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Child Support Lawyers in Madison County
Jackson Attorneys Knowledgeable in Family Law Matters
When a couple is splitting up, determinations of child support payments often must be made. At the Hancock Law Firm, we understand any issue regarding children may be emotionally charged. We know that your children come first, and we will work diligently to make sure that your voice is heard throughout the process.
Contact us now to get started on your case. We will work hard to create a fair child support agreement.
Our family law attorneys have helped many Madison, Rankin, and Hinds County Area residents. We can help you as well.
Determining Child Support After a Divorce
Child support refers to money paid by the non-custodial parent to the custodial parent in order to cover the expenses of a child or children. The non-custodial parent is the parent who spends less than half the time with the child, while the custodial parent is the parent who spends the majority of the time with the child.
It is assumed that the custodial parent spends more of their income on the child, since that parent is the one providing for the greater share of the day-to-day needs of the child. Each state has its own child support guidelines. In Mississippi, if the non-custodial parent has an annual income of more than $10,000 but less than $100,000, they will pay a certain percentage of their adjusted gross income, as mandated by the state guidelines. These child support guidelines are based on the number of children.
For example, the percentage of gross income that a non-custodial parent is expected to pay is:
- 14% for 1 child
- 20% for 2 children
- 22% for 3 children
- 24% for 4 children
- 26% for 5 or more children
The obligation to pay child support ends when the child turns 21. Other instances in which child support payments may stop include if the child gets married, enlists in the military on a full-time basis, is emancipated, or is convicted of a felony and sentenced to incarceration for a minimum of two years.
The amount of child support that a payor is obligated to pay is not set in stone. In fact, a judge may change the amount of child support payments if the party requesting the change can show a "material change in circumstances" since the entry of the last child support order. Some common examples of these changes include increased needs for the child or the involuntary loss of a job or decreased income for the payor.
Explore Your Options with a Child Support Lawyer in Madison County
Parents have a legal duty to financially support their children. Child support issues may be complex, and having a skilled Madison County child support attorney on your side may make a critical difference in your case. At the Hancock Law Firm, we want to help you achieve the outcome that will be best for your child in the short term and the long term. Our child support and child custody attorneys proudly represent people in Madison, Ridgeland, Clinton, Flowood, Brandon, Flora, Yazoo City, Carthage, and Vicksburg, as well as the surrounding communities.
To set up an appointment, call us at (601) 843-0985 or contact us online.


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LOCATION: Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary - Augarten
Scherzergasse 1A, 1020 Vienna, Austria
Kuh is a new work by the Danish artists' group SUPERFLEX (Rasmus Nielsen, Jakob Fenger and Bjørnstjerne Christiansen) developed for the Augarten studio. It focuses on the history of the premises and therefore of its initial inhabitant, Gustinus Ambrosi.
In 1942 the sculptor Gustinus Ambrosi was commissioned by Albert Speer, then minister of armaments and war production for the Third Reich, to model the sculpture Jungfrau mit Kuh (Maiden with Cow) for the park of the New Reich Chancellery in Berlin to pair with Louis Tuaillon's already existing Youth with Bull. Ambrosi identified the perfect Fleckvieh cow in Kitzbühel, Tirol, to pose as a model for this prestigious artwork. In 1945 he wrote to his formidable patrons, pleading with them to provide the means to secure the upkeep for the cow - named "Königin" ("Queen") - even in the final throes of World War II.
Ritta and Hektor, the female heifer and male yearling who have been transported from Kitzbühel to Vienna, are descendants of Königin from the original Tirolean herd. SUPERFLEX have brought them to Ambrosi's last studio to serve as a living portal to the past and as tokens of the sculptor's affection for the cow.

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Pacific Pulmonary settles whistleblower lawsuit
NOVATO, Calif. – Pacific Pulmonary Services has agreed to pay $11.4 million to resolve allegations that it participated in a kickback scheme for home oxygen and sleep therapy equipment.
The company admits to no wrongdoing.
The government alleges that in 2004, Pacific Pulmonary began submitting claims to Medicare, Tricare and Federal Employee Health Benefit programs for home oxygen equipment without first obtaining a doctor's order.
In 2006, certain patient care coordinators are alleged to have made patient referrals to sleep testing clinics in exchange for CPAP referrals, in violation of the Anti-Kickback Act.
"The U.S. Attorney's Office is committed to taking all appropriate action against companies that disregard patients' medical needs in pursuit of company profits," said U.S. Attorney Brian Stretch, in a press release. "Patients in federal healthcare programs expect and deserve medical care that is free from any undue influence and complies with the program safeguards that are in place to protect patients."
In early 2012, FBI agents raided several California offices of Pacific Pulmonary, including Bakersfield, where the provider has a centralized sleep therapy center, and billing and reimbursement offices.
Manuel Alcaine, a former sales representative at the company, in 2010 filed the whistleblower lawsuit against Pacific Pulmonary in 2010 in the U.S. District Court of Northern California. He will receive $1.825 million of the recovered funds.
Pacific Pulmonary was founded as Med-Mart in 1978. It was acquired in 1993 by Braden Partners and in 1996 it was renamed Pacific Pulmonary Services when it refocused on respiratory services. In 2008, Tokyo-based respiratory giant Teijin acquired Pacific Pulmonary Services and it currently serves patients in 16 states, according to its website.


