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Castillo's Duties Kick-Off At Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week
With Behind-The-Scenes Segments
NEW YORK - September 5, 2013 - Oxygen Media announced today that actress, model, and television host Susie Castillo has been named as the on-air network personality. In her new role, Castillo will engage Oxygen consumers and build brand awareness providing coverage of all things relevant to young women in pop-culture and participating in multiple social media initiatives for the network. Castillo will bring Oxygen viewers behind-the-scenes content from the network's various programming such as hosting live "After Shows" and "Cast Chats." She will kick-off her duties at New York Fashion Week, hosting coverage of the week's events from runway shows to red carpet parties that will be available on Oxygen.com and the network's social sites. In addition, Castillo will be moderating a GOOGLE+ Hangout on Tuesday, September 10 at 7 PM ET for the highly anticipated premiere of the network's new docu-series "Preachers of L.A." She can currently be seen on Oxygen.com hosting exclusive interviews with the cast from the empowering series "My Big Fat Revenge."
"I love Oxygen and what they stand for, and couldn't be more thrilled to join the network as they move forward with their exciting new programming," said Castillo. "The 'Live Out Loud' message is how I've always chosen to live my life so this is a match made in Heaven!"
"With years of on-camera experience and her fiery and authentic attitude, Susie brings a fresh and relatable perspective to the network as Oxygen's new personality," said Rod Aissa, Senior Vice President, Original Programming and Development, Oxygen Media. "Susie is the true definition of the Oxygen woman - young, diverse and living life on her own terms."
Castillo's "All About Fashion Week" segments will focus on the hottest trends coming off the runways of Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Spring 2014 Collections. She will be providing backstage coverage from runway shows including, Pamella Roland, Steven Alan, Brandon Sun. and Milly by Michelle Smith. The segments will introduce Susie to Oxygen viewers and offer sponsorship opportunities for advertisers. In addition, Susie will provide live coverage that will be available exclusively on Oxygen's social networks such as Twitter and Instagram, and her coverage will be aggregated for fans at http://susie-castillo.oxygen.com.
"Susie is a perfect fit with the Oxygen brand. She embodies today's young modern woman," said Susan Malfa, SVP, Ad Sales for Bravo Media, Oxygen Media, Style Media and Women At NBCU. "She's a high energy pro with point of view that will connect with our audience and our marketing partners whether she is backstage with insider interviews at Fashion Week or at celebrity filled events."
The"Preachers of L.A." GOOGLE+ Hangout will engage a global audience in a live conversation with the series' stars, including Minister Deitrick Haddon, Bishop Ron Gibson and Pastor Wayne Chaney. Moderated by Susie Castillo, the chat will feature prominent bloggers alongside the series' stars. Fans can RSVP for the Hangout here.
About Susie Castillo (@SusieCastillo)
With her years of on-camera experience, extensive modeling portfolio, and truly "Live Out Loud" attitude, Susie brings instant recognition and relatability to her role as the new on-air personality of Oxygen, providing coverage of all things woman in pop culture. Her first major exposure with the network was as the host of real-time coverage of New York Fashion Week, presenting "All About" segments, attending fashion shows, and covering the week's events on oxygen.com and the Oxygen social networks. She was also seen on oxygen.com hosting exclusive interviews with the cast of the empowering new docu-series My Big Fat Revenge.
In 2003, Susie became the third Latina to win the Miss USA Pageant, prompting People en Español to name her one of their 25 Most Beautiful. Among Susie's other accomplishments are cohosting the NBC series School Pride, E! News, Live! With Regis and Kelly, and serving as daily host of MTV's TRL, and hosting Big Ten, TRL's New Year's Eve, The VMAs on Overdrive, The Hills After Show, and multiple Real World Reunion specials. Fluent in Spanish, Susie hosted the syndicated MTV Radio show TRLatino, which was developed specially for her. She also wrote the book Confidence is Queen: The Four Keys to Ultimate Beauty Through Positive Thinking, published by Penguin. As an actress, Susie starred in Tyler Perry's hit TBS sitcom House of Payne and guest starred on the hit ABC shows Castle and My Wife and Kids, as well as UPN's Half and Half. Her film work includes Disney's Underdog, Hallmark's A Holiday Engagement and the upcoming feature Electric Slide.
If you have any questions or are interested in setting up interviews with Susie Castillo please contact us. Press materials for Susie Castillo can be obtained from NBC Media Village at www.nbcumv.com.
About Oxygen Media
Oxygen Media is a multiplatform entertainment brand that delivers relevant and engaging content to young women who like to "live out loud." Oxygen is rewriting the rulebook for women's media by changing how the world sees entertainment from a young woman's point of view. Through a vast array of unconventional and original content, including "The Face," "Best Ink," "I'm Having Their Baby" and "Bad Girls Club," the growing cable network is the premier destination to find unique and groundbreaking unscripted programming. A social media trendsetter, Oxygen is a leading force in engaging modern young women, wherever they are, with popular, award winning features online including www.OxygenLive.com, the real time social viewing party that is also available as an app for the iPhone and iPad. Oxygen is available in 80 million homes, and can be found online and on mobile devices at www.oxygen.com. Follow us on Twitter at www.twitter.com/OxygenPR. Oxygen Media is a program service of NBCUniversal Cable Entertainment, a division of NBCUniversal.


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Transition of Police Services to New Public Safety Complex Complete
(Jan 22, 2013, Hartford, CT.) - Police Chief James C. Rovella announced today that as of January 24, 2013, with the move of the patrol division and detention facility, the transition of all police services to the new City of Hartford Public Safety Complex is be complete.
"I want to express my gratitude to the public for their patience during this period of change. I am sure they will appreciate the benefits they will derive from their new Public Safety Complex, including its central location at 253 High Street, improved parking, and access to all first responder public safety services under one roof," said Chief Rovella.
Important public information:
The address of the Public Safety Complex is 253 High Street, Hartford, CT., 06103. The main, non-emergency phone number is 860-757-4000.
All current phone numbers for the HPD remain the same.
The visitor parking lot is located in the front of the building with access from High Street, which remains one way heading south from Albany Avenue.
Bondsmen and the public requiring access to the detention facility are directed to a telephone located in the main lobby from which to call the detention facility to be escorted to the facility. The phone number for the detention facility is 860-757-4380.
The HPD Teleserve Office located in the main lobby will be open to the public on Thursday, January 24, 2013.
The Records Division (860-757-4150) is operational and open weekdays from 8:00 a.m. to 6:30 p.m., and Saturdays from 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
The City of Hartford Public Safety Complex was officially opened to the public in a ceremony hosted by Hartford Mayor Pedro E. Segarra on Wednesday, January 9, 2013.
The Internal Affairs Divisions, Major Crimes, Special Investigative, and Crime Scene Divisions relocated to 253 High Street the first week of December, 2012. Also relocated at the time were the Civil Litigation, Advocate, Personnel/Planning, Accreditation, Fiscal, Payroll, and Office of the Chief. The Records Division began operations at 253 High Street on January 12,2013.
The new City of Hartford Public Safety Complex
253 High Street, Hartford, CT 01103
Protect our community and we will protect your identity:
On-line Tip Form or call Hartford CRIME STOPPERS ad 860-722-TIPS (8477)
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DON'T FORGET to watch our first YouTube video at the end of this blog.
Good morning to our readers!
As we stated on our very first blog post, we wanted to reserve this space to document everything. We wanted to document our successes and our failures. Well, here we are, ready to share with you again. Today, we want to share our hope for this blog and our new YouTube channel.
Why are we blogging?
We want to document our journey on this blog because we feel very fortunate to have been able to take the steps we did towards our dream and we wish to share and inspire others to do the same. Just eight months ago, California was our home. Our hopes and dreams for our future were uncertain. We never thought we'd be where we are today. Surely, you have heard of the term wage slave before. As blessed as we were to have a promising career that could lead our family to a fairly stable future, it didn't feel right. The hours and energy spent on the clock weren't fulfilling. We had a desire for more (or some would say, less). We wanted a fulfilling life of growing our own food and living closer to God's beautiful world.
Have you ever studied the behavior of chickens? When a momma hen goes broody, (broody is a term used to describe a hen that wants to incubate her eggs) she spends the majority of her days meticulously rearranging her nest and rotating her eggs to ensure that each egg is equally warmed on all sides. She may even pluck feathers off of her body so she can use her warm skin to warm the eggs. Aside from leaving the nest for a little sustenance a few times a day, she will sit on her eggs all day and all night. After they've hatched, she will raise and teach them the ways of the chicken and protect them.
