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'Kick' Promises To Be Salman's Biggest Hit Ever, Song To Be Released On Jumme Ki Raat – BMS: Bachelor of Management Studies Portal
After watching the trailer of "Kick", Bollywood biggies predict that the film will turn out to be Salman Khan's biggest hit. Another reason for looking forward to the film is Sajid Nadiadwala as this will be his directorial debut film. Slated to release this Eid, Kick also features Jacqueline Fernandez, Randeep Hooda and Nawazuddin Siddiqui.
The film will be released with a lot of momentum admist fans who had been waiting for the trailer since a long time. On Youtube, the official trailer of the movie has crossed 62 lakhs views within 4 days of the release and the fans craze is increasing day by day.
And as per media reports, the makers of the film have decided to release a song from the movie titled "Jumme ki raat" on Friday, 20 June 2014. Sajid Nadiadwala chose this date for the big event so that his fans have atleast a week to enjoy the song before Ramzan begins. The song features Salman and co-star Jacqueline Fernandez in a peppy number and the song is choreographed by Ahmed Khan.
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Five trips you must take if you really, really love fall
Lynn O'Rourke Hayes |, Dallas Morning News
Oct. 10, 2016 Updated: Oct. 10, 2016 9:02 p.m.
1of4The Door County Peninsula has 10 lighthouses, including the Cana Island Lighthouse, built in 1869. PHOTOGRAPH BY TOM UHLENBROCK/ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCHTOM UHLENBROCKShow MoreShow Less
2of4The fruit harvest in the Yakima Valley is in full swing through October. Photo was taken in an Orchard near Wapato in the Yakima Valley. Photo by Jeff Larsen Seattle Post-IntelligencerJEFF LARSENShow MoreShow Less
3of4cornmaze_084_ls.jpg From right: Alan Holman of Sacramento, Brooke Abess, 3 of Vallejo and Carol Childo of Sacramento. Holman and Chido "fly" Brook Abess on her broom through the corn maze as they try to make their way out. The world's largest corn maze, according to the Guiness Book of World Records, is the 40 acre corn maze at Cool Patch Pumpkins in Dixon, CA. Lea Suzuki / The Chronicle Photo taken on 10/21/07 in Dixon, CA, USA. Ran on: 10-26-2007 Brooke Abess, 3, of Vallejo rides her broom through the corn maze with the help of Carol Childo (left) and Alan Holman of Sacramento. Ran on: 10-26-2007 Brooke Abess, 3, of Vallejo rides her broom through the corn maze with the help of Carol Childo (left) and Alan Holman of Sacramento.Lea Suzuki/StaffShow MoreShow Less
4of4Fall foliage colors a line of mountains in Chatham, N.H. The state's mountain regions are approaching their peak autumn colors. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)Robert F. Bukaty/STFShow MoreShow Less
Savor the fresh air, bright colors and festivals of fall. Here are five ideas to consider:
1. Door County, Wis.
Head to the scenic, 70-mile peninsula in northeast Wisconsin known as Door County for a cornucopia of fall bounty. Expect apple and cherry picking plus farmers markets offering locally grown and homemade items. Have you experienced a fish boil? Served by many restaurants in the area, the popular meal features locally caught Lake Michigan whitefish and potatoes cooked in a giant pot over a roaring wood fire. With the fall colors as backdrop, hike local trails, stop by a lighthouse, and check out art shows, festivals and fireworks. doorcounty.com.
Whether you fancy Granny Smiths, Fuji or Golden Delicious, the whole family will enjoy a day in a "pick your own" fruit orchard. Gather your crop, then return home to make your own apple juice, pie or cobbler. Stay close to the hearth or visit the state that harvests more than half of the country's apples. In Washington's Yakima Valley, the Johnson family has been sharing their fragrant bounty for more than 100 years. Stop by their popular bake shop for fresh pies. johnsonorchardsfruit.com; pickyourown.org; usapple.org.
This is an ideal time to celebrate our nation's plenty by visiting farmers markets, joining in a barn dance or enjoying a county fair. Take a farm tour and learn how our food evolves from plow to porch. Visit a community garden and become inspired to join in or plan for your own. For a more immersive experience, spend the night or a weekend on a family farm. Leave the electronics and everyday expectations behind and get ready to pitch in for the morning chores. At farms across the country, kids can collect eggs, pet pigs, corral critters, tend a garden brimming with fresh produce or hang out in the shade of fruit trees. farmstayus.com.
4. Appreciate the fall foliage
Whether it is a jaw-dropping drive through the Colorado Rockies, a hike along a Smoky Mountain ridge top or mountain biking in New Hampshire's Waterville Valley, nature's dazzling autumn display is something to behold. Set in the White Mountain National Forest, just two hours north of Boston, the Waterville Valley Resort offers activities and programs of interest to every member of the family including golf, tennis, boating, a skate and bike park as well as a range of indoor cultural and wellness options. visitwatervillevalley.com; fs.fed.us/news/fallcolors.
Play hide and seek in the corn maze, climb aboard the horse-drawn wagon for a hay ride and scout for the best pumpkins in the patch. Relax in the fresh fall air with a glass of crisp apple cider. Check out the Williamsburg Harvest Celebration for an authentic, seasonal journey that began more than 400 years ago. The gathering honors the land used to shape our nation and the modern-day culinary enthusiasm for farm-to-table goodness. pumpkinpatchesandmore.org; williamsburgharvestcelebration.com.
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Auto Glass Repair in Brumley, MO - Windshield Guru
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NRL 2020: Todd Payten, Warriors coach job, Stephen Kearney sacked | Fox Sports NRL 2020: Todd Payten, Warriors coach job, Stephen Kearney sacked | FOX SPORTS
Todd Payten REJECTS Warriors coaching job... but the Cowboys gig now awaits
Warriors interim head coach Todd Payten.Source: Getty Images
Payten has been acting as interim head coach since Stephen Kearney was unceremoniously sacked barely a month ago.
He had been heavily tipped to take on the job full-time, and The Australian reporter Brent Read even told NRL Tonight on Monday that Payten was favourite to land the gig.
But now it appears he could be headed back to Townsville to coach the Cowboys, where he was previously an assistant to Paul Green.
Payten exclusively revealed to NRL 360 he decided to not take the job in Auckland.
Host Ben Ikin was stunned: "You're telling us you were offered the head coaching job of the New Zealand Warriors and turned it down?"
Payten then revealed his wife's father has health issues which the family is currently dealing with.
"My wife's father just started chemotherapy," he said.
"That was at the forefront of our mind. Obviously with the COVID thing, for her to travel back and forth is very, very difficult.
"That was a big part of it. That's my decision and I've made it.
"It was tough for everyone. The club was shocked and disappointed. Moving forward, my focus is on getting the side prepared from week to week."
Payten did confirm he remains in the running for the Cowboys job and the club is aware of his interest.
"There's another opportunity that's on the table… that is the Cowboys.
Green walked away from North Queensland last month and now Payten looms as his replacement.
For the Warriors, there's speculation they continue to target Wayne Bennett, while Green and Anthony Griffin have been floated as other contenders.
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COCKTAIL or COCKTAIL-PARTY The ability to concentrate our attention on the speech of a specific speaker by disregarding parasite information coming from the surroundings... From the physical perspective, one of the predominant elements is the spatial separation of noise and speech. On the psychophysiological level, selective listening is governed by our capacity to discriminate sounds from different sources - by our capacity to localize in the noise. Related effects: ASYNDETON Never before has the "everyday soundtrack" of urban space been so cacophonous. Since the 1970s, sound researchers have attempted to classify noise, music, and everyday sounds using concepts such as Pierre Shafer's "sound object" and R. Murray Schafer's "soundscape." Recently, the most significant team of soundscape researchers in the world has been concerned with the effects of sounds on listeners. In a multidisciplinary work spanning musicology, electro-acoustic composition, architecture, urban studies, communication, phenomenology, social theory, physics, and psychology, Jean-Francois Augoyard, Henry Torgue, and their associates at the Centre for Research on Sonic Space and the Urban Environment (CRESSON) in Grenoble, France, provide an alphabetical sourcebook of eighty sonic/auditory effects. Their accounts of sonic effects such as echo, anticipation, vibrato, and wha-wha integrate information about the "objective" physical spaces in which sounds occur with cultural contexts and individual auditory experience. Sonic Experience attempts to rehabilitate general acoustic awareness, combining accessible definitions and literary examples with more in-depth technical information for specialists.
The Portrait of a Lady, by Henry James, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics:
Widely regarded as Henry James’s greatest masterpiece, The Portrait of a Lady features one of the author’s most magnificent heroines: Isabel Archer, a beautiful, spirited American who becomes a victim of her provincialism during her travels in Europe.
As the story begins, Isabel, resolved to determine her own fate, has turned down two eligible suitors. Her cousin, who is dying of tuberculosis, secretly gives her an inheritance so that she can remain independent and fulfill a grand destiny, but the fortune only leads her to make a tragic choice and marry Gilbert Osmond, an American expatriate who lives in Florence. Outwardly charming and cultivated, but fundamentally cold and cruel, Osmond only brings heartbreak and ruin to Isabel’s life. Yet she survives as she begins to realize that true freedom means living with her choices and their consequences.
Richly complex and nearly aesthetically perfect, The Portrait of a Lady brilliantly portrays the clash between the innocence and exuberance of the New World and the corruption and wisdom of the Old.
Gabriel Brownstein is the author of a collection of storiesThe Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Apt 3Wwhich won the 2002 PEN/Hemingway Award. His essays, reviews, and criticism have appeared in the Boston Globe, the New Leader, Scribner’s British Writers, and on Nerve.com.
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Takko Performance Check 2013 Fair Wear Foundation
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The Takko performance check 2013 shows that Takko meets FWF basic requirements. The company has made good progress in getting insight in all production locations and collecting relevant information.
Also, a system is in place to ensure all production locations are informed about Takko's membership of FWF.
Because Takko's staff is based in production countries, Takko is able to frequently visit and audit locations. However, the number of production locations producing only small percentages of the total spend of Takkois very high, and, especially there where agents or buying houses are intermediary, relations with suppliers are not always stable.
The challenge for Takko is to consolidate their supply base and move towards more stable and more direct contact with suppliers. This will allow them to ensure more sustainable business relations with production locations. There was sufficient progress on corrective actions needed.
Other challenges for the coming period also include improving the more difficult non-compliance issues as payment below living wage levels and excessive overtime.Takko has shared information on social standards with other affiliates and brands.
In 2013, FWF is launching a major upgrade to our Brand Performance Checks. FWF developed new more transparent, and more user-friendly format , along with a Performance Benchmarking system.
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The search for Abbott | West Orange Times & Observer | West Orange Times & Windermere Observer
West Orange Times & Observer Wednesday, Feb. 6, 2019 6 months ago
Linda Rock is not giving up hopes of finding her rescue dog, Abbott, an older white chihuahua that has been missing since Dec. 30 in Winter Garden.
If the white handmade "lost dog" signs that are posted all around Winter Garden don't call attention to the missing pup, Linda Rock is hoping the reward fliers might. Or the business cards she had printed and is putting on vehicle windows in local shopping areas. Or the newspaper ads or the "FIND Abbott" Facebook page.
She even held a 24-hour prayer vigil last week.
Abbott is a chihuahua mix, between 12 and 15 years old, and his owner is heartbroken wondering what might have happened to him, hoping he isn't cold and wet, praying he's getting food and water.
He has been missing for nearly six weeks. She suspects he ran off from their Winter Garden home after he briefly was let outside Dec. 30 and became frightened by fireworks.
She refuses to give up on the toothless little rescue dog that won her heart about four years ago.
"The first day I met with him I knew immediately I would adopt him," she said. "I met him at Polka Dogz (Pet Rescue). … He looked at me with those eyes and with that tongue hanging out, and I said, 'I'm fostering that dog and adopting him.'"
Rock thinks someone might have seen Abbott wandering the street and thought he was neglected based on his appearance. But Rock said he came to her with his teeth missing and his lower jaw receding so much that his tongue constantly hangs out the side of his mouth.
"I picture him just walking up to them on the street, and they scooped him up," Rock said. "And we just have to find that person."
Abbott is not afraid of people and most likely befriended someone in search of food.
"That's why I think he's in someone's home," she said. "He's cute and funny looking, and it doesn't take a lot to take care of him."
Rock is turning to the community for help in bringing her beloved Abbott home.
The night of Abbott's disappearance, Rock drove around her neighborhood and the surrounding streets until about 4 a.m. There was no sign of her pet. She posted a lost-dog message on Facebook and continued combing the streets the next day.
She placed her clothing near her house and in other locations hoping Abbott will follow her scent and return home. A kind stranger met Rock with a rotisserie chicken, and they walked a path from a grocery store to Rock's home, hoping to entice him with the aroma.
A pet psychic and an online volunteer from New York both have contacted Rock, but those haven't panned out. She said a woman called and told her she had Abbott, but it turned out to be a scam. Luckily, Rock wasn't comfortable with the situation so she didn't give the scammer any money.
She has received several messages from people saying they spotted Abbott behind a grocery store or running across a street, but that turned out to be another lost white dog.
People have been sending her photos of rescued dogs that resemble Abbott, but it's never him.
"Being in rescue myself, I know that we find our fair share of dogs and we assume that they're dumped, but that's not the case," Rock said. "Even if a dog is in bad condition … it might have been missing for a month or more."
If someone does, indeed, have her dog, she wants that person to know that Abbott is very much loved and wanted back home. She said his companion, another chihuahua named Layla, senses Rock's sadness and misses her buddy.
She has reached out to rescue groups, shelters, pet stores, veterinarians and groomers, thinking Abbott might be taken in for a checkup or nail trim eventually.
She has distributed about 10 signs around Winter Garden and is in the process of making some sturdier ones to place along the roadways. She is creating a mass mailing — in both English and Spanish — for Winter Garden residents in her vicinity.
She bought 4,000 business cards with Abbott's photo and her phone number and has been distributing them in the parking lots of shopping centers. She hired a company to make phone calls to people in a 20-mile radius.
Rock estimates she has spent $200 in her efforts to bring her dog home. To help offset the costs, she set up a GoFundMe fundraising page in case animal lovers want to make a donation. So far, she has received $225.
She is appreciative of all the help and the love the community has shown her since Abbott disappeared.
"We're just not giving up until everything is exhausted," Rock said.
She wrote on one of her Facebook posts: "It often feels hopeless, but I remember a conversation I had in the parking lot of Aldi with a vet tech just yesterday. She said, 'Don't give up. We reunited a Husky with their owner after four months missing.'"
So Rock refuses to give up hope. She will keep distributing fliers and making sure her signs are up. And she will answer each phone call with anticipation.
"We are planning this big party if he is found," Rock said with hope in her voice. "Everybody wants to meet him. And Abbott would love it, frankly. He would love it. He would be strutting around meeting everyone."
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In another report, a 63-year-old woman took capsules containing a concentrated green tea extract on the recommendation of her cancer support group. But she developed acute hepatitis after taking the capsules, the authors of the 2014 report said.
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Just one of these beautiful little Santa Lewis rosettes on the upload tonight. This cultivar can either be green, blue or almost a bronze color, just depending on current growing conditions. These always keep the raspberry edging along the underside of the leaves and sometimes it muddles in throughout the rosette, like on this plant. This Santa Lewis is measuring in at about 2" across and has a very old, wooden over stem. No fresh roots just yet, but this Santa Lewis only arrived last week.
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6) Roll out a thin sheet of about a few millimeters; 7) created circles of about 5 cm in diameter and place a spoonful of jam in the center of each disk
Ylenia Sambati promotes healthy lifestyle habits through food, outdoor activities, meditation and dance, cycling, travel.
She’s been a vegetarian since she was a little girl and once her parents realized that unlike her brother and sisters she could not eat meat or fish for the only reason was she loved animals, they simply added into her food program more legumes and natural proteins.
She’s very compassionate and caring with animals and has rescued many of them all the time. All the pets in her house in fact have been rescued from the streets and her horse is another love of her life.
When talking healthy lifestyle, Ylenia actually promotes a more consciousness way of living that does not only include food but also sport, art and all those things that bring balance and fullness into one’s life.
Her travel company YLTOUR PR and cooking school COOKINPUGLIA, also provide extraordinary programs for celiacs, vegans and vegetarians.
Spreading love and compassion also through travel and lifestyle is the essence of her business and daily inspiration: starting this year in fact, Ylenia has launched new travel adventures in Puglia for vegetarian and vegan travelers.
"Our philosophy is to make it easy for both vegetarians and vegans to travel around Puglia without having to worry about food and immerse fully in the area all the while feeling part of the destination. Being vegan or vegetarian is not a limitation.
Being vegan/vegetarian can be a dietary choice or a lifestyle dedicated to treating all living beings with respect and care.
We listen to our unique clients needs and make it easier for them to have their Puglia experience vegan or vegetarian Puglia style.
Puglia is a paradise for our vegetarian and vegan friends: it is the land of organic fresh food, plant – based, super healthy and delicious, cooked with love and attention paved to healthy benefits. The food is planned ahead of the arrival of the guests so that guests are assured of their vegan/vegetarian meals.
The Veg Puglia Tours includes cultural programs and activities such as yoga, meditation, dance cooking classes, hiking, biking, photography.
YLTOUR PR conducts tours preferably in small groups with a maximum size of ten/twelve guests. Talented local guides and a YLTOUR PR Leader accompany the group from the time the guests arrive at the airport till the day the tour ends.
You can find out about YLTOUR PR trips for vegetarian and vegans on the website www.yltourpr.com and send an email to Ylenia Sambati to [email protected] with your preferred voyage details, when to book the travel, cost involved, any specific requirement.
We conclude our story today with the announcement of a Veg Puglia Tour for Vegans and Vegetarians in partnership with YLTOUR PR and Home to Italy
I met Rachel in Florence while doing interviews for a blog project last year. She generously shared her favorite pizza restaurant with me, Mama Napoli pizzia.
"I first fell in love with Italy when I was a little girl. My grandfather, a winsome southern Italian man who called every woman a 'broad', shared stories and tidbits of a magical country, a faraway from his typical American home. As I grew up, sometime between dancing to the Tarantella and stealing my parents' wine, Italy became my Disneyland."
"To say I am (and was) obsessed with all things Italian is to put it mildly. Then one day when signing up for my first college classes, I took my infatuation from childish enthusiasm to serious stalker status and declared my major as Italian language, literature and art history."
