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4990 E Cliff Point Circle has returned to market. This show-stopping home has been COMPLETELY Remodeled and sits on a choice lot in the Pinecliff Community.
While neighborhoods like Pine Creek and Peregrine often get the attention of buyers looking for D20 custom homes, this house offers a superior product at a better price in a neighborhood arguably more stable in value and convenient in location that either Pine Creek or Peregrine.
Pinecliff is the most southerly neighborhood in Academy District 20. That means it is the closest to downtown Colorado Springs and yet has the award-winning schools known throughout the region (and by officers in the United States Air Force around the world it seems!) like Rockrimmon Elementary, Eagleview Middle School and Air Academy High School.
Pinecliff also has a wide variety of prices. There are condos and townhomes on the south rim that are in the $150,000's, there are single family listings in the $300,000's and $400,000's, and there are high-end listings right up against Ute Valley Park in the $600,000's, with newer, one-of-a-kind homes on Cordillera that have never seen the market worth significantly more than that. And all of this is 11 minutes from downtown.
A short walk from the home is Ute Valley Park, one of the jewels in the crown of Colorado Springs Park System. The almost 8 miles of hiking and mountain biking trails offer wilderness-like experiences with a suburban access. Just to the south and west is world-famous Garden of the Gods. More trails, more hiking, more biking, an outstanding road bike circuit, horseback riding, and of course, beginner to technical rock-climbing. Only fifteen minutes away is Blodgett Peak Open Space, 167 acres ringed by Pike National Forest and the United States Air Force Academy. And on the east side of the neighborhood is the Pikes Peak Greenway Trail which connects downtown with Palmer Lake. Connecting to the trail is safe from the home, even if you're towing a bike trailer. This is why the west-side is such a magnet for recreation buffs who live, work and play in Colorado Springs (Outside Magazine's Number One City to Live in 2009).
Nearby is the up and coming dining corridor of Garden of the Gods.
Less than one mile away is Marigolds, Ai Sushi, Great Harvest Bread
Company and Trinity Brewing. Jun's Sushi Bar is less than five minutes
south. Three grocery stores are less than a five minute drive and
downtown is exactly 12 minutes away (Bijou Exit 141 off of I-25).
Pinecliff is truly one of the finest communities in Colorado Springs. And ownership of a 5400 square foot home with:
For a price under $500,000... it's hard enough to find a house this loaded on a lot in Falcon for this price, but with this location, it is truly a one-of-a-kind opportunity, the best Pinecliff has to offer.
In most parts of Colorado, it is hard to find a nice 4 bedroom home for around $200,000 in a great neighborhood.
In Colorado Springs however, there are literally dozens of neighborhoods that offer home buyers this possibility. Very few are as centrally located and as convenient as Vista Grande.
Built in 1977 and updated extensively in the last ten years (and most recently in the last month), 2815 Downhill Drive in Vista Grande is a superior value home in a great area for a mere $210,000.
With four bedrooms, 3 baths, a 2 car garage, 2700 total square feet and a 10,000 square foot lot, the basic stats leap off the page at only $210,000.
With the improvements including a modern oak kitchen with newer appliances and pantry, brand new carpet and paint, the exterior painted in 2008 and the roof replaced in 2008, there is peace of mind in abundance.
The immediate area is near numerous conveniences. King Elementary is blocks away and easily walkable, Keystone Park is accessed two blocks east, Union Blvd takes the diagonal route downtown in 12 minutes and the Shops at Briargate are only 8 minutes north. The Powers Blvd Retail Corridor (Cinemark, Kohls, JC Penny, Whole Foods) is just a few miles southeast. Three military installations employing tens of thousands are less than 25 minutes away, including The United States Air Force Academy, Peterson Air Force Base and Schriever Air Force Base.
With District 11's King Elementary, Russell Middle School and Doherty High School all conveniently nearby, this is a home where you don't have to compromise quality of home, quantity of residence and quality of life!
One of the major buyer benefits of this market is the opportunity to get into a neighborhood that was unaffordable just two years ago. Mountain Shadows is a great example. Values have slid by 5% in two years (one of the lowest rates of depreciation in Colorado Springs, and in fact, in the West) and interest rates have dropped a full percent. Homes that were worth $305,000 two years ago are now worth $290,000 and the borrower can afford 11% more mortgage since the rates are now at 5.00% flat. So a $260K buyer at 6% can now afford a home that was in the low $300,000's just 18 to 24 months ago.
And even better... that $290,000 house is in a market with only 2 months of supply. Demand is out-pacing supply now in certain zip codes, and 80919 is one of them (under $350,000). With pent-up demand taking action, prices are now not only stabilized, but set to rebound.
Enter 4510 Granby Circle.
At the gateway to the prestigious Mountain Shadows neighborhood, this home is a dream for those that want to live where they recreate. Across Centennial is Pinon Valley Park, home to dozens of child soccer games in the spring and fall and pick up football and ultimate frisbee on local lunch breaks. Pinon Valley sits at the entrance to 450 acres of open space, Ute Valley Park, one of the jewels in the crown of Colorado Springs Park System. The almost 8 miles of hiking and mountain biking trails offer wilderness-like experiences with a suburban access. Just to the south is world-famous Garden of the Gods. More trails, more hiking, more biking, an outstanding road bike circuit, horseback riding, and of course, beginner to technical rock-climbing. Five minutes north up Centennial to Woodmen is Blodgett Peak Open Space, 167 acres ringed by Pike National Forest and the United States Air Force Academy. This is why the west-side is such a magnet for recreation buffs who live, work and play in Colorado Springs (Outside Magazine's Number One City to Live in 2009).
Nearby is the up and coming dining corridor of Garden of the Gods. Less than one mile away is Marigolds, Ai Sushi, Great Harvest Bread Company and Trinity Brewing. Jun's Sushi Bar is less than five minutes south. Three grocery stores are less than a five minute drive and downtown is exactly 12 minutes away (Bijou Exit 141 off of I-25).
With the privilege of so much to do and enjoy, it's easy to see why so many buyers compromise on their housing qualifications to live in Mountain Shadows. But why compromise when you can have:
This is one home that doesn't require a compromise. Mountain Shadows and modern living converge at a great price... 4510 Granby Circle.
One of the best things about showing Manitou Springs to out of town customers is the story of Emma Crawford.
Now there are ancillary details to the story provided here (a site almost as reputable as The Drudge Report), such as:
To celebrate this historic exhumation, Manitou Spring's very own Chamber of Commerce has commissioned The Emma Crawford Festival. The 15th Annual Event begins this Saturday, October 24 at 11.
Maybe this is your cup of tea, maybe it isn't, but in the spirit of Keep Manitou Weird, here is rule 9 from the official entry form to the Emma Crawford Festival Coffin Race (which follows the parade of coffins, beginning at 11:00 o'clock sharp.
9. All participants must take part in the Parade of Coffins. The Parade starts with the procession of Hearses, followed by the Manitou Springs Chamber of Commerce Pace Coffin. You must line up behind the pace coffin in the order of your registration number. You must not begin the parade until the Pace Coffin starts.
That's right. Manitou Springs. Budget Travel's 2008 Coolest Small Town in America.
Yes, Colorado Springs.
If Colorado Springs wishes to shed it's image as the poor stepchild of Denver, it needs to do gutsy, collaborative things that Denver can not do. Colorado Springs needs to utilize the base of one-of-a-kind assets that exist only here and convert them into long-term benefits.
Highway 24 and 21st is the perfect place to re-define the Colorado Springs business meets arts meets recreational landscape.
At this single intersection, the former Van Briggle Building (more accurately titled "The Wheelhouse Building") has just opened with Carmichael Fitness. The world-class personal trainer of Lance Armstrong will have my favorite bike shop in town as a tenant come the end of the month as Pro Cycling joins the building. Across the street is Angler's Covey, the largest retail space devoted to fly fishing in the Rocky Mountains.
Demographically, Skyway and the Broadmoor are a heartbeat to the south.
Energetically, Old Colorado City and it's 120 year history of slightly eccentric shopping, dining and imbibing.
Two miles to the east is downtown.
And through this intersection pass hundreds of thousands of tourists and Coloradoans headed for Purple Mountain Majesty and other recreation in Pike National Forest and beyond. Garden of the Gods? A bike ride. Red Rock Canyon and superb rock climbing? Three intersections west.
Flowing through all of this is Fountain Creek. Dave Leinweber at Angler's Covey wants to organize Trout Unlimited Volunteers to do streamside habitat restoration to bring trout back to the waters of Fountain Creek... within the city limits of Colorado Springs. Wow, Denver has a thriving carp fishery below the sewage treatment plant on the South Platte. Imagine if Colorado Springs had catchable rainbows and brookies behind Amanda's Fonda?
Have I mentioned that the Manitou Arts Theatre already occupies a venue on Pecan Street?
Have I mentioned that we also need an outdoor ampitheatre for live music and play productions during the spring and summer?
That the best Farmer's Market is at Bancroft Park, six blocks away from this intersection?
Trader Joe's wants a hook before they move into new areas. Colorado Blue Laws do not prevent them from opening a grocery store with alcohol. Grocery stores can apply for a single store exception, and I know of a Safeway in Denver with a liquor license for wine and spirits. There is no question that the California (and Virginia and Minnesota) transplants would go ga-ga over Trader Joe's anywhere in Colorado. But what would really give Trader Joe's the necessary angle for development in Colorado would be to anchor great SUSTAINABLE development. This is not the grocery store in the new strip mall. This is not a cash cow (they are a cash cow anywhere and they do not need to be reminded of this). This is the local picnic basket to fuel the after-work concert goers, the sandstone scalers, the mountain bike gear heads, the fly fishing citizenry... and becomes the tourist destination of choice for foodies and culturites across the Front Range.
I have made my recreational piligrimmages to Trader Joe's in Santa Fe and to Cabela's in Sydney, NE. Highway 24 and 21st is begging to be the intersection of choice for the type of intelligent development that only Colorado Springs can produce.
I'm a REALTOR by profession and I specialize in residential real estate. There is no doubt that the impact of this style of development would greatly benefit property values and the city's pathetic commercial tax base. But the real beauty of this is that it would force "rivals" to place nice together and pull off a one of a kind project. This will synthesize developers (commercial and residential) with recreational activists (some Sierra Club folks for sure but I'm also sure plenty of NRA members) with the arts (I sit on the board of COPPeR, the Cultural Office of the Pikes Peak Region). Would I financially gain from this? Probably. But the bigger gain would be for the city. The gain would be that the arts could be anchored by local resources in one spot with imaginative venues. That children would have access to outdoor music... and clean water with living trout. The city would have a one-of-a-kind locale that is worth talking about.
It can happen. I'm just hear to asking for fellow members in the movement. Let's help the arts. Let's help the trout. Let's help the city's tax collection. Let's get Trader Joe's to Colorado Springs.
Local agriculture is hard at 6500 feet. Most of El Paso County is well over a mile high in elevation, and with a 90 day growing season, few cities in North America are this size with a growing season this short. Home grown produce is more novelty than reality for most individuals.
This weekend is the 15th Annual Loaf and Jug Chile and Frijole Festival. I mean, how can you not attend with a name like that? It is your opportunity to head south for a little local culture that has been native to the Front Range for centuries... yes, chile cultivation predates by centuries the more commonly celebrated "western heritage" of events like the Pikes Peak or Bust Rodeo. And let's face it... burgers, dogs and funnel cake ain't got nothing on hoppin' mean green made with the local Mira Sol. And if you need burgers, dogs and funnel cake you can find it at the 15th Annual Loaf and Jug Chile and Frijole Festival ...slathered in chile of course.
If you're a first timer to local chile, keep in mind that the hotter the summer, generally the more pungent the heat. This was not a toasty summer so it probably won't be so hot. If you're making chile and have a low Scoville tolerance, stick with the Anaheims. This SoCal import is conisderably milder and still rich in flavor. If you like mellow nutiness, get the extra-vine-ripened red chiles for a different, more complex flavor.
But if you really want the full-on, local experience... this is the weekend to head to Pueblo, buy a bushel of flame-kissed peppers


