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Phone: 620-615-5050
Fax: 620-615-5055
Hours of Operation: 7:50 a.m. to 3:10 p.m.
Address: 1600 N. Cleveland
Hutchinson, KS 67501
Principal: Jesse Ediger
Board Reports
Mission Statement
Graber Elementary School will provide a quality education in an engaging, positive and fun environment.
Vision Statement
Graber Elementary School: A kind, caring, learning community.
Graber Elementary School is a place where the educational community provides:
•challenging creative opportunities for all.
•a safe caring environment.
•high expectations for teaching and learning.
Graber Elementary School is a place where we see children:
•showing respect for self, others and community.
•accepting personal responsibility.
•participating in learning.
•preparing for the future.
Our School
Graber Elementary School is located at 17th Avenue and Cleveland Street in the northeastern part of Hutchinson Kansas. In the immediate area are Hutchinson High School, Hutchinson Community College, the Kansas State Fairgrounds, and the Kansas Cosmosphere and Space Center. Graber Elementary School was named for a prominent Hutchinson businessman, Willard J. Graber. Mr. Graber served as a Board of Education member of the Hutchinson Public Schools for 12 years.
Graber Elementary was first opened for occupancy in August 1954 with an enrollment of 350 students. Presently, the building serves kindergarten through sixth grade with an enrollment of 340. There are sixteen classrooms, a library media center, a support services room, as well as a computer lab. A large playground including grass covered playing fields and a black top area bordered by the building on the north and east sides. An outdoor classroom is located on the southeast side of the building. A parking lot south of the building provides a drop-off and pick up zone for students as well as additional parking.


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PDIC urges depositors of the closed Empire Rural Bank, Inc. to file deposit insurance claims by February 24, 2020
The Philippine Deposit Insurance Corporation (PDIC) urged depositors of the closed Empire Rural Bank, Inc. to file their deposit insurance claims on or before the last day for filing of claims for insured deposits on February 24, 2020 either through mail addressed to the PDIC Public Assistance Department, 6th Floor, SSS Bldg., 6782 Ayala Avenue corner V.A. Rufino Street, Makati City, or personally during business hours at the PDIC Public Assistance Center, 3rd Floor, SSS Bldg., 6782 Ayala Avenue corner V.A. Rufino Street, Makati City.
The PDIC Charter provides that depositors have until two years from bank takeover to file their deposit insurance claims. Empire Rural Bank, Inc. was ordered closed by the Monetary Board (MB) of the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas on February 22, 2018.
According to PDIC, deposit insurance claims for 75 deposit accounts with aggregate insured deposits amounting to PhP325,740.90 have yet to be filed by depositors. Data show that as of December 31, 2019, PDIC had paid depositors of the closed Empire Rural Bank, Inc. the total amount of PhP25.3 million, corresponding to 98.7% of the bank's total insured deposits amounting to PhP25.6 million.
In filing claims personally, depositors are required to submit their original evidence of deposit and present one (1) valid photo-bearing ID with signature of the depositor. It is recommended, however, to bring at least two (2) valid IDs in case of discrepancies in signature. Depositors may also file claims through mail and enclose their original evidence of deposit and photocopy of one (1) valid photo-bearing ID with signature together with a duly accomplished Claim Form which can be downloaded from the PDIC website, www.pdic.gov.ph.
Depositors who are below 18 years old should submit either a photocopy of their Birth Certificate issued by the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) or a duly certified copy issued by the Local Civil Registrar. Representatives of claimants are required to submit an original copy of a notarized Special Power of Attorney of the depositor or parent of a minor depositor. The Special Power of Attorney template may be downloaded from the PDIC website.
Depositors who have been notified of their documentary deficiencies through official letters from PDIC are requested to comply with the indicated requirements. The procedures and requirements for the filing of deposit insurance claims are posted in the PDIC website, www.pdic.gov.ph.
Meanwhile, depositors with balances of more than the maximum deposit insurance coverage (MDIC) of PhP500,000 who were not able to file their claims on May 7, 2018, the deadline earlier set, should file their claims with the Liquidation Court (Regional Trial Court, Branch 2, Batangas City) under Sp. Proc. No. 18-94. Likewise, depositors who will not be able to file their deposit insurance claims on February 24, 2020 should file their claims with the said Liquidation Court. Payment of these claims shall be subject to availability of assets of the closed bank, legal priority and approval of the Liquidation Court.
Depositors who have outstanding loans or payables to the bank will be referred to the duly designated Loans Officer prior to the settlement of their deposit insurance claims. For more information, depositors and depositor-borrowers may contact the Public Assistance Department at telephone number (02) 8841-4141, or e-mail at email@example.com. Those outside Metro Manila may call the PDIC toll free at 1-800-1-888-PDIC or 1-800-1-888-7342. Inquiries may also be sent as private message at Facebook through www.facebook.com/OfficialPDIC.
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The Philippine Deposit Insurance Corporation (PDIC) was established on June 22, 1963 by Republic Act 3591 to provide depositor protection and help maintain stability in the financial system by providing deposit insurance. Effective June 1, 2009, the maximum deposit insurance coverage is PhP500,000 per depositor. All deposit accounts by a depositor in a closed bank maintained in the same right and capacity shall be added together. A joint account shall be insured separately from any individually-owned deposit account.
PDIC news/press releases and other information are available at the website, www.pdic.gov.ph.
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Low income renters in St. Louis can apply for eviction prevention programs if they lease their home or apartment. Additional assistance in the city can also rehouse the currently homeless, and both of these HUD funded programs have a goal of ensuring families of all income levels have safe and affordable housing.
The agencies that help stop homelessness are often part of the Continuum of Care. This includes non-profits such as the Human Development Corporation, the staff at the Catholic Charity affiliated Housing Resource Center, and many other charities. The government human service offices in St. Louis also try to limit, or stop, evictions from occurring in the first place.
The methods used to stop an eviction include both monetary (including government grants for energy bills, water or rent) and non-financial. This latter method is often much more effective to ending the crisis. This form of eviction help includes everything from legal aid to helping a tenant find a better paying job. Non-monetary support also commonly involves mediation between landlords and tenants, which can often lead to a negotiated solution or payment plan.
Eviction assistance is available from organizations such as the St. Louis Housing Resource Center (phone (314) 802-5444) or Catholic Charities among others. These groups operate at multiple offices in the city. It is recommended that tenants can the center to make an appointment.
Before the session, applicants should bring a copy of their lease agreement, proof of past payments, the original pay or quit/vacate notice, and proof of residency. The homeless prevention programs are available to people of all ages, backgrounds, races, and genders. It does not matter if the individual is a veteran, single mother, or disabled, help may be offered. Services are also offered in Spanish and other languages. Assistance can be provided in many different ways.
In many cases, studies show that no two eviction cases are handled the same way by the Continuum of Care. Some tenants just need more time to overcome a hardship, and they can then resume rent payments on their own. These clients may be given a payment plan. Many families need direct financial help, and homeless prevention will try to provide the money they need. Those are just a couple examples.
St. Louis Missouri non-profits usually find that applicants have multiple challenges. Therefore any eviction prevention program will require case management. Even if a tenant is given a cash grant for paying their rent or heating bills, they still need to meet all of the goals and objectives outlined in the case management process.
Homeless prevention will also work to get families, children, senior citizens, and others into long term, stable housing. This is what St. Louis Rapid Rehousing strives for. It takes the chronically homeless as well as newly evicted and tries to stabilize their situation. There are different forms of assistance provided for this as well.
In an emergency, the non-profits such as the Urban League of Metro St. Louis continue to try to prevent evictions and homelessness. It is a never ending issue in the city, and the Continuum of Care and other organizations are focused on the challenge.
With the increasing cost of housing, food, and energy bills, more families struggle to keep up with their rent each month. Families should ask for help as soon as they struggle. If they have an eviction notice, do not wait to ask for assistance. More information is at (800) 427-4626, or try groups such as the Human Development Corporation in the region.
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The Purpose of the Office of the Chief Disciplinary Counsel
We may believe that the Assistant Disciplinary Counsel and the Investigators that work with them are your friend and advocate, that all you need to do is to show the State Bar what you believe to be the truth, and the truth will set you free. Please understand that this division of the State Bar is all about prosecution. Its not the CLE division. Its not the dues division. Its not the advertising division. Its not the support division. It's the enforcement arm of the State Bar.
Traps for the unwary
You may try explaining one thing about a Rule violation to the State Bar investigator or the State Bar attorney and wind up incriminating yourself with another Rule violation. Keep this in mind when you respond to the inquiries from the State Bar, even though they may seem friendly and helpful when they contact with you.
Example 1
You may try to personally respond to an inquiry by the State Bar by proving that you made the payment or the refund to the client by sending the State Bar a copy of the check. You rest comfortably knowing that you indeed proved the payment. However, the check that you provided to the client and copied to the State Bar was drawn on the wrong account, i.e. the IOLTA Account instead of the Operating Account, or vice versa. Even though you proved that you gave the payment to the client, the State Bar may now go after you for: co-mingling funds (property); withholding client's property; and several other rule violations.
Example 2
You may try to personally respond to an inquiry by the State Bar wherein the client alleges you neglected his case. You tell the State Bar in your response all of the great things you did for the client. You write that you would provide copies to the State Bar if you could just locate "your" file. You may have forgotten that the file is not "your" file, even though you did all of the work that was placed into the file. The reason the file is not your file is because you are the agent of the client. The client is the principal. You work for the principal as his agent. The money that the principal gave to you for the work that you did for him was to create the principal's file. The file belongs to the client and now you have just admitted that you failed to maintain the safekeeping of the client's property, you lost the client's file, which is another rule violation, in and of itself.
Example 3
The worst thing to do when the State Bar sends you an inquiry is to act offended, indignant, and spiteful of the client, the State Bar and the entire grievance process. You write that the client is a stupid idiot and knows nothing of what she is alleging, even though this stupid idiot was smart enough to hire you and pay you a handsome fee. You belittle the response by saying that the client or the State Bar lacks standing to bring such a frivolous and unfounded complaint. Watch out, all you are doing in this situation is adding lighter fluid to an otherwise smoking fire.
Example 4
The State Bar tells you that a complaint has been filed against you and you don't recognize the complainant. Can it be, you don't know the person and the person was not your client. You are certain that the State Bar made a huge mistake. They can't do that, can they? It doesn't matter, anyone can bring a complaint against you, including the State Bar. In fact, the State Bar can bring an action against you without anyone ever filing a formal complaint.
The reason to hire a true advocate when dealing with a grievance
This is exactly why we say that you should not respond to the State Bar on your own. Equally as bad, you should not respond to the State Bar with the help of your "friend," another attorney, because your friend will only present your characterization of the facts. Besides, friends don't have any better idea on how to deal with the State Bar than you do.
Unfriendly territory
You must understand that the entire environment (the grievance process from start to finish) is not friendly. Instead, its dangerous, being full of traps and pitfalls.
Immediately hire a person that regularly deals with grievance defense from the first day that you get the notice of the State Bar's inquiry.


