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Please provide complete and accurate information about your dog. Incomplete information may result in your form being rejected. We will get in touch with you as soon as we have a opening in our clinic. While you wait for us to contact you, please click here to read this page for important information about our program.
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We need a way to contact you so please make sure your contact details are accurate. Double check your entries PLEASE!!
If the dog is fostered someplace other than your home, you ultimately are responsible for insuring it is fed, watered, taken to the vet, socialized and prepared for adoption. Our volunteers will also need access to the dog for photos, assessments, and helping you get the dog adopted.
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What breed or breeds best describe your dog? Select as many as apply and avoid of a single description of "mixed."
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Including yourself, how many people of the following ages live in the house with the dog? Please fill in the boxes.
How long is the dog left alone, without people, each day? Select one that best applies.
Where does the dog usually sleep overnight? Select the one that best applies:
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What is the dog's energy level in the home?
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Dog's behavior:
Please be honest in your answers below. We want to find the right home for this dog and that means a family accepting of its behaviors - good and bad:
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Ideal home for the dog:
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Is the dog suitable for a home with other dogs?
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Facebook wants forgiveness. And to earn that forgiveness, the social media giant that was accused of allowing its users' personal data to be used by the controversial political consulting firm Cambridge Analytica has an uncanny plan. It's going to use cryptocurrency, which was originally popularized as a way to anonymously buy drugs, to connect people without bank accounts to the global economy. That, and it will likely have to pay a record-breaking $5 billion fine to the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) for the alleged privacy violations.
While neither Facebook nor the FTC has confirmed reports of the fine, David Marcus, who's in charge of Facebook's cryptocurrency subsidiary, Calibra, says he's already looking ahead at how cryptocurrency could be just what the social network needs to win back the trust of its users. In June, Marcus announced that Facebook was gathering a group of companies to help build a new cryptocurrency, libra, that would be as easy for anyone around the world to use as bitcoin, but without the volatile price fluctuations that make the cryptocurrency progenitor unattractive as a means of exchange for more traditional goods.
The secret to this seemingly impossible task is that Facebook and the other companies in the nonprofit Libra Association have promised that every libra will be backed by stable assets, almost certainly including the U.S. dollar and government treasury bonds. While some central banks, like the Bank of England, have already reacted positively to the news their currency could be locked up in accounts held by private companies, the U.S. Federal Reserve has expressed concerns. President Donald Trump has called for the companies to get a banking charter, and multiple members of Congress have asked for a moratorium on development of the cryptocurrency until more is known.
Now, as the public waits to hear Facebook's fate regarding the $5 billion fine, Marcus has his first chance to turn the page and prove that Facebook can be trusted once again. This morning Marcus, who was previously president of payments giant (and Libra Association member) PayPal, is the sole witness scheduled to address the U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs about the plans for the cryptocurrency. Tomorrow he'll follow the tight-rope act with a performance in front of the U.S. House Committee on Financial Services on libra's potential impact on consumers, investors and the nation's financial infrastructure at large.
If successful, Marcus's testimony could help pave the way for more than just connecting 1.7 billion people the World Bank estimates still don't have bank accounts, but give Facebook a second chance at trust.
"Clearly we made mistakes in the past, and it's a top priority for Mark [Zuckerberg] and the rest the leadership team to really address this," says Marcus, who previously served as a board member for cryptocurrency startup Coinbase. "And as far as I'm concerned I see libra as an opportunity to demonstrate that we have learned and we are a different company now than we were."
That's a big if. Based on a draft of Marcus' testimony submitted to Congress, one particularly controversial topic is likely to be his handling of concerns over customer privacy. A month before Facebook, a member of the inaugural Forbes Blockchain 50 list, announced its plans for libra, committee chairman Mike Crapo, a Republican from Idaho, and ranking member Sherrod Brown, a Democrat from Ohio, requested information directly from Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg regarding how the social network makes financial data about its users available to others.
While Marcus' submitted comments call such privacy a "top priority" for the Libra Association, he adds that the ultimate regulator in charge is not even in the U.S., since to the nonprofit organization's headquarters are in Geneva. "For the purposes of data and privacy protections, the Swiss Federal Data Protection and Information Commissioner (FDPIC) will be the Libra Association's privacy regulator," his notes read.
Regarding the project's stance on privacy, Marcus says the Libra Association "cannot, and will not, monetize data on the blockchain," though he is notably silent on how Calibra, the Facebook-owned wallet for buying, holding and storing cryptocurrency will use or not use customer data, saying only that "Calibra customers' account and financial information will not be shared with Facebook" and leaving the door open for other possible uses.
To combat these and other concerns, Marcus proposes that the structures of the Libra Association and the libra blockchain will ensure that competition helps hold the social network accountable. Last month, Facebook contributed the original code describing how the blockchain works to the open source community, and developers are already copying it and tweaking it as they see fit, meaning that theoretically, the very technology being developed by the Association could be used and improved to benefit competitors.
Beyond just the code though, the Association itself is made up of Facebook's first batch of competitors, including PayPal, Visa, Mastercard, Coinbase and Xapo, all of which have their own clients, and anyone will be able to build a competing wallet, even if they aren't members. And unlike those of PayPal, Venmo, Square Pay and Apple Cash, all of the wallets built using libra will interoperate.
"As a consumer, no matter which wallet you choose, you're going to get the benefit of the scale of the network," says Marcus. "And for that reason we really need to earn consumers' trust if we want to have a fighting chance." Further competition will likely come from fellow fiat-backed stablecoins like Circle's USD Coin and Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss's Gemini Dollar, which also already have live products, while MakerDao and soon-to-be launched Celo offer similar stability without fiat currency at all.
To really get the fighting chance Marcus talks about, he says there are two main misunderstandings he hopes to address over the two days of Congressional hearings and the following year before the cryptocurrency's scheduled launch. First, he says that contrary to decade-old accusations levied against bitcoin, cryptocurrency like libra actually makes crime more difficult by leaving a trail of pseudonymous transactions to follow. "You improve the efficacy of anti-money-laundering, you improve the efficacy of counter-terrorism funding, and"—crucially for the goal of bringing financial services to the unbanked—"at the same time you don't close the system on who needs it for small cash-like transactions," he says.
Of course, such transparency leads to yet another concern, the increasingly well documented trend of "surveillance capitalism," where every purchase is observed all the time. As with many of the problems the Libra Association purports to solve, new problems frequently arise.
The second misunderstanding Marcus hopes to clarify to Congress is that critics, he says, have inaccurately portrayed libra as a weakening of central bank monetary supply controls, especially the ability to buy back government bonds as a way to increase demand for a currency. Since the Libra Association is committed to a 1:1 pairing of the value of currency, bonds and other assets stored in banks around the world with the value of the libra cryptocurrency in circulation, Marcus says monetary supply controls won't be impacted. Should a central bank seek to buy back treasury bonds owned by the association, the association could compensate for that by purchasing other assets in different jurisdictions.
"The Libra Association has no ability to create more libra than there are corresponding value in reserve. There's no way to print money," says Marcus. "The monetary policy of the assets that are contained in the basket gets transferred as a unit of digital currency that represents the underlying asset."
