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SCIENCE AND INTERNET TECHNOLOGY => INTERNET => ENGINEERING, SCIENCE and TECHNOLOGY => Topic started by: cooljoe on May 20, 2013, 06:51:58 PM
UK Astronaut Tim Peake 'Thrilled' At Space Opportunity
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UK astronaut Tim Peake 'thrilled' at space opportunity
By Jonathan Amos
Tim Peake says he is thrilled to have been given the opportunity to go to the International Space Station (ISS).
The UK astronaut told BBC News it was a "huge privilege" and the culmination of everything he had worked for during his aviation career.
A former major and helicopter pilot in the British Army Air Corps, Tim Peake will join Expedition 46 to the ISS, launching in November or December 2015.
His stay at the 415km-high outpost is expected to last just over five months.
Tasks once in orbit will include helping to maintain the 27,000km/h platform and carrying out science experiments in Esa's Columbus laboratory module, which is attached to the front of the 400-tonne complex.
It is understood there is a strong chance he will also get to perform a spacewalk.
"I am delighted to have been assigned to a long-duration mission to the International Space Station," he told me.
"On a personal level, this feels like the high point of an incredibly rewarding career in aviation.
"It is a huge privilege to be able to fly to space. I look forward to the challenges ahead and I shall be doing my utmost to maximise this opportunity for European science, industry and education to benefit from this mission."
Forty-one-year-old Mr Peake hails from Chichester, and is so far the only Briton ever to be accepted into the European Astronaut Corps.
In some senses, he will become the "first official British astronaut", because all previous UK-born individuals who have gone into orbit have done so either through the US space agency (Nasa) as American citizens or on independent ventures organised with the assistance of the Russian space agency.
Tim Peake getting some advice from Michael Foale - the most experienced "UK spaceman"
As an Esa astronaut, "Major Tim" will be flying under the union flag on a UK-government-sponsored programme.
Major Tim's assignment is made as British space activity is experiencing a big renaissance.
The space industry in the UK is growing fast, employing tens of thousands of workers and contributing some ?9bn in value to the national economy.
The government has also raised substantially its subscription to Esa, and the agency has responded by opening its first technical base in the country.
Ecsat (European Centre for Space Applications and Telecoms) is sited on the Harwell science campus in Oxfordshire.
Traditionally, British governments have steadfastly refused to get involved in human spaceflight, and even the current administration puts only a minimal amount of money into this specific Esa programme.
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Science editor, BBC News
Science Minister David Willetts regards the ?16m to secure Tim Peake's ticket as money well spent.
While Nasa wraps its astronauts in the rhetoric of fabled explorers - lots of "celestial destiny" and "bold endeavour" - the British take is far more mundane: the press release announcing Tim Peake's mission is mainly about British industry and jobs.
So when he dons his spacesuit, and checks the union flag's in place, there'll be a lot riding on his multi-layered shoulders.
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But Dr Thomas Reiter, the director of human spaceflight at Esa, said he hoped the benefits that would accrue to Britain through Major Tim's flight might encourage deeper participation in the future.
He told BBC News: "I am indeed hoping... that the returns in terms of science, technology, applications and the outreach aspect - that this will all help the decision at the next ministerial council, and the follow-ons, to hopefully increase the UK's participation in human spaceflight in the ISS exploitation programme, and of course in the perspective of exploration beyond low-Earth orbit."
There is sure to be huge interest in Major Tim's adventure.
The recently returned ISS commander, Canadian Chris Hadfield, attracted a big following for his tweets, videos and songs from the platform. His rendition of David Bowie's A Space Oddity has become a YouTube hit.
Major Tim will be endeavouring to achieve something of the same impact.
The UK astronaut tells BBC science editor David Shukman that it is a "true privilege" to be assigned to a long-duration mission
"I do strum the guitar badly," he admits, but as for singing, the Briton says he is not in the same class as Chris Hadfield. "Under Pressure", a 1981 release with Freddie Mercury and Queen, is Major Tim's favourite Bowie number. "Quite apt, I suppose!"
Scientists are already working on ideas for experiments that the UK spaceman could do on the ISS.
Britain recently joined Esa's European Life and Physical Sciences in Space (Elips) programme, which organises much of the research conducted on the orbiting platform.
Studying systems and processes in its microgravity environment gives researchers a unique perspective. In an Earth laboratory, gravity pulls hard on everything; but if the notions of "up" and "down" can be removed - as is the case on the freefalling station - then some unusual things start to happen.
Gases and liquids that are heated do not rise and sink as they would normally, and suspended particles do not settle out into neat layers of different sizes.
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The International Space Station (ISS) is larger than a football pitch
The first module called Zarya was launched into orbit in 1998
It took 13 years to complete at a cost of around $100bn
There is a permanent crew of six astronauts onboard who carry out space environment research
Watch NASA astronauts describe the unique view from the ISS
By removing the "mask" of gravity, it then becomes possible to study the effects of other forces more easily.
Philip Carvil, from the UK Space Biomedical Association, said: "During his mission, Tim will likely be performing a host of experiments that can range from human physiology to material science.
"With around 700 experiments performed on the ISS thus far, the opportunity for research development continually inspires hundreds of institutions around the world to create experiments to better understand the Universe around us and improve the quality of life on Earth.
"At this very moment, several groups are already testing their projects on the ground and/or simulated microgravity for integration in future missions."
Helen Sharman was the first Briton to go into space in 1991 on Project Juno, a cooperative project between a number of UK companies and the Soviet government. She spent a week at the Mir space station.
The most experienced British-born astronaut is Nasa's Michael Foale. He has accumulated 374 days in orbit, completing long-duration missions to both the ISS and Mir.
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Saturday was Leonard Peltier's 65th birthday, and he has spent almost half his life in jail.
Peltier, an American Indian Movement (AIM) activist, has been in prison since 1977, found guilty of executing two FBI agents during a shootout at Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota.
His case is marred by allegations of witness coercion, judicial fiat, FBI incompetence, and an anti-Indian vigilante mentality. Those of us who followed the militant days of AIM waited hopefully on July 28 for the parole commission to determine whether Peltier had finally paid his dues to society.
Federal parole eligibility for life sentence offenders does not mean freedom or exoneration; it means serving the remainder of a life sentence under supervision of one's community. Eric Seitz, Peltier's attorney, said that his client spoke for more than an hour with "great eloquence . . . we thought it went very well."
Peltier represents one of America's most complex and controversial face-offs between the law-and-order perspective and minority community rights. June 26, 1975, was the culmination of a three-year mini-war between traditionalist and assimilationist factions on the reservation. The assimilationists were using vigilante enforcers to terrorize the traditionalists. AIM, a nationally recognized Indian's rights group that used civil disobedience - and, in those days, weapons - was called in to protect the traditionalists.
The details of that day are twisted now in myth, legend, and distortion - on both sides. We know that two young FBI agents, Jack Coler and Ronald Williams, followed a truck in separate cars onto the Jumping Bull compound and that the truck's occupants eventually jumped out and opened fire on the agents from high ground. Both agents were wounded in this first volley. The truck occupants were joined by a number of AIM members staying in tents on the compound. All were armed, many with high-powered rifles.
Some time after wounding the agents, Peltier and two other AIM members went down to the cars. This is where the story gets twisted up. The government prosecuted Peltier using circumstantial evidence to prove he executed the agents at point-blank range. Peltier and others who were there that day say the agents had already been shot. An AIM member was also killed in the shootout. His death was never investigated. There is no question that this was a senseless, destructive scene arising out of a time of great frustration and fear.
On Aug. 21, we learned that Peltier had been denied parole. The Associated Press offered a brief synopsis of the decision, but few mainstream publications printed this. Most national broadcast outlets posted the AP story online, but offered no TV or radio coverage.
How could Peltier's parole hearing not stir the national media into at least a small frenzy? Forget which side is right. The outcome of that hearing was real news. Peltier's case is the most poignant and powerful reminder of what this society has done to Indian tribes for nearly half a millennium - also what Indians have done to themselves. And we choose, sadly, to ignore all of this.
To grant Peltier parole was an opportunity, albeit very small, for the United States to begin to turn the page on its history with Native America - to show mercy and compassion. Why was this opportunity not news?
But even the denial of parole was a story: law and order trumps human rights; punishment vs. rehabilitation; forgetting the FBI's dark record; one man's political prisoner is another's thug.
What does virtually ignoring this case say about the media? About us as a nation? Do we just not care? Is all that Indian stuff now just water under the bridge?
Media companies are very concerned about profits these days. Maybe if there were more concern about covering issues that no one knows about, rather than issues where everyone thinks he knows everything, people would buy more papers.