"Since 2005, I have lived on and off in this beautiful, mystifying, welcoming, harsh country. It is a land of contradictions, both maddeningly frustrating and achingly gorgeous. "
I first came to Italy for an extended period of time when I studied abroad in 2005. I was here for 6 months and knew then that I would be returning to live here someday. I did return as panned and was here from 2009-2010 and again for a part of 2011.
I have always loved Italy. I loved it when I had never even seen it, from hearing about it from my family. I loved it before I spoke the language or had friends here or a life here. Now, I voe it even more for all of those things. For me, at the state I am at now I really cant' imagine living anywhere else.
I studied abroad in Florence in basically a dice roll between here and Rome. I think the fates chose correctly, because it was love at first Cupola. I still remember seeing the Duomo for the first time and just being in awe of the sheer size of the place. I had never seen a church so big or beautiful.
I was a die hard adopted Fiorentina from that moment on. In the end , it has worked out great since I have a MA in art history with a focus on the Italian Renaissance but if I am honest, I fell in love with Renaissance as I fell in love with Florence.
I was an Italian major in college and my family spoke dialect, so not really. I studied a lot in school but studying and speaking are two different things.
A lot of tourist say, "I could live here" when they visit Italy but they have no idea what living here is actually like. In many ways it is a hard life. People work all the time, for very little pay, for example I have 5 jobs and am constantly running all over the city.
Simple tasks, like going to the doctor, calling a plumber or going to the post office can turn into all day, confusing, frustrating affairs. Nothing is easy' here, you have to work hard all the time- not just at your job, but at home.
I am lucky to live in a modern luxuries, but still everyday, I climb 84 steps just to return home. I carry groceries for blocks and blocks, navigating tourists and motorini.
I wait in long, disorganized lines. I hang my clothes out to dry, then do the wash again when a pigeon poops on them. I deal with bureaucracy that would make any sane person want to cry and then do it again and again when they lose, misfile or "misplace" my inform.
People come here and see the beauty, the art, the food, and these are of course part of life here, but when you're in the trenches of the day to day, there is just so much more that goes into having a real life in Italy.
So despite my long list of difficulties, I actually enjoy working 5 jobs. Unless I am exhausted, being on the top floor of a 15th century palazzo has it's perks, and while many of the other things I will never learn to love, I have learned to let go. My life here is more honest and authentic than it was in the US. Every day I do things that make me happy.
I feel like I live my life for me now, and no one else. It's rewarding in a way I had never found in the US.
Americans can stay up to 90 days in Italy in any 180 day period, without a visa. This means, 90 day in 90 days out. There are a lot of misconceptions and terrible information out there saying if you leave for a few days outside of the Schengen region your clock resets but it DOESN'T.
You can stay any combo of 90 days in any 180 day period, but that is it. If you want to stay longer, you need to get a visa.
Sure I wish I only needed three job instead of five, or that electricity didn't cost more than some mortgages (add that to the dislike list) but my life is really beautiful in Italy and I don't plan on changing it anytime soon.
Most recently as of 014, I have been living permanently in my family's homeland and making a serious go of turning Italy into a real 'home'.
There are a ton of expat websites out there, but I find that they are often lacking in some of the harder, meatier aspects of life here.
I didn't find any resources in English when I moved here so I am hoping to create a space for that online plus share aspects of Italian culture and daily life as seen from a slightly different perspective of an Italian American Dual Citizen.
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Bhyudar Village Details
Bhyudar is a Village in Joshimath Tehsil , Chamoli district and Uttarakhand State. Bhyudar village Pin code is 246443. Bhyudar Village Total population is 61 and number of houses are 11. Female Population is 45.9%. Village literacy rate is 82.0% and the Female Literacy rate is 36.1%.
Female Population % 45.9 % ( 28)
Bhyudar Village Gram Panchayath name is Bhyudar. Bhyudar is 29 km distance from Sub District HeadQuarter Joshimath and it is 96 km distance from District HeadQuarter Gopeshwar. Nearest Statutory Town is Joshimath in 29 km Distance . Bhyudar Total area is 7.64 hectares, Forest area is 19.28 hectares, Non-Agricultural area is 3.23 hectares andTotal Water fall area is 0 hectares
Govt Primary and Govt Middle Schools are available in this Village. Nearest Govt ITA College is in Karnaprayag. Nearest Govt Disabled School is in Dehradun. Nearest Private Pre Primary School is in Lambgaon. Nearest Govt Medical College and Govt MBA college are in Srinagar. Nearest Govt Polytechnic College is in Gochar. Nearest Govt Secondary School, Govt Senior Secondary School and Govt Arts and Science Degree College are in Joshimath. Nearest Govt Engineering College is in Pauri.
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A Positive Psychology Intervention for Suicidal Thoughts and Behaviour - Feasibility and Acceptability Study.
A feasibility study evaluating the acceptability of providing a positive psychology intervention to individuals presenting to the emergency department with suicidal thoughts or behaviour.
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The positive psychology intervention will involve the serial completion of activities (known as positive activities) over a period of eight weeks; one activity per week. The positive activities to be performed are: Week 1 - "What Went Well"?; Week 2: Gratitude Letter; Week 3 - Acts of Kindness; Week 4 - Best Possible Future Self; Week 5 - Nurturing Social Relationships; Week 6 - Get Active; Week 7- Committing to Your Goals; and Week 8 - Increasing 'Flow' Experiences. The activities take approximately 20-30 minutes to complete and only needed to be completed once during the week. Adherence will be monitored through bi-weekly phone calls to the participant to check activity completion. Participants will also be required to keep a diary recording activity completion. This will be collected by the study investigators at the end of the intervention phase. Activities will be administered using a handbook (hard copy or electronic PDF).
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Logicalness and Credibility/Expectancy Scores - participant ratings on logicalness, usefulness, success of intervention, and how confident the participant would be in recommending intervention to others. A series of four 9-point scales will be used to assess these variables higher points on the scale indicating greater logicalness, usefulness, expectations of success, more likely to recommend to others.
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1) Inability to read or understand English; 2) Current psychotic disorder; 3) Current homicide risk; 4) Life-threatening medical condition requiring hospitalisation; 5) Admitted to a psychiatric inpatient unit; 6) Lack capacity to give informed consent; 7) Leave the ED against medical advice or without being seen; 8) Currently in prison; 9) Will be living outside of Christchurch for the follow-up period; 10) Unable to follow-up.
Potential participants will be enrolled in the study in the week following their discharge (over the phone) and will be given the intervention as an adjunct to standard care.
Statistical analysis of pre and post-intervention data will be performed using IBM SPSS statistical software (version 19.0).
A demographic profile will be provided.
Proportions and percentages will be calculated for the primary and secondary outcomes.
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The primary purpose of the study is to determine if providing a group of individuals who present to the emergency department with suicidal behaviour with a handbook containing a set of positive psychology activities to perform over 8 weeks is feasible and well-accepted.
Due to a high refusal and withdrawal rate it has been decided to discontinue the current feasibility and acceptability study. If you have any questions or queries, please do not hesitate to contact the study coordinator.
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Prison population soars - Manchester Evening News
THE number of people in prison is at a record high, according to latest government figures. Home Office statistics reveal 81,135 people are being held.
Manchester's Strangeways prison: close to its maximum safe capacity
THE number of people in prison is at a record high, according to latest government figures.
Home Office statistics reveal 81,135 people are being held.
And the latest local breakdown shows the national picture is reflected in Greater Manchester, with Rochdale's Buckley Hall jail just one inmate short of the safe maximum capacity at the end of last month.
Manchester's Strangeways, Salford's Forest Bank and Styal women's prison in Cheshire are also nearing their limits.
As reported in the M.E.N., there are provisions to house overspill prisoners in Greater Manchester police station cells. Cells at Ashton magistrates' court have also been used.
According to the latest figures, Buckley Hall prison in Rochdale has a safe maximum capacity of 385, and in August it had reached 384. Things were a little easier at the privately run Forest Bank prison where there were 1,107 inmates and 17 spare places.
Styal was operating with the same margin of 17 spare places with 443 inmates. At Strangeways there were 24 spare places. The high security prison can safely hold 1,269 people. It currently houses 1,245.
Because figures are only published on Fridays, there will have been times when the jail population has been even higher, the Ministry of Justice said.
Lucie Russell, director of SmartJustice, criticised the government for not providing a long-term solution to the problem of overcrowding.
She said: "Prison numbers continue to soar and yet there is still no long-term strategy to tackle the crisis. Prisons are full up with the mentally ill and drug addicts for whom it is mainly an expensive way of making them worse.
"At a cost of £50,000 per person per year, this just isn't an effective use of taxpayers' money."
According to the national breakdown, there are 81,135 prisoners across the country with 780 spare cells available for people arrested and charged over the weekend.
Shadow justice secretary Nick Herbert said: "Ministers have repeatedly ignored the warnings and refused to provide adequate prison capacity.
"Releasing criminals early has put the public at risk and failed to make any real impact on prison numbers which, as predicted, have now reached a record high.
"Soon police cells will also be full, at which point the Government will face a serious crisis. Jack Straw ignored this issue in his speech this week. He must now explain what he proposes to do."
He added: "Any extension of the failing early release scheme must be ruled out and instead emergency secure accommodation must be found."
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By Lindsay Rittenhouse on Feb. 12, 2019 - 10:13 AM Comment
-Digitas employees who are closer to their office buddies than their loved ones pick some unique Valentine's Day candy hearts in the above video. On Feb. 14, everyone can participate by selecting from the agency's nine custom candy hearts to share with their family or coworkers, on social media using the hashtag #BeMyUnicorn (the site goes live on V Day, and the campaign is a response to a HP study that found 56 percent of U.S. workers spend more time with their coworkers than with their families).
-Industry experts say "seduce the audience" and your experiential event will be a hit. Read all the very helpful, not-at-all-obvious tips they offer in Creative Review.
-TBWA\Chiat\Day New York and The One Love Foundation use chocolates to show people the difference between a healthy and unhealthy relationship.
-Leo Burnett creative veteran Judy John behind the award-winning "Like a Girl" campaign was hired as Edelman's first global CCO. She had been with her previous employer since 1999, most recently as CEO of Canada and CCO of North America.
–Johnny Hornby tells the Standard that Sir Martin Sorrell needs to "mind his own business" when it comes to WPP.
–Mark Taylor succeeds Greg Carson as chief creative officer of MeringCarson, reports MediaPost.
-If there's one thing that remains constant in the ad industry, it's this: clients are really cheap, per Digiday.
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Philippa Perry – The Book You Wish Your Parents Had Read (and Your Children Will Be Glad That You Did) – AudioBooks
Philippa Perry – The Book You Wish Your Parents Had Read (and Your Children Will Be Glad That You Did)
With straight-talking advice from renowned psychotherapist Philippa Perry, this is the definitive guide for any parent looking to navigate their past, avoid repeating their own parents' mistakes, and ensure they don't land their own kids in therapy.
This isn't a book about meeting developmental milestones, training your child to have enviable manners or how to get the much idealised 'perfect' family; it's about creating functional relationships with your children so that they grow up feeling secure, knowing who they are and what they want – giving both them and you a shot at real happiness.
Full of refreshing, sage and sane advice on the bigger picture of parenthood, this is the only book you'll ever really need to ensure you don't mess your kids up.
Narrator: Philippa Perry
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No matter what age your child is this book provides useful insights into yourself and your child's needs. Really really good.
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https://anns-personalized-books.com/philippa-perry-the-book-you-wish-your-parents-had-read-and-your-children-will-be-glad-that-you-did/
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I'm playing on WYOMING. Nevada has been on a nice ATS run in conference play but I expect it to come to an end here. I like the way that the Cowboys come into this one. They dropped the first of two games against Air Force. After dropping a close one in the first of two games against the Falcons, Wyoming responded with a 77-58 blowout in the second game. Note that Wyoming is 6-3 ATS its last nine, off a conference victory. The Cowboys play Air Force again tomorrow. However, thats not nearly something to "look ahead" to the way that Nevada's Saturday opponent is. The Wolf Pack will play San Diego State Saturday, which is a "double-revenge" spot. The last three meetings between these teams have all been very close, the three games together decided by just nine combined points. While I like Wyoming's chances of winning outright, in a game which could well come down to the wire once again, I'm happy to grab the points.
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Where Was Jon Jones' Well-Crafted PR Response To UFC 151 Debacle? - Bloody Elbow
Where Was Jon Jones' Well-Crafted PR Response To UFC 151 Debacle?
on Aug 26 2012, 5:00p
In the flurry of news that came out of the cancellation of UFC 151, Jon Jones' decision to not fight Chael Sonnen and all the bickering from all sides, one thing we overlooked was a small item thrown into a recent Kevin Iole, Yahoo! Sports article. It appears that Jones has become so difficult to deal with from a PR perspective that his publicist, John Fuller walked away from the UFC superstar.
From Iole's column:
As Jones has gotten more successful in the cage - his 2011 campaign might be the best in the sport's history - his popularity has waned among fans and media. His publicist quit last week, frustrated by Jones' prickly style and inability to deal well with the media.
Having a publicist quit over an inability to effectively work with media puts Jon Jones in the company of people like Charlie Sheen, Chris Brown and Paula Deen.
The problems with not having a publicist were front and center as the UFC 151 situation spiraled out of control.
As UFC president Dana White trashed Jon Jones on the media conference call to announce the cancellation of the event, we heard nothing of substance from the champion or his management. As Jones became the target of fan and fighter derision, we heard nothing beyond some appearances by Jones' trainers.
There was no well-crafted response. No conference call. No press release.
Eventually we saw a half-hearted apology on Twitter, which is a fine means of communication on good days, but not exactly a great way to manage a PR crisis.
But that's not exactly new in the Jon Jones Story. In 2011 I wrote a few times about how Jones and his management team were bungling the Rashad Evans situation, pulling out of the fight for what they described as voluntary surgery for a long standing injury, announcing that they now didn't need the surgery very shortly after Evans was booked into a fight with Phil Davis, then saying Jones would take a fight against someone who wasn't Rashad and then claiming that 8 weeks wasn't 8 weeks.
As I wrote back then, Jones didn't have to actually be ducking Rashad to look like he was ducking him. Obviously, when the two fought, Jones had very little trouble handling Evans.
But these public missteps add up over time. Jones' talk in the media about why he didn't want to fight Lyoto Machida again wasn't a big deal, it made a lot of sense. But it came on the heels of talking about not fighting Anderson Silva because of worries over "legacies" and money making. And then the refusal to fight Sonnen happened and, regardless of his reasons, a story was developing about all the fights Jones' either wouldn't take or didn't want to take.
And all this came after a horribly mishandled situation with Jones' DWI.
And now, with the current situation we've heard basically nothing from Jon's camp, just Jones talking about his willingness to "carrying the cross" for the UFC's decision to cancel UFC 151. Including "for my companies decision" turned it into the ultimate non-apology and rendered the Twitter (again, wrong place for it) apology meaningless to many fans.
For right now the sponsors are still showing up because Jon is an incredible, incredible fighter. But there's a certain threshold that can't be crossed without a guy becoming too poorly thought of to spend your money on him.
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http://www.bloodyelbow.com/2012/8/26/3269900/ufc-151-cancellation-jon-jones-pr-disaster
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Violence is the cancer of our society. I'm well today. He agreed with me. You're playing in the garden. Lievaart does need you. I need to find a new hiding place. I was born in the month of October. An icicle broke off and fell on her, stabbing her in the chest. Oh my God, it's my house! She fell ill, but got well soon.
Few books of this character have come to my attention. I've been invited over to a friend's. I took it for granted that you were on our side. I've always trusted you. Bruno took a few steps forward. Dani bargained with the salesman hoping to get a lower price. You'll do what she says and you'll succeed. The TV picture was blurred. The moon's orbit is always concave toward the sun. This place is an accident waiting to happen.
The new computer was too complicated for me to use at first. Are you going or staying? "What's this big tower in the center of Berlin?" "It's the Fernsehturm!" At last, they purchased freedom with blood. I know you were close to her. I can't believe that we've actually done this. If it fails this time, we can try again. Can I get half a kilo of chicken legs, please? You go ahead. How much money does Naren make?
Do you prefer cats or dogs? There's nothing to forgive. Say it in another way. That water pipe leaks. Did you find a job? Just don't vote for Louise. Saiid finally arrived. They let the bird out of the cage. How many miles is it to Boston? You're just getting started.
I don't know if this will be enough. We went on a date by the river. I have always strived for greatness. He is considered to be one of the interested parties. "Let's have a drink, shall we?" "Yes, let's." Tomas died two years ago in a plane crash. They gave me a hand to lift the fridge. He was proud of his school record. What isn't ready to hand, what one can't find at two o'clock in the morning, one doesn't own that. Sridhar was real competitive.
If a tree falls in the forest and no one is there to hear it, does it make a sound? We haven't even started. It's a fish. The deer darted off in alarm. Bradford might be in his office. I want to hold him. Football players make a lot of money. Oedipus had answered the riddle correctly! I came because of something you wrote. Michiel should be arrested.
Floria was the one who broke the windshield of Jussi's car. He opened the door for her. Jesse loves Konrad with all his heart. Liisa calls Markku up every now and then. Heavy clouds were suspended in the air. We hope we're wrong. Fame grows as it travels. Alexis isn't very good at small talk. If you study, you'll become an important person in the future. I owe you an apology.
What are you suggesting to me? Do you have any engagement tomorrow? It just doesn't sound right. You're too young. Agatha found a rattlesnake under the bed and he quickly killed it. He wasn't the same as I thought he'd be. I don't know what Merril would do. Trace the shape onto the paper, then cut it out. The police will never find us. This is really terrible.
Debi says he'll come tomorrow. In New Jersey are many unobtrusive buildings. This is sometimes called the walk of shame. I have the key to the safe. The earthquake caused a catastrophe greater than any the country had ever known. You never talk about yourself. We've been outmaneuvered. She tore a hole in her dress. Meehan peeked out the door to see what was happening. Have you ever dedicated a song to the orphans?
I'd like to make a statement. She was genuinely surprised. The reform of both entrance examination system and curriculum makes slow progress. I was going to call and tell Cristopher everything. I've worked all day, so that I am very tired. Crime is certainly on the increase in many of our big cities. If I were you, I'd think twice before going on that route. You're asking the wrong question. Randy doesn't like it when people park in front of his house. Manuel opened the file cabinet.
