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WHEREAS, pursuant to the Tax Reform Act of 1986 and Act No. 51 of the 1986 Regular Session of the Louisiana Legislature (collectively hereafter "the Act"), Executive Order No. MJF 96-25, as amended by Executive Order No. MJF 2000-15, (hereafter collectively "MJF 96-25") was issued to establish: (1) a method for allocating bonds subject to private activity bond volume limits, including the method of allocating bonds subject to the private activity bond volume limits for the calendar year of 2002 (hereafter "the 2002 Ceiling"); (2) the procedure for obtaining an allocation of bonds under the 2002 Ceiling; and (3) a system of central record keeping for such allocations;
WHEREAS, subsection 4.8 of MJF 96-25 provides that if the ceiling for a calender year exceeds the aggregate amount of bonds subject to the private activity bond volume limit issued during the year by all issuers, by executive order, the governor may allocate the excess amount to issuers or an issuer for use as a carry-forward for one or more carry-forward projects permitted under the Act;
WHEREAS, on December 30, 2002, Executive Order No. MJF 2002-74 was issued to carry- forward one hundred thirty-five million three hundred sixty-six thousand two hundred sixteen dollars and three cents ($135,366,216.03) of the 2002 Ceiling which was unused and returned; however, the Order did not reflect the allocation and portion of the allocation returned unused from Executive Order Nos. MJF 2002- 54 and 2002-57;
WHEREAS, Executive Order No. MJF 2002-54, issued on October 25, 2002, allocated three million two hundred thousand dollars ($3,200,000) from the 2002 Ceiling to the Lafayette Economic Development Authority in connection with a Tube-Alloy Corporation project, but two hundred ninety-seven thousand two hundred fifty dollars ($297,250) of the three million two hundred thousand dollar ($3,200,000) allocation was returned unused;
WHEREAS, Executive Order No. MJF 2002-57, issued on November 6, 2002, allocated five million dollars ($5,000,000) from the 2002 Ceiling to the Parish of DeSoto, State of Louisiana, in connection with an International Paper Company project, but the five million dollar ($5,000,000) allocation was returned unused; and
WHEREAS, the governor desires to allocate the additional unused portion of the 2002 Ceiling as a carry-forward for a project which is permitted and eligible under the Act;
NOW THEREFORE I, M.J. "MIKE" FOSTER, JR., Governor of the state of Louisiana, by virtue of the authority vested by the Constitution and laws of the state of Louisiana, do hereby order and direct as follows:
SECTION 1: Pursuant to and in accordance with the provisions of Section 146(f) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, and in accordance with the request for a carry- forward filed by the designated issuer, the excess and/or unissued private activity bond volume limit under the 2002 Ceiling is hereby allocated to the following issuer, for the following carry-forward project, and in the following amount:
|Louisiana Housing
Finance Agency
|Single Family Mortgage
Revenue Bond Program
SECTION 2: All references in this Order to the singular shall include the plural, and all plural references shall include the singular.
SECTION 3: The undersigned certifies, under penalty of perjury, that the granted allocation was not made in consideration of any bribe, gift, or gratuity, or any direct or indirect contribution to any political campaign. The undersigned also certifies that the granted allocation meets the requirements of Section 146 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended.
SECTION 4: This Order is effective upon signature and shall remain in effect until amended, modified, terminated, or rescinded by the governor, or terminated by operation of law.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have set my hand officially and caused to be affixed the Great Seal of the state of Louisiana, at the Capitol, in the city of Baton Rouge, on this 13th day of February, 2003.
M.J. "Mike" Foster, Jr.
Fox McKeithen
Secretary of State


text: The trends of remaking and remastering classic games just kicked into overdrive. Rebellion (best known for its Sniper Elite games) has revealed that it's developing not just a virtual reality version of the original Battlezone, but a refresh of the 1998 Battlezone title for PCs -- yes, it's a remake getting a remaster. It's too soon to know what this new version will entail, although it'll probably be fun if it maintains the 'original' mix of tank-based action, real-time strategy and an alternate-history space race. Let's just hope that someone doesn't try to re-do the remaster a decade from now... that would be a bit much.

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Dairy free scones
Ingredients for 8 pieces
- 130ml dairy free milk of your choice
- 60gr plain dairy free yogurt
- 1/2 teaspoon of vanilla
- 360gr white flour
- 01 tablespoon baking powder
- 100gr cold dairy free butter chopped in small cubes
- 50gr white sugar
- Egg wash to brush on scones
- 01egg yolk
- 01 tablespoon dairy free milk
Preheat oven to 190C.
In a bowl whisk together milk, yogurt, vanilla and keep aside.
In a large bowl sieve together flour and baking powder.
Add butter and sugar to the flour mix.
Work the butter into the mix till the mix resemble sand.
Add liquid ingredients to the dry ones.
Turn dough onto a lightly flour surface and bring it together quickly.
Roll dough out into a 4cm thick square.
With a round cutter make 8 pieces.
Transfer scones on a oven tray with baking paper and brush with the egg wash.
Bake for 15 minutes or till golden brown.
Serve with your favourite topping.
Lemon poppy seeds crepes with strawberry jam
Ingredients 12 crepes
04nos eggs
80gr sugar
100gr flour
60ml almond milk or regular one
01nos lemon zest
01tbsp poppy seeds
Strawberry jam
Non stick spray
To garnish
02tbsp icing sugar
Sliced strawberries 1/2 teaspoon water
Pinch salt
In a bowl bit eggs with sugar till fluffy.
Add flour, almond milk, lemon zest, poppy seeds and salt.
Mix from bottom to top till all ingredients are incorporated.
Heat a 16cm saute pan and grease it with non stick spray.
Pour few tablespoons of batter and spread it around the pan.
Cook for few minutes on each side.
Spread a tablespoon of strawberry jam in each crepes and roll it.
In a bowl mix icing sugar with water, drizzle on crepes and garnish with strawberries slices.
French toast with berries drizzled with honey
Ingredients for 8 french toast
08nos sliced bread toast kind
02nos eggs
80gr sugar
200ml lactose free milk/ almond milk
01nos teaspoon vanilla essence
10gr margarine or coconut oil
Icing sugar to dust
Few teaspoons of honey
100gr mix berries
In a bowl bit eggs, sugar, milk and vanilla.
Melt margarine or coconut oil in a no stick frying pan.
Dip each slice of bread in eggs mix and put it in the frying pan.
Fry each side till golden brown.
When ready stack them up, add berries, drizzled with honey and icing sugar.
Watermelon pizza
Ingredients for 4pax
01nos watermelon wheel (4cm thick)
100gr raspberries washed and dried
130gr strawberries washed, dried and sliced in 1/4
80gr grapes washed and dried
01 mango peeled and sliced
50ml dairy free cream
01tbsp sugar
01 teaspoon lime juice
Combine fruits in a bowl, add sugar and lime juice.
Keep it aside.
Whip cream.
Spread whipped cream on top of watermelon.
Arrange fruits on top and serve.
Papaya bowls with berries
Ingredients for 4pax
02 medium size papaya cut horizontally
200gr mixed berries (raspberry, strawberry)
80gr watermelon cut in small cubes
60gr grapes
Clean papaya from seeds.
In a bowl mix fruits together.
Divide fruits in papaya
Have a fantastic breakfast.
Spinach and peas crustless quiche
Ingredients for 12 pieces
06nos eggs
100gr spinach
100gr green peas
50ml almond milk or regular one
05ml evo oil
Salt & pepper
Carrots sticks
Cucumber sticks
Heat evo in a non stick pan.
Add spinach and peas.
Season with salt and pepper.
Saute for 5-8 minutes.
Season with salt and pepper.
Cool it down.
Bit eggs.
Add spinach, peas and milk.
Adjust seasoning.
Grease cupcake tray.
Dived the batter in each cavity.
Bake at 180C for 15-18 minutes or till fully cooked.
Serve with carrots, cucumber stick and handful of raspberries.
Tomato side up toast
Ingredients for 4pax
04nos wholewheat toast bread
02nos small tomatoes
04nos eggs
01 teaspoon of evo oil for each egg
Salt & pepper
08nos small slices halloumi cheese
Cucumber sticks
Evo oil to drizzle
Toast bread.
Slice tomato and keep it aside.
Fry your eggs to your liking.
Put toast on each plate.
Top each one with 1 egg.
Top each egg with few slices of tomatoes.
Serve with pan fried halloumi and cucumber sticks.
Nutella filled balls
Ingredients 25 balls
04nos eggs
100gr sugar
180gr flour
01 teaspoon vanilla essence
01 teaspoon baking powder
100ml almond milk or regular milk
100gr dairy free chocolate spread
Pinch salt
01 tbsp oil
Icing sugar to sprinkle
In a bowl bit eggs, sugar and vanilla.
Sieve flour, baking powder, milk and pinch of salt together.
Fold flour mix to the eggs till fully incorporated.
Heat aebleskiver pan on medium high and grease with oil each cavity.
Pour 01 tablespoon batter into each cavity.
Top it with 1/2 teaspoon of nutella and cover it with 1/2 tablespoon of pancake mix.
Cook 1 or 2 minutes till batter start to pull away from the sides.
Using a tooth pick flip each pancake and keep cooking for few more minutes.
When ready sprinkle with icing sugar or drizzle with maple syrup .


