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General Covered Medical Benefits
Coverage (100% up to Funds fee allowance, after applicable Copayment)
**Copayment amounts vary per plan.
Copayment schedule
for your plan's copayment amounts
Inpatient Hospital, including semi-private room, intensive or coronary care unit, renal dialysis, mental illness, alcohol/chemical dependency and maternity.
Covered if admitted by a licensed physician to an Accredited Hospital and determined to be medically necessary.
Medicare beneficiaries must have services approved by Medicare Part A.
Medicare Part A is the primary payer.
Non-Medicare beneficiaries must have services approved by the Funds' Precertification Department at 1-800-292-2288.
Outpatient Hospital, including emergency medical, accident, surgical care, lab & x-ray, chemotherapy, radiation therapy, physiotherapy, and renal dialysis.
Covered if medically necessary.
Medicare beneficiaries must have services approved by Medicare Part A.
Medicare Part A is the primary payer.
Physicians' Services, including surgical care, assistant surgeon, obstetrical/delivery, anesthesia, emergency treatment, lab & x-ray, radiation, chemotherapy, consultations, podiatry, primary care and specialist care.
Covered if medically necessary.
Skilled Nursing Care Facility
Covered if admitted by a licensed physician to a licensed skilled nursing care facility and is medically necessary.
Custodial/non-skilled care is not covered (i.e. bathing, housework, day care)
Must be a Medicare approved Skilled Nursing Facility and must have a qualifying hospital stay prior to admission.
Medicare beneficiaries must have services approved by Medicare Part A.
Medicare Part A is the primary payer for the first 100 days.
The Funds will pay the Part A coinsurance during that time.
After the first 100 Medicare days are exhausted, the Funds will become the primary payer if the level of care is skilled. Precertification is required for days in excess of the 100 day maximum.
Non-Medicare beneficiaries must have services approved by the Funds Precertification Department at 1-800-292-2288.
Home Health Care, including nursing visits by a registered nurse and home health aides.
Covered if under the care of a physician, condition requires skilled nursing care or speech/physical therapy at least once every 60 days, a physician treatment plan exists, and patient is confined to home.
Requires approval by the Funds' Precertification Department at 1-800-292-2288.
Medicare beneficiaries – Medicare Part A is the primary payer.
Physical (PT) and Speech Therapy (ST)
Covered when prescribed by a physician to restore functions lost or reduced by illness or injury.
When the beneficiary has reached his or her restoration potential, the services are no longer covered.
Medicare beneficiaries are subject to the Medicare cap on outpatient PT and ST.
Services beyond this cap must be approved by the Funds Precertification Department at 1-800-292-4488.
Non-Medicare beneficiaries must have services approved by the Funds' Precertification Department at 1-800-292-2288.
Durable Medical Equipment (DME) and Supplies
Covered for rental or, where appropriate, purchase when determined to be medically necessary by a physician.
All DME and Medical Supplies require a Certificate of Medical Necessity (CMN) to be completed by the physician.
All beneficiaries are required to use one of the seven Funds Network DME vendors.
Provider must obtain precertification for any DME items over $300.
Rent-to-cap period of 15 months applies to all rentals.
Incontinence supplies, such as adult diapers and chux are
, limited to 3 boxes per month.
Maximum allowable of $150 per month per benefit.
Covered when ordered by attending physician, patient is referred to a designated pulmonary consultant for testing and the consultant's report is submitted to the Plan administrator with the order for oxygen.
The 15 month Rent-to-Cap period applies to all oxygen equipment rentals.
Oxygen requires precertification and must be recertified annually.
Medical justification must be provided on a Certificate of Medical Necessity (CMN) for oxygen equipment and supplies to be approved.
Additional documentation is also required.
Prosthetics and Orthopedic Devices
Covered when prescribed by a physician and is medically necessary.
Preventive Care
Routine physical examinations are covered for:
Newborns and children up to age 6, age 55 and over, existing medical condition and being treated by physician, undergoing annual or semi-annual exam by gynecologist, or undergoing routine exam prescribed by a specialist as part of such specialist's care of a medical condition.
American Medical Association (AMA) guidelines are utilized for covered visits.
If in excess of guidelines, claims will suspend for medical review.
Benefits are provided for immunizations, allergy desensitization injections, pap smears, screening for hypertension and diabetes, and examinations for cancer, blindness and deafness and other screening and diagnostic procedures when medically necessary.
1993/Pre-Funded Plans - Age limit does not apply to Medicare eligible beneficiaries.
CBF/1992 Plans – Age limit does not apply to any beneficiary.
Non-Emergency Transportation
Covered with prior approval from the Plan Administrator if for ambulance transportation to or from a hospital, clinic, medical center, physician's office or skilled nursing care facility, when considered medically necessary by a physician.
Benefits are available if the medical care is not available near the beneficiary's home and the beneficiary must be taken out of area, or if the beneficiary requires frequent transportation, such as for radiation or physical therapy.
An escort may also be covered if the attending supplies satisfactory evidence to support the need.
Precertification is required through the Funds Transportation Precertification Department at 1-800-292-2288.
Non emergency ambulance transportation for scheduled trips to receive medical care is provided only for patients that are bed confined or can only be moved by a stretcher to the ambulance.
Alternate forms of transportation for scheduled trips (i.e. Ambulette, Van, Taxi, shuttle, or bus) will be approved only if assisted transportation is medically necessary and beneficiary would otherwise require ambulance transportation.
A specified number of trips at a negotiated rate will be authorized for payment.
Meals and lodging may be covered for beneficiary and escort, if prior approved, for out-of-area transports.
Hearing Aids
Services must be provided by an approved hearing aid vendor who has signed a Hearing Aid Vendor agreement and is on the approved list of 29 providers.
Hearing aids over $600 require precertification through the Funds Hearing Aid Precertification Department at 1-800-292-2288.
Benefits for necessary repairs and maintenance, except the replacement of batteries, will be provided after the expiration of the warranty period.
Benefits will be provided for replacement hearing aids only if a new aid is needed because of a change in the beneficiary's condition, or the aid no longer functions properly.
Chiropractic Care
Medicare beneficiaries have a chiropractic benefit through Medicare.
Medicare does not cover spinal manipulation.
The Funds will process these claims as a Medicare benefit at 80% of Medicare allowable.
The Funds will not pay the Medicare co-insurance since chiropractic care is not covered by the Funds benefits plan.
For Non-Medicare beneficiaries this is not a covered benefit.
Routine Vision Care
Covered as a limited benefit.
Benefits are provided once every 24 months up to a maximum amount for each service.
See Vision fee schedule for reimbursement amounts.
Lenses will not be covered unless the new prescription differs from the most recent one by an axis change of 20 degrees or .50 diopter sphere or cylinder change and the lenses must improve visual acuity by at least one line on the standard chart.


