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LAS VEGAS, Feb. 15, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- MGM Resorts International (NYSE: MGM) and Ameristar Casinos, Inc. (NASDAQ-GS: ASCA) today announced a strategic marketing relationship for the companies' rewards programs – MGM Resorts' M life and Ameristar's Star Awards/Plateau Players Club. Beginning in mid-March, the strategic agreement allows targeted MGM Resorts' M life members to receive offers and benefits at Ameristar casinos and Ameristar's Star Awards/Plateau Players Club members to receive offers and benefits at MGM Resorts' properties in Las Vegas.
The relationship capitalizes on MGM Resorts' world-renowned destinations in Las Vegas and Ameristar's premier casino-hotels in regional markets in Colorado, Indiana, Iowa, Mississippi, Missouri and Northern Nevada. This creates opportunities for M life and Star Awards/Plateau Players Club members, allowing both companies to strengthen customer loyalty by providing more access and rewards.
"With our Ameristar alliance, our members can enjoy the high level of experience they have at MGM Resorts' properties in more destinations across the U.S.," said Jim Murren, Chief Executive Officer for MGM Resorts International. "This also provides Ameristar's Star Awards/Plateau Players Club members exclusive experiences and offers at our Las Vegas properties that they wouldn't have access to otherwise. This relationship is part of an aggressive expansion plan for M life with synergistic brands worldwide that create even greater value for our members."
Gordy Kanofsky, Ameristar's Chief Executive Officer, said, "We believe our Star Awards/Plateau Players Club members will be thrilled with this relationship and the opportunity to receive offers in Las Vegas. MGM Resorts has an impressive portfolio of Las Vegas casino resorts that will offer Las Vegas trip experiences attractive to each and every Star Awards membership segment. We believe the benefit of a Las Vegas trip to MGM Resorts' hotels and casinos as part of the Star Awards program will enhance player loyalty to Ameristar properties and the Ameristar brand nationwide."
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How to back up/restore all MySQL databases via a command-line interface in Plesk for Linux?
Creating database dumps of all databases
Connect to a server via SSH.
Create a directory where backup files will be stored:
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Get the list of all databases:
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Restoring all MySQL databases from the dumps
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This headband is an everyday essential for any little girl. This is a trendy dark grey and white arrow knot headband. This headband is available in one size only (fits approximately 2-12 months). This trendy and stylish headband is perfect for everyday wear. You will LOVE it!
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The point of this post is to give an insight into how this painting was done. I enjoy drawing cathedrals but I didn't paint one in a while so I thought it was about time. It was also going to be a challenge for me, they're not exactly the easiest subjects to paint.
I started off by roughly drawing in the shapes in pencil and applying watered down watercolour paint at light areas of the building. I was using St Mark's Basilica in Venice as a guide but I wasn't being too strict on details.
Stretching clingfilm over wet paint and leaving it to dry creates some nice textures and effects as you can see here.
After I removed the clingfilm, I painted in more details and then put some more clingfilm over these newly painted areas. It's time consuming, and there's a lot of waiting around for paint to dry, but it's worth it. I learnt this trick off Jean Haines, an unbelievably great artist. Google her and check out her work.
Dropping salt onto wet paint creates some cool blotchy effects. It gives an antiquated look to your painting after it dries. All you need to do is sprinke a little salt onto wet areas of the paper. The salt absorbs the paint leaving behind the desired effect.
You can see how the effect the salt and clingfilm has here in this photo. This photo is from a different painting.
I was going to let the paint drip from the the cathedral to the bottom of the page but I realised the buildings' sense of scale would be taken away. Adding figures as tiny little squiggles at the bottom, turned the building into an imposing figure overlooking the little people.
I could have left it here and I think it would've looked fairly cool. I'll go back and do something similar to this in the future.
Here I pressed down some roughly cut masking tape and applied it to certain areas. I then painted around these in a darker colour to that which was under the tape.
The finished piece. Hope you like it. :)


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Craving Mindfulness? Here Are 3 Ways to Start Meditating Today
Meditation. It's just a glorious thing for those who have experienced it. But many people have trouble either beginning a practice or maintaining one. However, there are several simple meditation methods that you can do to encourage a happy, meditative mind.
In the time it takes you to read this short essay, you could have done a meditation. So let's go over 3 simple methods of meditation to get you started on a practice today. You can do this.
First, if you have resistance to starting your practice, be sure to review my recent post about the two most common mistakes made when beginning a meditation practice. Once ready to start, simply adopt one of these easy methods, listed below.
I was reminded of these three simple ways to meditate while reading The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying, by Sogyal Rinpoche (Harper Collins). Though, personally, I have decades of experience with two of these methods, I often forget the third one as an option, so it's a great reminder.
Here are the three easy-to-start, simple-to-learn meditation techniques. Just pick one and start.
Mindfulness Breathing
Rinpoche reminds us that mindfulness is our way "in" to meditation, and your breath is the roadway.
To practice mindfulness breathing, sit in easy pose or in a chair with feet on floor, spine strait, body relaxed and erect. Close your eyes. Become aware of and follow the inhalation and exhalation, breathing through your nose, sending breath down to your lower abdomen. Gradually, become aware of the spaces between your inhale and exhale, and your exhale and inhale.
Don't manipulate the breath. Just breathe as you need to. If your mind wanders, just bring it back to your breath — no judgements. Sip from an infinite pool of wellbeing, and savor the experience.
Start with 3 minutes and move up to 20 minutes a day.
Gazing (Upon an Object/Image)
Gazing brings a calm focus to your mind. To help you develop one-pointed focus and calm your thoughts naturally, light a candle and stare at it. Gaze at it and let it take your total attention, without allowing your eyes to break contact. Blinking is ok. If you are spiritually-minded, you could instead gaze at a picture of your spiritual master or guru (Buddha, Jesus, etc.).
Start with 3 minutes and move up to 20 minutes a day.
Use Mantra Regularly
Mantra helps you take your mind off obsessing on your problems, and on to uplifting thoughts. Mantra is used in Orthodox Christianity, Buddhism, Hinduism, and Sufism, but has a bad rap here in the United States. Pick a sacred word and repeat this word or phrase as often as you can. Amen. Rama. Sat Nam. I am. God is. God and I are One, etc. Any word or phrase — perhaps the Lord's Prayer — that is uplifting to your spirit. If possible, say it out loud, or simply repeat it to yourself over and over in your head slowly.
Start with 3 minutes and move up to 20 minutes a day.
Mantra can be done anytime, anywhere — such as work, while driving, or shopping. Try it anytime your mind seems obsessed with problems and worries.
It's that easy. Try it now, or when you get home — before dinner for attitude adjustment hour!
This article courtesy of Spirituality and Health.
Guest Author, P. (2018). Craving Mindfulness? Here Are 3 Ways to Start Meditating Today. Psych Central. Retrieved on October 30, 2020, from https://psychcentral.com/blog/craving-mindfulness-3-ways-to-start-meditating-today/
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You've got a blog, I've got a blog—heck, your cat's probably got a blog. For the ultimate in ease and simplicity, all you need to do is grab a spot on one of the free hosted services and start writing. Of course, the ease of starting up there is offset by the lack of control you have over the look and feel, to say nothing of the functionality of that canned blog. You can always to to the other extreme and install WordPress on your own server. With that, you get flexibility, but you also have to do some of the heavy lifting, especially when it comes to getting all the technical pieces to work and play well together.
