pretty much all set up and the kiddos are spending a week with Justin's parents so I can finish up everything else and relax a little bit. We tentatively have a date set for Montreal for next summer, but I have learned not to make any definite plans until we are actually there…lol! So for now we are Texans.


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Program in Gene Function and Expression; Program in Molecular Medicine; Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology; Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine
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Jumonji Domain-Containing Histone Demethylases; Gluconeogenesis
Genetics and Genomics
Hepatic gluconeogenesis is required for maintaining blood glucose homeostasis; yet, in diabetes mellitus, this process is unrestrained and is a major contributor to fasting hyperglycemia. To date, the impacts of chromatin modifying enzymes and chromatin landscape on gluconeogenesis are poorly understood. Through catalyzing the removal of methyl groups from specific lysine residues in the histone tail, histone demethylases modulate chromatin structure and, hence, gene expression. Here we perform an RNA interference screen against the known histone demethylases and identify a histone H3 lysine 36 (H3K36) demethylase, Jhdm1a, as a key negative regulator of gluconeogenic gene expression. In vivo, silencing of Jhdm1a promotes liver glucose synthesis, while its exogenous expression reduces blood glucose level. Importantly, the regulation of gluconeogenesis by Jhdm1a requires its demethylation activity. Mechanistically, we find that Jhdm1a regulates the expression of a major gluconeogenic regulator, C/EBPalpha. This is achieved, at least in part, by its USF1-dependent association with the C/EBPalpha promoter and its subsequent demethylation of dimethylated H3K36 on the C/EBPalpha locus. Our work provides compelling evidence that links histone demethylation to transcriptional regulation of gluconeogenesis and has important implications for the treatment of diabetes.
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Copyright: © 2012 Pan et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Pan D, Mao C, Zou T, Yao AY, Cooper MP, et al. (2012) The Histone Demethylase Jhdm1a Regulates Hepatic Gluconeogenesis. PLoS Genet 8(6): e1002761. doi:10.1371/journal.pgen.1002761 Link to article on publisher's site
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Pan D, Mao C, Zou T, Yao AY, Cooper MP, Boyartchuk VL, Wang Y. (2012). The histone demethylase jhdm1a regulates hepatic gluconeogenesis. Program in Gene Function and Expression Publications. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1002761. Retrieved from https://escholarship.umassmed.edu/pgfe_pp/195


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I'm going to try and post these every so often.
If your child asks you to taste something, definitely look at it before you taste. A few weeks back I was working on some paperwork and my daughter asked me to try something. It's not an uncommon thing for her to hand us some of her snack so without looking I open my mouth and she puts the spoon in. I close my mouth and that little bitch put kinetic sand into my mouth. I couldn't be to mad though because she had tasted it to. I guess the Apple doesn't fall far from the tree


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Either you do squats or you don't. If you don't, we feel sorry for your chicken legs. Squatting is often referred to as the 'king of exercises', and rightly so. They are the ultimate test of whole body strength and improve almost every aspect of athleticism. If you are a 'bicep and chest junkie', you need to move over to the squat rack and start taking your ass-to-grass today. Here's why:
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The more the muscles contract under tension, the better is the release of GH and Testosterone. The hormonal spike goes through the roof during compound moves like the squat, since a lot of muscle groups are put under tension at once. This muscle contraction causes a great stimulus for muscle growth. As you scale the weight, the effort increases and so does the time muscles spend under stress. Hence, more production of GH and testosterone.
Higher vertical jumps are a clear indicator of strong glutes, quads and most importantly, hips. Squatting directly works all these muscle groups. Hip Extension strength in particular is greatly enhanced by squatting. Moreover, squatting also prepares your legs and lower body to absorb the rebounds better once you land after the jump.
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If you squat, you would know about the toll it takes on the core. The abdominal muscles play the most important part keeping the upright posture of the back in place while squatting. When you breathe out during squatting, the abdominal muscles act like a wall for the air to push against for support. Front rack squats are the ideal for building midsection strength.
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Squatting works the glutes, the hamstrings, quadriceps and the hip muscles. All these make up the entire human lower body. Deep squatting increase the range of motion in the entire hip complex area and makes the lower body more flexible and strong.
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Regular squatting directly improves not only jumping, but also sprinting. Squat directly works the hip complex area that assists in better posture while running.
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Monty Python's "Life of Brian" has some really fantastic and very clever bits in it. The script is very clever and hilarious. Now imagine if someone were to mix that in with footage of Boris Johnson in the House of Commons.. .. well you don't have to, someone has done it: … [Read more...] about Boris Johnson vs Monty Python
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Friday May 22nd 2015 Ireland goes to the polls. I've posted about the referendum a couple of times in the past few weeks, both on a personal blog and on the company blog. My position on this referendum is 100% clear. This video from the "yes" campaign sums up the feelings of a lot of people, myself included. I am voting "yes", but I am also voting "No" to many … [Read more...] about Voting No #MarRef
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From Baby to Toddler
Nothing speeds up time faster then having children. One moment, we are sitting in our childhood bedrooms, anticipating tomorrow's test, the next we are handed a little creature and thrusted into the life of parenthood. Our anxieties were once surviving high school and avoiding the mean girls, and now they are wrestling through diaper changes and our child's health. It is strange what time does to us.
