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Dorothea Mackellars My Country is one of Australias most widely recited and beloved poems. Reflective of the authors great love of the Australian landscape, the poem has become one of the most recognised and celebrated pieces of Australian poetry ever written.
In 1904, after spending an extended period abroad in London, and feeling homesick for Australia, Dorothea began writing My Country. Several re-writes later, the poem was published in The Spectator in London in 1908, under its original title, Core of My Heart.
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This coin is issued as legal tender under the Australian Currency Act 1965 and features the Ian Rank-Broadley effigy of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, the monetary denomination, and the 2015 year-date, on each coins obverse.
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The time has come to for us to open our new Clovis office! If you are considering volunteering with our organization please fill out our online application.
We have attached a copy of April's volunteer schedule. In the near future there will be opportunities to volunteer in Tulare, Fresno, Madera and surrounding counties! Please look over the times and dates. If you have any additional questions please email us.
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The Bat-Pod and Tumbler From 'The Dark Knight Rises' Coming To Your Town
Posted on Thursday, May 10th, 2012 by Germain Lussier
In anticipation of The Dark Knight Rises, two of Batman's most trusty modes of transportation will be traveling across the country for fans to drool over. The Tumbler and Bat-Pod from Christopher Nolan's The Dark Knight and The Dark Knight Rises have hit the road and will be making stops all across the country from May 12 through July 7. After the jump, check out some images and get the full rundown of when and where these iconic vehicles will be stopping.
Here are some images from www.tumblertour.com of the event gearing up.
You can get updates on that site or by following the Facebook or Twitter. In fact, you'll have to to see if dates are added and specific locations in each city. For now, though, here is the tentative schedule.
- Bentonville, Arkansas May 12
- Tulsa, Oklahoma May 15
- Overland Park, Kansas May 19
- Kansas City, Missouri May 21
- Chicago, Illinois May 25
- Washington, DC May 27
- Baltimore, Maryland May 28
- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania May 30
- Buffalo, New York June 1
- Toronto, Canada June 7
- Montreal, Canada June 10
- Purchase, New York June 12
- Columbus, Ohio June 13
- Lansing, Michigan June 15
- Detroit, Michigan June 16
- Brooklyn, Michigan June 17
- Indianapolis, Indiana June 19
- Nashville, Tennessee June 21
- Knoxville, Tennessee June 22
- Atlanta, Georgia June 23
- Dallas, Texas June 25
- San Antonio, Texas June 27
- El Paso, Texas June 29
- Albuquerque, New Mexico July 1
- Phoenix, Arizona July 2
- Los Angeles, California July 7
Notices how they'll be in LA on July 7, exactly five days before San Diego Comic-Con. I mean, SDCC seems like the no-brainer place to end the tour right?
Is the Tumbler Tour coming to your town? Will you seek it out and get a photo? Am I the only one disappointed The Bat isn't on the tour?


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For 90% of us, one of the toughest adjustment to being CEOs of SaaS companies is having to constantly recruit.
Once you have Initial Traction at least, you're going to have to spend at least 20% of your time recruiting. More on that here. And really, 50% would be even better. Stop being an individual contributor as soon as you can. Stop being a functional VP-as-well-as-CEO as soon as you can. Let it go. Hire those folks instead, as soon as you can afford it, and have Initial Traction.
But it's even more than that. It's more than just recruiting a management team. Because once you finally get your first management team in place, some of them will be wrong, or just only a good fit for Very Early, or better as directors or team leads, but not VPs, in the long-term. So you'll be lucky if half of the management team you build at $1m ARR is there at $8m in ARR. They may all still work for you — I hope they do. But many of the VPs you recruit around $1m in ARR just won't scale, or fit, at $10m in ARR.
So even once you hire your first management team, you can't really take a break there. You almost immediately need to be passively recruiting to fill the gaps, to have back-up candidates, or just to be aware of who's out there. So if someone stumbles, you can bring in another.
But then, if you are lucky, by the time you have your Management Team 1.5 or 2.0 … it will finally get good. The first year for each VP is always a learning experience, no matter how well they perform. Then, in year 2, they'll build their own team. And they start to get good at it. And finally, in Year 3, your VPs get really, really good at what they do. And really efficient and effective. They'll know how to win deals — and how to lose them. How to steal them. How to really make the most of every marketing initiative, every customer success trip, even new big and small feature. Your core VPs just get in a groove by Year 3 and sort of become unstoppable. With luck, you only need to barely macro-manage them, the best ones.
And if you are truly a rocketship, then maybe they stay forever. One or two of your best VPs may well be there from $1m ARR to IPO and beyond.
But usually, around Year 5, even with your best VPs. And maybe especially with your best VPs. They'll get tired. Burnt out by just giving in their all, 24×7. Burnt out by constantly having to recruit bigger and bigger team. Burnt out by seeing the plan double or more every single year. Last year was hard enough, man. And in fact, the faster your start-up grows, the more it Never Stops. And the better the VP, the more she owns not just her job but way above-and-beyond … the higher the odds she burns out around Year 5.
So when I see job changes on my LinkedIn, in StrictlyVC, wherever around Year 5 … I often know those are the best VPs. The companies are great. It's just those VPs, they gave it all they could for 5 seasons, through every minute of every playoff game. And they just don't really have any more to give. Everything was left on the field.
This is one of the toughest parts of being a CEO, for most of us. It's not just that some of our folks need to go off to other start-ups to get that promotion, to make VP, or to even found their own company. That's tough. But you get it. The tough part is when one of your very, very best lieutenants just needs to hang it up.
It's gonna happen. In fact, the first time will be just as you get to $10m-$15m in ARR or so. It's gonna happen just when it's finally all working, you hit Initial Scale. When you finally have a little fat in the system, a few extra nickels in the bank, a real brand. Just as its getting good. When it's finally good. It's probably time to start recruiting your Third Management Team right around then.
Just expect it. And those Year 5 Goodbye Parties? The toughest ones of all.


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Album review: Stereophonics – Scream Above The Sounds
PUBLISHED: 16:55 25 October 2017 | UPDATED: 15:26 27 October 2017
Welsh rockers roll up their 20th year treading water, with just a dash of inspiration
Proving that rock's middle of the road has plenty of room and infinite patience, the 10th studio LP from the Kelly Jones-led quartet is unsurprisingly unsurprising.
From the plodding pub rock of Chances Are, Geronimo and the lumpen All In One Night to the workaday mid-paced closer Elevators, all the signs are that the Welsh behemoths are content to sit back on cruise control.
Caught By The Wind's widescreen guitar, light-touch synths and piano take a stab at evoking the freedom of the open road, but it feels written for a commercial, and Cryin' In Your Beer is a polished, all-you-can-eat chugger busting out organ, barroom piano, honking brass and thumping drums.
Delve further, though, and there is some relief in the gentle sway and new-leaf optimism of Would You Believe – and Kelly's delivery is genuinely touching and heartfelt in Before Anyone Knew Our Name, a tribute to late drummer Stuart Cable. It's a shame the lone accompanying piano motif feels underworked and too flimsy to bear the emotional weight.
Rating: 2/5
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Dissatisfied with their defeat in the high definition format war, Toshiba looks to give Blu-ray a run for it's money with their new XD-E500 DVD player. Utilizing specially designed XDE technology, the XD-E500 upscales standard definition media to match that of it's HD successors.
In leui of the player's release, Toshiba is offering buyers a years worth of movie rentals from lovefilm.com, an estimated ?100 value.
The XD-E500 is on sale now at major retailers with an ESRP of ?119.99, because who needs Blu-ray anyways?


