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As Canadian kids of the Christmas persuasion impatiently eye the boxes beneath the tree, it's good to know that our hard work on product safety will translate into better protection for them from toxic chemicals in their toys and our homes.
Coming on the heels of the proposed ban for the toxic substance DecaBDE in electronics we helped achieve earlier this year in Canada, the US EPA announced last week that several American companies are following in our footsteps by phasing out the manufacturing of this prevalent but highly toxic fire retardant.
DecaBDE, is used in everything from video game consoles and TVs to drapes and furniture. It accumulates in breast milk, fish and birds to cause liver, thyroid and developmental problems in humans and wildlife. The voluntary decision by these companies is to be applauded, and we are glad to see that Ecojustice's senior scientist Dr. Elaine MacDonald was out in front on this issue. Given this announcement by the chemical companies that make DecaBDE, Ecojustice will ask Canada to broaden its proposed ban on DecaBDE from electronics to a total ban on all uses DecaBDE.
We're also pushing hard to keep the lead-ridden kids toys off the Canadian market by making science- and legally-based submissions supporting a strong and effective Bill C-6, the Canada Consumer Product Safety Act.
It's encouraging to see Canada leading a forward-thinking and precautionary approach towards environmental and human health. As the feds implement their deca ban in electronics, and the House considers C6's product monitoring and enforcement changes, we'll continue to hold our leaders accountable on behalf of the public. Look forward to hearing more about our toxics research and legal actions in the new year.
Have a happy and healthy holiday!


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It's been a long time since I was this cynical about Valentine's Day. I guess it's not as bad as the year when it was freezing cold and I had the flu, or the year when I had a blind date with that pretentious guy who thought he was destined to be a famous economist. But this year, I'm kind of bitter about the advent of everyone's favorite love-to-hate-it holiday for a different reason, and I blame my job.
I write about the Web. I'm used to an in-box full of press releases from Web 2.0's famous and not-so-famous. But in the week leading up to Valentine's Day, the barrage has reached a fever pitch with all kinds of themed gimmicks, promotions, and other syrupy pitches geared toward the tech bloggers of the world. You'd think it were third grade again, except instead of sparkly pink-and-red cards with bad puns printed inside, I'm dealing with e-mails with bad puns in the subject lines. Unlike third grade, none of them come from the cute boy with the freckles and the missing front tooth who put a mouse in my desk that one time.
Timeliness is usually a decent PR strategy. But the problem with Valentine's Day is that everyone else is trying to use the same holiday theme to get press. Here's just a sample of what's been fluttering into my in-box over the past few days.
There is, as one of my CNET colleagues already highlighted, a new "Blow a Kiss" app for the iPhone. SpeedDate.com. also has a new iPhone app, in case you have been putting all this madness off until the last minute. A price comparison site called DealNews sent out an e-mail with some recommended V-Day gift tips.
The big guys are in on it, too. Facebook not only configured its virtual-gift feature so that you can send "wrapped" Valentine's gifts in advance and then reveal them to your recipients on the big day, but it chose February 12 as the day to announce that the New York City municipal government had chosen a Facebook fan page as the promotional hub for its "Get Some" condom distribution campaign. (Hmmm.) There's even a new promotion out of Redmond that attempts to promote the maxim that "Microsoft is a super romantic love machine of a company."
Oh, it gets better.
A representative from a mobile photo-sharing service called SnapMyLife sent me an e-mail suggesting that camera phones were a great way to share photos from Valentine's Day excursions (so, I suppose, like "Check out this pic of our booth at White Castle. This guy is such a cheapskate.") And in a possible attempt to stand out, e-card and invitation service MyPunchbowl sent out separate pitches highlighting both its Valentine cards and its anti-Valentine's Day cards.
In perhaps the trippiest of the bunch, one e-mail announced to me that the normally invitation-only role-playing game Hello Kitty Online (yes, that Hello Kitty) would be open to the public on Valentine's Day. Great news for those of you who don't have dates!
To be fair, gimmicky holiday pitches are by no means exclusive to Valentine's Day. Journalists and bloggers are, by now, familiar with the Halloween pitch (big with photo-sharing sites), the call-it-anything-but-Christmas holiday pitch (gadget gift guides, anyone?), the quadrennial election angle, and this year we've all become familiar with the recession pitch. But it's February 14 that really gets on my nerves. Maybe it's because the holiday is all about being told how to tell people that you care about them. Or maybe it's just an easy target.
That said, in recent years we've seen some Web 2.0 holiday campaigns that have been spot-on. OfficeMax created that "Elf Yourself" e-card campaign for the holiday season a while back, gaining a massive cult following by encouraging users to turn their co-workers and bosses into dancing elves. None of these Web 2.0 Valentine's campaigns--no, not even Hello Kitty!--really strike me as anywhere near as creative. Is it possible that all possibility for innovative marketing has already been siphoned out of this saccharine occasion? Maybe that's the real reason so many of us get so annoyed when it rolls around every year.
Besides, if you're really clever, you won't be trawling the Web for the best e-cards to shoot off to your significant other. You'll be like that guy who created his own iPhone app in order to propose to his girlfriend. Dweeby, but impressive.

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Bert Gevers is a local partner in our Brussels office. He heads of the Loyens & Loeff Indirect Tax Practice Group in Belgium, is a core member of the Corporate Investigations Team and co-heads the Food and Beverages Team.
About Bert Gevers
Extensive expertise in advising and representing clients in indirect tax matters, corporate investigations and compliance issues in various sectors including e-commerce, food & beverages and aerospace & defence has earned Bert a listing as a leading expert in the Legal 500 EMEA directory and as a leading indirect tax adviser by Indirect Tax Leaders guide. He advises clients on international and domestic exchange of goods and services, performs internal scans and audits and represents clients before the European Commission, its advisory committees and the Court of Justice of the European Union. He is the co-founder and scientific coordinator of www.worldtradecontrols.com.
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text: Tom Hukins wrote: > We've not been for lunch in ages. Who wants to volunteer to organise > something before I start victimising people? > > The best part about volunteering is that you get to choose where we > go. How about an mk.pm Xmas lunch? Note that I'm emphatically not volunteering to organise it (at least, not at the moment). Anyone got a preferred venue? And how much time do people think they could get off? It's a bit out of the way, but there's a very nice restaurant in Newport Pagnell called Robinsons that does an *excellent* 2 course lunch for a fiver. But once you factor in travel time lunch is going to be 90-120 minutes. N


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It would be great to take a leaf from lots of other software and have an invisible or NULL object that can be used to make the camera position move, but doesn't render in the video.
You CAN do it at the moment using blank squares but it's not great and you can't see them on screen or in the timeline.
You can use any element that is not located on the visible canvas, or any element with its opacity set to zero. For example, type the word "null" as a text element and place it off the visible canvas.
Get it, but it's another step. Add item, type text, make transparent. A camera focus null would be even better :)


text: 409 Arctic Yearbook 2014 Avoid Conflict with Greenland Danish defense planning in the Arctic is also influenced by the somewhat contentious relationship between Denmark and Greenland. As mentioned before, the legitimacy of the Danish presence in Greenland is contested by some Greenlandic elite groups and segments of the Greenlandic population. The Danish authorities try to avoid offending Greenlandic sensibilities, while concurrently standing its ground on certain key matters. Certain strategic questions, many of which would be thought to be reasonable considerations of any state, are almost taboo. For instance, the consequences of Greenlandic independence are rarely taken into consideration in Danish defense planning, although one could argue that it would have an impact on operational planning. Many of the Arctic capabilities that Denmark is currently procuring will have limited usefulness if Greenland becomes independent. In simple terms, what is Denmark supposed to do with its Arctic capabilities, if Greenland becomes independent? The normal reaction is a mix of resigned moralism and belief that Greenland will never reach independence. On the one hand, Denmark is responsible, so one argument goes, for ensuring that an eventual transition to independence runs smoothly. Denmark must dispense of narrow national interests and invest in the capabilities regardless of the fact that they might become obsolete in the future. This line of thinking also contains an argument that sees responsibility as a way of ensuring the persistence of the Commonwealth. Perhaps Greenland will stay within the Commonwealth even if the conditions for independence arise, if Denmark acts responsible now and shows Greenland that it is not pursuing narrow national interests. On the other hand, many observers do not believe that the time will ever be ripe for Greenlandic independence. As mentioned above, independence requires that either a major energy resource deposit is found along the Greenlandic coastline or that the United States becomes willing to sponsor the Greenlandic state. The latter does not seem likely, even in the long term. No-one knows if enough exploitable oil and gas can be found in Greenland, but even if they were found, these resources could only become profitable in the long term (Jørgensen & RahbekClemmensen, 2009: 16). The Danish Armed Forces have made establishing a better relationship to the Greenlandic society a long-term goal. The Arctic Strategy and the 2013-2017 defense agreement both stipulate the need to involve the citizens of Greenland in the activities of the Armed Forces (Danish Parliament, 2012: 15; Government of Denmark et al., 2011: 21). Translating this wish into concrete initiatives has been rather difficult. A recent study has suggested various measures, such as the inclusion of Greenlanders in land patrolling activities in North-East Greenland, using Greenlandic volunteers and local knowledge in the activities of the Armed Forces, opening military education facilities in Greenland, and including Greenlandic companies in coast guard activities (Kristensen, Hoffmann, & Pedersen, 2013). These initiatives would probably improve the operational effectiveness of the Danish Armed Forces, albeit only marginally. From a purely operational perspective, they hardly merit the effort made to integrate Greenlandic society. Their benefits are primarily political. They serve to reduce tensions between Greenland and Denmark in general and the Armed Forces in particular. They "Arctic-Vism" in Practice