Often, you'll notice a discoloring in her comb and waddle due to her lack of nutrients. During feeding time, she will use her beak to sweep away food from a feeder so her chicks can have them. She'll even pick up a treat that she loves, only to drop it for her babies to eat. She will also protect these chicks from the rest of the flock's pecking order. This momma hen will continue her motherly ways until she is not needed anymore. Soon, the chicks will hit what we call their "teenage" weeks and pull away from momma hen, which in turn lets momma hen know that her time with them has come. How beautiful is that?
Now, imagine a little chick that's been hatched in a mechanical incubator and raised without a mother. One day, when she goes broody, chicks are carefully slipped under her to trick her into taking them in as her own. Will she then know how to teach her babies how to eat, drink, and stay safe? If she had no experience being raised by her momma, will she be able to successfully raise these chicks on her own? The answer? Yes, it happens all the time! We witnessed just that after we slipped three chicks under our broody hen. Watching our broody momma love and nurture the babies was truly magical.
We are where we are today because we witnessed something so beautiful in our chickens that left us in awe. We wanted more. We wanted to be able to raise our daughter around more nature and go forward to the days of farming. A self-sustaining life was our ideal.
So many people ask us, "Why Minnesota?" To tell you the truth, we prayed and God led. There is no better way to answer that question than that. Specifically, we prayed for God to place us where we could bless others; a place where we could serve. God was faithful.
To sum it up, we gave up our comfortable life in California to take a leap of faith. Fear of the unknown and worry about the lack of financial security kept us caged, but we chose to fight it because we knew that our cup could be filled. And so, that is why we decided to call this blog "Filled Cup". A filled cup is not a goal to us, but a mindset. Though we may not always feel like our cup is filled, we always remember that ultimately, our cup has already been filled and will stay full as long as we have a heart of contentment. By staying humble and grateful for the little things, we won't have a need for more.
Are you feeling pulled to do something more with your life? Do you desire more? Ask yourself, what is stopping you? Now, it may not be a move to another state or a move altogether. Maybe you've been putting off going back to school, applying for that new job, quitting your job to stay home with the kids, starting that small business, ending that toxic relationship, courting that cute girl, starting a garden, putting the house on the market, or starting a blog. Whatever it may be, we hope you don't let fear stop you from taking steps forward and that you fill your cup.
Thank you for stopping by!
Tomorrow, we will begin we will begin part one of our homestead/market gardening series. Then, stay tuned for some homeschool freebies and a post from "Anxious Anna". You also don't want to miss a little entertaining video from our littlest contributor (our 6-year-old) coming soon.
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May your day be filled with things that nurture your soul and fill your cup.
We hope you enjoy our little video below.


text: GMG readers: thanks for voting for Cape Ann's own Brad Byrd, who won in the Best Singer-Songwriter Album of 2011 for his release "Mental Photograph" on the highly-regarded melodic.net site. Brad was up against such luminaries as Ryan Adams & Bon Iver, but clearly, melodic's fans know the best when they hear it! For more of Brad's music, visit his site www.bradbyrdofficial.com and check out his interview on melodic.net.


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Quality inspection systems
Brand protection and consumer safety continue to rise in importance. With MULTIVAC inspection systems, you can provide efficient quality control and ensure that the pack and its labelling are faultless. From foreign object detection to the weight check and right up to the final pack inspection, we offer you a wide spectrum of solutions for meeting statutory regulations and maintaining the highest quality standards.


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My new obsession: Cockpit landing videos taken during approaches into technically challenging airports.
Yesterday, Phillip Bump posted a link on Twitter to a detailed rant, written by a pilot, about why pilots don't like to land at (or take off from) Washington DC's Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport. That post is pretty interesting, especially if you've ever wondered—as I had, while waiting on the tarmac at National last fall—how large jets manage land and take off from that airport while simultaneously avoiding all the no-fly zones that are very, very close by. (Hint: It is difficult, and occasionally terrifying.) But the money shot is at the end, where you can watch a video that will show you the pilot's eye view of a National Airport landing approach.
Turns out, there is a whole, beautiful genre of YouTube videos devoted to this kind of thing. The video above is one of my favorites, showing the approach in to Hong Kong's old Kai Tak airport. Closed in 1998, Kai Tak had one of the most challenging landing approaches in the world. It involved flying at heights of less than 1000 feet over the top of crowded neighborhoods and close to nearby skyscrapers, then executing a sharp right-hand turn, while continuing to lose elevation. Oh, and, the turn had to be done without the help of the Instrument Landing System. Instead, pilots made the turn based on a checkerboard marker painted on the side of a hill. And the runway ended in water. Read the rest


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Treasure black and beautiful
French Polynesia's economy thrives on Tahiti pearls – but a great deal of luck and even more understanding go into producing these treasures.
A deafening silence reigns on the beaches of French Polynesia. Most of the islands are surrounded by a lagoon shielded from the open ocean by coral reefs. The turquoise waters are bathtub-shallow; no breakers destroy the postcard idyll; no crests of foam ride the waves. Inside the reefs, yellow, blue and glittering silver fish raise their young undisturbed.
Silence is sublime. But the waves off Rangiroa are even more wonderful, Surging noisily toward the coast, racing the dolphins. The island lies all alone in the Pacific like a giant ring of sand, a narrow strip of land in the middle of nowhere, with the ocean greedily licking at its edges – half friend, half foe.
The largest island in the Tuamotu Archipelago, Rangiroa is the home of marine biologist Philippe Cabral. He came here from Tahiti to grow a treasure that exists in this form only in French Polynesia: black pearls. He coaxes them from the oysters he keeps for the purpose in the lagoon there.
The only road on the island inevitably also leads past Gauguin's Pearl, Cabral's oyster farm. Cabral, 58, has been growing his mother-of-pearl treasures here since 1990. He's sporting flip-flops, a white singlet that reveals lots of well-tanned skin and a mustache; friendly eyes gleam beneath bushy eyebrows The water glints in the background, where motorboats bob in the tiny harbor, and between two palm trees, there's a pile of rubble that was swept up after the last storm. A concrete pavilion provides shadow for Cabral's employees. One of them is just drilling holes in the oysters, pulling through cable ties and fastening the creatures to ropes that will later be let down into the waves. Another is wearing a rubber apron and carrying a machete, which he uses to hack at the mollusks and rid their shells of coral and algae encrustations, sending them swirling around him in the air. What looks like a really brutal onslaught actually serves to protect these sensitive creatures: Their "lodgers" hinder the oysters' growth – and therefore also that of the treasures growing inside them.
In the yard, large warehouses and boats bear witness to better times. Pearl production is a major branch of industry in the small French overseas territory; in 2014, pearls accounted for 67 percent of exports. But now the market is ailing and prices are steadily falling, as buyers become choosier while inferior products flood the market. Many small businesses have long since given up. Of a former 1700, only around 460 farms have survived. Cabral's farm is the last remaining operation on Rangiroa, where once 15 thrived. "The wholesalers used to pay 5000 francs per gram for the pearls, but today we get 500 francs for the same quantity. And plus, we cannot sell them all; the market is oversaturated," says Cabral. He used to have 100 men working for him; today, there are just 20 left, and they are part-timers.
Two of them have a particularly responsible job: They are the "surgeons." Armed with forceps and scalpel, they insert a nucleus into the mollusks as soon as they reach the age of two. An oyster will protect its organism from a foreign body by coating it with mother-of-pearl. The result: a cultured pearl. But oysters are highly sensitive creatures. The surgeon only has a very narrow gap through which to reach the soft tissues inside the shell with his instruments, and just half a minute to make the cut and insert the nucleus. Once the oyster is back in the water, all Cabral and his men can do is wait and see. It's up to Nature now to decide what color the pearl will be and whether it will be round or have little dents. The more comfortably an oyster lives, however, the rounder and more gleaming its pearl.
Oysters are sensitive creatures. If the ocean heats up too much, they become stressed
The workers take care of several hundreds of thousands of oysters outside in the lagoon, covering the 100 hectares of water that Cabral rents from the government in small, open motorboats. They release the baby oysters into the lagoon, regularly clean their shells of algae and sponges, harvest the mature animals and return the fertilized ones to the lagoon. Seven meters below the surface, cages full of oysters hang from the ropes they have strung there. The water is 27 degrees warm down there, and that is actually far too hot for a pearl farm. If the lagoon heats up to over 30 degrees, the men have to stop work because then, the mollusks need to be left in peace, since high temperatures exhaust them. But the water in the lagoon is steadily growing warmer. "In 20 years' time, there will be no more oyster farms here in the north," says Cabral. The falling PH value of the Pacific is also a huge worry – oysters cannot survive in acid water.