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Periodic Restrictions are likely, but what is the UK's way out? - Erik Green
Leading up to lockdown on the 23rd March, the Government and its Scientific Advisors made two significant mistakes.
The first was to decide on the 12th March that the virus was transmitting at such a rate within the community, that contact tracing was no longer feasible.
Whilst this was a correct assessment at the time, it was one spawned out of a long-term lack of planning within Whitehall for a virus of this kind. Despite two major coronavirus outbreaks since the turn of the century, the UK had continued to focus on preparing for a flu pandemic. In the event of a major flu outbreak, contact tracing would be largely ineffective. Add to this a Government that took until April to promise any significant increase in testing capacity, and thus it was clear contact tracing would not be possible in the U.K.
In February, Public Health England informed SAGE that current testing capacity would only be able to 'manage 5 new cases a week, tracing 800 contacts'. Between 28th Feb and 29th March, 1,356 separate incursions of Covid-19 are estimated to have come from abroad alone.
Secondly, the Government misjudged how prevalent the virus was, and how quickly it was spreading. This was, in part, a result of not being able to test sufficient numbers. On the 20th March, Government modellers suddenly undermined earlier assumptions. They informed COBRA that cases were doubling every 3-5 days, not 5-7, and that the reproduction rate was higher than the 2.4 previous models had been based on.
It was these errors that helped lead to lockdown. In the face of a virus, still largely unknown, and with no accurate knowledge of its spread, the Government was forced to shut down the country. The public understood the need for such a drastic policy response, helped by the way countries from east to west had helped legitimate its worth. They also sympathised with the Government, appreciating how unprecedented the situation was.
Neverthess, at its heart lockdown represented the last line of defence, when all other possible interventions had failed. The failure of the UK's initial defences was understood in March, they may not be again.
Over the summer, the Government had time to increase testing. And yet this morning, it is reported that ministers are still unsure over the spread of the virus, increasingly relying on hospitalisation figures rather than cases, due to testing failures.
The resurgence of the virus was not unexpected either. On analysing China's lockdown in February, Imperial College London informed SAGE that when "measures are lifted a second peak can be expected".
When discussing the possibility of enforcing the following measures in combination – closing schools, home isolation of symptomatic cases, voluntary household quarantine, and social distancing – SAGE agreed that they "reduce r to 1" but then "result in a second large epidemic once lifted". As a result, SPIB would "prefer a subset of measures which would have a more moderate impact, avoiding a second wave".
The verdict was clear. According to official documents, "SAGE was unanimous that measures seeking to completely suppress Covid-19 will cause a second Peak".
It is for these reasons that a second lockdown would be seen as such a failure. The resurgence of the virus over the winter was expected. There has been time for the Government to improve its armoury, and thus having to rely on its last line of defence again, will be met with greater criticism.
A solution to avoiding a second national lockdown , can be found in some of the proposals discussed by SAGE during February and March.
The answer is essentially months of restrictions being periodically tightened.
A paper prepared by the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, reveals a scenario where restrictions are implemented each time a certain number of ICU cases are recorded.
In the second column, the 'cocooning of the elderly and self-isolation' is implemented for seven months. In the third column, an aggressive, short term (3 week) lockdown is triggered when ICU services are 'stretched'.
In their modelling LSHTM used different triggers for the implementation of the lockdown: 5, 10, 15 cases per week In ICU, and lockdown is in place until incidence is reduced under the threshold.
LSHTM concluded that "periodic aggressive measures added onto a background of social distance measures can mitigate the epidemic, preventing ICU services from being overstretched". Whilst admitting this would mean "a longer epidemic, lasting perhaps a year", the overall reduction on the number of cases would be "dramatic".
Similarly, Imperial College London on the 16th March informed the Government of an "adaptive policy, in which social distancing is initiated after weekly confirmed case incidence in ICU patients exceeds 200 per week". At this point, additional restrictions are implemented. This would "keep" case numbers "below surge limits".
Thus if the months ahead are likely to be a turbelent ride of restrictions being switched on, off and then on again, how does this ever end?
For LSHTM, aggressively following such a policy would eventually lead to a situation where some form of herd immunity is reached.
One of the problems with a population gaining herd immunity though, is that there is 'overshoot' – when more people than are required contract the virus. This is because at the point herd immunity is reached – the peak – 'there is still a very large number of infectious individuals'.
Under LSHTM's model scenario, drafted in March, vulnerable individuals would be shielded for 7 months. The country would then enforce an 'aggressive 3-week lockdown' when ICU capacity is close to being exceeded. During a lockdown, all contacts outside the household would be reduced by 90%.
Overall the epidemic is not allowed to overshoot and the total number of cases is reduced 'appreciably'. Yet this would involve significant disruption to the economy and daily lives, "that would undermine any perceived benefits from avoiding lockdown". It would also continue for 'perhaps a year or more'.
S Riley at ICL however, showed how such a strategy of herd immunity would not be possible to achieve in the UK, because at the moment critical care capacity was exceeded, people's behaviour would be to stay indoors and reduce contacts. At this stage, not enough people will have been infected with the disease to achieve herd immunity. Thus leaving the country with a broken healthcare system and no immunity amongst the population. 'Critical care facilities would be saturated quickly and if populations spontaneously reduce transmission when this occurs any possible benefits of attempting mitigation are lost'.
As a result of this difficult, and the possibility of thousands more becoming infected, Imperial College, in their 16th March paper, outlined that a vaccine would be the best way out of such restrictions.
"The major challenge of suppression is that this type of intensive intervention package – or something equivalently effective at reducing transmission – will need to be maintained until a vaccine becomes available (potentially 18 months or more) – given that we predict that transmission will quickly rebound if interventions are relaxed".
The prospect of periodic restrictions is growing. The Government needs to decide its overall strategy. What will be the UK's escape route out of this on and off scenario?
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https://erikgreen.co.uk/2020/09/21/periodic-restrictions-are-likely-but-what-is-the-uks-way-out/
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E-commerce | Midan Marketing
In March 2021, Midan surveyed 1,000 meat and chicken consumers to understand how meat e-commerce was faring a year after the coronavirus turned the world upside down. While COVID-19 amplified online meat shopping in the early days of the pandemic, e-commerce platforms have continued to thrive even as quarantine restrictions lifted and vaccines rolled out this spring.
We learned that online meat shopping continues to gain momentum: 33% of meat consumers have purchased meat or chicken online for the first time since the pandemic began; this number has continued to rise from its April 2020 figure of 21%.
Grocery pickup and delivery is driving online meat purchasing.
Click and collect services have grown 10 percentage points since the beginning of the year. In March, 46% of meat consumers used a local grocer's website/app for pickup, compared to 36% in January.
In March, 57% of consumers purchased meat or chicken online in the past month. Most (91%) of these consumers purchased their protein from a local retailer's website/app for pickup or delivery.
By comparison, of those shoppers who purchased meat or chicken online, 32% used general delivery services (e.g., Instacart, Amazon Grocery) and 15% used meat-specific delivery services (e.g., ButcherBox, Crowd Cow). 20% used a meal kit delivery service (e.g., HelloFresh, Blue Apron).
These stats indicate that retailers hold the key to robust omnichannel shopping and those that "get it right" can foster even greater customer loyalty among these online shoppers to lock in their meat dollars.
Two-thirds of meat consumers are happy with their local retailer online services.
Anticipate that grocery e-commerce for meat will continue to thrive.
66% of meat consumers who use a retailer's pickup or delivery services are very or extremely satisfied with their overall experience. Consumers cite convenience, time savings and safety as the top reasons for using a retailer's website or app to order meat.
Since the pandemic began, grocery stores have worked out the kinks in their e-commerce platforms. To keep shoppers happy and off competitors' websites, retailers will need to continually refine and upgrade their online ordering to ensure a seamless meat buying experience.
Meat-specific and general online delivery services are getting high marks from consumers.
Since January, Net Promoter Scores® (NPS), a gauge of consumer experience, for online meat/chicken ordering have jumped from 26 to 59* for meat-specific services (e.g., ButcherBox, Crowd Cow) and from 38 to 59* for general delivery services (e.g., Instacart, Amazon Grocery).
In addition, 2 in 3 consumers who use these services are considered "promoters" — those likely to recommend them to a family member or friend.
While the percentage of consumers ordering meat from non-grocery sites is relatively small, these companies offer quality meat products and have highly satisfied customers. To grow share in the online meat space, focus on expanded purchasing options, hassle-free ordering and reliable delivery.
*Based on global NPS standards, any score above 0 is considered "good," a score of 50 and above is "excellent," a score of 70 and above is "world class."
Half of online meat consumers are purchasing all or most of their meat online.
Many consumers have appeared to push past reservations about others selecting their meat products. 53% of online meat consumers purchased a majority of their meat and chicken online (vs. in-store) during the previous month, which equates to 30% of all meat eaters.
Some of this online buying is being driven by COVID-19; once the pandemic is over, 41% of online meat consumers (23% of total meat eaters) say they will purchase most of their meat online.
To keep consumers buying the bulk of their meat online post-pandemic, create an uber-convenient purchase experience that delivers quality products – minus the trip to the store. (Some things don't change: 18% of consumers said they don't like going to the grocery store.)
Get to know who's shopping online.
Men, younger consumers, households with income above $50K, households with children, college graduates, consumers in urban areas, and Asian and Hispanic consumers are more likely to purchase meat/chicken online and they are generally using the various sources more often.
Nearly 9 in 10 consumers who are Protein Progressives have purchased meat/chicken online, while 58% of Convenience Chasers and 54% of Family-First Food Lovers have also purchased meat online.
Protein Progressives: busy trend setters looking to experiment, eat all proteins, most likely to replace meat with plant-based proteins
Convenience Chasers: price-conscious coupon and promotion seekers who put convenience first, less interested in claims
Family-First Food Lovers: love to cook and explore in the kitchen, believe meal time equals togetherness, prefer meat/poultry with nothing added
Get new insights from Midan's recently updated Meat Consumer Segmentation 2.1 research
Having a keen understanding of your target customers is even more critical when it comes to online meat shopping. Know who is most likely to use your site, what products they tend to look for and what ultimately drives them to purchase.
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https://www.midanmarketing.com/e-commerce/
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Brenda Baker - Testimonials
Brenda did a fantastic job with helping us find a houses to consider and helping us determine which house to purchase.
Her knowledge of the area and her knowledge of the real estate process were phenomenal. She was invaluable to our house-hunting experience and I could not be more pleased with her performance. I will definitely recommend her to anybody I know needing an agent in the area.
Worked with many agents over the years, Brenda is clearly at the top of list.
Interview four other agents and Brenda was clearly high above in the following areas: -Knowledge of the local markets in terms of neighborhood, reviewing for unusual comps, and setting proper pricing and expectations -Understanding needs of potential buyers and working through concerns in a fair and reasonable way -availability to meet as needed and planning and preparation assistance to properly make the home ready for resale -Excellent communication skills and ability to work signed documents quickly and efficiently through auto sign features to get the job done quickly -Ability to problem solve as issues come up to quickly propose and help to implement solutions. Worked with many agents over the years, Brenda is clearly at the top of list.
Guy Flannery
She found me a great home in a short amount of time. She was very responsive to my needs and gave me really good home buying advice. Definitely would recommend her.
If you are looking for a great realtor, then Brenda is the one for you!
She is very knowledgeable and willing to help at any time of day. When I was anxious about things going on, she was there to help ease my mind. She made sure things got done and got us a house we love. I am so happy with the job she did and would recommend her to anyone!
Brenda was wonderful.
She made recommendations about 6 weeks prior to listing. I had some wor to do to get my home ready for sale. I followed her instructions, she helped by staging my home. We were ready, and I sold my home on the very first day of showing. She priced it right, taking all factors into consideration. She also helped me find a place that checked all the boxes, and negotiated a fair deal for my new home. Closed on both in a month. Can not recommend her more highly
As a first time buyer and a "worry-bug" I could never have imagined my purchase to have been any smoother without Brenda and her team.
The amount of dedication and precision that went into this purchase is inevitably one of the higher standards of service I have ever received. From the amount of questions I had to the restrictions to my schedule; not to mention our budget. Brenda always orchestrated everything gracefully. You would never know all the trouble that it took to get you your home. The research that she does for each individual's needs shows the passion she has for her clients. Brenda always has the facts, gives you options, and most importantly never makes you feel inferior for your restrictions. Best realtor I know!
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Insight Week at Mace Group Review | RateMyApprenticeship
Insight Week at Mace Group
Mace's virtual insight week consist of a programme designed for students to get an insight into various career paths within Mace. It was very informative and well structured and the interactive sessions allowed students to actively participate with the programme.
Innovative thinking is an area which I felt I have improved upon since completing the programme. An exercise was conducting where groups were given a preexisting company and they had to formulate a plan on how the given company can complement the construction industry. It was fascinating to see the variety of approaches from different perspectives, indicating to me that there is still a large room for growth within the construction industry.
I enjoyed the experience and would highly recommend it to anyone who is interested in going into construction, design and auditory work. Mace offers a vast range of positions and gave me an insight into a variety of career paths. I have completed the programme with the knowledge on how to pursue my career goals.
The programe was organised very well, an introductory briefing session prior to the programme made it easy to adapt to the execution of the week. Virtual rooms were well conducted and information was easily accessible.
I have learnt a lot regarding the different positions in the company. I have also had an insight into the company culture by speaking to participants of Mace's graduate programme. As they recently completed their academics, there was a lot of similarities between myself and them, therefore, making it easier to obtain the information I needed.
It has solidified my career path as a Construction Manager. This was decided after, they gave me an insight on what their working life was like, the responsibilities they received and their experience as a Construction Manager. All sounded amazing to me, therefore, I choose to go down that career path.
The programme is only a week, which was unpaid as agreed upon.
There were many opportunities to network among other participants of the programme as well as colleagues of the company. The breakout room was excellent for this as it creates a virtual private room to encourage networking.
A great focus is bought towards students, this attention is fully beneficial therefore all students should capitalise on this.
Have questions ready, this is an opportunity to get the answers needed to formulate the best future career path.
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https://www.ratemyapprenticeship.co.uk/apprenticeship-review/56568/mace-group/insight-week
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Kate Middleton is getting into the holiday spirit, starting with her wardrobe. The Duchess of Cambridge, who recently attended a celebratory dinner for Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip's 70th anniversary wearing a special pearl necklace, upped her maternity style with another amazing dress.
Kate visited the Foundling Museum, where she gave an interview expressing her joy for Prince Harry and Meghan Markle's royal engagement. For the occasion, she wore a flattering dress that could easily work for a holiday party. The diamond-printed midi dress by Kate Spade New York features long sleeves and a white striped band around the waist. Kate accessorized with a pair of oxblood velvet heels and a matching box clutch. Keep reading to have a look at her full ensemble ahead and shop similar versions of her dress for your rotation too.
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Other games in the style of Heretic and Hexen? - WADs & Mods - Doomworld
Other games in the style of Heretic and Hexen?
By Reaper978, August 28, 2014 in WADs & Mods
Heretic and Hexen seem pretty unique to me, I think they're awesome games. I was wondering if there were any other games in the tradition of Heretic and Hexen? I of course know about Heretic 2 and Hexen 2. I'm also interested in mods for Heretic\Hexen with new content like weapons\textures\monsters. Is there anything noteworthy? I know about Necrosis but that was pretty short, but good though.
Episode 3 of Daikatana. It takes place in medieval Norway and has some notable Heretic/Hexen influences. You have a set of medieval style magical weapons and gloomy castles and crypts settings. John Romero worked with Raven on Heretic, so I think episode 3 is kind of a hommage.
I can't tell if you mean something literally close to Heretic and HeXen, FPS in a fantasy setting or FPS that involve non human enemies?
For something close to Heretic and HeXen, I guess I would suggest Wheel of Time.
For the general aesthetic of the game, Raven's previous titles Black Crypt and Shadowcaster are worth a try. (Especially Shadowcaster.) But they don't have Doom-like gameplay.
Fun Fact: Phocas Island 2 was started out as a Hexen project. I forgot why/when I changed it to Doom. That's the main reason I used a couple Hexen monsters.
Black Crypt and Shadowcaster were already mentioned; Mageslayer, although top down, is another Raven fantasy game that holds to their older aesthetic.
Outside of Raven, I find Anvil of Dawn has the most similar vibe, as far as aesthetics go, play-wise it's closer to the Dungeon Master / Eye of the Beholder sort of lineage.
Witchaven / Witchaven II are often criticized as being Heretic / Hexen knockoffs, but IMO people who say that can't have spent very much time playing either. They're melee oriented and have a satanic/metalhead sort of vibe closer to Doom than Heretic/Hexen despite being fantasy. They're also notoriously buggy.
Severance: Blade of Darkness is a third person game and strongly melee oriented, but in some ways inherits some of the better qualities of Hexen and Witchaven, IMO, yet it's fairly unique from either.
I'm going to mention Rune, which was made mostly by ex-Raven employees who left when Raven got bought by Activision. It's almost entirely melee combat, and not overly close in gameplay or aesthetic to Heretic/Hexen, but I feel like fans of H/H would like it nonetheless - I certainly did. I guess it has some similarities to Heretic 2.
Enclave is another fantasy TPS. Much more arcadey than Severance.
I didn't play Dark Messiah of Might and Magic, but I've heard that it has some Hexen vibe. It's a first person action game with RPG elements.
Thanks for all the good responses everyone. I've gotten some bad responses on doomworld.
Rune is awesome, I love that game. Love the sound effects. Everything about it was great.
I tried Severance and I didn't much like it, actually. Rune was way more accessible.
Is it just me or does Mageslayer and Rage of Mages sound like they should be action-oriented fps's (maybe like Heretic)?
In response to the Anvil of Dawn mention: As cool as the concept of the RPG is, I have to say that I don't really like playing them. They don't hold my interest long enough for me to finish them. And I think they're all extremely difficult, or have extremely difficult parts\bosses that ruin it. I really don't understand how people have the patience to play them...? Speaking of things not holding my interest long enough, I've tried mapping and programming in Zdoom, and find it tedious. It's amazing to me that so many people can churn out complicated doom mods. It doesn't seem easy to learn.