But what happens if all those central banks need to buy back bonds? What happens when a global financial crisis occurs? It's important to remember that the reason bitcoin was invented was because someone, or some group, going by the name Satoshi Nakamoto didn't trust central banks or traditional banks after U.S. President George W. Bush signed a bill that bailed out insolvent banks to the tune of $700 billion, triggering a global bail-out phenomenon.
While Marcus is the only witness scheduled to speak at today's hearing, another witness, former Morgan Stanley managing director and current Forbes contributor Caitlin Long was asked to provide written testimony to the same hearing. In Long's lengthy remarks, published yesterday on Forbes, she argues that stablecoins like libra were invented because banks have been largely unwilling to work with cryptocurrency companies. "If Congress wants to make stablecoins irrelevant (including Libra), it can easily do so—simply by allowing the banking system to consistently bank this new asset class."
Following Marcus' testimony today, he'll be grilled for further answers from Republican-led Senate Banking committee members, including Massachusetts Democrat and known Facebook detractor Elizabeth Warren. Wednesday, Marcus is scheduled to testify before what could be an even more aggressive panel hosted by the Democratic-party-led House Financial Services Committee, which in addition to inviting witnesses including corporate accountability advocate Robert Weisman, plans to review a draft of the "Keep Big Tech Out of Finance Act," designed to keep large tech companies from becoming financial institutions.
Marcus sounds prepared for the long haul. "We will have to not only make very strong commitments when it comes to serving our customers," he says. "But we will have to live up to them for a very long period of time."
I report on how blockchain and cryptocurrencies are being adopted by enterprises and the broader business community. My coverage includes the use of cryptocurrencies and…
I report on how blockchain and cryptocurrencies are being adopted by enterprises and the broader business community. My coverage includes the use of cryptocurrencies and extends to non-cryptocurrency applications of blockchain in finance, supply chain management, digital identity and a number of other use cases. Previously, I was a staff reporter at blockchain news site, CoinDesk, where I covered the increasing willingness of enterprises to explore how blockchain could make their work more efficient and in some cases, unnecessary. I have been covering blockchain since 2011, been published in the New Yorker, and been nationally syndicated by American City Business Journals. My work has been published in Blockchain in Financial Markets and Beyond by Risk Books and I am regularly cited in industry research reports. Since 2009 I've run Literary Manhattan, a 501 (c) (3) non-profit organization dedicated to showing Manhattan's rich literary heritage.


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Published on March 5, 2014
Author: VinothiniRaju
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VCLOUDSYNC – HYBRID DISASTER RECOVERY FOR OPENSTACK 5 Mar 2014 Vinothini Raju, CloudCamp, Bangalore
SCOPE Backups & Restores across public clouds (AWS & GCE) and private clouds (Openstack + VMWare)
VMWARE & OPENSTACK CO-OPETITION Co-operation 1. Openstack using VMWare 2. Complement features - VMWare (live migration, DRS etc) & OpenStack (Object Storage for backups) Competition 1. Customers see Openstack as an alternative to VMWare 2. Migrate VMWare environment to a neutral environment
CURRENT VMWARE + OPENSTACK INTEGRATION Grizzly 1. ESX Driver (no vMotion, DRS, HA) , Driver runs in 1 nova instance per ESXi host 2. VC Driver (vMotion, DRS, HA), Driver runs in 1 nova instance per ESXi cluster, abstracts cluster Havana 1. "Multi-cluster" management, 1 nova instance for multiple ESXi clusters 2. Block storage volumes (Cinder) can be stored as VMDKs as VMFS datastores (Snapshots go to vCenter datastore). 3. VOVA (VMWare Openstack Virtual Appliance) – packaged OpenStack vApp Icehouse roadmap 1. Cinder replication across different OpenStack installations 2. VMware Datastore Storage Backend (use image location reference instead of migrating the images) 3. VM diagnostics
HAVANA VMWARE VCDRIVER Glance Store Glance Images Glance Service Nova VMs Nova Service Cinder Service VCDriver upload_image/ fetch_image Swift Service Cinder Volumes Attach/Detach Vols Swift Store VCenter ESXi Cluster ESXi Cluster Shared VMFS Datastore
VMWARE BACKUP & DISASTER RECOVERY - TODAY 1. Consolidate backup VMDK disks are snapshotted and mounted to backup proxy server and copies made to backup storage. 2. VMs as physical systems Backup agent runs inside the VM and backs up data to backup servers or attach iSCSI tape as media & copy 3. VMs as a file on ESXi Backup agent runs on the ESXi console & backups the VMDKs as a file to backup server.
RELIABILITY & HA ? Twitter blames two-hour failure on dual data-center crashes. Rawashdeh, VP, Infrastructure Operations Engineering at Twitter. called an "infrastructural double whammy." Earlier: • managed hosting services from NTT America • Amazon's cloud computing services to store and deploy images, including profile pictures The flooded lobby at the Verizon site at 140 West Street during the height of the storm surge Monday night. (Photo:Verizon) Now: Twitter has setup datacenters to cater to its IT needs
WHAT DOES THIS IMPLY ? 1. Distributed environment (not all eggs in one basket) 2. Reliable Backup technology 3. Diverse clouds & infrastructure for backups
NEED FOR OBJECT STORE BACKUP Object Store [1] - Distributed data (3 sites) compared to RAID backups (3 copies + Tape backup) 1. Capacity: 60% more efficient 2. Cost : 80 – 90 % cost saved 3. Reliability : 100 Million times more reliable Swift: Scalable Durable In house deployments [no-vendor lockin, cost effective, less latency] [1] Ref: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=koJwVEDTeg0
PROPOSED SOLUTION VMWare VCDriver + Object Store for backup 1. Backup vmdks (root, data & snapshots) on to Object Store (Swift/Amazon S3) 2. Restore vmdks to VMWare shared datastore
VMWARE VCDRIVER + OBJECT STORE FOR BACKUP Swift Store Glance Store Glance Images Swift Service Glance Service Cinder Volumes Nova VMs Nova Service Cinder Service Attach/Detach Vols Google storage upload_image/ fetch_image S3 Backup/restore images + volumes VCDriver VCenter ESXi Cluster ESXi Cluster Shared VMFS Datastore
VMWARE VCDRIVER + OBJECT STORE FOR BACKUP (CONTD.,) (root disk, data disk, snapshot disk) Restore Backup VCDriver Swift Service S3 Google Storage Distributed (multi-site), reliable & HA storage vCloudSync (Backup As A Service) Glance Store Shared VMFS Datastore
VCLOUDSYNC vCloudSync Backup VMDK to AWS S3 & Google storage (Offline backups) Restore VMDK back to VMWare Google agent to migrate VMs between VMWare & GCE (Centos & Ubuntu) Roadmap Snapshot backup Integration with VCDriver/OpenStack AWS agent to migrate VMs between VMWare & AWS (Ubuntu)
WHY VCLOUDSYNC ? + Agentless backups + Optmized for cloud backups and no local backups + Optmized Chunk size + Multi-part backups + Simultaneous backups + Deduplication + Compression (Ratio - 10:8.9) + ~ 20% better upload performance compared to manual uploads + Agnostic to virtualization or cloud technologies - Backup As A Service Engine + Reliability – meta data based backups
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Today I'm interviewing Jurgen Appelo and he has some very interesting ideas around activities one can do to help better manage teams.
