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[Halloween | Open log!]
It's Harry Dresden's birthday! Yay!
It's such an important date that the land itself decided to throw a themed party for him, in which he's trapped and unable to leave before midnight. Therefore, starting at around 10 am, a big section of the park starts resembling Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry!
That'd be the wrong wizard named Harry but who cares as long as the food is good, right?
We have, among other things, a Quidditch field with brooms that don't fly - unless except MAYBE if you ask an actual wizard to enchant them -, a TARDIS-sized Shrieking Shack, and a replica of the Great Hall where there are tables with lots of food and cake and more cake and the ceiling is just like the sky… No, wait. That is the actual sky.
Oh, oh. I guess it's Halloween too. Thus, some of the characters who wander inside the party zone may have their clothes changed to the Hogwarts house they'd be in if they were students. Even if they have never heard of anything Potter.]
((OOC: Everyone is welcome to the party! And welcome to mingle, of course =) You can give your good wishes to the birthday boy in his thread here))

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We've got more information about the Colorado County 4-H Shoot on 10/27. (There is a Thursday shoot time but I don't expect anybody from our club to go Thursday.)
Shoot Times
There are several shoot times on Saturday.
- 9am
- 10:30am – juniors shooting 30 arrows
- 1pm
- 2:30pm – juniors shooting 30 arrows
Usually the 9am time is busier. 1pm tends to be pretty sparse.
Colorado County Fair Grounds
1164 Crossroads Blvd, Columbus TX 78934
Google Map
Cost and Registration
Registration is $10/shooter. No pre-registration; just show up and pay. I just need to know who intends to go (and for which time) so I can give them a headcount.
Eligibility Forms
Get your forms here. There's instructions on the second page. Have the form with you at the shoot.
I'm told there will be drinks and snacks on site to take care of munchies.
There may be awards but they'll be mailed later.
Our family and another are attending the Saturday 1pm shoot. If there are any intermediates or seniors who'd like to go but need a ride, I can give one or two people a ride.
If there are any questions, let me know.


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Cendol Durian D24 Cake is in Ikea Malaysia
Durian lovers, you've convinced Ikea to hop on the Durian wagon too!
Ikea Malaysia has embraced Raya full swing by featuring their new Cendol Durian D24 Cake.
Two Malaysian favourites; the creamy cendol meets the delicious goodness of D24 type Durian just entices us on so many layers (pun intended).
Ikea also produced 2 other Malaysian cakes Ondeh-ondeh cake and Pulut Hitam cake.
Unfortunately the cakes are not sold by slice which has upset some Netizens on Facebook.
We suggest to share this cake because it's said to be delicious.
These cakes are only being made for a limited run and will only be around till June 4, 2019.
So get 'erm quick!
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GLS / NEXT Precision Marketing Wins 22 Awards at Printing Industry Midwest (PIM) Star of Excellence Awards
GLS / NEXT Precision Marketing took home 22 awards at this year's Printing Industry Midwest (PIM) Star of Excellence Awards annual banquet held on April 26th, 2018. The company received the Best in Category Award for the Bank of America: Art Conservation project, Best in Class for the HP VIP Invitation and Advantage Precision Launch Kit along with 19 other Certificate of Merit Awards for other exceptional projects.
The banquet is hosted for the Midwest Region to celebrate the commitment to quality and creativity each member brings to the industry. Members submitted projects that were judged and then honored at this sold out spring banquet. Over 300 people came to celebrate the Midwest's finest print and individuals. Awards were given out throughout the night to individuals and companies for outstanding accomplishments in the print and graphic communication industry.
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Ok, so this isn't so much a "mommy" thing, but it is something I have been doing lately, so here you go.
We have an almost 100 year old Bungalow. With plaster walls. Oh, plaster walls. If you have never experienced the JOY of plaster walls, let me just tell you - hanging anything on them is not the breeze that it is with drywall...unless you have a picture rail and want to go that route, but that's a whole 'nother issue.
In any case, I have wanted a family gallery space along our staircase ever since I saw the first season of Brothers & Sisters (remember when that show was good?)
I know walls like this are all over Pinterest and stuff now, but back then, I hadn't seen anything so cool.
Fast forward to now, when I actually have things to hang to make such a statement...and we have plaster. Putting a bunch of holes in the wall is not exactly what you want to do, and for me, the sound of crumbling pieces of plaster falling behind your wall when you try to put even the tiniest screw in....ugh, like nails on a chalkboard.
Enter these babies.
I was hesitant at first, I will admit. But, I love these damn things! They are a bit pricier than using regular nails or screws, but seriously? So easy.
I will admit that I might not use them if I had drywall and owned my home - but I will certainly use them in Navy housing in the future (since I am sure we are doomed to live there sometime...). No tools required - you don't even really need a level because you can readjust and readjust until it looks right.
I will probably be showing you guys my hall sometime here soon, so I won't go on and on - but if yoga re looking to do the same thing at your house - these are great.
Evelyn is almost eight months old
...and another plus to these is you don't have to be super careful doing this project this way around your mobile-esque baby! No hammers, nails, etc. Bonus.


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What is the best Time to Visit MyanmarWhich is the best time to visit Myanmar?
Myanmar's best time to travel - Monthly calendar - Klima
Burma is a place you can visit all year round. However, when the rainy period reaches its climax, some areas such as Ngapali Beachdo are prone to becoming closed to the wind and rain that are destroying the area. Burma is not significantly different from other parts of Southeast Asia, whose drought begins in October and ends in May, while the rainy period lasts from May or June to early October, at the beginning of the Southwest Moons.
The temperature varies according to the season and is mainly affected by the height, as you may have surmised. Himalayan hills and ponds are much colder than warm coastline and lowlands. Northern, middle and east areas are generally regarded as high mountains, so it is colder there, at least in comparison to the wetlands of the western, lower middle and southern part.
It' not uncommon that the temperature in March and April in these lower areas rises above 40° C. The temperature in these lower areas is very high. It is the warmest in the latter part of the year, with the droughts in March and April and the early rainy seasons in May and June, with sometimes quite unpleasant increases in temperature.
From October to January the temperature is low at midnight, especially in the uplands. A visit to Myanmar is possible at any time of year, but the best time would be between November and February. Usually many people travel immediately before this high season or immediately after, because the climate, despite the colder climates before and after the hottest ones, is still pleasant and the place is not very overcrowded.
A sweater or wool blend is always a good choice for the evening, except in the warmest season of the year, when it gets colder all over the year. As you can imagine, the temperature in the whole land is mainly affected by the height. Himalayan hills and ponds are much colder than warm coastline and lowlands.
Northern, top middle and east areas are generally considered high elevations in comparison to the high wetlands in the western, lower centre and southern areas, where it is not uncommon for March and April to rise above 40ºC. The temperature in March and April is also high.


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This is our 1st summer having a swim membership and we are absolutely blown away by the atmosphere your employees/pools provide.


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You have the audacity to talk about protecting families and children from the homosexual menace, while you yourselves tear apart families and drive children to despair. I don't know why my son is gay, but I do know that God didn't put him, and millions like him, on this Earth to give you someone to abuse. God gave you brains so that you could think, and it's about time you started doing that.
