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"I'll use the term mindfulness to refer to keeping one's consciousness alive to the present reality"
Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh
Zen Mindfulness and Meditation for Wellbeing
The practice of meditation and mindfulness is good for you. The evidence continues to gather and this practice is designed to help those who wish to become healthier and more efficient in their lives.
I am a Zenways student-teacher with more than 10 years of meditation practice.
I began meditating in 2009, but in 2016 everything changed when I got the opportunity to try Zen Mindfulness and Meditation. The Zen techniques I discovered were so practical and effective compared to what I'd learned about meditating so far. They had such a profound effect on me that I've followed these methods ever since.
One thing that is distinctive about our branch of Zen, the Rinzai tradition, is that it has hundreds of years of openly teaching meditation for wellbeing. The most important Zen master in recent centuries, Hakuin (1685 - 1768) wrote a whole book on the subject called yasenkana which was a best seller.
Although it is important to know that there are reams of theory and philosophy behind meditation in the context of many of the world's cultures, practice is what achieves the result. There is nothing special to believe in or particularly take on board. We just do it.
I am offering 8 Week courses in Zen Meditation and Mindfulness for Wellbeing, Workshops and individual sessions.
'It is not that mindfulness is the 'answer' to all life's problems. Rather, it is that all life's problems can be seen more clearly through the lens of a clear mind' Jon Kabat-Zinn
This 8-week course is based on the fact that the brain has a property of neuroplasticity. Both the brain and the nervous system can change structurally and functionally under the influence of the signals for the environment. Learning and memory are examples of plasticity. Implicitly it follows that meditators are able to change some neural paths in the brain through meditation, and this can result in a dramatic change in your outlook on life events. This profound result of sustained practice, known for many centuries to meditation practitioners, has been confirmed by scientific studies in the last two decades.
'Practice not-doing and everything will fall into place' Lao-Tzu, Tao Te Ching
Course Content_ Mindfulness for Health and Wellbeing
Over the course we will explore a variety of topics including:
Physical Pain
Emotional Stress, Anxiety and Depression
Role Stress and Time Pressure
Taking care of yourself nurturing your wellbeing
Living at an Elevated Function
The meditation techniques that we cover includes:
Body Scan
Counting the breath
Following the breath
Mindful movement including walking meditation
Mindful living
The practice of presence
This mindfulness course has been designed by Zen Master Daizan Roshi, drawing on the centuries of experience and understanding passed down in the Zen tradition and accredited by the International Mindfulness Teacher Association (IMTA). This course is not Buddhist though or religious, nor does it require you to believe or follow any tradition in particular. The only requirement is to be open and willing to practice. You don't need previous meditation experience to follow this course, but in order to gain the full benefits you will need to commit to 30 minutes of practice each day for 8 weeks.


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You may remember hearing the amazing story of Rinku Singh and Dinesh Patel a few years ago. They're the Indian teenagers who won a reality show in their native country, earning the right to train in the United States with the hopes of one day reaching the bigs.
Perhaps predictably, their story is now becoming a Disney movie, and it stars none other than Jon Hamm, a diehard baseball fan himself.
Hamm plays agent J.B. Bernstein, the man who came up with the contest, in the movie Million Dollar Arm, which recently started filming in Atlanta. But Hamm is not the only big name in the film. Suraj Sharma, who starred in Life of Pi and Madhur Mittal, of Slumdog Millionaire fame, play Singh and Patel. Alan Arkin, recently nominated for an Academy Award for his performance in Argo, plays a retired baseball scout.
Ryan Fagan of the Sporting News recently visited the set of the movie, where he spoke with Hamm.
"The reason I was attracted to doing the story is it's a good old-fashioned coming of age father/son type of story, even though there are no fathers and no sons, really," Hamm said. "It's just a nice story, about hard work, and coming up with a big idea and seeing it through. The fact that it worked out for these guys is a testament to not only the guy with the big idea, but also the work ethic of these two. They were just willing to apply themselves and commit to the program and maximize the opportunity."
Nearly 40,000 cricket players auditioned for the contest held by Hamm's character, J.B. Bernstein, about five years ago. Singh won while Patel finished second, and they were both flown to Los Angeles to train with USC's acclaimed pitching coach, Tom House. Singh, 24, is currently in the Pittsburgh Pirares minor league system, while Patel moved back to India after getting released by the Pirates in 2010.


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Donations for Camp Fire victims collected from across NorCal
About 52,000 people forced to evacuate in Butte County
About 52,000 people forced to evacuate in Butte County
About 52,000 people forced to evacuate in Butte County
Donations are pouring in from across the Northern California region as people look to help the victims of the Camp Fire in Butte County.
About 52,000 people have been evacuated, some having lost everything, during the deadliest and most destructive wildfire in California history.
KCRA 3 News spoke with just a few of the organizations in our area who are helping out.
Del Oro FFA
A trailer sits outside the FFA farm at Del Oro High School.
It's almost full of donations to help fire victims.
"We're here for a shoulder to cry on or a shoulder for support," said Amanda Brandt, a senior and member of FFA.
The FFA has already delivered two full trailers of donations to Butte County.
Donations are being accepted at the high school Wednesday through Friday after 3 p.m. and all-day Saturday.
CAIR Sacramento Valley
In just 24 hours, the Center for American-Islamic Relations Sacramento Valley chapter raised more the $20,000 for victims of the Camp Fire.
"It was the opportunity to step up and provide them the support they need," said Saad Sweilem, an attorney with CAIR.
CAIR Sacramento Valley is working with Islamic Centers and mosques to raise money to help out the Islamic Centers of Live Oak, Yuba City and Chico, all located near the areas affected by the fire.
"What we're trying to do specifically is collect money to provide to those Islamic Centers so they can use the money to get cash cards to distribute to those impacted and affected by the fire," Sweilem said.
Here's a link to their LaunchGood fundraising page.
Dirt Buster's Car Wash
For the owner of Dirt Buster's Car Wash in Roseville, helping those affected by the Camp Fire is personal.
"I looked up and there was just a huge black smoke cloud over the top of my house," Shelbi Campodonico said. "You just go into a state of panic."
Campodonico and her husband live in Paradise. They moved there in August. Her home is still standing, but many of her neighbors lost everything.
"I've just been tossing and turning trying to figure out what I can do to help," she said.
Her father owns Dirt Buster's Car Wash on Douglas Boulevard. The family knew that was how they could help a community devastated by the fire.
Thursday and Friday, from 8 a.m. until 5 p.m., half of all car wash proceeds will be donated to the Red Cross.
They're also collecting items and cash donations.
"I'm a little scared we don't have enough help," said owner JD Stinson, Campodonic's father. "Hopefully, everyone is understanding and we can back cars out to the road and just push through as many people as we possibly can and raise as much money as we possibly can."


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Land Rover Ending Production On Defender
Jaguar Land Rover is set to end the production of its Defender model in December 2015, a move which will end the iconic vehicle's run of 67 years
A sad day, which was meant to happen…
I own one , a 2006 Defender 90 TD5 Challenge G4 , all orange !!
Any hope that the spirit continue with the next production
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Our Story
PMK Accountancy Services was established in 2005 by Managing Director, Paddy McKeown as a sole trader and has now grown to a team of 17 and is a leading edge accountancy practice, providing a friendly and professional accountancy service to businesses throughout the island of Ireland.
To advise – we must first understand. At PMK we do understand. Our approachable team of qualified accountants and technicians have over 100 years of relevant experience across all sectors. Led by our senior team, we work with business owners to install bespoke internal controls, while designing and maintaining an internal accounts function that will provide timely and accurate management information. This gives peace of mind to business owners that not only are their statutory requirements under control; they are getting high quality and focused information to run their business. Our staff continuously receive training to ensure that they are completely up to date on accountancy, tax and sector knowledge, making sure that we keep you ahead of the game.
We help our clients to:
- Understand the nuts and bolts of their business;
- Identify the key drivers within their business and the level of return they're achieving;
- Make better use of IT systems/improve automation and efficiency;
- Restructure their business where necessary to cut out poor performance and improve productivity.
We spend time getting to know the personal plans and ambitions of our clients, the business owners, so that we learn what their personal and business aspirations are and through careful planning and advice, help with achieving them.
We focus on providing exactly the right service for our clients and their business and one that is tailored to their needs.