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March 29, 2012 - Loan Phuong Hoang first discovered the rich data repository on the World Bank's website almost 10 years ago when she was a student, doing some research for her assignment. Currently an editor at a prominent newspaper in Vietnam, Loan is much happier with how easy it is to find what she needs.
"The [Bank's] new website, especially the Data section, is much more accessible, interesting and convenient," Loan said. "Now I can easily navigate within the site. I will definitely visit it more often."
Since April 2010, the World Bank Group began free up access to more than 2,000 statistics that previously it charged a subscription fee. The statistics cover many development topics dating back some 50 years ago, to include financial, business, health, economic and human development. Today, over 7,000 indicators are available to the public.
"It's important to make the data and knowledge of the World Bank available to everyone," World Bank President Robert B. Zoellick said back then. "Statistics tell the story of people in developing and emerging countries and can play an important part in helping to overcome poverty."
Transparency, accountability and participation are all at the forefront of the World Bank's citizen-centered development approach called Open Development. The key components behind the initiative are Open Data and Knowledge, Open Operations and Tools as well as Open Solutions.
Key element for development
"The World Bank recognizes that transparency and accountability are essential to the development process and central to achieving the Bank's mission to alleviate poverty," said Victoria Kwakwa, World Bank Country Director for Vietnam. "We are committed to provide updated and reliable data and research to support Government and all segments of Vietnamese society to make better-informed decisions and to measure improvements more accurately."
Trung Dang Le, Research Director at Indochine Research and Consulting (IRC) and PhD Candidate at the University of Copenhagen believes that more open and more transparent access to information on socio-economic research will help ensure Vietnam's sustainable development.
According to Trung, the Bank's financial and technical assistance in the last few decades has helped Vietnam to make remarkable progress in building a statistical system. "The Bank's data system itself has always been a reliable resource for Vietnam," Trung said.
The Bank's data are also valuable tools to support research by journalists, members of the academia and other individuals by broadening their understanding of global issues.
Another long-time user of the Bank's website since 2002, Phong Son That Ton, Director of Livestock Competitiveness and Food Safety Project, said that data pulling from the site has helped him a lot in his work.
"Documents about Bank-supported projects in several countries and country partnership strategy helped me generate many ideas in preparing and implementing projects," Phong said. "New Bank guidance on project implementation and progress reports for Bank-supported projects in Vietnam and other countries helped me to assess and compare the progress of the project under my management."
How-to guide to the Bank's data site
The site (data.worldbank.org) allows users several ways to access the data they are looking for. The Data home page offers users the option to access the data directly through the database, by country, by topic, or by indicator.
Browse Country data
The Countries page provides a listing of all economies, listed alphabetically. Users can choose a country from the list and will be presented with a page displaying relevant data for that choice. The top of the page provides context information: region, income group, the country's GDP, and population.
Browse Topic data
The Topics page provides an alphabetical listing of sixteen economic development topics. The page presents a short description of the topic, topic related indicators, regional aggregates, and visualizations of key data. Users can also select a single indicator from the indicators list and view data for over 200 countries in the last five years.
Browse Indicator data
The Indicators page provides a listing of 331 indicators from World Development Indicators (WDI), listed alphabetically. World Development Indicators is the World Bank's premier annual compilation of development data drawing on data from the World Bank and internationally recognized sources which help measure the progress of development.
Browse the Data catalog
The data catalog is a listing of available World Bank data sources and provides access to over 7,000 indicators. This listing will continue to be updated as additional data resources are added.


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Our cup overflows.
This month brought makeup, pretty bracelts and dark chocolate, oh my! We seriously felt like a child going through all the fun. You'll love it to. It's like getting a gift from a friend.
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text: Misfits is a physical theatre piece exploring the metaphysical state of falling in and out of love and the universal need to find your perfect 'fit'. Set in the mundane environment of a contemporary laundromat, stories stop and start in search of their perfect match. Showing 4th/5th/6th March 2016 at Stomping Grounds 9 Stepney St, Stepney SA.


