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Prince Albert, Western Cape
There are two spheres of governance within Prince Albert Municipality: Council, which is political in nature and representative of the people who have elected them; and Administration, which are employed by the Municipality as the executors of decisions taken by Council.
The political leadership in Prince Albert Municipality resides in its Council, which is lead by a Karoo Gemeenskapsparty / Democratic Alliance coalition. Executive Mayor Goliath Lottering is the political head of the Prince Albert council.The administration of the Municipality is headed by Municipal Manager Heinrich Mettler and is responsible for tasks and functions set out in legislation, as well as functions delegated by the Executive Mayor and CouncilLast published 01 September 2016


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Sony constantly tends to surprise us with something new and different, and always succeeds in that. This time, Japanese brand offers a limited edition XPERIA P that is clad in solid 24K gold. If you're wondering how much this device would cost, there is no answer yet! But what is known, Sony is giving at least one of the gold-cased Android phones away via its global Facebook page. They'll be the prizes in a worldwide treasure hunt that starts this week. The company said that not more than 15 devices have been manufactured.
"We're always looking at new ways of working with different materials – during a recent creative session, we were throwing ideas around at what we could do to highlight Xperia P's sleek unibody design and aluminium back cover… And, what better than gold; 24k's worth to be precise," the company said on unveiling its most indulgent handset.
The XPERIA P is a mid-range Android smartphone, sporting a 4-inch touchscreen with a resolution of 540×960 pixels, an 8-megapixel rear-facing camera, and a 1GHz processor. When add 24K gold shell, we'll get truly high end device.

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Organizational leaders everywhere recognize that one of the greatest challenges facing any group is the ability to effectively and efficiently manage it. Whether an organization is a for-profit business, a government entity, or a non-profit, the one thing they all have in common is that they are constantly changing. Senior management must consider a number of factors when developing guidelines around organizational governance including, but not limited to: size, personnel, regulation &oversight, audit requirements, and legal requirements. Being unaware of the impact changes to these factors can cause will inevitably lead to missteps which could jeopardize your organization's short and long term success.
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Zoological Documentation Series
Works of researchers, inventories, and doctoral theses.
Also includes out-of-print books published by the RMCA.
All the texts can be accessed and downloaded freely (open access).
Spider Families of the World (pdf, 32 Mb)
by R. Jocqué & A.S. Dippenaar-Schoeman
Type Specimens of Birds in the Royal Museum for Central Africa, Tervuren (pdf, 2,8 Mb)
by Michel Louette, Danny Meirte, Annelies Louage & Alain Reygel


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The purpose of the course is to review major topics in basic immunology, with emphasis on recent advances and issues that are relevant to the pathogenesis and treatment of immune-mediated diseases. The course is designed for practicing clinicians, trainees, and scientists in biotech.At the conclusion of this course, attendees will be able to:
If you have already registered for the Congress and you would like to register for the Basic Immunology Course, please email the registration department at email@example.com. Course Director: Abul K. Abbas, MD, University of California San Francisco, USA12:30 INTRODUCTION TO THE IMMUNE SYSTEM13:00 INNATE IMMUNITY 13:45 ANTIGEN PRESENTATION AND T CELL ACTIVATION14:30 Break15:00 T CELL SUBSETS, CYTOKINES
Abul K. Abbas received his medical degree in India, completed training in Pathology at Harvard and joined the faculty at Harvard Medical School and the Brigham and Women's Hospital, where he rose to become Professor of Pathology and Head of the Immunology Research Division. In 1999, after twenty years on the Harvard faculty, he moved to the University of California San Francisco as Professor and Chairman of the Department of Pathology. Dr. Abbas has received several honors, including election to the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences, election as a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the Rous-Whipple Award and Robbins Educator Award of the American Society of Investigative Pathology. He has served as one of the founding Editors and Associate Editor of Immunity, Associate Editor and Section Editor for The Journal of Immunology, Associate Editor of Cell, Consulting Editor of The Journal of Clinical Investigation, and founding Editor of the Annual Review of Pathology: Mechanisms of Disease. From 2011-2013, he was the President of the Federation of Clinical Immunology Societies (FOCIS). Dr. Abbas' research interests are in Immunology, with a focus on the control of immune responses and the causes of autoimmunity. His laboratory has used experimental models to analyze the generation and maintenance of regulatory T cells. He has published over 190 peer-reviewed papers and invited reviews, and is the author of four widely read textbooks, two in Immunology and two in Pathology. He has taught Immunology at Harvard Medical School and UCSF, and has organized and conducted Immunology courses worldwide.


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- Manifold Heights (6 months)
- Geelong (5 months)
- St Albans Park (14 months)
- Herne Hill (5 months)
- St Albans Park (7 months)
- North Geelong
Updated because of imminent (sixth) move. Only 4 times I broke my lease …
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Couldn't cope with the lawn-mowings: each house did theirs on a different part of a different weekend day, so there wasn't a single peaceful one. Not to mention the wallpaper in the bedrooms … Oh, I did !
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Dreadful water pressure, and awful modern 'bar' kitchen. Had to walk uphill to get home.
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Loved it. But next-door neighbour (part of her house adjoining mine) started to Renovate. Mostly with hammer drills, and at any hour. My landlord from there – upon whom I dote – tells me she's still doing it !
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Hated the area. Don't even know why; but it had something to do with being pretty close to a cliff face up which came WIND. Or maybe my next-door-neighbour, who walked past my front window about 12 times a day.
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Back where I wanted to be. With a bit of garden. Oh, I said that already … [grin]
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The irresistible opportunity, as per relevant post. There forever.