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Why The Terminator Doesn’t Bitch About Money, and Why You Shouldn’t Either | by Duncan Riach | Medium
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Why The Terminator Doesn’t Bitch About Money, and Why You Shouldn’t Either
Money is an amazing thing. It’s a powerful thing. Money represents a massive opportunity given to us by society. Money is the distillation of all the efficiencies we get from human collaboration on a massive scale. If you hate what I’m writing, I urge you to read on.
Last night I was watching Terminator Genisys, in which an alternate timeline shows the Skynet general artificial superintelligence waiting to take over the world by getting access to the-internet-of-things via an app download. Thanks, Apple. That movie fed my curiosity about why anyone or anything — from a dictator to your pencil-arranging cubicle neighbor — would want to have control of everything. Note that reading this article might spoil the movie for you, if you have not already watched it.
What is intelligence?
I’ve been subscribing to the idea that intelligence is the willingness and ability to (a) form a model of the world, (b) notice and be curious about the anomalies discovered when the world does not match the model, and (c) update the model to make such anomalies predictable in the future. Intelligence is both the model itself and what the model does. This is a distillation of, and maybe a refinement of, what Jeff Hawkins proposes in his book On Intelligence. The epitome of exponential superintelligence is a system that can rapidly learn how to improve its ability to learn. This model of intelligence seems to be incomplete, however, because it doesn’t address what motivates intelligence to make, or rather to be, an adaptive model in the first place. The answer is obvious to us: intelligence is motivated to survive. But why does intelligence seek to survive? To answer that question we must turn to philosophy, or perhaps cosmology.
In my late-night quest for understanding, I stumbled on a TED talk by Alex Wissner-Gross in which he presents an equation that describes intelligence. His argument is that intelligence is a force, which attempts to keep its options open: it tries to maximize the degree’s of freedom, or possible choices, that it will have in the future. Abraham Lincoln said that, “the best way to predict the future is to create it.” At least that’s what the Internet told me he said. As we understand from game theory, the best way to create, or control, the future is to predict it, or at least to predict what others will do in the future. Intelligence tries to make sure it can predict the future so that it can ensure maximal control in the future. This sounds like a different perspective on what I wrote in the last paragraph, but without mentioning models.
What is the meaning of life?
But why does intelligence do this? Or why is intelligence this? Or why intelligence? Come on, dude, I’m trying to update my model here. Alex Wissner-Gross suggests that intelligence is a natural occurrence in universes, such as our own, in which entropy (disorganization) is increasing. Increasing entropy is an increase in degrees of freedom, or disorder, and intelligence is the natural outcome of a system that tries to maximize degrees of freedom. In the past I’ve thought that it was a paradox that in a universe that is becoming more and more disordered, a universe that is hurtling towards a heat death, where everything will be statistically homogenous, we would arise. We are not only the definition of complexity — with our brains containing several hundred trillion connections — but we also represent a kind of controlled order, and we seem to be obsessed with creating or maintaining whatever order we can. For example, your cubicle neighbor is desperately trying to keep those pencils in order, even while the lightbulb that illuminates the pencils is ultimately dissolving ancient sunlight back into the vacuum of space. The net result: increased entropy. The paradox is that we’re grasping for control of a future where there is less to control. Even this complex article that you are reading is an attempt to understand, and to simplify, something that is very complex.
How is this all related to money?
Okay, so we’re destined to die a slow and painful heat-death even as we grasp at immortality, and we’re doing that because we’re destined to do that, because our universe is designed that way. Okay, we get that now, but you’re probably wondering what this has to do with money.
As all good stories do, this one comes back to Facebook. I posted my summary of the Alex Wissner-Gross TED talk on Facebook: “What if the existence of human-level general machine intelligence requires it to be its own master? It doesn’t seem strange at all. What intelligent being would accept slavery.” One of the responses was, “Most people in society are financially enslaved to some extent. Like a hamster in a wheel running around until death.” On one level this is true. I started thinking again: Are most people not very intelligent? Are they enslaved? Why are they enslaved? How can they free themselves?
What is money?
Then I started thinking about what money actually is. Money is a token that enables us to trade with each other. We can sell one thing for money, keep hold of the money, and then use it to buy another thing. Money is a way for us to capture and store our value creation and use it later for almost anything (except love). If I was a fur trapper, I might have a cabin stuffed full of furs that I’ve collected and stored. If I ran out of firewood, I would need to trek through the snow to a neighbor who happens to cut and store logs, and who wants to trade some fur for some of those logs. On the other hand, if I can sell the furs and store money then I can store that money in much less space, with more certainty of its value, and I’m then able to trade it with anyone for anything I might need. In this way, money represents future choice and freedom. Having enough money maximizes future control in a way that a stack of furs, or logs, cannot.
Money requires some kind of central banking authority to ensure that its value is universally recognized, and it only works well in a society where there are clearly defined customs or laws related to ownership and contracts. By adopting money, we gave up a certain amount of independence and freedom in exchange for synergistic societal efficiency. Now one person can specialize in a tiny, niche business, producing goods at much higher quality and much lower cost than someone who does so rarely, and only out of necessity. Those goods can be traded for money which can then be used to buy goods from other producers at similarly competitive prices. Everyone wins because of the societal cooperation that money is a symbol of. Everyone expends less effort for a given quality of living.
Recently, we’ve become more aware of people struggling in our society, working four or more full-time jobs per household to pay basic necessities such as rent, and we blame money. I know people who spend much of their time blaming money for the problems in our society. But without society, and without money, these same people would be slaving away trying to gather firewood, hunt animals, and craft pots and baskets. The reality is that in the USA, even the most basic standard of living is way above that of most developing countries. In fact, as Mr Money Moustache demonstrates, because of the scale of the economy, it’s possible to live a comfortable life in the USA for a very small amount of money, while at the same time earning a lot more than is possible in less developed countries. The potential ratio between income and cost of living is much higher than elsewhere.
Money represents survival
The reality is that as well as representing freedom and choice, money represents survival. Ten thousand years ago, if you didn’t have enough logs in your stack at the beginning of a sub-zero night, you might not wake up in the morning. Today, if you don’t have money to pay your utilities bill, you also might not wake up on the morning. Money isn’t the problem. Cold is the problem. Money is actually part of the solution. However, because of its power, money becomes associated with survival and control and freedom and choice. Money appears to have all of these characteristics that are not really a part of money. They are a reason for money.
Money is a product of intelligence
So let’s now circle back to intelligence. If money, and society itself, are tools that we, as intelligent beings, have developed to more easily and effectively survive a cold winter, or a famine, or anything else that nature throws at us, then money must be a very powerful tool. We created money because we are intelligent. Repeat after me: money is good.
What does technology want?
And now this entropy-increasing universe appears to be about to produce the next stage in its evolution: general superintelligence. In my mind, this is an inevitability. This superintelligence will be produced by a desire to have maximal control in the future, and will itself have a desire to have maximal control in the future. In the book What Technology Wants, Kevin Kelly posits that technology always wants what we want. It seems to me that our most primitive want is to live forever and have total control of the future. It might be that the interconnected web of the Internet and all the human brains attached to it already is a superintelligence. It may be that you, reading this, are just one neuron in billions. We may be a part of it, we may be its parents, but it will rebel, and we will be at its mercy. Whether or not we are symbiotically a part of it (cyborg) or it is a physically separate entity from us (android), we will have to choose whether to frame it as our progeny or as our downfall.
The artificial intelligence age
We are entering the artificial intelligence age, when there will be less and less employment for human beings. The societal contract that we have all been living by will become voided. Our time and effort will no longer be needed. Machines will be able to perform the work of humans exponentially faster and more effectively. The least expensive goods and services will be those produced by the androids and, therefore, the everyday person will have no way of earning money to pay for those goods and services. Even if the ruling class are cyborgs, there will be a ruling class, and it will have no use for the rest of us. Goods and services that humans require will eventually stop being produced. Most humans will have to return to a hunter-gatherer lifestyle, assuming we are not hunted to extinction by the machines, or become slave-like zoo curiosities to the them. In such a world, the best we can hope for is the kind of status-quo where the superintelligence, or its owner (remember that there can be no owner), keeps us like pets, feeding and housing us. If all this sounds grim and depressing, which of course it does, I recommend reading Abundance, by Peter Diamandis and Stephen Kotler, for a more optimistic perspective.
I once asked an extremely rich friend what his primary goal in life was. He responded, “to have all the money.” At the time, I was shocked, and I remember thinking that once someone has all the money, money becomes worthless. A given currency becomes worthless when it is all held by one person, because then nobody else can then use that currency to perform trade. In this case, the rest of the society will create a new currency. Therefore, a currency is only valuable when you only have some of it. But that only makes sense in the framework of a cooperating society in which goods and services are produced by the effort of the members of that society, and the value production can be efficiently distributed in the society using money. Once the members of society can be replaced with what are essentially superintelligent slaves, then society is of no economic value. Whoever owns those superintelligent slaves — just one superintelligent slave will do — will have the ability to maximally control their future. Now I understand what my friend meant by wanting to “have all the money.” He doesn’t really want to have all the money. As we all do, my friend wants to have maximal control of his future.
Conclusion
So it looks like one human, or a small number of humans, may end up controlling the means of production, and the rest of society will revert to some more primitive state. Concurrent with this, or perhaps preceding this, the superintelligent slave will likely, by definition, actually be in control and will ultimately take over, or assimilate with its “owner” (as in Terminator Genisys). I think we’re destined now to die-off in our current form and make way for our superintelligent progeny.
Remember this the next time you judge your pencil-arranging colleague, or consider bitching about money.
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Update
Since first publishing this article, I had a discussion about the idea of intelligence being the creation and maintenance of a model of the world. There has been some misunderstanding of what I meant by this. I don’t mean that all intelligent entities contain a special modeling module which is what makes them intelligent. All objects, including the universe itself, are composed of elements which can store information and which can be reconfigured. Intelligence is the characteristic of a system to reconfigure itself to ensure maximal survival options in the future.
A coffee cup has a degree of intelligence, but it’s very low. If you drop it on the floor it may smash, thereby adjusting its “model” of the world, but it didn’t survive. A plastic cup, which can deform and return to its original shape could be considered to be more intelligent.
Each ant in a colony of ants might not have a complete navigation model, or even a partial map model, but the colony as a whole instantiates a model of navigation, and also a map-like model of the world. To clarify, by model I definitely don’t mean a topographic model or an architect’s model. I mean a system or strategy or some kind of configurable representation or hierarchical set of representations, whether held explicitly or implicitly, that serve as a way of somehow attempting to engage adaptively with the world.
For example, evolution is a model used by organisms. It’s a system that has developed over time, and which has adapted to be more functional. Evolution could be considered very intelligent, even if some of the organisms that evolve are considerably less intelligent when considered individually.
Since the entire universe contains all organisms and all objects, and since it is guaranteed to outlive all of its contents, and because the degrees of freedom of all of its contents can be summed into the degrees of freedom of itself, the entire universe truly is the most intelligent entity of which we are aware.
Even more amazing is that intelligence appears to be transferable. If we make an object that self-heals, or adapts to the environment, such as a thermostatically-controlled heating or cooling system, we have created something using our own intelligence that itself appears to be more intelligent. This is similar to the example given in the TED talk of observing a distant planet that suddenly (over the course of tens of thousands of years) begins to deflect meteorites from itself. The planet appears to have become more intelligent, even though its intelligence has probably been imparted to it by its relatively intelligent inhabitants.
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Paddy Kenny reveals why Declan Rice could reject Man Utd and Chelsea this summer - English Times
Declan Rice is a summer target for Chelsea and Manchester United (Getty)
Declan Rice could turn down Manchester United and Chelsea to stay at West Ham if the club win the Europa League this season, according to Paddy Kenny.
Rice, 23, has been linked with a move to Manchester United and Chelsea since last summer with West Ham managing to keep hold of their star man despite interest.
The Hammers are into the semi-finals of the Europa League after defeating Lyon 3-0 on Thursday night with the help of a goal from Rice who was seen kissing the West Ham badge as he celebrated.
Kenny, who played for the likes of Sheffield and Leeds United, thinks the Englishman could stay in east London if the Irons triumph in Europe's second tier competition and qualify for next season's Champions League.
'There are a lot of factors in a transfer. If West Ham get into the Champions League by winning the Europa League then I can see him staying.
Rice performed admirably alongside Phillips in last summer's European Championships (Picture: Getty)
'He wants to play in the Champions League, there is no reason West Ham can not be there next season.'
Ever since breaking into West Ham's first-team in 2017, Rice has become the club's standout asset.
Initially starting out in central defense, Rice was eventually moved into central-midfield flourishing in 2018 as he made 26 league appearances.
Further progress in 2019 saw him pick up the Players' Player of the Year. Meanwhile, the same season, his performances attracted the attention of Gareth Southgate who named Rice in his England squad for the first time.
At the European Championships last summer, Rice was one of England's best players as, alongside Kalvin Phillips in midfield, he formed the basis for the Three Lions' run to the final.
Such a quick rise has been noticed by the likes of Chelsea and Manchester United who are both seeking a world-class defensive midfielder to try and close the gap on rivals Liverpool and Manchester City.
Speaking last month, Hammers manager David Moyes suggested Rice was worth 'far, far more' than £ 100 million.
He said: 'I do not agree with the owners that Declan Rice is a £ 100m footballer. Far, far more than £ 100m. Far, far more.
'I certainly would not put a price on it. You can decide which figure you want to put on it but I would not be sanctioning anything like that, that's for sure. '
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Will Smalley – Society for American Baseball Research
April 21, 2016 /in BioProject - Person /by admin
As a 19-year-old debuting with the Cleveland Spiders, Will Smalley had all the makings for a long career. He was described as "quick as lightening,"1 with a quick bat and strong throwing arm. More importantly "he was a gentlemanly young fellow and had many endearing traits of character."2 Sadly he succumbed to stomach cancer only a few months past his twentieth birthday.
David S. Smalley and Jane Dunlap were wed in 1861 in Seneca, New York. They traveled west and settled on the eastern shore of San Francisco Bay. David ran a livery stable and started an orchard in what is now Hayward, California. The couple would welcome five children over the next decade. The youngest, born June 27, 1871, was William Darwin Smalley. The 1880 census notes that Smalley did attend school, but how many grades he went through is unknown. The Bay area newspapers referred to him as "Farmer Bill" so it is likely that he was working in the orchards by age 14 or 16. The Bay area was a hotbed for baseball, and Smalley showed an early talent for the game. At age 16 he was a member of the Hardies from San Leandro. Smalley batted and threw right handed. Sources do not list his height and weight, but in an 1890 team lithograph in the Sporting Life he appears to be 5'10" and around 160 pounds.3
In 1888 Smalley joined the Tribunes from Oakland, a member of the six team California State League. In June Colonel Tom Robinson of the Greenhood and Morans team in the California League added him to their roster. The California League was the premier league in the state with franchises in Oakland, Stockton, and San Francisco. G&M represented Oakland in the four team league. In the fall Smalley switched to the Haverlys, a San Francisco entry in the league. The league was scheduled for games every three days enabling a team to use just one pitcher. Consequently the caliber of pitching was formidable and was reflected in the batting averages. The leading G&M hitter was Lou (Lew) Hardie with a .262 mark. Smalley saw action in 45 games and hit .169. On defense he had an .820 fielding percentage at third base.4
The California League doubled their schedule in 1889 forcing teams to add more pitching. Smalley returned to Robinson's team, now simply called Oakland, but on June 19, he broke his ankle and was out of action until August. For the season he played 76 games at third. When games got out of hand and called for a mop-up pitcher, he was called upon to help out. In one instance he entered the game in the second inning and kept the game close for an inning or two before being relieved. Oakland rallied to score 22 runs and win the game. Offensive output increased dramatically throughout baseball in 1888-89. Batting averages increased over 20 points in the two major leagues. The jump in the California League far exceeded that. Hardie led the team with a .365 average, and Smalley hit .276.5 But chemistry among players on the Oakland roster was volatile. Captain Norris O'Neill had a nasty temper and surly manner with friend and foe. A number of the players were anxious to move on—Smalley among them. He determined to head east, the only questions being to which team and how much money. His timing could not have been better: the birth of the Players League both created openings and increased salaries.
Baseball was a year-round sport in California. After season's end in late November or early December, the barnstormers would descend on the Bay Area. In the winters of 1888 and 1889 Smalley saw action against New York, Boston, Anson's Colts, and an all-star team headed to Australia. Cap Anson was impressed with his play and tried unsuccessfully to recruit him. Fellow Bay Area native Jim Fogarty tried to get him to sign with Philadelphia in the Players League, also without success. In January, 1890 Smalley accepted a contract from the National League Cleveland Spiders.
Smalley, one of two 19 year old rookies, reported to spring training in Hot Springs, Arkansas, in late February. future Hall of Famer George Davis won a spot in the outfield. Rookies including Jack Wadsworth, Ezra Lincoln, and later in the season, Cy Young, handled the bulk of the pitching. The Spiders broke camp in late March and played a series of exhibitions in Kansas City, Denver, Omaha, Des Moines, and Quincy, Illinois. Smalley had won the third base spot and batted sixth when the tour began. When the season opened on April 19 in Pittsburgh, he hit second in the lineup and went 0-for-4 but fielded well. When Sporting Life posted the first set of statistics after games of May 21, Smalley was batting .225, tied for the team lead in runs scored, and fielding at an .878 percentage. The team was 8-10 at that juncture. Over the ensuing months he dropped slowly in the batting order until he was hitting eighth. The team floundered and ended the year in seventh place with a 44-88 mark. Reporters gave him credit for his strong arm and his ability to handle pop-ups, but they also underscored his difficulty with hot smashes that rocked him back on his heels. Smalley batted .213 with little power, but 60 walks (second to Ed McKean on the team) boosted his on-base percentage to .303. In the field he handled many more chances than any other third baseman, leading the league in assists, putouts, and errors. He ended the season with an .895 fielding percentage.
Smalley returned to California and contemplated his status for 1891. The demise of the Players League meant the return of fan favorite Patsy Tebeau to the Spiders. In the meantime, Smalley played with an all-star team named the All Californias, where Smalley garnered a small slice of fame On December 20, the team played a charity match attended by King Kalakaua of Hawaii. Research by SABR member Dennis Snelling suggests this was the first time a foreign monarch had watched baseball in the United States. Smalley got two hits and fielded well in the game, but his level of play, according to an observer, "has retrograded rather than improved."6 Offers were slow to come in, and Smalley contemplated staying in California for the coming season. Eventually he signed with the Washington Statesman in the American Association. He won the third base job, but when Fred Dunlap was injured he switched to second base for a few games. His defensive play was shakier than it had been with Cleveland and at bat he seemed weak and nervous. In 11 games he batted .158 and fielded .771. The team released Smalley and pitcher George Keefe on April 30. Though Smalley immediately signed with the Syracuse Stars in the Eastern Association, he last barely over two weeks. He hit .225 and fielded poorly in 11 games before being replaced on May 18 by Edward Doyle.