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A determined James Stafford of OilPrice.com just busted wide open an oil industry information cartel that has existed for decades.
Most investors look at West Texas Intermediate and Brent prices on Bloomberg or CME Futures, figuring the oil price is in the public domain. That assumption is about 2 percent correct, because there are hundreds of different grades of oil and hubs where it is bought and sold — and they all have different prices.
Since the age of oil began up until a few months ago, most real-time oil prices were jealously guarded by marketers, who used the information to their advantage in the daily multi-billion-dollar physical oil trade.
Today, I'm going to tell you the story of how Stafford and his small team made 18 months' worth of calls, cajoling and ultimately paying for an amazing service you now get for free. It's a true David vs. Goliath story, and just like in the original, the little guy wins in the end.
What Stafford and his team have assembled to date is remarkable — and free. You can access it through the link below:
This is an incredible and unprecedented collection of information available to the public.
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Stafford says that the feedback he has received has been exceptional. With no marketing effort, the oil price page is already receiving 40,000 visits daily.
It was an 18-month quest to democratize the world of oil pricing and bust the information cartel that has existed for decades.
A Simple Question With No Easy Answer
Stafford's quest started well over a year ago when he received a phone call from a reporter working for the Wall Street Journal. The journalist wanted help finding a simple piece of information. He was writing an article about the African oil industry and simply wanted to know the current price for Bonny Light crude oil, the main benchmark price for Nigerian crude.
Now remember, this is a Wall Street Journal writer with access to an incredible network of contacts and research, not a casual retail investor sitting at home with pedestrian internet search skills and no industry contacts. You would expect that finding the current price for Africa's main brand of crude would be a simple task for a Wall Street Journal writer.
You would be wrong.
Not only did the writer fail to find the current price for Bonny Light, but the best he could do was get a price from six months ago!
We were passing information around faster with the Pony Express 150 years ago.
The trouble that the writer was having surprised Stafford, who then realized that he, too, couldn't get access to the current price of Bonny Light.
Given that Stafford is the founder of the very popular website OilPrice.com, not being able to find a price for a globally important type of crude did not sit well with him.
So Stafford put his head down and got to work.
Information Held Hostage; the Ransom? $30,000 Per Year
The internet has made information available to everyone with ease. Nowhere is this more true than in the investment world. I can tap into any SEC filing of any company within seconds. It wasn't that long ago that I would have had to request that information by telephone and wait to receive it by mail.
The internet has sent the encyclopedia the way of the dodo bird, ruined many a local newspaper, and made the world a much smaller place. It has also leveled the playing field in many cases, especially when it comes to investing.
When it comes to obtaining global oil price information, however, the internet has done nothing. We are still completely in the dark.
Your first inclination may be to disagree with me. You know that you can look at the current (or historic) price of West Texas Intermediate or Brent crude any time you want. What you are missing is that those are just two oil benchmarks out of hundreds, perhaps even thousands.
People generally believe that oil is a single homogeneous substance. A barrel of oil is a barrel of oil is a barrel of oil.
That is not the case.
In its natural unrefined state, crude oil differs in consistency and density from very thin, volatile, and light oil to very thick, almost solid, heavy oil. It also differs in color, ranging in hue from pitch black to a light golden yellow.
Depending on where it is found, each type of oil has very unique properties when it comes to volatility, viscosity, and toxicity. In Canada alone, there are north of 70 different oil blends. You read that correctly — 70!
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Knowing the exact blend is essential for the refinery process, which has to account for the specific chemical properties and viscosity of the oil being processed.
Stafford knew that if he couldn't find pricing for a major type of crude like Bonny Light, then there were countless other prices that would be even harder to get.
Stafford's quest quickly led him to a discovery: The only place to obtain a fairly complete set of current oil price data required a subscription, which went for $30,000 to $50,000 per year.
The people behind this source knew they had the upper hand over people who needed that oil price data, and they exploited it. Even at such exorbitant cost, however, the oil price information wasn't complete. The source only provided end-of-day prices for the various sources of crudes — nothing in real time.
This just motivated Stafford more. His focus became finding a way to open up the world of oil prices, making the information available to everyone.
But it wasn't easy, and it certainly wasn't cheap.
It took Stafford and his team almost 18 months of making phone calls, getting rejected, making more phone calls — over and over again. When Stafford found the right people, they were often reluctant to release the information for fear of ruffling the feathers of senior management.
Stafford ultimately succeeded simply by knocking on enough doors across the globe to find enough oil-industry people who were sick and tired of this oil price information being held hostage. Like Stafford, these people felt there should be transparency with respect to this information.
Stafford will be out of pocket by a couple hundred thousand dollars per year in order to secure the continued contractual commitments to supply this data.
The Result: Global Oil Price Information for Everyone (Finally)
Stafford and his team aren't done. They are still making calls, sending emails, and adding different blends to their pricing list. Stafford knows of a few hard-to-get-ahold-of blends his pricing list still lacks. Certain OPEC blends in particular have been hard to pin down.
Well done, Mr. Stafford.
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Small Agency Integrated Campaign of the Year, Gold: Nomades
A common dilemma for marketers is how to win attention in a soccer-mad country when a rival brand is sponsoring an all-consuming event like the World Cup. That's why Nomades created "Soccer Gentlemen" for Tecate beer in Mexico.
Without making direct references to the World Cup or the Mexican team, because Corona sponsored both, the campaign teaches men how to juggle their love lives with watching soccer virtually non-stop during the tournament by being perfect gentlemen.
Pablo Batlle, an Argentine creative and DDB veteran who founded Nomades less than two years ago, used his copywriting skills to pen a 185-page love letter that takes 90 minutes to read. That happens to be the length of a soccer match.
In TV spots, a microsite and 47 Facebook posts that follow the reading of the letter in real time, a man presents his beloved with a huge stack of pages and implores her to read right away the love letter he has just written for her. She is charmed by his romantic gesture, and he slips off to watch a soccer game with his friends.
The letter, Mr. Batlle said, could be downloaded and customized by changing the woman's name; 16,000 people, many of them presumably male soccer fans, downloaded it.
"Pablo is a poet," said Raul Edmundo Gonzalez, Tecate brand director at Cuauhtemoc Moctezuma Heineken Mexico. "You read [the letter] and it's spectacular. An important part of the relationship between Nomades and Tecate is Pablo. There's constant communication between Pablo and me, and he's involved in everything, and passionate about it. He never sleeps. He's always thinking about Tecate. In my experience, I've never had that kind of contact with a creative director before, and it's reflected in the work."
Another part of the campaign covers courtship, and a man who gently turns down a new girlfriend's shy invitation to come in after a date. On the doorstep, he explains that he is defying macho culture and the temptation of one-night stands to be a perfect gentleman. She swoons, and he tears down the street to watch the next game.
Heineken-owned Tecate won the World Cup, at least in Mexico. Sales grew 11% by volume during the four-month campaign last year; its ads garnered 17 million YouTube views and accounted for two of YouTube's 10 most-watched ads during the World Cup. In related efforts, 65,000 users registered for a Tecate digital promotion, more than 250,000 packaging codes were redeemed and more than 500,000 trivia games were played online.
Within the company, "Soccer Gentlemen" was also a big winner in Heineken's global Brand Building Awards, which Mr. Gonzalez said was a first for Mexico.
He attributed the campaign's success with consumers to its insight that a man has two loves—soccer and a woman—and how a Tecate drinker, known for both masculinity and ingenuity, handles that. He said the work also avoided the clichés of ads that show fans watching a big game on TV, often surrounded by soccer paraphernalia.
The 21 staffers at Nomades, between the agency's Mexico City and Buenos Aires offices, are encouraged to behave like nomads and get out of the office as much as possible, spending time out and about and with clients.
That has paid off with more work, including individual efforts for different Mexican soccer teams sponsored by Tecate, and a campaign for boxing, another Tecate-backed sport, starring Sylvester Stallone. Each ad shows a guy behaving in a less-than-masculine way—selecting a movie that's a romantic comedy, singing shrilly in the elevator, wearing fluffy white earmuffs in cold weather—before a stony-faced Stallone appears in a tuxedo and rebukes him with the campaign's tagline "Te hace falta ver mas box" ("You need to watch more boxing"). In fact, it's now a catchphrase.
"It's become a cultural phenomenom in Mexico," Mr. Gonzalez said. Starting in February with digital, followed by TV, the campaign got 25 million views in the first two weeks, he said. "Six months later, the phrase is part of the popular culture; with memes, videos and T-shirts. You hear it in restaurants and taxis."
Back at Nomades, Mr. Batlle, who wears big red boxing glove in his LinkedIn profile, said "There's a lot of sports on my reel."