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Energy Reduction
Saving energy saves money – it's good business practice
In 2009 we spent approximately $15 million on initiatives directly aimed at reducing GHG emissions. Our energy reduction initiatives are focused on lowering electricity demand and reducing fossil fuel use in our business operations and vehicles. Electricity use is our second largest manageable operating expense.
Our energy reduction plan includes short-, medium- and long-term measures for reducing electricity and heating/cooling demand. We have just begun our energy efficiency program and already we have saved more than $2.8 million in operating costs within one year.
In 2009, we began large-scale implementation of energy-efficiency projects that can have a positive payback in less than one year.
|Status/ Next Steps
|Temperature control (water heaters, programmable thermostats).
|Lowered temperature.
|Lighting retrofits or conversion in branches.
|Quantification of 672 Canadian branches.
|Weather stripping entry doors.
|Control systems for lighting, fans.
|250 stores have been completed.
|Programmable thermostat installation/reprogramming.
|To be completed by December 31, 2009.
|Timer/photocell control of exterior signage.
|250 stores have been completed.
|Integrated recycling programs.
|Nine corporate offices in New Jersey are participating in a pilot program.
|Cleaning during daylight hours.
|Expanded to two buildings in Toronto, Ontario.
|Optimized our lighting schedules and replaced incandescent lighting.
|Programmable thermostats for electric baseboard heaters.
|445 stores have been completed.
|Enhanced ventilation of rooftop air-handling units.
|Currently under review.
|LED lighting retrofit for lighting of TD logo (change incandescent lights to LEDs) in branches.
|Network PC management software (PC power-down software).
|Retro commissioning of controls system for corporate sites.
|Completed in our Creekside building in Mississauga, Ontario.
|Reduce air conditioning demand by installing thermal ice storage systems.
|A pilot project in London, Ontario, to reduce air conditioning demand.
|Initiate development of a green information technology strategy.
|We will include our green IT strategy in the 2010 Corporate Responsibility Report.
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Hayes endorses Kamala Harris for president
Connecticut's first black congresswoman has endorsed for president the only black woman in a crowded field of 2020 Democratic candidates.
Rep. Jahana Hayes, a Democrat, announced her support for Sen. Kamala Harris on Wednesday in an op-ed in Essence magazine. She is the first member of Connecticut's Congressional delegation to endorse a candidate for president.
"Senator Harris has laid out a powerful and bold vision for this country that is inclusive of everyone's lived experience and grounded in the belief that success should not be defined by race, gender, socioeconomic status or zip code," Hayes wrote. "Kamala knows what it takes to move us forward as a country, and I am proud to endorse her for President of the United States."
Hayes told Hearst Connecticut Media she is asked all the time who she supports for president and has known for a while Harris is her candidate. She decided to speak up because early support crucial to her own campaign as a first time candidate in Connecticut's fifth district in 2018.
"As someone who stepped out against all odds, it was the early support that I remember the most," said Hayes, who will release a video outlining her support for Harris next week. "I'm not trying to leverage anything out of support for Senator Harris. I really feel very strongly that she can take this country in the direction it needs to go."
On Tuesday, Gov. Ned Lamont backed former vice president Joe Biden, who is leading in the polls.
Biden, Harris and president candidate Sen. Cory Booker are all vying for support from the Congressional Black Caucus. Hayes is the seventh member of the caucus to endorse Harris. Biden has won the support of five Congressional Black Caucus members and Booker several others.
Hayes has met with Harris and Booker every week in caucus meetings, she said.
Harris supported Hayes as candidate and a new congresswoman. Now, the pair are working together on legislation to lower diesel fuel emissions from school buses — "ironic but completely unrelated" to Harris invoking her experience with busing to challenge Biden's record on desegregation in a Democratic debate last week, Hayes noted.
In her op-ed, Hayes, 46, outlined the parallels between her upbringing in Waterbury, Connecticut with 54-year-old Harris's in Berkeley, California.
"As a mother and a teacher, Senator Harris' powerful recount of being part of the second class to be integrated in Berkeley was a defining moment for me," Hayes wrote. "In that moment, I knew exactly what she was talking about - she was talking about access to opportunity that would otherwise change the trajectory of her life. That resonated with me. That was me."
Hayes grew up in public housing in Waterbury and became pregnant as a teen. She went back to school, eventually becoming an educator at the John F. Kennedy High School in Waterbury. She was selected as the 2016 National Teacher of the Year, gaining national media attention.
Hayes was encouraged to run for Congress by Sen. Chris Murphy, after Rep. Elizabeth Esty shocked the 5th District by announcing she would not seek re-election, just days after Hearst Connecticut Media broke the news that she covered up an office abuse scandal.
"While my journey to Congress from the classroom is not the same as Senator Harris, mine could not have happened without others holding the doors of access open for me," Hayes wrote. "With all of the obstacles I faced in my life, I had to rely on a government that worked — and I am proof that good government works. Like Kamala, I am proof that access to opportunity makes a life changing difference for Americans."
Hayes is frequently identified as part of a group of younger, more diverse and female first-term members of Congress, including Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Rep. Ilhan Omar, Rep. Ayanna Pressley and Rep. Rashida Tlaib.
"I've asked them offline, you know, 'Do you have any thoughts?'" said Hayes. "People have said 'I'm not there yet. I'm just watching carefully.'"
Hayes said she does not know who Murphy — who is a frequent ally of Booker and Harris — will endorse, nor any other member of the delegation.
Representatives for Murphy, Sen. Richard Blumenthal, and Rep. Rosa DeLauro confirmed they have made no moves toward endorsing any of the Democratic candidates.
"Congressman [Jim] Himes has not endorsed anyone yet but he looks forward to the competition of ideas borne out during the primary," said spokeswoman Julia Goldman.
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text: Sharktopus -- TV Review 11:23 AM PDT 10/13/2010 by Barry Garron FACEBOOK TWITTER EMAIL ME Unless you're Roger Corman, it's not nice to fool with Mother Nature. TWITTER Part of the Roger Corman legend has it that the budget-minded director once bet he could film an entire feature in three days. That might, in fact, be a day longer than was necessary for the Syfy telepic "Sharktopus." Incredibly cheesy, amazingly low-tech and thoroughly simplistic, this is Corman at his best -- or worst, depending on your affection for movies with no artistic pretension. None. Zero. In this Corman production, director Declan O'Brien fills the screen again and again with nubile women in bikinis, virile men and an ugly marine antagonist that is less technologically sophisticated than the mechanical shark in "Jaws," released 35 years ago. Meanwhile, the actors go through their paces like logs through a buzz saw. Remarkably, though, this does no injustice to Mike MacLean's dialogue. The story is a maritime variation on "Frankenstein," only this monster has sharp teeth and tentacles, and all the people in the village play on the beach in revealing swimwear. The sharktopus -- yes, half shark and half octopus -- was genetically engineered as a hush-hush Navy project. It was designed as a sort of drone for use against drug smugglers. A computer program would control its every move. Then, of course, the monster breaks free of its shackles and becomes a calamari killer, unstoppable as it makes its way south from the Santa Monica Pier to sunny Puerto Vallarta. Eric Roberts is Nathan Sands, the mad scientist who has overall responsibility for the project. Sara Malakul Lane plays his daughter, Nicole, the computer programmer, who finds out too late that Dad tampered with her work to make the beast a killer, not just a hunter. ("I had the tech boys make some adjustments," he explains.) Kerem Bursin plays Andy Flynn, the only man in the world capable of possibly stopping the sharktopus. Nicole doesn't like him at first, but you know where that's going. There are others, of course, like Stacy Everheart (Liv Boughn), the fearless and shameless TV reporter who will do anything and sacrifice anyone for a scoop. And then there's Captain Jack (Ralph Garman), the pirate radio DJ who scoffs at the silly reports of a deadly sea creature. Of course, no one should be surprised that they -- and many more -- become sharktopus chum, their final scenes marked by close-ups of sharp teeth, red dye in the water and drops of water inadvertently splashed on the lens. "Jaws" once made people scared about going into the water. "Sharktopus" might have the same effect about tuning into Syfy. FACEBOOK TWITTER EMAIL ME Barry Garron email@example.com @thr


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Our vineyards are located between 700 and 850 meters of altitude, on a sandy and limestone soil, stony on the surface and very poor in nutrients, with a great holding capacity of the little water it receives. It's the kingdom of Monastrell, a grape variety owned by this region that is present in the vast majority, and exclusively, in all our wines.
Next to the old vines, aged more than forty years, and other younger Monastrell ones, also grow Syrah, Cabernet, Merlot and Petit Verdot grapes, which are well suited to the terrain and provide intense shades of spices and fruit.
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Por favor, no entrar en esta página si no se tiene la edad legal de compra de alcohol en su país de acceso.
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We encourage responsible drinking.
Please do not enter this site if you are not of legal purchase age for alcohol in your country of access.
Do you have the legal age of majority in your country to consume wine?
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Joseph C. Moffa is an Attorney with the Law Offices of Moffa and Gainor, P.A. in Fort Lauderdale, Florida where he concentrates in the areas of federal and state taxation. Mr. Moffa is a frequent lecturer and author on state tax topics for various professional groups and organizations. Mr. Moffa has been actively involved in various professional organizations including: The Florida Bar, The Florida Institute of Certified Public Accountants, The Greater Ft. Lauderdale Tax Counsel (President 1998), FICPA State Tax Committee (Chairman 1998), and a member of the Executive Council of the Florida Bar Tax Section. (1998)
Mr. Moffa received his B.B.A. Degree in accounting (1980) and his M.B.A. Degree (1982) from Florida Atlantic University. He received his J.D. Degree from the University of Miami School of Law (1984). Mr. Moffa is a licensed Florida CPA; and prior to practicing law, worked in the tax departments with national public accounting firms for over 10 years.
Mr. Moffa has authored the following articles on state taxation issues for the Florida CPA Today Magazine: Form Over Substance, (September 1994); Drop Shipments, (September 1993); Florida Corporation Income Tax, (August 1990). In addition, Mr. Moffa has authored and lectured on sales tax professional education seminars for such groups as the FICPA, Lorman Education Services, National Business Institute and Professional Education Systems, Inc.


