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He joined WLWT News 5 from Seattle, where he was morning anchor at KOMO.
Mike has been in the TV business for more than 25 years. Prior to his stint in Seattle, Mike worked in Philadelphia for 10 years, and at other stations in New York and Pennsylvania before that.
Mike has won Emmy Awards for his reporting and work on special projects.
He has field anchored at conventions for both major political parties as well as presidential inaugurations.
Before moving to news in 2000, Mike was a sportscaster in Philadelphia where he hosted Major League Baseball pre-game shows, the Eagles coach's show for several years and did sideline reporting during pre-season NFL games.
He was twice named AP Sportscaster of the year in the State of Pennsylvania.
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Maritime Management Team
John Ware
Senior Management.
John has worked for the family business as 2nd generation for 57 years! He has done it all from driving an oil truck, transport, to being "the service department."
To this day John still holds his master oil burner's license and will get a couple calls a year for him to personally service the customer's heating system! While he doesn't do service calls anymore, he still comes into the office daily!
Susan Ware Page
Senior Management with responsibility for all company operations including fuel hedging and supply contracts.
After college and working for Fortune 500 Safeco Financial in Seattle, Susan decided to return home and learn the family business from her Father, John. Being close to her family was most important. Susan has been on numerous State & local boards and was inducted into the USM Hall of Fame for basketball in 2012 and the Midcoast Sports Hall of Fame in 2014. Susan's pride & joy are her two young sons, Jack & Blake.
Charlie Page
Vice President
Senior Management with responsibility for service, propane, fuel and maintenance departments as well as Montville, Belfast and South China branch operations.
Charon Curtis
Vice President, Maritime Farms
Senior Management with responsibility for the Maritime Farms' store operations.
Charon has worked in the convenience store business for over 33 years. She has a bachelor's degree in Business Administration.
Bernard Predham
Senior Management with responsibility for all financial matters including the credit department.
Steve Cornforth
Operations Manager
Responsibilities include supervision of the Rockland Fuel Manager, Rockland Propane Manager, Lincoln County/Montville/O'Brien's/Pen Bay Oil Branch Managers and the Customer Service Manager.
As well as regular golf Steve is also into Frisbee/disc golf. He has his own set of discs and bag which he takes along when he travels. He's played many courses throughout New England.
Chris Seavey
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Chris is an avid sports fan, enjoys playing basketball, softball and golf, and has also broadcast high school basketball games on 105.5 FM radio for the past 10 years.
Jeff Snow
Human Resource Manager
Responsible for Human Resource matters including safety, payroll, and benefits.
Jeff says, "Make life an adventure. Have fun in what you do!" One of his favorite memories was being in both Moscow, Russia and Moscow, Maine all in the same week.
Becky Stearns
Financial Manager
Responsible for the accounting department.
Becky says, "Life is a puzzle, and I love puzzles."
Casey Couch
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Responsible for Residential, Commercial, and Wholesale Accounts Receivable Department as well as Convenience Store Accounting Department.
Kimberlee Graffam
Customer Service Manager
Responsible for training Customer Service Representatives, Accountable for Customer Satisfaction and building long-term relationships with our customers.
Jenni Berube
Fuel Manager
Responsible for the safe delivery of fuel to residential & commercial customers in Knox, Lincoln, and parts of Waldo Counties.
Jenni has worked at Maritime for 20 years and enjoys spending time with her family—her husband, children, and grandchildren.
Lee Brown
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On levels one and two feature large windows running the length of the building. Directly facing Western Road, students working and socializing in this area will benefit from energy-saving 'smart windows' that tint automatically and offer an unobstructed view.
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Project Tshedza
Empowering people with disabilities with assistive devices
QASA, in partnership with the Development Bank of Southern Africa (DBSA), have launched a new initiativecalled Project Tshedza meaning light in Tshivenda.
The Chief Executive Officer ofthe DBSA has provided R100,000 per year for the next four years as seed funding to Project Tshedza for the development of people with disabilities. The funds will be used to acquire assistive devices and mobility aids that will enable and empower people with disabilities. QASA will act as the facilitator andidentify people who should qualify for assistive devices and mobility aids.
DBSA have, through a Memorandum of Understanding with QASA, made a commitment to recruiting appropriate and motivated people with disabilities to be considered for joining the DBSA training programme on SAP. The programme has been put in place in order to provide opportunities for people with disabilities to obtain high level careers. QASA will also assist in the promotion of this project to ensure that as many people as possible have the opportunity to have life changing equipment and also enhance their careers.
Should you wish to be considered for assistive devices, mobility aids or for career opportunities please submit an application (available from the QASA office)
Round Table KZN Cannonball Run 2010 Handover of Equipment
February saw the official handover of equipment by the Round Table for the KZN Cannonball Run 2010. Five brand new computers, two flat screen TV's and a digital camera with a total value of R30 000 were handed over to the QuadPara Association's Regional office in Pinetown, KZN.
The equipment will be used at our Gauteng North Community Computer Access Centre. Our two Computer Training Centres offer free basic computer training, provide students with essential skills development and assist with access to employment opportunities. The equipment will not only ensure sustainability of our training and employment projects, but will also have the added benefits of inspiring, empowering and uplifting people with disabilities.
QASA remains extremely proud to not only be part of the annual Cannonball Run event, but to be the 2010 beneficiary. QASA would like to sincerely thank the Round Table for making a meaningful difference to the lives of paraplegics and quadriplegics in South Africa.
