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The ledger only shows posting office as who entered/adjust a charge. Is there a way add the user to the details of who did the adjustment so we can track that? I know you can run a deleted transaction report but sometimes our practices sees issues and we don't know which employee to specifically go to because it just says the office and we have multiple people in that office adjusting the ledger.
It would be so nice if there was an audit history like there is with scheduling appointments where we can see who/where/when/what was done.
If you're looking for charges/adjustments, not necessarily deletion records, you can print a Transaction Detail report (Reports>>Financial>>Transaction Detail) specifying which criteria you may be looking for and it will tell you all charges/adjustments on which patient's account and what user did the charge/adjustment.
Can I ask for an example of the scenario and what is missing? If it has to do with credit cards not being posted on a patient's account after taking a payment, I think I may have the answer but hoping to help with whatever it may be.
@ajohnson87 , have you figured out the riddle of e-payment credit cards not showing up in the ledger after they've been run? If you know what triggers it, please share!
@omsnashville I've only come across one reason, so far, why credit cards do not post so hopefully this may help! When completing a credit card payment, make sure to go through each screen and click the "Finish" button at the end. I've had my times of getting distracted or getting in a hurry and just X'd out of the screen after it's been approved but before getting to the final screen. Those times that I've hurried and forgot to complete the entire transaction to the "Finish" button, the credit card payment never posts on the patient's ledger. Hopefully this may help someone if they've had this same issue as well.
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America's integrated transportation network of trains, trucks and barges carries 54 tons of goods and commodities for every American in a single year.
This staggering haul contains the ingredients that are essential to the nation's modern economy and our way of life: from the steel that frames our skyscrapers to the grain that feeds the world.
Freight rail serves a unique and integral role in this transportation network. When shippers need to go big, rail is ready. A single train can carry an incredible load of cargo efficiently, providing shippers a reliable and cost-effective way to meet their business needs.
The efficiencies achieved by freight rail benefit rail customers, consumers and the broader economy. To see an example of this, simply head over to your local car dealer or scan the many vehicles — cars, trucks, SUVs and minivans in every color, shape and size — on any highway or street. Each one has been designed by auto manufacturers to meet any driver's taste and any family's needs.
Such abundance and variety is possible because car manufacturers can roll out thousands of new vehicles in a single day. And that scale of production and delivery to consumers is possible because freight trains can move the raw materials, auto parts and millions of finished automobiles coast to coast seamlessly. At every stage of the production life of an automobile, freight rail serves a role. In 2019, automakers sold 17 million cars and light trucks in the United States, an achievement made possible by freight railroads and the larger integrated transportation network.
How do you move that many vehicles?
Well, a single train can move hundreds of vehicles at once.
Freight rail's economy of scale serves car manufacturers, as well as industries and companies throughout the country — paper mills, power plants, big box stores and more. Today, rail customers can ship nearly twice as much freight for approximately the same price that they paid 35 years ago. That means manufacturers are better positioned to scale up to serve an existing market or to create a new one. Whether it's to deliver auto parts for new cars or drywall for new homes, freight rail is ready to make it happen.
In business, reliability is critical, and freight rail customers can count on railroads to serve their transportation needs. In the last five years alone, America's privately owned freight railroads spent an average of $26 billion a year to maintain and modernize their rail network — rather than relying on taxpayer funding. It's just another way that rail feeds the infrastructure that feeds the economy.
So the next time you marvel at the endless gleaming options at a car lot, remember freight rail — and the work we do to deliver for our customers so that they can deliver for you.

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Q: You have just taken over as President of Vaccines Europe, the voice of Europe's vaccines sector. What are the main challenges facing the industry in the years ahead?
A: The next main challenge for our Industry is to ensure that Europe retains excellence in prevention and immunisation programmes. Lifespan immunisation is undoubtedly an essential strategy to achieve well-being and healthy ageing both identified as critical success factors for the European Commission's goal of smart, sustainable and inclusive growth in Europe by 2020.
Q: Why are prevention and immunisation so important?
A: The European healthcare systems are at the crossroads of a major transformation. During the last thirty years healthcare expenditure has been growing much more rapidly than GDP in all OECD countries, raising growing concerns about the long-term sustainability of current trends. The standards of healthcare that are today provided to European citizens are economically unsustainable in their current form. Improving prevention for all, promoting immunisation, facilitating life-long learning, active ageing and well-being all make for more prosperous and fairer societies and help them to face the challenges and capture the opportunities in a global economy.
Q: How this can be achieved?
A: We need to focus on three areas: awareness, access, and maintaining and strengthening Europe's leadership in vaccines both in term of science and manufacturing excellence.
Q: Why do you consider awareness to be so critical?
A: By awareness, I mean public awareness and acceptance of the importance of vaccination, and compliance with national immunisation programmes. Vaccines are often said to be a 'victim of their own success'. Because vaccines have dramatically reduced the incidence of several diseases, the public no longer sees these diseases and thinks the threat is gone. But the threat from many vaccine-preventable illnesses remains, so continued vigilance is required. We lack political leadership here. Public health programmes are today strongly influenced by short-sighted austerity measures. This means that we have to do more to put the value of vaccines at the centre of public policies. It is a shared goal for governments, health professionals, the public and our industry.
Q: Why do you see this as a particular challenge?
A: In Europe, vaccination policies are significantly imbalanced. A strong focus is on childhood vaccination where there are systems in place and it is considered a normal part of the health and social systems in most countries. When it comes to lifespan immunisation, keeping people healthy and reducing the risks of diseases through life, the systems are not yet as well developed. Cervical cancer, universal flu vaccination and shingles are a tangible example of this. Our industry needs to shift its thinking on how to set up appropriate implementation structures if we want to get better results.
Q: Could you give an example of this shift in thinking?
A: Just look at the US where they made their message on flu vaccination much simpler: instead of running several campaigns targeting high risk groups such as older people, pregnant women and those with chronic illnesses, they now recommend universal flu vaccination. This has helped simplify things for the public. It removes the uncertainty. It means that someone with a chronic lung condition need not wonder whether they are in a priority group for flu vaccination – the message in the US is that everyone should be vaccinated against influenza.
Q: In terms of access to vaccines, what changes would you like to see?
A: People's access is crucial for successful vaccination programmes. We want the population to have faster access to new and improved vaccines. We would like to see the procedures for access streamlined, while preserving the highest safety and quality standards. Today, to bring a vaccine to the market it typically takes 6.4 years after marketing authorisation is granted. This is mainly because each member state has to implement European decisions through a national recommendation system. It becomes a kind of postcode lottery on a country scale – the time it takes to get access to vaccines depends on which European country you live in. This is not acceptable any more.
Q: Is the wider economic climate having an effect on market access for vaccines?
A: Economic realities are moving faster than political realities, as we have seen with the global impact of the financial crisis. It is an extraordinary moment for our economies and we need to recognise that "business as usual" would consign us to a gradual decline, to the second rank of the new global order.
For us, the value of vaccines is clear – prevention is key to good health and good use of scarce resources. If diseases can be prevented then it reduces the number of visits to the doctor and hospitalisations, and the use of other healthcare resources including staff and medicines. Fewer episodes of illness also means fewer days missed from work and school. This is the way that we can add value to European citizens' lives, to their productive participation in the economy, as well as to their contribution to society, while preserving the sustainability of healthcare sustainable for the individual citizens.
Q: What role can Vaccines Europe play in supporting European health priorities?
A: Vaccines Europe would like to be a trusted partner with stakeholders at national and EU levels and we are committed to helping authorities to address public health challenges. For example, we have an obvious role in combating the European response to health threats and pandemics.
Q: Are there some less obvious examples?
A: Yes, we also make a contribution in other ways, for example by helping to combat antimicrobial resistance – which is a top health priority at EU level. By preventing illnesses we can avoid health complications which might lead to hospitalisation. Not only does this reduce the risk of healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) but fewer cases of flu complications, for example, would mean less use of antibiotics.
Q: What about broader economic and research policies?
A: Europe wants to be an 'Innovation Union' and we see a clear role for the vaccines sector in achieving this. Most of the world's vaccine research and production is based in Europe –conducted by global companies. We need to maintain this leadership role in a sector which can provide high-quality employment. To do this Europe must create the right environment which means investing in research on the one hand and supporting greater acceptance of immunisation programmes on the other.
Q: Finally, the European Vaccine Manufactures (EVM) has now changed its name to Vaccines Europe. What prompted the change?
A: Vaccines Europe represents a highly innovative and diverse global industry with a strong position in Europe. We are exploring the option of expanding our membership to include small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) in future. Along with established players in the vaccine sector which have a track record of innovation, smaller companies are an important source of fresh ideas, new jobs and economic growth in Europe.