FlatPress splits the difference between these two extremes. You host it on your own server, or with your ISP, or whatever your arrangement is. What you don't need to worry about, however, is access to MySQL or some other high-powered database back-end. That's because FlatPress doesn't use a database; it stores all its data in "flat files"—plain old text files that don't require a database engine to use them. Presumably if you're making a zillion posts a day, at some point you're going to take a performance hit for this, but if you're blogging a normal human amount—or a normal kitty amount—you're probably going to be okay.
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When I tell people I'm a pediatric rheumatologist – which is a doctor who takes care of children with arthritis and autoimmune disorders, - nearly everyone responds, "I didn't know kids could get arthritis."
Arthritis is a common condition in children, affecting one in 250 kids. It is characterized by the swelling of a joint or by the loss of the normal range of motion of a joint accompanied by pain with movement. Pain alone in a joint does not mean that a child has arthritis.
Arthritis, by itself, is simply a symptom of an underlying condition, just as a cough may represent asthma or pneumonia. In childhood, arthritis is usually a result of the body fighting an infection. The immune system, which fights infections, can often mistake the proteins and parts that make up our joints as the same material that is seen in types of viruses and bacteria. As our body fights the infection, there can be a short period of time when inflammation/irritation from our body is accidentally fighting against our joints. Usually, as the infection goes away the arthritis does, too.
However, some children get a form of arthritis that does not appear to have a cause and instead of going away after a month or two, continues to affect the same, or more, joints. This is called Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis (JIA), with idiopathic meaning that there is no clear cause identified. Roughly one in 1,000 children have JIA.
JIA is also from our body's immune system fighting against its own joints. In this situation, however, the body cannot shut off this process by itself. JIA should not be mistaken for osteoarthritis, which many older people can have. Osteoarthritis is from the loss of the protective covers on the bones at the joints, which causes the bones to grind on one another.
Another misconception is that JIA is not rheumatoid arthritis. While there are many things that overlap with the adult form of rheumatoid arthritis, JIA is considered its own condition. In fact, JIA is actually a group of conditions that all share the same feature of arthritis.
Types of Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis
- Oligoarticular – Patients have four or less joints affected by arthritis. This is more common in girls and often begins in early childhood.
- Polyarticular – Patients have five or more joints affected by arthritis. This is also more common in girls and can start early in childhood or in teenage years.
- Enthesitis Related Arthritis - The enthesis is the place where muscles and bones come together. Patients with this form can often have pain along tendons. They are also at risk for arthritis of their back, called spondyloarthritis. It is more common in boys and usually develops in adolescence.
- Psoriatic Arthritis – Patients who have psoriasis, a skin disease, or with a parent or siblings who have psoriasis may develop arthritis. This is more common in girls and can occur any time in childhood.
- Systemic Onset JIA – This is very different from the rest of the types of JIA where high, daily fevers and rashes are also present. This affects boys and girls equally and can occur at any time in childhood.
How is JIA diagnosed?
Diagnosis is based completely on a physical exam performed by a pediatrician or specialist. There are no tests or labs that can be used to make a diagnosis of JIA, however there are labs that help assist with the diagnosis. Labs can help determine the amount of inflammation in the body or show risk factors for other complications, such as uveitis which is inflammation of the eyes. X-rays are helpful only to be sure there is not something else going on that can result in swelling, such as a fracture or tumor.
How is JIA treated?
Treatment can vary considerably, but the overall goal is to reduce the amount of inflammation in the joints. This is usually done with medications that can be taken, some by mouth, but may include injections at home or infusions in the hospital. Arthritis can also be treated with steroid injections directly into the affect joint(s). All children with JIA also benefit from physical therapy and a healthy, active lifestyle complemented by a well-balanced diet that includes vitamin D and calcium to promote healthy bones.
Should my child be seen by a rheumatologist?
In general, JIA tends to be a gradual process, rather than a big change overnight. If your child has had unexplained swelling in one or more joints that continues over the course of several weeks with no sign of improvement, you should consider having them seen by their pediatrician and possibly referred to a rheumatologist. Also, if you have noticed your child limping, having difficulty using their fingers or wrists, or seems to be "stiff" as they move, with this being worse in the morning or after naps, you may also want to consider a referral. For more information on Nationwide Children's Hospital's Rheumatology Services, click here.


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Kissing don't last: cookery do — George Meredith
On the day Max broke my heart, I baked a cake. While I greased and lined the spring-form cake pan I thought to myself that there had never really been a time in my life that I had sensed such an overwhelming feeling of inevitability. When I melted the chocolate I knew that we would never be together again. Mixing the dry ingredients brought me to the idea that the relationship ending seemed unavoidable, and no matter what lengths I would go to, there was nothing I could or should do to change things. I folded through all of the ingredients together and poured them into the pan, then put it in the oven. When I called my Mum, she cried.
'Don't ever talk to him again,' she said. 'He can't do that to you, you're my baby girl. I love you sweetheart, don't ever forget that. I'm here for you.'
I sat down on the cold tiles, the smooth texture bringing with it a tight feeling behind my ribs that I don't think I had ever felt before. And for the two hours it took for the cake to cook and for me to eat the whole thing, I cried.
For a week I became fascinated with recipes and developed a new system to fill out the days. I would read a new recipe, follow it, look at Max's Facebook profile, cry in the shower, throw out the food, and sleep. The days ran into each other and I forgot the names of the weekdays. I wore pyjamas when I wasn't wearing my bathrobe. I didn't go outside or open the blinds. I ate little of the food I cooked before I threw it out, preferring to drink the stores of wine I had been saving since my last birthday. After four days I weighed myself and found I had lost three kilos. This new information didn't please or displease me.
The showers were very distinct markers throughout the day. Every time I went in to the shower I turned it on then laid down on the floor and looked directly up at the water falling on my face. I don't recall the temperature of the water, but I do remember its weight. It felt heavy, like each droplet was a harsh truth that I didn't want to face. I wanted to do anything but recall Max with great flowery fondness and yearn for a time in which I was increasingly more naive than I am now, but that is what I did.
At one point, I think it was in the afternoon, I had a lucid dream in which I remembered making cupcakes with my sisters. The smell of cocoa powder was dusted across my room and it became warmer. When I opened my eyes, I thought perhaps I was lying on the floor of the family kitchen. The walls were the same colour, and the light filtered in through the blinds, which reminded me of the patterns I used to see on the marble bench top, a kaleidoscope of real and imagined shapes. There was no transition between sleep and stumbling towards the kitchen, the light making me want to retreat back under the covers shrieking "It burns us!" but I persevered for culinary's sake. As I pulled out ingredients I felt curiously numb. A lot of different colours and smells from childhood played across my mind.
It reminded me of being a lot younger than I am now, sitting at the kitchen counter with my face in my hands, watching Mum cook. It reminded me of being allowed to use the juicer; the acidity of the fruit stinging my hands and the sticky liquid dribbling from my hands to my elbows. It reminded me of breaking eggs into a bowl and picking out the bits of shell with my fingers, breaking the yolks as I tried to push the shards to the side of the bowl. It reminded me of licking chocolate off a wooden spoon, and Mum smiling as I wiped a trail of mixture off my chin.