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The Inman Aligner is a revolutionary appliance, often described as the missing link between cosmetic dentistry and orthodontics that can move front teeth predictably, safely and quickly.
Benefits Of Inman Aligner Treatment
- Great results achieved using just one appliance
- Less time and expense than conventional orthodontics or Invisalign treatments
- Easy removal & insertion of the Inman appliance
- Quickly aligns front teeth either as a stand alone treatment or before cosmetic treatment
- Fast and efficient alternative to 'invisible braces'.
The unique Inman Aligner has Nickel Titanium coil springs that power two aligner bows to gently oppose each other, guiding the teeth into their new position. These gentle forces are active over a very large range of movement, which is why the Inman Aligner works so well.
What's involved?
- Most cases are completed within 6 – 18 weeks depending on their complexity. For suitable cases, the Inman Aligner is almost always much faster than alternative fixed or removable orthodontic techniques.
- Impressions of the teeth are taken as well as photographs so that a 'Spacewize' analysis can be performed. The results of the analysis will determine whether or not you are a suitable candidate for Inman Aligner treatment.
- Impressions are needed so that the laboratory can fabricate the custom made Inman Aligner.
- The patient is fitted with the Aligner and wears the Aligner 16-20 hours a day. (Appliance can be worn for less time but overall treatment time will increase).
- Regular checks with the patient every 2 – 3 weeks during treatment.
- Some teeth may need to be selectively 'stripped' of some of their enamel. This is a painless procedure and is almost undetectable. Throughout treatment teeth may need to have very small 'buttons' of white resin material added to their surfaces, these may need modification and will be removed at the completion of the treatment.


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The number of overseas visitors last year jumped an estimated 34.6 percent from 2011 to 8.368 million, the second-highest level on record, the Japan National Tourism Organization said.
The figure, which fell short of the record 8.611 million travelers seen in 2010, shows Japan's tourism industry has nearly recovered from the March 2011 disasters, the JNTO said Friday. Comparable data began to be compiled in 1964.
Among other factors, the organization attributed the spike in foreign visitors to lower airfares following the market entry of budget airlines.
But the number fell short of the 9 million travelers the government had targeted for 2012, as ties with China soured amid the flareup over the Japan-controlled Senkaku islets, which are also claimed by Beijing.
By country and region, the annual numbers of visitors from China, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Taiwan, Thailand and Vietnam all hit record highs, the JNTO said.
The largest number of travelers came from South Korea, at 2.04 million, but the figure was still down 16.2 percent compared to 2010 due to the won's depreciation. Taiwan ranked second with 1.47 million visitors, followed by China, at 1.43 million. Taiwanese tourists topped those from China for the first time in three years, according to the JNTO.
In December alone, the estimated number of overseas visitors spiked 20.6 percent from the year before to 689,000, a record high for the reporting month, it said.
At a Friday news conference, Japan Tourism Agency chief Norifumi Ide said the government aims to attract 10 million foreign travelers this year by hosting more international conferences and holding promotional campaigns in fast-growing Southeast Asian nations.


text: 27.04.15 Barco signs 5-year panoramic cinema format deal with 20th Century Fox PROJECTION Barco and 20th Century Fox have announced a five-year, multi-title per year agreement to release movies in Barco's multi-screen, immersive movie format Barco Escape. Fox will be working with its filmmakers to produce new projects for the format beginning with the September release of Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials.As part of the deal, a Barco Escape setup will be installed in a theater on the 20th Century Fox studio lot.Chris Aronson, 20th Century Fox's president of domestic distribution said: "We started working with Barco on this technology because we believe immersive experiences are the future of cinema. Now that Barco has upgraded its Barco Escape systems to be fully DCI compliant, we are further interested in finding tent pole movies for the format that will inspire audiences to leave their homes and go to the theater to share in this unique experience." PROJECTION


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My mom should be proud. I got up this morning, made breakfast (eggs + almond butter toast!), put on the cycling shirt she gave me for Christmas, and got ready to roll.
Yep. That's right – I went on a bike ride. My first ride since Miami 70.3 in October (has it really been that long?!) and my first in re-building my base for Ironman Florida. I can lie and say it was THE BEST RIDE ever, but that would be well past stretching the truth. It was tough. Tougher than I expected, but also really awesome at the same time.
First, it was cold and rainy, which wasn't something I was expecting when I left my house. Thankfully I found a blue jacket in my trunk to semi protect myself from the elements.
Second, my cycling endurance has gone to zilch. I set out for 30 miles (ha!), but settled on 20 when I realized that was all I had in me for today. I'm okay with that. We all have to start somewhere, right?
BUT (and this is a big but) even though the ride was tough, it was also fun. It felt good to get on my bike again. It wasn't something I was dreading, it was something I was looking forward to and couldn't wait to wake up and ride.
It helped having a good breakfast before my ride. This was something my coach was getting on me about last season. I'm a runner and as a runner I've always ate a full meal after my runs on the weekend because eating the big breakfast before simply doesn't work. I was using the same technique before my rides (eating a snack for fuel before the ride, bits of fuel on the ride, and a full meal after) and was bonking on the bike. I'm working on switching it up – a good breakfast before, fuel on the bike, and a decent snack after). My legs may not have had the endurance to make it through 30 miles on the bike today, but the rest of my energy levels felt great today. I think the swap worked!
After my ride I stopped at Whole Foods on the way home and got a Green Dream smoothie (kale, spinach, apple, pineapple).
Delicious. It was a little gritty (and could have used a minute or two longer in the vitamix), but the taste was definitely there. Love drinking my greens!
Now I have a day full of Sunday errands ahead of me. Bring on the laundry, grocery shopping, and everything else a Sunday after should entail.
Enjoy the rest of your weekend!


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The team is back together!
EW is exclusively debuting the first footage from Young Justice: Outsiders, the third season of the beloved animated series following the adventures of Nightwing, Superboy, Aqualad, and more of DC's young heroes as they tackle problems the Justice League can't handle. After three years away, the show is finally returning on DC's new streaming service, DC Universe.
When we last checked in with Young Justice, the team had just helped the Justice League stop an alien invasion and were invited to join Batman, Superman, and the rest of the League on the Watchtower; however, this victory came at a price as Kid Flash, a.k.a. Wally West, perished in saving the day. Even though the new season picks up an undisclosed amount of time after season 2, it doesn't appear as though everyone has recovered from that tragedy.
EW is live from Comic-Con 2018! Click here to watch interviews with your favorite stars LIVE on Facebook July 19-22.
In the new footage from season 3, Nightwing, who left the team at the end of season 2, reunites Superboy, a bearded Aqualad, and Artemis for one last mission: combatting the rise in metahuman trafficking and the ensuing intergalactic arms races to control people with powers. "There's a metahuman trafficking syndicate in Markovia that we can shut down with your help," Nightwing says in the video. "When it's all over, we go our separate ways. No muss, no fuss."
Elsewhere in the clip, we get a first look at the show's newest character, Brion Markov (Troy Baker), the Prince of Markovia, who discovers he has the metahuman gene. The season will track how he adjusts to his newfound powers. Furthermore, the sizzle reel also reveals that Katana will be joining the show.
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When families think about vacationing in Florida, one thing usually comes to mind: theme parks. I've got nothing against theme parks, in fact, they've been the source of many happy memories for me both as a kid and a parent. But if you're headed to Orlando for a theme-park trip, you're within easy reach of places where you can experience another side of Florida. Here are three day trips to consider adding to your theme-park itinerary. Each combines a different slice of Florida history with a stunning natural environment.
Lake Kissimmee State Park, Lake Wales (90 minutes from Orlando) Camping at this park is a treat, as sandhill cranes loiter around the campsites like teenagers hanging out at the 7-11. The real draw, however, is the Cracker cow camp, where you'll find re-enactors in character as 1870s cow hunters. Each weekend from October 1-May 1, you can sit around their campfire, watch them demonstrate the whip-cracking skills that earned them their nickname, and explore the frighteningly rustic shelter that was all that stood between them and the wilds of pioneer Florida.
Castillo de San Marcos, St. Augustine (about 2 hrs from Orlando) Founded in 1565, St. Augustine offers a one-of-a-kind look at Florida's Spanish colonial history. Visitors have remarkable freedom to explore the Castillo de San Marcos, built in the 1670s: You can crawl into the powder magazine, visit the soldiers' quarters and chapel and wander around the gun deck, where re-enactors fire cannons on the weekends. The nearby but lesser-known Fort Matanzas National Monument is also worth a visit, and as a bonus, getting there entails a free boat ride.
Florida EcoSafaris, St. Cloud (less than an hour from Orlando) Forever Florida's 4,700-acre conservation area is home to wild turkey, black bears and alligators, and offers some novel ways to explore the preserve. Choose between speeding along on a zipline, riding on horseback or touring the preserve in an open-air safari bus. Kids 12 and up are welcome on the horseback safari (10 and up with riding experience), while kids 10 and up weighing at least 70 pounds can zipline. All ages are welcome on the coach safari.
Alisson Clark is a travel writer whose work has appeared in Disney's FamilyFun, Parents, The St. Petersburg Times, Florida Travel+Life and other national publications. She blogs about family travel at OutThereWithKids.blogspot.com and GeekMom.com.