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Talladega, AL - Talladega Superspeedway's popular "Two for $88" Dale Jr. ticket package is back for the May 7 GEICO 500 Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series race in celebration of Dale Earnhardt Jr's triumphant return Sunday, Feb. 19 after qualifying second for next weekend's season-opening Daytona 500.
Earnhardt Jr., a six-time winner at Talladega – including his latest triumph in the 2015 GEICO 500 - returned to the track last weekend after being sidelined for the second half of 2016 due to medical reasons with concussion-type symptoms.
The Talladega "Two for $88" Dale Jr. ticket package, which salutes the return of NASCAR's 14-time Most Popular driver and Talladega favorite, offers fans a $42 savings off the regular price for two Lincoln Grandstand tickets to the May 7 GEICO 500 – where the winner is all but guaranteed a spot in the 2017 Playoffs for the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series title. The offer is for a limited time only. For more information, visit www.talladegasuperspeedway.com/dalejr.
"The 'Two for $88' package is almost as popular here as Dale Jr. himself," said Talladega Superspeedway Chairman Grant Lynch. "It offers two great seats in our Lincoln Grandstand at an amazing value. Dale Jr. calls Talladega Superspeedway his second home and the diehard fans of 'Earnhardt Country' will not want to miss the No. 88 team's return at the biggest and baddest race track on the planet with Dale behind the wheel. He will be a favorite, and hungrier than ever for a victory in the GEICO 500."
Earnhardt Jr. is the only driver in history to win four consecutive Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series events at NASCAR's Most Competitive track, Talladega Superspeedway (2001-03), and trails only his Dad – Dale Earnhardt Sr., who has 10 Talladega triumphs – in victories at the 2.66-mile mammoth venue.
"The fans at Talladega love to see us win, they want to see us lead…every lap," said Earnhardt Jr. of Talladega Superspeedway. "They get excited and they are happy when we are up front. I feel that. Looking forward to going back and putting on a great show for them."
"I am disappointed we didn't get the pole," said Earnhardt Jr. after his runner-up qualifying run Sunday. "I am thrilled that we have an all-Hendrick front row. It is a good way to start the week."
In addition to the "Two for $88" ticket package, Talladega Superspeedway is offering up additional great savings for the whole spring event weekend, May 5 – 7, which includes the General Tire 200 ARCA Racing Series Presented by Menards race (Friday, May 5) and the Sparks Energy 300 NASCAR XFINITY Series event (Saturday, May 6). By purchasing a ticket to the GEICO 500, fans get free admission to the traditional Saturday Night Infield Concert featuring the iconic Charlie Daniels Band.
For more ticket information on all three days of activities, log on to www.talladegasuperspeedway.com or call 1-877-Go2-DEGA.
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Pep Guardiola fined by FA over yellow ribbon protest
Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola has been fined £20,000 by the Football Association (FA) and warned over his future conduct after wearing a yellow ribbon supporting political prisoners in his native Catalonia.
On Monday, Guardiola accepted the FA charge of "wearing a political message", putting him in breach of the organisation's kit and advertising regulations.
The City boss began wearing the pin in support of pro-independence politicians Jordi Cuixart and Jordi Sanchez, who were imprisoned as part of the crackdown that followed last October's referendum in Catalonia and remain in custody.
A brief statement issued by the FA read: "Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola has been fined £20,000 and warned as to his future conduct after admitting an FA charge for wearing a political message, specifically a yellow ribbon, in breach of The FA's kit and advertising regulations."
Guardiola, who wore the ribbon as he fulfilled pre-match media duties for the Premier League leaders' forthcoming trip to Stoke City, has argued his symbol is addressing a humanitarian and not a political issue despite accepting the charge.
FA chief executive Martin Glenn sparked controversy last weekend when, in response to this stance, he made remarks including a reference to the Star of David that the UK's Jewish Leadership Council labelled "offensive" and "ill-judged".
Speaking in response to Glenn's comments, Guardiola again stated he had been misunderstood.
"Mr Glenn has apologised, so all is well, but the first impression when I heard that was he does not understand what the yellow ribbon means," he said.
"He made comments that are far away from that. Maybe now he will realise it is not the same.
"It is not about independence or no independence. It is about people who are in jail when they didn't do absolutely anything to be in jail.
"I think now he is going to understand… the comments were because he did not understand the reality. But now I am pretty sure he will."
After his initial charge form the FA, Guardiola offered assurances he would not risk further sanctions, such as a touchline ban, by continuing to wear the ribbon in defiance of the authorities.
"It is more important what happens in the team than what is, in this case, my personal opinion, of course," he said.
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WATCH ABOVE: 16×9's "Deadly Flight"
Michael Mesure remembers every vivid detail of the day he decided to devote his life to the cause of making cities safer for birds.
It was May 16, 1990. The high point of the spring migration season. It was foggy in Toronto's downtown financial district, and birds were falling out of the sky after colliding with glass-encased towers.
"It's etched in my brain. A combination of dead and dying. They were dropping all around me."
Mesure travels with supplies of paper bags to carry wounded birds to safety. But that morning there were so many casualties he quickly ran out, so he scrounged through dumpsters looking for bags that people had thrown away. He filled his car with the rescue bags and drove off, intending to release the injured birds far away from the downtown core.
"I was driving up the Don Valley Parkway and one (of the birds) escaped from a bag . This one flew and perched itself on my rear-view mirror. It started to sing inside my car. I was fixated on this bird for about 10 seconds." Here, Mesure stops, too choked up to continue. But he soon collects himself. "It dropped dead in my lap. And it struck me ever since. That's why I'm here. It was trying to tell me something and I just couldn't ignore it."
Three years later, Mesure, who owned an art gallery and antique shop, started a non-profit group called FLAP—Fatal Light Awareness Program—and began lobbying the City of Toronto to pass building guidelines that would better protect migrating birds against window strikes.
He also assembled teams of volunteers who patrol the city at dawn, looking for the dead and wounded. Over the years, they have collected 60,000 dead birds, and rescued thousands of the injured. But this is only a tiny fraction of the casualty toll.
Mesure calculates that every year, a million birds die of window strikes in the city. It's a very rough calculation, based on the fact that there are 940,000 structures in the city, most of them have at least one glass window, and each window has at least one fatal strike per year.
The North American toll of deaths by window strikes has been estimated at between 100 million and one billion a year—a carnage equivalent, at the low end, to 300 Exxon Valdez oil spills per year. (The Exxon Valdez oil spill off the coast of Alaska in 1989 killed roughly 300,000 seabirds, and got worldwide attention.)
Yet most city dwellers are unaware of the window strike problem, because gulls, rodents and other urban scavengers, as well as cats and dogs, very efficiently dispose of the dead and injured birds before we see them.
"They don't realize that as they sleep in their beds at night, there's hundreds of thousands of birds streaming over their rooftops," says Mesure. "When they come to work and learn about this issue, they start to look for these birds. But the bulk of these birds are either eaten by scavengers, or swept up. It's very hard to get this through to the public."
The birds are vulnerable because of simple biology. Birds cannot see glass. All they see is what glass reflects—like trees and the sky—and in a city rich in urban foliage, like Toronto, that creates a hazardous landscape. Toronto is also on a major migratory flight-path, so it's become one of the world's most dangerous cities for birds.
Ornithologists, like Daniel Klem of Muhlenberg College in Allentown, Pa, have argued for decades that it's easy to create a more bird-friendly city: all you need is glass markers that birds can see, and avoid. These markers come in the form of small white dots or squares that, from a few feet away, are virtually invisible to the human eye. But they represent a clear warning to birds.
Mesure says the markers would reduce window strikes by 70 per cent.
The main obstacle is cost. Building owners are, for the most part, reluctant to spend the money to retrofit their glass towers, just to keep bird-lovers happy. So in 2010, the City of Toronto passed guidelines that required all new buildings to have bird-safe glass installed to a height of 12 metres—that's the maximum height of most urban trees which are reflected in the glass.
These and other guidelines don't apply to existing buildings, but they have nevertheless become a model for other large cities around the world.
Klem credits Toronto, and especially the work of FLAP, as being "the linchpin in getting our attention and education at a level that would stimulate constructive action."
Like Mesure, Klem is a tireless advocate for bird-friendly windows. He says we've created modern cities with an environment that is pleasing to live in but which kills vast numbers of birds. "This is, in my humble view, ethically and morally unacceptable. We're obligated to stop that."
It's a battle Mesure fights every day. But there is resistance. In Toronto, for example, one of the prime bird kill zones is the property around the massive TD Bank towers, owned by Cadillac Fairview. These properties have been declared off-limits to the FLAP volunteers, because the group joined in a court case against the developer.
Cadillac Fairview won the case, and then notified FLAP that the volunteers would only be welcome on the TD Tower sites if they signed a confidentiality agreement about their findings. In other words, FLAP would not be able to make public the numbers of birds they collect on Cadillac Fairview properties. It's a deal Michael and his volunteers are reluctant to make, since they consider their findings in the public interest.
But the confrontation doesn't deter him in the least. "What's happening in my life is inevitable," he says. "It's a calling. I feel I've been put on this planet to be doing exactly what I'm doing."
Don't miss an encore presentation of 16X9 this Saturday at 7pm.