To the lady.
OK, I get it, you are upset. It's fine to let off steam, please feel free to do. When you've done that I'd be happy for a rational discussion.
Like, you mean, cancer, poverty or a seriously twisted childhood? All of which have happened to me. But please grow up, we all have problems to cope with and it is your responsibility as a parent to cope with the problem that has graced your own family.
At the core of all your misguided beliefs is the belief that this could never happen to you,
Well, if it is inborn then it is either genetic or it isn't but bandying technical words about doesn't make you right. Most of us are born with tendencies to violence and aggression but we have to learn to control them.
Whether it is genetic or whether something occurs during a critical time of fetal development, I don't know. I can only tell you with an absolute certainty that it is inborn.
It isn't 'heterosexuality'. It's normal sexuality. The term 'heterosexuality' is recently popularised term to take the moral overtones out of the equation. To dupe you into believing that it and homosexuality are on a par with each other. They are not. Heterosexuality = normal sexuality. Homosexuality = abnormal or unnatural sexuality.
If you want to tout your own morality, you'd best come up with something more substantive than your heterosexuality. You did nothing to earn it; it was given to you. If you disagree, I would be interested in hearing your story, because my own heterosexuality was a blessing I received with no effort whatsoever on my part.
Your logic is alittle twisted here. Call it straw man fallacy or whatever you like. I do not suggest that someone can change their sexual orientation at will. Why? Because that is not the issue here at all! You say that you have had enough of us but obviously you haven't really had enough because you haven't learnt yet this very basic fact. The issue is NOT about sexual orientation. Homosexuals have made it an issue of sexual orientation as a means of justifying their own behaviour. The real issue is sex. What is your sex? Male or female, that is the issue. Your son is male. Or else you would not be calling him your son. That is the only issue. He is a man, that is all there is to it.
It is so woven into the very soul of me that nothing could ever change it. For those of you who reduce sexual orientation to a simple choice, a character issue, a bad habit or something that can be changed by a 10-step program, I'm puzzled. Are you saying that your own sexual orientation is nothing more than something you have chosen, that you could change it at will? If that's not the case, then why would you suggest that someone else can?
Homosexuals have invented the concept of sexual orientation to dupe you into believing that it has a scientific basis or that it has some kind of physical or cerebral origin. They want you to believe that you have no control over it. If you don't believe this then you need only look around you to see how many single people there are. I mean those who have never had sexual relations with anyone. There are a lot of them.
Dead wrong again. It doesn't offend my sensibilities. As I have said many times, what people do behind closed doors is none of my concern. They understand the risks of their own actions, just as everyone does. I only say this: if you want to follow Jesus (and call yourself a Christian) then you cannot engage in homosexual acts because this is unnatural.
You religious folk just can't bear the thought that as my son emerges from the hell that was his childhood he might like to find a lifelong companion and have a measure of happiness. It offends your sensibilities that he should request the right to visit that companion in the hospital, to make medical decisions for him or to benefit from tax laws governing inheritance.
You began this piece with accusing Christians of having the audacity to talk about protecting families and yet here you are, having the audacity to tell us what God knows or doesn't know. Let God speak for himself instead of putting words into his mouth.
You use religion to abdicate your responsibility to be thinking human beings. There are vast numbers of religious people who find your attitudes repugnant. God is not for the privileged majority, and God knows my son has committed no sin


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Dear Reader,
Happy new Year! It is with great delight that I welcome you to another glorious year. May you experience life changing encounters this month and all through the year in Jesus name! This week, we shall be considering a critical topic "Purposeful Courtship"
To have a better understanding of the topic, let me start by defining some terms.
What is purpose?
Purpose can be defined as "the reason something is done, created or exists". According to Dr. Myles Munroe "When the purpose of a thing is not known, abuse is inevitable". Without knowing the purpose, you cannot have a successful courtship and this is the reason for misunderstandings and all kinds of troubles in marriage. That will not be your portion in Jesus name! Therefore, seek to understand what this period is meant for so you can judiciously maximise it.
What is Courtship?
Courtship is the period between when two people agree to marry and when they actually do. It is important to state here that Christian courtship is meant to be between a Christian brother and sister who have agreed to walk together in the direction of marriage (Amos 3:3) The purpose of courtship is to get to know each other through a well- nurtured relationship which is centered on Christ and built on His Word. The courtship period is a time to prove all things about your mate. The Bible clearly states Prove all things; hold fast that which is good (1 Thessalonians 5:21) and a successful courtship is a necessary step towards a successful marriage.
Let me show you some factors that will enhance the quality of your courtship
Spend Time Talking Together
A qualitative courtship involves spending time with your fiancé (e) during which you share things like your calling, dreams, interests, likes and dislikes, viewpoints etc. with each other. It is important to spend time talking together, not just looking at each other and saying,"Oh you're so beautiful. I love you so much and I can't wait to marry you". According to a popular saying, "Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction".
Words are indication of your thoughts and the direction in which you are going. If you want to know the heart of a man watch the direction of his words. If your fiancé (e) for instance always talks about money, it is an indication that he/she is money minded. If on the other hand he/she is interested in your physique, you will hear him/her speak of nothing else. The Bible says A good man out of the good treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is good; and an evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is evil: for out of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaketh (Luke 6:45)
I discovered that it is impossible to separate an individual from his words. My husband and I courted for six years and every time I heard him speak, I knew the direction he was heading to. I knew his convictions which were also my convictions. So, it became easy for both of us to flow together.
Enjoy things of mutual interest
Just as it is important to spend your courtship days praying, fasting and studying God's Word together, it is also necessary to enjoy other things of mutual interests together. For example, both of you may enjoy taking pictures. Why not? Have fun, but avoid indulging in anything sinful. Such pictures could be kept for future reference. The other day I saw some pictures of my husband and I which were taken about twenty-seven years ago! It was a lot of fun! It brought back beautiful memories. Those times help you discover whether you are actually meant for each other or not.
Appear in Public together
As intending couples, you must make out time to appear in public together. Such public meetings may include but not limited to the following: church services, wedding ceremonies, matriculation, graduation, workshops, seminars etc. I also advocate that as you appear in public, watch how both of you conduct yourselves, how your partners respond to issues and treat other people, his/her behaviour or reaction to unpalatable situations. This is a signal of what the future holds. For instance, if he/she lacks Christian character, you are heading for trouble by going into marriage with such person.
If you are ashamed to appear in public with your future husband or wife for social reasons like height, age educational and physical defects, personal carriage, eating manner etc., you have to sort them out during courtship. If not, you may never make a good couple. Be real and don't go through courtship with the eyes of your mind closed!
Write letters to each other
There is nothing old fashioned about writing letters, even though there are other means of communication such as telephones etc. especially with these fast-electronic media revolutions. A letter is still a more acceptable way of communicating. Such could be sent through e-mails or any other means. Among the many advantages of letter is that you are able to organise your thoughts better and logically because you have the opportunity of reading it over and again before sending it. Another advantage is that it becomes a document that can be kept, stored and preserved over a period of time for possible future references. It also helps to develop your writing skills which may eventually become an asset in future.