text: This band was so amazing! They exceeded my expectations, which were already high because they were referred to me by a family member who recently hired them for a party. They not only packed the dance floor and had people singing and smiling all night, they were kind and courteous! They were a group of TRULY professional and talented individuals. My mother had the most amazing birthday because of them. And they came with their own DJ from PM DJs who was just as fantastic as the band was. I would hire them all again in a heartbeat. To top it off, I needed someone on fairly short notice and there were absolutely no issues. Timely, organized and just amazing people.

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- GenesisAsked on July 11, 2011 at 01:23 PM
I recently set up a dropbox / send a file form on my website and am having difficulties receiving files. I tested the form myself and it worked for me: I received the "thank you" verification, the files in the dropbox, and the confirmation emails.
However, I am trying to receive a video file from another person and it seems to be failing. He tries to upload the video file which is 50MB and said he didn't get any indication that the upload was sucessful or not. I didn't receive the file or any email indicating that a file was sent.
Any thoughts on to why he can't upload the file? I have plenty of room on both jotform and dropbox for the file.
Thanks.Page URL:
- grgauleAnswered on July 11, 2011 at 01:25 PM
Sorry, the page url got messed up and I can't find a way to edit the original post. Here is the correct link:
If the previous page url can be deleted from the post, that would be awesome.
- WildFire126Answered on July 11, 2011 at 03:18 PM
Well, depending on your email provider it could entirely be the email system that is keeping you from recieving the confirmation email and the submitted form and such.
Take gmail for example, (last I knew at least) you are only aloud to send/recieve emails with attached files of 25mb or smaller. And since you didn't recieve the email w/the submitted form, it (being the form) didn't recieve the confirmation that you got the email, so it didn't send the "Thank You" email in response to the submitted form.
- JotForm SupportNeilVicenteAnswered on July 12, 2011 at 06:09 AM
When a file is uploaded, it is saved temporarily on our server but will not be forwarded to your account's submissions unless the submit button is pressed.
File uploading
File uploaded (but not submitted)
I have a feeling that your client did not press the "Send Now!" button, thinking that after the upload completes, it is automatically submitted. That could be the reason why he did not get a confirmation (Thank You page) and you did not get the notification email and the entry in your submissions page.
I suggest that you fix your webpage's layout or modify your form so that the "Send Now!" button is displayed conspicuously.


text: New tax traps for members' voluntary liquidations 29 November 2017 Mike Finch 0 comments Share Two changes of policy by HMRC mean that business owners and their advisers need to be on their guard when completing a solvent winding-up through a members' voluntary liquidation (MVL). MVLs are widely used when business owners retire or as a mechanism to unlock the underlying value of the business. They have long proved a tax-efficient way to recognise this value and distribute it to shareholders. Change No.1: interest on future tax debts The due date for paying corporation tax to HMRC is nine months and one day after the end of the accounting period. Where corporation tax was payable in an MVL, HMRC has previously only charged interest from that due date, applying the late payment rate of 3%. Recently HMRC has started to rely on principles emerging from the Lehman Brothers court case, namely that statutory interest is payable on future and contingent debts from the date of an administration or liquidation. As a result, HMRC is now claiming statutory interest – at the rate of 8% – from the date an MVL commences. This 8% will be charged even if the corporation tax due date hasn't yet arrived. The same approach would appear to apply to all other taxes payable at a future date, such as PAYE and VAT. How to respond Business owners will not want to pay any interest. Therefore, the best approach is to calculate and pay any tax for periods that have closed before entering the MVL – whether or not the taxes are actually due yet. In many cases, however, it may not be possible to know for certain how much tax will be payable for the final tax period leading up to the commencement of the MVL. In such cases, it would be sensible to estimate the expected tax liabilities and make a payment on account before entering the MVL. It may even be worth overpaying to minimise the risk of interest being charged, recognising that the insolvency practitioner (IP) will be able to reclaim any overpayments and then distribute them to the shareholders. Change No.2: overdrawn director's loan accounts HMRC is also trying to change established practice in relation to overdrawn director's loan accounts. Where an overdrawn director's loan account was in place at the start of the MVL, it was standard practice for the IP to distribute this in specie (i.e. in non-monetary form via a paper transaction), rather than the director having to repay the loan in cash and then receive a distribution of the cash balance back from the IP. HMRC is now running a test case to challenge this approach – seeking to reclassify the distribution of the loan as income rather than capital. This would enable HMRC to charge tax at a potential effective rate of 38.1%, rather than at just 10% or 20%. Regardless of the outcome of the test case, the new position seems likely to be enshrined in law when the Finance Bill 2017 finishes its passage through Parliament. How to respond To avoid the risk of the in specie distribution being treated as income, any directors with an overdrawn loan account would need to pay back those loans. Plan ahead These two changes in HMRC's approach to MVLs serve as a timely reminder of the need to plan ahead and seek insolvency expertise, even in what may be apparently standard, simple situations. R&IRestructuring & insolvencyTax - business


