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Also I want to give a special shout out to one of my closest friends Blackman, it's his Birthday today!! Happy Birthday! :)
1. What makeup brand has the prettiest packaging?
I think Benefit has the cutest packaging of any makeup line I've come across. Maybe then Soap & Glory, they're have some pretty nice stuff.
2. Do you ever travel for business?
Nope, I don't really have business overseas anyway.
3. What accessories are you wearing (jewelry, hats, scarves, belts, anything else)?
My Secondary school graduation ring (Class of 2010 woot!), BCBG Affirmations bracelet (says Sweet), A silver necklace my Grandmum gave me, and a pink CZ pendant from one of my good friends and finally dainty pavé heart studs.
4. What's the wackiest piece of clothing you own?
I don't think I have any really wacky clothing pieces. I would be tempted to buy some outrageous things but I always stop myself because I know I'll think hard to wear it anywhere.
5. How often do you do eye looks involving more than one eyeshadow?
Probably twice a month or a bit more. Depends on how I feel when I'm leaving for classes or if I'm going out to somewhere other than school.
6. Is there any kind of nail polish you won't wear (textured, glitter, matte, other)?
Nope. I'm actually dying to try the textured polishes!
7. Who's your favorite artist (visual, music or other)?
Right now, I'd say a tie between Katy Perry and Britney Spears. It's always changing, but I am really feeling their most recent music.
8. What's the hardest thing you've ever done?
I think the hardest thing was contesting a space on my university's Student Guild. But it definitely was a good learning experience despite losing, as I also became a part of the committee and was made aware of a lot of the happenings at my college.
9. Have you ever done an ombre lip?
I tried once on someone, but it was a fail because the colours just weren't working out as nicely as I imagined. I must try it again though.
10. On a scale of 1-10, what's your personal makeup style (1 being no-makeup makeup, 10 being full-on divalicious drag queen)?


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I did a demonstration of Windows AutoPilot at the Global Azure Bootcamp in Birmingham last Saturday 21st April, my demo failed so I had to flip to a pre-recorded demonstration. I also mentioned that I'd been having some issues the previous week when preparing for the demo and if I found out the cause I would share it. Well, here it is. I found out today that there have been some changes to AutoPilot requirements and if the device you are adding is already joined to Azure Active Directory then the import will fail. As I am using a limited number of demonstration machines then I fell foul of this one without realising. The error code I received was wadp010 which as you can see in the table below is not massively helpful. I am reliably informed that this specific issue will soon show a wadp014 error instead. However, as this is still very new the documentation is yet to be updated to reflect this. I have of course asked for some further information on this which I will share as and when I have anything.
In the meantime, to clarify these are the error codes right now. Once I see the new list I will share that also.
Taken from https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-store/add-profile-to-devices
Here's info on some of the errors you might see while
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October 20, 2015
David Dahle, Chair
Woody Dukes
Brock Campbell
Michael Livingston,
Vice Chair
Bob Hanna
Diana Dettwyler
Erma Hoffman, Treasurer
Bruce Hoffman
Neal Kern
Sarah Owens, Sec'y
Rebekah Engle
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Residents: Bill Holmstrom, Rosa Leonardi, Deb Comini
Organizations: Jon Christensen, SCAN; Maurice Anderson, Salem Homeless Coalition
City/County Representatives: Councilor Bennett, Officer Vanmeter
Guest: Teresa Joslin; Verena Wessel, Northwest Human Services
The regular meeting of the CanDo Board of Directors was called to order at 6:00 p.m. on Tuesday, October 20, 2015, at the First Christian Church at 685 Marion Street NE, Salem. David Dahle was in the chair and Sarah Owens acted as secretary.
The agenda and the minutes of the September meeting were approved unanimously.
Officer Vanmeter reported on his plan to use what he learned at the 25th annual Problem Oriented Policing conference to better coordinate the Downtown Enforcement Team with community resources, incorporate community values in the Team's policing, and develop a suitable method for measuring success. Questions concerned an alleged tasering incident at the First Congregational Church and the need for a consistent strategy relative to illegal camping and the homeless generally. Councilor Bennett commented that the Council and SPD were aware of the problem, and had at least agreed, "we're not going to arrest our way out of it."
Councilor Bennett reported that the Council had allocated additional general fund monies to complete the planned parking meter upgrades, and the Minto Brown Island Park Master Plan draft had received mixed reviews in the public hearing, and the Council had left the record open for additional public comment at least through November 23, perhaps longer. He also noted that the Plan (see p. 39) clearly identified illegal camping as a park management concern. He also reported that the Council had, in response to a request from the Grant Neighborhood, conducted a first reading of an amendment to SRC 900 (Sign Code) to exempt graffiti-resistant coverings containing only graphics on public structures such as utility enclosures.
Michael Livingston's motion to switch the order of presentations passed unanimously.
The board heard a presentation by Leilani Slama on Salem Hospital's plan to request a variance to permit the installation of an illuminated clock on Building D, and the board indicated they had no concerns about the plan.
The board heard a presentation by Verena Wessel about the social services delivery in the central area, who is served, and how well the services fit community needs.
In public comment, Jon Christensen thanked CANDO for its work on the SRC 86 ("Tree Code") revisions, and stated that SCAN was generally concerned about any additional illumination in their residential neighborhood.
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Lincoln dreaming of Arsenal scalp in fairytale quarter-final
The sides meet at the Emirates Stadium with under-pressure Wenger knowing an unthinkable defeat against fifth-tier opposition would surely spell the end for him in north London.
Lincoln have already seen off Premier League side Burnley, two clubs from the second-tier Championship and one from the third-tier League One in their remarkable run to the last eight.
They are the first non-league club to reach this stage of the competition since 1914, although they are at the very top of the non-league pyramid, sitting top of the National League and on course to return to the Football League after a six-year absence.
Nevertheless, defeating Arsenal would eclipse all else and go down as the greatest ever FA Cup shock.
And while Danny Cowley's side appreciate the scale of the challenge, they believe they can use the discontent at the Emirates Stadium in their favour.
"The boss said if we can go there and be in the game after 15 or 20 minutes then the crowd might turn on them and we might have 60,000 supporting us instead of 9,000," said skipper Luke Waterfall.
"You never know, it's one of those situations where they want the manager out so there might be a lot of Arsenal fans going to that game wishing we can get something out of that game to see the end of the manager.
"We've got to use it to our advantage.
âThe pressure is massively off us this time, all the pressure is on Arsenal.
"They are only fighting on this front now -- the FA Cup is all they've got to play for so they're going to be trying ridiculously hard to beat us and go on and win the FA Cup."
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The doubts over Wenger's long reign at Arsenal being extended won't cease if they end Lincoln's run but defeat would pretty much ensure his time was up.
The 67-year-old Frenchman still has the backing of the board despite the humiliation of the 10-2 aggregate score in exiting the Champions League to Bayern Munich in midweek.
The Gunners enter the clash with morale further dented over splits appearing in the squad, Theo Walcott confirming Chilean star Alexis Sanchez had clashed with team-mates prior to the Liverpool defeat last Saturday.
For the Lincoln game, Wenger has continued doubts due to illness over Mesut Ozil, Danny Welbeck and Alex Iwobi.
"I believe that we have two uncertainties: Welbeck, who had to come off after the warm-up against Bayern due to sickness, and Iwobi, who on the day of the game couldn't turn up as well due to the same problem," said Wenger, whose side beat another non-league side in Sutton United in the previous round.
"I haven't decided yet on Mesut, he still felt not too well after the game. I will see in training how he feels and I haven't decided on the team that will start the game on Saturday.
"I don't know if it is a bug or not. I was called on the morning of the Bayern game and told Iwobi cannot play and Welbeck in the afternoon felt sick. We still tried to play him but it could be a bug, I don't know.
"I have always decided to play the team that has a good chance to qualify, and I will continue to do that of course."


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Thoughts on Disclaimers
Post from October 28, 2008 (↻ August 24, 2017), filed under Everything Else.
How awesome that these are particularly popular in Germany: disclaimers on both websites and emails. Recently I came across the German Wikipedia article on disclaimers which talks about the topic in detail, and I could not but go for yet another "thoughts" post, focusing on the worst in disclaimers.