Keep the wheels turning with SABAT batteries
SABAT Batteries has continued its ongoing relationship with the Quadriplegic Association of South Africa (QASA), sponsoring all members who use power wheelchairs with a pair of batteries per annum to keep them moving and mobile.
Sabat Batteries has a great relationship with QASA, largely thanks to their incredibly vibrant and energetic Director, Ari Seirlis, whose mission it is to assist people with mobility impairments to lead independent lives. Providing mobility to people improves the quality of life for that person and their entire family. In gaining mobility, people are given an opportunity to integrate themselves into society by attending school, going to work, and becoming a part of the community.
Recipients are not the only ones whose lives are altered by the presence of a wheelchair. When a physically disabled person gains increased mobility human resources, be it from family or friends, are being freed up for both employment and education. The motors in electric wheelchairs are powered by either a wet or dry cell battery.
The batteries in electric wheelchairs are sealed or very low maintenance batteries, also referred to as sealed lead acid batteries (SLA). Wheelchair batteries can be charged overnight using an external electrical source like a charger, or during the daytime hours when not in use so that they can be used whenever necessary.
Driving Ambitions
When Sarah Nkgeng, a paraplegic employee of Primedia, wentfor her drivers' licence she met with antagonism and discrimination. 702's Simon Gear shared her story with Wayne Duvenage, chief executive of Avis Rent a Car. He assembled a team of partners and Driving Ambitions was born. "Cars withs pecially adapted hand controls for the disabled are a normal part of our Avis fleet," says Duvenage. "It seemed logical that Avis should be the driving force behind the initiative! I am confident that a school of this nature will go along way to dispelling negative public perception and prejudices about disabled people as well as improving the quality of life for the disabled themselves."
Driving Ambitions provides driver assessment and training for people with disabilities. The first vehicle, a Hyundai i20 with permanent hand controls and a dual brake,was sponsored by Avis. QASA is running the project and have appointed RollingI nspiration's Caroline Rule to assist. Her experiences at Rolling Inspiration led to the establishment of Rolling Rehab where she teaches people to drive specially adapted vehicles.
Barloworld employ many people with disabilities and have contributed R150,000 to get Driving Ambitions' engines revving. "This is anexcellent corporate social investment initiative for corporates, many of which employ disabled people in various positions," says CEO Barloworld Automotive, MartinLaubscher.
"This is just the first phase of a longer-term vision," explains Ari Seirlis, national director of QASA. "As the project expands andmore sponsors come on board, we intend establishing a Centre of Excellence at Swartkops Raceway, where people with a range of mobility impairments can be fully and properly assessed and taught to drive using different types of handcontrols." "This will include a broad spectrum of people with disabilities. This type of centre is quite common in Europe, but a first in South Africa, and it is definitely an excellent solution in assisting people with disabilities to integrate into mainstream society. The employment opportunities arising from the success of this project must also be acknowledged."
Masterdrive, a leading driver education company will assistat the Centre of Excellence. "The track and skidpan at Swartkops will provide excellent facilities for training across a spectrum of eventualities, including potential accidents and hijackings," explains CEO, Eugene Herbert. Sarah is ecstatic. "It's wonderful to know that Driving Ambitions will give other disabled people a new independence and open up opportunities and new dimensions of life for them."


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Alexander the Great
- Father's name was Phillip Philippou
It is believed that Phillip II was assassinated while hosting a ball by one of his body guards. Phillip ruled from 359-336 B.C.E in Macedonia. His relationship to Alexander was not very good because Alexander was always closer to his mother Olympias.
- Mother's name was Olympias Philippou
Had a very good relationship with son Alexander. Told Alexander that he was the decedent of the mythical war hero Achilles.
Alexander's Life the Early Years
- Born July 20, 356 B.C.E in Pella.
-Alexander liked drama, the flute and the lyre, poetry and hunting.
-Educated by Aristotle starting at age 13 until the age of 16.
-Alexander never got along well with his father.
-At age 16 father Phillip gave him permission to rule Macedonia in his absence.
Adult life Timeline
-340 BCE raid on Maedi and the foundation of Alexandropolis.
-335 BCE, Alexander stormed Thebes, demolished it, and sold the 30,00 inhabitants of the city into slavery.
-334 BCE Alexander the Great advances into asia minor
-332 BCE Alexander entered Egypt, liberated it from the Persians, and was named Pharaoh.
-331 BCE Founded Alexandria on the western edge of the Nile Delta.
-Winter of 331-330 BCE Alexander captured Babylon and Susa.
-327 BCE married Roxanne, a princess from Bactria.
-326 BCE Macedonians rebel and refuse to push forward anymore
-Alexander subdued the small uprise in approximately one year
Death in June 10, 323 B.C
-Educated by Aristotle
-Aristotle's idea of small state government was not an idea that Alexander, the future conqueror of the ancient world, accepted.
-Aristotle spurred an interest in Alexander to pursue reading and learning, and young Alexander showed a great
amount of interest in philosophy, science, and medicine.
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- In Babylon a coin was minted after the hero where there was an extensive Jewish Population
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In 2012, a Bloomberg report found a growing number wealthy Americans were choosing to give up their U.S. citizenship rather than pay high taxes when living outside of the country.