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The Streamy Awards might not have the name recognition of
the Academy Awards or the Emmys, but when it comes to Web television, they're the highest honor a series can receive.
The International Academy of Web Television rolled out this
year's list of nominees today – and "The Bannen Way" and "The Guild" led the
pack with seven nominations each. "Easy to Assemble," a comedy about previously
successful actors who now work at IKEA, earned six nods. (UPDATE: "Easy to Assemble" creator Illeana Douglas checked in to note that the show actually has seven noms, as its show within a show – "Sparhusen" received a nod for best music.)
I'll have a story about the nominations in tomorrow's daily
edition, but there just wasn't room to list 'em all. (Not surprising when you consider there are 34 categories.). That full list is after the break.
Web television is still very much a field in its infancy,
but it has some truly remarkable programming. "The Guild," last year's winner
for best comedy and a nominee again this year, might sound like it's written
for a niche audience (following the lives of a group of hapless online gaming
addicts), but its humor is universal. (Personal note: My wife, who largely
rolls her eyes and mocks me when I try to get her to watch anything with nerd
cred is a huge fan of the show.)
"Kevin Pollack's Chat Show" is often more entertaining than
anything in the late night wars. And "Auto-Tune the News" is quickly gaining a
following among news junkies. If you haven't yet bothered exploring original episodic Web series, here's a
list that might change your mind about the medium – with links to
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Before I left home a colleague of mine (who would seem to greatly prefer hunting and fishing to visiting museums) told me that I really needed to go to the Pergamon Museum in Berlin. He told me the museum had a number of actual ancient buildings recreated inside, but the best one was a huge, colorful, and quite amazing.
That was about all he told me, so when I finally made my way to the, I wasn't really sure what to expect. I knew the museum had a number of Roman temples, but it was hard to imagine Frank getting excited about something like that – no matter how good the carving is. (And, honestly, I wasn't all that excited about seeing a bunch of Roman temples myself. Maybe I'm a Philistine or some other sort of Barbarian, but I prefer to attribute my lack of excitement over Roman architecture to the fact that those classical Roman influences are so deeply embedded into the Western aesthetic that they seem ordinary.) So, I wonder what it is that so impressed Frank and how I will know if I've found it?
Whatever I'm looking for here must be pretty impressive, so other people should be looking for it too – I'll just follow the biggest crowds and see where they lead me.
It doesn't take long for me to come to the museum's namesake, the great alter of Pergamon.
It's impressive, but somehow I don't think this is what I'm looking for.
There seems to be something interesting beyond the archway at the end of the room, so I hurry along to continue my search.
One look around the corner assures me both that I found what I was looking for and that Frank's enthusiasm was justified.
This is the Ishtar Gate, one of the eight gates of the inner city of Babylon, was built during the reign of Nebuchadnezzar II (604-562 BC). I've never seen anything like it. It is beautiful . . . and huge. It must have been amazing to see this when it was a working building.
Besides this reconstructed gate, the museum also includes a reconstruction of the processional way that led to the gate.
It seems to go on and on and on along the hall.
A model of the structure only hints at its grandness.
Of course, there are other things to see here, as the museum also houses the Ancient Near East and Islamic Art collections.
So, the Ishtar Gate is my favorite thing here, but there are plenty of reasons to make a return visit!
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The next-generation of BMW M models is currently undergoing track testing, as AutoGuide's spy photographers have caught both the new M3 sedan and M4 coupe in action.
Recently, BMW confirmed that the M4 will essentially be ready when it's ready, stating that the car will have to be "as good as it can possibly be." In other words, the German automaker isn't rushing its development, though a concept is expected to debut at next month's Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance in California.
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I've just started learning how to create sewing patterns using my computer! Today, in fact. And I'm not sure if I'll evolve enough to be able to make lovely complex patterns that I can offer online for your own enjoyment, but I did manage to churn out a little something.
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*These slopers fit sizes 10-22 ( that's dress sizes, not sewing pattern sizes), waist 29-39″, hips 40-50″
*This sloper includes a 1/2″ seam allowance, because I'm an idiot who forgot that slopers don't come with seam allowances.
*The sloper measures 20″ in length, please feel free to lengthen or shorten at your convenience
*It features standardized 1″ darts on both front and back pieces.
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*The front piece does NOT indicate that you place the Centre Front on a fold, but please place the Centre Front on a fold.
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Here is that trusty old Burdastyle tutorial on how to print and assemble a sewing pattern PDF.
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Please also note: I forgot to include any layout instructions, so be aware that pages 2-7 are the front sloper, and should be pieced together in this order:
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First-of-its-kind study reveals differences in cardiovascular risk factors among U.S. Hispanics
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Dr. Rosa María Lastra is Sir John Lubbock Chair in Banking Law and Professor in International Financial and Monetary Law of the Centre for Commercial Law Studies (CCLS), Queen Mary University of London. She is a member of Monetary Committee of the International Law Association (MOCOMILA), a founding member of the European Shadow Financial Regulatory Committee (ESFRC), an associate of the Financial Markets Group of the London School of Economics and Political Science, and an affiliated scholar of the Centre for the Study of Central Banks at New York University School of Law. She is also a member of the Monetary Expert Panel of the European Parliament.
From 2008 to 2010 she was a Visiting Professor of the University of Stockholm. She has served as a consultant to the International Monetary Fund, the European Central Bank, the World Bank, the Asian Development Bank and the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. From November 2008 to June 2009 she acted as Specialist Adviser to the European Union Committee of the House of Lords regarding its Inquiry into EU Financial Regulation and responses to the financial crisis. Prior to coming to London, she was Assistant Professor of International Banking at Columbia University School of International and Public Affairs in New York (1993-1996). From January 1992 to September 1993 she was a consultant in the Legal Department of the International Monetary Fund in Washington D.C. She studied at Valladolid University, Madrid University, London School of Economics and Political Science and Harvard Law School (Fulbright Fellow).
Her list of publications includes several books: International Financial and Monetary Law (Oxford University Press, 2015, authored), Sovereign Debt Management (OUP, 2014, co-edited), The Rule of Law in Monetary Affairs (Cambridge University Press, 2014, co-edited), International Law in Financial Regulation and Monetary Affairs, (OUP, 2012, co-edited), Cross-Border Bank Insolvency (OUP, 2011, edited), Legal Foundation of International Monetary Stability (OUP, 2006, authored), The Reform of the International Financial Architecture (Kluwer, 2001, edited) and Bank Failures and Bank Insolvency Law in Economies in Transition (Kluwer, 1999, co-edited), Central Banking and Banking Regulation (LSE, 1996, authored), and numerous articles in internationally refereed journals.


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Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young – Live 1974
In his hilarious new book, 'Rock Stars Stole My Life', Mark Ellen recounts how every outdoor festival in the early 1970s seemed to have been accompanied by the al fresco birth of at least one child. Listening to this document of CSNY's 1974 tour, we now know why. The average concert went on for so long that a pregnant woman could have turned up in her second trimester, given birth in a specially-made hydroponic pool, and checked the child into kindergarten before the last strains of 'Ohio' had cleared the air. Here, the set, compiled from various stadium gigs, comprises no fewer than 40 songs, the average length of which is about six times that of a standard outing by The Ramones. Suffice to say, this is an album that should not be attempted at one sitting. Happily, though, there are plenty of tasty morsels. Most are provided by Neil Young, who was pretty much at the peak of his career at this point, writing sad songs for fun you might say. So, whereas long-time fans who regularly trawl the internet will already be familiar with multiple versions of 'Pushed It Over The End', unless you have the 1974 Italy-only B-side release you'll probably be unfamiliar with this truly gut-wrenching song. 'Love Art Blues' was reprised on his 2007-2008 tour, but remains unreleased in the standard catalogue. 'Traces'? Oh yes, another officially unreleased classic, which hasn't been sung live again since this tour. Generally, the best songs here are the less familiar ones. This is definitely not the place to go for the definitive version of 'Wooden Ships', or 'Love The One You're With', though there's a really nice, funky rendition of 'Almost Cut My Hair'. Reputedly, this was a tour that was undertaken solely for the money. If so, you'd think that they'd have played a one-hour set in a half-hearted fashion. Not at all. Money may have been a motivation, but you can't fault C, S, N, or Y for trying to deliver something special. So giant was their 1974 tour that it's part of rock and roll history. This is the definitive document of that tour. And it's great. So settle down and get that birthing pool ready.