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Grace picked me up just after four (unusually almost on time), we bought drinks and petrol and were off along the M4 towards London. We hadn't spoken for a while so the first 45 minutes of our trip were spent talking at high speed and high pitch to get out everything we'd been doing and seeing. The rest of the time was spent listening to the new Fleet Foxes album so Grace could prepare herself for the concert. We actually made good time until we hit the rush hour traffic (good thing it was Thursday and not Friday) but getting into London wasn't as hard as getting to Kew Bridge. Pid met us and we changed at her house. We knew the doors opened at eight and arrived there at half past. I was shocked by the lack of people outside and how they were casually lounging against the barriers. With hindsight, we could have arrived 30 minutes later, it would have allowed the twins to eat a proper meal (I'd had one at lunchtime). The support band were The Bees (so I actually heard These Are The Ghosts, Ken's song, played live!), who were pretty good, but I'm pretty sure most of us were just willing the Foxes to get on the stage by nine.
What can I say about Fleet Foxes? The first time I saw them was three years ago at Hard Rock Calling in Hyde Park when they made the rain stop by playing Sun Rising and Sun Giant one after the other. Totally different atmosphere here, of course, though you wouldn't have known it if you'd been sitting in front of four chattering girls like I was. I refused to let them bother me in the end. It was a bit harder to ignore the two people who kept making us all get up so they could get drinks. I know that it was really hot in the theatre, but come on. Personal highlights were Mykonos (dear God this song), Lorelai (current personal anthem), Your Protector, The Shrine/An Argument (which ended up being Pid's favourite after us fearing that she would hate the jazz interlude in the middle) and Helplessness Blues, which was their final encore (I might have punched the air and yelled "yes"). Bless Robin Pecknold, he still seemed shocked by how much we cheered him back onto the stage for his solo encore of Oliver James. Lot of people yelling "Steven", which is the call sign for listeners of a 6 Music show, but I'd forgotten that and I don't think anyone had explained it to him. Wonder if it's worth emailing him on the site.
Afterwards, we stumbled outside and drove back to Pid's house, changed into pyjamas and watched Tangled while eating toast and honey. I finally met the twins' cousin, George. Grace was mortified afterwards to discover that was the first time we'd actually met and apologised for not introducing me. I reminded her that it was up to Pid as she lives with him and it should have been her introducing us, not Grace. They enjoyed the film, though we agreed it's not as good as The Princess and the Frog.
Grace and I went had breakfast in the Maids of Honour tea-room the next day. Grace asked the waitress if we could have the weekend breakfast even though it was only Friday. The waitress couldn't have been more helpful but I think the chef was annoyed with the demand as we both felt a little bit ill after that meal. We bought a couple of maids of honour to eat for later (we ended up forgetting to eat them). Grace wanted to go to Selfridges as they were having a marine biology exhibit there or something but she'd forgotten her Oyster card, it would have taken us 45 minutes to get there from Kew Bridge and I told her that driving wouldn't get us to Selfridges any faster, as we'd have to pay the congestion charge and then find a parking space. So we decided to drive back to Cheltenham and have a rest before going to the Cotswold Olimpick Games. Predating our modern Olympics by over two hundred years (2012 is their four hundredth year anniversary), the Cotswold Olimpicks are composed mainly of rural sports, including the famous Shin Kicking Championships.
Grace insisted on going to a Maidenhead Aquatics branch to check out some aquariums before we reached Gloucester. This wouldn't have been a problem except she'd never been to this branch before and had no idea to get to it. Neither did I, obviously. Tempers frayed and nearly snapped. ("You don't need to take that aggrieved tone." "It wasn't aggrieved before - IT IS NOW!") Even when we finally reached the business park, we couldn't find the place, because it was at the back of a garden centre! Ridiculous. Once inside the cool darkness, our tempers improved slightly, because watching fish IS very soothing.
We dropped off some of my stuff at Gloucester and then collapsed in Grace's Cheltenham flat. Grace was so tired that she actually went to bed, which I didn't mind because I was able to get started on her copy of Witches Abroad (which rapidly became my second favourite Pratchett book of all time next to A Hat Full Of Sky). I went to Waitrose and bought some food for our Olimpicks picnic and some scented candles for me (Fairy Dust, White Lily and Daisy Dip from Lily Flame). They do these marvellous Indian snack bags which contain bhajis and samosas, perfect for keeping your stomach full. Also bought strawberries and raspberries. I woke Grace up at seven and we then watched some Father Ted on YouTube. I discovered that she hasn't seen Corpse Bride. Must remedy this ASAP.
We actually made it to Chipping Campden without taking a wrong turn once (we did MISS a turn, because Grace was driving too fast, but she was able to find a driveway and turn around without too much trouble). Fortunately for us, the weather was glorious that Friday and the Cotswolds were bathed in sunlight, which made them look even prettier than they usually are. We drove through little villages, past a real life station called Honeybourne and eventually drove all the way up Dover's Hill and back down again because we were getting the coach from Chipping Campden this time instead of walking up. We parked around the back of Chipping Campden Secondary School (which is up Cider Mill Lane, I love the Cotswolds sometimes) and just managed to catch the last coach up to the crossroads (£1 for the ride, donated to keeping the Games running). We payed £3 each to get into the Olimpicks (a better bargain than the 2012 Games, I think you'll agree) and then made our way to the Lower Arena, which is part of a natural ampitheatre created by the slope of the hill easing into a plateau. I thought there were less people this year, maybe it's because we arrived later.
The Games were actually running about 15 minutes AHEAD of schedule, which meant there was more light, so Grace was able to take some really good photos of the shin kicking and the arrival of Robert Dover and Endymion (yes, his name really was Endymion) Porter on horseback. This also meant we were able to see the fireworks at the end of the Games, the lighting of the truly massive bonfire, and we then took part in the Torchlit Procession down to Chipping Campden. You buy sticks that have been coated in flammable material (not sure what) and then everyone on the hill walks down to the village. I think there was over 1,000 people in the procession. People of all ages took part and I don't think there were any accidents despite all those flaming torches and all those little children. It felt amazing to be there, doing something that people had been doing for nearly 400 years in the same time and place, as if time had fallen away. I could have bumped into a Georgian or Victorian and not been surprised.
After we finally reached Chipping Campden (it's 4.25 miles from the top of the hill to the Square), we threw our torches in a skip, bought a couple of burgers and then drove back to Gloucester. I was so tired that I slept until nearly midday on Saturday. Missed my hairdresser's appointment but couldn't really care. Saturday was spent doing absolutely nothing apart from watching A Good Man Goes To War and then trying to stop my brain leaking through my ears afterwards.
Here endeth Part I of my June Adventures. Part II will be up soon!


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The Daily Beast Mulls Paywall
As Newsweek/The Daily Beast approaches the end of the Newsweek era, there are going to be a lot of changes to the brand. In going all digital, staffers will move on and, according to Bloomberg News, there might be a paywall erected.
A Daily Beast spokesperson said that the site is considering launching a metered paywall, much like the New York Times does now. So visitors to The Daily Beast would be able to read a certain amount of articles for free per month, and then, once that number is exceeded, be asked to pay to read more.
And just like the with the Times, good people will pay, and bad people will Google the link to the article and read it for free.