I particularly found this means of communication very helpful during my courtship days. Even now, after so many years we still refer to some of those letters. Not long ago, my husband read a portion of those letters during a Church Service which helped in driving home some points.
Keep yourself Pure!
Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge (Hebrews 13:4).
You desire honour in your marriage? Keep your bed pure! This word of caution is necessary at this juncture because when you are in love and spend time together, there is bound to be a desire to touch, \cuddle that person. If care is not taken, one little thing will lead to another until the bed is defiled.
In this part of the world there is an adage that says, "The soup you will eat in the night, why must you be in a hurry to steal out of it in the morning". If you are in courtship, my advice for you is wait! Be patient. Your time is coming. If you have been messing yourselves up and defiling the marriage bed, you have to stop it now so it doesn't mess up your destiny! Anyone who defiles the marriage bed is consciously rubbing him/herself of the honour in marriage. Beware! In case you have missed it and are genuinely repentant, ask for God's forgiveness and you will receive it.
Remember, God is a God of purpose and He has a purpose for everything He created including marriage. Therefore, to have a successful courtship and marriage you need Jesus in your life. You can accept Him now if you have not done so. If you will like to do this, please say this prayer: "Dear Lord Jesus, I come to You today as a sinner. I believe You died for my sins and rose on the third day. Forgive me my sins. I accept You as my Lord and Saviour. Make me a child of God today".
Congratulations! You are now born again! All-round rest and peace are guaranteed you, in Jesus' Name. Call or write and share your testimonies with me through firstname.lastname@example.com, and firstname.lastname@example.com; OR 07026385437 and 08141320204.For more insight, these books authored by me are available at the Dominion Bookstores in all Living Faith Churches and other leading Christian Bookstores: Singles With A Difference, Make Your Life Count and Welcome to God's Family.
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Talent : January 10, 2019 at 8:09 pm
Each time and day I read your posts, they not only build me up but they separate me from the current trends that have contributed to many failed relationships. You're the best granny, your wisdom, knowledge and teaching will forever be embedded in me. I'm forever grateful to God for you and grandpa General, your words will surely bear lasting results in me even the generation to come. Thank you
Nonso kevin : January 10, 2019 at 6:39 pm
Am blessed by this piece of advice ma, May the Lord continue to bless you ma
EBIWENI ROYALTY IBIYEOMIE ORUKARI : January 10, 2019 at 12:44 am
Thanks so much for this teachings mummy.though am 22years of age but will never make mistakes in marriage because of your teachings.God bless you mum. I wish to have more of it
Lionel Nitu : January 5, 2019 at 7:13 am
Dominion greetings to you mommy in Jesus name!
Thank you so much for this vital teaching on courtship, it has blessed me and nurtured me with the knowledge I need for a successful courtship as a single young man. God bless you the more, and give you more of His wisdom to bless us again and again!
Glory be to Jesus Christ forevermore
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Activision Blizzard's (NASDAQ:ATVI) winning streak is intact. The video game publisher this week announced quarterly results that -- for the seventh consecutive time -- beat management's guidance. The business continues to benefit from gamers' growing demand for digitally delivered content, and Activision's deep portfolio of intellectual property helped it set records for audience size, engagement, and player spending.
Let's take a closer look at the third-quarter results.
Reaching more players
The overall gamer base fell for the second straight quarter, dipping to 384 million active players from 407 million three months ago. Look beyond that headline number, though, and you'll see healthy audience metrics.
The Activision side of the business notched a record 49 million monthly active users with help from the Destiny 2 launch. That title is currently the best-selling console game for the year, and the base will only grow from there now that Activision launched it on the PC through its digital platform.
Blizzard set an audience record, too, with growth in the Overwatch and Hearthstone franchises pushing its base up to 42 million players. The King Digital segment shed 21 million casual gamers, which accounts for the overall dip in Activision's base. However, the remaining users were far more active and spent more money within games like Candy Crush.
Boosting engagement and spending
In fact, engagement was up across most of Activision's core franchises. Gamers are spending more time playing Destiny 2 than they did in the original, for example, and they're buying subscription services with more frequency. King Digital achieved higher game time, as well, and a new expansion produced the same result for the Hearthstone franchise.
Altogether, the average gamer spent 50 minutes per day engaging with Activision Blizzard games, which is a record for the company that management says puts it in the same league as some of the most addictive online platforms in the world.
The improving audience and engagement metrics powered impressive operating results. Activision's $1.9 billion of revenue trounced management's guidance of $1.7 billion and translated into record operating income. Profitability was surprisingly strong, with operating margin coming in at 30% of sales compared to the 28% that executives had forecast. "In [the third quarter] we demonstrated that meaningful results can come from content investments, both large and small," CEO Bobby Kotick said in a press release.
A brightening outlook
Kotick and his team are aiming to accelerate that process in the months ahead. The new Call of Duty release might not outsell its predecessors, but its higher rate of digital delivery, coupled with extra content launches, should keep the overall franchise marching higher in terms of overall player spending.
Relatively new properties promise to lift results, too, including a new Overwatch competition that's aimed at taking advantage of the global popularity of e-sports. "We have great momentum," Kotick told investors, "as we approach the end of the year."
Executives backed up that braggadocio with hard numbers. They now see 2017 sales hitting $6.7 billion compared to the $6.4 billion they predicted back in early August. The earnings target also got an upgrade, rising from $1.94 per share to $2.08 per share.
The boost means Activision has now raised its top- and bottom-line forecasts in each of the first three quarters of the year, with its final chance to beat its outlook now depending on how well the Call of Duty and Destiny franchises perform over the holiday season.


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Clay Porter - The Tipping Point
Tracklist / Soundtrack
Section: Artist - Title
- Intro : Seb Taylor - Many Days Later
- Maribor WC: Kays Alatrakchi - Dark Matter
- Matti Lehikoinen: Shiny Toy Guns - Rainy Monday
- Andorra WC: Yoni Gileadi - The Bomb
- Dane Short & Kris Dirksen - Star Chamber
- Mark Moore - Audio Active - I Belong
- AudioActive - Multiplicity
- Greg Minnaar: Bliss 'n' Eso - Blazin'
- World Championships: Mark Moore - Shadows from AudioActive 2
- Steve Peat / Brendan Fairclough: The Expendables - Sacrifice
- Mont. Sainte Anne WC: D. Todd Sorensen - Kiss of Death
- Lisle Moore - Mahemopolis
- Aaron Gwin / Luke Strobel: Rise Against - Saviour
- Bromont WC: James Guymon - Freedom Under Fire
- Justin Leov / Sam Blenkinsop: Alice in Videoland - Numb
- Canberra WC: The Faint - The Conductor
- Schladming WC: Nathan Matthew David - Arch Nemesis
- D. Todd Sorensen - Evolutionary
- Band of Horses - Is There A Ghost
- Credits: Iglu & Hartly - In This City
Clay has been traveling around the world for the past number of years capturing the best of biking through his lens, and he is here to bring you the 2008 World Cup Series.