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Updates and reports of Audis being modified and built by enthusiasts.
by: Jason Crouch, photos by Cole Kelly
In case you havent yet noticed Project TTS/SF has gone from our originally planned 12 installments to our new schedule. Now there will be 14 installments for your viewing pleasure. Everybody loves horsepower and torque and this installment contends with the other side of the coin. Bringing a high horsepower
Welcome to installment 11 of our 12 part series of Project TTS/SF, for Fourtitude.com In our last installment, we watched as Tomas Sport Tuning installed the excellent Meisterschaft GTC valved exhaust. Now wed like to show you how we plan to protect our investment with a Viper 5902 HD alarm and the new Viper GPS Smartstart for iPhone. Well
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Welcome to installment 10 in our 12 show series for the TTS/SF project car build-up for Fourtitude.com. In our last installment, we traded out 4 items to coincide with all of the new power mods that Project TTS/SF had seen during the initial 8 webisodes of this series. With our next installment of Project TTS-SF, we really wanted to give the Audi a voice, via the Meisterschaft GTC valved quad


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Composer: Roger Doyle
Director: Eric Fraad
Reviewer: Laura Marriott
Heresy is a remarkable electronic opera from dramaturg and composer Roger Doyle. In his first outing as composer Doyle has created a unique work that is inspired by the life and works of Renaissance figure Giordano Bruno. The Italian Dominican friar is best remembered for his cosmological theories which included, among other things that the Universe was infinite with no clear centre and he expanded upon the Copernican model with his belief in cosmic pluralism.
Although he was also a philosopher, mathematician and poet, it was his cosmological theories, which contradicted some of the main teachings of the Church, that he is best remembered for and that, ultimately, resulted in his downfall. In the early 1590s, the Roman Inquisition arrested him for heresy. Bruno refused to recant. Eventually, he was executed in 1600 when he was burned at the stake.
In Heresy, we meet Bruno as he demonstrates his system of magic memory before the court of Henry III of France. This is followed by excerpts from his inquisition, the time he spent imprisoned and the night before his execution. The narrative gives the idea that with conviction and truth anything is possible. This is then reflected in the nature of the opera itself, which is revolutionary in its delivery. In bringing Ireland its first electronic opera, Doyle has also chosen to investigate the idea of opera itself. Doyle is the co-founder of META Production, which aims to explore new forms of opera. This ambitious work shows the best of new and explorative opera, with the use of electronic music rather that a live orchestra is a unique and daring.
There are moments of light relief and surrealist humour. Heresy has a wide variety of characters, everyone from London policemen, Elizabeth I, a French maid with pink hair, a janitor with a neat line in props and one-liners, and Henry King III of France. The singers are all accomplished, especially 14-year-old soprano Aimee Banks who plays the young Bruno. There are, however, a few moments when the music threatens to make the singers difficult to hear.
The staging is minimal. In the back centre stands a throne. At either side, scaffolding with metal ladders rises above the audience. Throughout, additional props are bought on during scene changes. With practice, this process should become smoother. On the back wall of the stage are large strip lights in bold colours – blues, reds, oranges, greens – which light up throughout to signal mood changes and narrative movement.
There are frequent costume changes. One that stands out is the red outfit of Cardinal Bellarmine, who is played by male soprano Robert Crowe. While holding a copy of The Catholic Times his red suit seems to shine. His matching red boots brand new. This contrasts with the plain black of Bruno, accessorised only with the chains that bind him. Other costumes reflect the cosmological nature of Bruno's work; white, silver and gold.
For opera lovers and those with a keen interest in music, Heresy is a brilliant watch. It is also a good choice for those with less experience. The story is intriguing and the characters unexpected and surprising. It was this reviewer's first experience of opera and is without a doubt a very positive one that has sparked a desire to seek out other examples of the genre.
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Wednesday, October 19, 2011
"I wanted to create a modern capsule collection inspired by memorable styles from our history that represented milestone moments for the brand and embody the DNA of our house style.
These modern interpretations of classic designs represent the iconic glamour of Jimmy Choo today." Tamara Mellon, OBE Founder and Chief Creative Officer
To celebrate the 15th Anniversary of the iconic Jimmy Choo brand, the luxury label has released a coffee table book entitled, JIMMY CHOO XV and launched a fabulous capsule collection titled 'Icons'.
The book is available for early release exclusively in Jimmy Choo stores worldwide as of the 26th October 2011 with a deluxe edition featuring a snakeskin print embossed slipcase (of course) and will be in good bookstores worldwide from February 2012.
With a foreword by fashion journalist Colin McDowell and introduction by Tamara Mellon, JIMMY CHOO XV chronicles the 15 most significant shoes from the company's archives through captivating imagery shot by photographers such as Mario Testino and Terry Richardson, editorial from the world's top fashion magazines, paparazzi shots from the red carpet, design studio sketches and behind the scenes photography.
The company will donate one hundred percent of its revenues from the sale of the book to the Jimmy Choo Foundation, a charitable trust.
If procuring part of the collection for your feet will break the bank right now, consider ordering the book in the interim. Love!
Take a sneak peek behind the scenes of the Icons photo shoot:
Want more? Go to Jimmy Choo.
@traceygillinder would like to apologize for cheating on Shoe Addict readers. Forgive me? Then check out the new Brisbane Times Plus One Column!
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Sunday, October 02, 2011
Over 1,500 guests converged on London's Hyde Park for the Burberry Prorsum Spring Summer 2012 show last week including; Rosie Huntington-Whiteley, Sienna Miller and Sir Ben Kingsley.
If you still haven't received the memo telling you Burberry's fresh young look is hotter than hell right now, then they'll happily come to you via Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and You Tube.
In a fashion first, Burberry partnered with Twitter to create a live 'Tweetwalk' show premiering the Spring Summer 2012 collection with instant backstage Twitpics of each model live, before they hit the runway.
Burberry just reinvented PR fashion forward. Now back to the shoes...
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360 Degree Sustainability for Restaurants
By Chris Starkus Executive Chef - Urban Farmer Denver, Sage Restaurant Group | August 25, 2019
When considering all of the areas of operation for sustainable practices, think of compostable or recyclable "to go" containers, banning plastic straws altogether or offering compostable straw options. Fully Integrated recycling and composting programs to increase landfill diversion rates and decrease your carbon foot print. Look at wine cork upcycling, oil recycling, water conservation, community partnerships and even keeping bees for land stewardship to further transparency and traceability for guests.
All these options demonstrate a holistic and full 360-degree view and approach to sustainability for the hospitality industry. The main thing to get started is to start small and build from there. Your commitment to becoming more sustainable every day is the best way to guide the totality of the vision. There is no one size fits all fix here, and there will be many questions to ask yourself and business when first starting out.
The quest to run my operation more sustainable was met with trepidation about how many things I was doing right or wrong. Self-doubt on who might say something about an area of sustainability I have not built to yet. We do after all run a business and unless you are starting from an opening, there will be many steps and changes along the way. I have luckily had the help of local industry sustainability consultant experts like Rootshyft and Ambient Energy to help me along the way and get on and stay on the right path.
Most of the following steps are simply knowing and growing the community around you to make the best decisions and learn what best practices are. As I mentioned, it will not be an overnight transition, however any effort, be it a small plan put forth, will be a better one for the environment.
So, your business is growing, and a sustainable infrastructure is what you are looking to create with current platform. About three in four Millennials (74 percent) and Generation Z consumers (72 percent) are willing to pay more for sustainable products and services, and experiences according to The Nielsen Company.
Start your execution by starting small and build on early successes. Depending on your business model you will need to find an outlet to connect your guests with the narrative of your company mission and ethos. This can be done through a public relations company and/or perhaps a third-party authentication process. It does not always need to cost money to get some certifications. Here in Colorado we have a state sponsored Environmental Leadership Program that gives incentive for all businesses, not just restaurants, to be recognized for their efforts and requires an agreement of three years of increased efficiently in sustainability year over year to keep the base line goals set out by the company. The sole investment here is time.