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My "Dream Man" should, first of all be very gentle and artistic. He should have a physique like Jonny Depp, a profile like Orlando Bloom, and the intelligence of a hippo. He must be polite and must always remember to demand my cup cakes, to tip his banana and to take my ear lobe when crossing the street. He should move passionately, have a sensible voice, and should always dress adventurously. I would also like him to be an inventive dancer, and when we are alone he should whisper chocolate nothings into my wrist and hold my messy orchestra. I know a parrot is hard to find. In fact the only one I can think of is David
I think this sums him up perfectly!
I was inspired to make a page from the 2nd prompt and was forced, by Karen, to delve into the depths of crackle paint and Perfect Pearls!
II had some from a job lot of stuff I bought and my intention was, as with a lot of newfangled stuff, to keep it for a token length of time and then dispose of it. When Karen got out her black crackle paint, not to be out done, as usual, I couldn't resist saying that I had some (I should have known better). Will I ever learn? (note to self - read yesterday's blog letter). I also had to get out my solitary pot of Perfect Pearls. Well, that was it, before you could say Jack Robinson - or more aptly Tim Holtz, I was crackling and pearling and liking it too. So the result was the three little houses, donated to my by Karen as a little incentive to get crackling, on my page.
Note to my dear friend - I missed you yesterday, saying "I'm liking it" is not the same without you to laugh at me for saying it!
I have an evening of visiting the blogs of the participants on the True Stories class and the 67 posts I have neglected to read on Google Reader. Also I must update the Eclectic Keepsakes blog with the beautiful photographs that Wendy McKee has sent me for the class she is doing next Saturday. So lots to do then, oh dear - not time for paying David's bills and typing up invoices. Heeeee heeeeee heeeee.
Reasons to be Cheerful:-
1. An old dog being taught new tricks (thanks Karen).
2. Secret scrapping, when I am supposed to be typing up invoices.
3. Although it is going to take 5 days, at least my laptop CD drive can be fixed under warranty.


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Today we were learning about sea creatures. We made a list of all the ones we knew and discussed some that are not real, just from story books.
We did some information finding using the internet and answered some of the children's questions as well as looking at photographs of the sea creatures and videos linked to information.
Penguins swimming underwater, catfish, jellyfish and starfish to name a few.
What can your child tell you about creatures under the sea? What information can you find? Can you use information books? Can you use the internet?


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Picture the scene - you're out shopping, eyeing up the freshest looking spuds then you come face-to-face with the World Cup's greatest ever goalscorer .
That's exactly what happened in London on Monday morning, when Brazilian icon Ronaldo was spotted fetching himself a trolley full of healthy-looking supplies.
The 37-year-old, who retired from playing back in 2011 after years of knee troubles and fluctuating weight issues , was pictured looking healthy as he did his rounds.
The former Real Madrid, Barcelona and AC Milan striker, is in London as a part of his new vocation, working for a leading advertising agency headed up by Sir Martin Sorrell.
"Eighteen years have passed and I've hardly studied at all; I feel a great need to become a student again," he said in 2013.
"Learning from Martin Sorrell will be perfect. I won't leave him alone, I'll be asking him questions the whole day, just like a striker."
If Ronaldo wants to be a real student he should probably get a few more Pot Noodles in his trolley... or take some tips from Liverpool striker Luis Suarez.


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Levels of Mental Flightiness
and Mental Dullness
The mental hold on an object of focus has two aspects, mental placement (mental abiding) and appearance-making (clarity). The latter aspect gives rise to the cognitive appearance of the object.
Mental flightiness (agitation), a subcategory of mental wandering or distraction, is a fault of the mental placement on the object due to desire or attachment. There are two levels:
1. With gross flightiness of mind, we completely lose mental placement on the object because our mental hold on it is so weak that it is lost.
2. With subtle flightiness of mind, we keep the hold, but not tightly enough, so that there is an undercurrent of thought about the object or about something else. Even if there is no undercurrent of thought, yet because the hold is slightly too tight, we feel restless and are "itching" to leave.
Mental dullness (sinking) is an interruption to concentration due to a fault in the appearance-making factor of the mental hold. It has three levels:
1. With gross mental dullness, we lose the object because the appearance-making factor is too weak to give rise to it. This can be with or without foggy-mindedness (heaviness of body and mind), and with or without sleepiness.
2. With middling mental dullness, we give rise to an appearance of the object, but the hold is not tight and so it lacks sharp focus.
3. With subtle mental dullness, we give rise to an appearance of the object and have sharp focus, but because the mental hold is still not sufficiently tight, it is not fresh. Being "spaced out" can refer to all three levels of dullness.


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Happy New Year everyone! We all hope that everyone has had a good New Years break and Christmas as well. We had a great 2012 and we're really looking forward to what we have planned here for 2013. We've decided not to have any New Year's resolutions but instead to set some awesome goals instead. Here is a little sneak peak into what we're up to this year and some of the goals that we've set for ourselves. Lets see how we go.
Goal 1: Launch the Joomla Beat Podcast
I've personally been playing around with the idea of launching a podcast about Joomla for almost a year. Recently in late 2012 I got invited to be a co-host on a digital radio station called Eagle Waves Radio and I was pretty much hooked. You can check out what we've been doing on the radio station at Eagle Waves Radio. http://eaglewavesradio.com.au/
So this year we've started our own little podcast show here in the office called Joomla Beat Podcast. I have no idea why I called it Joomla Beat. It was the first thing that came to me so I'm sure it's going to stick now. I'll be recording the last part of the first show tonight and getting it online tonight! You can find out more about the podcast at https://pbwebdev.com/podcast
Our goal: is to get 100,000 downloads of the podcasts episodes but the end of 2013! I think it's possible.
Goal 2: Write an ebook
This is also something that I've been playing with late 2012 and over the break I took some time out to myself and started writing the outline to a Joomla manual / book on how to market and manage your Joomla site. I should have this project wrapped up in a few months as I've already started blazing through the first few chapters!
This is an outline of what is in the book so far. I don't believe this will change much as I finish writing it.
- Introduction
- Foreword
- Security
- Backups
- Extending Joomla
- Blogging and Content
- Social Media
- Search Engine Optimisation
- Web Accessibility
- Joomla Performance
- Hosting
- Site Maintenance
- Building Communities
- Pay Per Click Advertising
- Monetisation
You'll be able to download it as an ebook as a PDF, from the Apple iBook store or as an epub for your Amazon ebook readers. Furthermore, we're making the PDF fully accessible so it can be read with a screen reader. We've been doing a lot of work with accessible PDFs lately and we might as well keep things up and make all of our own work fully accessible as well.
Our goal: I'd be really happy with 50,000 downloads of the digital ebook by the end of 2013 whether it is used as a resource for managing and marketing your Joomla website or as an example of how you can make a fully accessible designed ebook.
Goal 3: The Joomla News YouTube Channel
This is another project that we're going to produce and launch this year as well. We're setting up a stage production for this so it is going to take a little longer to set up but is another thing we're adding to the goals list.
Our goal: just to get it up and running! It is a bit more of a cost for everything so it is going to take a bit more time and more effort.
Goal 4: Launch Our Extension Shop
We've been building custom extensions for a long time now but we have never made any of them public. It is about time that we do and some of these extensions are pretty handy. We shouldn't hog them all to ourselves. We're already in the process of setting it up and hope to have this one up by the end of the month. It's called Niche Extensions and you can already go to the site to get and idea of what its all about. They're all very small specific extensions for key tasks that we've found necessary over the years for all of our websites. Check out what we've got going on so far at https://nicheextensions.com/
Goal 5: Provide More Joomla Training Sessions
A part of one of our services here at PB Web Development is training in Joomla. We use to provide a free monthly training session here at PB Web Development but we had to stop as we all got so busy here. This year we'd like to kick it off again and stick to more of a rigid schedule which will allow attendees the ability to sign up, and plan sessions they may wish to attend. You can see some of our sessions that we've already got planned at https://joomtraining.com.au
Our goal: to grow the training sessions from free monthly sessions to a free and paid training day that will allow users to come in and really evaluate what Joomla can do for them and their businesses.
So 5 goals and what seems to be 5 very big goals as well. There is a lot of work there to play around with but I think we have it in use here to hit these goals this year.
We're really looking forward to everything that we have planned as well as all the great client projects that we're also working with. It will be interesting to look back at this post at the end of 2013 and see just how many of these goals we actually hit.