Jurgen Appelo is pioneering management to help creative organizations survive and thrive in the 21st century. He offers concrete games, tools, and practices, so you can introduce better management, with fewer managers.
Topics covered in the show:
How he fell into the "don't micromanage" camp
How sitting with his team was better than having his own office
Why the job of management will always exist
How personal maps improve team relationships
Using kudos as a peer review 'praise system'
Why one would consider removing salary negotiations
Setting bonuses by peer review
Advice for new managers:
Manage systems, not people
Links and resources mentioned in the show:
Management 3.0: Leading Agile Developers, Developing Agile Leaders (Addison-Wesley Signature Series (Cohn))
How to Change the World: Change Management 3.0
7 Habits of Highly Effective People
Good to Great
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Wondering where you can find some holiday magic this year on Oregon's South Coast? We're so glad you asked! With November upon us, it's the perfect time to do a "Holiday Event Roundup" featuring some of the upcoming events that will grace Oregon's Adventure Coast this 2019 holiday season!
If you're among those traveling from out-of-town to see the Holiday Lights this year, we hope you'll stick around and experience more of what Oregon's Adventure Coast has to offer. So without further ado, grab your Santa hat and get ready to be festive!
November 28, 2019- Thanksgiving Dinner at The Mill Casino Savor roast turkey and all the trimmings, side dishes and dessert from The Mill's own bakery; or enjoy a bayfront Traditional Turkey Dinner from 11 am - 2:30 pm & 4 pm - 9 pm in the Plankhouse Restaurant. Thanksgiving buffet will be presented in Saw Blade Buffet from 11:00 am to 8:00 pm or in the Salmon room for parties of 6 or more. Reservations for large parties are strongly encouraged.
November 28, 2019-December 31, 2019: Holiday Lights at Shore Acres Famous for its beautiful 7-acre botanical gardens and Japanese lily pond, the gardens at Shore Acres State Park shine with more than 325,000 lights. 4 pm – 9:30 pm every night Thanksgiving through New Year's Eve at Shore Acres State Park in Charleston, Oregon; just west of Coos Bay ($5 parking fee per vehicle). Click here for tips on how to navigate this year's holiday light display like a pro!
November 29, 2019: Coos Bay Tree Lighting and Visit with Santa 5:30 p.m. Join Santa as he lights the 30 foot Christmas Tree in downtown Coos Bay. The event takes place at the Coos Bay Visitor Information Center. Cider and cookies will be served as visitors await Santa's arrival. Following the tree lighting is the annual showing of ELF at the Historic Egyptian Theatre. Entry to the movie is FREE with a pair of new clean socks for the snowball fight scene. Socks will be donated to local shelters after the showing.
December 1-31, 2019: Holiday Adventure to the Lights!
The Coos History Museum and Black Diamond Shuttle want to make your holiday group gathering memorable with an evening of Holiday Cheer & Noshing, exclusive shopping and discounts in the Museum's Gift Shop, and a shuttle ride to the Holiday Lights at Shore Acres. You can even add your own festive touch. Talk to Pam at the Coos History Museum to find out more. The shuttle holds 12 and pricing is based on full capacity. Contact Pam Cottrell at firstname.lastname@example.com or 541-252-5666.
December 2- 11, 2019: 2019 Festival of Trees Each year, The Mill Casino invites local businesses, individuals and organizations throughout the community to sponsor and decorate a tree or wreath for a worthy cause. Trees will be on display in the hotel lobby December 3 – 11, 2019. Holiday Tree Showcase & Benefit Auction will be held at 7:00 pm on Wednesday, December 11, 2019. Doors open at 5:30 pm for those with reserved tables for dinner. 6:45 pm doors open to the public. The Auction is free to attend. All proceeds benefit Coos Bay – North Bend Rotary programs such as Shots for Tots and the Kids HOPE Center. Click here for more info.
December 7, 2019: Coos History Museum & Maritime Collection Holiday Open House and Artisan's Market Enjoy a free day at the museum in addition to a Holiday Open House and Artisan's Market from 10:00 am to 3:00 pm. Exhibits and museum store are open all day featuring a select group of artisans for holiday shopping and hands-on craft activities for the young and the young at heart! Artisan's market and kids' activities will end at 3 pm, but the museum will remain open until 5 pm. Click here for more info.
December 7, 2019: North Bend Christmas Celebration and Lighted Truck Parade Santa arrives at 3 p.m. The tree lighting begins at 5 p.m. and is followed by the lighted parade at 5:30 p.m. This year North Bend will be having a Holly Jolly Christmas where you'll enjoy tasty morsels to eat, music, crafts, cider, a visit from Santa…and for the grand finale the tree lighting and a Christmas Parade. A small gift and stocking will be given to each child. There will be craft activities and goodies, a bicycle drawing for the kids and poinsettia drawings for the adults. Santa's helpers will be collecting ticket stubs for children ages 12 & under to enter the bike give–away. Presented by The City of North Bend. Click on 2019 NB Parade map.pdf to see parade route.
December 7, 2019: Empire Tree Lighting Celebration
Santa will arrive on a Fire Engine and light the tree in Coos Bay's Empire District. Enjoy refreshments, live music and be sure to vote for your favorite Christmas village! The tree is located at the Star of Hope Center at 657 Newmark Ave. Festivities begin at 5 p.m. Presented by the Community Coalition of Empire.
Local Tip! While you're here, be sure to go see the beautiful lighted trains at the Oregon Coast Historical Railway! You can see them any evening Thanksgiving through Christmas!


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"Advocacy" is from Latin, meaning to give voice to a cause that it might progress and succeed.
The practice of advocacy has recently gained legitimacy and momentum as a strategy for promoting social change. Wikipedia recognizes advocacy as "a political process by an individual or group which aims to influence public-policy and resource allocation decisions within political, economic, and social systems and institutions."
I would add that influencing private policy, such as used to govern private institutions and even community and family institutions, counts as well.
Nonprofit organizations are all over advocacy these days, as a new means for promoting effectiveness in their various missions. Changing public policy to prevent, ameliorate, or fix bad conditions (rather than the customary charitable approach of servicing victims one-at-a-time), has caught on as the more effective (and much more cost-effective) way to improve the quality of life for whole groups, populations, and regions at a time.
It's like public health in relation to medicine. The practice of medicine can treat an illness one person at a time — one health professional working with one patient — such as in a clinic. The practice of public health seeks to eliminate the illness at its source, one cause or contributor at a time, such as by eliminating unsanitary disease-bearing water, or controlling disease-bearing insects, or educating people on healthier practices.
Thinking like a public health professional is becoming useful in many other arenas of improving the public's health…
If too many people are hungry or malnourished, let's use the policy process to fix the food distribution systems.
If too many people are unable to find or get to meaningful work, let's use the policy process to fix the employment and transportation systems.
If too many people are getting killed by gun-toting citizens not in well-regulated militias, let's use the policy process to reduce the chances of innocent people getting killed that way.
Public policy plays the role of public health in this analogy. Rather than let random or powerful systemic forces play havoc with the well-being of individuals, let's use the wisdom of good policy, good practice, and good cultural norms to stabilize, elevate, and equalize the playing field to produce far fewer victims.
How does it work?