Now, in light of the expiration of the payroll tax cut, 2013 could be the biggest year for expatriation due to high taxes to date.
Some of the more notable Americans who have recently given up citizenship include actor Jet Li, Facebook co-founder Eduardo Saverin and socialite Denise Rich.
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Four years ago, whistle-blower Bradley Birkenfeld triggered a crackdown on tax evasion, which was meant to stop wealthy Americans who stored money in offshore accounts to avoid paying high taxes.
Though this was intended to stop Americans living in the country who stored money in other places, it also applies to individuals living outside of the U.S. who store money in the banks of countries they reside.
The U.S. is the only nation in the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development that taxes citizens wherever they reside. In facing taxes within foreign countries they live in as well as paying American taxes due to their U.S. citizenship, many wealthy Americans are weighing whether remaining a U.S. citizen is worth it.
Americans Giving Up their U.S. Citizenship
Andy Sundberg, secretary of Geneva's Overseas American Academy, shared that 1,780 expatriates gave up nationality at U.S. embassies last year, which is an increase from 235 in 2008. The number has increased so quickly that the embassy redeployed staff to clear the backlog of Americans queued to relinquish their passports.
Another reason Americans are ready to give up their passports is that many non-U.S. banks feel it's too risky to deal with Americans abroad after the Birkenfeld and the U.S. probed USB and 11 other Swiss financial firms for aiding offshore tax evasion.
Due to difficulties acquiring accounts in some countries and facing taxes from the United States, Americans are deciding that giving up their U.S. passports and relinquishing their citizenship is the right choice to make.
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Writing somewhere else now. . .
Tuesday, April 19, 2011
Last cigarette
I am the father of two little girls. More than anything else that's what I am. In terms of what I do and how I do it, although I may not even be conscious of it while I do it, it's done largely for the little girls. Goals, aspirations, not to mention the inevitable twists and turns that are life, remain, but it's safe to say whatever can be dubbed my legacy is set with these little girls. And today that's a notion that's more fortunate than tragic.
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MAN: Happy Valentines' Day.
WIFE: Why thank you, sweetheart!
M: Open it.
[Wife opens gift]
W: It's beautiful! What is it?
M: Why it's a necklace of course. Do you like it?
W: It's very pretty. What's this at the bottom though?
M: That's what makes it so special. It's a small vial.
W: A vial?
M: Yeah, there's a few tiny drops of my blood in there. You know, to symbolize how we're one, how we're with each other wherever we go. One heart. One blood. Something like that. I got the idea from Billy Bob Thornton and Angelina Jolie.
W: Uh huh. But it's not real blood, is it?
M: Of course it is. A little bit of bona fide B positive from your loving husband. Because I love you so much.
W: What did you do? Prick your finger or something?
M: Umm. . . No. . . That didn't occur to me at the time. I suppose that would've been a lot easier than the route I took. Anyway, what do you think? Try it on!
W: I don't know.
M: What? Don't be silly. Strap that bad boy on! Let's see how it looks!
W: Don't get me wrong. I think it's a beautiful sentiment. And I love you. But don't you think it's a tad bit, I don't know. . . unsanitary. . . wearing a vial of blood around my neck throughout the day? I mean, I teach kindergarten. There are health codes. Kids are inquisitive.
M: C'mon. It's not AIDS blood from some random guy off the street. It's the life force of your husband, the man you love, the man you've been doing a lot more unsanitary things with for over ten years.
W: [speechless]
M: I mean doinking. . . or sex. . . or whatever. I mean, my point is we've been screwing for a long time and all I'm saying is one might conceivably construe that the act of coitus itself is far more unsanitary than wearing a small, tightly sealed, vial of blood around one's neck.
W: (sarcastically) Oh! Great! So draping myself in blood is slightly less disgusting than sleeping with my husband. Sense you put in that way, can you help me with the clasp?
M: So you're not going to try it on?
W: No. I don't think I am. It's creepy.
M: (angry now) Well that's just great. I guess I'll just take them both back then. Hopefully I still have the receipt. I'll exchange them for the old V-day standbys; a fucking pair of slippers or a gift certificate for a god damned back massage. Pardon me for trying to spice things up.
W: What do you mean 'take them both back'?
M: I got a matching one, OK? I thought it would be cool if we both had cute little vial of blood necklaces. You know, the ultimate expression of unity or some shit.
W: But why would you wear your own blood around your neck?
M: I wouldn't. I mean, I'm not. You wear my blood and I wear yours.
W: Wait. Where did you get my blood?
[long awkward pause]
M: I don't see what that has to do with anything.
W: Oh my god. This isn't happening.
M: You know what? Forget it. I can see now this was a bad idea. I'll just put both the blood vials back in my pocket here and we'll pretend it never happened. Let's just get some dessert, finish our wine, and head home.
W: I'm not hungry.
M: Fine. I'll get the check. . . We're still on for sex tonight though, right?


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The Greens won't be heading up law changes on drugs, despite drug policy long being a focus of the party.
Green Party MP Julie Anne Genter has advocated hard for treating cannabis use as a health issue and increasing access for medical purposes, but despite being named Associate Health Minister, drugs won't be included in her responsibilities.
The responsibility for drug policy will instead rest with the Health Minister David Clark.