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OnePlaceMail Express Edition connects Microsoft Outlook with SharePoint. Featuring drag & drop of emails, capture of email attributes, completion of SharePoint columns and providing full access to SharePoint content within Outlook.
OnePlaceMail Express Edition integrates both Microsoft Outlook and Windows File Explorer with SharePoint 2010 / Office 365. OnePlaceMail is provided as an easy to install Microsoft Outlook add-in (client only installation).
- Save emails and attachments from Outlook to Microsoft SharePoint using an intuitive drag & drop interface
- Email attributes are automatically captured and promoted to SharePoint Columns
- Complete additional SharePoint Column for libraries, lists and Content Types from within Microsoft Outlook
- Support for both libraries and lists
- Full Support for SharePoint 2010 and Office 365 (SP 2007 is supported in the Enterprise edition only)
- Save from Windows File Explorer to SharePoint
Access & Search:
- View SharePoint libraries & lists from with Microsoft Outlook
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Undertaking administrative services including:
Supervising the administration of the procedures for the holding of assets and securities of the Fund by the Custodian.
Effecting all necessary registrations with governmental and similar agencies in connection with the maintenance of the listing of the shares of the Fund on any stock exchange on which they are listed.
Dealing with the administration of the procedure for the issue, transfer, allotment, redemption and purchase of the shares of the Fund in accordance with the Articles of Association and enter on the register of members of the Fund ("the Register") all issues, allotments, transfers, conversions, redemptions, and/or purchases of shares.
Making a valuation of the Fund, and calculation of the Net Asset Value (NAV), on a fixed basis or otherwise as determined by the Directors of the Fund.
Keeping the accounts of the Fund and such financial books and records as are required by law in the jurisdiction of the Fund or otherwise for the proper conduct of the financial affairs of the Fund.
Despatching all such circulars, notices of meetings, reports, financial statements and other written material to all persons entitled to receive the same under the Articles of Association as the Fund may require.


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Lawn Patrol takes its name from Dawn Patrol, the early-morning check of waves done by Surfrers to see if it's worth going out. Lawn Patrol is a neighborhood walk, led by a person familiar with OFGs, that's open to anyone who wants to develop his/her understanding of what makes an OFG. It is also a way for volunteers to get involved and educate the public.
How It Works
- We start at an existing OFG, reviewing the OFG principles and practices implemented. We refer to it as "applying CPR – Conservation, Permeability and Retention – to landscapes to revive our watersheds and oceans." (If possible, the OFG owner posts flyers in their neighborhood to let neighbors know about the walk. This would help with being introduced to neighbors who are home.)
- Participants walk the neighborhood with the OFG Sign Criteria on a clipboard to help them identify existing OFG elements at a home landscape and opportunities to do more.
- They can leave behind a flyer:
- With space to check-off OFG components that are implemented. For example, a garden may have native plants and mulch (C and P), but no rainwater retention element (R). The Chapter OFG Committee could help with implementing the retention element, e.g, swale.
- A garden may have all the elements of an OFG and the person could qualify for a sign.
- Write in the date of any upcoming OFG events next to the slots for them (class, workshop, workday, walk).
- Tracking sheet – to write down the addresses of homes with OFGs or close to it.


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07717 216 762
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Happy Monday!
Summertime in Texas is unmatched. Often times, a lot of people (including myself), will avoid activities before 8 pm. That's just what it is.
Dressing for the scorching temps can definitely be a challenge. Not only do you want to appear stylish and trendy; you also want to stay cool, too. I love dresses; they're easy, and don't require a ton of thought.
I used to obsess over Lilly Allen's dress and sneaker pairings; it's one of my favorite ensemble combinations. I purchased a long, silk dress from Nasty Gal a few years ago, and I wore it with low-top converse. It was a good errand look.
Also, I love Reformation's summer dresses, but they're a bit pricey. Luckily, clothiers like Forever 21, Topshop and Mango house summer dresses at a fraction of the cost!
What's your go-to summer look?
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Read More : Clinton tax plan IS as bad as it sounds - Full Article
Clinton tax plan IS as bad as it sounds
August 6, 2015, by John Norris
Last week, Hillary Clinton announced a proposal to dramatically increase capital gains taxes if she wins the Presidential election. From what I can tell, virtually everyone has criticized it. Is it really that bad? Any tax or regulation which inhibits the free flow of capital to its highest and best use is generally not in anyone's best interests, even Washington's. As such, Clinton's plan should be dead on arrival on Capitol Hill if she ends...


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In an appearance on Fox News Sunday, Hillary Clinton sidestepped questions over the grieving families of victims of the Benghazi attack by once again intimating that they were not being truthful in their comments.
While the corporate media obsessed over Donald Trump's response to fallen soldier from a Muslim immigrant family, Clinton's response to Pat Smith over the death of her son in Libya was glossed over.
"I don't hold any ill feeling for someone who in that moment may not fully recall everything that was or wasn't said," Clinton said in response to Smith's declaration at the RNC "I blame Hillary Clinton. I blame Hillary Clinton personally for the death of my son. That's personally."
In other words, Hillary is still intimating that Pat Smith is lying to the media about what Clinton said to the families in the aftermath of the September 2012 attack.
Hillary is suggesting, once again, that families of the Benghazi victims didn't hear her properly when she told them the cause of the attack was an anti-Muslim YouTube video, and that it was not a co-ordinated pre-planned terror attack.
Fox host Chris Wallace even played a video clip of Clinton at Andrews Air Force Base three days after the attack, proving that she was publicly blaming the attack on the YouTube video.
"We've seen the heavy assault on our post in Benghazi that took the lives of those brave men. We've seen rage and violence directed at American embassies over an awful internet video that we had nothing to do with," Clinton said on September 14th 2012.
Hillary, clearly annoyed at the clip, suggested it was "unfair," claiming she also quoted other people who said the attack was terrorism. She again suggested that there was "confusion in the minds" of those who accuse her of lying, and that she had "already said it was terrorism," and "there was no doubt it was terrorism."
It is well documented that Clinton did not even mention terrorism until September 20, a full six days after she met with the grieving families. Private emails revealed that in the interim Hillary knew it was a terrorist attack but still kept pushing the notion that the attack was an impromptu uprising that turned violent.
Elsewhere during the interview, Hillary denied that FBI director James Comey criticized her use of a private email server while she was Secretary of State and said that her denials that she exchanged classified material were untrue.
"That's not what I heard Director Comey say, and I thank you for giving me the opportunity to, in my view, clarify." Hillary told Wallace.
Wallace then played a clip of Comey saying the very things Hillary said she didn't hear, blatantly exposing her as a liar.
Clinton then gave a generic response about making mistakes and at the time having no reason to believe she was doing anything wrong.
Clinton also suggested that she can understand why a majority of Americans have a problem with her trustworthiness.
Steve Watson is the London based writer and editor for Alex Jones' Infowars.com, and Prisonplanet.com
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text: Nursing's a great job. Nurses perform an incredibly demanding, immensely valuable, and incalculably rewarding service to their community—and it's steady work that requires even steadier minds to go in and git 'er done with compassion and a high level of expertise. That's where the Hudson High School Licensed Vocational Nurse program comes in. As the community noticed a lack of nurses to go around in their own hospitals, the educators at Hudson paired with East Texas GEAR UP for Success and other local partners to get the community college and local hospitals straight into the schools to get the seed of the healthcare career mindset planted as soon as possible for interested students. The program efforts not only converted a classroom to a recreation of a hospital ward, but also fostered a sense of fellowship among current and future nurses—and better yet, even middle-schoolers were entering into the academic spirit of things by getting prepped early for the nursing track. Talk about a prescription for greatness.