The marine and mineral resources agency Direction des Ressources Marines et Minières (DRMM) in the capital city, Papeete, oversees pearl exports. Until now, only pearls with a nacre – that's the outer layer of mother-of-pearl – of at least 0.8 millimeters deep could be designated "Tahitian pearls" (to be precise: "pearls cultured on Tahiti") and exported. The DRMM destroyed all the rest. That quality control ceased to exist at the start of 2017. A new law that allows the farms to produce a certain quantity of pearls each year depending on their size replaced it. The intention is to protect the lagoon environment and reduce the quantity of exported pearls. Cabral fears that the law will not be enforceable. "Even now, the leasing of the lagoons doesn't work as it should," he says, "and many farmers on the remote islands just do as they like – they lease ten hectares of water but use a hundred." The government agencies lack sufficient staff to monitor far-flung farms.
Cabral has been able to keep his head above water so far, but only thanks to the tourists. Every year, around 190 000 visitors come to French Polynesia, and they represent a second important source of income for the islands. "Without the tourists on Rangiroa, Gauguin's Pearl would no longer exist," says Cabral. These days, roughly 20 percent of his revenues come from direct sales to visitors. Everyone here who can take in guests, does so.
On the small island of Huahine northwest of Tahiti, Peter Owen has woven an adventure concept around the cultivation of pearls. As a teenager, Owen fell in love with a Polynesian. They married and Owen moved to Tahiti at age 19. There, he learned all about oyster farming and cultivating pearls from his father-in-law and later took over the business. Today, the native Californian runs a hotel on Huahine and is the second-biggest private employer on the island, with 40 employees. His pearl farm is now run solely as a show business. The thatched cabin stands on stilts in the middle of the lagoon, its walls, posts and doors all lovingly decorated with shells and mother-of-pearl fragments. Visitors are ferried across to the small island from the mainland in large groups.
People buy a story when they buy a pearl
Before the economic crisis struck, Owen was producing some 50000 pearls a year, today it's just a few hundred. These he sells in the form of earrings, necklaces and key rings. He always wondered why so many people visited his farm, he tells us. "At some point, I realized that when they buy a pearl, they buy a story. They saw the water it came from; they got to know the producer and the work that went into it."
An employee demonstrates the implant operation on an opened oyster. She has a fragrant flower tucked behind her ear – the tiare, Tahiti's official flower and emblem. Nearly everyone in the country wears at least one of the Polynesian insignia: the elderly vendor at the vegetable market has a floral wreath on her head, the young singer in the capital, Papeete, a traditional tattoo, and the vanilla grower has a Tahitian pearl on a chain around her neck.
Philippe Cabral also sells a story, a mystique. During a guided tour of his pearl farm, his visitors can take a look over the surgeons' shoulder. That way, they get to see how many deformed pearls, , crooked little mother-of-pearl worms, Cabral's men pull out of the ocean in a day. Only four percent of the crop is good quality, making the specimens Cabral exhibits in his small boutique all the more desirable. There, he has glass showcases filled with rows of bowls brimming with pearls, all graded according to shape and quality. The cheapest, with surface scratches and irregularly shaped, cost roughly 40 euros. A Brazilian woman is moving around the store, searching. On her back, she has a fresh tattoo. Outside in the shadow, her husband waits; on his T-shirt, the logo of a hotel on Bora Bora. He and his wife are on a sailing tour of the South Seas and have already visited a number of pearl farms, he tells us.
Stéphane Ripa, who has been working for Cabral for the past 12 years, helps the Brazilian woman to make her choice. A golden turtle, visible inside his open shirt, gleams against his bronze chest. He made the turtle pendant himself and studded the shell with a pearl. The diamond at the creature's throat has already worked loose of its setting and departed forever. Ripa tips the contents of one of the bowls onto a fabric tray: semibaroque, class B. With a practiced finger, he rolls the pearls over the fabric. Like an agile spider, his ringed hand flits across the tiny silver, green and blue beads until only a few are left. If the pearl wobbles, if dents spoil its surface, if the color is one-dimensional or its pearlescence is dull, he flicks its aside: reject. How can he decide so quickly? He shrugs and grins. "Some pearls speak to me, some don't," he says.
Ripa reaches for his customer's hand to check the color of her skin. Then he leaves it palm upward and places a small selection inside her cupped fingers. He lets his gaze wander briefly from pearl to pearl before pointing decidedly to one particular specimen. The woman nods. A breath of pink gleams on bright silver, the surface has a transparent shimmer, as though you could see to the center of the pearl: a jewel from the Pacific, a souvenir from the end of the world.
This story first appeared in Lufthansa Woman's World, the frequent traveller magazine. For more information about Lufthansa Miles & More offers, please click here.


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|Oracle Enterprise Manager Database Tuning with the Oracle Tuning Pack
Release 9.0.1
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When you install the Oracle Tuning Pack, you receive the SQL Explain Plan functionality in selected areas throughout the Oracle Enterprise Manager console and management pack applications. The SQL Explain Plan provides a graphical representation of a SQL Statement's execution plan. An execution plan is the sequence of operations Oracle performs to execute the statement. The components of execution plans include:
Optimization is the process of choosing the most efficient way to execute a SQL statement. This is an important step in the processing of any data manipulation language (DML) statement: SELECT, INSERT, UPDATE, or DELETE. Many different ways to execute a SQL statement often exist, for example, by varying the order in which tables or indexes are accessed. The procedure Oracle uses to execute a statement can greatly affect how quickly the statement executes.
A part of Oracle called the optimizer chooses what it believes to be the most efficient way. The optimizer evaluates a number of factors to select among alternative access paths. The access paths the optimizer chooses can be displayed by generating explain plans.
For more information on the Oracle Optimizer, see Oracle9i Database Performance Guide and Reference.
The graphical display mode (see Figure 8-1, "Graphical Display Mode") of SQL Explain Plan's main window is made up of two panes. The first pane shows the generated SQL text of the explain plan. The second pane shows the steps of the explain plan in a graphical or tabular display. The graphical display mode shows a visual representation of the relationships of each step in an execution plan. The tabular or "traditional" display mode (see Figure 8-2, "Tabular Display Mode") shows the relationships in a hierarchical, numbered list. You can specify the display mode you wish to use by clicking View from the menu bar and selecting either Graphical Display or Tabular Display.
The SQL Explain Plan is available in areas of Oracle Enterprise Manager that show SQL performance information such as overview charts from Performance Manager and the Instance Management window from the console.
You can "step through" the plan and immediately understand how the statement will execute and what step each operation is performing. Each operation is highlighted in order of execution. You can control the pace of the walkthrough, and can back-up or start over at any point. As an operation is highlighted, a description of the operation is displayed in the "step description" window directly below the Explain Plan display. You can also choose to view details for any objects involved in a particular operation.
When you click on a step, the description appears in the Step Description box below the plan. (If you do not see the descriptions, make sure that you have the Step Description option enabled in the View menu.
For more information on using and understanding explain plans see Chapter 5, "Gathering and Analyzing Information".
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Recent reader mail contains all sorts of news and reflections. Let's get right into it.
Several were in contact about the July 27 death of Dale Petkovsek, the owner of Sunset Pines Resort. Dale died within one month after I wrote about his property, whose design makes the needs of physically disabled travelers the top priority. Dale, a quadriplegic, took a fatal fall when his electric ramp at home malfunctioned or was disengaged.
"Dale truly was a generous spirit," writes Teresa Jolivette, formerly of Willard.
The resort remains in operation: sunsetpinesresort.com, 715-937-5109. The phone number for Dale's nearby tavern is disconnected.
"We all went to Dale's North Mound Tavern when we were craving less-healthy food," writes Ruth Pond of the Milwaukee area. "It was great, and so was your article. Thanks for the walk down memory lane."
Ruth also mentioned her fond memories of the nearby Christine Center, a spiritual retreat.
"People of all faiths have attended meditation practice weekends, Dances of Universal Peace and even art seminars," she writes. Facilities include "a lovely new dormitory and conference center. Much money has been spent there, and business is thriving."
For more about the nondenominational Christine Center, W8303 Mann Rd., Willard: christinecenter.org, 715-267-7507.
Brian Schuetz of Easter Seals Wisconsin reminds us that the nonprofit Camp Wawbeek, Wisconsin Dells, is celebrating its 75th anniversary.
"It is the oldest and longest running Easter Seals camp in the nation and has been providing life-changing experiences for children and adults with disabilities" since "the depth of the Great Depression," he reports.
More than 1,000 campers attend the 400-acre facility at 1450 Hwy. 13 each year. A new dining hall was dedicated this summer.
For more: eastersealswisconsin.com, 608-254-8319.
Owners of Camp David, the modest rental property that sits amidst million-dollar developments at Waupaca's Chain o' Lakes, express appreciation for my article about the longtime family getaway.