Past Governments have given responsibility for drugs to Associate Ministers, often a member of a support party. Recently, that's been Peter Dunne. It's a way of keeping drug policy at arm's length, meaning there's some room for experimenting with new policy without damaging the image of a larger party.
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"It's the minister's prerogative to allocate the responsibilities, but I would have thought, given Julie Anne's obvious interest in it, she was a logical person for it," Mr Dunne said.
"It's not an area David Clark showed any real interest in previously."
Ms Genter didn't have comment ahead of the Health Minister's announcement of responsibilities - expected to take place Thursday afternoon.
Dr Clark says he's chosen to keep the delegation covered the two health policies in the 100-day plan: mental health and medicinal cannabis.
"I expect the Green Party to continue to be staunch supporters of medicinal cannabis, despite not holding the drug portfolio," he said in a written statement.
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Seems our man, who we all know has an impressive pedigree, was so enamored with the other man's wife that he could not wait to be with her.
In details just emerging, one night back home (this was not in Afghanistan), our man ventured to sneak into the house of the other man's wife—dressed as a woman! Yes, full dress, veil, the whole nine yards. Because why? Because there was a sort of party going on in the house, populated with a bunch of women and he did not want to be recognized.
Well, he made it inside all right; and he was making his way down a hall, wearing his costume, about to reach the bedroom door of his paramour, when one of the caterers bumped into him. She naturally asked our disguised lover who "she" was and where "she" was going?
Now there are only two things to do in a situation like this: fake it or run. Our man is no coward, so he tried faking it. One imagines, or at least I imagine, a coy Lou Costello voice emerging from under his veil.
Whatever kind of sound emerged, it didn't fool the caterer for a second, and she immediately pitched a fit and summoned the other female types to her side, whereupon they unveiled our man. What a predicament!
This was the incident that led to his outing, as it were.
Crucial thing to understand is that he never made it to the bedroom. Still, it is reported that the husband of the woman wants a divorce saying his wife should "be above suspicion."
The man was Clodius, the other woman Pompeia, Julius Ceasar's wife.
The details were, at the time, scandalous. Just as the details about General Petraeus today are scandalous. Two millennia ago there was nothing odd in an affair being scandalous. Contrast that to today where we have pundits falling over themselves to say, "I haven't the slightest interest in the private lives of these people. I just want to learn about Benghazi."
That they want to learn about Benghazi is certain sure, but I don't believe for a moment that they aren't interested in the private lives of the once high and mighty General. My evidence is that each time a pundit says, "I am not interested" they proceed first to air the salacious details of the private lives, and only then talk about the connection to Benghazi. The details top all headlines.
The affair was none of our business when it was kept secret, but once it came out, for whatever reason, it is everybody's business. And should be.
Not only that, we should be glad people are taking such an interest about the General's peccadilloes. Because why? Because one, this signals people still care that the traditional family, the bond and promise between a man and woman are still held important to society; and two, once the rest of us men, idiots and fools who have strayed and the simpleminded who fantasize about the same (completely exhaustive categories, incidentally), once we hear about the General, we realize the full moment of his actions.
Scandal thus acts as an inoculation against stupidity. The effects are temporary, to be sure, but the effect real and measurable. This is another good reason to read history. Plutarch, our reporter about Clodius, is a booster shot.
Now there are details and there are details. That an affair took place, how it happened, and what might have occurred because of it are fair game. These facts should, and with hope, will be revealed. But what happened inside the affair, the pillow talk not pertaining to matters of security, the physical pertinents, as it were, are none of our business, and these should be kept secret. We don't want to stir prurient interests, but instead instill sobriety.
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Hey.. Some of us survive on the idiocies that happen to folks in power.
The nefarious angle here would be to ask the other side of the question, would they have been allowed into power if they didn't have peccadillos of some sort or other. There was a line in "Revolt in 2100" (Heinlein), where the crystal pure legate John falls in love with a priestess of the prophet. Heinlein hints that what has kept John from advancing until that point is his pure record. Now that there is a smudge on it, John can be controlled.
The FBI recruits from the Boy Scouts. The CIA loves mormons. How many of those cannon fodder get to high office without getting black marks in their file.
There is great value in the nuclear family. I recognize this without a greater deity forcing it upon me.
I still wonder if Holly is truly pissed because her husband stepped out, or if it is because he got caught… The 90% number I hear in ads for blue pills makes me wonder. We are likely going to hear of a divorce soon and Holly should come out of it smelling just fine. The general will probably not suffer for lack of work.
I would argue that the affairs in and of themselves are not of public interest.
What makes them a matter of public interest is that the Director of the CIA and the top commanding officer of the US forces in Afganistan put themselves in positions where they were vulnerable to blackmail.
A funny thing happened on the way to the …
You are absolutely right that this is about stupidity.
There is infinitely worse than Petraeus – Dominique Strauss Kahn.
This man was less than 1 year from being elected french president, one of the top 10 individuals in the world. Power, women, money, fame – you name it – were his for sure.
Every light was on green – he was popular, poll approvals around 60%, liked by the media, no serious competition.
Everybody agreed (most of right wing people included too) that the ellection was just going to be a formality. Any other candidate had a negligible probability to win.
And then he wakes up one morning in a hotel and feels like a blowjob would be a good idea. A formality too – doubtlessly just one of thousands. A few hours later he sits in a prison charged with sexual assault. Regardless whether he assaulted or not (I am pretty sure that not- he was a man knowing that money and fame achieve much more than violence) he was finished. he would never become a french president. He will also not only loose his job but his millionaire wife.