In a nutshell: We deal with misconceptions around both the Web as well as disclaimers, disclaimers say silly things, and there are some laws in some countries that require you to use them.
Website Disclaimers
The "technical approaches" recommended by Wikipedia that should come with site disclaimers are great to avoid being linked to other websites:
"Clearly identify external links": Kind of silly but still a very popular concept probably due to people thinking "websites," not the "Web," another form of territorial thinking. For a user it rarely matters whether or not he's on your or another person's site. Thus having site owners use external link flags to complement a disclaimer looks like a misconception of what the Web actually is, and how it's perceived.
"Open external links in new browser windows": It's getting worse here, though German Wikipedia's recognizing that this method might not be appreciated by site visitors. There are some exceptions to the rule, however links shouldn't open new windows or tabs at all, and that's again due to the Web metaphor mentioned above.
"Don't 'deep link' but only link to the other sites' homepages": Even worse, though Wikipedia stresses that this is not quite usable (I wonder whether techniques that aren't usable should be recommended at all). Indeed this recommendation sounds like a rather silly idea considering that links are useful, and that they build some kind of expectation that will not be met when being specific about a target on another site, then linking to the site's homepage. Considering that this homepage might change, too, following up on the original "linking to evil sites or to sites that might theoretically turn apocalyptic" problem.
"Highlight the dates when external links have been added." How helpful is that really, not just referring to that there might be other ways to determine such dates (cached versions of respective pages, versioning system repositories, and the like), but also how something like that is supposed to look like? Will dates being added to all "external" links be of relevance and interest to users?
The article seems to reflect a discussion that shouldn't exist. There have been few thoughts about usability, then ramifications. The only good thing is that German courts don't require external links to be accompanied by disclaimers and the like yet (contrary to what many people seem to think considering more than 150,000 disclaimers quoting a 1998 court order) as fortunately, it appears to be the context that is important.
Email Disclaimers
There are a lot of questionable signatures out there already—something I forgot to mention earlier, huh—, however Germany introduced new requirements for corporate mail two years ago targeting companies listed in commercial registers. Among the mandatory things (otherwise to be fined) signatures need to include the name of the company owner or executive, company name, legal form, full address of office location, register entry and number; on top of that there is the name of the sender and his or her position, &c., easily resulting in signatures that are longer than 20 lines.
This requirement compounds the issue with all-popular top-posting habits, contributes to even more cluttering, and makes email even less user-friendly. A simple solution like having a link to the companies' website that contains the required information added to signatures might meet legal requirements, but apparently, that would mean that you have to designate that link as external, including the date when you created or updated the signature, and…
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I'm Jens Oliver Meiert, and I'm a web developer and author. I love trying things, including in the fields of philosophy, art, and adventure. Here on meiert.com I share some of my views and experiences.
If you have any suggestions or questions about what I write, leave a comment or a message.
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On October 28, 2008, 21:09 CET, Dave said:
As usual, you're spot on. It's of course important to accommodate users, but I've received a growing number of requests and questions along the lines of "what if our users don't know that the blue underlined words are a link?"
As web developers, I think it's important that we refuse many of these silly changes rather than assume the role of kindergarten teacher for each visitor to our site.
On October 29, 2008, 10:52 CET, Michael Schmidt said:
Still, Wikipedia has nice little icons for external links as well.
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The 2013 Photographer of the Year Competition was held in Mallow Camera Club on Monday night 27 May. There was intense, but friendly, competition between members of different grades, and the results reflected the commitment and hard work of club members.
When the votes were counted Bill Power emerged as the 2013 Photographer of the Year. Not only did Bill win the top annual award he also won the trophies for best colour print and best monochrome panel.
Each member of the club was allowed enter up to twelve images in the competition, with the marks of each entrant's five highest scoring images being used to determine their overall mark. Independent adjudication was undertaken by Cork Camera Group photographers Michael O'Sullivan, Niamh Whitty and Martin Duggan.
Mallow Camera Club Photographer of the Year 2013 RESULTS
Photographer of the Year 2013: Bill Power, AIPF
2nd Viv Buckley, LIPF
3rd Aisling O'Connor, LIPF
Best Colour Print: Bill Power, AIPF
Best Monochrome Panel (five highest scored images): Bill Power, AIPF
Intermediate Photographer of the Year: Viv Buckley, LIPF
2nd Aisling O'Connor, LIPF
3rd Pat Sheehan
Beginner/ Novice Photographer of the Year: Jer Buckley
2nd Paul Tips
3rd Peggy O'Brien
Special thanks to the entrants for the time and effort they put into preparing their images for the event, resulting in an excellent range of images on display. Special thanks also to competition secretary Neily Curtin for all the hard work he put in to organising the event which ran smoothly and without a hitch. Thanks also to the judges who had to make some hard decisions on the night.
Mallow Camera Club is now in recess for the summer months and will resume in September. Meanwhile the committee will remain busy throughout the coming months putting together a programme for the upcoming season.
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I've already reviewed Dealing with Dragons (*****), the first book in Patricia C. Wrede's Enchanted Forest Chronicles, for this site, and I think that review pretty thoroughly covered the wonderful feminism to be found in Cimorene's and Kazul's stories and more subtly in other characters' within the Forest.
I am such a fan of these books, and after rereading that first and seeing that the love remained, I hurried out to buy for myself the entirety of the series, which I found collected into one volume by SFBC Fantasy.
I just finished rereading the rest of the series, one book after another, first Searching for Dragons, then Calling on Dragons, and last Talking to Dragons.
I did not realize till I'd nearly finished Talking to Dragons (**1/2) that though this is the last chronologically, it is actually the first of the books published by Wrede. This blows me away still because it proves what an enormous and twisted backstory Wrede had planned to get this one story finished—even if I think it would have felt somewhat poorly integrated into the text if I'd read Talking to Dragons first.
This last book is probably the least impressive to me—and so in that sense, I'm not surprised to learn that it was the first. It is the only book of the series written in the first person. Why for me first person has become such a taboo, I cannot say, but I am only just beginning to overcome my personal misgivings about the style. Sixteen-year-old Daystar narrates. One Goodreads reviewer managed to capture I think what bothers me about Daystar: Daystar lacks emotion and reaction. First person is best used to explore a character's inmost emotions and reactions especially in characters who cannot or will not openly express themselves. It can also be used to write in a unique voice as Rick Riordan does with Percy Jackson. Daystar doesn't have a particular interesting or amusing voice. He's not anguished or surprised or overwhelmed by his task or by the enchanted of the Forest. The only reason for Daystar to narrate is to keep the reader as much in the dark as is Daystar. I can't say there's a better narrator than Daystar, just that I wish that Daystar was a better narrator.
Shiara, the fire-witch with whom Daystar partners because neither of them has a direction so they may as well wander directionlessly together, is not the flying-in-the-face-of-stereotypes heroine that wins me in the other books of the series. In fact, she is a stereotyped redhead, fiery in ever sense, easily upset—touchy I supposed you'd say—prone to yell and complain and be angry at the world and herself. So, all in all, the fourth book is a disappointment—unless you consider it the first book and marvel at how much planning Wrede has done to write this book.
Rewinding back now to the second book, Searching for Dragons (****): This book focuses on Mendenbar, the insular king of the Enchanted Forest, who would happily spend all his days alone in his kingdom. On a walk through the Forest, he discovers spots of dead earth that possess none of the Forest's magic. There's evidence that the damage may have been caused by dragons, but he is advised to visit Morwen for advice about dragons before acting, and then by Morwen to visit Kazul. Mendenbar finds Cimorene instead of Kazul at the cave, however, and she is just setting off on a solo quest to find the missing King of Dragons. Gallant hero that he is, Mendenbar cannot let Cimorene quest alone, especially when they are seeking the same person, and so the two set off together. They encounter a number of helper characters whom Cimorene and Mendenbar help in turn and who help to expand Wrede's world beyond the dragons' caves. The magician, Telemain, becomes a recurring character.
