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In these terms and conditions the following terms have the following meanings:
'Accommodation' means the cottage shown in the confirmation invoice or as may otherwise be agreed in writing between the Owner and the Visitor;
'Agreement' means the agreement between the Owner and the Visitor for the holiday rental of Accommodation on these Terms and Conditions;
'The Owner' means The Owner of Swallow Barn which is situated at Lydford Devon EX20 4BP; and
'Visitor' means the person named in the confirmation invoice and all members of the party.
1 Agreement
1.1 These Terms and Conditions are printed on the website and on the reverse of the confirmation invoice or email. The making of a booking (unless cancelled within 7 working days of receipt of the confirmation invoice) will form an agreement on these Terms and Conditions between the Visitor and The Owner for the holiday rental of the Accommodation.
1.2 The Owner permits the Visitor to occupy the Accommodation for the holiday period shown in the confirmation invoice together with the use of its contents.
1.3 The Visitor will be responsible for all payments and for any damage whether caused by the Visitor or his or her party and shall make his or her party fully aware of these terms and conditions.
2 Price Changes
2.1 The confirmation invoice will show the holiday price at the time of booking. The holiday price is subject to change in the event that the price is increased during a pricing review of the Accommodation (which will take place in Autumn each year to take effect in the relevant following calendar year).
2.2 In the event of a change in the holiday price the Visitor will be informed in writing as soon as possible. The Owner will then ask the Visitor to confirm whether they wish to confirm the agreed new price or confirm that they no longer wish to continue with the booking. Should the Visitor choose not to continue they shall be entitled to a full refund.
2.3 If The Owner has not heard back from the Visitor within 4 weeks it shall notify them again and if it has still not received confirmation within a further 4 weeks it shall have the right to terminate the booking. In such circumstances, The Owner will only be liable for the return of the deposit.
It is important in order for The Owner to correspond with the Visitor that the Visitor keeps Owner notified of any changes in their contact details by calling 07964 786728 or 020 8429 4865 or e-mailing: email@example.com.
3 Booking and Payment Terms
3.1 For bookings made 60 days or more in advance, the booking for a holiday will be effective when a deposit of at least 25% of the holiday price (rounding up to the nearest pound sterling) has been received by The Owners. Up to that time it will be a provisional booking, and provisional bookings are normally held for a maximum of 7 working days. The full balance of the total holiday cost (including any increase made in accordance with these Terms and Conditions) will be payable not later than 8 weeks before the holiday begins. Please also see paragraph 13.3.
3.2 For bookings made for a holiday less than 60 days away, full payment must be made at the time of booking.
3.3 All payments can only be accepted in Pounds Sterling and are to be made by Paypal, cheque or internet banking.
4 Cancellation
4.1 If a visitor wishes to cancel a booking it must give The Owner notice in writing as soon as possible. A 100% cancellation charge will be payable. On receipt of the written cancellation The Owner will endeavour to re-book the Accommodation for the holiday period and, if successful for the whole or part of the period, will refund the relevant proportion of the money paid less £50.00 (fifty pounds) to cover administration.
4.2 If, following a booking, the full balance is not paid on time, The Owner shall notify the Visitor. If, after 30 days from the date on which full payment is due, full payment has not been received by The Owner then it may cancel the holiday booking and the above cancellation charges will apply and the Visitor remains liable for 100% of the holiday cost.
5 Owner Right to Refuse/Alter
5.1 The Owner may, at its discretion, refuse any booking.
5.2 The Owner may cancel or alter arrangements made for the Visitor whether before or during the holiday period provided that such cancellation or alteration is necessary: (a) due to circumstances beyond the reasonable control of the Owner; or (b) to perform or complete essential remedial or refurbishment works.
5.3 If a booking is altered or cancelled by the Owner due to circumstances beyond its reasonable control, it will take reasonable steps to offer a suitable alternative date. If The Owner is not able to offer such an alternative or the Visitor does not accept the alternative offered, The Owner will return to the Visitor the relevant proportion of the money paid by the Visitor to The Owner in respect of the Accommodation and will not otherwise be liable for any loss caused by such alteration or cancellation.
6 Change of Booking
6.1 The Owner may, at its discretion, accept transferred bookings subject to payment of a fee of £35.00 (thirty-five pounds). However, bookings will not normally be accepted within one month of the Visitor's holiday, or from one calendar year to another.
7 Maximum Numbers of Visitors
Occupation must be limited to the maximum number of persons for the Accommodation stated in the Swallow Barn website, in the available beds only – no tents, caravans or campervans are allowed. The occupation limits are set in line with the level of services available. To exceed the maximum number of persons in the cottage overloads the facilities available which are often not designed or capable of supporting additional usage, and can lead to extensive and expensive damage. As such any over-occupancy is considered to be a serious infringement of the Terms and Conditions and can result in an immediate requirement to vacate the premises, with no refund of monies due, and possible further charges in the event of damage to the facilities caused by excess usage (for example, a malfunctioning septic tank which has been used by a greater number of people than the tank is designed for).
8 Services
8.1 The holiday price will include all charges for water and electricity. Visitors must comply with the instructions found in the Handbook in the Accommodation regarding the appropriate fuel for use in the wood burning stove within the Accommodation. Any damage caused by using inappropriate fuel will be charged to the Visitor.
8.2 Visitors must not alter the controls on the boiler in the utility room, this controls the air source heat pump and under floor heating. If a special visit is required to re-set these controls then the Visitor will be required to pay for the service.
9 Liability and Loss of Visitor Property
9.1 Any Visitor's property found at the Accommodation or on Owner property will be subject to the Owner's Holiday Cottage Policy regarding lost property as described in the welcome pack in the Accommodation. Lost property will normally be disposed of if it is not collected within 6 months and The Owner may charge a reasonable administration fee to cover the costs of storage and handling of lost property.
9.2 The Owner will not be liable for any loss of property or any other loss or damage caused by it or its agents or contractors:
a) unless it has breached a legal duty of care owed to, or contractual term for the benefit of, the claiming party;
b) where such loss or damage is not a reasonably foreseeable result of any such breach; or
c) where such loss or damage results from a breach by the claiming party of any duty of care owed to, or contractual term for the benefit of, The Owner.
10 Pets
No pets are allowed in the property.
11 Owner Right of Entry
11.1 As with any accommodation, there is a need for ongoing and occasionally unforeseen work in any Accommodation. The Owner and its contractors may enter the Accommodation at any reasonable time for reasonable cause. This includes the need to undertake inspections and audits necessary to operate the business, the undertaking of unforeseen (internal and external) remedial repairs together with any annual external re-decoration for which access to the inside of the Accommodation may be required. External windows and doors may be opened during this process.
11.2 The Owner will give the Visitor reasonable notice of such requirements, and aims to restrict the working hours of our contractors to between the hours of 10.00 – 16.30.
12 Visitor Obligations
12.1 The Visitor will be responsible for all payments and for any damage whether caused by the Visitor or his or her party. The Visitor agrees to make his or her party aware of these terms and conditions.
12.2 The Visitor agrees to keep and leave the Accommodation and its contents in the same state of repair and condition, and in a clean and tidy state as at the commencement of the booking period.
12.3 The Visitor must allow The Owner and/or its agents to enter the Accommodation to inspect the state of it, on reasonable notice, except in emergency when immediate access must be granted.
12.4 The Visitor must not use the Accommodation or allow its use for any dangerous, offensive, noisy, illegal or immoral activities or carry on there any act that may be a nuisance or annoyance to The Owner or to any neighbours.