How can somebody be that stupid ,
>Scandal thus acts as an inoculation against stupidity.
Do they? Do they, really?
yes, they do, albeit not a perfect one. People can and will continue to do stupid things, particularly since, as Mr. Mark Shea is wont to say, "sin makes you stupid."


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Justin and I were married on May 19, 2006. We grew up together in Harpers Ferry/Shepherdstown, WV. Ollie was born on July 2, 2010, and Aeris joined us on September 27th, 2012. They make every day wonderful! We have a cat, Hobbes, and a Golden Retriever darling named Ruby. We love them all, despite their rascally tendencies. We're excited about life, and all that it has in store for us!
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My Life List (in no particular order)
*Have Children
Have a fruit tree in my yard
*Move back east
Enjoy exercising
*Perfect a pizza dough recipe
Embarrass my children intentionally
Finish all the projects on my list
Go back to the Carribean
Hide the TV for the summer
See the Mona Lisa
Teach my children to play the piano
Attend a black tie affair
Read all of the classics and Newberry books
Buy lemonade from my children's stand
Meet someone famous
Scuba dive with Justin
Ride on a zip line
Live 1 day longer than Justin
*Learn to make artisan bread
Make my own clothes
Do a pull up
Host a summer solstice party
Grow a garden
*Run a 5k
Own a house on a few acres of land
*Have a dog
*Learn to Tat
Visit the Vatican City
See Pompeii
Open a bakery
Weigh 130 lbs
Take in foster children
Learn to embroider
Write a book
Live at the Beach
See the Northern Lights
See the Grand Canyon
March 29, 2010
More sleeping pets...
You'd think all we do around here is sleep!
That's not true..
Hobbes, in all his usual lazy Hobbes-ness.
Yes, she's actually asleep. I knew because she started doing her
twitching/barking that usually makes us think she's dreaming of chasing bunnies.
Just before the previous picture... And yes, asleep.
Asleep on my lap with a sock in her mouth. She loves those socks!
Sorry about all the pet posts lately. Nothing terribly exciting is going on here...
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it will soon turn to baby posts!!!
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Hi there,
I created a ticket last night about attachments to Deja Memos & Calender items getting deleted after direct usb sync to Outlook 2013. What I realized after I sent in the ticket request is that the "attachment" folder in my Gallery is now gone. Somehow, during sync, the entire folder with the photos is now deleted.
A little background, I am using a Samsung Galaxy S5 with all updates current as well as the most current official DJ version. My photos are being saved to my SD card.
Please advise if I am doing something wrong or provide a fix if possible. Thanks.


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FK&Y moves to Notting Hill
Today we have moved to our new offices in Notting Hill! We have many enterprising companies as neighbours, including Cath Kidston, Five Guys, Me & Em, MOD Pizza, alongside Egmont Publishing and Talk Talk.
Our new address is: Family Kids & Youth, 146 Freston Road, London W10 6TR


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Bullying and scape-goating is a behavior of those lacking in self esteem and confidence.
Bullies have usually been scape-goated, teased and ridiculed in their own family system.
Just as there is a pecking order in the animal kingdom, so there is with humans.
When someone picks on another just to be mean or to be powerful, they are feeling afraid and insecure.
How we respond determines how we see ourselves and how others perceive us.
To stand up for ourselves and treat the other with dignity and respect, increases self respect.
To speak up for ourselves without attacking or playing poor me builds trust and safety.
To state what we are feeling and what we want and are willing to do begins healthy dialogue.
When we cower and cry, we let others know they have hurt us and they feel guilt.
When we whine and complain to others, we blame the other and they feel guilt and fear.
When we protect and defend ourselves, we teach the bullying person they can hurt us.
When we judge and attack the offending party, we create war and more fear and attack.
When we cause anyone guilt, they usually withdraw and stay away or……
When we tell someone they have hurt us, they feel guilty and attack back with blame.
Guilt usually leads to a repeat of the offensive behavior.
Trying to make someone feel guilty is a form of attack and is ineffective in changing behavior.
So what can we do, when we feel we are being judged.
Demonstrate no fear.
Do not allow anyone to hurt us.
Create more self love and self respect.
Speak with integrity and positive regard in a clear and concise way.
I feel …"I feel confused."
I want…. "I want to be heard and respected."
I am willing……"I am willing to speak clearly and respectfully with you now."
Then ask the other (or use your intuition):
How are you feeling?
What are you wanting from this?
What are you willing to do to change things between us?
In most family relationships, we learn to adjust to the inequity in power and authority.
In most group situations, we learn to overpower or submit to others.
In most relationships, people are playing the part they have assigned themselves unconsciously.
Our assignments are learned from what seemed to work within early childhood programming.
Learn to use a different tone of voice, different stance and facial expression.
Learn to speak to yourself in the mirror until you really feel your authenticity.
Learn to give the other the respect and appreciation you want for yourself.
Learn to be willing to forgive errors in relating, yours and others quickly.
Learn to be the best you can be in all your relationships, treating no one less or more.
Learn to make no assumptions and ask what you want to know.
Learn to keep you agreements with yourselves and stop changing your mind based on fear.
Learn to trust first that others want to be their best and do what is right.
Only fear of disapproval and rejection keeps people from telling the loving truth.