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|Doeve Brokers
|Westhavenkade 87C, Vlaardingen, 3133AV, Netherlands
|Doeve Brokers and Valuers Yachts & Ships
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|€170,000 |
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|VAT Status not specified, see brokers website for more details
Near Middelburg, Netherlands Zeeland Netherlands
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Former inland cargo ship, registered as sailing heritage, converted and redesigned into a comfortable sailing Live aboard with TRIWV certification. In 1923 the ship was extended by 5 meters, so that the loading capacity went from 100 tons to 136 tons. It is a ship with a rich history, of which much has been preserved. The layout from the front to the back is as follows: forepeak with anchor chain, workshop in the front, bathroom with bath, toilet, galley, salon, the original galley, rear cabin, aft cabin. The stove with 2 hot plates and 2 ovens is a jewel in the kitchen. Although daily cooking takes place on electric hot plates, the stove can also be heated with coal or diesel if desired. Take-over Residential mooring and terrace with shed are negotiable.The Residential mooring is a total of approximately 300 m2 and is located at the edge of the historical center of Middelburg. The full details of this ship can be found at www.doevemakelaar.nl or if you want to view the complete information of this ship by clicking here.
|Vessel type:
|(ex) professional sail, live a board (with propulsion), sailing yacht
|Shipyard Wed. Duyvendijk, NL-Papendrecht
|Dutch owner B-registered Costs for the change of ownership and / or deletion are for purchasers amount.
|Engine model:
|Deutz 517 1959 reconditioned 1995
|Engine power:
|116 Hp 85 kW
|Length over all:
|Maximum draft:
|Hull type:
|Hull colour:
|black hull lilac bulwark white superstructure
Cabins: 1 cabin
Berths: 1x 2-pers 1x 1-pers
Heads: flush toilet
Oven: 2x oven
Microwave: microwave/oven
Refrigerator: 230 Volt
Freezer: freezer
Interior: pine pine ceiling with laths (classic) pine floors various materials have been used
Bathroom: bath with shower mixer tap with hot & cold running water mixer tap with hot & cold running water washbasin tiled bathroom
Additional information: useful as live-aboard very well maintained well maintained The vessel will be delivered as without the private goods like furniture, clothing, artwork and tools.
Builder: Shipyard Wed. Duyvendijk, NL-Papendrecht
Year: 1892
Hull Material: steel
Superstructure Construction: iron/steel
Deck Construction: iron/steel
Hull Type: flatbottom
Displacement: 72,000 m3
LOA: 27.07 metres
Beam: 5.05 metres
Draft: 1.10 metres
Air Draft: 3,40 m everything down 21,00 m
Hull Colour: black hull lilac bulwark white superstructure
Hull Construction: iron/steel
Keel Type: hardwooden leeboards 2x leeboards winch electric operated centreboard
Water pressure system: Speck PM10 hydrophore pump
Navigation equipment: 2x Sailor RT1400 VHF Explorer A4 Automatic Identification System (AIS) horn navigation lights
Engine Manufacturer: Deutz 517 1959 reconditioned 1995
Horse Power: 116 Hp 85 kW
Cylinders: 6
Fuel: diesel present
Gearbox: Gray Marine mechanical reduction/ratio 3:1
Cooling System: closed cooling pipes dry exhaust insulated exhaust
Drive Type: 3 blade propeller greased lubrication of propeller shaft
Tanks: 1x 800 ltr 1x 200 ltr 1x 1350 ltr steel tank(s)
Bow Thruster: bow rudder
Heating: Froling EN25 central heating on diesel Osbe Dansk stove on wood
Winches: 1x sail winch with 3 reels 1x electric sail winch with 3 reels 1x sheet winch
Rigging type: gaff rigged
Mast: larch
Lowerable: spreader yes
Boom: Oregon Pine
Jib boom / Bowsprit: wooden Jib boom
Sails: mainsail 135 m2 jib 45 m2 yankee 20 m2
Additional information: pitch pine jib boom sail cover
Batteries: 4x 200 Ah domestic batterie(s) 2x 200 Ah starter batterie(s)
Battery Charger: Victron Phoenix combi inverter/charger 24/2500/70
Generator: 230/400 Volt Deutz diesel 15 kVA 1500 RPM
Inverter: Victron Phoenix combi inverter/charger 24/2500/70
Electricity system: 24 / 230 / 400 Volt 400 Volt shore power connection
Battery isolator: present
Earth-leakage breaker: present
Bilge Pumps: submersible pump
Dinghy: GRP dinghy
Safety : 2x life buoy 4x fire extinguishers life jackets according to the certification requirements
Certificates: inland waterways certificated (TRIWV) zone 2 Netherlands zone 3 zone 4 Waal, Lek & NL Rhine valid until: 09-2021
Suitable for / as: can be used as live-aboard recreational vessel inland waterways
General information: The ship is recognized as a Historic Vessel
Doeve Brokers and Valuers Yachts & Ship is based in the Netherlands (near Rotterdam)and are already Since 1972 in the Sale & Purchase brokerage.
We are a HISWA Qualified Yacht & Shipbroker and are also EMCI registered Yacht broker. For more information regarding our listings or what we can do for you please contact us. All our listings are located on the own mooring. If you want to look at one or more of our listing, Please let us know and we will make appointments for viewing.


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Hoboken teacher honored as Innovator
Some good new to report about Hoboken today…
NJCSA Honors Hoboken Teacher
Named State's "Charter School Innovator of the Year"
"Chris Kunkel, a math teacher at the Hoboken Charter School, was honored at the New Jersey Charter Schools Association's conference March 18 as "Charter School Innovator of the Year."
"This is a wonderful award and I am honored to receive it," he said.
Kunkel, who is also a middle school facilitator, developed the Academic Elective Program at the charter school located in Hoboken.
"He found a creative way to utilize existing resources to provide an exciting academic enrichment program around core subject areas and, at the same time, strengthen student interaction across grade levels," said award presenter Wanda Garcia, associate director of the Rutgers-Camden Center for Strategic Urban Community Leadership and a member of the NJCSA board.
Garcia said the Academic Elective Program began with teachers developing coursework around areas of expertise and interest, while also taking into consideration student needs and interests.
Courses in the program include engineering, electronics, forensics, astronomy, poetry, public speaking, mock trial, current events, spooky literature and environmental awareness and action.
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(Chris Kunkel Honored, continued…)
So many teachers offered to participate that it was possible to offer a wide range of courses and keep class sizes below 10 students, while mixing together students of different ages, Garcia said.
"The program engages students in coursework that enriches their core studies, fosters relationship-building among students and faculty in a small-group setting, and exposes students to various careers," she said. "This remarkable program is helping Hoboken Charter School's students advance academically while enjoying their time doing so."
The program that Kunkel started has also proved highly effective in helping retain students after fourth grade — a challenge for smaller schools with limited enrichment opportunities.
Kunkel's program has received rave reviews among middle school students, faculty and parents, and its reputation is growing.
"Through the Academic Electives Program, Chris has brought new life into Hoboken's middle school," Garcia said.
Kunkel first entered the profession through the Teach for America program and has been a teacher for five years. He entered the field out of a commitment to quality education for all students, regardless of income level. He finds that charter schools provide a place for innovative teachings and a way to avoid much of the bureaucracy associated with public schools. He is a graduate of Millersville University in Pennsylvania, where he earned a bachelor's degree in math and physics
Carlos Lejnieks, chairman of the NJCSA board, said Kunkel exemplifies the spirit and enthusiasm of the entire charter school community, adding that he is a shining example of all that can be accomplished.
The two-day conference in Long Branch, attended by hundreds of educators, parents and supporters of New Jersey's growing charter school movement, spotlighted the many achievements of the state's 68 charter schools and featured discussions among state and national leaders about how these schools are transforming public education.
The conference was also attended by notable New Jersey officials, each with a reputation for being at the forefront of education reform. Governor Chris Christie gave the keynote address and Education Commissioner Bret Schundler delivered a speech supporting charter schools. The NJCSA also honored former Governor Thomas H. Kean with the first-ever "Great Leaders in Education" award.


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|I'm Goin' to Praiseland
Cultural references
- The title of the episode is a spoof of the Paul Simon song Graceland, in which the lyrics "I'm goin' to Graceland" are present.
- The Christian theme park is likely inspired by Holy Land, USA, a biblical-themed park in Waterbury, Connecticut that was open to visitors from 1955 to 1984. Although the park is closed, the lit up 50 foot cross is easily visible from both route 8 and Interstate 84
- Comic Book Guy's dream parodies Star Trek, Catwoman and Agent 99 (Get Smart TV series). Coincidentally, actress Anne Hathaway portrayed both characters in Get Smart and The Dark Knight Rises.
- In Disco Stu's discothèque vision of Heaven:
- Frank Sinatra was seen in Disco Stu's dream.
- The end sequence song (and the song that plays when Disco Stu hallucinates that he is being let into a disco version of Heaven) is "Get Dancin'" by Disco-Tex and the Sex-O-Lettes.
- After being kicked by Moo-Tilda, Professor Frink exclaims the name of Canadian producer/director Ivan Reitman.
- Rachel Jordan, who last appeared in the episode "Alone Again, Natura-Diddily" returns.
- The last Ned owned something leaking gas that caused hallucinations was in "Skinner's Sense of Snow".
- Lisa's saxophone solo in the opening for this episode was later reused in a scene in "Blazed and Confused".
- In the scene where everyone leaves Praiseland, Dr. Nick Riviera says "Bye, everybody" (which is the opposite of his usual "Hi, everybody!" quote, also the words 'hi' and 'bye' rhyme).
- This episode is a sequel to "Alone Again, Natura-Diddily".
- When the citizens are leaving the park in disappointment, Manjula, who is behind Apu, is yellow, has brown hair, and is wearing blue clothes.
- At one point, when the Simpsons and Flanders are outside and in front of the latter family's house, Rodd's shirt is green.
- After Helen Lovejoy makes a very tall stack of ice cream scoops on the cone, she is wearing lipstick.
- When Professor Frink showcases his cow, Brandine Spuckler's belly is drawn the same color of green as the top garment she wears instead of yellow.
- Once, when Martin Prince Sr. is seen among other attendees at the church's ice cream social, his hair is blond.
- When Homer burns Bo Peep, one statue sheep don't have a skeleton and the other sheep has one. (That's because it was a real sheep)
- Homer wasn't seen putting beer bottles inside Old Woman's Shoe in "Lisa the Vegetarian" (Though they may be instead from him, working and drinking at Praiseland, before it opened).
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The Genetics of Political Attitudes and Behavior: Claims and Refutations
Joseph, Jay, Ethical Human Psychology and Psychiatry
Some political scientists have argued in recent years that twin research shows that genetic factors play an important role in shaping political attitudes, ideologies, and behavior. Moreover, some researchers claim to have identified genes for political traits at the molecular level. The author argues that the main theoretical assumption of the twin method, which holds that monozygotic and dizygotic twin pairs experience equal environments, is untenable. Therefore, the results of twin studies can be completely explained by nongenetic factors. The author also argues that recent gene discovery claims in political science are unlikely to be replicated. He concludes that because genetic interpretations of twin study results are confounded by environmental factors, political scientists have no reason to revise previous socialization theories of political traits.
Keywords: behavioral genetics; equal environment assumption; genetics; political science; twin study; molecular genetics; voting
Since at least 2005, political scientists Alford, Funk, and Hibbing (2005) and others have argued that differences in political orientation and behavior have an important genetic basis (others making such claims include Alford, Funk, & Hibbing, 2008a, 2008b; Bell, Shermer, & Vernon, 2009; Fowler, Baker, & Dawes, 2008; Fowler & Dawes, 2008; Hatemi, Alford, Hibbing, Martin, & Eaves, 2009; Hatemi, Medland, & Eaves, 2009; Hatemi, Medland, Morely, Heath, & Martin, 2007; Medland & Hatemi, 2009; Hatemi et al., 2010). Intuitively, we might reject such an idea out of hand, yet the past few years have seen claims that the link between genes and political behavior and attitudes has been established by twin research. This has led to the creation of the nascent field of "genopolitics" and to the claim that there is a "developing consensus that genes play an important role in political behavior" (Settle, Dawes, & Fowler, 2009, p. 601).
It is my understanding that political scientists take quantitative empirical methodology very seriously. Thus, one can only welcome a thorough evaluation of twin research by this field. This does not usually occur in psychiatry and psychology, where journals regularly publish the results of behavioral genetic research with little or no critical analysis. Conversely, genetic theories and claims have sparked a debate in political science on the validity of twin research (for criticism of twin research in political science, see Beckwith & Morris, 2008; Charney, 2008a, 2008b, 2010; Suhay, Kalmoe, & McDermott, 2007; for responses to these critics, see Alford et al., 2008a, 2008b; Hannagan & Hatemi, 2008).
What concerns us here is the possible role of genetic influences on individual differences in political attitudes and behavior, not the undisputed fact that human beings are the product of both their genes and their environments. Political scientists Hannagan and Hatemi (2008) stated the obvious when they wrote, mistakenly implying that critics of genetic research disagree, "The scientific community recognizes that genes are very much a part of what it means to be human" (p. 332). We might as well say that the scientific community recognizes that Barack Obama won the 2008 U.S. presidential election. Human behavioral genetic researchers, however, are concerned with trait variation in the population and usually conclude that heredity plays an important role in explaining this variation.
In their twin study, Alford et al. (2005) concluded that "genetics plays an important role in shaping political attitudes and ideologies" (p. 153). They reached this conclusion on the basis of finding a significantly higher correlation of MZ (monozygotic, identical) versus same-sex DZ (dizygotic, fraternal) twin pairs on Wilson-Patterson Attitude Inventory scores. They used the "classical twin method" (hereafter the "twin method"; political science twin researchers sometimes refer to the twin method as the "classical twin design"). …