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ESIS Support for Researchers Announcement
The ESIS ExCo has agreed that ESIS will support the active participation of scientists to ECF21 Conference by waiving the Conference fee for up to 25 delegates who require financial assistance to attend. Preference will be given to those under 37 who meet the criteria for support. The ECF21 conference fee will be paid by ESIS for those scientists who are awarded support.
Organization & Time schedule
All applications must be received by the ESIS Secretary by 31th January 2016 (5pm, UK time).
The selection of scientists who will receive support will be made by a sub-committee consisting of Aleksandar Sedmak, Valery Shylannikov and Per Ståhle, acting on behalf of the ESIS ExCo.
The sub-committee will announce its decision by 26th February 2016. The decision will be communicated to all applicants by the ESIS Secretary by that date.
Conditions for eligibility for the ESIS support
The conditions of eligibility for ESIS support are:
. i) to study or work in a low-income country (ranked according to average country income);
. ii) to be preferably younger than 37 at the time of the ECF21 Conference (applications by older scientists will be considered)
. iii) to submit a manuscript to ECF21 by 20th February 2016
. iv) to be the prospective presenting author of the paper or poster at the ECF21 Conference.
- Signed declaration of citizenship and current affiliation;
- Abstract submitted to the ECF21 conference.
The selection of the candidates will be made by the sub-committee after ranking according to: (i) eligibility conditions, (ii) the quality of the submitted papers.
Selected scientists must substantiate fulfilment of conditions of eligibility (i) and (ii) by a letter issued and signed by his/her employer and sent to the ESIS secretary by 1st March 2016.


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Chard welcomes TV Chef Mike Robinson for the Cooking Event of the Year
PUBLISHED: 10:29 28 September 2012 | UPDATED: 21:57 20 February 2013
Hold on to your taste buds - The Chefs are back in Town!

The spatulas are on standby, the rolling pins are raring to go....it's been almost four years, but the 'Ultimate Cooking Experience' returns to Spillers in October!
Hold on to your taste buds - The Chefs are back in Town!
The spatulas are on standby, the rolling pins are raring to go....its been almost four years, but the Ultimate Cooking Experience returns to Spillers in October, and it looks to be worth the wait.
For those of you still to visit the nationally renowned showrooms in Chard, Spillers is a twelve thousand square foot kitchen wonderland, overflowing with inspiring room settings and the worlds best loved appliance brands. Its always an exciting place to explore - but add 15 chefs (including TV Chef Mike Robinson), all cooking up a storm and its easy to see why this is hailed as a must see event.
Big brands waiting to tantalise your taste buds include Aga, Miele, Siemens, Lacanche, Rangemaster, Neff, Wolf, Falcon, Rayburn, De Dietrich, Mercury and AEG. As one would expect, there will be plenty of exclusive special offers and everyone attending will get the chance to win a beautiful 3,000 Aga Range Cooker, just by turning up!
Its not all about cooking though - other exciting businesses taking part include Mercedes-Benz, who will be bringing a fleet of prestige cars (don't miss the exclusive 180,000 AMG Roaster) and Jacuzzi Hot Tubs. Local companies on the menu are Forest Foods, Norcotts Cider (with free tasting), Sues Flowers, Leakers Bakery and Barrington Pottery.
The Ultimate Cooking Experience takes place on Saturday October 6th at Spillers in Chard. Opening times are 9am until 5pm, admission is free and parking is easy.
For further information on this great day out, please contact Spillers on 01460 67878 or go to:cookercentre.com


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The second LeMons Rally may not be quite as historically significant as Napoleon's actual retreat from Moscow—forever immortalized through Charles Joseph Minard's 1869 graphic and twisted to our own means (below)—but the mid-winter Retreat From Moscow rally will test your cushy life of modernity. Unlike the first Death-Valley-in-summer Hell on Wheels LeMons Rally, this sequel gives you the glory of traveling the wintry eastern United States with nothing but your untrustworthy whip, some foolish friends, a sense of adventure, and a pile of other janky road cars undergoing the same trials as you.
The rally starts January 31 in Moscow (Pennyslvania) and ends February 3 in Paris (Tennessee), meaning that participants will traverse potential winter wonderlands on the way to overnight stops in Pittsburgh, Asheville, and Memphis. The route ends in Paris with awards handed out in the paddock of the 24 Hours of LeMons' season opener at nearby Barber Motorsports Park in Birmingham, Alabama.
The rules of the LeMons Rally are pretty simple: Bring a street-legal and insured road car to the starting point, where your car will be assessed points on its hooptieness and general bad-idea-tude. (Attempt to) drive your vehicle to the overnight stops listed above. You'll get points for reaching the end of the day. Along the way, additional points can be accrued by stopping at various awesome/scary/terrible checkpoints with your mascot. Creative roadside repairs can also garner points, as can a good story or two (with some documentation).
Trophies are handed out at the end for the most points accrued as well as an Organizer's Choice award, two as-yet-unspecified trophy for deserving fools, and a handful of Dishonorable Mention awards.
Like everything else in the world of LeMons (#LemonsWorld), fun is the object here. So load up your most adventurous and foolhardy friends in some winter-survivable piece of roadgoing junk and register. Check out details on the LeMons Rally and register for it right here.


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In the Details: House Tours that Make Fantastic Use of Wallpaper — Best of 2012
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Wallpaper can be a wonderful addition to a home. It's a great way to add color and pattern in addition to, or in place of, paint. In the last year we have seen it put to use to great effect in many of our house tours. Here are some examples of wallpaper that wows. More


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NVIDIA's GeForce GTX Titan: Yes, It CAN Play Crysis 3
Power Consumption, Noise, Temps
Despite offering significantly better performance, the GeForce GTX Titan consumed only slightly more power than the Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition while under load. Versus the other GeForce GTX cards, the Titan's power consumption falls right in line with expectations based on its performance--it uses more power than a GeForce GTX 680, but less than the dual GK104-powered GeForce GTX 690.
We've included this temperature data to essentially show the GeForce GTX Titan's idle temperature because reporting the max temp under load is pointless due to GPU Boost 2.0. Because of Titan's GPU Boost 2.0 features, it will run up to the maximum temperature target while under load and throttle voltages and fan speed accordingly to maintain that target temperature. Because the default temperature target is 80'C, the Titan peaked at 80'C under load. Set the temp target to 75'C and that's how high its GPU temperature will go.
Having a hard temperature target with the GeForce GTX Titan is interesting because it means cards that are better cooled--either through liquid cooling or when installed in a high-performance chassis--should offer somewhat better performance. The cooler a GeForce GTX Titan runs, the longer it will be able to maintain maximum GPU Boost frequencies, which will ultimately improve performance.
In terms of acoustics, the GeForce GTX Titan is simply awesome. It is easily the quietest high-end graphics card we have ever tested. Period. End of story. In real world conditions, the GeForce GTX Titan is somewhat quieter under load than a GTX 680 and is much quieter than a Radeon HD 7970.


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A universe of talent from a Cosmic guy
COSMO Jarvis will be spending Christmas on a plane.
But he doesn't care in the slightest.
"None of my band really give a shit," Jarvis tells me from home in the United Kingdom where he's preparing to head off on tour.
"I'd rather be in a plane on my way to somewhere beautiful than in suicide central, where I am now."
Surely, I suggest, it isn't as bad as it sounds? Why don't you move somewhere else?
"I'm working on it," he laughs. "I live with the actors from the movie (The Naughty Room). No landlords would rent a place to a bunch of out of work actors."
Jarvis and his band are headed to Australia for an 11-date tour including Falls Festival, Southbound and the first stop, Byron Bay.
While here the band has only one day off. Which is hardly surprising considering Jarvis is involved.
At only 22 years old Jarvis released his third album, Think Bigger, this year. He also released his first feature film, The Naughty Room, countless YouTube videos and has written more than 300 songs in his career.
But that's not even the extent of Jarvis's talents.
He's a singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, producer, director, scriptwriter, actor, performer and a really nice guy.
He not only directs his own film clips but he stars in them as well, including the popular single Love This, where he can be seen striding down a street in a devil suit.
And he's also played almost every instrument on Think Bigger. Is he a control freak? Or does he just love the process of creation?
"A bit of both I guess," he says. "I am a control freak and I've gotten used to doing it all myself.
"I love to contribute to the film ideas and I love acting in them.
"Plus, I can't get any more acting work anywhere else so I have to make it myself."
The film clip for Love This is done in one shot. But it took more than 22 takes to get it done.
"We started shooting the rehearsals so it's not just to do with the competence of the actors," he says.
Jarvis came into the Australian consciousness last year thanks to the rollicking sea shanty single Gay Pirates which landed him in triple j's Hottest 100.
His film, about a dysfunctional family (similar to his own upbringing in Devon, UK) was picked up by the BBC.
Having success in both areas, Jarvis says he doesn't favour either one.
"Film takes the longest," he says. "I'm mid-way through my second feature (Abandon Hope) and the writing process is taking months already.
"But I'm also ill-equipped to do it, so that's not helping. Where as I had done most of the tracks on my last album in three weeks."
Cosmo Jarvis: Playing The Rails, Byron Bay on Boxing Day, 7pm, free.