PolicyLink presented its Getting Equity Advocacy Results (GEAR) in 2012. It names four interconnected components of advocacy: (1) organizing; (2) capacity building; (3) research; (4) communications – and four interconnected stages of advocacy: (1) build the base; (2) name and frame the equity solutions; (3) move the equity proposal, and (4) build, advance, and defend.
Aspen Institute presented its Advocacy Progress Planner in 2012. Its on-line tool helps organizations track progress with: (1) goals: what change needs to happen? (2) audience: who can make it happen? (3) context: what else is going on? (4) activities: how will you get it done? (5) inputs: what do you have? what do you need? (6) benchmarks: how will you know you're on the right track?
My own Effective Communities Project first presented its Pathways to Progress online in 2007 to advocate and accelerate progress by philanthropic organizations in reducing racial disparities. Key ingredients include grantmaking and institutional leadership to support: (1) emerging promising workable solutions; (2) organizations capable of moving them along; (3) relationships among key people built on trust; (4) networks and partnerships to generate public support; (5) financial, human, informational, technical, and political resources; (6) strategies for pulling these together that produce noticeable progress along the way.
Advocacy, as revealed in these three illustrations, requires intentional staging of interconnected phases playing out in time. For grantmaking institutions, supporting and evaluating advocacy requires a different perspective than is the case with supporting service, just as supporting and evaluating public health requires different mechanisms than for medicine.
In particular, if foundations insist on one-year project horizons, supporting and evaluating advocacy requires legitimizing a different set of goals and outcomes to pursue in one-year grants but that connect over time in ways that move the strategy along.
Progress in the advocacy and policy realm is sequenced in complex ways. The funding model must adapt to this reality.
More on these tantalizing subjects in subsequent posts.
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Steven E. Mayer, Ph.D. / Consulting Evaluator / Effective Communities Project
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This one-pager highlights key findings in business ownership from the Status of Women by County: Poverty & Opportunity report commissioned by FPN's Florida Women's Funding Alliance.
Florida is among the states with the largest number of women-owned businesses and the greatest growth in women-owned businesses. In 2012, women owned 38.5 percent of Florida businesses, earning the state a ranking of fifth in the nation. Nationally the share of the private sector workforce employed by women-owned businesses and the revenues of women-owned businesses have remained relatively stagnant since 2002.
Although Florida is the state with the greatest growth in the number of firms between 2007 and 2016 in the nation, revenues grew by 25 percent (ranking Florida 31st) and employment grew by about 6 percent (a ranking of 40th).


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text: lewelma 17,669 Posted September 30, 2018 Report Share Posted September 30, 2018 In a previous thread about a how to do well in college, Maize asked about teaching executive function skills to kids who have trouble. I promised to start a new thread. I've copied in my two responses and hope people can add to them. I'm happy to answer questions with what I do with my tutor kids. On 9/22/2018 at 12:29 PM, maize said: I'd be interested in knowing what strategies have worked for people who generally struggle with executive function. A person who is naturally disorganized and has trouble focusing isn't likely to benefit from being told what organized, well focused people do that works for them. I tutor at-risk teens, and many of them have executive function problems. I do not agree that a class is the solution-- in my experience, these kids need modelling and mentoring. The first thing I do, is make sure that they pound on a single test, be completely and totally prepared, and ace it. To accomplish this, I evaluate what needs to be learned, organize their study, make daily lists, check up on their progress, mark off how much they have accomplished, discuss giving yourself buffer time in your study plan, do practice tests, organize materials in folders for them. I have no expectation that they can do *any* of this on their own. I have even been known to hold the flash cards for a kid (even 17 year old kids), and sit with them at the library as a friendly supervisor. Basically, I do ALL the executive function *for* them, and make sure they are so prepared as to ace the test. At this point the student knows what it feels like to be totally prepared for a test, and knows the effort it took to get there. This is step one. Next, is the gradual teaching of the *how* of executive function. This takes a *long* time for some students, as in working with me for 2 years. The key is not to expect them to be able to do it. Kids with executive function problems just can't. And nagging them or belittling them is NOT going to work. They have likely had this negative approach for all the years they have been in school. They are already used to also negative self-labelling. Some of my students have so much anxiety from failure due to executive function that they are cutting and drinking etc. To turn it around, these kids need to believe that they are not abnormal. *Many* students (as the original poster has noted) can't organize their way out of a box, it is fine to take time to learn the skill, rather than for someone to just tell you to fix it, now. I tell my students over and over that you must 1) figure out what you are supposed to know, 2) figure out what you actually know, 3) make a plan to get from one to the other. Most kids can do NONE of these 3 things. So you have to show them how to do each, and it is very very tricky to do it well, which is why most kids can't. Maize, I can go through the types of training I do with each of the 3, if you are interested. In this stage, you are working *with* the students to organize their study, in contrast to stage 1 where you do it all for them. Finally, you have the students organize their study while you watch. This step is often best done during exam season, so over the period of a month, and after you have already done at least 2 exam seasons *with* them. This stage is about making sure they do it on their own and about making sure that they are recognized for doing it (so lots of praise). Kids need to know that someone cares, that there is follow through, that they are not out there on their own before they are ready. Recognition is key -- Wow, you've got this. Oh, what a good idea, I hadn't thought of that, I'll use that with my other students. I love your use of color. Show me how you laid that out. Explain to me your system. Etc. I cannot save all my students, but I can save most. It is about caring, individualized attention. And time. The fix is not quick. Ruth in NZ 16 4 Link to post Share on other sites


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Moon phase on 30 June 2053 Monday is Full Moon, 14 days old Moon is in Capricorn.Share this page: twitter facebook linkedin
Full Moon is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 100%. The 14 days old Moon is in ♑ Capricorn.
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Moon rises at sunset and sets at sunrise. It is visible all night and it is high in the sky around midnight.
Moon is passing first ∠3° of ♑ Capricorn tropical zodiac sector.
Lunar disc appears visually 6.5% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1768" and ∠1887".
The Full Moon this days is the Strawberry of June 2053.
There is high Full Moon ocean tide on this date. Combined Sun and Moon gravitational tidal force working on Earth is strong, because of the Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy alignment.
The Moon is 14 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving through the middle part of current synodic month. This is lunation 661 of Meeus index or 1614 from Brown series.
Length of current 661 lunation is 29 days, 6 hours and 35 minutes. This is the year's shortest synodic month of 2053. It is 40 minutes shorter than next lunation 662 length.
Length of current synodic month is 6 hours and 9 minutes shorter than the mean length of synodic month and it is the shortest synodic month length of a for 21st century.
This New Moon true anomaly is ∠352.3°. At beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠7.2°. The length of upcoming synodic months will keep increasing since the true anomaly gets closer to the value of New Moon at point of apogee (∠180°).
13 days after point of perigee on 16 June 2053 at 21:48 in ♊ Gemini. The lunar orbit is getting wider, while the Moon is moving outward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next day, until it get to the point of next apogee on 1 July 2053 at 02:40 in ♑ Capricorn.
Moon is 405 321 km (251 855 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves farther next day until apogee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 406 396 km (252 523 mi).
8 days after its ascending node on 22 June 2053 at 05:29 in ♍ Virgo, the Moon is following the northern part of its orbit for the next 6 days, until it will cross the ecliptic from North to South in descending node on 6 July 2053 at 19:46 in ♓ Pisces.