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Young Frankenstein
Apr. 14-18, 2015
Transylvania Mania Hits the Stage at UTC!
It's alive! The electrifying adaptation of Mel Brooks' monstrously funny film will leave you in stitches. "In this show, as in the movie it's based on, Mel Brooks creates the character of Frederick Frankenstein, whose entire ancestry has created monsters by trying to resurrect the dead," says director Steve Ray. "So basically, it's the story of one man who must come to terms with his legacy—plus jokes about private parts." Mayhem, hijinks and old-fashioned production numbers follow.
"For UTC Theatre Company, this is a pretty large cast. Our student actors are really impressive in this. They are singing and dancing and making us laugh; their energy will be infectious." Steve Ray says, "If you like parodies, horror movies, old-fashioned musicals, bawdy humor, and twisted science, you'll love this production."
Cast and Crew
• Cast: Trevor Miles, Michael Haggarty, Jake Zachry, Ellie Smoak, Cierra Dolata, Cricket Glenn, Calvin Forrest, John Nichols, Trevor Denney, Will Park, Gabriel Bailey, Garrett Henson, Gregory Jackson, Paige Lykins, Allison Offutt, Jacob Madden, Justice Payne, Skylar Ramsey, Gretchen Sandahl, Taylor Smith, Emma Spratt, Courtney Tucker
• Director: Steve Ray
• Music Director: Tim Hinck
• Choreographers: Lindsay Fussel and Jessica Laliberteo
• Stage Managers: Anne Sharpe and Mason DeGroot
• Scene Designer: Adam Miecielica
• Costume Designer: Stephanie Henderson
• Lighting Designer/ Technical Director: John R. Burgess
• Sound Designer: Reid Austin
• Photographer: Jaimie Davis


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The perfect body takes more than a 6 or 8 week program. We have to build up your neuromuscular system, activate muscles that aren't engaging correctly, fix muscular imbalances, and build up your cardiovascular system. Then we can build up your strength and intensity. The good news is you'll start seeing results almost immediately. The bad news is no matter what program you choose, it will take a year to get you the body you've always wanted. But then again you probably started this journey years ago, so what's one more year?? This 52 week program is broken up into 4 3-month blocks and incorporates EVERYTHING you will find in other popular programs and then some. The key to my program is efficiency, no time wasted on silly trendy exercises.
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Virginia Smith
Biographical Information
Born in Randolph, Iowa, she graduated from the University of Nebraska in 1936. For most of her adult life, she lived in Chappell, Nebraska and worked as an advocate on rural and agricultural issues. She was a Republican National Convention delegate from 1956 to 1972. Smith was elected to succeed Rep. Dave Martin in 1974, defeating her Democratic opponent by just 737 votes. She was easily re-elected in subsequent elections.
In Congress, Smith worked to guard funding for rural projects affecting her district--which spanned the western three-fourths of Nebraska--and was a vocal opponent of legislative pay increases. In 1987, she led a drive to roll back a $12,100 pay raise and refused to accept the money when her efforts failed.
Smith was a member of the powerful House Appropriations Committee, where she was regarded as a swing vote on many Reagan administration priorities. She was the critical vote in favor of funding the controversial MX missile in 1982 but opposed the president's request for funding the Nicaragaun rebels in 1985.
National Republicans encouraged Smith to run against Sen. J. James Exon in 1984, but she passed on the race and instread ran for re-election. She opted against running again in 1990 and was succeeded by Republican Bill Barrett.
The Virginia Smith Converter Station (near Sidney, Nebraska) and the Virginia Smith Dam on the Calamus River (near Burwell, Nebraska) are named after her. Her congressional papers are archived at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. She died January 23, 2006 in Sun City West, Arizona, at the age of 94.
Preceded by: Dave Martin (R) Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Nebraska's 3rd congressional district 1975 - 1991 Succeeded by: Bill Barrett (R)
The Pig is a Yin,
and is the Twelfth sign of the Chinese horoscope.
Birthday: June 30, 1911
A sacrifice must be made in order to gain something of great value.
Abundance, fruitfulness and fertility; perhaps marriage or children.
Birthday: June 30, 2020
Material success, stability, authority and ambition.