12.5 The Visitor and his or her party must comply with any reasonable regulations relating to the Accommodation of which the Visitor has written notice. Such regulations will be found in the welcome folder in the Accommodation, typical examples would include any local conditions regarding parking, waste disposal and recycling.
12.6 Smoking is not permitted in any part of the Accommodation and the Visitor and any member of his or her party agrees not to smoke inside the Accommodation.
12.7 The use of candles or fireworks by the Visitor or his or her party at the Accommodation is not permitted as they constitute a fire hazard.
13 Damages and Security Charge
13.1 The Owner recommends that Visitors hold personal insurance for accidental damage and personal liability.
13.2 If on arrival at the Accommodation you discover that anything is missing or damaged then this must be reported to The Owner immediately otherwise it will be presumed that the damage/loss was caused by the Visitor and a charge will be made.
13.3 All bookings will be subject to a refundable security charge of £100 per booking. This security charge provides cover for the cost of any minor damage and/or breakages caused by the Visitor in, at or to the property, as well as any requirement for additional cleaning where the Accommodation is not left clean. The charge is payable to The Owner with the final balance. If the security charge is not sufficient to cover the cost of any additional cleaning, breakages and/or damage caused, the Visitor will be responsible for full payment of any additional charges, costs and/or losses incurred on request.
13.4 The security charge will also be debited with the costs of any chargeable landline telephone calls made or films purchased via BT Vision by the Visitor.
14 Occupation
14.1 The Agreement is personal to the Visitor. The Visitor must not use the Accommodation except for the purpose of a holiday by the Visitor and the Visitor's party during the holiday period, and not for any other purpose or longer period.
14.3 The maximum occupancy of the Accommodation shall not be exceeded. However The Owner will always give reasonable consideration to specific requests for use of the Accommodation which may relate to occupancy (for example, a function or celebration). If the Visitor wishes to hold any function or celebrations exceeding the occupancy limit it must first obtain the written permission of The Owner. If permission is granted, an additional charge will be made.
15 Water Supply
The Owner cannot accept responsibility for a shortage of water at the Accommodation where this is as a result of a drought, an act or omission of the relevant water services company or for any other reason outside of The Owner's reasonable control.
16 Gardening
Occasionally a gardener will come to cut the grass and this should not interfere with the guests enjoyment of the barn.
17 Comments/Complaints
17.1 Every reasonable care will be taken to ensure that the Accommodation is presented to visitors to a high standard. Should the Visitor find on arrival that there is a problem, or cause for complaint, the Visitor should immediately contact The Owner. Reasonable steps will then be taken to assist the Visitor.
17.2 The Owner is committed to ensuring that any problems or complaints the Visitor may have whilst at the Accommodation are resolved efficiently and promptly, but as such must be given the opportunity to do so. Any refusal or delay in notifying The Owner or refusal of reasonable rectification may affect the Visitor's right to compensation or repayment.
17.3 Visitors must provide a contact telephone number and suitable time for The Owner to communicate with them about problems or complaints. Visitors must allow access to the Accommodation by any staff or contractors of The Owner to resolve problems or complaints. If despite contacting The Owner the problem or complaint remains unresolved, the Visitor must contact The Owner again. The Visitor must not independently move to other accommodation without first allowing the Owner the reasonable opportunity to assist in resolving the complaint or problem. If the Visitor does so, or refuses reasonable rectification, the Visitor may affect their rights to compensation or repayment.
17.4 Visitors must formally confirm any unresolved complaint in writing to The Owner within 28 days of return from holiday, addressed to: Swallow Barn, Lydford, Devon EX20 4BP.
18 Arrival and Departure Times
18.1 The Visitor and his or her party must arrive after the arrival time (4.00pm on the first day of the holiday period) and depart before the departure time (10:00am on the last day of the holiday period). The Owner especially recommends arrival before 5pm in winter months where access to rural Accommodation is often made more difficult due to lack of local lighting. Any stay that extends over this period will be subject to a charge being made for additional days.
18.2 The Visitor will be issued with a set of keys to the Accommodation on the first day of the holiday period and the Visitor must return them on the last day of the holiday period or the date of departure, if earlier. Failure to do so will incur the cost of a replacement set.
19 Right to Evict
The Owner may terminate the Agreement on notice, and in such case the Visitor and his or her party must leave the Accommodation, (without compensation being payable to the Visitor or any member of his or her party) if:
19.1 this is deemed necessary by The Owner where there is a serious breach by the Visitor of the Agreement or the Visitor's or his or her party's behaviour endangers the safety of other visitors or members of staff; or
19.2 any complaints are made of anti-social behaviour or unreasonable breakages or damage occurs or smoking restrictions are not observed.
20 Governing Law
The construction, validity and performance of the Agreement shall be governed by the law of England and Wales, and both parties submit to the non-exclusive jurisdiction of the UK Courts.


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Every adult (18+) that will live in the house at least 14 days per year completes an application. It's online, FCRA compliant and takes just a few minutes to complete if you've gathered all the usual docs beforehand. We'll send a link to the application in the email confirming your appointment.
If your application and all the applications for your family or group are not complete, it or they are not processed. It or they also are not processed unless all applicants have attended a face-to-face appointment and a dog interview, if requested.
One house. One lease. Only one tenant. No cosigners.
One person is legally and financially responsible for the house. The tenant must have an excellent FICO score, live in the house full time and meet the usual 3X* total housing standard. Everyone else 18+ living in the house more than 14 days per year is an occupant who applies on a separate application, submits the standard screening reports through our provider, must be named in the lease as an occupant and must have lease-compliant renter's insurance.
The application requires the usual screening reports ($40 paid directly to TransUnion) and verifications. If you're renting with a pet, see the links below to what the shelters recommend pet owners typically provide for rental applications.
All application information is verified.
*The tenant cannot combine income with anyone or need a cosigner or lease guarantor to financially qualify. 3X of total housing costs is based on current paycheck gross income (for self employed it's net as reported on your C, K1, etc.) less any fixed monthly payments reported on your credit report.
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In the premiere episode, "Omelet Party," the Rabbids stumble across a farm and become fascinated with the chickens' ability to lay eggs. Next in "Rabbid Mollusk," the Rabbids find questionable uses for a starfish and an octopus while disrupting an old man's attempt to window clean. Then in, "Rabbid, Are You There?" the Rabbids become fascinated watching a burglar attempt to rob an apartment while unknowingly assisting with a fortune-teller's reading on the floor below.
"Rabbids Invasion brings the wacky comedy and characters from Ubisoft's Raving Rabbids video games to US TV for the first time, and we think kids' are going to really have fun watching them on their chaotic adventures," said Russell Hicks, President of Content Development and Production, Nickelodeon. "This series will be a terrific complement to our top-rated lineup of original animated comedies on Saturday mornings."
"We are very proud to have Nickelodeon as a partner. They are helping us achieve a production quality normally found in long features," said Jean-Julien Baronnet, Chief Executive Officer of Ubisoft Motion Pictures. "Nickelodeon endorsed the Rabbids' infectious and wacky personalities to appeal to kids and families in a silly way. The Rabbids will literally wreak havoc on television screens across the U.S. and we love it."
Beginning July 17, viewers can log on to Nick.com/rabbids to access photo galleries featuring the world travels of the Rabbids, animated gifs and videos of the upcoming series. The Nick App will feature Rabbids-themed comedic disruptions via the popular 'Do Not Touch' button. On August 26, fans can play the Rabbids Rhythm Game on Nick.com/rabbids in which you join the four Rabbids in the middle of the screen and encourage them to dance along with the music.