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FORT WORTH, TX--(Marketwired - Jun 29, 2017) - Greenway Innovative Energy, Inc. (GIE), a wholly owned subsidiary of UMED Holdings, Inc (
For the first time, the company demonstrated the successful conversion of natural gas to synthetic diesel fuel in the lab using its proprietary technology. The company plans to commercialize the technology for deployment in a variety of environments producing synthetic fuels (diesel and jet) and an abundance of water.
Harvesting Stranded Natural Gas
One important application of GIE's technology is in harvesting stranded natural gas. Today, there is an abundance of stranded natural gas located throughout the United States with no practical way to transfer the gas to existing distribution systems for sale. This valuable energy resource sits untapped and unused.
GIE's breakthrough, patented gas-to-liquid system offers a solution to this energy challenge. The company's design allows for scalable plants to be deployed at geographically dispersed locations to convert natural gas into transportable, synthetic fuel that can be sold and used as an energy source.
At today's ribbon cutting, Pat Six, chairman of the board of UMED, to be renamed Greenway Technologies, Inc., the parent company of GIE, introduced the new technology saying "...you are going to see a disruptive technology today that has the potential to be a world-changer. We have the potential for Texas to lead the world in the most economical way of producing diesel and jet fuel."
Investor Conference Call
An Investor Call has been scheduled for 3:00 pm CDT on June 29, 2017, to discuss the status of the G-Reformer and potential next steps for Greenway. The details of the call are below and will be open for any who would like to learn more of Greenways near term plans to commercialize this unique technology.
Call Details: 319-527-2480
Date: Thursday, June 29, 2017
Time: 3:00 pm CDT
Speakers: Pat Six, Chairman and President of UMED, Ray Wright, President of GIE
About Greenway Innovative Energy, Inc.
Greenway Innovative Energy, Inc., located in Fort Worth, TX is a wholly-owned subsidiary of UMED Holdings, Inc. GIE is focused on small and full-scale Gas-to-Liquid (GTL) conversion units intended to take advantage of the abundant supply of natural gas resources throughout the world by way of improved and environmentally conscious technology. The advancement of this technology will enable natural gas producers to achieve stronger financial performance through conversion of natural gas to clean synthetic fuels. The conversion unit will be particularly useful in its application to stranded gas fields or stored gas facilities. Visit http://greenwaygtl.com for more information.
About UMED Holdings, Inc.
UMED Holdings, Inc. is a Fort Worth, Texas-based, global diversified holding company that owns and operates businesses in a variety of industries including energy, oil and gas, aerospace, food and beverage, and mining. Visit http://umedholdings.com to learn more.
UMED Holdings, Inc. Company Name Change
UMED Holdings, Inc. is in the process of a name change from UMED Holdings, Inc. to Greenway Technologies, Inc. When the name change and new stock symbol are approved, a press release will be issued.
Forward Looking Statements
This document contains forward-looking statements and information as that term is defined in the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, and, therefore, is subject to certain risks and uncertainties. There can be no assurance that the actual results, business conditions, business developments, losses and contingencies and local and foreign factors will not differ materially from those suggested in the forward looking statements as a result of various factors, including market conditions, competition, advances in technology and other factors.
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We have a full paper accepted for AGILE 2018, which summarizes the results of our little online experiment about visualizations of uncertainty:
- Carsten Keßler and Enid Lotstein (2018) Animation as a Visual Indicator of Positional Uncertainty in Geographic Information. Full paper accepted for AGILE 2018, Lund, Sweden.
Here's the preprint, and the abstract: Effectively communicating the uncertainty that is inherent in any kind of geographic information remains a challenge. This paper investigates the efficacy of animation as a visual variable to represent positional uncertainty in a web mapping context. More specifically, two different kinds of animation (a 'bouncing' and a 'rubberband' effect) have been compared to two static visual variables (symbol size and transparency), as well as different combinations of those variables in an online experiment with 163 participants. The participants' task was to identify the most and least uncertain point objects in a series of web maps. The results indicate that the use of animation to represent uncertainty imposes a learning step on the participants, which is reflected in longer response times. However, once the participants got used to the animations, they were both more consistent and slightly faster in solving the tasks, especially when the animation was combined with a second visual variable. According to the test results, animation is also particularly well suited to represent positional uncertainty, as more participants interpreted the animated visualizations correctly, compared to the static visualizations using symbol size and transparency. Somewhat contradictory to those results, the participants showed a clear preference for those static visualizations.


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The development of various initiatives and ventures over a period of 20 years. Dedicated to enhance positive and mitigate negative environmental and social impacts while recognising the need for economic viability.
More information will be provided.
Stevia is a sweetener and sugar substitute extracted from the leaves of the plant species Stevia rebaudiana. The leaves of the stevia plant have an intensely sweet taste ( 300x sweeter than normal sugar) . For over 14 years -since 1998- we follow the developments related to the product Stevia closely.
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Basically electrical motor have a phase to phase winding coil around armature to created a magnetic field.To avoid shortage between phase to phase winding,the insulation systems needed.
It consists of the groundwall insulation and turn to turn insulation. Typically for induction motor insulation is the slot of paper to protect between cooper and ground surface.For phase to phase insulation normally used sheet of insulation paper laid between phase.
What is the insulation of electrical motor?
For more protection,normally all winding cover by insulation varnish. The important things is we must know the root cause for insulation failures because we can prevent it from happened.
From discussion and technical study,the most electrical insulation failures are caused by a combination of the voltage spikes that occur at start up and normal deterioration.
Causes of insulation failures.
Normally electrical motor insulation can be effected by many factors.Below are several common factors that effected the insulation failures.
1) Contamination : A chemical reaction or deposit on the windings that cause deterioration of the varnish insulation.
2) Mechanical : Some of movement or vibration between the winding coil or the motor body can wear the insulation system.
3) Over voltage spikes : High voltage surges or spikes can cause from VFD without filter,inrush switching or lighting.
4) Early thermal aging : High temperatures or excessive causing premature failure such as varnish insulation damage or weak.
5) Normal thermal aging : The slow deterioration of the insulation over the windings natural life through normal operation.
6) Moisture : If the environment condition so bad with high humidity and moisture,it can generated water into the winding and can cause the rusty and short-circuit.
7) Dust / dirty : The dust accumulated at winding surface or armature day by day.This can cause a winding slowly overheat and in the end it can cause the winding insulation failed or damage due to high heat.