This book better explains the nature of magic—specifically the magic of the Enchanted Forest, wizards' magic, and to a lesser extent magician's magic—which is all types of learned magic. Telemain explains magic and spellwork scientifically. Most of the other characters—notably Cimorene—can't understand his heavily jargoned explanations, which have to be simplified by other characters. Kazul glares at him and threatens to eat him if he can't talk sense. Kazul and Cimorene here sympathize with the child readers, but Telemain allows Wrede to speak to her adult audience as well. I appreciate these explanations as an adult, and as someone struggling to explain my own magic, I am doubly wowed by Wrede's scientific understanding of her magic.
Importantly, though the book is told primarily from Mendenbar's point of view, Cimorene is not discounted nor reduced to the subservient role. There are skills that Cimorene possesses that Mendenbar does not that make her invaluable—not her prowess in the kitchen or for housework but sensitivity to magic, knowledge about wizards, and a method of attack.
The escalating animosity between the wizards and the dragons climaxes to open battle in Calling on Dragons (****). The wizards capture the sword that helps Mendenbar control the magic of the Enchanted Forest and helps him keep the wizards out of it. Cimorene must go with Morwen, Telemain, Kazul, an enchanted rabbit named Killer, and several of Morwen's cats to recapture it. This follows the same adventure story pattern as Searching for Dragons: Helper characters, small battles and small victories, and ultimately victory over the wizards—well, sort of. This book necessitates the fourth, Talking to Dragons, because it ends with the battle a bit unresolved.
Within this group, the women shine particularly. Killer is more often a nuisance than he is helpful—or is helpful only by stumbling across enchantments before the others do—and Telemain becomes incapacitated by overextending his help so that Morwen must save him, reversing the typical hero's tale where the hero rescues a maiden.
This story comes to us primarily from the voice of Morwen, so the obstacles and solutions are particularly suited to her. Wrede proves herself an astute student of cats when she gives voice to Morwen's.
I wonder about the climate in which this book was written (I am too young to have been at all aware and too lazy at the moment to do the research) because there is a great deal of blatant retort to those who might call for traditional works of fantasy here in the character of Arona Michelear Grinogian Vamist. It almost feels as if this book has been written in direct response to detractors of Wrede's gender stereotype defying characters in other books. Wrede continues to play with the traditional, not only the hero tale and gender roles but several characters of other tales: Farmer MacDonald, Rapunzel, and a male fire-witch, proving that in Wrede's world "witch" is not gendered anymore than is King or Queen in the dragons'.
Overall, I am a huge fan of this series. I find them well-written books and important counter-examples to the still all too prevalent damsel-in-distress princess tales told to children. Wrede's women are for the most part very strong feminist characters, but none of them completely renounces their femininity, and in that I find them stronger, better role models for young girls. Wrede is conscious of the genre and conscious of the culture and aware of what is valuable and what could be improved or pruned from both.
I openly admire this series.
Wrede, Patricia C. The Enchanted Forest Chronicles. New York: SFBC, 2005.
Talking to Dragons first published 1985.
Dealing with Dragons first published 1990.
Searching for Dragons first published 1991.
Calling on Dragons first published 1993.
This review is not endorsed by Patricia C. Wrede; the original publishers: Jane Yolen, Jane Yolen Books, Harcourt Brace & Company; or The Science Fiction Book Club, SFBC. It is an independent, honest review by a reader.


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Philadelphia artist Richard Budman attended the Museum College of Art and the Tyler School of Fine Arts. He had his first one man show in 1955.
In 1984 he was the featured artist at the River Gate Convention Center during the World's Fair in New Orleans. In 1987 he was awarded a one man show at Temple University for his "Figurescapes" collection.
Budman started the 21st Century off by creating his signature style CubeRism.
It is the summation of his love of art, animals both pets and people.
He relies heavily on his natural meter which is akin to jazz improvisation.
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Stories about North America from December, 2007
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Caucasus: 2007 Blog Review
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Lebanon: Who Killed Francois Hajj and Why?
Lebanon grabs the international headlines again, with another assassination. Who was killed and why? Who is blaming whom and what have the region's bloggers got to say.
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Malawi: Innovation, the digital divide, and politicians who shun the Internet
Although we are not quite there yet, the beginning of the year 2008 will mark one year when the two Global Voices authors for Malawi, Victor Kaonga and myself, will...
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WeMedia: A chance to tell them what you think
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Act 351 of the 2013 Legislative Session created the Louisiana Behavior Analyst Board and the Behavior Analyst Practice Act. Act 351 provides for the licensure, certification and registration of individuals practicing ABA in the state of Louisiana.
2019 Board Meetings
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Feb. 18, 2020 Feb. 11, 2020
Mar. 24, 2020 Mar. 17, 2020
Current Board Members
LBAB Emergency Plan – COVID-19.1
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2ND UPDATE LBAB Emerg. Plan – COVID-19.3
Ethics Guidance for ABA Providers During COVID
Emerg. Board Meeting 6:00 p.m. 3-26-20 Zoom – 852 257 090 PW:615392
Lloyd Boudloche, Jr., Ed.D – Chair
Courtney Wright, M.Ed., J.D. – Vice Chair
Alfred Tuminello, Jr., M.A.
Renee Cole, M.A.
Calvin Cryer, M.A. Scott Williamson, M.A.
Consumer Board Member – Vacant Rhonda Boe, Executive Director Justin Owens, Compliance Officer Savannah St.Pierre – Clerk Callie Henry – Clerk
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Mail's here! Since yesterday was a no-mail holiday, there should be good stuff today! By Hulk's hurtful ham-fists, will you look at the condition of this box that has arrived for the human male!
The pointers I've been giving the mail carriers are really paying off. Well done!
Yes, I think we can all agree that this acronym stands for Usually Smashes Parcels Significantly.
Hope there was nothing breakable in there. Heh.
The human female has a parcel too!
Looks like the gorillas missed this one. I see I have some re-training to do. I have no idea what she's ordered. Let's look, shall we?
Sigyn, is that anything you recognize? I have to say that, sadly, I do not think it is fudge. Or rather, I now hope it is not fudge. Fudge should not BE that color.
Well, I'm glad this came with promotional literature, because I would never have guessed what these are–little rubbery samples of sidewalk gasketting. You know, that stuff builders put between concrete slabs to allow for expansion? The humans' front walk is missing quite a bit, and the spaces tend to fill up with soil and then grass.
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The talented Unusual Suspects youth at San Fernando Gardens Community Center's Juvenile Day Reporting Center have been working hard with Teaching Artists to create their art over a 13 week program. Join us for their Presentation of Learning on Tuesday, April 25th!
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In the tech-rich culture of San Jose, protection of intellectual property and consumer data is a constant concern for business owners. How can owners invoke legal protection for these assets in order to protect their legal interests and reassure customers that their data is secure? The answer depends upon the different types of liability a business can face when consumer data is compromised.
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Contractual liability arises when one (or more) parties in a contract fail to fulfill their responsibilities agreed upon in the contract. Many technology companies have contracts with consumers. These are often contained in the Terms of Service issued to users of mobile apps or software. Some can be more detailed – especially when the company is hired to perform a specific service to the customer. For example, when a company provides customers with secure data storage based on a private server or the cloud, the Terms of Service are typically very inclusive. If such consumer data is compromised, a technology company can face contractual liability for failing to provide the secure data storage offered by the terms of the contract.


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Advice On Office Romances
The Pro's and Con's of Dating Your Co-Worker
Dear April Masini,
I've always felt office romances were a bad idea and only led to messy situations instead of professionalism, but a co-worker and myself have started seeing each other. We both have respect for one another and thankfully don't get on the other's nerves -- even though we see each other at work and after work. Should we inform our company that we are seeing each other? Do you have any advice for handling office relationships?
Sincerely, Sex and Business"
April Masini's Advice :
Dear Sex and Business,
Office romances are no longer taboo. They are expected. Most people work, and since that is where they spend most of their time and energy, it makes sense that that is where they will meet other attractive singles. Sexual harassment in the work place does exist, so it's important to keep boundaries clear when you're interested in someone you work with.
If you find yourself in an office romance DO NOT inform your boss. In fact, you should be very careful that your romance does not impact your work in a negative way. Telling your boss that you are seeing someone is too much information and none of anyone's business at a business. However, don't make it their business by making out at the water cooler or sneaking off to long lunches that turn into romantic dates. Keep your work hours and your romance hours separate. Even though you're excited about this someone new, discipline yourself to keep these boundaries. It will even make the time you are together -- but can't show your affection -- more of a turn on.