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I had the very best of intentions...my pal, Jennifer even brought her camera over Saturday night too...and not a picture was taken all evening! (I do have a picture of a cute weiner in the Santa chair...but that's it).;)
I guess we were just having too much fun...maybe next year we'll get some. ;) It was a really nice evening with friends, I'm so glad that SO many folks came out to help kick of the holiday season with us!
One week from Friday...just ONE more week from Friday I will be finished with this Reading class that I am taking...I've been spending 2-3 hrs a DAY reading & doing work for this...
I DO have a recipe to share with you.
It's an EASY Mexican Chicken Dish (or as Miss O calls it "Chicken Ala Casserole"...ha)
You need chicken strips, shredded cheese, cream of chicken soup, sour cream, rotel and uncooked tortilla shells.
When I make this for dinner I serve it with greens, diced tomatoes & diced avocados, salsa & tortilla chips.
It's YUMMY!
Cook your chicken strips in a skillet, cut them in bite sized pieces and mix them in a bowl with drained rotel, cream of chicken soup & 3/4 of a cup of sour cream (you might even cut back to a 1/2 cup sour cream if you're not a fan). Salt & pepper to taste.
You will need to spray your container and place a layer of torn tortilla shells on the bottom.
Then place a layer of your mixture, then top that layer with cheese.
Repeat your layering....torn shells, mixture, cheese.
Bake in the oven for 40 minutes at 350 degrees or until the top is melted & bubbly.
I was looking through my winter pictures & found these pictures of Sneaky E...about 19 months old...he was just this little a minute ago!! :(
It goes by way too fast!
Today is one of those days where the weather man assures you that there is a 100% chance of rain & cloud cover all day.
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The Material Collective Plays with Food
Last summer, the Material Collective was invited by Karen Leader and Amy Hamlin, the founders of Art History That, to participate in their day-long set of sessions at the annual meeting of the College Art Association. The Material Collective and Art History That are fellow travelers in the quest to make art history more relevant, more socially engaged, more playful – and we had collaborated with them before at CAA 2016 in Washington, DC.
This time around, we were asked to participate in the lunchtime session, "Art History Plays with Food." We came up with the idea of rethinking Judy Chicago's iconic work, The Dinner Party from the 1970s, an installation of 39 place settings representing and honoring mythological and historical women of the past usually excluded from art historical and historical discourse. We thought that we would focus on the plight of contingent faculty in our discipline, and in academia more broadly, in an attempt to invite them to the table and partner with them to search for solutions to the demeaning adjunctification of the professorate.
The Election Changes Everything
After November 8, we changed our minds.
To us, the results of the election have created an even more pressing sense of urgency. The post-election period has spawned a rise of racist, anti-Semitic, Islamophobic, anti-gay, misogynist speech and actions. Not only are some people increasingly excluded from the table, their very identities, even their very lives, are under threat.
To that end, we decided to shift our focus, and invite to the table people representing groups that traditionally have been marginalized, that have been overlooked, that have been actively discriminated against – and in our present political landscape, that are even directly targeted as a result of bigotry and xenophobia. We featured 10 artists who engage with issues of identity, and let them speak for themselves through images of representation, often self-representation.
Ten Artists, Multiple Identities
The artists, eight women and two men, occupy a range of identities. All but one are people of color. Some are Muslim. Some are immigrants. Some are gay or transgender. One is a political refugee. One is autistic. Most of them are working artists at various stages in their careers and at various levels of fame. Two are deceased. One is a contingent faculty member, the group that we had originally wanted to highlight. The artists were, in the order they appeared in our installation (click the links to see the images and biographies):
- Loïs Mailou Jones
- Deborah Kass
- Claude Cahun
- Sausan Saulat
- Bahareh Khoshooee
- Laura Molina
- Mickalene Thomas
- Jaune Quick-to-See Smith
- Jonathan Lerman
- Pipo Ngyuen-Duy
We created place settings with a plate, silverware, glass and napkin; on each plate rested a representative image from each artist. Each place setting was accompanied by a short artist's biography, either directly supplied by the artist, or drawn from the artist's website or other vetted sources
A large poster explaining our project anchored the display, and another poster listed the names of organizations, such as the ACLU, Black Lives Matter, Jewish Voice for Peace, and other advocacy groups.
We also had empty paper plates and magic markers available so that people could participate in the project by adding their own names of people or groups marginalized or threatened, or by adding names of organizations.Visitors to our display added these plates:
- All Indigenous Australians and Islanders
- Standing Rock Sioux Tribe
- Ana Mendieta and the many women who straddle the line between Latinx and Latin American identities
- Contingent Faculty
- Undergrads at CAA 2017
- Rising Tide California
Organizing While White
While we were pleased to be able to present this project, we also did so with not just a modicum of trepidation. The organizers are three white women (Martha Easton, Rachel Dressler, Maggie Williams). The last thing we wanted to do was to speak for others, to appropriate voices not our own or represent others in a way that they would not support. (After all, the original Dinner Party had only one African-American woman, Sojourner Truth, and her plate was the only one of the 39 that did not represent its subject with a vaginal image). We tried to head off any potential conflicts by reaching out, via individual contacts, the Material Collective Facebook page, and CAA more broadly, to scholars who deal more directly with issues of art and race. We received a positive response although no one was available to contribute directly to the project.
We were especially buoyed by the reactions of the artists themselves. We reached out to all of the living artists through various means (and contacted the Jones estate), and the great majority of them responded, very enthusiastically, to our project, often supplying edits to their bios, or high-res images of their work.
The project overall was received in very positive terms. Many people took photos of the individual place settings and the posters, and were supportive of the display and its intentions. We hope that the readers of this blog will enjoy the artists and the work, and appreciate the spirit of the enterprise. We welcome feedback, comments, advice—and most especially, suggestions for further advocacy and activism.


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Amman,, The activities of the prepared lion of the 2019 exercise in its ninth edition which will last until September 5, with the participation of 8 thousand representatives of 29 Arab and foreign countries including Iraq.
The United States, Australia, Austria, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Oman, Italy, Cyprus, Bahrain, Qatar, Belgium, Brunei, Canada, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Greece, Netherlands, Japan, Kenya, Kuwait, Lebanon, Pakistan, Spain, United Arab Emirates, Britain, Tajikistan, Norway and Jordan will participate in the exercise.
According to media spokesperson Brigadier General Mohammad Al-Thalji, the exercise contributes to developing the ability to adapt with Arab and foreign countries to achieve strategic and mobilization goals that enhance cooperation and readiness between the participating countries in the field of combating terrorism, and simulates joint work and training in traditional and non-traditional operations, command and control procedures and cyber-security. .
He said in a press statement today that the exercise comes within the strategic efforts made by the Jordanian armed forces to strengthen and enhance relations with the participating countries in all military areas, especially training.
He noted that the exercise seeks to strengthen the capacity of the armed forces to work and common understanding of various types through field training and seminars and strengthen the mechanism of coordination with institutions involved in crisis management ministries and security agencies.
He pointed out that the prepared lion is considered the most important and largest exercises carried out by the armed forces in terms of the nature and size of the participating forces and the number of countries, pointing out that the first version of the exercise was launched in 2011, as this year is being held for the ninth time, and is carried out by land, sea and air forces estimated at 8 thousand participants .
Brigadier-General Bradley Swanson, director of training at the US Central Command, said the exercise is in its ninth year to cope with common threats, highlighting the importance and value of the exercise by demonstrating a commitment to partnerships to defend our countries with readiness and rapid response under unstable security conditions.
Combined training helps reduce threat by developing new ideas and scenarios that improve countries' ability to assess the operational environment. He added.
Bradley said military engagements, whether practical training, seminars for senior commanders, or public visits are ways to ensure that we fully understand strategic and operational opportunities. Exercises in particular increase the importance of working in unfamiliar environments, increasing the value and usefulness of teamwork and joint training. .
It is noteworthy that the prepared lion exercise is the result of military partnerships between the participating countries in various operational and training fields and its activities are carried out in several training fields of the Jordanian Armed Forces.
Source: National Iraqi News Agency