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EXHIBITION RECEPTION: Friday January 16, 2015, 5-9pm
Experimental Fitness a solo exhibition by 1-week resident artist Alicia DeBrincat (from NYC)
1300 West 78th St. #108, Cleveland, Ohio 44102
"Experimental Fitness" – New works on canvas by Brooklyn-based artist Alicia DeBrincat
Alicia DeBrincat creates two-dimensional works on canvas that blend photography, printmaking, and painting. Her work explores the cultural collision between photography and painting, and the link between images and our understanding of what's real. She harvests images from the internet and approaches Google as an externalized, searchable collective unconscious. "Experimental Fitness" presents new work inspired by both historical and fictional sources, including archival photographs of Queen Victoria and Wyatt Earp and photos of the fictional character Diamond Lester.
Alicia DeBrincat a New York-based artist, curator, writer, and the Founding Editor of ArtFile Magazine, a curated online forum for art and culture. She graduated cum laude with her BA in English Literature and Spanish from the University of Oregon in 2001 and received her MFA in visual art from Parsons the New School for Design in 2012. Her work has been exhibited throughout the US, including at the Sheila C. Johnson Design Center and The Kitchen (New York), Femina Potens Gallery (San Francisco), La Luz de Jesus Gallery (Los Angeles) and at VOLTA NY 2014, where Kianga Ellis Projects curated a solo presentation of her work. She is the recipient of grants from the George Sugarman Foundation and the Money for Women Fund, and has also received funding from the Arts Council of Berkeley, California; Parsons the New School for Design; and The Wassaic Project, where she received a fellowship to be an artist-in-residence in 2013. Her work has been featured in numerous mainstream and alternative publications, including the Huffington Post, Hyperallergic, and Two Coats of Paint. In 2013, she was awarded participation in an ongoing residency program through the Manhattan-based non-profit Chashama, and, when in NY, she works out of her Chashama studio at the Brooklyn Army Terminal building in Sunset Park.


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The Leper's Companionsbegins, we know only that the narrator has lost someone she loves. In her bereavement, she creates a past in which she might both lose and find herself: a fifteenth-century village in a land of saints and spirits, inexplicable afflictions and miraculous awakenings. With a band of pilgrims -- among them an old man, his pregnant daughter, a priest, a dying woman, and a leper -- she discovers a beached mermaid, watches a priest drive madness from a woman's mouth, enters a mossy forest inhabited by a hunted man covered in shaggy hair, and witnesses a map being digested in the belly of a ravenous woman. Moving effortlessly between the magical and the real, the past and the present, the journey of the narrator and her companions transcends the physical terrain and becomes a fantastical quest for rebirth. We are skillfully ushered into the emotional lives of each of the travelers as they reflect and ultimately redefine the life of the narrator. The Leper's Companionsreaffirms Julia Blackburn's status as one of the most original writers at work today, as she makes the fictional narrative do the work not only of storytelling but also of invention.
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Needing "at least two years to recover," a woman who has lost someone she loved retreats to an English village on the North Sea coast. Well and good, except that in the village it is 1410, whereas the visitor lives in modern times. She moves about in the village, mostly unseen but omniscient, learning the situations and sorrows of its people. Strange things happen: a mermaid is stranded on the beach at low tide, a woman is beset by devils only she and the visitor see, a blind man miraculously regains sight, and a cowled leper twice appears as a sudden rescuer. Eventually the leper and the village priest lead a pilgrimage of townspeople to Jerusalem. The visitor goes along, and after only she and the priest return, her time in the village is over. Blackburn's fantasy is a bit dull because of flat prose and thin characterization, yet exerts a certain hypnotic fascination. Should the recovery movement discover it, it may become a cult classic. --Ray Olson
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It's a Bird! It's a Plane! No, it's Theatre Horizon's HERO SCHOOL!
Theatre Horizon (401 DeKalb Street, Norristown, PA) is battling those mid-summer humdrums with a brand new theatrical production that puts kids right in the center of the action. Hero School, written by Philadelphia artist Jeremy Gable, will lead audience members of all ages in an interactive quest to become heroes-in-training during a run at the Norristown theatre. Inquisitive superhero wannabes, and guests of all ages, can take in the interactive fun from August 4 through August 27, 2017.
An exciting, on-your-feet adventure for kids and their grownups that lets YOU make decisions and be an active participant in the story, Hero School will transform Theatre Horizon into a training camp for superheroes. Audience members (a.k.a., heroes-in-training) will sharpen their super skills while going on an adventure that travels through multiple rooms in the theater. But, beware: when the school is menaced by the villainous Polonium Malograve, the students must put their skills to the test and work together to save the day. The show will be best enjoyed by children ages 4 to 8 and their grownups, but everyone is invited to join in the fun.
Hero School will also present two relaxed performances (Saturday 8/19 at 4PM and Friday 8/25 at 7:30 PM). These performances are specially adjusted sensory-friendly shows, designed to create a theatre experience that is welcoming, judgment-free, and inclusive of children and families with a wide range of sensory, learning, and communication differences, including, but not limited to individuals on the autism spectrum, as well as young children and anyone who might benefit from this relaxed environment. House lights will remain on at a low level in the theater, plus there will be lower sound levels, a reduction of startling lights, freedom to vocalize and leave seats, plus limited crowds during the performance. The Theatre also invites guests to bring noise-cancelling headphones, fidget and stress sensory toys, and/or anything else to ensure maximum comfort and safety during these performances.
Hero School will perform Fridays (5PM, 6:16PM, and 7:30PM), Saturdays (10AM, 11:15AM, 1:30PM, 2:45PM, and 4PM), and Sundays (2PM, 3:15PM, 5:30PM, and 6:45PM). Tickets ($20-25) can be purchased by visiting theatrehorizon.org.
Theatre Horizon presents HERO SCHOOL
August 4-27, 2017
Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays
401 DeKalb Street
Norristown, PA 19401
Directed by Emmanuelle Delpech
Written by Jeremy Gable
Artistic Sponsors: Angel Mullen and Lisa Yanak
Run time: approximately 40 minutes
Tickets ($20-25): www.theatrehorizon.org
Stage Manager: Chelsea Sanz
Set Design: Colin McIvanie
Lighting Design: Alyssandra Docherty
Sound Design: Pax Ressler
Sound Consultant: Dan Perelstein
Props Design: Scott McMaster
Costume Design: Jillian Keys
ABOUT THEATRE HORIZON: Theatre Horizon, founded in 2005, is a professional nonprofit theatre company headquartered in the county seat of Montgomery County, Pennsylvania: Norristown, located 20 miles west of Philadelphia. Since its inception, Theatre Horizon has produced critically-acclaimed productions that fulfill its mission of connecting audiences and students with professional theatre artists through relevant and compelling theatre, and has been the recipient of multiple Barrymore Awards for Excellence in Theatre. The company has also presented original works and has an extensive education program that reaches hundreds of students in the greater Philadelphia region. Through theatre, the company creates a community of artists, students and audiences in which each member is encouraged to grow. More info at theatrehorizon.org.