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If one looks for bankruptcy statistics as far as Chapter 15 filings go, he or she may find that this search takes longer than expected. As statistics on bankruptcy would indicate, Chapter 15 filings are pretty rare, with less than 100 petitions submitted annually. On top of this, Chapter 15 has only been on the books since 2005. Plus, since statistics on bankruptcy are usually gathered and relayed to Federal agencies by each individual circuit court, there may be inherent delays in the compilation of this data.
Thus, depending on the specificity of one's search, the Chapter 15 bankruptcy statistics one is looking for may not be accessible at all. Of course, if we expand the parameters of our inquiry to include past statistics on bankruptcy in the vein of Chapter 15, we may better be able to evaluate trends in cross-border insolvency.
Some notes on statistical happenings with regard to international bankruptcy:
Bankruptcy statistics on Chapter 15 are difficult to uncover, but there are logical things to keep in mind. First of all, the U.S. Census collects data on all public services that are funded at the taxpayers' expense. Such is the nature of bankruptcy court.
Chapter 15 bankruptcy statistics began to be calculated by the Census after its authorization via the Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act (BAPCPA) of 2005. Compared to the Section 304 numbers in 2005, the most recent Chapter 15 bankruptcy statistics may be a good sign, as the amount of petitions has basically been cut in half. However, some debtors may feel that the new provisions under Chapter 15 affected by the BAPCPA are too restrictive. Additionally, on the average these statistics on bankruptcy are higher than in past years.
In contrast with current values that number in the 40s and 50s, total filings throughout the 1990s hovered between the 10s, 20s and 30s.


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How to convert GPT to MBR disk
How to convert GPT to MBR disk for free and without data loss? Read this tutorial and learn how to safely convert GPT disk to MBR disk.
Master Boot Record (MBR) disks use the standard BIOS partition table. GUID Partition Table (GPT) disks use Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI). One advantage of GPT disks is that you can have more than four partitions on each disk. GPT is also required for disks larger than two terabytes (2 TB).
Solution 1: Convert GPT to MBR disk with EaseUS Partition Master
EaseUS Partition Master can directly convert GPT disk to MBR disk without any data loss. It's better than using Windows Disk Management and Command Prompt because it doesn't require to delete the disk volumes.
- Install and run EaseUS Partition Master
- Select the GPT disk that you want to convert to MBR then choose "Convert GPT to MBR"
- Choose "Apply" to perform the converting process. All of your data is safe with this solution
Solution 2: Convert GPT to MBR disk with Windows Disk Management
- Right-click on My Computer -> Manage -> Store -> Disk Management (make sure you are using Administrator account)
- Right-click the GPT hard disk which you want to convert to MBR disk and choose "Delete volume".
This action would cause data loss if there are important data in your disk volume. And it's highly recommended for you to backup important data in GPT before deleting volumes on it.
- Right click on the GPT disk (which becomes new volume after deleting all volumes on it) and choose "Convert to MBR Disk".
After you convert GPT disk to MBR disk, you can create partitions on the now MBR disk if you like.
Solution 3: Convert GPT to MBR disk with Command Prompt
You must run Command Prompt as Administrator and backup everything in the disk that you want to convert
- Type diskpart then list disk
- Type select disk 1 to select the disk you want to convert (the number is maybe different). Then type detail disk. This will give you a list of volumes on the selected disk. If you do not have any volumes listed, then you can go to step 4.
- Type select volume 5 and press enter. Type delete volume and press enter.Repeat steps 3 for each volume listed in step 2 until you have deleted all the volumes.
- Type select disk 1 and press enter. Type convert mbr and press enter.
- Type exit and press enter


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News in Brief: A State Capitals Roundup
Missouri Takes Control
The Missouri state board of education has taken over the Wellston school district, unaccredited since June 2003 because of poor academic performance. A three-person administrative board was named to govern the 525-student district, beginning July 1. The Wellston school board asked a Cole County judge to issue a temporary restraining order barring the takeover, but the motion was denied and a hearing on a challenge to the state board's decision was postponed on July 7.
Vol. 24, Issue 42, Page 25Published in Print: July 13, 2005, as Missouri Takes Control


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My husband picked it on the day I found out I was pregnant. Still, we had considered others.
How about Ivy? Millie? Lucy? Daisy? So many hours of this speculation. Trying them on with the middle and last name that we knew. Laughing at funny combinations. Wondering what nicknames could follow. Putting it together with my older son's name, knowing how often they'd be said together. All of those names were good, but none were The. Absolute. Perfect. Name. The one he stated on day one was it. There was no doubt.
It is everywhere.
It's on the growth chart that hangs in her room, notched and dated.
It's on the framed picture of our family that she drew in pre-school.
It's on every art project she has ever done.
It's on the caricature that was her souvenir from Nantucket last summer.
It's on the letter that she got from Billie Joe Armstrong.
It's embroidered into her backpack, towels, hats.
It's on her early reader books, doodles, paintings, stories written when she could hardly write. Letters backwards.
It's on every Valentine's Day, Mother's Day, and birthday card she has ever given me.
It's on every little crumpled love note or apology note that she has left on my pillow, and there are many.
It's on her birth certificate.
It's on her social security card.
It's on her passport.
It's on her birth announcement.
It's on her drumsticks, her guitar case.
It's on every letter to Santa, the Easter Bunny and the Tooth Fairy.
It's on 10 years of Christmas cards.
It's on one Christmas ornament for every year she has been alive.
It's on her Christmas stocking.
It's on the pillow that my dear friend, 8 years gone, had made for her when she was born.
When she was selecting a new name, she asked me what names we were thinking of for a boy when I was pregnant with her. She tossed around those, and some others. Writing them out. Saying them aloud with her last name. She ended up picking one from the list of names that we had considered a decade ago. The. Absolute. Perfect. Name.