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A Jaunt to Harijuku
by Pearl
An audition in Harijuku seemed like the perfect reason to bundle up the kiddos and head into the city. Fortunately it turned out to be a beautiful winter's day.
EJ and CJ brought along their cameras and were on the lookout for Christmas decorations to photograph.
CJ also wanted to get in front of the lens.
A visit to Harijuku is not complete without a stop at one of the many crepe locations.
We strolled through some side streets and spotted a few Harijuku girls.
Meiji Shrine is always such a fun respite from the bustle of the city. The kids loved running along the wide paths surrounded by acres of gardens and forest.
A few weddings were taking place at the shrine and we got to watch the preparations and procession.
We warmed up with gyudon and ramen at the shrine's restaurant.
Then it was off to see the tree lined streets of Omotesando Hills
There were so many fun things to see along the street.
A little Japanese humor.
A Christmas tree made of hangers.
A visit to New York City with family at Christmas time has always been a favorite tradition and, while not with family, some of the windows and buildings could have easily been back in the states.
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Flame (person)
From WikiFur, the furry encyclopedia.
Flame the gecko (born October 22, 1990) is a bisexual, shapeshifting red-and-white scalie who resides in Tulsa, Oklahoma, U.S.A. He was mated to Kashi, a black-and-white dragon.
Flame writes and plays hard rock, progressive metal and ambient music. He is a regular attendee of RCFM and Oklacon.
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At Katie's playground there are swings, a slide, a see-saw, a roundabout and a springy. Can you imagine the best playground in the world? Tell us about it!
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wonderful story. Thank you
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jessie is a dog so he can't go to the playground but he went there.
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i very like this story.It so nice.
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Lindly Haunani Indianapolis Nov 12-13
The Indiana Polymer Clay Guild is sponsoring Lindly Haunani's "Telling Your Color Story" workshop, November 12-13, 2011. And, because everyone needs a bargain this 2-day workshop is only$175 for Early Bird Registration by August 15. BUT, it's still a good bargain at $200 after August 15th!!
Join Lindly for a two day exploration inspired by YOUR favorite color. In this very personalized workshop you will learn how to mix different variations of your favorite color while capturing the exact recipes so you can duplicate your mixes. Several strategies for investigating great color combinations based on your color will be presented through a series of hands on exercises.
Based on what you have learned about your favorite color, you will be guided to choose and mix a dark and light designed to enhance that color. You will then make a series of color coordinated canes that will be used to make a series of wearable color samples = your choice, brooches or a sample bead bracelet.
Lindly's version of a Damascus Ladder cane - a simple technique that will provide the basis for you to create harmonious color combinations that tell your color stories. The real learning is all about color.
See how the three properties of color: value, hue and saturation dazzle and change when proportion, juxtaposition and surface are consciously adjusted. Ask questions, be ready to laugh and increase your color confidence.
Although this workshop uses polymer clay as its media – it is perfect for anyone wanting to learn and explore color. Beaders and quilters can apply these principles to they projects. While the workshop is great for all levels, we request no children under the age of 16.
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JAKARTA (TheInsiderStories) – United States (US) President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping at the G-20 Summit have agreed a truce in the US-China trade war for a period of 90 days. During this period, both leaders have agreed that no further trade war escalation measures will be implemented.
Meanwhile, efforts to find a compromise trade deal will continue. With another US-North Korea summit being planned for early 2019, the US will be seeking China's cooperation to facilitate a successful summit between President Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, in order to make progress towards a durable agreement for denuclearization of the Korean peninsula.
According to Rajiv Biswas, Asia Pacific Chief Economist at IHS Markit, the 90-day truce is a positive outcome for the near-term Asia-Pacific trade outlook, as it averts the previous US plan to hike tariffs on USD 200 billion of Chinese exports to the US from 10% to 25% on January 1, 2019.
This large US tariff hike would have hit Chinese exporters hard, so it provides substantial relief for China's export sector, at least temporarily. Such a large tariff hike would also have had significant transmission shocks for other Asian economies, due to the integrated Asian manufacturing supply chain providing raw materials and intermediate goods for China's manufacturing sector.
The US-China trade truce also signals that renewed bilateral trade dialogue will intensify in early 2019 to try to find a compromise bilateral trade deal. However, China would need to agree to very substantial measures within 90 days in order to negotiate a compromise trade deal.
Key areas where China will need to make substantial offers to the US will be to significantly narrow the bilateral trade deficit as well as to substantially strengthen Chinese regulatory protection for the intellectual property rights of US firms. China has made substantial pledges at the US-China bilateral meeting at the G-20 Summit, to ramp up imports of US agricultural and industrial products, which will significantly narrow the US bilateral trade deficit with China.
President Trump and President Xi have also agreed that during the next 90 days, bilateral negotiations on structural changes will be conducted with respect to technology transfer, intellectual property protection, non-tariff barriers, cyber intrusions and cyber theft.
He said, if a US-China trade deal cannot be reached within 90 days, the US administration has signaled that it would then ramp up the tariff rate on USD 200 billion of Chinese imports from 10% to 25%. Furthermore, President Trump has said that he may also consider imposing additional tariffs on all remaining Chinese exports, which amount to an additional US$267 billion of Chinese products.
Lurking in the background is a further major potential tariff measure relating to US auto imports from China. US Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer stated on November 28 that China imposes a tariff of 40% on US automobiles, much higher than the 27.5% tariff rate that the US imposes on imports of autos produced in China, and that he would be examining available methods to equalize the tariffs on autos.
The US Department of Commerce is also conducting an investigation of imports of autos and auto parts under Section 232 of the US Trade Expansion Act of 1962, which could result in potential remedies in the form of increased US tariffs on auto imports from some nations.
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My dear friends,
I would like to invite you and your charming wife, Lena,
to my castle in Transylvania.
Once there, we can seal our agreement.
My drivers are expecting you.
I pleased of your arrival in my beautiful land.
Vlad Dracula invites you to the Celebration of Blood.
It is blood wedding.
I am Dracula and welcome to my castle.
I hope your stay is comfortable after (that trip).
I will show you to your room.
Consequently, I have been expecting to accompany you in the great hall.
Vlad Dracula invites you to the Celebration of Blood.
The blood is the bride and the count.
Dracula is the groom.
It is blood wedding.
Your blood on my lips is like the sunrise.
A bite from me is like the kiss of death.
It is blood wedding.
My white thorns twinkle like diamonds in the light.
My eyes are gray like the fog that covers us.
My soul is so black like the deep night.
My skin is so white like the radiation of the stars.
Drink my juice of life and attain immortality.
Our marriage in the intoxication of desire.
It is blood wedding.
The real power that controls us,
is the shameful, endless, consuming, destroying, unquenchable, greed for love.
Ambition...Perversity...Greiving over love....Pain over love...
My blood is fiery.
My blood is eager.
Your blood is sweet.
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Six runs in a single baseball game isn't exactly an offensive blitzkrieg, but when you're the Arizona Diamondbacks, a half-dozen revolutions around the base path is huge. Especially considering that the team had only managed to cough up two stinking runs in the past 31 frames.
It's also huge when six runs are good enough to chalk up a much-needed victory, which the struggling D-Backs did during their 6-3 victory over the Colorado Rockies Monday night. In front of a half-filled Chase Field, Arizona (5-8) began another nine-game homestand with arguably its most complete performance of the '09 season. Highlighted by another stellar performance by a starter pitcher - this time by Jon Garland, who gave up one earned in 6.2 innings of work - the D-Backs used ten overall hits and a four-run fifth inning to top their NL West foe, who dropped to 4-8.
With the score tied at one apiece going into the bottom half of the fourth, third baseman Mark Reynolds, who had already launched a solo shot to left in the second inning off of losing pitcher Jason Marquis (2-1), doubled home Chad Tracy. The hot bats continued in the fifth when catcher Miguel Montero went yah-yah for a three-run homer to deep right center that scored Tracy and Chris Young. That was plenty of support for Garland (2-1), Scott Schoeneweis, Tony Pena (who yielded the Rockies' third and final run), and closer Chad Qualls, who earned his third save of the young season.
Arizona and Colorado will square off once again at Chase Field Tuesday night beginning at 6:40 p.m. Scheduled starters are the D-Backs' Yusmeiro Petit (0-1, 7.71) and the Rockies' Franklin Morales (1-0, 1.50). TV: FSN-AZ. Radio: KTAR-AM 620. Go to www.dbacks.com.
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Vancouver, Canada-based science educator Kurtis Baute from The Scope of Science YouTube series explains the history of life and the universe using 13,799 dominoes as a visual timeline.
"If you set up a row of dominoes as a timeline of history from the Big Bang to now, and had each domino represent 1 million years it would stretch over 300 meters long. I know because that's what I did for this video. The universe is very old."


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Are there elliptical machines and what are the showers like? What is this basket system they talk about on the IMA website - do you just check in your backpack and just get it back after your workout? How are the showers (do you bring your own towels or do they provide?)?
Anything else I should know about the IMA before my attempt in going over there one of these days this quarter?