"The Chain O' Lakes was a miracle spot for my dad," writes Nora Sebora of Stevens Point. The late Circuit Judge David Sebora, who battled polio, "did not appear to be crippled while in a boat or swimming.
"Although he had the means to change his residence, he thought we were there to communicate with nature and to read. He was not about disrupting the land. He would be very sad at how our shoreline has changed, and the many violations that have taken place so people could have that million dollar look."
"You captured the essence of our history very well," says brother Dave Sebora of Waupaca. "As fall arrives I always get a bit melancholy as I close the place for winter. Your article is yet another memory that I will take with me from this summer."
"It certainly brought back memories of a different era," writes sister Sheila Sebora Lutiger, Hudson. "For my dad … the water was a great equalizer. He was a powerful swimmer and knew his way around boats. Today we would call this social inclusion through recreation.
"During one philosophical moment, reflecting on his polio, he said, 'The problem is not so much about how to physically get from point A to point B, but how to fit in.'
What began there as Camp Cleghorn turned into an expanded community with the passage of time.
"My father spent 81 summers on the Chain. He knew every sandbar, fishing hole, back current," Sheila says. "He taught us, to swim, sail, canoe and water ski. Looking at the landscape these days, it would be hard to imagine this as the Northwoods."
She notes that her family has a Hayward cabin. "It is in our blood," she reasons. "My husband's family had a small place on Big St. Germaine Lake, Vilas County. His uncle spent 83 summers there, sharing the Northwoods with his cousins."
For more about the private rental property, go to vrbo.com.
"I plan on skiing in my 17th Birkebeiner in 2014 and hope to once again visit" Telemark Resort's "darkened parlor," where Big Band music played long ago, and headliners included Duke Ellington to Frank Sinatra, writes Barry Kolsrud of Iowa City, Iowa.
Sorry to report that the longtime Cable resort is closed and in foreclosure. Looks like intervention by "Hotel Impossible" TV show producers was not enough to keep the perennially challenged destination financially viable.
My impressions of Marquette, Mich., struck a chord with a couple of you.
"Marquette does winter well," observes Sue Manson of Kenosha, who also says "the David Manson with whom you spoke at Blackrocks Brewery is a cousin of sorts to Kenosha's mayor, Keith Bosman."
Omar Durfee of Fond du Lac got acquainted with area while he was a visiting professor of sociology at Northern Michigan University.
"I saw enough of the area to fall completely in love with the place," he writes. "I would walk the trails around Little Presque Isle with a colleague and his dog, regardless of the season. I was introduced to and fell in love with the sport of hockey."
Kathy Brand of Kenosha wonders about the timeliness of bus services that make stops at Milwaukee's Mitchell International Airport and Greyhound bus station.
"Several years ago, I made plans to take the bus from Kenosha to Mitchell Field," she writes. "The bus had mechanical problems in Kenosha, and passengers were told to wait for the next bus, about two hours later. I would have missed my plane connection, so I walked back home and called a friend to take me to the airport."
Readers, what is your experience with these types of connections?
Last: A Brown County reader offers to be my travel assistant. "I still work full time, so I don't know how much I would be able to go right now," she writes. "But when I retire, I should be able to go a lot more. Let me know if you need volunteers."
Sorry to say that much of my work is done solo and anonymously. It's a good but lean life and – truly – not as glamorous as it might appear. My research involves lots of odd itineraries, long work hours and spontaneous decisions, some of which have annoyed my occasional traveling companions.


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What is Disney FastPass+ service and how does it work?
FastPass+ – Frequently Asked Questions
Disney FastPass+ service allows you to reserve access to select Walt Disney World theme park attractions, entertainment and Character Greetings in advance. There is no additional cost to use FastPass+ service―it is included with your theme park admission.
You can begin making your FastPass+ selections at 7:00 AM Eastern Time up to 30 days in advance of your visit. If you are staying at a Disney Resort hotel, you can make your FastPass+ selections up to 60 days prior to check-in for the entire length of your stay. Please be aware that if you cancel your Disney Resort hotel reservation, any FastPass+ selections that were booked more than 30 days prior to your planned arrival are subject to cancellation.
Once you've registered online and linked your park admission, you can select from a list of experiences and times for your designated party. At the park, check in at FastPass+ entrances during the indicated time, with little or no wait. FastPass+ selections may also be made same-day at a FastPass+ kiosk in the theme park or using the My Disney Experience mobile app, depending on availability.
For a single theme park per day, you can make up to 3 FastPass+ selections in advance either online or using the mobile app and you may change or cancel your selections any time. You can also get assistance from the Lobby Concierge at your Walt Disney World Resort hotel or at a FastPass+ kiosk in any of the parks.
Note that kiosks allow FastPass+ selections only for the park where the kiosk is located, but you can view and cancel any of your FastPass+ selections, regardless of location.
Once you redeem your initial set of FastPass+ selections (or the last arrival window has passed), you can make another FastPass+ selection for the same day at an in-park kiosk or on your mobile device, up to park closing. After you redeem the additional FastPass+ pick, you can return to a kiosk to make more selections (one at a time), subject to availability.
If your ticket includes a Park Hopper Option, after you use your initial FastPass+ selections at the first park, you'll be able to make additional FastPass+ selections (one at a time) at a kiosk or using the mobile app at the second park you visit that day, up to park closing.
For a greater range of choices, we recommend you make FastPass+ selections early. If you prefer to be spontaneous, all attractions and Character Greetings provide standby entrances so you can decide as you go.
Valid theme park admission required. FastPass+ attractions and entertainment experiences, the number of selections you can make and available arrival windows are limited. Certain MyMagic+ features and benefits require online registration.


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Tegretol is the brand name for carbamazepine, a prescription medication used to treat certain types of seizures (partial, tonic-clonic, mixed), nerve pain (such as trigeminal neuralgia and diabetic neuropathy), and bipolar disorder.
It's an anticonvulsant that works by decreasing the nerve impulses that cause seizures and pain. Tegretol is in a class of drugs known as anti-epileptic agents.
Off-label uses of Tegretol include certain behavioral disorders, phantom-limb syndrome, and post-traumatic stress disorder.
Carbamazepine was discovered in 1953 and was originally marketed as a drug to treat trigeminal neuralgia (associated with intense pain in the face). In the 1960s, doctors started prescribing it as an anti-epileptic in the United Kingdom. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved it for use in the United States in 1968.
Today, the brand name Tegretol is distributed by Novartis, a pharmaceutical company based in Switzerland. There is another brand name of carbamazepine, known as Equetro, which is distributed by Validus Pharmaceuticals. There are several manufacturers that make the generic form of carbamazepine.
The FDA requires Tegretol to carry a black-box warning because this drug may cause a rare but serious skin rash that may lead to death. These rashes are likely to show up within the first four months of taking the medication, but could also occur at any time. The reaction can happen in anyone but it's most common in people of Asian descent. If you are of Asian descent you should take a genetic blood test before taking Tegretol.
Tegretol also carries a black-box warning about aplastic anemia (a blood disorder when bone marrow doesn't make enough new blood cells called platelets) and agranulocytosis (a disorder in which bone marrow doesn't make enough white blood cells).
Tegretol may cause rare but serious blood problems. You should not take Tegretol if you have a history of bone marrow suppression.
Like other antiepileptic drugs, Tegretol can also cause suicidal thoughts or actions in a small number of people (about 1 in 500).
You should not stop taking Tegretol without talking to your doctor first. Stopping this drug suddenly can cause serious problems.
In 2014, the FDA posted a precaution that rare instances of vanishing bile duct syndrome have been diagnosed in patients on Tegretol.
In 2005, the FDA issued a letter to healthcare professionals warning that confusion between two Novartis brand drugs, Toprol-XL and Tegretol, created dispensing and prescribing errors. Some of these errors led to serious side effects in patients.
Tell your doctor if you've use a monoamine oxidase inhibitor (MAOI) in the last 14 days.
Let your doctor know if you have a history of bone marrow suppression.
Also discuss any allergies to antidepressants like amitriptyline (Elavil, Vanatrip), desipramine (Norpramin), imipramine (Tofranil), or nortriptyline (Pamelor). And tell your doctor if you are taking the antidepressant nefazodone (Serzone).
You might not be able to take Tegretol if you have one of the following prior conditions:
Tegretol is an FDA category D drug, which means there is conclusive evidence that taking Tegretol while pregnant can harm a developing fetus. There is also a prenatal risk associated with this drug, so contact your healthcare provider immediately if you become pregnant while taking Tegretol.
Symptoms of liver problems include yellowing of the skin or whites of eyes, dark urine, pain on the right side of your stomach, easy bruising, loss of appetite, or severe nausea and vomiting.