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2015 was one hell of a year in our camp. We've accomplished some pretty crazy things; here are a few of the highlights: releasing Liar's Club, Playing Canadian Music Week, Multiple tours across the province, playing Vans Warped Tour, and being a 102.1 the Edge Next Big Thing finalist. We're fortunate to have played over 45 shows this year and after putting approximately 40,000km on our beloved van, "Big Burg", we thought for sure that we'd be hanging up the keys till sometime in the new year.
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We're heading down to Kingston, ON to wrap up this already insane year with two sold out holiday shows with The Glorious Sons! We'd like to thank them for inviting us to be a part of these dates. We won't let you down.
See you Saturday Kingston. Prepare your livers.
Holiday Hangover
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Finalist : Terrain.org 6th Annual Contest in FictionThree hours after receiving the call, Juniper locked up her condo in Seattle and began the long drive back to her childhood home in Montana. She hadn't been to that ramshackle cabin in the middle of nowhere since she was 17, and she wouldn't be going back now if she didn't have to. She had spent the first half of her life running wild across that remote mountain valley, and she spent the second half trying to purge every embarrassing remnant of that backwoods existence from her life. But now death was finally dragging her home.
As Juniper drove through Washington and Idaho and western Montana, she was stunned by the number of sprawling communities and ugly strip malls that had sprung up along the highway where there used to be nothing but grass and trees. She found herself craning her neck, looking back, trying to remember what had been there before all of this.
But none of that prepared her for the shock when she finally drove into the Crazy Mountain Valley. At first she wasn't even sure she was in the right place because everything looked so different. The grassy two-track had been widened and paved and was now lined with subdivisions and McMansions that made this valley, her valley, look like all the other developed valleys she had passed through on her drive out here. There was even actual traffic speeding up and down the road. Juniper tapped her brakes as she passed the junky trailer park spreading out across the lower grasslands where the pronghorns used to drop their fawns, and she slowed even more when she saw the massive Aspen Springs subdivision cluttering the sagebrush foothills where the elk used to graze in the bunchgrass all winter long. The hillsides were thick with knapweed and the mountain slopes were tinted with the rusty-brown hue of beetle-killed trees. The only familiar sight was Crazy Mountain rising above it all.
She hadn't realized she had come to a stop in the middle of the road until the car behind her honked. Juniper was so flustered by that city sound out here in her rural homeland that she stepped on the gas and drove right past her parents' turnoff. As she entered the forest above, she saw the immense angled roofs of the trophy homes in the Evergreen Estates. It took her a moment to realize that those imposing structures had been built in the same spot where she had once seen the ghostly image of a lynx standing still and silent in the snow. When she neared the end of the road and saw the gaudy entrance to the Crazy Mountain Wilderness Resort, with its oversized bronze grizzly rearing up on hind legs and waving its paw like a circus bear, she dropped her head to the steering wheel and let out a childish whimper. How could all this have happened in such a short period of time? It seemed impossible.
She turned the car around at the trailhead and drove back down the mountain. When she pulled into the aspen grove and the tangled branches closed in behind her, it seemed as if all the crazy things she had just seen had magically disappeared. She was back in the land of her childhood, and it was just as she remembered it. They hadn't changed a thing.
Juniper looked at the small log cabin and the plywood outhouse crouching behind it, the weathered woodshed and the old International waiting to be fired up for one more run, the blackened burn barrel in the middle of the yard and the rain barrel tucked under the roof gutter. How many buckets of rainwater had she scooped out of that barrel for baths and coffee through the years? It was a chore she didn't miss.
She glanced at the rusty metal pipe sticking out of the roof. Her parents always cleaned their chimney, every September and January. Always. So how could this have happened? How could the chimney have gotten so clogged that it snuffed the life out of them like two oldfangled candles whose light was no longer needed in this modern world? She imagined them waking in the night and gasping for air in the smoky cabin, her father rising to his feet and then collapsing beside the bed, his body landing with a final thud not unlike all the trees he had felled through the years.
The last time she had seen her parents they were standing outside as she drove off to start her new life in Seattle. When they reached their arms up in the sky to wave goodbye, they looked for all the world like two gnarled old scrub pines rooted in the ridge rock. But even then they must have sensed the solid earth crumbling beneath them; they must have felt their roots loosening. They must have known they were finally going to fall. The rampant development had bulldozed its way right up to the edge of their property, and there was nowhere left to retreat. They were surrounded on all sides—fenced in like the last wild creatures on earth. They must have hunkered down in this single sane spot in the growing madness.
Juniper heard the shifting gears of a vehicle as it turned into the aspen grove. A shiny black jeep barreled up the rutted dirt drive and skidded to a stop in front of the cabin. A man jumped out and said, "I'm so sorry about the accident. It's terrible, just terrible." He looked at the cabin with a practiced frown, and then he held out his hand and added, "Tony. Tony Bradley. You must be Juniper."
"I remember when you were just an itty-bitty thing. I sold your parents this property when you were still in your mama's belly. I knew it was the perfect place for them. Sherry and Jim just thrived out here in the wilds of Montana." He nodded as if he were acknowledging the heroics of their martyrdom. "You're living in Seattle now, aren't you? Wonderful city, Seattle. A little more civilized than out here on the homestead, wouldn't you say?" His brow furrowed, and he seemed to be considering what to say next. "Your parents were tough people. True pioneers. They were the first ones to settle in this valley after Mrs. Sorenson died. They were really roughing it out here. But you don't look like the type of person who'd want to live in such rustic conditions. They never even put in running water and power, did they?"
"Nope. I lived here 17 years, and that was more than enough of the rustic experience for me."
"So I guess you're going to sell the place now?"
"You bet I'm going to sell. It should have been sold a long time ago."
"When it comes to selling land, I'm your man. I can sell this place quickly, and for top dollar. I sold this whole valley."
"That's not really a plus with me right now. It was such a shock to see how much everything has changed."
"I know what you mean. But if I didn't do it, somebody else would have. People were streaming into Montana like it was the gold rush. Mountain property is a hot commodity these days."
"I suppose. It's just weird to come back and see it like this. But it's happening everywhere, so I guess I should have expected it." She glanced at the cabin. "And I do want to sell. I definitely want to sell."
"Great! Here's my card. Why don't you drop by my office when you're ready."
"I'm ready now."
"Then drop by tomorrow, and we'll get the ball rolling."
Tony climbed back into his jeep and drove away. Juniper walked around the outside of the cabin, examining the familiar nicks and cracks in the roughhewn logs. Her parents had inhabited this cabin since before she was born. They thrived on their backbreaking work, as if collecting firewood were their one true calling in life. Through all those years, they never faltered. They clung to their warped idealism as if there were something saintly about a life of deprivation and hard labor, something sacred about the fact that they endured. Her parents had wasted their entire adult lives slaving away on that worthless piece of land, and now they were dead and gone and the outside world would soon rush in to fill the void.
Juniper hadn't bothered to think about her past in a long time. But now that she was back home looking at all the landmarks of her youth, now that she was running her fingers over the rumpled skin of a nearby aspen and listening to the familiar chatter of the trickling creek, the memories came flooding back. Yes, she had once lived on this land. She had climbed in the tall fir trees like a squirrel, wriggled through the muddy creek like a frog, scampered through the thick grass like a fox.
Back then there had been no difference between the landscapes of her imagination and the forests and creeks she played in. Juniper had believed that the water and trees and stones were as alive and sentient as she was. She accepted the coyotes and owls as her true tribe. Of course wild spirits lived in the soft moss under the gnarled tree roots. Of course those small earthen holes led down to magical realms. Of course any rocky crag could rise up and walk away from the place where it had always been rooted, like some ancient stony creature rising from a long sleep. All of that was as real to her as the hawk circling overhead, the wind sifting through the wild rye, the ripe serviceberries that she stuffed into her mouth whenever she was hungry.
Their homestead was 40 miles from town, a small cabin surrounded by nothing but the wailing wind and drifting snow. The road was just two ruts their truck tires had carved into the land, and the grass and brush were forever trying to take back that plundered territory. She grew up pretty much alone out there, with her parents hard at work every day. One night when she was ten she heard an owl calling from the woods, and she leaned out her bedroom window and answered him, Who, who-who, whoo, whoo, perfect pitch on the first try. After a moment she heard the call coming back to her, and a dark shape drifted in and landed on a nearby aspen tree. It was an instant thrill, that solid contact with another world, and she was hooked.
Juniper had been home-schooled, but everything changed when she insisted on going to public school for seventh grade. From that point on her life was separated into two parts: Before Public School, when she ran around with mud between her toes and burdocks in her hair, and After Public School, when the scales fell from her eyes and she realized how truly uncivilized her parents' way of life was.
On the first day of school one of her teachers asked everyone to tell the class something about themselves. When it was Juniper's turn to talk, all she could think to do was to hoot like an owl, Who, who-who, whoo, whoo, and the whole class erupted in laughter. That laughter rang harsher and crueler than anything she had ever known—worse than the sound of a mountain lion cracking the bones of a deer, worse than the roar of two grizzlies meeting in battle—and she never wanted to hear it again. From that day forward she made a vow that, no matter what, she would learn how to be just like her classmates.
Juniper shortened her name to June. The renaming helped, but it was still a constant battle because everything about her parents' way of life conspired against her goal of refinement. Her father drove to town in a mud-spattered truck with a jumble of junk sliding around in the bed. Her mother clomped around in heavy work boots and let her hair hang loose and long like Spanish moss. They both wore oil-stained coveralls three seasons out of the year. Juniper couldn't forgive them for isolating her out in the wilderness, for depriving her of a normal childhood, for preparing her so poorly for the real world. "You should sell this place," she told them over and over again, but they just smiled as if they were holding on to some secret that she was rapidly forgetting.
June walked the worn path to the outhouse. She heard the familiar creak of the hinges as she opened the door. When she sat on the splintered wooden seat, she had the weird sensation that she was that little girl Juniper again, rough and uncivilized. She was surprised how natural it felt after all these years, like a snake crawling back into its long-shed skin. She pried the top off the tin can that held the toilet paper, and she glanced at the wasp's nest that her parents had never removed from the open rafters. "Don't bother them," her father had told her, "and they won't bother you." On that one small thing he had been right.
The outhouse door banged shut behind her, just as it always had. When June came around the corner of the cabin, she saw a young woman pedaling a bicycle up the drive. The woman leaned her bike against the side of the cabin with an odd familiarity.
"Hello. Are you Sherry and Jim's daughter?"
June nodded, shocked by the stranger's casual use of her parents' names.
"I'm really sorry for your loss. Your parents were such great people. They talked about you all the time. They were so proud of you—the bigshot banker in Seattle." The girl smiled.
"And who are you?"
"I'm Allison. I was good friends with your parents, ever since they caught me trespassing up here when I was a kid. I mean, I wasn't really trespassing because I didn't know anyone lived here. I was just out searching for dragonfly larva in the creek. But they were really nice about it. I came back a lot after that, because this is the coolest place in the whole valley. You're so lucky to have grown up here."
"I guess that's a matter of opinion," June said. She looked at the girl's bright green eyes and bouncy red ponytail, unable to believe that her parents had anything to do with this perky young woman. "You say you were my parents' friend? I didn't think they had any friends. They were so antisocial, living like hermits way out here so far from everybody."