The first time I held my daughter after she was born, she was incredibly light, fragile and so tiny. I remember thinking how amazing it was that the little creature I had in my arms fit so perfectly in my belly. The fact that she started out as this small little spec, and suddenly she was on the outside, so beautiful and so very real. I remember being so afraid of dropping her. I got nervous when other people handled her. Even when my husband held her, I felt anxious. Spoiler: no one dropped her.
For me, the newborn stage was hard, but I still tried to soak her in as much as I could. I snuggled her close to my face, and I absorbed her baby smells. Her noises echoed in my ears. Her adorable Newborn clothes were big on her. She swam in them, and I was blown away by it. She loved being close to Mommy, the only time she would tolerate being put down was in her rock and play. She loved to eat. She ate a lot, and she grew fast. Before I knew it, she was wearing 0-3, then 3-6. She skipped 6-9 and went straight to 12 months. And she kept growing.
My precious newborn is now a sweet and salty toddler. As I sit and type this, I can't help but wonder where the time went. My baby is growing into her own little person and my heart is torn between wanting the clock to slow down, and anxious to get to know the woman she will become. She's creating her own little personality; she's got her own likes and dislikes. I feel like it was just yesterday when she was barely picking her head up, and now she's running. Running through the grass, running away from me as I try to brush her teeth, running to her future, and I can't make her slow down. The emotions that exist when a parent watches their child grow are so very conflicting.
My daughter is at that transition stage where she's not quite full toddler, but not exactly a baby either. We are not ready for potty training just yet, but we're moving away from the bottle. There is an ache that I can't fully describe. Time is moving too fast. As much as I am trying to embrace each moment, I still can't get the days to slow down. Everyday, she grows taller and I am regretting having to pack up the next set of clothing. On the other hand, it's pretty exciting to see her grow into her own being, and become a little more independent.
I miss those days when we would snuggle on the couch together; when she would sleep in my arms for hours while I entertained myself with Netflix. I miss carrying her around against my chest as I walked the dog. How she sat in her car seat, sleeping at the restaurant or when I pushed her around in the stroller. Seeing her smile for the first time, and listening to her first laugh. Watching her gaze at me in wonder and curiosity. Packing away clothes that she'll never wear again was a sad realization that she was not going to be small for long. As I look back at her photos, my heart yearns for those days with her again. To hold her tiny little body in my arms and watch her as she sleeps.
At the same time, however, I anticipate the girl she will grow up to be. Seeing her become more of her own person is exciting and honestly, a little relieving. Watching her explore the world and discover how things work is fun to observe. She's funny, she's sassy, she's spunky, she's silly, she's shy, and she is so incredibly loving. She gives hugs and kisses, she loves to walk, she loves her puppy and she's definitely a mama's girl. She's starting to say more words and she understands me when I talk to her. She can pick her toys up when I ask, she's almost putting on her own clothes, and she loves to talk. Watching her grow is sad, I miss her as a newborn, but this is honestly my favorite age so far.
Watching my baby become a unique individual is both rewarding and painful. The clock ticks on, the Earth continues to rotate, and life doesn't pause. Not for a single moment. We can only catch a moment as we currently live in it, and hope it stays embedded into our memory, where we can play it over and over. Take a still shot and stay frozen with it as the hands of the clock continue to tick on. Precious memories and photographs will be the only thing that can take us back to specific days, yet they still won't calm the ache in our hearts when we look up at our ever growing child.
Getting to see her grow up has been a blessing. It has been difficult at times, it has gone by extremely slow some days and exceptionally fast on others. I feel sad at times knowing that I will not get these times back with her and it's bittersweet. Yet, I get to know her more each day, as she grows, and I can't help but admire her and adore her more. This period of time is so precious, and I've had so much fun with her. I can't wait to see what the next age brings. I'll miss this time I know, but I'll embrace each stage as they come.
The future reveals itself to us in pieces, each day, like a puzzle. One we put together bit by bit, and watch as the fragments create a whole picture. As time leaves us with memories, it gives us a glimpse of what is to come. What was, is branded in to our hearts and what will be knocks at the front door. I hold my beautiful daughters hand, take in a deep breath, and I turn the knob to meet our fate because time does not stand still,baby and my daughters future awaits us.
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After yesterday's touch rugby world record break, today our LMAX Exchange Everest Rugby Challengers ventured up to Intermediate Base Camp which stands at 5,760 metres.
Matt Mitchell during one of the afternoon rest breaks said: "We're on our way to Intermediate Base Camp, it's about 4.30pm and the team has stopped for a break on a glacier. It's been a challenging trek, but we're nearly at intermediate, we can feel it that we are almost there, with about an hour to go."
He continued; "It's epic, it's the highest we've been so far and the scenery is fantastic."
Simon Wright said: "It's incredibly hard; we've been travelling since 9.30am with 10 min breaks every hour or so. It's physically exhausting. We're now at 5,700 metres and it's hard, even trying to drink is difficult because whilst you're drinking you're not breathing. So it's a real struggle, but the scenery is absolutely stunning. We're in a glacial valley currently walking up the side of that and it's just stunning."
Jeff Broderick added: "Amazing scenery, amazing day and the sun has played a much bigger part in the day than I thought. It's been there on our shoulder all day. We've got some red faces, maybe from huff and puff or maybe through a little bit of bronzing! But we are all still here; the team are pulling each other up and down the hills. We're looking forward to a big hug when we get to intermediate and call it a day!"