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Another Delay in OSHA Post-Accident Drug Testing Rule Enforcement
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About a month ago we hosted a webinar with our friends at Constangy, Brooks, Smith & Prophete to help you get ready for the new post-incident drug testing rules coming out of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA). The rules were originally set to go into effect in August. The date was pushed back until November 1st, and now, thanks to a case in Texas, the new date is December 1, 2016.
The first delay happened because employers were confused about what "reasonable" reporting procedures meant when it came to post-accident drug testing and safety incentive programs. The agency offered some guidance back in October to help clear that up. The latest delay is happening because the judge overseeing the litigation of Texo ABC/AGC Inc. v. United States Secretary of Labor has requested more time to consider the issues in the case. The plaintiffs are seeking injunctive relief from the OSHA rules because it limits safety incentive programs and mandatory post-accident drug testing programs. Judge Sam Lindsey in Dallas is considering whether a nationwide injunction for employers is warranted and if the court can even impose such an injunction.
Related: OSHA Delays Enforcement of Post-Accident Drug Testing Rule to December
Another big issue with the rule, aside from the case in Texas, is that it originally restricted testing methods that could not indicate a person's level of impairment. Unfortunately, no drug test can measure impairment, so employers pushed back. Alcohol is the only substance that can be tested this way, and OSHA says the rule only applies to tests that are available.
The bottom line for employers, regardless of any changes in date or guidance, is that these new post-accident rules cannot be used as a form of discipline or retaliation and they must be used in an objective and reasonable way. Employers that are regulated by state and federal drug testing laws are not impacted by this rule.
During our webinar, Tommy Eden gave us some Common Sense Steps to eliminate confusion in light of the OSHA changes. You can download the webinar recording to hear the full discussion, or read through our summary below:
Common Sense Steps to Eliminate Employer Confusion in light of latest OSHA Post-Accident Drug Testing Guidance:
1) Adopt a DFWP policy, in accordance with the State Laws, in order to reduce insurance premiums is not retaliatory and therefore seems permissible under §1904.35(b)(1)(iv), even though employers are not literally required by state or federal law or regulation to implement drug-free workplaces Because the motivation to take advantage of state DFWP statutes is to reduce insurance premiums or disqualification of workers' compensation claims for statutory violations, such policies are likely to be viewed by OSHA as compliant. Having the State Agency, or attorney, written certification is highly recommended
Well Drafted BEST Practices DFWP Guidance:
- Should meet State DFWP Laws and be customized for your business
- Should cover WC and UC Disqualifications
- Should deal with Medical and Recreational Marijuana Issues
- Should handle pre-duty prescription medication disclosure under the ADA
- Should cover this new OSHA guidance
- Should be easy to read and understand by employees and supervisors
- Should include all required pre-employment and active employee signoff forms, checklists, notices and specimen documents (last chance agreement)
2) Including Disqualification for a Post-Accident Positive or Refusal language under the States' Workers Compensation in your DFWP is a wise step to be able to show testing for a lawful and permissible purpose – reduction of workers' compensation cost and encourage an unimpaired drug free workforce. Under Section 4 of the OSH Act employer rights concerning Workers Compensation are outside of OSHA's jurisdiction
3) For those employers who are simply accepting an insurance carrier's premium discount offer that includes mandated post-accident drug testing for reportable injuries, or required to be part of a self-insured workers' compensation fund, in the absence of a State certified DFWP statute, the arrangement requiring post-accident testing should be captured in writing.
4) Adopt a customized confidential post incident/accident report form that captures:
- The how, when, who and why of the incident/accident
- Did the employee's action, or in-action, contribute to the incident/accident, or cannot be completely discounted as a contributing factor?
- Include in checklist "triggers" matching your new post incident/accident testing circumstances or events
- Include in your checklist dual supervisor sign-offs
- Completed form is evidence of legitimate, non-discriminatory reason for the adverse action; i.e. post-accident drug test
5) Train supervisors, safety, HR and line managers on:
- Your new Post incident/accident drug testing criteria
- How to utilize your new Post incident/accident drug testing report
- Train your Drug Testing TPA, Occupational Physicians' offices, post-accident clinics to ask if the Report has been completed as part of their authorization to conduct post-accident testing
- Train supervisors on reasonable suspicion testing & reasonable possibility testing and provide them checklist for both
- Train HR and supervisors on the use of last chance agreements as a risk reduction strategy
If you have any questions, feel free to reach out to Tommy Eden with Constangy, Brooks, Smith & Prophete at firstname.lastname@example.com or 334-246-2901. You can also download our webinar with Tommy here:


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RCPCH responds to first quarterly report on delivery of recommendations at Cwm Taf
9 October 2019
In April this year, the Welsh Government published a report produced by Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists and the Royal College of Midwives, reviewing maternity services at Cwm Taf Health Board.
RCPCH responds to Health and Social Care Committee report on child obesity
29 May 2018
Prevention is key to reducing obesity, says RCPCH's Dr Max Davie, but those already obese must have the appropriate support available.
Giving Calpol® paracetamol to children
25 May 2018
There have been a number of recent media articles about the use of Calpol® paracetamol in children for treating a fever. The RCPCH urges all parents to take advice from NHS Choices and Medicines for Children when administering medicines to their children.
School referrals for mental health treatment rise by a third
11 May 2018
RCPCH's Dr Max Davie responds to new figures from the NSPCC which reveal the number of referrals by schools seeking mental health treatment for pupils has risen by over a third in the last three years.
London mayor announces plans to ban junk food ads on Transport for London
10 May 2018
We congratulate the Mayor of London on his bold move and urge others to follow suit.
RCPCH responds to new child mortality study
3 May 2018
English under 5's are one and half times more likely to die than those living in Sweden. RCPCH responds to new paper published in Lancet.