Our aim is to ensure that all our clients run their businesses compliantly, cost-effectively, profitably and tax efficiently.
By practising what we preach, our own business has grown considerably in recent years, resulting in a move to our current office where we have grown PMK team from 5 members in 2013 to our current compliment of 17.
At PMK Accountancy Services, we help businesses of all sizes from small sole traders to SME's. We have developed expertise in a number of core sectors and we are recognised as a leading advisor in the retail market by the three main independent retailer wholesalers Henderson Food Service, Musgrave Retail Partners and NISA.
We also provide accounting, taxation and consultancy services for the construction, manufacturing, dental, legal, agricultural, transport & logistics and property sectors.
Being open, honest, respectful and acting with integrity at all times is indicative of how we do business. We provide financial information and consultations in a friendly professional manner.
When you partner with us you can be certain of sound, qualified advice based on years of experience, regardless of your size, the type of business you operate or the level of support you need from your accountants.
Our Core Values guide everything we do in our business:
- Family – you do business the same way you live your life. Family values determine the way in which business is done in PMK. We look after each other and our clients; we are welcoming, approachable and friendly at all times and maintain an ethos of positivity, enthusiasm and fun.
- Professional – we deliver a high quality unique and bespoke service to our clients.
- Loyalty – We are loyal to ourselves and our clients and focus on building and maintaining trusting, confidential and secure relationships with clients and colleagues.
- Honesty and Integrity – Doing business honestly, being honest with each other, being respectful and sincere. We always try to do the right thing.
- Reliability – We do what we say we are going to do every time! And we deliver what we promise every time!
Being truly honest with our clients can be challenging because we tell them what we think, rather than what we think they would like to hear which can sometimes be hard for them to accept. However, we have found in all cases that this is the best way for both our clients and for us to succeed, therefore we remain confident in our approach.
Meet Our Team
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Paddy McKeown
With a First Class BA honours degree in Accounting & Finance and with over 20 years' experience of working in both practice and Industry, Paddy formed PMK Accountancy Services in 2005. Paddy has developed a specialised knowledge of the Retail sector that is invaluable when assisting clients in maximising profit margins. Through working closely with his clients, Paddy learned that the insertion of the necessary internal controls and constant measurement of performance is required to ensure that all businesses are managed efficiently and performance is maximised. Paddy has applied this practice to clients in all sectors and of all sizes and has instilled it into the service that PMK offers giving him confidence that PMK will make a difference to the bottom line of any business. Paddy has created an organisation with a culture that cares about the performance of our clients businesses.
Frank Shields
Frank is an FCA with just over 20 years' experience. Frank trained and qualified in a small practice in Newry and then worked in industry for two years in the food manufacturing industry as Financial Controller before going back into practice in 2006. Whilst working in industry Frank worked on creating bespoke management information systems and on manufacturing process and throughput control. Frank has gained extensive experience with Preparation of Financial Statements, Audit, Management Information Systems, UK & ROI Tax Compliance and Planning, Business Consultancy and was also the Financial Controller of the practice. Frank has worked with all types and sizes of clients across all sectors, both sides of the border. Frank enjoys working closely with clients on their businesses and is responsible for providing business consultancy services, exploring the financial performance of the business and investigating any variances from expected results.
Sinead O'Hare
Practice Manager
Sinead qualified as a Chartered Accountant in March 2003 and is an FCA with a BSC in Accounting. Sinead worked in a local accountancy practice for 16 years until 2015 at which time she then joined PMK as Practice Manager. Sinead has substantial experience & knowledge in all areas of practice work, including Capital Gains Tax, Inheritance Tax Planning, Corporation Tax, Self-Employment Tax and Preparation of Financial Accounts. Through her current role in PMK she has gained extensive knowledge of the retail industry and can help & advise clients on procedures to try and increase their profit margins and to improve their internal controls and information systems.
Cathy Hughes
Senior Manager
Cathy qualified as an Accounts Technician with the IATI in 2007 and went on to qualify as a Chartered Accountant with ICAI in 2011. After gaining 10 years' experience in a local accountancy firm working in accounts and tax departments on a wide range of business types and sizes, Cathy joined PMK in 2015 as a senior accountant. Cathy delivers a wide range of services including providing management accounts, business support and tax advice and manages a portfolio of clients.
Dermot Hughes
Senior Manager
Dermot received his BA Hons degree in Accounting and Finance from Griffiths College Dublin in 1998 and afterwards trained in an accountancy practice in Dublin for 4 years before moving to industry where he worked as a company accountant and then Financial Controller of a Retail business for 8 years. Dermot has the honour of being the first employee of PMK and has assisted Paddy with growing the business to where it is today. Dermot has worked on nearly all clients at some point of their journey with PMK and has been involved in all service areas which PMK provide. Dermot maintains his own portfolio of clients where is the lead PMK advisor and with whom he works very closely with on the management of their businesses.
Martha Murphy
Senior Accountant
Martha qualified as Chartered Accountant in 2007 and is an FCA with Chartered Accountants Ireland with a BA Hons in Accounting. Martha trained and worked with an accountancy practice based in Newry, working there for 14 years when she joined PMK. Martha has worked with clients of many types, in many sectors and of various size and has in-depth knowledge and experience of Preparation of Financial Statements, Management accounts preparation and reporting on KPI's, Personal and Corporate tax compliance. Martha manages the delivery of management accounts for a portfolio of clients of PMK and enjoys a great working relationship with our clients and their staff.
Sharon McKiverigan
Payroll Manager
Sharon joined PMK in 2013 as an Accounting technician and is now Payroll Manager. Sharon works with many clients, some who have very complex payrolls. She has gained a wealth of payroll knowledge over the years and always keeps up to date with any new regulations or requirements. Her industry experience means that she can give the best advice to our clients on how best to meet their payroll requirements.
Roisin McShane
Senior Accounting Technician
Rosin joined PMK in 2014 after graduating from University of Ulster Jordanstown with a 1st Class Hons in Business Studies. Roisin has gained comprehensive knowledge in the completion of Management Accounts for clients in the retail sector. Roisin also is responsible for Payroll and VAT compliance for many of our clients.
Ross Flynn
Trainee Accountant
Ross graduated from Queens University Belfast with a BSc in accounting in 2016. Ross began his ACCA training with PMK in October 2016. Ross manages a portfolio of clients within the retail and transport industries and works on Management Accounts preparation and other support roles.
Caoimhe Fitzpatrick
Trainee Accounting Technician
Caoimhe joined PMK as a trainee Accounts technician in June 2017 after completing her A Levels. Caoimhe is currently in year 2 of the Accounting technicians Ireland HLA programme. Caoimhe works on accounts preparation and tax returns and also has responsibility for VAT and payroll compliance for many of our clients.
Kealan O Hare
Kealan joined PMK in 2017 as a bookkeeper after having worked for a number of years in the confectionary industry. Kealan works on accounts preparation and tax returns and also has responsibility for VAT and payroll compliance for many of our clients.
Michael Kingham
Trainee Accounting Technician
Michael worked as an Accounts assistant within the construction industry for 2 years before joining PMK in January 2018. Michael is currently in the 2nd year of Accounting Technicians Ireland Course. Michael works on all aspects of bookkeeping and Management Accounts preparation for a number of key clients within the transport and retail sector.
Matthew Cameron
Trainee Accounting Technician
Matthew completed his A-Levels in June 2018 and joined our team in August. Matthew was accepted on the Accounting Technicians Ireland HLA programme and is currently studying in year 1. Matthew is gaining hands on experience in all areas of accountancy.
Aoife Murphy
Trainee Accounting Technician
Aoife joined PMK in 2018 after having been offered a place on Accounting Technicians Ireland HLA programme. Aoife decided to pursue a career in accounting after completing her HNC in Business studies. Aoife works on many aspects of Management Accounts preparation, bookkeeping and gaining hands on experience in Final Accounts preparation.
Karen Magill
With over 20 years of experience in customer facing roles Karen joined the PMK team in May 2018. Karen provides administrative support to the PMK team, as well as PA duties to the company Directors.
Maire McKeown
Human Resource Administrator
Maire joined PMK in 2011 as Human Resources Administrator. Having graduated in 1999 with a degree in Business Studies Maire took up a career in recruitment and spent 10 years in that industry. Maire is responsible for all human resources and recruitment matters in PMK and also assists with the general administration duties.
