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Awakening Wednesday: You Say Tom8to, I Say TomAuto…
By Rob Hardwicke, Product Master, Awakening Mineral Skin Care
My wife and I bicker endlessly about pronunciation. She's from the Atlantic coast and says 'aunt' (as in "ont"); I'm from the Pacific Coast and say 'aunt' (as in "ant"). She says 'apricot' with a short "a"; I say it with a long "a". I guess one could say we're both right. Then again, President Bush ("W") was clearly wrong with 'nuclear' coming out "nuclar", or my dear cousin calling a 'library' a "lie-berry", or calling the real estate person a "real-a-tor"! Wrong, wrong, wrong.
In my world of skin care product creation, there are additional terms that may be pronounced correctly but nonetheless are used incorrectly, What really is the difference between a 'moisturizer', a 'humectant' and a 'hydrator'?
One of my favorite bloggers is Cindy Jones, a PhD who writes for the blog, Personal Care Truth. In a recent post, Dr. Jones laid out skin care definitions that are most helpful:
Moisturizer: A substance or product that adds or restores moisture to the skin. Keep in mind that moisture refers to water, so oils alone do not moisturize. (Once water is involved, then bugs become an issue; therefore, see also "Preservative" described below).
Humectant: A substance that binds to water to help retain moisture. This is important for the product itself to keep from drying out, but also to help keep the skin moisturized. The best example of a humectant is glycerin, but humectants also include propylene glycol.
Emollient: A substance that softens and sooths the skin making it more supple. Typically this is an oil. It is thought to fill the crevices between the cells in the stratum comeum — or outer layer of the skin — to improve appearance.
Lubricant: A substance that reduces friction and often forms a film on the skin. This is important for 'feel' when applying a product to the skin.
Barrier: Something that bars passage. Healthy skin is a barrier in and of itself, in that it bars passage of substances into and out of the body, protecting it form the outer environment and holding moisture in. Lotions and creams help support this barrier function of the skin. Damaged skin is less of a barrier making it more prone to infection. "Dry skin" is a form of damaged skin.
Occlusive: Impenetrable; a film spread on the skin to prevent moisture loss. Petroleum oil is one of the most common occlusive agents, but vegetable oils also work in this way.
Emulsifier: Binds together substances that could otherwise not be mixed, such as oil and water. Emulsifiers are used in any cream or lotion to help hold the oil and water phases together.
Surfactant: Reduces the surface tension of a liquid such as water.
Antioxidant: A chemical that inhibits oxidation reactions or free radical damage to other molecules. Common antioxidants are vitamin A, C and E and polyphenols. Antioxidants in care care products are important both to protect the product itself aswell as to diminish the signs of aging.
Preservative: A compound that inhibits the growth of bacteria and fungus, or actually kills bacteria and fungus. Preservatives are important to protect the product itself as well as to protect the consumer from getting an infection that could be serious. It is absolutely necessary to make sure products containing water or water-based ingredients are properly preserved. Old-school preservatives most often included one or multiple forms of parabens, although these preversatives now have been removed from all but the biggest drugstore and department store brands.
Exfoliant: Something that removes the outer, dead skin cells, the stratum corneum. This can be done physically with an abrasive substance such as salt, ground seeds and natural earths, or chemically with substances such as salicylic acid and alpha hydroxy acid.
Fixed oils: Non-volatile oils which are lipids or fats. These are sometimes used as a carrier for essential oils. Fixed oils include olive oil and almond oil.
So, for this year's birthday for that very special person in your life, just ask him or her whether they'd prefer a humectant or an occlusive!
Awakening Mineral Skin Care and Sea Awakening are boutique formulators of nature-derived, vegan skin care products utilizing concentrated mineral crystals isolated from the Dead Sea, essential oils and botanical extracts. With only a few exceptions, we call our products by what they do: Awakening HANDS treats hands, Awakening FEET treats feet, Awakening BODY treats bodies, SeaAwakening SCALP Treatment treats scalps — you get the idea. However Awakening MUDFace is mud for the face (and feet!) — so, as with 9th grade English, there are always exceptions to every rule!


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The total pass percentage in this year's Council of Higher Secondary Education (CHSE) examination is 68.36 out of which 72.85 per cent are girls and 64.17 per cent are boys, Higher Education Minister Pradip Panigrahi said while announcing the results here.
In the Arts stream, the total pass percentage is 68.19, which in Science, Commerce and Vocational stream are 70.13, 54.14 and 55.23 respectively.
Out of 3,24,461 students who appeared for this year's examinations, 1,34,315 students have cleared the Arts exams followed by 60,119 in Science and 17,796 students in Commerce.
In the Arts stream, 11,778 have passed in the first division, 22,993 in second and 96,618 in third division.
In Science, 15,953 students have passed in first division, 21,417 in second and 21,219 in third division while in the Commerce stream, 3,480 have passed in the first division, 3,123 in second and 11,035 in third division.
The pass percentage of the Regular and ex-Regular students are 57.03 and 47.90 respectively.
This year, Nayagarh district has the highest pass percentage with 83.56 and Kalahandi district has the lowest with 49.79.

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…today, at least, is sulfur dioxide. That's according to Neil Carman, testifying this morning at the Environmental Protection Agency's hearing. It's taking place a stone's throw from the Valero petroleum refinery.
I smelled the sulfur dioxide this morning when I arrived at the hearing in Manchester: It's a stinging, acrid, itchy punch to the sinuses. Carman, the clean air program director for Lone Star Sierra Club, used to inspect refineries for the state of Texas, so he knows whereof he speaks, er, smells.
Most of the people speaking today are angry. They are activists, residents with cancer, environmental lawyers and doctors. They want better pollution controls, and they pleaded with the blank-faced EPA administrators to require them. The agency will decide next August.
Councilwoman Carol Alvarado grew up around here. "Sometimes kids from other neighborhoods made fun of us, because they knew there was a smell here," she said.
Houston Chronicle: Feibel
Councilwoman Carol Alvarado at the EPA public hearing.
Alvarado said she rarely begged for anything, but she was doing it now.
Other cities throughout the country can balance business and jobs and the environment, Alvarado said. So why can't Houston?
Alvarado asked the EPA to adopt the stricter of two proposed rules [PDF]. "We want the jobs here, we want the people in this community to be employed, but we want them to live long enough to be able to benefit from those jobs," she said.
The most dramatic moment of the morning came when Rosalia Guerrero-Leura testified. She is the outreach coordinator for Mothers for Clean Air, and she grew up near the refineries.
"We lived a block away from the fence line," she told the EPA foks. Six years ago, Guerrero-Leura's sister, who now lives in Magnolia Park, was diagnosed with lymphoma.
Relating this, Geurrero-Leura broke down in tears. Her voice became shaky.
"She may be an 'acceptable health risk' to you, but she is more than that to us," she said.
At stake are the EPA standards for "acceptable health risk," which is the chance an individual will get cancer from a refinery emitting hazardous things like benzene.
In general, the EPA's "acceptable health risk" is one more cancer case per 1 million people. For people living near a refinery, the EPA allows 100 cancer cases per 1 million people.
That's unacceptable to the many people testifying today.
"These people do not deserve to have a separate health standard," said Matthew Tejada, executive director of the Galveston-Houston Association for Smog Prevention. Tejada said census data showed that most people living near the refineries are low-income minorities. "They have less means to seek medical attention and less means to move away."