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Don't Miss: March 12-18
Dutch Treat
Maastricht, Netherlands, Friday through March 27
At the European Fine Art Fair, works from the 13th to 19th centuries will include Renoir's "Woman Picking Flowers," above. The organizers claim they also attract the most top-quality Old Master paintings available for sale.
Mile-High Tech
Denver Art Museum, Sunday through May 1
"Blink! Light, Sound and the Moving Image" will be devoted entirely to the electronic media. The 55 objects include Sylvie Fleury's neon and metal "Pleasures"; the Swiss artist has used shopping bags and perfume bottles in her art.
Freedom Photos
Menil Collection, Houston, through Sept. 25
The 230 photos of "The Whole World Was Watching" evoke the civil-rights era, captured by half a dozen photographers: marchers in Alabama, protesters with Martin Luther King, Mississippi cotton workers and Texas prisoners.


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pictured: Some of the Human Books you can meet on the day. L - R Vinayak Hase, Ray Collins, Jasna Dolic, Ravi Stocks, Mariam Issa. Their stories are transcendent, inspiring, funny and moving and they are all true.
This week I had the pleasure and privilege of
sharing my storytelling skills and working alongside Springvale Library in setting up their inaugural Human Library. Initially known as the Living Libraries, the concept developed in Denmark in 2000 and since then the idea has spread to over 45 countries. The central concept behind the Human Library is the strengthening of local communities through conversation.
Read about Human Libraries and be inspired. The Australian website provides resource kits along with everything you need to know to establish a Human Library in you area.
So ... come to Springvale and borrow a person not a book, for a conversation like no other. Each 'human book' will have six, twenty minute sessions open to the public. Book a session with your chosen book and discover their life history. If you don't know what to ask - sample questions will be provided on the day. Don't worry if you miss out this time because there will be more human library events throughout the year.
Launch event: 3pm
Session 1: 4 - 5.30pm
Session 2: 6 - 7.30pm
Session 1: 4 - 5.30pm
Session 2: 6 - 7.30pm
Bookings essential: Book online here
phone: 1300 630 920
Springvale Library: 411 Springvale Road, Springvale (Mel Ref 79 K11)


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"That Drawing Is So You!": Chasing The Elusive Personal Style
For as long as I've been drawing, I've dreamed of — nay, been obsessed with — inventing a unique, recognizable art style. Something that people could immediately associate with me at first glance.
I remember flipping through those "How To Draw Manga" books at Barnes and Noble, enviously absorbing the apparent effortlessness of...well, everything. I wanted the clean figures, the transparent facial expressions, the suggestions of movement and folds and bends through simple lines.
And yet, while there was something captivating about the distinctive style, I knew from the start that I didn't want to pursue this brand of drawing. The appeal of mastering manga lay, I felt, in its simplicity and instant familiarity, but there was too little differentiation to accommodate my ambitions.
(I still hold manga — and anime, I guess, by extension — in high regard as both cultural methodology and storytelling framework. Keep in mind, too, that I was getting a particularly limited exposure to the possibilities of manga — a plastic world of willowy, androgynous, ageless beings with few allowances for variation. I've since discovered that the children's-book variation I was sold in the shelves of Barnes and Noble hardly accounts as an exhaustive representation of the genre.)
I just didn't want my art to follow a trajectory with an immediate label and ubiquitous presence. I knew that if I got too comfortable with rendering characters via tiny triangle noses and huge, glassy pupils and kinetic coiffure actively defying physics in jawdropping ways, I might never get out or stand out. Still, there were elements of the style I really liked — not so much the anti-gravity hair as the pristine linework and nonchalant folds. I wanted to pick and choose.
So I learned to steal.
the theft theory
According to a famous person whose precise identity is widely contested: "Good artists copy, great artists steal." Since encountering said quote, I've pretty much been on track to becoming one of the greatest artists ever.
I am a visual pickpocket of the highest order, a jigsaw enthusiast finding puzzle pieces in a million disparate sources. I've spent countless hours scrolling through tumblr and deviantArt, favoriting things that switch on that lever in my brain labeled "DRAW LIKE THIS."
It could be the shape of a hand, a fluid pose, a dynamic line, the colors of a cityscape, any one or number of elements. I'll pause, linger in the inspiration, then carve out another fragment to drop into the toolbox of my evolving style. My next drawing will then find form as an amalgamation of these pieces. Kind of like a less philosophically challenging Frankenstein monster.
I'm not claiming this process is unique to me at all. In fact, I'm certain this method is true of many. I've probably stolen it, too.
get going and keep going
At this stage in my experience, I've concluded a personal drawing style is mainly about what feels right where, not solely aping the techniques of a particular art hero, or blazing a dramatic trail off the path of traditional practice. Style development will, from time to time, burn a brighter shade of one of these extremes. But I've found I feel most myself when I'm not adhering to absolute inception or imitation. And it's the kind of thing that happens when you're not paying attention.
One of my favorite quotes comes from Disney animator Walt Stanchfield's Drawn To Life, in which he encourages artists to get going and keep going with the following words (which are the closest things to a tattoo that I would ever get):
"If it is not as satisfying a start as you would have liked, do not be critical — that is where you are — face it. Just turn the page and start another. All those faculties that are required to make a more satisfying sketch are being awakened — even now — as you search for a new subject and begin to sketch. No one else in the universe would have drawn it quite like you."
Maybe one day I'll have that instantly recognizable style. But that's not the motivating factor as much as it used to be. I'll stick with creating with all the tools at my disposal, in a way that feels truest in its translation from concept to canvas, like no one else in the universe.