Measuring and mixing felt detached, like I couldn't feel my hands going through the motions; I could only see them being done. I could smell everything combine together to create something new. It made me smile. And once I pulled the cupcakes out of the oven, I saw I had done something constructive that also tasted good. Plus I didn't want to break anything, which was a welcome change. Channelling energy away from breaking possessions seemed to be a rehabilitative outlet. I frosted them, and arranged them on a plate before placing them on the kitchen table.
A flicker of Max and I eating breakfast passed across the back of my eyelids. So I started on the next batch of cupcakes, whilst planning the ones that would follow. Vanilla. Chocolate. Blueberry. Lemon zest. Several flavours later I counted the multi-coloured assortment littering the table and surrounding bench-tops. Seventy two cupcakes later I was definitely out of dry ingredients. When my roommate walked into the room it must have been an interesting scenario.
'Wow, what's all this for?' she asked once she had walked in.
'Nothing. Just felt like cooking.'
'You can have as many as you like.'
'Are you okay?'
'Yeah. Have a cupcake.'
She sat at the table and picked up a chocolate. I sat next to her and picked up a vanilla, and we ate them together in silence.
Lucy Saunders, author of three cookbooks on beer and food and editor of Beercook.com, uses cooking to mend her broken heart. 'I've cooked my way through heartbreak several times,' she explains. 'You can start from scratch and have something fresh and new. It's creativity with some measure of pleasure and you can enjoy the results right away. (Somovar, 1). Over the following weeks it became a lot harder for me to concentrate on self-pity when I was trying to follow a recipe so precisely. It was very involved, this new procedure, and was all I could concentrate on. I had cooked a lot before I met Max, but from that point he took over culinary duties, and cooked for me almost every day. On some occasions I would cook, though usually I took on the role of assistant or eager spectator. I didn't want to be a spectator any more. Especially to the scenario of Max and the unknown woman that played over in my head like a carousel of disappointment.
For cooking, 'One needs a good range of movements in the upper body (shoulders, neck, fingers, elbows and wrists); perfect overall balance, sensory awareness (dealing with dangerous objects and situations) as well as sufficient muscle strength in the superior limbs (for mixing, lifting, chopping, pounding, whisking, and cutting). (Mayland, 1). This concept was explored thoroughly after I saw Max being tagged on Facebook; at a café with the unknown woman. Cooking was the one form of physical activity I had performed in weeks, and venting frustration whilst making bread was one idea that proved to be very remedial. It was rather comforting knowing that punching a pile of dough was a socially acceptable way of dealing with my current situation. When my roommate walked into the kitchen to find me, tear-streaked and assaulting a blob of uncooked bread, she walked over and put a hand on my shoulder. Her eyes were wide and watery.
'Are you ok?'
'Yeah.' I fiddled with a piece of dough that was stuck to my thumb.
'Just making bread.'
'Do you need anything?'
She rubbed my back before leaving. I went back to punching the dough. It needed to be kneaded, and since I was no longer needed, I was more than willing to oblige.
Over the following weeks I started to cook with increasing ferocity, branching out away from baked goods into hearty dinners. Angel hair pasta with chilli and lemon. Eggplant rolls dripping with cheese. Roast turkey with potato gratin and vegetables. Mushroom risotto. Beef stroganoff and homemade garlic bread. A lamb curry that took four hours to tenderise, making me glance in the oven and at my phone for the duration of the cooking, wondering if he would text me to say that he missed me. I had memorised his number. I typed it into my phone and deleted it on repetition. Check oven, check phone. Check oven, check phone. I was soon running out of room in the fridge to place all of my culinary creations, and my phone, gripped tightly in my hand, was beginning to make my palm sweaty. With my heart in my throat, I knocked on my roommate's door.
'Would you like to have dinner with me?'
'Yes.' She smiled and her eyes crinkled up at the corners. 'That would be lovely.'
We ate, making a small dent in the assortment I had littered throughout the kitchen and in the fridge and freezer. I could often feel her eyes on me. Her head tilted down but she was looking at me through her eyelashes.
'Would you like to come to the movies with me and my friends tomorrow night?'
'Thanks, but that's ok.'
'Are you sure?'
'Ok. Let me know if you change your mind though, you're more than welcome to come.'
The following night I stood in the bathroom with my towel wrapped around me, looking in the mirror. I stared at my eyes reflecting back at me. I thought it was odd, how little you notice about yourself, when you spend so much time looking at another person. A knock on the door made me jump, my heart skittering around between my ribs.
'Hey Erin, we're leaving now, are you sure you don't want to come?'
'Yeah, thanks, I'm not ready or anything. Have fun.'
'Alright. You too.'
I turned on the water, and when the front door slammed, I dropped my towel and stepped under the stream. Maybe I should cook something with cabbage, I thought, before I sat on the tile. It's probably going to go off soon. When I closed my eyes, I was standing in Max's kitchen doing dishes, and his arms wrapped around my waist as I stood at the sink. When I opened them, I felt a cool numbness appear between my eyes and spread down my neck and towards my limbs, and I cried.
A few days later I put reason out of my mind and sent Max a text message. I was surprised when he replied, saying we should spend some time together the following day. I wanted to know why things had gone the way they did. I woke up in the morning for once, opened my blinds, and spent most of the day sitting on the edges of seats and jigging one or both legs. An hour before I was supposed to leave, Max sent me a text to say that he was too busy, and cancelled. I sat down at my desk, my laptop screen taken up by his Facebook. My cheeks reddened. I took off my glasses and put my hands over my eyes. My face was hot, and my mouth became dry. I'm not sure how long I sat there, hiding my face, but when I opened my eyes the light was startling and crystalising. He would never change, and I would always be left waiting. I left my room and knocked on my roommate's door. She opened it with a smile on her face and puzzlement in her eyes.
'Do you want to have dinner with me?' I said.
'Sure, what are you cooking? Need help?'
'Actually, I was thinking we could go out somewhere to eat.'
'That sounds great.'
The next day, I didn't cook. I didn't have a reason to. I sat on the bench top, ad swung my legs like I used to when I was in the kitchen watching Mum cook. I breathed in as deep as I could, my chest lifted upwards, and I smiled.
The kitchen, I've realised, is a special place for expressing not only culinary talent, but basic gut feelings. And it can be, too, a place where we explore ourselves, our problems, and potential solutions that will improve not only what's going on in the oven, but in our daily lives. The main challenge is to stay present. Spending time in your kitchen could be an utterly beneficial form of physical and occupational therapy. Since cooking is something one sometimes must do anyway, it could be done to maximum advantage. It's possible to cook one's way out of depression, and I know it is; because I've done it.
Heartbreak is not about nostalgia anymore. Time spent in nostalgic longing may not always behave in ways we might wish. My history of cooking largely involved the desire to link myself to other people, as some sort of gesture, some sort of connection on an emotional level. That desire is still a large part of me. I cook for my family and friends because I care about them. Though now I've also found a new desire. It goes against my previous desire to cook (indeed, to exist) exclusively for others. I have a desire to cook for myself. A solitary dinner does not mean I am alone.