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Refurbishment, Repairs, and New Build Refectory, to Grade II Country House, Surrey AONB
for The Field Studies Council
Grade II Listed Juniper Hall is owned by the National Trust and has been leased to the Field Studies Council since 1946. Set in a wooded valley in the Surrey Hills AONB below Box Hill and located within close proximity to London, Juniper Hall is one of the FSC's busiest centres, accommodating residential and day visitors throughout the year. We have been appointed to support proposals for the strategic upgrading of facilities in the historic house and to provide designs for a new refectory building to seat 150 visitors.
We have worked closely with the Field Studies Council to complete proposals for the masterplan of the layout of the facilities and to develop proposals for alterations to the accommodation and for the design of the new refectory building. These proposals were used for consultation with the Friends of Juniper Hall, the National Trust, the AONB and the Historic Development Officer and Planning Officer at Mole Valley Council. Following positive feedback these proposals are now being developed with a view to submitting Planning and Listed Building Consent applications in early 2018.
Juniper Hall provides accommodation across a number of different buildings of different ages and architectural styles dating back to the 17th century. Juniper Hall is well known for its association with 18th century French emigres during the French Revolution, the author Fanny Burney and with the piano manufacturing family, Broadwood & Sons.
Our project scope comprises refurbishment and alteration work to the interior of Juniper Hall and replacement of the pre-fab 1960s Wooldridge lab classrooms. However, consideration of the wider site arrangement and uses has also been important to ensure the proposals are developed to maximise useful day-to-day operation of the centre and to enable site works to be undertaken with minimal impact on the centre's operation.
As is typical of a project of this type, our work includes consultation and collaboration with a team of specialists from an early stage. To ensure an integrated development proposal we are working with CS Todd Fire Consultants, Nicholas Pearson Associations ecologists, Synergy Quantity Surveyors, Momentum Structural Engineers and Westford Mechanical designers to procure the reports required to confirm the detail of the proposals as required for submission with the Planning and Listed Building Consent application, and to coordinate the design information to facilitate a swift commencement in Autumn 2018.
Our work for this stage (3) – to include the determination of planning and listed building consent applications – also includes the following:
- Undertaking detailed historic research and archive searches to support the Heritage Statement required for the Listed Building Consent application;
- Preparing the Heritage Statement and supporting documents; evaluating the changes proposed within the context of current Historic England Guidelines and with specific reference to their Conservation Principles which guide the significance assessments of heritage assets;
- Preparing the Design and Access Statement, including Planning Statement which sets out the proposals in relation to current planning policy;
- Completion of the drawn detailed design proposals;
- Preparation and online submission of the Listed Building Consent and Planning Applications;
- Monitoring the applications and answering queries through to determination;
- Attending site meetings with statutory authorities as required;
- Regular reporting and reviews with the client;
- Review and submission of specialist reports (including biodiversity, mechanical engineering etc.)
- Co-ordination of Structural Engineers design;
- Liaison with Quantity Surveyor to provide cost estimate; &
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Lauren Hutton has appeared on the cover of Vogue 28 times since she began her modeling career in the mid-'60s. In 1974, she created the "supermodel" when she signed on to be the face of Revlon. It was the first time a product would be associated exclusively with one model. In 1989, she created an image for mature women by launching modeling campaigns with Barney's, J. Crew, Federated Department Stores and Revlon.
Ms. Hutton's film credits are extensive. She has worked with directors such as Paul Schrader, Robert Altman and Jean-Paul Rampeneau. She co-starred with Richard Gere in American Gigolo, Robert Redford in Little Faus and Big Halsey and Jim Carey in his first movie, Once Bitten. She also earned critical praise for her performance in 1999's Just a Little Harmless Sex.
From 1996 to 1997, she hosted a nationally syndicated talk show, "Lauren Hutton and ...," for Turner Original Production. She also hosted the syndicated travel series, Three Perfect Days. From 1996-1998, she hosted Bravo's primetime series Bravo Profiles, which investigates the creative and business processes behind the arts.
For the past 12 years, she has worked closely with women's health, environmental and wildlife foundations such as the Women's Campaign Fund and World Wildlife Foundation. In 1999, she became the first television advocate for Hormone Replacement Therapy (H.R.T.) the post-menopausal preventive against osteoporosis, heart disease, colon cancer and Alzheimer's.
Lauren Hutton is the original vice-president of the Guggenheim Museum Motorcycle Club, and is on the board of the National Museum of Women in Arts in Washington, D.C. A constant traveler with a special fondness for Africa and China, her new passions are dog sledding and sailing classic wooden sailboats.


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One man was killed and another injured in two separate subway incidents this weekend.
Police say Michael Ice, 22, was hit by a downtown 6 train as he was walking on the tracks of the Spring St. station in Soho just before 6 a.m. on Saturday morning.
Ice of Rye, NY, was pronounced dead at the scene. Police do not suspect any criminality.
In a separate incident, a 62-year old man was shoved onto the tracks in Times Square on Saturday morning.
Police say Andrew Lessey, 29, a homeless man, pushed Louis Corchado, 62, onto the tracks of the 2, 3 Times Square stop just after 5 a.m. on Saturday.
Corchado was able to climb back onto the platform with the help of fellow straphangers before the next train arrived, police said.
Corchado was treated at Bellevue hospital for cuts to his face and injuries to his arms and legs and Lessey was charged with reckless endangerment and assault.
For more local news, follow Emily Anne Epstein on Twitter @EmilyAEpstein.


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This fall I have to move my studio to another building and so the occasion arises to clean up and get rid of a lot of clutter that I gathered over the past 16 years in this building. So all my overdue films are now donated to the HKU, waiting for eager students.
Another idea came into my mind a while ago, when another department on the academy did the same: creating a small, specialized library, just for the department itself. I was immediately fond of the idea and started to collect books and magazines out of my own collection that I was willing to part from and a befriended bookshop antiquarian even found the complete collection of 'Perspectief' magazine, still my favourite magazine from the past.
After a while I started to doubt the whole idea. Is an old-fashioned library with books and magazines still needed in education these days? Why bother with building bookracks and dragging heavy books around when the students can literally find all the images they want on the computer? Why is the idea of a quiet place, with a couch, where students can take a book, sit down and just enjoy the work of great photographers so appealing to me? Oh wait, I think I answered my own question there. Call me old-fashioned, but I think that a place like that should be part of any education. Where the work of the photographer is shown in a way that he wants it to be seen.
Every now and then a student shows me work that they think is great, but when I ask who made it, they start to blush and stammer: 'Oh, uhm, I don't know, I just like the images.' When that happens, I give them my 'completely-baffled-desperate-in-physical-pain look', and strongly ask them to take note next time. But how can they do that? The internet is full of images without context, splattered all over the place. Of course it's key to teach the students how to find meaningful digital sources and how you can search the internet in a contextual way, but the photo book hype is there for a reason: people want to see hardcopy context! And books are expensive too, so why not share?!
Suddenly it was very clear to me and all the doubt was gone: we should have our own library. It's going to be one great experiment, since I'm not going to keep an administration and the student themselves are responsible for the wellbeing of the books. Let's see where this ends! So if you have any books or magazines concerning photography to spare and want to donate, please let me know.
What do you think, is it going to work or not?
Robert Philip is a photographer and course leader at the Utrecht School of the Arts.


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I do not see an option to restrict by time of day. In addition to having odd/even watering schedules, our city also prohibits watering between the hours of 11:00am - 5:00pm any day between the months of May - September. It would be nice to be able to set this up on the controller when creating a schedule to rule out something auto adjusting and extending a watering time during the prohibited period. We can be fined if found in violation.
@jdg_mn, we do not currently support hourly/time of day restrictions, but appreciate you sharing your scheduling requirements with us.
Just curious, what is the current fine?
I do not know the fine amount, as I have only ever received a warning when my previous controller auto-adjusted my run times, extending watering into the restricted time. Having time of day restrictions would be a great feature.
Our city just increased their fines for watering violations. Because of the heavy rains this year, they increased the allowed watering days from twice weekly to three times in June, July, and August. However, they went from a maximum fine of $45 for watering violations to $200 (on the 4th offense). Since they pull data from our water meters, they don't need to witness the violation to ticket us.
So I second the request to allow to program for a time of day restriction.
@jdg_mn and @chrisandeden - @franz has said that V3 of the software (which will work with both Gen 1 and Gen 2 of the hardware) will support this feature ->Is there a way to say "stop watering at a specific time?
$200?! They aren't messing around
@chrisandeden, just to clarify, you'll be able to water 3 days per week in June, July & August?
When programing restrictions, do you prefer "black out" days/times, or "allowed" days/times? i.e. negative or positive programming
Need a mix of both. We went from extreme restrictions (1 day per week from Nov 1 - April 30, 2 days per week May - Oct) to the current rules. Nov - March 1 day, April - May, and Sept - Oct twice, and June - August 3 times.
No matter the time of year, watering is prohibited from 9am to 6pm.
With the Rachio, my plant and tree zones (I have 3 of them) can run for hours, pushing my lawn run time into the prohibited times. I would like to have the system realize that there is not enough time to run the cycle before 9, so it holds off until 6 (when necessary). In the summer the lawn gets watered every time allowed, while the plants and trees only get watered every 7-10 days. But every so often, all of my zones are scheduled, and that bleeds over into the prohibited times.
All that said, when the city was having the discussion about this, the only worry was for residents needing to reprogram their timers additional times during the year. With my Rachio, it'll take me a whole 5 seconds to add or delete the days!!
@chrisandeden I like the idea of the controller recognizing that it doesn't have enough time and deciding to wait to finish until after six… With restrictions getting more a more restrictive () there has to be some creative problem solving done to get all the necessary watering fit into the allotted time!
Here in CO, the city of Greeley just redid their restrictions to focus on amount of water used rather than days/times to water. It's a really cool idea, and the perfect application for a Rachio controller.
Thanks to an overhauled water budget system, residents may soon have the power to pick their days — any days; all days — so long as they stay within their budget.
Now if only we could get more cities to switch to this method!
@mckynzee I wish our city was that forward thinking. Unfortunately, the dumbing down of restrictions leads to inefficient water usage. I truly understand that the more days the Rachio is allowed to water, the more efficient the water usage (on a long time horizon). However, in the middle of the drought here in CA, there was an article written that highlighted some of the problems here with forcing residents to save water.
We had people (I hate to admit this, but they were in my neighborhood, and general part of town, which is more upscale) that were ignoring the watering restrictions that had been cut down from 3 times weekly to 2, and were actually watering 5-6 times per week to keep their lawns alive. We live in a community with a large number of trees, including over 15 trees in our yard itself. My preference is to water the trees and keep them healthy, because lawn can die and be reseeded quickly, but mature trees are gone for the next 15 years. I should have that choice, but be charged for the water I'm using appropriately. Our family of 5 has used less water than the average Fresno household for the last 2 years plus (the statistics are included on our monthly water bills). We save water in the house by showering quickly (and catching the water in a bucket while the water is heating up), doing only full loads of laundry in our front-loader, etc. I should be able to water whenever I want, as long as I keep below some type of 'low-use' measurement. But government wants to take an easy path, that allows neighbors to 'tattle,' and make it easy to cite those who break the rules. And with the increased fines for breaking the rules, they are going to stamp out non-compliance very quickly.
@chrisandeden Thank you for sharing that article, super interesting. It is hard to watch watering districts continue to implement these archaic models for restrictions, I agree it feels like it's just the easy way. Ultimately, a usage focused model is more logical, and sounds like it has proven more effective in the example of Santa Fe. However, at least for now, there is no getting around the current restrictions. Rather than wait around for restrictions to change, we just have to continue to make Rachio as useful as possible within the current parameters so our users can save as much water as possible and continue to have beautiful landscapes!
+1 to add Time of Day Restrictions to the scheduling algorithm. Regardless of the best method to manage water usage, my municipality restricts watering between the hours of 9AM and 6PM.
Kind of resurrecting a bit older topic, but I would also like to be able to set time of day restrictions. My city bans sprinkler watering between 10am and 8pm, with fines starting at $80 and going up to $320.