The team is in good spirits and all is good on the mountain. They will spend the night at Intermediate Base Camp before continuing on to Advanced Base Camp (6,340 metres) on Saturday.
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Watching The Big Bang Theory on TV can be a spiritual experience, at least according to Chuck Lorre, the show's creator.
Many of Lorre's shows end with a "Vanity Card" with a short editorial. Vanity Card #263 read:
"ME: I believe that watching tonight's show might constitute a spiritual experience.
YOU: That's a pretty bold statement. How do you figure?
ME: Glad you asked. Since the concept of past and future is entirely man-made (ask any other living creature about past and future and all you'll get is a dumb, non-comprehending stare), then it follows that if there is a god, a unifying spirit of the universe, be it 'intelligent' or simply a pervasively unifying quantum particle sort of deal, then the present, 'the constantly unfolding now,' is the only possible place it can exist. Which brings me to my bold assertion: If you laughed at any time during tonight's show, you had to be paying attention. If you were paying attention it means you were, for that moment, in 'the now' -- the same place as the previously mentioned pervasive, unifying quantum particle we, as a species, enjoy worshipping and committing genocide over. Ergo, you had a spiritual experience.
YOU: Assuming you're right, so what?
ME: So what?! This is huge! If a simple sitcom can lead to communion with the eternal, then I can make a case for my work having religious significance. Next step... The Church of Chuckology and a tax break! Ooh, maybe even a sleepy little burg in Florida I can call my own."
Aside from a couple objections (using religion for personal gain, which is the core of the joke, IMHO; and the fact that some animals do have a sense of past/future--which does not detract from his argument), I agree with Mr. Lorre. An awareness of "the constantly unfolding now" *is* the point of much spirituality. "Paying attention" to a TV show may not be quite the same as full awareness of the ever-evolving Now, but it might be a step in that direction. Perhaps The Big Bang Theory can open us to a whole new universe of deeper, fuller awareness.
All of Lorre's Vanity Cards (even the censored ones) can be found in his archive.


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Organizations Nurturing Creativity
Season 6 Episode 12 | 24m 5s Video has closed captioning.
Friendship Circle creates an opportunity for its members to thrive; Ann Arbor Art Center Kids Camps are packed with artistic creativity; And a look inside The Generator - a cooperative warehouse for artists. Plus, host DJ Oliver heads to Friendship Circle's Soul Studio and Soul Cafe. Episode 612.
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As this is a level 3 qualification candidates will benefit from having a good level of English and maths.
Our Certificate of Professional Competence course is a 13 day program split into 3 sections.
The introduction day is held a couple of weeks before the course. It is free of charge and has a number of benefits, the main one is that candidates get an overview of the course, but also it is a chance to meet the Instructor, ask any questions they may have and see what is involved in the course before committing to booking a place on it.
The first 7 days of the course are focused on the knowledge required to sit the multiple choice exam. It is a very intense 7 days and there is also at least an hour of homework/mock tests to complete each night to be handed in the following day. On the 7th day candidates will sit their Multiple Choice exam online which, once passed, gives candidates their results instantly rather than waiting 4-6 weeks for the paper based results. Once passed this allows the candidate to use the second week to focus fully on the case study.
In these 5 days the candidates focus on the construction of the case study answers and completing past papers to practice these techniques and to familiarise themselves with all the different types of questions that may crop up in the exam.
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This delicious clotted cream fudge bar is a delicious snack or small gift. The image featured on the wrapper is the Dominicans In Feather by Henry Stacy-Marks, on display at Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery. The bar contains sugar, glucose syrup, sweetened condensed milk, palm oil, clotted cream, butter, emulsifier soya lecithin and salt.
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'Arrow' Showrunner Talks Oliver's Season Arc Ahead of Final Season
Beth Schwartz is opening up about the final season of Arrow in a new interview, particularly about Oliver Queen's end.
Speaking to TV Guide, the showrunner talked about Oliver aka Green Arrow's death, and if the character truly will die at in the final moments.
"I think we decided to do that because it's the story," she shared of Oliver's endgame of his death in the upcoming Crisis on Infinite Earths crossover. "We didn't want that to be the shock — that he dies. And having that tease at the end of [Season] Seven, we were hoping it would bring everyone back to be like, 'How does he die? What do you mean he dies? Does he really die?'"
Knowing that Oliver will meet his end in the final season also means that the final moments will be his ultimate sacrifice.
"I mean knowing, having the Monitor tell him that he's going to die, but he's got to do it to save the multiverse — I mean his theme of the season is a hero's sacrifice and every character's going to go through that this season," Beth adds. "And this is the ultimate hero's sacrifice, to know you're going to die, but you're going to save so many people's lives."
She continued that Oliver's final sacrifice has always "been something that from the creation of the show has been [the ending] from the beginning. I know Marc [Guggenheim] could probably answer this better, but I know that he's sort of always thought that was how the show would end."
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It's a balancing act managing everyone's access to your enterprise applications. Too much access leaves your company exposed to higher risk. Too little access keeps your people from doing their jobs efficiently. And safeguards are required for whatever access risk remains. Safeguards that are often highly manual, time consuming, and difficult to measure in terms of financial impact. That's why you need to learn more about Access Violation Management by Greenlight. Click here to view a brief video to learn more.