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You got it, Count.
Not only that, but when the Earth was still cooling our original speed "gate" for the Viper radar had to be raised. This showeed itself worst when the jets went to Europe and flew over the Autobahn. a zillion targets showed up when looking down!! Our problemin Utah was I-84 and speedo folks. But only those zooming along ten or fifteen MPH over the limit. So they had to raise the "ignore" speed. Helos were still not a problem due to the spinning rotors, but I guess zeppelins with cloth envelopes, eagle feather control surfaces and balsa frames might be trouble.
So look for funny things in next RF besides the chariots
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Ive read reports in the 80's and 90's Eagles locking up Porsches and Das Benze! zipping along on the Autobahn. Vaguely recall they it filtered to 90MPH and up.


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I can't go on writing about cycling and cities from a 2011 perspective. So come with me, my regular readers, into the future. We're getting out of this era. We're going to start talking as though we've woken up in 2021, and all this nonsense has passed.
So here we are, in 2021, and for the first time, my country, Australia, has conducted a census that showed cycling to be a mainstream mode of transportation. 20% of trips in Melbourne and Brisbane are made using bikes. Sydney has 15%. My own middling sized city of Newcastle topped the lot, with 30%. That is because Newcastle was the first Australian city where planners applied the principles of a Bicycle Oriented Development, or BOD, to urban renewal sites, on former industrial land.
It's funny, less than 10 years ago, the word "bod" would have referred the human body, in a trim state. You rarely hear it used in that sense anymore, not now that so many people are trim from all the cycling they do, and when everyone knows "BOD" refers to a high density town, where most of the buildings are ramped, or else ride-through, and where you feel like your shoelaces are tied together if you're not on a bicycle. And don't even try to take a car into a BOD. If you're lucky enough to find a road in, you certainly wont find a parking space. Zoning laws prohibit any car parking at all in these places.
What we once called a "bod", and what we can now say was a proto-BOB, Orestad outside of Copenhagen.
With the benefit of hindsight, we can say the early 2000s was a kind of "proto-BOD" period. There are three reasons to say that.
1. A wave of development saw many urban renewal projects forge ahead, but with urban morphologies that were hardly as fine grained and walkable as urban designers would have prefered. During the former growth period of the 1980s, the narrow streets, small lots, and high site coverage ideology that flowed from the thinking of Jane Jacobs, Gordon Cullen, Jan Gehl, etc., were a barrier to the biggest developers. By the 2000s, pension funds had made large scale developers the norm. Urban renewal authorities acquiesced with big lots, and wide streets. The cities resulting had a scale that was alienating to pedestrians, but that wasn't so bad if you had a bike.
2. Looking back we can say Copenhagen gave us another milestone of the proto-BOD period, with urban renewal schemes like Orestad, just a 15 minute bike ride away from the city. For decades bikes had extended the reach of metro stations in towns outside major cities, in countries like Denmark and Holland. But when your home station is just 15 minutes from town, and when modern bikes let moderately fit people ride with so little effort, why mess about with the mode change?
3. The other significant development of the proto-BOD period, was the building of recreational bike routes, not where people needed to cycle for transport, but wherever people could ride their bikes, without inconveniencing voters with cars (which back then, meant virtually everyone). So recreational bike routes flanked waterways, crossed parks, and made use of rail easements, often left abandoned by industry. Minneapolis: a classic example. 10 years ago, in 2011, its bike share was just 2.5%, but in those days, that was enough to make Minneapolis America's second big bicycling city, after Portland, then with just 5%. (For reference, New York's bike share, a decade ago, was half of one percent—incredible, by today's standards.) What Minneapolis had, that got cycling started, were rail trails, park connectors (for example, where once there were mills by the river) and old industrial bridges, one that the city bought for a dollar. From 1991 onwards—thanks to the passing of the Surface Transportation Equity Act (ISTEA), that guaranteed funding for bike works—routes like these that bypassed the roads, were systematically fixed up for bike use. In a country brainwashed by John Forester's 1976 doctrine of "vehicular cycling" (that says bikes are best treated like cars), Minneapolis's recreational network—circuitous and lonely, as it was then—at least gave cyclists a chance to use bikes for transport, even at night, in the rain, when cycling on the road is unconscionably dangerous. (More on Minneapolis in this pdf).
So what changed in the last decade, that those recreational bike routes are now flooded with kids riding to school, people using bicycles to do shopping, cargo bikes making deliveries, and a billion people world wide, cycling to work? Put simply, planners, when they had tried to introduce protected bike paths in established areas, were stymied by voters wanting more space for cars. So, albeit with some reluctance, planners brought Main Street to where there were bikes. The brown field tracts, waterfronts and under-utilised parklands flanking the recreational bicycling routes, were rezoned as BODs, to allow the construction of public institutions, shopping centres, workplaces and lots of high density housing. While the new developments had no car parking, and minimal investment in buses or trams, there was no expense spared in pandering to people on bikes. The enclosed back-drafted bike routes we now take for granted, were unimaginable just ten years ago.
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A decade ago, when driving was viable, the expectation was that former industrial land should provide even more open green space than existed already. Selling existing urban parkland to developers, even if no one was using it, well that was unthinkable! How quickly the mob discards lofty ideals to suit changing circumstance, though. Because the exburbs were struggling. Peak oil, and the late running on alternative electricity generation, meant both regular and electric cars were too expensive to run. Suburban house markets collapsed, as "The Great Reset"—identified by Richard Florida in the wake of the 2008 GFC—looked more like a great exodus, from the burbs to the city. Urban consolidation, once a fancy word used only by planners, appeared as graffiti on walls. Any green space in the city, if it was only being used as a toilet for dogs, was rezoned for high density housing.
It was a happy coincidence, that many of the former industrial sites favoured by developers of affordable housing, also flanked former industrial rail routes—no surprise really, given factories and rail originally belonged to the same networks. Quite by accident, suburbia's refugees, upon moving to town, found their newly built neighbourhoods were on the edge of recreational bicycling trails. The same was true of under-utilised parkland, being sold for development. New housing here, tended to flank bike paths that ran beside waterways, and across parks.
Governments and developers realised what was happening, at about the same time. A pattern of urbanisation had grown out of circumstance, that inherently favoured bicycle transit. Governments had been prepared to back bicycling since the early 2000s. All they lacked, were ways to help cycling, without jeopardising their support from voters accustomed to having all of the road. They wanted to spend on cycling, because they knew spending on cycling could mean saving on healthcare, reducing emissions, and saving on roads and new trains. So they welcomed the chance to invest, not on bike lanes in old parts of town, where car-lovers took umbrage, but on recreational routes, now being used for bicycle transit. It would not be long before every waterway, canal, and old rail easement, had covered bike lanes and flyover bridges where they intersected with roads.
As for developers, they could see cyclists were a ripe demographic. The ones fleeing car land, each had an extra 10K at their disposal per annum, that many were choosing to spend on their housing. But a surprisingly high proportion of bike-nuts were wealthy: middle class fitness buffs; educated left, or green, voters; and retirees ageing actively. A wealthy, healthy, but hitherto odd demographic, suddenly, were worth going after.
Among developers, there was competition to build the most bike friendly buildings. They looked to a building in Copenhagen, called 8-House, by the starchitects BIG, that had been built in 2011. Built in Orestad—the place I said earlier was a prototype BOD—8-House pampered bicycling residents with access balconies spiralling all the way to top, like switch-back roads ascending a mountain. They could ride home from work, to their apartments, without putting a foot on the ground.
Developers looked to 8-House, the way public housing authorities in the 50s and 60s looked to Le Corbusier's Unite de Habitation in Marseilles. Only 8-House—part perimeter block, and part 5th Avenue Guggenheim—had overcome Le Corbusier's oversights. Its access balconies really were like streets in the sky, contiguous with each other, and the real street, down on the ground. They made Le Corbusier's elevated streets look as the streets of Manhattan would look, if the Avenues were taken away, and people had to move from street to street via the vortex of the subway.
Architects conceived buildings with no vertical subways (by that I mean, lifts), only ramps. They looked to Carlo Ratti's London Cloud, an unbuilt proposal/fantasy from 2010, imagining spiralling towers that people would ride up on bikes. They looked at Cube House, in Rotterdam, one of the earliest ride-through buildings. What if schools and shops were ride through? The many ride-through buildings appearing in architectural journals now in the twenties, are products of that theoretical discourse.
As well as discussions around bike friendly typology and circulation, attention turned to the first wave of buildings that propagandised for cycling: the Washington Bikestation, that looked more like an avant-garde museum than a place to park bikes; The Danish Pavilion at the 2010 world expo in China by BIG, a ride-through spiralling building, dispensing free-to-use bikes; and the Bikestation at Long Beach California, designed and sited to be iconic.
Architects' rhetoric was redolent with bike allusions. Anything that could be said about a bicycle's frugality, irreducibility, or means of production, architects found they could say about buildings. The bicycle was a paragon, as cars, ships and aeroplanes had been in the 20s, or as the body had been in the Renaissance.
Pruitt-Igoe, 1956-1972.
Relocating suburbia's victims into high density estates, with little or no public transport, had been decried as a recipe for alienation, suicide and high levels of crime, but the opposite turned out to be true. Because of their speed, cyclists were a ubiquitous presence, always putting eyes on the street. But unlike drivers, who would appear on the scene but drive past, cyclists were insinuated in events going on all around them. They provided the passive surveillance pedestrians do, yet to a whole district, not just the busiest streets. This lessened strictures on urban planning. Districts could have their own distinct urban morphologies. Even towers-in-the-park could be built, without giving rise to the kind of chaos that led to Pruitt–Igoe being demolished.
Extent of the new bicycling zone, in Newcastle, Australia.
Most cities now have two distinct zones, intertwined like a yin and a yang. Everywhere we see a new cycling city, interweaving with, but largely separated from, the networks of streets that for almost a century have been dominated by cars. And while there was rivalry, and talk of separate governments, the sense we have now, is that the new cities are acting as beacons.
Freetown Christiania, and what Copenhagen became, thanks to its inspiration.
Just as the car-free hippie town of Christiania in Copenhagen, could be said to have inspired the demonstrations throughout the rest of that city in support of bike lanes, in the mid nineteen seventies, the presence of BODs is inspiring change in their host cities. Although my city's bike modal share, of 30%, is almost entirely attibutable to the new, parallel city, conditions are ripe now, in 2021, for the bikefacation of Main Street. When the bike share tops 51%, then we will say it is mainstream.
What you have kindly taken your time to read, is the basis of a talk I'll be "touring" at various conferences in the coming weeks, to gather feedback, hopefully inspire planners, architects and urban designers, and surreptitiously promote a book I have coming out soon. I'm posting this essay here on my blog, because I get great immediate feedback via comments from readers. Trust me, I don't believe in future predictions. I just thought a fake prophesy would be a neat way to explain an alternative direction for bicycle advocacy, when efforts to date have been painfully slow in making headway. If you see problems, please let me know. If you see merit, please share this link where you can. I'm available as a consultant and public speaker, via the commercial arm of my university: www.newcastleinnovation.com.au My name is Steven Fleming, and I'm in the School of Architecture and Built Environment at The University of Newcastle, Australia.