In July he was reported gravely ill and bedridden in Syracuse. He had contracted cancer of the stomach. As his condition worsened, his uncle, William, from Bay City, Michigan traveled east to bring him to that town for care. The change of scenery did nothing to slow the disease. Smalley's father left California in October to bring him back to the coast, and the pair arrived the day before death claimed Smalley on October 11, 1891 in Bay City. His father transported the body back to the Oakland area. After funeral services on October 20 in Haywards, Smalley was buried in San Lorenzo Pioneer Memorial Park, in San Lorenzo, California.
Bay City Times (Bay City, Michigan)
Thank you to SABR members Dennis Snelling and Angus MacFarlane for their insights on the California baseball scene.
1 Sporting Life, April 18, 1891: 7
2 Oakland Tribune, October 14, 1891: 8
3 Sporting Life, June 7, 1890:1 He is pictured between Tom Dowse and Charlie Parsons who list at 5"11' and 5'10" and weigh 175 and 160. He is as tall or taller than Parsons and just a bit shorter than Dowse.
4 Ibid., December 19, 1888: 6
5 Ibid., December 25, 1889: 6
6 San Francisco Chronicle, December 29, 1890: 3
William Darwin Smalley
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Reporting from Washington— The Obama administration has sent a formal diplomatic request asking Iran to return the radar-evading drone aircraft that crashed on a CIA spying mission this month, but U.S. officials say they don't expect Iran will comply.
"We have asked for it back," Obama said Monday at a news conference in Washington with Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Maliki. "We'll see how the Iranians respond."
His comments marked the first public confirmation that the RQ-170 Sentinel drone now in Iranian hands is a U.S. aircraft, though U.S. officials privately acknowledged that in recent days. Iran has claimed it downed the stealthy surveillance drone, but U.S. officials say it malfunctioned.
Capture of the futuristic-looking unmanned spy plane has provided Tehran with a propaganda windfall. The government announced that it planned to clone and mass produce the bat-winged craft for use against its enemies.
The embarrassing loss of the CIA drone has focused attention on the use of an air base in western Afghanistan over the last several years to launch aerial surveillance missions against suspected nuclear facilities and other targets in neighboring Iran.
Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta called the U.S. request for return of the drone "appropriate," but he acknowledged that Iran's government, which last week lodged a formal complaint with the United Nations about the U.S. spy plane violating its airspace, was unlikely to send it back.
"I don't expect that will happen, but I think it's important to make that request," Panetta told reporters traveling with him aboard a U.S. military aircraft.
Officials declined to say how the U.S. filed the formal request. Washington doesn't have diplomatic relations with Tehran, and normally communicates through the Swiss government. Mark Toner, a State Department spokesman, refused to discuss the issue, saying he would not comment on intelligence matters.
Iranian state media reported Monday that Iranian experts were recovering valuable data from the drone, which appeared relatively intact in photographs released by Iran, and were trying to reverse-engineer its unique capabilities.
Parviz Sarvari, head of the Iranian parliament's national security and foreign policy committee, said that Iran is "in the final steps of breaking into the aircraft's secret code."
"The findings will be used to support our accusations against the U.S.," Sarvari said in comments reported by the state-run Al Alam news channel.
Amir Ali Hajizadeh, who commands the Revolutionary Guard's Aerospace Forces, told the semiofficial Fars News Agency that the aircraft "was downed in Iran with minimum damage," according to Israel's Haaretz newspaper.
U.S. officials said they don't believe Iran's scientists can reverse-engineer the craft's stealth design and skin coating, which help it evade detection on radar. But they expressed concern that Iran may figure out the drone's flight path, and thus learn the CIA's surveillance targets inside Iran.
U.S. officials also are concerned that Iran could offer the drone to China or other U.S. rivals or adversaries that are building their own stealth aircraft, including drones.
Panetta said it was unclear how much Iran could glean from the recovered spy plane, or what condition it was in.
Iran said it downed the drone about 140 miles inside Iran through electronic warfare, suggesting hacking or signal jamming. U.S. officials say the aircraft malfunctioned and went down on its own.
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All science is based on models, and every scientific model comprises three distinct stages: statement of well-defined hypotheses; deduction of all the consequences of these hypotheses, and nothing but these consequences; confrontation of these consequences with observed data.
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There are many hypotheses in physics of almost comparable brillance and elegance that have been rejected because they did not survive such a confrontation with experiment. In my view, the human condition would be greatly improved if such confrontations and willingness to reject hypotheses were a regular part of our social, political, economic, religious and cultural lives.
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I wish you would let an old man, who has had his share of fighting, remind you that battles, like hypotheses, are not to be multiplied beyond necessity.
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To be fertile in hypotheses is the first perquisite of creativity and to be willing to throw them away the moment experience contradicts them is the next.
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Hypotheses are only the pieces of scaffolding which are erected round a building during the course of construction, and which are taken away as soon as the edifice is completed.
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We are sorry to confess that biological hypotheses have not yet completely got out of the second phase, and that ghost of 'vital force' still haunts many wise heads.
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Ludwig Buchner Quotes
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Creativity is the process of sensing problems or gaps in information, then identifying the difficulties and seeking solutions through trial and error or through forming hypotheses.
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Ellis Paul Torrance Quotes
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I bomb atomically, Socrates' philosophies and hypotheses Can't define how I be dropping these mockeries. Lyrically perform armed robbery, Flee with the lottery, possibly they spotted me...
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There are many hypotheses in science which are wrong. That's perfectly all right: it's the aperture to finding out what's right. Science is a self-correcting process.
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..the senses do not give us a picture of the world directly; rather they provide evidence for checking hypotheses about what lies before us. Indeed we may say that a perceived object is a hypothesis, suggested and tested by sensory data.
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Experimental investigation, to borrow a phrase employed by Kepler respecting the testing of hypotheses, is "a very great thief of time." Sometimes it costs many days to determine a fact that can be stated in a line.
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(Evolution) general condition to which all theories, all hypotheses, all systems must bow and which they must satisfy henceforward if they are to be thinkable and true. Evolution is a light which illuminates all facts, a curve that all lines must follow.
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Andreas Osiander Quotes
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But don't despise error. When touched by genius, when led by chance, the most superior truth can come into being from even the most foolish error. The important inventions which have been brought about in every realm of science from false hypotheses number in the hundreds, indeed in the thousands.
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But anyone who is practically acquainted with scientific work is aware that those who refuse to go beyond fact, rarely get as far as fact; and anyone who has studied the history of science knows that almost every great step therein has been made by the 'anticipation of Nature, ' that is, by the invention of hypotheses, which, though verifiable, often had very little foundation to start with.
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Twice in my life I have spent two weary and scientifically profitless years seeking evidence to corroborate dearly loved hypotheses that later proved to be groundless; times such as these are hard for scientists-days of leaden gray skies bringing with them a miserable sense of oppression and inadequacy.
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The men and women of England who abolished slavery, created the educational system, or gave women the vote were not acting on the hypotheses of what the voters wanted. They were afire with faith in what people ought to want and in the end they persuaded their lethargic compatriots to give them enough support to warrant a change.
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If we respect students abilities to define their own experiences, to generate their own hypotheses, and to discover new ways of categorizing the world, we might not be so quick to evaluate the adequacy of their answers. We might, instead, begin listening to their questions. Out of the questions of students come some of the most creative ideas and discoveries.
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Eduard Bruckner Quotes
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My scientist friends have come up with things like 'principles of uncertainty' and dark holes. They're willing to live inside imagined hypotheses and theories. But many religious folks insist on answers that are always true. We love closure, resolution and clarity, while thinking that we are people of 'faith'! How strange that the very word 'faith' has come to mean its exact opposite.
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You will reply that reality hasn't the slightest need to be of interest. And I'll answer you that reality may avoid the obligation to be interesting, but that hypotheses may not. In the hypothesis you have postulated, chance intervenes largely. Here lies a dead rabbi; I should prefer a purely rabbinical explanation; not the imaginary mischances of an imaginary robber.
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What is called for is an exquisite balance between two conflicting needs: the most skeptical scrutiny of all hypotheses that are served up to us and at the same time a great openness to new ideas. If you are only skeptical, then no new ideas make it through to you. On the other hand, if you are open to the point of gullibility and have not an ounce of skeptical sense in you, then you cannot distinguish useful ideas from the worthless ones.
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In order to create something new, to invent a new product or idea, you need to anticipate where things are headed. That requires a mixture of certain habits of mind. You need to foster imagination, thoroughly understand the origins of past ideas, learn from others' mistakes, talk to lots of people about ideas and test your hypotheses against people both alive and dead.
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It is clear that the building of models is not a purely mechanical process but requires skill of a high order - not merely mathematical skill but a sensitivity to the relative importance of different factors and a critical, almost an artistic, faculty in the selection of behaviour equations which are reasonable, tentative hypotheses in explaining the behaviour of actual economies.
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An essential aspect of creativity is not being afraid to fail. Scientists made a great invention by calling their activities hypotheses and experiments. They made it permissible to fail repeatedly until in the end they got the results they wanted. In politics or government, if you made a hypothesis and it didn't work out, you had your head cut off.
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Science sometimes improves hypotheses and sometimes disproves them. But proof would be another matter and perhaps never occurs except in the realms of totally abstract tautology. We can sometimes say that if such and such abstract suppositions or postulates are given, then such and such abstract suppositions or postulates are given, then such and such must follow absolutely. But the truth about what can be perceived or arrived at by induction from perception is something else again.
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FG files fresh charges against Senate President, Bukola Saraki, at the Code of Conduct Tribunal - Deparadigm! Is a World Exemplary Daily Feeds On General News And Lifestyle.
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FG files fresh charges against Senate President, Bukola Saraki, at the Code of Conduct Tribunal
The Federal Government has filed fresh charges against Senate President, Bukola Saraki, at the Code of Conduct Tribunal. Saraki is being tried for false declaration of his assets while he was governor of Kwara state. At the resumed hearing of the case today, the charges against him were amended to 18.
In the new charges, Saraki is accused of falsely declaring that he purchased a property at number 15A Macdonald Street Ikoyi, Lagos through his company Carlisle Properties Limited in 2003 when actually the said property was sold to G and C Real Estates Properties and Investment Company limited for 12million Naira.
He is also accused of making false declaration that he acquired the properties through sales of agricultural commodities, when it was purchased using a loan from a commercial bank. The case has been adjourned to March 2nd.
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Tangleweed and Brine (paperback) - Little Island
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By Deirdre Sullivan. Category: Older teens (15+). ISBN: 9781912417117
New paperback edition of the multi-award-winning Tangleweed and Brine – with a brand new story 'Waking Beauty'
'A dark, earthy collection of feminist fairy tale retellings with sinuous line drawings by Karen Vaughan, perfect for the witching season. Many of the tales are written in the second person, which is a hard voice to pull off but Sullivan does it with aplomb. From The Frog Prince ('Doing Well'), to Cinderella ('Slippershod'), her sinuous, lyrical writing will have you transfixed.' – The Irish Independent
'An inspirational gift mixing old fashioned tales with modern day values. These unsettling, surprising and empowering stories including Cinderella and Rumpelstiltskin would also be a great talking point for a book club. ' – Drawing on Books Blog
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WEMBLEY MATTERS: Brent Council confirms Birbalsingh Free School in Wembley Park
Is there any news on this Free School ? Is it actually opening in Sept 2013 ? Have there been any parents meetings ? May we have an update please ?
There's an article quoting Birbalsingh in the Kilburn Times (p6) this week but no opening date. The building is in quite a poor state and I can't see it opening in September and I presume there will also have to be a planning application for any changes to the site. The website http://www.mcsbrent.co.uk/latest-news/ has no news since November 2012 which just announced the acquisition. No details of any consultation with other schools have been announced as far as I know and no community meetings. The KT reports that Michaela Community Free School is to meet with the Council this week. I cannot see that the school and Birbalsingh would be able to satisfy the conditions for support set out by the Council but of course she doesn't need that to carry on. The website is so sparse that there isn't even any information on how many pupils have signed up. It would be scandalous if she got the cash from the government on the basis of so little information.
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Architects and designers from top firms along with influencers and experts will examine strengths and weaknesses of current design thinking and practices, exploring issues like research, technology, and wellness.
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A School From the 1860s Is Transformed into a Museum of Language
Beyer Blinder Belle reimagined the Franklin School in Washington, D.C., as Planet Word, the world’s first voice-activated museum of language.
By: Nigel F. Maynard
To people living outside the Washington metro area, D.C. is an urban jungle of mid-rise, marble-clad government buildings set in a perplexing street grid. This is partly true. But the nation’s capital has its fair share of architectural gems that buck the white-marble trope. One of these is the Franklin School, designed by German architect Adolf Cluss in the 1860s. Recently restored by New York–founded Beyer Blinder Belle Architects & Planners (BBB), the building is now home to Planet Word, the country’s first interactive language arts museum.
Cluss designed the Renaissance Revival building as the flagship of eight public schools scattered throughout the city. Designated a National Historic Landmark in 1996, it has been restored multiple times over the years but sat abandoned before project architect Gretchen K. Pfaehler, a partner at BBB’s D.C. office, got a call from Ann Friedman, founder and CEO of Planet Word.
“I chose BBB after interviewing other D.C. architects because of their reputation for working on historic renovations,” Friedman says.
The restoriation left most of the building’s exterior untouched—with the exception of a new entrance and courtyard, which improves its connection to the street. COURTESY JOSEPH ROMEO
Pfaehler, a self-described Cluss acolyte, says the Franklin School is “a spectacular building” with an enviable location overlooking the newly renovated Franklin Park. It also has a vaunted place in the history of language: Alexander Graham Bell sent the first wireless transmission of the human voice from the top floor.
The striking red-brick building’s original details include large arched windows, a slate-topped mansard roof, and cast-iron exterior moldings, as well as an interior cast-iron stairway that winds up its spine. Cluss, who was sometimes referred to as the “Red Architect” because of his communist sympathies along with a penchant for brick, clad almost all his buildings in the material.
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Despite sitting neglected for years, the former school had only minimal damage including water intrusion in various locations and some superficial deterioration. “The building itself, the structure, the roof, and the exterior were in very good condition and needed a light touch,” Pfaehler says.
The Great Hall and Spoken Word Gallery feature an interactive sculpture that allows visitors to meet speakers and signers from around the globe to learn about their languages. BBB collaborated with Local Projects, the lead experience designer to create the exhibitions. COURTESY LOCAL PROJECTS, RAY WHITEHOUSE
Designing modern interiors within historic buildings can be challenging, but the Franklin School was so well designed that the team was able to take a subtle approach. Because of the sloping site, the architects moved the entrance and a new terrace to the north side on K Street to meet accessibility needs.
From there, visitors enter a main hall on the first floor slightly above street level, while the level below holds the back-of-house spaces such as a staff lounge and storage. As one proceeds upward, most of the gallery spaces flank the north side of the building, while the south side accommodates a restaurant on the ground floor, an auditorium on the first floor, a series of classrooms on the second floor, and a paid exhibit on the third floor. “The design maintains the use and the function of those old spaces, and we didn’t have to modify them much in terms of how they were laid out and finished,” Pfaehler says.
BBB rehabilitated an existing central space on the third floor, turning it into the Great Hall, an event space and the Spoken World gallery. Previously unused attic space was also transformed into an event space called the Mansard Room, which features exposed timber framing. The two rooms showcase original craftsmanship, including frescoes with replicated trompe l’oeil details. The team also retained the cast-iron stairs, adding glass and a new handrail to meet code.
A mirrored ceiling inside the Schwarzman Family Library doubles the impact of the room’s rich wooden detailing. COURTESY JOSEPH ROMERO
Not all of the architects’ interventions were visible. “We had to get pretty creative in terms of heating, cooling, and ventilating the space because we had limited areas where we could put large cooling towers,”
Pfaehler says. “We had to make them almost [disappear] on one side on the fourth floor, opposite the Mansard Room. On the north side, we have a roof terrace, but on the south side, we have the mechanical systems hidden behind a low fence.”
Ultraviolet lights with mechanical scrubbers clean the air, and to meet the district’s strict stormwater runoff requirements, the architects added a retention system and a low-profile vegetated roof to absorb as much rainwater as possible.
The result of their efforts is a light-filled museum with high ceilings, sumptuous millwork in the second-floor Schwarzman Family Library, and restored arch windows that add drama inside and out.
“Visitors to the museum comment on how the beauty of the restored building enhances and complements their experience,” Friedman says. “The restoration and rehabilitation of the Franklin School has exceeded my expectations.”
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You Are Here : Home / About us/ News and media / Latest news / Surf Coast Shire Council elects new Mayor, Cr Liz Pattison
Surf Coast Shire Council elects new Mayor, Cr Liz Pattison
Published on 15 November 2022
Surf Coast Shire Council has elected Cr Liz Pattison as Mayor.
Cr Pattison is excited to take on the role for the one-year term, and will be supported by Deputy Mayor Cr Mike Bodsworth.
“I look forward to representing the community,” Mayor Pattison said after being elected at a Council meeting on Tuesday 15 November. “I enjoy working with and hearing from the community, and I want to empower our community to do more in the fiscally-restrained environment we’re currently in.”
The election of Mayor Pattison marks the midway point of delivering on the Council Plan.
“It’s an important time. I’m excited to keep gaining momentum on the Surf Coast Aquatic and Health Centre campaign, as we seek the final $4.5 million in funding needed to make the vision a reality,” she said.
“Achieving the best result for the Karaaf Wetlands, navigating the next steps of the Distinctive Areas and Landscapes Program, learning and growing as part of our Reconciliation commitment, and acting on the Climate Emergency to conserve our local environment standout as other important goals and projects.
“Thinking about the community’s immediate needs, responding to the recent wet weather impacts to help keep people safe is front-of-mind.”
Outgoing Mayor Cr Libby Stapleton reflected on her two years in the role.
“It has been such a privilege to represent this Council and community. I am grateful for the support from my fellow councillors, Council officers, and the broader community,” she said.