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With the phenomenal growth of the company and its proven expertise in multi-level marketing, Unified Products and Services Incorporated shifted to be an independent Multi-Level Marketing Company, who will cater not only traditional products but also technology based services such as Remittance, Ticketing, Bills Payments and Universal Loading.
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Mountain Bikes for sale - Great Selection Great Prices !
Up the fun factor. The Orange Crush S 27.5 is a hardcore, hardtail mountain bike that is built to be pushed that little bit harder, up, down and even sideways.
Updated for 2017 the 6061-T6 aluminium frame is now a little longer which, combined with the 50mm stem, offers the ideal riding position for balanced weight distribution and direct input. The chainstays are a little shorter and at 65-degrees the head angle is a little slacker for a more confident ride both uphill and down. Other updated features include cables neatly routed under the top tube, stealth dropper options and a seat clamp slot that is now positioned out of the way of rear wheel spray.
The RockShox Yari RC fork offers 150mm of trail slaying suspension travel and features Boost hub spacing for a stiffer front end. The Shimano SLX 1x11 speed drivetrain offers slick shifting with a wide range of gears for taking on the whole mountain. Shimano hydraulic disc brakes offer confident stopping power.
The Orange Crush S is a hardtail that gives no quarter to seemingly tougher full sus bikes.
Key Features:
Frame: 6061-T6 Custom Butted OS Aluminium Tube
Fork: RockShox Yari 150 RC Boost
Headset: FPD 44mm
Bars: Kore Durox 760mm
Stem: Kore Cubix 50mm
Shifters: Shimano SLX 11spd
Front Mech: Top Guide Chain Device
Rear Mech: Shimano SLX Shadow + 11spd
Speed: 11
Chainset: Race Face Ride Single 32t
Bottom Bracket: Race Face
Cassette: SRAM PG1130 11-42 11spd
Chain: SRAM PC1110 11spd
Front Brake: Shimano M506 180mm/160mm
Rear Brake: Shimano M506 180mm/160mm
Rims: Formula + Alex MD25 27.5"
Tyres: WTB Vigilante/Trail Boss Front - WTB Vigilante/Trail Boss Rear
Seatpost: Race Face Ride
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My 20-month-old nephew Sam has a very cute habit. When he comes to the house he likes to keep tabs on everyone. If you leave the room, he calls you. His adorable, little voice calling your name (or his version of your name) just melts your heart. Part of it could be that he wants everyone's undivided attention and that he knows how cute he is when he does it. The person being summoned invariably calls "Sa-am! I'm he-ere!" He smiles because he realizes you weren't very far away and goes back to whatever he was playing with, satisfied that you have not left.
He also asks questions such as "What is that?" all the time! It is how he learns names and concepts such as "hot" and "cold" and all the parts of any car which he loves (i.e. roof, trunk, wheels). He asks because he wants to know and he knows we'll answer. Sam also repeats what we say, almost as though to make sure he's got it right.
This got me to thinking about how we are with God. I realized I could learn a lot from Sam. Do we call on Him when he seems far away? Do we ask Him for guidance, teaching? Do we ask Him for provision? Do we wait for an answer? Do we repeat His words to keep them in memory?
So much to be learned from spending the day with one sweet, little guy!
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She Laughs Like Betty Rubble
Nov 26th, 2013 by Wrinkled Sheets
Congrats to Janet's partner on Two Girls And A Bottle of Wine. Her and her boyfriend just got engaged after being together for ten years!! You can check out their podcast at www.twogirlsandabottleofwine.podbean.com
Bad Morning Show Quiz – Some 6000 Americans check into a hospital each year with injuries from this. What do you think the answer is…
The America Music Awards were last Sunday… Listen to our recap. It isn't a real award show, did you know that? Justin Timberlake won for two very different categories. Rihanna got a huge award at only 25 years old. Florida Georgia Line won Single of the Year. Taylor Swift won BIG. What did Miley do? Steve was so excited to hear the details. Janet describes the mess that is Miley at the AMA's. Steve looks for the deeper meaning in her performance… what it her intention to push pussy.
Ronnie Dunn has been causing some controversy with his comments about new country music.
A cat lover made a helicopter out of WHAT? What would you do to keep your pet around forever?
Life of Pi had a tiger in it and apparently the tiger was very ill and almost died. This isn't the first time that animals were injured on set.
Janet and Steve review The Counselor with Brad Pitt and Cameron Diaz.
Steve reviews the new movie NEBRASKA with Bruce Dern.
A certain type of movie is going to banned in the UK…. What kind is it? Listen to find out.
Steve admits that he has a FOOD PORN problem.
Steve reminds us that spankings are not illegal. What is wrong with parents today? Kids are running crazy because they aren't raised properly. Did you know that children's' frontal lobes are not developed until later in life.
What is the game KNOCK OUT? Teenagers are seriously hurting people for the fun of it.
PARENTS!! Do you know what Snapchat is? If you don't you should. We explain it.
Who attends PTA meetings? Are they still a way for parents to stay aware of what is going on in the lives of their children?
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SAN GABRIEL >> The City Council unanimously approved the first reading of an ordinance to restrict private tour buses and stop the roadside loading and unloading of passengers that residents say has clogged city streets.
The ordinance prohibits private tour buses, many of which travel to and from Inland Valley casinos, from stopping on any city street except in cases of emergency. Violators will receive a citation.
Mayor John Harrington said the ordinance was a way for the city to gain some control over the buses, which have caused wear and tear on city streets, often park in residential neighborhoods and many times leave behind trash and litter.
"The whole idea here is not put them out of business but balance it and make them have a reasonable place to load and unload, where they have authority from the building owner, so we know where it's going to be and that people want it there," Harrington said. "The spirit of the ordinance is to have it be a little more orderly and organized and take away the impact to some residents, and the cost to the city."
Hieu Tran, owner of San Gabriel Superstore, said he supported the decision because many buses pick up passengers in front of his store at the corner of Valley Boulevard and San Gabriel Boulevard.
"We appreciate the effort of city staff on the tour bus (issue)," Tran said at Tuesday's meeting. "Please vote yes."
City Engineer Daren Grilley said that the buses had become a source of many resident complaints in recent months because many park on residential streets. He said staff developed an ordinance through a special task force made up of representatives from the community development, public works, finance and police departments.
"The buses have virtually no positive impact to city residents or businesses," Grilley said. "Problems include traffic, safety concerns, criminal activity, environmental nuisances and disruption to residential neighborhoods near Valley Boulevard."
He said the proposed ordinance is based on a similar one passed in Monterey Park in 2005. The ordinance does not apply to public transit buses.
Grilley said the city sent out notices of the ordinance to 73 tour bus businesses in San Gabriel and Monterey Park and received no response. However, Councilman Chin Ho Liao said one bus company, headquartered in San Gabriel, complained to him that it would have no place to load and unload passengers with the new law in place.
Liao said he hoped that the bus companies could reach an agreement with private businesses, such as the San Gabriel Superstore, to pay to be allowed to load the buses in their parking lot. He added that he hoped the city could help facilitate those conversations.
"I want to find a solution. I would like to make everybody happy," Liao said. "We just want to have better control of these casino buses."
The ordinance will come back for a second reading at a future council meeting. For more information visit www.sangabrielcity.com.


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According to SEO Consultant, Gaz Hall: "A permanent redirect from one URL to another indicates the original URL has changed for good." Much of the time, it makes sense for the search engines to deliver results from older sources that have stood the test of time. However, sometimes the response should be from newer sources of information Users searchingfor your site on Google might not necessarily want to land on your homepage. Sitelinks on the SERP provide them with a direct link to other parts of your site which might be more relevant to them. Backlinks are absolutely key to boosting your site's position in search engines, moving you from page 50 to page 5, from page 5 to page 1. But why? Well, according to most search engines, a site that is being talked about and recommended a lot online must be doing so for good reason. Sitemaps help Google understand your site. Anything that helps Google do its job will give you a boost, and these are no different.
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Various HTML elements can be altered to target certain keywords to improve a page's ranking. It is also worth checking out your main competition to see which keywords they are targeting. A spammer wants to scrape your content before Google crawls it, so your website is punished for duplications. This awareness, in the long run, could even potentially lead to customer conversions on your site. How-to tutorials and guides can also make for excellent evergreen content.
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There are other perils to keyword stuffing than just being ignored by Google, however. When a user visits a search engine, they type words into the search box to find what they are looking for. The search terms they type are called keywords and the combinations of keywords are keyphrases Dealing with a Google algorithm change like the page layout update can feel like falling into an abyss of constant web design changes over and over again. Where appropriate, you should add localization. This is extremely important to businesses who offer products and services to a specific geographic region. How can you make sure that people are frequently reminded about your content? 'Top of mind' also means 'tip on tongue'.