Tiarnan Burns
Tiarnan joined PMK in the summer of 2018 to gain work experience while studying Accountancy in Queens University Belfast. Tiarnan remained after the summer as a part time member of the team after returning to university and assists with Bookkeeping and VAT compliance work.


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This is my wife using the secret " H ' Chord , Our bass player is also using it , however , he is using his other hand to hide it . Its the "H" Chord because we don't know what the 'H" it is .
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Returns and Refunds Policy
Thank you for shopping at Kari Munro Fine Jewellery
If you are not entirely satisfied with your purchase, we're here to help.
Our products can be returned within 7 days of the original purchase of the product.
To be eligible for a return, please make sure that:
The product was purchased in the last 7 days
The product is in its original packaging
The product isn't used or damaged
You have the receipt or proof of purchase
Products that do not meet these criteria will not be considered for return.
Please contact us before you send the product:
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Send the product with its original packing and the receipt or proof of purchase, to:
Kari Munro Fine Jewellery 20 The Strand Walmer Deal Kent CT14 7DY
Shipping charges
Shipping charges incurred in connection with the return of a product are non- refundable.
You are responsible for paying the costs of shipping and for the risk of loss of or damage to the product during shipping, both to and from Kari Munro Site.
Damaged items
If you received a damaged product, please notify us immediately for assistance.
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iPhone 5S caught on camera?
Images reportedly showing Apple's next-gen iPhone 5S have leaked online
If rumor is to be believed, than the iPhone 5S could be with users as soon as the spring, and with that welcome thaw rapidly approaching we've gotten what could be our first glimpse of the upcoming incremental upgrade, courtesy of some undercover business from the middle kingdom.
The photos, which turned up first on the Chinese site Zol.com.cn, are rumored to have been taken by a savvy Foxconn employee, and in them we're able to see distinct similarities between this allegedly new device and the current iPhone 5 which has been selling by the boatload, though this new face and backplate on display looks decidedly longer than the current model.
While the plausibility factor is high with these images, we're a little unsure what to make of the overall appearance of the device. The device in question looks more like the well-used iPhone 7 meme which took off last year rather than a real device, but Apple's predilection with delivering a taller smartphone is well known – so who knows what we could be facing come iPhone 8.
That aside, the lack of design update does tie in with rumors we reported last week, which suggested that the upgrades to the 5S would be largely internal – and with Samsung's new flagship, the Galaxy S4 reportedly waiting in the wings, Apple is expected to push the boat out somewhat, to give users the power they so evidently crave.
While we aren't exactly sure of the direction Apple is heading in if these images turn out to be true, we're anxious to find out just what the first real post-Jobs iPhone will be like – and we're counting the days until we catch an official glimpse.
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Similar head wear penetration detected for vitamin-E diffused, crosslinked polyethylene
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LISBON, Portugal — Although some creep occurred in vitamin-E diffused polyethylene liners used for total hip arthroplasty in patients with osteoarthritis during the first 6 to 12 months after implantation, results of a radiostereometric analysis presented here showed the liners were associated with no less head penetration at 5-year follow-up than highly crosslinked polyethylene liners.
Kristian Kjaergaard, PhD , presented the study, which won the Best Paper-Orthopaedic Silver Award at the EFORT Annual Congress. He said acetabular cup liners are an area of interest because aseptic loosening of THAs is associated with increased wear of polyethylene liners and it is thought that liner wear may be reduced with the use of vitamin-E diffused liners, which are oxidatively stabilized.
Kjaergaard and his colleagues stratified THA results after 5 years by type of liner and metal femoral head size for 94 patients aged 40 to 70 years who underwent THA. The patients were randomized into four groups. There was one group each for each of the two types of polyethylene liner used and one each for patients who had a 32-mm or 36-mm diameter femoral head implanted.
"The conclusion to this is that there is no difference between vitamin E-diffused polyethylene liners and crosslinked polyethylene liners, or between 32- or 36-mm heads in this 5-year follow-up period," Kjaergaard said.
The investigators also did not see any significant difference between the groups at 2 years, according to Kjaersgaard, who noted the four groups had similar characteristics at baseline.
"We have creep here in the first 6 to 12 months and then continued wear after that," he said.
Results showed that for the secondary study outcome of cup migration, there was also no difference seen between the groups at 5 years.
According to the abstract, none of the patients included in the study underwent revision THA during the time they participated in the trial. – by Susan M. Rapp
Kjaergaard K. Abstract 1059. Presented at: EFORT Annual Congress; June 5-7, 2019; Lisbon, Portugal.
Disclosures: The study was sponsored by Zimmer Biomet and Massachusetts General Hospital. Healio.com/Orthopaedics was unable to determine Kjaergaard's relevant financial disclosures.


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University owned Accommodation
At Bangor, we offer a wide range of self-catered accommodation, including standard or en-suite rooms. All single first year single undergraduate students who apply to stay in university accommodation.
Each year we try to designate some rooms for students for whom peace and quiet is important. Details of which hall has been designated as such will be on our website. These may be suitable, though not exclusively, for mature students who often prefer a quieter environment.
Please note however that communal living will also be noisier than living in your own home and that we can not control noise coming from outside the building. There is very limited availability for these rooms so we can't guarantee that everyone will be successful in their request for a designated 'quiet' room.
For more information about university accommodation visit the following website: Student Accommodation.
More information:
- Tel: 01248 382667
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Family Accommodation
The University does not own or manage any family accommodation. Students coming to Bangor with their families can search for suitable accommodation in the private sector using Studentpad: https://www.bangorstudentpad.co.uk/Accommodation.
For further advice and guidance contact the Student Housing Office:
- Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
- Tel: +44 (0)1248 382034
- Website: https://www.bangor.ac.uk/studentservices/studenthousing/index.php.en
Bursaries for Relocating Families
Students who relocate with their family to study at Bangor University, may be entitled to additional financial support. The £1,000 Relocation Bursary was introduced to ease a family's relocating costs and to help with costs such as are deposits, rent, moving costs etc.
Eligibility - UK full time undergraduate student with a taxable household income of under £25,000. This bursary is available in the first academic year only
To apply contact the Money Support Unit for an application form after you complete the registration process in September. Return the completed form with proof of former address, new tenancy agreement and relocation costs to the Money Support Unit as soon as possible.
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Stamp paper is obviously the most important part of a stamp—no paper, no stamp!! Also, the paper a stamp is printed on can mean the difference between a rare and valuable stamp, as opposed to one that is worth considerably less. When you start researching stamp paper (as I have recently!), you'll easily be blown away by the sheer number of varieties that exist (as I was!). This article begins with outlining the first step—How is stamp paper made?
Stamps FAQ
Answer some of the more Frequently Asked Question about stamps. Wether you want to learn more about the tagging or perforation, it's all here!
FAQ-What is a stamp grill?
A series of late 19th century USA stamps are known for having "grills". What is a stamp grill? Basically, a grill was a security method developed to prevent the fraudulent reuse of postage stamps.
Every time a stamp is used it is cancelled at the post office. A stamp can be cancelled by hand with a pen, or with a specially made canceling device. Unfortunately, many people would attempt (successfully!) to wash the cancellation ink off the stamp and then reuse it instead of buying a new one.
Top 5 FAQ for stamps
Here is a quick go-to reference article containing answers to the most common stamp questions. For more detailed answers, click on the link provided after each question.
1) What is my stamp(s) worth?
This has got to be the single most asked question in a stamp dealer's lifetime! Basically, there are three things you can do.
FAQ-Should I repair or restore my stamp?
This is a very touchy and controversial subject. In short, if you have a rare, valuable, or classic stamp and you want to preserve its original value—the answer is «NO». The only time you should consider restoring such stamps is if they urgently require preservation, and then, only by a highly qualified professional.
Even if a stamp isn't extremely valuable, many philatelists believe that altering a stamp in any way reduces its value and many don't even want such stamps in their collection. For this reason, the American Philatelic Society stipulates that its members must identify a stamp that has been repaired or restored with an indelible ink mark—so that future buyers will know exactly what they are getting.
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Keep your stamps somewhere where you can control the temperature. Ideally, you should keep the room your stamps are in at 18°- 20 °C. Extreme heat or cold, or constant temperature fluctuations, can damage your stamps. If you store your stamps in bookshelves,
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The words "cancellation" and "postmark" are often used interchangeably, although strictly speaking this not completely accurate. This article will attempt to explain the actual difference between the two, while not establishing any hard and fast rules. After all, stamp collecting is supposed to be fun!