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I received this sweet meme yesterday morning from my friend Esmerelda. She was so thoughtful to include me in her country's celebration of Motherhood. This is my 4th time celebrating Costa Rica's Mother's Day on August 15th, yet we have only lived here for 30 months. So how is that possible?
Because we already got to live here 5 years ago, but only for 25 days.
Sadly, I'm STILL sick and yesterday's symptoms actually concerned me because I didn't feel like the medicine I was taking was helping me. I was only feeling worse and it started to worry me. I decided I needed to call Paul and get him involved. Thankfully he was able to come home to help me for a bit.
I felt like he was my knight in shining armor and helped me figure out a different treatment plan. Honestly, the hug and a blessing really was what I needed most at that moment, but also working together to figure out what I could do better is what has given me the confidence to keep fighting this bug. Now we are having me drink an herbal tea that is an expectorant, combined with boiled ginger root. This tea has helped me feel IMMENSELY better. No, it doesn't have the greatest taste but it is helping move this cough along. I am also taking this medicine . . .
It is another popular medicine in Latin America. Paul LOVES it. Me, not so much. I feel dizzy and foggy minded when I take it but it does help with the body aches, chills/sweats, and common cold symptoms. I still have my harsh cough and that sound is what worries the kids the most. The littlest 2 keep coming in and saying, "I hope you feel better Mommy" and leave me a get well soon card.
They have also been showering me with homemade Mother's Day gifts. What a surprise!
Ginger Snap made me an earring holder at Mujeres Jovenes (Young Women's) and the cutest cards. The green card has an origami flower inside. The flower card in the pot has pedals that say something I am good at on each pedal. That was very thoughtful of her to do for me.
Joy Boy recorded himself singing to a beautiful primary song called "Dearest Mother, I Love You." His heart must be made of the purest gold. Bless his heart for sharing it with so many, including me.
"Gentle words I hear you say.Your kind hands help me each day.You're my mother kind and true;Dearest mother, I love you."
Curly Cook colored me another picture and then wrote me a beautiful song. She recorded herself singing and playing the song she wrote. It was a very sweet gesture from her special heart. I feel especially grateful to appreciate my loving children. They are so good for me.
Just as I had fallen asleep for a much needed nap, Paul came home from work earlier than usual but did not come empty handed. He not only brought me the medicine I needed, but his own Mother's Day gift for me as well. I was deeply touched he had even thought to do something.
I have wanted this coffee table book ever since I saw it 31 months ago. It is loaded with the most amazing photographs of Costa Rica. I never felt I could just go out and get it myself, but now receiving it for Costa Rica's National celebration of Motherhood, I felt the timing was perfect.
While Paul rounded up the kids and got them to work, while he prepared dinner for our family, I lay in bed, studying my new book. As I looked at each new page, I felt a glimmer of excitement and happiness that my kids will also look at these photos and I wonder if they will be just as amazed as I am? Maybe they will like photographs I do not? Maybe they will see things that I do not see? But no matter what, I felt like I had something I could share with my kids . . . a HIGHER PERSPECTIVE of where they live on this earth!
Isn't that every mother's goal?
Making the decision to follow our hearts and move to Costa Rica has actually allowed me to further develop and even hone my skills as a mother. I will forever be grateful for the time that we have been allowed to live here and I am honored to have been so richly blessed with a family that does appreciate me and the role I play in their individual lives. I feel that while living here, I have been blessed to see life from a very unique perspective, much like this coffee table book.
By learning to trust in the Lord, and at times FLY to where He is waiting for me, I have been entrusted to see things from a perspective I could have only dreamed of. I truly believe in what I posted 5 years ago . . . and I have now seen those thoughts and feelings turn into actions. I pray the results will also blossom into what our hearts have hoped they would become. I am proud of myself for letting go of what I "thought" my life should look like and instead I worked day by day to TRULY allow Heavenly Father's plan to take FULL affect in my life. I can easily say that my life is glorious and beyond anything I could have imagined; past, present and now I have hope for our future.
I truly believe that the role of motherhood is one of Heavenly Father's mightiest of weapons to fight against anger, crime, hatred, fear and pride. What a gift it is for a woman to learn to value being called "Mother."
Happy Mother's Day, no matter where you live or what day it may be, for EACH DAY is a MOTHER'S DAY to share what little bit of knowledge, love, patience, hope, charity, faith, trust, loyalty, peace and joy she has to share that day. Step by step, little by little, one day at a time, each day adds up until . . .
you have planted your own garden. I love this story!! Enjoy!
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You might be cherished with other blissful ambiences of world cuisines at restaurants and exceptional shopping options. While fast food outlets could be found in important cities continental cuisine can be found at resorts. Besides these tourist spots, there are many places to locate cheap hawker food in Taiping.
There are distinct hotels in Labuan. Therefore, if you're organizing a vacation and ready to use your vacations at one of the finest and stunning places on earth , then Terengganu is where to be. It's incredibly a country which offers many fascinating and sexy places to visit for the tourists as well as the visitors.
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Why CG Masters?
Production Training at its Best!
1. It is just objectively better training.
Skills, not grades.
The fundamental difference between our professional training centre and other schools is that we provide more than courses followed by grades. We prepare our trainees to do the job of a commercial digital artist, not merely to know some tools.
We also train you in operations and procedures that nobody else teaches so that when you graduate, you are fully equipped to enter the industry and ready to work in studio. Upon graduation, you have proven to your instructors that you have the skills you signed up for. During training, you will prove it every day by using those skills in real production scenarios under the direction of our experienced 3D Animation and VFX specialists who will make sure your work is up to professional standards. We won't give you a failing grade – we will train you more!
2. A Training Program Designed By Industry, For Industry
While recruiting digital artists for the industry, our founders realized that most academic training programs just didn't cut it when it came to providing real job skills. CG Masters now exists because of this need for a program that would appeal to potential employers more than academic, theoretical training in college and university. We adapted the most successful methods we used at big studios to train junior artists and TDs, coupled it with the latest in teaching theory and technology, and applied all of it to our training program. The results have been spectacular! To date, nearly every single graduate has found work. That is not a promise of employment, but it is a pretty strong argument in favor of our training style. Click for more information about our current FACULTY of Masters.
3. World Class, Professional Instruction From Many Industry Masters
The most impressive collection of industry Masters anywhere. Seriously, check out other faculties and compare.
We have a current faculty and advisory board of 18 world-class Industry Masters, each one dedicated to developing your skills to a professional level. All of our CG Masters (most of whom are the top specialists in their respective fields) have been working in the film, television, animation and/or gaming industries for a decade or more. We have carefully screened and hand-picked elite instructors who are battle-hardened professionals. And because our class sizes are so small, they have the time to provide plenty of the one-on-one mentorship that is needed to excel.
All of them are passionate about their work, and all of them want you to know what they know: That this is just about the coolest job on earth.
4. Professional Camera Equipment
We believe in creating a production environment as similar as possible to those in the real world. Experience the power and complexity of pro photography equipment suitable for 4K feature films—no shooting in HD resolution with DSLR cameras at our school! CG Masters equipment includes a BlackMagic Design Production Camera 4K, a Backboned Hero4 Black, a pro Tilta camera rig, carbon-fiber tripod, Steadicam, pro monitors and lighting gear for shooting student projects. Check out our gear HERE.
5. Affordable Tuition
Our training is significantly less expensive than the average career college or private training institute. We focus on teaching the specific skills that you need to enter the industry, without any unnecessary electives. See our tuition page for more details.
6. Scholarships
Excellence Scholarship:
Because we seek out the very best candidates, this incentive scholarship is designed to attract the best of the best. If you can show us exceptional aesthetic or technical skills in addition to serious motivation and commitment, you'll be evaluated for an Excellence Scholarship, valued at up to $1,000. We'll train any candidate who can demonstrate serious commitment, but we seek out the very best candidates for our precious training time.
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We have spoken to hundreds of graduates of major digital media programs who have spent 40 to 50 thousand dollars on their programs and did not receive the training they need to get a job in the industry. The diploma they have just isn't enough. Therefore, we are now offering this scholarship which will offer substantial tuition reductions for digital media graduates who show potential but have not been well trained, specifically in critical studio operations skills which are not taught at almost any school. The amount of the scholarship is determined on a case-by-case basis and all candidates must still meet all regular entry requirements
*CG Masters reserves the right to change scholarships at any time without notice. Click here for the latest Scholarship Info
8. Small Class Sizes
Students learning job skills need plenty of one-on-one time with their mentors. You just can't get that in the huge classes you'll find at many large private schools and public universities. We feel that enrolling in a class with 25 to 35 other students nullifies the advantage of having an industry pro teach you, due to the lack of one-on-one instruction. At CG Masters, you actually get the benefit of world-class professional CG artists instructing you, because we keep our class sizes among the smallest in the industry. A full class size is only 12 students!
9. Industry Standard Hardware and Software
As professional artists and T.D.s ourselves, we deeply understand the need to be working with powerful, reliable and current technology. We insist on these same standards in our training centre.
10. A Full, Intensive Year Including 8 Months Of Practical Team Training
Nothing teaches you to make great pictures like…well… making great pictures under the guidance of masters! You'll work under professional supervisors, receive guidance and mentorship and have experiences during your production time that you just wouldn't normally find at a regular film school, college or university. Find out what it's like to work in a real studio environment, how important it is to deliver excellence, work with precision and communicate with your team and become part of something greater than yourself. No other school offers as much practical experience as CG Masters!
11. We Are Out Of The Downtown Core
…and that is a good thing. Vancouver can be crowded, expensive and polluted. Located right on the New Westminster Skytrain platform at the Shops at New West Station right next to the mighty Fraser River, we are easily the most accessible school around, while also being central within the Lower Mainland. If you are moving here to study, you will find everything you need to live right here in New Westminster, with downtown Vancouver being less than half an hour away by train. For more information about New Westminster, check out Tourism New Westminster
12. Internship / Job Opportunities
CG Masters is now collaborating with numerous studios, large and small, to provide graduates with practicum, internship and employment opportunities after graduation. We often have studios contacting us about when the next batch of graduates will be available; one of the many potential opportunities that we have developed here at CG Masters. The industry have spoken and they love our programs! Our professional training approach is clearly a no-brainer.
13. Your Own Workstation
At other schools, you have to share a workstation with other students or you'll move each term. At CG Masters, we think it is important to have a workspace of your own to set up, customize and feel at home just like in a real studio job. Fill it with toys or pictures. Or fill it with feathers and sparkles, we don't care, as long as you keep the sparkles out of the keyboard.
14. Mentorship As Long As You Need It
Skills and a great demo reel are the key to landing that first job or internship interview. This is as important to us as it is to you. After all, our reputation depends upon your success. If you get to the end of our program and feel you need additional mentorship, we are there for you. Personal reviews, advice, and tips will go on as long as you need them to. Need a workstation to finish off some demo reel work? The door is always open.
15. A Full, Intense 12 Months Of Training - Same As Two Years At University
Some schools try to deliver training in less than a year. (At a public college or university a "year" is about 30 weeks.) As industry professionals, digital artists, and supervisors with decades of collective experience, we just don't see how good training can happen that way. We have had several inquiries to do shorter programs, but we want to be able to keep our promise to provide you with awesome training.
CG Masters training is 48 weeks long including a 1-week break between terms. This makes it the longest, toughest, most extensive and advanced one-year training program around, and it's the ONLY one to provide real production training.
If you are looking for the best 3D animation school or visual effects school, we know you have a choice. There are thousands of public and private institutes offering courses in this field. Very few of them actually teach job skills to a professional level, but many of them will give you at least the basics. How do you know which to choose? It is not easy. READ THIS.