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Dear Everyone,
Another week has past and more things just seem to keep happening. We had a fairly normal week this week. Nothing really happened. We went by Lisa's house to share some more with her and to try and get her motivated to come to church. She really liked the idea of coming to church. In fact, she was planning going to church. We taught her the importance of keeping the sabbath day holy. We have a problem with her. She is not married to her partner and doesn't want to get married to him. The requirement for baptism is to be keep the law of chastity and yeah…. It's a problem here. I have faced this problem a lot in my mission. People are afraid of commitment… I think it's true. To make a long story short, she didn't come to church yesterday and we are very sad. We had really high hopes for her. We are going to keep passing by because who knows what will happen this week.
We passed by another family this week that are members except for one kid. This kid's name is Sebastian and he is really hard headed. Who would have thought that 13 year olds are so stubborn. JA! But yesterday, he came to church with us! We have really gotten to be friends with him. So yesterday also, we went to his house after church and talked to him about getting baptized. He accepted the baptismal date for the 4th of December. We are very happy for him and proud of him. His older sister said that it would be a miracle if we could baptize him. Well, God does not cease to be a God of miracles. Some people are sent to some people at the right time. We just need to know when to follow the spirit in those times. The spirit is always trying to help us when we need it but only if we are worthy and are actually listening to him.
I have had to learn that lesson in my mission. I didn't realize before my mission how much the spirit was speaking to me. It is really amazing to finally realize the great companionship of the spirit. We have 4 baptismal dates now. We are working really hard. We had 7 investigators in sacrament meeting yesterday. We are going to have more next week we hope. We are going to work even harder to try and bring 10. I am trying to take advantage of my time left here in my area before I get transferred. We have a lot of things to do this week also. There are four very important birthdays we are celebrating this week. Three of them in the same family. It is the family that is basically like my own family. One today, one on Friday, one on Sunday. My comps birthday is on Saturday so we have a weekend full of celebrations. We are planning on having an asado. We are having a lot of fun, my comp and I. We are little by little losing our ability to speak English. I think we are speaking in English to each other but it comes out horrible. Oh well. I love it.
Thank you Mom and Dad, Abuelita and Cui for your emails. Thank you Marco Polo for your email too. I love you all. Until next week… GO RIVER!!! (tomorrow)
Elder Pickett
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IT is the 40th anniversary of the passing of Elvis Aaron Presley. Fronted by 2012 European champion Ciaran Houlihan, the Elvis Spectacular features the TCB Band and girl group, 'The Sweet Sensations'.
Ciaran Houlihan, who has been with this show for nine years, spoke to Limerick Post.
There are many eras to the career of Elvis, from his earliest breakthrough singles through to his film career. Then there was the 1968 Comeback Special TV show and of course his time performing in Las Vegas.
This show covers the hits from all these eras and features a section on the '68 Comeback Special.
"It is a stripped back acoustic session – I play guitar and we do a rockabilly set."
"We have a laugh and a joke and play some of the old songs."
The second part of the show is the Las Vegas Spectacular with backing singers girl group The Sweet Sensations. Expect a screen in the background showing Elvis through the eras.
The Elvis Spectacular plays at University Concert Hall this Thursday September 14.


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Sorry not so much time this week! I will give you some brief stories and such!
Tuesday we had the amazing opportunity as always to go to the temple. What a great place to be. But on top of just attending and doing the work of the lord, we had the opportunity to hear our returning missionaries final testimonies. A last chance for them to bear testimony, and for us to hear and learn something from old experienced missionaries. I was surprised to see my own companion get up, and bear heartfelt testimony about the face that God can feel pain. It was a crude start, that turned into a deeply moving testimony. My companion is very...straightforward individual, and usually the butt of many jokes, and a lot of people look at him weirdly. But he had almost every missionary in that room with tears. It was a very moving experience. He said, "For 734 days I have been a missionary, and except for 1 or 2 of those days, I would have rather had been dead. But at least I have felt a small bit of what our savior has felt for us." It was truly touching.
Unfortunately, a couple of days later, tensions ran high between us and we were separated for the remainder of the transfer (6 days). It was heartbreaking for me. It really sucks to have that happened. I really love this guy. And I wish it would not have happened, I wish a lot of things were different, but ultimately, I feel that it was the best thing that could have happened for us.
Now Elder Gildea, and I are together. And it's been fun. Do I hurt still? Yeah. Have I just decided to be humble and learn from this. Yeah. That's all I can do at this point. I hope in the future I can fix some wounds and such, but as we all know, there are wounds only time itself can heal.
So me and Elder Gildea are making the best of it. We already have a baptismal date, and some investigators to church so things are looking up. We got our transfer calls and had predicted that they were going to close the other elders area and just have us together, we were right. So next transfer me and elder Gildea will be together alone. So I'm excited, I know my last companion.
Nearing the end of my mission, its getting harder. Everyone keeps emailing me "Sprint to the finish" etc. I'm going to be honest, Its hard just to keep walking sometimes. But elder Gildea is hard working and is going to push me to the end.
So everyone pray for me. We are going into the last weeks left and I don't want to leave any regrets to be had. I'm going to leave everything on the table and just work my butt off. As my old band director used to say "Hearts out and butts off" and that's the only way I run.
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Here are 18" heart blocks #7, 8 and 9 to go along with the first six already finished. Only three more to do (I think!). I got another package of more pretty scrap blues late last week from Solidia. Many thanks - they will be put to good use! Once I get the last three finished, I will add the scrappy yellow borders to the blocks. At that point I will need to rethink the design a little, as I'm not sure what will happen on the part of the quilt that drops down on the sides of the mattress. The hearts are only on the top of the bed. I have a couple of nice asian-ish blue prints in decent yardage that may encompass a wide border though.
Other quilty projects going on...
~I am hand quilting my piece shown in the last posting for Ginger's swap. It turned out cute, but the blocks have a lot of bias and I hope that there will be enough to hold them smooth. At this point I waffle between continuing and believing all will look fine and ripping out the quilting threads and rebasting the top. Neither option leave me feeling 100% confident!
~I am gearing up for Kate's About.com birthday block swap which is set to start in a couple weeks. I have signed up for 2 groups which means I have to make 3 blocks a month. I am trying to clear several of the other projects I have so I can jump right into that. In the advanced group, I will be receiving a dozen 8" New York Beauty blocks. Maybe I will also make a few. They will be in purple, red and orange batiks. In the other group, I will receive 24 of the Broken Heart blocks (from http://www.quilterscache.com/) in 1930's prints. I am excited to see what blocks the others will be requesting that I will have to make. I just wonder how long I will have to wait until it is "my birthday"??
~Thelast stages of the Spring Fling Round Robin are winding down. 6-8 of the 24 quilts have been finished & mailed. They are so lovely - go have a look (though most of my readers are probably in that swap!). This is such a tremendously talented group of quilters and it has been a fun honor to work with them. I will undoubtedly run another round robin once all quilts are at their end-destinations. Look for a posting sometime next month. This has been a sticking point with me lately, as I learned that one of the other popular swaps started up another session recently with over 15% of their members STILL not having a quilt in their hand. I just don't think that is a very courteous way to run a swap.
~The Miniature Booty swap has ended and I am anxious to see what is coming my way there. Despite my partner announcing accidentally that she is my partner early in the swap, there has been no action on her blog to indicate what she is making. So I wait anxiously...
~I will get back to my 4SQS beach quilt very soon. I've been busy designing this with my scrapbook software so I can add it (somehow!).
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Yeah. I hear a whole lot of motherfuckers throw this word around, but I don't see a whole lot of motherfuckers walking the talk.