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The question we get asked the most at Arpin Philately is: What is my stamp worth? Here is a short checklist to help you get going.
1) Begin by auto-evaluating your stamp's worth. To do this you will need a stamp catalogue. You'll either want to get the Unitrade Specialized Catalogue for Canadian stamps, the Scott Pocket for U.S. stamps, or a Scott World catalogue for other countries.
FAQ-What is a die-cut to shape stamp?
In a previous article we already discussed what a die-cut stamp is (see article: FAQ-What is a die-cut stamp?). Many of you have noticed when shopping for your Quarterly Packs that some stamps are described as «die-cut to shape from Quartely Pack». What does this mean?
Quarterly Packs are prepared by Canada Post as an easy way for collectors to procure all of the stamps issued in a year in tri-monthly installments. A Quarterly Pack contains
FAQ-What is a die-cut stamp?
Modern printing has had a huge impact on stamp production and philately. Experienced collectors and philatelists are now finding themselves having to learn new philatelic terms and definitions. For example, many new stamps are die-cut. What does that mean?
Simply put, die-cutting is a method of stamp separation designed for self-adhesive stamps. Older, gummed stamps are perforated so that you can separate them one from another (see article: FAQ-What are stamp perforations? ). Modern self-adhesive stamps are very rarely perforated, instead they are die-cut. In other words, a metal die cuts out the sides of the stamps.
UPDATE: How to remove self-adhesive stamps from a paper backing?
Canada Post is issuing more and more self-adhesive stamps and a lot of you have asked how to remove them from a paper backing (such as an envelope). A previous article discussed how to do this using Bestine, a chemical solvent. For obvious reasons, many of you would prefer not to use something chemical.
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Biography of Sylvia Ann Hewlett
Sylvia Ann Hewlett (born 1946) is an economist, consultant, lecturer, and expert on gender and workplace issues.
A Kennedy Scholar and graduate of Girton College, Cambridge, Hewlett earned her PhD degree in economics at the University of London.
Hewlett is the founding President of the Center for Work-Life Policy, a non-profit organization which seeks to develop policies that enhance work-life balance. She is also Director of the Gender and Public Policy Program at the School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University. In the 1980s, she was the first woman to head up the Economic Policy Council of the United Nations Association -- a think tank composed of 125 business and labor leaders. She is the author of several books (see Bibliography section). Her articles have appeared in the Harvard Business Review, the New York Times, the Financial Times, and the Harvard Business Review. She has taught at Cambridge, Columbia and Princeton Universities and held fellowships at the Institute for Public Policy Research in London and the Center for the Study of Values in Public Life at Harvard. She has appeared on 60 Minutes, The Today Show, Good Morning America, Newshour with Jim Lehrer, Charlie Rose, Newsnight with Aaron Brown, NBC Nightly News, Oprah, The View, All Things Considered, Talk of the Nation, On Point, and has been lampooned on Saturday Night Live.
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Do you appreciate where you are right now or do you worry about how far you still have to go?
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What is Dan Patrick running for?
Word on the street is that Dan Patrick is doing a statewide mailout in the next week or so either through a) his state senate campaign, or b) one of his surrogates (eg, CLOUT).
Certainly some people are already whispering: what is Dan Patrick running for in 2010?
There was the recent purchase of KVCE 1160, which will provide a platform for Patrick's views. No doubt Patrick knows that the metro areas of Houston and the Metroplex provide almost half of the votes in a statewide Republican primary.
And after his obliteration of two state reps and a Houston city councilman in March's SD7 primary, Patrick must be feeling good about his campaign appeal. The Chron didn't exactly offer sympathetic coverage, but that certainly didn't hurt him at all. In fact, it probably helped him.
Now there's a statewide mailout on the way.
I'd say the smart money is on Patrick running statewide in '10. The question is whether he decides to try and take on Dewhurst or Kay Bailey for governor, or whether he runs for a lower statewide office. Imagine how much fun a Dan Patrick/David Dewhurst/Kay Bailey Hutchison primary would be. Assuming Rick Perry doesn't run for re-election, of course.
Despite Republican hegemony in this state's politics, we still haven't had a real GOP primary. That ain't gonna last forever.
Posted by Evan @ 09/25/06 05:35 PM
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Rick Perry cannot run again - he's term limited
Dan has a limited appeal, he has set expectations so high - like those who expected Republicans with thin majorities to end income and social security taxes in Washington - they will crucify him when he does nothing.
(Not by choice, his ideas are good but he insulted everyone on both sides many correctly but many incorrectly)
Dan will be buried in a hole of his own digging. He's very prickly against any criticism and he's going to get both barrels from both sides.
His poorly thought out lawsuit and his whinning he had to pay taxes on the millions he made stirring up the populace is going to be shone very bright and very public, no one likes tax cheats.
In one year - most of Dan's supporters are going to know alot more about Mr, Patrick and be able to make a full and decisive choice about even reelecting him.
Posted by EricPWJohnson @ 09/26/06 04:37 AM
sorry eric, there are no term limits in texas... perry could run ten more times if he wanted to.
Posted by sally @ 09/26/06 08:54 PM
Ray Hutchison, Kent Hance (twice), Tom Loeffler, Jack Rains, and Tom Luce may disagree with your "a real GOP primary" gubernatorial comment.
Posted by jim @ 09/26/06 09:01 PM
Jim --
I meant that since Republicans have come to dominate statewide races, we haven't had a high-profile statewide GOP primary.
This is pretty surprising, and not what a political science academic would expect. After all, the GOP primary right now is essentially the general election. You would expect that we would have had some primaries. Not yet.
Posted by evan @ 09/27/06 12:03 AM
Sally is right, of course. There are no term limits on Texas governors.
Posted by evan @ 09/27/06 12:04 AM
Evan --
With a few exceptions, Democrats tended to annoint down-ballot statewide candidates when they were in charge. The GOP was close to having a high-profile lite guv race four years ago (Cornyn and Abbott toyed with the idea, and Ratliff and Sibley actually announced and campaigned for a while) but the money deal shut those campaigns down fairly quickly.
Bush cleared the field in 1994, and an incumbent has run for Governor ever since. I wouldn't considering it surprising; the opportunity just hasn't presented itself.
PS: Almost all handicappers figured the GOP nominee in 1990 would win the general, so I'd count that one.
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Posted by jim @ 09/27/06 06:01 PM
Eric -
Dan did not file the lawsuit. Edd Hendee did. I must also question your assessment of it as "poorly thought out" as Rick Perry has now lifted his 2007 session budget plan, announced yesterday, from the lawsuit's requested remedies:
I seriously doubt that he or any of the other candidates would even be talking about Article VIII, Section 22 had CLOUT not filed that suit thus putting it on the state agenda.
Whether you like Dan Patrick or not, the suit's main complaint - or at least the evidence part of it - is pretty much incontrovertable in showing that the legislature busted the cap last spring. CLOUT sent a message saying "fix it, or we'll ask the court to do it for you." By all indications (Perry, Kinky, and Grandma all favor Article VIII reform to scrap personal income in favor of Gross State Product) that message resonated.
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It took a while for Jenny Thompson to come out to herself.
Finally, at the start of this school year, the Penn sophomore jumper was able to bring herself to accept that she was gay.
"I was in denial about the whole thing," she said .
The next step — coming out to everyone else — was one that very few current athletes at Penn have taken.
But Thompson took the plunge into the unknown, coming out to the track team in a hotel last month just before the Heptagonal Championships in Cambridge, Mass.
"I made a little speech to the team asking them to wear rainbow pins on their uniforms and announced I was gay," she said.
Although Thompson had already come out to the teammates she lived with ("It's pretty hard to live in a house with girls and bring home girls and have them not notice," she said), Heps was her true moment of revelation as a gay athlete.
She couldn't have done it alone.
"[Freshman hurdler] Eliana [Yankelev] being out made it so much easier because I saw how the track team reacted to her and it was fine," Thompson said. "She came into the team openly out as a freshman, which is pretty scary in my opinion. So I knew that if I came out too, no one would reject me."
Thompson approached Yankelev first, and the latter helped Thompson through every step of her coming out process.
"Nobody said anything [after Thompson came out], nobody changed the way they treated anyone," Yankelev said.