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Science Fiction
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Science Fiction explores the genre from 1895 to the present day, drawing on examples from over forty countries. It raises questions about the relationship between science fiction, science and technology, and examines the interrelationships between spectacle, narrative and self-reflexivity, paying particular attention to the role of special effects in creating meaning and affect. It explores science fiction's evocations of the sublime, the grotesque, and the camp, and charts the ways in which the genre reproduces and articulates discourses of colonialism, imperialism and neo-liberal globalization. At the same time, Science Fiction provides a thorough analysis of the genre's representation of race, class, gender and sexuality, making this text an essential guide for students, academics and film fans alike.
Key films discussed include:
- Le voyage dans la lune (1902)
- 20,000 Leagues under the Sea (1916)
- L'Atlantide (1921)
- King Kong (1933, 2005)
- Gojira (1954)
- La Jetée (1962)
- The Abominable Dr Phibes (1971)
- Tetsuo (1989)
- Sleep Dealer (2008)
- Avatar (2009)
'Its scope is amazing....It seems as if Bould has seen every science-fiction film ever made—and also, even more impressively, that he vividly remembers pretty much everything that he has seen.....There is something wonderfully manic about how the book works through its argument... Mark Bould's account of sf cinema is so rich, and so cognitively and affectively estranging, that it approaches the status of a superior sf text in its own right. While obviously a work of criticism need not mimic the condition of that which it examines and to which it refers—and indeed, the attempt to do so is often fraught with peril—I think that in this case Bould has succeeded. Once I started reading, I found the book difficult to put down; and I quickly populated my Netflix queue with many of the films described in its pages that I had not already seen. In what other text can one peruse an account of orgiastic gender-role reversals in British psychedelic fantasies of the 1960s and 1970s, followed in the space of just a few pages by a summary of the alienating, depressing, and sterile "non-spaces" of neoliberal late modernity, as described by the anthropologist Marc Augé? Mark Bould has produced a consummate work of careful and sober scholarship, one that at the same time induces in the reader a condition of dizziness and delirium.' Steven Shaviro, Science Fiction Studies


text: At three in the morning, in a fit of frenzied sleeplessness I decided my work space was in desperate need of reorganization. And what great idea that comes to you in the wee hours of the morning isn't a brilliant one?! However, upon further reflection, I decided reorganizing is not one of my strengths and so, I did… Continue reading A Work Space of One's Own


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Golden State Baptist College has a t-shirt contest every other year. A lot of the students get involved in creating many different t-shirt designs. I was responsible for designing the website and converting it into WordPress. I also installed a voting system as well as WooCommerce, to be able to sell the shirts online.Visit Website →


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That picture of the plane in the Hudson river was for many people the first time that Twitter had brought them images of breaking news. It was quickly retweeted around the internet and even made it onto traditional broadcast news. Not surprising that major stories are broken this way, but over the last couple of days I've become more aware of this happening at a local level.
On Saturday afternoon, I was enjoying a quiet drink in the Peacock on Seel Street when we spotted smoke coming out of a building across the road. I resisted tweeting about it until the flames started coming out of the roof!
I wasn't the only person to spot the fire and Twitter Search's "nearby" function pointed me to several other people who'd seen it, telling me it was a Greek restaurant on Parr Street that was on fire. A few minutes later I got a message from a journalist at the Liverpool Daily Post and Echo asking if they could use one of my photos. A few minutes after that and it was on their website.
Sunday, and I learnt of the monkey escape at Chester Zoo from a friend's tweet. Very nearly the "oh my God, I just saw a monkey run down the street" moment I've been waiting for!
Finally, just an hour ago I heard about a collapsed crane in Liverpool which, according to Alison Gow, will be the Echo's first ever front cover Twitter byline.
It's a mad world.


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Gus is a Black Labrador Retriever (according to his former owner, he is purebred, but has no papers). He is 2 years old, and was surrendered to the shelter because he kept chasing his former owner's new goats. Unfortunately, Gus has spent his first 2 years living outside, without any training or direction. He is already benefiting from his time at the shelter, where some of the volunteers are working with him on leash training and manners.
Gus is beginning to understand "play" a bit, and will chase a ball (though not always bring it back). One thing we all notice about him is that he is very attentive – he wants to know exactly what you expect of him, and then will try his hardest to give it to you. Because of this, we think he will be pretty quick and easy for his new family to train, though we'd recommend enrolling him in a basic obedience course to give him the best possible start in his new home.
Gus is a big, powerful dog; his former owner says he does not do well with cats, though it's possible a strong leader could teach him to leave HIS cats alone. He seems to do pretty well with other dogs, and he loves kids (though he might tend to knock over toddlers in his enthusiasm, until he is better trained). He likes riding in the car, and would be a fun "guy and his dog" go everywhere kind of companion.
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text: Home > Wine shop > Red Wine > Mount Langi Shiraz 3-pack Mount Langi Shiraz 3-pack Varietal Shiraz Region Grampians When Selector publisher Paul Diamond embarked on a tasting of Mount Langi Shiraz he said, "To say this was special would be a gross understatement." See why with these three stellar vintages. In the Gold medal winning 2004 you'll taste pepper, spice and leather enhanced by fresh acidity and integrated oak. A savoury mouthfeel with great texture and ripe yet soft tannins makes the 2006 unique, while the Top Gold medal winning 2007 is a mix of earth, leather, herb and toasty oak bound by fresh acidity. Secure these sensational Shiraz before they disappear! Order code133047 Wine varietyShiraz RegionGrampians Read moreRead less Quantity (case) Out of Stock Availability Get free shipping for a limited time* Shop with confidence. 100% money back guarantee. 500+ Australian wineries. 40yrs experience & passion. Pack Contents 1 x Mount Langi Ghiran Langi Shiraz 2007 1 x Mount Langi Ghiran Langi Shiraz 2006 1 x Mount Langi Ghiran Langi Shiraz 2004 Reviews (0) CUSTOMER REVIEWS Sort results by Highest ratings Lowest ratings Latest ratings Oldest ratings To leave a review, please Login OR Sign up You might also like Sparkling Stars 3-Pack Price $155.00 Save $15.00 Qty | case Add to cart Cabernet Connoisseur Premium Triple Gift Pack Price $115.00 Save $25.00 Qty | case Add to cart Two Blues Sauvignon Blanc 2014 1 case has been added to your cart. Cart total: xxx 1 case, 12 bottles, 3 accessories Checkout Continue Shopping


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Individuals with Droopy, sagging underarm skin due to excess weight loss may turn for assistance to a plastic surgeon with the petition for brachioplasty, the surgical process also called an arm lift, which leads to a much slimmer and shapely upper arm. An arm lift may be performed on an outpatient basis in a hospital or a surgeon's office suite, under either anesthesia or sedation, and takes between a few hours. When doing an arm lift, the surgeon will start with incisions in the trunk and sections of the arm. Based on the magnitude of the procedure the incisions can vary from one which runs to the inside of the elbow from the area, to restricted incisions in which the arm joins the armpit. Liposuction may extracts excess fatty tissue, and the skin is trimmed and stitched back into place with sutures that will absorb or will have to be eliminated within a couple of weeks after the incisions are set up.
In the immediate Recovery period after the surgery the patient will notice some swelling and bruising, but the shapely kind of the arms will be evident. There will be some discomfort in the region of the process, and the pain will be treated with over the counter and prescription pain medicines. Bruising and the swelling will peak within a couple of days, and it will start to decrease until it disappears in about two weeks. Dr Morris Ritz from Melbourne will prescribe a compression garment in sticking to the site to help the skin. The individual may resume showering after a week, and most people are back at work within two to three weeks, even however exercise and lifting must be avoided for as long as fourteen days.
The typical cost of an Upper arm lift, or brachioplasty, procedure varies according to the area of the surgery, the patient plastic surgeon's fees, the price of the facility where the operation is done in addition to the area of the country it is done in, but generally the cost runs between $4000.00 and $6500.00. If paying for the process in a lump sum is not possible for a patient, many plastic surgeons are currently offering either payment plans through their own office institutions or working with external financing companies to be able to provide the chance for those people who desire more time to cover the opportunity to spread out the payments over many years.


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Ephesus, Greece. Egeon, a merchant of neighbouring and rival city Syrcause, is brought before the Duke, Solinus, in preparation for execution for turning up illegally on Ephesus' shores, unless a ransom is paid by sunset. But, he has a story to tell. Thirty-three years before the play begins, Egeon became the father of twin boys. He named them both Antipholus and bought another set of twins, both named Dromio, to be their servants. Egeon and his wife were travelling home with their sons and the servants when they were shipwrecked in a violent storm. He managed to save only one Antipholus and one Dromio and he has never seen the rest of his family since. Antipholus and Dromio arrive in Ephesus in search of their long-lost twin brothers, unaware that their father has also arrived there on the same quest. Unknown to all of them, the lost Antipholus and Dromio have been living in Ephesus for many years. In Ephesus, the strangers find themselves greeted like old friends. Antipholus of Syracuse finds that he has acquired a wife, and everyone in Ephesus seems to be behaving very strangely… The Greek villa is truly brought to life in Shakespeare's fastest, most farcical comedy for the perfect Summer evening's entertainment. The laughter and sunshine are not to be missed.