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The World Health Organisation report, mentioned above and summarised in The Guardian, states that air pollution is the world's single biggest environmental health risk. (Other references to the health effects from the burning of coal are given in Links, below.)
The main sources of ambient air pollution are motor vehicles and coal burning. The main sources of air pollution in homes are coal smoke and wood smoke.
Berkeley Earth (2015) compared the health effects of air pollution to cigarette smoking. They found that living in the European Union exposed one to air pollution equivalent to smoking 1.6 cigarettes per day. For China the figure was 2.4, in Beijing, 4.0. Much of the air pollution in China and India is from coal burning. A number of Indian cities have similar air pollution problems as does Beijing and a substantial part of that pollution comes from burning Australian coal.
In Australia in 2017 our Liberal coalition government cannot see past the profits that they believe can be made by digging up and burning or exporting millions of tonnes of this killer commodity.
In early 2017 both Prime Minister Turnbull and Deputy Prime Minister (and head of the Australian Nationals) Barnaby Joice have made statements favourable to building new coal-fired power stations in Australia. These are not needed and not wanted by most of the Australian people; both large-scale solar and wind power are expanding and there is little increase in electricity demand from the grid. The continuing installation of solar power on the roofs of Australian homes as well as the increasing number of utility-scale solar power stations is also reducing demand for new fossil fuel power.
As Frank Jotzo, Director, Centre for Climate Economics and Policy, Australian National University, wrote in The Coversation,
"New coal plants wouldn't be clean, and would cost billions in taxpayer subsidies".
Outside Australia, people and the more progressive organisations are turning away from coal because they see its shortcomings and because they see it lacks a viable economic future. They are turning toward clean, non-polluting, renewable energy.
Coalition support for the coal industry is not new, a quote from PM Tony Abbott on 2014/05/28:
"It's particularly important that we do not demonise the coal industry and if there was one fundamental problem, above all else, with the carbon tax was that it said to our people, it said to the wider world, that a commodity which in many years is our biggest single export, somehow should be left in the ground and not sold. Well really and truly, I can think of few things more damaging to our future."PM Abbott would like to export even more coal and death, and he will do so if the Australian people allow him to. The man, who calls himself a Christian, has not the slightest conception of morality.
Prime Ministers Turnbull and Abbott seem to be among the very few national leaders on the planet who want minimal action on climate change and ocean acidification. Tony Abbott is a man who claims to be Christian yet who seems to be motivated only by ambition and money.
US President Barack Obama recently (late May 2014) said:
"We don't have to choose between the health of our economy and the health of our children"
How much CO2?In 2012 Australia mined about 430 million tonnes of coal. This is about 14 tonnes each second. When these 14 tonnes are burned they produce about 25 tonnes of CO2 every second – which goes straight into the atmosphere!
Justin Worland wrote a piece in
Time on
2015/12/02 under the headline "Coal Is the Most Dangerous Pollutant for
Heart Disease".
The research showed that air pollution from the burning of coal for electricity generation was something like five times as damaging to our hearts as was general air pollution. The research also showed that Diesel traffic-related soot was associated with heart disease deaths but that particulate air pollution from both wind-blown soil and biomass combustion were not.
PM Malcolm Turnbull is known to have serious concerns about the burning of coal and the resulting climate change, yet he still follows the Liberal party line and promotes the dying coal industry. Will this news give him any second thoughts? I suspect that ambition will win-out over his conscience, again.
The health study report can be read at Environmental Health Perspective.
Deaths to be expected from proposed coal mines
in the Galilee Basin, Queensland.
Wikipedia gives world coal extraction as 7 865 million tonnes (MT) per
year and total Australian extraction as 431MT.
When China started its great economic and industrian growth a couple decades
ago it built many, many coal-burning power stations.
At some point it started importing millions of tonnes of Australian coal to
burn in these.
Since then China has had shocking air pollution, and now enough time has
passed for cancers to have developed.
"China's cancer rates exploding, more than 4 million people diagnosed in 2015, study says". Written by ABC's China Correspondent Matthew Carney, 2016/03/24.
"In some of the industrial provinces, lung cancer rates have increased a staggering four-fold" and the cause seems to be air pollution, largely due to coal burning.
"Cancer has been the leading cause of death in China since 2010, with lung cancer causing the most deaths."
Turnbull Coalition government tells
the Australian people that exporting coal to India is a
wonderful thing because it lifts so many people out of "energy poverty".
But the air pollution from the burning of that coal
kills 1.1 million Indians each year year as reported by
Think Progress.
You can't enjoy having electric lights if you are dead.
We'd be doing the Indian people a much bigger favour if we were to help them develop renewable wind and solar power to lift them out of energy poverty without the pollution from coal-burning.
The Sydney Morning Herald (September 2017) and other media reported that the "Brain-eating" amoeba, Naegleria fowleri had been found in Lake Liddell, near the Liddell coal-fired power station in NSW's Hunter Valley (Australia).
The pathogenic amoeba is associated with warm water. Lake Liddell is used for cooling the Liddell power station so its water is consequently considerably warmer than it otherwise would be. It has been closed for recreational use for safety reasons.
The dangerous amoeba has been found in other water bodies warmed by coal fired power stations around the world.
A number of links are scattered through the text.
World Health Organisation: More than 90% of the world's children breathe toxic air every day.
World Health Organisation reports, 'Burden of disease from Household Air Pollution for 2012', and 'Burden of disease from Ambient Air Pollution for 2012', (available on the same link), state that around 7 million people die each year from air pollution, much of this resulting from burning coal.
The World Health Organisation report mentioned above was summarised in The Guardian.
The University of British Columbia released a statement 2016/02/12 headlined "Poor air quality kills 5.5 million worldwide annually". The research was headed by Michael Brauer, a professor at the University of British Columbia's School of Population and Public Health in Vancouver. Coal was found to be a major contributor, together with the burning of wood, dung and other biomass. This work was also published by the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation.
Berkeley Earth (2015) compared the health effects of air pollution to smoking cigarettes.
Think Progress; India's polluted air now kills 1.1 million people per year. This referred to the State of Global Air report: below.
State of Global Air/2017: A special report on global exposure to air pollution and its disease burden.
The State of Global Air has an interactive Net site.
The prestigious health journal, The Lancet, 2017/02/11, published an opinion piece by Chris McCall, titled Australia's new coal mine plan: a "public health disaster".
A Net site called Facts and Details provides a shocking summary of the air pollution situation in China. Another site, Urban Emissions, shows that India is similarly polluted.
An article published in The Lancet in 2007 put numbers on the deaths caused by the burning of coal in Europe to generate electricity. I have used these numbers to calculated how many deaths might be avoided in Australia by replacing coal-fired power with wind energy.
Doctors for the Environment, Australia, 2010/07/19, published a Policy Paper on the Health Impact of Coal Pollution and Renewable Energy. A quote:
"The greatest co-benefit for global and national health [from replacing coal with renewables] would be a reduction in the mining of coal and in its use for power generation. Taking all externalities into account, including the health burden of coal in Australia estimated by the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering to be $2.6 billion per annum, it is likely that coal is the most expensive fuel. Yet under our present accounting system it is the cheapest, and an unfair competitor for renewable energy."
Australian Conservation Foundation: Stop Adani's Carmichael Coal Mine.
Coal miners share the air the rest of us breath, they also have to accept the risk of black lung disease, coal miners' pneumoconiosis.
Amoeba pathogen
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I couldn't have made it one more day! Hallelujah!! Spring break is here!! :) I'm sure most of you are not doing school work over spring break, but I plan on grading... a lot! {Awe, shucks... I just remembered I left essays at school (from months ago) that I wanted to grade.} Grades are due the week we get back, so I don't want to have to worry about that as soon as I return!
What are everyone's plans?? I'm heading up to my brother's {in Virginia} tomorrow. We are going to see Les Mis in Richmond Saturday night. I'm pretty excited! It's finally here! I'm not sure what I'm going to have to look forward to after I see the show... Oh yes, I know. I desperately want to buy a new car. I know I've been talking about it for months now. I haven't test driven anything, but I'm really leaning toward the 2014 Mazda CX-5. Any newer model Mazda drivers out there who can review? Maybe I can talk the brother into taking me to some dealerships while I'm up there. We'll see.
ONE LAST THING... Part of our Title1 money was spent on the Discovery Education Science Techbook for 5th grade. Does anyone else have this? It is AMAZING! There are whole units already created for us! We "received" it (or finally had access to it) halfway through our ecosystems unit. I incorporated many of the passages and videos into our plans. Again... AMAZING!! It's super expensive, but the representative who set up our accounts told us that there are whole districts getting rid of their text books and switching to the techbook. We haven't used a text book in several years, so for us, it's great to have the additional (quality) resources. Check it out if you haven't already...
I hope everyone has a wonderful, safe break!
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The Search for Truth
As an Independent Research Scientist, I research the nature of the human condition and mankind's connection to Spirituality. I do so by research and first hand experimentation.
There are many questions that can be asked about the Nature of Truth (Reality). One of the most important questions is a question asked in modern religion?
Question 01: Is Satan Real? And, How do you know?
Answer 01: The Answer is absolutely - YES!
I performed an experiment I call: The 666 Experiment.
I have to tell you, I really had no expectations as to the outcome of the experiment. but, low and behold within a short period of time - guess who showed up?
The Spirit that showed up was not materially manifest in any way, but I could sense a powerful Dark Presence of Seething RAGE.
- This Dark Spirit was the presence of Lucifer (aka Satan).
1. If Satan is Real, Then Jesus Christ, God, and the Bible are REAL TOO!
Interesting hub. Check out my hubs on religion when you get a chance.
Really, the experiment worked for you? When I did it all that I summoned was a bad tempered turkey-demon. Luckily I had a ritual dagger handy and managed to stab it. Oddly Turkey-Demons tend to be all dark meat. Maybe I drew the chalk circle wrong... hmmm...