Rare but serious skin rash
Rare but serious blood problems
Suicidal thoughts or actions
Get emergency medical help if you have any signs of an allergic reaction, such as:
You should always tell your healthcare professional about all prescription, non-prescription, over-the-counter (OTC), illegal and recreational drugs, herbal remedies, and nutritional and dietary supplements.
Ask your doctor before taking Tegretol with a sleeping pill, narcotic pain medicine, muscle relaxer, or medicine for anxiety, depression, or seizures. Tegretol can increase the potency of these drugs.
This drug can lessen the effectiveness of birth control pills and possibly lead to an unwanted pregnancy.
Tegretol levels in your system could be lowered when the drug is taken with phenobarbital (Solfoton), phenytoin (Dilantin) or primidone (Mysoline). This could result in seizures.
Do not combine Tegretol with other mood stabilizers or anti-epileptics without talking to your doctor.
Before taking Tegretol, alert your healthcare provider if you are taking any of the following types of medication:
Drinking grapefruit juice can increase the strength of Tegretol.
Drinking alcohol can increase some of the side effects of Tegretol, and can also increase your risk of seizures.
Avoid exposure to sunlight or tanning beds. Tegretol can make you sunburn more easily.
Tegretol is available in tablets, suspension, chewable tablets, and extended release tablets.
Take Tegretol exactly as prescribed. Never alter the dosage.
Do not stop taking Tegretol without talking to your doctor. If you have epilepsy, stopping seizure medicine suddenly can cause seizures that will not stop.
Take Tegretol with food.
Seek emergency medical attention or call the Poison Help line at 1-800-222-1222.
Overdose symptoms may include:
Take the missed dose as soon as you remember. Skip the missed dose if it is almost time for your next scheduled dose. Do not double dose.
A: According to the prescribing information for Tegretol (carbamazepine), changes in weight, or difficulty losing weight, were not reported side effects. If you are experiencing difficulty losing weight, you may want to contact your health care provider to determine other possible causes. For additional information on Tegretol (carbamazepine) or weight management you may want to visit our Web site: //www.everydayhealth.com/drugs/tegretol.
A: According to the manufacturer of Tegretol (carbamazepine), decreased blood levels of calcium leading to osteoporosis have been reported with its use. Many of the mood stabilizers are also anti-seizure medications which have been associated with bone loss. In addition, lithium may lead to a condition called hyperparathyroidism which can contribute to bone loss. Some of the newer anti-seizure medications may not have the same effect. However, it may still be recommended to monitor bone density. Consult your healthcare provider for specific recommendations based on your circumstances. You may also find helpful information at //www.everydayhealth.com/osteoporosis/guide/. Sarah McKenney Lewis, PharmD
A: Tegretol (carbamazepine) belongs to a class of drugs called anticonvulsants or anti-seizure medications. It works by decreasing nerve impulses that cause seizures and pain. Tegretol is used to treat seizures, bipolar disorder, and nerve pain, such as trigeminal neuralgia and diabetic neuropathy. Common side effects of Tegretol include dizziness, drowsiness, unsteadiness, vomiting, diarrhea, constipation, stomach pain, confusion, headache, blurred vision, ringing in the ears, dry mouth, swollen tongue, and leg cramps. Tegretol has also been associated with a muscular side effect called drug-induced myasthenia gravis. It results in muscle weakness or muscles that fatigue or tire easily. Contact your doctor right away about any muscle weakness or difficulty with your muscles for proper evaluation. Do not suddenly stop taking Tegretol without talking to your doctor first. Your doctor is best able to determine if you are experiencing a drug side effect and make recommendations based on your specific circumstances. This is not a complete list of the side effects associated with Tegretol. For more specific information, consult with your doctor or local pharmacist for guidance based on your health status and current medications, particularly before taking any action. Tell your health-care provider about any negative side effects from prescription drugs. You can also report them to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration by visiting www.fda.gov/medwatch or by calling 1-800-FDA-1088. Sarah Lewis, PharmD
A: Insurance companies compile a list of medications, called a formulary, for your particular plan that they prefer over other medications to treat various conditions. The drugs in a formulary are often listed in 2 or more groups, depending on how much of the cost you are expected to pay. The amount you're expected to pay is called your co-pay. A typical formulary might include the following groups (also called levels or tiers): tier 1 would be generic medications which have the lowest copay, tier 2 would be brand name medications, and tier 3 would be non-preferred brand name medications at the highest copay. Generic drugs are chemically the same as brand-name drugs, and they are often less expensive. That's why many insurance plans encourage you to use generic drugs. Often two brand-name drugs are useful for the same problem. Your insurance company may be able to get one less expensively than the other. That drug becomes a preferred drug, and the other becomes non-preferred. That's usually why you pay more for non-preferred drugs. When taking a seizure medication, the therapeutic window for error or dosage is narrow. If the epilepsy's drug absorption is slightly different between brand and generic or between generics, then the patient could potentially have a seizure. This is one of the reasons why physicians do not like to change patients from brand to generic seizure medications, especially if the patient is doing well with the brand name drug. The FDA tightly regulates manufacture of all generic drugs, just like brand-name drugs. Epilepsy drugs are held to the same high standards: generic epilepsy drugs have precisely the same amount of drug as the brand name version. Generic drugs must meet the same standards for purity, quality, and strength as the brand name drugs. A review done by the FDA shows that generic drugs achieve almost exactly the same blood levels as their brand name counterparts, often only with a 3 to 4 percent difference. Most people do not have a problem changing from brand to generic seizure medications. However, there is a small percentage of patients, usually those who are very sensitive to changes in blood levels of the medications, that have an issue with maintaining seizure control. For more specific information, consult with your doctor for guidance based on your health status and current medications, particularly before taking any action. Lori Poulin, PharmD
By Beth Schneider | Medically Reviewed by Ruthan White, PharmD
Latest Update: 2014-09-25
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Admission Requirements for Faculty of Biotechnology
The programme accepts students who passed Egyptian Thanaweya Amma Degree (National High School Certificate) or any other equivalent High School Degree (IGCSE, GCSE, American High School Diploma, Abitur, IB, French BACC, National High School Certificate from Arab Countries). The Supreme Council of Egyptian Universities declares the conditions for enrolling into the different faculties at MSA and other private universities that operate under the regulations of the Supreme Council of Egyptian Universities. The minimum percentage varies from one year to the other and is declared to all applicants during the summer prior to their admission to the university.
|Thanaweya Amma
|Only Scientific Science certificate is accepted.
At least 8 O level subjects including:
|American Diploma
SAT 1 Exam is a must plus 8 subjects including:
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Greetings all. I'm an ex college player, D2 school. Been out of tennis shape for nearly 2 yrs...raising my family. I just moved to SF area (Jan13), from LA. Looking to start up again, SLOWLY please. I'm probably a 4.0 player now. Used to be 5-0 to open in my prime. I'd love to get a routine of doubles out there if any groups out there need a 4th. I'm located in Castro Valley, so surrounding areas only please as I've got daddy duties that limit my time.
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Brig Brother2 Africa's On
Africa News Update
M-Net's Big Brother Africa 2, promises to bring out at much controversy as Big Brother 1 did, four years ago.
Although the first show, which aired in 46 African countries, proved popular with viewers, politicians and religious leaders were angered by some steamy scenes.
In Malawi it was pulled off air after it was deemed immoral, but the High Court overturned the ban. Former Namibian President Sam Nujoma called on the country's NBC channel to stop airing the program, saying it encouraged immorality. But the channel resisted calls for a ban at the time. In Zambia, a group of churches demanded Big Brother to be pulled from air calling on the government to stop the broadcasts.
This time, Africa awaits the drama, the controversies and emotions that goes with Big Brother Africa 2. Viewers of Big Brother Africa II can catch the drama, emotions and excitement of the 98-day reality series on DStv. The reality show, which is running its second edition, was originally aired in 2003.
This African version of the reality TV show is proving to be one of the most popular programs based on what is now referred to as unscripted drama.
"This show defined the term 'popular demand' for us. From the minute Cherise Makubale won the first series, fans have asked when Big Brother Africa would return. So we're thrilled to announce season two," M-Net's operations director for Africa south of the Sahara, Joseph Hundah said. "Now it's our turn to ask Big Brother fans one simple question. What are you waiting for? Start entering!"
Twelve contestants from 12 countries are participating in this 98-day lock-in program, which is being filmed on location in South Africa and produced by Endemol SA. The long-awaited reality show kicked off on August 5 amid pomp and fanfare, with a celebrity welcome for the 12 housemates.
Contestants from Ghana, Uganda Tanzania, Kenya, Angola, Namibia, Nigeria, Zimbabwe, South Africa, Malawi and Zambia are vying for the US$100 000 grand prize.