Loving you and communicating freely,
Betty Lue


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According to research, with a grasp of the 500 most common Chinese characters, you can read 75% of modern Chinese! In 2018, we kickstarted our efforts to teach/learn Chinese characters through art by taking you through 100 of the most commonly used Chinese Characters – explaining etymology and providing stories and examples along the way! Going forward, we're planning to cover the next 200, 300 characters etc! Our goal is to help you reach basic reading proficiency by the end of 2020... and become increasingly literate going forward! (P.S. meet "us")
This project is for you if you are not only interested in learning Chinese, but also want to slow down and appreciate the stories and culture behind those characters you see! Chinese characters are beautifully intricate puzzles, little bits of meaning that fit together to create meaning. Understanding the origins and components of Chinese characters not only helps learners remember the character at hand, but will help them build and accrue additional characters in the future. (For a review of the nature of Chinese characters, click here.)
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Health insurer rewards cooperation to improve care
I'm a surgeon and hospital administrator. From my view, an important problem facing medicine is embarrassing because it is so basic: We don't know how to measure quality. By quality I mean the medical care that is delivered to you, at the bedside, in your local hospital. And if we can't measure it, we can't improve it. This is a solvable problem, but the solution requires a different way of thinking about medicine, and about how patients, doctors, hospitals and payers interact.
What's so hard about measuring quality? A major problem is that the caregivers who deliver care, and the patients who receive the care, have been disengaged from the discussion about what it really is. That discussion has been ceded to governmental agencies, which have generally gotten it wrong. Doctors become frustrated because the bureaucratic version of quality doesn't ring true, and the process of improvement gets stuck at this earliest step.
Why shouldn't the caregivers themselves, meaning doctors and nurses, with input from patients, say what quality really is? If the doctors and patients don't know, we are all in trouble. This sensible approach hasn't come from any governmental authority, but rather from a regional third-party payer, Blue Cross/Blue Shield of Michigan. What has resulted is a standardized and more informed definition of quality, and also a statewide framework for quality improvement that caregivers see as reliable and useful.
There is another important element in a new way of thinking about quality. It involves changing how hospitals interact with one another. Hospitals are often engaged in local battles for market share. It gets worse when incentive payments for quality come into play — a strategy embraced by the federal government and other payers. If hospitals come across an innovative way to improve care in this environment, they aren't likely to share it with others, for fear of losing a financial advantage.
In what represents a remarkable change in thinking, BCBSM embraced the idea that groups of Michigan hospitals interested in certain specialty areas — they are called Collaborative Quality Initiatives — could work together using a "pay for participation" approach. That means that all hospitals, regardless of performance, would receive reimbursement for meaningful engagement in the identified improvement activities. This has produced a more collegial environment, one in which the sharing of good ideas between doctors and hospitals is facilitated rather than discouraged. So far 22 specialty-oriented CQIs have been established involving many different disciplines such as general surgery, urology, radiation therapy and trauma care. I direct the CQI involving general surgery, the Michigan Surgical Quality Collaborative. At our quarterly meetings 300 or so surgeons, nurses and anesthesiologists from 72 hospitals talk about surgical quality, what it means, and how to improve it. Most Michigan hospitals participate in the CQI program in one form or another. The enthusiasm for the new approach is unmistakable.
Patients have benefited from improved quality, and the improved quality has translated into savings for BCBSM. In a recent estimate, $230 million had been saved because post-operative complications had been avoided.
The success of Michigan's new way of thinking about quality has shown what can happen when involved caregivers work with a committed and local private payer, without federal or state help. This model deserves consideration as other states. And BCBSM should be recognized for its willingness to take a risk, and to think differently about solving an embarrassing problem.
Darrell A. Campbell, Jr. is professor of surgery at the University of Michigan and a member of UM's Institute for Healthcare Policy and Innovation.


text: I know, what the heck is with this picture of a Jehovah's Witness (JW) Bible Stand? The reason it's here is to illuminate the fact that not all Christians are of the ravaging Evanglical sort. The gentleman in this picture (a really nice guy at that), Clarence, was making the point that not all of them are Bible-thumping moralists, but those who accept the fact that the world we all live in is a flawed place. Additionally, I remember him telling me that the "rapture" is only about taking out people who are committing harm and mass suppression/oppression of others (whom he referred to as evil).


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It was a green kind of weekend. Delray had festivities on Saturday, Lake Worth on Sunday. That's what I like, mutual respect . We in quirky Lake Worth are what many dream of as paradise and others bless their hearts, the upscale city life. So the saying goes, "it is always greener on the other side," Look no further we in Lake Worth live in paradise and celebrates once again for today is St. Paddy Day ! So here are some photos of our Saturday parade.