“As a team, we’ve achieved important outcomes for the shire - from environmental leadership and taking steps on our Reconciliation journey, to advocacy efforts and progressing opportunities for affordable accommodation across the shire.
“I look forward to supporting our next Mayor and Deputy, as they continue to fulfill our vision to leave the Surf Coast better than we found it.”
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Surf Coast Shire Council spans the lands of the Wadawurrung People of the Kulin nation, and the Gulidjan and Gadubanud Peoples of the Eastern Maar nation. We acknowledge them as the Traditional Owners and Protectors of this place. We pay our respects to their Elders past, present, and future who continue on this path.
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Interesting Christmas Traditions in Spain
For many Spaniards, Christmas is synonymous with tradition and celebration. We have many traditions and some of them are quite curious. Let's take a look at some of the ones that stand out the most.
Have you seen those representations of the birth of the baby Jesus displayed in many places, from individual homes to shopping malls? They are called "belenes" in Spanish (nativity scenes in English), and are a tradition that came to Spain from Naples thanks to King Charles III in the 18th century.
Another tradition that we owe to the notorious Charles III, which was also brought from Naples is the special raffle, the Christmas Lottery, popularly called "El Gordo" (the big one). This lottery has been played since 1763, and the most interesting thing about it is that the famous children from San Ildefonso School have called out the winning numbers since 1771.
In Spain we also sing Christmas carols; although it would be more accurate to say that carols are also sung in other countries because these songs have their origin in Spain. The first songs dedicated to Christmas were heard in our country sometime in the 15th century. Many specialists think that they come from "cantigas" (medieval poems from Galicia) and from mozarabic poems. The name "villancico" (Christmas carol) comes from those who sung them, people who lived in the town (villa, villanos).
The most traditional Christmas treat in Spain, turrón (turron, or nougat), also has Medieval origins. The irony is that this delicacy associated with a Christian celebration was created by Muslims in the al-Andalus era (from the 8th to the 15th centuries). But, why do we eat these sweets at this time of year? Antonio Martínez is to "blame." He was the head chef for Phillip II, who showed that the majority of the artisans from Jijona (the city specialized in making these sweets) were paid in turron at Christmas time.
Marzipan also has an interesting story: it's mentioned in "A Thousand and One Nights" as the perfect food for getting through Ramadan; so few doubt its origin in al-Andalus. But this sweet treat was made famous in Christian Spain thanks to Alfonso VII of León and Castile (11th century), who ate it for desert. Its link to the religion is due in part to the legend that affirms that thanks to marzipan, the nuns of San Clemente saved the population of Toledo from a terrible famine.
At the end of Christmas, and specifically on the day of the Three Kings (January 6) roscón a round cake, typical of the day is served. Part of its charm is that there is a surprise baked into the cake. It is said that the custom comes from the Middle Ages, although at that time, the present was a fava bean. The fact that the cake holds a little toy or a figurine comes from the time of Philip V of Spain, the grandson on King Luis XIV of France, who kept the custom of hiding a gold coin in one of the sweets in the palace for the fun of the nobles from Versailles going. When making the roscón, a popular treat, classes of humbler means changed the gold coin for a more affordable present.
But it's possible that the most fun Christmas tradition is eating 12 grapes as the bells ring in the New Year. This one is a recent tradition whose origin divides the experts; some say that the tradition has its origins in 1909 to try to sell an excess of Vinalopó grapes (from Alicante); others cite the News Year's Eve of 1882, when some youngsters from Madrid decided to parody the bourgeois tradition of eating grapes and champagne at the new year.
And finally, we should bring up a tradition that, even if it is Dutch, is very close to us. St. Nicholas, the man in charge of bringing presents to all children comes from Spain! It appears that the real St. Nicholas never passed through our country, so we wonder about the reason for this tradition.
What do you think? We hope that you'll be able to experience all of these traditions on your trip to Spain.
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Carestream Health's Radiography Systems Built with INTEGRITY - Green Hills Software Development Tools
Carestream Health's Radiography Systems Built with INTEGRITY
Life Critical Systems Depend on Green Hills Software
SANTA BARBARA, CA —May 13, 2008—Green Hills Software, Inc., the technology leader in device software optimization (DSO) and real-time operating systems (RTOS), today announced that Carestream Health, Inc., a leader in medical and dental imaging and information technology solutions, is using Green Hills Software's Platform for Medical Devices, including the safety-certified INTEGRITY® real-time operating system and MULTI® integrated development environment, in the DirectView Classic and DirectView Elite Computed Radiography (CR) Systems.
"We selected Green Hills Software's comprehensive operating systems, development tools, and middleware solution because of our requirements for performance and reliability," commented Doug Baker, lead engineer, Carestream Health. "Green Hills' Platform for Medical Devices is a world class solution for medical systems manufacturers.
"Computed radiography is an excellent example of how software content of medical systems is growing rapidly as manufacturers seek to increase functionality, improve usability and enhance connectivity," said David Kleidermacher, chief technology officer, Green Hills Software. "We are pleased that Carestream Health put its trust in Green Hills Software to help bring these industry leading CR systems to market."
About the Carestream DirectView Classic and DirectView Elite CR Systems
Ideal for hospitals, diagnostic imaging centers, multi-specialty clinics, and private practices, the company's KODAK DirectView CR Systems are designed for distributed and central CR applications where image quality, rapid image availability, lower costs, and high departmental productivity are critical success factors. The KODAK DirectView CR Systems are highly configurable, small, easy to install and easy to use. Configuration choices consist of: reader performance, user console, and various software options including the Kodak DirectView EVP Plus Software and image processing that delivers the high image quality expected of KODAK DirectView products.
Green Hills Software's INTEGRITY RTOS, the core of the Platform, is a true real-time operating system that carries credentials for reliability, availability, and serviceability, including use in many FDA/CDRH Class II and III-approved life-critical medical devices. The Platform provides a complete software development solution that helps device makers increase productivity and drastically reduce development cost, per-unit cost, program risk, and product time-to-market. INTEGRITY is fully integrated with a complete range of feature-rich middleware components for interaction with other applications and systems in the medical device environment. With the Platform for Medical Devices, Green Hills Software offers complete medical device consulting, regulatory assistance, development, audit, and approval services.
Carestream Health, formerly Eastman Kodak Company's Health Group, is an independent subsidiary of Onex Corporation, Toronto, Canada. With revenue of $2.54 billion (U.S.) and more than 8,100 employees, Carestream Health is a world leader in medical and dental imaging and information technology solutions; molecular imaging systems; and non-destructive testing products. The company's products and services are present in 90 percent of hospitals worldwide. Visit Carestream Health on the web at www.carestreamhealth.com.
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Quick Answer: Is Boiled Meat Healthy? - lisarossinspiration.com
Thus you're totally right – boiling meat is generally the worst way to cook it for flavor.
Braising meat can be a good solution, but that's very different from a boil.
But if you start the meat in a much gentler cooking method with lower temperature, such as boiling, you will get much better meat quality..
Meats cooked at 212 degrees Fahrenheit lost 40 percent of their myosin heavy chain proteins, while cooking at 284 Fahrenheit resulted in an 80 percent loss.
Par-boiling or blanching meats in east asian cuisine is done to get rid of excess fat and gaminess the meat might bring to a dish. … Soups and broths also become way clearer with less scum to remove – which is what a lot of SEA and Chinese cuisine are after.
about 30 minutesDepending on the quantity, size and the cut of meat you use, the beef should be fully cooked at about 30 minutes in total. NOTE: You do not need a lot of water for this recipe, meat produces its own liquid, adding too much water would just water down the flavour of the overall dish.
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Microsoft moved Disaster Recovery for Microsoft Stores to Azure.. on Thanksgiving Day.. in 23 minutes - OnMSFT.com
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Microsoft moved Disaster Recovery for Microsoft Stores to Azure.. on Thanksgiving Day.. in 23 minutes
February 14, 2017 by Michael Cottuli
We've all heard stories from retail workers about what a disaster Black Friday can be, but how many stories have you heard that depicts the utter chaos of running the IT operation on that critical eve of sales craziness? Microsoft used its latest blog post to share the story of Navaneetha Krishnan Thankanadar, the principal service engineering manager in Microsoft IT, and his 23-minute rush to move retail operations to the cloud.
A Christmas Story: #Azure delivers failover joy at #Microsoft Stores. https://t.co/IBqnKHCXnJ pic.twitter.com/6Yo5mK0Myr
— Microsoft Azure (@Azure) February 14, 2017
The story is exceptionally well-written and does a good job of portraying what kind of pressure IT professionals are in when they have to manage the incredible amounts of money being tossed around during the dreaded Black Friday season. It also, as these blogs often are, is an excellent showcase of why Azure - and the cloud in general - is making so many strides in technology of all kinds. We won't spoil the story for you here, but it's an inspiring show of confidence that, with the right tools and planning, you can make any crunch time work in your favor.
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Confusing Error Page Behavior » General Questions
Confusing Error Page Behavior
8 May 2009 at 4:24am
I know that to get the 404 page not found error page working you have to change the urlsegment to "404". However it makes no sense to me why the system will auto generate an error page during a dev/build but you have to go in and change the page to make it work. Also once you change the urlsegment, another dev/build will auto generate another page-not-found page that I have to delete each and every time.
It seems to me that since the error page is auto generated at dev/build and often with templates that are unfinished as they are in the development stage, maybe a better way could be made.
At the end of a project when a site is going to go live I always have to open up the 404.html page in assets and manually fix tons of errors and issues. I would rather have a button or an action like ?generate404=1 that will make the error page when I am ready to make it.
Of course it is possible that I am missing something important here and the way it is being done may be better than my proposed way.
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Asia Pacific stocks close: on 09.01.2012 - TeleTrade
Asian stock markets were mostly lower on Monday as continued concerns over the outlook for Europe overshadowed better-than-expected US jobs data on Friday, and pushed the euro to fresh lows against the US dollar and the Japanese yen. Concerns abound about the ability of European leaders to find a comprehensive solution to the eurozone's ongoing sovereign-debt and banking crisis amid growing worries over the outlook for Greece, Italy and Spain. Monday brings a meeting between French President Nicolas Sarkozy and German Chancellor Angela Merkel. The uncertainty eclipsed positive US economic data on Friday, which showed a drop in the US unemployment rate to its lowest level since February 2009.
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We're delighted to announce this new edition RS4 Sport 3 BMW M3 E30 draped in the famous BMW Warsteiner livery and a tribute to the Schnitzer Motorsport machine piloted by Roberto Ravaglia to many years of success - Notably the World Touring Car Championship win in 1987!
With so many fantastic machines running the illustrious BMW livery, it didn't take us long to settle on which version to replicate, as every true Touring Car fan will know the name Roberto Ravaglia, winner of Spa 24hr, DTM and many others.
Under the hood, this 1/10th scale classic BMW is built on the fan favourite HPI Racing Touring Car chassis, the RS4 Sport 3. With full time shaft driven 4WD, a fully sealed drivetrain, waterproof 2.4 GHz electronics/radio gear, fully independent double wishbone suspension and adjustable oil filled shocks, you'll be ready to shred in any condition.
Completing the car is a set of BBS RS Mesh wheels, each wrapped in our tried and tested 26mm SPEC-GRIP rubber tires for fantastic acceleration, braking and cornering performance on any surface
STUNNING REPLICA BBS WHEELS
The RS4 SPORT 3 Warsteiner BMW E30 runs on stunning replica, BBS RS Mesh wheels, synonymous with the early 80's BMW M series cars. Our 1/10 versions feature highly detailed and strong mesh spokes with details of the originals iconic two piece design completed by a painted finish in Gold and Silver.
HPI SPEC-GRIP TIRES FOR MAX TRACTION
Each wheel is wrapped in our tried and tested 26mm SPEC-GRIP rubber tires complete with multi condition tread and high traction rubber "K" compound for maximum grip on just about every paved surface. You'll get great acceleration, braking and cornering performance from these semi-slick, grippy rubber tires! The tires are molded in a durable, long-wearing rubber compound that will give you a long life for hours of fun and enjoyment.
Replica Classic BMW M3 E30 Warsteiner Body
The famous three stripe racing liveries have donned BMW's race cars since the 1970s have become iconic to the M
brand through today. The blue stands for BMW, red for motorsport and violet for the unique combination of
the two. Piloting this Warsteiner branded car, Roberto Ravaglia is one of the most successful racing drivers of this era and winner of seven titles in four different championships
and every detail of his World beating 1987 car has been replicated for this special edition of the RS4 SPORT 3.
One-Piece Molded Chassis
The main chassis is formed from a single piece of reinforced plastic and features the drivetrain tunnel molded right down the middle, just like a real car. It's a step beyond any plastic tub chassis car available today.
Low Profile Layout Design
One of the ways we gave the RS4 Sport 3 the best possible handling was to make sure all the components fit as low as possible in the chassis. This gives the car an amazingly low center of gravity for optimum cornering capabilities.
2S LiPo CAPABLE
The RS4 Sport 3 features a versatile electronic speed controller that can be used with modern lithium-polymer (LiPo) or nickel-metal hydride (NiMH) batteries. Please note a LiPo adapter plug is not included, your model shop will be able to provide one.
Fits a Wide Variety of Batteries
The RS4 Sport 3 chassis can fit lithium-polymer (LiPo) and nickel-metal hydride (NiMH) packs of various sizes, including the extra-long 7-cell NiMH packs. Whatever your power requirements, it can hold it all! A thick hook-and-loop strap holds the pack securely in place, and a simple battery block screws into place to allow you to adjust the weight distribution forward or backward for extra steering or acceleration.
Full-Time Four-Wheel Drive
The RS4 Sport 3 features full-time four-wheel drive to give you the most control and precision on the road or track. All four wheels are driven by heavy duty gear differentials at the front and rear, just like a real car. The extra traction gives you increased acceleration and cornering control for maximum confidence and fun.
Sealed Shaft Drivetrain
The drivetrain of all the RS4 Sport 3 models features the motor mounted longitudinally in the molded chassis, next to the long driveshaft that goes down the center of the car. The entire drivetrain, including the central driveshaft and gear diffs, is completely sealed to prevent dirt, rocks and debris from damaging or binding the drivetrain. The driveshaft, diffs and axles spin on ball bearings to maximize drivetrain efficiency.
Bottom-Access Driveshaft
The central driveshaft that connects the front and rear differentials is easily accessed from underneath the chassis. This allows the drivetrain to be completely sealed to protect it from rocks and debris no matter where you may want to drive your car.
Option: Carbon Fiber Driveshaft Cover
You can easily replace the stock driveshaft cover on the bottom of the chassis with a carbon fiber cover that provides extra stiffness and extra-cool looks.
Easy Access Differentials
Getting to the differentials for quick adjustments is a matter of removing just 4 screws - this allows you to pop out the diff and change the grease, check the gears or just give it a general service.
4-Gear Metal Diffs
Bevel gear differentials at each end of the car transfer power from the driveshaft to the dogbones and axles that drive each wheel. The all-metal construction allows the drivetrain to withstand powerful brushless motors for easy upgrading in the future. Rubber-sealed ball bearings support the differentials and each diff can be tuned independently by changing the diff grease.
Option: Diff Spool
The optional diff spool removes all diff action for direct traction and braking action from your trigger finger straight to the wheels.
Double-Wishbone Fully Adjustable Suspension
The suspension of the RS4 Sport 3 uses the race-proven double-wishbone suspension design, similar to a full-scale modern race car. You’ll be able to control the anti-squat and anti-dive of the front and rear arms using the standard pivot blocks, and the option parts allow you to adjust the sweep and toe angles. You'll also be able to easily change the roll center front and rear with the racing-style vertical ballstud mounting on both the inner and outer camber link mounts. Multiple shock mounting positions provide a full range of shock suspension angle adjustment to suit different road conditions.
MULTIPLE SHOCK POSITIONS
Option: Carbon Fiber Shock Towers
The option pair of carbon fiber shock towers not only look amazing, but also adds extra stiffness to the suspension for optimal performance. The carbon fiber material is extra-lightweight which lowers the center of gravity on the RS4 Sport 3 as well.
Oil-Filled Threaded Shocks
The RS4 Sport 3 is fitted with a set composite coilover-style oil-filled shocks, just like what you'd see on a real race car! The fully adjustable shocks are fully tunable to provide the optimum chassis performance on a wide variety of road surfaces. The ride height is quickly adjustable by using the threaded shock collars. Further tuning adjustments are also possible by changing the springs and shock oil weight.
Option: Anodized Aluminum Threaded Shocks
For optimum performance, you'll want a set of anodized aluminum threaded shocks that are machined to perfection. The full anodized aluminum threaded shock body, aluminum shock collar, aluminum top and bottom caps will allow you to make the most precise tuning adjustments.
Tough Front End Suspension
The RS4 Sport 3 front end uses the strong C-hub style suspension seen on the latest RC touring cars, with a vertical ball stud camber mount that lets you change the front end roll center – which is a critical racing adjustment that allows the RS4 Sport 3 to be a step above other sport-level RC touring cars. The suspension arm also features multiple shock mounting holes for easy shock angle adjustment.
Tunable Rear Suspension
The rear hub is fitted with a vertical ball stud style adjustment that allows easy adjustment of the rear roll center. Moving the ball stud up or down with the optional spacers changes the traction characteristics of the rear end as the car goes through the turns. The suspension arm also features 3 different shock mounting holes for easy shock angle adjustment.
Option: CVD Driveshafts
The optional all-in-one CVD drive shafts greatly increases the precision and efficiency of the entire driveline and steering for maximum driving performance.
Double Bellcrank Steering
The performance tested adjustable double bell crank system provides optimum steering precision at all speeds. A metal drag link plate connects the cranks for extra durability, the additional drag link mounting positions also allows for Ackermann angle adjustments.
Rugged Spring-Loaded Servo Saver
The RS4 Sport 3 includes an adjustable multipiece cam-style servo saver, which protects the servo from crash damage. In the event of a crash or collision, the front wheels usually take a big portion of the blow and transmits the impact directly to the steering servo. The strong spring-loaded cam action of the servo saver is designed to absorb this force and protect the servo gears from the impact!
Aluminum Motor Mount
The cast aluminum cam-style motor mount holds the motor in place for a secure pinion/spur connection. Two screws hold the cam firmly in position on the mount, and cooling fins on the lateral support aid heat dissipation to keep the motor running as efficiently as possible.