The participants will be evicted every Sunday with the viewers nominating which housemate is to leave. In 2003, M-Net made history in Africa by running the first edition of Big Brother Africa which kept people from the continent glued to the television watching the first set of the 12 housemates from 12 countries.
Emotions, opinions, cultures and personalities were fused into one as the participants lived, laughed, learned and made loved under one roof for 106 days.
Reality guru Mark Burnett launched the original Survivor series on American television in 2000. Since then, the concept has now spread all over the world. In 2003, Cherise Makubale, a Zambian, won the first pan African version of the TV reality winning the $100,000 prize money.
Tsiko is The Black Star News' Southern Africa correspondent based in Harare.
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Auxiliary members play a vital part in Appalachian Regional Healthcare's success through their fundraising efforts, assistance with patient issues, and by serving as ARH's ambassadors in their respective communities. ARH has approximately 230 volunteers system-wide that provide around 225 volunteer hours of service per month.
A few of the services provided by ARH's auxiliary members include:
If you enjoy being around other people and have free time to share, please consider serving as an ARH auxiliary member. You can play an important role in helping us provide quality healthcare to our patients throughout Eastern Kentucky and Southern West Virginia.
At ARH, auxiliary members help provide a special touch that can make a patient's stay more comfortable. Volunteering at ARH offers the benefits of developing new interests, making new friends and most importantly, gaining personal satisfaction by making a difference in a patient's hospital stay. Volunteering offers opportunities for retirees, professionals, and homemakers. Flexible scheduling is available to provide for individual skills and personal needs.
In addition to the work, ARH auxiliary members also enjoy other benefits such as recognition luncheons and events, newsletters, free flu shots, and service awards.
For more information about serving as an auxiliary volunteer member at Mary Breckinridge, please call Julia Asher at (606) 672-3162.
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2010 Springfield City Ornament
The University of Illinois Springfield is proud that our colonnade has been chosen as the center piece of the 2010 St. Joseph's Home Official City Ornament.
The UIS colonnade was completed in the summer of 2005. It quickly has become the major landmark of the university.
Each ornament is die-cut, hand-assembled, 24-karat gold-plated, and made in the U.S.A. No more than 5,000 of these ornaments will be produced. Each comes with a signed and numbered certificate.
Proceeds from the annual ornament project support the mission and the ministry of the Sisters of St. Francis of the Immaculate Conception.


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The Jensen Global JG21-0.5HPX High-Precision Polished 21-Gauge Needle has a polypropylene-plastic threaded hub with burr-free passivated stainless steel canula and is bonded with a UV-cured adhesive. The JG21-0.5HPX is manufactured using a silicone-free process. This item is for industrial use only.
Note: All Jensen Global needles, syringes, and products are for industrial use. They are not sharp, non-sterile, and not for medical use.
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Burberry- Sydney - Australia
Founded in 1856, Burberry today remains quintessentially British, with outerwear at its core. Digital luxury positioning and intensive focus on design innovation, quality and heritage icons ensure continued brand purity and relevance globally across genders and generations. Burberry believes that in order to be a great brand it must also be a great company and constantly leverages the energy of its compassionate and creative thinking culture to continually innovate and drive the brand forward. Headquartered in London, Burberry is a design, marketing and retail led business with a global reputation for innovative product design, digital marketing initiatives and dynamic retail strategies.
To meet and strive to exceed individual and store sales goals while executing key strategies of retail led growth, leveraging the franchise, operational excellence and all department category development; embracing and following on a daily basis the Burberry Experience during all interactions, owning the responsibility for developing new customers, as well as maintaining relationships with existing clientele.
Sales & Service
- Embrace the Burberry Experience and follow training guidelines and standards to reflect Burberry's luxury brand standards and image
- Consistently meet individual sales goals while exhibiting the Burberry Behaviours
- Provide excellent customer service skills, great selling skills and exhibit motivation to succeed
- Demonstrate superior interpersonal and communication talent
- Build customer loyalty through active client development and follow-through
- Maintain an up-to-date and detailed client book
- Follow all Cultivate requirements and activities such as; courtesy and relationship emails, inviting customers back to shop, reactivation, capture compliance
Visual Standards
- Follow company policies, procedures and use visual techniques to maintain the visual standards according to Burberry guidelines
- Maintain selling floor by ensuring the following:
- Understand and execute monthly floorsets
- Placing and/or hanging back items as you work
- Replenishing merchandise after selling
- Folding and placing merchandise on the correct hanger, tissue paper, etc.
- Place tickets inside the item and not visible to the customer.
Floor Presence & Maintenance
- Beginning of shift/day: Arrive on selling floor ready, ensure floor is ready for customers
- End of shift/day: Ensure selling floor is replenished and ready for the next day
- Be active and busy on the floor at all day
- Ensure to place and/or hang back items as you work and replenish merchandise after selling
- Ensure clean up and maintenance of fitting rooms
Back of The House Support
- Assist in the mark down process
- Assist in the bi-annual inventory process
- Participation and achievement of pre-sale goals
- Participate in store contests
- Assist in stock room maintenance and keep it organized
- Responsible for stock pulled; all stock must be put away in orderly fashion
- Willing to work in and promote a team oriented environment.
- Excellent interpersonal skills required to ensure clear, effective communication with all management and staff.
- Consistently show a positive attitude & take responsibility for own actions.
- Must be results driven and flexible to change
- Relevant interest in Fashion / Design.
- Advanced knowledge of POS and store systems.
- A minimum of 1 year on sales, preferably in a luxury retail environment.
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344913 necesitaba un nuevo diseño de página web y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 88 diseños de 32 diseñadores freelance.
Netrunner (netrunner-os.com)
Netrunner is a new operating system designed for netbook computers.
- Important aspects of the project are:
-> It's open source so we need to show a news section, our announcements, somewhere on the main page.
-> It's free of charge, so it's really important people understand what it is and that they can download it, that should be on the main page as well.
-> It's community driven, so that should be emphasized on the main page as well.
Netrunner is an operating system that can be downloaded for free, it's open source, and the target audience is everyone out there with a need for a modern operating system really.
- A simple navigation.
- A web 2 design.
- To win the contest (not necessarily at the early stages of the contest), two HTML pages, one with a cool layout for the front page and one with a more traditional layout used for all other pages.
For the download button/section, feel free to design 3d box shots or CD covers. This is not required but would be considered a plus.
As an example, http://www.ubuntu.com has a simple navigation and layout, check the Ubuntu link at the top, and how it shows a vertical navigation box for deeper links on the left of the other pages ("Education" for instance). What this example is missing though, is that it doesn't show announcements/news on the main page.
We'd like the layout to remain simple, but also to both introduce ourselves and let people know of the latest news on the main page.
For all artwork produced we require access to individual layers (or objects if it's vectorial) of the pictures. We also require that the work be original and created by the artist him(her)self.


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Welcome to the online booking page for the Arena car parking for Invictus 2019 at the FlyDSA Arena.
Purchasing a parking ticket for your car in advance will guarantee you a reserved on-site hassle free space and will cost £10.
Tickets purchased online will be posted to you up until 10 days prior to the event. When booking within 10 days of the event car park tickets will only be available online if you can print your tickets at home - further info on print at home tickets is available by clicking here.
To pre-book a coach or minibus space please call 0114 256 5656.
The time displayed next to the show date below refers to the performance time of the show you are attending. You can access the car park from 3pm on the day of the show.
To pre-book a coach or minibus space please call 0114 256 56 56.


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June 22, 2012
May graduate Raissa Morris received thrilling news on June 19, 2012, when she found out she had won the McGeorge Immigration Law Clinic's first asylum approval for a client who was in the midst of removal proceedings.
Morris, a clinic participant during the 2011-12 academic year, had argued the hearing in April at the San Francisco Immigration Court. The case dealt with whether battered women constitute a social group for asylum, an unsettled area of the law.
"Raissa worked countless hours with her client and on the case," clinic supervising attorney Blake Nordahl said. "She put together an amazing brief, obtained expert witnesses, and prepared her client, barely an adult, for direct and cross-examination. Raissa conducted direct exam during the four-hour hearing and presented closing arguments. The judge and the government counsel complimented her high level of preparation and professionalism."
Morris' case was the subject of a presentation to the University of the Pacific Board of Regents at its April meeting in Sacramento. "We had just completed the hearing the week before the regents' meeting and we were sure they would be proud of the work being done in our clinic, Nordahl said. "Several members expressed interest in learning the outcome. The government has 30 days to appeal. Hopefully, there will be no appeal and the decision will be final."
Morris served as a volunteer interpreter for the clinic in her second year at McGeorge. She also worked at each of the law school's three highly successful citizenship fairs. She is studying on campus for the July bar exam and hopes to practice immigration law in northern California when she becomes an attorney.