Creek, Jennifer Occupational Therapy and Mental Health 2nd Edition, 1997. New York: Churchill, 1997
Mayland, Ros. 'Rosa's Musings: How Lemon Curd Saved My Life, or Cooking as Therapy' Theramblingpicture.com. Rosa Mayland. Web. Jan 31. 2012
Parrish, Louis Cooking As Therapy – How to Keep Your Soufflé Up and Your Depression Quotient Down. California: Hearst Corporation, 1975
Somovar, Anna 'Cooking is Therapy: Making Meals Helps to Reduce Stress, Heal a Broken Heart, Among Other Benefits' Culinaryschools-california.blogspot.com.au School California. Web. 28 August 2012.
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This should be grounds to strip him of his firearm indefinitely.
It has been said that competent prosecutor can get a grand jury to indict a ham sandwich…
…but this presumes the prosecutor actually wants an indictment.
Maybe we need to create a new office at the state level, something like special prosecutor for police misconduct.
Prosecutors need to have a working relationship with police departments to do their job, so it seems inevitable that when a police officer would be the object of a grand jury investigation that conflict of interest should be immediately on the mind of anyone interested in actual justice.
How is this incident prosecutable?
The physical evidence would be purely this:
- The car struck Garza.
- Garza shot Santellana.
Everything else would be he says/she says. What's the realistic likelihood of a jury believing in this friend of the victim's, and not having a reasonable doubt in her word vs that of Garza's? I don't think the jury can come to any other conclusion. There just isn't enough evidence.
Innocent until proven guilty applies to off duty police officers also.
Grand juries don't determine guilt or innocence, they operate under a lower standard of evidence.
There is no cross examination of witnesses, the prosecutor alone gets to decide what evidence to offer to the grand jury. That's why indictments are generally pretty easy to get.
But in the special case of police misconduct, the usual logic is very nearly stood on its head.
If a civilian brandished a firearm at a parked car before murdering the driver that civilian would almost certainly be prosecuted, no matter what the driver did.
Conversely, if the driver of a parked car survived an armed robbery attempt by striking the assailant with his/her vehicle, the driver would almost certainly not be charged.
In this instance, the undisputable facts are that a teenager was sitting in a parked car, and was shot to death by someone wearing civilian clothes. Everything else is a question of fact, which is what jury trials are supposed to resolve.
In such a trial, the burden of proof would certainly be on the prosecution to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the shooter was also the aggressor. However, not bringing the case to trial at all means the district attorney is basically taking the shooter's word for what happened and letting the whole thing slide.
Damnit, Fang I think you are correct.
Add in the presecutor mostly being on the side of the police and special super-citizen status and we all know where this goes.
Promote this guy to the evidence room if the union wont let him be terminated, maybe pension the dangerous ones off at pay minus the badge and gun super-privelages as cheaper than the lives they take.
Each year, the Spartans would declare war on the Helots, so it would be legal to arbitrarily kill the Helots.
America only has undeclared wars these days.
But if, each year, the police had to declare war on us civilians, or it wouldn't be legal to arbitrarily kill anyone, it would get this out into the open.
As it is, they don't even keep records of how often they kill civilians.
They don't want us (mere citizens) to know.
Assume it's thousands. Whaddya gonna do about it?
Google "grand jury"
Donate to ACLU?
Try to keep stories like this one in the awareness of those people I know who don't already think the police are out of control?
It's okay, I heard the kid was no angel.
If you think that'll do it.
I left the country.
I think he smoked pot at some point.
Reading and rereading the excerpt posted on Boing Boing and asking myself, "Where did this happen? I don't see a mention of a state."
Go to the original article… "Texas. Come on Florida, you're droppng the ball!"
Perhaps there will be a civil action complete with a jury.
Why aren't the Anti-Abortion/Right-to-Life crowd raising hell and forming picket lines in front of cop shops They sure have their sanctimonious asses in front of abortion clinics. Surely these teenaged kids had viable lives before they encountered the cops. Where is righteous cry for the murder of these children.
Well, they do not actually care about people or anything at all for that matter. They just do what they are told to by the book they did not read.
If they ever see a court of law, your assertion is correct, there.


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SAO PAULO (Reuters) – Andrade Gutierrez Engenharia SA, Brazil's second-largest construction firm, has admitted to being part of a cartel for building World Cup soccer stadiums under a leniency agreement with antitrust regulator Cade, the agency said on Monday.
As part of the agreement, Andrade Gutierrez provided evidence implicating five other engineering firms that allegedly colluded in the bidding for contracts to build or renovate stadiums used in the 2014 FIFA World Cup hosted by Brazil, Cade said.
The five firms are Odebrecht Investimentos em Infraestrutura Ltda, a unit of Odebrecht SA [ODBES.UL]; Construções e Comércio Camargo Corrêa SA, a unit of Camargo Correa SA [PMORRC.UL]; Construtora OAS SA [OAS.UL]; Construtora Queiroz Galvão SA; and Carioca Christiani Nielsen Engenharia SA.
Camargo Corrêa said it did not participate in any projects to build stadiums for the World Cup. In a statement to Reuters, Camargo said it signed other leniency agreements with Cade and federal prosecutors "to correct irregularities."
Carioca, OAS and Odebrecht declined to comment on Andrade's leniency agreement. Queiroz did not reply to a comment request.
The leniency deal is the seventh struck by Cade with companies that have been blacklisted for involvement in Brazil's largest corruption scandal centered on state-run oil company Petrobras.
Under a leniency agreement, a company must admit to guilt and provide evidence of wrongdoing by other players in a conspiracy or cartel, potentially exempting it from paying fines.
The new agreement signals tougher regulatory oversight over companies suspected of engaging in anticompetitive practices to win contracts from government or state-run companies.
Cade found evidence of bid-rigging on contracts for five stadiums, including the Maracanã in Rio de Janeiro, Arena Pernambuco near Recife and Estádio Mineirão in Belo Horizonte. The names of two of the five stadiums remain confidential so as not to hamper investigations, Cade said.
Last week, Andrade Gutierrez and Cade announced a leniency agreement as part of a separate bid-rigging probe related to engineering works carried out in Rio de Janeiro shanty towns.
Andrade Gutierrez was responsible for the most expensive arena built for the World Cup, Brasilia's 70,000-seat Mané Garrincha National Stadium. It was not yet known whether the stadium was subject to bid rigging. It cost more than $800 million at the time, a price tag that helped fuel violent protests.
With no top-tier soccer team, Brasilia, the capital, is struggling to cover the $2.5 million it cost to maintain the stadium, a coliseum-like building that has drawn its biggest crowds for concerts by Paul McCartney and Beyoncé.
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Akka 2.2.4 Maintenance Release
Typesafe is proud to announce the release of Akka 2.2.4. This maintenance release contains several small fixes and improvements, most notably:
- (remote, cluster) increased numerical precision of PhiAccrualFailureDetector, contributed by Rob David
- (actor) fixed a regression in Actor overhead concerning both size and creation effort
- (remote) added the ability to communicate with restarted systems before the quarantine period has elapsed
- (remote) fixed remote lifecycle logging so that it can be switched off completely
- documentation fixes
This release is backwards binary compatible with version 2.2.0, 2.2.1 and 2.2.3, which means that the new JARs are a drop-in replacement for the old one (but not the other way around) as long as your build does not enable the inliner (Scala-only restriction). Always make sure to use at least the latest version required by any of your project's dependencies.
Migrating from Older Releases
When migrating an existing project from Akka 2.1.x please have a look at our migration guide.