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Ory has deep entrepreneurial experience and a passion to protecting the environment. In 2010 he founded Energy Points Inc. focusing on using quantitative metrics for energy, water and climate. Energy Points created a universal metric for fossil fuel consumption, merging scientific rigor with geospatial data and behavior to optimize both simplicity and accuracy. Lux Research acquired the company in the beginning of 2015. In October 2016, Ory left Lux Research to develop Greenometry.
Prior to Energy Points Ory was the founding CEO of HelioFocus Inc. HelioFocus developed solar thermal solutions for conventional power plants. HelioFocus operated in both Israel and China and was one of the first to raise Chinese investment in an Israeli startup. Ory led the company as CEO from 2007 to 2010 and served on the board of directors until 2015.
Prior to HelioFocus, Ory was the founding CEO of QuantomiX Inc., which he led as CEO from 2000 to 2006. The company, based on his invention, developed a capsule that allows electron microscopes to image wet samples. QuantomiX was the first to visualize cells and tissues in their native/live state using an electron microscope. El-Mul Technologies acquired the company in 2006. The QuantomiX capsule is now used by researchers around the world.
Ory combines passion to environmental activism, science and entrepreneurship. He holds B.Sc. (cum laude) in Physics and Mathematics from Tel Aviv University; M.Sc. (cum laude) and Ph.D. in Physics from the Weizmann Institute of Science, where he received the National Amos De Shalit Physics prize. As a Ph.D. student he founded the Israeli branch of Greenpeace building a clean Mediterranean campaign. He holds worldwide patents and has extensive experience in founding startups based on academic research. He also serves on the advisory board of the Center of Health and Global Environment at The Harvard School of Public Health, as well as on the board and advisory boards of a number of cleantech startups.
Throughout his career, Ehud has built and managed R&D engineering groups of various sizes (up to 200), and in multiple cultures. He developed systems used by various verticals including military, telecom carriers, media companies and, most recently, mass market mobile marketing and retail.
In his role as VP Operations and Professional Service in Quattro Wireless Inc., Ehud contributed to the growth of the company mobile ad platform, leading to its acquisition by Apple Inc. in early 2010.
After leaving Apple, Ehud co-founded Mowingo Inc., a mobile customer engagement platform, which was used by, among other customers, McDonald's in the US and other countries. He also co-founded and is serving as Senior VP Engineering in Beaconix Inc., an IoT platform company specializing in cloud connected sensors for retail and industrial uses.
Ehud holds a B.S. (cum laude) and M.S. (cum laude) in Engineering from Tel-Aviv University. He served as captain in the Israeli army.
Anna Shpigel, Esq. most recently served as the Special Assistant to the Regional Administrator of the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) New England Region. She was appointed to this position by the White House in November of 2014. Previously, Ms. Shpigel, as General Counsel for the Massachusetts Department of Energy Resources: (1) championed the Massachusetts Renewable Energy Production Standard legislation and implementing regulations; (2) developed the Massachusetts Clean Cities Incentive Program facilitating energy efficiency for participating communities; (3) advocated for greater diversity in economically stable energy supplies for consumers; (4) worked with the Massachusetts Clean Energy Center to promote public school renewable energy education programs; and (5) advocated on behalf of Massachusetts before the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission as part of the national expansion of wholesale energy market structures.
Ms. Shpigel was awarded a MPA from Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government in 2014 concentrating in energy economics, Climate Change Policy, and expansion of public-private partnerships facilitating renewable energy research, innovative technology, and energy efficiency programs. Ms. Shpigel also holds BA Magna Cum Laude from Brandeis University and JD from Suffolk University Law School.
Ms. Shpigel served as an instructor and mentor for public and private sector energy policy and legal professionals, and participates as an occasional instructor at Harvard University Law School's Environmental Law and Policy Clinic.
Michael Devlin currently serves as a Director at Kendell & Associates, a family office that provides advisory services to several operating companies including several impact-focused companies.
Michael an investment professional with over twenty years of experience providing investment advice to family offices, institutions and individual investors. Prior to joining Kendell & Associates, Michael was a Director at Ceres Partners, a $500 million private equity fund that manages a portfolio of U.S. farmland properties. Michael was responsible for business development and managing the firm's messaging program with existing and prospective investors.
Prior to Ceres, Michael was a Director at Spruce Private Investors, an outsourced Chief Investment Officer that managed $2 billion for a select group of high net worth investors and family offices. Michael managed relationships with several large clients and was instrumental in launching the firm's first formal marketing program.
Prior to Spruce, Michael was a Director in the Commodities and Equity Derivatives division at BNP Paribas. The New York based division structured and traded plain vanilla and exotic derivatives for its client including asset managers, endowments, foundations and family offices. Michael advised clients on the use of bespoke derivative instruments to create tax-efficient hedging strategies and return-enhancing structures.
Michael earned a B.S. in Business Administration from Old Dominion University and an M.B.A. from The Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland.
Gidon Eshel, an environmental geophysicist, is a Radcliffe Fellow in earth and planetary science at Harvard. He is best known for his work on quantifying geophysical consequences of food, agriculture and dietary choices. He is broadly considered an expert on (1) physics of climate and climate change; (2) development of algebraic tools for dual optimization of health and environmental outcomes; (3) measures of natural and anthropogenic ecosystem stability and resilience; and (4) the impact of agriculture on land–atmosphere interactions and exchanges of gases, energy, radiation, and momentum.
In addition, in collaboration with colleagues from the Chan School of Public Health at Harvard, Eshel is developing multi-objective metrics of consumer choices. The metrics combine disparate environmental impacts (e.g., greenhouse gas emissions or water and land use) with health outcomes (e.g., cardio- and cerebrovascular diseases or diabetes) in a manner most suitable for using in optimizations designed to improve public health while easing environmental burdens.
Eshel studied physics and earth sciences at the Technion and Haifa University, Israel, before getting an M.A., M.Phil, and a Ph.D. at Columbia University in mathematical geophysics. Eshel was then a recipient of the prestigious NOAA Climate & Global Change Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Harvard Center for Earth & Planetary Physics, a staff scientist at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute, and faculty at the Dept. of Geophysics, the Univ. of Chicago.
A lifelong avid bicyclist, Eshel lives with his wife and two children in New York's Hudson Valley, which he fondly describes as "the best place to bike 150 mile/week east of Yosemite".
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A Tealby man is to be one of the first recipients of the newly instigated Merchant Navy Medal for Meritorious Service.
The announcement of this new state award was made by Shipping Minister John Hayes on Friday, to coincide with Merchant Navy Day on September 3.
And among the list of the first 13 recipients is Andrew Dalrymple, who will receive the medal for services to the welfare of seafarers.
"It was quite a surprise," said Mr Dalrymple.
"I am greatly honoured, and slightly embarrassed."
Mr Dalrymple is chairman of the charity Humber Seafarers Service which provides facilities to help seafarers visiting the Humber ports, whatever their nationality.
The service is supported by the three major seafaring charities - Mission to Seafarers, Apostleship of the Sea and Sailors' Society - and in turn the Humber Service provides a base for the chaplains at their centres in Hull and Immingham.
Mr Dalrymple has had a big involvement and close relationship with the sea all his working life.
He first went to sea as a cadet with BP, serving for 10 years and rising to the position of Chief Officer.
He then came ashore and studied for a degree in Marine Commerce, which led to work in the fishing industry.
He became operations director for the largest fishing company in Europe, British United Trawlers Board.
Then, with the loss of the fishing grounds, he moved into ship tugs and salvage.
With a fleet of tugs in seven of the major ports in the UK, Mr Dalrymple stayed in the business for about 20 years, rising to the position of chief executive.
"I still have a number of interests in the industry," said Mr Dalrymple.
"I am honorary chairman of the European Tugowners Association, which involves representing them in Brussels.
"I am also chairman of the management committee of the RNLI station at Cleethorpes."
Mr Dalrymple says, though, none of the charitable work he has been involved in has been done for any reward.
"Over the years, I have benefitted a lot from the Mission to Seafarers charity, so I want to give something back to them and to the very valuable RNLI."
Closer to home, Mr Dalrymple is an active member of the Rotary Club of Market Rasen, having served as its president and, until recently, seven years as secretary.
Making the announcement of the worthy recipients Minister Hayes said: "Merchant Navy seafarers and those serving in the fishing fleets provide a tremendous service to our island nation and it is only right that they are recognised for the vital role they play, often in difficult and dangerous conditions.
"Coinciding with Merchant Navy Day, it provides an opportunity to remember the sacrifices of our brave seafarers of the past and to show our appreciation for British shipping today and in the future."
Mr Dalrymple will receive his medal at a formal presentation ceremony on November 15 at Trinity House in London.