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If they weren't able to attend any of this month's spring runoff and community preparedness meetings, residents and owners of properties along flood-impacted streams in unincorporated Boulder County can see the county's presentations and maps online.
More than 825 people attended one of the four March 10-13 meetings, said Katie Arrington, a county staff flood recovery specialist.
Boulder County has posted its PowerPoint presentation — along with maps of locations the county has identified as posing high hazards in the wake of September's floods — at http://tinyurl.com/mpdxlcv
That page also includes a link to a video from the first meeting, held on March 10 at Longmont's LifeBridge Church.
Arrington invited unincorporated Boulder County residents and property owners to take a look at the high-hazards projects maps to see if their properties is one of those the county has identified for possible emergency debris removal or stream stabilization attention. If people have not filled out a right of entry form to allow officials access to their properties, they should do so.
For more information about Boulder County flood recovery resources, visit www.bouldercountyflood.org. Arrington can be reached at 303-441-1609 or firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Ballhawk Spring Training?
Opening Day is just around the corner. Tomorrow we'll flip our calendar to February and be just two months away from the glorious month of April, which brings about warmer weather, longer days and most importantly baseball.
Some of you that read this blog are ballhawks. Others of you are simply baseball fans. What do you do in the offseason to stay busy? For you ballhawks, how do you prepare yourself for the coming season? Do you glove trick balls from your second story window, while your neighbors stare in bewilderment? Do you head to the local high school football field and have a friend hit fly balls at you while you're in the bleachers as track passerbys give you a what-the-hell face? Do you watch repeats of MLB games on MLBtv all winter?
I don't do any of that stuff, but I am doing some training.
In 2011, I saw my statistics plummet. My total balls dropped from 544 in 2010 to 422 in 2011. I also saw my balls per game drop from 6.18 to 5.41. More alarmingly my batted balls dropped from 260 in 2010 to 178 in 2011. I'd like to bounce back in 2012.
I thought that my weight had something to do with the drop off. (I'll look more into those stats soon in a future entry.) In 2010 I weighed 196 lbs and was very lean, ripped and muscular, from hours and hours at the gym.
I pretty much stopped working out at the end of the 2010 season and began gaining weight. In June 2011 I weighed around 230. When I went to a high school graduation, I couldn't even fit into my suit pants.
On July 1 last year, I started lifting weights again. However, I kept gaining weight. On January 1, 2012 I weighed 250 lbs. A lot of it is muscle, but there's fat too.
I started to worry that if I didn't reverse the trend that I would end up around 300 lbs again, like on January 1 2009:
And I did not want that.
So for the past two months I've been hitting the gym hard core. I lift every other day, and run on the days opposite my lifting days. I'm up to running 4 miles every other day in an effort to get in shape for the ballhawking season.
The running is pretty monotonous, but sometimes there's something good on.
Since December 1st, I've been to the gym 60 of the last 62 days, including 37 consecutive days since Christmas. I've lost 8 pounds in the month of January, so that's good. I'd like to be down to about 225-230 by the time opening day rolls around. I only stay for about an hour because the rest of my time I'd like to spend at home with this cutie:
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So what have you diehard baseball fans been up to this offseason? Are you getting ready to the upcoming season?
Let me know to enter this contest, and remember, only 65 more days until Opening Day.


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Shown is a pre war German made candy container in the form of an elf riding a sled.The wooden sled is about 7" long. The figure is composition and is hand painted. The head comes off, and the body is the container. The candy itself was usually small colored pellets which were made of sugar. Candy containers, ornaments, Santas, etc. were some of the many Christmas items exported to the U.S. before the war broke out.


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St. Thomas More Newman Center exists as a welcoming Catholic faith community to serve the needs of the students from SUNY Canton and St. Lawrence University. We strive to provide a nurturing and mentoring environment that assists students to grow in their faith and to share their gifts with each other and all of God's people.
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Mitch Williams, a closer who pitched for the Phillies from 1991-93, has joined the new Major League Baseball TV Network that launches at 6 p.m. ET on January 1.
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Mitch has been involved with the electronic media in Philadelphia, as a post-game analyst on Comcast SportsNet's shows after Phillies games, a 30-minute talk show on WPHT radio before Phillies games and an occasional guest on WIP radio.
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This is great news to me. I always enjoy listening to Mitch's perspective on Comcast whenever in Philly but, unfortunately, that isn't very often. As a transplanted Phils fan now living in our 50th state, I will look forward to The Wild Thing doin' his thing nationally now on the new MLB network! Hauoli Makahiki Hou! (Happy New Year).
Have seen Mitch on MLBN Hot Stove and glad we can still see him. I read somewhere he will still do Phillies post game live on Comcast a couple nights a week. Congrats Mitch! Keep on "doing your wild thing"! I still love you!


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John G. Barrett, North Carolina as a Civil War Battleground, 1861-1865 (1960).
John S. Carbone, The Civil War in Coastal North Carolina (2001).
Walter Clark, ed., Histories of the Several Regiments and Battalions from North Carolina in the Great War, 1861-1865 (5 vols., 1901).
Paul D. Escott, Many Excellent People: Power and Privilege in North Carolina, 1850-1900 (1985).
John C. Inscoe and Gordon B. McKinney, The Heart of Confederate Appalachia: Western North Carolina in the Civil War (2000).
William R. Trotter, The Civil War in North Carolina (3 vols., 1988-89).
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North Carolina Museum of History: https://www.ncmuseumofhistory.org/exhibits/civilwar/
NC Civil War: http://www.nccivilwar.com/
UNC, North Carolina Collection Civil War Image Portfolio: http://www.lib.unc.edu/ncc/pcoll/civilwar/
Civil War Sites in NC (Heritage Preservation Services): https://www.nps.gov/hps/abpp/battles/NCmap.htm
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Chaweng Noi Residence is a luxury residence nestled down the serene Chaweng Noi Beach abounding with everything for your perfect beach vacation. Fringed by the lovely coconut trees, up on a small hill, the glittering white sand lies merely 300 metres away. With the lush tropical garden on-site, this sumptuous resort is well-designed with the mix of Thai and European styles giving a sophisticated lavish touch.
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Great place to stay for a holiday. The apartment was just perfect. It had all the stuff you need to make a holiday complete. The apartments and the pool area were spotless! Really nice neighbours (live there year round)that were really helpful. It s just a short walk to the beach and several great beach-side restaurants. Taxi stand is just steps away to get to the main part of town. I would definately stay here again. This place is fairly new so not too many people know about it yet - but they will soon, so book before the word gets out.
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Technically, movies don't give off a scent, but This Means War is so smarmy that it seems to reek of cheap cologne. It features a competition between a lonely divorced dad (Tom Hardy) and a loudmouthed Lothario (Chris Pine) over a woman (Reese Witherspoon) who has no idea that they are best friends or that they are CIA agents. This Means War is a romantic comedy that's been dressed up, in the manner of the much better Mr. & Mrs. Smith, to look like an action flick, presumably to persuade men that they won't be emasculated by seeing it on date night. But if last weekend's The Vow represents complete surrender, This Means War represents a gloomy compromise; no one who sees it will emerge victorious.
Directed by McG, This Means War is lit like an advertisement for a cruise line, all harsh candy colors in daylight, various shades of neon at night and garish 24/7. Both Hardy, who plays gentle Tuck, and Pine, as Tuck's partner Franklin (a.k.a. FDR), are good looking men, but in this hyper saturated color and lighting scheme, you'd barely know it. With his eerily bright blue eyes and expansive forehead, Pine looks like an alien. Director McG (Terminator Salvation, Charlie's Angels) fails the first rule of romantic comedies: make sure everyone but the best friends look pretty.
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He opens the film with Tuck and FDR on a mission that ends with tons of dead bodies, but without them having captured their hissing German target Heinrich (Til Schweiger). The botched operation is dramatically dead — who cares if Heinrich shows up again? — and serves the sole purpose of getting Tuck and FDR grounded in the CIA's spacious, improbably slick Los Angeles office, where Tuck now has the time to try Internet dating. As luck would have it, cranky hausfrau Trish (Chelsea Handler) has just posted her lovelorn best friend Lauren's (Witherspoon) profile, loading it with trashy photos. "Men are going to respond to that camel toe," Trish assures the milquetoast Lauren.
Soon both men are vying for Lauren's affections, although affection seems a pliable concept in FDR's world. He is, as Lauren points out during their first, accidental encounter at a video store, "a one-day rental kind of guy." (She also scolds him for recommending she go home with Hitchcock's The Lady Vanishes, when, as she knows Vertigo, Notorious, and Rebecca are all better. Embedded in there is a clue as to which of the two Lauren will end up with.) On her first date with Tuck, he takes her to a carnival and entices her into trying out the trapeze with him, which looks like a lot of fun. On her first date with FDR, he takes her to a club filled with women dressed like hookers. With just about the only flash of that trademark Witherspoon crispness, Lauren denounces him as a club rat and flees.