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Kelly Olynyk's slip and fall Wednesday night could have been dire news for both Canada's men's basketball team and the Miami Heat.
The 28-year-old Heat centre suffered only a bruised knee in Canada's 96-87 exhibition win over Nigeria, the team's first game in its final road to next month's FIBA World Cup. He's expected to be sidelined about a week.
The fear of injury is an oft-cited concern of players who say no when their countries come calling.
But coach Nick Nurse believes there's a huge benefit for suiting up for the national team.
"I think the guys that play, whether for us or for USA or for Senegal or whatever, they build some type of legacy for their careers," Nurse said. "I use Kyle Lowry as like the best example of that. This guy is a five-time all-star, a world champion, a couple gold medals under his belt, he's just coming off of a surgery, and he's right back . . . he wants to play."
The Raptors guard had surgery on the thumb that bothered him through most of Toronto's historic NBA championship run. The fact he's in the U.S. team's World Cup camp this week in Las Vegas doesn't surprise Nurse at all.
"I think it's either in your heart or it's not," said Nurse, who earned a victory in his Canadian coaching debut Wednesday night. "You're out there playing, stuff can happen in any pick-up game, any practice, any workout, anywhere you're at. It's part of it. I give the guys that are here a lot of credit. They love to hoop, they hoop for Canada, and they do it with a lot of pride and a lot of heart."
When Canada opened camp on Monday, numerous big names were missing including Jamal Murray and RJ Barrett, who both cited recent injuries, plus Andrew Wiggins, Tristan Thompson and Dwight Powell.
The one injury suffered during national team duty that really stands out was Paul George's gruesome broken leg in an exhibition game for the U.S. team in 2014.
Olynyk will miss Friday's exhibition game against Nigeria in Winnipeg, but hadn't planned to play anyway. He's the best man in a wedding in Kamloops, B.C.
Raptors forward Chris Boucher also withdrew from Canada's pre-World Cup camp citing personal reasons. Boucher was on the bench but not dressed on Wednesday.
"I'm disappointed, because he was as good as I've seen him in our training camp," Nurse said. "So I'm a little disappointed, but again, personal things come up. Life happens for some of these guys, and he's going to need to withdraw."
The Canadians fly to Australia after Friday's game for a five-game exhibition series against the Aussie Boomers, the U.S. and New Zealand. They tip off the World Cup on Sept. 1 versus Australia in Dongguan, China, and with a top-eight showing would play right up until Sept. 14 or 15 — a couple of weeks before NBA teams open training camps.
For the players in camp, being conscious of work loads will be key. Thursday's session was light and quick with no contact.
"They're going out to perform in front of people and against competition, and whatever you wanna squeeze out of them on the practice court probably isn't worth the confidence and stuff you're trying to build on the court against competition. So you're always balancing that," Nurse said. "And from my standpoint, I'm all about what energy do you have mentally and physically at 7 o'clock when that ball goes up. The rest of it doesn't matter that much, really."
Less than a week on the job, Nurse's influence can already be felt on Canada's team. Lowry liked to talk about the coach's laid-back demeanour, saying he might have yelled at the Raptors twice during all of this past season. Two months after Nurse guided the Raptors to their first NBA championship, the national team players are praising his positive vibe.
"Oh it's very fun. Coach trusts everybody. He doesn't limit anybody and he let us play free," said Orlando forward Khem Birch, one of three NBA players on this national team. "It's funny how a championship coach is so easy to play for. He just won a championship and he's so laid back. It's perfect."
Birch, who scored 14 points Wednesday night and threw down some huge dunks, said Canada wasn't even at 50 per cent of its potential in the game. In a shaky first quarter of getting acquainted, they shot 4-for-17 from the floor and coughed up six turnovers.
"I think it was lots of bright spots," Nurse said. "I think there's tons of teaching and learning, and I always the word 'polishing' up to do. Now you've got to teach them how to read some situations, both sides of the ball, and some of that comes with just feel."
Canada will play host Australia in two exhibitions on Aug. 16 and 17 and New Zealand twice (Aug. 20-21). They wrap up their exhibition schedule Aug. 26 versus the U.S. before flying to China.
The World Cup has huge ramifications for the national program, as the top seven finishers qualify for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. Teams who don't qualify are relegated to last-chance qualifying tournaments next summer.


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The Appalachian Regional Commission has released an extensive report detailing trends in Appalachia from 2013 to 2017, including population, education, employment, income, poverty, and broadband access. Most data comes from the Census Bureau's American Community Survey.
Among the ARC report's key points:
• The overall Appalachian poverty rate is declining slightly overall, but is still higher than the U.S. average and is increasing in Central and North Central Appalachia.
• The unemployment rate for working-age adults is lowest in Northern Appalachia and highest in Central Appalachia.
• The median household income in Appalachia is $47,836, or 83% of the nationwide average of $57,652.
• Minorities made up 18.6% of Appalachia's population in 2017, up from 16.4% in 2010. In that same timespan, the nation's minority population rose from 36.2% to 39.3%.
• African Americans are the largest minority population in Appalachia at 9.7%, but Latinos are the fastest-growing (from 4.2% in 2010 to 5.1% in 2017).
• The percentage of Appalachian adults from 25 to 64 with a high-school diploma (88.5%) is almost the same as the nationwide average of 88.6%.