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|Administration Building interior demolition
With all employees moved out of the building and the successful auction of furnishings, interior demolition of the Administration Building is currently in progress and will continue through the end of the year. The building interior is being removed down to structural features and will be replaced with a state-of-the-art, modern work environment, with plenty of open space for collaboration, meeting rooms and a welcome center for campus visitors. Construction crews have already removed truckloads of material that will be re-used or donated to local charities.
Construction of new research laboratory space in the Dybedal Center for Research is also underway. The work includes a large laboratory, a confocal microscope room, a cell culture room, and adjacent animal holding and procedure rooms. Select upgrades to the building lobby and utility improvements for other laboratory spaces are being performed in conjunction with this work, which will be ready for occupancy in January.
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With this card, it seems to be easier to figure out doomsday stacks. The lab man stack requires you to cast lab man, then draw into 0 card library. With this you can easily cast and win with 2 cards in library. Doomsday may actually be playable.
Ancestral recall
Black lotus
Its time to restrict Mox Opal. One of the main fuel for PO
Excellent stream throughout the weekend. No or little downtime between rounds as players are being invited to discuss their matches as well as the speedup stream of second featured match after the first featured match ends was excellent. Cheers and congrats to the winners and host.
Been toying with this Gift Intuition Fastbond version. Your main combo will be setting up Fastbond+ Crucible + Wasteland/Bazaar/Glacial chasm combo where you can draw your whole deck and win with Cephalid Coliseum. This can easily be done through tutors like Intuition, Gift ungiven, Demonic tutor, Merchant scroll, Crop Rotation. As for the sideboard you can turn into Oath deck. This is a rough copy of the deck.
1 Black Lotus
1 Mox Emerald
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Island
2 Bazaar of Baghdad
1 Buried Ruin
1 Cephalid Coliseum
1 Glacial Chasm
4 Misty Rainforest
1 Riftstone Portal
1 Strip Mine
3 Wasteland
1 Fiery Islet
4 Tropical Island
2 Underground Sea
1 Bayou
1 Inventors' Fair
1 The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale
4 Fastbond
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Chain of Vapor
1 Crop Rotation
1 Mental Misstep
1 Noxious Revival
1 Ponder
1 Gush
2 Mana Drain
1 Demonic Tutor
1 Life from the Loam
1 Merchant Scroll
1 Regrowth
1 Time Walk
4 Crucible of Worlds
2 Intuition
1 Yawgmoth's Will
2 Gifts Ungiven
4 Force of Will
4 Oath of Druids
1 Archon of valor reach
1 Muldrotha
3 Tormods crypt
2 Flusterstorm
1 Mindbreak Trap
3 Null Rod
High Tide vintage with fastbond
OMG. 1 mana.
Isn't it close to something like Death Wish/ Grim tutor in storm? 3 mana to get a card
LSV Fastbond Green sun zenith
Oh there are fake decks at mtggoldfish results?
This deck went 5-0 in the Vintage league. It runs cards like Beseech, Shared Memory, Doomsday and Bolas Citadel, Helm of awakening, Paradox engine....
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4 Beseech the Queen
1 Demonic Tutor
3 Doomsday
2 Grim Tutor
1 Imperial Seal
2 Tendrils of Agony
4 Dark Ritual
4 Shred Memory
1 Vampiric Tutor
1 Black Lotus
3 Bolas's Citadel
1 Chrome Mox
1 Helm of Awakening
1 Mana Crypt
1 Mana Vault
1 Mox Emerald
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Pearl
1 Mox Ruby
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Mystic Forge
1 Paradox Engine
1 Sensei's Divining Top
1 Time Vault
1 Tormod's Crypt
3 Voltaic Key
16 Swamp
2 Bitter Ordeal
2 Dispossess
1 Extirpate
2 Infinite Obliteration
2 Lost Legacy
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RFID in Europe Magazine Febuary 2016
The RFID in Europe Magazine for Febuary 2017 is availible to download now
RFID in Europe AISBL is a not-for-profit organization established in 2012. RFID in Europe's principle goal is to promote the adoption of Radio Frequency Identification and related technology solutions enabling small and medium sized organizations throughout Europe to gain competitive advantage through their best use. RFID in Europe connects with European end-users, operators, solution providers, universities, research establishments, non-government and government organizations and all other European stakeholders through own initiatives and promotion of national projects via our international network. RFID in Europe is an extension of a European Commission FP7 Thematic Network called RACE networkRFID initiated in 2009.
European RFID survey
Participate in the European RFID survey conducted by the 'RFID in Europe Network' and 'ELTRUN': the E-business Research center of Athens University of Economics and Business !
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5 Ways To Maximize Your Morning Commute
We'll say it — morning commutes can be an absolute drag. If you're driving to work each day, there's the the long drive + unbearable rush-hour traffic. If you commute via public transportation, you're up against delayed busses//subway cars, limited access to cell phone signal [Must. Load. Instagram.], + the general discomfort of commuting with hundreds of others on their way to work each day. No matter the method, our biggest worry as #GirlBo$$es is wasted time.
Think about it for a second — how much time do you actually spend commuting to + from work each day? Each week? It adds up quickly, ++ while it's definitely easy to fall back asleep on the Monday morning subway ride, we're challenging you to take advantage of your commute. Instead of seeing your morning journey as a necessary evil, re-shift your perception. Many us of are given [at least] an extra hour a day: what good can we do with it?
So, not really sure where to start? Check out these five, easy ways to transform your commute!
Who said learning was just for the classroom? Your morning commute is a perfect time to wake up the brain + dedicate personal time to something you've been dying to learn! Headed to Florence with the family for an upcoming vacation + want to impress em'? Teach yourself Italian with language-learning tools like Rosetta Stone + our favorite, Duolingo [which has an offline mode when cell service is unavailible]. We also dig podcasts [check out some of our favorites here!], audiobooks [accessible at your local library, iTunes, + with services like Audible], + of course — the classic paperback. Change up your normal reading material + explore topics you've been interested in but haven't found the time for, yet!
Becoming more mindful seems to be on all of our resolution lists this year, but very few of us have the time to add in an extra hour on the yoga mat each morning. ++ while it seems a little weird to meditate on a crowded subway, trust us on this one: getting some *me time* in each morning will help set the mood for the rest of your day. If you're not operating a vehicle, check out some guided meditation apps [we love Headspace, Calm, Pacifica ++ even Spotify has guided meditation!].
There are plenty of books on the subject too — Gabby Bernstein's May Cause Miracles is the ideal how-to guide for anyone looking to begin their own mindfulness journey, especially during the morning + evening commutes. Whatever you choose, take this time to really get to know yourself. We change on a daily basis, but rarely have the opportunity to acknowledge it — so skip the extra snooze time + embrace the moment.
The easiest way to really maximize your morning commute? Have it double as your #sweatsesh! Depending on your length of travel, add in some cardio on your way to the office or classroom. If you live in a bikeable city, test out a morning cycling route — especially if your city offers a bike-sharing program like Citi Bike [NYC] + Divvy [Chicago]. Even if you can't cruise around by bike, make an effort to walk more by getting off the bus//metro a few stops earlier — we promise, the fresh air is definitely worth it!
Very few of us take on purely creative endeavors. ++ how can we? Our days are jam-packed with work, school, + workouts, with very little time to delve into anything else. Use your morning commute to dig deeper into your creative side + really flex those right-brain muscles. With earbuds in + the right playlist [we can't stop listening to Noiz + Spotify's *Creativity Boost* playlist], this time is perfect for brainstorming new ideas, creating + editing new content, ++ just devoting some time to doing your own thing. It's important that we explore subjects that we're truly passionate about that may not necessarily lie within our work//school circle — so take this time for exactly that!
++ finally, probably the most *practical* way to take advantage of our daily commutes — getting ready to take on the day! While it might seem silly, practice going through the motions of the day's schedule — what will each meeting, class, + activity be like? Are you prepared for everything on your calendar? This morning check-in also provides time for last minute prep — studying//cramming for an exam, presentation practice for a big meeting, + anything else you need to get done. By taking time to acknowledging the day's upcoming events, you'll be more prepared + proactive if anything changes or doesn't go quite according to plan. Remember, you're #inCHAARG of your life — don't settle for anything less!
+ Jessica [@jessicasmith_inchaarg] // VirtCHAARG NYC
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Soft Tension by Andrea Maack is a sensual white musk inspired by a thick mysterious fog. Like a white desert, the fog is a place to get lost in and let go. This fragrance is a bold mix of musks combined with freesia that grounds itself in the skin. Black raw materials are mixed with white ones such as mate absolute, cedar wood and moss creating the soft tension.
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No more "Various Registries"
Last week we improved the format of the IANA IPv4 Address Space Registry. It is now much easier to see which address space is available for allocation to RIRs and which address space is reserved for Multicast and Future Use.
We made other changes, too. The IPv4 registry used to report that a lot of /8s were allocated to "Various Registries". That wasn't very helpful to anyone; it was a bit like saying "we don't know". In fact, the RIRs have been providing DNS and Whois services for addresses in these /8s but the IANA IPv4 registry didn't indicate which RIR to consult because addresses in each of these /8s are often used by organisations in different RIR regions.
The RIRs and ICANN staff worked together to provide a more useful registry. Each of these /8s is now shown as "Administered by" one RIR. That RIR manages the reverse DNS for the /8 and provides a Whois service with a referral to the appropriate RIR when necessary.
We hope it's much more useful and transparent than before.