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The club had its first meeting on the 13th of January 2001, with 10 people in attendance. Since then our numbers have grown, to around 70
Meetings are held at Glendenning Neighbourhood Centre, 48 Golding Drive, Glendenning, New South Wales on the second Thursday of Every Month.
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Connectivity and interoperability are big buzzwords in healthcare IT that everyone agrees is required of any device or software system they adopt. Interoperability is said to help increase efficiency, workflow, improve patient safety and saves money. While the industry is moving toward standardizing formats for how health information is saved, the reality is connectivity is easier said than done given today's level of technology on the market.
The healthcare industry is adopting common formatting protocols for healthcare information, including DICOM for images and HL7 and CCD for data. But, industry experts say there is still a large amount of proprietary coding from various vendors that needs to be overcome.
The future is interoperability
The industry needs to make devices and software systems work together more smoothly based on clearer interoperability standards, said Tim Zoph, vice president, information services, Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago. He said companies with products that can interoperate will survive, and those that cannot will fail.
"The future is interoperability and sharing information," Zoph said. "As end- users we need to demand better from the industry... Dialog between the vendor and provider needs to go both ways so we have open communication."
He said providers using the currently available EMR technology will tell you there are issues with attaining the ultimate goal of interoperability. "I think it will be the second generation that will carry us over the finish line," Zoph said.
Vendor-neutral solutions
Cardiovascular information systems (CVIS) began as proprietary systems, but demand for interoperability has lead to more open architecture in recent years. ProSolv Cardiovascular, now a part of FUJI Medical System USA Inc., offers a vendor-neutral platform that is designed to easily connect with several larger vendors, including GE and Philips. The company did this by using standardized workflows offered by most vendors in combination with structured reporting. ProSolv has also partnered with several companies to allow better integration.
Aaron Waitz, ProSolv's president/CEO, said providers should look for a single system that can accommodate multiple modalities. He said structured reporting in also important because it can be mined for information and shared with other systems easier than freestyle data entry or dictation. He said this will become more important as providers mine information for certification, quality measures and registries.
Waitz said you need equipment that is based on DICOM and HL7 to ensure connectivity. However, he said the industry still has a ways to go before complete integration is possible based on these protocols alone. There are also issues with legacy systems that are not based on these standards.
"We are still trying to get all the data in one place where we can use it," Waitz said.
He said there are very few providers coming to him and asking to connect only their cardiology department to a system. Today, he said, nearly all providers are looking for systems to help them connect enterprise-wide.
McKesson designed its Horizon Cardiology Version 12 to connect disparate systems. Bob Baumgartner, BSN, MBA, director of product marketing, medical image group, McKesson, said it is important to have a common, enterprise-wide infrastructure, but workflows are very different and specific to each department, which requires different software applications. He said some information in each system needs to be shared, but not everything. He said McKesson's system will query each department's database to get specific information. He said the radiology department may need patient information from a CVIS to conduct an imaging study, but they don't need the patient's entire cardiac history or archived ECGs.
Cardiologists trained for years to become doctors, not to do data entry, Baumgartner said. Hospitals want their doctors caring for more patients instead of spending time in front of computers. Whatever systems hospitals adopt should include workflows to increase efficiency, such as automatic flow of data into report fields, structured reporting instead of dictation and transcription and easier access to information from various devices or imaging modalities.
"I believe our systems can help save cardiologists an hour a day," Baumgartner said.
GE's Centricity Enterprise is marketed as user-friendly with other vendor's systems and offers a Web-portal to allow easy access from anywhere to appointments, billing and health history information.
"Going with one system is easier to solve all your problems, but many hospitals want the best-of-breed products," said Eunice Lin, GE Healthcare's director of commercial marketing for imaging solutions. "As much as we want to sell GE Centricity to every customer, we realize it's not realistic, because they want different devices or have legacy systems."
Single vendor solutions are most seamless
You can easily interface with HL7, "but it does not get you very much," said Tom Miller, CEO of the workflow and solutions division, Siemens Healthcare. He said most open architecture software only pulls information from another system, and for interoperability you need to both push and pull information. He said basic interfaces will only allow basic information to be pulled, and vendor-specific system features cannot be opened by the other systems.
"Information should be pulled where each piece of information is populated, at each step of the procedure, so that information can help populate the information needed for the next step of the procedure," Miller said.
This type of interface works well in single-vendor systems, such as those made by Siemens or GE Healthcare, where all equipment and software is designed to interface. Miller said lab results should be able to help determine what other tests and imaging is needed. Information from the imaging and diagnostic systems should help populate the next step of the clinical records, such as a patient going in for surgery or an interventional procedure. These systems should also feed information into inventory and billing systems. He said that is what a single-vendor system can offer without major interface problems.
Miller said every time a piece of software is updated it can cause connectivity issues in a patchwork of disparate systems. However, in a single-vendor system these problems have already been tested with the rest of the vendor's software and devices to ensure compatibility.
If you want 100 percent interoperability with any system or device a hospital purchases, it can't be done, he says, due to variables between manufacturers' coding, and constant software, hardware and new medical device upgrades.
"We don't have a solution for disparate systems that are all over the place," Miller said. "You are not going to get connectivity out of the box unless you chose a system as homogeneous as possible,"
Denver Health began adopting Siemens' Soarian EMR system in 2007 and has found issues with integrating disparate software and devices. While it only took eight months to go on line with Soarian, the system is not expected to be a fully interoperable, paperless EMR system until 2011. Gregory Veltri, CIO of Denver Health e-health services, said the system cares for about 160,000 patients a year, which is roughly one out of every four in the Denver area. For this reason Veltri said the system wanted to be able to mine patient information quickly from any of its hospitals or clinics.
Today, in a seven-minute call with a patient, a clinician can gather all the information they need from the EMR system. "Our PACS allows us to transfer images to 13 different medical facilities," Veltri added. However, he said there have been some bumps.
Denver Health uses Siemens' integration engines to help connect its devices and systems together into one EMR. Most of this is being done by connecting common aspects of these systems using DICOM, HL7 or CCD.
"If you go with a best-of-breed vendor that uses HL7, it's only a minimal level of integration," Veltri said. But, he points out you will loose some of the information if you rely only on HL7 interfaces. "You don't get all the bells and whistles as you do with a vendor-specific system."
Creating enterprise-wide PACS
Picture archiving and communication system (PACS) are used by multiple departments and need to maintain connectivity with the whole enterprise, not just radiology. However, many PACS evolved as independent, disconnected silos of information. The same lack of connectivity is true of some cardiology PACS, sometimes called cardiology image and information management systems (CIIMS). Many PACS and CIIMS require a vendor-specific workstation.
There are three strategies to connect separated silos of information: use a single vendor's enterprise-wide system; use another layer of software to enable free exchange of information; or use a Web-based system where information can be accessed without vendor-specific software or workstations.
"Putting all your images in a box is not good enough, because they are not accessible outside your PACS system," said Lenny Reznik, director, enterprise imaging and information solutions, Agfa Healthcare. "You want to take this archive out of the PACS so you can access the information by other systems."
Agfa recently introduced its IMPAX Data Center, a vendor-neutral, enterprise-wide, DICOM-based archiving system for video, images and waveforms. Reznik said it is especially useful for providers who use a data management EMR like Epic, which does not have a PACS.
A big issue for cardiologists is being forced to use multiple workstation platforms with unconnected silos of information for each modality. "Most physicians don't want to have to learn 25 different viewer systems, they want to use one viewer to look at all their images," Reznik said.
Vendor-neutral solutions, such as IMPAX and McKesson's Horizon Cardiology Version 12, are designed with a single platform to support all imaging modalities. Reznik said enterprise-wide PACS could save money just by eliminating the need to maintain numerous modality-specific storage systems and workstations.
"Customers demand interoperability and the reality is they use disparate vendors," said Miriam Ladin, Agfa's director of marketing communications in North America. "They should have the ability to use any tool they want."
DICOM does not guarantee interoperability
For the past few years PACS and imaging device vendors have standardized on the use of DICOM formatting to saving images, but Reznik said each vendor's implementation of DICOM is a little different so interoperability sometimes is an issue.
Lin said GE designs its systems to allow greater connectivity. "GE can give you an advantage with better integration faster," Lin said. She said a common problem is annotating DICOM images and then losing those annotations when the images are shared with a different vendor's system.
Issues also arise when DICOM images are converted into 3D, using advanced visualization software. Baumgartner said 3D images do not have a DICOM standard, so they are only saved in a proprietary format.
"(With DICOM) you can keep 80 percent of the image, but you may lose the proprietary fields," Lin said. <
Feature | May 19, 2009| Dave Fornell
Interoperability Challenges in the Cardiology Department
Cardiology departments, hospitals face challenges in achieving true interoperability.