Find out if your office has a legal policy about office romance by asking your personnel office. In fact, put the request in writing. Don't give details of your own interest in a co-worker. Just jot down a short letter or e-mail to personnel, asking, quite simply, about your company's policy on office romance. Save the correspondence in case, down the line, you need it.
Dating up or dating down can both be fodder for sexual harassment issues because of the difference in power. Any time that there is a romance, your co-workers may claim you played favorites or were played a favorite and got a promotion or perks because of your personal relationship. On the other hand, you may find yourself blasted by your ex office romance date if he or she claims you passed him over because you were angry or retaliatory over a romantic break. Watch it. Keep those boundaries in place!
And if you're still in doubt, read on:
(Wolf) whistle while you work? You Betcha!
Even though it's often advised against, dating people you work with makes practical sense—after all, we spend so much of our lives in the office, there's often no other way or time to meet anyone else. But that's not to say you don't have to be smart—extra smart, in fact — about your choices, and take special precautions if you're going to venture into an office romance.
The one overriding warning worth heeding — the one that should dictate all of your actions and words — is this: People talk. No matter how friendly your co-workers are, or how tight-lipped the object of your affection seems, secrets are almost always spilled, one way or another, whether accidentally or intentionally. Translation? Say nothing and do nothing that you do not want everyone else to know. This means no chit-chat with the girls at the water cooler about his size or performance, and no pillow talk with him about how much you loathe your boss, and can't wait to take over his or her job. There's too much at stake—like, your livelihood—to take risks, and there's too much to lose—like a potentially great love—not to give it a shot.
Some advice to make dating co-workers easier:
- Don't mix business and pleasure on company time. Agree to date out-of-work hours, but don't turn a business lunch into a romantic lunch.
- Stay fair. Don't give someone you're dating better work or pay, and don't punish someone you're breaking up with by giving him or her worse work or pay. Otherwise, you may find yourself on the receiving end of a lawsuit!
- Make sure he or she is actually single. If they're not – then keep personal remarks at work limited to sports, the weather and the kids. Don't gripe or listen to gripes about a spouse. "I'm sorry, I'm not comfortable talking about your wife – I want to keep our relationship all business because I value us as co-workers," is all you need to say – and do.
- You know he or she has a job. You know how he or she is thought of at work.
- You have a lot in common and can be more productive because you have this in common.
- There is an understanding of each other's work schedules. One of you isn't angry if the other has to work late because you have a better understanding of what's involved.
- If you break up or have a fight, you don't get the respite and space you may need to heal or cool down because you'll see the person so often at work.
- Sexual harassment is a real problem that can occur more easily when there are lines that get blurred at work. In addition, people gossip and you may make enemies if one of you is higher up in the corporate or business ladder at work, and the one is lower down may be perceived as getting unfair advantages.
- If one of you wants a break from work and the other is into work, you may not have an escape from it -- even out of the office.


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Has Canada missed the trade boat to China, or is it mindful of the reefs? October 19, 2011Posted by Dominique Millette in Asia, China, exports, foreign investment, international trade, trade issues, world economy.
Tags: bilateral trade, China, exports, foreign investment, Sino-Canadian relations, trade
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China will soon lead the world in economic output, yet Canada's exports to it in 2010 only totalled $13.2 billion. The U.S. remains our largest trading partner, absorbing 74.9 per cent of all our exports, for a total of $299.1 billion. By way of comparison, in 2009, total merchandise exports from Australia to China were valued at A$42.4 billion, an increase of 31.2 per cent over the previous year. Australia's population is 22,546,300 and the Australian dollar is worth about $1.05 CAD.
So: why does Canadian industry seem such a reluctant bride, or bridegroom?
On the one hand, as of this year, China's economy is second only to that of the U.S., and appears poised to overtake it within 20 years at the most. Its billion-plus population makes it the biggest consumer market in the world for cars and energy, as it opens up to every other good available in the West. China also consumes enormous amounts of natural resources for its industries; it's now the world's biggest consumer of iron ore, steel, cement and copper. As a result of its newfound clout, China now leads in the G20 and is gaining influence in resource-rich Africa, observes Huhua Cao, an urban geography expert at the University of Ottawa.
On the other hand, the lack of formal, independent legal protection for investors and the fusion of the judiciary with the political branch of government create a lack of impartial recourse in case of dubious dealings, whether for trade or investment. And disputes there have been, observes Charles Burton, a Brock University Associate Professor specializing in Canada-China relations. Amongst other problems, he cites the potential for fraud, lack of regulatory enforcement and of intellectual property rights, and corruption. "Canadians don't feel their contracts will be honoured," Professor Burton proffers as an explanation for the still-low level of Canadian investment in China despite its booming growth. There have been ongoing negotiations between Canada and China since 1994, he states, but "there's little incentive for China to implement such changes." The slow approach to China on the part of Canadians may be a reflection of prudence.
Then, of course, there is the human rights question and Canada's response to Tiananmen Square and other abuses, which echoed that of every other Western country. Economic, cultural and political relations between the two countries were abruptly suspended. Since then, Chinese officials have made no secret of their irritation at Canadian attempts to lecture them on rights issues. The Consul General in Toronto, Chen Ligang, compares relations to "a bird". The head is "political trust" and the wings, trade and cultural exchange. "Political trust is essential," he asserts. What this trust can bring, or take away, is not difficult to extrapolate.
Another roadblock to trade, and to any negotiations surrounding it, is the language barrier. In this respect, the immigrant population has a key role to play in bridging the differences between the two economies, argues labour and industry specialist Tony Fang, a York University Associate Professor.
Professor Fang disagrees with the blanket condemnation of Chinese business practices, calling it "an overemphasis on isolated cases." He further points out that China has only integrated itself into the global economy since 1978, the year Chairman Mao died and Deng Xiaoping announced the end of economic socialism.
Professors Cao, Burton and Fang were three of the four panelists invited as part of the launch of The China Challenge: Sino-Canadian Relations in the 21st Century. Senator Vivienne Poy and Professor Cao coedited this collection of essays from Canadian scholars, policy-makers and industry spokespersons. Held at the University of Toronto's Richard Charles Lee Canada-Hong Kong Library, the launch additionally featured Professor Louis Pauly, a scholar of international and comparative political economy, as a panelist. The Consul General in Toronto was also an invited speaker. Sponsors included the University of Toronto Libraries, the York Centre for Asian Research and the Asian Institute.
Missed opportunities or not, one thing Canada and China have in common is their emergence from the financial crisis relatively unscathed. Yuen Pau Woo's essay, "Canada and China after the Global Financial Crisis," notes that Chinese relative power on the global stage has grown as a result of the American meltdown. However, it states "Canada's relative resilience during the economic crisis has not gone unnoticed in China. For a change, we are seen by the Chinese as a bastion of financial stability and not just as a vast source of natural resources."
Our place in the post-recessionary world March 25, 2010Posted by Dominique Millette in Canada, recession, world economy, world finance.
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Because Canada has emerged relatively more unscathed from the Great Recession than its counterparts in the U.S., Europe and Japan, there's a tendency for some to feel smug. Yet, the recent storm was only a prelude to the gathering demographic tsunami awaiting fiscal policy makers everywhere. That includes Canada.
This was one of the issues to emerge during "After the Meltdown", the inaugural conference at Glendon College's Centre for Global Challenges, on March 24 2010. The panelists: American Nobel Laureate economist George Akerlof, award-winning Québec economic columnist Pierre Fortin and London School of Economics professor Tim Besley.
Last year, Akerlof published a book called Animal Spirits: How Human Psychology Drives the Economy, and Why It Matters for Global Capitalism. The gist of his argument, and of cowriter Robert Shiller's, is that market forces are not governed by entirely rational decision-making as conventional economic theory posits. Originally, Keynes was the first to use the term "animal spirits" in economic theory. It describes consumer and business confidence, but also the key factor of trust. This, as Akerlof argued during the conference, goes necessarily beyond the rational. The resulting conclusion of the book is that only the steady hand of government can effectively counter the erratic pull of emotional overconfidence and subsequent panic.