But only the presence of another out gay athlete on the team gave Thompson the courage to open up, and such a backup is a rarity throughout Penn Athletics.
Although the Quakers boast 33 men's and women's varsity teams which together consist of over 850 student-athletes, there are roughly just a dozen out LGBT athletes at Penn. That means that just over 1 percent of Penn athletes are out.
But since the Williams Institute, a sexual orientation public policy think tank, estimated in 2011 that 3.8 percent of Americans identify as LGBT (and popular culture's 'one in 10' LGBT ratio is still widely believed), the number of out Penn athletes is statistically far lower than the national average.
And considering Penn routinely tops Newsweek rankings of the most gay-friendly colleges in the United States, that number would appear especially anomalous.
Which is why athletes like Yankelev who were out from the start of their Penn career are so rare.
Yankelev came to Penn wanting to avoid the marginalization that she felt as a closeted high school athlete. At the Pennsylvania PIAA Outdoor State Championships in Shippensburg, Pa., Yankelev felt uncomfortable rooming with her fellow competitors in the college's co-ed dorms.
"There was a lot of, 'Oh my god, I snuck out of my room and hooked up with this kid!' among the girls," she said. "That pressure was always there."
PATH to Inclusion
So Yankelev quickly got involved with Penn Athletes and Allies Tackling Homophobia (PATH), one of the longest-running (since 2003) collegiate gay athlete support groups in the nation.
By definition, PATH is a niche student group and has struggled to expand beyond a handful of members in its existence.
"It's not like we can have a GBM or make a Facebook event for people to come out," Yankelev said. "Because the reality is that won't happen."
But as PATH's advocacy chair, Yankelev researches NCAA and Penn Athletics policy on LGBT issues, and she's found something to be excited about.
Earlier this month, the NCAA released a document entitled 'Champions of Respect' which gives guidelines for how players and coaches can start student-athlete ally advocacy groups, as well as how coaches should use terminology around uncomfortable closeted athletes.
What Yankelev wants to see now is an official statement of support from Penn Athletics toward LGBT athletes.
"Any real statement of cooperation between PATH and Penn Athletics and then making a real recognition of what we're trying to do," she said. "For them to say 'We are a department of athletics that is all about inclusion for anybody who can play.'"
Enter Penn Deputy Director of Athletics Alanna Shanahan, who started building a relationship between Penn Athletics and the Penn LGBT Center last spring. Shanahan sat in on the LGBT Center's SafeZone training sessions, which aim to address how one can best help their LGBT peers.
"I sat through a couple of [SafeZone] Hillel trainings and was really impressed by how they make it area-specific," Shanahan said. "So that gave me a lot of confidence they'd be able to make it athletic-specific."
And by October, the LGBT Center had done just that, setting up separate mandatory SafeZone trainings that extended into November for all head coaches, assistant coaches and administrators, respectively.
"You always have a hesitancy about whether there's going to be a high level of engagement and if people are actually going to get something out of it," Shanahan said. "And I thought it was really compelling. People asked great questions and were engaged."
Coaches and administrators were presented with scenarios such as handling recruitment of an openly gay athlete, responding to recruits who asked if there were any gay athletes on their team and handling an athlete that wished to come out.
"I think what we learned is that there isn't any one right answer," Shanahan said. "And I think this is a situation where the LGBT Center was great about saying, 'Don't be afraid to come to us.'"
Indeed, Shanahan encourages direct contact to the LGBT Center for coaches or players with issues, and she meets with the Center's Associate Director Erin Cross every quarter to discuss complaints that have gone her way.
"I'll hear lack of sensitivity concerns, inappropriate behavior, student-athletes calling each other inappropriate names," Shanahan said.
Normalizing Gay
Penn tennis senior Jason Magnes has been PATH chair since his freshman year and inherited "a bit of a defensive stance on the part of Athletics" toward PATH, but he's pleased with how the fall SafeZone trainings went and believes the PATH-Penn Athletics relationship has gotten better. Magnes wants to see the trainings extended to team captains now to prevent the insensitive terminology Shanahan hears about.
But it was inappropriate language that forever changed Magnes' Penn tennis career for the better.
After his parents talked him out of coming out in high school, Magnes changed his Facebook sexual orientation status to 'Interested in Men' during winter break of his freshman year.
"Then when we came back to Penn, I knew everyone on the team knew, but no one was really talking about it," he said.
What Magnes calls "the big gay elephant in the room" only grew, causing him to wonder whether he should make a joke about it to break the ice.
During a practice match before the season began, then-senior Adam Schwartz ended the silence for good.
"Someone hit a drop shot on my side of the court and he decided to just scream, 'Run, faggot, run!'" Magnes said. "It's obviously not a very nice word to use, but it must have been his delivery because when he said it, I started laughing so hard."
Magnes' mom had been friends with Schwartz's parents, so the former knew the latter intended no malice with his remark.
"Seeing my reaction to Adam doing that made them feel a little bit less like they were walking through a minefield," Magnes said. "Knowing that Adam was comfortable doing that made me feel more comfortable."
And Magnes has been okay with his teammates ever since. One spring break, his teammates wanted him to "rate" them and even told him they wanted to go to a gay club.
"All of that communicated to me that [my sexuality] is not only a non-issue but a novelty that they can play around with because it's something they're not used to, because they've never had the opportunity to do so," he said.
Going forward, what Magnes wants to see at Penn and beyond is an environment in which it's not enough to just guard against homophobia.
"Being explicitly and overwhelmingly inclusive is what would need to happen to encourage those athletes to come out," he said.
While Magnes is still officially PATH chair, senior Daniel Gutnayer (formerly of Penn swimming) has unofficially assumed the role this semester.
"I'm really happy with the direction Penn Athletics is moving right now," Gutnayer said. "The athletic department is helping change the culture."
Gutnayer, who as a freshman felt uncomfortable while people commented and stared as he walked down the street holding his boyfriend's hand, is just one of many LGBT activists at Penn who look up to Anna Aagenes.
A 2010 Penn grad, Aagenes founded the Pride Games and still serves as a mentor for current PATH members.
"Any athletic department can start by naming the dangerous language, and that can empower coaches to feel like allies," Aagenes said. "Because they know their superior doesn't tolerate that kind of language.
"Your team is your family, so the stakes are really high. Do you choose between the person you are dating or coming out to your team?"
Thompson still hasn't come out to her parents, and her dad is "very homophobic."
"I'm gonna come out to them this summer, that's the plan," she said. "So I have to, you know … work on that. That's gonna be interesting."
Yankelev still hasn't come out to her 24-year-old brother Nathaniel, an Orthodox Jew.
"I always felt a big barrier with the Orthodox ideology of Judaism, and how in the Bible it says, 'Thou shalt not lay with a man as you would lay with a woman, the penalty is death,'" she said.
For those who find their second families within Penn Athletics, then, coming out can be as liberating as it is harrowing, at least compared to their lives outside of Penn.
"If people are uncomfortable and don't know how to talk about it, your team will step up if you are brave enough to do so," Aagenes said. "A lot of people stay in the closet because it's difficult to be the first one."
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When Rep. Rob Woodall, R-Ga., announced last week that he wouldn't seek re-election next year, it was a timely reminder not to forget about the House of Representatives in the 2020 election cycle. Woodall's 2018 challenger, Carolyn Bourdeaux, who came within 500 votes of beating him, has already announced she will running again. Also consider Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa, who is finally coming under fire for his long history of overt racism, has been stripped of his committee assignments and already has a Republican primary opponent. Then there's Rep. Duncan Hunter, R-Calif., who is under indictment and whose 2018 Democratic opponent, Ammar Campa-Najjar, is ready for a rematch.
Altogether, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee is initially targeting 33 GOP-held seats, for 2020. Chairwoman Cheri Bustos, D-Ill., has declared that "2018 was just the tip of the iceberg for Democrats," adding, "We have a clear path to expanding our Democratic majority, and by putting our plans in motion earlier in the cycle than ever before, we are demonstrating to Democrats across the country that the political arm of House Democrats is operating in high gear from the start."
What's more, the DCCC pointed out, 20 of the 33 seats it's targeting "are held by an incumbent Republican who has never served in the minority before," making them especially likely to retire and create a more winnable open-seat race.