St Paddy Day
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Blue van Meer was never going to be the typical "girl next door" — her father, Gareth, made quite sure of that. Having lost her mother at a very young age, Blue forms a very strong bond with her father, and thereafter, the riotous, seemingly invincible father-daughter team moves from town to town, following his teaching career all over the country. A professor of political science — "interested broadly in political and economic revitalization, military and humanitarian involvement, and post-conflict renewal of third world nations" — Gareth speaks the language of upheaval, riots, and revolution. He is brilliant, passionate, and loving. He is also intimidating, arrogant, manipulative, and self-absorbed — shutting down most people within the first few moments of an interaction. With the exception of odd, brief affairs, Gareth focuses all of his energy and attention on his daughter and his intellectual pursuits. An accomplished writer and activist, Gareth renounces all that is merely average, and instead pushes his daughter to accomplish great things, reminding her: "Everyone is responsible for the page-turning tempo of his or her Life Story." While his love for Blue is obvious, Gareth relentlessly pushes Blue to think independently and make up her own mind about all the tantalizing options (and false promises) the world will throw her way. Together they read the classics, argue about politics, laugh at the mundane, and conquer the small college towns in their path. Long immersed in Gareth's competitive world of academia — grading his college students' papers, dining with his colleagues — Blue is treated as an intellectual equal by her father and develops a great love of books and art and history. And as a result of their relentless travel, Blue is far more worldly, mature, independent, and exceptionally well read than any other 17 year old you are ever likely to meet. Blue's close relationship with her father also goes a long way toward filling the voids that her mother's death has left in their lives. As Blue's senior year approaches — and Gareth's sadness over her inevitable graduation and departure takes root — Gareth surprises his daughter with something she has never had: a year in one place. A whole year, uninterrupted by the demands of Gareth's career, to settle in, relax, and finish high school.
And yet, as Blue storms into this final chapter of her childhood, we see her struggle to get her bearings in the somewhat cruel world of adolescence. Her immersion in the classics has prepared her for a thinking, feeling, contemplative world — not the idle rebellion, silly recklessness, and utter ambivalence of her new teenage friends. Although Blue must wrangle the usual laundry list of high school concerns, she manages to do it hilariously, though she must navigate a new town, school, and friends; the mercurial emotions of mean-girl, Jade; a sudden preoccupation with her appearance; gossipy classmates and meddlesome faculty; embarrassment and drama brought on by her philandering father; securing her place as valedictorian and her admission to Harvard; and, of course, boys — specifically, the nice boy she doesn't want vs. the mean boy she does. But not all of the drama in Blue's life is of the teenage variety — some of it is quite adult — and this is where the story takes off. Enter Hannah Schneider, a beautiful, mysterious woman (as Blue recalls, "I simply felt somewhere, at some time, she'd been the toast of something") who is also a teacher at Blue's school. Hannah takes Blue under her wing from almost the moment Blue arrives in town. Through Hannah, Blue is drafted into the "Bluebloods," a clique of somewhat subversive and mildly scandalous kids assembled by Hannah for reasons unclear. Despite the serious age difference, Hannah hosts weekly dinner parties for the kids — cooking and smoking and playing jazz — catering to her adoring audience. But as Blue and the Bluebloods become increasingly fascinated by Hannah, and delve further into her shadowy past, Blue suddenly finds herself in the background of a mysterious death and in the foreground of another — tragedies, possibly intertwined, which ultimately only Blue is committed enough (and competent enough) to unravel. In the wake of these strange occurrences, and with no one left to trust, Blue must commit to her ideals more fervently than her father has anticipated, though the result may be his undoing.
While the introduction promises a full-on whodunit, the reader really doesn't feel that way for the first several hundred pages. Those pages are dedicated to description in its richest sense — making sure you know each of the story's characters down to the finest detail. Pessl's debut is wonderfully fearless and playful in description, and as Blue narrates the nail-biting events of her senior year, she aligns almost every situation with a scene from a famous novel, poem, play, movie, painting, or song — be it classic, popular, or obscure ("Leontyne Bennett skillfully dissected in The Commonwealth of Lost Vanities (1969) Virgil's renowned quotation: 'Love conquers all.' 'For centuries upon centuries,' he writes on p. 559, 'we have been misinterpreting this famed trio of words…"); or with a scene from history ("Revolution is slow burning, occurring only after decades of oppression and poverty, but the exact hour of its unleashing is often a moment of fateful mishap.") ; or some bit of science ("It was what accidental deaths did to people, made everyone's sea floor irregular and uneven, causing tidal currents to collide, surge upward, thereby resulting in small yet volatile eddies churning at everybody's surface."). Barring such a familiar reference — perhaps finding herself in an unanticipated situation — Blue often took some observation or bit of advice from her father. ("Dad, on Having a Secret, Well-Laid Plan: 'There is nothing more delirious to the human mind.'"). Suffice it to say, no scene in this book is without its own highly descriptive corollary, and the result is thoroughly entertaining. Although I have to admit that a handful of references left me lost (perhaps a few more than a handful), it seems unfair to blame the author — I'm simply not as well read either Blue van Meer or, presumably, Marisha Pessl.