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1. Secure Funding
Not surprisingly, most startup companies face issues with having adequate funding – but that shouldn't hold you back. In the first stages of your business you may need proof of concept, prototypes, research, inventory, marketing and packaging. There are several options that you can explore to obtain funds, including seed capital, potential grants, and various loans.
To help you determine exactly how much money you should be seeking, fill out a Financial Projections Template (provided by SCORE, click will open link in a new window) to calculate startup expenses, payroll costs, and more!
2. Find Space to Grow
Sure starting out in your basement or your buddy's garage may work now – but there is a good chance that eventually your business will need additional space and technology requirements. Looking ahead and planning will allow you to grow without breaking the bank and leaving your startup vulnerable.
Most communities have access to incubator facilities, such as the Chippewa Valley Innovation Center or Applied Technology Center.
3. Get On Board with Teamwork
Small team dynamics can become hindering if two or more individuals don't get along. In addition to getting along, small startups have to find an team of individuals with experience and talent. Unfortunately, most startups aren't able to offer competitive salaries – making it even more difficult to secure a team that will build the company up to something great.
Don't let the daunting task of pulling together the right team be overwhelming, there are several ways to connect and network to find those individuals who have the skills your company needs to grow. The most important component is to have a team that is as passionate as you are about the startup's mission and goals.
4. Locate a Mentor
A mentor can help you navigate through the ins and outs of getting your startup off the ground. The easiest, and perhaps easiest to overlook, source for mentors is someone who you already know. Take a look at your Facebook or LinkedIn account and post that you are seeking a mentor – there is a decent chance that you may be able to connect with someone.
Face-to-face more your style? Not a problem, there are several state and local organizations that you can connect with to help locate a mentor: SCORE, Wisconsin Dairyland, and the Small Business Development Center are all great places to start.
5. Establish a Clear Direction
There is no one way to get your business up off the ground. Nor is there a quick algorithm that you can use to guarantee success – but that doesn't mean that you don't have options to help yourself. Business plans are a great tool, but are lengthy and often don't have the flexibility that most startups require.
The Lean Startup Model is used in startups to quickly determine the most feasible path towards market fit. Using the Lean Startup Canvas, businesses are able to layout key elements of their business to help make decisions, and invest their time into actively building products or services.
Click here to download the Lean Start Cheat-Sheet.
Learn more about the Lean Startup Model and Business Plan Development by clicking here.
6. Find Your Niche
Very rarely is an idea completely new. Innovation typically comes in the form of a unique or revolutionary change in an already existing idea. Because of this, it is difficult to cut through the noise and have your company stand out from the crowd. You have to find your niche … and it needs to be something no one else is doing (hint: everyone thinks they are the best at what they do, so saying "we are the best" is not going to cut it).
Your niche could consist of enhance of current products in the market, or be a completely new innovative take on how something is done. The goal is for your idea to make people's live better, easier, more affordable, or flat out awesome!
7. Set Realistic Goals
"Reach for the stars!" may have sounded great when you were in second grade, but when running a startup you are going to want something more measurable and obtainable.
Don't short yourself (and set your business up for failure) by setting poorly derived or immeasurable goals. Take the time to really think about what you want to accomplish and how you can get there. Two popular methods for setting goals:
- SMART goals (Specific Measurable, Agreed Upon, Realistic & Time-based)
- HARD goals (Heartfelt, Animated, Required & Difficult)
Regardless of the methods you choose – it helps to write them down and continue to revisit them periodically to make adjustments.
8. Listen to Your Audience
By now you should have already filled out a Lean-Startup Canvas (if not go ahead – we will wait here) and you have probably noticed that one of the best things about the canvas is that it is really easy to update- particularly if you used pencil.
If your product release is met with a lukewarm approval, don't be afraid to return to your original idea to see what can be improved. Do you think the first Mac computer was awesome? No – they went back to the drawing board several times until they got it right.
9. Embrace Creative Problem Solving
While working at 3M, Spencer Silver attempted to make a super strong adhesive. This goal was an utter failure. Instead of adhesive that was so strong it could be used in the aerospace industry to build planes, it wasn't even strong enough to hold two pieces of paper together. Management agreed with Silver that this was a failed product and it was shelved.
Fast forward to Art Fry, a Product Development Engineer at 3M, almost a decade later who also happened to sing in a St. Paul, MN choir. After continuously losing his song page markers in his hymn book, he used the adhesive to make the markers stick to the pages without damaging the book.
It was this creative problem solving that generated one of the most widely used office products today – Post-It Notes.
Using creative problem solving can turn what some see as a failure into a completely new innovation!
10. Balance Expansion with Quality
Growing too quickly or without solid funding in place can leave your startup on shaky ground. Take the time to set up a plan for expanding, remembering that every change your company undergoes effects the quality of your product.
Hire too many too quickly? You could be making the mistake of hiring individuals who aren't the best fit for your organization, or you could be hiring beyond your budget.
Expecting to work from a couch and laptop only to you realize you need to have office space? If you have at least considered this possibility, it won't be such a shock to your company (not to mention your budget) if you need to change your plans to keep up with your company's growth…and you can always move that couch to the office.
In conclusion, starting a new company is not something to take lightly and will require a lot of thought. Lucky for you, there are a lot of resources to help you along your way. Organizations such as SCORE and the Eau Claire Area EDC are here to help individuals make their business dreams feasible, and programs such as the Idea Challenge and Startup Weekend can assist you with planning and finding mentors. With a lot of planning and passion – and maybe a bit of luck – you can set yourself and your business up to become something amazing!
- 10 Common Obstacles for Startup Tech Companies by Jose Vasquez
- Post-it Notes…Little sticky notes that revolutionized messages
- Post-it Notes Were Invented by Accident by Daven Hiskey
- Smart Goals versus Hard Goals by Christina DeBusk