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The second event was that of Abraha As-Sabah Al-Habashi, the Abyssinian (Ethiopian) viceroy in Yemen. He had seen that the Arabs made their pilgrimage to Al-Ka'bah so he built a large church in San'a in order to attract the Arab pilgrims to it to the exclusion of Makkah. A man from Kinana tribe understood this move, therefore he entered the church stealthily at night and besmeared its front wall with excrement. When Abraha knew of that, he got very angry and led a great army – of sixty thousand warriors – to demolish Al-Ka'bah.
He chose the biggest elephant for himself. His army included nine or thirteen elephants. He continued marching until he reached a place called Al-Magmas. There, he mobilized his army, prepared his elephants and got ready to enter Makkah. When he reached Muhassar Valley, between Muzdalifah and Mina, the elephant knelt down and refused to go forward.
Whenever they directed it northwards, southwards or eastwards, the elephant moved quickly but when directed westwards towards Al-Ka'bah, it knelt down. Meanwhile, Allah loosed upon them birds in flights, hurling against them stones of baked clay and made them like green blades devoured. These birds were very much like swallows and sparrows, each carrying three stones; one in its peak and two in its claws. The stones hit Abraha's men and cut their limbs and killed them.
A large number of Abraha's soldiers were killed in this way and the others fled at random and died everywhere. Abraha himself had an infection that had his fingertips amputated. When he reached San'a he was in a miserable state and died soon after.
The Quraishites on their part had fled for their lives to the hillocks and mountain tops. When the enemy had been thus routed, they returned home safely. [Ibn Hisham 1/43-56; Tafheem 6/462-469]
The Event of the Elephant took place in the month of Al-Muharram, fifty or fifty five days before the birth of Prophet Muhammad [pbuh] which corresponded to late February or early March 571 A.D. It was a gift from Allah to His Prophet and his family. It could actually be regarded as a Divine auspicious precursor of the light to come and accompany the advent of the Prophet and his family. By contrast, Jerusalem had suffered under the yoke of the atrocities of Allah's enemies. Here we can recall Bukhtanassar in B.C. 587 and the Romans in 70 A.D. Al-Ka'bah, by Divine Grace, never came under the hold of the Christians – the Muslims of that time – although Makkah was populated by polytheists.
News of the Elephant Event reached the most distant corners of the then civilized world. Abyssinia (Ethiopia) maintained strong ties with the Romans, while the Persians on the other hand, were on the vigil with respect to any strategic changes that were looming on the socio- political horizon, and soon came to occupy Yemen. Incidentally, the Roman and Persian Empires stood for the powerful civilized world at that time. The Elephant Raid Event riveted the world's attention to the sacredness of Allah's House, and showed that this House had been chosen by Allah for its holiness. It followed then if any of its people claimed Prophethood, it would be congruous with the outcome of the Elephant Event, and would provide a justifiable explanation for the ulterior
Divine Wisdom that lay behind backing polytheists against Christians in a manner that transcended the cause-and-effect formula.
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Friday, June 27, 2008
Flower Update
This photo is a close up of my "mystery" plant.
It has really bloomed out this week and it
is so pretty. We still have no idea what it is.
Any ideas?
My family started arriving Wednesday night
for our family reunion. My brother and his
daughter and son. Last night Mom, Walt,
(my brother), Rick, Cathy and I played cards.
Jon got called in to work for a problem they were
having and didn't get home until almost 11 o'clock.
I think my Mom would choose to play cards
over eating any day. We play "golf" with her
and she loves it.
Our family has always been Rook players, but you
have to have four people to play. With Golf, any
number can play, so almost every Sunday evening Jon
and I go to Moms for a couple card games. She looks
so forward to it and it is something the three of us can do.
Posted by Joan Fricker at 6:20 AM
1 comment:
- Kay said...
It looks like a mallow....does that ring a bell with you? I'd check the mallows....
- June 27, 2008 at 10:09 AM
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Upon successful completion of the course unit, the student will have a thorough understanding of the law and administration translation field and its characteristics and methods. The student will be able to translate texts in the field of law and administration from Finnish into Russian and justify their translation solutions. The student will also have an understanding of the role that juridical terms, the rigid form of juridical texts and set phrases have in the field of law and administration translation. The student will be able find equivalents for terms and typical expressions in the field of law and administration and to assess their suitability for use in a specific context.
The course unit explores the central text genres of law and administration translation, communicative situations, operators and sources of information, and the distinguishing features of legal language. In addition, the course unit includes analysing texts in the field of law and administration, using parallel texts, and translating and justifying translation solutions.


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So far, my success in growing tomatoes has been disappointing. The summers have gotten too hot too fast and it's a struggle for the plants to stay alive, let alone produce fruit. But, this year will be the Year of the Tomato at the Castle Garden. Here's why: I have the good luck to have some very good friends with some very green thumbs who were generous enough to provide me with some very healthy starts that they started in early January. But, those of you who have tried to grow tomatoes in the summer know that starting with heathly seedlings is only half the battle. You have to get those babies started planted as early as you can so they can do their thing before the temperatures get too hot. But, "it's too cold", you say? Well, maybe. But, last year I learned of the "tomato in the well" method from the Natural Gardener's John Dromgoole. This extends the season by creating a little "cave" where your little baby 'maters can stay warm even when the temperatures drop below the tomatoes' comfort zone.
While, I generally try to avoid optimism, I can't help but feel…tentatively hopeful that it's worked like a dream. Most of the plants are at least a foot tall, with at least a foot of established roots. In the last week, I've removed the buckets from around the blossom-laden plants and ammended heavily with Turkey compost from the Natural Gardener (they sell in bulk, y'all). The last step will be to add the tomoto cages. Now, although March 15 is the benchmark "last freeze" date, Central Texas has seen late freezes well into April…ouch! So, I'm waiting to put cages up in case we have any more nights below 40. This will allow me to used a row cover to keep them warm. Finger crossed! This WILL be the Year of the Tomoto!


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Planning a family vacation can be a bit stressful. It always helps to have a list of things to do before vacation so I don't forget anything and get it all done. I go back to this list of things to do before vacation with kids for every vacation and it helps me stay on track and spend more time excited for some family vacation time.
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I find it best to designate a place in your house where you can collect things you will need for your vacation. Add to the spot as you go so you are ready when it is time to pack. Also keep a sheet of paper close by to make a list about last minute things. I have a great vacation planning guide for you to print at the end of this post or sign up for it here.
Family Vacation Checklist: 8 Things to Get Us Ready for Vacation
#1 Keep Your House in Order
- Have your mail held by the post office. You can set it up here. They will deliver all your mail the day your return or whenever you set it up. You also have the option to pick it up at the post office. If you have any other house deliveries like newspaper or packages place a hold on them or arrange a friend to pick them up.
- Check that all doors and windows are locked. If you have a home alarm system set that up and call to let them know you will be out of town.
- Lower your heat. Do NOT turn it off in the winter months because your pipes could freeze. We typically turn our heat to around 58 when we are out of town. If you have AC turn it off. Most thermostats have a timer. Set it to a few hours before you return home and your house will be ready for you.
- Tell a neighbor or friend that you will be gone and ask them to drive by your house or stop in and check things out.
- Turn off computer/appliances. Unplug anything that doesn't need to be plugged in. If you have a DVR set leave that plugged in!
#2 Check Weather & Pre-Pack
- Take a look at the expected forecast and plan accordingly.
- For Summer Travel(Warm Climate):I always have my kids try on their bathing suits and flip-flops a few weeks before we leave so I have time to go out and get them new sizes if they need them. Don't forget to do the same for yourself. My hat from last year was really beat up and I needed to go out and get a new one for our next vacation.
- For Winter Travel (Cold Climate): You will need hats, gloves, boots, and maybe even snow gear. Give yourself time to go out and purchase(or order) what you need.