8 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♍ Virgo, the Moon is moving from the beginning to the first part of it.
At 12:07 on this date the Moon is meeting its South standstill point, when it will reach southern declination of ∠-18.513°. Next 13 days the lunar orbit will move in opposite northward direction to face North declination of ∠18.467° in its northern standstill point on 14 July 2053 at 09:16 in ♋ Cancer.
The Moon is in Full Moon geocentric opposition with the Sun on this date and this alignment forms Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy.


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Question: Dear Luise: Just this morning i got a call that my 7yr old's dad was killed. he was assaulted by 3gang members. he was 27. i have no idea on how or what to say to him. his dad lived in Oregon and i live in Washington state. my son looked up to his dad, his dad was everything to him. now i dont know what to do, im going crazy, trying to hold back my tears. i want to let him know whats going on but dont know how to explain it with out it sounding bad.. when i tell my son, i know he'll ask how and why? again i dont want to tell him he was killed. this is the hardest thing ive been through.. i have never been through this. i have never lost anyone close to me.. Luise PLEASE help me! C.
Answer: Dear C.: I would consult with a child psychologist to see if there is a way to support your son in knowing and facing the truth.
It's going to sound bad when you tell him because it is bad. Seven is very young to be given such information but I think withholding information can be even worse. He is going to find out someday and then you are going to be the trusted person who lied to him, if you don't tell him the truth, now.
His dad is gone…he was hurt by some really awful people and he died. My take is that your son needs to know that and to process it to the best of his ability from the place of very limited life experience. Let him know that it's terrible for you, too. There may be details that you don't want him to know. If so, keep them to yourself. I think that's what I would do. You both deserve so much better than this…and life isn't always fair. Blessings, Luise


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Okay, let me start off by saying I am FULLY aware I haven't even scratched the surface of this beautiful country. From vibrant, iconic cities and tall mountains to stunning beaches and cascading waterfalls, Australia has something for everyone. And don't even get me started on their cute, unique animals (quokkas, anyone?)! I am dying… Continue reading Top 10 Australia Instagram Spots
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How to Spend 24 Hour in New York City
The Big Apple, the first United States capital (okay, for about a year, but still) and the most densely populated city in the country. I'll start out by saying that if you can spend more than a day in New York City, you definitely should. But if you're like us and only have 24 hours… Continue reading How to Spend 24 Hour in New York City
10 Tips for Driving Maui's Road to Hana
No trip to Maui is complete without embarking on the iconic drive along the Road to Hana. Boasting 59 bridges and 620 curves in just 42 miles, the Hana Highway is a precarious drive that is not for the fainthearted. I'm lucky that my husband is an excellent driver and didn't bat an eye at… Continue reading 10 Tips for Driving Maui's Road to Hana
Hotel Review: Kimpton Hotel Palomar San Diego
Most of you know that I tend to travel at 100 miles an hour, jumping from place to place and cramming as much into my travels as possible. So when the opportunity came up for me and my husband to actually relax for a weekend and enjoy each other's company for our one-year wedding anniversary… Continue reading Hotel Review: Kimpton Hotel Palomar San Diego
2.5 Days on the Big Island of Hawai'i
If you live in California, what do you do with a long weekend? Go to Hawai'i, of course! Jokes, most people in California don't do this, either. But they should!! We found cheap direct flights to the Big Island from Los Angeles, and we figured, why not? If you keep saying you won't go somewhere… Continue reading 2.5 Days on the Big Island of Hawai'i
3 Day Sahara Desert Tour
When you think of Morocco, it's likely that two things will come to mind: the bustling souks of Marrakech, and the vastness of the red Sahara Desert. (Okay, maybe you also think about the blue pearl, aka Chefchaouen. But we didn't make it there this trip so that sadly won't be covered on here…yet!) Back… Continue reading 3 Day Sahara Desert Tour
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At long last, we've made it to the continent of Africa!! Marrakech has LONG been on my travel bucket list, and I'm so grateful that my hubby and I were able to make it here over American Thanksgiving. <3 Pro tip for my fellow Americans: International travel during our Thanksgiving domestic holiday is MUCH cheaper… Continue reading 2 Days in Marrakech
3 Days in Paris
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Opinion: Joanne Hayes may have received apologies from the state and the gardaí, but there is still unfinished business in the Kerry Babies case
Joanne Hayes and the Kerry Babies case were back under the media spotlight last week. But it's fair to say that Hayes, her baby, the Caherciveen baby John and the Hayes family have never been far from the public consciousness.
Last week, she was rightly vindicated by the gardaí and the state for being falsely accused of the murder of baby John in Caherciveen, a fact which many of her friends and community in north Kerry knew 34 years ago. It was a fact that had already been established by their differing blood groups.
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A RTÉ Prime Time report from January 2018 on Joanne Hayes and the Kerry Babies case
In the past couple of days, some people have railed against Hayes and her family being put under the media spotlight again. Her family had suffered enough, they say, and there was no need to drag them back into the public domain again.
But in this instance, it was important that the wrongs levelled against her were acknowledged and that it was admitted that these were false and untrue. It was equally important that it be done in a public forum and reported on by the media because Hayes was the victim of a scurrilous campaign lead by the primary organs of the state.
Few photographs were printed of these men who perpetrated this crime against her
The media pride themselves on holding others to account and on shedding light on those darker periods in Irish history. In doing so on this occasion, they recalled the harrowing facts of the case, the unimaginable trauma and intimidation suffered by the Hayes family at the hands of the gardaí and the subsequent tribunal of inquiry which was set up in the aftermath. The public were provided with images of the grave of baby John and grainy black and white photos of Hayes and her family were peppered throughout newspapers and online media.
Little was said about those who levelled these charges against her and few photographs were printed of these men who perpetrated this crime against her. Few appear to have sought interviews and answers from them. Articles on the new Caherciveen investigation continue to be accompanied by pictures of Hayes, even though the state and gardaí have established she has no link to that baby. Where are the pictures of the guards, on whose behalf serving gardaí are now apologising, and those in the legal profession who cross-examined her so harshly at a public tribunal?
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RTÉ News report on the Taoiseach's apology on behalf of State to Joanne Hayes
I grew up in North Kerry and worked as a journalist there. Our community was aware of the "blackguarding" that the family suffered. Last week's reports served to inform those who were unaware of this travesty about what happened to Hayes, who has lived in Abbeydorney with her family to the present day.
Now that this apology has been served, the media must not rest on their laurels. They must continue to hold those who were and are in power in relation to this case to account. Whilst remuneration will most likely be forthcoming, it will not heal the years of torment which Hayes was subjected to.
Now that this apology has been served, the media must not rest on their laurels.
Whilst some of those responsible are now deceased, others can still be called to account and the media have a role to play here. Whilst the reopening of the investigation into the death of baby John is to be welcomed, powerful proponents signalled the death knell of privacy for Hayes 34 years ago. In order for moral justice to be served, the media must now hold a candle to the wrongs committed against Hayes and her family.
The views expressed here are those of the author and do not represent or reflect the views of RTÉ


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WSU jazz professor Matt Michaels passed away 11/2...