Solidarity is not throwing a hissy fit because people didn't come to a march that was important to you because they were at another action that was important to them. That solidarity goes both ways. You got to cut your comrades some slack because sometimes it's not all about you. It's about everyone and everyone has different interests and needs. We're all fighting the System, brothers and sisters and all those in between. We all fight in different ways. We don't all have to have a group mind thing going on. And then blowing up Twitter and Facebook after with all the rage and ranting about shit that has nothing to do with what solidarity is, and everything to do with acting like an angry child.
Solidarity is not using your white privilege to try to get a trip somewhere while misappropriating the pain of a family of color and their cause and wrapping yourself in their banner like you had a right to do it. That's bullshit, that's what that is. This is why a lot of POC activists don't want to work with white activists. It would have looked so much better if you'd tried to raise money for a POC to go on that trip instead of you. That is what solidarity is. And what being a good ally is.
Solidarity is not turning your back on someone who has opened their home to you, lived with you like a family member, had your back in actions and spent half the night waiting for you to be released from jail because someone who has demonstrated malice and betrayal repeatedly claims that the person is a danger to you because they are another color than you. That's not solidarity. That's tragedy.
Solidarity is not getting close to people and then ripping them off. And then acting like it never happened and expecting you to do the same because nobody feels safe calling anyone out on their bad behavior. Because hardly anyone in the community seems to understand what solidarity really is. The word is just a brand-name overlaid the same shallow American relationships.
We're so fucking broken. Every last one of us. The world we live in is utterly insane. It affects us all with the cognitive dissonance, the paranoia, the fear, the mistrust, the self-isolation and the isolation of others. Asleep or awake, slumbering slave or rampant rioter, we are all full of rage. And despair. Hate of the self and of the other. It makes it so difficult to have real human relationships. And can we honestly say we even know what a real human relationship looks like? What we live in now is so warped and twisted, I don't think it's possible for beauty to fully flourish, in any realm. No matter how happy we find ourselves from time to time, it is the most fleeting emotion of all. The hardest to hold on to.
Take your solidarity where you find it and treasure it if you do. And protect it with everything you have, because it's rare and precious and worth defending.


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Next, is to stitch along the diagonal lines on both the blocks.. Like this
Follow the same procedure on the other length, leave a small opening and stuff the fibre first before closing the same with another blob, created as explained above.
Tadahhhhh .... cushion is ready. Matter of not more than 3 to four hours. How colourful a set of such cushions would be!!


text: We've been given 30 of each of these beautiful hedging bushes / trees by E-forest – Hawthorn, Sea buckthorn, Cherry Plum, Crab Apple. They provide wonderful flowers for the bees & pollinators and fruit for us and the birds, see photos below. We are going to plant some of them in our stone wall Cornish hedges which are wide enough to support them. They have also given us black & white current bushes, raspberries and willow, plus 15 Hazel, Elder and Alder trees and 10 x Holly & Sessile Oak trees as well as all the stakes and tree protectors. Very excited to get planting!!


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Typically, sources say that medical providers are reluctant to report medical debt issues to the major credit reporting agencies. But many people in Ohio who decide to file for bankruptcy have been pushed over the line to insolvency due to medical debt. Unexpected injuries, or long medical battles, can often result in large medical debts, even among those who may be insured, depending upon individual circumstances.
While medical providers do not always report medical debt to the credit bureaus, issues with the debt can ultimately find their way into the credit reports. Many medical providers will start by sending letters and making calls to a person behind on the medical bills. But in reality, medical providers are likely to send the debt to a bill collector after a period of time, if the bill is still unpaid.
Bill collectors will also try to make those phone calls and send letters to collect on the debt. But the bill collectors are also more likely to report the debt to the credit bureaus, which can have an adverse impact on a credit score, reportedly depending on the overall amount of the debt. The bill collector may also decide to sue on the debt and obtain a judgment. The bill collector then may look to seize a bank account, or garnish wages to satisfy the judgment.
Medical debt is generally considered an unsecured debt, and is dischargeable in bankruptcy. Unsecured debts, including medical debts that show as defaults in a credit report generally stay there for seven years. A bankruptcy appears for ten years. But even when a credit score is affected by defaults, a person can work to restore credit after a setback, or bankruptcy.
Cincinnati credit restoration lawyers are aware that accurate information generally cannot be removed from a credit report. But many reports include false or inaccurate information. In some cases, information that is way out of date on a credit report is mistakenly still on the report and can adversely impact the score.
Source: Business Insider, "The Truth About How Medical Debt Really Impacts Your Credit Score," John Ulzheimer, June 25, 2012


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Special report on the Florida Gators softball team:
GAINESVILLE, Fla. –The fifth-ranked Florida softball team defeated Florida A&M 19-3 in five innings Wednesday evening at Katie Seashole Pressly Stadium. The 16-run difference is tied for the 7th largest margin of victory in UF history.
Freshman Natalie Lugo (2-0) received her second career start in the circle and was brilliant throughout her 4.1 innings. The West Covina, Calif. native only issued a walk and recorded seven strikeouts in the effort.
Florida (38-7) opened the game against Florida A&M (19-24) with a trio of runs. Kayli Kvistad highlighted the inning's scoring with her two-RBI single that plated Hannah Adams and Amanda Lorenz. Adams singled to start the game while Lorenz reached with her 42nd walk of the season.
Jordan Matthews drove in Nicole DeWitt on a groundout back to the circle to round out the scoring in the first.
The Gators blew open the game and extended the lead out to 15-0 after pushing across 12 runs on seven hits. A total of 17 batters made their way to the plate in the inning with Lorenz and DeWitt driving in runs in each of their two plate appearances to lead the way.
A pair of home runs fueled a four-run inning in the third, which stretched the Florida lead out to 19-0. Jordan Roberts ripped a solo home run to lead off the inning and three-run home run by Jaimie Hoover capped the scoring for the frame.
Florida A&M foiled the bid for a shutout in the top of the fifth inning with three runs. Lugo issued a one-out walk to Alexis Day before being relieved by Katie Chronister. The Rattlers then strung together three hits and a walk to close the lead down to 19-3.
Florida returns to Southeastern Conference action Friday, April 20, with a three game series against Mississippi State at Nusz Park at 7 p.m. (ET)/ 6 p.m. (CT).
Walton's Words
On Natalie's performance…
"One kid hit the ball pretty hard, but other than that, she did a great job tonight. She had a lot of strikeouts and she commanded her pitches well today. She had a perfect game going, so we left her in for that. My original goal was to let her go three (innings) and have Katie (Chronister) throw the last two. When she lost the perfect game, then we decided to throw Katie."
On team's approach at the plate…
"We did a great job. We still walked plenty, swung at strikes and squared up some balls up really well. I am happy with the way Jaimie Hoover and Jordan Roberts came through with two strikes. Alex Voss got a double through the gap and Sophia Reynoso hit the ball hard all day. Our players continue to do what they do, I was pleased with our approach and thought the at-bats were good tonight."
From the Players
Natalie Lugo
"I was really trusting my defense today, so I wasn't worried about the perfect game. It was nice to throw well, but I wasn't focusing on it. It's always really nice to have run support, especially 12 runs in one inning. It takes a lot of pressure off my shoulders and helps me throw with more confidence."
Kayli Kvistad
"We put the ball in play a lot. We weren't trying to force anything or hit the ball too hard, but things fell for us and we were able to put 12 (runs) up in the inning."
"It's important for our younger girls to have those hits tonight, it gives them the confidence as we move on with SEC and postseason play."
Notable Notes
· Florida improved to 18-0 all-time against Florida A&M
o The team is now 25-4 against nonconference opponents and 22-2 against unranked teams.