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Megan Fox: I'm More in Love with Brian Austin Green Than Ever
The stars are "even more committed to each other," she says
She just got engaged – again – but Megan Fox says nothing is really different the second time around.
"We're just even more committed to each other than we always have been," the actress, 24, told PEOPLE about fiancé Brian Austin Green, 36, at the premiere of her new film, Jonah Hex, Thursday in Hollywood. "I'm more in love with him now than I was in the beginning."
But the couple's latest news in their six-year relationship, which included a November 2006 engagement that was later called off, shouldn't come as a complete shocker, she says.
"It's really not a re-engagement," she explains. "It's just the same engagement and for some reason now it's a news story."


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Creatures of the Galaxy features a variety of exotic animals from all around the world that can be found throughout the cosmos in Constellations. Get up close and personal with these amazing creatures.
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Home Tips: Repainting Stucco
From the Experts at Sherwin-Williams: Tips for homeowners on re-painting stucco
Q: The stucco on my home's exterior looks faded. What can I do to make it look new again?
A: Stucco, like many surfaces, can fade - especially when it's exposed to direct sunlight. But, making it look new again is easy. Quality paint can revive the look of your stucco, giving your home a fresh, new appearance.
Q: What if I want to completely change the color of my stucco?
A: No problem. Just like any surface (for example, wood siding), stucco can be repainted to suit your color preferences. If you want to achieve a darker shade than your original stucco color, and the surface is in good shape, quality paint can probably provide the coverage you need in one coat. Painting a lighter shade over a darker tone may require two coats. When selecting a new color, don't forget to coordinate with other exterior colors on your home such as shingles and trim.
Q: There are so many exterior paint products on the market. How do I know which one will be the best for stucco?
A: Most exterior paint products are formulated for application on a variety of surfaces, from wood siding to brick and stucco. The knowledgeable sales people at Sherwin-Williams can tell you about products like Duration® Exterior Coating, and SuperPaint® Exterior Latex Paint. Just tell them a little about your home's exterior and your goals, and they'll help you select the coating that will best suit your needs.
Q: Which are better, latex- or alkyd-based products?
A: Acrylic latex products perform the best on stucco. Most do-it-yourselfers find that latex products are easiest to use because they are easy to apply and they clean up with soap and water Acrylic latex paints also offer good gloss and color retention as well as good coverage that dries fast.
Q: Do I need a primer?
A: If the surface of your stucco is in good shape with no exposed substrate, possibly not. However, if you need to make a lot of repairs, using a primer will make your finish coat look great and provide the beautiful, long-lasting results you expect. Ask the experts at Sherwin-Williams to help you pick the right product for the job.
Q: What else do I need to do to get started?
A: Once you've selected your coating, make sure you have the products you need to make minor repairs or fix cracks. Sherwin-Williams' ConSeal Elastomeric Sealant or ConSeal Smooth & Textured Elastomeric Patches are excellent for repairing hairline cracks in stucco. The elastomeric properties of the coating keep it flexible to minimize the chance that cracks will reappear. After you've made your repairs, make sure the surface is clean and dry before you prime or paint.