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ELECTROFILMIKA The fusion of cinematography and live electronic music, Presents: Himeh
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This is the first event of ELECTROFILMIKA "The fusion of cinematography and live electronic music" in NYC.
In this premiere, ELECTROFILMIKA presents: Himeh , Colombian Electronic musician based in NYC, who wants to show you part of his new unreleased EP and many styles of music from around the world (techno / tropical downtempo / deep-cumbia / Zouk bass / kuduro and more.)
You are invited to join us in an amazing location with a prefect view!
Sun 5.17 7pm
10-10 44th ave. Long island city NYC
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Bedroom TV Viewing Increases Risk of Obesity in Children
More than two hours of TV a day adds significantly to children's waist size, American Journal of Preventive Medicine reports
San Diego, CA, December 11, 2012 – The average American child from age 8 to 18 watches about 4.5 hours of TV each day. Seventy percent have a TV in the bedroom and about one-third of youth aged 6-19 is considered obese. Previous studies have shown that TV viewing time during childhood and adolescence continues into adulthood, resulting in overweight and elevated total cholesterol. An investigative team from the Pennington Biomedical Research Center in Baton Rouge, LA reports new study findings, establishing the relationship between having and watching TV in the bedroom and childhood obesity, specifically high waist circumference.
"The established association between TV and obesity is predominantly based on BMI. The association between TV and fat mass, adiposity stored in specific depots (including abdominal subcutaneous and visceral adipose tissue), and cardiometabolic risk, is less well understood," says lead investigator Peter T. Katzmarzyk, PhD. "It is hypothesized that higher levels of TV viewing and the presence of a TV in the bedroom are associated with depot-specific adiposity and cardiometabolic risk."
Between 2010 and 2011, 369 children and adolescents aged 5-18 in Baton Rouge, representing a balance between gender, ethnicity, age, and BMI status, were evaluated for a variety of factors, such as waist circumference, resting blood pressure, fasting triglycerides, high-density lipoprotein cholesterol, and glucose, fat mass, and stomach fat.
Statistical analysis of the data developed produced two models. Together, these models revealed that children with a TV in the bedroom were more likely to watch more TV. These children also were shown to have more fat and subcutaneous adipose tissue mass, as well as higher waist circumference, when compared with their peers who did not have a bedroom TV. Study participants with a TV in the bedroom and those who watched TV more than two hours a day were each associated with up to 2.5 times the odds of the highest levels of fat mass. Viewing five or more hours a day produced an association of two times the odds of being in the top quartile for visceral adipose tissue mass. Further, a bedroom TV associated with three times the odds of elevated cardiometabolic risk, elevated waist circumference, and elevated triglycerides.
"There was a stronger association between having a TV in the bedroom versus TV viewing time, with the adiposity and health outcomes," notes study co-author Amanda Staiano, PhD. "A bedroom TV may create additional disruptions to healthy habits, above and beyond regular TV viewing. For instance, having a bedroom TV is related to lower amounts of sleep and lower prevalence of regular family meals, independent of total TV viewing time. Both short sleep duration and lack of regular family meals have been related to weight gain and obesity."
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"Television, Adiposity, and Cardiometabolic Risk in Children and Adolescents," by Amanda E. Staiano, PhD; Deirdre M. Harrington, PhD; Stephanie T. Broyles, PhD; Alok K. Gupta, MD; Peter T. Katzmarzyk, PhD (DOI: 10.1016/j.amepre.2012.09.049). It appears in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine, Volume 44, Issue 1 (January 2013), published by Elsevier.
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|From Album 5
Oh, and speaking of puke funnels.
|From Album 5
2016 and the "election" that year make me homesick for SoCal. From 1972, the first time I could vote until 1999, the last election there before I left, I had the option of more tun the "big two" (actually the two wings of the war party) to vote for. I almost always voted for the folks from the Peace and Freedom party. Yeah, yeah, OK, they were socialists. Big deal, better than the crooks who have run this country since 1913 for sure. Bloody damn Fed.
Some choice, Hi-Larry or Jeb. It will likely come down to that "choice" the way things seem to be going. Yes, Cruz, Rubio, et. al. want to have shot at the top job, but seriously? I mean even the idiot Koch (still rhymes with socks) brothers won't support any of the clown car morons that long. Surely not in the general election. Oh wait, the brothers just might BE that crazy. Now I am starting to worry a bit.
Any way, I'd like to have the opportunity to vote for a party I could at least respect for a change.
As to lil' Bobby and his op ed, big deal, I won't even bother to check that link. After the two terms, nearly, we have suffered under his misrule, anything he has to say, unless it is to beg our forgiveness, is not worth my time. Sorry, no disrespect to your research Michael. I read your blog, Rude Pundit, Tom Aswell (Louisiana Voice) C.B. Forgotston, and Robert Mann, any more of, from, or about lil' Bobby will be overkill for me.
Hope your weekend isn't too wet. Best to you and Tigger.
We'll see on the weekend. The "big gubmit" National Weather Service still has rain for Saturday, but Wunderground is saying just clouds...of course, Wunderground and all the other weather services get their data from...ta da: the National Weather Service. Just saying.
Yep, I also think the "choice" is Hi-Larry or Jeb, I guess pronounced "Heb," since he at least once claimed to be Hispanic -- ok, probably just the equivalent of a typo...but it would be funny to watch the reactions from the WASP blue bloods of the Bush and Pierce (Babs) families...hahaha. What's not funny is the "choice." Once again, lesser of evils, but the evils keep getting worse, as Christopher Hitchens once said...before he embraced the worst of the right wingers and their stupid wars.
As for Booby, well...reading it was just another chore. Sucks, but I had to...ugh...what's kind of sad is that his oh-so-brave-and-bold "stand" is little more than pandering to the same wingnut elements that Hitchens bowed to...ok, not quite the same, but the evangelicals and PNACs combined to bring out the worst of both. Anyway, his "stand" will likely cost New Orleans at least a bit of convention business, but hey...to Booby, it's just "those people."
Well...here's to a day enough weekend for yard chores. If I can get that done, good. And I'll rest/read the rest of the time. Have a fun and light memoir of Richard Feynman that I've been enjoying...
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The epitaph for Dov Charney's American Apparel empire may already have been written (by us too!), but the once (and future?)Hipster Czar isn't going down without a fight ad campaign.
Here, we see Dov in Springtime, taking it easy with his employees, everyone involved fully clothed. Of course, this ad answers the question: Are misunderstood branding geniuses Macs, or PCs? [more]
Was there ever any doubt?