Fortin, for his part, writes for the Québec magazine Actualité, but is also professor of economics at the Université du Québec à Montréal. He's won the Gold Medal of the Governor General of Canada and has won national prizes and medals for his articles and his column. His contribution to the debate centred around the need for zero-deficit fiscal responsibility to prepare for both further economic disruption and needed social spending. A big part of that is our upcoming demographic winter, specifically the problem of ballooning health care. In Ontario alone, as premier Dalton McGuinty pointed out earlier this month, health-care funding will consume 70 per cent of the budget in 12 years if left unchecked. Today, health takes up 46 per cent of provincial spending. Meanwhile, the 15-64 year-old population will stop growing in 2025, just 15 years from now; and the 65+ segment will explode. Fortin stated that no amount of increase in the birth rate, or immigration, will change the fundamental imbalance.
One of the problems, of course, is that changing health care costs is a titanic struggle. Québec doctors regularly leave the province for Ontario, which pays twice as much, or for the U.S., which can pay even more. MDs in the U.S. make about $200,000, which is between 2 and 5 times as much as doctors make in other countries. The effect is to pressure Canadian provincial governments into negotiating higher fees with its medical professionals. This is one factor which keeps costs high compared to other developed countries; another, argued Fortin, is health care bureaucracy.
If cost-cutting becomes too great a challenge, revenue generation must take its place. This leads to the issue of comparative productivity: Canada and Italy are the snails of productivity in the G7 countries, asserted Fortin. This lag translates into lower fiscal revenues.
Tim Besley then weighed in with his analysis, which he has also brought to bear as External Member of the Bank of England Monetary Policy Committee and as consultant to the English Treasury. He observed that normally, capital would flow from rich countries to poor ones, while before the recent crisis the opposite occurred. This ought to have given us pause. Besley gave an overview of the policy and theoretical failures underlying the crisis: the emphasis on inflation targeting as sufficient for global stability; the rejection of activist fiscal policy — a view he espoused personally, he acknowledged; the dismissal of economic inequalities as inconsequential; and the spread of globalization limiting the power to tax. A major pitfall, of course, was lack of strong regulation, as demonstrated by the shell games major financial institutions played — Lehman Brothers and Citigroup being only two examples.
Other factors created pent-up pressure for the direction ultimately taken by capital flows. For example, current account balances diverged dramatically in recent decades with Germany, China and Japan producing surpluses while the U.S. and U.K. created deficits. This sent borrowed money flowing out of some economies and into others. There was also strong growth in financial liabilities: in Spain and in the U.K., these grew to 200 per cent of GDP by the year 2000. As a result, there was an increase in securitization and related derivatives, instruments at the heart of the recent crisis. Meanwhile, financial sector wages skyrocketed from 1.5 to 4 times the rate of other non-farm sector workers from 1990 to the mid-oughts, which increased the number of people eager and willing to wade into the trough. At the same time, there was an unusual compression of risk premia: by 2004-05, buyers accepted a much lower compensation for risk, which indicated very high confidence. Too high, as it turned out.
All in all, what emerged from this discussion, and subsequent questions, was that global governance and local oversight are major issues for the G20 today — and Canada has an important role to play, though we cannot afford to be complacent within our own borders by any means.


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I have submitted my recipe to September's Credit Crunch Munch linkup which is being hosted by Helen at Fuss Free Flavours and Camilla at Fab Food 4 All. Joining in this linkup is becoming habitual and I enjoy deciding which of our meals will best suit their theme of frugality. For my Cajun Tofu Pasta I used up a bag of penne which had been in the cupboard for a while and also made inroads into a tin of Cajun Spice blend that is actually already past its best before date, but still flavoursome and fiery!
|Cajun Tofu Pasta
100g penne pasta
Pack of Oasis marinaded tofu, chopped into bitesize pieces
Splash rapeseed oil
1/2 onion, finely chopped
Garlic clove, finely chopped
1 tsp Cajun seasoning blend
400g tin chopped tomatoes
Good glug of white wine
Salt and pepper
Cook the penne pasta according to the pack instructions. Drain and set aside.
Heat the oil in a pan and add the onion and garlic. Cook over a medium heat until softened but not browned.
Add the Cajun seasoning and stir to combine. Dave doesn't like too much spice heat in his food so I only used 1 tsp, then scattered more over my own plateful as a garnish after serving. You could add a couple of tsps at this point if everyone who will be eating likes spicier food.
Add the tomatoes and wine to the pan. Bring to the boil, then lower the heat and simmer for about twenty minutes to mature the sauce. Season to taste with salt and pepper.
Stir in the tofu. I used Oasis Deep Fried and Marinated Tofu for this meal. It has already been pressed and fried so just needing chopping before cooking which is a real time saver. I liked its tangy gingery flavour too. If you are using a different brand, you might need to press and fry it before starting on the rest of the preparation.
Cook the tofu in the sauce for about five minutes, until piping hot, then stir in the cooked pasta and heat through.
Serve immediately, with the jar of Cajun spice on the table so diners can add extra zing to their meal if they want!


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When Chairish [a very cool company who features exclusively curated pieces of furniture; and allows design lovers to buy and sell items] approached me about collaborating on a post together I knew exactly which chair I was going to use. In typical Faith fashion I picked the sleek black chair. Upon seeing their Domitalia Cameo chair, I knew immediately what I wanted my post to be about - home office inspiration. I love the mix of the vintage cameo shape and curved details with modern, textural pieces. Since most of my design preferences are very neutral I stuck with my main color palette but added in a fun accent of chartreuse green. I love the idea of this funky color popping up in accessories, office supplies, a fun throw blanket, etc.
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The Fab Gear Lesson Program offers:
- Fab Gear offers specialized guitar and drum lesson courses for students of all levels
- Private informative six-week lesson programs are guaranteed to have results
- Our highly trained staff of instructors offer beginner, intermediate and advanced lessons
- Lessons are done at Fab Gear Studios in Fairport or at an addition charge an instructor will come to your home for your convenience
- All ages, all levels, from beginner to advanced, are welcome
- Openings are now available
2019-2020 Six Week Session & Payment Schedule
Session 1 : September 15th to October 26th (payment due: September 12th)
Session 2 : October 27th to December 7th (payment due: October 25th)
Session 3: December 8th to January 18th (payment due: December 5th)
Session 4: January 19th to February 29th (payment due: January 16th)
Session 5 : March 1st to April 11th (payment due: February 27th)
Session 6 : April 12th to May 23rd (payment due: April 9th)
Session 7 : May 24th to July 4th (payment due: May 21st)
Session 8: July 5th to August 15th (payment due: July 2nd)
Session 9: August 16th to September 26th (payment due: August 13th)
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Session 1: September 27th to October 7th (payment due: September 24th)
The Fab Gear Guitar Lesson Program
The Fab Gear beginning guitar lesson program is a six-week course that is designed to put students on the fast track to playing guitar. Similar to the Suzuki violin teaching method, we teach all the fundamentals and major guitar chords in the first two weeks. By the third week the student is playing one of their favorite songs! The concept is to encourage the student to rehearse. If a budding student can play one of their favorite songs within the first few weeks, they'll be more inclined to pick up their guitar and practice. And it's all about practice. If the student rehearses exactly what their instructor teaches each week they'll be rocking after the six-week course!!
Students at Fab Gear are assessed for their level and paired with an instructor who can address their individual needs. Our intermediate and advanced guitar courses will take any guitarist to the next level of playing. Our staff of professional guitar instructors, have the experience as well as the real-world musical background required to help students bridge the gap from the practice room to the stage. We teach all styles. Rock, Pop, Blues, Jazz, Classical, and beyond, you can learn it with Fab Gear. There is simply no substitute for quality, one-on-one lessons on your instrument.
Lessons are done at Fab Gear Studios in Fairport or at an addition charge and for your convenience, one of our guitar instructors will come right to your home! That's right, no more driving your child to a lesson and waiting around. It's like the long lost old fashion doctor visit! At Fab Gear our specialized 'house call' guitar lesson program is hugely successful and very popular with our clients. It is just another way that Fab Gear offers the option of an added VIP service and convenience to our clients. Openings are now available. Call us at Fab Gear 585.425.0077 for more details.