Welcome back to the world of downhill mountain bike racing. A world covered in sweat, perseverance, and desire. A world filled with dreamers. A world that was dominated in 2007 by one cunning talent: Australia's Sam Hill. Many in the know thought that Hill had both the speed and mental strength to come into the 2008 World Cup Series fast and leave it devastated and undefeated. Standing in his way was a cast of athletes from around the world that were hungry, poised and ready to take the Australian down.
Featuring every round of the 2008 UCI World Cup Series as well as the World Championships and shot anywhere between the United States, Australia, Finland and Canada, the Tipping Point is the sport of downhill mountain bike racing documented. The Tipping Point is a group of characters that inspire, grow and dominate in a world they confidently claim as unique.


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The Directors of G4S (Botswana) Limited are pleased to announce that Mokgethi Magapa has been appointed Managing Director - G4S Botswana Ltd with effect from 27th March 2017. He has for the past 4 years served as the Country Managing Director - Botswana for DHL Express International, a German listed entity. Prior to DHL, Magapa was employed as the Country General Manager - Botswana for Samsung Electronics Africa and boasts 8 years in the telecoms industry.
As a seasoned business leader, he is known for achieving significant growth in the companies he has led. Magapa has over 20 years working experience with strong executive leadership, governance, business knowledge and financial acumen. His experience spans different industries such as marketing, quality assurance, telecommunications, manufacturing, retail, logistics and international trade. He brings proven experience and knowledge in strategy formulation, project management and execution within a start-up or transformation of a business environment. Magapa holds a Bachelor of Science from the University of Botswana and has also completed a Management Development Programme (MDP) at the University of Stellenbosch in South Africa. He is married to Tshepiso and blessed with four children. Magapa has a passion for sports, in particular volleyball and football.


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If you don't tell the truth, then you are telling a lie. A "lie" is the opposite of "the truth".
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- Chelsea midfielder Cesc Fabregas prepares to search for a new club.
- Fabregas has less than a year left to run on his Chelsea contract.
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Cesc Fabregas has been a superb servant to Chelsea over the past four years, but his time with the Blues could soon come to an end.
Fabregas signed a five-year contract with Chelsea upon his arrival at the club, as the BBC reported at the time. The transfer delighted Chelsea fans, and disgruntled Arsenal fans, making it a memorable move for anyone with any affiliation to the West London side.
All good things have to come to an end, however, and after winning two Premier League titles, the League Cup and FA Cup during his time as a Chelsea player, Fabregas could soon be set to walk out of the door.
Goal report that, with that five-year deal set to expire next summer, Fabregas has begun preparations for life after Chelsea. That's not necessarily to say that he's thrown in the towel and given up on earning a new contract, but it's best to be prepared.
According to Goal, Fabregas has not been assured that his future lies at Chelsea, so has been forced to prepare for the search for a new club.
It'd be sad to see Fabregas walk out the door, but if we are able to make the deal for Mateo Kovacic permanent, it would soften the blow of the Spaniard's departure.


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Few things are more disturbing than looking at the news each day to find yet another shocking case of American police officers using excessive brutality and belligerence against the public. There is no justification for this, and as the list of egregious rights violations by the police grows, more Americans may finally be waking up to what many of us have known for years: our nation is becoming a police state.
With the proliferation of portable handheld and dashboard video cameras, and with the ability to upload and share videos on the web, people can see for themselves what police brutality really looks and feels like, and tension between police and American citizens is visible. A simple Google or YouTube search quickly reveals hundreds of unique cases of cops brutalizing people, often with insane cruelty and hubris, and the list of abuses grows daily.
Many of the most shocking incidents are against women, children, the elderly, the handicapped or the mentally ill. In addition to excessive violence, police are also abusing their powers and illegally stealing money and property from everyday people, while admittedly using traffic and drug laws as revenue generating schemes for government coiffeurs. Most shockingly, though, the police are up-arming themselves with military weapons and equipment, seemingly preparing themselves for something apocalyptic, and are increasingly assuming confrontational and threatening postures when dealing with the public.
Is police brutality and misconduct actually getting worse, or are portable video recorders allowing us to just now see what's been happening all along? More importantly, is this situation going to improve any time soon?
Our society needs police, good police, working on behalf of and in cooperation and trust with their communities to solve crimes and face legitimate criminals, but, unfortunately, there are many reasons to expect this trend to get worse before it gets better, and here are 5 of them.
1. Rise of the Security State, Decline of Law and Order
In the bigger picture, there is a cultural shift underway in America from a free and prosperous nation to a repressed, surveilled and tightly regulated shell of its former self. This has been underway for generations, but has vastly accelerated since 9/11, which has given the government a perceptual cart blanche check tocreate, rewrite and bypass any laws it wishes to, including the evisceration of the Constitution and theMagna Carta. We now have a thriving culture of public paranoia, suspicion, over-reaction, acquiescence and zero-tolerance.
Much of this is the natural result of the collapse of moral leadership at the highest levels of a government that now condones torture and has for decades engaged in ongoing war, geo-political manipulations, interventions and foreign occupations. The breakdown of law and order at the top is being mirrored in every level of society.
2. The Military Industrial Economy is on Steroids
Along with insane public expenditures on defense, we are seeing the intensified militarization of American police, who are already stocked with military surplus equipment, trained in military tactics, and who increasingly demonstrate a confrontational attitude toward the American public. By 1961, when former five-star Army General and 34th President of the United States, Dwight D. Eisenhower delivered his ominous presidential farewell address to Americans, warning of the dangers of creating a permanent war economy, the stage had already been set for the rise of the super military industrial complex we see today.
30 years before Eisenhower's uncomfortable declaration, U.S. Marine Corps Major General Smedley D. Butler, once the most highly decorated and highest ranked member of the U.S. Marine Corps, also warned us of the dangers of building a permanent economy out of war with explanation of war-profiteering in his book War is a Racket. Now we have the Defense Department's Program 1033 which funnels billions of dollars of military weaponry, armor and gear into the hands of undertrained police departments.
Having gone unabated and unchallenged since these warnings, what we see happening now in law enforcement is the inevitable result of creating financial opportunities in violence, surveillance and dehumanization.
3. The Fox is The Henhouse and Silence is the Code
Accountability is lacking when law enforcement officers abuse their power, and suspensions with pay, leaves of absence and early retirement are not adequate deterrents to keep psychopathic cops in line. The police investigate themselves, and are an integral part of the same criminal justice system that would also prosecute any officers for misconduct. An inherent and obvious conflict of interest. Policing is a fraternity, and for one reason or another, good cops are mostly silent and are hushed or pushed out for blowing the whistle on corruption.
If a case of obvious brutality does make it to court, there are already alarming precedents that give the police extreme forgiveness in their use of physical compliance techniques. An example being the recent trial and acquittal of the Fullerton, CA police officers who savagely beat and murdered a homeless and mentally ill man, Kelly Thomas, which was caught on video by security cameras. The horrifying incident is available for anyone to watch, but, a jury felt that the officers had a right to use this level of force while taking him into custody, setting an ugly precedent for future encounters like this.