- Do a once over of your toiletries so you can pick everything up at once.
#3 Electronic Up-Keep & Charging
- Download games and books that you may need on your devices. Wi-Fi may not be available when you are out and it is good to be prepared. Need ideas for Family Fun Apps? Check out my post that my daughter helped me put together of her favorite apps when on the road.
- Clean up your phone, especially if you are using it to take photos. Save and delete photos and delete apps you don't need on vacation. You don't want to be in the middle of taking a picture and see you have no storage. Consider a storage saving app like Google Photos or Shutterfly. You can set them up to automatically upload your photos. I have always used Shutterfly but am trying google photos for the video option during my next trip.
- Charge all devices and cameras. Do this the day or night before you leave. Pack all chargers in a bag for easy access during your trip. Also consider purchasing a portable charger.
#4 Stock up Your Travel Bag
When traveling with a family you need an awesome bag to fit all your stuff for a full day of travel. I like to have a crossbody so my hands are free. For my next trip I am using the new messenger bag from Neatpack. I am so excited to use it because it has the perfect amount of room to fit everything I need.
When traveling, I am also looking for comfort and this bag has straps that are great for all day wear. All of the compartments zip too, which offers a great safety feature.
My Travel Bag Essentials:
- Wallet
- Phone
- Travel Documents
- Sharpie
- Snacks
- Ziplock bags
- Gum/Lollipops
- Hand Sanitizer
- Wipes
- Everyone's Sunglasses/Glasses
- Notebook/Pen
- Tickets/Itineraries
- Medication
- We are out of diapers but you could also fit a few diapers and even a small change of clothes for a potty training child. Bring a few gallon size Ziploc bags just in case there is an accident. You can also fit bottles and other baby supplies.
I'm really excited about this bag. It is a little larger than a small cross-body but perfect for all day travel. Even a trip to the zoo or museum would work great! You can fit everything you need without feeling weighed down with heavy bags.
If you are traveling soon or planning a day trip I suggest you take a look at this bag. You can purchase your own at Neatpack and use the code ROAD10OF to receive 10% off any of the amazing Neatpack products. They also have great looking backpacks! I am so happy I found this for our upcoming travel adventures!
#5 Get the Kids Involved
- You all know I love including my kids in the planning process so we always make a fun vacation countdown. You can check out all my favorites at Family Fun Activities to Countdown to Vacation.
- Pack their backpacks. My kids are old enough to bring their own backpacks. This makes it easier for us to travel and they like to help out with the planning. I always help them pack and make sure it is not too heavy.
- Stuffed Animal
- Coloring Books
- Tablet
- Books
- Snacks
- Change of clothes packed in a Ziploc bag(gallon).
#6 Double Check Attraction Times/Events
I always check the websites of the attractions we are visiting to make sure nothing has changed.
- Check the event page!! At times places close early for special events.
- Theme parks have been known to extend hours depending on crowds.
- Make sure the day you are visiting the park/attraction is open.
#7 Necessities
- Travel Documents-Passports, etc.
- Tickets for theme parks or other attractions you are doing.
- Print all your tickets or take a screen shot of your confirmation numbers.
- Check in early for your flights on-line if you can. All airlines have different rules, so check it out ahead of time.
#8 Transportation Essentials
- What is your drive time to airport?
- Are you renting a car?
- How far is hotel to airport?
- Do you need car seats on the plane or upon arrival?
- How early do you need to get to the airport?
- Is it a long flight? Check out Tips for Long Flights with Kids.
- What is your drive time?
- Will you stop during the drive at any attractions?
- Do you need a hotel for the night?
- Where will you eat on the road?
- Are you packing a cooler? Snacks, etc.
- Have you read Essential Tips for a Family Road Trip?
Now that you have done all the planning you can feel a little less stressed knowing everything is ready to go. Being prepared will help you focus on you family and enjoying all the moments. Have fun planning your next family adventure!


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Michèle Roberts is sitting on a sofa, her hands flying about like birds. She's drawing in the air the structure of her novel Flesh and Blood (1994), the book she's most proud of and which is, sadly, out of print. "It pulls together like a zip," she says, explaining how this symbolic tale of mother-daughter love and rage - which some might call a prose poem - tells its story from each end in, the first part of the narrative linking up with the last and coming together in the middle.
Roberts has always wanted to break boundaries, but transgressing the conventions of form is only part of it. From the time she was a student at Oxford, she regarded "writing passionately" as going hand in hand with "living passionately". The life she went on to create for herself, chronicled in her new autobiography, Paper Houses, has been as consciously mould-breaking as her experiments in fiction. Born in 1949 into a middle-class home, the daughter of a French mother and an English father, she rebelled against her Roman Catholic background and sought out a radical, bohemian existence which embraced communal living, free love and the socialist feminism of the 70s.
As a child, Roberts was an insatiable reader with a taste for chivalric romance. Often confined to bed with tonsillitis, she was "entranced" by Malory's stories of the knights of the round table and by Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre, which she regards as one of the founding texts of feminist self-realisation. Like the schoolgirl Jane, who battles to create herself in the face of repressive religion, Roberts eventually began to shake off the mind-forged manacles of Catholicism. "I was soaking it up without realising it. I didn't know I was being taught to hate my body but I was. Not until you hit against the contradictions do you become aware of those manacles. When you are wearing them, they can feel like velvet."
Roberts "began to hate" the church at 15, when a new parish priest started ranting from the pulpit against young people and the permissive society. But she owes a great deal to the intellectually independent nuns who taught her at school and she now values the richness of her religious heritage. "When I gave up religion, it was an intellectual decision. But then I discovered that Catholicism was still in my consciousness, which was alive with images and ideas. The realisation was a bit scary at first, but I decided it was a treasure trove, a rich ragbag of history. I could use it and write out of it." The influence is seen in novels such as The Book of Mrs Noah (1987) and this year's The Secret Gospel of Mary Magdalene, which offer playful feminist rewritings of biblical themes.
Reading English at Somerville (then an all-women's college), Roberts's imagination took flight under the influence of old romances such as Gawain and the Green Knight, but she was especially drawn to the female mystics of the period such as Julian of Norwich. The autobiography of St Teresa of Avila is still a text she cherishes. When she found herself living in a commune in the 70s, and participating in a women writers' collective, she found there were similarities with the empowering convent life of medieval nuns.
After Oxford, Roberts's love of old books propelled her into a career as a bibliographer and librarian, which she abandoned when her writing took over. Yet she retains her passion for the literary past. Much of her life and art seems to have been the product of creative tension between opposing impulses. "There's always been a side of me that loves history and tradition and the solitude necessary for writing, and this has been at odds with the experimental, daring, communal side. It's been a fruitful conflict. I love literary tradition and reading myself back into it, but then I love inventing new forms." Though at the time, she laughs, she thought she was overthrowing western civilisation, she now sees her experience in the 70s as part of a tradition going back to the Romantics. Her novel, Fair Exchange (1999) which features Mary Wollstonecraft and William Wordsworth and is set during the French revolution spells out such a connection.
What made her generation's experiment with communal living and free love different, she feels, was its explicit politics. Though she doesn't look back with rose-tinted spectacles - dispensing with personal property so that clothes were held in common and nobody had a room of their own was an experiment too far - she none the less stands by the seriousness of what she and her peers were trying to do. "We did line it up with feminist and libertarian ideas. It was politics with a capital P." Radical street theatre and demonstrations were woven into her daily life, and sex itself was politicised. "I grew up in a male-defined sexual world. Male pleasure was known about. Female pleasure wasn't in the same way." She laughs affectionately, remembering some of the consciousness-raising that went on: "It sounds crazy now but there were women examining themselves with speculums, seeing their own cunts in the mirror for the first time! People now might think 'yuk' but it was genuinely thrilling and radical." Feminism, she feels, "made sex better, made it less of a power struggle, because it gave you back yourself. It made women feel able to say to a man: 'I want this, I don't want that.' If you know about your own sexuality you can have better sex. Young women now take this for granted because they read about sex in magazines the whole time."