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Lisa Hanawalt is a Brooklyn-based artist whose first major book, My Dirty Dumb Eyes, comes out on Drawn & Quarterly in May. Her work has appeared in The Hairpin, Vanity Fair, The Believer, and she illustrated a book about farts once. I thought it would be a good idea to meet Lisa for coffee at Cookie Road in Greenpoint to talk about her life, and to also make sure and point out that I knew a lot about her—even prior to our interview, because I'd been stalking her on Twitter and Instagram for a month.
Kelly: So, you're going on a book tour and I can't imagine what that's like.
Lisa: Me neither! I've done conventions a lot, and for my previous job I used to have to go to conventions to sell camera equipment, so I've kind of had a little bit of training in how to engage people and sell things to them even though I'm super shy.
Kelly: The funny thing about all that though is that, OK, so you're sitting at a table, and you see someone walking towards you, and then there's maybe that awkwardness where you have to sit there and stare at them, or have some sort of smile, until they bridge the distance from where they were to where you are.
Lisa: That's the most awkward part, where someone's coming towards you but you're too far apart to start talking, but you have to acknowledge them in some way. I probably come across as a little aloof because I just don't know what to do. What's even weirder is when they're nervous to meet me, because I'm like "ME! You're nervous to meet ME?" There was this one girl who came up to me during Comic-Con and she had this stack of books, and she was so nervous that the books started to topple to the floor. I just started asking her questions about herself.
Kelly: Well, the level of social anxiety is so severe that sometimes it's nerve-racking just to leave the house.
Lisa: I completely relate to that. Just interacting with a cashier at a bodega is such an awkward, intense experience for me.
Kelly: This book is kind of your first major solo thing. How did you get hooked up with Drawn & Quarterly as the publisher?
Lisa: My agent, and I sent them a proposal and they said yes. Thankfully. We had sent proposals to a few other places too, but people kept wanting to change the book, or add things. One place was like "Can you do a chapter on cocktails? Or nightlife?" One company wanted me to do an entire book about Ryan Gosling, but I don't want something that people will just pick up at the checkout aisle and then it's tiresome after one week. Drawn & Quarterly were the first to say that they just wanted the book to be my vision.
Kelly: You've drawn Ryan Gosling a few times, and you sell some prints of those drawings on your Etsy shop. If Gosling ordered one, would you include a little note to him, or would you be like "That's cool, whatever?"
Lisa: Oh, I would definitely write to him. I don't know what I'd say. I'd probably try to make a drawing for him or something. I'm such an ass-kisser. I'd totally suck up to him.
Kelly: Do you collect anything? Do you have any weird collections? And this question comes from lurking and seeing a picture you had posted of your desk, and it looked like you had a lot of cool stuff. I always love seeing pictures of people's workspaces, and apartment interiors in general.
Lisa: I used to be a big time collector of everything I was into. I collected plastic horses, and Legos, and I got really into the Beatles at one point so I collected Beatles stuff. If you go to my childhood bedroom you can see all these different obsessions. And now I'm trying to pair down and own less stuff, so I don't collect many things, but I definitely have that need to hunt for things. Maybe someday when I have more space I'll get back into it. Also I feel like when I was more into collecting I was a lonelier person. I was single for like six or seven years, living in LA, and I just had crazy crap around me all the time. And now I live with my boyfriend, and a dog, so stuff is less important to me than it used to be.
Kelly: So you have a dog, and this is something I've thought about more than twice (not specific to your dog, but in general)—I'm wondering if your dog suddenly turned into a human, and made its way out into the general public, would you be able to pick it out in a crowd?
Lisa: Would she have human intelligence? Or would she be just as smart as she is now? If she were as smart as she is now I'd be able to pick her out because she'd be like "Durrrrr." She'd be like out in the middle of the street taking a crap. If she had human intelligence I think she'd be like me. I know it's cliché to say that people resemble their pets, but me and my dog are really similar.
Kelly: Would you describe yourself as an introvert or an extrovert?
Lisa: I recently decided that I don't believe in that binary. I think people can be more introverted versus extroverted, and vice versa, but I don't think you're one way or the other. I'm the kind of person where if I go into a social situation, like a party or something, I do feel like I'm getting into a cold swimming pool and it takes me a while to warm up, but then after that I love to talk to everybody and am like a social butterfly. I think it's just what you're used to, and what you like. Generally I do like to spend a lot of time alone, and I do tend to feel exhausted if I've been spending a ton of time around other people, so I guess I lean more towards introvert, but yeah. I'm also a little bit of a ham inside.
Kelly: When you're drawing, do you ever have instances where you have an idea in your head, but it's difficult to fully translate that out into the image that you're drawing?
Lisa: That's the hardest part because you'll have this perfect picture in your head and think, "I know exactly what this is supposed to look like," but you just know that the second you start drawing it's gonna change. I've just learned to not worry about. You have to sort of just start drawing to get the bad stuff out of the way, and hone it into something even better than what was originally in your head. That can really paralyze me if I think about it too much.
Kelly: Your captions for the things you draw are often just as funny as the drawings themselves. Do you have a background as a writer?
Lisa: I don't, but I've always written a lot. I used to keep a LiveJournal. [laughs]. I got used to writing about my life every day, and I wrote about it in the funniest way possible, and I think that was good practice in translating real life stuff into funny stories. I'm still not the best writer, and I always think I should write more, but it is important to me that the writing be just as good as the drawings in my work.
Kelly: I saw on your blog that you hate drawing shelves and grocery store aisles. Is that because they're particularly hard to do, or because you just generally hate it?
Lisa: Anything that is very geometrical, or receding into the background in a way that requires proper perspective, I just hate. I just get so bored with it. And it's difficult to draw loosely and get it right. Where as if I'm drawing an animal, I can draw the weirdest version of a dog, and you still know it's a dog, but with shelving if I do it in a loose way it just looks lazy.
Kelly: I listened to a podcast called Butt Talk that you were on and you mentioned that you would prefer if people never knew that you pooped, ever, and I can really relate to that. I guess this isn't even a question, but picture Ryan Gosling or Angelina Jolie pooping. Like, just picture it.
Lisa: I think about Obama pooping all the time. I think about it at least a couple times a week. It's amazing to me that he poops.
Kelly: There's an app for everything and a thing for everything, there should be a thing in public restrooms where there are just noise buttons on the wall. So you can sit there and hit noise buttons while you poop.
Lisa: Like in Japan! They do everything better there. My favorite is when I'm in a restaurant or a bar and they have music playing in the bathroom, because some places do that. That's the best!
Lisa Hanawalt chats with Sadie Magazine
Lisa Hanawalt is a Brooklyn-based artist whose first major book, My Dirty Dumb Eyes, comes out on Drawn & Quarterly in May. Her work has appeared in The Hairpin, Vanity Fair, The Believer, and she illustrated a book about farts once. I thought it would be a good idea to meet Lisa for coffee at Cookie Road in Greenpoint to talk about her life, and to also make sure and point out that I knew a lot about her—even prior to our interview, because I'd been stalking her on Twitter and Instagram for a month.


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The DNA code contained within a cell carries as much information as a library…a combination of one hundred elements (which is much simpler than a cell) could be formed by chance at the odds of 10^158 to 1 (whilst the total number of electrons in the universe is 10^80); even with a billion attempts per second, it would need billions and billions times more
time than the billions of years it took the cosmos to form. (The Big Bang theory holds that the universe has been expanding for 13 billion years. Our planet is generally given 4.5 billion years, its most ancient rocks up to 3.5 billion years.)
(Blocher Henri, "In The Beginning: The Opening Chapters of Genesis," InterVarsity Press: Leicester UK, 1984, pp.226, 215. )


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Obama's Economy: The Excuses Begin
Just days after the November presidential and congressional elections which gave President Barack Obama a non-mandate of 50.6% of the popular vote and the demonstrated supported of less than 27% of all U.S. adults, NBC's Brian Williams actually told viewers:
With the election now over, it is once again safe to talk about the economy and jobs. Now that it is not a campaign issue, it's back to reality.
Still in Democrat-supportive campaign mode, Williams then introduced a report by correspondent Harry Smith about how "the idea that manufacturing in America is dead ... is an outright falsehood." Mary Andringa, president and CEO of Iowa manufacturer Vermeer Corporation and then-board chair at the National Association of Manufacturers, told Smith:
What's really outstanding is the fact that in 2010, the U.S. had an output of $4.8 trillion of manufactured goods. That was up from $4.1 (trillion) in 2000 -- and we've been through two recessions in the past decade.
That is undoubtedly an impressive achievement which should not be discounted. But then Smith delivered the kicker:
Five million manufacturing jobs were lost in the U.S. in the last decade. But new jobs have been created too, and believe it or not, many manufacturers in the U.S. are looking for help.
This highlights two problems. The first, which is that our educational system and culture are not preparing enough people for the jobs which need to be filled, is self-evident to anyone with open eyes.
The second, despite the unfilled positions just noted, is even more important: unlike what occurred after every other post-World War II downturn, not enough new jobs are currently being created to make up for the ones being lost. The new companies and entire industries which have always emerged and generated enough new jobs to replace those lost as a result of increased productivity in existing industries aren't appearing at a rate necessary to reduce unemployment to an acceptable level.
Why not?
At the Associated Press, aka the Administration's Press, the post-election search for an explanation clearly had two important constraints. First: do not blame the Obama administration or the federal government for anything. Second: find something to blame which appears to be plausible and can't be immediately refuted.


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I know that I have. Here and here.
And I am sorry if you are stopping here for the ICLW and find me all aggravated here. But I can't hold it.
But seriously. I am so glad I am currently unemployed. Because I cannot send those into my vag. They give me burns and itches.
Rectally, though, this is the scenario: no burns, no itch, they are FAR easier to shove in (or up?) but then about 15 minutes later I need to run 2 stairs at a time to the WC. That's water closet. That's washroom. Bathroom. Powder room. In short, it feels like f****ing diarrhea! When you feel you can't run fast enough to get there in time.
I am so frustrated with this whole thing. Why aren't there no normal pills design to swallow, like birth control pills? I mean, they are hormones, too – so it's not like you can swallow hormones…
Argh!!!! This better be all going towards a pregnancy!!!