Pundits have largely tuned out on the House amid the early furor of the impending presidential campaign. That's a mistake. Just as 2018 was all about the House, 2020 is expected to be all about the White House — with a secondary nod to the Senate. But a second wave election in the House could be crucial for longer-term Democratic success. And making further gains in state legislative races will be crucial to the redistricting process after the 2020 census is complete.
Back-to-back wave elections have been crucial in establishing party dominance in American history, coupled with presidential victories. That's an insight inspired by the theory of realigning elections, but in practical terms, even Yale's David Mayhew, whose 2002 book "Electoral Realignments" mounted the most thorough critique of realignment theory (summary here), agreed that such a wave would be a big deal.
"If the Democrats could build themselves into the 260-plus seat area again, as they have done sometimes, that would be big, with policy consequences," Mayhew told Salon. Then came his qualification: "Whether it would be lasting downstream is another matter. Consider 1966 and 1938."
Those are examples of single wave elections (favoring Republicans) which significantly crippled the momentum of New Deal and Great Society legislation, respectively. Yet neither disrupted Democratic control of Congress, nor did they lead to reversing signature legislation, such as Social Security or Medicare.
Democrats won 52 seats in 1930 (a 12 percent gain) and 97 seats in 1932 (22 percent), and controlled the House for most of the next six decades — until the "Contract With America" wave election of 1994. That's the kind of long-term dominance a double wave election can bring.
In the 1850s, the newly hatched Republican Party came from nothing in 1852 to winning 37 seats in 1854, 90 in 1856 and 116 in 1858, gaining a majority it held until 1876. Then, after a brief period of relative party balance, Republicans gained 38 seats in 1892 and 110 in 1894, controlling the House until 1910 — and the White House from 1896 to 1912.
These historical examples are impressive on a large scale, but things get messier the more closely you look — especially since the term "wave" is imprecise and the size of the waves varies enormously. The 2006 and 2008 Democratic waves combined only totaled a 12.5 percent gain, about the same as the Republican wave of 1994. The "Tea Party wave" of 2010 that wiped out those Democratic gains was 14.7 percent.
And there's at least one stark counter-example: Democrats won back-to-back wave elections in 1910 and 1912 (totaling 22.9 percent), while electing Woodrow Wilson president. But their House majority vanished by 1916, and Republicans dominated government in the 1920s. One could argue that 1912 was an outlier election — the only time a "third party" came in second, as Teddy Roosevelt's "Bull Moose" Party relegated the GOP to third place. But oddball elections come with the territory, and 2020 could be one of them.
"If the public is of a mind to wipe out Trump in 2020 in the fashion of wiping out Goldwater in 1964, that would of course be big," Mayhew noted. "The Goldwater nomination seems to have thrown the congressional elections out of kilter in 1964, with very big policy consequences, some of them long-term," he said.
"It's not so much whether there are one or two waves but whether the results of a wave election stick — and what kind of new member is brought into Congress," said Gary Jacobson of the University of California, San Diego. Democrats gained 12 Senate seats and 49 House seats in 1958, for example, and all of those were outside the South. That was immensely important for the passage of the Civil Rights Act five years later. Jacobson called it "a single wave that brought significant change."
Mayhew drew particular attention to the Senate side, noting that Republicans elected in 1946 (known as the "meat-shortage election") and solidified by Dwight Eisenhower's election in 1952 "were pretty much wiped out in 1958, which had no such GOP-favoring stimuli and featured a sagging economy as well as the usual in-party midterm drag. These Democratic Senate gains in 1958 (a single election) supplied a platform for party policy drives for most of a decade, at the least."
The racial and gender diversity of 2018 could have similar long-term impacts. But followup matters. Democrats added another 37 House seats in 1964, even as Republicans made inroads in the South.
Size matters, too. The 2006 and 2008 waves were modest by historical standards, though not compared to the stability of elections from 1996 to 2004. More often, waves of roughly similar size cancel each other out. The GOP wave of 1946, which recaptured the House after seven terms of Democratic control, was quickly reversed by an even larger Democratic wave in 1948. The more modest Democratic wave of 1964 was reversed by a larger GOP wave in 1966, while those roles were reversed 16 years later: A modest Republican wave when Ronald Reagan was elected in 1980 was followed by a larger Democratic wave in 1982. Back-to-back waves are significantly less common, and significantly harder to reverse.
As Mayhew and Jacobson both make clear, there's significant variation between wave elections and many do have lasting impacts, at least for a time. Jacobson cited the "Watergate wave" of 1974 as one that "brought significant internal changes to Congress," although those were eroded in 1980, and the 1994 wave as establishing "Republicans as a fully equal competitor for the Congress" after decades of Democratic dominance.
More recently, he called 2010 a "major wave" whose effects have largely been "done in" by President Trump. "With such a strong economy," he noted, "an even moderately popular president would have allowed Republicans to hold the House" in 2018. Obviously it didn't go that way.
Jacobson regards 2018 as a "major wave" as well, but says he's not sure whether it can be sustained in 2020. "It probably will be if Trump is on the ticket," he said, because that may allow Democrats to hold "the upscale suburban districts that gave them their majority. Trump helps here because he is so unpopular in these precincts."
State legislative races often get ignored but are critically important, largely because of the congressional redistricting process that will follow the 2020 census. For insight into that, I turned to Steve Rogers of St. Louis University, author of the forthcoming book, "Accountability in American Legislatures."
"I think the easiest parallel to draw for 2020 is 2010," Rogers said. "In 2010, Republican state legislative candidates benefited greatly from voters being upset with Democrats at the national level," and that wasn't a one-off accident. "My research generally shows that national political conditions are one of the strongest determinants of state legislative election outcomes," he said. Republicans' big legislative victories in 2010 "allowed them to build somewhat of a redistricting firewall that benefited them throughout the decade," and even limited Democratic gains in 2018. Now he anticipates something of a reversal.
"Overall, voters are largely unaware of who their state legislators are, let alone what they do from day to day," Rogers said. "So voters often end up relying on views of national politics or their partisanship when making their decisions in state legislative elections." He's wary of how much difference organizations can make, but says it's critical that "voters have candidates to vote for," meaning that Democratic candidates actually run for office. Democrats did well in this regard in 2018, he noted. "This is something Republican-leaning organizations have a better track record doing, so this is one strategy that progressive groups should likely take up again," he said.
In addition to its traditional state legislative arm, the Democratic Legislative Campaign Committee, the Democratic Party also has its own redistricting committee, working together with Organizing for America, which has targeted 12 states for its efforts. Redistricting is also a high priority for Swing Left, which targeted swing House districts in 2018 (Salon stories here, here, and here) and now hopes to help win key legislative races through an integrated strategy it calls "Super States":
If you overlay the target maps, the most important battles to win the White House, the Senate, and the once-in-a-decade fight to control redistricting are concentrated in the same few states. By focusing on them, we can maximize the impact of our efforts, working on many or all of these important contests at the same time.
Although Swing Left's initial strategy doesn't mention House races, those will also clearly be important. Fourteen of the 25 most vulnerable GOP-held seats are located in Swing Left "Super States," with six in Texas alone, three in Pennsylvania and two in Ohio, along with one each in Georgia, Michigan and North Carolina. (The other "Super States" are Maine, Wisconsin, Florida, Colorado and Arizona.)
"In 2020 we can defeat Trump and set up decades of progressive victories," a Swing Left spokesperson told Salon. "That requires winning the White House, the Senate, key state races that will determine redistricting, and protecting our majority in the House. Put simply, the blue wave can't be a temporary movement, and it can't be confined to the House. We need to build a comprehensive and sustained approach to activating grassroots energy to win elections up and down the ballot."
Swing Left intends to continue and expand its formula of "providing simple, strategic and meaningful actions for people to take" within a framework that's both geographically and temporally targeted. For 2018, they focused on turnout, "because only around 65 percent of registered voters typically vote in midterm election years," as the group's strategy memo notes. But in 2020, the focus shifts to registration since we can expect that a large majority of registered voters will turn out in a presidential election — especially this one.
There is, however, a core need that Swing Left's strategy does not address: Engaging with rural voters who live in outside the targeted Super States. I reached out to Jane Kleeb, founder of Bold Nebraska and chair of the Nebraska Democratic Party.
"Democrats and Independents exist in the middle of the country and the Democratic Party can no longer treat us as flyover voters," Kleeb told Salon. "There's no question that Democrats need rural voters in order to win back the White House, as well as to win statewide races like U.S. Senate," she said. "Unfortunately, Democrats have lost an entire generation of rural voters because there's been this cycle of mutual neglect. Democrats don't invest in the state parties, and then they don't have the money to talk to rural voters. We don't talk to rural voters, so they don't vote for Democrats."