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Ne trumpas išėjo, bet bent jau prisiminti, ką knygoje skaitei arba nuspręsti, ar ją skaityti, tikrai padės.
- The secret is the law of atraction.
- The law responds to your thoughts, no matter what they may be.
- If you can think about what you want in your mind, and make that your dominant thought, you will bring it into your life.
- Whether we realize it or not, we are thinking most of the time. If you are speaking or listening to someone, you are thinking. If you are reading the newspaper or watching television, you are thinking.
- When you recall memories from your past, you are thinking. When you are considering something in your future, you are thinking. When you are driving, you are thinking. When you arc getting ready in the morning, you are thinking. For many of us, the only time we are not thinking is when we are asleep; however, the forces of attraction are still operating on our last thoughts as we fall asleep. Make your last thoughts before going to sleep good thoughts.
- What you are thinking now is creating your future life.
You can completely change every circumstance and event in your entire life, by changing the way you think.
- Your life is a mirror of the dominant thoughts you think.
- Meditation quiets your mind, helps you control your thoughts, and revitalizes your body.
- Your feelings are an immediate signal for you to know what you are thinking.
- No one can tell you whether you are feeling good or bad, because you are the only one who knows how you're feeling at any time. If you're not sure how you're feeling, just ask yourself, "How am I feeling?"
- Iit is impossible to feel bad and at the same time be having good thoughts. Your thoughts cause your feelings.
- As you feel bad, and don't make any effort to change your thoughts and feel better, you are in effect saying, "Bring me more circumstance that will make me feel bad. Bring it on!"
- Seize those moments when you are feeling good, and milk them. Be aware that as you are feeling good, you are powerfully attracting more good things to you.
- So what are you feeling now? Take a few moments to think about how you feel. If you're not feeling as good as you'd like to, focus on feeling your feelings inside and purposefully lift them. As you focus intensely on your feelings, with the intention to lift yourself, you can powerfully elevate them.
- Make a list of some Secret Shifters to have up your sleeve. By Secret Shifters, I mean things that can change your feelings in a snap. It might be beautiful memories, future events, funny moments, nature, a person you love, your favorite music. Then if you find yourself angry or frustrated or not feeling good, turn to your Secret Shifters list and focus on one of them. Different things will shift you at different times, so if one doesn't work, go to another. It only takes a minute or two of changing focus to shift yourself and shift your frequency.
You cannot harm another with your thoughts, you only harm You.
- You get to choose what you want, but you must get clear about what you want. Ask what you want.
- You do not have to ask over and over again. Just ask once.
- You must believe that you have received. You must know that what you want is yours the moment you ask. You must have complete and utter faith. If you had placed an order from a catalogue you would relax/ know you are going to receive what you ordered, and get on with your life.
- Claim the things you want by feeling and believing they are yours. When you do that, the law of attraction will powerfully move all circumstances, people, and events for you to receive.
- How it will happen, how the Universe will bring it to you, is not your concern or job. Allow the Universe to do it for you.
- Trust your instincts.
- It takes no time for the Universe to manifest what you want. Any time delay you experience is due to your delay in getting to the place of believing, knowing, and feeling that you already have it.
- Next time you are in a situation where you are waiting, seize that time and imagine having all the things you want. You can do this anywhere, anytime. Turn every life situation into a positive one!
- Expect the things you want and don't expect the things you don't want.
- It is impossible to bring more into your life if you are feeling ungrateful about what you have.
- Decide what you want. Believe you can have it. Believe you deserve it and believe it's possible for you. And then close your eyes every day for several minutes, and visualize having what you already want, feeling the feelings of already having it. Come out of that and focus on what you're grateful for already, and really enjoy it. Then go into your day and release it to the Universe and trust that the Universe will figure out how to manifest it.
- The shortcut to anything you want in your life is to BE and FEEL happy now!
- Thoughts create the words we speak, the feelings we feel, and our actions. Actions are
particularly powerful because they are thoughts that have caused us to act.
- When you want to attract something into your life, make sure your actions don't contradict your desires.
- Think about what you have asked for, and make sure that your actions are mirroring what you expect to receive, and that they're not contradicting what you've asked for. Act as if you are receiving it. Do exactly what you would do if you were receiving it today, and take actions in your life to reflect that powerful expectation.
- Laughter really is the best medicine.
- If you are not feeling great and somebody asks you how you are feeling, just be grateful that that person has reminded you to think thoughts of feeling well. Speak only the words of what you want.
- Nothing is limited—not resources or anything else. It is only limited in the human mind.
- Praising and blessing dissolves all negativity, so praise and bless your enemies. If you curse your enemies, the curse will come back to harm you.
- Do the things that you love and that bring you joy. If you don't know what brings you joy, ask the question, "What is my joy?"
- The Secret is within you. The more you use the power within you, the more you will draw it to you.
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i have had 3 friends try to call forward me and they cannot do it/i tried from my cel to the house phone...no luck. anyone?
changing their phone to mine
Then that is not them forwarding you, that's them forwarding their own phone. So your saying that doesn't work? What happens when they try? Busy signal? Error message? Can they forward to other people's numbers? How about a Cox number like the number you call for support?
my brother who forwards his home phone to his business everyday for 20 years is forwarding his calls to me for a couple of days, it doesnt do anything (he says) anyway cox is clueless to it. i had another buddy try it and he had the same thing happen...but everything on my line is working...except receiving forwarded calls
Try calling your number. I wonder if your number is forwarded by mistake, and the system isn't allowing a forwarded number to be forwarded to. Or you could just dial *(astrick)73 from your Cox home phone. Then have him try the forward again.
Also, when did this start? Like when was the last time someone COULD forward their line to your Cox line? The reason I ask is because in some areas Cox is upgrading the phone system, and there have been a few quiks like no TV caller ID. I wonder if this is another one of them.
Cox touched on that, i have a feeling thats what it is...its a fairly new service to me. i did what you suggested and my call forwarding is off. this was the first attempts at forwarding to my phone.
David grit said:Cox touched on that, i have a feeling thats what it is..
Can you explain? Do you mean over the phone when you were ordering service? If so, please give detail. What we know on the service end is very sparce, so any info is good info.
actually, i called the tech support and they transfered me to three people. the last person had no idea why they could not forward to the line...they said everything on there side (my phone) was working proper, but yet another person could not forward their phone either...its an issue
No one has told Tier 1 about the new phone system. I bet it has something to do with Simultaneous Call Forwarding or Sim. Ring, which is required to work with the integrated NoMoRobo client. Not sure how or what they messed up, but boy did they if this is a national issue once Cox Voice rolls out. Thanks for bringing it to light.