The Fab Gear Drum Lesson Program
Fab Gear offers a specialized drum lesson course for students of all levels. Private informative drum lessons guaranteed to have results are given in our drum lesson studio. Our highly trained staff of drum instructors, address the student's individual needs with one on one instruction offering beginner, intermediate and advanced lessons. Our six-week course will have you rocking in no time. Openings are now available. Call us at Fab Gear for more details.
Great Rates
Our rates for individual instruction are among the best in the area. Half-hour private lessons at Fab Gear Studios in Fairport are $25 and are sold in six-week sessions ($150 for six weeks of lessons). In home half-hour private lessons are $35 and are sold in six-week sessions ($210 for six weeks of lessons). After the initial six-week course is paid, your contact information will be given to the appropriate instructor who will then contact you within 24 to 48 hours and arrange for scheduling. Call us at Fab Gear 585.425.0077 or stop in to our shop at 200 Packett's Landing in Fairport to sign up.
Ensemble Instruction
We offer an ensemble program for younger students of a similar age as well as an adult ensemble program for our adult students looking for that real band experience. Our ensemble program is designed to give students the invaluable experience of being in a real, live band! Space is limited in this exciting program and currently, students may join an ensemble by invitation of his/her instructor. Only top students will be eligible for selection into ensembles. The bands will work together honing their skills and learning the art of playing in a live situation. The ensemble program sessions are one hour weekly and are held at the Fab Gear Recording Studios (fee per one hour session is $35). Speak with your instructor for more details.
Lesson Policies
All of our lessons are taught on a one-to-one basis so that each student gets an individual learning plan catered to his/her specific needs. To ensure that our lesson program continues to be the best it can be, we ask that all our students and parents read and adhere to the policies below. Please note for homes with pets; so that the student's lesson is not disrupted and in courtesy to your instructor all pets need to be put in a secure area upon instructors arrival and for the duration of the lesson. No exceptions!
Cancellations and Rescheduling
Fab Gear lessons are paid for on a six-week basis, with payment being taken before the first scheduled lesson date of each six-week term. This six-week term fee is automatically billed to your credit card, or, you may pay at the Fab Gear show room using credit card, cash, or personal check (returned checks subject to $35 fee). Your time slot will remain intact for each six-week term, unless prearranged with your instructor. Please note, we will have a new policy for payments made by check. Checks need to be mailed or brought into the store prior to the first week of any new lesson session. Our instructors will no longer be collecting payments. Our address is : Andy Babiuks Fab Gear 200 Packett's Landing - Fairport, NY 14450.
2019-2020 Six Week Session & Payment Schedule
Session 1 : September 15th to October 26th (payment due: September 12th)
Session 2 : October 27th to December 7th (payment due: October 25th)
Session 3: December 8th to January 18th (payment due: December 5th)
Session 4: January 19th to February 29th (payment due: January 16th)
Session 5 : March 1st to April 11th (payment due: February 27th)
Session 6 : April 12th to May 23rd (payment due: April 9th)
Session 7 : May 24th to July 4th (payment due: May 21st)
Session 8: July 5th to August 15th (payment due: July 2nd)
Session 9: August 16th to September 26th (payment due: August 13th)
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Session 1: September 27th to October 7th (payment due: September 24th)
2020 Fab Gear Rock 'n Roll Academy's
Music and Recording Summer Music Camp
Andy Babiuk's Fab Gear-the boutique music shop for new and vintage musical instruments is excited to announce the dates for the 2020 Fab Gear Rock 'n Roll Academy's Music and Recording Summer Music Camp. There will be a 2-week intermediate/advanced program from August 3rd – August 14th, 2020 (Monday – Friday).
The 2-week program will focus on playing as a band and song writing. The groups will write, rehearse and perform their own songs and then record their songs in the studio! This unique summer session will give each student the opportunity to write, record and produce their own original music in a fun and relaxed atmosphere.
The music programs are designed by experienced musicians and instructors to give young musicians a comprehensive education on the in's and out's of the music industry in a fun and relaxed atmosphere, the camp will be held in private recording and rehearsal studios in Fairport. There, students will work on rehearsing and recording, completing a CD by week's end.
But the experience doesn't end there, we have drawn on some of our friends in the music industry to put on specialized workshops for the students on topics like music publishing, marketing, promotion and recording. Student's will also be taught about-and have access to-the 'fab gear,' ranging from instruments, amplifiers, effects, etc., that were used to make classic rock 'n roll recordings.
Included in the week's tuition are a CD of the student's completed tracks, a commemorative 'Fab Gear Rock 'n Roll Academy' t-shirt and knapsack and daily catered lunches from Wegmans.
But wait! The fun doesn't end there…
After the camp, to make the summer camp a 'real' band experience, we've arranged a live gig at a rock and roll venue were the students can perform their new songs and rock out on a real live stage!!
Space is very limited. Call Fab Gear to reserve your child's spot today
Cost: $800 for the two week 'Veteran Rocker' Intermediate/Advanced Program August 3 – August 14, 2020 (Monday – Friday 10AM – 3PM)
- Price includes a 'Fab Gear Rock 'n Roll Academy' t-shirt and knapsack, student performed and recorded cd, giveaways and daily catered lunches from Wegmans.
- A live gig and an in-store at The Record Archive were the students can perform their new songs!


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Ben Cresciman's Sun Choke may be the closest that anyone has come to an homage of David Lynch's extraordinary Mulholland Dr. without any pretension and without showing off that he knows how to make a film. Whilst it most certainly is not for everyone (as with Lynch's work), Sun Choke is a colossal film in many respects; it's stunningly filmed, unfolding at a pace that grips the audience, never letting go, exploring the psychological recesses of the darkest parts of the mind (think The Shining) and features a powerful central performance from Sarah Hagan (best known from Season 7 of Buffy The Vampire Slayer) as Janie.
The majority of what goes on in Sun Choke is never explained, but by the end, the audience learns that they really don't need an explanation of the events. Rather one is meant to give themselves over to Cresciman's story – simply believe everything that is on screen and don't try and make it fit with what came before and what is coming afterwards. In that moment the audience are simply believing and that is the key to Sun Choke.
Janie (Hagen) lives in a beautiful house in the middle of the Hollywood Hills (even down to location, Sun Choke is similar to the world of Mulholland Dr.) but for some reason she is kept as some kind of prisoner in the house. She lives with another woman, Irma (Barbara Crampton who gives a subtle and chilling performance) who acts as her parents, carer, doctor and often punisher but everything that Irma does, is meant to be for Janie's good. Janie often is docile and quiet but this adds to her mystery; the audience is never quite sure what she is thinking and Hagan does an extraordinary job carefully creeping along the screen. She has a routine that she must stick to in order to remain calm and collected but every so often, flashbacks that allude to some kind of sexual crime break can solitude of Janie's world and she breaks down.
One day Irma says that Janie can go outside alone as she feels that she has gotten to a point where she can look after herself. Without reasoning it with the audience, she finds herself becoming dangerously obsessed with Savannah (Sara Malakul Lane), a woman she has seen around town – she follows her and even breaks into her apartment to learn about this new woman. She feels ultimately connected in some integral way. But as the film goes on, the calmness soon erodes and violence erupts from all corners. Irma towards Janie, Janie towards anyone that talks to her and soon a gripping and evocative climax between Savannah and Janie in the house where this all began.
The chemistry on screen is striking and vital but it mainly centres around the power of Hagan because she reacts to her co-stars in different ways; her relationship with Crampton is frightening and often unexplainable. The audience are left wondering why these two women have been allowed to live like this and what forces have driven them together. Hagan speaks to the audience and to her co-stars with her eyes, she is able to pull together many different emotions by her stare. But when Hagan is onscreen with Lane, it's quite electrifying. There is a sense of eroticism, something not really explored but cannot be ignored. The power of these two women to command the audience watching illustrates the skill of their performances.