4. This is What Social Engineering & Mind Control Does to Societies
The use of television and mass media as propaganda for the military industrial complex has become ubiquitous in our society, and over the course of the last half-century or so, the portrayal of the role of police, government and public 'authority' has changed dramatically. Where once we had Gomer Pyle and The Andy Griffith Show, we now have Cops, CSI, 24, and Lockdown. Dramatizing and presenting police work as entertainment, while aggrandizing public service as always heroic, and giving fictional characters the impunity to violate the law and basic human rights in the name of 'public safety,' is a not-so-subtle form of psychological conditioning, teaching us to perceive public employees as being in a dominant position in society, operating under a different set of rules.
Together with non-stop mainstream news coverage of crime, fatal accidents, war, terrorism and other threats, homeland security theater and public military drills, the shock doctrine of government control through overwhelmingly visible violence that is publicized and parroted by mainstream media is the most effective means of generating mass fear and psychological obedience.
5. Not Enough People Know Their Rights and Have the Courage to Exercise Them… Yet
Knowing your rights and how to conduct yourself in any encounter with police or government agents is an essential civic responsibility, yet sadly, too many people don't know or understand their rights. This may be changing for the better, however, as videos are also emerging of citizens effectively exercising their rights in situations with law enforcement. Knowing your rights works wonders when dealing with police, and it does appear that more people are finding the courage for non-compliance.
What's worse is that in many cases, law enforcement officers don't even know the laws themselves. If both the population and the police are ignorant of the law, then we can expect, in the future, more cops to take advantage of this, and more citizens to passively tolerate this.
The natural cycle of the rise and fall of any government includes a period of authoritarian repression and control of the citizenry in order to retain inevitably declining power. Our society is in severe decay in this regard, and police are increasingly being trained to view their job as an 'us against them' endeavor, emboldened with an arrogance backed up by huge federal grants, high-tech police equipment, plus an affectionately pro-government, pro-violence mainstream media.
The Gold Standard for Good Policing
As an example of what a proper policing can and should look like, take a look at Sir Robert Peel's 9 principles for ethical policing, which was written nearly 200 years ago, and has since remained the gold standard for police conduct.
"The Peelian Principles"These nine basic principles are often referred to as "The Peelian Principles." Upon close examination of each of the Peelian principles, not only are direct connections to policing in today's world apparent, but often the nine principles are cited as the basic foundation for current law enforcement organizations and community policing throughout the world.Many law enforcement agencies currently quote the Peelian Principles on their community websites as their own principles.
Sir Robert Peel 1788 – 1850
"The Founder of Modern Policing"
Peelian Principle 1 – "The basic mission for which the police exist is to prevent crime and disorder."
Peelian Principle 2 - "The ability of the police to perform their duties is dependent upon public approval of police actions."
Peelian Principle 3 - "Police must secure the willing co-operation of the public in voluntary observance of the law to be able to secure and maintain the respect of the public."
Peelian Principle 4 - "The degree of co-operation of the public that can be secured diminishes proportionately to the necessity of the use of physical force."
Peelian Principle 5 - "Police seek and preserve public favour not by catering to the public opinion but by constantly demonstrating absolute impartial service to the law."
Peelian Principle 6 - "Police use physical force to the extent necessary to secure observance of the law or to restore order only when the exercise of persuasion, advice and warning is found to be insufficient."
Peelian Principle 7 - "Police, at all times, should maintain a relationship with the public that gives reality to the historic tradition that the police are the public and the public are the police; the police being only members of the public who are paid to give full-time attention to duties which are incumbent on every citizen in the interests of community welfare and existence."
Peelian Principle 8 - "Police should always direct their action strictly towards their functions and never appear to usurp the powers of the judiciary."Peelian Principle 9 - "The test of police efficiency is the absence of crime and disorder, not the visible evidence of police action in dealing with it."
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Samourai's New Feature: Send Bitcoin Via SMS Text Message
The privacy-focused wallet, Samourai, have introduced a new feature that enables you to send bitcoin payments using standard SMS messages. The update is exciting, as it opens up a whole host of new possibilities for adoption and improves the robustness of the Bitcoin network.
Sending Bitcoin Via SMS
Known as PonyDirect, the proprietary app can send bitcoin without an internet connection, and instead using SMS messages. Moreover, the app sidesteps censorship of the internet, making the SMS option invaluable to those in countries where such restrictions are placed.
Improving the robustness of the Bitcoin network has been eyed for some time now, where the Finnish project Kryptoradio developed a method to accept zero-confirmation transactions entirely offline by utilizing radio waves in 2014. Moreover, the idea of using SMS as a transmission mechanism was touched upon by Pavol Rusnak, CTO of Satoshilabs, in August 2017
Samourai Developer T Dev T told Bitcoin.com: "PonyDirect was developed in-house as a proof-of-concept app with the intention of open sourcing it to be an open invitation for developer participation in the Mule Tools project as a whole."
The proof-of-concept app is open source, with the code available on GitHub. While you can transmit bitcoin transactions via SMS, you can also relay transactions for your mobile contacts by using your number.
So how does it work? Since an SMS message is limited to 160 characters, several texts are sent with the initial message containing information on the number of messages to be received, the hash ID that must be matched at the end, a batch ID, a sequencing number, and a part of the actual transaction hex.
Another SMS contains a sequencing number, batch ID, and more of the actual transaction hex. Once the series of SMS messages are received from the same incoming number, the whole transaction is reassembled and pushed out to the Bitcoin network. So by dividing the bitcoin transaction as many times as necessary, the relevant information can be sent over SMS and broadcast to the network from there.
Helping those Most in Need
The PonyDirect app is bound to be a great aid to those in developing countries, where mobile penetration has leapfrogged ahead of the developed world. For instance, we can look to the case of MPesa in Kenya as an example, which is a mobile network that provides a financial infrastructure, allowing people to send money using SMS. The Economist Intelligence Unit forecasts that for 2018, we will see an average of 113 mobile subscriptions per 100 people in the world's 60 biggest markets, with growth mainly driven by India and Sub-Saharan Africa.
T Dev T stated on Twitter that the motivation behind the app is down to the desire to help those in developing countries, and especially those countries where internet is routinely censored:
The development from the Samourai team follows on from the launch of the Blockstream Satellite, which is another drive to make bitcoin payments uncensorable. By broadcasting real-time blockchain data around the world, those without access to the internet can participate in the decentralized network.
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Along with PonyDirect, the features of Samourai wallet make it stand out from the crowd. Privacy-enhancing features in the wallet include sending payments with hops to make transactions less linkable, ability to connect to your own node, support for Tor, and BIP47 reusable payment codes. The reusable payment codes are a neat addition since you can use a QR code again and again without revealing your actual addresses and the funds stored in them.