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The offender was described as a male/white, age early to middle 30s, 5'11" to 6'0″medium build, wearing a red "Indiana University" hooded sweatshirt, dark sweatpants, and a dark scarf with a white design covering his lower face.
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GDC should remain dedicated regulator in reform plans, but opportunity for improvement must be seized
24 January 2018: While there is need for significant improvements to the GDC's Fitness to Practise processes, and the legal framework which underpins regulation, the GDC should remain the dedicated dental regulator, Dental Protection said today.
In its response to the Department of Health (DH) consultation on the future of professional regulation in healthcare, Dental Protection said change is long overdue - but warned against reform that would see the creation of a 'super regulator' or a similar large scale amalgamation which could result in a lack expertise and understanding of the distinct professions. It said there was a strong case for the GDC to remain the regulator for dentists and dental therapist as they carry out high risk interventions within a clinical setting on a daily basis and as such, require a regulator with the requisite experience and expertise.
Dental Protection has however urged DH to use the opportunity to significantly improve the GDC's Fitness to Practise function and ensure the regulator follows a fair process that patients, dentists and the governments of the UK can have confidence in. It said the legislation which underpins the work of the GDC is outdated and in some areas requires them to conduct their operations in a way that is inefficient and not in the best interest of patients or professionals.
Other improvements Dental Protection said should be considered include:
- Further steps to mitigate the harmful effects of a Fitness to Practise investigation on a dentist's health and avoid them becoming disillusioned and leaving dentistry
- Consideration of how the regulator can be mandated to conduct Fitness to Practise investigations within a given time frame, perhaps via a Regulators Charter. In 2015/16 the GDC reported that the median time to conclude a case referred for a final hearing (from receipt of the complaint) is 90 weeks. This is too long.
- A Regulators Charter could also specify data that should be published each year to generate greater transparency. The data would include but not be restricted to specific data sets for the average length of time of an investigation, the number of investigations that last for more than 12 months, and the number of cases that last beyond two years.
- Dentistry is heavily regulated and unnecessary burdens should be removed wherever possible. While the question of the need for regulation of dentists and dental therapists has long been settled, the same is not true of other members of the dental team. Therefore, all members of the team should be objectively reassessed to determine the most appropriate form of regulation.
Raj Rattan, Director at Dental Protection, said: said: "We welcome the Government's desire to drive forward the debate on the shape and structure of healthcare professional regulation. In many areas reform is long overdue.
"After the important question of what organisation should regulate dentists, no issue is of more fundamental importance to the reform debate than Fitness to Practise.
"We support dentists and other healthcare professionals day in day out as they go through this often long, complex process and see the physical and psychological impact. A range of improvements are needed, and this consultation presents a real opportunity to bring the legislation that underpins regulation up to date, while retaining the important statutory safeguards that ensure a transparent, consistent and fair Fitness to Practise process for all."


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The past three years of University have left a huge impact on my life, as I have learned so much within this short amount of time. Yes. I said short. Despite the huge amount of work that I had to do which felt endless, my time at University definitely did pass by quickly!
Although I've learned a lot about myself and who I really am, I've also had some mishaps along the way that have made me learn a lot more about life. And honestly, I wish I knew these things when I was younger. These are a few life lessons I've learned in the past few years (I'd say in the past 5 years) - and I wish I had known these 5 years ago.
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The Pope Criticizes Libertarianism – LewRockwell
Posted by M. C. on May 13, 2017
At the core of libertarianism is the non-aggression principle (NAP): just law consists, only, of prohibiting the initiation of violence against innocent people. That is it, in its entirety. The remainder of this political economic philosophy deals with logical implications of the foregoing. Thus, in economics we favor laissez-faire capitalism, deregulation, free trade, the only system guaranteed to overcome man's natural state of poverty. In the area of personal liberties, we support the legalization of (but not at all the engagement in) victimless crimes pertaining to sex, drugs, gambling, etc. And in foreign policy we advocate a strong defense, but non-intervention in the affairs of other nations. It is a very narrow perspective, focusing, only, on just law; it is not at all a philosophy of life.
Does Pope Francis reject any of that? Not at all. Instead, he attacks libertarianism not for what we espouse, but, rather, a made up version of this philosophy of his own devising. He ought to take a course in libertarianism 101 if he wishes to engage our real views, not a parody of them.
Walter Block gives Pope Francis a lesson in Libertarian philosophy.
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Amazed. I think that is the only way I can describe how I feel right now after watching "The New Normal" NBC's new series. At its core, The New Normal is simply about love, respect and acceptance of everyone…with some witty humor entwined in there which I personally appreciate. At first glance, I thought it would be about gay right issues (which alone caught my attention and admiration) yet it is so much more which is incredibly wise as gay rights are human rights and the same hatred that can be directed toward the LGBTQ community can be directed toward many other individuals. The message: you are not alone and we will all stand up with you.
In the first few episodes we see a gay couple start the process of finding a surrogate and becoming pregnant while at the same time being wrapped around issues of hatred, not being able to be different, using hateful language and asking in a very obvious fashion: how does our society still condone this behavior? Oh yea, and what are we gonna do about it?
After tonight's show (in which I cried 3 times) I realized how amazing watching this show can be. It gave me such hope and strength to see the media taking steps toward change; using that power that sometimes I hate for something so wonderful; using that power to educate, foster acceptance and engage the audience in direct action when they see something wrong. But was it all sunshine and rainbows? It never is when you try to change the world. The New Normal met protests, the major one coming from an affiliate of NBC, KSL-TV (Salt Lake City, Utah affiliate) saying they would not air the show because it might have "rude or crude" language, their scenes might be too explicit and characterizations might be too offensive. Talk about missing the point of the show! KSL-TV definitely needs to go over the episodes one more time-the beauty of this show is their complete bluntness in demonstrating society's intolerant ways, I guess it needs to be spelled out for the network even more. Despite the barriers, I am glad it did air in some places; this show will make a difference, there is now way it can't. It will strike a chord within everyone.
It truly struck a chord within me (it made me write a blog at 1:40am) it made me feel less alone. A specific scene will be ingrained in my mind forever. We see the couple shopping for baby clothes and after having a tender moment, they kiss as a straight couple walks by with their child. The man tells them to stop especially in front of his child, "There are places where you can get your ass kicked for that crap, I'm trying to be cool here" he preaches. One partner steps forward and states:
"Oh well you really are being cool sir, thank you for your intolerance, and your bigotry and for fostering this ignorance in another generation…and for bringing back the fanny pack!"
Take a minute. I know I needed one, to truly process what I just heard on network television, to process the strides we are making simply by having this show in existence. I fell in love. After this scene, the couple talks about their child who will be born into a society filled with hate and injustice and what will happen then:
"Just Ignore them"
"Ignore them? I've been ignoring people like that my entire life. That's not good enough anymore, we're having a baby. We are bringing a baby into the world where idiot people feel free to say and do the things they say and do because we have been trained to ignore them. That guy is not the problem, we are the problem!"
I believe the message of the show has not been said clearer than in this scene. It is the "we" who can make the difference. It is the "we" who have the power to change what we see as wrong. It is the "we" who can stand up and demolish the hatred, obliterate the injustice and encourage the acceptance and respect every human deserves. It is the "we" who can define what the new normal truly is.