• Appalachian adults are more likely than the national average to have an associate's degree but less likely to have a bachelor's degree.
• 30.7% of Appalachian adults with a bachelor's degree have one in a science, technology, engineering or mathematics (STEM) field, compared to 34.8% nationwide.
• 94.6% of Appalachia's labor force is employed, the same as nationwide.
• 31.7% of Appalachian workers work outside the county they live in, compared with 27.6% of U.S. workers.
• 82.2% of Appalachian households have access to a computer, compared to the nationwide average of 87.2%.
• 63.8% of Appalachian households have access to a smartphone, but only 42.8% have a cellular data plan subscription.
• 72.3% of Appalachian households have a broadband subscription, compared to the U.S. average of 78.1%. Broadband subscriptions are highest in Northern Appalachia and lowest in Central Appalachia.
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In Vancouver Opera Foundation, Re (released March 2015), a registered charity incorporated under the Society Act (British Columbia) tried to obtain a court order overriding certain provisions of its constitution that were declared to be unalterable. While it failed to obtain the court order it sought, the court suggested some viable work-around solutions.
1. Facts
The Vancouver Opera Foundation (VOF) was incorporated in 1987. Its purposes were to advance the performance of opera and to hold endowments to fund and support the activities of the Vancouver Opera Association (VOA).
Under the Society Act, the constitution of a society could have provisions that declared to be alterable or unalterable. If a provision of the constitution was stated to be alterable, it could be altered by special resolution (requiring the approval of a super-majority of the votes cast). If a provision of the constitution was stated to be unalterable, then, as its name would suggest, there was no provision or mechanism in the Act to amend it. If the provision was silent as to whether it was alterable or unalterable, the default rule was that it was alterable.
VOF's constitution established three funds, the terms of each of which were stated to be unalterable: the VOA Real Property Fund; the VOA Endowment Fund; and the VOA Capital Fund. The board also had the discretion under the constitution to create other funds.
However, the VOF determined that it wanted to find a way to change these unalterable provisions of its constitution. The reasons for seeking the change included:
- the incompatibility of having unalterable funds with current standards in not-for-profit governance;
- the desire to encroach on capital to meet potential (not immediate) income tax obligations;
- to increase its flexibility on the use of grants and donations; and
- low interest rates (under 1% per annum); and
- the desire to pledge the funds as security for VOF's guarantee of a bank line of credit.
With no specific amendment mechanism in the Society Act to resort to, the VOF prayed the assistance of the court.
2. Ruling
However, the court found essentially that an unalterable constitution provision means what it says. There is no legislative gap. The provision, however undesirable, cannot be changed without a statutory amendment. The court was powerless to alter it including under doctrines such as court's inherent cy-pres jurisdiction. Cy-pres jurisdiction allows the court to vary the express terms of a charitable trust to ensure that it is not defeated or frustrated by identifiable impossibility or impracticality. However, the cy-pres doctrine must be applied as narrowly as possible so that the settlor's intentions are carried out as nearly as possible to the original intention. But the court found that this was not a case where it could exercise its cy-pres jurisdiction because there was insufficient evidence to suggest that the changes sought to the constitution were a better way to carry out the intentions of the founders of VOF.
However, the court also pointed out that there was nothing preventing the VOF from authorizing a new general fund to receive funds for a variety of purposes, including to pledge funds as collateral.
Justice Griffin concluded by suggesting that the VOF's members seek to convince their legislative representatives to amend the Act to enable the VOF to respond to the times.
3. Key Observations
Technically, there is no provision for unalterable articles of incorporation (or continuance) under the Canada Not-for-profit Corporations Act (CNCA), articles being the federal equivalent to a constitution under the Society Act.
However, there are at least three possible ways to achieve the functional equivalent of an unalterable provision under the CNCA. These are:
- increase the super-majority required to amend the articles or the specific provision of the articles that is to be functionally unalterable. The usual rule to amend a provision of the article is at least two-thirds of the votes cast by voting members. But this threshold may be increased to a greater number of votes. Therefore, the provision could be made unalterable without unanimous member approval. However, this is not the same as having an unalterable provision because the provision can still be amended if all members approve;
- make the donors contributing to the unalterable fund a separate class of members entitled to a separate class vote on any proposal to amend the provisions of the fund and require that this class approve the change by unanimous vote. This as close to functional unalterability as the CNCA allows in the case of soliciting corporations such as the VOF would be (if it were incorporated under the CNCA); and
- in the case of a non-soliciting corporation, put in place a unanimous member agreement (UMA) and make the provision of the articles unalterable without the consent of all members or another person who is party to the UMA. While this would work for a non-soliciting corporation, it would not work for a soliciting corporation (as the VOF would be if it were under the CNCA) because a soliciting corporation cannot have a valid UMA.
That there has not been much call for unalterable provisions of the articles under the CNCA suggests that the VOF was correct in pointing out that unalterable provisions are no longer compatible with current non-for-profit governance norms. Modern not-for-profit corporations need flexibility to respond to evolving needs that may not be foreseen at the time that the corporation was formed and should not, therefore, be hard-wired into its constating documents.