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Decision Maker: Lewes District Council Cabinet
Decision status: Recommendations Approved
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The new policy will align the policies for EBC and LDC. The main changes are:-
· No longer covering non-dependant deductions as eligible costs for a Discretionary Housing Payment
· We will take into account if there is a for the rent and whether the guarantor has been approached with regards to paying arears
· Taking into account if the landlord has insurance against rent arrears.
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To adopt the revised policy for Lewes District Council, subject to the removal of bullet point 5 at section 4.1 of the policy, as recommended by the Scrutiny Committee at its meeting on 7 February 2019.
Report author: Angy Weaver
Publication date: 11/06/2019
Date of decision: 10/06/2019
Decided at meeting: 10/06/2019 - Lewes District Council Cabinet
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text: Allergies Common Treatments Can You Have Allergy Shots During Pregnancy? By Daniel More, MD Daniel More, MD, is a board-certified allergist and clinical immunologist with a background in internal medicine. Learn about our editorial process Daniel More, MD Medically reviewed by a board-certified physician Updated on December 12, 2019 Print Allergies Overview Symptoms Causes Diagnosis Treatment Coping Allergy shots, or subcutaneous immunotherapy, have been given for over a century for the treatment of allergic rhinitis, allergic conjunctivitis, allergic asthma, and atopic dermatitis. Allergy shots are also used for venom allergy, but not for food allergies. Immunotherapy is the only treatment for allergies that can effectively cure, or at least significantly reduce, the symptoms of allergies. Sven Hagolani / Getty Images Allergy shots involve the administration of an allergen (such as pollens, pet dander, molds, and dust mites), which would seem to worsen allergy symptoms. When allergens are administered in an injection form under the skin, however, the body treats the allergens more like a vaccine. The nuts and bolts of immunotherapy consist of giving small doses that will not cause an allergic reaction, then slowly advancing the dose until larger amounts of the allergen are tolerated. Injections are given once to twice a week initially until maintenance or constant dose is achieved. This may take 3 to 6 months to reach the maintenance dose. Once reached, the maintenance dose will result in the resolution of most of a person's allergy symptoms. At this point, allergen injections are given every two to four weeks for a total of 3 to 5 years total. After receiving at least 3 years of immunotherapy, the patient continues to get benefits for another 5 to 10 years or longer, even after the shots are stopped. If the shots are stopped prior to a total of 3 years, the allergic symptoms typically return more quickly. Allergy Shots During Pregnancy Allergic rhinitis and asthma can be significant problems during pregnancy, and allergy shots can be extremely helpful in treating these. Women who are currently receiving allergy shots at the time they become pregnant may continue to benefit from these therapies. Many women wonder if allergy shots are safe to be given during pregnancy. Safety Considerations Allergy shots can be continued during pregnancy, but it is not recommended to start this treatment while pregnant. Typically, the dose of the allergy shots is not increased during pregnancy, and many allergists decrease the dose. Some allergists feel that allergy shots should be stopped during pregnancy, given the risk of anaphylaxis and possible danger to the fetus as a result. Other than anaphylaxis, no data shows that the allergy shots themselves are actually harmful to the fetus. A discussion of the risks and benefits of continuing allergy shots during pregnancy should be had between the patient and allergist, with input from the patient's obstetrician, before deciding on a treatment regimen. Find out more about the basics of allergy shots. Was this page helpful? Thanks for your feedback! Sign up for our Health Tip of the Day newsletter, and receive daily tips that will help you live your healthiest life. Sign Up You're in! Thank you, {{form.email}}, for signing up. There was an error. Please try again. What are your concerns? Other Inaccurate Hard to Understand Submit Article Sources Verywell Health uses only high-quality sources, including peer-reviewed studies, to support the facts within our articles. Read our editorial process to learn more about how we fact-check and keep our content accurate, reliable, and trustworthy. Allergen Immunotherapy Practice Parameters. Ann Allergy Asthma Immunol. 2003; 90:S1-40.


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Hi. I have a theory. My theory is that the earth might have flare activity? I believe what gives its existence away is that it produces visible plasmas.
Sun flares produce coronal mass ejections and I believe earth flares might produce electrical flashes (discharges) in its atmosphere from plasmas commonly interoperated as ball lightning.
Solar flares also produce sun quakes. I believe an earth flare might produce electrical discharges in the ground and prior to these forms of earthquake some of it's energy can be seen as plasmas that are commonly known as "earth lights".
But perhaps this energy can also discharge at or near the surface and produce both. This maybe one such example. http://www.iris.edu/news/IRISnewslet...ws/senate.html
I believe these plasmas are probably cold like what is described here: http://www.ipp.mpg.de/ippcms/eng/pre.../05_06_pi.html
Lastly. There are claims that beams of light have been seen prior to some earthquakes.
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A neighborhood or community watch program is an organized group of citizens devoted to crime-prevention within a community. Members of a given community agree together to keep an eye on one another's properties, patrolling the street – and reporting suspicious incidents to the police. The Neighborhood Watch is a community crime prevention program that was launched by the National Sheriffs' Association in 1972 to encourage citizens to look out for each other, work on neighborhood problems, and make themselves safer. Today, more than 40 % of Americans live in areas covered by some form of a community or neighborhood watch group.
This post will conclude from multiple sources how a neighborhood watch program works within a community, why they exist, and if they are effective in reducing the crime rate in a given area.
Why Do Community Watch Programs Exist?
Community watch is undoubtedly one of the oldest and most well known crime prevention programs in history. The aim of these groups is to promote education for residents of a community on security, safety and achieving safe and secure neighborhoods. In general, when a criminal activity is suspected, members are encouraged to report to authorities, and not to intervene. In general, community watch programs strive to promote awareness and efficiency when acting on suspicious activity. With such large investments and resources from the community, it is important to ask; are community watch programs effective in reducing crime?
How Do They Work?
Neighborhood or community watch programs often go by a various names and include both nationally recognized and small-town organizations. These programs or organizations can be initiated either by the public or the police. The funding of community watch programs is nearly always a joint venture between the local police department and the program members through their fund-raising activities. In the U.S., block watches are usually run by a block captain who is responsible to a block coordinator or block organizer.
What Do They Do?
Once the watch group is up and running, neighbors must remember to keep their eyes open. No matter how many police patrols go through a community each day, no one knows their own neighborhood better than the people who live there. Community watch program members will take turns watching a street or designated area of the community. Upon noticing suspicious activity or an emergency situation, the group will contact the authorities or emergency services to mitigate the issue. Sometimes, community watch members will create the illusion of occupancy for members of the community who are out of town. This includes removing newspapers from outside neighbors' homes when they are away, mowing the lawn, and filling up trash cans. Such signs of occupancy might reduce crime through the effect this has on potential offenders' perceptions of the likelihood of their getting caught.
Depending on the scope of the program, watch associations can do everything from encouraging homeowners to get security systems, conduct security inspections and upgrade locks, security hardware and lighting to organizing contact lists for quick neighborhood alerts. Watch groups also ward off potential criminal activity by keeping the neighborhood well-marked with watch signs and stickers on homes—the kinds of things that makes thieves think twice.
How Effective Are They?