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Almond Almanac
The Almond Board of California`s Almond Almanac is an annual year-end report that provides a glimpse into what makes up the California Almond growing and processing community. Published on a crop-year basis (August 1 to July 31), the report provides a compilation of industry statistics, including production, shipment and consumption numbers. It also provides a comprehensive overview of the Almond Board's programs.
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Striking black and white photographic print from a photo taken in Toulouse, France by Amadeus Long. This art print has been printed on Fuji crystal archive paper using a C-Type print process. This listing is for a 4" x 4" unframed print but other sizes, and finishes are available.
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Chaos Walking is one of those series that will change your life. It is the kind of trilogy you want to finish while at the same time you don't want the series to end. You will be thinking about it weeks or even months after you have read it. The trilogy is very sad but definitely unique.
If you can handle the real brutality of war, I highly recommend these books. There are three books in the series: The Knife of Never Letting Go, The Ask and the Answer and Monsters of Men.
The stories are unique as they are set in a very different alternative universe. This has made them hard to get my head around at first but reading further helped me understand. The books are long, however once you start reading it is hard to stop.
The books are sad and contain deaths so I would not recommend them to people who don't like sad books. You get very attached to the characters very quickly. I would rate these books 8 out of 10. They are amazing. I would recommend them for readers aged 12 and over.
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In this day and age self-improvement is all the rage. Therefore that is why people read every self-help book they can get their hands on. But while they would be attempting to improve themselves they tend to forget one aspect they should improve. This would be their driving skills. This is one skill that every individual should hone. That is because every time you get behind the wheel not only would you be responsible for your life. But you would also be responsible for the lives of those on the road. But we understand that many individuals do not know what steps they can take.
Take a Course
Every individual goes for lessons when they want to obtain their license. But for many, this may have been years ago. Furthermore, more often than not you would not remember half of what you learn. This is understandable. But this can also lead to more accidents on the road. Thus, that is why we advise you to hire a private driving instructor Singapore. This way you would be able to easily get a refresher course. Furthermore, the best part is that there is no final exam at the end of these lessons.
Don't Drive When Sleepy
Ever since we were small we have heard the dangers of driving while drunk. But did you know that driving while being sleepy can be equally dangerous? Therefore if you ever feel sleepy you should pull out from the road. We understand that this would be the last thing that you want to do. That is because you would be on your way to an appointment or event. But even sleeping for 5 minutes while your car is parked can make a world of a difference. Not only would you not feel sleepy. But you would also feel refreshed.
Don't Use Your Phone
We have seen countless signs advising us not to use the phone when driving. We have also seen the government implementing a fine system for those who talk whilst driving. But despite these precautions individuals still, continue to use their phone while driving. In this day and age, they don't simply use it to call someone. Instead, they have now begun to Snapchat whilst driving. We understand that many celebrities do this. But that does not mean you should copy this behaviour. Even a few seconds worth of distraction is enough to cause an accident.
Many think that they are good drivers simply because they have been driving for years. But that does not mean the aforementioned tips would not be useful to them.