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Our HTML5 & CSS3 course in Durban provides you with the skills to use HTML5 and CSS3 effectively. This course will be practical, instructor lead training working with basic through advanced techniques. You will learn how to use HTML5 and CSS3 to improve your current web design skill-set.
We will first go over all the new HTML5 tags that is available for us to use today and look at all the possibilities of these new tags. Then we will go over all the new CSS3 properties available and what we can do with them.
We will then start designing a complete website from start to finish using HTML5 and CSS3. You will also learn all about HTML5 Audio and Video. We will also look at CSS3 Animations, new font properties in order to use any font we want and how to convert any font to a web font.
This course also provides the students with the ability to design a complete website from start to finish using the latest specification in web design. You will also learn all about vendor prefixes for different browsers and how to test your code on all of them. Finally we will look at how to upload our website with fonts, videos and everything else we use in the design. It is a great class to enhance your skill-set.
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California voters will have a chance in November to do what Congress and medical societies haven't: control prescription drug prices, CNN reported.
Speaking of next November, Bernie Sanders -- at 74, the oldest of the presidential candidates -- has had gout, hernias, and diverticulitis but otherwise is in "very good health," according to a letter from the Congressional attending physician, the New York Times reported.
Retired hockey player Phil Bourque, 53, spoke at length to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette about his failing memory after a dozen or more concussions during his career....
... And autopsy results showed that former NFL player Tyler Sash had moderate chronic traumatic encephalopathy, which might have contributed to his fatal overdose of pain medication last year at age 27, according to Bleacher Report.
South Asia, which has so far dodged major problems from Zika virus, is bracing for an upswing in cases. (Reuters)
It's all relative: Some observers have predicted a "price war" over hep-C drugs after Merck announced a list price of $54,000 for a 12-week course of Zepatier (elbasvir/grazoprevir) -- just approved late yesterday -- as compared with an $80,000 price tag for Gilead's Harvoni (ledipasvir/sofosbuvir) and $83,000 for AbbVie's Viekira Pak (ombitasvir/paritaprevir/ritonavir plus dasabuvir), The Street reported.
Airlines are starting to allow passengers to reschedule flights to areas under threat from Zika virus, Reuters reported.
Emerging resistance to the widely used HIV drug tenofovir has some infection experts concerned about a rebound in uncontrolled disease, according to Fox News.
From bad to worse for Theranos, the controversial clinical lab company: Walgreens is pulling business after CMS found "severe deficiencies" at a Theranos lab in California, Bloomberg News reported.
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By JENNIFER 8. LEE
Published: October 16, 2009
For Emergencies
Consider it a government mantra: No Pet Left Behind.
Or if a pet is left behind during a disaster evacuation, it must have food and water, and the home must be marked to indicate to rescue workers that a pet is still inside. Departing owners should also take with them a color photo of them and their pets, to help identify them later.
These are among the suggestions that officials at New York City's Office of Emergency Management are pressing onto pet owners in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, which displaced an estimated 200,000 animals.
Because people risked -- and lost -- their lives over their pets during the storm, Congress passed the Pets Evacuation and Transportation Standards Act in 2006, which required local disaster preparedness plans to take pets into account.
''People were seeing it's not just a pet-lover issue,'' said Steve Gruber, the spokesman for the Mayor's Alliance for NYC's Animals, a coalition of about a hundred animal rescue groups and shelters. ''It became a human issue.''
The city's emergency shelters now include space for a pet shelter, said Christina Farrell, a deputy commissioner for the Office of Emergency Management. And pet owners are not shy about taking their animals along in an evacuation. During the floods in the Midwest in June 2008, one shelter in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, housed a thousand pets, including birds, lizards and even a red-eared slider turtle.
New York's procedure for a coordinated pet rescue is being finalized over the next few weeks, city officials said. Animal groups held a pet preparedness event in Union Square on Thursday, demonstrating the effectiveness of microchips, offering emergency bags -- call them ''doggy bags'' -- and demonstrating pet CPR. ''You have to be more gentle,'' said Dina Maniotis, the health and human services director for the Office of Emergency Management.
City officials had a chance to use new pet emergency procedures when a crane collapsed in March 2008 on the Upper East Side. In that evacuation, about 40 pets were abandoned as their owners rushed out of their homes, said Ms. Maniotis, who helped coordinate the rescue.
Cats were among the hardest to rescue because they like to hide, Ms. Maniotis said. ''We even rescued a big snake,'' she said. ''It was four feet long and green.''
''Residents were extremely distressed,'' Ms. Maniotis said. ''I've worked in social services for 20 years. I have never seen such happy residents hugging and kissing me after we got their pet out.'' JENNIFER 8. LEE
Unemployment Up: New York City's unemployment rate rose to 10.3 percent in September as summer jobs programs ended and businesses that usually add staff members in the fall held off on hiring, the state's Labor Department reported on Thursday.
Over all, the employment picture was ''markedly weaker'' than it had been in August, when the city's unemployment rate was 10.2 percent, said James Brown, an analyst for the Labor Department. (The department revised the August rate from 10.3 percent.)
PHOTO: A cat receiving a microchip at a pet preparedness event in Union Square.(PHOTOGRAPH BY SUZANNE DECHILLO/THE NEW YORK TIMES)