What makes Sun Choke stand out from other psychological films, from other horror film is that the vast majority of the film takes place during the day. The light from the sun beams across the screen and often swallows up the characters and action. There is little darkness on screen and this makes for an interesting juxtaposition between the drama of the action and their physical surroundings. This is also the same for the house that Janie lives in, it is virtually completely white – there is a brutality in the characters that is mirrored in the rooms, which causes a kind of beautiful alienation for everyone in the film.
One of the best psychological thrillers of the year, Sun Choke will be right for fans of directors like Lynch and Kubrick – it's evocative, often meaningful and pulls people in, in a way that the audience do care about the eventual outcome.


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Universal credit: DWP briefing notes and publications
DWP papers, publications and briefing notes
DWP policy briefing notes and information papers about Universal Credit are published via the Gov.UK website.
- Universal Credit rollout in Northern Ireland, May 2018
- Universal Credit and prison leavers, May 2018
- Universal Credit and landlords, May 2018
- Deductions from benefit, how creditors can apply, May 2018
- Universal Credit local authority bulletins, April 2018
- Universal Credit and you, April 2018
- Universal Credit transition to full service, March 2018
- Universal Credit consent and disclosure of information, March 2018
- Universal Credit different earnings patterns and your payments, February 2018
- Transition to UC housing payments: SSAC report and Government statement, January 2018
- Surplus Earnings: SSAC report and Government statement, January 2018
- Universal Credit changes to limited capability for work payments, November 2017
- Universal Credit and working families with more than two children, November 2017
- DWP report, Universal Credit at work, December 2015
- DWP Universal Credit at work
- Ministerial announcement - plans for accelerated rollout of Universal Credit after success in north west
- Universal Credit: First year of welfare transformation and north west next steps
- Ministerial Statement on Universal Credit progress, December 2013
- Benefits Cap FAQs (DWP)
- Universal Credit - Welfare that works
- Universal Credit - Welfare that works
- Eligibility to claim Universal Credit
- Transitional protection - Universal Credit policy briefing note
- Localising support for council tax- Explanatory note on restated default scheme - Universal Credit provisions
- Localising support for council tax - Council Tax reduction scheme taking account of Universal Credit income
- Unemployed recipients of Universal Credit spending up to 35 hours a week looking for work
- Universal Credit launches in Manchester
- Changes to watersure as a result of the introduction of Universal Credit
- Universal Credit - Pathfinder update
- Direct payment project extended for 6 months
- Freud/LGA supporting the vulnerable claimants on Universal Credit
- Howard Shiplee to lead Universal Credit delivery
- Simplifying the welfare system and making sure work pays activity: DWP Transitional Protection briefing note - December 2012
- Universal Credit and in-work support – speech by Lord Freud
- Universal Credit and in-work support – the call for ideas (speech, Mark Hoban MP)
- Adviser Update, Benefit Cap roll-out information
Archived Briefing Notes
DWP published information about various parts of the legislation ahead of the Committee stage in a series of papers. These are now archived.
- Universal Credit policy briefing notes – an introduction
- Briefing note 1 – Additions for longer durations on Universal Credit
- Briefing note 2 – The payment proposal
- Briefing note 3 – Treatment of Capital
- Briefing note 4 – Contributory benefits
- Briefing note 5 – Second earners
- Briefing note 6 – Transitional protection
- Briefing note 7 – Carers
- Briefing note 8 – Foster carers
- Briefing note 9 – Treatment of income (other than earnings)
- Briefing note 10 – Childcare
- Briefing note 11 – Extending conditionality under Universal Credit to working claimants: setting a new conditionality threshold
- Briefing note 12 – Conditionality under Universal Credit: the work search and work availability requirements
- Briefing note 13 – Extending conditionality under Universal Credit to working claimants: safeguards within the new regime
- Briefing note 14 – Earnings disregards and tapers
- Briefing note 15 – Managing the build up of claims to Universal Credit
Last reviewed/updated 14 May 2019


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Joined: Apr 08, 2006
Posts: 3
Sat Apr 08, 2006 1:29 pm
Post subject: Still waitng for my # transfer... 3 months and counting!
I signed up with
on Jan 5th 2006. 20+ emails and phone calls to
later my phone number transfer is still not done yet! I'm sad to see I'm not the only one out there with such a long delay. I'm starting to feel like a moron for putting up with this crap.
has done a VERY POOR job of keeping me informed of the status and reasons why MCI keeps rejecting the transfer requests. I've concluded that the reason for the long delay is a combo of MCI wanting to make it as difficult as possible for
to steal biz from them and Vonage's inefficient and ineffective # transfer process. It's a complete joke. Shame on
should be doing much more to help me. Instead I just get canned answers from their helpless (and often useless) CS agents. It's in Vonage's best interest to drive my # transfer forward and make me a happy customer, but instead it's just floating in space with nobody at
taking accountability for my 2-3 month # transfer delay. This is the worst customer experience I've ever had with onboarding with a new service. I wonder if Vonage's VP of CS or CEO has any clue that the process can be so painful! Pathetic.
really seems promote the customer friends/family referral. Hah! Why would I ever want my friends/family to have to go through this nightmare?! I'm referring absolutely nobody to Vonage!!! If my # transfer doesn't go through this time around I'm dumping
and MCI altogether...and my existing phone # if it comes down to that. I feel screwed.
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Joined: Apr 12, 2006
Posts: 3
Thu Apr 13, 2006 5:22 pm
Post subject: porting from Sprint
I'm having the same problem porting a number from Sprint. I guess the vendor that
is using for the porting doesn't communicate.
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Posts: 70
Tue Apr 18, 2006 12:49 pm
Post subject:
Yep, sorry to hear all this - which was one of the biggest reasons for the incredible relief I had when I (just) quit
. I actually was in 'LNP Escalations' - which is another word for 'Sorry, sir/madam, but I still don't see anything re. a transfer date. I can escalate this above me.....'.
Which basically accomplished nothing! I've said this before - NOBODY talks to each other at
. Communication is all electronic - and I've NEVER seen an LNP 'ticket' that has anything close to anyone from Vonage/3rd Party (Focal, etc...) talking to anyone from carriers - or internally!
Thing is, the CS reps really have no access. Trust me, they'd LOVE to give info, the really would. It's just that the system is set up to not have accountability.
And you know what is said? 'Well, 85% of transfers are done within 14 days, so it's really not too much of an issue'. That was a real quote.
As Mr. Edward R. Murrow used to say, 'Goodbye and good luck'.
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Joined: Apr 08, 2006
Posts: 11
Sat Apr 22, 2006 1:10 am
Post subject: If there's a problem with the previous carrier, then
Then as the current customer of that carrier, you raise heck with them! During my transfer period, I called ATT to make sure they had a record in my account of my intent to drop them and transfer my existing number to
I also repeated several times, and had the CS rep repeat back to me, that I was NOT cancelling my account. I was simply registering my desire for ATT to expedite my number transfer request to
as quickly as possible.
I had to listen to their canned speech about "did you know that ATT blah blah blah," but at the end of the call, it was clear that I had made my wishes known.
can only jump through the hoops as much as the LNP law allows. YOU are the customer - you need to escalate on the previous carriers customer service chain and GET WHAT YOU WANT!
Despite the success of my LNP transfer, I still must agree with most posters on this forum - every customer service rep I spoke with at
seemed pretty dense, or at minimum, seemed hog-tied and monosyllabic about what they could do to help me.
Haven't tried tech support yet, but everything is working so well, I haven't needed it.
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Tue Apr 25, 2006 2:06 am
Post subject: Number transfer is a scam - they claim conspiracy
I experienced similar issues. They said that they never received the letter back from my existing carrier, but Comcast said that they sent it 10 days earlier. It was supposedly escalated, but I never heard anything more other than "Wait your 20 business days". The customer service agent told me that it was probably that comcast was dragging their heels to keep from loosing business to
. #1 - against the law #2 I highly doubt that Comcast is that desperate to keep my measly $21 a month for local service. I called a month after I signed up for - which apparently is the "activation date" (even thought its a good week before you can get the equiptment to even use their virtual number) - and it was a Saturday - I wanted to cancel - starting to get a bad feeling - but Account management is closed. So I called on Monday to cancel and it's not with in the 30 day money back guarantee period - so they charge us $150, and never once did we use the phone, nor did they hold up their end of the bargin by transferring the number. I would not have agreed to the service if my number wouldn't have been transferred. I'm trying to dispute the charges, but they claim it's within the contract to charge us. I don't agree, I don't see anything about what they are expected to uphold - I thought it was to provide a service and not just take my money. I tried to ask for a supervisor, but apparently, there is no such thing. I'm going to try to go the route of disputing the charges with my credit card company. What a pain!