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Ready serviced office and virtual office fully furnished located in SetiaWalk, Puchong comprises with:Furniture; executive working table, executive chair with pedestalCorporate image of meeting room with screen projector & wifi accessAccess to business lounge with free flow of coffee, tea & drinking water Fiber-optic internet with high speed (50mbps)Dedicated phone line with free phone answering by our ExecutivePersonalized mail and parcel handlingFree utilities of TNB, IWK & Water with cleaning, pest control, building maintenance and air-cond servicesSecurity access door system with CCTV surveillance and accessible for 24 hoursAmple parking with affordable parking rates of RM95.00 per month and flat rate RM4.00 per day. SetiaWalk developed along to LDP highway in Pusat Bandar Puchong with mixed office blocks, retail outlet, restaurants, condominium, shopping mall and hoteliers with green landscaped and water features. Varieties cuisine from famous restaurant surround of SetiaWalk. Avenue Business Centre strategically located in SetiaWalk well connected through variety methods of transportation including private transport from the Lebuhraya Damansara Puchong Highway (LDP) and via public transport of LRT and busses nearby. KL International Airport is just 20 minutes away from Puchong.For enquiries, please contact Razifah at tel no: 03-74935050 or email at: email@example.com
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Tuesday, July 10, 2012
Orange Clove Cupcakes
This is a slightly citric, lightly aromatic, and hedonistic spice cake. It's comforting and eloquent with it's bold, in-your-face flavors. Orange cake has been laced with hints of freshly ground cloves to give it a bit of a bite. A vanilla buttercream acts as a simple, if not perfectly paired backdrop to allow the real star flavors to shine. The candied orange peel has also been given a bit of raw ground clove as well, it's pungent and slightly bitter flavor creating sweet little pinpricks on your tongue. It's a delicious thing to bite into.
Here's to you darlin'! Congrats!
Orange Clove Cupcakes
Makes 24 cupcakes / 350F oven
What You'll Need...
3 cups of flour
1 tablespoon of baking powder
1 pinch of salt
2 tablespoons of grated orange zest
5 eggs
1 1/2 cups of sugar
1 cup of vegetable oil
1 tablespoon vanilla extract
3/4 cup of orange juice (no pulp)
1 1/2 teaspoons of ground cloves
What You'll Do...
1) Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Combine the flour, zest, ground cloves, salt and baking powder together in a bowl and set aside.
2) Place eggs and sugar in a mixer and beat on high for 30 seconds until light and fluffy.
3) Add the vanilla and oil and mix until just combined.
4) Add some of the dry ingredients and then the orange juice. Alternate the dry and wet ingredients, ending with the dry.
5) Scoop into cupcake papers about 3/4 full. Bake for 18-22 minutes, rotating the pan after the first 15 minutes. Check with a cake tester or toothpick for doneness.
Vanilla Buttercream
What You'll Need...
1 cup butter, room temperature
4 cups of powdered sugar
1/4 cup of milk
1 teaspoon of vanilla extract
What You'll Do...
1) Cream the butter until soft.
2) Add the sugar and then the milk and vanilla extract. Cream till soft. Spread on cooled cupcakes.
Cloved & Candied Orange Peel
What You'll Need...
2 oranges
1 tablespoon of salt
1 pinch of ground cloves2 cups of sugar, plus some extra for rolling
What You'll Do...
1) Zest the peel into long strips with a citrus zester. (You can cut off the zest as well with e a vegetable peeler, then cut into strips, just be sure to scrape off all of the white pith as it's nasty bitter.) Add salt and peel to 4 cups of water and let stand overnight.
2) Drain and rinse. Place in a saucepan and cover with cold water. Heat to boiling and then drain. Repeat 3 times (this is to remove any bitter taste).
3) In sauce pan, combine peel, sugar and 1/2 cup water. Heat and stir until sugar dissolves. Continue to cook until peel is translucent. Drain any liquid.
4) Place some granulated sugar and a pinch and roll peel in granulated sugar and ground cloves. Be sure to only use a small pinch of cloves, in large amounts by itself raw cloves can create a burning or numbing sensation on the tongue. (By the by never take a pinch of ground cloves and put it on your tongue; can you tell I learned something today?) You just want a very slight taste of it, and when combined with the sugar it's tamed and tasty. Allow to dry.
Note: This, like many of my recipes, can easily be adapted to a sheet or round cake as well.
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BIOGRAPHY: Daniel Abdal-Hayy Moore
Born in 1940 in Oakland, California, his first book of poems, Dawn Visions, was published by Lawrence Ferlinghetti of City Lights Books, San Francisco, in 1964. In 1972 his second book, Burnt Heart, Ode to the War Dead, was also published by City Lights. He was the winner of the Ina Coolbrith Award for poetry and the James D. Phelan Award for the manuscript of poems in progress that became Dawn Visions. From 1966 to 1969, Mr. Moore wrote and directed ritual theatre for his Floating Lotus Magic Opera Company in Berkeley, California.
When he became a Muslim in 1970, he took the name Abd al-Hayy, and began traveling extensively in Europe and North Africa (Lawrence Ferlinghetti wrote of this period: "Moore [became] a Sufi and, like Rimbaud, renounced written poetry."). After ten years of not writing, however, Moore "renounced" his renunciation and published three books of poetry in Santa Barbara, California in the 1980's, The Desert is the Only Way Out, The Chronicles of Akhira, and Halley's Comet. He also organized poetry readings for the Santa Barbara Arts Festivals and wrote the libretto for a commissioned oratorio by American composer, Henry Brant, entitled Rainforest, which had its world premiere at the Arts Festival there on April 21, 1989.
In 1990 Mr. Moore moved with his family to Philadelphia, where he continues to write and read his work publicly. He has received commissions for two prose books with Running Press of that city, the best selling The Zen Rock Garden and a men's movement anthology, Warrior Wisdom; his commissioned book for The Little Box of Zen was published in 2001 by Larry Teacher Books.
Daniel Moore's poems (sometimes under the name Abd al-Hayy Moore) have appeared in such magazines as Zyzzva, the City Lights Review, and The Nation. He has read his poetry to 40,000 people at the United Nations in New York at a rally for the people of Bosnia during that war, and has participated in numerous conferences and conventions at universities (including Bryn Mawr, The University of Chicago and Duke University in 1998, the American University at Cairo, Egypt, in 1999, and the University of Arkansas in the year 2000). His book The Ramadan Sonnets, co-published by Kitab and City Lights Books, appeared in 1996, and his book of poems, The Blind Beekeeper, distributed by Syracuse University Press, in January of 2002. To date (2004), he has over 50 manuscripts of poetry which make up his present body of work.
In March of the year 2000, and October of 2001, Mr. Moore collaborated with the Lotus Music and Dance Studio of New York, performing the poetic narration he wrote for their multicultural dance performance of The New York Ramayana, and recently revived his own theatrical project in The Floating Lotus Magic Puppet Theater, presenting The Mystical Romance of Layla & Majnun with live-action and hand-puppets. He wrote the scenario and poetic narration and directed a collaboration between traditional Mohawk and modern dancers for The Eagle Dance: A Tribute to the Mohawk High Steel Workers, which was to be presented in New York on September 22, 2001, postponed for a performance on March 16, 2002 at the Aaron Davis Hall in Harlem. He has participated in The People's Poetry Gathering of New York, narrating a cabaret version of The New York Ramayana at the Bowery Poetry Club and participating in a panel on The Poet in The World: Words in Community. He continues to give many public readings during the year, often accompanying himself on specially tuned zithers.
What others have said about his work
The intelligence of Daniel Moore's poems is like Frank O'Hara's: there are no boundaries or limits to possible subject matter. Imagination runs rampant and it glides. Reading them is like standing in a cool snow field on a sunny day. It's a blanket of glory and a sheer act of beauty. Moore is unique in the variance and perfection of his prosody. Each poem is a new melody. Like the metaphysical poets, Vaughn, Herbert, Crashaw, the shape of the poem is strong, no matter how lovely; it is fused with depth. This is the real thing! —Michael McClure
I celebrate Daniel Moore's unique and constant creative work over the decades. "Visionary" means truly seeing truth unveiled, seeing within & without the inescapable unity of all facets & aspects of the Divine—& sometimes being able to frame the unsayable in language. It is this poetry that he has been mastering over the years – no mean feat; in fact it is an extraordinary enterprise of inestimable value & inspiration.—David Meltzer