Important Notice
The artifacts comprising this release have been published to https://oss.sonatype.org/content/repositories/releases/ and also to Maven Central. In addition, we adopted the SBT standard of encoding the Scala binary version in the artifact name, i.e. the core actor package's artifact ID is "akka-actor_2.10".
Links of Interest
Website: http://akka.io
Binary distribution: http://akka.io/downloads/
- http://doc.akka.io/docs/akka/2.2.4/
- http://doc.akka.io/api/akka/2.2.4/
- http://doc.akka.io/japi/akka/2.2.4/
Issue tracker: http://www.assembla.com/spaces/akka/
Mailing list: https://groups.google.com/group/akka-user
Akka 2.2.4 compared to 2.2.3
- 8 tickets closed
- 40 files changed, 952 insertions(+), 202 deletions(-)
… and a total of 5 committers
Fixed Tickets
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3706 Loss of floating point precision in PhiAccrualFailureDetector
3720 Actor creation size and speed regression
3730 Intermittent ActorSelection/Identify issue
3784 Akka Scala Docs missing SquarerImpl for Typed Actor
3787 akka.remote.log-remote-lifecycle-events = off doesn't make the EndpointWriter shut up
3896 gracefulStop method signature changed from Akka 2.1.4 to 2.2.0
3904 do not leak private repositories in pom.xml
commits added removed
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3 467 53 Björn Antonsson
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Following the launch of its first very successful Dual Language Enrichment Summer Symposium, the NABE Board concluded its annual reorganization and planning meeting by unanimously electing the following officers to serve for (2015-2016).
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As we approach NABE's 45th Annual Conference, the NABE Board strongly supports this year's theme — Advancing Biliteracy through Global Leadership and Partnerships. An example of our partnerships occurred this July with NABE launching its first Dual Language Symposium at Ana G. Mendez University in Wheaton, Maryland. The symposium participants visited our partners at the U. S. Department of Education, which allowed them to meet with senior department officials and receive updates on the latest initiatives. NABE gives special thanks to Dr. Libia Gil, Assistant Deputy Secretary and Director of the Office of English Language Acquisition at the Department, for coordinating and facilitating the visit. Next year, NABE will host a content and culture-rich summer dual language professional development event in Puerto Rico. Please mark your calendar for July 6-8, 2016! For the year 2015-2016, the NABE Executive Board is committed to implementing these actions:
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Leaders of three organizations representing the majority of educators who teach English language learners said they are encouraged by the Senate bipartisan Elementary and Secondary Education Act reauthorization proposal. "The proposed bill represents a significant step forward to support the academic and language needs of ELLs, to adequately prepare teachers to work with ELLs, and to promote equity," said leaders of the American Federation of Teachers, the National Association for Bilingual Education and TESOL (Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages) International Association, in a statement to their members.
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Seal of Biliteracy Guidelines released
The American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages, the National Association of Bilingual Education, the National Council of State Supervisors for Languages, and TESOL International Association, have officially drafted recommendations for the implementation of the Seal of Biliteracy. The Seal of Biliteracy is an award made by a state department of education or local district to recognize a student who has attained proficiency in English and one or more other world languages by high school graduation. The recognition of attaining biliteracy becomes part of the high school transcript and diploma for these students.
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Title III English Leaners FY16 Final
As the Subcommittee considers the Fiscal Year 2016 Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies appropriations bill, we respectfully urge you to provide the President's Budget request of $773.4 million for Title III Language Acquisition Grant, consistent with the considerable growth of English learners being served in our nation's public schools.
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House passes ESEA rewrite 218-213; Senate debate continues
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The U.S. House of Representative reconsidered and ultimately passed a Republican-backed reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act — though it's far from the measure that President Barack Obama may eventually sign into law when it's all said and done. After considering 14 amendments, including a failed Democratic substitute, members passed the ESEA rewrite, formally known as the Student Success Act, with a very close vote of 218-213. Twenty-seven Republicans crossed party-line to join the entire Democratic caucus in voting against the bill.
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According to the most recent data, of the total 41.3 million immigrants in the United States in 2013 about half, 20.4 million, spoke English less than "very well." The report notes that LEP individuals tend to be less educated and poorer than English speakers. "Compared to the English-proficient population, the LEP population was less educated and more likely to live in poverty," the Migration Policy Institute reports. "Employed LEP men in 2013 were more likely to work in construction, natural resources, and maintenance occupations than English-proficient men, while LEP women were much more likely to be employed in service and personal-care occupations than English-proficient women."
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Los Angeles schools failing needy students, flouting California funding law
Education Week
A California lawsuit filed claims that the Los Angeles Unified School District is failing to abide by the state's Local Control Funding Formula and diverting billions of dollars away from the needy students who should be benefiting from the money. In Community Coalition of South Los Angeles v. Los Angeles Unified School District, the community coalition says that the district improperly claimed that $450 million in funding for special education students would satisfy the state's funding formula requirement that districts target English language learners and students from low-income backgrounds with additional money provided by the state.
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By: Erick Herrmann
Each new school year, countless new administrators move into school leadership positions. When it comes to the education of English learners, there are many policies, procedures and topics in which all administrators should be well versed. This article, while not exhaustive in the topics that impact the education of English learners, shares a few of the important topics with which administrators and school leaders should be familiar as they embark on a new school year.
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Personalized learning is especially good for minority students
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What would schools look like if they were designed around the needs of students? That's the question that drives the work of Rebecca Wolfe, director of the Massachusetts-based Students at the Center project, part of the nonprofit Jobs For the Future. Called "personalized learning," the idea sounds simple: Let the students dictate the direction and pace of instruction. Its adherents claim that not only will student outcomes improve, but point to research that shows it works particularly well for students of color. However, convincing the many entrenched interests that run school bureaucracies to give in to such a radical change can be a challenge.
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The number of unaccompanied school-age children from Central America arriving at the United States' southern border has declined significantly from this time last year, a top federal Department of Health and Human Services administrator told members of Congress. The decline follows a surge in 2014 during which tens of thousands of children from Honduras, Guatemala, El Salvador, and Mexico sought to enter the United States along the country's southern border. During the 2014 fiscal year, the Department of Homeland Security referred 57,496 children to the agency within the Department of Health and Human Services that cares for children once they are apprehended at the border.
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Yesterday morning, we delivered a present to tech longs when we reported that after a one week sabbatical since his latest disastrous reco (to short WTI just hours before it exploded higher), Dennis Gartman told his few clients he had just gone short the Nasdaq.
NEW RECOMMENDATION: We've been abundantly bearish of equities for the past several weeks, but we've failed to put that bearishness to test "officially" in a recommendation and so we shall do so this morning, wading in to sell the NASDAQ futures anywhere above $6560 as it trades $6564 as we write and finish TGL. We'll risk 1.5% on the trade and we look for $6000 to be taken out to the downside sooner rather than later. Indeed, should 6400 be taken out today we'll add to the position immediately
Unfortunately, the trade did not work out quite as intended, and just an hour later, the Nasdaq soared tripping Gartman's +1.50% stop loss limit.
This morning there is the always amusing post-mortem from the "world-renowned commodity guru."
We were bearish of shares coming into yesterday, before the ECB's non-decision decision and before we listened to Dr. Draghi's postmeeting press conference, but as we listened to Draghi's comments it became painfully clear to us that we were wrong in suggesting…and then officially recommending…a net short position in equities. If the monetary authorities are not going to err contractionarily and are, instead, going to continue their experiment with QE we shall have to adapt. We have no choice.