It is not only Blue's character that Pessl has so richly drawn. Other characters also come alive with her descriptions, and perhaps none more so than Blue's father. Gareth manages to both seduce and infuriate the reader just as often and easily as the many hapless, small-town women trailing in his wake. Both larger than life and painfully human, I found myself either enamored with or terrified by him on a page by page basis. Whether he was quoting the great works ("Let me not to the marriage of true minds admit impediments…."); lecturing his daughter ("The act of being personally misconstrued … informed to one's face one is no more complex than a few words haphazardly strung together on a clothesline — well, it can gall the most self-possessed of individuals."); or facing what is left of the world ("We are under an invincible blindness as to the true and real nature of things…."), Gareth van Meer's stern observations and unapologetic musings are some of the best lines in this story. "'L'Avventura,' Dad said, 'has the sort of ellipsis ending most American audiences would rather undergo a root canal than be left with, not only because they loathe anything left to the imagination — we're talking about the country that invented spandex — but also because they are a confident, self-assured nation… And the idea that none of us can truly know anything at all — not the lives of our friends, or family, not even ourselves — is a thought they'd rather be shot in the arm with their own semi-automatic rifle than face head-on. Personally, I think there's something terrific about not knowing, relinquishing man's feeble attempt to control. When you throw up your hands, say 'Who knows?' you can get on with the sheer gift of being alive …'"
Like her father, Blue's character is cunning, hilarious, and dear. She is really the perfect heroine for a story like this, which is equal parts darkness and comedy. When the mystery that has been building so long finally avalanches down on her, the reader thoroughly enjoys watching Blue dig her way out. True to life, Blue's progress lies in the journey, not the outcome. Whether Blue ultimately solves the mystery or not (I'll leave that to other readers), her evolution is really learning to let go of solutions altogether — that tendency to quantify, deduce, criticize, compare, classify, and dismiss. As we find out in some hilariously bare postscripts to the story, Blue really has graduated, and not merely in the academic sense. In those final pages, we catch a glimpse of Blue experiencing the world with a more open mind, letting go of harsh judgment, and realizing the great life that is out there waiting for every one of us when we finally manage to let go of what we thought life was going to be. To Pessl's great credit, Blue's graduation speech is truly a thing of beauty — and, to me, the climax of an exceedingly skilled and clever novel — although no one in Blue's audience shows much, if any, reaction. Which seemed exactly right to me. After all, "… each of us could choose whatever materials we liked for our rickety boat." And like all the best moments in life, you really can't depend on anyone around you to take notice. They are yours and yours alone, those rare and beautiful moments that stick with you your whole life and, in your final hours, turn out to be the very culmination of your being.


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contemplating simple perfection
my mom brought us her first tomato. it is kind of a perfect one. the shape, color, size. it brings out the hoarder in me. i don't want to eat it - i just want to keep it so i can look at it forever. but it's perishable, so it must get eaten.
when i was a kid i would save anything that i liked. i would try and keep things neat and pristine. hence i have hello kitty erasers and pencils that i'm JUST NOW starting to use [i have a pencil case that i think i'll pass onto the little when she gets old enough]. i would silently shake my head at my friends who ripped all their stickers off the backing and put them everywhere. i always wanted duplicates - one to use and one to keep.
i have mixed feelings about this. part of me still practices this - although i've loosened up a lot. i use things when i want to [the childhood me might keep a set of markers until they dried up and weren't usable. the adult me realizes some things don't keep forever and to use what you have when the fancy strikes you]. part of me wonders why i would hold such trivial things so dear.
it even applies to food. i would always save the best part of something for last. so if it was a cupcake i'd tend to eat around the outside until i got to the last bite of the absolute middle. i still often do this. saving a bite of food i know will be most flavorful for the last bite that i take. i guess i want to savor and remember....
then again - often it's in the very simple and mundane that i find the most perfection.
like these spoons. i woke up and my husband had lined up our little baby spoons on our kitchen table. i'm a sucker for anything in rows. and colorful things in rows. well.... i can get absolutely giddy. this very small gesture made my whole day. and i had to take a photo of it to "keep" it.
maybe that's what has also changed. when i was a child i couldn't photograph something to remember it by [or it wasn't as easy as it is now] - and so i wanted to keep everything so that it could "live" not only in my physical world, but in my mental world. now i can photograph a fleeting moment [or tomato] that i find intriguing... and thus it stays with me for as long as i want it to.
i wonder if there's a term for hoarding digital imagery. it's not like it sits in noticeable piles like everything else i hoard - ahem i mean collect .
what do you notice? what do you hoard? what small moments of perfection make you gleeful?
have a great weekend


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Recipe & Tips
3 C Cashews, soaked
1 C Sesame Seeds, soaked
¾ C Pumpkin Seeds, soaked
2 Garlic Cloves, large
2 Fresh Lemons, juiced
1 C Celery, chopped
1 Medium Sweet Onion, chopped
2 Pimento Peppers, seeded and chopped
1 Medium Sweet Banana Pepper, seeded and chopped
½ C Coconut, shredded (or ½ C Young Baby Coconut Gel or ¼ C Coconut Oil)
½ t Fresh Rosemary, minced
¾ t Fresh Oregano, minced
4 Fresh Basil Leaves, minced
½ t Anise Seed
1 t Salt
Food Processor Method
- Soak the cashews for 12 hours, the sesame seeds for 1 hour, and the pumpkin seeds for 6 to 8 hours. No sprouting is necessary.
- Blend the nuts and seeds in a food processor with the blade, continually scraping down the sides to ensure that everything is well blended.
- Add the celery, pimento peppers and banana pepper to the nuts and seed and process until creamy.
- Add the lemon juice, onions, and garlic cloves and process until creamy.
- Add the coconut or coconut gel or coconut oil and process until creamy.
- Add the rosemary, oregano, anise seed and salt and process until creamy.
- Joyce's Tip: Remember to soak any nuts and seeds before you measure. This will ensure an accurate measurement for any of the recipes. This recipe can be used as a spread for sandwich wraps or can be piped onto sliced cucumbers or dehydrated crackers for beautiful and delicious hors d'oeuvres.