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Alex Walker has confirmed he will make his Formula Renault UK Championship debut in Rounds Fifteen and Sixteen at Rockingham, the talented Brit stepping up from the InterSteps championship with Fortec Motorsport.
16 year old Walker has impressed during his debut car racing season and still remains in contention for the InterSteps championship title with three races to go at Croft. The Oldham-based racer will put that to one side for the moment as he looks forward to making his first appearance in the British Touring Car Championship supporting Formula Renault.
Walker said: "This is a great opportunity for me to develop what I have learnt in my first season of car racing and I'm very thankful to Fortec Motorsport for giving me the chance to show what I can do this weekend. They are a leading team and Formula Renault is where I want to be next season so this presents me with the perfect platform to gain more valuable experience which will put me in good stead for next year.
"You only have to look at the names in Formula One that have come from Formula Renault to see that it is an excellent launching pad for the future stars of the sport, and the fact that the races will support the British Touring Cars and receive live TV coverage provides great commercial opportunities for my sponsors too.
"The InterSteps Championship bridges the big gap between karting and Formula Renault and I've taken in a lot so far this season. I'm still fully focused on the final three races at Croft where I will be giving it everything I've got to take the championship.
"In the meantime my attention turns to next weekend at Rockingham where I will be out to do the best for myself and the team. Fortec are leading the championship, and I have absolutely no doubt in their capabilities and experience, so I'm really excited to be part of the team and racing in front of a big crowd again."
Fortec's Team Principal Richard Dutton added: "Alex is having a really good season in InterSteps and he is growing all the time as a driver, so we are very excited to welcome him into our Formula Renault UK squad.
"He is making rapid progress and has proven his raw speed so it was the natural progression as we look to extend our relationship beyond this season. It's good to have such talent, not only for us as a team but also for the championship, and we are very much looking forward to bringing Alex into the next stage of his career."


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It's the mantra of our times: There is an urgent imperative to overhaul our enterprises with a raft of digital innovations: new smart products, new supply chains, new data sources, new channels, new business models. That is, seemingly urgent for everyone but the traditional IT department.
Yet as we look at the latest incremental IT budgets -- which I did earlier this week on ZDNet -- and even the more incremental foundational priorities of the average CIO, we see an increasingly large gap. A recent meta-survey of CIO priorities for 2015 shows that the most consistent top three goals for IT this year are high performance wireless, business analytics, and secure network access to the cloud.
These objectives are certainly necessary technology improvements to any organization. But they're also strikingly lacking in ambition, strategic business urgency, and very unlikely to help the organization find a path towards the future, as companies fight off a growing cohort of nimble digital competitors that are busy rethinking our industries in fundamentally contemporary terms.
While many leaders talk about the innovator's dilemma of not somehow shoehorning our organizations into the mold of Uber and Airbnb for our industry, the real risks are actually more complex and urgent than that. We're not just about to be pushed off the economic road by startups, but by global competitors moving much faster using new digital models, rapidly changing market expectations that pull the wind right out of our legacy businesses without determined digital reinvention, and perhaps worst of all, the now real existential technology threat to our organizations themselves.
We should be clear-eyed as to inaction: The ultimate outcome is market failure, then being merged or acquired for remaining assets, in a new digital world of zero marginal value for traditional business services.
As Brian Wilson recently pointed out, even formerly untouchable industries like banking have become targets for digital disruption. This is happening now to healthcare and insurance, as well as almost every other regulated industry.
At this point, as I look at what corporate leaders, especially boards of directors, can specifically do to rapidly stand-up organized and capable responses to digital change this year, I still see IT as having a central role in the change, but only if it can dramatically alter priorities and focus (while yes, also carrying out their original mandate as well as ever.)
Our attempts at digital transition
The responses that our enterprises have mounted in recent years have had limited effect, often because, as I explored on ZDNet, they're not nearly up to the scale of the challenge. These responses generally have been:
a) Install a Chief Digital Officer to make a P&L of existing and new digital assets.
b) Create a digital business Center of Excellence or strategic initiative.
c) Broadly seek out and work with industry partners who have more digital DNA to jointly develop products, often now through hackathons and contests.
d) Use M&A to buy the digital innovations needed to grow into new markets.
Unfortunately, each and every one of these responses has drawbacks, often substantial. For the most part, particularly for large established organizations, these approaches fail the big test: Will they propel the existing lines of business into the future, or does they just create a apartheid-style model of corporate structure where the legacy business is largely cut off from growth, and only the new digital departments thrive?
There is also the very real and difficult challenge of asking these questions, because that's the very definition of what happens during creative destruction: Legacy products and services dwindle in customer popularity and that part of the business shrinks, while new people with the right skills and acumen join the rapidly growing side of the business.
But meaningful digital transformation is a potentially much less destructive process, more akin to morphing the existing business in place from a legacy caterpillar to beautiful new digital butterfly. There are a lot of good reasons to go down this path, in that it's almost certainly better for everyone if it can be achieved. There will be less unexpected dislocation, a smoother transition for customers, employees, and shareholders, and much better use of existing strengths and resources, to name some of the key benefits.
The issues that CIOs must overcome
But the reason IT leaders in particular struggle boils down to some very hard to resolve obstacles. The long-standing and well known issues holding IT back from digital leadership and results are:
- IT being perceived as a cost center, and its budget is allocated as such. So the requisite boosts in tech spending for transformation increasingly aren't happening in IT, but elsewhere.
- IT departments in charge of business continuity and keeping things running as job #1, far more than they are allowed to innovate.
- Too few skills in creating businesses and being entrepreneurs, and too many staff hired because they can manage risk well in a mature operation.
- Poor alignment or credibility with the business, especially within mid-level IT management, and a tactical, "Dr. No" mindset.
Top sponsor + new change models = success
But ironically IT is well positioned for digital change in many respects: It has most of the technology, the lion's share of the technical know-how, almost all of the data, and is lacking only in corporate mandate, innovation skills/mindset, and resources suitable to break new ground.
The CIO can bring many strengths to the table for digital transformation, but needs a partner to overcome many of these weaknesses and deliver. That partner is one that the CIO must either find on the board or in the strongest owners within the lines of business, or both. This partner can provide business acumen, imperative, and resources. Combined together with the latest change processes, I believe they can create a new digital capability that can take an organization directly into the future.


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Natural time periods between celestial phenomena hold powerful insights into the numerical structure of time, insights which enabled the megalith builders to access an explanation of the world unlike our own. When looking at two similarly-long time-periods, the megalithic focussed on the difference between them, these causing the two periods to slide in and out of phase, generating a longer period in which the two celestial bodies exhibit a complete ensemble of variation, in their relationship to each other. This slippage of phase between celestial periods holds a pattern purely based upon number, hidden from the casual observer who does not study them in this way. Such numerical patterns are only fully revealed through counting time and analysing the difference between periods numerically.
For example, the solar year is longer than the lunar year by 10 and 7/8 days (10.875 days) and three solar years are longer than three lunar years by three times 10.875 days, that is by 32 and 5/8th days (32.625 days), which is 32/29 of a single lunar month of 29.53 days.
The earliest and only explicit evidence for such a three year count has been found at Le Manio's Quadrilateral near Carnac (circa 4,000 BCE in Brittany, France) used the inches we still use to count days, a "day-inch" unit then widespread throughout later megalithic monuments and still our inch, 1/12 of the foot [Heath & Heath. 2011]. The solar-lunar difference found there over three years was 32.625 day-inches, is probably the origin of the unit we call the megalithic yard and the megalith builders appear to have adopted this differential length, between a day-inch count over three lunar and solar years, in building many later monuments.Continue reading "Megalithic application of numeric time differences"