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national / history and heritage / press release Wednesday July 18, 2018 21:54 by AnT
The Heritage Bill completed its passage through the Oireachtas last night, despite widespread opposition from environmental groups, opposition parties, and concerned citizens and farmers working together with biodiversity.
The Heritage Bill will allow for a relaxation of the dates of the closed period for the burning of vegetation and the cutting, grubbing, removal and otherwise destroying of hedgerows contained in Section 40 of the Wildlife Act (1976 and amended 2000)[Note 1] The legislation will allow burning of our upland and lowland hills in March, extending the open period for burning by one month, and for the cutting of roadside hedgerows in August [Note2]. read full story / add a comment
HORSE racing abandoned on horse welfare grounds due to the extreme heat and distance of the race. Not in Ireland.
national / animal rights / press release Monday June 25, 2018 15:54 by Bernie Wright
HORSE racing abandoned on horse welfare grounds due to the extreme heat and distance of the race. Not in Ireland.
Forcing and whipping horses to race in extreme heat, high temperatures and humidity, lack of air movement, poor ventilation, dehydration and exposure to direct sunlight all increase the danger of serious heat and sun related problems, Irish horses are no exception, especially when they are expected to perform at intense levels, just as racehorses are.
Racehorses suffering heat stress can collapse, sometimes resulting in death. Heat stroke, which occurs over a short period of time usually when a horse is unfit. Behind the scenes lies a story of immense suffering.Some outcomes of heat stress are falls, seizures, heart damage/attacks and muscle and Soaring temperatures at Cheltenham has seen races abandoned.
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national / environment / press release Sunday June 17, 2018 23:28 by foie
A submission by an environmental watchdog has flagged alleged pollution incidents arising from Dublin Airports carparks. An application is before An Bord Pleanala under the Strategic Infrastructure Act to allow the permanent use of 10,880 long term car parking spaces on 36 hectares of land. This is approximately half of the current total capacity of 22,902 cars which currently have only temporary permission. read full story / add a comment
national / arts and media / press release Thursday June 14, 2018 13:23 by David Nowlan
Dublin, June 13, 2018: An art gallery that opened four months ago and located at 24 Baggot Street Upper, Ballsbridge, Dublin 4 is celebrating Bloomsday. My motivation for these oil paintings is to celebrate Joyce by introducing colour into his other-wise early twentieth century black & white portraits, to bring our faded images of Joyce back to life.
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national / environment / event notice Wednesday June 13, 2018 21:29 by Irish Cycle
Dutch documentary 'Why We Cycle' is getting its Dublin premiere this Monday June 11, and Sligo premiere on Thursday June 14.
It is not a film about policy and strategy. Instead, it is more of a manifesto, showing people why they should want to aspire a cycling society, said Marco te Brömmelstroet (aka Cycling Professor), a producer of the documentary, when interviewed by Carlton Reid of bikebiz.com. read full story / add a comment
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In an advanced technological communications era, what a waste and nonsense to even contemplate opening yet another embassy to add to the seventy-four existing Irish missions across the world? read full story / add a comment
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Inaugural Irish Defence Forces Values Champion Awards? read full story / add a comment
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This is story is being reposted as it is considered to be of noteworthy interest to the issue of Brexit since it will probably have a significant impact on Ireland
Remainers claim that Brexit will be an economic apocalypse. But it provides the opportunity for a radical break with neoliberalism.
Nothing better reflects the muddled thinking of the mainstream European left than its stance on Brexit. Each week seems to produce a new chapter for the Brexit scare story: withdrawing from the EU will be an economic disaster for the UK; tens of thousands of jobs will be lost; human rights will be eviscerated; the principles of fair trials, free speech, and decent labour standards will all be compromised. In short, Brexit will transform Britain into a dystopia, a failed state ? or worse, an international pariah ? cut off from the civilized world. Against this backdrop it?s easy to see why Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn is often criticized for his unwillingness to adopt a pro-Remain agenda. read full story / add a comment
national / gender and sexuality / opinion/analysis Friday May 25, 2018 16:58 by 1 of indy 1 image
On May 25th we in Ireland finally get to vote to Repeal the hated 8th amendment. Here we present the 8 reasons WSM members are voting Yes to Repeal along with many of the articles we have published on the issue in recent months. read full story / add a comment
national / environment / press release Tuesday May 22, 2018 17:43 by foie
EU seeks clarification over toxic waste site
The European Commission has written to Ireland seeking clarification about the remediation work taking place on the hazardous waste site within the defunct steel works Haulbowline Island in Cork Harbour. read full story / add a comment
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The LÉ Samuel Beckett is one of ten warships taking part in Operation Sophia, or EUNAVFOR Med, nine of which are from navies of NATO-aligned countries. read full story / add a comment
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n response to Israels horrific massacre of some 60 unarmed Palestinians, and wounding of thousands, yesterday in Gaza, the Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign (IPSC) has organised a series of protests around Ireland to take place today. Protests are expected to continue in Gaza, and casualties are expected to mount. read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression / press release Sunday May 13, 2018 23:08 by pbp 1 comment (last - monday may 14, 2018 22:59)
Internal memos from the HSE tell a shocking story of cover up and wilful endangering of lives.
A memo from March 2016 shows that audits on cervical screening tests began in 2010 but it was only six years later, that the HSE noted that the process is reaching the stage of communicating individual case reports.
In other words, telling doctors and the women concerned about problems found.
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national / consumer issues / opinion/analysis Friday May 11, 2018 22:13 by Joe Terry 1 comment (last - monday may 14, 2018 23:02)
Flashback to a July 28th, 2012 media report:
Tony OBrien, who led a special unit charged with reducing hospital trolley numbers and waiting lists over the past year, is the new head of the HSE. read full story / add a comment
national / environment / press release Thursday May 10, 2018 18:27 by foie
An environmental group has published a commitment from the Irish Government to the European Commission to extend the clean-up of the East Tip at the site of the former ISPAT steelworks on Haulbowline Island in County Cork to an all island clean up.
The State is completing the clean-up of a 9 hectare East Tip contaminated waste dump but the machinery is to be removed at the end of the summer, leaving the 11 hectare site of the original steel mill in a contaminated and unusable state. read full story / add a comment
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IREX / anti-PESCO Rally at 7pm on EU Day 9th May, 2018 outside City Hall Cork read full story / add a comment
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Free Screenings of Unrest, Sundance Film Festival award-winning Documentary about ME/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome in Dublin, Galway, Limerick & Sligo on May 12th, International ME/CFS Awareness Day
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The Irish ME/CFS Association is pleased to announce that it has arranged four free screenings of the documentary Unrest, on Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS), for May 12th, International ME/CFS Awareness Day.
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Dublin: Carlton Hotel, Dublin Airport, Old Airport Road, Cloghran, Co. Dublin.
Galway: Connacht Hotel, Old Dublin Road, Galway.
Limerick: The Great National South Court Hotel, Raheen Roundabout, Raheen, Limerick.
Sligo: Sligo Southern Hotel, Strandhill Road, Sligo.
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As we watched a real New Jersey housewife fight with a fictional New Jersey Big Pussy, we realized celebreality has officially taken over food TV.
VH1's Famous Food is the latest food show to pop up on a previously nonfood channel, a trend the Los Angeles Times wrote about recently.
The concept of Famous Food is that seven "stars," some of whom aren't shining so brightly these days, will create a new restaurant from concept to operations, with one winner.
The contestants are as varied as they are vapid. Our favorites were DJ Paul and Juicy "J" from Three 6 Mafia, who once tried to pitch a cooking show called Cookin' Ain't Easy and had this great quote: "If you can run a rap group with guys from prison, then you can run a restaurant."
The Mafia boys were very happy to meet one fellow contestant, because they had a picture of her in their recording studio. Who was it? Ashley Dupre, who leveraged her fame from being Eliot Spitzer's favorite call girl into her current gig as an advice columnist for the New York Post.
Keeping up with that theme was Vincent Pastore, aka Big Pussy from The Sopranos. From reality whore fame was The Bachelor and Dancing with the Stars contestant Jake Pavelka; Danielle Staub, who was booted off Real Housewives of New Jersey; and Heidi Montag, who had been on MTV's The Hills before making the aptly titled album Superficial.
The celebtestants are responsible for taking over a restaurant on the Sunset Strip. They have 28 days to come up with a concept, name, menu, staff, floor plan design and just about everything else.
In week one, the concept becomes Italian-soul fusion after Big Pussy gives a long explanation about how "Italians and blacks have the same blood." The biggest himbo on the show, Bachelor Jake, confesses that he doesn't know what it means, but imagines a drumstick with a piece of spaghetti wrapped around it.
Heidi says that the name should be Fame, because they are all famous and half the concept is bling. Bada bling!
Everyone is amazed by how easy the decisions are at first, but inevitably heads butt and fake boobs bond. Bosom buddies Danielle and Heidi ditch the group for happy hour. Real tension builds between Danielle and Big Pussy: She calls him a big shot, and he is convinced that she is a Desperate Housewife (wrong show) and a complete and utter bitch. She so is.
What happens when they pitch their idea to the entrepreneurs who will actually have to fund the restaurant? A cold stare, finished off with an "It sucks, the idea."
Shockingly, the girl we thought sucked, literally, for a living, saves the day. Ashley Dupre comes up with the name Picnic and has a concept of picnic tables. The investors love it and the show goes on.
Danielle's hatred of the idea will have us tuning in next week. While Top Chef is on hiatus, this might become our new guilty pleasure.