One old-timer put it bluntly to her husband at a town hall, Kleeb recalled: "Let's just be honest, if there's only one church in your community, guess what religion you become." Kleeb added that Democrats "have to start including the solutions that rural people are already putting on the table to the big issues facing our country and our party."
Rural residents and activists are already involved in climate struggles — fighting pipelines and fracking, advocating for wind and solar power, Kleeb noted, "Yet when Democrats talk about rural communities, they usually talk about us with a sneer or negative language, that we're the problem — that agriculture is the problem for climate change, rather than looking to rural people for solutions. So we've got to start there. Because if we are really going to solve the big problems our country faces, we have to have all ideas on the table, not just the coastal ideas.
"Rural communities look at climate change through a very different lens," Kleeb continued. "In rural communities there's this deeply rooted culture that that we are all in it together. So for ranchers, that means if your fence is down in the middle of winter, your neighbor's going to come and help you. You also are deeply engaged in government. There's a lot of people in small towns that are the government," meaning they serve on school boards and local commissions, "so there's a really strong ecosystem and tradition of knowing that government is part of our lives," as well as being a source of things like rural electrification that the marketplace was never going to provide on its own.
"Real investments have to be made in red and rural states if we're going to win the White House and critical statewide elections," Kleeb said. "Specific examples are investing in state parties who know their communities best; opening up our primaries to independents, since we need their votes to win elections; and talking about issues that matter to rural people, like ending eminent domain for private gain, providing broadband access and ensuring competitive markets for family farmers and ranchers."
It's easy to get sucked into the latest Trump drama. But restoring America's democracy for the future lies in looking elsewhere — not just to those who would replace Trump in the White House, but to all the other levels of government that deserve our attention, as well as the people we may wrongly assume have nothing to say to us. They have a world to share with us, if we're ready to listen.


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Cutting boards are kitchen tools that are likely to be used on daily basis. Unfortunately, these precious kitchen tools do not get much attention as knives or cast-iron skillet. Proper care and maintenance are essential for keeping the cutting boards last for a prolonged period of time.
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Here are some common mistakes you should stop making while using custom cutting boards in everyday kitchen chores. Have a look at them and learn some of the ways to avoid them.
1.Using Glass Cutting Boards:
There is nothing wrong in saying that glass boards are more resistant to stains and odor, yet their extremely hard surface can dull the sharp edges of the knives. Moreover, the slick and slippery surface of the glass boards can injure your fingers and cost you time in assembling the food items.
Therefore, boards with grips and wooden surfaces should be used. They are eco-friendly, keep the knife edges sharp and prevent injuries.
2.Using the Wrong Sized Boards:
Often, kitchen makers tend to choose small sized boards for their kitchen counters. They might consume less space in the kitchen and may be easier to clean yet, they tend to provide a small room for knives to smoothly slide over the cutting items. This also increases the chances of getting yourself hurt.
However, long cutting boards are efficient as they provide ample of the surface to cut, chop multiple food items. Furthermore, they open large room for easy movement of knives and slicing, dicing of food.
3.Putting the Board in Dishwasher:
Prolonged heat and water exposure are harmful to custom cutting boards. However, plastic boards may resist such conditions yet, wooden or glass boards get cracked and might break when treated in dishwashers.
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Structural Origins of Conductance Fluctuations in Gold–Thiolate Molecular Transport Junctions
AuthorsFrench, William R.
Iacovella, Christopher R.
Rungger, Ivan
Souza, Amaury Melo
Sanvito, Stefano
Cummings, Peter T.
Online Publication Date2013-03-06
Print Publication Date2013-03-21
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AbstractWe report detailed atomistic simulations combined with high-fidelity conductance calculations to probe the structural origins of conductance fluctuations in thermally evolving Au-benzene-1,4-dithiolate-Au junctions. We compare the behavior of structurally ideal junctions (where the electrodes are modeled as flat surfaces) to structurally realistic, experimentally representative junctions resulting from break-junction simulations. The enhanced mobility of metal atoms in structurally realistic junctions results in significant changes to the magnitude and origin of the conductance fluctuations. Fluctuations are larger by a factor of 2-3 in realistic junctions compared to ideal junctions. Moreover, in junctions with highly deformed electrodes, the conductance fluctuations arise primarily from changes in the Au geometry, in contrast to results for junctions with nondeformed electrodes, where the conductance fluctuations are dominated by changes in the molecule geometry. These results provide important guidance to experimentalists developing strategies to control molecular conductance, and also to theoreticians invoking simplified structural models of junctions to predict their behavior. © 2013 American Chemical Society.
CitationFrench WR, Iacovella CR, Rungger I, Souza AM, Sanvito S, et al. (2013) Structural Origins of Conductance Fluctuations in Gold–Thiolate Molecular Transport Junctions. The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters 4: 887–891. Available: http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/jz4001104.
SponsorsW.R.F. acknowledges partial support from the U.S. Department of Education for a Graduate Assistance in Areas of National Need (GAANN) Fellowship under Grant Number P200A090323; W.R.F., C.R.I., and P.T.C. acknowledge partial support from the National Science Foundation through Grant CBET-1028374. I.R., A.M.S., and S.S. thank the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (ACRAB project) for financial support. This research used resources of the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC), which is supported by the Office of Science of the U.S. Department of Energy under Contract No. DE-AC02-05CH11231; specifically, the conductance calculations were performed on NERSC's Carver.
PublisherAmerican Chemical Society (ACS)
PubMed ID26291351
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Daily Mail Corrects Front-Page Headline
Paper pins the blame on third-party news agency.
From a U.S. consumption perspective, it's easy to forget sometimes that The Daily Mail is also a British print newspaper. On Thursday, this was the front-page headline:
On page 2 of today's editions, there is the following correction to the piece, written by deputy political editor Jason Groves and political reporter James Slack:
In common with other newspapers, we published a reputable news agency's story yesterday which said that stowaways intercepted in east London had told police that they were "from Europe." In fact, while they had travelled to the U.K. in an Italian vehicle from mainland Europe, the migrants told police they were from Iraq and Kuwait.
To the Mail's credit, the online, corrected version of the article features a similar note at the bottom. On the other hand, the incorrect June 16 headline may have impacted the way more than a few readers vote in the country's upcoming EU referendum.
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The packaging is a vital component of modern consumerism due to the dynamic consumer lifestyle. Today's fast-paced lifestyle requires a product packaged in such a way that it is compact and easy to transport and store. Furthermore, the easy availability of personal care and similar products has also raised their demand in every segment of the consumer market. Thanks to the innovation, aerosol cans are a high-performance packaging solution loaded with features such as easy storage and mobility.
As a result, the aerosol cans market is witnessing a rise and is expected to grow at a Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of 3-4 percent till 2022. Demand in the Asia Pacific and Latin American regions is expected to grow at a CAGR of 6-7 percent and 3-4 percent till 2022 respectively. The global aerosol can production was approximately $17.1 billion in 2017. Additionally, aerosol cans have penetrated the new end-user segments and these are expected to be a key factor in the increased demand in the near future.
A few important points are given here that will be helpful in understanding the aerosol cans market in detail.
- Growth Drivers for Aerosol Cans Market: Urbanization, increased awareness about hygiene and personal care, and low per capita consumption are major reasons for growth in the aerosol cans market. World's two biggest markets, India and China, are expected to achieve a growth rate of 10-12 percent and 14-16 percent respectively.
In addition, innovations in the aerosol cans industry is an aspect that should not be ignored. Compressed aluminum aerosol cans use less propellant and last longer. This benefits both the consumer and the manufacturer as the costs can be cut on the raw materials. The improvements in can designs offer better aesthetics and allow companies to use the can's surface for marketing purposes. Innovations in the manufacturing capabilities machinery such as the use of a fully-integrated single-piston mechanism offer increased productivity to meet the rising demand.
- Market Segmentation: Aerosol cans market can be diversified into multiple segments on the basis of products and the type of can, material, propellant, and their use. In terms of material, aerosol cans are made up of steel, aluminum, plastics, and glass. However, aluminum cans are more popular among consumers due to their light weight and durability which is not found in their counterparts. In addition, aluminum cans are also easy to recycle as compared to glass and steel.