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Dubai, UAE, July 23, 2018: Thanks to better nutrition and improvements in veterinary medicine, our pets are living longer than ever before. Whether your pet is considered a senior depends on its size. For cats and smaller dogs, old age is anything above seven years. Larger dogs, however, are senior at five years old. While old age is not a disease, older pets are more likely to develop health concerns, including a greater risk of heart disease and weight control.
With 36 staff dealing with more than 60 animal-related cases daily, British Veterinary Hospital is experiencing a marked increase in the number of older animals coming in for care.
Dr Sara Elliott, at British Veterinary Hospital, provides a list of potential health problems and what pet owners can do to keep their four-legged friends in tip-top condition:
Weight Gain
Many of us have fallen victim to the dreaded 'middle-age spread', but you can prevent your ageing pet from piling on the pounds. As older pets tend to be less active, we recommend decreasing your pet's intake of calories. We offer advice on nutrition and can provide diet plans for weight loss. Maintaining a healthy weight will ensure unnecessary stress is not being put on your pet's joints and reduces the chance of it developing obesity-related illnesses. Another preventative tool for the battle of the bulge is exercise. Our team can guide you on the types of exercises suitable for your pet and the recommended frequency of activity. Just like us, each animal is unique.
Dental Disease
Decaying and damaged teeth are not only painful, but also make it very difficult for older pets to eat and get the nutrition they need to stay healthy. We see a lot of dental problems in cats in this region as many of the cat flu viruses contracted by kittens on the streets actually cause tooth damage throughout their lives. We offer professional dental cleaning and can offer advice on at-home treatments.
You may have noticed your older pet having difficulty walking or standing up. A good diet is effective against a number of conditions associated with senior pets, including arthritis. We offer advice on foods for your pet that may prevent the onset or progression of arthritis. Where necessary, we may also prescribe supplements, however, we believe a good diet should contain all of the nutrients your pet needs. A wide selection of balanced and nutrition-dense pet foods is available throughout the UAE. We may also recommend therapeutic massage and give advice on how you can help your pet with extra brushing and additional grooming for improved circulation.
Cognitive Disfunction
Pets over the age of nine can often suffer from symptoms of cognitive disfunction, including disorientation and confusion. Pets that are house trained may even start to go to the toilet in the house. It is important to note these pets are not being naughty, they are just getting forgetful in their old age. Again, a good diet high in anti-oxidants can be very beneficial in combatting these symptoms.
Older pets are at a higher risk of developing illnesses such as cancer, diabetes, heart disease, kidney disease and thyroid problems. The early warning signs of these diseases can be subtle and difficult to spot. Regular check-ups and screening are offered at most animal hospitals, enabling us to detect these ailments early and manage them through treatment.
We need to be very aware of pain in our pets. Unfortunately, animals are extremely good at hiding their discomfort from us. Just because our pet is not crying does not mean it is not in pain. Look out for subtle behaviour changes, such as not wanting to play, lack of appetite or being less sociable. Naturally visit your vet if you have any concerns.
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How do you know when it's time to say goodbye to your furry companion? We send our pet owners a questionnaire and email, assisting them in making what is always a very difficult decision. We recommend that each of the pet's caregivers be a part of this decision, as different people will notice different changes in their pet, such as lack of appetite or less interest in playing.
Regular vet check-ups are vital for all pets, but they become even more important for senior pets. It is often easy to miss the first signs of the diseases common in ageing pets as they can be subtle. Therefore, having your pet checked by a vet every six months is recommended.
In addition to regular check-ups, we encourage owners to keep an eye out for these early warning signs of illness in their pets: change in appetite, change in weight, difficulty moving, confusion, bad breath or bleeding gums, excessive drinking or urination, any new lumps and bumps and changes in sleep patterns. Owners seeing these changes should make an appointment to have their pet checked over by a vet.
In addition to the standard wellness plans offered, British Veterinary Hospital has optional plans for senior pets, which are recommended for pets over 5-7 years of age according to clinical needs. The myVET wellness plan includes: vaccinations, municipality registration, consultations, screening for early detection and prevention of diseases, 24/7 access to your pet's history, discounts on additional elective care and free nutrition and behaviour clinics.