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Ryan Seacrest Sought to Replace Matt Lauer
NBCUniversal is pursuing "American Idol" host Ryan Seacrest as a possible successor to Matt Lauer on the "Today" show, if Mr. Lauer vacates his co-anchor seat next year. Sam Schechner reports on Markets Hub.
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Board of Deputies of British Jews calls for foreign secretary to 'urgently' intervene in Jeremiah Duggan case
PUBLISHED: 13:13 28 May 2015 | UPDATED: 13:45 28 May 2015
The Board of Deputies of British Jews has called on foreign secretary Philip Hammond to intervene as a "matter of urgency" to ensure a new independent investigation into Jeremiah Duggan's death in Germany.
"We call on the foreign secretary to raise this case immediately at the highest levels"
The board criticised the "failure of the authorities" to deal with the Jewish student's death in Wiesbaden in 2003 with the "thoroughness that such a serious incident deserves" and said that "serious questions remain to be answered".
It comes as Jeremiah's mother Erica Duggan called on British police to step in and work with the German authorities in a bid to find answers.
A British coroner ruled last week the 22-year-old's death was not suicide following a new UK inquest, overturning the official findings of the authorities in Wiesbaden following his death.
Jeremiah, from Golders Green, had been attending a youth conference at the Schiller Institute in Wiesbaden, the think-tank of anti-Semitic far-right wing organisation LaRouche, in the days before he died.
The German high court ordered prosecutors to reopen the case in 2012 but Jeremiah's family have no confidence in the new investigation which is being handled by the same police officer who carried out the original police reports.
Jonathan Arkush, president-elect of the Board of Deputies, said: "In light of this latest inquest we call on the foreign secretary to raise this case immediately at the highest levels with the Germany authorities and to ensure that a full and proper independent investigation is launched as a matter of urgency into the incident itself, the behaviour of the Schiller Institute and the failure of the authorities to address Mr Duggan's death with the thoroughness that such a serious incident deserves."
The German investigation
The family of Jeremiah Duggan have been fighting for 12 years for the German authorities to reopen the investigation into his death.
They won a victory in December 2012 when the German Higher Court ruled the Wiesbaden authorities' investigation was flawed and ordered a new inquiry, which has only happened three or four times in German legal history.
The family have no confidence in this investigation as it is overseen by the policeman who ran the original inquiry.
The family's German lawyer Serdar Kaya said: "After Jerry died there was something like an investigation, there was a report from a policeman and the conclusion that Jeremiah committed suicide. Then after three months, and 73-pages, they closed the case. Our client is still fighting against this decision."
The Institute of Race Relations said there had been a "manifest failure" by the German authorities to support the Duggan family.
Director Liz Fekete said: "Why is it that an organisation like LaRouche was not considered an organisation that you would be concerned and worried by. That inability to take the family's concerns about LaRouche seriously is equivalent to a downplaying of anti-Semitism and therefore an aspect of institutionalised racism."
Ms Duggan called on the British police "to do what they should have done ages ago and present to German police the evidence that Jeremiah's death was not suicide and to find out what led to his death".
"I will not be giving up trying to get justice for Jeremiah and I will be exploring other ways to do it," she said. "I would like to feel that Jeremiah's legacy would be to raise awareness of the dangers and threats of extremist groups."
A foreign and commonwealth office spokesman said: "We are in contact with the German authorities on this case at a senior level. We will continue to raise Jeremiah's case where appropriate."
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Interim dean Erasmus University College appointed
In consultation with the Executive Board, Dean Professor Victor Bekkers from Erasmus School of Social and Behavioural Sciences (ESSB) has appointed Professor Wim Hafkamp as interim dean of Erasmus University College (EUC) as of 1 September 2018. He succeeds the current dean, Professor Maarten Frens. Professor Hafkamp has been appointed for a period of one and a half years. Maarten Frens will continue to be associated with the EUC as Educational Director until 2018, where he will complete the accreditation process of the Liberal Arts and Sciences programme.
Together with the Executive Board, the dean of ESSB has decided to appoint an interim dean because they have not yet been able to find a successor for Maarten Frens. A temporary solution has been found in the appointment of Professor Wim Hafkamp.
Wim Hafkamp is Professor of Environmental Science at ESSB. As former dean of ESSB, he has substantial managerial experience within Erasmus University. He has also held various academic managerial positions outside the university. After the EUC's flying start, his task is to formulate a future vision for the further development of the EUC.
The dean of ESSB and the Executive Board greatly appreciate the hard work that Maarten Frens has done over the past five years. Maarten Frens was one of the founders of the EUC and together with his team, created a lively and successful University College in the heart of Rotterdam in the course of five years. EUC has rapidly established itself as one of the best University Colleges in the Netherlands. In 2017 and 2018, EUC emerged as a Top Rated Programme in the ranking of the Higher Education Guide. Furthermore, an innovative curriculum was developed in which students are closely involved in the issues currently facing the city.
About Professor Wim Hafkamp
Professor Hafkamp is an environmental economist and has been Professor of Environmental Science at ESSB since 1994. He started as scientific director of Erasmus Center for Management and Sustainable Development, after which he was dean of ESSB for four years, starting in 2001. After his position as dean, he became scientific director of Knowledge Centre NICIS (Netherlands Institute for City Innovation Studies)and the knowledge centre VerDus (Connecting Sustainable Cities), an initiative of NWO, Platform31 and various ministries.
He is also scientific director of the Erasmus Off-campus PhD programme Cleaner Production, Industrial Ecology & Sustainable Development of the Department of Public Administration and Sociology.
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It's All On the Inside
I'm ramping up.
Fortunately, the only person who can tell is me. I still sit at the computer throughout much of the day, I don't talk any faster than usual, and I haven't been spending large amounts of money (well, I've been spending a little too much, but it's for fun things like items for the trip and eating out). My room needs to be cleaned and there's laundry to be done. But inside my head, there is boundless energy and my thoughts race constantly, making it difficult to go to sleep at night or concentrate on writing during the day. I feel like I could jog all the way to Texas and back…it's my body that says "Nope".
This is what a friend of mine calls "medicated mania", and it's totally normal for me at this time of the year. (Which is why I'm not worried about it—it almost always resolves on its own.) Early fall is optimistic; the leaves are turning to red and orange and yellow; there are Halloween decorations in the stores; days are still golden with sun and blue skies but there's a nip in the morning air that wasn't there a week ago. I notice the sharp decrease in the angle of the light, but it only makes me want to nest instead of causing me to feel depressed. I haven't even started light therapy yet, even though it's been cloudy and rainy for the past couple of days and this usually plunges me into a funk immediately.
Not that I'll be shocked if/when my SAD does kick in, of course. That's almost inevitable in the late fall and winter months. Thank God my family and I have a wonderful trip coming up in the middle of December. We have been waiting for it since August of last year, and now it's only 84 days till the start of our vacation. Time is passing very quickly; it seems to me that the last four months of a given year go by as if it were four weeks. We can hardly wait!
Then there's the fact that my second wedding anniversary without Will is coming up in a week. I am NOT looking forward to it, for obvious reasons. But this year, I'm remembering the good things…how exciting it was to be his bride, anticipating our wedding and being so in love it almost hurt. We were married in a public park, but I wore the traditional white dress and veil, and he wore a blue tuxedo (well, it was the beginning of the '80s, what can I say?). Our minister was a good friend of ours who had a mail-order divinity degree and whom we paid in marijuana for performing the ceremony. The cake was homemade and looked it, we had people visiting the park who crashed the wedding, and even the tape recording our vows got tangled up in the middle of it and we lost the whole thing.
And it was the best. wedding. ever.
These are the good times I'm remembering now, instead of the sadness of the last few months of Will's life and the brutality of his final hours. I've come to terms with the fact that he is gone and I've stopped looking for him around every corner. I still hate it that he isn't here to celebrate our 37th anniversary. But I've come to accept it, and for my own peace of mind it's better that way.
So here I am, with my mind saying GO while the body says NO. It's OK though. What the heck, I'm enjoying life, and I know he would want that.
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What a broad spectrum of feelings & thoughts you shared! Despite the "medicated mania" & impending SAD, it sounds like you've gotthings figured out. I too have been noticing the angle of the sun (& today is the autumnal equinox!), but haven't broken out the light box yet, either. Right now, it seems you have an answer to every problem bipolar disorder might throw at you…that's a VERY healthy sign.


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What role do feelings– especially sickening ones– have in the workplace? So often, workers do not have access to all their employers' data about pay scale. Therefore, workers are left to try to deduce whether or not they are being discriminated against. Recruiters may want to think about what kind of perceptions may be subtly influencing their work with a company.
A new study from CareerBuilder paid attention to the persistent feelings of female workers. Although these interviewed employees did not always have access to all the facts, many strongly suspected that their male counterparts received significantly more money and respect than they did.
According to the study, thirty-eight percent of female workers said they feel they are paid less than male counterparts with the same skills and experience, up from 34 percent in 2008 when the survey was last conducted, and up from 31 percent in 2003.
Also, the nagging feeling of injustice is not limited to paychecks. An even greater number of women think that men have more career advancement opportunities within their organizations. Women were also likely to feel like men were more frequently recognized for their achievements. A little praise and gratitude can go a long way, but apparently, women are expected to continue along without the same amount of recognition.
Women suspected that among the reasons men were more likely to receive better positions was because men sought after bonding with management. According to CareerBuilder's press release, one-third of women attributed the disparity in pay and career advancement to the fact that they don't rub elbows or schmooze with management as much as men.