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Think about all the bands you've listened to over the years. You probably had a couple of favorites along the way.
Remember when one of your favorite bands broke up or significantly changed its makeup?
Usually when that happened, it was because of a relational breakdown. Maybe that's not how it was announced, but it eventually was revealed to be the reason.
Or maybe you've been in a band. Even though you loved playing music, you hated being a part of the band. It just wasn't enjoyable and you couldn't wait to be done.
Why do these things happen? The simple truth is this:
Music making and relationships go hand in hand.
You may be investing time in creating and rehearsing great arrangements, developing amazing visual displays, and recruiting and equipping excellent musicians and techs. But, it will be very difficult to maintain this for the long haul if relationships are dysfunctional and/or non-existent.
As much as we desire to develop good musicians and play good music in the context of worship, we must also have as a priority the development of godly, Christ-centered relationships.
Here are six reasons why.
- The kingdom of God is about relationships. It is more valuable to have quality loving relationships with other Christians than to have the most rockin' band in your town. Jesus said people would know we are Christians not by the excellence of our music but by how we engage with each other in love.
- Developing relationships will facilitate a common bond, unity, and purpose beyond music. Your worship team shouldn't be only known for the quality of the music, but for their bond together with Christ.
- When relationships are a priority, then you are less likely to deal with jealousy, anger, misunderstandings, and strife. And when those things do develop, you have a strong relational base to address them from. Truth can be spoken in love because you've already established the framework of love.
- When relationships are a priority, you become more than just a band. You are a small group (or groups) doing life and ministry together. That's a win.
- Let's be honest. Your team will play better together when they know and care for each other. A huge part of this is because your members will be looking for ways to look to the interests of others before themselves.
- David, a leader of worship leaders, reminded us in Psalm 133:1 how good and pleasant it is when brothers live together in unity.
Developing relationships is a key part of leading a worship ministry. And while it is vitally important, it can also be very hard. I've served in a number of different ministries. In some cases there's been success in this area. In other cases, not so much. When I stop to reflect, the difference between ministries with strong relationships and those without is obvious.
Not everyone will want to develop relationships. Some may already have enough relationships. Some may just be there to play music. Some may not want to invest the time because of busy lives. But as a leader, you must persevere in this area for the health of your team members, the worship ministry, and the church as a whole.
So, what are some practical ways you can work at developing relationships within your worship ministry setting? Here are a few suggestions:
- Begin by praying. Pray for the members of the team to want to care for and get to know each other. Just like Jesus instructed us in John 13, prayed for us in John 17, and Paul reinforced in Ephesians 4.
- Make sure that you are setting the example of engaging in relationships. If you're not doing it, not one else will either.
- Have everything ready for rehearsal before people show up so you can be available to chat with people.
- Take members out to lunch or coffee as appropriate. Be conscious of gender issues.
- Invite more than one team member to have dinner at your home at a time.
- Schedule regular worship team get-togethers. Some can be for the purpose of study or training, but be sure to have some just for the purpose of hanging out. These could be cook-outs, game nights, themed food nights (like Mexican), sports events, or a trip to a concert.
- Related to the above, if you're traveling somewhere together, be sure to car pool instead of everyone driving separately.
- Also related, engage some other team members in the planning and executing of these events. Especially if it's not your strength. I've found that involving others helps to increase participation.
- Spontaneously invite people to go for lunch, coffee, or ice cream following a rehearsal or special event.
- Surprise your team with food during a longer rehearsal or between multiple services. Food is a great way to foster spontaneous conversation and caring.
- Make regular time for team members to share about personal needs in their lives and then provide opportunity for other members to pray for them. Don't do all the praying yourself.
- Be clear on your expectations. Let the team know this is a priority and that everyone has a part to play. It's not fair to get frustrated that your team isn't connecting if you haven't communicated the importance.
Ultimately, you have to consider the context of your ministry setting. What are the constraints people have on their lives? How many people are a part of your team? Even if your team is small, start doing this now. It's a lot easier than trying to retrofit when the team gets larger.
The important thing to remember is that this cannot be ignored. It may be hard and there may be resistance, but it is vital to push through. In the end everyone will be better for it.
Your congregation is watching the worship team. It's obvious when a team gets along and loves each other and when a team is filled with strife. Which type of team do you think will be more effective in leading people to worship Jesus Christ?
And it will be a good way to make sure your team doesn't become one that implodes on itself and people talk about at conferences for years to come.
If your worship ministry is struggling, maybe it really doesn't have anything to do with how deep or talented your bench is. Maybe it has everything to do with lack of relationships among the ministry team.
For Discussion: How have your intentionally fostered relationships in your worship ministry?