Roberts feels ambivalent about what has happened to feminism in the past 30 years. "My sort of feminism was defeated in the Thatcher years, as socialism was. I feel that the feminism that triumphed is the sort I don't like: what I call shoulderpads feminism. It's all about being an individual in a capitalist society. Put on your suit, go to the City, make a lot of money: it's all me, me, me. My sort of feminism is about collectivity. I think this sort of feminism still exists quietly, in women's friendships, for example. When I was young I could see women's friendships weren't valued. It was common that if you were going to see a woman friend and you got a date with a boy you broke the date with the girl. I don't think that would happen now."
Female friendship is of great importance to Roberts, who - at every level, from the political to the artistic, from the personal to the metaphysical - values connectedness over the atomistic. She speaks of the joy felt in quiet moments of contemplation when the sense of self seems to dissolve into the world around. "For convenience's sake and as part of the culture we walk around thinking we're separate, but we're part of this web." She finds the same "feeling of dancing and playing" in conversation. "I had lovely sex with women (I don't now, I stopped ages ago), but talking with women friends - there's the same jouissance. There's a lot of rapture in life." As an inteviewee there is indeed something generous about her conversation: she invites you to share, to join in with such warmth that one has to make an effort to retain the interviewer's self-erasing pose.
Being able to write and talk about sex is very important to Roberts, a legacy of her repressed Catholic girlhood. It is not surprising that Colette is among her influences. She worries about the commodification of sex in our culture, about the way some young women today seem to think that lapdancing is empowering, and that prostitutes in the third world are held to be simply exercising employment choice within the free market. Yet the debate around censorship and pornography is something with which she struggles. While her highly literary erotic writing has often been censored on the - polite, middle-class - radio, anything goes in the world of porn. As a point of principle, she feels she cannot say yes to censorship, yet she is anxious about the way women "are portrayed as objects to be raped with the eye". Her struggles around this subject will form the core of her next novel, which is in its early stages.
Roberts is self-aware about the workings of her own creative imagination. She describes how writing a novel involves, for her, about a year of "chaos", when she is scribbling down notes, often unconnected images and ideas. "I'm trying to listen. We're in this world of babble, of impression. You've got to open the doors of perception enough to get new stuff, but not too much or you'd go mad with overload." Only then can she get down to ordering the material and then rigorously writing and rewriting. As a professor of creative writing at the University of East Anglia, she tries to teach "in a way that empowers students to explore. Experiment, experiment! Take risks! Play in the sandpit! Make a mess!"
The imagination is, she feels, "about memory, the search for paradise, for the lost maternal body. It's also what lets us connect with the dead. When I read Donne's poetry, I feel I've encountered Donne. I feel connected to him in a way I can't express with all the language that's at my command." In Roberts's own work, particularly the more experimental writings, it might make sense to say she is attempting to use language to point to the mysteries of experience that are beyond language. Psychoanalysis has also been a significant influence: "The unconscious is a deep dark place you go into to bring up the thoughts you were too scared to express."
Above all, Roberts seems a free spirit, a woman artist in the tradition, perhaps, of George Sand, for whom life itself has been a form of creative self-expression: in her many love affairs (detailed in the memoir), in her flâneuring around London listening out for inspiration in the conversations of strangers, in her constant, restless moving from house to house (from Holland Park to Tufnell Park, from Thailand to Italy), and her imaginative movement from novel to novel (during the course of her career, she has written 13, as well as collections of poetry and short stories). It is the writing which represents the "paper houses" of her autobiography's title. Throughout the political engagement, the relationships, the different locations, the unbending desire to write has kept her going. "I had that bloodymindedness which an artist needs to survive. To be a writer you might need some talent and a passionate love of your subject, but without bloodymindedness you won't get very far."
Despite her lack of cynicism, her openness to new experiences, and her idealism, Roberts is no stranger to pain. One regret is that she was not able to have a child - though she desperately wanted one during her relationship with Jim, an artist whom she married in 1991. ("Though I might not have been a good mother," she confesses, "as I might have spent too much time writing.") They split after 17 years together. "Conventional marriage, like conventional family life, did not suit me," she writes. Yet she is determined that something good should be salvaged from the sorrow: "The marriage, ending, metamorphosed into something else; a different kind of love." As she puts it in the final paragraph of her memoir: "Love goes on. The love of friends. Friendship is my oxygen. I've said that often and it's true. Writing goes on too: I keep on building my paper house; my chrysalis."
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
La Naissance du Jour by Colette
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
St Teresa of Avila, Autobiography
Songs and Sonnets by John Donne


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Do you love to learn? Learn a million new things every day? Wish you had some place to record them all? Now you do. With Cheetah Learning's CheetahLearn application, you can categorize and store all your learning experiences in your pocket. Answer six key questions designed to help you get the most out of your learning experience, rate the quality of the experience, and track your progress through the four stages of learning (Awareness, Knowledge, Skill, and Mastery). Add relevant links to web content so you'll never lose that helpful page. Store an image from the camera to trigger recall. Share your experiences with friends via email and Facebook. With Cheetah Learning's CheetahLearn application, you can make lifelong learning easy, fast, and fun. It might even make you smarter. Download CheetahLearn and start raising your IQ right away!
Our company was founded in the late 1980's evolving to the Cheetah Learning brand at the turn of the century. We created the company based on the principle that people can achieve outstanding results very fast, when given the right tools. The tools we provide are time tested, effective accelerated learning and accelerated project management techniques taught in a variety of fast and effective formats. We designed a way to speed up projects by merging accelerated learning techniques with project management techniques. People use the Cheetah PM methodologies to achieve outstanding results faster.
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The Aveda collection is a restyling of the proportions and shapes of Fornasarig's keynote seatings. Its contemporary design and its contained dimensions are combined with a wide and comfortable seat that make this collection perfect for every situation. Available with 5 back options.
Every style from the Aveda collection can be selected with a favourite backrest, with or without armrests, and in the wood tones shown in the colour selection panel.
The seat has webbing and is upholstered with variable density polyurethane. Fabric or leather may be selected from our fabric samples or supplied by the customer.


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Lakota high schools are getting ready for their first theater productions of the school year. Get your tickets now to see our talented students present these top-notch plays: James and the Giant Peach, Jr. and Radium Girls.
Thunderhawk Theater Presents the Children's Musical: James and the Giant Peach, Jr.
Potions and peaches and peril, oh my! Join the Thunderhawk Theater as they present Timothy Allen McDonald's James and the Giant Peach Jr., based on the classic childhood tale by Roald Dahl. Join James as he goes on the adventure of a lifetime. After becoming an orphan and escaping life with his evil aunts, he befriends a band of insects who teach him the true meaning of family. Preceded by two short pieces from the Bully Plays collection, this evening of children's theater will be fun for the whole family. Performances include:
Friday, Nov. 2
7:30 p.m.
Saturday, Nov. 3
2:30 p.m.
7:30 p.m.
Sunday, Nov. 4
2:30 p.m.
The cost for tickets is $10. Click here to purchase advance tickets online; tickets will also be available at the Lakota East Box office the night of the show.