According to a study done by The Crime Prevention Research Review, nearly all findings concluded that all areas associated with a neighborhood watch pointed to lower levels of crime in the area. It has been argued that visible surveillance might reduce crime because of its deterrent effect on the perceptions and decision-making of potential offenders. Offenders may notice the spike in community surveillance, and in turn they decide not to strike or possibly target a different area. Additional research is needed to understand factors that contribute to its effectiveness to guide implementation of new or existing community watch programs.
While there are various studies on this topic, meta-analysis found that community watch was associated with a relative reduction in crime of about 16%, which is considered a "small favorable effect". While any good measure to reduce crime is time and money well-spent, there are more effective ways to ensure the safety of your home and family. Protect America can provide affordable DIY security systems for any home. Our systems use three of the best monitoring facilities throughout the United States to make sure your home is always protected. Defend your home and your wallet with Protect America.


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Mauve Herringbone Flower Lapel Pin
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This lapel flower is a carnation made of mauve herringbone wool with a brass pin.
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"Books are the best friends Library is the heart of the University; The Library is Growing Organism Every Book has its Reader Save the time of the Use"
Dr. S. R. Ranganathan Main Library of PGP College of Engineering and Technology has set its vision, to the maximum satisfaction of the institution in imparting the highest quality of Technical Education. Our Library is offering the most modern facilities and infrastructure in an aesthetically designed modern library building.
Our Central Library is housed in a spacious area of 5000 sq.ft. The stock as well as issue and return and renewal are all fully computerized with Bar-Coding provision and the transactions all are automated. Our library has got a seating capacity of 100 seats, out of which 60 are air conditioned.
The Central Library is located in PGP College and it is the biggest library with 500 students and 250 readers visit library every day. It works on all working days from 8am to 8pm and closed on every Monday.
The library hosts numerous volumes of text books and reference book on various fields of study. Our "Dr. Ranganathan Library" has been set up with centralized air condition and has state-of the-art standards. The library has nearly 50,000 books, 500 e-journals (DELNET and IEEE), 200 National / International journals and magazines.
A well-equipped video lecture hall has been established with lectures delivered by Professors of IIT on nearly 260 subjects relating to Engineering and Management studies to improve the knowledge and skills of our students and also to provide them with a good exposure to study and research materials.
It also has an auditorium to conduct motivational speeches and inspiring lectures from dignitaries in different field of expertise.
The college library has numerous volumes of books and journals for the Students to use the library to their best advantage by devoting as much time as possible in the library.
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Our role is to provide access to the information resources required by members of the college for research, learning and teaching. There is a wealth of material to support learning and research at the University level and over 25,000 printed volumes and an extensive range of high quality electronic resources are available. The library has been equipped with 181 E Journals, 180 National, International Journals and Magazines.
1. Total No. of Collection: more than 25000 Volumes
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A well equipped Video Lecture Hall has been established with lectures delivered by the Professors of IIT through NPTEL on 260 subjects related to Engineering and Management Studies.
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From steel production to construction, automotive to aerospace, engineers are in demand
Solving machine design challenges at Canada's largest steel producer. Travelling the world to meet with customers. Designing parts for a robotic arm on the International Space Station. Starting and running a successful business.
This describes the day-to-day work of just a few of the women identified by Javelin Technologies as fascinating people doing fascinating things using Javelin's products and services.
While researching this topic and talking to women in engineering and manufacturing in Canada, I keep hearing that too many young women and girls just aren't aware of, or have misconceptions about, career opportunities in these fields.
Everyone agrees it's time we fix that. In fact, we have to.
Ranstad, Canada's largest staffing firm, reports, "Like many STEM fields (science, technology, engineering, and math), the engineering sector is on the verge of a labour crisis. An estimated 20% of engineers are 55 and over. With a large percentage of the workforce nearing retirement, the field is looking for an infusion of fresh, young talent. There's lots of potential for young engineers to make their mark and rapidly advance into senior roles."
They say specialties related to mechanical and electrical engineering are currently the most in demand, with "computer aided design" and "SOLIDWORKS" among the top six most in-demand skills. Trends include a focus on automation and efficiency, as well as waste reduction and sustainability.
Good jobs are out there. And it's captivating and fulfilling work with competitive salaries. Let's meet three more of the women in the Javelin Technologies customer base who are leading the way.
Problem-solving in heavy industrial machine design
Jing Xu is a senior specialist in stress analysis and design for ArcelorMittal Dofasco – a steel producer and the largest private sector employer in Hamilton, Ontario.
It's heavy industry and a massive operation, and Jing contributes to keeping equipment running smoothly and products moving on the line. She says the best part of the job is seeing her ideas and drawings come to life and knowing her efforts count.
"Any day I can solve problems, that's a good day," she says. "It's a bit like forensic science and I'm the investigator. Why is this part broken? Is the load too heavy? I run the simulations and show the team something they haven't thought about before."
Jing was educated in China, until she came to Canada for her post-graduate studies in Regina, Saskatchewan. She says that some of the best engineers came from farming families.
"They knew how to fix the equipment on the farm. They grew up taking things apart. A good engineer enjoys seeing how things work. When I was a kid, I used to take apart the clocks in my parents' house."
Jing's parents never treated her any differently than her brother, just encouraged her to be the best she could be. In Jing's second last year of high school, she had to choose between a math or language stream.
"I looked at my strengths, and I was good in math and interested in physics. I also looked at the future job market. Civil engineering and architecture were my first choices but I ended up in mechanical and found I was good at it."
Pride in her work in construction and mining
Laurise Chedid is CAD (computer aided design) Manager for Black Cat Wear Parts in Edmonton, Alberta. She remembers doodling floor plans in math class in high school, and actually completed two years of an interior design program. It was there she found she had a talent for technical drafting and switched her focus and career to design engineering.
"I wasn't feeling drive and motivation working in interior design, so I went back to school," she says. I always tell young people, just start something. Get a foot in the door. You never know what you'll learn, or who you'll meet."
Laurise works in construction and mining, traditionally a man's world. Black Cat products improve and protect buckets and blades on earthmoving machines.
"It has been a challenge for me," she says. "When I was young, if I thought about construction, I thought 'men do those jobs.' I knew I might stand out as the only woman. Some people wondered if I would last but I've excelled here. My company respects my drive, and I love to be challenged."
Laurise has been able to branch out from technical management to dealing directly with customers, and that work has taken her to trade shows across North America and even to China.
"I love talking to customers about what we do, showing them how we can help. That gives me a lot of pride."
From "blank white page" to running a mechanical design firm
Bozena Kunowski came to Canada in 1984 from Poland, trained as a mechanical engineer, but feeling like she was starting over "with a blank white page." Her first interview, with Magna International, was memorable.
"They were all men, and we spoke in German," Bozena says. "One gentleman asked me if I thought I could work in automotive. I said 'no problem,' even though I had never worked in the industry. I needed the job so badly. By the end of the interview, he said, 'I have no lady engineers here so you are hired. Let's give it a try.'"
So Bozena had to learn quickly to "pass the test." She remembers working on a Lamborghini bumper − a complicated layout. When her boss took her design to Italy, the gentleman there called others in to see Bozena's work. "This is how you are supposed to present a design," he told his team. Bozena says this was a turning point for her.