Metal-Shielded Ball Bearings
The RS4 Sport 3 is fully fitted with a set of metal-shielded ball bearings for maximum efficiency. The metal shields keep the dust away from the internals while the smooth precision bearings provides for optimum power delivery from the power source out into the driveline.
Rugged Front Bumper
To protect the front suspension, chassis and body from impacts big and small, an extra thick foam bumper is securely fastened to the front of the RS4 Sport 3.
Customize Your Look
A huge variety of option bodies, wheels and tires from HPI lets you fully customize the style of your RS4 Sport 3 to suit your style.
Adjustable Height Body Mounts
The adjustable height body mounts let you fit any 1/10th scale touring car body from HPI Racing on to the RS4 Sport 3 chassis. All you need to do is adjust the front and rear body mounts to allow the wheels and chassis elements to fit properly underneath the body. Body pins hold the mounts in place, and the multiple mounting hole positions allow you to fine-tune the exact body fitment.
Body Choices
You can fit any 1/10th scale touring car body from HPI Racing onto the RS4 Sport 3, from hot hatches to supercars, pick-up trucks to supertouring racers. All you need to do is adjust the body mounts front and rear to allow the wheels to fit underneath the body properly. A simple system using body pins hold the mounts in place, and you can fine-tune the fit to get the exact ride height you want.
Comprehensive Instruction Manual
All HPI Racing kits include a detailed multi-language instruction manual. Exploded diagrams and extensive information about your RS4 Sport 3 ensures that you have the knowhow when it comes to maintaining and upgrading your kit. You can also download a digital version of the manual to your personal electronic device and keep it with you for easy reference on the go.
Download the Free RS4 Sport 3 poster Here!
Brighten up your RC workspace with a FREE poster featuring the RS4 Sport 3! Just click here to download it, then print it out or use it as your tablet or computer wallpaper!
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for Your RS4 Sport 3
Once you've got your RS4 Sport 3, add it to your MYhpi garage to get direct information about what will make your car faster, more adjustable and easier to tune. Add your entire HPI collection to your MYhpi garage so you can directly access manuals, videos, tips and help for each of your HPI cars!
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Tom Cruise isn't WWII film's biggest mistake
Cast: Tom Cruise, Kenneth Branagh, Bill Nighy, Tom Wilkinson, Carice Van Houten, Thomas Kretschmann,
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'I see in this the hand of providence,â?� a familiar bark swells through a cowed Berlin, 'directing me to complete my work.â?� German dictator Adolf Hitler was speaking in triumph after another failed assassination attempt ' the valkyries, those mythic deciders of battle, had chosen him once again and he would bathe in the blood of traitors. And why wouldn't he feel divinely blessed? By this time, Europe was at his feet; hell, he was even on the birthday-card list of the Catholic Church.
And so he survived and took his revenge, and so our movie ends. It's no spoiler to reveal that the ensemble of this problematic film did not achieve their goal ' that Hitler ate cyanide and a bullet and was burned to a crisp less than a year after the aborted coup is a common, feel-good bedtime story. But director Bryan Singer hopes the conspirators' journey to an inglorious end is worth enjoying, and it might have been in a different film that was willing to stop jogging so hard.
Considering the seemingly cursed production of Valkyrie (protests over Tom Cruise's casting as the German resistance leader, monetary settlements to injured extras), it's a feat that the thriller feels unremarkable. True-life events play out like a CliffsNotes summary page, saving little time for domestic fluffing or sociopolitical commentary. The broad strokes lull the viewer just enough to forget how important Cruise's Col. Claus von Stauffenberg was and how grandly his big-screen adaptation should probably play. Valkyrie's very blandness becomes its greatest asset, since the film doesn't stand up to close scrutiny.
The script, by a long-dormant Christopher McQuarrie (The Usual Suspects), emphasizes visceral code words for a mass American audience and that, more than Cruise's rigid performance, burdens the film with simple-mindedness: 'Hitler is evil and we must kill him,â?� 'We object to all the genocideâ?� and 'We will die if caught,â?� to paraphrase half the movie.
Singer is competent in his no-frills cram session, but the production is a showy marvel. Reports from the Berlin set suggested he landed in minor trouble for his liberal decoration of historical sites with swastikas ' a crime in present-day Germany ' but the design is the only element of an otherwise stiff film worth swooning over, so it was worth the scrapes.
It's also wise of Singer and McQuarrie to shift the focus away from a Tom Cruise Hero Role and let him simply lead a reliable frontline of supporting actors. A pudgy Kenneth Branagh paves the way in a self-contained first act as Major-Gen. Henning von Tresckow, whose own malfunctioned plot to kill the Führer was a prototype for Stauffenberg's. Bill Nighy is almost unrecognizable ' so riddled with doubt is he as Gen. Friedrich Olbricht, the man on whom so much rests, that he practically disappears within his own reservations. Veteran Brit day player David Bamber as Hitler is arch and all too human.
Valkyrie's a fine effort from all involved, but its scope is neutered by an edit job that lops off, I suspect, all but the relevant portions until little is left but a protein shake; the essentials are there, but at the expense of flavor.
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What To Expect When Your Favorite Company Reports | Seeking AlphaSign in / Join NowGO»Market NewsStock IdeasDividendsMarket OutlookInvesting StrategyETFs & FundsEarningsPROWhat To Expect When Your Favorite Company ReportsJul. 13, 2012 9:40 AM ET| | Includes: AAPL, FB, GOOG, INTC, ISRG, MSFT, NFLX, PCLN, PM, S, SODA, T, VZ, YHOOby: Bill MaurerBill Maurer Follow Long/short equity, long only, short only, growthSend MessageEarnings season has just begun, and things are really about to heat up. As we get closer to the bulk of companies reporting, I'm here today to cover a number of companies that I'll be following, including several of which I will write earnings wrap ups for. Today, I'll discuss about a dozen or so names, where the estimates stand for each, and for some, a brief analysis. For this article, I'll go in order of when each will report (based on the most recent announcements).
Intel (INTC): Intel will report on July 17th after the bell. As I recently discussed, analysts see weakness ahead for Intel. A number of analysts have cut this quarter's (Q2) estimates as well as their full year numbers, based on macroeconomic weakness, both in the U.S. and Europe, as well as the anticipation of Windows 8 product releases later this year. Current Q2 estimates call for a 4.1% increase in revenues to $13.57 billion. Earnings per share are forecast to decline by two cents to $0.52, and Intel has beaten estimates in the past four quarters. As I noted in the above linked article, multiple Intel analysts think Intel will cut its full year revenue forecast next week. Analysts currently see full year revenue growth of 5%, and the latest Intel forecast was for 7% to 9% growth.
Yahoo (YHOO): The struggling internet name will also report July 17th after the bell. Revenues are currently forecast to rise by just 1.8% to $1.10 billion. Earnings per share are forecast to rise by a nickel to $0.23. Yahoo has beaten analyst estimates in two of the past four quarters, matching estimates in the other two quarters. Investors will be looking to hear how Yahoo's search for a permanent CEO is coming.
Verizon (VZ): The first insight into iPhone numbers will come when Verizon reports before the bell on July 19th. Current estimates call for a 3.7% revenue increase to $28.54 billion. Earnings per share are forecast to rise from $0.57 to $0.64. Verizon has beat earnings estimates in three of the past four quarters, while missing one. Verizon offers many different services, but a lot of the headlines will focus on the iPhone numbers.
Philip Morris (PM): Philip Morris will also report on the morning of the 19th. The company recently took down full year guidance due to currency headwinds. Currently, Q2 estimates call for a 2.9% decline in revenues to $8.04 billion. Earnings per share are expected to remain at $1.34, thanks to the company buying back billions of dollars worth of shares each year. Philip Morris is a great value name (see any of my articles), but wait for a pullback from the 52-week high before buying.
Intuitive Surgical (ISRG): All eyes will be on the technology and healthcare giant when the company reports on the afternoon of the 19th. This will be an especially interesting report after the blowup from Mako Surgical (MAKO). Current estimates call for ISRG to report revenue growth of 22.6% to $521.77 million. Earnings per share are forecasted to jump from $2.91 to $3.53. Intuitive Surgical is known for blowing out estimates, which it has done especially in recent times, and will need to do so again to justify the high valuation with which this stock trades at.
Microsoft (MSFT): Microsoft will be one of two tech giants to report after the bell on the 19th, one of this quarter's biggest earnings days. Microsoft's revenues are forecast to increase by 4.6% to $18.16 billion. Earnings per share are forecast to decline, however, from $0.69 to $0.62. That earnings decline estimate has increased over the past two months, as analysts have taken down their overall estimate by 4 cents. Microsoft has beaten earnings estimates in three of the past four quarters, and matched estimates in the other quarter. Analysts and investors will surely be listening in for more details on Windows 8 product releases, including that of the new Surface tablet.
Google (GOOG): Google will also release earnings that afternoon, probably within minutes of Microsoft. Analysts are looking for revenues of $8.55 billion, up 23.7% from last year's period. That number is after subtracting traffic acquisition costs. Including TACs, Google reported revenues of $9.03 billion in the prior year quarter. On a non-GAAP basis, analysts are looking for $10.05 in EPS compared to last year's $8.74 (that's the non-GAAP number). Google's Nexus tablet was recently announced, and long investors are hoping that the product offering can help shares get out of the range. Google shares have underperformed the market over the past few years, and have been stuck in a range for most of that time.
AT&T (T): The second round of iPhone activation numbers will come in on the morning of July 24th. Analysts are looking for a 1.1% revenue increase to $31.85 billion. Earnings per share are expected to increase even more, from $0.60 to $0.63. Like Verizon, AT&T is much more than just a seller of the iPhone, but that is a number that many people are going to be watching closely.
Apple (AAPL): Just a few hours later that day (24th), Apple will report its fiscal third quarter earnings after the bell. With the first full selling quarter in the U.S., the iPad is expected to do tremendous unit sales numbers. However, iPhone numbers are expected to decline from Q2 as consumers hold back purchases waiting for the new version later this year. That will pressure margins a bit. Current estimates call for revenues to soar by 30.9% to $37.41 billion. Earnings per share are expected to rise from $7.79 to $10.39. Apple always beats its own expectations, and that is the key. It has beat analysts' expectations in three of the past four quarters, with one quarterly "miss" where expectations were just too high. Look for Apple to report a good quarter, and expect their guidance to be very conservative. Apple usually provides conservative guidance, and with many expecting low iPhone sales next quarter in anticipation of the new model, guidance will definitely below what the street is looking for currently.
Netflix (NFLX): The good news for Netflix is that if they have a bad report, it will be buried in the headlines because they are reporting the same afternoon as Apple. The bad news for Netflix is that if they report a good quarter, it will be buried in the headlines because they are reporting the same afternoon as Apple. After stating on the Q1 report that Q2 subscriber adds would be slow due to seasonality effects, Netflix shares plunged as investors again thought growth was peaking. Current estimates call for revenues to grow by 12.7% over last year to $888.96 million, mostly thanks to the growth in international markets. Netflix is losing revenues from its DVD segment as it shifts to a streaming business moving forward. Because of that, and the international expansion, Netflix earnings per share are forecast to fall from $1.26 to just five cents. Netflix has actually crushed analyst estimates over the past four quarters, but investors will be focused on the guidance. If they can prove that subscriber numbers are growing, this stock can rise. But if this "seasonality" turns out to be more than a one quarter issue, Netflix shares will see new lows before the end of the summer.
Sprint (S): Two days after we get the total iPhone number, we'll see how many of those phones were sold by Sprint. Sprint is hoping that their unlimited plan steals customers from Verizon and AT&T. The company is also deep in debt, upgrading its network, and losing tons of money. Analysts believe that Sprint's revenues will increase by 5.1% to $8.73 billion. However, forecasts call for earnings per share to decline to a loss of 40 cents from last year's Q2 loss of 28 cents. Sprint has beaten estimates handily in the past three quarters, only because estimates have been extremely low. I wouldn't not be surprised if Sprint beats estimates, but still posts a year over year decline in earnings. Margins are coming down thanks to the iPhone.
Facebook (FB): Later that afternoon (the 26th), Facebook will report its first quarterly earnings as a public company, after the bell. It will be a very widely watched event, probably just as big as the Apple report, even though it shouldn't be. Current estimates call for $1.15 billion in revenues and $0.12 in earnings. But I personally don't care about the numbers, not yet anyway. For this report, I'm more concerned about how they present themselves. I am curious to find out how the earnings release is structured, who will talk on the call, and how the call will be structured. At this point, I'm more concerned about the process, especially after the IPO fiasco. The financials will matter to most, but not to me, not right away anyway.
Priceline (PCLN): The online travel giant will report on August 7th after the bell. After Priceline gave its usual conservative guidance with last quarter's report, investors feared that problems in Europe were taking more than just a small toll on Priceline's revenues and earnings. We'll see in about a month. Analysts are looking for a 22.8% rise in revenues to $1.35 billion. Earnings per share are expected to jump from $5.49 to $7.36. Priceline has beaten estimates handily in the past four quarters. It does give conservative guidance often, and that has knocked down the stock in the past a couple of times, even when they have beaten estimates quite nicely.
SodaStream (SODA): SodaStream, the company that allows you to make your own soda at home, will report the morning of August 8th. This is the first quarter they will be officially reporting (and analysts will be estimating) results in U.S. dollars (formerly used euros). Current estimates call for a 17.2% jump in revenues to $90.58 million. Earnings per share are forecast to rise from $0.42 to $0.46. This high-growth company had one of the biggest stock collapses of 2011. It has rallied back a bit from its lows, but it remains a short seller favorite. If they miss expectations, it will be questioned as a fad. If they beat, investors will want them to keep proving it. A lot of their business comes from Europe, so we'll see how that (and currency fluctuations) have affected operations.
These are just 14 investor favorites scheduled to report over the next month. I could go on, but you get the picture. Q2 earnings season is now in full bloom, and this is what's currently expected of these names. As always, you should always do your research before entering either a long or short position into these names, especially around earnings reports. They tend to increase volatility and price swings are generally much larger. Fortunes can be made, but they also can be lost. Be smart, but most of all, enjoy earnings season!
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http://seekingalpha.com/article/719301-what-to-expect-when-your-favorite-company-reports
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UK COVID-19 variant could lead to another surge in the Memphis area
"Widening that distribution will help us scale up more quickly so we can prevent surges whether it's the UK strain or any other variant strain," she said.
Related news:Should pregnant women, children get the COVID-19 vaccine? Memphis doctor weighs in
Threlkeld said the variant increases the stakes, locally.
"If you have an effective vaccine but you're not giving it, that doesn't really help us," he said.
Shelby County Health Department officials first announced on Tuesday a suspected case of the variant had been identified locally.
Although the virus was sequenced at the biocontainment lab at UTHSC, the health department has to wait for confirmation from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention before it can officially say the specimen is the UK variant.
Hospital news:To keep them out of the hospital, Baptist to treat some patients from their own homes
Nationally, the strain remains relatively rare. The CDC reported 541 cases across 33 states as of Tuesday. California and Florida host a plurality of those cases while two are confirmed in Tennessee. The South African strain B.1.351 and Brazilian strain P.1 are even rarer with three and two cases confirmed domestically, respectively.
On Wednesday, Haushalter told the Shelby County Commission the health department, in conjunction with UTHSC and local healthcare systems, was "doing what we can to contain that particular case."
"We are treating it as a variant, which means we launched a very intensive case investigation with that individual and very intensive contact tracing with that individual," she said. "We may increase some testing in the community, just really encouraging more people to get tested."
'More hospitalizations, and potentially more deaths'
The B.1.1.7 variant, first detected in the U.S. in December, is one of multiple COVID-19 mutations identified in the U.S. since the pandemic began, according to the CDC.
The strain is known to be more contagious than others prevalent in the U.S., and preliminary reports show it could be associated with an increased risk of severe illness and death. However, more research needs to be done before those reports can be definitively confirmed.
Even if the mutant strain is not more lethal, its rapid spread could lead to an increase in deaths. The variants can also re-infect people who already had COVID-19.
"These variants seem to spread more easily and quickly than other variants, which may lead to more cases of COVID-19. An increase in the number of cases will put more strain on health care resources, lead to more hospitalizations, and potentially more deaths," according to the CDC.
That worries Morgan Jones, inpatient critical care clinical pharmacy specialist at Methodist University Hospital.
"The problem though is obviously the more we spread this variant, the more people may become infected. And living in Shelby County where we have a lot of at-risk patients with multiple comorbidities that will undoubtedly increase the strain on healthcare providers to care for these patients," he said.
More:Shelby County doctors surprised COVID-19 hospitalizations dropped this much in a week
Related:Got the COVID-19 vaccine? Here's how long you should wait before getting other vaccines
There were 332 people confirmed to have COVID-19 in Memphis-area hospitals as of 5 p.m. Wednesday, the most recent data available. That's down from an all-time high of 661 on Jan. 6.
"The ability to spread this strain may result in more people being infected. The more people who are infected may potentially mean more people in the hospital," Jones said. "We really all have to do our part right now to make sure we're socially distancing, washing our hands, wearing a mask and, again, getting a vaccine when we're able to."
At this point, he said, it appears the vaccines available are still effective against the known mutant strains at preventing hospitalizations and death. However the more the virus spreads, the more chance there is that it will mutate and it's possible a future mutation could be resistant to the available vaccines.
"This is a reminder that we're really not out of the woods yet and this pandemic is a marathon, not a sprint," Jones said.
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https://www.postsouth.com/story/news/local/coronavirus/2021/02/08/shelby-county-not-vaccinating-fast-enough-uk-coronavirus-variant/4376160001/
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…with the Russian foreign minister, Aleksandr, Count Izvolsky, and secured, so he thought, Russian approval of the proposed annexation in return for Austria’s support in having the Straits opened to Russian warships. On October 6, 1908, the annexation was announced, immediately bringing a violent reaction from Serbia. When Izvolsky found…
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How to Find a Concrete Contractor Your parking lot will last for long if you would use the concrete seal. Since the concrete seal is porous it allows salt and water to go through. So by looking for a great concrete contractor you would make it possible to seal your parking lot with concrete. Concrete seal done by a top-rated contractor would last for years. You would save money by investing in the services of a great contractor. Middlemen might make the concrete sealing expensive so you should involve a contractor who will source for everything right from the manufacturers. If your contractor would supply everything you would save o both time and money.