Lakota West Theater Performs Radium Girls
Lakota West Theater is proud to present Radium Girls to kick off its 22nd season. Performances will take place on Nov. 9-10 at 7:30 p.m.
Written with warmth and humor, Radium Girls is a fast-moving, highly theatrical ensemble piece. In 1926, Radium was a miracle cure, Madame Curie an international celebrity, and luminous watches the latest rage – until the girls who painted them began to fall ill with a mysterious disease. Inspired by a true story, Radium Girls traces the efforts of Grace Fryer, a dial painter, as she fights for her day in court. Her chief adversary is her former employer Arthur Roeder, an idealistic man who cannot bring himself to believe that the same element that shrinks tumors could have anything to do with the terrifying rash of illnesses among his employees. As the case goes on, however, Grace finds herself battling not just with the U.S. Radium Corporation, but with her own family and friends, who fear that her campaign for justice will backfire.
Click here to purchase tickets now for $12; tickets will be $15 the night of the show. Patrons tickets are also available for $30 each.
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7:30 p.m.
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Prejudice and Liberty
Throughout Canadian history there have been some bleak circumstances in which harm has been done, whether physical or emotional, unto certain habitants based on inequitable laws within the constitution. In particular, the "white women's labour laws" and Bill C-36 have persuaded prejudices to occur within communities. These predispositions have been based primarily on ethnic backgrounds and to some extent on gender. The cause of such inequity can generally be found in the results of acts of war or terrorism. As a result unjustified persecution could ensue.
The white women's labour laws were put in place to prohibit the hiring of white women in restaurants, laundries or any other Oriental owned business. The law was designed to support public morality by protecting white women from the advances of chinamen. In short, the law excludes Asian males from success within the community and labels them as a distinct group of distorted offenders.
The first victim of the law was Quong Wing, a Chinese-Canadian restaurant owner in Moose Jaw. He was charged with employing three white women as waitresses. The defense in this case argued that the term "Chinese" was to broad to know to whom exactly it applied. Loosing his case without much of a chance, Quong Wing appealed. He now argued that the law should not apply to a Canadian citizen, as he is, or that the provincial government of Saskatchewan should have the power to make laws that apply only to immigrants. Faced with another loss, he appealed to the Supreme Court. Four out of Five judges argued that the law should stand, believing that Quong Wing cannot be a Canadian because he is still from China, and that the law applies to him because of his Chinese origin. By reviewing such a case it is obvious...


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|It would be easier to list the things that you can not do in the Canadian Rockies….
Think of Canadian Rockies and the lovely towns of Banff, Canmore, Jasper, Golden and Lake Louise as the world's outdoor playground; world class ski hills, top ranked golf courses, whitewater rafting, cave tours, wildlife watching and so much more – all in one of the most beautiful places on the planet.
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Blaze the summer trails in Banff National Park or try a winter sleigh ride during the holiday season. See the Canadian Rockies in a whole new light when you embark on a backcountry horseback ride. Book your Canadian Rockies horseback riding trip now!
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Allow the adrenaline to take over as you race through the snowy planes in Kananaskis Country. The trained, happy dogs will take you on a personal tour of the Canadian Rockies backcountry. Book now for the winter dog sledding tours so you don't miss out on the fun!
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Ruby is a language released by Yukihiro Matsumoto in 1995 that bills itself as "a programmer's best friend". Every aspect of Ruby is designed to make programming easier for the developer. Ruby also serves as the foundation for Ruby on Rails, a popular web framework that powers over 1.2 million websites worldwide.
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- The Complete Ruby on Rails Developer Course
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- Ruby Programming for Beginners
- Learn Ruby on Rails from Scratch
- Ruby and Ruby on Rails Starter
- One-stop Ruby on Rails: Build Web Applications from Scratch
- Ruby Fundamentals
- Building Ruby Gems
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1.The Complete Ruby on Rails Developer Course
Learn to make innovative web apps with Ruby on Rails and unleash your creativity
With this Ruby on Rails course, you will learn about:
- Learn Ruby on rails course programming from scratch; writing your first program to say "Hello World" to Object Oriented Programming while building multiple mini-projects along the way
- Rails 4 & 5 using both cloud-based Integrated Development Environment and local development environments
- Local installation and development options made available for both Macs and Windows machines
- Git for version control, Github as code repository, Heroku for production deployment
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- Design and conceptualization using wire-framing tools
- Building authentication systems from scratch at first using the default Rails stack, including admin feature, log in/logout and signup.
- Ajax, Jquery, plain Javascript
- Bootstrap and materialize CSS for UI styling
- Build fully automated test suites by writing unit, functional and integration tests
- Learning database migrations: One-to-many, many-to-many association implementation with Rails using Active Record
This ruby on rails course takes a very structured approach of teaching Rails starting with Ruby - the programming language behind Rails. Everything from "Hello World" to Object Oriented Programming is covered. You will acquire skills rapidly; utilizing homework assignments, quizzes, coding exercises and free web based resources to go with the video lectures. The text lectures also provide reference material after each video, it's like having multiple books in addition to the videos to guide students through the course.
2. Learn to Code with Ruby
A comprehensive introduction to coding with the Ruby programming language. Complete beginners welcome!
In this ruby on rails course, you will:
- Code in the Ruby programming language
- Utilize common objects like strings, arrays, and hashes
- Solve popular coding challenges with Ruby
This ruby on rails course covers topics about installation and configuration for both Mac OS and Windows systems, common programming concepts (variables, arithmetic, output), objects and methods, strings, numbers, booleans, ranges, arrays, hashes, blocks, procs, and lambdas, dates and times, file input and output, regular expression, classes, modules, and inheritance.
3. Dissecting Ruby on Rails 5 - Become a Professional Developer
Don't simply follow a tutorial, learn what it really takes to become a pro Rails developer with this immersive course.
With this ruby on rails course, you will:
- Build a professional Rails application.
- Implement advanced JavaScript components, such as persistent drag and drop functionality and live page update via ActionCable into a Rails application.
- Deploy a Rails application along with the ActionCable web socket feature to Heroku.
- Build a Rails 5 application that utilizes multiple layouts.
- Build jQuery and CoffeeScript components that can be utilized by the Rails application.
This ruby on rails course includes a Deep Dive at the end of each section. These guides select the most challenging topics of each section and give a detailed walk through of the concept so that you can completely understand how to work with the key features of the Rails framework.
4. Comprehensive Ruby Programming
Learn how to program in the Ruby programming language, starting from scratch and moving to advanced coding techniques.
With this ruby on rails course, you will:
- Build programs in the Ruby programming language
- Know how to work with the Ruby syntax
- Create custom algorithms
- Work with loops and iterators
- Learn object oriented programming
- Work with OOP inheritance
- Start building real life programs in Ruby
The key topics that you will learn in this ruby on rails course are object oriented programming, built in Ruby methods, core programming skills, custom algorithm development, big data analysis, metaprogramming, using Ruby Gem libraries, regular expressions, and Ruby programming best practices.
5. Professional Ruby on Rails Developer with Rails 5
Ruby on Rails - Imagine, design, build web apps and bring your dreams to life with Rails 5
With this ruby on rails course, you will be able to:
- Build web apps using Ruby on Rails
- Build automated test suites for complex web applications
- Become a confident web application developer
- Compete for the highest paying junior developer jobs
- Be proficient in back-end development
- Start your own business by bringing your ideas to life
This ruby on rails course provides a very structured approach of teaching Rails and how to use Rails to implement ideas. It teaches the techniques to make the code work for the student. There will be video lectures, text follow-up lectures after each video lecture, homework, challenge projects and monthly code challenges. There will be references to free resources available on the internet to supplement the course materials.