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Disease Man and Disease Horse
A common chart from medieval and Renaissance medical texts is "Disease Man," wherein the diseases that can affect different parts of the body are laid out schematically around the body. Horse veterinarians adopted this chart, creating a "Disease Horse"; this chart often served as an index to the book, stating the page on which a particular horse disease could be found.
Astrology and Health
An important ingredient to medieval and Renaissance human healing was Astrology, whereby the influence of the stars on the body was studied and carefully charted. Veterinarians did the same with horses. In these two charts, the signs of the zodiac are associated with different parts of the body: for example, don't treat the head while Aries is in the sky.
Bloodletting and the Four Humors
Central to early theories of human health was keeping the four humors (blood, bile, black bile, and phlegm) in balance, which involved the practice of bloodletting. Veterinarians followed suit and created bloodletting charts and systems which were similar to those created for human healing.
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From time to time in the past, I've come across some dead specimens that would have been great to preserve. I have come across dead Chimney Swift and Yellow-billed Cuckoo on Corvo and in other places found dead raptors and even a Glaucous Gull once. I could never find a taxidermist to prepare a skin or a specimen so thought I would have a go at teaching myself. Here's my first efforts and some instructions if you fancy having a go too.
Mounted skins (all specimens naturally killed)
You will need a good fresh specimen. Best to freeze specimens as soon as possible (also I presume it kills of any pathogens??). Defrost thoroughly before use.
First thing to do is break the humerus bone (the one between the shoulder and the arm of the wing) on both wings
Blow the feathers apart on the breast and make an incision from top of breast to bottom of breast plate. If you accidentally go too far and cut into the perritoneal membrane all the guts will come out and could soil the skin. If you do this pull all the guts out and blot with tissue. Through the whole process keep washing your hands and keeping the surface clean so not to soil the skin.
Gently peel off the skin- like un-zipping a coat and flashing
Next push the legs up beside the abdomen and cut the legs with some sturdy scissors at the knee joint. Basically your trying to keep the legs attached to skin but unattached from the musculature, skeleton and organs (the viscera).
Then using the scissors cut the spine at the base of synsacrum- the main bone on the back of the bird. As you can see from this image I've ballsed it up and cut through the peritoneal membrane so the guts have erupted. Do not panic- just scoop out the guts and blot the whole area to keep things dry and tidy. Be very careful when cutting the spine to not cut the tail off!
Now gently pull out the viscera- clipping any attachment from the wings and legs as necessary. It's just like taking a onesie off but cutting your legs and arms off and leaving them in the onesie and pulling out your torso but with your head still in the hood.
Now its time to pull the whole thing over your head. Very careful with this part- its very easy to split the skin. Just pull the skin to the edge of the eye socket and then using a scalpel literally scalp it! Cut the skin away from the viscera- cutting through the skull- the purpose here is to leave the bill and front of the skull in place.
I haven't been careful enough here and the skin has split. However it was enough to be able to open up the skull and then blot out the brains and soft tissue with a cotton bud. Good to remove the eyes too and stick a bit of surgical wool or cotton bud tip in them.
If you've had a good day you should be left with something like this- basically a bird without it's coat on (and no arms and legs too)
and on the other side of the table should be something like this. You can stuff these with cotton wool and stitch them up but I quite like this effect- and it's easier!


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Links to relevant football sites can be of great help. Looking for session plans, equipment, or the newest boots out? Check out the links and see what you can find:-
http://facc.thefa.com FA Licensed Coaches Club (FA LCC)
http://learning.thefa.com/ FA education website
http://facc.thefa.com/session-plans FA LCC Session Plans and The Future Game resources (need to be registered with the Licensed Coaches Club)
Coaching Sites
http://www.footballcoachingcourses.com Great resource for those going through FA level 1,2 and 3 courses.
http://www.soccerxpert.com Packed with drills (and google ads!). Nicely arranged into age groups.
http://www.footy4kids.co.uk Good collection of drills and advice - firmly aimed at junior football
http://fundamentalsoccer.com/ Has a particularly fine section on the traits of different age groups - well worth reading
http://www.coachingsoccer101.com Useful set of free drills
http://www.kidsfirstsoccer.com/ Child centric with a great section on how to appraise performance and set goals for each player.
Equipment Sites
http://www.queensferrysports.net Official provider of kits and equipment to AFC Waverton
http://www.prodirectsoccer.com Provider of wide range of equipment and kit
http://www.forsport.co.uk Good range of coaching equipment, books, balls and kit


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The benefits of developing Continuous Customers™ to fuel recurring revenue growth are widely understood. The combination of the predictable nature of recurring revenue and customer lifetime value make these businesses very attractive to investors, as evidenced by valuation multiples that far surpass any other business model today.
But as recurring revenue businesses scale and diversify product offerings, operational issues are exposed that often have significant business consequences. Organizations are finding that traditional methods, tools, and approaches for scaling their businesses simply don't work anymore.
We've uncovered twelve major warning signs that indicate stalled recurring revenue growth—creating a business that cannot scale and will eventually erode profitability. Because of the far-reaching and cross-departmental complexity of these issues, it's not always clear what the root causes are, where they reside, and who should be tasked to address the problem. Our clients often articulate one or more of these warning signs, and on further discovery, realize that all twelve apply.
1. Customer Churn
There are many reasons that customers take their business elsewhere. Often, it is not one big faux pas but consistent failure to meet expectations through every business touchpoint. If the fundamentals are not right, organizations struggle to keep sight of the customer because they are engaged in daily combat with their own internal complexities. Instead, they focus more effort and expenses on continuously winning new customers at the expense of customer retention. This is the biggest revenue-impacting warning sign.
2. Billing Inquiries and Disputes
Obvious, but often ignored, are billing inquiries and disputes. Billing disputes are the fastest way to either lose a customer or prevent them from buying additional products or services. They are rarely reported on the typical customer satisfaction metrics since this is handled in a siloed billing department. If an organization is receiving large volumes of billing calls or the team is spending an excessive amount of time in the infamous A/R email-box, this is a clear signal of fundamental problems in the end-to-end operation.
3. Definition Confusion
Sales thinks an "order" is one thing; finance thinks it another; and the customer is not sure what they purchased. Overt and subtle discrepancies consistently and unnecessarily create conflict between internal teams and with customers. Oftentimes customer-facing descriptors are not developed in favor of adopting terminology developed by disparate CRM and ERP software providers who are focused on their customer, not your customer.
4. Internal Conflict
When internal teams battle it's sometimes because they have lost sight of the customer. For example, if billing creates new rules for sales, is it because it makes sense for the customer or because it's easier for billing? Or does sales view billing, service provision, and payments as something far downstream that's none of their concern? When the fences are built between departments, the customer suffers.
5. Inflexible Operations
Inflexibility can exist in technology, processes, and even people. Hearing "no," "we can't do that," "our systems can't support that," "it will take a lot of customization," or any variation thereof when it comes to socializing new go-to-market strategies is a signal that internal systems or ingrained processes may limit revenue growth.
6. Manual Process Overload
Often manual processes are created to make up for inadequacies in the CRM and ERP systems and all the processes in between. While not everything can be automated, an overabundance in manual processes is a sure indicator that the business cannot scale. This often leads the next warning sign of trying to solve flaws in process and technology with people.
7. Mushrooming Headcount
Sometimes it's easier to hire people to operate an inefficient process than to analyze and fix deep-seeded issues. This is especially true when it requires close cross-departmental coordination or a reliance on already over-burdened internal groups.
8. SKU Proliferation
The SKU was once a way to connect all your systems together. Businesses sold the SKU, delivered the SKU, and charged for the SKU. Even in digital businesses this has become a way to control license entitlements and provisioning. SKU proliferation takes place because of fundamental limitations in how the product catalog is modeled and managed. This results in a lack of flexibility to package, bundle, price, and discount as well as confusion in sales, delivery, finance, and with customers.
9. Unattainable Customer Self-Service
Investing in a self-service portal on well-functioning systems should be simple enough to plan and execute. If internal staff members cannot understand their systems or data and if internal operations are hindered by excessive manual processes, then attempts at customer self-service will be fruitless. When the team cannot figure out how to do it or where to start, that is a clear sign that serious issues lie under the surface.
10. System Customization
Often disguised as 'tailoring to your unique business,' customization of systems and the integrations between them can be a huge disadvantage to operational scale, flexibility, and agility—but more importantly—to the Continuous Customer. Vastly complex, costly, ongoing, and rigid integrations are a sign that the design missed the mark.
11. Reporting Inaccuracies
The reporting mechanisms developed for the linear, item-based economy do not translate for recurring revenue models. Executives must correct for information gaps, errors, and conflicting data and ask for reports to be pulled again and again in an attempt to guide their new business model.
12. Revenue Leakage
Revenue leakage mostly comes from not billing (or under-billing) your customers for products and services provided. This can be devastating to profits as recent research has found the unintended loss of revenue to as much as one and five percent of EBITDA.
Being aware of these warning signs is only the first step, but an important one. It can serve as a launching point for organizational transformation. Businesses must proceed with caution, however. Without the proper guidance and support it's extremely easy to slip back into siloed approaches and treating symptoms instead of the root causes.
Navigating these symptoms and growing recurring revenue is an undertaking that Navint knows well. In fact, Navint is one of few management consulting firms that has a fully-dedicated practice with deep domain experience and a proprietary, continually-evolving methodology to help organizations navigate the journey to success with recurring revenue, subscription business models, monetization strategies, and Continuous Customers.