Daniel Moore was a legend among poets and the hip cognoscenti of California in the 1960s, so it's a great pleasure to see just how brightly this flame still burns. The eye and ear have retained every ounce of sharpness. Can a deeply spiritual poet have this much humor? Imagine Mayakovsky, McClure and Frank O'Hara all wrapped in the same soul. That still doesn't capture just how much fun a book this intense can be.—Ron Silliman
He's like an old wisdom tradition come up off the streets.—Coleman Barks
Daniel Moore is that rarity among his contemporaries – a surrealist of the sacred – whose poems are shimmering cornucopias of xylophones, gazelles, minarets and herons, spilling forth their abundance, the seen and the Unseen, suffused with spiritual awe and love of God. In these pages we are in the presence of a visionary servant of the divine, a poet of torrential imagination, in whose hands we are all whooshed into the world of spirit.—Carolyn Forché
Immersion in Daniel Moore's cascading imagery leaves you soaked to the soul in spirituality. Whether a brief musing on a falling leaf or a multi-stanza love opus, each of these poems gleams with a combination of intellectual honesty and a sense of cosmic unity. Often his final lines leave you wondering, "How did he do that?"—Doug Froggatt
Daniel Moore's latest book is like the hoopoe bird. The poems contained within are lush and loving, like the correspondence that one of the more famous of the hoopoes carried back and forth from King Solomon in Jerusalem to Bilqis, the Queen of Sheba, in the Qur'an. I like Moore's poems because, like that particular sacred romance, they have happy cosmic endings—because he utterly trusts in God, Whose Mercy is greater than His Wrath.
—Abdallah Schleifer
From beekeepers in the mountains to exotic birds in the desert, Daniel Moore always travels to the essential question of who we are, why we are here, and, where we are going.—Shems Friedlander
Daniel Moore's poetry is the exercise of the divine, an open gate to the wilderness of the eternal. Here with the Blind Beekeeper we live the sainthood of an astonishing imagination. Every word possesses a sacred space, every image confirms the reality of the invisible. If the crystal universe exists, what is it? If it does not, what do the poems of the Blind Beekeeper reveal to us? —Munir Akash
Daniel Moore, even though he's been writing for so many years, has yet to be discovered. He's writing from such a wide and diverse platform that it may take a truly new and truly global "fifth world" citizen to hear where he's coming form. He's taken inspiration from the sixties, forged it with experience and travel from Mecca to Timbuktu and Philly, and in the language of this time has spoken it from the heart.—Hakim Archuletta
Many poets would cheerfully swap a body part for Daniel Moore's ability to write so fluently, and for so long, and so well. To turn on the tap, so to speak, and have words gush forth. He has never stopped seeing the world with a poet's eyes. That is, he is continually amazed and moved by what he sees and reads, and if you happen to agree with Ezra Pound that all genuine poetry has its roots in an emotional response to something or other—an idea, object, event or image—then, there you have it.—Jim Cory
…Daniel Moore keeps faith for all of us. He's snared in duality, as we are, but with him the heart is always open. I much admire his generosity of spirit, which does not waver.—Michael Hannon
TAM Editor's note: Daniel Abdal-Hayy Moore has been called the "poet laureate" of American Islam by Hamza Yusuf, Mohja Kahf, and myself. He has been one of the individuals who contributed greatly to The American Muslim since the 1990's. He was also a participant and contributed greatly to the 1993 North American Muslim Pow Wow at Dar al Islam in Abiquiu, New Mexico.
American Muslim Statement of Poetics by Daniel Abdal-Hayy Moore (originally published in the Winter 1994 print edition of TAM for which Daniel was the Poetry Editor)
Perhaps there is a body of literature, of a resounding and resonant poetry and prose by Muslims in America, which benefits from the great strengths of the contemporary American writing all around us, with its diversity and versatility, as well as international poetry with all its styles and sophistications, while at the same time being stunningly truthful and skillful in its expression of the totality of our lives as Muslims in America. I see a poetry in the American idiom, multiple as that is, capable of epic rhapsody, lyric, simple observation, here at the end of the twentieth century, geographical as well as placeless, embodying the heart of our Islam and the winds of change and the soul's transformation.
The Prophet () said: "In poetry there is wisdom." And he also said: "He who remembers his Lord and he who does not are like the living and the dead." (Bukhari) Perhaps, and it may be in its embryonic stage, a vigorous, risk-taking and contemplative poetry is already being written, and its practitioners are shyly holding onto it, or it has only to come out from behind a kind of puritanical embarrassment in order to be revealed.
We have to overcome our own qualms about creativity, the critical and supercilious browbeatings from Muslims who fear it and misinterpret hadith and Qur'an to quell it. The history of Islamic literature is full of poetry by known poets, just as the museums are full of Islamic art that is highly developed and beautiful and not merely decorative. A poetry that is imaginatively inventive and vivid, from the heart tempered by an aware intellect, surreal with real substance, spiritual in the deepest sense, radical while avoiding the polemical and dogmatic, not preachy, but not afraid of the heights nor scornful of the depths, and which is not affected by a superiority complex by virtue of simply being Muslim (Allah's final deen), while at the same time maintaining a standard of knowledgeable excellence. I am not defining formalism, nor the merely colloquial. Pick up the many anthologies of modem American poetry, poetry of now, to see what I mean!
It is a poetry by poets who take their art seriously, who have read and continue reading the poetry of the past and of the present, for whom it may also be a mode of remembrance of their Lord, a dhikr, true contemplation having a high rank in Islam, a form of prayer. The heart moves the pen, the hand obeys, and the schooled intellect maintains the rhythms and measures, observes the limits and how to go past them and provides the critical traction for wisdom to take to the air. I'm trying to define both true poetry by anyone of any belief, and a poetry for and by Muslims we can be proud of—angry, sweet, celestial, terrestrial, the trials and defeats as well as the struggles and victories of our lives, the whole enchilada, a living expression that is both familiar and challenging, that both defines us in all our textures, and takes us beyond what we know. An alchemical vocation with language!
Without making any claims for myself, I call on poets to study and to compose, to" read and then forget reading, to sharpen the sword of their pens with love and dedication. We want to publish good poetry here in these pages, wherever space allows. Not "filler" poetry, and not occasional doggerel, but solid soaring, solid enumerations, transparent arguments for Allah's greatness and our submission, past the grave.
In America we have seen over the last thirty years how Buddhist thought has enriched the poetry of poets like Gary Snyder, A1len Ginsberg, Anne Waldman, through their deft, elegiac rants, their careful observations, their great dimension and their respectful silences. When Islam takes hold in a culture that culture's arts flourish with a flood of wonders. I would hope that perhaps we can have the same among us, natural to our soil and our natures, a passionate and precisely imagined poetry of our Islam.
Octavio Paz, the Nobel Prize Mexican poet, said:
"Poetry is knowledge, salvation, power, abandonment. An operation capable of changing the world, poetic activity is revolutionary by nature; a spiritual exercise, it is a means of interior liberation. Poetry reveals this world; it creates another…the poem is a mask that hides the void—a beautiful proof of the superfluous grandeur of every human work!"
9/11 Mohawk Eagle Dance Memoir, Daniel Abdal-Hayy Moore http://theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/9-11-mohawk-eagle-dance-memoir
Choosing Islam, Daniel Abdal-Hayy Moore
THE ECSTATIC EXCHANGE: WORDS ON MY LIFE AND POETRY, Daniel Abdal-Hayy Moore http://theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/the_ecstatic_exchange_words_on_my_life_and_poetry
Daniel Abdal-Hayy Moore's two sites: http://www.danielmoorepoetry.com/ and http://ecstaticxchange.wordpress.com/
Daniel Abdal-Hayy Moore video portrait http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iS3NRvkKzI0&mode=related&search=
1960's Floating Lotus Opera poster from http://www.danielmoorepoetry.com/