· Tonight's 16-run margin of victory is tied for the 7th largest margin of victory in UF history.
· The Gators scored three runs in the first inning against the Rattlers. It's the 29th time this season the team has scored in the first inning.
o The team scored 12 runs in the third and four in the third. Florida has now scored four or more runs in an inning 26 times in 45 games.
o The last time the program scored 10 or more runs in an inning was against North Dakota State (March 15, 2017) when the Gators plated exactly 10 runs.
· Amanda Lorenz went 1-for-2 at the plate with a walk. She has now reached bases safely in all 45 games this season.
o Lorenz has reached base safely in all but seven games over her career for the Gators.
· Josie Page recorded the first collegiate hit of her career with a single in the bottom of the third inning and scored her first.


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For decades, it's housed the long white hallways and windowless offices typical of Big Blue. But today, it's open spaces, white boards and adjustable desks. Its employees don't have assigned desks.
"They can work from anywhere," explains Fran O'Sullivan, IBM Senior State Executive of North Carolina.
And, while data centers aren't in line for a revamp, expect the bulk of Big Blue's office spaces to resemble something like this. For O'Sullivan, it's an exciting way to interact with her employees. While she gets to keep an office, the walls are glass – meaning colleagues can (and they do) flag her at any moment.
Manhattan U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara said in a statement: "Theft of trade secrets of the type alleged against Xu drains the lifeblood of innovation and competition, and is rightly a serious federal crime."
According to Xu's LinkedIn profile, he studied Computer Science at the University of Delaware from 2007 to 2009. Before that, Xu studied at the Huazhong University of Science and Technology.
According to a complaint filed with the courts, the FBI started hearing reports of a Chinese national having access to IBM source code in 2014. ...
In October, IBM revealed it will allow the Chinese Government to view the source code of some of its products, in a bid to improve relations between the US technology company and Beijing.
IBM has shed its skin so many times it's hard to believe that this 104-year-old company started life making meat grinders and cheese slicers. Since then, its core business has at different times been punch card machines, clocks, mainframes, and personal computers, and it's now essentially a $93 billion-a-year enterprise software company, helping equally monolithic firms manage their businesses slightly more effectively than before.
Yet IBM's revenues have fallen each of the last 14 quarters and its stock price is knocking around at a five-year low—lagging behind not only tech darlings like Google and Apple but older, stodgier rivals like Microsoft, Oracle, and HP. Critics say it adapted too late to technological shifts such as cloud computing. Prophesying the company's inexorable decline has become something of a journalistic sport.
Part of IBM's response to this doomsaying is contained in a building that looks like a three-story-high flying saucer, perched on top of a hill in the middle of 240 acres of grassland and forest in upstate New York. Its designer was Eero Saarinen, the man behind St. Louis' Arch and the TWA terminal at JFK Airport, and its curved, glass façade is as imposing and striking in 2015 as it was when it opened decades ago.
This is IBM's Thomas J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights—the crown jewel of its network of research facilities. It's a world away from the corporate headquarters, just 11 miles down the road in Armonk. Inside, tucked away in tiny laboratories, IBM has scientists working, as it has for the last 54 years, on projects that could give it another world-altering technology, like those in the list above. ...
This year, Rometty launched another new business unit, staffed by 2,000 consultants and called Cognitive Business Solutions, partially to help businesses figure out how to use Watson. Right now, it's popping up in all sorts of fields, from corporate M&A analysis to fantasy football picks and food pairings. Various iterations of Watson are being used to diagnose cancer, answer questions about Singapore's tax code, and, yes, suggest where to get a good taco in Austin, Texas. Watson can analyze your personality, come up with new dinner ideas, and help kids have a conversation with their toys. Now Watson can see you, too. ...
Whether its researchers are explicitly working toward this goal or not, IBM could be on the path to building an artificial intelligence system the likes of which the world has never seen. The power of Watson, the responsiveness of Celia, and a left-brain/right-brain supercomputer working together could put us humans firmly in the passenger seat of intelligence, with IBM's supersystem's brain blazing by us in terms of pure thought power. ...
Will science save IBM? So will the research division provide the answer to the company's revenue decline and stagnating stock price? Will we ever have access to a future version of Watson, running on a quantum computer, powered by carbon nanotube chips, and built by IBM?
"I would say it's possible—if it happens, it'll be by accident," Robert Cringely, a former InfoWorld and Forbes columnist, told Quartz. "But then, many research breaks are accidental."
Cringely believes that IBM can't get out its own way, and that the current revenue downturn the company is experiencing foretells something worse. He wrote a book entitled The Decline and Fall of IBM in 2014, in which he relates what may be an apocryphal joke told by former CEO Lou Gerstner that "good ideas don't come out of IBM research—they escape."
Cringely doubts that IBM can monetize any of the moonshots it's working on—even Watson. "IBM is perfectly happy to sell consulting services with Watson to help them figure out what to do with it, but even they don't know what to do with it," he said. ...
In short, Big Blue's corporate chiefs must make sure that near-term bets on things like the cloud and security can quickly produce more revenue, as their people figure out how to turn Watson into a significant money-maker in the next handful of years. Watson could then conceivably buy more time for all those big, blue-sky projects IBM's scientists are plugging away at. It's going to take a while—if it happens at all.
Editor's note: This article contains many historical photos of IBM facilities, including from Yorktown Heights, Toronto, and Dayton, as well as illustrations of historical logos, brochures, and equipment.
IBM won the project in 2007 and initially quoted a few million dollars for the creation of a new payroll system for the State's Health Department. By 2010, the project had foundered, and staff were being paid wrong amounts when they were paid at all. Costs blew out – past a billion dollars.
Big Blue was later found to have committed ethical transgressions to score the gig.
A commission of inquiry found that IBM may have won the work with wonky work practices, but that the Queensland Government's bad and overly flexible brief, plus lousy project management, were substantial causes of the project's failure. ...
So ends Australia's most notable IT project catastrophe, an affair from which IBM and the Queensland Government emerge with diminished credibility. SAP walks away from the affair with pride intact: the company and its software have never been found to be at fault in the project's collapse.
According to IBM, Clearleap's video platform allows customers to support millions of concurrent users within seconds to support special events. The technology is used by HBO, BBC America, Sony Movie Channel and Time Warner Cable. ...
The company has been eagerly beefing up its cloud offering for sometime, having splashed $2bn on Dallas-based SoftLayer back in June 2013.
In the total disk storage systems market EMC led the field with an 18.4 per cent revenue share ($1.82bn), a fall of eight per cent year on year. HP, in second place, rose 16 per cent year on year to $1.49bn, not so far behind EMC. We find Dell in third place with $899.4m, 1.6 per cent less than a year ago.
NetApp was in joint fourth place with IBM, with its revenues of $651m being 12.8 per cent down on the year.
However, IBM's revenues of $584.6m were a huge 32.5 per cent down on the year, although we should remember that Big Blue's third quarter 2015 revenue excludes x86 servers due to the sale of that business to Lenovo.
Let's talk about #HackAHairDryer, the latest campaign designed to lure more women into the STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) fields by. Big Blue's latest scheme -- dating back from October but receiving little attention -- was recently re-advertized over Twitter using the #HackAHairDryer hash tag.
This time, people took notice. A number of female engineers, scientists, coders and the like are not too happy, and you can no doubt guess why if you watch the video below. ...