6. Ruby Programming for Beginners
Learn Ruby Programming the fast and easy way!
This ruby on rails course provides you with:
- Hours of video lectures detailing the ten steps to becoming an awesome Rubyist
- Free eBook The Little Book of Ruby and exclusive discount for The (Big) Book of Ruby
- Downloadable source codes and sample test files to complement lectures
- 5 extra videos detailing Ruby on Rails, Symbols, Recursion, and other challenges
- Interactive quizzes to let you test your understanding of the topics covered
This ruby on rails course takes a hands-on approach and focuses on helping you learn Ruby so that you'reproductive on day one. Ruby is an incredibly powerful and highly scalable object-oriented language. Leading technology companies & startups around the world use Ruby or the Ruby on Rails framework to power their websites & web applications. They include amazon, twitter, electronic arts, yahoo, New York times, and 37 signals.
7. Learn Ruby on Rails from Scratch
A complete guide to master Ruby and Rails framework
- By the end of this ruby on rails course you will be able to create websites and web solutions using Ruby on rails
- You will be able to work on Ruby on Rails project in your company or as freelancer
- You will be able to understand the concepts underlying this powerful web framework
- You will be able to master the Ruby programming language
This ruby on rails course teaches you the amazing and powerful technology of Ruby on Rails. This technology forms the backend of amazing new Websites and Web apps. Once mastered you will be able to create systems and sites similar to ones using them. Some of the top sites using Ruby on Rails are Basecamp, Twitter, Shopify, Github, LivingSocial, Groupon and Yellowpages.
8. Ruby and Ruby on Rails Starter
Learn Ruby and Ruby on Rails 5 - the perfect starter course
With this ruby on rails course, you will be able to:
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- Take the first step towards becoming a Rails developer
- Learn basics of Ruby programming language
This ruby on rails course provides a structured introduction to programming, with varied data structures as simple mini projects as developed moving on to Rails where a Todo web app project is developed. It utilizes video and text lectures, homework and exercises. There will also be references to free resources available on the internet to supplement the course materials.
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Master Ruby on Rails, HTML, CSS, APIs, and other web technologies by building Etsy, Yelp, and Craigslist from scratch.
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- Create new web applications in Ruby on Rails and launch it live on the web
- Style websites with front-end tools like CSS, Javascript, and Bootstrap
- Scrape data from any website and store it in a database
- Write Ruby scripts to automate tasks
- Parse, clean, and analyze data
- Read technical documentation including Ruby gems and web tools
- Master Github and Heroku
- Learn to work and code in the command line
- Add Google Maps integration with API
- Work within the Rails console to manipulate data
- Add online payments and bank transfers using the Stripe API
- Host images with Amazon S3 or Dropbox and embed images on any site
- Implement multiple types of user accounts and login
In this ruby on rails course, you'll learn by building working applications. You understand the big picture concepts before filling in the details. You learn to build apps the way developers do.
10. Ruby Fundamentals
This ruby on rails course is designed to give you everything you need to start developing software in Ruby quickly.
You will learn about all of the key features of the language:
- Classes
- Methods
- Blocks
- Modules
This ruby on rails is designed to give you everything you need to start developing software in Ruby quickly. You will find out about some of the standard types included in Ruby, such as strings, arrays, hashes and regular expressions. You will also get an introduction to tools and techniques you need to write real world software, including testing, debugging and packaging your code.
11. Building Ruby Gems
This ruby on rails course will show you how to build a Ruby gem.
Starting with Ruby fundamentals and finishing with application design, this course will show you how to create and use Ruby gems to build great applications.
A Ruby gem is the cornerstone of application development in Ruby. Whether you're writing a simple Ruby script or a complicated application, you will use Ruby gems. This course will cover everything you need to know to understand, build, and design your own Ruby gems.
12. Ruby Fundamentals
Aspiring users who want to master Ruby Programming Language can enhance their programming language skills with our Ruby fundamentals course from scratch.
This ruby on rails course would find its value with people, who have directly jumped into the Rails framework and feel Rails to be magical and does too many things under the hood. Most of the magic to Rails framework comes from the elegant Ruby syntax and the meta programming constructs of Ruby.
If Ruby is your first programming language, you might find the going just a bit too fast. If you have exposure to any other programming language even at a basic level, you should find the going smooth and easy.
13. Ruby On Rails For Web Development
Learn web programming and build projects with Ruby on Rails tutorial from scratch
In this ruby on rails course, you will learn about:
- A detailed introduction to Ruby on Rails
- Exploring the cloud development environment
- Building your very first web page
- Understanding version control with Git
- Setting up BitBucket
- How to host your app with Heroku
- How to integrate Bootstrap, Nav Bar, Partials, Jumbotron and Buttons
- How to modify views
- Store images using Amazon S3
- How to make your site mobile ready
This ruby on rails course uses a combined theory and practical approach, where you would learn theory and also be able to use it in a hands-on project. You will actually build a complete Pinterest clone, that will show you how to actually add picture, tags and even build a complete interface in Ruby on Rails.


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I am sorry that it took me so long to write about this topic. Contrary to what you may have seen (I am talking about pictures and movies where most scientists are guys), girls make GREAT scientists. I consider myself a fairly smart person, placing in top 10 in my elementary and high school classes but I was always, ALWAYS "out-smarted" by girls. Even in college, while studying physics, a girl was the smartest person in our class.
This is not a new thing either. Women scientists have EXISTED as long as men scientists. That link only lists the women scientists we know about. There are probably many more women scientists that we do not know about because either they did not get published, or they were shy, or whatever reason.
Although their contributions to science and humanity are important, this post is about you. If you are a girl who LIKES science, and thinking about a career in science, I am here to say, "YOU GO, GIRL!"
Being a scientist is a WONDERFUL job. You get PAID to figure out how things work. You know, stuff you are curious about anyway. How much better can it get?
How to become a famous women scientist.
How do you keep on track to becoming a SUCCESSFUL women scientist? Besides the regular stuff, like doing well in school here are some other pointers:
1. Declare your intentions of becoming a women scientist.
Letting others know of your intentions, does a couple of things. First, now that you have said you are going to so something, it acts as MOTIVATOR for you to actually do it (like keeping a promise). Don't worry, you can still change your mind later. Second, if you let others know what it is that you want to do, they will be able to better help you with your interest.
2. Ask questions.
So, you like science. Great! What kind of science exactly? Do you like astronomy, astrophysics, astrobiology, cosmology, etc. It's OK if you do not know the difference between all those words. That is WHY you have to ask questions.
3. Find other girls with similar interests.
You would be lucky if you know of many other girls in your class who share your interest for science. Having good friends that SUPPORT you in what you want to do is important. If you can't find other girls in your classes, or neighborhood who are interested in science or you cannot get your friends to get interested in science, the internet is a great place for you to find other girls your age who share your interests. I have listed some websites where you get find such friends.
4. Don't give up.
BECOMING a famous woman scientist takes hard work. That is why it is also fun. Imagine playing a game where you always won. I doubt it would be fun for very long as there would not be any challenge in it. On your road to becoming a famous woman scientist, you will encounter problems, problems like lots of homework, math problems, and, unfortunately, people who will doubt your abilities, discourage or make fun of what it is you are trying to accomplish. Sometimes, these things will want to you stop chasing your GOALS. Anytime, I ran into something like this, it made me even more determined to succeed. You may encounter set backs but never EVER let anything or anyone from reaching your dreams.