"Well, they were awfully friendly for being antisocial. They were about the friendliest people I ever met. Your mom always made tea for me whenever I happened by. She had that cute little blue tea set, the one with the dragons on it. Remember that?"
June nodded, not wanting to admit that she knew nothing of the little blue tea set. "Oh, don't get me wrong, I know they were good people. It's just that they were such recluses."
"I don't know if recluse is the right word. They lived out here because they loved the land. I can certainly understand that."
"I know," June said. And she did know because she had once loved this land, too, but there was no way she could live here anymore. "It might look like a fun way to live, but everything's different when you're a kid stuck in the middle of nowhere."
"I would give anything to have grown up in this cabin. And I would love to have had your parents. They were the coolest people I've ever met. I'm really going to miss them."
"Yeah, me too," June said, her lips forming the first sincere smile in years. "Thanks."
"Are you going to have a funeral?"
"I think I'm just going to spread their ashes up on the ridge. That's how they would have wanted it. You're welcome to come along if you want."
"I would definitely like that."
After Allison pedaled away, June walked through the aspens to the creek and plunged her hands into the cool mountain water. There were so many things that a person like Allison would never understand, so many things that nobody would ever understand. All the painful embarrassments that came with being her parents' daughter. Even as a child, Juniper knew they lived a hardscrabble life that was nothing like the kind of life she wanted to live. Her parents were always working, but never reaping any tangible benefits from their labors, always struggling, but never really getting anywhere. All of their efforts just kept them going for one more day, but for some inexplicable reason that seemed to be enough for them. And for some even more baffling reason, they seemed to think it should be enough for June.
On the day she turned 16, her mother had the nerve to suggest the unforgivable. "You know, Juniper, you can make a pretty good living selling firewood if you're willing to work hard." Her father nodded earnestly and added, "Yep," as if they were passing along some valuable wisdom that she would be foolish to ignore.
June scowled at their low ambitions for her. "You're kidding, right?" she said with a shrillness she had never used with her parents before, and then she walked away as if they were no longer worth wasting a minute of her time on. That life might be good enough for them, but she knew she could do better, and she thought they should have had enough sense to realize that, too. But she wasn't going to let their stupidity ruin her life. They could live their dreary little existence if that's what they wanted, but they weren't going to drag her down with them.
When she left the creek and walked back through the woods, a hawthorn branch caught on her sleeve, ripping the sheer lavender fabric. She had forgotten that you couldn't even wear normal clothes around here.
She climbed the weathered porch steps and opened the cabin door. Everything was the same in that sparse interior—it was frozen in time like a musty museum diorama. Her eyes moved across the room: the kerosene lamp on the worn wooden table, the pile of firewood near the warped iron stove, the metal tub they used for rainwater baths and laundry, the broken freezer her father had hauled over from the junkyard to use as an ice box—all reminders of how bleak her life had been in that tiny cabin. It was amazing she ever managed to escape its stifling grip.
But she did break free. After she graduated from high school, she moved to Seattle and found a job as a teller at the Security Bank of Seattle. She was quickly promoted to loan officer, then manager, and it was entirely possible she'd be vice president after Mr. Farley retired.
She loved her job. She could dress up every day in stockings and heels, and she could interact with people who had never once walked to the outhouse in the middle of a blizzardy night, never once eaten tangy bear meat or marmot stew, never once been stupid enough to hoot like an owl in front of a room full of people. She bought her own sleek silver car, then a beautiful downtown condo, and she stacked up her own set of loans and retirement investments. She had molded herself so perfectly into her new role that no one would ever guess her background as a wild child.
Seeing the cabin again, she couldn't help feeling sorry for her parents. Even though they worked long hours every day of their lives, they had nothing to show for it—nothing but their worthless land. They hung onto that property as if it were a secret goldmine; they whittled their lives down to just that one small place; they wouldn't give it up, even though it had taken everything they had to give; and now it had survived them. But June had no such qualms. She was more than ready to get rid of the old homestead.
It was a good time to sell, since town had been edging out this way for years. The land was worth more now than it had ever been, not as a rustic homestead, but as a subdivision, a place where normal houses could be built for normal people to live out their normal lives. Since it was free and clear of loans, the property would turn a profit for a change. Even though she was doing well, the money would add a final cushion to ensure that she would never have to return to the squalor of her early life.
June lifted her mother's flannel shirt from the hook near the door and slipped it over her ripped blouse. The scent of sap and chainsaw mix carried her back to the warm nest of her mother's arms. She brushed the tears from her cheek and returned the shirt to the hook, running her dampened fingers down the arm and then holding the cuff as if it were her mother's hand.
June glanced out the window and saw a middle-aged woman with straggly hair walking up the drive. The duct tape on her ripped jacket and the oil stains on her worn jeans made her look like one of the street bums of Seattle. For a moment it crossed June's mind that the woman might have seen the death notice in the paper and was there to rob the place. She had her cell phone out by the time the woman knocked on the door.
"Who is it?"
There was a long pause and then a gruff voice said, "Kate. I was a friend of Sherry and Jim's."
More friends of her parents? Who were all of these people turning up on the doorstep claiming to be friends with her mother and father? June opened the door a crack, but she kept her foot against the bottom so she could kick it shut if she had to.
June stared into the woman's stony black eyes. "Yes? What do you want?"
"I just wanted to say I'm sorry about their death."
"How did you know my parents?"
"I've known them for years. They used to let me crash here sometimes in the winter."
"You stayed here? This isn't exactly the Hilton."
"It was back when I was going through a pretty rough time in my life. I was sleeping behind the Pump Pit during one of the worst winters on record, and Sherry offered to leave their door unlocked so I could sleep on their couch. I remember the first night I stayed there your mother served up moose meatloaf and huckleberry pie. It was the best meal I ever had."
"Yeah, I loved her huckleberry pie. I always used to complain when we had moose meatloaf for dinner, but I'd give anything for one of my mom's meals now."
"I know what you mean. I don't think I've ever been as happy as I was sleeping with a full belly under a warm blanket on their couch. I guess they were kind of the family I never had."
June realized that her mouth was hanging open, and she pulled her lips together into a polite smile. "Well, I'm glad they could be of service to you."
"It was more than just that. This place was like a haven for me, a refuge from all the chaos in my life. I was going through a lot back then, and it felt like nothing bad could ever happen here. And your parents were so… real. They knew how to be kind, but not condescending. They knew how to be helpful without making you feel like a one-eyed, three-legged dog. It was so easy being with them. They didn't judge me like everyone else. They just accepted me for who I was, and that made all the difference. I don't think I could have survived without them."
June's foot relaxed and she opened the door a little more. "I think I remember you. Did you used to have a big red motorcycle?" Kate nodded. "I used to watch you racing up and down Crazy Mountain Road when I was little. I thought you were so cool on that big motorcycle. It made me want to be a biker for about a week, until I came to my senses." June looked at the aspen leaves fluttering in the breeze. "I'm still a little shocked that my parents are gone. It seems so sudden."
"I know what you mean," Kate said. "It's always hardest for those who are left behind. And it stays with you forever."
They looked at each other for a long moment, and June felt the sensation of something warm passing between them, like a physical object.
"I'm going to miss them," Kate said. "They were such a major part of my life, and now they're gone forever. It'll never be the same."
"No, it'll never be the same," Juniper said, and the second genuine smile of the day crossed her lips.
After Kate left, June climbed the nearby ridge. It was a place she had been many times before, but this time she moved slowly, knowing it would be her last. She ran her fingers across the claw marks on a nearby aspen trunk and she listened to the chickadees twittering and fluttering like tiny angels in the pale branches. Everything opened up the higher she climbed, as if she was being handed the gift of that view to soothe her sorrow.
Allison and Kate were right, of course. This place was special. Her parents had always known it, and June had known it once, too, but she had forgotten. Or more accurately she had buried that knowledge; she had willingly severed her attachment to this place. Only now did she realize that she had lost a huge part of herself in the process.
For a moment she thought about moving back to the cabin, but she knew there was no way she could live here anymore. Everything had changed. She had traveled too far and been gone too long and there was no way back to the place that she remembered.
June pulled out Tony's business card. When he answered the phone she said, "I've been thinking about the property. This is kind of the last untouched place in this valley."
"I know. That's why it's worth a lot."
"Well, I was thinking about what my parents would have wanted. I was thinking I should put conservation easements on the land, so it can stay the way it is."
"If they wanted conservation easements, they would have put them on when they were alive." His words tumbled out fast and shrill as if she had insulted him.
"No, they wouldn't have. Because of me."
"You really don't want to do that, Juniper. Conservation easements will devalue the property and you'll lose a lot of money. You need to think about this before you rush into it."
"I'm not asking you, Tony. I'm telling you. I've already made my decision."
Tony laughed. "Well if you put it that way, then we'll just have to find a buyer who wants that sort of thing. There are a few of them out there, it just might take a little longer."
"That's okay. I'm not in any hurry."
June spent the night in her old bedroom. Even though it was a windless night, she had a nightmare that tar paper was flapping loose on the side of the shed. When she went outside to fasten it down, her father's rotting body was wrapped up under the tar paper, nailed to the side of the shed. She looked over and saw her mother lying in the mud with crows crawling all over her, pecking at her eyes and pulling at her tangled hair. But the really odd thing was that they were both smiling.
After waking, June climbed out of bed and walked to the window. She heard the distant bark of a dog and music blaring from a vehicle driving up the road. She could see a glow over the Aspen Springs subdivision, and an even bigger glare towards Granite. When she was young she used to stand outside and gaze up at the thick soup of stars, the Milky Way as much a part of her life as the grassy slopes beneath her feet. Now only the moon and a few bold stars broke through the bright haze of lights from the developments.
On a sudden whim June leaned out the window and called to the owls, Who, who-who, whoo, whoo, just as if she were ten years old again. She waited with that old longing, but there was no response. She didn't know why that stillness made her feel so sad, or why her losses grew heavier in the lengthening silence. June leaned far over the sill and called again, but something in the tone of her voice and the rhythm of the call was not quite right, and she found herself straining to hear an answer that never came. She knew it would never come again. Somewhere along the way, she had lost the language of owls.
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HARRISBURG, January 30, 2017 – State Sens. John Blake (D-Lackawanna/Luzerne/Monroe) and Guy Reschenthaler (R-Allegheny/Washington) today announced that they will hold a joint news conference announcing a significant, bipartisan economic development initiative tomorrow in Harrisburg.
The news conference will be held on Tuesday, January 31 at 11:00 a.m. at the Capitol Media Center in the East Wing of the state Capitol Building in Harrisburg.
Sen. Blake and Sen. Reschenthaler will be joined by Sen. Mario Scavello (R-Monroe/Northampton) and dozens of stakeholders from the business, labor and clean energy communities to announce the legislation that would generate significant economic development statewide, create jobs and enhance the state's clean energy portfolio.
Media coverage is welcome and encouraged.
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A last word: On bottling virality
My position on content and commerce is not very conventional. Though the fanfare has simmered since 2012's early iterations, a symbiotic relationship between an eCommerce brand and an independent media organization would address two primary issues that hinder each category.
- eCommerce: Building a consistent flow of quality traffic is difficult. PR is expensive.
- media: ✗ banner ads ⇢ ✗ native ads ⇢ ✗ branded media ⇢ what next?
See more of the issue here.