Let's be frank. How anyone in this day and age can think such a campaign is a good idea -- especially for a company with the reputation and reach of IBM -- is outrageous. Any women in these fields, working alongside their often excellent male counterparts, can be equally competent and should be treated as such.
The video talks of innovation "not caring what you look like," while at the same time, uses a woman, hairdryer and scattered cosmetics to, what, not enforce stereotypes? If IBM has a shortage of male coders in the future shall we see an accompanying campaign dubbed #HackAHairClipper? ...
The technology industry is stiff with competition and it is not a walk in the park to work within it, whether you are male or female. However, in any industry, women still have to put up with these ridiculous stereotypes across all walks of life, and it will take the gradual adjustment of attitudes in the West -- which many companies and individuals are trying to promote -- before this changes.
So no, IBM -- I don't want to play with a hairdryer on your behalf. I'm happier cracking connected home appliances and poking servers, thank you.
IBM, like most of its tech peers, doesn't employ very many women: Just one-quarter of the company's management team is female, according to internal data. That's sadly huge progress. The number of female executives at the company increased 562 percent over the past 20 years, according to IBM.
You have to wonder if any of the women at IBM looked at this ad before it went out.
The ad uses the hair dryer to make all kinds of empowering puns. The woman narrating talks about "blowing away the misconceptions" and "blasting through the bias."
Pros: Challenging, interesting, and varied projects to work. Generally, smart, helpful, customer-focused colleagues work very well together in cross-function teams across locations. Good pay and benefits, flexible work environment, and work from home opportunities (depending on management).
Cons: Frequent re-orgs, and layoffs in some areas affect morale, especially when new folks are hired to replace those recently let go. New hires are provided training that current employees are not eligible to attend. Long hours sometimes required, including weekends and holidays. Work-life balance difficult.
Advice to Management: Respect and value current employees. Allow more creativity and flexibility. Methods used to overhaul employee reviews a good model.
Pros: Some flexibility with normal work hours. Could come in up to 2 hours before or after 'normal' work hours and leave later or earlier, as appropriate. Sometimes could work from home as each person gets their own laptop. Can change jobs within the company after 2-3 years, if you want to learn different areas.
Cons: My experience with 99.9% of managers was that if you got the job done, and someone else didn't, they wouldn't spend the time and work with the slacker to get him/her to do his/her job. They would just add it to you to do it. You can complain, but they don't care, because they know you'll get the work done, or you have failed to be a 'team player' — they LOVE that buzz word! But why would it take 3 people to replace you each time you left a job?
Advice to Management: MANAGE your people instead of taking the easy way out, or at least recognize and reward your workers.
Pros: Good exposure to new technologies (usually through acquisitions) and good support teams behind you. Mostly work from home office which helps, but travel can be high as sales teams and customers are scattered over your territory. If you are just starting out, probably a good place to get some experience and add to your resume, but move on after 5 years or so.
Cons: Commissions and quotas...IBM constantly makes changes to control your earnings, so very difficult to have a blowout quarterly paycheck. IBM imposes a ton of internal process work that never seems to end, but this is typical of most large companies vs. startups. Constant need to justify your existence.
Advice to Management: Stop asking employees to keep tracking everything they do. Just because it can be tracked doesn't mean that it should. Provide more resources to help the field teams do their jobs.
Pros: Plenty of opportunity to learn best practice in development, project management and service management. Work with highly intelligent and dedicated teams.
Cons: Don't think that just because you are at one of the biggest IT companies in the world you will be working on cutting edge technology. In the Services arm of the business, you work on old equipment with limited funding for investment. You often create home grown solutions instead of using existing technology because they won't fund it. Lots of political limitations here. Horrible morale. They do not concern themselves with the best interests of their employees or customers.
Advice to Management: Fifteen years ago, operating principles included "Do what we say we're going to do". Management should go back to that. Take care of your employees and your customers. You too lean too far. The staff is not just lean...they are starving.
Sen. Bill Nelson, a Democrat from Florida, said Tuesday in a statement that the bill he and Alabama Republican Sen. Jeff Sessions are proposing also stipulates that the government give the visas based on salary, rather than via a lottery.
This is designed to target outsourcing firms "that rely on lower-wage foreign workers to replace equally-qualified U.S. workers," according to Mr. Nelson's statement.
Selected reader comments follow:
Why can't they hire and train US citizens instead? 55% of our college grads are either unemployed or underemployed, there's no reason why we should continue to allow massive importation of cheap, low quality foreign workers. It isn't just H1B either, these companies also abuse the B1 and L1 visas that are meant for intra company work, and used them for outsourcing work instead. Then we get left wing nuts/greedy employers like Mark Zuckerberg and Bill Gates spending millions lobbying for more H1b visas. Enough! Put our citizens to work first.
Congress should also put in a law that says no company can have more than 25% of its workforce on H1B. Many of the Indian outsourcing firms like Infosys, Cognizant, TCS etc. are 90% Indian. Some even bring in their cafeteria workers and janitors from India. What's the weather in Seattle today? Cloudy with a chance of Indians.
Make it a one-to-one ratio. Each H1-B visa issued goes to fund one US citizen's college degree in CS. Once the citizen graduates, s/he'll replace the H1b worker who then goes home.
This is supposed to be a visa that plugs a "temporary" worker shortage, but our employers are using it as a long term solution and have created a permanent tech worker "shortage". Now ageism is rife in tech, if you are over 40 forget about getting a permanent job in tech. Employers are no longer interested in training workers either, because they have the whole world's labor supply at their finger tips thanks to this visa scheme.
Also at colleges where the number of slots for CS major is limited, more and more of these slots are being given to foreign students from China and India who pay higher tuition therefore get preference, further worsening our "shortage". It's ridiculous how our colleges, corporations and politicians are all clamoring to toss aside native citizens in pursuit of more foreign dollars or cheaper foreign workers/voters. America is a nation of immigrants. If you're a citizen, you're out of luck.
In at least one sense, the shift represents economic progress: While the share of U.S. adults living in both upper- and lower-income households rose alongside the declining share in the middle from 1971 to 2015, the share in the upper-income tier grew more.
Over the same period, however, the nation's aggregate household income has substantially shifted from middle-income to upper-income households, driven by the growing size of the upper-income tier and more rapid gains in income at the top. Fully 49% of U.S. aggregate income went to upper-income households in 2014, up from 29% in 1970. The share accruing to middle-income households was 43% in 2014, down substantially from 62% in 1970. ...
The income it takes to be middle income varies by household size, with smaller households requiring less to support the same lifestyle as larger households. For a three-person household, the middle-income range was about $42,000 to $126,000 annually in 2014. However, a one-person household needed only about $24,000 to $73,000 to be middle income. For a five-person household to be considered middle income, its 2014 income had to range from $54,000 to $162,000. ...
The hollowing of the American middle class has proceeded steadily for more than four decades. Since 1971, each decade has ended with a smaller share of adults living in middle-income households than at the beginning of the decade, and no single decade stands out as having triggered or hastened the decline in the middle. ...
The gaps in income and wealth between middle- and upper-income households widened substantially in the past three to four decades. As noted, one result is that the share of U.S. aggregate household income held by upper-income households climbed sharply, from 29% in 1970 to 49% in 2014.
http://www.endicottalliance.org/thedisintegrationofemploymentinIBM.htm To all Alliance supporters, send and share the above link to the article "The disintegration of employment in IBM" far and wide. Put it on your FaceBook page; send it to newspapers; send it with comments to your political reps and send it to your co-workers. Help break the secrecy of IBM job cuts. Put some pressure on IBM. -Alliance-
Velocity is a word for smaller sales in IBM, and we've been moving those deals to partners for a while to focus on the bigger ones internally. Maybe now the 'velocity' is the people, not just the deals. The Champions for Growth project mentioned earlier is another example of this. What kind of title is that for a project to move IBMers out? Are you a 'champion for growth' by throwing yourself on your sword to help the company, who certainly hasn't been compassionate to employees?