Hence, we were wrong in being short into yesterday's market and fortunately we had a stop that cost us 1 ½%. We shall call that fortunate; it felt like it could not have been a worse idea, but indeed by the close it proved it could have been a great deal worse.
The "explanation":
Turning to the "action" in the last few minutes of futures trading in the NASDAQ yesterday, we are still stunned by the 100 "Big Figure" rush to the upside that took place even as the S&P, Dow and Russel futures were quietly selling off. We must believe that someone one in a position of authority "knew" about Amazon's "blow-out" earnings report which was made officially public only moments after 4:00 p.m. There really cannot be any other explanation! [sic]
And the formal closing:
Why the NASDAQ 100 shot up 100 handles in the last five minutes of trade is open to debate… and we wrote about that above… but it did and fortunately we were stopped out a full 1% below the closing level. We are growing weary of this sort of thing, but at least we kept this to a 1 ½% loss on a single unit. At least that! 'Tis small solace, however.
So what now? Well, it appears that the "guru" is long once again:
As for our retirement account, we made no changes and remain long of cotton, long of gold, long of the shares of a business development company and long of the shares of a primarily Australian and New Zealand short term government bond fund traded on the NYSE. We also held our short derivatives position but will be cutting that back rather materially today and will be looking about for things to buy that make "the things that if dropped on your foot shall hurt." Trains; steel; shipping; farm equipment… things such as that; things that can be counted; things that pay dividends; things with real earnings; that sort and those sorts of things.


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It seems that no matter what trailor I seem to haul, once I get up to highway speed, the trailor starts to wag. Large or small, they all wag, back and forth. I see it on the road alot, some construction trailor loaded with some mid-sized piece of eqpt., wagging back and forth down the road. What is it? Is it the placement of the load, or the lenght of the trailor, or what? HELP?


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Fox Klein
Australian comedian Fox Klein won the annual 'Search for a Funny Bone' stand up comedy competition in his first year of performing eight years ago and hasn't looked back since. Both headlining and supporting some of Australia's biggest names nationally and internationally, Fox is a regular in all the top venues back in his home country. Fox's energetic and engaging style of universal comedy has firmly established him as an audience favorite. Able to perform to rooms of fifty or to a thousand, from comedy clubs to up market corporate gigs, Fox's blend of storytelling and intricate weaving of topics, makes him one of the most sought after comedians working in Australia today. Fox Klein is a versatile performer; his charismatic ad friendly style never fails to secure him a firm and loyal fan base wherever he plays.
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The term City of God may refer to the unity between the Holy Roman Empire and the Roman Catholic Church in the Middle Ages. The term may also refer to:
- Cidade de Deus (Osasco), the Banco Bradesco headquarters in Osasco, São Paulo, Brazil
- Cidade de Deus, Rio de Janeiro, a neighborhood of Rio de Janeiro
Art, entertainment, and media
- City of the Gods, a 1987 adventure module for the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game
- City of God (Holland novel), a 1979 historical novel by Cecelia Holland
- City of God (Lins novel) (Cidade de Deus), a 1997 novel by Paulo Lins set in the Rio de Janeiro neighborhood Cidade de Deus (City of God, in Portuguese)
- City of God, a 2000 novel by E. L. Doctorow
- Mystical City of God, a 17th-century book by María de Ágreda
- The City of God (De civitate Dei), a 5th-century book by St. Augustine of Hippo
- City of God (2002 film) (Cidade de Deus), a 2002 Brazilian film based on Lins' novel
- City of God – 10 Years Later, a 2012 Brazilian documentary about the 2002 film
- City of God (2011 film), an Indian film
See also
- Jerusalem, Israel, according to Psalm 46 in the Old Testament
- New Jerusalem, a concept in the Abrahamic religions and Zionism
- Rome, since the diocese of the city is known as the Holy see and the Pope is the bishop of Rome
- Vatican City, a sovereign state and an enclave within Rome
- Theopolis or Antioch, an ancient city in what is now Turkey called "the cradle of Christianity"
| This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title City of God.
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In-Home Caregiver Positions Available LocallyPosted: March 24, 2015 Filed under: Uncategorized Comments Off on In-Home Caregiver Positions Available Locally
Home Instead Senior Care of the Black Hills is seeking In-Home Caregivers
Help brighten the lives of aging adults in our community. Provide non-medical companionship and home care services to help seniors remain at home for as long as possible.
No experience necessary.
While schedules are not guaranteed, applicants must be willing to work occasional weekends and/or overnights.
Paid training is provided. Background checks and drug screens are required.
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Cloud computing technology has become an IT asset for businesses, large and small across nearly every industry. As more companies invest in cloud technology, the definition of "cloud" computing appears to be getting slightly blurred, and the increasing volume of cloud service providers may not have done enough to shed light on the ambiguity of the term.
The Future of Cloud Computing
VoIP for Hassle-Free Communicating
Competing in the business world today means equipping your team to be fast, efficient and able to cater to the needs and interests of the clients in the niche. Businesses that can adapt quickly to challenges, fluctuating client landscapes, and unexpected setbacks are going to be more successful than their competitors.


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Custom ROM Spotlight: GalaxyMod for the Galaxy S3
Here at Android Headlines, we try to cover a bit of everything as it pertains to Android. So that includes custom ROMs. I've already done quite a few reviews of different ROMs for the Nexus 7 and the Galaxy S3. Now today, we are beginning a new feature called "Custom ROM Spotlight". Each week we'll be featuring a different ROM. It could be a popular one like Paranoid Android, or it could be one that is only available for the Galaxy Note 2. But if you have an ROM that you'd like to see featured, feel free to leave a comment below.
We're back again this week with another custom ROM Spotlight. This week we are taking a look at GalaxyMod (Simple. Elegant. Brilliant.). It's available for most Galaxy S3 models, including the Verizon, T-Mobile, Sprint, AT&T, and Metro PCS variants of the Galaxy S3. If you like Touchwiz and have been waiting on your carrier to push out the update with multi-window, then you'll want to check this ROM out. It's based off of Android 4.1.1, it's deodexed, zipaligned and rooted.
- Installs and runs on all major US SGS3 carriers
- Completely removed software rendering
- Full Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 rendering
- Active data logging prevention
- Patched services.jar
- V6 Supercharger binary
- Kickass Kernelizer binary
- Battery Calibration binary
- Custom V6 Supercharger settings
- Ext4 filesystem
- Maximum SSD performance
- Speed & performance tweaks
- Custom tweaks
- LockMod (Ported by me and Didact74)
- Acer Cloud
- Sense 4.0
- BlackBerry 10
- Galaxy S3 Ripple/Circle
- LG Optimus
- Rotary
- MIUI batterybar
- QuickPanel settings
- Headphone shortcuts
- LockMod (Ported by me and Didact74)
- MMS extended settings
- Advanced Power Menu
- Reboot
- Hot Reboot
- Recovery
- Download
- 23 extended statusbar toggles
- Increased number of joinable contacts
- Extended camera settings
- Camera in call
- Optional shutter sound
- Enhanced network and WiFi
- Hacked hotspot
- Call/message blocking
- Smart rotation
- Smart stay
- Blocking Mode
- Various notification icons removed
- Unlocked WiFi tethering
- Dual-Core app optimization
- Proper cell standby readings
- Multi-DPI support
- Multi-window
- Fewer launcher redraws
- Script-based backup utility
- sysro/sysrw command support
- Init.d script support
- Better multitasking
- Cron
- Cache binding
- Smart zipalign
- Muted boot sounds
How to Install
- Download GalaxyMod (no Gapps needed as they are included) and place it on the internal storage
- Reboot into recovery
- Wipe Data and dalvik cache
- Flash GalaxyMod.zip
- Reboot
Supported Devices
- d2tmo
- d2vzw
- d2usc
- d2spr
- d2att
- d2cri
You can check out GalaxyMod's thread on XDA for more information along with downloads. What ROM are you currently running? Let us know in the comments below, it might be in the spotlight next week.