Good sense indicates that Lauren's dating dilemma has been resolved, but the movie continues to tease the possibility that Pine's bad boy is as much a viable and interested suitor as Hardy's wholly sexy good man (he makes a surprisingly relaxed leading man). She ping pongs between them, encouraged by Trish, with both men using their CIA resources to spy on her. "Patriot Act!" one of them says when someone points out the privacy issues. Although it is veiled by a seemingly progressive outlook for a mainstream romantic comedy — namely that a woman can sample the wares of various men before making her choice — the movie is filled with casual misogyny. While Lauren makes judgments for a living, heading a consumer products testing agency, she's addled about this choice. Watching and listening by hidden cameras and microphones as Lauren and Trish debate the relative merits of Tuck vs. FDR, a mystified FDR asks, "Why is she listening to that old man?" Handler's character, with her multiple small children, may be a little too tired to be a proper MILF, but the guy who refers to her as an "old man" is not the guy any nice girl like Lauren should settle down with.
But This Means War has a terrible sense of chemistry all the way around. Even the pairing of Witherspoon and Handler, which has, on paper, an undeniable allure (ladylike Oscar winner hanging with foul-mouthed late night comedy queen) turns out to be a dud. Handler is a sly, crude pleasure on her mischievous talk show, but playing a "domestic goddess" in the mold of Roseanne Barr, she spits out her lines mechanically, without varying her tone of sour resentment. She seems miserable. But the one to worry about is Reese Witherspoon. What is the compulsively watchable star of Freeway, Election, Legally Blonde and Walk the Line doing in immature garbage like this? Couldn't she smell disaster?
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- gwadzilla said...
the beers made me clumsy
meant to credit the blog I stole this from
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So, who was the blog you "stole" this from? I can't quite make out the organization putting this thing on...is it for real, or just a cheesecake shot?
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it always ends at my house after the family goes to bed
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The new film Tiger Eyes, follows 17-year-old Davey, who moves to Los Alamos, N.M, with her mother and brother after her father is murdered. Davey has a difficult time adjusting to her new home and has trouble processing the loss of her father. While in Los Alamos, she meets a kind, young Native American man named Wolf, who helps her to move on from the tragedy.
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That was it for Karstens; the Bucs sent out the trainer and Kyle McPherson got the call. JK maintained all week that his groin was OK; apparently that wasn't the case, or it maybe popped again. K-Mac toed the rubber, and though he paid some attention to Lucroy, he still stole second, his third swipe of the year. It seems the Brewers have gamed for a go-go night, or inning at least. The Fort threw away a pickoff toss; The King booted the backup try and Lucroy galloped to third. Carlos Gomez K'ed; Jean Segura walked - and stole second. Geez. Rogers rolled out on a 3-0 pitch. Just another nightmare inning at Miller Field - four runs, five hits, three stolen bases.
It was another 1-2-3 frame for Rogers in the second, with another K. Nyjer Morgan had a pesky at bat, fouling off a half dozen McPherson offerings before taking an outer-half ball the opposite way for a knock. Weeks got hit with the next pitch. After an out, A-Ram reached on a 3-2 walk; K-Mac's breaking ball hasn't come near the plate so far tonight, and as a result, he's tossed 31 pitches to get three outs. To help matters, McKenry whiffed on the next pitch, letting a run in and advancing the other guys 90'. Hart got bopped with the next delivery, loading the bases again. It took nine more pitches, but Lucroy went down swinging at 95 MPH heat and K-Mac punched out Gomez on three more heaters, hitting 96. It was 5-0 after two innings that took over an hour to complete.
Josh Harrison dropped a bloop hustle double into center on an 0-2 pitch to open the third. Two outs later, Presley joined him on the basepaths after a five pitch walk. JT tapped back to the mound to end the first mild Buc threat. K-Mac had staggered through his outing, and it was Kevin Correia's turn on the hill. We can't draw much off McPherson's outing; we're sure he wasn't mentally or physically warmed up for a first inning call. Our bigger question is why he batted with a runner on second and a full bench (if Walker is available) if he was gonna get yanked? With two outs, Nyjer Morgan collected his third hit, the opposite way, natch. It took four pitches, but he stole second. KC whiffed Weeks to leave Nyjer there.
GI Jones pumped a little life into the Buccos in the fourth when he belted a 2-0 pitch yard to right, landing in the second deck. Pedro followed with a knock to center. The Fort dropped a two-bag flare to left, putting Bucs at second and third. A fly or better yet, a hit, would make it interesting, but Harrison popped out in a pretty undisciplined at-bat in a key situation. Clint Barmes couldn't pick him up, fouling out behind the plate. It's not the bottom of the order for no reason.
A-Ram knocked a 1-2 pitch to center in the Brew Crew half after a long fly out by Braun, followed by a Hart single. Lucroy bounced out, moving the runners to second and third. KC caught Gomez looking. The pen has done a good job, but so far its four innings, three pitchers and 105 pitches during just under two hours of play. They may have to call up all of Indy's staff after tonight.
After KC flew out to open the fifth, Presley singled, moving to third on a ground out and wild pitch. Snider waged a nine pitch battle, but flew out to center to make the Pirates 0-for-6 with RISP after five. Correia was close to working the first clean inning for the Bucs, but lost Morgan on a 3-2 pitch with two down before getting Weeks on a roller.
Pedro drew a one out walk in the sixth after falling behind 0-2. That was it for Rogers. He was at 106 pitches, and Kameron Loe got the call from the pen. He caught a call against The Fort, who was rung up on a pitch closer to hitting him than the plate. Harrison bounced a comebacker, and the Bucs put up another goose egg. The Brewers put on a two-out runner against KC again when Hart singled. He cleaned up with a Lucroy grounder.
With one away in the seventh, Gaby Sanchez came off the bench and banged a double, moving to third on a wild pitch. Presley bounced out to second, bringing him in to make it 5-2. Jared Hughes climbed the hill as the Bucs shifted people around. Sanchez went to first, Jones to right, Snider to left and JT to the pine. The two down karma continued. after a pair of ground outs, Travis Ishikawa singled. The Bucs could have used one of those two out knocks. Morgan grounded out, and the Pirates were down to six outs.
Jim Henderson took the ball for the Brew Crew. Snider opened with another long at bat, but he was caught looking on a 3-2 pitch that just caught the inside black; gotta protect. After Jones flew out, Pedro singled the opposite way. The Fort looked at two pitches down the middle and swung through one above the letters.
Hisanori Takahashi took over the pitching duties in the eighth. He gave up a one out infield knock to Braun. Takahashi came inside to A-Ram with a heater, and Ramirez iced the game, crushing it out of the park off the CF scoreboard. He whiffed Hart, and then lost Lucroy on four pitches. It cost when Gomez rattled one off the wall in left center, plating Lucroy, on a ball that Snider misjudged, the downside of switching guys all over the lot. Segura singled him in, followed by another four pitch walk to Jeff Bianchi. Nyjmo fanned to bring the frame to a merciful conclusion.
Harrison singled to open the ninth off Jose Veras. Barmes whiffed swinging through a high heat.Gaby grounded out to third. J-hay moved to second, and Presley singled him in. Jordy Mercer grabbed a bat for Takahashi, and was called out on a pitch that was way tight; after three hours and forty minutes, even the umps were ready for the hot water.
The offensive struggle was predictable with both Cutch and The Kid on the bench. But Karstens has to take the blame for this runaway; it's hard to believe he didn't know he wasn't 100% while warming up. We understand the warrior ethos; we also understand that if you're injured and take the field, you both hurt the team and turn nagging injuries into trips to the DL. It seems to be an ongoing problem for the medical staff that the players either give them bad info or talk Hurdle into letting them play. Remember Snider's hammy tweak and the early indecision on Marte's oblique injury? Someone has to be the grownup.
KC probably would have absorbed this start if JK begged off, and he worked four scoreless innings in relief. It might have been an entirely different game, but...
AJ Burnett takes on Marco Estrada tomorrow night.
- Jeff Karstens left the game because of right hip flexor discomfort.
- Pedro and J-Hay remained hot; both had a pair of knocks tonight. Alex Presley also added a pair of hits.
- Jones' homer was number 22 this season, a single-season career-high. He hit 21 in both 2009 and 2010.
- The Bucs missed a golden opportunity to gain some ground; both the Cards and Braves lost while LA was down.
- The Pirates signed ex-Phil IF Hector Luna and assigned him to Indy. Luna, 32, has a career .262/.314/.385 slash in 794 big league at-bats.