Anyone hear about our execs foregoing their bonuses due to the dismal death spiral they have put this great icon into? The most virtuous thing one can do is fight for a noble cause. Remember back when employees were mere slaves with no benefits, dying on the job, to make people like the Carnegies and Mellons filthy rich?
Capitalism has its cost. Now, the balance is tipped way against us again. Executive compensation in salary and benefits are through the roof, while employee benefits and salary have stagnated through a seven year bull market. We have just a few families in this country controlling the vast majority of the wealth.
It's time to be noble again and organize. You don't have to get your skull busted like our brave forefathers, just shell out a few bucks a month to join the Alliance. Trust me, you'll feel better fighting back rather than being a lamb led to slaughter. --ReadTheTeaLeaves--
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Microfluidic rheometer based on hydrodynamic focusing
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This paper reports the concept and the optimization of a microfluidic rheometer based on hydrodynamic focusing. In our microfluidic rheometer, a sample stream is sandwiched between two sheath streams. The width of the middle stream depends on the viscosity ratio and the flow rate ratio of the liquids involved. Fixing the flow rate ratio and using a known Newtonian liquid for the sheath streams, the viscosity and the shear stress of the sample stream can be determined by measuring its width and using a prediction algorithm that uses the known channel geometries, fluid properties, flow rates and the focused width as input parameters. The optimization reveals that a measurement channel with a high aspect ratio is more suitable for a sample liquid with viscosity higher than the reference value. For a sample liquid with viscosity of the same order of magnitude or lower than the reference, a low aspect ratio is more suitable. Furthermore, the measurement range and the relative error can be improved by adjusting the flow rate ratio between the core stream and the sheath stream. A microfluidic device was fabricated in polymethylmethacrylate (PMMA). Using this device, viscosities of deionized (DI) water and polyethylene oxide (PEO) solutions were measured and compared with results obtained from a commercial rheometer.
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Measurement Science and Technology
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© 2008 Institute of Physics Publishing. This is the author-manuscript version of this paper. Reproduced in accordance with the copyright policy of the publisher.Please refer to the journal's website for access to the definitive, published version.
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If my book ever gets written it will be like this. I have my feet up waiting for a case to go to the operating room.
Maya Angelo has a quote I read recently which goes something like, "Never whine. Whining only lets the bullies know who you are." Reading this has given me new resolve to figure life out. Which you would think I would have done by now. After all I have been at this more than half a century. But then maybe I have spent too much time whining.
Taking this job I believed I could make better use of the down time. Yet, in over 4 months I have not gotten the hang of it. I have yet to sleep on the mornings when I am on call. This is the best time in my twenty four hour shift to do so but I am either simply not tired, as today, or I have too much left over stuff to do. I have written lecture notes and articles. I catch up on odds and ends. Anything I can do from a laptop computer and the telephone, I will do in those quieter hours of the morning.
Before I know it, the downtime is gone. I am in the ER or doing a C-section or some other procedure with one of the first year residents. Surgery with them takes twice as long as it would for me to do it myself. I remind myself this is normal and make a mental note to buy some support hose.
Well, it is time to go upstairs to the OR but this is what I should be doing with the down time.
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We can get turned around when Mercury and Uranus do their planetary version of the hokey-pokey today. This livewire energy can show up as scatterbrained or genius, depending which way the wind blows. It's kind of like putting your right hand in and taking your left foot out, if your day follows no logical order -- and that's what it's all about!
ARIES (March 21-April 19). For whatever it is you're trying to accomplish, what counts the most is consistency. The spurts of brilliance and bursts of progress will come when you are following through with your plans in a daily and deliberate way.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20). You'll encounter those who seem like they would be right in line with your thinking, but assume nothing. It's more likely that your values and priorities are not alike. Communication is your key to satisfaction.
GEMINI (May 21-June 21). Unlike most things in life, your leisure activity should not be a compromise. It's all about you. Speak up about your preferences. Let yourself have one of those indulgences you so enjoy.
CANCER (June 22-July 22). You need space and free time all to yourself. Therefore it's better if you can avoid making multiple social commitments. Give yourself the time to relax and linger wherever your heart leads you.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22). Your thoughts add up to something. Think of them as pigments of paint. When you add a drop of dark color to your bright mix, it dulls down the color. Keep your picture vivid with light, sunshiny thoughts.
TODAY'S BIRTHDAY (JULY 5). Your birthday ushers in a new wave of energy -- life improves immediately, even in areas you don't think need improving. The planets favor your vigilant and realistic approach to getting what you want. You discover a new talent and you could even change careers in November. Family fun in December involves travel. Gemini and Taurus adore you. Your lucky numbers are: 18, 4, 20, 1 and 34.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22). Planning for your future security makes you feel safe and cozy in the present. You get assistance with your plans too -- not automated assistance, but the caring touch of an actual human.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23). You're savvy, smart and strong. So there's no reason you can't learn how to fix what needs fixing. Besides, being dependent on others undermines your confidence. Do it yourself.
SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21). You're in a competitive mood, but the game that's on now is who can be the most thoughtful, generous and compassionate. So you get serious about becoming the king or queen of kindness.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21). The rule for household appliances is if it's shaking, it's lost its balance. If the shaking one happens to be you, the same adage applies. To maintain your balance, hold your relaxation time sacred.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19). You are dynamic and can compensate for whatever minor obstacles are in your path. The adjustments you make are confirmations of your talent. It's nice to remember what you're so good at.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18). You're not out to control anyone, but you do feel the urge to do a little reshaping. Instead of trying to get your partner to behave in a certain way, strive to embody the change you desire in yourself. The other will follow suit.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20). You get a charge out of helping others. So it's a treat to meet someone who gets the same thrill out of helping you. Your requests are fulfilled in record time -- what could be sweeter?
ASTROLOGICAL QUESTIONS: "I am an Aquarius. I have been trying to get pregnant since August 2004 and have been through a lot on this journey. I am thinking of undergoing IVF and will have to use a donor egg. I have accepted that I was apparently not destined to have a husband or boyfriend in my life, but I have always hoped for a child. Is there any hope for me in this endeavor? I am trying to remain positive, but it is hard. On top of all of this, like many others my money is very tight and I am just so apprehensive."
Astrologers specializing in fertility have helped women get pregnant by matching fertility cycles to the moon. I'd consider it, while acknowledging infertility caused or complicated by medical issues can make it difficult or impossible to conceive. That said, it's your decision how to proceed. If trying is bringing you more pain than peace, you might consider approaching your need to give love from a different angle. Aquarian women are remarkably maternal -- and I've known many of you to enjoy being "nana" to other people's children. Ultimately, Mother Nature decides. But you still need to be OK with you.
CELEBRITY PROFILES: It's hard not to like Tom Cruise, especially when the guy has taken so much heat for simply expressing his love for his wife and his religious views. He's a Cancer sun sign, but two other planets -- Jupiter and Neptune -- touch his sun, forming a swift-acting trinity of water signs. He's highly emotional. When Tom feels passionately about something, inevitably his feelings will quickly slip out!
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