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InterExchange Au Pair USA Celebrates 25th Anniversary in 2014 With Memories That Mean the World
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InterExchange Au Pair USA is proud to celebrate its 25th anniversary this fall. During the coming year, we'll be highlighting Memories That Mean the World, with stories and anecdotes from people who've enjoyed the benefits of the program for years, creating long-term connections.
Since 1989, InterExchange Au Pair USA has connected thousands of caring au pairs with loving U.S. host families, creating global relationships that demonstrate the best aspects of cultural exchange. The au pair program is about more than child care. Many InterExchange Au Pair USA host families have children who have literally grown up with the program, and as they've grown, they've had an opportunity to meet au pairs from all over the world. Beyond the loving, dedicated, full-time child care, children also get exposure to different languages, cultural customs and incredible people whom they might never have met.
With the ongoing success and increased understanding of how au pairs contribute to a household, InterExchange Au Pair USA has seen regular growth each year and as of 2014, works with eight times as many au pairs and families as it did in 1989. The diversity and interest from countries across the world has increased as well, with au pairs visiting the U.S. from 66 countries.
These relationships have built Memories That Mean the World – from babies' first steps to high school graduation – for families like the Carithers, from Alexandria, Virginia.
"We feel so lucky to have gotten to know six lovely and educated women from around the world (Japan, Germany and Latvia) through InterExchange Au Pair USA who have become extended members of our family," says Ms. Carithers. "Each of these young women has brought energy and enthusiasm to the job and a fresh perspective. Each one has helped our children through various stages of their lives – they've lived through potty training with us, starting kindergarten, learning to tie shoes, learning to swim … all with a sense of humor and adventure. We really have been so happy."
The Kobrynski/Lesnick family, from Atlanta, Georgia, has been with InterExchange Au Pair USA for more than 16 years and hosted au pairs from six countries.
"My wife and I are both physicians and need reliable child care help," says Dr. Lesnick. "We started in the au pair program when our first daughter was six weeks old. Staying at home for the first year and half really kept her healthy. We continued with au pairs through the birth of our second daughter. Since it's hard for us to drive afternoon carpool, we relied on our au pairs throughout their school years to get the kids to all their after-school programs. These included piano lessons, viola lessons, horseback riding and a variety of religious school activities. … This will likely be our 17th and final year with au pairs as our younger daughter starts driving in the spring on her own."
The Lemberg family, from Westfield, New Jersey, has hosted 12 au pairs from seven different countries since 2003.
"We joined the program 11 years ago when our three kids were small – ages two, two, and one. I couldn't manage on my own with three babies, and after several part-time local nannies were unsatisfactory and at the recommendation of our friends, we decided to try an au pair from InterExchange Au Pair USA," says Mr. Lemberg. "We have met some amazing young ladies from Germany, Belgium, England, Denmark and the Netherlands. Each brings something else to our family and we continue to keep in touch. In fact, we are having a triple b'nai mitzvah party for our kids in September, and at least five of our past au pairs are flying in for the celebration!"
InterExchange Au Pair USA au pairs have found the program to not only be a life-changing cultural experience that creates Memories That Mean the World, but a learning opportunity that au pairs can leverage for greater success once they've returned to their home countries with new skills.
Sophie Colesseberg, an au pair from France, lived with her host family in Westfield, New Jersey, for two years. She's now flying high as a cabin attendant for Qatar Airways.
"Living abroad in a host family helped me to become more confident, to take initiative and to feel responsible for others," says Colesseberg. "It helped improve my English and social skills. As an au pair, I learned patience and cultural awareness. For my job, I get to travel around the world and I soon will be going back to the U.S., I cannot wait for it! In the meantime, I enjoy going to all sorts of different countries and parts of the world I could only have dreamt about."
Claudia Quezada, an au pair from Mexico, lived for one year with her host family in Wantagh, New York.
"My experience as an au pair in New York has brought me many good things into my life," says Quezada. "Living with an American family gave me the experience of getting to know another culture, which is very different from mine. Right now I am studying software engineering in Canada, and I can tell you that my English has made it easier for me to interact with others."
Local Coordinators serve as the primary contact for host families and au pairs in their community and are an invaluable source of learning and support throughout the program. Their contributions are essential to making sure au pairs and families are having a successful experience.
"I love that part of my job is to bring au pairs from around the world together during monthly meetings and other fun activities we do together," says San Diego Local Coordinator Dina Nichols. "By guiding these groups of young people and introducing them to each other, I can connect an au pair from Germany with an au pair from Japan or Colombia or France. Some of these friendships last well beyond the time they're in the program. In my role with InterExchange Au Pair USA, I'm helping them form Memories That Mean the World."
InterExchange Au Pair USA's grassroots involvement in towns and cities across the United States also helps introduce new cultures and possibilities to local communities.
Northern New Jersey Local Coordinator Robin Winter-Bailey says "Part of my job is to make sure that au pairs get a well-rounded cultural exchange experience. Introducing them to the local community during our outings at the bowling alley or volunteering at a food pantry really helps them understand what the daily lifestyle of an American city is like. For community residents, meeting an au pair might be their only connection to people from other countries. Expanding people's world view is just one of the many ways the program helps create Memories That Mean the World. These introductions and the friendships that often result can inspire folks from New Jersey to consider heading overseas ourselves."
InterExchange Au Pair USA host families, au pairs and Local Coordinators agree: The one-of-a-kind cultural exchange experience that the au pair program provides creates unique Memories That Mean the World that enrich lives forever.
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This is an awesome toy and the reduced price is pretty darn sweet too. Down from £39.99 to only £17.99, this Scooby Doo Mystery Mansion kit is less than half the original price and packed with all sorts of awesome features. A perfect gift for the Scooby fan.
Scooby Doo and his friends can have hours of adventures trapped inside the spooky Mystery Mansion. One wing of the house even features a goo turret that oozes down the goo-goyles… Brilliant. I SO want this toy!
You can put one of the mystery figures under the clock tower and watch them get covered in goo or just race around the various rooms to see what they hold in store. The reviews on this product are mixed. It is pretty cool and has lots of ace features but apparently it is quite flimsy and doesn't stay together that well.
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11 For I know the plans I have for you," declares the Lord, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future. 12 Then you will call on me and come and pray to me, and I will listen to you. 13 You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart.
~~ Jeremiah 29:11-13
The mission of our church remains the same:
Leading people to faith in Jesus Christ and equipping them to live as servants devoted to Jesus Christ and His Church.
After a two year vision journey, we have a new vision which will help us more effectively accomplish our mission.
We are going to join God in His work and over the next few years, our calling is living out our vision:
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City of Alexandria Announces Archaeological Discovery of Early Burial Remains
For Immediate Release: May 19, 2017
The City of Alexandria has announced that archaeologists under contract with a developer have found burial remains appearing to represent two individuals, at the construction site in Old Town where Robinson Terminal South was previously located. The finding is consistent with the use of the site in the 1700s and 1800s, when the deceased were not always buried in cemeteries.
"This is another exciting discovery in our ongoing efforts to understand and preserve Alexandria's history," said J. Lance Mallamo, director of the Office of Historic Alexandria. "We are committed to treating these remains with respect while determining who they may have been and what the most appropriate course of action will be based on their discovery."
State law strictly regulates how human remains are to be handled. A permit from the Virginia Department of Historic Resources is required to investigate any human skeletal remains and associated artifacts. The developer obtained a state permit to investigate the site, and the remains were located on May 18.
The City will oversee an analysis to help determine next steps. State law provides for specific processes for relocating human remains. As part of a private construction site, the remains are not open to public view.
The Alexandria Archaeological Protection Code requires developers to have archaeologists on site to monitor all phases of ground disturbance. This ensures that any historic features encountered during demolition and construction are dealt with properly. As development of the Alexandria waterfront continues, excavations have the potential to unearth additional evidence of early wharves and piers, maritime vessels, early industries, and commercial and domestic activities.
For more information about Alexandria Archaeology, visit www.alexandriava.gov/Archaeology.
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I'm a full-time gallery fine artist and illustrator based out of Vancouver, BC Canada. I've been doing art full time for a little over 11 years now. I've been creating comics like my Tanpopo series for many years, and more recently, writing and creating books like my instructional How-To books Pop Manga and Pop Painting, and my newest publication, Pop Manga Coloring Book from Random House Books.
Since I'm a painter and illustrator I have lots of tools of the trade. My favorite paints to use are Holbein brand Aqua Duo oils, which are a water soluble oil paint. I use these, and Holbein liquid acrylics and gouache on birch wood panels for painting, and use synthetic brushes instead of animal hair ones. When I'm illustrating I use graphite and pen & ink on paper, and my favorite non-repro blue pencils!
Things I find motivating are usually found in nature, like colors, or animals, or other creative disciplines like poetry and classic literature. I've always loved art and been attracted to it from an early age. As a kid, I was mesmerized by Disney cartoons. My motivations change over the years, since it hasn't been an easy career. I sometimes have re-evaluations on why I create. And it's not by choice, but because the circumstances of why I create change, and I have to find why I love to create again. One instance of this was having my husband remind me why I love to paint, after a conversation we had that reminded me that paintings don't always have to be for a purpose, but that I should paint for fun sometimes, too. And from a time in my career exhibiting with Tara McPherson's Cotton Candy Machine Gallery where I was so used to having galleries tell me what to paint, that Tara's open encouragement and not pressuring me on what to create was honestly rejuvenating. These instances happened years apart, but they helped me. Right now, I'm really motivated by nature and the state of the world, and appreciating the planet. I'm trying to bring that love and awareness through my art. I feel that right now, the world is going through a bit of a dark age, and I'm hoping that through my art I can give people a bright light during these times.
I start a new painting by sketching out some ideas in thumbnail sketches. This helps me plan my composition. Then, when I find something I really fall in love with, I do a light sketch on a wood panel using a watercolor pencil. I put on a good audio book or emotional music, and start painting. Half way through the day I'll take a break and go for a long walk with my dog, and then start up again after I'm refreshed and can focus.
It's not hard for me to stay in a creative zone once I'm painting or doing my drawings. I've been an independent fine artist for more than 11 years, so I'm accustomed to working to deadlines, and the level of self-discipline that can take. I'm very focused, and it's almost like a state of meditation. I do take a break every single day, at mid-day, and go do some exercising or creative writing so I can switch gears and change my train of thought. Then, when I go back to painting I can start back fresh.
One of my favorite projects, and in fact, my true passion-project, is my Tanpopo series. I've always loved classic works of literature, and I fell head-over-heels for the Japanese Manga style of storytelling that was character-development driven, and emotional, and romantic! I'm a romantic at heart. So my affinity for both of these things inspired me to create Tanpopo, which I began self-publishing and growing my story universe with merchandising, and now work with Boom! Studios to publish hardcover graphic novels. I'm sad I can't work on it as often as I'd like, since I have a more of the story to tell, but it will always be one of my favourite projects that I keep fostering.
When Disney approached me years ago to work with me, that was a milestone, because I'd always wanted to work for Disney. It was a valuable experience working with a company like that, since projects can take years to develop, but like I said- very rewarding. Along with being approached by one of my favorite publishers, Random House Books, to create my how to draw book "How to Draw Pop Manga". That really changed my career for the better by giving me the opportunity to be an author in addition to an illustrator. Since then, I've gone on to write and create 2 more books published by Random House, "Pop Painting" and "Pop Manga Coloring Book".
An artist that comes immediately to mind is James Jean. I think I look to his art as being some of the most creative art in the industry, or that I've ever seen. He continues to amaze me with the caliber of his art, and the differences in his styles he uses to express himself creatively. He's a painter, and an illustrator, and has done cover artwork, and more. It motivates me to keep doing different concepts, and applying myself in different ways creatively, too. Greg Simkins is another one of my creative influences. The way his technical skill, and creative mind is able to morph animals into these beautiful creatures is just mind blowing, and I love that.
I don't sense the prejudice of being a woman, but there's definitely prejudice in North America of how they view nudes. It's a constant battle that people can be very closed minded in how they view the female figure. There's an attitude that if an artist portrays the female figure nude, that it's sexualizing her. But it's not necessarily seen the same with depicting men. This prejudice surrounding nudity and how it's misconstrued as sexuality is a challenge I continue to face. I view the human body as a work of art, and I want to communicate that through my artworks, independent of sexuality.
My husband and my dog. Epic romances, and being creative makes me really happy, along with meeting my fans who support me.
We're all equal, and gender doesn't matter with art. It's what you create and how you portray yourself through your art. It shouldn't matter to being an artist if you have breasts or you don't. If women can see themselves as equal to men, and continue to persue that, then nothing will stop us as artists. Being an artist is difficult, and I don't blame my gender for any of my failings; just my decisions. Don't ever let your gender solely define you, or set you back.
I'm excited to share my upcoming painting collection, "Submerged", which opens at Dorothy Circus Gallery March 31st in Rome, Italy. For this collection, I went big, and dug deep with my inspirations and creative expressions. For instance, my painting "La Madre", is one of the largest new compositions I've worked on. She's 20x24", and completely bursting with details and elements, from every scale on each goldfish, to the insides of the skulls I painted, melting outwards. I hope viewers get to appreciate how much of myself I imparted into this collection. If readers are interested in these new works, they're debuting through Dorothy Circus Gallery, who can be emailed at email@example.com