Awefully convenient that your first month - FREE - actually starts before you could even use the service and ends well before the agreed to service is provided, but...oops, they already charged your credit card, and of course, no pro-rated bills, only full months. I'd love to hear any suggestions for getting around these helpless cs reps to someone who can reverse charges.
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Posts: 70
Tue Apr 25, 2006 4:18 pm
Post subject: Path to Follow
Two things: First, your account should have been noted that you tried to terminate on that Saturday.
will accept that date as being within the 30-Day MBG, even thought Acct Mgmt was closed. (Try getting thru on a Monday, you'd have prolly gotten a CS agent anyway).
Second, demand a supervisor. CS agents have a policy that obligates them to transfer your call to 'acs' (Advanced Customer Service) on that request. That, though, is unless the by now standard email was sent out to CS agents 'Not to transfer calls to acs.'.
Sorry if this doesn't help much - why do you think I quit that s***hole Company?
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Joined: Apr 25, 2006
Posts: 2
Tue Apr 25, 2006 5:20 pm
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Thanks, but I already tried that. They said that it doesn't matter if the 30 days landed on Saturday, they expected me to call before then. They can even see that I talked to the CS group on Saturday, about canceling, but no go.
And the account manager I talked to insisted that no supervisor was available and implied that none existed.
The thing that gets me is that I have to continue to pay for my previous carrier until they get around to getting it transfered.
It was a big red flag when I heard the automated message say that I can expect a wait time of 15-25 minutes! No one else in any industry would tolerate that, it's just bad customer service. And who else have you heard of that won't let the customer service group cancel customers....a whole separate group? My hoop jumping is getting practice....
Here's a very interesting blog
Mentions close to a million different blogs complaining about the
I read a post that said that someone thought it was just a problem transferring from Bell South... no way... its all a
problem, clearly.
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Joined: Mar 31, 2006
Posts: 9
Wed Apr 26, 2006 1:51 pm
Post subject:
You're emailing to the wrong people/person. Get on Vonage's website and email directly to the CEO of the company. It took me about 45-50 days to switch from Comcast to
but I think the middle company which actually owns and assigns your telephone number was the company dragging their feet.
What you want to do is have one of their Executive Response team members handle your situation and they'll get on it.
I've had the service for about 2 months now and I'm extremely pleased since the number was finally ported.
Best of luck but send your correspondence to their CEO ... he needs to hear about these kinds of problems.
Keep the faith ... it works well once you get it complete.
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Joined: Apr 08, 2006
Posts: 3
Mon May 08, 2006 2:52 pm
Post subject: Update from the original poster (3rik7)
I figured I'd give an update for those that care. I ended up e-mailing Vonage's entire exec management to voice my issue and frustration with the phone # transfer process (transfer from MCI to Vonage). Within a day I got a phone call back from Vonage's exec response team and they assigned an actual person to help me with my # transfer issue and to take accountability of the problem. What a noble idea! I guess 3 months had to go by and I had to e-mail the exec management to finally get things moving. Lame. The guy they assigned to me was great. He was very knowledgeable of the whole # transfer process on both MCI's side and Vonage's side. After working with the exec response team member and some more back and forth with MCI over a couple more weeks it turned out the issue all along was MCI had my name as the "billing contact" and wife's name as the "name on the phone # record". That was the name conflict because my name is on the
account, not my wife's. I had asked MCI on several ocasasions during this whole ordeal to verify that my name was THE ONLY name on the entire MCI account. And MCI assured me on all those ocasions that my name was the only name MCI had on record for the account. That was a load of BS. It wasn't until
and I conference called MCI and explained that something on my MCI account was not allowing the # transfer to go through that the MCI rep finally said, "Oh yeah, your wife's name is listed as the phone # record holder and your name is listed as the billing contact". I then immediately had MCI change the name of record to my name. But, prior to this when I managed my MCI account online only my name appeared anywhere on the account. You would think an MCI customer could see all the names listed on the account. Anyway, MCI finally released the # to
on May 3rd! I'm now totally disconnected from MCI. I thought I'd never see the day. So now that all is said and done it was MCI who is mainly to blame for this whole delay as they never made it clear early on in my phone calls to them regarding my # transfer issue that my wife's name was the name on the phone record. And they knew the whole time I was trying to transfer my # to
. MCI was pretty much just trying to strong arm me into staying with them or at the least milk me out of a few more months of billing. Shame on MCI! Bunch of jokers. However,
should have done a much better job keeping me more informed about the issue earlier on. And after the 2nd/3rd time that MCI rejected the # transfer request
should of had someone step in and do some hand-holding at that point to ensure maximum customer satisifaction. I'm no expert in VoIP/telecommunications provider processes! Now hopefully I can go on to be a happy
customer. Oh yeah,
ended up crediting me one month of charges for my ordeal. I'll take what I can get.
. So, lessons learned: (1) Carriers may have multiple names on an account which may trip up a # transfer. (2) MCI $ucks and I will never use them again.
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Mon May 08, 2006 3:02 pm
Post subject: Re: Update from the original poster (3rik7)
I'm glad you finally were able to get it straightened out. I think the transfer system is just not perfected as they say within 20 business days but at least you stuck with it and it's resolved. If I were you I'd ask for 60 days credit from MCI or at least don't pay your last invoice from them. You shouldn't have to pay for their incompetence.
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MLK50 is over and not without its controversy. Many well-known pastors, theologians, and Christian leaders spoke at the conference, while many other well-known pastors, theologians, and Christian leaders spoke disparagingly against it, if not condemned it. Some from each side, I believe, will be at the T4G conference.
I have to be honest; I'm not sure what all the hype is about, and perhaps I shouldn't be writing this article. I did not attend the conference and I only saw one short excerpt of Russel Moore's sermon. But I did see things exploding on Twitter from every side. I must say, I was a bit confused at first what was being tweeted, retweeted, quote-tweeted, etc., trying to figure out why everyone was up in Twitter-arms.
All I can say is that I have a lot of respect for many of those at the MLK50 conference, and I have a lot of respect for those that didn't go or speak. But those who took to Twitter to bash the other side did a great disservice to the Kingdom. I can understand those who were simply informing about their concerns and why they did not and even could not attend, and vice versa. However, those who went on personal attacks did not act in brotherly love.
I do not believe (though I could be wrong), that any of the speakers that I'm familiar with would argue that Martin Luther King, Jr.'s theology was conservative or orthodox. He was a liberal Baptist preacher, but just because he was liberal does not mean that everything that he said or believed was wrong. Where there is agreement, let us admit it. I fear that our society's thin-skin and black-and-white divisiveness has worn off on the American church. It seems that believers are simply itching for a fight, walking around with a chip on our shoulders. Whatever happened to Meldenius' "In essentials: unity, in non-essentials: liberty, in all things: charity?" As far as I know, no one espoused false doctrine at this conference. I would have thought that would have been all over my feed. It was simply the occasion and the topic that seemed to be at issue. No liberty and no charity were paid by many on both sides. Some were both gracious and understanding (I don't want to lump everyone into one category).
For those who weren't though, so often verses that tell us that we are the light of the world get ignored. Verses that ask who we are to stand in judgment of our brother and despise our brother are blindly passed over. Verses that tell us that our love should bear all things, believe all things, hope all things, and endure all things are simply forgotten. The very thought that the world will know that we are Jesus' disciples if we love one another is all but gone.
I know, I know. It's about the gospel. Exactly! It is about the gospel. As far as I can tell the speakers at the conference are not saying otherwise. No one has called for a "social gospel." They affirmed the true gospel. They are simply calling for gospel application within society. If the gospel has change our inner-lives, it must and it will change our outer-lives. From my understanding, and I could be wrong, the conference was meant to be a wake-up call upon the church to move out of applying the gospel to certain pet projects, and move into a roll to help those who suffer from injustice.
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