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25 Skills You Can Trade After SHTF
When people talk about trading after the apocalypse, usually they start discussing whether you're better off stockpiling extra ammunition or some surplus food. These are both great trade assets – for a while. Eventually they'll run out, though, and then what? The guy who's been bringing you fresh eggs every day isn't going to keep doing it when you've run out of shells for his 12-gauge. Trading surplus supplies might be essential from time to time, but it's never going to be a long-term solution because, in the end, your supplies will be gone.
How about gold and silver? Some preppers have a touching belief that they'll be highly prized after society falls apart. I'm not so sure. I don't know about you, but I wouldn't be too keen to trade a handful of rifle bullets or a sack of flour for something that's basically just going to sit around looking shiny.
No, if you want a real trade asset, you can't beat skills. Once you've learned a skill you have an inexhaustible supply of it. If you fixed someone's generator today in exchange for a bag of apples from his tree, you can get more apples by fixing it again tomorrow. Years from now you can still be fixing his generator every time it goes wrong, and trading your time for his surplus fruit (unless he decides you're either not so good at fixing generators or a bit too fond of his apples). Skills won't run out, and in a prolonged emergency that makes them far more valuable for trade than anything else.
Here are 25 skills that are going to be in demand if we're all thrown back on our own resources. Some of them will be valuable right away; others will kick in when hoarded goods start running out. Learning all 25 of them is probably beyond most of us, but if you get pretty good at three or four you should be able to barter your work for anything you need after the apocalypse.
1.Vehicle maintenance
Being able to keep cars on the road is going to be a vital skill. With society in disarray, most regular workshops will be closed. If you have a reputation as someone who can keep engines running that's going to be a valuable skill – and you'll be able to fix generators and pumps, too.
Related: Top 10 Vehicles for Your EMP Survival
2. Electrics
If the power grid stays down for a while people are going to start looking for alternative sources of electricity. It might be a solar array, generator or wind turbine – in any case, it's going to need wired up. That can be difficult and even dangerous. If you know how to adapt and extend house wiring, people will pay for that skill.
3. Electronics
If people have electricity they're going to want gadgets that use it – but eventually they're going to go wrong. You probably aren't going to be able to make a new microprocessor, but some basic soldering skills can fix a surprising number of faulty appliances. Their owners will be pleased.
4. Plumbing
When plumbing goes wrong things can get pretty unpleasant in a hurry. That's why everyone's immediate reaction is to call a plumber. But what if the world as we know it has ended, and the plumber isn't answering the phone? If you can help people out with that, they'll be glad to help you out in some other way.
5. Medicine
Life is dangerous when society collapses; disease and injury will be more common, and the consequences of not treating them are more severe. Any medical assistance you can give, from basic first aid to advanced surgical skills, will make you a valuable asset to the community.
Related:Prepping to Power Medical Equipment When SHTF
6. Amateur radio
Most of the communications we rely on aren't going to survive a major social collapse. Without people to run its infrastructure, cell phones and the internet will go down in minutes. Landline phones – the ones that haven't switched to VOIP – might last hours or even a couple of days. If you have the skills to use radios, especially CB or ham radio, that's going to be a skill lots of people will want access to.
7. Mending clothes
Nowadays, if our clothes get damaged we just throw them away and buy new ones. Our ancestors, even a couple of generations ago, fixed them instead. If you can repair rips, replace broken zippers and even make alterations for size, you're not likely to run out of customers willing to trade.
8. Foraging
There's a lot of food out there if you know what to look for, in the form of edible fruits, berries, leaves, fungi and other plants. The problem is, if you don't know what to look for you can get in a lot of trouble. Mistaking a death cap for a mushroom is a mistake you'll only make once. If you have the right skills you can either teach them to others, or trade part of what you collect.
Related: Edible and Non-edible Mushrooms you Find in Forests
9. Hunting
Not everyone has the skills or equipment to harvest their own meat. If you do, you have a valuable source of food that you can trade for other things you need.
10. Fishing
If you're elderly or infirm, and can't do more physical jobs, you can still build up a tradeable food surplus with a fishing pole and some bait.
11. Crop growing
Not too long ago most families had their own vegetable garden. That's a skill most of us have lost. If you still have it, it's a valuable asset. Grow more than you need and trade the surplus, or look after people's plots for them in exchange for a share of the crop.
12. Animal husbandry
Some livestock is a valuable asset, but it takes skill to keep it alive and productive. If you're good at looking animals you can help out people who don't have your experience. The most efficient way to do this is to keep their animals with your own and give them their share of the milk, meat or other products.
Related: Top 9 Animals to Raise in a Post Apocalypse World
13. Butchery
Yes, this is the part of keeping livestock many people hate. It's easy to buy Percy the pig as an investment in your future self-sufficiency, but a lot harder to whack him on the head with a hammer and chop him up. If you can do that for them, they'll be happy to reward you with a few choice cuts.
14. Canning
A lot of people will manage to find or grow food, with or without your help, but won't have the skills they need to store it safely. If you're a canning expert you can make yourself useful by processing their surplus so they can build up stockpiles for the winter – maybe by trading your skills for a share of their crop.
Related: 7 Deadly Canning Mistakes Even Smart People Make
15. Carpentry
It's amazing what you can make with some timber, a few basic tools – and a bit of talent at woodworking. A good carpenter can put together anything from a storage box to a serviceable timber frame home. In other words, lots of things people will need and be happy to trade for.
16. Blacksmithing
This is a really rare skill nowadays, but it's going to be in huge demand if the economy implodes. There are still a lot of horses round, and they need shoes – but a good smith can make a lot more than horseshoes.
17. Gunsmithing
Weapons are going to be essential when the SHTF – but they're complex things, and sometimes they go wrong. Any good shooter can clear a stoppage, but what about repairing a broken trigger mechanism or re-crowning a barrel? Gunsmithing skills are pretty rare – and very valuable.
18. Reloading
There's a lot of ammunition in the USA, but it won't last forever. When stocks start to run low a lot of people will be willing to trade for more. If they can bring you their spent brass, and have it remanufactured into ammunition, that's a very valuable skill to have.
19. Fletching
In a sustained collapse, stocks of modern weapons and ammunition will eventually be gone. To help them last as long as possible, and replace them when they're exhausted, bows make a viable hunting – and even defensive – weapon. If you can make arrows you'll find plenty of people willing to trade for them.
20. Soap making
Did you remember to stockpile a large supply of soap? Probably not, but that doesn't matter – you know how to make it, using lye and any handy fats. Do you think everyone else in the neighborhood remembered to stockpile soap? Unlikely, but never mind. They can trade with you for the surplus you made.
21. Candle making
A year or two into a major collapse electric light will be a lot less common than it is now. Help your neighbors keep the darkness at bay by trading home-made candles. They're a lot brighter – and safer – than a crude oil lamp.
22. Leatherworking
If you know how to make things from leather, you'll never be short of work. Everything from shoe repairs to making new tack for horses will be in demand.
23. Teaching
Civilization might have collapsed, but you can help rebuild it by passing on the knowledge the next generation will need. You don't have to be a qualified teacher, but if you have knowledge and the enthusiasm to pass it on you can turn that to your advantage.
24. Playing an instrument
No matter how bad things get, people need entertainment. In fact, when it's really bad entertainment is more valuable than ever. If you can play a musical instrument you can do a lot to boost morale, and human nature means people will want to show their gratitude.
25. Spiritual comfort
If you're good at choosing an uplifting piece of scripture, or making an inspirational speech, that can be a valuable skill. It might not be essential to life, but it can make people feel a lot happier about their situation. In a major emergency death is a real possibility, for example, and if you can give someone a proper send-off their loved ones will cope better.
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reader October 27, 13:35
left coast chuck October 27, 17:36
Reloading is fine until you run out of primers and powder. You can alway mine lead at a local range and cast your own bullets if you have molds, but primers and powder are even more essential than cases and lead. Loading rifle cases runs through powder pretty quickly. That's one advantage to 5.56, 7.62×39 or .300 blackout in that they take less powder than .30-06 or .308. The problem with .300b.o. is that presently it is not as available as the above-mentioned calibers
left coast chuck October 27, 17:42
People with farm animal skills will also be in big demand. You don't have to be a vet to know how to cure various ailments that afflict farm animals. Horses don't have to be shod. The Indians never shod their horses and wild horses don't have shoes either. I had an old horseman explain why horses don't need to be shod but alas, I didn't take notes and now can't tell you why. That's why folks who know about animals will be in big demand. Do you know how to help a cow give birth to a calf? Or help a mare? After I get past knowing which end to be checking I am pretty much at the end of my data banks.
cherokeeleprechaun October 27, 18:42
I am very knowledgeable on the gardening, animals, training and a lot of vet skills, have herbal and some safe foraging skills, can build also. I hunt, trap and fish as well. A bit of a jack of all trades and master of none. If you are a reader you can learn darn near anything. I just think the more knowledge and skills a person has the better off they are over all no matter if it in our current world or in a shtf scenario. Oh and horse shoes really were only used if an animal had a hoof issue/lameness problem. Otherwise no, back in the day of dirt roads shoes were not needed. When we began bricking, paving and using concret which eats and chips the hooves then yes, we need them to protect the hoof from that.
Marci October 27, 19:30
left coast chuck October 27, 19:54
HI Marci: I was equivocal about the introduction of wolves back into the U.S. Really didn't have an opinion one way or another. Then I read some actual news clippings from mid-19th century newspapers about the interface between wolves and people. I also read some accounts about what is happening to some ranchers and the elk herds in Colorado and a couple other states.
If an end of the world situation ever develops, I think you will be quite regretful, if you survive, that wolves were introduced into the U.S. Not only will they deplete natural food sources we depend upon for our own sustenance, we will be under attack from packs of wolves and have to defend ourselves from them. There were serious reasons why grizzlies and wolves were exterminated and it had nothing to do with greedy hunters or governmental plans for genocide of the indians. It had to do with survival.
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left coast chuck April 9, 15:39
Yes, I do think there will be an explosion of predators. Every predator eats fresh kill and some eat decaying kill. A bear is not fussy about how long the kill has been laying in the sun. A mountain lion generally prefers fresher kill. A coyote is not fussy about its diet and I don't know enough about the culinary habits of wolves to comment except to opine that they probably are close to coyotes when it comes to dining preferences. Only weapons elevated man to the top of the food chain. Without weapons he was prey for every form of flesh eating animal. Even with bows and arrows or spears he was still a pretty fair choice for dinner. Human kind will not only be prey for flesh eaters, any livestock that he may keep for his own table will also be prey for flesh eaters. In addition, Fido, man's best friend will roam in packs and man will be a source of food for feral dog packs. Actually they mayl be a bigger source of danger to humans than many animals that are presently considered wild.
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left coast chuck April 9, 15:43
Yes, I have read that one of the reasons why native Americans kept large dog packs, in addition to serving as an early warning system, they served as MREs when game was scarce. I don't know about early white settlers, but I suspect when colonies were starving, Fido was on the menu. Are you going to feed Ole Spot when your kids are gaunt and their ribs are showing? Nope, Spotty is going to be the main course.
left coast chuck December 25, 16:29
As an update on having Fido for dinner, I recently read an article about trichinosis. It turns out that Fido can be a harborer of trichinosis too, along with bears and pigs, so be sure to cook Fido extra well done when he is the main course for dinner. While trichinosis is rated as being rarely fatal, from the sounds of the symptoms one suffers, you will probably wish you were dead and in an ETOW situation, you wish just might come true.
GMC April 12, 14:56
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LG October 27, 21:33
What about KNITTING – socks will need replacement in not too long – especially with growing children. Mittens & hats for everyone, shawls for warmth while waiting for more slowly made sweaters, and of course – cardigan and pullover sweaters for extra warmth. Don't forget QUILTING – turning clothing too worn out to be used into scraps for warm blankets….and SEWING clothes for growing kids – repair and 'sizing up or down', as you mentioned – and special events like a wedding. I got a BRAND NEW TREADLE sewing machine just for this purpose (made by Janome, about $300 plus treadle table for it). It has 10 of the most used 'electric' machine stitches – and is totally foot powered and sews beautifully! STASH UP, LADIES! YARN, FABRIC, BATTING AND THREAD…and don't forget the needles!!!
GMC April 12, 14:47
Rottnrotti October 28, 15:48
Mark October 30, 22:37
Another useful skill, -if you aren't afraid of heights- is knowing how to find and repair leaks and storm damage to roofs. Get to know what materials are used in your area, how they are installed, and what causes them to fail. Get hold of the necessary tools and supplies e.g: a good ladder, roof jacks if there are steep or slated roofs in your area, spare tiles/slates (and encourage the owners of such roofs to stockpile some that match their own roof) and a good stock of the necessary nails, screws, clips and sealants needed for whatever you might need to fix after SHTF. There are some good publications out there to get you started, such as The Slate Roof Bible, and installation guides published by the various product manufacturers.
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Hannibal October 28, 17:00
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Terri December 24, 15:40
Lisa December 24, 17:48
In the old west, it was the women that handled the birthing and death. My Mother used to say, A women touches death every time she has a baby. I'm very cognizant that my two children are a gift, I have C's. Natural birth will be all there is. My great grandfather had 5 wives, all but the last died in childbirth.
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This is why you let kids fall off the jungle gym when they're 8...so that they figure out early on that Stupid Hurts.
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A substance that removes balance and coordination with an activity that demands exactly that and with potential for serious injury or death. You are made of stupid.