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We are focused on the development of Skills and Casual Gaming & Entertainment Content for web and mobile platforms.
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Wilderness Bride 2015 Wedding Dresses: The Dearest Collection
Wilderness Bride 2015 Wedding Dresses: The Dearest Collection
One of my favourite parts of being a wedding blogger is getting to share with you all my favourite bridal collections. Imagine. Swooning over wedding dresses on a near daily basis.
How lucky am I?
Well, not nearly as lucky as you gorgeous brides… as YOU will get to wear one of these beautiful, [designed in the UK] wedding dresses!
With an alluringly feminine vibe, the dearest collection oozes an ethereal mystic. Pretty cuts of lace and silk are intricately designed and waiting for you to put your own unique stamp and sense of style on them…
Wilderness Bride is a heritage inspired bridal wear label based in the Cheshire countryside. Dresses and accessories are meticulously crafted in the UK by the wilderness couture team using the best tailoring techniques.
Designer Stephanie Mitchell started Wilderness Bride in 2012 after working in the bridal industry for a number of years, Stephanie decided to branch out on her own to create her ethereal collections.
As earth tells the oaks when to shed
Amber coats
Beneath lazy clouds forming strong brown
boot roots
We watch, work and wait with the pale
satin sky
The sundial, the hourglass, my true love
and I.
The soft evening sun blushes roses
and gold
The hourglass is turning, the earth is
my soul
These pinpricked diamonds all waltz
round the moon
Tell a tale of our time that's as timeless
as soon.
The dawn bathes the land in sweet honey
and milk
And seamlessly blends just as gently as
Waiting done, all is still, in our moment
the clearest,
No sundial, no hour-glass, just you love,
my dearest.
Written by Ximena Massam
Stephanie takes inspiration from her countryside surrounding and likes to investigate old folktales and stories. Stephanie also chooses a season and an element for each collection to make that connection to nature as wilderness is all for natural beauty.
The 'Dearest' Collection was partly inspired by an old anonymous love poem, Miss Haversham from Great Expectations, Fire and Autumn and the history of the location from the shoot: Tabley House in Cheshire.
The collection is feminine and romantic and uses blush tones in a subtle way. With a strong focus on lace, the ideas was to create a quiet, simple elegance.
Wilderness Bride is now stocked in highly recommended and award winning boutiques across the UK. They also have some gorgeous capes, waistcoats and collars… ultra pretty!
photography: giulia @on love and photography / hair & makeup: nicola jewsbury / model: natasha price / flowers: hummingbird flowers / location: tabley house cheshire


text: Twitter Ad Revenue Expected to Triple to $150 Million in 2011 6:27 PM PST 1/24/2011 by Kimberly Nordyke FACEBOOK TWITTER EMAIL ME Facebook should rake in more than $4 billion this year, while MySpace revenue is projected to fall by more than $100 million. Twitter is projected to earn $150 million in ad revenue this year, which is more than three times what the service earned in 2010, according to a new report from eMarketer. That's still a far cry from Facebook, which is expected to earn $4.1 billion this year. On the other hand, the News Corp.-owned MySpace is expected to see a significant drop, falling from $288 million last year to $184 million in 2011. By 2012, Twitter revenue could reach $250 million, surpassing MySpace's projected take of $156 million. Facebook is eyeing a possible $5.7 billion haul next year. But eMarketer experts caution that Twitter "must show it can live up to its hype." "If Twitter can grow its user base and convince marketers of its value as a go-to secondary player to Facebook, it will succeed in gaining revenue," said Debra Aho Williamson, eMarketer principal analyst. "In 2011, it must work overtime to give its early advertisers a positive experience." FACEBOOK TWITTER EMAIL ME Kimberly Nordyke firstname.lastname@example.com @thr