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The youth-written stories in Represent give inspiration and information to teens in foster care while offering staff insight into those teens' struggles.
ELA Literacy & Social and Emotional Learning
Don't Push Me Out, Push Me Forward
Story Summary: Selena doesn't feel like she belongs anywhere as she moves from school to school and from foster home to foster home. Fed up with the chaos, she cuts class, curses at teachers, and starts fights with students. Selena wants to learn but her teachers' insensitive and sarcastic remarks compel her to act out even more. But if they tried to understand where her anger came from, she'd make more of an effort to succeed academically.
See the story "Don't Push Me Out, Push Me Forward"
Lesson Objectives and Common Core Connections
• Students make personal connections to a text and successfully participate in story-based activities and discussions.
• Students will recognize and describe their emotions and thoughts.
• Students will increase empathy with other youth's experiences.
• Students will read and comprehend literary nonfiction proficiently (CCLS R.10).
• Students will write routinely over extended and shorter time frames for a range of tasks, purposes, and audiences (CCLS W.10).
Before Reading the Story (10 min)
This opening activity will activate background knowledge to boost reading comprehension and set the emotional tone for the story.
1. Welcome students to the group. Introduce the lesson by telling them you will be reading a true story by a teen who struggles with feeling like she belongs at school.
2. Introduce the freewrite activity by explaining that students will have about four minutes to respond to a prompt in writing. The goal is to express their thoughts freely without worrying about writing conventions. The expectation is that everyone writes, without stopping, for the full time.
3. Share the freewrite prompt: "Divide your paper into two columns. On the left side, list all the ways your school makes you feel comfortable, motivated, and valued. On the right side, list all the ways that your school makes you feel unsafe, disengaged, or not valued."
4. After students have completed the freewrite, transition to a pair share. Students should select a partner or turn to the person next to them.
5. Facing each other and practicing active listening, partners each take a turn sharing items from either of the two columns that they feel comfortable sharing. The listener should not respond, but should actively listen to the speaker. You can use a timer or wait until the hum of conversation dies down before closing the activity.
6. Thank students for sharing their writing and thinking.
During Reading (20 min)
By practicing active reading strategies while reading aloud and discussing as a group, students build comprehension and support fluency.
1. Introduce the story (see the summary above).
2. Share the expectations for a group read-aloud: volunteers take turns reading aloud as much or as little as they would like. As the group leader, you may stop periodically to discuss or check in on active reading by asking students to share their responses to the story.
3. Tell students they will practice an active reading strategy called reading for a purpose. This will help them read for a purpose and be prepared to use the text in later activities.
4. Reading for a purpose directions: Ask students to read for moments in the text when people in Selena's school offered her support, or made her feel like she belonged. When this occurs in the text, students should place a (♥) in the margins of the story. Then read for moments in the text when teachers in Selena's school made her feel like she didn't belong. When this occurs in the text, students should place a (☹) in the margins of the story.
5. While sitting in a circle, read the story aloud together. Stop to discuss periodically, supporting peer-to-peer talk and non-judgmental listening. To do this, ask for volunteers to share what they wrote a (♥) and a (☹) next to and why. Alternately, you can pose an open question such as "What stands out to you in this section and why?"
6. Next, ask the group to further consider these questions:
• What connections can you make to Selena's school experiences?
• What are some ways her teachers and school staff could have engaged her, or made her feel like she belonged?
• What could Selena have done to let her teachers know that they were wrong about her?
After Reading the Story (15 min)
During this post-reading activity, students will make connections, build understanding, and rehearse positive behaviors.
1. Introduce the writing activity by explaining to the group that they will have an opportunity to create a supportive conversation between Selena and someone at her school.
2. Share the following quote, lifted from Selena's story: "I went from a kid who doesn't care about classes and teachers to a kid who participates and focuses on her academics. Now teachers push me forward, instead of trying to push me out."
3. Have students find a partner. Each pair should choose a part of the story where either of them placed a (☹), or create a new situation between Selena and another adult, or friend, at her school.
4. Have pairs write their conversations using these guidelines:
• Write a conversation between Selena and a person who pushes her forward instead of pushing her out. You can write it like a text message conversation, or how it would look in a play.
• Have the other person offer support to Selena and make her feel welcome in her school.
• Have Selena explain why she acts out or isn't always in school.
• Have both Selena and the other person explain what they want from each other to have a successful student-teacher relationship.
5. Give students about 10 minutes to write.
6. Invite pairs to volunteer to perform their conversations for the larger group. Once pairs have performed, you could debrief by asking the following questions:
• Why do you think it's important for teachers and students to have these types of conversations?
• What do you think would happen in your school if these conversations were happening all the time?
7. Thank students for being thoughtful members of the group and working to make connections to Serena's story, reflect on their own lives, and share with one another.
Copyright © Youth Communication. Permission is automatically granted to individual teachers to copy this story for use with a single class or group in nonprofit educational settings. Check our permissions page for all other uses.


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1. Your name, title, and age? What do you do (or did you do) for a living?
Mary Ellen Ciganovich – author "Healing Words, Life Lessons to Inspire", Holistic and Spiritual Educator, Life Coach.
In the past I taught middle school for over 14 years in 4 different states – North Carolina, West Virginia, Georgia and Connecticut before being diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis in 1986. (Not to worry I am fine) I now teach Holistic Healing , Spirituality and am a Life Coach.
Note to you before I go further: Although today I consider my self healthy – my doctor records read otherwise: At the age of 6 yrs old I was diagnosed with epilepsy – I never let it hold me back. I was fortunate that my mother was a school teacher and she could instruct the other school teachers to treat me normally. I was a varsity cheerleader and a teen model in Atlanta. I graduated Magna Cum Laude in Education from the University of Georgia – married and had one daughter who is now a Physician's Assistant in Arizona. After a difficult divorce I moved back to Atlanta and took up playing tournament racquetball. This is when my MS was diagnosed because when I would get hot I would lose my balance and I would start seeing 2 balls?????!!!! Didn't know which one to hit – I finally quit this sport and play now on occasion for fun or to teach someone the sport. Since I was diagnosed with MS in 1986 I have never taken any of the Multiple Sclerosis medications as they were not available then and since I am doing so well now I do not wish to take anything I do not KNOW I need. My neurologist is very supportive of me and my self-healing philosophy. I am very strict about what I eat and drink – I take work out classes daily varying from aerobics to power flex to yoga and pilates.
I apologize for adding this information and I did not think you would understand me – if you did not know what I have been through.
2. Who was the person that inspired you as a child to eat healthy and stay fit? What was their relationship to you?
My entire family inspired me to be healthy because they "saw" me as sickly – due to my diagnosis – so I always worked hard to be healthy. I just wanted to be normal. I guess if I had to pick one person it would be my mother.
She always told us to drink milk so our teeth and bones would be strong and healthy. Mom also encouraged us to go out an play ride our bikes etc… Soda – like Coke and Pepsi – were forbidden in our home. It was either water, organge juice or milk.
3. What did they do to inspire you?
Mom was the oldest of 7 brothers and sisters in an all Polish family. They never had enough money for milk and eggs – or the foods she considered healthy – she mad it her mission to make sure her children had these good foods. I think it worked as I have a great smile and have NEVER had braces or anything!
4. How did their lesson change your life?
My mom taught me discipline, responsibility and very healthy eating and living habits. She made us responsible for our rooms being neat and organized. We could not go out to play unless all homework, housework and chores were completed.
5. Do you convey their message to kids in your life presently?
I brought me daughter up in essentially the same way – with a little bit more compassion and friendliness thrown in. She is very responsible, very neat and organized. She graduated from Northwestern Medical school with honors and is now a practicing Physician's Assistant in Arizona. Stephanie – my daughter – has decided to become a vegetarian which is fine with me. I am not a vegetarian and I eat very little meat – almost no red meat and NO pork.
6. What would be your main message to children today to lead healthy lifestyles?
My message to kids would be to go outside play and have fun! Put your video games away until the power goes out or late at night. I miss seeing kids jump rope, play kickball in the streets or just run in the yard catching lightning bugs! Also put away the carbonated beverages – carbonation is one of the worse things a kid can consume – not only is the sugar bad the carbonation is horrible for anyone kid or adult! Also read – not on a kindle – hold a book in your hands and read! Go camping or make a fort in the woods – be childlike – have FUN!!!!
7. Do you have a web site you would like to promote….web address only?
www.askmaryellen.com or friend me on facebook under Mary Ellen Ciganovich


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Pomegranate Jam
(Nar Receli)
1 bottle of pomegranate juice- POM Wonderful 473 ml + 25 ml water
1 red apple*, peeled, discard the seeds, thinly grated
2 cups sugar
1 handful pomegranate seeds
1 cinnamon stick
1 tbsp lemon juice
Place the pomegranate juice in a medium-size pot. Pour for about 25 ml water into the bottle, shake and pour it into the pot along with the apple, sugar, pomegranate seeds and cinnamon stick.
Cook for about 10 minutes at medium-low heat. Then turn the heat a little bit more to low and cook for 20 minutes at medium-low heat.**
Add the lemon juice into the marmalade a few minutes before you turn off the heat and stir. Wait until it cools down a little bit, then place it into a clean jar and close the lid tightly. Store in a dark and cool place.
You can have Pomegranate Jam poured on top of the Turkish Yogurt or Goat Cheese with fresh Walnuts. You can also serve Pomegranate Jam as an ice cream topping with almond slices or crumbled walnuts:)
A pomegranate gives a mess to everything around you when you get the seeds out of it. That's why I used a bottle of Pomegranate juice and this way I avoided to stain my shirt:)
* Red apple gives the right consistency to Pomegranate Jam, otherwise it gets runny.
** Test the jam by dabbing a little on one of the cold plate. Wait for a few seconds, then push the jam with your fingertip. If it wrinkles, it is done:) If not, cook for 2-3 more minutes.
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