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Asus likes to explore unusual designs for its Android devices, as one look at the Padfone X will tell you. Another fresh take on mobile devices announced at CES comes in the form of the Asus Transformer Book Duet. This is a convertible laptop/tablet hybrid that dual-boots Windows 8.1 and Android 4.2.2. It also packs some serious laptop-grade hardware.
Here are the specs straight from Asus:
- Dual-OS - Windows 8.1 Standard / Android 4.2.2
- 13.3-inch Full HD IPS multi-touch display
- Up to Intel Core-i7 processor [specific configurations not listed]
- Up to 128GB SSD in Tablet
- Up to 1TB HDD in Dock
- 38WHr battery, estimated battery life around 5 hours in Windows 8.1 and 6 hours in Android 4.2.2.
- 802.11ac Wi-Fi; Bluetooth 4.0 + EDR
- Tablet ports: Micro SD card, Headphone jack, DC jack
- Keyboard dock ports: 1 x USB 3.0, 2 x USB 2.0, 10/100Mbit/s LAN, HDMI 1.4, audio combo jack, DC jack
- Tablet measures 342.7 x 216.3 x 12.9mm; dock measures 340.9 x 217.6 x 16mm.
The device can be used in either laptop or tablet mode in Windows and Android. A physical switch on the device (or software button) will immediately shift the Transformer Book Duet between Android and Windows. Asus, unsurprisingly, calls this the Instant Switch button. Because this hybrid is rocking laptop-quality hardware, the tablet portion is a little bigger than standard ARM tablets. Imagine a Microsoft Surface Pro 2, but with an Android option and a slightly bigger LCD.
Asus was originally planning on shipping the Transformer Book Duet with Android 4.1, which was reported by several sites today. However, a last minute decision was made to get a build of Android 4.2.2 on the device. It might not be KitKat, but it's better than 4.1. Asus hasn't announced any specific release date or pricing details yet, but expect it to be spendy. PR is below.
Update: Pricing (per Asus) will start at $599 with a Core i3 and 1366x768 screen. $699 gets you an upgrade to 1080p. Other configs are still unknown.
Las Vegas, NV (January 6, 2014) — ASUS today announced Transformer Book Duet (TD300), the world's first quad-mode, dual-OS laptop and tablet convertible that allows users to switch between Windows and Android in either laptop or tablet modes with just a single push of the Instant Switch button or a virtual key on the tablet. With a powerful Intel® Core™ i7 processor at its heart, Transformer Book Duet runs up to twice as fast as existing tablets based on ARM® processors. ASUS SonicMaster technology and dual speakers ensure that Transformer Book Duet delivers incredible audio for immersive entertainment.
Quad-mode, dual-OS laptop and tablet with Instant Switch
ASUS Transformer Book Duet (TD300) is an extremely capable device that is able to function as an Android or Windows 8.1 tablet or notebook. Users can simply switch operating systems with a single push of the Instant Switch button or a virtual key on the tablet.
By offering both operating systems, ASUS provides users the ability to run supported Android applications and a vast array of native Windows applications. Transformer Book Duet features a powerful Intel Core i7 processor with Intel HD graphics and 4G DDR3L 1600 RAM, giving it performance that's up to twice as fast as existing tablets powered by ARM® processors.
The patented ASUS technology that powers Instant Switch offers many performance and productivity benefits over other dual-OS solutions, such as fast, smooth and seamless switching and the ability to resume each OS from where the user left off. As it does not use OS virtualization, Instant Switch also allows each OS to harness the full power of Intel's latest processor technology.
Striking audio-visuals
ASUS Transformer Book Duet (TD300) delivers striking visuals on its 13.3-inch 1920 x 1080 Full HD IPS touchscreen display. This multi-touch display features sensitivity and responsiveness that exceeds Microsoft's requirements for Windows 8.1. For audio, it comes with ASUS SonicMaster technology for true-to-life sound through the tablet's dual speakers.
In addition, Transformer Book Duet has a front-facing HD camera with a built-in digital mic for video chats. The tablet display has 128GB of SSD storage that can be supplemented by a 64GB Micro SD card, while the keyboard dock houses up to a 1TB hard disk drive. The dock is also home to USB 3.0 and USB 2.0 ports, a LAN port, and HDMI 1.4 output with 1080p support. In terms of connectivity, ASUS Transformer Book T300 has 802.11ac Wi-Fi and Bluetooth 4.0 with EDR.
ASUS Transformer Book Duet sports the same stylish concentric-circle finish found in other ASUS offerings. The Transformer Book Duet has compact dimensions, with the tablet measuring 342.7 x 216.3 x 12.9mm; and the dock measuring 340.9 x 217.6 x 16mm. Together, they weigh around 1.9kg, making it supremely portable and flexible for those on the go.


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Colleen here. yes. I've decided to keep this blog. I met a guy who looks like Jase but he's homeless and refuse to date him because he is reluctant to get a place and the staff here are not keen on him. I respect what Sharon says about this guy. The guy's name is Tim and he is only my friend and nothing else. Sharon is our full time staff here. So if I see Tim again, since he's not willing to take my advice and get a roof over his head, his luck with me is gone. My ex, Justin nearly brought bed bugs in my house and I had to wash EVERYTHING I owned, even my winter jacket! We had to take major precautions about this. I left Justin high and dry due to this. I don't want to date anymore men. I can't trust them anymore, and I've had no idea if Tim has come across bed bugs or not. People told me not to be with homeless dudes and I agree. The last DD episode will be in April. I was reading about this a while back. I don't think it would look good on me if I dated a homeless person. My parents will be disappointed in me and that would be low of me if I do. So I'm thinking twice about this. Homeless people are most likely to take advantage of women who have money. I've been through hell and back with this and I refuse to let it happen again. I had too many broken hearts so I might as well give up. I will tell Tim that he only gets friendship and that's it. I can't trust him on getting a place and getting a job etc…I won't even take him out for coffee since he'll expect me to pay for it. Plus he influenced my friend Kim into panhandling. Not good. Panhandling is against the law. I forgot to say that Justin and I broke up, scaring me off with bed bugs. I'm not going the same route with Tim. You never know where he has been. Plus I have a feeling that Tim might have been with my friend Darlene and I refuse to hurt her. I like being true to my friends and not date their leftovers. A guy named Pat went out with Sam and tried to make a pass at me and I told him to get lost. I did that for Sam and I will do the same for Darlene. I won't even date my friend Toni's ex-husband, Alex for Pete's sake! Sam felt guilty dating my leftovers with a guy named John so I won't do the same to her. So I've sworn off guys for life. I said on Facebook, I'm single and NOT looking. and that's the bottom line.
Colleen aka Miss Bane of Bullfrogs
Tim is a bullfrog and I DON'T trust him. Should I put a ban on him like I did to Justin? I think so.
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Nexight Group is happy to welcome Stephanie Spaulding to the team as our new Program Analyst. She graduated with a Bachelor's degree in Criminology and Psychology, and has worked in a variety of industries including the federal government and finance. We sat down with Stephanie to ask her a few questions about herself, her views, and her new role at Nexight.
Q: Tell us a little about yourself.
Prior to joining Nexight, I worked as a Mortgage Loan Originator (MLO) in the finance and real estate industry where I earned a National MLO License. My focus was primarily working with first time homeowners, active duty military, and veterans to best assess their financial obligations and educate them on government and conventional loan programs. Before that, I worked for the Department of Homeland Security, U.S. Customs and Border Protection in the Special Operations Division, and the Finance and Budget Department. I have also conducted financial risk analyses, used budget management tools, and coordinated educational seminars.
I was born and raised in southern Maryland and have played sports my entire life. I lived in North Carolina for 5 years, just steps away from the ocean, and I became a Tar Heels fan (sorry, Terps!). My family started the Chris Delinski Breast Cancer Memorial Fund 30 years ago, where I currently assist in planning benefit/fundraising events and managing donations. The money we raise goes directly toward paying medical and personal bills of families in need throughout Maryland. In my free time, I enjoy traveling, volunteering, clay-skeet shooting, fishing, running with my dog Ozwald, and sipping on a glass of bourbon while reading a good book.
Q: Why did you decide to join Nexight Group?
Nexight Group really stood out to me because of the diverse background of its employees and the wide variety of work we do. I believed my experience in financial analysis, social science research, risk assessment, and terrorism/counterterrorism analysis could be of value to the projects we offer. Additionally, I wanted to be part of a company that would challenge my abilities, encourage further education, and provide opportunities for its employees to develop their careers—these are all qualities I saw in Nexight.
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I look forward to helping government and commercial clients find practical solutions to their organizational challenges. I am especially excited to use my experience in critical thinking and risk assessment to effectively analyze federal programs.