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This week at Tots2Tweens
Posted by Tara Dunsmore in Back-to-School, Blog Posts, Picks of the Week on Sat, Aug 18, 2012
Picks of the Week
Know It
With the kids gearing up to head back to school in the next few weeks, it was time to wrap up Laurie's Lesson Plans. She put together one final week of summer learning designed to help transition your kids back into the school-day routine. Laurie's Lesson Plans – Back-to-School. Also, don't miss Aj Randall's article on the creepy crawly bed bugs. Just don't read this right before going to sleep at night or you may not rest so peacefully.
Read it
Getting Funded! Tots2Tweens is growing and we would love for our amazing parents, clients and partners to have a piece of our magic! We are joining the wave of companies who are using "crowdfunding" to help grow their business. "Crowdfunding" is a way for small businesses like ours to raise capital and grow into something amazing. If you would like to be a part of our success you can learn more about our campaign here.
Don't forget our Back-to-School Spectacular going on now-enter for your chance to win a $500 shopping spree and tons of other amazing prizes. One winner will walk away with the entire jackpot of goodies.
Cook it
Homework, football practice and PTA meetings can make dinners together as a family tough to schedule. Here are a few quick and easy dinner recipes to help you fit in family meals when on-the-go.
These Crockpot Italian Hoagies can be made in a jiffy on those busy weekday nights…or any nights!
Grilled Fish Tacos are a quick and easy dinner for those evenings on the go. To find more ideas for quick and easy dinners check out our recipe database and our recipe board on pinterest.
Do it
Looking for stuff to do this weekend? The Amazing Baby and Child Expo will be held Saturday, August 18 in Sykesville, MD. This fun-filled, affordable event is great for babies, children, tweens, teens and the entire Family!
Back to School Fair: Prince George's County Public Schools' (PGCPS) Back-to-School Fair will be a community-wide opportunity for ALL PGCPS students and parents. With the first day of school on Monday, August 20, the Back-to-School Fair will provide parents and students with access to the resources needed for a successful school year.
Find it
Maranatha Child Care Center can provide before and after school care for your children this school year. They provide enriching and fun activities for your child every day as well as ensure your children complete their homework assignments.
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Tara is a single mom from Frederick, Maryland just trying to keep up with her crazy life. When she's not at the park with her Boo Boo you can find her either at her day job right here at Tots2Tweens or at her second job as a Jamberry Independent Consultant. Tara spends her days at Tots2Tweens searching for fun family activities and interesting content to share with our readers. Events, recipes, parenting articles and resources…if you live in MD/DC/VA/PA Tots2Tweens is the place to find it. She spends a lot of time on Pinterest and Facebook sharing her finds with our followers. Tara also volunteers her time as the Administrative Coordinator for the charitable photographer's network, Shoots for a Cure.You can read more about Tara's crazy life on her blog i heart my crazy life or follow her on twitter: @heartmycrzylife.
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While a whole ton of late '90s PC games have been updated and rereleased through services like GOG.com and Steam in recent years, one which I haven't had the opportunity to play for a long time is Maxis' SimCopter.
A fascinating new angle on Will Wright's SimCity, SimCopter allowed you to take to the skies above either some predefined cities or your own SimCity 2000 maps and take part in a variety of missions ranging from yelling at speeding motorists to dealing with the aftermath of the notorious and iconic SimCity Disasters. Or indeed, tracking down the secret Apache helicopter, setting half the city on fire and then dealing with the carnage you created yourself in exchange for a fat paycheck.
I absolutely adored SimCopter as a kid — and not just because it had Ride of the Valkyries on the soundtrack — but the fact I 1) can't find my original boxed copy and 2) probably wouldn't be able to get it running on my current PC anyway makes me sad. Which is why I was so excited to discover Syscom's City Crisis for PlayStation 2.
Okay, City Crisis isn't quite the same as SimCopter in that it's less open and freeform than Maxis' delightfully janky flawed masterpiece, but it's still a noteworthy and enjoyable game in its own right, and it scratches a number of the same itches.
In City Crisis, you take on the role of a helicopter pilot for the emergency services, and your job is to either rescue people from fires or help the police catch criminals, depending on the mission.
The former type of mission is the most involved, requiring you to fly around a small but wide open city map, looking for people who need rescuing and responding to emergencies as they crop up. Generally speaking, a level will have a series of pre-scripted "accidents", as it calls them, and successfully dealing with all of these causes the level to end, at which point you receive a score according to your overall performance.
Dealing with an incident involves two main steps: rescuing people and putting out fires. The former involves lowering a dude on a harness from your helicopter and carefully maneuvering him over the top of the person who needs rescuing, then winching them both up, while the latter involves using either your limited "water missiles" to lock on to fires and deal with them quickly, or your recharging water cannon to deal with them in a more sustainable fashion.
Civilians caught in a disaster zone will gradually lose health until they die, at which point you can't rescue them because what's the point? The living need you more than the dead! But it's in your interests to save as many people as possible, because each person you rescue awards you with additional water missiles, which make getting the fires under control significantly easier.
Scattered around each map are a series of additional injured civilians who can be rescued for bonus points, though if you decide to pursue these while another incident is taking place, you'll probably find the people you were supposed to be rescuing will have keeled over dead by the time you get to them. Collecting everyone on a map is a case of learning where they all are, rescuing the high-priority victims then collecting as many of the extra patients as you can without running out of time.
Oh yes, there's a time limit to all this, too, giving the game a rather arcadey feel. When you first start playing, the time limit doesn't feel all that tight and gets further extended when you successfully resolve a disaster zone, but you'll find yourself with far less time than you need if you decide to pursue all the extra civilians.
It's actually a little questionable as to whether or not it's worth your while to do so, though, because unlocking subsequent missions is dependent on achieving high scores, and by far the best way of getting an impressive score is to finish the mission with as much time remaining as possible by the end.
In practice, then, it pays to completely ignore all the random people who have apparently tripped over paving slabs or who are feeling a bit peaky outside the amusement park, and instead focus on resolving the main disasters as quickly as possible. I guess if you're chasing the absolute highest scores possible, you'll want to complete the main mission as quickly as you can while plotting a route that allows you to pick up as many randos as possible along the way, but certainly when you first start playing the scoring system feels a little unbalanced in favour of speedrunners.
By contrast, the criminal-chasing missions unfold rather differently. Here, you're tasked with keeping your spotlight on a criminal vehicle for as long as possible until the police can trap it. In these missions, you have until the criminal escapes the map to finish, though you can sort of cheat a bit by blocking off a street through landing your helicopter in it as the police round the corner at the other end. Justice apparently has no scruples nor any real concern for public safety.
Scoring is a little easier to understand in these missions since there's nothing to distract you. You receive more and more points per "tick" the longer you keep your spotlight on the target car without breaking line of sight, and a decent bonus at the end of the mission if you help ensure the arrest happens quickly and efficiently.
City Crisis is noteworthy for being a type of game we don't see a lot of any more, whereas "helicopter games" were pretty widespread in the PlayStation 2 era, both in the form of full-size civilian and military helicopter quasi-simulations, and games such as Radio Helicopter that attempt to simulate the experience of piloting a remote-control aircraft.
Not only that, from a historical perspective, it's interesting in that it's one of the earliest examples of a console game to license Criterion's immensely popular RenderWare engine, a toolset widely used in its various iterations throughout the sixth generation of games consoles and PC games developed around the same time — and an engine that was behind powerhouses of mainstream gaming such as the Burnout and Grand Theft Auto series in the PS2 era.
Ultimately City Crisis is a fairly straightforward and simplistic and tightly structured game rather than the freeform playground that was SimCopter… but damn, if it isn't the closest thing I have to Maxis' classic that still works today, and that makes me want to love and cherish it forever.
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Positive Knowledge: First Ones
"Unexplained Reality/Events at the Edge opens with Ijeoma and the two horns improvising with Spirit's playful understated clatter. As Thomas commences her recitation, the horns heat up, all members feeding the momentum of passion. Shifting percussion under her solo voice leads to a bass clarinet/tenor duet that ends it. Levin goes from kalimba to bass clarinet opposite Oluyemi on soprano for "Message of the Stones. Ijeoma soars with the horns, her meanings soaring higher. Levin and Oluyemi play birdsong chatter with her swooping vocals, ultimately resolving as a percussion piece. Percussion, kalimba, and whistles greet Ijeoma on the title track, her stirring wordless vocal and inspired meditation on origins fleshing it out.
Various percussives open Mystic Dialogues, then the two bass clarinets circle, echo, and dialogue. With Levin on tenor and Thomas on C-melody saxophone, sparks fly on "SUMOTUWE. Ijeoma jumps in with "Sing sister, tell it in black and shredding vocalese. Spirit gets his own performance on "In the Center of Boom, while "Expression for Peace gives Levin a soulful solo tenor spot. "Crises to Victory begins spinning through the speakers, little instruments setting the stage for Oluyemi's thoughtful soprano. Ijeoma improvises a duet with atmospheric percussion from Spirit. Levin brings his tenor for a four-way composition, ending the piece with Spirit. Light percussion preludes Oluyemi's soprano tour de force on "Sea of Joy, while Levin and Thomas blister each other on "Prayerful Devotion, Ijeoma providing a serene space on kalimba.
Exponents of universalism and extended creativity, the artists of Positive Knowledge withhold nothing, playing music drenched in soul brilliance and joy.
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Unexplained Reality/Events at the Edge; Message of the Stones; First Ones; Mystic Dialogues; SUMOTUWE (after Betty Carter); In the Center of Boom; Expression for Peace; Crises to Victory; Sea of Joy (for Dr. Elise Austin); Prayerful Devotion (for the Children and Elders).
Oluyemi Thomas: bass clarinet, C-melody saxophone, soprano saxophone, musette, flute, gong, talking drum, percussion; Ijeoma Thomas: poetic vocals, gong, percussion; Spirit: drums, percussion, talking drum; Ike Levin: tenor sax, bass clarinet, percussion.
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First formed in 1989, the Mavericks have developed a formidable and devoted fan base. And even though the group has endured more transitional periods than should be allowed, including a hiatus that ran from 2004 to 2012, the highly ambitious tour in support of their latest release, 2015's Mono, thankfully seems to have no end in sight and features an extended West Coast run of dates.
"During [Mono's] writing process, I found myself wanting certain things," says bandleader Raul Malo. "When you hear Cuban or world music of any kind, you may have no idea what the singer is saying, but you can feel it. That was what I wanted: to evoke a feeling."
On Mono's standout songs like "Stories We Could Tell" and "The Only Question Is," the group excels at several different music styles including (but not limited to) country, Americana, blues and swing, without sounding dated or derivative.
This weekend, the Mavericks play Earle Fest alongside Lucinda Williams, the Paladins, Girls + Boys and others. The annual event supports Santa Rosa's Earle Baum Center, which serves to heighten awareness of the visually impaired and blind through numerous services.
Earle Fest happens Saturday, Sept. 17, at the SOMO Village Event Center, 1100 Valley House Drive, Rohnert Park. 2pm. $55 advance. All ages. 707.664.6314.


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I haven't made an awful lot of videos for this season, but I still do have a whole bunch of footage. I think I'll edit and upload them, just so I can have more matches to compare to and share some more of my progress. Back To Selection
*SMITE* S2 featured a clearer, lighter UI to make it look less depressing more professional. My skills improved a little compared to S1 and I made a lot of videos featuring other co-players. Back To Selection
*Eryi's Action* (PC)
Eryi's Action is a 2D 'trapformer' by developer Xtal Sword that is visually inspired by Super Mario, but has gameplay akin to games like I Wanna Be the Guy. Don't be fooled by its adorably charming looks — this game abounds in traps and wants you to die! However, where IWBTG was murderously difficult, Eryi's […]
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Oh no! Donkey and Diddy Kong have disappeared during their fishing trip to the Norther Kremisphere, a previously unseen part of the DK Isles! So it is now up to kitteh–err, excuse me – Dixie and Slim–uhm, I mean – Kiddy to go and save their monkey butts! Will there be more of those awful, […]
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Pixel Piracy is a side-scrolling 2d, real time strategy/sandbox/simulation game, in which the player controls the crew of a pirate ship. He must sail over a number of sea zones, each with procedurally generated events in a roguelike fashion, while facing against pirates and other hostile forces; recruiting new crew members, keeping discipline, outfitting, upgrading […]
These are matches from when I just had started out with *SMITE*. The UI and pretty much everything else used to look way different from how it does now and my skills were also pretty cringe-inducing. If you'd like to watch these for nostalgia's sake or simply to see how bad I used to be, […]
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Platforms: PC, Smartphone Genres: Strategy Modes: Single Player Release Date: 2010 – 2012 Developer: SpryFox LLC Publisher: SpryFox LLC Triple Town is an award-winning original puzzle game in which you try to grow the greatest possible city. The larger the city you build, the more points you score. You build your city by matching three […]
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Platforms: 3DS, PC, PS4 Genres: Simulation, Strategy Modes: Single Player Release Date: August 16th 2013 Developer: Petit Depotto Publisher: AGM PLAYISM The Devil has converted a tenement building into monsters-only housing in Unholy Heights, a mashup of Tower Defense and Apartment Management Simulation. Sucker monsters into moving into your building, charge them rent and keep […]
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MetaWeather Brings Weather Together
UK-based MetaWeather is a new weather aggregation tool - it brings together weather forecasts from multiple sources (Weather.com and the BBC appear to be the major ones) and calculates the most likely outcome. The site then provides a "predictability" rating based on how much the sources agree. MetaWeather also provides tools to graph temperatures, windspeed, humidity, air pressure and visibility. You can subscribe to any location via RSS or Atom and build related services on top of the REST-based API. The service was created by a two-man team - Jason Cartwright and Luke Guttridge of Ferrago.
The number of locations is limited right now (apart from the UK, which is well represented), but it's a neat little tool that's fun to use. Obviously there's no defensibility with this kind of model, but I get the sense that MetaWeather is a fun side project, rather than a business venture.