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BEAUTIFUL — The Carole King Musical tells the inspiring true story of King's remarkable rise to stardom, from being part of a hit songwriting team with her husband Gerry Goffin, to her relationship with fellow writers and best friends Cynthia Weil and Barry Mann, to becoming one of the most successful solo acts in popular music history.
Along the way, she made more than beautiful music, she wrote the soundtrack to a generation. Featuring a stunning array of beloved songs written by Gerry Goffin/Carole King and Barry Mann/Cynthia Weil, including I Feel The Earth Move, One Fine Day, (You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman, You've Got A Friend and the title song, BEAUTIFUL has a book by Tony Award®- nominee and Academy Award®-nominated writer Douglas McGrath, direction by Marc Bruni, choreography by Josh Prince, and took home two 2014 Tony® Awards and a 2015 Grammy®.


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Roof Terrace Design: 7 Questions You Should Be Asking
Some tips to turn your roof space into a warm terrace
Roof terraces are becoming increasingly popular for town and city dwellers who want to make the most of their homes. As well as providing additional outdoor living space, did you know that a roof garden can reduce your energy bills, cut noise pollution and create a haven for wildlife?
If you have outdoor space that you wish to turn into a roof terrace, a good garden designer should be able to help you visualise what it could look like, scope out what's possible, and make your dream of a rooftop garden a reality. For straightforward projects, assured gardeners and/or DIY builders may not even need professional assistance. However, before you start getting carried away, there are a few important questions to consider.
1. Is my roof suitable for a roof garden?
Do you have an area of flat roof that you think would make a spectacular roof terrace? The existing surface may not be designed for loadbearing (so don't step on it just yet) but this could potentially be resolved by reinforcing the floor. Especially on older buildings, there may be limitations to the weight and loading you can put on the roof timbers below, so make sure you choose materials and planting designed to minimise the stress on the roof structure. You will also need to create access from inside the house, perhaps by changing a window into a doorway, or with a bespoke solution as can be seen here.
2. What if I don't have a flat roof?
If your roof is pitched, there's no need to give up on your dream of a roof terrace just yet. While a flat roof is more straightforward (and cheaper!) to work with, it is possible to create a suitable flat outdoor surface by building up an external wall. You could also alter the roof design to incorporate an inverted dormer. The result looks like a chunk has been taken out of the roof to create a lovely, private outdoor terrace – see below. Be warned that this is not a job you should attempt yourself. Ask an architect and building surveyor for their professional opinion.
3. How large will my roof terrace be?
Roof gardens come in all shapes and sizes, and it's not necessarily the case that large equals better – it all depends on the individual design and its execution. The maximum size of your outdoor terrace will be governed by the available floor space. Check if the terrace is too exposed and likely to be overlooked, or if it overlooks a neighbouring property. You may need to bring back the boundary line as much as it is necessary so as not to cause privacy issues. You can also use clever screening to maintain privacy, for example by using opaque glass panels, fencing or hedging, as is shown in the London rooftop design below.
4. What permissions do I need to obtain?
Your roof garden project may or may not require planning permission. Ask your architect or local planning officer and make an application if needed. Your surveyor should also advise if you need a Party Wall Agreement if the works affect a joint "party" wall or structure between your and a neighbouring property. No building work should start until the necessary consent has been granted. Even if no permissions are required, it is always a good idea to keep your neighbours fully informed of your plans. Take it as a goodwill gesture that will ensure they are less likely to make a complaint.
5. How do I plant my roof terrace?
Successful planting schemes can be used to achieve a green space high above ground. Bear in mind the aspect of your roof garden. Sheltered, sunny spaces can work well with Mediterranean plants including olive and orange trees. Exposed areas are better for grasses and bamboo that cope well in windy conditions. Effective irrigation and screening will help mitigate some of the environmental challenges. For container gardening, choose plastic or fiberglass plant pots, and mix regular compost with perlite or clay granules to help with water retention while minimising the weight on the roof.
6. Which furniture and accessories work best?
If you wish to transform a hard landscaped roof terrace into a tranquil oasis or an exciting place for entertaining, simply select a planting scheme of your choice and add a stylish seating or chillout area. Choose lightweight, flatpack, easy-care furniture that you can quickly assemble on the terrace. Look for outsized shade sails to protect sunny terraces during the day, and an atmospheric firepit-cum-barbecue to warm you during colder evenings and grill your dinner at the same time. A water feature adds a nice touch too.
7. How can I get the right ambiance on my roof terrace?
The key to creating the right atmosphere at dusk and after dark lies in good lighting design. Don't make the mistake of considering lighting as an afterthought. To get the best results, this should be a central element of the whole garden terrace design process. Make sure the builders install circuit breakers and light fixtures and fittings that are suitable for outdoor use, and ask them to add some waterproof power sockets for additional lighting fixtures or appliances.


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Hi everyone,
It's that time again when the MFT Stamps designs team begins showing our MFTeasers in preparation of the new stamps which will be released by MFT Stamps after the release party this coming Tuesday 16th October.
Today the Design Team are featuring two stamp sets:
- Western Backgrounds
- Howdy
When I saw the Howdy stamp set I knew I had to make a boot shaped card. The base of the card is Bubblegum card, I have also used Kraft card and Hot Fudge card. I used one of the backgrounds from the Western Backgrounds stamp set to stamp on the pink portion of the boot. One the kraft section I used a couple of stamps from the Howdy stamp set. The horse image is layered using the Die-namics Circle Stax 1 & 2 and Die-namics Award Seal. The pink strip at the top of the card was cut using the new Die-namics Fishtail Flags Layers Stax.
Here is the inside of my card. The sentiments are all from the Howdy stamp set and I used the woodgrain background on the Frame. I have also used a couple of new die-namics on this which are the Die-namics Howdy Frames and the Die-namics Western Star Border.
Here are the details about the upcoming release:
- You can attend the New Release Party on October 16 from 8-10 PM EST HERE in the MFT forum, where you can WIN PRIZES!
- The MFT release, including all new stamp sets and Die-namics, is on October 16 at 10 PM EST. You'll find all the newest products HERE at release time.
- The guest designer contest is going on now! Check out the forum for details on how YOU can win over $200 in stamp sets and Die-namics.