5. Become a famous women scientist.
If you do all the other things, this part will be the easiest. Let me talk about what it means to be a famous scientist. A scientist is someone who works to discover new things, or create them. Things that no one before her or him knew about. Things that will change how people do things. Things that CHANGE the world. So, you may not become someone who has their name mentioned on TV all the time, you will become someone who will go down in history as a person who discovered or created something that changed our understanding of the universe and how we interact with it.
If I have missed something, please share it with me and my readers by making a comment below.
Here are some websites and organizations that budding, young women scientists like yourself will find useful.
- Nerdgirls.com
- GEMS: Girls Excelling in Math and Science
- Girls Go Tech
- Engineer Girl
- Plugged-In: Scientific Stuff – Just for Girls
- Expanding Your Horizons
- Women of NASA
- Sally Ride Science Camps
- Aspire – From the Society of Women Engineers
- ComputerGirl


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Media professionals and scholars have examined the influence of media context on advertising effectiveness for more than 50 years, but clarity regarding media-context effects remains lacking, amid an abundance of mixed results. This study used meta-analysis to investigate the relationship between media context and advertising memory in quantitative studies up to 2013. Effect sizes were significant by media-context factors, advertising-memory measures, and study characteristics, although these were correlated weakly or moderately. The findings strongly reinforce the decision rule that media professionals should consider media context when making media decisions.
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- Accepted July 26, 2017.
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Endurance Home Warranty has been operating and offering nationwide coverage to customers since 1989. In the home warranty market, such a long record is a powerful statement of reliability and customer satisfaction. The company describes itself as "a team of agents" that supply support and services and have generally positive customer reviews.
The company's website experience is not great however, and you are better off giving one of the customer service representatives a call rather than browsing the site for information. Choosing a home warranty plan requires key information, but unfortunately a lot of the needed information is missing from the website, while certain pages don't work at all.
Having said that, Endurance Home Warranty's pricing plans are both reasonable and comprehensive, with 3 tiers covering the vast majority of home warranty requirements that customers could require.
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Nationwide coverage
Choice of pricing and coverage plans
Extended Service Contracts offered
Online booking for services or repairs
Website is not in-depth, and many of the links don't work
Quote isn't instantaneous – you have to complete a form and wait
Limited information about the company and impartial reviews
Endurance Home Warranty offers 3 coverage plans: Bronze, Gold, and Platinum.
Bronze, which is the entry-level package, covers smaller and medium-sized household appliances, such as dishwashers, refrigerators, washers and dryers and more. Gold covers larger, and often built-in items. Such items include air conditioning and heating units, as well as electrical and plumbing systems. The platinum tier offers all of these in one comprehensive package, so it's not surprising that it is also Endurance Home Warranty's most popular package.
In addition to these standard packages, there are extra items for which a warranty can be purchased. Items such as a pool, spa, or lighting fixtures are not included in the Bronze, Gold or Platinum packages, but can be purchased as add-ons separately to create the perfect plan that fits your needs.
Water Heater
Stove Cook Top
Garbage Disposal
Oven range
Microwave (built in)
Ceiling Fans
Garage Door Opener
Additional coverage (optional):
Pool, central vacuum, second refrigerator, sump pump, well pump, limited roof leak, stand alone freezer, lawn sprinkler system, septic system, ice maker (in refrigerator), plumbing fixtures, lighting fixtures, additional AC unit, additional heating, additional furnace, additional water heater, spa.
Services are offered in the following states: Arizona, Texas, North Carolina, South Carolina, Delaware, Michigan, Wisconsin, Tennessee, Washington, Alabama, Mississippi, Florida, Nebraska, Wyoming, North Dakota, South Dakota, Maryland, Ohio, Utah, Louisiana, Hawaii, Puerto Rico, Alaska, Virginia, West Virginia, District Of Columbia, Oregon, New Mexico, Nevada, California, Missouri, New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Maine, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, US Virgin Islands, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Oklahoma, Montana, Minnesota, Michigan, Kansas, Iowa, Indiana, Illinois, Idaho, Georgia and Colorado.
Plans and prices depend on the specific package chosen, as well as the geographical location of the home for which the plan is purchased.
Pricing ranges from $329 for the appliance-based Bronze package, to $399 for the more comprehensive Platinum package. Limited time specials and other deals run from time to time that offer customers one free month when buying a new contract.
Due to the fact that quotes are not instantaneous, you will have to either fill out a contact form on the website and wait to be contacted, or speak to a customer service representative via phone, in order to know your exact costs and whether any deals are running at the time.
Endurance Home Warranty does not share its terms and conditions on its website, which is slightly alarming for users that want to know this information before purchasing a plan — only once you have purchased a contract will you be able to look more deeply into the actual terms and conditions.
The company does openly provide a number of caveats on its website, for example: "Endurance Home Warranty offers service contracts which are not warranties. Terms and conditions apply. See contract for limitations and specifics on response times. Endurance Home Warranty reserves the right to offer cash back in lieu of repair or replacement in the amount of our actual cost, which at times may be less than retail, to repair or replace any covered system, component, or appliance."
Endurance Home Warranty offers a convenient function on its website that enables you to easily book contractors from your computer, giving you the chance to book a contractor at a time and date that is most convenient for you and your schedule. The company guarantees that only top contractors are referred.
The company offers a call center hotline as well as a company email address to contact. The wait is approximately 1 minute before you are put through to a representative who is able to confidently answer your questions. The menus are clear (whether it's the claims, sales, billing or another department) and navigation is simple.
Emails are answered relatively promptly, however given the limited functionality of the website, we suggest you call directly.
Endurance Home Warranty is not the biggest home warranty company, and its website does not inspire confidence as many links are not working and not enough information is provided. Calls were answered promptly however, and all questions were dealt with professionally.
Marketing is primarily by word-of-mouth, so if you know someone who is happy with the service they received from Endurance Home Warranty, the deals seem good and legitimate. Otherwise, you might be better off going with one of the bigger players in the industry.
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Taxation Kills Australia's Auto Sector
Weak politicians and hideous taxation has killed yet another Australian business.
Companies are taxed at a flat rate of 30%.
It doesn't stop there, Australian employers after getting whacked with hefty payroll tax must pay the superannuation guarantee, a minimum of 9.5 per cent of their employees' earnings, into a complying superannuation fund. Then there is the high cost of staying compliant in the convoluted world of Australian regulation and taxation.
Australia relies more on income tax from companies and individuals than any other country in the OECD, except Denmark.
OECD data does show that Australia derives a higher proportion of its total taxation revenue from income tax collected from companies and individuals than any country except Denmark.
In Australia, income tax on personal income is a progressive tax. The rates for resident individual taxpayers is different to non-resident taxpayers.
The current tax-free threshold for resident individuals is $18,200, and the highest marginal rate for individuals is 45%. In addition, most Australians are liable to pay the Medicare levy, of which the standard is 2% of taxable income.
In addition to that Aussie's get whacked with Sales tax The goods and services tax (GST) in Australia is a value added tax of 10% on most goods and services sales. GST is levied on most transactions in the production process, but is refunded to all parties in the chain of production other than the final consumer.
Australia's car industry officially ended on Friday as Holden, a unit of US carmaker General Motors, closed its plant in South Australia. The closure comes a year after the exodus of Toyota and Ford.
"The end of Holden making cars in Australia is a very sad day for the workers and for every Australian. It is the end of an era," Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull said on Friday."Everyone has a Holden story," he added.
According to various estimates, 30,000 to 50,000 people have lost jobs as a result of the closures. While the number of direct layoffs is about 5,000, the real number is closer to 50,000, if people indirectly involved in Holden's production are included, according to the Australian newspaper The Advertiser.