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Easter Together 2013
TIME: 6:30 am
LOCATION: Vista Hermosa Sports Park
ADDRESS: 987 Avenida Vista Hermosa, San Clemente
BRING: Dress Warm and Bring A Chair. Wear Flat Shoes.
Several years ago, 6 churches got together and decided what if? What if we take one of the most important days of the church calendar and join together as One Church in San Clemente. When the world sees His church standing together as one, they will realize just how real God is! 2012 marks a change in the way we do Easter Together. Many local churches in San Clemente will gather together at 6:30 am for One Easter Celebration. Here is a LINK to an article printed in Outreach Magazine about Easter Together. More details to come.


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MIAMI–(BUSINESS WIRE)–#calleocho2017–For the fifth consecutive year Amscot Financial, a leading provider of
convenient, consumer-oriented financial services, is pleased to be a
sponsor of the Annual Calle Ocho festival, scheduled to take place on
March 12th in the heart of Miami's Little Havana district.
Organized by the Kiwanis of Little Havana, Calle Ocho is the largest
Hispanic street festival in the Southeastern United States. More than
one million event-goers from around the world join the internationally
renowned block party to celebrate Hispanic cultures from around the
world on Miami's legendary Calle Ocho (8th street.) The 19-block strip
in Little Havana will vibrate with the hip-shaking rhythms of Latin
music from salsa to hip-hop, including street performers and eight
dedicated stages. Block after block of Little Havana full of
international food, dance, sampling sites, and family entertainment to
celebrate life and all Hispanic ethnicities. All proceeds benefit the
Kiwanis of Little Havana Foundation's youth development programs.
Ian MacKechnie, founder and CEO of Amscot Financial, said: "Calle Ocho
is a celebration of the many diverse cultures in South Florida. We are
proud to partner with the Kiwanis of Little Havana to be part of
bringing this major event to the residents of South Florida."
Amscot associates will participate in the festival at the Amscot booth,
where associates will invite patrons to spin a Carnaval prize wheel and
present winners with bike helmets bearing Amscot's name.
Founded in 1989, Amscot Financial employs close to 2,000 associates who
work at the company's retail branches and at the company's corporate
headquarters in Tampa. The company operates branches in 20 Florida
counties with retail locations in Hillsborough, Pinellas, Pasco,
Hernando, Polk, Hardee, Highlands, Manatee, Sarasota, Orange, Osceola,
Seminole, Lake, Volusia, Brevard, Marion, Citrus, Flagler, Broward and
Miami-Dade counties. 44 of the company's 238 branches are located in
Miami-Dade and Broward.
Amscot Financial
Alex Bustos, 813-637-6277


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[Infographic] Courting Disaster: Small Business Lawsuits
There are many challenges facing small businesses – especially in a troubled economy – but one particular aspect too many small business owners ignore that can torpedo their business? The threat of legal action.
In fact, almost one-in-three small businesses in the U.S. have been sued or threatened with a lawsuit in recent years, and they've spent more than US$100 billion a year on legal action. I don't know about you, but that's a lot of money, not to mention the loss of reputation, credibility and the increased costs on running a business.
Here's an infographic – created for BOLT Insurance by Infographic World – that shows some of the more common lawsuits that small businesses face, how much it may cost them, and how they can protect themselves.
Better safe than sorry.
[Via: BOLT Insurance]
Daniel Goh is the founder and chief editor of Young | Upstarts, as well as an F&B entrepreneur. Daniel has a background in public relations, and is interested in issues in entrepreneurship, small business, marketing, public relations and the online space. He can be reached at daniel [at] youngupstarts [dot] com.


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Monthly Archives: August 2017
Sweet Tea and Sympathy by Molly Harper #XOXPERTS
Overview Beloved author Molly Harper launches a brand-new contemporary romance series, Southern Eclectic, with this story of a big-city party planner who finds true love in a small Georgia town. Nestled on the shore of Lake Sackett, Georgia is the … Continue reading
The Donnellys – COVER REVEAL
The Donnellys Series – Unworthy Heart; Defensive Heart; Shattered Heart By Dorothy F. Shaw Genre: Contemporary Romance ~Normal doesn't always mean picture perfect~ Get up close and personal with the Donnelly family as each sibling takes a journey … Continue reading
The Address by Fiona Davis
Overview Fiona Davis, author of The Dollhouse, returns with a compelling novel about the thin lines between love and loss, success and ruin, passion and madness, all hidden behind the walls of The Dakota, New York City's most famous residence. … Continue reading
Luna Rising by Selene Castrovilla – BOOK BLITZ
Luna RisingBy Selene CastrovillaGenre: Women's Fiction About the Book Life begins at thirty-eight for Long Island mom and writer Luna Lampanelli, when she kicks her secretly gay husband to the curb. She's got her freedom, but what she wants is love. … Continue reading
Book Expo 2017 Mini Album
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Emma in the Night by Wendy Walker
Overview From the bestselling author of All Is Not Forgotten comes a thriller about two missing sisters, a twisted family, and what happens when one girl comes back… One night three years ago, the Tanner sisters disappeared: fifteen-year-old Cass and … Continue reading
The Library of Light and Shadow by M.J. Rose
Overview In this riveting and richly drawn novel from "one of the master storytellers of historical fiction" (New York Times bestseller Beatriz Williams), a talented young artist flees New York for Paris after one of her scandalous drawings reveals a … Continue reading
Silenced Song by Gloria Marlow- BOOK SPOTLIGHT
Silenced SongBy Gloria MarlowGenre: Clean Romantic Suspense Thirty years ago, the playful songs of three small girls was silenced forever. Now, someone watches the families they left behind, counting the days until the music dies once more. When food editor Susanna Morgan … Continue reading
The Marriage Pact by Michelle Richmond
Overview In this relentlessly paced novel of psychological suspense, New York Times bestselling author Michelle Richmond crafts an intense and shocking tale that asks: How far would you go to protect your marriage? Newlyweds Alice and Jake are a picture-perfect … Continue reading


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You might already know it's important for students to eat breakfast in the morning before school. For decades, studies have shown that breakfast improves a student's academic performance. But guess what? The type of breakfast a kid eats also plays an important role, according to this report by NPR. Lay off the Frosted Flakes and dig into whole grain toast slathered with peanut butter instead. The report even provides some sample breakfasts for enhanced brainpower—and no, Krispy Kremes are not on the menu. (Audio requires media player.)