- If you'd like to see all the teasers for today, please click on over to the MFT Blog NOW. Be sure to leave comments as you go for the chance to win one of 2, $10 gift certificates given away daily. The winners will be posted on October 16 just before the release party, on the MFT blog.
|Stamps: Howdy; Western Backgrounds – MFT Stamps
|Paper: White; Bubblegum; Hot Fudge; Kraft
|Die-namics: Circle Stax 1 & 2; Fishtail Flags Layers Stax; Award Seal; Western Star Border; Howdy Frames;
|Other: Black Ink; Pink Ink; Rhinestones; Twine; Foam Tape


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On the Moscow television show Naked Truth, Russians watch topless women demonstrate the breadth of their meteorological knowledge. Here in America, Web sites are keen to show off their ... satellites.
Those spirits in the sky have become all the rage on the Weather Underground (www.wunderground.com). "We installed a satellite that lets you zoom into your own neighborhood," says Jeff Masters, cofounder and director of meteorology of the Ann Arbor, Michigan-based site. "It takes you within a kilometer of where you live." Not to be outdone, rival Intellicast.com added a similar satellite feature several weeks later.
The Weather Underground isn't the biggest weather watcher on the block; The Weather Channel-owned weather.com boasts nearly five times the pageviews. But Wunderground.com has carved out a niche among serious weather geeks by going deeper with climate and astronomical info. Delivering real-time weather conditions, forecasts, and storm warnings worldwide (courtesy the National Weather Service), Wunderground.com offers its services in more than 50 languages, including Turkish and Esperanto.
The site features an astronomy link that lets users punch in a zip code to locate the position of stars and planets, then chart their motion, and find rising-and-setting information. Users can comb through a six-year log of daily weather conditions - rainfall, humidity, wind speed, and maximum and minimum temperatures - for many cities. WunderSearch, the site's search engine, based on an algorithm developed by Google.com, sorts more than a billion hyperlinks on the Web.
Masters, who holds a PhD in meteorology from the University of Michigan, launched the site in 1995 with three partners, including Wunderground president Alan Steremberg. Masters and Steremberg created some of the earliest real-time weather sites, such as Blue-Skies in the early '90s. (See "Data Storm," Wired 3.01, page 39.)
The company, which is named for the group of '60s radicals from Ann Arbor, has drawn fans from some unlikely quarters. "A couple of Weather Underground members contacted us, and at first we were kind of nervous," Masters said. "But they just called to tell us that they liked the site."
The eBallot and the Bullet
Distance Makes the Heart Grow Stronger
MP3 Meets MPAA
Ask Dr. Bob
Caught in the Act
Now That's Slugging Percentage!
Jargon Watch
NASA's Backup Backup
DNS Gets Tongue Lashing
Virtual Viral Marketing Virus
The Weather Overground
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Kelli loves to collaborate and work with local businesses, breweries and beyond. If you are interested in working with Kelli, please check out the PR page for more info.
Kelli Williams loves to sing & play bass guitar in between her endless duties as a Mom to two little girls, writer and visits to local bars & breweries around her home in Beer City, USA (aka Grand Rapids) Michigan. When Kelli's not found drinking on tv, in a bar, brewery, pub crawl, or beer festival, you can find her relaxing with a local IPA in her recliner… or on a Lake Michigan beach in the summer. Kelli has recently been added to the Roadbelly staff as a writer, and has been writing original content at MommaNeedsABeer.com since 2009, where she believes that sometimes, ya gotta put a little alcohol on it.
To answer a common misconception: No, Kelli is not an alcoholic. After ingesting the caffeine it takes to keep up with 2 crazy, precocious kids, drinking a good beer does help to ease the anxiety and overwhelming feelings of motherhood. Kelli's blog is meant to be funny and honest, it's not an "it's ok to get drunk all day with your kids" type of blog. Well, mostly. Kelli doesn't take life too seriously; she's always finding excuses to crack jokes, even during the worst of times. It's how Kelli copes, and she does it plenty on here. Grab a beer and join in on the fun!!
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Hoi An old town
For those with a love of architecture there are few better places in Asia than Hoi An, once Vietnam's most important port town.
The early history of Hoi An is connected to that of the Champa Empire, which once occupied much of what is now Central Vietnam, from Hue to beyond Nha Trang. During this period, nearby My Son (now a World Heritage Site) was the spiritual centre of the empire, while Hoi An thrived as its commercial hub.
In 1535, the Portuguese explorer Ant�nio de Faria tried to establish a trading centre at the port village of Faifo (as Hoi An was formerly known in the West) - but it took a further half century before the town truly flourished, thanks to the patronage of the commercially-minded Nguyen lords. It rapidly became the most important trade port on the South China Sea, welcoming visitors from across the trading world. Captain William Adams, the English sailor and confidant of Japanese shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu, is known to have made at least one trading mission to Hoi An - and the Portuguese Jesuits also had one of their two residences here.
By the 18th century, Hoi An had become a powerful trade conduit between Europe, China, India, and Japan, but its importance waned sharply following the collapse of Nguyen rule. Under French influence Danang became the new centre of trade in the region, and Hoi An, with a slowly silting river mouth diminishing its attractiveness further, drifted into a steady decline. From an architectural perspective this decline was a blessing, as the Old Town, now boasting UNESCO World Heritage status, was left largely untouched and undeveloped over many years.
This is a town to savour slowly, absorbing the architectural influence of countless incomers as you stroll from riverside cafe along narrow alleys to delightful hidden restaurants. We recommend taking the time to go for a bicycle ride in the surrounding paddy fields, arranging a cooking class at one of the local schools, or enjoying an exciting Vespa street food tour of the town.
For more information email us: [email protected] or call: 303 952 0379
Important notice: We are pleased to be able to offer so many amazing experiences in Indochina. However, we are sorry that we can only include these as a part of a full Indochina holiday package which includes your accommodation and transport alongside the experiences presented in this section of the web site.
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From the famous street food stalls and home cooked dinners in Hanoi, to fine dining restaurants and Hue's royal cuisine, feast your way through Vietnam as we take you on a 14 day culinary�exploration of Vietnam. Discover the traditional (and not so traditional) gastronomy of this historical nation,�uncovering the secrets, flavours and origins of street food dishes�and fine dining, and just about everything in between.
Gastronomic Trails of Vietnam
From the famous street food stalls and home cooked dinners of Hanoi, to fine dining restaurants and Hue's royal cuisine, feast your way through the country as we take you on a 14 day culinary exploration of Vietnam. Discover the traditional (and not so traditional) gastronomy of this historical nation, uncovering the secrets, flavours and origins of street food dishes and fine dining, and just about everything in between.
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Backstreets, Temples & Communities of Phnom Penh
See Phnom Penh from a local's point of view. Take a walk through a quiet corner of the capital, stopping to admire unique modern buildings and picturesque pagodas. Meet with local residents and get a glimpse into what life is like in the big city.
Tethered balloon sunrise over Angkor
Witness the glories of Angkor from a unique perspective with a bird's-eye view of sunrise over the temples.
Garden houses of Hue
Learn to appreciate the harmonious blend of home and nature in traditional Vietnamese architecture at the delightful Garden Houses of Hue.
Hue's imperial tombs
Explore the remarkable tombs of Hue's Nguyen Dynasty: fine architecture in a glorious natural setting.
The temples of Angkor
Rescued from the clinging grip of the enveloping jungle, the vast and ancient temple complex of Angkor is truly one of the world's great sights.
Laos weaving & textiles workshop
Pay a visit to the excellent Ock Pop Tok Living Craft Centre to learn traditional textile techniques in a lovely setting by the Mekong River.