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Obituary of Betty Morley
MORLEY: With broken yet very full hearts, the family of Elizabeth "Betty" Ann (Mattson) Morley share that their earth angel has donned her wings. Born May 23, 1944 to William and Edna (Foster) Mattson, Betty passed away Thursday, March 28, 2019 surrounded by loved ones. Very best friend and soul mate of Bill, Betty loved her family fiercely – her children: Michele and John, (Quinn, Zane and Bram); Steven and Cindi, (Braedon and Colton) and Bill's children Chris and Michelle, (Alexis, Logan and Hope), Stephanie (Jesse, Jasmine, Jeremy), along with the "greats". She was blessed with her loving siblings Gary and Karen (2016), Sandy and Ken, Marion and Tony (1999), Fred and Wendie, Richard and Ellen. She was a proud Aunt, loved her many cousins and had many wonderful circles of friends. Betty/Mom/Nana made her mark and our lives are greatly richer as a result. At Betty's request, cremation has taken place. A casual Celebration of Life to Mix, Mingle and Share Memories will be held at a the Grand Cove Estates Clubhouse, Grand Bend on Saturday, April 20, 2019 from 1:30 to 4 p.m. Arrangements entrusted to the T. Harry Hoffman & Sons Funeral Home, Dashwood. If desired, memorial donations (payable by cheque) to Sakura House, Woodstock, would be appreciated by the family.


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Thursday April 2nd, 5:00 to 6:30pm
Rough Point, 680 Bellevue, Newport RI
$15/$10 ACA Members. Space limited; reservations required
The word "ceramics" encompasses many techniques, materials and diverse cultural traditions. This tour will offer an educational primer on different ceramics traditions and include a curator-led tour of the 2015 Rough Point exhibit, Fired and Inspired: Ceramics at Rough Point. Following the tour there will be light refreshments in the Great Hall and informal conversations with the curators and educators who put this exhibit together. This program is offered as part of the Arts and Cultural Alliance "Arts Behind the Scenes" program.
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Hectic weeks always end up with no lifestyle/outing posts and only pic-bits!
This post will be mainly food with the boyf the past week(s)! That's one thing that I'll still be having, no matter busy or not!
I recall one day when me and the boy went to town, had hot tomato and caught Man In Black 3! It was a good show.. Dinner that day was with quoop! and we went for bowling after dinner! My bowling skills still not bad, I striked 3 times in a single game! :D
Food from hot tomato... See, some greedy person's mouth come already before I'm done with the photo!
Boyf's steak + alio olio!
Moi cabonara!
Cotton candy icecream at Maggie Moos! Yums ^^
Another day after some overnight rushing of project, slept from afternoon till night and had to order delivery for dinner at 11pm.. Pizza Hut last order at 11pm, if not we'd have to order macs already..
Espressoup at jurong point! The concept is more interesting than the food taste nice..
Mushroom soup..
Boyf's chicken soup in bread..
Some yucky crepe-y thing! :(
See the boy, so happy with his food!!!!!!
Anyway, so many people are falling sick now, including myself.. Everyone please take care!!
Bye bye, back to the hated report! :(


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Two of Canada's major banks are mighty optimistic about the prospects for North America's economic climate after talking to the companies they lend money to.
James McPhedran, executive vice-president of Bank of Nova Scotia's Canadian banking division, said Tuesday its domestic outlook "has gotten consistently better since January or February" driven by positive sentiment, particularly from its business clients in most of Canada.
"Certainly when I speak to commercial customers across the country they're feeling pretty good about this country's prospects," McPhedran told analysts on the bank's third-quarter conference call.
"It's not everywhere, but I think the mood is pretty good and we're seeing it in our results."
Toronto-based Scotiabank reported improvements in its Canadian retail business were partially driven by loan growth.
Bank of Montreal executives shared the sentiment in the United States where they say corporate clients have expressed sheer confidence looking into next year.
"Most of them would say the economy in the U.S. is pretty good," said David Casper, president and CEO of BMO Harris Bank and group head of commercial banking.
"They expect it to continue and they expect some of the uncertainty to wane as we move forward."
Casper highlighted "lessening of regulations" in the U.S. which he suggested may have "encouraged" some manufacturing clients.
"As you go sector by sector we've had pretty good growth," he said. "I wouldn't say there's any specific area where it's been negative."
However, many observers have noted plenty of uncertainty that could emerge next year as the Bank of Canada and U.S. Federal Reserve contemplate further interest rate hikes. In Canada, debt loads are sky high and a potential economic shock that could hit household incomes could affect some Canadians' ability to pay back loans.
"What we're seeing in consumer delinquencies is a much-awaited and very important trend that's deserving of attention," McPhedran added.
The looming economic uncertainty was one of the few weak spots on otherwise strong Canadian bank earnings reports that continued on Tuesday, with both Scotiabank and BMO reporting third-quarter results that were ahead of analyst estimates.
Scotiabank had $2.1-billion of net income for the three months ended July 31, up 7% from the same quarter last year, and announced its quarterly dividend will go up about 4%.
The bank said its strength during the quarter came from its Canadian and international banking arms, while its global markets division grew its net income over last year at a more modest pace.
Toronto-based BMO had nearly $1.4 billion of net income over the same period, an increase of 11% from the same time last year, but said its dividend will remain steady.
Canadian banking was also a strong point for BMO, as was wealth management, but its U.S. banking division was relatively flat compared with the 2016 third quarter, which was down $1 million to $289 million on an adjusted basis, while net income from its capital markets arm was also down.