In terms of can type, aerosol cans are available in three varieties viz. straight-wall cans, necked-in cans, and shaped cans. On the basis of propellants, aerosol cans are available with either compressed gas propellants or liquefied gas propellants. Lastly, uses of aerosol cans vary as per their respective industries. Personal care, home care, healthcare, and automotive sectors are the ones that distribute their end products in various types of cans. However, the automotive industry can be considered as the largest player in this market due to a wide range of product packaging in aerosol cans such as paints, lubricants, cleaners, and degreasers.
- Market Dynamics: Due to significant improvements in supply-chain management and the emergence of modern retail formats, the aerosol cans market is experiencing a boom. The credit also goes to the positive growth in the Fast Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG) market which is developing excellent packaging formats to minimize the shelf space and increase product-presence in the market. A positive factor for the aerosol cans market is the material of the can. Aluminum aerosol cans are light and unbreakable, and they do not also compromise the quality of the product as well.
Another aspect of market dynamics is the purchasing power of a consumer. An increase in the disposable income of consumers and lifestyle changes have also promoted growth in the aerosol cans market. As a result, FMCG companies are opting for technological advancements to achieve a better share in the aerosol cans market.
Specific properties such as recyclability of aerosol cans can present them as a green solution for the future market as a few companies have come up with eco-friendly spray cans that use air instead of aerosol. However, government policies and increased awareness about the environment is causing a major shift in the plastic aerosol cans market and it may lead to a slowdown in the near future. Furthermore, both the automotive and insecticide industries have implemented aerosol cans in the majority of their products. No-touch application of products such as grease, lubricants, cleaners, mosquito repellants, and bug sprays have promoted the use of aerosol cans and both the industries are sure to capitalize on this opportunity.
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I always knew this day would come, the day I would have to come out of the closet and officially announce that I am a Grumpy Old Woman and that in some ways I fervently dislike social media! There, it's out now for all to see and in some cases no doubt, condemn me.
Over the last few years I have become less and less enamoured with Facebook and the like because of how public it makes everyone's lives, how influential it is and the effect it can have on others. Recently, The Telegraph published an article discussing "Facebragging", a term I wasn't familiar with, and how it is fuelling a small percentage of divorces. The article has certainly added fuel to the burning embers of my disgruntlement with the way that social media can have a negative effect on users' lives.
Apparently when you 'Facebrag' you send out information and photos across social media to suggest you are 'living the dream', your life is perfect, your body is perfect, your relationship is perfect, your partner is perfect – you, in fact are perfect! The next step is, apparently, that those who view this information and imagery believe the implied message of perfection, which then leads them to reflect on their own lives, relationships etc. and by comparison they find them lacking.
For some ardent Face-bookers or Tweeters viewing over-glamourised pictures and information of other people's lives can sew the seeds of discontent as they consider their own life, including their relationship. Are we all so insecure that we have to constantly check how other people are conducting themselves and compare that with our own experiences? Are we so naïve that we assume the snapshot or 'one liner' people choose to publicise on Facebook reflects the whole of their lives? I don't like to think so but the lawyers who are quoted in the newspaper article certainly do. Some say as many as one in five clients they see now have unrealistic expectations of relationships and that these expectations are partly based on what they see on Facebook.
So should I be blaming social media for ruining or at least impacting on people's lives in a negative way or is it just down to how people choose to perceive all the stuff that they see on Facebook? In the main I guess people want to share positive things over the internet and the recipients of this information need to do a reality check on what they are seeing. They should realise that just because the 'Face-booker' is keen to share some positives about their life, there are still likely be plenty of other aspects that are not so perfect!
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Mary Churchill marries Captain Christopher Soames at St. Margaret's Church. London.
Short Summary
Unissued / Unused material.
Wedding of Mary Churchill. St. Margaret's Church, London.
Various shots of guests arriving at St. Margaret's church. M/S Winston Churchill getting out of the car, not good shot. M/S Mary getting out of car and walking into church. Various shots police holding crowds back. M/S of the crowds. L/S photographers taking pictures.
L/S Mary and her new husband Captain Christopher Soames walking through crowds. L/S of the church with crowds in front. M/S French Generals getting out of car and entering church. M/S's other guests arriving including Anthony Eden and Mr and Mrs Clement Attlee. Mary and Christopher walk through crowds and get into car, not very good shots. M/S Winston and Clementine Churchill looking in the car.
Cataloguer's note: date of item: 11/2/1947.
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"The key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering."- Bruce Lee
Everybody knows Johnny in his neighborhood as a kind man. Everyday he did something nice to someone. He always helped whenever he can without expecting anything in return. He is known to be a dependable friend and that is how he is remembered…so it's written in his epitaph.
Susan is a loving mother. She made sure her children came first all the time. She always considered what's best for them, and never did a day passed without letting them feel they are loved. She took great care of her children. She was the best mom and she's remembered for that… so it's written in her epitaph.
Mike was the positive guy. You will never see him without a smile in his face. He was the person to go to when somebody feels sad. Why not? He made sure you're always in a better state after spending time with him. He is the rainbow to someone's storm. People remember him as that…so it's written in his epitaph.
How about you? If you'll die today or tomorrow, what would you like written on your epitaph?
And here's the more important question- Is that really how people would remember you?
If your answer is Yes, then that's awesome. It means you are living and not merely existing.
But if your answer is No, then perhaps it's time to face your biggest challenge- CHANGE. Because what you're doing today, and how you are in your relationship with others NOW say a lot for your future epitaph.


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Reality is a lie. Everything we experience is filtered through thick veils of of personal baggage, self-interest and delusion, constantly skewing the world into the most comforting state possible. Universes of fragile concepts stand between what you think happened and what actually happened.
Otis shines a detective's flashlight on this dissonance between reality and personal experience. It's an interactive crime drama that allows the audience to shift perspectives among three characters at will, telling a single story from disparate points of view. In the free online prototype, viewers press A, S or D on the keyboard to instantly swap perspectives among a babysitter, a father and a man intent on robbing their house.
Otis doesn't pause when the perspective changes; the story carries on for all three characters. This means audience members will miss bits of every character's narrative. They won't see the full story.
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Thomas Mattice only focused on getting the win
Undefeated lightweight prospect Thomas Mattice is preparing in Cleveland for his matchup against Rolando Chinea that is part of a ShoBox: The New Generation tripleheader this Friday, Feb. 2, live on SHOWTIME at 10 p.m. ET/PT from WinnaVegas Casino in Sloan, Iowa.
Mattice (10-0, 8 KOs), of Cleveland, Ohio, and Lancaster, Pennsylvania's Chinea (15-1-1, 6 KOs) will clash in the eight-round co-feature of the three-fight telecast.
Mattice has been working hard for his national television debut.
"Camp has been going great. We finished everything up over the weekend, and now we are just relaxing and getting ready for Friday."
Despite this being Mattice's first fight in front of the camera, the 27-year-old is treating this like any other fight.
"I am going in like this is any other fight. The only difference is that this is a progression, a step up. Like all the other fights, I am just focused on getting the win."
Mattice is letting his team do all the scouting, while he focuses on his own business of training and getting ready for the opportunity ahead of him on Friday.
"I am just letting my team handle the scouting of Chinea. We drew up a gameplan based on that, and now I am just going to go in there and execute it."
"I just expect a great performance. For the fans that haven't seen me, they can expect a fighter who can box and can bang. I just want everyone to tune in, and see a great fight. I have a lot of confidence that I will get the job done on Friday."
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Days Gone, the PS4 exclusive zombie game that has lit up E3 presentations for the last couple of years, has been officially delayed into 2019 according to the game's website. The game was always an ambitious project and delays like this are not too surprising at times, but it is still disappointing for those who were anticipating the game this year.
Currently there's no final release date set, with the delay simply moving it to next year at some point. Sony has responded to various press requests, saying that they will follow up with more information as it becomes available. There's no word on why the game was pushed back, but it is most likely to polish up the experience, fixing bugs or making sure the game delivers on the high expectations fans have built up.
Days Gone has been an E3 hit since its debut, with the screen filled with running, crawling, and snarling zombies. Since then the developers have dove more into the story players will experience, which focuses on surviving in a post-apocalyptic world. The game is still a bit mysterious though so hopefully we get more information at E3 2018, though this delay could change those plans. Check back for more as this story develops.