Detroit Free Press
"Music instructor's life a beautiful melody"
by Mitch Albom
Free Press columnist Mitch Albom wrote a profile story about retired Wayne State University professor, musician and song writer Matt Michaels, who passed away yesterday. Describing his career in music, Albom wrote: "Matt Michaels, 79, may be the most beloved music instructor Detroit ever has known. He could have gone anywhere, recorded anything. He is a master player, a sterling accompanist, a wizard at arranging and writing charts for bands and orchestras. He played with Rosemary Clooney, Peggy Lee, Wes Montgomery, countless others. He helped launch Barbra Streisand and never took it personally when she bolted for New York with his charts." Albom added that Mr. Michaels taught thousands of future musicians at Wayne State.
To make a memorial gift, please click here and type 446875 Matt Michaels Endowed Jazz Studies Fund in the "Other" designation box. Thank you.
Also, please note that proceeds from the November 14, 2011, Mondays at the Max concert will go to this fund and the concert will feature a tribute to Professor Michaels.


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Distance: 360 km (5 hrs, 30 min). Drive north through cultivations of coffee and pineapple to Mountain Lodge on the slopes of Mount Kenya for a sumptuous lunch. In the afternoon continue on to Samburu National Reserve. Dinner and overnight at Samburu Serena Lodge, B, L,D.
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Full day of game viewing drives in this dry semi-arid park with its striking background view of the Mathew's Range. The gently flowing Uaso Nyiro River, which traverses this Park, provides evergreen vegetation for the rare gerenuk, Grevy zebra and reticulated giraffe found in this park. All meals and overnight at Samburu Serena Lodge, B, L,D.
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Distance: 210 km (3 hr.). Soon after breakfast at the Lodge, retrace your route to Nyeri. A country style lunch at Outspan Hotel. In the afternoon transfer into the Aberdare National Park to Treetops for an evening and night of game watching. Overnight accommodation at Treetops, B, L,D.
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Distance: 180 km (2 hrs. 30 min.) & 250 km (4 hrs.). Transfer to Outspan Hotel for breakfast and early departure to Naivasha for lunch at Lake Naivasha Country Club. In the afternoon continue to the Masai Mara. To grasp the true feeling of Africa there is nothing better than the Masai Mara experience. This well watered park crossed by the Mara River is a permanent home for large herds of wildebeests, zebras and antelopes coexisting with predators such as lions, hyenas, leopards and cheetahs. Dinner & overnight at Mara Serena Lodge, B, L,D.
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Sunrise and sundown are the greatest moments for game viewing in these mystic plains, a time where the soft red hues of the sun will give your photographs the clarity of the actual African savannah. Full day of game drives with overnight accommodation at Mara Serena Lodge, B,L,D.
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Distance: 300 km (4 hr. 30 min) & 250 km (4 hrs.). After breakfast drive to Nairobi arriving on time for lunch at Nairobi Serena Hotel. Afternoon drive south to Amboseli National Park. Game viewing en route to your lodge with the immense grandeur of Mt Kilimanjaro in the background. Dinner and overnight at Amboseli Serena Lodge, B, L,D.
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Distance: 220 km (3 hrs. 30 min). Dawn and morning game viewing drives. Breakfast and lunch at the Lodge. In the afternoon drive to Tsavo West National Park. Dinner and overnight at Kilaguni Serena Lodge, B, L,D.
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Distance: 150 km (2 hrs.). Morning game viewing drive. Breakfast and lunch at the Lodge. Afternoon visit to Mzima Springs en route to Taita Hills Game Sanctuary. Dinner and overnight at the amazing Saltlick Lodge designed for lofty game viewing from its thatched roof rondavels and walkways, B, L,D.
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Sadly, if you suspect, the answer is likely "yes." Experts on marital problems and affairs say that instinct seems to be the best indicator of an affair. Studies have confirmed that 85% of women and 50% of men who suspected that their partner was cheating were ultimately shown to be correct. These behaviors do not guarantee infidelity, but more than two or three of these at once give justification to your suspicions.
Grooming habits tend to change when a person is trying to engage, is currently taking part, or took part in an extra marital affair. Most marital problem experts state that a partner will change their grooming habits to attract a new partner. If they are currently engaged in an extra marital affair, it is believed that they change their grooming habits and keep them in order to keep the relationship going. Lastly, they may change their grooming habits after the affair in order to disguise that anything took place.
Another "huge" sign of infidelity is time. They begin to show up late, make up excuses about why they had to leave, why they're moving and shifting their schedules around, etc. They come up with "Quick Trips" or have time gaps that can not be easily explained. The mileage on their vehicles jumps up on "short trips".
They are always finding excuses to be away from you (usually "hanging out with the boys (or) girls." They then act irritated if you question their whereabouts or want details of their time out.
Cheaters may have a change in sex life (i.e. more sex, less sex) as well as unexplained sexual requests.
They become moody, bossy, or show irritation towards you for no reason. To them, it helps justify cheating because the relationship is bad.
They don't want you showing up at their place of business. If an affair is with a co-worker, the last thing the cheater wants is to have their partner showing up at work. They may act distant or distracted if others are around, especially if the person they're cheating with is around.
They may put passwords on their cell phones or computers when they have never had them before. Perhaps you've seen them logging off the Internet or hanging up the phone as soon as you walk in the door. Not answering incoming calls while you are present is another red flag.
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*Please note the owner of the vehicle must approve the use of any GPS device placement.
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BRIARWOOD, Queens — An F train was partially derailed in Queens Saturday night near Briarwood, prompting riders to be evacuated, according to FDNY officials.
It happened between stations at Parsons Boulevard and Sutphin Boulevard, where the MTA says two wheels of the front car of a Manhattan-bound F train left the tracks in the tunnel between the two stations. The trains brakes were activated at the same time, MTA communications director Tim Minton said.
A safety mat used by maintenance workers to protect themselves from the third rail was located underneath the second car of the train, Minton said. Investigators are looking into whether or not it's related to the derailment.
The 195 people on the train at the time were evacuated through a second train that pulled up behind the train that partially derailed. They walked back to the Parsons Boulevard station through both the "incident train" and the "reach train."
Nobody was injured, officials said.
The incident led to various service changes to E and F trains in the area.


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Birthday cake cupcakes with sprinkles. A small batch cupcake recipe for birthday cupcakes for celebrating a kids birthday party, or gifting a friend or coworker on their special day! This recipe for 4 cupcakes will come in handy! Be sure to pin it to save for later!
The other day, my daughter and I were invited to a low-key birthday celebration for one of her friends from school. It wasn't the typical birthday party with a huge cake and formal setting; it was a fun, relaxing play date. Can I admit that these are the only kinds of kids birthday parties I like to attend?
Even though the party was low-key, I still felt like sprinkles needed to be involved in some way. So, I altered my recipe for wedding cake cupcakes to become birthday cake cupcakes with sprinkles. In order to make the cupcakes have a softer texture more similar to cake mix, I use oil instead of butter.
The resulting birthday cake cupcakes recipe is so good, that I just might make these weekly!
While a small batch of cupcakes is perfect for a kids birthday party, they're also a great gift for a friend on their birthday. A small plate of 4 cupcakes is so thoughtful to give to someone on their birthday. If they share a cupcake with you, even better, but it's their day!
Learning how to make birthday cupcakes at home is a skill that will make you lots of friends in life!