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The Magellan spacecraft, which arrived at Venus in 1990, made the first global map of the surface of Venus as well as global maps of the planet's gravity field. The mission produced surprising findings about Venus, including a relatively young planetary surface possibly formed by lava flows from planet-wide volcanic eruptions.
In October 1994, the Magellan spacecraft intentionally plunged to the surface of Venus to gather data on the planet's atmosphere before it ceased operations. It marked the first time an operating plantary spacecraft had been intentionally crashed.
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The 1D star partied after playing a gig in the city
Harry Styles has denied that he was carried out of a club in Newcastle this week because he was too drunk to stand.
Several revellers at nightspot Perdu wrote on Twitter that the One Direction singer, 19, had been 'mortal' but Harry's spokesman insists this is rubbish.
'@Harry_Styles not surprised you were #mortal last night #cutmyarm #bestnight,' Tweeted one clubber.
Another wrote: '@Harry_Styles you may have been carried out of Perdu tonight but I still love you x.'
Harry – who'd been in Newcastle on 1D's Take Me Home tour – took support act 5 Seconds Of Summer out with him and reportedly met up with glamour girl Chelsea Ferguson.
One barman described him as a 'top lad' and Harry was happy to pose for a photo with promoter Jermaine Hudspith.
Jermaine told his Twitter followers yesterday that reporters had been trying to get him to 'grass up' the curly-haired heartthrob and this morning wrote a post in support of Harry.
'Despite what is in the papers, Harry Styles was NOT carried out of any club on Wednesday night, he enjoyed his night and left completely fine!' Tweeted Jermaine.
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Wedding is a new page of the couple's life book. Everything changes on that day. Despite the lovers have known each other for a long time, there is still something new and special for them on such day.
These two, such a lovely couple, are getting married today. They've asked all their friends and family to celebrate this big event with them. As the guests are sipping their drinks, the bride and the groom are dancing and holding each other's hands. What a lovely moment! The photographer managed to capture this amazing atmosphere of happiness. Everything looks so perfect today. Congratulations for this couple!


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We love Las Vegas but maybe not for the obvious reasons. Our favorite part of Vegas lies just outside of the city. Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area is a climbing paradise. It's also a great place to bring your kid! We found an area of Red Rocks where our 2 year old (at the time) had a blast climbing and swinging. Continue reading to find out where it is and to see how much fun it was.
The climb is called Drilling Miss Daisy (sorry- not such a kid friendly name). The part for children is at the base. It's an 11a so you have to be able to climb the 11a to set up the swing and the climb below for the kids. It's a fun area to hang out and play for a couple hours.


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I'm still all limbo-y about the season. One moment dancedancedance oh god it's over! One moment wow, that was over a year of my life, and it's over. No project responsibilities hanging over my head is wonderful and weird (and my brain still doesn't really track the concept - I'm still antsy even though there's nothing to be antsy about); no new episode to look forward to is disconcerting and weird. (And if I'm feeling this, it's got to be only a 10th of the level of what flaming_muse, justhuman, and thebratqueen are experiencing, given the levels of constant organizational insanity they've been working at.)
I'm really, really impressed with the project, though, and everyone who contributed to it. I'm not talking about the literary quality of the season itself -- I am impressed with that, but dude, involved in the thing, obviously extremely biased -- but the fact that we all worked together to get this thing completed, and we did complete it. Didn't lose interest, didn't fall apart due to external or internal anything, didn't let it fade away and die and whistle whenever anybody brought it up. (*looks around at own list of stalled WIPs and dropped RPGs; whistles*)
We survived fannish drift, falls down staircases, car accidents, colds from hell, marriages, moves,
We had writers, editors, vidders, graphic and web designers, researchers for both canon and real-world info - - even a location-scout in magelette, all working together. We had readers who kept us going just by being interested and enthusiastic and not killing us for long hiatuses or the times when our other writing projects took a back-seat to the virtual season. We had friends and family members who also didn't kill us when we whined and screamed and talked out plots with them and then complained that it wouldn't work and OMG I hate everything and everyone and I want ice cream Right Now. *waves to maeyan*
And it's done. Whatever else happens in that universe, we made a whole season of fake TV.
In conclusion... uh. I love you guys? Also, muffins.
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In fact, should I rate a tombstone, I'd be all right with that. I got a rejection today that at first glance was just another impersonal note stuffed in the return envelope. I almost didn't read the text of the note; I've seen it before. This rejection was different, however, for two reasons. First, the text of the note actually was different: it said in part, "… your work shows a great deal of promise, and we'd very much like to see more from you." They don't have to ask me twice. Second, and even better(ish) was the personal message scratched at the bottom in handwriting worse than mine. The message read, "Some nice writing, but too much was left unexplained."
Too much left unexplained. I'm trying to explain more now, really.
The reviews of "Memory of a Thing that Never Was" were generally good. There were a couple of professional critics that really liked it, and a bunch of armchair critics who thought it was pretty good. On the other hand, there was a minority of folks who said "I didn't get it. What happened?" This issue of the magazine had been promoted to the blogosphere, promising free copies in exchange for honest reviews. That would seem like an open invitation to the nutjobs, but I read many reviews and most of these folk stepped up with fair and well-reasoned criticism. Those who rose to the challenge really were passionate about the genre, and ready to help it grow. So, when they ask "What happened?" it's worth remembering that they are avid readers and champions of the genre.
Too much left unexplained. Some of my good friends here have said the same thing. (It takes a good friend to say something like that — caring enough to risk giving offense and trusting enough to know that the criticism will be taken constructively.) Graybeard, when he read "Memory", thought for a bit and said, "this should be 600 pages." From Graybeard, a brutally honest individual, that was for me a great compliment. "Memory" hints at a lot of other things that would take pages and pages to explain, but wouldn't enhance the short story.
A lot of my stories have holes in them. It seems I'm not writing the holes well enough. Sometimes when I write a short story I'm trying to create a single instant, a moment in a person's life. A mood. These are my favorite ones and the ones that are the most difficult to write. I worked at a pace of about a paragraph per hour on the rejected story's opening. The time was well-spent, I think, as the Rejecting Authority appears to have enjoyed the prose. Often I write background bits that I subsequently delete because I see them as distractions. Unfortunately many people find the lack of background to be distracting. If I were to add that stuff, however, it would change the nature of the story.
Thinking about it, I write plenty of stories in which everything is explained. Some of them I even like. (My hard drive is a graveyard of stories written that will never see the light of day, unless I decide to hire some poor slob to find the ones I dropped only because I was in the wrong mood when I reviewed them a week after writing). But my favorites are the very short, very dense stories that are more like a painting than a movie; a single frame in a longer narrative.
Tonight I looked at the rejected story with some frustration. I really thought I was hammering on the important parts, almost embarrassingly so. There is much unknown, but no one in the story knows the answers. They even say as much. The story is about a moment of awakening, but one that has happened many times before. So what can I clarify? The mountains are forbidden. Why? I don't know. Nobody in the story knows. Why is not important; what matters is that they all believe it enough to kill a friend rather than let him get there. In a novel or even a novella I would explore those questions, but there's not time for that now.
Obviously I have some work cut out for me as a short story writer, but at the same time I can't help but think that there is a readership that likes to fill in the blanks. I am more appreciative than ever of the people at Fantasy and Science Fiction for having faith in their readers to put a more difficult story in their pages.
I joked tonight that perhaps I should write my stories in czech because the last thing they want here is an answer. Of course that's silly; I'm blaming the audience (or actually in this case, a single underpaid slush-pile reader) for failing to understand me when it is my job to be understood.
Too much left unexplained. Isn't that just like life.