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- You'll occasionally see timely Campus Suite announcements at the top that are shown to all users logging in.
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The taxpayer has shelled out over €26.5m in compensation and legal costs to gardai hurt on duty over past three years, according to new figures.
In 2010, €5.3m was paid out while this rose to €7.1m last year.
However, the amount of cases that paid out fell to 120 last year.
Three years ago 175 cases were paid out.
Legal costs for the State totalled €8m over the three years under the Garda Compensation Act .
The average legal cost per case came to just over €19,000 last year.
Individual costs went over €170,000 in different legal cases in both 2011 and 2012.
The new figures were given to the Dáil's spending watchdog, the Public Accounts Committee, by Garda Commissioner Martin Callinan in a letter which was sent to the committee at the end of last month.


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Mark Elf: The Eternal Triangle
The title opener is a mellow cascade into a be-boppy bay where the water's fine and everyone's in the pool. Though Elf does take a solo, it is playful and pleasant and breaks the piece nicely. And it is also not the only spotlight segment of the song. In fact, pretty much everybody gets an individual shot at the listener. Though Elf is featured a bit more on the mellow "This is All I Ask," and though Heath shares the spotlight on the intro and close of "So Samba", solos again abound in this piece and all are back in together on the appropriately-titled jumper "Hot House".
Not only can Elf flex as a player, he also takes a turn at the composer's bench on two pieces. Sandwiched between Ellington's "Prelude to a Kiss" and Kern's "Why Do I Love You?", Elf's "Tea Cup" and the perhaps more appropriately-titled toe-tapper "The Elf" hold their own respectably, showcasing Mr. Elf's talents on both sides of the sheet music.
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1. Eternal Triangle 2. This Is All I Ask 3. So Samba 4. Hot House 5. Stablemates 6. Philly Twist 7. Prelude To A Kiss 8. Tea Cup 9. The Elf 10. Why Do I Love You?
Mark Elf: guitar.
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Title: The Eternal Triangle | Year Released: 2003 | Record Label: Jen Bay Records


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Yeah, we are in December, which means we can scream about Christmas! Although, some of you might be stressing as you may have not yet started your Christmas shopping, meaning you only have a few weeks left! I'm more or less finalised now, just have my fella to shop for. Anyhow, alot of bloggers talk about what dresses to get for the staff doo at this time of year, well I thought it would only be appreciate to talk about SHOES, as we all need a trendy pair of heels to go with those dresses!
Emilio Shoes: Top left shoes, These are vintage lace and only cost £28 at Brantano. Lace is always a must have during Christmas, whether this is a lace dress or shoes. Although, I wouldn't recommend wearing a lace dress with a pair of lace shoes, as this would just clash.These shoes would go perfect with a lovely prom style dress.
Pink London: Bottom left shoes, are from New Look at £59.99. Everyone likes a pair of gold shoes for Christmas, as gold goes perfectly with red, to give off those festival colours. These shoes would go perfect with a slim fitted red dress.
Christian Louboutin: Bottom right shoes, a pair of these shoes are what girls dream off, if only we were rich and could afford even one pair would be amazing. These cost a whooping £975! I want these under my Christmas tree this year! These shoes would go with a cream clifton dress!
Jimmy Choo: Top right shoes, another designer pair of shoes we would love in our wardrobe. The lovely purple feather detail and give off that fashion statement. These cost a huge £695. Would go perfect with a gold a sequin dress.


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Supreme Court Rules on Collective Bargaining Suit
(CN) – The Supreme Court on Thursday reversed a 9th Circuit decision that sent a labor-strike dispute between a local Teamsters union and their employer to arbitration. The court ruled that because no binding contract existed at the time of the strike, the issue of damages suffered by the employer is for the court to decide.
In June 2004, a local division of International Brotherhood of Teamsters initiated a strike against Granite Rock after their collective-bargaining agreement expired. The union sparked the strike after reaching an impasse with Granite in negotiations over a new contract.
A new agreement was reached a month later but the union refused to be held responsible for any strike damages Granite suffered during the negotiation period. When Granite said it would pursue damages, the union revived the strike company-wide, leading to a dispute regarding when and if the new bargaining agreement had ever been ratified.
Granite filed a federal suit against the union seeking damages for breach of the contract's "no-strike" clause and asking for an injunction against the ongoing strike because it claimed the harm dispute should be arbitrated under the new bargaining agreement. The union insisted that there was no agreement because it had never been ratified, giving no basis to Granite's claims.
The district court ruled not to send the issue to arbitration, but the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals reversed. The appeals panel ruled that the ratification-date dispute was a matter for an arbitrator to resolve under the arbitration clause in the bargaining agreement.
The Supreme Court reversed, ruling that the ratification date "requires judicial resolution here because it relates to [the union's] arbitration demand in a way that required the District Court to determine the agreement's ratification date in order to decide whether the parties consented to arbitrate the matters the demand covered," Justice Clarence Thomas wrote.
Justices Sonia Sotomayor and John Paul Stevens joined in a partial dissent, stating that "the parties clearly agreed in the [collective bargaining agreement] to have this dispute resolved by an arbitrator, not a court."


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Although rare among public-sector employers, the practice has been known to happen.
Two U.S. senators have called on the federal government to investigate the emerging practice of employers requiring job applicants to surrender user names and passwords for information such as Facebook profiles — which some have deemed an invasion of privacy.
This practice has become more common, according to recent reports, since users of social media and social networks have set their accounts to "private" in order to limit public viewing.
Although this phenomenon is thought to rarely occur in the public sector, it's not unheard of that public employers require employees and interviewees to turn over their passwords. It's happened before.
Perhaps the most widely known incident occurred in 2009, when Bozeman, Mont., city officials came under fire after making applicants for city jobs turn over personal data from Facebook and YouTube. After the issue circulated in the media, the city officials quickly rescinded the policy.
This is also believed to have occurred within athletic departments of major public universities. For example, The University of North Carolina recently revised its handbook to give the school's coaches access to student athlete's social networking sites.
According to the handbook, "Each team must identify at least one coach or administrator who is responsible for having access to and regularly monitoring the content of team members' social networking sites and postings. The athletics department also reserves the right to have other staff members monitor athletes' posts."
To shed light on the issue, U.S. Senators Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., and Charles E. Schumer, D-N.Y., on Sunday March 25, called on the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) and the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) to launch a federal investigation which would look into the trend of employers requiring job applicants to surrender personal user names and passwords. Both senators claimed the practice is an invasion of privacy that could make it more challenging for applicants to get jobs.
"Employers have no right to ask job applicants for their house keys or to read their diaries – why should they be able to ask them for their Facebook passwords and gain unwarranted access to a trove of private information about what we like, what messages we send to people, or who we are friends with?" Schumer said in a statement.
Blumenthal and Schumer also announced that they are in the process of drafting legislation that would prevent legal loopholes that would allow employers to require job applicants to turn over their login information. In addition, the senators said they are looking into additional legal options from the EEOC and the DOJ to figure out "what protections currently exist and what additional protections are necessary."
In the controversy's wake, Facebook has spoken out about the issue, saying it doesn't condone what employers have done to gain access to job applicants personal online information. In a Friday, March 23, statement, Erin Egan, Facebook's chief privacy officer, said Facebook believes employers have no legal right to ask potential employees for passwords to their Facebook profiles and shouldn't do so under any circumstances.
Initially Facebook said it would initiate legal action if needed to protect the security and privacy of its users. Facebook's Statement of Rights and Responsibilities [http://www.facebook.com/legal/terms] outlines that sharing or soliciting passwords is a violation.
After the original statement from Egan was released, Facebook released a follow-up statement over the weekend amending its position on the issue.
"We don't think employers should be asking prospective employees to provide their passwords because we don't think it's right the thing to do," the follow-up from Facebook said. "While we do not have any immediate plans to take legal action against any specific employers, we look forward to engaging with policy makers and other stakeholders, to help better safeguard the privacy of our users."