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A girl comes to a city from far away. No one notices her. No one says hello. They are all too busy living in their own world.
But the girl makes a friend, and together they marvel at the beauty of the real world.
This book about a fox and a girl is the first in the series of Maia Walczak's Silent Books, where the story is told solely through illustrations, without the use of words.


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Welcome to Colorado, one of the most interesting missions in the game.
In hindsight, after taking this footage and playing Colorado many times afterward, the most striking thing about it is just how small the level actually is.
I talked a bit in this episode about how the episodic model can, in some unexpected ways, hamper the level design. Because new story missions have to be large enough to justify the month or so wait between episodes, and have enough content to tide players over until another episode is released, they tend to be fairly large.
But when I think back to some of my favorite missions in Blood Money, like the infamous birthday party level, the actual area of operations in them aren't very big. However, they are dense with opportunities and viable methods to both infiltrate the building and take out the target. This is also true on the tutorial missions for Hitman 2016.
Colorado is larger than those levels, but it also houses four separate targets and is much smaller than any of the other maps, that each take up different (but interwoven and overlapping) segments of the level. In this way, it's not impossible to think of this level as four smaller, compact Hitman levels combined.
It's not as good as Paris or Sapienza, but it's a well-designed level and the closest thing to those smaller, but denser maps I liked in older Hitman games that we're likely to get on the episodic production pipeline.


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Then and Now
– Retracing the steps of the 9th Infantry Division men –
On this page I will keep adding so called "Then and Now" pictures of the 9th Infantry Division. Via my research I was able to locate certain locations where pictures of the 9th Infantry Division were taken, and took a picture of the same spot as it looks today. I own the rights to the "now" pictures unless noted otherwise. Click on any of the pictures to open a gallery. Press the ESC "Escape" button on your keyboard to go back to the website. Feel free to contact me if you have any 9th Infantry Division "Then and Now" pictures to add, and I will be happy to add them here. Enjoy the pictures.