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Anyone can have a successful home business if organized properly from the beginning. Many people have found that it is not as easy as it sounds because they did not do their research into the pros and cons before starting their business. If you or your family members become ill, the work still has to go on; or at the end of the week, there is no money to pay the bills.Credit: © TPhotos
This is where time management is very important. Without good organisation it could fail. Every business needs to put plans in place; your intended business is no different. Time is money; therefore, before starting, be honest with friends and family and say that in future the weekends is the best time to catch up with you from now on. Do not fall into the trap of being nice to your friends in fear of offending them; your business comes first.
Benefits of working from home
- No travel time
- Less fuel expenses
- Wear neat casual clothes saving you money on clothing
- Work your own hours.
The disadvantages of working from home:
- Being Organized
- Illness in the family
- Juggling home and family is not easy
- Interruptions from friends
- Organizing school and home
- No work no money
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Know your priorities
Prioritize your workload - Keep an organizer on your desk and list the most important tasks first. Then add the lesser ones. Include time for calling suppliers or placing orders, billing, paying accounts, banking and unexpected visits from clients. Allow time for promotion of products and sales.
Most importantly allow at least ten minutes every hour to get up from your desk and walk about. This will not only keep the brain more alert, it will recharge you for the more difficult tasks ahead.
Plan for tomorrow
Before you finish for the day, make a to-do list for tomorrow. Remember to prioritize the tasks in order of importance. That way you can relax knowing you have organized everything in readiness for tomorrow.
Time spent away from office
All businesses need time away from the office whether it be purchasing equipment or delivering orders. Take your mobile phone with you to prevent missing important business calls. You need your business organizer with you to confirm appointments if someone should ring and avoid double booking an appointment.
Allow time for family before work
Manage time with the family before they leave for work and school. Never neglect your family, as they need your love and attention too. It is very important to keep work at home and family separate.
Telephone Skills
Treat your clients in the manner you would like to be treated. Be courteous, considerate and respect them at all times. Never keep people waiting longer than necessary, offer to call them back if there is a problem.
Internet and email
Home businesses with internet and email can save you time and money. Ordering is easier these days with the push of a button web pages and emails. No more snail mail. Paying accounts is easier with internet banking, or if you prefer, use the more secure PayPal.
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Working from home has its own problems. Learn to delegate household chores. You may need to employ a housekeeper to do the washing and ironing or prepare meals, which is a tax deduction. By employing home help, you have more time to spend with your family.
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- Time - Understand where you waste time, and fix it. Time wasted is money lost.
- Private Phone calls – If you have staff , discourage private phone calls.
- Set goals - Improve product sales, offer better services than your opposition, like pick up or personal delivery, this will depend on your type of business. Have magnetic business cards, Many people put them on the fridge.
- Improve your filing system - Keep things in set folders for incoming and outgoing products on computer or filing cabinet.
- Remove clutter – keep things in their proper place, one invoice mislaid will reduce your profits. Accounts and papers spread all over the desk could be lost. File everything in its proper place.
- Designate - an allotted time for different jobs
- Children - will not understand why they cannot run in and out the office expecting to get your attention. At the same time, clients do not want to hear children crying or fighting in the background while conducting business.
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Time management skills will keep your home business running smoother. Yes, it is harder to organize because you are in a home environment. Although by following some of these ideas not only will your business be more efficient, you will have more time for your family and save money in the process.
It is this learning process of time-management, which will make a big difference whether you succeed or fail in your new venture.


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Lawyers described the ruling by leading judges today on equal pay compensation claims by women who worked at the local authority as "historic", which would have "huge implications.
In a statement, law firm Leigh Day & Co said the judgment "effectively extends the time limit for equal pay claims from six months to six years, the biggest change to Equal Pay legislation since it was introduced in 1970, with huge implications for thousands of workers".
The case centres on whether claims for equal pay are allowed to go through civil courts, rather than employment tribunals. At present, workers are only allowed to use tribunals and make the claim within six months of leaving their jobs. If they are able to use civil courts, they can bring a claim dating back six years.
Solicitors say the Supreme Court judgment is a "landmark" and the most "radical reform" since equal pay legislation was introduced in 1970.
The Supreme Court decision – which was announced at a hearing in London – follows rulings in the High Court and the Court of Appeal.
In November, the Court of Appeal said scores of cooks, cleaners, catering and care staff previously employed by Birmingham City Council were entitled to launch pay equality compensation claims in the High Court.
The city council challenged that decision in the Supreme Court – the highest court in the UK – and will on Wednesday learn whether its appeal has succeeded.
Leigh Day, which represents women trying to launch compensation claims, said today's Supreme Court decision could affect "thousands of potential claimants".
Before the ruling, a spokesman said: "The Supreme Court will give a landmark judgment ... which could represent the most radical reform to Equal Pay since the original legislation was introduced in 1970 and will have huge implications for thousands of workers."
"If the council is unsuccessful and the Supreme Court were to uphold the decision of the Court of Appeal, it would make it possible for thousands of workers to bring claims against their employers outside of the current time limitation period of six months in the Employment Tribunal."
Under the case, judges heard that more than 170 women were among female workers denied bonuses similar to those handed out to employees in traditionally male-dominated jobs such as refuse collectors, street cleaners, road workers and grave diggers.
The court was told that, in 2007 and 2008, tens of thousands of pounds were paid to female council employees to compensate them. More payments had also been made women who took cases to an employment tribunal.
But only workers still employed or who had recently left were eligible to make claims in a tribunal. Those who had left earlier were caught by a six-month deadline for launching claims.
To get around the deadline, 174 women had started actions for damages in the High Court, which has a six-year deadline for launching claims.
The city council had attempted to have those claims struck out, arguing that under equal pay legislation such claims could only be entertained by an employment tribunal.
Leigh Day said the council had lost in the High Court and the Court of Appeal. Lawyers said they were disappointed that leaders chose to appeal to the Supreme Court rather than negotiate.
Earlier this year, company bosses who lose an employment tribunal claim over equal pay must review the wages of all staff by conducting pay audits, the Government said.
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This day was supposedly National Chocolate Covered Nut Day and National Clam Chowder Day
Although I am partial to the formal and disgusted by the latter, I skipped right over both when one of my fellow dog obsessed and holiday practitioner Instagram friends showcased their celebration of Open That Bottle Night.
This pug based Instagram account is based out of Australia, so they are a day ahead of me. I get the scoop on alternative holiday ideas well in advance to change course when our 'western' options are lame or horrifying (*cough* clam chowder*)
I decided to Open that Bottle in the Day, rather, and have a glass of wine before my bartending shift to take the edge off of running around like crazy person dealing with drunks all night long. It didn't quite have the desired effect however, it made me want to put on pyjamas and hold Duncan with my eyes closed.
Drinking one glass of wine, by yourself, before you go to work was actually a pretty morose experience and one I shan't be repeating. Chalk this up to another example of 'celebrating' being worse for the soul than doing nothing.
Just look at Duncan judging me! This from the guy that ate a whole bag of dog food and swelled up like a sphere when left unattended during my shift. Glass houses Duncan, Glass houses…