Despite the bank's earnings beat, BMO's stock fell $2.36 or 2.5% to close at $90.07 on Tuesday on the Toronto Stock Exchange.
Shares of Scotiabank finished the day up 13¢, or 0.17%, to $77.33.
Last week, financial results from Royal Bank of Canada and Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce both came in ahead of analyst expectations.
Montreal-based National Bank of Canada reports its third-quarter results on Wednesday, with Toronto-Dominion Bank reporting Thursday.
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"Góry te kryją w sobie niejakiś postrach, z ozdobą złączenie..." Obraz Alp w świetle relacji podróżniczej Teofi li Konstancji z Radziwiłłów Morawskiej
Góry, Literatura, Kultura Tom 9 (2015)Strony od 117 do 135
"There is terror hidden in those mountains, combined with beauty…" The image of the Alps in Teofila Konstancja Morawska née Radziwiłł's travelogue
In 1773–1774 Teofila Konstancja Morawska née Radziwiłł 1738–1807 travelled across Europe, also visiting the Alps. The princess recorded her impressions in her diary, which enables us to examine her attitude to newly discovered spaces. The diary fragments dealing with her stay in the Alps describe her impressions and emotions that accompanied her during the journey. It turns out that mountain landscapes aroused not only fear in her but also awe and admiration. Konstancja Morawska was very interested in every element of Alpine landscape; she contemplated wild nature, was excited by mountain cascades and streams, noted the state of the roads, ways of travelling and changing atmospheric conditions, recorded information about history and sightseeing, was in raptures over the noble, mysterious and dangerous beauty of the mountains, and noted down her observations concerning plants or even types of rocks. The Alps provided the princess with both profound experiences and interesting specimens for her natural history cabinet. The accounts of mountain treks show Morawska not only as an intelligent, sensitive and observant lady, but also as a courageous and active traveller seeking new experiences. Significantly, Teofila Konstancja was able to appreciate the beauty of nature and look at it from an emotional and aesthetic perspective as it is evidenced, for example, by the literary images from her diary, very interesting in many respects.
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Staring a possible career-ending injury in the face is not an easy thing to do.
Pair that with a rigorous collegiate major such as kinesiology and the cards are quickly stacked against you.
A 5 a.m. wake-up time as a sophomore in college to get one-on-one attention with the training staff only for no progress to be shown pushed Charlette Janicek's running future at the University of Texas at San Antonio closer to uncertainty.
"(Treatment) was the only thing that I was really focused about doing, that and my grades," she said. "There was a point where I didn't think it was going to get better. I thought I was going to have to live with this pain in my knee for the rest of my life."
Janicek, a 2015 graduate of Sealy High School, graduated this month from UTSA. She was a four-time recipient of the Conference USA Commissioner's Honor Roll, a three-time C-USA Academic Medal winner and made UTSA's President's List four times and its Dean's List twice.
The pain in her knee that almost ended her running career was as a result of iliotibial band syndrome or IT Band Syndrome (ITBS), where connective tissue rubs up against the thighbone. She added that she did not have full range of motion in her knee and that was causing her to miss time on the track, forcing her to contemplate if she'd ever be pain-free again.
Those thoughts coincided with the end of the fall semester and Janicek soon returned to Sealy where he running career started. One person who witnessed her career take off in high school was one of her coaches, Jeff McDaniel, who currently serves as the full-time athletic trainer for the school.
"He showed me about progressive resistance," she began. "Coming back from injury I could only go about a quarter mile then I'd have to take the next day off and it took me about four months to get back up to six miles but I ended up getting there and I had to redshirt my cross country and indoor season."
Because of her work with McDaniel, she was fully rehabilitated by the time the outdoor season was picking up and Janicek didn't miss a beat, eventually qualifying for the Conference USA Outdoor Championships in the 1500-meter run.
"If it weren't for him I probably wouldn't have gotten better by May and I probably wouldn't have kept running," she admitted.
Janicek added that her college commitment was sort of a last-minute decision as well and her running career nearly ended after high school when college coaches weren't reaching back out, until one school board member put her in contact with a former Texas A&M coach.
"I signed with UTSA 10 days before graduating from Sealy, but I looked at a bunch of schools and reached out to a bunch of coaches my junior year," she said. "Joe Mike Young knew an old coach from A&M who had retired and he put me in contact with a couple coaches from different schools and Coach (David) Hartman was one of them; he was at UTSA at the time so I made a trip down here and the visit went well and it just felt like home and so I decided to come here."
Not only was the connection with the coach important to her but the high level of competition also drew her to become a Roadrunner, Janicek said.
"The team was really good, that was a big thing for me too; having teammates that will push me on the track," she added. "I wanted to be able to compete at a high level against competitive athletes but also at practice, I wanted teammates that would push me so that when it comes to competition I would have that experience and I wouldn't just be competing during the meets."
Those efforts paid off by Janicek bettering her marks each year, except for her injury-shortened sophomore campaign, and earning a spot in three indoor conference championships and two conference championship meets on the outdoor circuit, and that was only on the track.
On the cross-country course, she made the Conference USA Championships each year she was healthy enough to run and twice competed at the south central regional championships against the best of the best in college track.
Of course, now that her four years are over, the balancing act of being a full-time Division I track star while building up her resume to get into physical therapy school seems like a breeze but she mentioned there were plenty of moments when the exact opposite seemed true.