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Fatigue crack propagation (FCP) testing of 304 stainless steel (304 SS) specimens showed a strong acceleration of rates in high temperature water with 40–60 cc H2 /kg H2 O at 243°C and 288°C, with rates up to 20X the air rates [1]. However, FCP rates were markedly reduced for a second heat at long rise times and for both heats with addition of a constant load hold time of 1200 s at a high stress ratio [2]. Such behavior had not been previously reported in the literature and merited further investigation. Tests have been extended to include two additional heats and a wider set of loading conditions. FCP rates were accelerated at long rise times in the two additional heats, consistent with a large series of tests on wrought, weld, and cast austenitic stainless steel materials recently reported by Nomura, et al. [3]. Hold time tests at a lower stress ratio showed that small increases or decreases in rate occur with holds at minimum or maximum load, but the changes were within normal data scatter. The rate reductions are not a generic result of less frequent cycling, but are limited to specific loading parameters or heats. A time-based correlation successfully describes the accelerated rates observed on all four heats, and is nearly identical to fits of literature data in PWR water and hydrogen water chemistry (HWC). A power law fit with separate terms for rise time, ΔK, and stress ratio provides an equivalent correlation.
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Here at Hollywood you'll fine more than 1,100 video slots (including the most penny slots in town), table games that include live poker, and casino hosts who can show you the ropes. Dine on prime beef and fresh seafood at Final Cut Steakhouse. Swig a craft beer and enjoy comfort food with a twist at 99 Hops House. Indulge in the decadent Sunday brunch at Epic Buffet. Or duck in to Take Two Deli for a quick bite. See a live concert at Backstage at Hollywood. And stay overnight at the Hollywood Casino Joliet Hotel & RV Park.
Located on the Des Plaines River in downtown Joliet, Harrah's features more than 1,100 slot machines, gaming tables and the World Series of Poker Room, where tournaments and games with a variety of limits are played. Celebrate your good fortune with a steak at The Reserve or fuel up for the next round at Flavors the Buffet, serving stir-fry, deep dish pizza, desserts, and more. Can't tear yourself away from the slots? Order a burger from Cross Street Grill right on the casino floor. Stay the night at the 200-room Harrah's Joliet Hotel.


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Armor for AWS
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Armor Your AWS-hosted data
Armor Anywhere is a scalable, managed cloud security solution that integrates best-of-breed security technology – selected and managed by the experts in our SOC – directly on top of your AWS-hosted data.
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Isn't AWS already secure?
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Understanding your responsibility in the cloud is critical to getting the most from your public cloud investment.
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Gain the skills you need to confidently plan for, deploy, and manage Windows 10 with Office 365 and Microsoft Enterprise Mobility + Security.
The Microsoft Tech Summit is backoffering two days of free (yes, free) technical training, industry insights, and hands-on labs that will help you develop core cloud skills and take your expertise to the next level. Learn about the latest trends, tools, and technologies from the engineers and experts behind the products. Take advantage of the new Event Hub to network and meet partners. You'll also have direct access to the Microsoft experts who bring you Azure and Microsoft 365 so come prepared to ask your toughest questions, learn best practices, provide feedback, and share strategies to optimize operations and deliver more value to your organization.
What will I learn at the Summit?
Security, deployment, and modern management will be the focus of the Windows 10 training offered at the Summit. Sessions will include:
- Deploying and managing the Microsoft 365 powered device
- What's new in Windows 10 security? Raising the bar of security once again with the Fall Creators Update!
- Always up-to-date with Windows 10 and Windows as a service
- An overview of Windows Analytics: New tools to help improve Windows experiences
- Whats new in the Fall Creators Update for Windows Defender ATP
- Modernize deployment & servicing of Windows 10 & Office ProPlus with Enterprise Mobility + Security
- Modernizing Windows 10 deployment with Windows AutoPilot
- Windows Defender Exploit Guard: Reducing the attack surface while balancing productivity & security
Im in. How do I register?
The Microsoft Tech Summit will visit 14 cities starting in November. Registration is already open for the November, December, and January events. Click on the city name below for more information and visit www.microsoft.com/techsummit to get a better idea of how each day is structured.
City Dates Sydney November 16-17 Tel Aviv November 29-30 Sao Paulo December 5-6 Toronto December 13-14 Singapore January 17-18 Birmingham January 24-25 Cape Town February 13-14 Frankfurt February 21-22 Washington, D.C. March 5-6 Paris March 14-15 San Francisco March 19-20 Amsterdam March 28-29 Stockholm April 17-18 Warsaw April 25-26
Ill personally be at some of the Summit events over the next few months. I hope to see you there.
Source: Microsoft Tech Summit offers free Microsoft 365 training and more Windows for IT Pros


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Not surprisingly,the Bush-Cheney administration has covered its tracks of criminal activities by closing files on some major unsolved cases: stolen elections, anthrax, Iraq-related government deceptions and lies, and corporate-related corruptions. As Bush no longer controls the government and its agencies, these suspicious deaths need to be reopened and thoroughly investigated for the sake of truth, justice and accountability.
Some of these untimely death cases were officially ruled as "suicides" and others were tagged as "accidents". But all victims met their deaths at a time when they were about to reveal damaging secrets of the Bush's corrupt regime or they stood in Bush's way to usurp power for fascism over the American society. Although there were many lives extinguished that didn't get media attention during the 'torturous reign' of Bush-Cheney, the compiled list below contains the high-profile cases that expose the Bush gang as 'thieves', 'thugs' and worse still, 'traitors' to the United States of America.
Election Fraud
-- Bush insider, Michael Connell, who has been directly implicated in the rigging of George W. Bush's 2000 and 2004 elections, was killed in a plane crash on December 19, 2008. He planned to tell all after he was served with a subpoena to testify in court on September 22, 2008.
Key Points Raised: a) Michael Connell, who was an experienced pilot, had abandoned two flights due to sabotage of his plane two months before his fatal "accident" on a cold but calm day. b) A credible source disclosed that Connell was afraid for his life after Karl Rove had threatened him and his wife.
-- Raymond Lemme, who was an official from the Florida Inspector General's office investigating the election rigging charges of whistleblower Clint Curtis, was found dead with his arms slashed in a motel room.
Key Points Raised: a) His body was found in the motel room on July 1, 2003, but he signed a check-out receipt dated June 30, 2003, 6:54 a.m. b) The inconsistency of police report and photographs raises doubts of his apparent "suicide" that occurred not in Florida but in Georgia.
--On July 29, 2008, 'suspect number one' for the 2001 anthrax attacks, Bruce E. Ivins, supposedly committed "suicide" rather than face criminal indictment, trial and possible execution. After the source of the high-grade anthrax was traced back to a Pentagon lab, a "fall guy" was obviously sought to wrap up the "unsolved cases" of anthrax attacks before George W. Bush was to leave the White House. It appears the government conveniently framed Ivins, one of the team members in the original investigation of the anthrax attacks, as the "lone nut" who sent the deadly anthrax letters to Congressmen and journalists in 2001.
Key Points Raised: a) Ivins was accused of sending anthrax letters to two Democrat leaders, Senators Tom Daschle and Patrick Leahy, just before the vote on "anti-terrorism" USA Patriot Act. b) The anthrax letters tried to link 9/11 and anthrax attacks to a group of radical Muslims. Coincidentally, these letters toed the line of Bush administration's propaganda on "war on terror".
Iraq-related Death
-- David Kelly, who was a British microbiologist and a Weapons Expert on WMDs, was found dead with his left wrist slit on July 18th, 2003. He was unmasked as the source of a BBC story that claimed the British government had "sexed up" a dossier on Iraq's WMD to justify UK's, and thereby US', illegal invasion of Iraq.
Key Points Raised: a) Thames Valley Police disclosed that no fingerprints were found on the blunt knife, Dr. Kelly allegedly used to kill himself. b) The "self-inflicted cut" on the wrist was unusual -- the ulnar artery severed but not the radial artery. c) Independent doctors pointed out the discrepancies in the post-mortem examination results.
Corporate-related Corruption
--J. Clifford Baxter, who was vice chairman of Enron Corp., was found dead, shot in the head, on January 25, 2002. In one of the largest corporate fraud cases in U.S. history, Baxter was a key witness to testify before the House Energy and Commerce Committee about Enron's illegal activities that might implicate the involvement of the Bush Administration at the highest level. Enron was the largest campaign contributor for George W. Bush.
Key Points Raised: a) Multimillionaire Baxter supposedly used a 'perfect murder weapon' to kill himself. A rat shot gun -- this kind of ammunition cannot be easily traced back to the gun that fired it. b) Baxter talked about "needing a bodyguard" just days before his body was found in a car, according to an unnamed associate in the New York Times (ENRON'S MANY STRANDS: AN EXECUTIVE'S DEATH; Critic Who Quit Top Enron Post Is Found Dead).
James Daniel Watkins, a consultant for Arthur Andersen, the accounting firm for Enron, also committed "suicide" with a gunshot wound to the head. His body was found on December 1, 2001, about a month before Baxter's death. Kenneth Lay, Enron Corp. founder was convicted of fraud and conspiracy. He died of a "heart attack" on July 5, 2006, 3 months before he was to begin his life sentence in prison. His body cremated and the ashes buried in an undisclosed location.
Government Corruption
-- Gary Webb, an American Pulitzer Prize winning investigative reporter who broke the story about the CIA's direct involvement in drug trafficking, was found dead, shot in the head, in mid-December 2004.
Key Points Raised: a) Webb was receiving death threats before his apparent "suicide". b) There were news reports that the coroner on the scene had originally claimed Webb died of 'multiple gunshot wounds' but later changed to 'single gunshot wound.'
-- On May 1, 2008, Deborah Jeane Palfrey "D.C. Madam", who ran an escort agency for hiring prostitutes to serve the Washington's elite, was found hanged in a storage shed next to her mother's trailer in Florida. Two weeks before her death, she was found guilty of money laundering, using the mail for illegal purposes and racketeering. Palfrey claimed that she had 10,000 to 15,000 phone numbers of clients.
Key Points Raised: a) Palfrey made repeated public statements that any "suicide" would just be a cover-story for murder. b) Her two so-called handwritten "suicide notes" were released to the public, contradicting her on-the-record statements that she would never commit suicide.
One of her employees, Brandy Britton also committed "suicide" by hanging in January 2007, days before she was scheduled to stand trial on prostitution charges and eviction from her home.
-- Adamo Bove (Head of security at Telecom Italia) and Costas Tsalikidis (a Greek software engineer for Vodaphone) uncovered a secret bugging system installed in cell phones around the world. Both had uncovered American attempts to spy on government officials, anti-war activists, journalists and businessmen through illegal wiretapping. Both untimely deaths were ruled as suicides.
Key Points Raised: a) Vodaphone had destroyed spyware evidence in its system before Greek intelligence could conduct an examination. b) "U.S. agents" were highly suspected to be involved in the overseas eavesdropping.
These victims all had some sort of first-hand knowledge of dirty deals, high-level scams, frauds and other treasonous activities that the Bush administration tried to suppress.
Isn't it about time to conduct serious investigations into these mysterious deaths?
(First published on UniOrb.com, January 30, 2009)