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The "No Problem" Problem?Read Now
By Julie Silfverberg
Last Sunday I went out to meet a friend for a nice relaxing cappuccino in a cafe, where - due to past experience - my expectation was of lovely strong coffee, you know a bit of a kick due to the 'oomph' of the espresso with that soft yet firm froth almost like a marshmallow. In fact my friends sometimes laugh at my gauging of the quality of a cappuccino through the height and firmness of the foam. But I think, after all, I can make an excellent coffee at home, so when I go out I am looking for something a little different, even special.
Watch your LanguageRead Now
Written by Julie Silfverberg
Language defines your world
Did you know; research shows there are almost three times as many words to express negatives as there are positives. No wonder the newspapers are full of bad news. When the focus is on the negative that is what tends to happen because you get what you focus on.
Suggestion alert!
For the next month experiment:
Written by Julie Silfverberg
"But I don't think I'm a bully"
Put downs hurt
Your review could reflect the level of stress you are under. For some people when they are stressed they may treat members of staff (without meaning to or being aware of it) in ways in which they may be treating themselves internally – by being highly critical, judgemental and harsh and with unrealistic expectations. Or if the behaviour has been long standing, this may be your style which may have worked in the past or been overlooked.
Julie Silfverberg has worked in the field of personal and professional development for more than 20 years. She works with a diverse and exciting group of people. Each with their own unique talents and potential.
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Vodafone Business Shop – Special Deals
Vodafone business shop currently have some fantastic deals available on mobile handsets and netbooks along with USB broadband modems. They have dropped their prices on everything and you can get bargains galore today at the Vodafone.co.uk/businessshop . Efficiency is the key to great business. The maximizing of profits and customer satisfaction is directly related to the communication experience. Vodafone has proven itself the leader in wireless communication on a number of fronts. Perhaps the most important aspect of Vodafone is their commitment to business. Vodafone Businessshop offers easy to use Internet account services for business owners to keep track of everything from call minutes to broadband usage. They also have the ability to project monthly or yearly fees via the company website. It is a simple process to understand the potential of your business wireless activity. Select how many phones you require and proceed from there. Vodafone escorts you through the entire process and shows special offers throughout. Consistent wireless access is not just a perk for the business owner in the modern age. Instead, this has become a necessity. Vodafone prides itself on having a selection of service plans for every size business. If you are searching for a way to reduce mobile costs Vodafone has every option you need. As an added bonus Vodafone business plans have international roaming. For the business with international and global needs Vodafone is the only choice. Vodafone understands what it means to need communication across the continents, they know how it affects business when you engage in quality communication. Business owners will find incredible coverage with Vodafone's mobile tracking ability. Do you lose control over employee expenditures when it comes to mobile communications? Are you trying to find a way to save money for your business? Vodafone offers tools to do both. Check employee minute packages, mange your account, or change user details on the Internet. Don't waste minutes calling customer service, instead use the web tool to handle everything yourself.


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Also in this link: http://www.voicesofyouth.org/en/posts/towards-the-2030-agenda-with-community-forestry
After the termination of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in 2015 AD, the world is now heading towards The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. Prepared by the United Nations (UN), the agenda constitutes 17 goals with 169 targets envisioning a more peaceful, just, sustainable and inclusive world by 2030 AD. The goals, termed as Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), address the three dimensions of sustainable development – social, economic and environmental.
According to the UN, Nepal has already prepared the preliminary national report on the implementation of the SDGs but the comprehensive plan on how to act upon these goals is yet to be prepared. That is to say, Nepal now has to put forward its plan on how the national priorities will be set, how institutional and financial arrangements will be made, how the indicators will be developed for the timely assessment of the achievement of the goals and so on. The goals are quite ambitious and there will be a lot of things to do for the achievement. This article discusses how Nepal's community forestry sector can contribute to the achievement of these goals.
The program that began after the handling of a patch of forest to the local villagers of Thokarpa Village, Sindhupalchowk district for the management and utilisation in 1973 AD, by the then forest officer, has now become the world renowned "Community Forest" model. Community Forest (CF), as stated by the Forest Act 1993 AD, is that part of national forest which is handed over to the local people, forming a group known as Community Forest User Group (CFUG), for the management and utilization of the forest and its resources provided that they are able and willing to manage it. And now, there are about 20,000 CFs in the country with an equal number of CFUGs.
Poverty and hunger reduction had been the very first goal in the MDGs too. The first and the second goals of the SDGs also aim to eradicate extreme poverty in all its forms everywhere and end hunger and achieve food security by 2030 AD. The Community Forest Development Program Guideline 2071 BS, clearly states that 35 per cent of the total income of the CFUG should be invested on pro-poor targeted programs within the group. The annual income of Nepal's CFs is over $10 million and the figure is yet increasing as the number of CFs being handed to the user groups is increasing. That way, community forestry sector contributes roughly $4 million annually (35 per cent of over $10 million) in the pro-poor targeted programs. Though there are accusations that the community forestry is under elite domination, it is not that poor are not getting any benefits. What is true is community forestry has the potential; the problem is of effective governance and law enforcement only.
The guideline also stipulates that among the two tiers of the organizational structure of CFUG, i.e. General Assembly (GA) and Executive Committee (EC), either chairperson or the secretary of the later one must be a woman. For maintaining a bank account of the group, there must be the joint signature one of which must be of woman. These provisions help in the empowerment of women and girls in decision making in public life and provide equal opportunities for leadership which are envisioned in the fifth goal of the SDGs. Similarly, there must be 50 per cent women participation in the EC with proportionate representation of Dalits, Jananatis, indigenous and marginalised people. This helps in reducing inequalities within the country, achieving inclusive and just societies and also in ensuring inclusive participation in public decision making. There are so many women-only run CFUGs that are reported to be even better than the generic ones. The provisions of annual public hearing and internal and public auditing help develop effective, accountable and transparent institutions ; CFUGs in this case.
The 25 per cent of the income from the CF, which is mandatory to be spent in forest management, development and protection activities helps minimise adverse effects of climate change, combat desertification, halt and reverse desertification and halt biodiversity loss.
The CFUGs have been doing other various activities like providing scholarships for the deserving students from their groups, constructing gobar-gas plants, constructing and/or maintaining physical infrastructures like roads, schools, hospital buildings and toilets to name a few. These all activities help accomplish the targets in one way or the other. The scholarships help in ensuring quality education, constructing toilets and hospitals helps in ensuring sanitation and healthy lives, constructing gobar-gas ensures access to affordable and sustainable energy and so on.
But it is neither the provisions nor the goals themselves that make difference. We have to act upon them to make the desired differences. The UN itself states that the SDGs are not stand-alone goals as were the MDGs. So it is not that wise to assert this sector/activity helps achieve this goal and that sector/activity helps achieve that goal. Achievement (or underachievement) of one goal has the impact on the achievement of other goals too. For example, eradicating poverty, ensuring sustainable consumption and production helps in reducing hunger, managing forests sustainably and scientifically helps in mitigating negative impacts of climate change, ensuring inclusive and quality education helps in creating peaceful, just and inclusive societies and so on. Evidence also show that families with educated mothers are healthier. So, either directly or indirectly, the forestry sector, particularly the community forestry has great impacts on the achievement of the global goals. Hence more budget needs to be allocated to the forestry sector and more work needs to be done for augmented benefits and its greater contribution towards the sustainable agenda.
And thankfully, it is not the politicians who run the Community Forest User Groups but the local people themselves who work for their own benefits. Hence the guidelines are also less likely to be infringed.


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Google's Self-Driving Cars are Heading to Phoenix
Google is putting its self-driving cars on the roads of Phoenix, Arizona.
It will be the fourth city that will allow Google to test its self-driving car prototypes, and the new location will give its vehicles a chance to practice driving in a desert environment. In addition, the Lexus RX450h SUVs will get to "experience handling some of Phoenix's quirks, like cacti, golf cart crossings, and time-based speed limits," Google said.
The company has been testing its self-driving cars for six years in Mountain View, California, and expanded to Austin, Texas, last summer. It has also added a testing site in Kirkland, Washington, where Google's prototypes are enduring wet weather testing.
SEE ALSO: Google is Working on Wireless Charging for its Self-Driving Cars
"Arizona is known as a place where research and development is welcome, innovation can thrive, and companies can set up roots," said Jennifer Haroon, head of business operations for the Google Self-Driving Car project. "The Phoenix area has distinct desert conditions, which will help us better understand how our sensors and cars handle extreme temperatures and dust in the air."
The company has recently begun using four Lexus RX450h vehicles around the Phoenix area to create a detailed map of streets, lane markers, traffic signals and curb heights.