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Location: Water Quality and Ecology ResearchTitle: Ecoregional, catchment, and reach-scale environmental factors shape functional-trait structure of stream fish assemblages
|PEASE, ALLISON - Texas Tech University
|Taylor, Jason
|WINEMILLER, KIRK - Texas A&M University
|KING, RYAN - Baylor University
Submitted to: Hydrobiologia
Publication Type: Peer Reviewed Journal
Publication Acceptance Date: 2/22/2015
Publication Date: 3/6/2015
Publication URL: http://handle.nal.usda.gov/10113/60752
Citation: Pease, A.A., Taylor, J.M., Winemiller, K.O., King, R.S. 2015. Ecoregional, catchment, and reach-scale environmental factors shape functional-trait structure of stream fish assemblages . Hydrobiologia. 753:265-283. DOI.org/10.1007/s10750-015-2235-z.
Interpretive Summary: Water resource managers need better indicators for tracking health of freshwater ecosystems. Fish can be sensitive to changes in water quality and habitat, and may serve as good indicators of river health. We tested whether an approach that quantifies individual species requirements for whole fish communities was sensitive to changes in stream habitat across three different regions of Central Texas. We found that fish communities representing a wider range of habitat needs occupied streams with higher habitat quality, and within watersheds that have less agriculture and urban development. These results are important because they identify specific fish species traits that respond to stream habitat degradation. Future development of environmental measures based on fish that incorporate specific traits that are sensitive to alteration may provide more sensitive and broadly applicable indicators of river health.
Technical Abstract: Patterns of association between functional traits and environmental gradients can improve understanding of species assemblage structure from local to regional scales, and therefore may be useful for natural resource management. We measured functional traits related to trophic ecology, habitat use, and life-history strategies of fishes and examined their associations with environmental factors in the Brazos and Trinity River basins in Central Texas. We also examined the relationship between functional diversity of fish assemblages and indices of biotic integrity and habitat quality. Environmental characteristics at the local reach and catchment scales including the extent of forested area in the watershed, amount of land developed for urban and agricultural uses, stream size, substrate characteristics, and availability of riffle and pool habitats, were significantly associated with functional trait composition of fish assemblages. Broad physiographic differences between ecoregions also had a large influence on taxonomic and functional assemblage structure. In general, the volume of functional trait-space occupied by fish assemblages was greatest in streams with high habitat quality scores located within landscapes having less alteration from agriculture and urban development. Distributions of functional traits in fish assemblages might provide an additional basis for assessment of stream condition in relation to environmental impacts.


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Choosing a career is perhaps one of the most stressful things that you will ever be called upon or expected to do. For one thing, choosing a career often entails the capacity to weight out the costs, benefits, advantages, and disadvantages of certain career options over others. You can search the internet for as long as you want to that is why you have to find cheap but good internet abonnement voor mobiel connection, but the decision depends on what actually interest you. Then there's the matter of interest. If your interest is in how to build a website, for instance, there are ways of course to turn that into a lucrative career.
What of music, then? Is there a way to secure your niche and position in an industry such as music? Also remember to check reviews of different niches just like how you would check out i amsterdam card reviews to get an honest opinion before you come across it. Here are some steps for you to do so (and no, no one's going to ask you to buy anything using voucher codes or anything like that).
In Music, Remember to Start Early
Ever wondered how Einstein and all those wonderboyrs and wondergirls became what they became? It actually owes a lot to the fact that they began early on in learning and perfecting their craft. And, the same principle applies to music. If you can start early in it, then it would be easier for you as well as your body to get used to the hours upon hours of practice. Moreover, starting early would allow you to absorb as much information, while your mind is still young and open.
Do Well in School
Remember that music still has a formal component and dimension to it. With this, it's important for you to have at least fair grades to show for your good performance and strong sense of committment. If you say you're good in music, but you flunk every single subject you take in college, what's that going to prove about your committment and discipline? It's not much of a message, isn't it?
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Never Underestimate the Value of Correct Practice
Contrary to popular belief, practice doesn't make perfect. Practice makes permanent, and so you're better off making sure first that the practice you're getting is indeed the proper practice. Otherwise, you'll only be rendering permanent something that is incorrect and improper, something that you don't want if you are indeed to be serious in your music career. This is why always do a check glasvezel beschikbaarheid before signing up because a good internet connection can be a big help on learning anything.
Playing in different places is also fun and inspiring. You can enjoy a tour for a quick playing of music. You can also follow these travel tips to Amsterdam Netherlands so you can relish the place more and at the same time practice the piece you've been wanting to perfect.