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What students, faculty, and staff do on a daily basis to conserve energy on campus can make a significant impact. The Energy Conservation Incentive Program (ECIP) recognizes these outstanding departmental and unit efforts by awarding funding for future building upgrades to the eight facilities recording the greatest percentage of energy reduction from one fiscal year to the next.
On Campus Sustainability Day, the ECIP will award approximately $200K for building improvements. The 2015 ECIP awards will be presented on Wednesday, October 21 at 4:30 p.m. in the National Soybean Research Center (1101 West Peabody Drive - Room 149) to representatives from the following facilities:
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They toted fishing poles and tackle boxes. Some fashionably announced their experience by wearing broad-brimmed slouch hats that bespoke "fisherman."
They were 8- to 14-year-olds, 18 of them in all, who yearned to learn more about fishing at a five-day camp this week sponsored by the Hernando County Parks and Recreation Department, with help from Cooperative Extension Service specialists.
At Monday's two-hour orientation presentation from Chuck Cichra, fisheries biologist from the University of Florida, the youths were so enthralled they didn't even fidget.
Cichra engaged his listeners with handouts of slimy algae, floating water lettuce and duck weed plants, and anchored cattail specimens. He described how plants provide oxygen to the water, homes for tiny crustaceans that fish consume and shade. Plants are also places to hidefrom predators, as well as spots for larger fish to catch smaller ones.
"The more you know about water, plants and fish, the better the fishing," Cichra said as he elaborated on the aquatic food chain.
Hernando Extension director Stacy Strickland tackled technicalities such as line trimming, hook tying and baiting.
"Do you know how to bait hook a worm?" Strickland asked the group. While a chorus of yeses broke out, 8-year-old Matt Platt of Weeki Wachee, one of the affirmatives, declared, "My sister can't. She's a wimp."
Nearby, sister Ashley Platt, 11, admitted, "I use a rubber worm."
Ashley persisted with "ick" when Strickland showed off a preserved coral snake as she lectured on the need to look out for a variety of poisonous snakes in central Florida. The coral snake can be quickly identified by it's black head, Strickland continued, adding, "Black head, you're dead."
Cichra displayed a variety of live baits, extolling the tastiness of each for different varieties of fish.
Then it was off to Cody Lake at the Heather community. With sunfish, bluegills, catfish and bass in the water, Strickland advised baiting with live worms. "Slide it on your hook like putting on a sock," he demonstrated.
Matt Platt's worm squiggled and twisted, denying the youngster's administration. "I haven't done this for a long time," explained the 8-year-old.
"You can use half a worm," suggested Harry Johnson, camp coordinator for Parks and Recreation.
Just the thought of tearing a worm in half elicited a grimace from 10-year-old Abby Pons of Brooksville.
While Pons had only fished once before, other day-campers reported much more experience. Ben Southall of Brooksville, 9, said his dad started him fishing at age 2. Likewise, said Austin Tincher, 12, of Floral City. Justin Hypes of Brooksville, 10, said he's fished "all my life."
With lines expertly cast, 12-year-old Ryan Starry of Brooksville landed the first catch, a sunfish.
Southall immediately put what he had learned from Cichra to use by throwing a long line. "I saw a wake over there, so I just cast over there." He reeled in a bluegill. "Nice one," he enthused. "Look at that." He posed for a photo.
Other tidbits the youths said they learned during the first day of camp that they hadn't known previously:
"How to tie a hook," said Tincher. "I always just tied five knots before."
"Crawdads have 10 legs," offered Hypes.
"Different baits," added Starry. He enumerated that bass don't like shrimp, while catfish prefer live or rubber worms.
Most knew about catch and release, order of the day at Cody Lake. Strickland advised needle-nose pliers for the inexperienced to extricate the sharp hooks.
Other fishing excursions this week included visits to Mary's Fish Camp near Weeki Wachee, Weeki Wachee Preserve off Osawaw Boulevard, Cemax phosphorus pits near Brooksville and Fort DeSoto Park in St. Petersburg.
Information and registrations for other day camps this summer are available by calling Parks and Recreation at 352-754-4031.
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🌟🚂 This year's Lighted Holiday Parade Theme is The Polar Express!
Parade applications will be available at the Rock Springs Chamber on November, 1 2018. A completed entry form and entry fee of $35 is due at the Rock Springs Chamber of Commerce no later than November 30, 2018 at noon.
The Holiday Lighted Parade will travel through Historic Downtown Rock Springs starting on the corner of "C" Street and Broadway. The floats will travel down South Main, then turn right on to "E" street, left on to Broadway and then under the underpass and on to "M" Street. From "M" street the floats will make a left on to Pilot Butte, a left turn on to "K" Street, followed by a right turn on to North Front, after traveling down North Front the parade will end at the corner of Elk Street and North Front.


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You've heard it before, but it's worth repeating. "Variety is the spice of life." However, it should also be said that spices provide a variety of potential benefits for the recoverers of MS. Among the spices having beneficial qualities are shallot, tumeric, ginger, garlic, cinnamon, cardamom, and berbere. If you don't use these spices, start doing so. The use of these will pay huge dividends. See references below.
.1. Nutrition. 2006 Mar;22(3):266-74.
Quantitative evaluation of the antioxidant properties of garlic and shallot preparations.
Leelarungrayub N, Rattanapanone V, Chanarat N, Gebicki JM.
2. Am J Chin Med. 2011;39(2):215-31.
Physiological and therapeutical roles of ginger and turmeric on endocrine functions.
Al-Suhaimi EA, Al-Riziza NA, Al-Essa RA.
3. Phytother Res. 2005 May;19(5):437-40.
Cardamom extract as inhibitor of human platelet aggregation.
Suneetha WJ, Krishnakantha TP.
4. World J Gastroenterol. 2011 Feb 28;17(8):976-86.
Cinnamon extract suppresses experimental colitis through modulation of antigen-presenting cells.
Kwon HK, Hwang JS, Lee CG, So JS, Sahoo A, Im CR, Jeon WK, Ko BS, Lee SH, Park ZY, Im SH.
5. Int J Food Sci Nutr. 2011 May 20. [Epub ahead of print]
In vitro antioxidant and hypoglycemic activities of Ethiopian spice blend Berbere.
Loizzo MR, Di Lecce G, Boselli E, Bonesi M, Menichini F, Menichini F, Frega NG.
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Welcome to Heroic Tavern Brawl, where Standard gets the Arena treatment and may the best regular competitive player win. AKA Beta Tournament Mode with a one thousand golderino buy-in
For my own reference as much as anyone else's, expected rewards:
35% win rate: 23.5% chance for 3+ wins (step up in rewards), 5.6% chance for 5+ wins (break-even), .2% chance for 9+ wins (big boy rewards).
40% win rate: 31.7% chance for 3+ wins, 9.6% chance for 5+ wins, .6% chance for 9+ wins.
45% win rate: 40.7% chance for 3+ wins, 15.3% chance for 5+ wins, 1.5% chance for 9+ wins.
50% win rate: 50.0% chance for 3+ wins, 22.7% chance for 5+ wins, 3.3% chance for 9+ wins.
55% win rate: 59.3% chance for 3+ wins, 31.6% chance for 5+ wins, 6.5% chance for 9+ wins.
60% win rate: 68.3% chance for 3+ wins, 42.0% chance for 5+ wins, 11.9% chance for 9+ wins.
*approximate win rate needed for even odds at beating the house: 63.5884%
65% win rate: 76.5% chance for 3+ wins, 53.2% chance for 5+ wins, 20.0% chance for 9+ wins.
70% win rate: 83.7% chance for 3+ wins, 64.7% chance for 5+ wins, 31.3% chance for 9+ wins.
<35% win rate: lol
>70% win rate: stop your fuckin lyin
One 9-win run will pay for roughly 2.4 runs. One 10-win will pay for four. One 11-win run will pay for 5.76 runs. One 12-win run is wurf it if you can do it once out of twelve tries. (Some digging on reddit found me an official comment that says the current limit is five attempts max.)
According to more reddit digging because it's math I don't care about, the average run will net a player ~700 dust (gold), which means an average run roughly breaks even on value if paying the entry fee in $$$real money$$$ but loses ~300g in gold.
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