"You have to always want to be better. The rewards are often little remarks like this that give you joy and put wind in your sails."
From automotive, Bozena moved to aerospace, taking a position at SPAR Aerospace in 1989. It was an exciting time at SPAR. The company had produced equipment, including the Canadarm, for NASA's space shuttle program, and in 1992 was awarded the bid to build the Canadarm 2, which would later be used to construct the International Space Station.
After five years at SPAR, Bozena made a big decision. She was going to start her own business.
In 1994, CADmech Design was born. At the time, there were few design and engineering services firms like hers. She hustled to get clients, worked day and night, built a team, and slowly moved from designing to running the business, now based in Markham, Ontario.
"As long as you're passionate, you will always have success," she says.
Bozena and Javelin Technologies go way back. She met Javelin's founders John Carlan and Ted Lee around the same time they were launching Javelin 20 years ago. CADmech and Javelin have grown together, both based on special expertise in 3D design and SOLIDWORKS.
"There is no such thing as a girl's profession or a boy's profession," Bozena says. "If you love math and physics and you are eager to solve puzzles, try your skills in engineering – there are many great and varied opportunities."
Bozena has always focused on giving young people and new Canadians opportunities to gain the engineering work experience they need to succeed.
"I want to give them the same opportunity someone gave me," she says. "I always try to see the potential in someone. Even if they are trembling and don't express themselves well yet in English during the interview, if I feel a passion for engineering, supported by good educational fundamentals, I do everything to provide the position. In most cases, this leads to another success story similar to mine."


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Poetry books: Death and other inanimate objects
Dennis O'Driscoll's poems are preoccupied by mortality and a sense of alienation, while Frank Ormsby's poems are a mordant miscellany with a confident voice
Dennis O'Driscoll and Seamus Heaney. Photograph: Karl Smyth
In Rainer Maria Rilke's great essay On Dolls, the poet remembers the alienating discovery that the doll, no matter how much attention is lavished on it, must remain its own inert thing, separate from whatever we project onto it. For Rilke this marks a rupture, an example of how human consciousness, try as it might, is never at home in this world we live and die in. Such a sense of alienation and rupture, of wrong beginnings, is evident on almost every page of Dennis O'Driscoll's Collected Poems (Carcanet, £19.99).
In the book's first poems O'Driscoll writes about his parents' early deaths, which orphaned the poet and his siblings: "looking forward becomes looking back / until there is nothing either way but death", he writes in Siblings, a poem which also established O'Driscoll's characteristically unsettling and matter-of-fact tone: "We have spent a year without him – his thoughts / scattered, his burden of organs eased."
His shocking double bereavement skews O'Driscoll's perspective as a poet: wherever he would look, in his three decades' work, death is in the offing. Striking individual successes include the darkly gothic relish of poems like Someone ("Someone is dressing up for death today, a change of skirt or tie / eating a final slice of buttered sliced pan, tea") and the account of his own conception, Job (addressing his parents, he asks, "Could they not have turned over / or taken more care?).
Preoccupied with mortality, the poems appear bewildered by good health and pleasure. O'Driscoll defuses Romantic idealism about life on Earth, offering instead a jaundiced, omniscient, sometimes bitterly Beckettian reflection on being "born astride a grave". Indeed, there is a caustic revision of one of Beckett's most-quoted lines in Or Bust: "Quote that witty quip you heard at Rotary: . . . something . . . something . . . fail again better", while in Spare Us, he writes: "Spare us the spring" and "And spare us, no less, the need / for wonder".
Bare facts
O'Driscoll's distaste for "wonder" in response to the bare facts of life was, perhaps, fortified by his working life as a lawyer and civil servant: the fine detail and jargon of legal instruments and management provided him with a vocabulary which was at least one remove from Ireland's lyric tradition. Like his contemporaries in the civil service, Thomas McCarthy and Gerard Fanning among them, there is close attention to the world of work and its rhythms, especially in The Bottom Line, which explores, over 550 lines, the workplace's cramping, unsatisfying rituals: "You will slave till pension day, / eluded by advancement, satisfaction, wealth. / In your head, some plangent melody repeats". Later long poems are broader and more scrapbook-like: in Skywriting, Dear Life, Time Pieces, Before and Breviary, the absence of god, like the absent parents of the earlier poems, is the condition and prevailing weather in which the poems are composed.
O'Driscoll's insistent anti-lyricism was grounded in his extensive reading of his contemporaries, and his refusal of the many cliches he found there. His critical aesthetic circumscribes his work, and, reading 500-plus pages, a reader will question his cussed use of awkwardly literal idioms, never quite "exiting from / spreadsheets, flagging tomorrow's / priorities on your electronic diary" (Museum).
His voice, though, is one of the most distinctive of his generation, a generation to which his work stands at a critical angle. His contemporaries are, too, the explicit subject of satires that judiciously target "say anything" pomposity: The Next Poem consists entirely of a preamble which concludes with: "As I said, it's quite short. And you have to picture it set out on the page as five sonnet-length trapezoids. Here's the poem." At which point O'Driscoll's poem ends.
War Poet also targets writerly vanity: "His will be the war poem to end all war poems. A sure-fire competition winner."
Satirical bullseyes
Such satirical bullseyes would surely appeal to Frank Ormsby, one-time editor of The Honest Ulsterman, whose The Darkness of Snow (Bloodaxe, £9.95) is sometimes as mordant as O'Driscoll's work. Ormsby is good company, confident about his audiences and the voice he brings to them. In My Father Again, the poet is visited by a ghost who hopes "this time / I'll produce a real poem / The Ballad of Paddy Ormsby", but must leave, unsatisfied: "So again you plunge into the unshaping night. / I slip the latch. Already you are out of sight."
There are poems here for his Belfast friends, Ciaran Carson and Michael Longley, engaging poems about a Fermanagh boyhood, and a sequence responding to paintings with character sketches, although it is difficult to see what exactly Ormsby adds to the paintings other than introducing a space for him to write about women.
Two other, very different sequences round out a book whose miscellaneous nature does not serve its best work as well as it should. The Willow Forest imagines the post-war trial of a tyrant, seen through the eyes of an interpreter, whose own, self-reflexive testimony is the sequence's most compelling: "I think of the places where the truth was lost: / in the corner of a bar where six men met - / or was it five? [. . . .] As one Professor of Politics dared to remark, / 'We're all revisionists now and shall be again.'"
And Ormsby is at is best in The Parkinson's Poems, which maintains a level calm even as it is quite clear about the disease ("My party piece is called / The Plane in the Storm"), the medication, the side-effects and the accompanying hallucinations:
They might be teachers or civil servants
with a taste for line dancing
and Country music.
At times they exude
a kind of homelessness,
displaced beings
crashing at my pad.
They have the fearsome
patience of invalids.
Whatever it is they are waiting for,
they will wait forever.
John McAuliffe's fourth book is The Way In (Gallery). He teaches poetry at the University of Manchester's Centre for New Writing