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Clip freeze at start
For the story: For a theater company, I am moving a show from QLab/MadMapper to Millumin Demo, to see which one we'll use for next shows.
My problem is: when I launch a clip it freeze around 0.5 seconds on the first frame then the clip runs normally. I've tested several file size, from 100MB to 2GB, and with optimized or not videos but the problem is still there.
Any idea about this problem?
Hello @xenatis,
Millumin is automatically preloading movies, so they starts instantaneously :
- What is your mode : 32 or 64-bits ? (see Prefererences, probably 64-bits)
- What codec do you use ? You should use Photo-JPEG.
- Did you check that your drive is quickly enough to playback all your files ?
- Did you change the "start-point" of your movie ?
Best. Philippe
Hello,- 64bits mode- Codec: every file is in Photo-JPEG, converted from "Apple ProRes 422 (HQ)" by Millumin- Drive is SSD : "APPLE SSD SM512E Media"- Start point for all movie at 00:00:00
It is happening on both my machines now too.Everything was in HapQ or Hap Alpha, now I am converting to ProRes as HAP is suddenly "experimental".Will have to re-render ALL my clips before I can see if that helps.A simple show that would previously play 6-8 layers of 5172x1200 at 60 fps is now choking on 3-4 layers and goes from 60 to 12 fps, really bad and impossible to use for a job.I don't know if it's 10.10.5 or Millumin, but I wish I could have it like it was this whole year since HAP came out.I load the same shows I did already and the problem is there on both machines - glitches and low frame rate, then settles to half the normal framerate. Will spend my weekend reinstalling OSX as this is useless for shows now.BTW, why is HAP now "experimental"? The combination of HAP and Millumin made it the best combination for high framerate, high rez video, why screw with it now?
Also, Hap-Alpha to ProRes444 conversion removed the alpha on all my clips and now they are all black.There is no way I will be able to run 8 layers of PhotoJPEG in high resolutions, with some alpha channels and at 60 fps.Please bring back support for HAP or something else that uses the GPU, as the Photo JPEG is just too primitive and old to do what we were already able to do.As Millumin is the end of my chain, I adjust everything to it, from creating content in AE or C4D, always making sure it will be pixel perfect and with a supported codec and framerate.I also added PCIe drives to both systems hoping to go for even more layers than before (please see attached photo) but I can't even play my old shows properly now.I remember I used PhotoJPEG last year before HAP 64 came out and it was horrible. Image quality is better, but frame rates are pathetic and I don't want to go back to those shows where I have 20-23 fps and it all looks like it is going to get stuck any minute.Please bring back HAP support as it was for those of us who want to use it and who invested in Nvidia cards just for this purpose.20150821145339.jpg1280 x 723 - 225K
Hello @alenmecan,
Nothing have been changed with HAP support : HAP can be used in 32-bits mode, but if there a few minor issues in 64-bits so we cannot recommand it for now. We need to investigate such minor issues (in few cases, bad compositing, small delay before start) and learn where it comes from (OSX, Millumin, the codec, OpenGL, ...). Please read this thread for more information.
Keep in mind that Vidvox published HAP support in 64-bits very recently (8 months ago).
In brief : if you're not affected by such minor issue and you're happy with HAP in 64-bits, you can keep it.
Of course, performance of HAP in 64-bits are better of Photo-JPEG or ProRes, that's why you see such a difference.
We hope to fix the minor issues soon, and HAP in 64-bits is very important to us.
The problem of Xenatis is different, and we're already in contact with him for a solution. We'll update this post regarding our progresses.
Best. Philippe
Thank you for this explanation,s there a way to go back to 10.10.2, and that version of Millumin with Hap64 from January?It is lot easier for me to install the OSX and drivers than to re-render everything - also PhotoJpeg is too much for my projects, it is CPU only and there is no such CPU!The Xenatis problem I also have and it is weird that it happens not on all layers - usually the largest file is the one that has this glitch.Sometimes if you have a same video file left and right, one will have the glitch and will be out of sync.
Hello @alenmecan,
We didn't change the Hap64 support since its release. However, it seems that latest Yosemite version caused glitches with Hap64 : nothing sure for sure, and we need to investigate.
There must be a method to go back on a earlier version of Yosemite directly, but reinstallation is probably better.
Xenatis is different : he doesn't have glitches but a small delay before its video starts. We'll update this post regarding our progresses.
Best. Philippe
Hello @xenatis,
In the last version (1.61), we fix a bug between loops and OSX Yosemite (and also improved loop playback).
Please update, it should fix your problem.
For the record, @alenmecan solves its problem by reinstalling its Hackintosh.
Best. Philippe
This problem still exists in the beta or release version of Millumin V2. It doesn't matter which codec is used (H264, ProRes Proxy, PhotoJPEG....)It seems it has something to do with the caching/buffering of OSX VTDecoderXPCServise. For the first time of decoding it takes some time to buffer the first frames. If some seconds are already decoded and are buffered (when jump back in the last column), the clip starts immediately.I checked the "force movie preload" option, but this has no effect on the problem.Is there some other solution right now?best RegardsDaniel
I forget, the problem is not the freeze of the following clip. There is a freeze of the current clip, which freezes until the next clip could be played. So maybe it would be a solution to play the current clips as long as the next clip is really ready to play?
Hello @dangrau,
Millumin optimizes movie preloading (in the dashboard as well as in the timelines). So movies can start in a spurt.
Let's check some things :
- What are the recommandations listed after your hit the "Optimize" button ? If some, execute them.
- Do you have the issue with latest Millumin V2+ beta (2.20.e) ?
- Do you have audio inside your movies ? If so, do you have the problem if you play your audio through Mac's built-in speakers ?
If the problem persists and for better ticket management, please send us your project (only the .millumin file) and the description of your setup (version of macOS, Mac model, graphic card model) to our email support : contact / millumin
After our investigations, we'll update this thread accordingly.
Best. Philippe
Hi Philippe,With the latest beta 2.20.e it works like a charm!Great job!best regardsDaniel
OláEstou tendo o mesmo problemaQuando eu mudo a coluna faz uma pausa no vídeo que esta rondando
HelloI'm having the same problemwhen I change the column it pauses the video, forgetting turning column change without fade
Hello @peixotodavi,
What is your version of Millumin ?
If the problem persists and for better ticket management, please send us
your project (only the .millumin file) and the description of your
setup (version of macOS, Mac model, graphic card model) to our email
support : contact / millumin
Thank you. Philippe


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University of Southampton MBA
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Allwyn Sanger Solicitors
Sell the problems you solve not the product, goes the adage. When Windsor-based solicitors Allwyn Sanger wanted to showcase their work, I suggested that they get their clients whose issues they have resolved to endorse their work instead. I think it works, don't you think?
Fearless Putting
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ISCA Graduation
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True Tone Aesthetics
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Little Blues Nursery School
I pitched two ideas to Little Blues Nursery School. One was about what building blocks the nursery offered to set the kids off to a sound start in life. And the other was a more documentary style promo with the kids explaining what they had just done. The results are below.
British Naturism
British Naturism is organising the Great British Skinny Dip in September 2016. And here's the video they commissioned me to make.
ISCA – Zandra Rhodes & Jimmy Choo Masterclass
The International School of Creative Arts invited me back to film British fashion icon Dame Zandra Rhodes and the school's honorary president Jimmy Choo interacting with their students.
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Phoenix Rugby was on a recruitment drive for new players. The video was to show what they do at training and on match days, so more could join them.
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ISCA – Testimonials
The International School of Creative Arts wanted to showcase what they have to offer potential students. And who better to endorse their facilities than their students?
Monitran MTN 5000 is a niche product and this video was to introduce it to potential users.
Destiny Support
A small local social enterprise that is punching above its weight in terms of the impact it has on its clientele. They commissioned me to capture their story.
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Lisa Talbot is an award-winning personal stylist based in the South of England. It was not difficult to make her look good, as you can see from this promo. And because she spoke straight-from-the-heart about her work, I offered three shorter edits for her to use to promote her work.
Farr & Pursey – Equine Vets
Farr & Pursey are an Equine Veterinary practice based in Hertfordshire. I wanted to showcase three of the key aspects of their service namely – mobile vet practice, friendly and professional and their round-the-clock service. Hence three one-minute videos rather than one three-minute video. I also scripted these promos.
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Lorna Kennard and Rachael Wall will soon be launching their crowdfunding campaign to raise funds to produce the back cushion they have developed. Based on my own experience from running an unsuccessful crowdfunding campaign, I suggested ways to improve their chances at success and made this video for them.
Wellness And You
Wellness And You works with employers to improve the wellbeing of staff leading to healthy, happy and productive workplaces.
Phoenix Cricket Club
Phoenix Cricket Club provides the perfect excuse to indulge in a bit of competitive fun with friends before succumbing to the lure of the bar. They wanted to attract new members to come and give their friendly club a go.
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Be Happy nursery provides a joyful, stimulating environment for the children who attend its sessions. Their brief was to create a promo video that captured its spirit and this 90-seconder does just that. Watch out for the little bee that buzzes around.
Daughter Of The Soil (Or D.O.T.S) is an ambitious, ethical start up that offers luxurious skin care products that have been made with a view to empower those who helped produce it.
This is the story of eDivert – a Maidenhead-based company that specialises in virtual personal assistant services.
Norden Farm
Every year Maidenhead's Norden Farm organise a Lantern making workshops for the entire community which culminates in a colourful parade around the town. Here's what happened in 2014.
Just Because CaKes
Video profile of a cake-maker whose painstaking efforts are only matched by the exquisite results they yield.