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Art upcycled antique paper print of vintage grand clock on actual old player piano hand painted paper for wall decor VGC2456
Art upcycled antique paper print of vintage grand clock on actual old player piano hand painted paper for wall decor VGC2456
I am the VERY FIRST on ETSY and anywhere else that I can find on the internet, to create images and substantial art on ANTIQUE PLAYER PIANO PAPER!! Be the first of your friends to own one or before the this paper becomes extinct!! :-)
Yep!! You read correctly! I am selling art on authentic player piano paper. You will get an unframed, vintage art, collage or print of original art by Debi on an actual piece of
vintage player piano paper.
You are purchasing a print ONLY for an 8" x 10" frame on actual vintage player piano paper! There is no frame or underpaper included. I ship using a sturdy cardboard backing. Also, there will be NO watermark on your piece!!
Shipping: I only charge for your first piece! So if you buy 3 prints, you'll only be charged for one! Don't you just have to have more than one anyway?! :-)
Okay, Okay, some of you out there are wayyyyy too young to remember the player pianos of the past. I'll admit it, even in my day they were a novelty in an ice-cream parlor at the beach! :-) I feel so sad that these wonderful machines are truly becoming extinct. I found some rolls of the paper in an antique shop and thought they would make beautiful prints. So I RESCUED them to give them a new life! After much experimenting, with flaking, unfurling, etc… I have finally mastered it! Whew! It is a lot of work, but I think the result is worth it, I hope you do too!
This paper has been rolled up for anywhere between 50 to 100 years. So I have to go through a number of steps to create these pieces for you. The paper must be unfurled, then treated so it doesn't fall apart while printing and painting. Each design is hand colored and painted to enhance the vintage look of the paper. You will receive the aged brown/tan color unless you choose to purchase another color.
The great thing about this paper is that it has holes in it (bad for me! It is hard to work with!) So you can lay another color underneath - I call this the underpaper. It looks great with simply white paper behind it, but you could experiment with different underpaper colors. (see pics)
This piece is perfect for an 8" x 10" frame. Each print is one of a kind (OOAK), for the holes in the paper are different for each work, and the hand painted surface is different for every piece. No two are exactly alike, however, they go very well together hanging in a grouping. I will also make sure your prints match each other if you order more than one.
The colors may appear differently due to your computer's monitor.
Please contact me with any questions you may have! I will add new designs weekly.
Hope you enjoy!
Paper Rescue Designs
for other designs, please check out my shop at:
Check out my other Etsy shop at: www.etsy.com/shop/DebiPetersArt
Also feel free to see my original paintings and art prints at www.DebiPeters.art
I also have prints available at : https://www.redbubble.com/people/missdebi27
On Society6 you'll also find some of my work: https://society6.com/paperrescuedesigns
Please pay in a timely fashion! :-)
Returns & Exchanges
I don't accept returns, exchanges, or cancellations
But please contact me if you have any problems with your order.
Returns and exchange details
My items are made per your order, each is CUSTOM made via your selections.
So I am sorry, but if you "change your mind" or decide the size isn't just right, I cannot refund your purchase. However, please let me know if there is anything wrong with your purchase either via ETSY conversation button or at MY email, firstname.lastname@example.com (sorry, the "at" sign doesn't seem to work in this box, but my email address has an "at" sign where that bracket is in my email address!). I will always gladly work to accommodate you.
You need any of my images on another type of paper?? Just let me know and I will gladly create it for you.
Frequently Asked Questions
Are your prints on real antique paper?
Some of my prints are on authentic antique paper, and some are on reproduction antique paper. Please read my listings. I clearly state if the print is on actual antique paper or on reproduction paper.
There are reasons I use reproduction backgrounds on some listings. You'll have a choice of sizes, I simply don't have enough of a particular type of antique paper, and I can offer reproduction prints more cost effectively than real antique paper.
Now, there are still prints on real antique paper, just read the descriptions before deciding on your print.
Why do some of your prints have a white border?
That would be for framing your print. Only my reproduction prints have the white border.
The antique paper prints (like the player piano paper, old dictionary pages, antique ledger pages) do not have the white border around the print.....because it is printed directly onto the antique paper....duh!! :-)
Can I buy your prints in various sizes?
Only the REPRODUCTION prints at this time (unless specifically stated in some of my authentic antique paper listings). Since some of my listings are reproduction backgrounds, I can offer them in many different sizes, from 5"x7" to 36"x48"! Again, if it were actual antique paper, how would I get it that big?? Really? :-)
Do you use real antique player piano paper for your prints?
Yep, for my player piano prints, it is actual antique player piano paper!!
I see an image of yours I like but I don't see a listing for the background I like?
You can order ANY of my images on ANY of my backgrounds! If you don't see the combination listed, convo me and I'll set it up for you! So you CAN order ANY image on ANY background!! Easy, right?? :-)


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Problem Set 2 is now posted: [PDF] [LaTeX template]. It is due on Tuesday, 16 February.
PS2 covers NFAs (questions 1-3), regular and non-regular languages (questions 4-7), and push-down automata and grammars (questions 8-10). We've covered everything for questions 1-3 in class already, will cover what is used for questions 4-7 in tomorrow' class (Class 5), and will introduce PDAs and grammars next week. Please use the comments on this post to ask questions about PS2.


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Recent graduates faced with tough decisions surrounding commencement
Mary Helene Hall, Managing Editor
August 6, 2020
Mercer University's commencement ceremonies are set to take place on both the Macon and Atlanta campuses starting Aug. 7. According to Senior Vice President for Marketing Communications and Chief of Staff Larry Brumley, there will be about 1,500 total participants in the commencement ceremonies. There are 561 on the Macon campus, 826 in Atlanta and 88 from the law school. Typically, there are between 2,000 - 2,100 attendees out of around 2,600 graduates who are invited.
Mercer postpones 2020 commencement ceremonies
Samantha Homcy, Staff Writer
April 17, 2020
Students set to graduate from Mercer with bachelor's, graduate or law degrees this May will have traditional commencement ceremonies in August due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Senior Column: Why saying goodbye to Mercer feels just a little different
Katie Atkinson, Editor-in-Chief
April 25, 2019
I would say I've been relatively good at saying goodbye my whole life. I moved frequently during my childhood, and on my last day of high school, I blasted music and tore out of the parking lot faster than I ever had that year. I had no regrets. I'm a big subscriber to the idea that the past ...
Five things to do before you graduate from Mercer
Adelia Henderson, Copy Editor
April 11, 2019
Your cap and gown are ordered, degree audit signed and the days are ticking away until graduation. The end of spring semester is always a trying time for students and can be especially stressful for seniors. It's bittersweet as you prepare to move on to a new chapter of life, but have to say go...
Opinion: Graduation 2019 – a step in the right direction
Adelia Henderson, Copy editor
September 12, 2018
Graduation is the most important event in our time here at Mercer. It's a pivotal point of transition, where we receive our degrees and march across the stage into the next phase of our lives. However, I've been hearing stories about graduation since I was a freshman. I've heard about how your f...
Mercer commencement moved to Five Star Stadium for 2019
Rylee Kirk, Advertising Manager and Lead Writer
August 13, 2018
Mercer University will relocate undergraduate commencement ceremonies from Hawkins Arena to Five Star Stadium this year due to increased class size. Instead of the usual starting time of Saturday at 3:30 p.m., commencement will now take place at 8:15 a.m. Monday, May 13. "For several years n...
Mom, dad and daughter all graduating from Mercer this May
Summer Perritt, Staff Writer
April 14, 2016
For many, college is the first time a student is away from their parents. A tumultuous time where you must figure things out on your own. But what happens when your parents aren't just a phone call away or close by, but are right there in college with you? For the Adams, college is a family affair. ...
Two Mercer seniors accepted into Peace Corps
Katie Atkinson, Staff Writer
February 10, 2016
Life is about to change for two seniors who were recently accepted into the Peace Corps. In May, Caleb Barefield and Heaven Woods will walk across the graduation stage and onto their next destination: Africa. For 27 months, Woods will be located in Cameroon while Barefield will be in Swaziland. Alth...
What to Wear for Graduation
Sarah Ugan
April 19, 2015
Graduation is right around the corner (sorry for the reminder), and on top of the long to-do list that already stretches for miles, what to wear for the big day is a looming question. The Mercer website provides a concise (and vague) description: "Men should wear dark slacks, dark shoes, ...
Graduate School Fair gives students options
Garret McDowell
November 2, 2011
Mercer's department of Career Services held another graduate school fair for Mercer students both young and old on Friday, Oct. 21 in the University Center Atrium. Over 80 institutions were in attendance for all Mercerians to receive information on what comes after their four years at Mercer. This...
Graduate fair school selections leave CLA students few options
Alaisha Key
November 2, 2011
For the past week I, like many of you, have had my inbox bombarded with emails from career services urging me to make time and go check out the graduate school fair. Well, last Friday I happened to stop by the U.C. at the ten o'clock hour with a few friends and found myself highly disappointed not...
Knight Foundation CEO to deliver Macon commencement speech
April 13, 2011
Media mogul Alberto Ibarguen, president and CEO of the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, will deliver the keynote address at Mercer's annual Macon campus commencement ceremonies next month. Ibarguen, longtime newspaper publisher and journalism executive, will speak to the nearly 700 students gr...