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Past Events
Dawn's Place Mystery Dinner Theatre
Dawn's Place Mystery Dinner Theatre was a Fun-Filled Success!
Dawn's Place Spring Reception
Our Spring Reception was a great success! Our gratitude to all those who supported us and helped fundraise for Dawn's Place
Dawn's Place two day training
On November 17th and 18th, Dawn's Place hosted a two day training on human trafficking at Philadelphia University. It was a very successful and informative event. We had over 60 attendees from the fields of social work, counseling, law, and others. We are so appreciative to Dr. Rebecca Johnson for improving our understanding of trauma focused treatment modalities in approaching women who have been affected by commercial sexual exploitation.
Dawn's Place Community Art Project!From January through April 2015, Dawn's Place organized a community art project in support of survivors of human trafficking – our sisters, brothers, neighbors and friends.
More people are trafficked into slavery today than ever before in history. There are 27 million modern-day slaves around the world. Billions of dollars are made on human trafficking victims, many of whom are women and girls.
Paint a face. Support survivors of human trafficking.
We invited the public to paint a face of a woman they love and donate it to "The Face of Dawn's Place" community art project. Thirty paintings were displayed on April 11, 2015 in Philadelphia's Love Park with a festive day of music, art and community. A panel of jurors chose one painting that best symbolizes "The Face of Dawn's Place." The selected portrait (seen below) was painted by Jude Harzer. The paintings captured the strength, courage, beauty and diversity of the women of Dawn's Place and were a fitting tribute to survivors of human trafficking, displayed in the heart of downtown Philadelphia.
We thank all the artists who contributed to this project and all the friends of Dawn's Place who attended Community Art Day in Love Park. We send a special thank you to musician Rosa Diaz and henna artist Korinne Diggs for their contributions to the festivities.
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There is no failure, except in no longer trying. – Elbert Hubbard
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there. – Mark Twain
Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been. – Mark Twain
Be yourself. No one can ever tell you you're doing it wrong! – Anonymous
A hug is like a boomerang – you get it back right away. – Bil Keane
The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. – Albert Einstein
A year from now, you will wish you had started today. – Karen Lamb
The True Love Quilting Club by Lori Wilde:
- Quilts are memories made visible.
- Friends are like quilts. You can never have too many.
- Quilts are love made visible.
- Quilters sew the past to the future.
- Quilts are permanent hugs of love.
- Give a woman a quilt and you warm her for the winter. Teach a woman to quilt and you warm her soul for life.
- Quilts are like people. No two are exactly alike.
"In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert's there are few."
– Shunryu Suzuki
"Take the risk! Remember – there are no rules."
"When others compliment you on a painting, just say, "Thank you." I used to tell them everything that was wrong with it, until someone gave me this advice. . . . At first it was hard to get those two words out of my mouth, but I practiced. I did not believe my admirers. My mind was saying, "Surely they don't mean it. They're just being nice." It took many years for my mouth and heart to connect and I really mean it when I say, "Thank you." My heart feels it, too. Say it with pride!"
– Catherine Anderson from her book: Basic Water Color Answer Book
Doesn't that resonate with us quilters? It's a lesson many of us must learn, especially when we first begin.
Christmas Gift Suggestions:
To your enemy, forgiveness.
To an opponenent, tolerance.
To a friend, your heart.
To a customer, service.
To all, charity.
To every child, a good example.
To yourself, respect.
– Oren Arnold (1900-1980; American Writer and Editor)
Hope is the thing with feathers that perches on your soul and sings the tune without words and never stops at all.
– Emily Dickinson
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one.
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A couple of years ago I concluded my review of No Use For A Name's All The Best Songs (reissue) with the plea for a NUFAN b-sides and rarities compilation to be released sometime in the future. This past summer I got my wish with Rarities Vol. I: The Covers. Note the best part of the title: Vol. I – there will be more!!!
The album kicks off with The Vapors' "Turning Japanese" which was recorded for the classic Vagrant Records compilation Before You Were Punk (how great were the nineties for punk compilations?). In fact, die-hard No Use fans will recognize many of these songs already. I had thought I was die-hard, and am ashamed for not knowing more of these tracks ahead of time.
Fat Wreck Chords promoted the album in part by releasing "Hybrid Moments" in the weeks leading up to the release date. No Use's version was met with mild criticism for having slightly different lyrics than the original. This reviewer doesn't care. Tony's imitation of The Misfits' lead singer Glenn Danzig is fantastic, complete with the exaggerated vibrato which was probably intentional, but maybe not.
One of the joys of recording cover songs for a band has to be the opportunity to do things you don't usually get to do. "I've Heard" (Dag Nasty) is a throwback for No Use; even in 1997, when it was recorded, No Use hadn't been a hardcore band in several years. And how about that cheesy synthesizer sound in Depeche Mode's "Enjoy the Silence"?
While punk bands generally relegate cover songs to compilations or ep releases, No Use For A Name didn't shy away from including cover songs on their proper albums. Leche Con Carne, Making Friends, More Betterness, and Hard Rock Bottom contained one unoriginal song each. These four tracks were not included on this Rarities compilation, although a different and earlier version of "Fairytale of New York" is unearthed here.
These thirteen tracks were all recorded by Ryan Greene – who produced most of No Use's best-known material – between 1996 and 2005. "Dream Police" has that over-produced quality found on Keep Them Confused, recorded the same year, but overall the recordings have a pure stripped-down punk rock sound to them, even taking into account the aforementioned synthesizer.
Still, some songs were previously unreleased. For example, No Use was going to release "Don't Cry For Me Argentina" on something until Me First and the Gimme Gimmes put it on their show tunes album, so the No Use version just sat on the shelf until now. Also, "The Munsters' Theme" and their early version of "Fairytale of New York" were unreleased until now (I think).
One of the true highlights is "Badfish", recorded for the Sublime tribute album back in 2006. "Badfish" is a great song, NUFAN's arrangement is excellent, and it features some of Tony's finest singing. Years after it was released, this track has an eerie aura to it. Bradley Nowell of Sublime had been the poster boy for punk/ska geniuses gone too soon; now Tony Sly stands by his side.
The Feel Good Moment of the Album comes at the end. "Beth" shouldn't be new to NUFAN fans as it was the secret track on Making Friends, but on Rarities it is that much more effective. As the Kiss cover song comes to an end on this posthumous No Use For A Name release, the band refuses to stop and instead breaks into the main guitar riff of NUFAN's greatest song "Soulmate" (if this doesn't give you chills, you're dead inside) before the ensemble disintegrates, giving way to a final rendition of "Gene and Paul I Hate You Most of All".
NUFAN fans rejoice – the title implies that there will be at least a second volume. There is also talk of a boxed set, a video documentary, and even a No Use and Friends tour. I want all of this to happen and I want it to happen NOW! But I'll wait, even if I can't wait.
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If you're a gamer, it is likely that a large proportion of your computer's cost is actually your GPU, your graphic card. One of the most powerful systems on your computer, and likely one of the most underused except when you are actually gaming. Even with a cheaper system with an entry-level graphics card, it is usually one of the most powerful parts of the computer.
Graphics cards have, from a while no, supported means for using the power of the graphics card even for non graphical computations.
After all, graphics card / GPU is just a name; what it is really is powerful, highly parallelised processor that is optimized for dealing with streams of data. This also makes it highly useful for accelerating procedures such as encryption.
Imagine then that if the very core of your operating system, the kernel, could use GPU-acceleration? That is exactly the research going on at University of Utah with sponsorship from NVIDIA.
Many application such as media encoders and software such as Adobe Premiere Pro, MATLAB etc. already use these technologies to their advantage. However with such applications there is a reasonable expectation that the user of the software will have a decent graphics card. However, it is hard to get a computer these days that does not have at least some rudimentary graphics card, so it is quite likely that a large number of applications in the future will support hardware acceleration. If graphics card become ubiquitous, having kernel code running on them is likely to become a reality as well.
The University of Utah's "KGPU" project modifies the normal Linux kernel by adding support for accelerating some code using NVIDIA CUDA, which is NVIDIA's own GPU-acceleration solution. Included is an implementation of the AES (encryption) cypher for use in encrypted filesystems. It has managed to "reach a factor of 3x ~ 4x improvement over an optimized CPU implementation (using a GTX 480 GPU)."
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Press Release of Conference Call – David J. Stern, DJSP Enterprises, Inc. Reports Financial Fraud Results for Second Quarter
This just in from their earnings report: "Deed-in-lieu and Mediation services were initiated in the second quarter and contributed a combined $0.7 million to our revenues during the quarter. Revenue from foreclosure services decreased by $1.5 million, or 8.3%, for the quarter to $16.6 million, compared to $18.1 million during the same period last year." … Read more
CLASS ACTION AMENDED against MERSCORP to include Shareholders, DJSP
Via StopForeclosureFraud Kenneth Eric Trent, P.A. of Broward County has amended the Class Action complaint Figueroa v. MERSCORP, Inc. et al filed on July 26, 2010 in the Southern District of Florida. Included in the amended complaint is MERS shareholders HSBC, JPMorgan Chase & Co., Wells Fargo & Company, AIG, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, WAMU, … Read more
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"As a result of defendants' false statements, DJSP's stock traded at artificially inflated prices during the Class Period." ~ Press Release July 28, 2010, 6:55 p.m. EDT The Briscoe Law Firm, PLLC and Cash Powers Taylor, LLP Announce the Investigation of Possible Breaches of Fiduciary Duties Against the Officers and Directors of DJSP Enterprises, Inc. … Read more
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Things You'll Need
Bathtub cleaner
Medium grit sandpaper
Spray stone finish
Polymer resin
Small paint roller
Painter's tape
Disposable cups
Small paint spreader
Refinishing a cultured marble bathtub can take several days to accomplish. Damaged or aged marble can be refinished with a few supplies that can be purchased from most any building supply or craft supply store.
Step 1
Clean the bathtub thoroughly with a sponge. Ensure that all buildup from water and soap residue is removed.
Step 2
Sand the bathtub lightly with a medium grit sandpaper to smooth the marble. The inside of any indentations should be sanded as well.
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Tape along the edges of the bathtub, near the door and at the top of the marble. Any places where the marble meets another surface should be taped.
Step 4
Wipe the bathtub thoroughly again with the sponge to remove all of the dust from sanding.
Step 5
Apply a coat of primer to the bathtub using the small paint roller, following the manufacturer's directions.
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Spray the bathtub with the spray stone finish, following the manufacturer's directions. This finish can be either the same color as your bathtub or you can choose a different color. Begin working at the top of the bathtub and work down toward the bottom, ensuring that an even coat is put on the entire bathtub. Allow the spray stone finish to dry accordingly.
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Follow the manufacturer's directions exactly when dealing with the polymer resin. Using a disposable cup, pour a small amount of polymer resin into the cup and pour it down the wall of the bathtub. Begin at the top and work toward the bottom. When the polymer resin drips, use the paint scraper to push the polymer resin back up. Apply a generous layer to the entire bathtub and then allow it to dry per the manufacturer's directions. Any indentations in the marble will no longer be visible because the polymer resin will fill the damaged area.


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ebb3, experts in network infrastructure performance for 3D graphics, will utilise Citrix® technology to offer new VR technology solutions for designers in the automotive, aerospace, and built environment sectors.
VR has become increasingly popular for designers in recent years thanks to its unique ability to help users visualise the projects they are developing. Additionally, it enables non-technical clients to engage in the design process.
Citrix® technology will be used within the ebb3 Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) system to help create VR solutions with an "on-net capability". This literally untethers VR users from dated physical workstations and enables them to work on designs from a remote location. Currently, VR technology is constrained by "corded" or poor wireless connectivity meaning users are restricted to the environment around them and unable to go out into the field to test their products and models.
ebb3's VDI system, with Citrix® technology, will further improve the data management and transfer process for VR design tools, making it easier for users to access design projects regardless of their location or device, and even enabling multiple users to work on one project at the same time. "Data gravity" – a phenomenon that sees large computer files become impossible to download and transfer – is a serious issue in VR, and can hinder designers from applying the technology to their projects. The VDI solution resolves this challenge and can reduce the time required during the concept design stage by up to 50 per cent.
Speaking about the development, Christian Reilly, CTO at Citrix®, commented: "It is impressive to see how ebb3 is expanding the application of Citrix technology to enhance their solutions for VR users. With ebb3's cloud-based system, VR design is now available to an even broader array of designers, helping to truly free them from their desks."
Mark Vickers, CEO at ebb3, added: "By working with Citrix®, we're looking forward to overcoming the limitations of current VR technology, so we can liberate designers literally and figuratively – not only enabling them to work when and where they want, but giving their imaginations free rein as well.
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The new ebb3 VR solution with Citrix® technology will be launched in mid-2018. The solution will be available exclusively to Dassault Systemes users before being offered to the global market.
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