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The new Secretary of State for Immigration is Stavros Dalek. He brings a wealth of interplanetary travel and exterminating undesirables to the cabinet table, although it is understood that the Prime Minister has requested that Mr Dalek might want to be a little less enthusiastic with his death ray.
The late Mary Whitehouse has been drafted into the cabinet as Secretary of State for Entertainment. On hearing the news, she immediately headed off to protest about the film version of William Golding's "Lord of the Flies", because she felt teenage girls of an impressionable age might think it had somethng to do with the way the members of pop group "One Direction" wear their trousers.
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ORLANDO, Fla. — So far in free agency, the Pacers have agreed to terms with one player, veteran big man Al Jefferson. He cannot make it official by signing this new three-year, $30 million deal until after the NBA moratorium on July 7th.
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Abigail Adams to John Adams, 19 February 1797
Abigail Adams to John Adams
Quincy Feb'ry 19th 1797
my Dearest Friend
It was not till last Evening that I received Your Letters of Febry 2d 4 & 7th. the post did not get in which was Due on twesday till Saturday. I do not know how to pass a week without hearing from You. I received newspapers to the Tenth. in those I have an account of the Declaration.1 it was a Solemn Scene to You, and an affecting one. You will find by my Letter of the 8th that I was with You.
I have not taken any steps as Yet preparitory to quitting home. I must tell you a little of Farrming if you cannot give me any directions. Billings has tried various kind of work Since the Weather became milder. he workd two Days on the Wall before the House. he then attempted to break up a peice of ground upon the Hill where you directed this he has accomplishd and carted on the manure. he has since been Sleding Stones, for we had an other Snow which lasted for a few Days and assisted us in that Buisness tho it obstructed other. Veseys time expires this week, and buisness will soon press hard, so that I must have a hand immediatly and two in April if Billings goes on with his Walls. French is inclined to Stay, but wants some further indulgences, such as a little wood, and the use of the cattle wholy to himself except when calld to work upon this place, by which means he could pay for labour, upon the place. thinks the hire of a Man and maid will eat him up, unless he may be thus indulged. he will in consideration of it pay all the Shoeing and will get up some Seaweed into the pens; I have thought we had better consent to this, as we know the Man; and the trouble of looking out a new Tennant who may want as much, have a larger Family and Do us more harm than the amount of these articles. I shall however consult Dr Tufts as you direct, and will Do the best we can. I shall let him have Quincy Meddow and in lieu, Burrel is to take the whole of the pasture.
I have not yet tried Mears as I thought it would be time enough; for I have no disposition to give the management up whilst I remain here. I will enter into a treaty with him to take it in the fall if I can.
I conversd with Your Mother upon having a Room to herself, without nameing any particular place. she said she should prefer being with her Children, that she would come and stay with me some part of the time whilst I remaind here, and that when I went away I might make provision for her then if she lived. I told her I should be very happy to have her, and would make her as comfortable as I could tho it was probable my Family would sometimes be an incumberd one. she has spent one week with me, and when I know how matters are to be arranged I shall have her here again.
I cannot say any thing with respect to Domestick arrangement at Philadelphia untill I know what is in the House. I hope Still, that Congress will consider the subject sufficiently to add what furniture may be necessary. I want not a stick of it at the close of the Term. You must not worry yourself upon that Head. I Suppose I can collect Domesticks from this way, the principles ones, but whether I could some in the lower departments I do not know I Mentiond in my Letter to mr Brisler a woman as an housekeeper whom I shall try for, but as She is with Jeffry and he is very good to her, and has made her and two grandchildren who are dependent upon her very comfortable I do not know that I shall succeed. the yellow fever has its terrors With many and I do not wonder at it.
My Dearest Friend as you have been calld in Providence into the chair of Government, You did not accept it without knowing that it had its torments, its trials its Dangers & perplexities. look steadfastly at them, arm yourself with patience and forbearence and be not Dismayed, and May God and the people support You. having put your Hand to the plough, You must not look back, nor ought you I think to wish you had not.
I presume yu will have a Splnded Birth Day. there are preparations making in Boston to celebrate it. I received a very polite Note inclosing a Card for me & an other for Louissa for the Washington Ball: the Note from the Managers requested me to honour them with my attendance, which they should esteem a particular favour, as it is the last publick honour they can Shew the President. thus circumstanced I have determined to attend—2
I hope your next Letters will be more explicit, and that you will be able to fix upon Some plan—
I am My Dearest Friend allways willing to be a fellow Labourer with You in all those Relations and departments to which my abilities are competent, and I hope to acquire every requisite degree of Taciturnity which my station call for, tho Cabot says truly that it will be putting a force upon nature I expect many trials when it may be hard work, but as Porcupine Says, I Shall think.—
communicate to Me what ever you learn of our Dear Sons. there we have pleasures which Washington never knew. one Man ought not to have every thing. adieu there is one plasure wanting to me, that of folding to My Bosom the Dear partner of all My joys and Sorrows and telling him that I am ever his
A Adams—
RC (Adams Papers); endorsed: "Mrs A. Feb. 19. 1797."
1. Probably one of the many reports published in Philadelphia newspapers on 9 Feb. of the reading of the electoral votes in Congress, for which see AA to JA, 8 Feb., and note 2, above.
2. AA received an invitation on 17 Feb., not found, to the ball in Boston to celebrate George Washington's birthday. She wrote to AA2 the following day that she would need a new dress cap for the occasion, "a good one proper for me, not a Girlish one." On 22 Feb. AA attended the ball at the Federal Street Theater, where the orchestra pit was covered and the building converted to "a magnificent saloon; sumptuously decorated with tapestry hangings; elegantly illuminated with variegated lamps; and fancifully embellished with festoons of artificial flowers." At noon Lt. Gov. Moses Gill escorted AA into the ball, where she was seated "at the head of the table; and was followed by the managers with the ladies of the judges" (private owner, 1967; Boston Price-Current, 27 Feb.).


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