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Open Settings. Tap the Settings icon, usually located on the Home screen, to open the Settings control panel.
Tap Personal Hotspot. If you have enabled "Personal Hotspot" from your wireless provider, you will see the Personal Hotspot icon in the first group of settings.
- Note: if you have not enabled this service from your wireless provider, you must do so before proceeding. Visit your carrier's website, and find the service that best suits your needs and budget.
Turn on Personal Hotspot. Tap the toggle switch at the very top of the "Personal Hotspot" control panel to enable Wi-Fi sharing.
Set a password. The current password is listed in plain text. If you've just set up your service plan with your wireless provider, there will be a default password in place. To change it, tap the Wi-Fi password button, enter a new password, then click "Done." You can also just leave the default password as-is. Make sure you note it for future use.


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Kings 11 Punjab and Kolkata Knight riders hopeful for winning IPL
as third session of Indian Premier league is just 12 days away from team owners and players are getting ready for it. Kolkata Knight Rider's Coach Whatmore and Owner of Kings 11 Punjab Priety Zinta are very hopeful for good performance of their teams in third session of Indian Premier league. Coach of Kolkata Knight Riders team Whatmore has said that our team will put up better show in this IPL while Preity Zinta owner of Punjab has said that i am very excited about third session of IPL and hoping a better performance from my team. Priety Zinta has also left giving time to her showbiz activities and giving her full time to her team.


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Dearest you,
I could start this brief letter (indulge me a bit here) out by talking about how wonderful and amazing Patrick and Daniel are. Let me not lead you astray. They are in fact both wonderful and amazing friends, brothers, uncles, godfathers and countless other things to many people in their lives. However, this letter will not be about them. This letter is just a bit about me and a lot about you.
My father told me once (and many times over when I was in a hurry to grow up) that there is a time and a place for everything. Stop and think on those words for a moment. Consider the most important moments in your life and it's almost as if all those moments were predetermined. As if someone, somewhere, with divine timing said, "This is what I want for you." This always comforts me. As a person who lives in a constant hurry, I find peace in knowing that there is a time and a place for everything, even if I cannot always understand why.
Maybe you are like me and children were never really part of your plan. You have hopes and dreams of things you sought to achieve in your life and, although they are in no way out of reach with children, it just seemed like an added hurdle you were never quite ready to jump. Having children has never felt like the right thing for me. I think maybe at a younger age I thought so. It just seemed like "what came next." With age came wisdom and I very quickly learned that although I have all the equipment, (and the unequivocal burden of cultural and social ideals of what women are destined to be) it just never felt like my destiny. I feel I was called to be many things in my lifetime, but a mother was just not one of them. But maybe you are not like me and children are part of your destiny. Maybe "divine timing" just came flying at you and threw a ton of bricks right on top of your heart. Maybe you are just hoping you can find the right path out. You might even be thinking, "How could this be the right time or place in my life? Why would this happen now?" And while I don't have answers, I do think that maybe your time and place, as uncertain as it might seem, was meant to find someone else. I can't foresee when God will choose to make Patrick and Daniel fathers, but I have no doubt that it is in His plan. You see, it's just one of those things you feel. Just as I feel that I was not destined for motherhood, I feel that they are destined for fatherhood. Maybe this time and place just seems to miss the mark. But maybe, just maybe, the mark is spot on. And while this still might feel impossible, maybe your time and place was meant to coincide with Patrick and Daniel. Your baby was meant to find his or her place in their home, to help complete their destiny.
I work in a hospital with newborns and small children. I see people who want nothing more than to have children every day. Sometimes they find themselves in these scary situations which bring them to us but they wouldn't trade any of it, good or bad, for those little babies. We have a lot of happy endings when we get to send these parents home with their child. Sometimes we don't. Sending parents home empty handed is absolutely the worst thing we have to do. I often get angry and sad and filled with doubt. How this could happen to people? How could this be divine timing or the right place for them? I have not found those answers either, but I know they are out there. We just are not always given the comfort of knowing the plan ahead of time.
In some of those happy endings, a baby, through the course of adoption is going home with a new family. I am no less overjoyed to see that baby make it home with those parents; however, I often find myself thinking of the birth mother and how she must be feeling. She will undoubtedly be going home empty handed. It's a feeling that no woman could comprehend unless she too has given her child with trust and good intention to complete strangers. I commend those women for their bravery. I commend you. It might ease those feelings ever so slightly if those mothers could only see that this one act, as terrifying and heart wrenching as it might feel, comes with joyous rewards for those on the receiving end. And while my words may not heal that hurt that may inevitably come, I urge you to trust me, another complete stranger, when I say that your fear and angst is not felt in vain. You have the ability to give people who want nothing more than to have children the opportunity to become parents. Your current time and place, as untimely as it might feel, has the ability to take on a new meaning and make another parent's life unequivocally wonderful.
Wherever you might find yourself when this letter reaches you, I pray, ever so quietly, that it would also be God's time and place for Patrick and Daniel. Whatever is next for you, I pray too that it is as joyous and fulfilling as this will be for them.
With love,
x Carolyn


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- Marissa QuarantaAsked on August 03, 2016 at 04:56 PM
I'd like to change the 'from' email that shows to folks using the Forms, but I don't understand all the fields required to 'Add Sender Email.' See below.I'd also like to change the email that is notified when a customer fills out a form, or takes other action (on a particular form) but don't know how to do that.
Email Address
SMTP Details
Security Protocol
- JotForm SupportNik_CAnswered on August 03, 2016 at 06:33 PM
Depending on the email provider that you would like to use that's how the fields should be filled, meaning all those fields you pick up from them actually, for example for Gmail is like in this link. You could just google it, your provider's name + SMTP.
Or let us know who your email provider is and we will try to find for you.
I opened a separate thread for your second question and you can find it here.
We'll attend your question there.
Thank you!