"It was a big transition my freshman year having to learn how to study and also how to handle it as a student-athlete," she said. "Having to get all my pre-requisites in for PT school and the hours I needed for observation … I really needed to learn how to prioritize and sacrifice things that I wanted to in order to reach my goals; I had to study on buses, on the floor of airports, in the corners of stadiums if I could find a quiet place … I knew what I wanted, and I knew what it would take to get there so I was willing to make those sacrifices."
Speaking of sacrifices, Janicek spoke to the notion of giving up the typical college experience for her time on the track but added that she didn't feel gypped of those social interactions.
"People always talk about sacrificing your social life (as a student-athlete) but I feel like I still got that in a way," she said. "I got to meet teammates and I got to make friends from other teams, so I guess I just got that in a different aspect. I didn't get the same social life as other college students, but I felt like I got a different version of it."
Part of that alternate type of school was the travel that she mentioned, although it did not serve as an adequate excuse to skimp on her studying.
"I got to compete all over the United States," she said. "Being able to travel with the team was definitely something I am very grateful for and something I wouldn't have been able to do if it weren't for sports," she said, listing states like California, Massachusetts and New York.
Obviously, the school had to be the right fit which included having the major that she wanted, which UTSA offers. Janicek was also given the opportunity to intern at a clinic which sparked her interest in her specialty.
"At the end of school I'll be an entry-level physical therapist so I'll be able to go into any setting that I want to but I'm not really sure (what I want to do yet)," she said. "I was always very
interested in geriatrics but this past semester I interned at a clinic and I think I might want to go into neurology, so I might be giving that a shot but that still could change.
"It was part of my degree to intern and so I was accepted at this clinic and they have an orthopedic side and a neurology side and I got to work alongside a physical therapist and I really enjoyed it there, I had a lot of fun and it was a good way to end my college career on the academic side," she said
Also signaling the end of her time at UTSA was last weekend's graduation, where she walked across the stage with magna cum laude distinction on a day that she mentioned crossed her mind plenty of times during her years.
"This has been the day I've been waiting for these past four years," she said of the May 19 ceremony. "I've always been so excited, I've taken tests and thought, 'I can't wait to graduate and be done with all of it.' But now that it's here, it is bittersweet. I'm sad to leave my teammates, my coach and all the friends and classmates behind but I know I have so many more good times ahead of me as well and I'm very excited for it."
That next step will be heading down to Galveston for three more years of school focusing solely on physical therapy at The University of Texas Medical Branch, a decision she noted ended up being a fairly easy one.
"I applied to five schools, all in Texas, and this is the only one I got into," she said with a laugh. "I guess it's meant to be, I guess I'm supposed to go this route so I'm gonna go with it."
Janicek added that she was granted a fifth year of undergrad to make up for the time she lost on the track due to injury but included the reason why that too was a not-so-hard decision.
"I definitely put my education above athletics," she said. "I enjoy running a lot, I'm definitely gonna keep doing it, it's going to be something I'm always going to have in my life and keep coming back to but I think I'm ready for the next chapter in my life."
When asked what it meant to represent her town through her entire journey and beyond, she added there was plenty of pride in saying she's from Sealy.
"It's been awesome," she said. "My dad graduated from Sealy so to know that he graduated from Sealy and all three of his kids graduated from Sealy, they have such a great athletics program that's really grown over the years, even cross country the few years after I graduated, both teams made it to the regional meet so I was really proud of them in that they kept it going after I graduated."
Janicek added that she wouldn't have been able to get over everything had it not been from the support of her biggest fans.
"I definitely couldn't have done it without my parents," she said. "They were a big support in this whole thing and they were always there when I would call home to help me keep going through (the injury), even when there were times when I thought I wasn't going to be able to finish out but they kept me going and staying positive through the whole thing and I'm glad they were there for me."


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No it's not a party line. It's an almost perfectly straight line running north-south along 16th Street, passing through the White House, and then continuing along the Potomac River to the south. It divides two very different sides of the DC area.
These graphs are a cross-section of the DC area that looks at how the city changes as you travel from the center to the periphery. I've split the graphs into two sides based on the east-west dividing line. You'll notice the first one or two miles to the east are much like their western counterparts (this is essentially the area around Capitol Hill and the National Mall). After that, the two sides diverge pretty dramatically. Continue reading


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I took positions in a few of my favorite oil names this morning as the group put in some nice hammer candles yesterday. We also get news overnight on China investing $280 billion in Iran's oil & gas and Petroleum sectors. With some higher lows, and continuation this morning, I'm taking a shot here at some beat up oil names.
The Exodus runner screen is also loaded up with a bunch of names within the industry, all with high short sellers– ripe for a squeeze. Note that the following screen are more for trading than investing. I went more the investment route, buying solid companies this morning. For those interested in today's runner/squeeze screen: CLICK HERE FOR CHARTS
My new oil swings can be found within the confines of Exodus. For the simple investor, $OIH works well here with a stop under yesterday's low:
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text: Dean Radin PhD's newest book, Supernormal; Science, Yoga, and the Evidence for Extraordinary Psychic Abilities is being released today. Listen in as Change your Mind Transformational DialogueRadio host, Dr Craig Weiner, DC explores the research that supports extraordinary capabilities that human beings may very well be capable of. Was Buddha just a nice guy? Are… Read More »