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Aravo Enterprise™ introduces the market's first configurable REST-based integration with external content provider APIs and improved data validation capabilities.
SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., July 18, 2014 – Aravo Solutions, Inc., the leading provider of cloud-based Third Party Management (TPM) Risk and Compliance solutions, announces the July 2014 release of its award-winning Aravo Enterprise™ solution suite. Aravo's latest release introduces an innovative solution to the long-standing challenge of incorporating external content into the Third Party Management process. The July 2014 Release also offers an enhanced data formatting and validation solution, resulting in more complete and accurate collection of data and streamlined, accelerated collection.
Configurable Integration with External Content Providers Effective Third Party Management programs require the collection, review, and analysis of counterparty information in order to make informed business decisions. Key functional areas include qualification, compliance, and risk management across distributed populations of third parties including suppliers, vendors, partners, consultant, agents, and distributors.
Best practices require information to be gathered from various external sources (IRS, VIES, LexisNexis, Accuity, etc) with automated validation and approval processes. Unfortunately, traditional solutions have not provided an easy nor consistent approach to incorporating these external sources into a seamless end user experience. Companies that have sought to solve this problem in the past relied on expensive and fragile custom integrations that required a high degree of technical proficiency and collaboration with content providers in order to maintain data integrity. Ultimately, these methods have proven to be unsustainable.
Aravo has solved this complex challenge through our new Dynamic URL integration framework. This new framework allows customers to quickly and easily configure their Aravo systems to interact with external content providers in order to present and store important external information within the Aravo environment. This model enables organizations to augment third party-provided content with canonical data (including company revenue, registration numbers, firmographic data, legal filings, negative news, financial risk, etc.) in order to improve the efficacy of their review and validation processes resulting, in dramatically improved data accuracy and compliance.
More information on the various certified external content providers and configuration protocols will be published and made available to Aravo customers on the Aravo Support Portal.
Improved Data Validation A common challenge associated with effective Third Party Management is validating information that has been provided by the Third Party during their self-assessments or questionnaires. Aravo's Dynamic URL integration significantly improves this process within Aravo. However, the upstream overlooked challenge of data completeness remains. Ensuring that Third Parties provide all of the information required of them in the correct or expected format represents an "Achilles Heel" of many enterprise Third Party Management programs.
With our latest release, Aravo customers now have access to a new data validation framework that dramatically streamlines set up, maintenance, and modifications over the life of the program. Simple format validations are now available for the following common functions: required fields, email address structure, matching expressions, maximum/minimum length, numeric representation (integers, floating point) and date restrictions (on or before, on or after).
In addition to the simple validations mentioned above, Aravo customers now have a robust framework for developing validations that can be designed to address more complex requirements for ensuring the accuracy and completeness of the responses provided by third parties within individual questionnaires. The full complement of available validation rules and syntax are available within the Release Notes and the Aravo Configuration User guide available via the Aravo Supplier Portal.
"Continuing on the data modeling extensibility advancements we've incorporated in our last several releases, Aravo now provides improved capabilities to augment and validate information being provided by Third Parties into the platform," said David Rusher, Vice President of Product Strategy at Aravo. "The Aravo platform continues to offer unique capabilities and value to our customers, enabling them to address an even broader range of compliance-oriented initiatives within their organizations."
About Aravo
Aravo provides the market's leading third party risk management and regulatory compliance solution. Aravo launched its cloud-based platform in 2004 and continues to serve as the industry's leading innovator today. Our market-leading third party risk and compliance solutions include Registration and Qualification, Anti-Bribery / Anti-Corruption, Responsible Sourcing, and Data Privacy / Data Security. The world's best-run businesses utilize Aravo's platform, including General Electric, Accenture, Salesforce.com, Cisco Systems, Unilever, and DuPont. Aravo currently supports a user base of over 36,000 buyers managing 2.4 million third parties in 38 languages and 112 countries. Aravo is headquartered in San Francisco with offices in Chicago, Dallas, Portland, Monterrey, Mexico and Ahmedabad, India.


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This Beer Brand Recreated an Entire Street Corner After Colombia's Government Banned Drinking in Public
Cerveza Poker and DDB keep the neighborhood alive
Sometimes you want to go where everybody knows your name … like your corner bodega, for example.
In Colombia, however, that's no longer quite so simple if you want to enjoy an alcoholic beverage or two. Early last year, the country's government passed a new police code encouraging citizens to report others for minor infractions like graffiti, noise violations and drinking in public. These new restrictions apply to open areas like sidewalks as well as restaurant terraces.
While previous Colombian drinking laws were more lenient than those in the United States, anyone who has tried to brown-bag a brew in Central Park can relate to the frustration consumers faced when they were unable to drink openly with their friends.
Beer brand Poker and its ad agency DDB Colombia came up with a truly novel solution to this problem: They partnered with local artisans to recreate a popular neighborhood bodega in a private space removed from the street. In order to maintain the spirit of the sidewalk and parking lot that doubled as a hangout spot, they "cloned" every detail, down to graffiti signs and scuff marks on the walls.
The ultimate purpose of this work is to encourage Colombian lawmakers to reconsider the 2017 bill.
"When the law that prohibits drinking a couple beers with friends in public spaces came up and started to be enforced, we knew we had to do something to defend these spaces, as they are places where we culturally hang out with friends in Colombia," said DDB Colombia chief creative officer Leo Macías.
"Therefore, we found out that a sidewalk had never been cloned, so we did it!" Macías added. "We cloned every single detail of a public space, but into a private outdoor area, so we could, again, drink a few beers with friends in the least legal sidewalks in the country."
The government's restrictions are understandably unpopular with young people, and an overwhelming majority of respondents to a social media study involving 11,000 consumers said they don't think "sharing a few beers with their friends on a sidewalk" is harmful.
"At Poker, a brand that represents friendship, we do believe there should be an open space to dialogue and review some Police Code of Conduct restrictions going against moments of socialization," said the brand's director Miguel Merino.
He added that other countries "with the same type of restrictions" had designated areas for drinking "due to coexistence agreements where citizens and businesses paired up to compromise while respecting the law."
Poker plans to move forward with this initiative by recreating sidewalk spaces in other major Colombian cities as Congress decides whether to review the bill.


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Are girls really better at reading than boys - or are the tests painting a false picture? - 2 views
Martin Burrett on 20 Feb 17In reading tests at school, girls tend to be ahead of boys, in all age groups and in all countries. But in young adults, there is suddenly no longer any difference between men's and women's reading skills. Why is that? Could the answer be in the way the tests are designed?


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I saw that happening on a stove once and the strange thing was the large top burner had two fuses and one was burnt,
I replaced it and the oven worked............
So Check "ALL" the fuses..............
Both oven elements are only putting out about 50% about 320F max. Fuses look OK. I've kind of eliminated problems with the elements themselves as I can't see them both partially failing at the same time. I'm wondering if the problem is with the switch or the thermostat. If anyone reading this has experienced the same problem I'd sure appreciate letting me know. Thanks, JLM
Ever thought of plugging it into 220v instead of 110v, Nicola?
Good thinking, someone probably changed the electrical circuitry behind the stove when we weren't looking. (You are as pathetic as Putz) but it's great fun getting to laugh at you Assholes)
Thanks Sleepy. My son did check the fuses, but I'm going to take another look at them. I was wondering if the problem might be with the switch or thermostat.
If it's not a fuse, and the only sure way to test them is with a continuity tester, because a fuse can be burnt and look ok...
It could be the thermocouple (temperature sensor)and for that you better call an electrician unless you're familiar with wiring and/or electronics and you have a multimeter
Yeah, I've come to that conclusion, will call one tomorrow. I think the range is pretty old and the wife is wanting a self cleaning oven so if I have a couple of bucks in my jeans come Xmas she might be in for a surprise.
if I have a couple of bucks in my jeans come Xmas she might be in for a surprise.