Australia plans to increase military spending by about $23.5 billion by 2022, to produce a fleet of frigates, armored personnel carriers and submarines to be concentrated in South Australia.
However, the people who lost jobs will "need to be retrained to be able to work in defense, mining, aerospace, because we are going to be building ships," John Camillo, state secretary at the Australian Manufacturing Workers' Union in South Australia told reporters.
The first Australian-designed mass production car was manufactured by Holden in 1948. Following WWII, the company was backed by the Australian government, which wanted to boost domestic car manufacturing and give the nation some global status.
Through the 1960s and '70s, Holden was the most popular car brand in Australia, competing only with Ford. However, a 2013 report showed that Holden could no longer afford to manufacture cars in Australia.
After production ends, the brand will continue as an importer of vehicles.
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Some people happen to love Star Trek: Enterprise, while others woefully hate it and even blame the series for killing the franchise. But actor Connor Trinneer, who played the Enterprise NX-01's beloved engineer, Cmdr. Charles "Trip" Tucker, says that's nonsense.
When Enterprise last aired on May 13, 2005, Star Trek had been on the air nonstop for more than 18 years, starting with Star Trek: The Next Generation back in 1987. Enterprise was expected to last for seven seasons like TNG, Deep Space Nine and Voyager before it, but it was canceled after its fourth season, right about when the series was really hitting its stride and finding its footing.
Whether you're in the camp of those who think that ''Enterprise was canceled because it wasn't true enough to the Star Trek spirit'' or that ''it was playing with established canon too much'' or that ''it sucked'' (which we think it didn't at all) doesn't matter. In the end, the real reason for the cancellation was franchise fatigue.
Which brings us to the question: Are some fans really openly blaming the show for the end of one of the most beloved franchises of all time?
Here's what the always-awesome Connor Trinneer—who also happened to have played one of the coolest Stargate Atlantis characters ever, the Wraith Michael—told Star Trek.com when asked about that type of fan reaction in a recent interview:
I haven't heard anybody who blamed our show for doing that to the franchise. I think our show, in a sense, got kind of burned. Look, as far as I know, if our ratings weren't equal to Voyager or to DS9, they weren't very far off. We were doing the same thing as far as fans, people watching our show, that everybody else was doing in regards to the business side of it. It didn't seem that different to me. If you look back at that network and what was airing on that network, we were just the elephant walking through the room. We were not the thing that that network was looking to do by the time we showed up. Voyager was the cornerstone for it. So was our show, for the network, in certain sense, probably in a matter of making money. But in terms of the audience they were trying to get, it certainly wasn't a science-fiction audience. You know what I mean? And that didn't help. When you have shows on networks, you want people to stay there because they watch advertising, show after show. You had to go watch our show. That's not to say that other shows don't have to have that happen as well, but at the time, on the network we were on, that was the deal. If you were looking for young teenagers doing whatever and then we showed up, you were going to change the channel. But if you were looking for us, you'd watch it.
Responsible for any demise? I think that was nonsense. When you look back on it, all of the shows took a couple of years to find their sea legs. And I think, absolutely, we got our sea legs. Is there an argument that you can only go to the well so many times? Absolutely. It's also an argument I'd agree with. How many years in a row can you keep it going? We happened to be the show that, for whatever reason, they said, "Stop." They were expensive. They were all expensive. But in terms of what we did and what we accomplished, I think everyone involved with it, myself included, has nothing but pride for what we did and we hang our hat on that.
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Las Colinas Urban Center is known for its bustling business atmosphere, but businesses hope commuters and residents will stick around after work hours to enjoy new water recreational activites.
Pedal boats and paddle boarding are making an appearance around the Las Colinas' Urban Center.
Gondola Adventures Manager Derrick Johnson said they added eight of the recreational pedal boat vehicles after receiving numerous requests for them.
The latest news from around North Texas.
"It was a need for pedal boats," Johnson said. "Something different and unique, and so, here we are today."
Johnson said the propeller-driven boats are smoother and easier to pedal than an average pedal boat.
"You have one level on the three-seater, and on the singles, you have two levels, including pedaling," Johnson said.
Another addition to Lake Carolyn is paddle boarding. Kevan Burt, owner of Stand Up Paddle North Texas, said he picked the location strategically.
"Right now all the residents are leaving," he said. "You cannot find them on a Saturday and Sunday, Las Colinas, just disappears. The residents take off, and we don't know where they go, so we're trying to capture them and bring them here."
Burt hopes the new entertainment options will build a sense of community to those who call this place their home.
Las Colinas Resident Damon Tackett said he's been looking to take advantage of his backyard lake since moving to the area nearly four years ago.
"It's a beautiful body of water outside of a beautiful neighborhood, and we haven't been able to do much on it," Tackett said.
Tackett said the new boats represent the changes taking place in the urban center. He says he's noticed a lot of development in the area over the past year.
"I called it the land that time forgot," Tackett said. "But now there's a ton of activity, there is a lot more people, there's businesses coming out here, there's more activities on the waters, so it's turning into a really fun location."


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Ninja wrote:You do realize that giving tanks enough statistical advantages to efficaciously do battle with 3 enemies at once would make them OP because one would simply have them fight against individual foes anyways due to their stats having to be so augmented that they would be OP if they were ever placed into a fight against any single unit (barring bosses)? That's the major reason why this "solution" isn't a solution at all.
The Kingmaker wrote:I was about to post this earlier but didn't because I didn't think anyone was enough of a dunce to point it out.
Of -ing course attacks and defensive stats would be either UP or OP when facing enemies with a hypothetical three-enemy-blocking tank. So of -ing course the additional damage/armour/hp would only come in when facing more than one enemy


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Feds: 6 arrested in lucrative false tax return scheme
Six people were arrested on Long Island Thursday on charges of fraudulently collecting more than $2.5 million in federal income tax refunds in a scheme that is spreading across the country, authorities said.
The scheme involves exploiting a regulation that exempts residents of Puerto Rico from paying federal income tax on money earned on the island, officials said.
"This scheme has metastasized throughout the country," Loretta Lynch, the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District, said in a statement.
Similar schemes have defrauded the federal government of millions of dollars in the Bronx, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Texas, officials said.
To combat the fraud and others involving identity theft in the New York area, Lynch said a task force has been set up involving federal, state and local law enforcement agencies.
Between April 2011 and November 2013, the accused Long Island fraudsters obtained Social Security numbers and other personal information, including dates of birth, from residents of Puerto Rico, then filed tax returns in their names seeking hefty refunds, officials said. The return addresses for the returns were on Long Island.
The indictment did not explain how the accused obtained the checks, though they were charged with cashing them at banks and check-cashing services.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Christopher Caffarone said the Long Island investigation is continuing.
It's unlikely that a person living in Puerto Rico would be aware that their identity was being used in the scheme, sources familiar with the cases said.
The defendants were charged with a number of crimes, including conspiracy, stealing Treasury Department checks and passing the checks with forged endorsements.
They pleaded not guilty during their arraignment Thursday in U.S. District Court in Central Islip.
Those charged were Rosa Adames, 42, of Valley Stream; Ramon DeLosAngeles, 62, of upstate Cairo; Robert Diaz, 29, of Copiague; Alex Rodriquez, 37, of Freeport; Jokasta Taveras, 28, of Lindenhurst; and David Turcios, 32, of Roosevelt.
Two other defendants are being sought by federal agents, officials said. They are Reyssy Duran, 30, of Freeport; and Nelson Guzman, 44, of Copiague, officials said.
Each faces 10 to 35 years in prison if convicted.