I love that this small batch recipe of cupcakes only makes 4 because kids don't really need that much sugar on their birthdays. I actually waited to give Camille refined sugar until she was 2 years old. As much as I would have liked to give Camille these, I opted for my refined-sugar free maple syrup cupcake recipe instead as her first birthday cupcakes! (Yep, I'm one of those moms!)
But now that she's well beyond that stage, I know she's going to ask for these best birthday cupcakes for her next birthday!
These aren't just for kids, though! It's a great birthday cupcakes recipe for adults, too! You can even leave out the sprinkles and make plain small batch vanilla cupcakes, if you want. (But honestly, who doesn't love confetti cupcakes?)
Birthday cake cupcakes tips & tricks:
-use oil instead of butter for soft, moist cupcakes
-full-fat sour cream is best, but you can use Greek yogurt
-since we're small batch baking, I tend to lose count of 6 tablespoons of flour, so I space the scoops out in the batter to help me keep track (see photo above).
-2 full tablespoons of sprinkles is perfect for a recipe for 4 cupcakes. Plus, extra sprinkles in the frosting, too!
We should talk about this buttercream frosting. It's soft enough to be piped in a piping bag (I always use these disposable piping bags to make for easy clean-up), but you can also use a knife to swirl it on top of the cupcakes instead.
I used a large 8B open star tip from Wilton to make the swirls of frosting. Start in the center of the cupcake, go around the edge, and then repeat while pulling up to make a pretty pile.
Piping pretty frosting takes practice, so don't be afraid to scrape it off the cupcake back in the bag and start again!
If you make these cute birthday cupcakes, let me know! I'd love to see them!
Birthday cake cupcakes--small batch recipe makes 4 cupcakes.
Birthday Cake Cupcakes
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Yield: 4
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Amount Per Serving: Calories: 529Total Fat: 33gSaturated Fat: 11gTrans Fat: 0gUnsaturated Fat: 20gCholesterol: 89mgSodium: 119mgCarbohydrates: 56gFiber: 0gSugar: 45gProtein: 3g
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This is a great idea -- very handy to have a separate shelf for knick-knacks that get in the way of the music. However, I was a little disappointed at the finishing of the product -- the plastic is very sharp at the corners and could be a hazard with any quick movements around the stand.
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While it might seem a little expensive for what it is, it's really convenient to have the extra space on the music stand for rosin, tuners/metronomes, pencils, etc.
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Hi Christine! Unfortunately, the clip on this accessory shelf is too narrow for the Peak folding stand. I apologize for the inconvenience. Let us know if you have any other questions!
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Hello Susan! In terms of the dimensions, you can add another accessory shelf layer to your stand, but we cannot guarantee that it would remain as stable as the single shelf, as they are not designed for that use. Please let us know if you have any other questions!
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Hi Donna! The accessory shelf clips on to the lip of the music stand. Hope this helps!
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Note-oriety is James Madison University's premier award winning all female a cappella group, founded in 1998 by Kelly Myer & Bonnie Estes.
You can find the lovely ladies of Note-oriety performing all around the JMU campus and at various events up and down the east coast. We are a sisterhood bound by a love for music and lifelong friendship.
Note-oriety is a nationally recognized group, consistently ranked as one of the top all female a cappella groups in the country. We have been recognized and praised by many prominent figures in the music industry, including Nicki Minaj, Kelly Clarkson, and TLC. Most recently, College Magazine named us one of "The 10 Female Groups Running the A Cappella World" in February of 2018. We have also been recognized with several prestigious awards, including a 2016 CARA win for "Best Female Collegiate Song" for "Bang Bang" off of our self-titled album "Note-oriety" (2015). The song was also chosen as one of the Recorded A Cappella Review Board's Song of the Year, while "Note-oriety" was named their 2016 Album of the Year.
Our most recent album, titled "Note to Self" was released in July of 2020. The album was produced by James Gammon Productions. "Note to Self" is now available on Apple Music and Spotify.
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"not-" (in "not-resting" and "not-becoming") is like non- in "non-attachment", which doesn't fall into the opposite extreme of aversion. It also is like the "an-" (less-) of "anatman" or "anatta" (self-less-ness); it rejects the extreme views but not the existence.
The bodhisattva ideal presents nirvāṇa as non-abiding nirvāṇa: a nirvāṇa where one doesn't 'automatically 'stay, where one isn't locked (by aversion, towards samsaric suffering), a nirvāṇa that doesn't prevent coming 'back' in saṃsāra to help others. This is a non-resting…
Curiosity is what allows not to be locked by knowledge or by certainties, but without falling into the naïve rejection of knowledge; curiosity opens the door to the 'beyond' the existence and non-existence of 'essential', 'unquestionable' knowledge, of certainties that blind and bias our responses; it is a dharma gate.
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With a strong second half, the Arizona Coyotes are ready to take that next step from cellar dweller to competitive team. The hope is that now that head coach Rick Tocchet has held the coaching reigns for a full season, he can help Arizona take that next step. While the importance of signing of star defenseman Oliver Ekman-Larsson is critical to the long-term success of the team is key (he has been rumored to be considering and eight-year extension), the team must continue to upgrade its roster.
According to Tocchet, in an interview with Arizona Sports' Craig Morgan, the team has several key needs with center being at the top of the list, followed by another top-five defenseman and a scoring wing. The team upgraded at center a year ago when it went out and traded defenseman Anthony DeAngelo and their first-round pick in a package deal for Derek Stepan and Antti Raanta. Stepan put up solid numbers as the team's top center, scoring 14 goals and adding 42 assists in his first year for Arizona. However, the team might want a stronger, more veteran presence for the No. 2 center spot, which was held by Christian Dvorak last season. Dvorak had just 22 assists last season.
Despite a solid nucleus on defense starting with Ekman-Larsson and Alex Goligoski as well as the strong additions of veterans Jason Demers and Niklas Hjalmarsson in the offseason and the improved play of youngster Jakob Chychrun, the team would like to add more to their defense. While the team might address that with the fifth-overall pick this year, the team wouldn't mind adding another player to their group, which might have to come via trade.
- Tocchet said he has worked hard to form a relationship with Ekman-Larsson over the past year. "In December, we had a really frank 30 or 40 minute talk," said Tocchet. "I'm not a big meeting guy but we just talked about life and everything. I wanted him to have more of a voice in how we do things. What time should we have practice? Do you like the day off here? Should we travel at 2 PM? I want him to be proactive in those decisions. I want him to take responsibility and I think he understands that now that I want more from him."
- In the same article, Tocchet said that the addition of veteran Marcus Kruger is important due to his leadership skills. While the veteran struggled in his one year in Carolina with just six points in 48 games, Kruger did admit he played the entire year with a hernia. However, fully healed, he should give the Coyotes some grit on their fourth line. "The Chicago coaching staff loved him. I hear his hockey IQ is high and he's a leader in the sense that he does the right things, practices hard. Since I've started, hockey IQ to me is bigger than I ever thought it was. When you add players with high hockey IQ, the chemistry comes quicker. He can probably help some young guys with that," Tocchet said.


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Ex convict jailed for Axminster hammer attack
PUBLISHED: 07:58 25 January 2019
'Dangerous offender' battered girlfriend's former partner
A 'dangerous' ex convict has been jailed for plotting a revenge attack in which he battered his victim around the head with a hammer.