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Auberge du Soleil, an exclusive member of the Haute Hotel Network, provides Napa Valley's most panoramic-view destination for wedding ceremonies and receptions. Terraced on a hillside overlooking the valley vineyards, Auberge du Soleil sets the mood for your fall wedding celebration.
A private staircase leads you onto your own private dining level, exclusively reserved for your event. A glass of Napa Sparkling wine on the terrace as guests arrive from your off-site ceremony would make the event memorable.
One end of the Terrace offers guests a sheltered space where they can enjoy hors d'oeuvres, watch a sunset or take part in an intimate wedding ceremony. The ceremony deck is a memorable location to exchange vows amidst the vineyards, hillsides and mountains of California's Napa Valley. In the fall months, your ceremony will be surrounded by the patchwork of autumn colors in the vineyards below with bright yellow mustard in the fields during the winter months.
The Auberge du Soleil resort and restaurant offers an authentic California wine country experience that all guests will remember warmly. Let the professional staff attend to every event detail including catering, decor, technology needs, accommodations, and activities.
If you choose to make Auberge du Soleil your destination honeymoon, try the Honeymoon Package. The package include 2 nights in a Main House Room, 4-Course Dinner for Two with Champagne, 90-Minute Auberge Couples Massage for 2, Spa Amenity Gift on Arrival, Complimentary Wine & Fruit in room on arrival, A Signature Bottle of Wine, Daily breakfast for two at the Michelin-starred Restaurant, and much more.
For more information on planning your wedding at Auberge du Soleil check out the Haute Hotel Network.


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EPA seeks facts on Meath waste plant
THE ENVIRONMENTAL Protection Agency (EPA) is seeking further information on plans by waste management company Panda to develop a mechanical and biological treatment facility near Newgrange, Co Meath.
The agency wants further details on dioxin emissions from a proposed eight-megawatt biomass furnace on the five-acre site as well as information about the risks of fire and explosion, and contamination of the environment by potentially harmful bacteria.
The EPA also wants to know more about Panda's animal byproduct processing permit from the Department of Agriculture, emissions of hydrogen chloride and hydrogen fluoride, and whether an "appropriate assessment" under the EU habitats directive is needed.
Local residents objecting to the plant being licensed have welcomed the agency's request for further information, but say it "does not go nearly far enough", according to Richard Hunter, chairman of the Boyne Valley Awareness Group, which is co-ordinating their objections.
"For example, it did not adequately address the expected obnoxious odours or expected massive increase in heavy goods vehicles (HGVs) transporting waste to and from the enormous biogas waste plant ," Mr Hunter said.
"Nor did it adequately address concerns residents have regarding the incineration of waste by the proposed eight-megawatt furnace," Mr Hunter said, adding that the plant would be able to process up to 250,000 tonnes of biodegradable waste a year.
He noted that the plant would be about 4km southwest of Newgrange, close to the archeological and heritage "buffer zone" for the area – about the same distance as the Slane bypass, which was rejected recently by An Bord Pleanála.
Mr Hunter claims the development "has been largely progressed in secrecy". He said: "If this gas power plant or biomass furnace is built, the large facilities and chimney will be visible from the Newgrange special buffer zone and will pose a real threat to the Unesco world heritage status accredited to Newgrange."
The only objection made during the planning phase was from Inland Fisheries Ireland, a State agency.
However, more than 200 objections or submissions have been made to the EPA by parties that include Inland Fisheries Ireland and the Department of Arts and Heritage.
Mr Hunter complained that Meath County Council had "waived" any requirement for a traffic impact study, even though the biogas plant is expected to generate up to 30,000 HGV journeys a year – or about 100 a day – a few kilometres from the accident blackspot of Slane.
He said the plant's waste-water tanks would be beside the Roughgrange river, a tributary of the Boyne.
"Water from the Boyne is extracted at Roughgrange, Donore, and supplies drinking water to Drogheda and large parts of east Meath," he said.
Panda has been operating at the site since 1990. Its managing director Eamon Waters said: "We have no problem with people objecting" but "it would be nice" if they "studied what it was all about".
The company got its first EPA licence in 2001 and has expanded the Co Meath facility over the past 10 years.
Referring to the latest application, he said: "There is no incinerator no increase in traffic as we are not looking to increase the tonnage."
Mr Waters said the proposal involved the addition of new technology that would dry waste and turn it into "top quality SRF ".
The proposed anaerobic digester and dryer system "complies fully" with best available technology, he said.
Panda, which has been to the fore in opposing the Poolbeg incinerator in Dublin, runs six EPA-licensed sites and uses leading environmental consultants.
"We have to go through the various procedures to obtain planning and licensing – it is very far away from secrecy," said Mr Waters.


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How's your job? Do you like it? Are the hours crazy? Are the nurses nice? Are the surgeons mean?
Just some of the repeated questions I've received from family and friends since starting work as a medical intern. 😉
I was on the General Medicine ward for my first 5 weeks. Then we went on our annual 5 week holiday (which I'll definitely tell you more about later) and now I'm currently week 8/10 of another Gen Med rotation. Where has the time gone?!
First day on the job… I knew absolutely nothing and no one, it was fantastic. (Not). I spent every day imitating a sponge as best as I could. Trying really hard not to look too much like a fool while absorbing everything I was seeing around me. Trying to remember patients and their issues, staff members' names and their roles, which forms to fill and how, where to find equipment and leave specimens, etc.
It was exhausting. For the entirety of my first week, I got home, ate dinner and immediately fell asleep.
However, like many other tasks in life, I gained familiarity and through that, confidence. With time and experience, I've even built some competence! 😉 These days, not only do I leave work on time, I also don't take work home with me AND I can stay up for hours after having dinner!
Some of you may have heard the saying, "Interns are just pens with legs." The reality is, there is some truth in most medical stereotypes. I mean, we do have to…
- Make sure the patient list is up to date
- Write the chart notes during ward rounds and patient reviews
- Fill out request forms, such as pathology, imaging, referrals, etc
- Complete the discharge summaries
So yes, a lot of writing is involved. But can you imagine if this pen ran out of ink?
Who would keep people up to date with patient notes? How would patients get their required tests? How would GPs and other doctors know what happened to their patient and what follow up was required?
As the ones who spend the most time on the ward, and through the above roles, we often end up spending a lot of time with patients and their families. We are the first point of contact for nursing staff in caring for patients. We help to clarify questions and provide more information. We listen to and acknowledge concerns, even if only to provide a joke and share a smile. Not to say the senior doctors don't do all the above and more, it's still a rewarding experience for us junior doctors.
So yes, we are at the bottom of the totem pole. Some days you feel it, but most days you're definitely an essential part of the team.


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I woke up a week ago in the middle of the night (Mon-Tues) with a sore-when-you-swallow throat. Thus it began. This has been one of the strangest colds I've had in a long time. Maybe in forever.
Strange because the primary symptom for 6 days was a sore throat. Sore throat and occasional stretches of time when I felt like aliens had come and sucked 2/3 of the life force out of me and then got interrupted before just finishing me off.
About the time (Sunday afternoon) when I was considering more than my regular responses to cold symptoms, the sore throat mostly disappeared and the eye pain/scratchiness/goo started. Yuck.
And do colds make your teeth hurt?
So, I'm drowning myself in water and green tea and the like. I came home early the last two days and napped. Yesterday between 2pm and when I went to bed my most productive action was putting some dates on the wall calendar and I did a little of my homiletics for BSF. Mostly I rested/slept.
I resisted blogging on this cold for ten days, but it got the best of me and here I am yammering on about symptoms. Sorry.
Here's the funny thing: nearly the minute anyone finds out I have a cold, they have a remedy. Have you noticed this?
"Hi! How are you?"
"Hi. Doing pretty well…except for this cold."
"Oh yeah. Hey…have you tried….?"
I don't mind. I just find it interesting that we are so quick and free to offer medical advice. And really, do we think anyone is unaware of "drink lots of water" and "take Vitamin C" and "rest" as a way to combat this common menace? Yet that's what we share generally.
I think it's a way to give permission to people to take care of themselves.
And I find myself wanting to reassure everyone that I'm taking all sorts of precautions to ensure that I'm generally not sharing the germs — and encourage people to not touch the stuff in my space right now. It's funny how it makes people feel good when you refuse to shake hands with them.
So, that's about it from the Cold Front. Feel free to suggest remedies or treatments…I'd love something new. Well, something new other than the little pot with the water up your nose. Yuck.