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Prayer for Help in Trouble.
For the choir director. A Psalm of David.
1How long, O Lord? Will You forget me forever?
How long will You hide Your face from me?
2 How long shall I take counsel in my soul,
Having sorrow in my heart all the day?
How long will my enemy be exalted over me?
3 Consider and answer me, O Lord my God;
Enlighten my eyes, or I will sleep the sleep of death,
4 And my enemy will say, "I have overcome him,"
And my adversaries will rejoice when I am shaken.
5 But I have trusted in Your lovingkindness;
My heart shall rejoice in Your salvation.
6 I will sing to the Lord,
Because He has dealt bountifully with me.


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"Revelation" is our Sunday morning group for 11-16 year olds.
This year we're seeking to understand the whole Bible!
In the Autumn term we're looking at the history of events in the Old Testament and God's plans that led to Him sending His son to Earth. In Spring 2019 we'll explore Jesus' time on Earth before tackling the early church (Acts, the letters etc) in the Summer 2019. A programme conveniently punctuated by Christmas and Easter!
We'll have plenty of games and fun on the way. . . can we find enough foodstuffs in the bible to have something different each week??


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24/7 Wall St. Closing Bell (GOOG, JCI, VLO, TSCO, HUM, INTC, IBM, BAC, AXP, GE, SLB, STI, INSM, TLB, SHLD, NCIT, CCOI)
Equity markets opened mixed this morning, with the DJIA up slightly and the NASDAQ Composite and S&P 500 down slightly. That pattern held throughout the day as last night's report from Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) held tech stocks down today. Financials were mixed and no other sector took the lead to push trading higher. A positive report on existing home sales did not appease traders either. Crude oil is down today on continuing concern that Chinese demand will soften and that European growth will be low. WTI crude is down -1.92% at $98.46/barrel and Brent crude is down -1.39% at $110.00/barrel. Gold is up 0.60% at $1,664.40.
The unofficial closing bells put the DJIA up nearly 97 points to 12,720.48 (0.76%), the NASDAQ fell nearly 2 points (-0.06%) to 2,786.70, and the S&P 500 rose a bare 0.07% or less than 1 point to 1,315.37.
There were several analyst upgrades and downgrades today, including Google maintained as 'buy' but target price cut to $700 at Canaccord Genuity; Johnson Controls Inc. (NYSE: JCI) cut to 'neutral' at JPMorgan; Valero Energy Corp. (NYSE: VLO) reiterated as 'buy' with $35 target price at Argus; Tractor Supply Co. (NASDAQ: TSCO) reiterated as 'buy' and target price raised to $92 at Argus; and Humana Inc. (NYSE: HUM) cut to 'market perform' at Wells Fargo.
Earnings reports since markets closed yesterday have led to some price changes as of the last half hour of trading today: Google is down -8.78% at $583.39; Intel Corp. (NASDAQ: INTC) is up 2.75% at $26.33; IBM Corp. (NYSE: IBM) is up 4.48% at $188.61; Bank of America Corp. (NYSE: BAC) is up 1.42% at $7.06; American Express Co. (NYSE: AXP) is down -1.94% at $49.96; General Electric is down -0.21% at $19.11; Schlumberger Ltd. (NYSE: SLB is up 0.74% at $73.40; and Suntrust Banks Inc. (NYSE: STI) is up 4.79% at $21.21.
Other standouts from today include the following stocks:
Insmed Inc. (NASDAQ: INSM) is up nearly 30% at $4.94. The biotech company announced that the FDA has lifted a clinical hold on a lung disease drug.
The Talbots Inc. (NYSE: TLB) is up nearly 18% at $3.17. The clothing retailer is rumored to be under consideration for a takeover by two private equity firms.
Sears Holdings Corp. (NASDAQ: SHLD) is up nearly 14% at $49.25. The general merchandise retailer is thought to be under consideration for a takeover offer from its largest shareholder.
NCI Inc. (NASDAQ: NCIT) is down nearly -32%, after posting a new 52-week low of $7.71 earlier today. The federal contractor will restructure to compensate for loss of contracts.
Cogent Communications Group Inc. (NASDAQ: CCOI) is down nearly -18% at $15.45. The network communications provider is suffering from the shutdown last night of the Megaupload.com website, one of Cogent's largest customers, by federal authorities.
Stay tuned for Monday. We have noted the following events on the schedule (all times Eastern):
- 11:30 a.m. – 3-month and 6-month Treasury bill auctions
Have a great weekend.
Paul Ausick


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The History of Tattoos in America
For starters, A tattoo is a design which is permanently carved in the skin with needles and ink. The word "Tattoo" came from the Tahitian term "Tatua" which means "To Mark".
Different forms of tattoo art have been practiced for centuries by many different cultures all over the world. It has been documented that Egyptians started tattooing as early as 4000 BC. The Japanese began the art of tattooing in around 500 BC. They used this form of art for cosmetic and religious purposes.They even used tattoos as a brand known to criminals as a part of their punishment. The Japanese used to make tattoos by puncturing the skin with fine metal needles and creating multi color designs. Eskimo tribes invented a new technique of tattooing using bone needles.
In 1769 Captain James Cook traveled to Tahiti and observed skin marking customs in the natives. These skin markings were referred to as Tatua. Later that year, Cook went on a journey to the southern continent, New Zealand. He discovered a small group of islands that had not had visitors from Europe in over a century, it was on this voyage that Cook aroused the passion of many sailors to skin art.
The art of tattooing was sparked in America in the 1800's by immigrants. It was a German immigrant, Martin Hildebrandt who got the honor of the first professional tattooist in the United states. Even then, tattoos where all done by hand. It wasn't until 1891 when the first electric tattoo machine was issued to the Irish tattooist Samual O'reilly. He opened the first documented U.S. "tattoo parlor" in New York City.
For years tattoo parlors were considered dangerous and were socially unaccepted. But soon tattoo parlors became a trend in the united states. Then during the first and second world wars, U.S. military adopted tattooing as a means of protection, brotherhood and remembrance.
Through the years conventions, magazines and other various forms of exposure made tattooing popular in the United States. Today there is a growing trend of teens and young adults using tattoos to express themselves, their feelings, style, etc. Just through the last century, Tattooing has changed from something rare and looked down upon in the U.S. to being one of the most popular forms of self expression through art. It is amazing to see how far tattooing has come in the years and it will be very interesting to see how far it goes. I believe tattooing will continue to grow and become more and more popular with people of all race, gender, religion and age.


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Ruthann Curry Browne, M.A.
Adjunct Professor of Theatre
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Teaching Specialties: Theatre Appreciation, Musical Theatre, Youth Theatre
Ruthann Curry Browne currently teaches Theatre Appreciation and Musical Theatre classes, and is a Voice and Movement Specialist. She is the director of the Youth Theatre of Central Arkansas and is an official Arts in Education Teaching Artist with the Arkansas Arts Council. Her 35 years of theatre arts experience includes performing on Broadway, off Broadway, in Regional Theatres, dinner theatres, summer stock, comedy improv troupes, television, and film. In New York she directed Edward Norton in Lovers, and adapted and directed Mark Twain's Adam and Eve and Tom Topor's But Not For Me. As the General Manager of New York's Musical Theatre Works, Inc., she worked with Charles Abbott, Martin Charnin, Pat Birch, Hal Prince, and other legends in the professional musical theatre world. Since leaving New York to raise a family, she has directed plays, trained college students, led theatre workshops in schools, written plays, appeared as a guest judge for the Kiwanis' "Rising Stars" competition, and directed summer drama intensives for youth. She holds a BA from the College of William and Mary, a MA degree in Performance from the University of Denver, and graduate courses toward a PhD in Theatre for Youth at Arizona State University. She is a professional member of AEA, SAG/AFTRA, and SDC.


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At the Swedish School of Textiles the creativity of art is combined with the ingenuity of technology. The degree programmes cover the entire field of textiles, from design through manufacturing to management and technology.
The Swedish School of Textiles was founded in 1866 and currently has about 900 students from all over the world in seven undergraduate programmes and seven master's programmes. The school is a part of the University of Borås. The campus is located in the city centre, close to parks, shops, restaurants,and the city transport interchange. This is a place where students, businesses, and external lecturers come together on a daily basis.
The programmes focus on textiles and are divided into three areas: design, engineering, and management. Our facilities feature modern lecture halls and well-equipped laboratories that cater for everything related to textiles.
Research is of a high international standard and focuses on sustainability – how can our research contribute to a better world? Together with international research networks, we take a closer look at consumer behaviour, global markets, and how we can improve our recycling of clothing, as well as exploring new ways we can use textiles. This research is also integrated into our master's programmes. After graduation, students interested in research careers can apply for certain research programmes.
The Swedish School of Textiles is based in the Textile Fashion Center – a newly renovated building with lecture halls and textile workshops. The building also houses the prestigious Textile Museum of Sweden, businesses, and the Fashion Incubator, which is designed to create the conditions that new textile and fashion entrepreneurs need. The ground floor is home to the Fashion Gallery – a place full of fledgling fashion companies working together to establish themselves commercially.
About the Swedish School of Textiles
At The Swedish School of Textiles creativity and theory are combined with practical work.


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