Steven McMahon was wanted for recall to prison and was on the run when he lay in wait and attacked his new girlfriend's ex partner in Axminster.
He had his plan of attack written on a piece of paper which set out how he was going to stalk victim Benjamin Watkins after he left girlfriend Kelly Westlake's home.
McMahon blacked out the windows of the house in Foxhill so Mr Watkins could not see him inside as he approached it. When he knocked on the door, McMahon hid in the kitchen before slipping out the back door.
Neighbours saw him lurking behind a parked van on the other side of the road and when Mr Watkins left the house, he followed him and attacked him in nearby Lyme Close.
He left him with blood streaming from four hammer blows to his forehead and nose but did not suffer any permanent injury.
McMahon was angry because Mr Watkins had found out about his relationship with his ex partner Kelly Westlake and alerted police that he was staying at her home.
The plan was set out on the note found in his pocket which read: 'go out bk door, wait for him there, do whatever'.
McMahon has a history of violent offending and suffers from narcolepsy and catalepsy, aggravated by a heroin addiction, and has led to him being described as a zombie.
McMahon, aged 35, of no fixed address but formerly of Clinton Rise, Beer, was found guilty of wounding, and possession of an offensive weapon by a jury at Exeter Crown Court last month.
On Tuesday (January 22), at Exeter Crown Court, he was jailed for four years with a one year extended licence by Judge David Evans, who classified him as a dangerous offender who poses a high risk of causing harm by future violence.
He told him: "There was the use of a weapon and pre-meditation and the offence is aggravated by your previous convictions. This was carried out late at night on the street, partly in the presence of others."
McMahon carried out the attack at 9.30 pm on July 29 last year after Mr Watkins had gone to Miss Westlake's home for the second time that day.
He had been in a relationship with Miss Westlake in the past but they had broken up and she was with McMahon at the time of the attack.
Mr Watkins was walking home when he was followed and challenged by McMahon who was holding the hammer in one hand and asked 'do you want some?' There was a fight in which he was hit with the weapon.
McMahon fled on a motorcycle which he drove down narrow alleyways to avoid the police. He was arrested the next day at Chard Medical Centre in Somerset.
He had been released from and eight year, ten month sentence just nine months before the attack but was wanted by police for breaching the conditions of his licence and had been had on the run for 12 days.
His previous sentence was for stabbing a pizza delivery driver in Axminster in 2013 at a time when he was already on a suspended sentence for a stabbing at a party in Taunton.
In court, McMahon claimed he was acting in self defence and he had the hammer because he had been working on his motorbike.
Mr William Parkhill, defending, said McMahon's time in prison will be difficult for him because he will be separated from his young family and he is worried his medical conditions will not be treated properly.
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10 Classic Outdoor Games That Are Still Fun
As a kid, playing outdoors was one of the most anticipated activities to be done on weekends and most especially, every summer. At school, we still get to enjoy outdoor games during our break time and dismissal.
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Playing outdoors is healthy and helpful in developing physical strength, agility, endurance, confidence, and social skills. Kids who are used to sedentary lifestyle tend to have slower and weaker development, as compared to the active ones. Physical inactivity is a negative gesture and should not be practiced by kids, who are still developing, to avoid eventual health issues.
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Time may have passed, but some classic games are just too difficult to ignore and/or forget. It is truly a fine gem to see these games still played by kids. Kids deserve to experience the kind of fun we had during our youth.
Here are 10 unforgettable games that still give us the fun we have always wanted:
Hide and Seek
The unforgettable game played not only by kids but also by adults. Hide and seek can be played indoor and outdoor.
The game is open for everyone interested to play. At least, three players should participate the said game, with one who counts at least in tens with eyes closed for the remaining players to find time to hide.
Apart from the blackboard, chalks can also be used to sketch those grids for hopscotch along the sidewalk.
This game requires the player to toss either a piece of rock or beanbag starting from the very first square and hop with only one foot. After successfully hopping the squares, you stop at the square prior to where your rock or beanbag is currently positioned and pick it up while balancing with just one foot.
Who would ever forget about this classic game? Kickball has always been a favorite by most kids since it allows kids to test their strength.
The rules are simple. If you have knowledge about baseball and softball, then this game should not be a problem; though people with no idea about the aforementioned games can also easily learn the game after a few tries.
Dodge Ball
Here is another classic game mostly played by kids when placed outdoor. This game is one of the ideal games in measuring your agility and analytical skills.
The more the players, the merrier the game is. The game is divided into two groups; one group dodges the ball, while the other group targets the players who are inside the field.
Patintero, also known as Patubig, Lantay-lantay, or Tinubigan, is a famous street game from the Philippines. This game requires quick thinking and fast movement to avoid losing the game.
The players are divided into two teams in even numbers. One team, known as the runners, is given the task to cross the entire area without being tagged by the opponent. The taggers, on the other hand, guard the area without stepping off the line.
Capture the Flag
Capture the flag is a simple yet thrilling game that requires two teams. Based on the name alone, each team is required to capture the flag without being caught by the opponent.
The flag is visibly positioned within the team's base. The mission of the game is to guard the team's flag and steal the opponent's flag, thus requiring the team to plan ahead on what to do and study the opponent's players.
Jumping Rope
If you think this is only open for athletes, then guess again. This game is also one of the most played games by kids.
It is a simple game that requires players to skip the rope as many times as they can without stepping on the rope. It can be played singularly or by three, depending on your preference.
Trip to Jerusalem
Trip to Jerusalem or Musical Chairs is a game commonly played in a party. Another simple yet fun game that obliges players to dance around the chair while the music is on. When the music turns off, each player should have a chair to sit on. When one player fails to secure a chair, he or she is out and another chair is to be removed from the area.
The number of chairs available should depend on the number of players. For example, when there are 8 players, there should only be 7 chairs available.
Red Light, Green Light
"Red light" is when the players are mandated to stop while the "it" observes the player. Whoever is caught moving shall go back to the starting point. "Green light" is when the players can freely move towards the "it" while the "it" is facing away from the players.
The game continues until a player reaches the line and tags the "it" player.
Kick the Can
It is another game similar to that of hide and seek and tag. Kick the can has an "it" player who closes his or her eyes while counting. After which, the "it" looks for every player who is currently hiding.
When the player gets tagged by the "it", he or she stays in a place where the captured are. However, when the player gets to kick the can, all the captured players can be released. Once all players are captured, the "it" player wins the game.


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Peter Tomes born 1805 York/Phila PA Area
I am searching for Peter Tomes' father. According to Biographical sketches of York County, PA., Peters father (name not given) immigrated from Germany and settled at Cornwall Furnace and later settled at Colebrook Furnace, PA.. I know that Peter was married to Sarah Keesey and they lived in both the Philadelphia and York Pa areas. Peter was a member of St Patricks church in York and is buried in the catholic cemetery located in Spring Garden Township, PA.. A few verbal sources have connected this Peter to the Tome family of North Chanceford Township, PA. However after reasearching and coming across a famiy tree produced by Linda Tome Gohn, I am still unable to connect the families. If you know of any information that could be provided, I would greatly appreciate it.Peter was born around the year 1805.
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