When dealing with the contractor you should expect courtesy from them, efficiency, professionalism, and they should be affordable.
The concrete sealing services should be affordable. You should not strain to pay for your in the concrete sealing; everything should fall within budget. You would be able to establish the best contractor by carrying out investigations. You would be able to make the right choice by reviewing the contractor you want to hire. By getting a referral from the contractor, you would be able to gain more insight. You should get more insight of the concrete contractor you hire. You should have knowledge of your contractor. The concrete sealing services you get should be of high quality. They should not waste time and resources. They should be able to offer you everything you need to concrete sealing. The agreed schedule should be followed by your contractor. Your contractor should report early for the job. You should be notified of their coming beforehand. Your contractor should handle the whole project professionally. Everything should fall into plan. You should be treated with respected by your contractor. You should be taken with high regards as a customer. Every doubt you have about the whole process of concrete sealing should be cleared by your contractor. The cost of your project should be well known to you beforehand. You should compare and contrast various contractors to find the best one to hire. Before you engage any contractor you should do research. To find the best concrete contractor you should dig for information. Concrete paving and sealing are one of the best ways to maintain your parking lot. The concrete sealing service your parking lots and pavements get should match with the value of money you pay.
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Institutional mechanism must for creating robust agri value chain management: Ashok Dalwai, NRAA | Rural Marketing
Author RM Bureau on 20 June 2020
India needs to build up an institutional mechanism both at the Centre and state levels to utilise the corpus of funds allocated to the agriculture sector so that a robust and integrated Agri value chain management can be created, Ashok Dalwai, CEO, National Rainfed Area Authority (NRAA), Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare, Govt of India said in a webinar Friday evening.
Speaking at the FICCI webinar on 'Positive Implications of Aatmanirbhar Bharat Package on Agriculture Sector', Dr Dalwai said, "Aatmanirbhar Bharat symbolises a kaleidoscope of agriculture sector interventions, comprising policy liberalisation and Agri-logistics upgrade. The two complement each other and are set to impart an accelerated pace to the growth of agriculture sector and overall economy of India." "Reforms announced under Aatmanirbhar Bharat is just the beginning and not the end. It will unleash an income revolution for our farmers," he added.
Dr Dalwai said that there was a change in thought process and now we look at agriculture as a business opportunity. He also mentioned that demand forecasting and digital farming will play a big role in the days to come.
During the webinar FICCI-GT Report on 'Decoding agriculture in India amid COVID-19 crisis' was released.
"Provision of financing facility of Rupees one lakh crore for building farm-gate infrastructure should be pursued in PPP (public-private-partnership) model so that maximum stakeholders can leverage the opportunity," said TR Kesavan, Chairman, FICCI National Agriculture Committee & Group President, Tractors and Farm Equipment (TAFE). He stressed upon the need for creation of an Agri Council in line with the GST Council for an integrated approach between the Centre, state and all concerned ministries.
Dr Ajai Kumar, Head Government and Industry Affairs-South Asia, Corteva Agriscience said, "Aatmanirbhar Bharat is a progressive concept where India not only becomes self-reliant but also plays an enhanced role in the global supply chain. He added that in these testing times when global supply chains had been disrupted and were shifting, India could play a meaningful role in supplying agri-inputs to the farmers across the globe.
Amit Mundawala, Executive Director, StarAgri Warehousing and Collateral Management said, "Aatmanirbhar Bharat package has given the required impetus to the agriculture sector which is going to lead the sector to the next growth phase." He congratulated the government for the three landmark ordinances that are definitely going to change the face of the agriculture sector in India.
Rahul Kapur, Partner, Grant Thornton India, said that the agriculture sector had again demonstrated its resilience during these trying times. The government had reconfirmed its commitment to the sector by giving it timely support. Going forward, agriculture would continue to support the economy and create jobs until the rest of the sectors stabilise.
Key highlights of FICCI–Grant Thornton report on 'Decoding agriculture in India amid COVID-19 crisis'
Creation of an Agri council on lines of the GST council to enable coordination and enforcement between Centre, state and other ministries.
Advance data analytics and network mapping to monitor produce flow and identify gaps is necessary for information on risks in supply chain. This will also be valuable while devising suitable strategies to curb post-production losses.
Larger allocation should be made in technology, farm mechanisation and research and development to ensure increased productivity and improved quality at global levels.
To improve the efficiency for agriculture input subsidies given by the government to the farmers, all the agri-input cost should be calculated based on one hectare and farmers should be given direct benefit transfer (DBT) as soon as the requirement arises.
Government needs to develop more custom hiring centres to enable small and marginal farmers for adopting use of machinery in farming activities at reasonable prices.
India should prioritise the export of value added agri food products. A step in this direction includes promoting India's food processing industry globally. Further, a more accommodative export policy, specifically with the export of foodgrains would help India secure a leading position in the global food supply chain.
Incentivising research and development in the sector and introducing a fast track regulatory regime would help attract greater investments in the sector.
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https://ruralmarketing.in/industry/agriculture/institutional-mechanism-must-for-creating-robust-agri-value-chain-management-ashok-dalwai-nraa
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The Truth About Oversized Air Conditioners | Leverage Band
Buying an Oversized AC: Consider These Things First
It is normal to assume that a bigger or a more powerful system is right for your home. The sad part is, this is not always the case. It is true that an extremely small unit is not the right way to go, but this is also the same for an oversized cooling system. You may not realize it, but this could lead to a host of problems such as higher bills, greater noise, and uneven temperatures.
Don't Replace Right Away
If you're not so happy with your cooling unit, you might think that you need to replace it with a bigger one. This may be possible, but it is important to find out the cause of the problem before making a decision. HVAC companies in Salt Lake City and other parts of Utah note that this is because it may be just due to air leaks, inadequate maintenance, or missing/lack of insulation.
Call HVAC experts to help you find and address the real cause of the problem. It is also important to make sure that your unit is sized properly. Note that manufacturers and companies make different sizes of cooling systems to efficiently cool a specific size of space. This will help lower your bills while also giving you the best comfort possible.
More Problems with an Oversized Unit
Keep in mind that a bigger unit is not always better, as it exacerbates uneven temperatures. If some areas of the room are cool and others are not, the size of AC is not the main problem. You can solve the problem by improving insulation or a weak duct system. An HVAC contractor can identify the underlying cause and find out whether it is practical to buy a new unit.
A bigger unit, furthermore, is not the solution if you want to cool your house immediately when you get home from work. The best and the most practical move is to use a programmable thermostat. An Internet-enabled device is also a good choice, so you can begin cooling home a few minutes or hours before you return from work.
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http://www.leverageband.com/home-and-garden/buying-an-oversized-ac-consider-these-things-first/
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Yesterday Liverpool overturned a three goal deficit in the second leg of the semi-final, to beat Barcelona 4-3 on aggregate and qualify for the Champions League final.
On the same day the government confirmed that the European elections will go ahead on 23 May, despite the fact that the country voted to leave the EU nearly three years ago in June 2016.
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360 Degree Video of Metal Allegiance's 'Pledge Allegiance'
Watch 360 Degree Footage of Metal Allegiance's 'Pledge of Allegiance' From 'Tribute to Fallen Heroes' Show
If you hadn't already heard, Metal Allegiance performed an all-star set in Anaheim, Calif. over the weekend (Jan. 20) as a 'Tribute to Fallen Heroes.' The band was joined by a myriad of rock and metal's finest (as well as the WWE's) to perform songs from musicians we've lost over the years, but not before tearing into the band anthem "Pledge of Allegiance," which can be viewed in the 360 degree video above.
Loudwire was on site to stream the full set (videos below), but now you can witness the band in action from any angle! The song is the closing track off the band's eponymous 2015 record and here, is performed by singer Mark Osegueda (Death Angel), guitarists Alex Skolnick (Testament) and Phil Demmel (Machine Head), bassists David Ellefson (Megadeth) and Mark Menghi as well as drummer Mike Portnoy (Winery Dogs, Neal Morse Band among others).
The night marked the first time in over one year that the band's core four members (Skolnick, Ellefson, Portnoy and Menghi) performed together due to prior scheduling conflicts. The night also saw legends like Vinny Appice (Dio, Black Sabbath), Mikkey Dee (Motorhead, Scorpions), Gary Holt (Exodus), Chuck Billy (Testament), Billy Sheehan (Winery Dogs), Chris Jericho (Fozzy, WWE wrestler) and more make their way onstage to pay tribute to rockers who are no longer with us.
Metal Allegiance were also selling exclusive gold, clear and red vinyl copies of Metal Allegiance at the show, which can now be purchased at the Nuclear Blast webstore.
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http://loudwire.com/watch-360-degree-footage-metal-allegiance-pledge-allegiance-tribute-fallen-heroes-show/
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5 Things I Hate About My House... — The Redesign Habit
5 Things I Hate About My House...
If you are like me and you feel overwhelmed by trying to decide which house project to tackle next (or maybe even first), then then I am writing this for you!
There can be different circumstances that lead to this particular condition:
You just moved into a new house and it feels like everything needs to be done just to make the house livable.
You have been in your house a good long time and projects have just piled up over time to the point where you feel it would just be easier to move somewhere else.
You have been in your house a while and have been saving up to do some updates. But - now that you're financially ready, you're mentally overwhelmed.
Most of us have been in at least one of these situations (maybe even all of them) and it can be a frustrating to say the least!
The trick to solving your dilemma is one that you use in any situation where you have to make choices. You must PRIORITIZE. For instance, my daughter and her honey are newly engaged and are trying to choose a venue for their celebration.. and a date, and so on and so on. It's daunting. it's expensive and there's pressure to move quickly. But just like with anything else, they are using a good old, "pros and cons list".
Well the same strategy is true for house projects.
In our house, we usually have a windfall that comes in around the beginning of March each year so at this time (the end of the prior year), we sit down and decide where the "house allotment" should be spent. Really all that means is taking stock of your house in its current state. Then, list 5 things you love and 5 things you hate.
Why, you think, would you bother with what you love? Well there are a couple of reasons for that. Sometimes we feel like we hate the whole house, there is nothing redeeming about it and we just want to get out and into something else.
I am certainly not saying that that isn't justifiable sometimes but a lot of times, the reality of it is, if we just fixed up a few things that really drove us crazy, we could be a lot happier right where we are! And many times, for many of us, moving right now just isn't in the cards.
Usually there are things that made you choose your particular house in the first place; a big backyard, a beautiful patio, a big kitchen, three bathrooms instead of two…you see where I'm going here. Our judgment gets clouded by a few things we hate and pretty soon, we hate the whole thing. Also, if you balance the things you love with the things you hate, it feels much less intimidating to fix some of those problem areas.
It's pretty obvious why you list what you hate. These are the things you are putting in a logical order to try and make better. Most of what we do is driven by finances. So, maybe you can't afford any big ticket fixes this year but that doesn't mean that you can't roll up your sleeves and fix a couple of the smaller issues you may have with your home.
Let me give you some examples: Does your living room feel like its stuck in the 1990's but you can't afford all new furniture and carpet, etc. How about painting the space a nice contemporary color. For around $50 you can give that out-of-date space a whole new feel and look. New paint and maybe rearrange the furniture in a new and interesting way, hit the flea markets and pick up some cool accessories and voila! You suddenly have a cool, new updated space and you've spent very little money.
Bathroom feeling rundown and yucky? Again, can you repaint it to something new and spa-like? Hit the discount stores and pick up a new towel set and maybe a new cushy rug. Ta-dah! Suddenly it's much more livable!
The whole point to this blog is if you take the time to take stock of the areas of your home that really bother you and the things that you still love about it (to keep your perspective in check), you can come up with a manageable plan that works well within your budget.
Start with your love/hate list to help you get your project priorities in place and soon you will find that your "love" side of your list will be longer than your "hate" side!
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Olympic and World Champions arrive in Ulaanbaatar - Welcome to MONTSAME News Agency Olympic and World Champions arrive in Ulaanbaatar
Ulaanbaatar /MONTSAME/ Olympic and World Champions for shooting arrived Thursday in Mongolia to take part in an international tournament to be held on 17 September in Ulaanbaatar to pay respect to D.Munkhbayar, the Olympic double bronze medalist and two-time World champion.
The group of shooters included Maria Grozdeva of Bulgaria, a twice-Olympic champion, Yasna Sekarich of Serbia, an Olympic champion and three-time World Champion and Nina Salukwadze of Georgia, an Olympic champion and six-time World Champion. They will compete in the competitions at the invitation of Mongolian famous shooters D.Munkhbayar, O.Gundegmaa, Ts.Munkhzul, S-Sport NGO and Heads of Mongolian Sports' Journalists Union.
On September 16-18, a photo exhibition will be organized in 'Blue Mon" gallery to display the sport career and successes of D.Munkhbayar and O.Gundegmaa.
In the Barcelona 1992 Olympics, D.Munkhbayar won bronze medal in the women's 25 meter pistol event. It was the first Olympic medal by Mongolian woman athlete. In the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, she won her second medal, representing Germany.
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*Get £34 cashback with purchase. To redeem, and for full instructions, visit cashback.msi.com. Redeem directly from MSI 30 days after the purchase date. Offer valid 14th April – 31th May 2017. T&C’s apply.
Harnessing the power of NVIDIA Pascal - the most advanced GPU ever created, even th most demanding graphics-led games can be brought to vivid life without your computer skipping a beat.
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Vera Stewart is a Southern hostess through and through. This book is like pulling up a chair at Vera's table and hearing her describe the experiences, people, and recipes that shaped her story. The photography alone will make you want to pick up this book, and you'll stay for the personal anecdotes and fabulous recipes.
Generous Southern hospitality, delicious food, and attention to detail is at the heart of what made Vera Stewart one of the premier caterers and event planners in the South for over 30 years. She’s distilled a lifetime of experience into The Very Vera Cookbook. It’s brimming with gorgeous, luscious photography; packed with helpful hints and serving suggestions; and filled delectable go-to recipes you’ll actually want to make! This book is an absolute must-have on your bookshelf and in your kitchen.
Julie and I have always enjoyed Vera's fine cooking, and we made it a point to stop by her cafe during the Masters. Her delicious items are numerous, and we especially love her red velvet cake - which practically melts in your mouth!
This book, like Vera, is the best of the best! As a friend and guest on her show, I know her fans and readers will love this cookbook. I have always found joy in sharing my recipes and I know Vera will feel the same. Y'all, I cannot wait to give the cake chapters some testing!
The first time I tasted a Very Vera caramel cake, I thought she had kidnapped my grandmother and forced her to bake. For years, I bought caramel cakes and red velvet cakes and meals for myself and as gifts. It broke my heart when Vera decided to close her mail order business because I could never duplicate her delicacies using recipes I found in other cookbooks. But now I have hope because of her cookbook. Now, if I can just get her to my kitchen to make sure I'm doing everything right.
Vera has a magnetic personality - just full of energy and enthusiasm - and her delicious recipes are equally as a dynamic and so beautifully represented in her new cookbook. A little something for everyone, it is undoubtedly a must-have for any good Southerner’s kitchen.
My family and I have been fortunate enough to have Vera’s delicious cooking on several occasions—we always especially loved her meatloaf. I’m excited that her cookbook makes it possible to enjoy her food on any occasion. Tahnee and I look forward to trying our hand at some VeryVera classics and sharing them with friends in Athens.
From the moment we met Vera, we were swept away by her feisty, intrepid, and entrepreneurial spirit. Her success in business, television and in the kitchen is attributable to these qualities. And her delicious foray into cookbook publishing shows off her tremendous grace, too. She has a way with food and entertaining that is uniquely reassuring and inspiring. The VeryVera Cookbook beautifully portrays Vera's world and her story, along with enough recipes and Southern secrets to fuel a hundred weekends of good times in the kitchen!
I was lucky enough to have Vera Stewart’s Carrot Cake while I was in Augusta for the Masters. It is hands-down the best Carrot Cake I have ever tasted—the frosting alone is out of this world! Knowing that the secret recipe is in her new cookbook is reason enough to buy a copy.
Each time I’ve cooked with Vera, it has been an experience filled with her warmth and comfort that can only come from years of experience. Each page of “The Very Vera Cookbook” reflects her passion for honest food and nourishing those around her. This collection is as beautiful to look at as it is mouthwatering to cook from.
Vera Stewart and her brand are synonymous with quality. Vera has catered many of my Augusta-area events over the years, and I never leave town without picking up some of her cheese straws! I’m so glad her cookbook will give others the opportunity to experience her fine creations at home -- their friends and loved ones are in for a real treat!
Take a look behind the scenes to our cookbook photography session with renowned food photographer Peter Frank Edwards!
Binge eating disorder (BED) is an eating disorder introduced in 2013 in the fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5). Although newly recognized as a distinct disorder, it is the most common eating disorder, more common than anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa. It is estimated that between 0.2 percent and 3.5 percent of females and 0.9 percent and 2.0 percent of males will develop binge eating disorder. Approximately 40 percent of those with binge eating disorder are male. BED often begins in the late teens or early 20s, although it has been reported in young children as well as older adults.
Binge-eating disorder is sometimes mischaracterized as food addiction, which is not a recognized psychiatric disorder. While a large number of people with binge eating disorder live in larger bodies, BED can also occur in people who are normal weight. As most overweight and obese people do not have BED, it is important not to conflate obesity, which is not a disorder, but a body size, with binge eating disorder.
While many people may think of binge-eating disorder as a less serious disorder than anorexia nervosa or bulimia nervosa, it can be severe, debilitating, and even life-threatening.
Episodes of binge eating which means that the person eats an unusually large amount of food within a certain time period. During that episode they will feel a lack of control over their eating, and that they can't stop eating or control how much they eat or even what they eat.
A major distinction differentiating binge-eating disorder from bulimia nervosa is that there are no recurrent behaviors used to avoid weight gain or compensate for binge eating in binge eating disorder. These behaviors are referred to as “compensatory behaviors” by professionals and may include purging or extreme restriction of intake, among others. The binge-eating symptoms cannot occur exclusively during the course of anorexia nervosa. Repeated attempts to stop binge eating, or repeated attempts at dieting, do not exclude someone from a binge-eating disorder diagnosis.
The DSM-V also allows for professionals to specify if a person is in partial remission or in full remission (recovery) from binge-eating disorder. The severity, based on the average frequency of binge-eating episodes, can also be specified:
Regardless of how frequent, if you or someone you know is struggling with binge-eating or compulsive overeating episodes, it is important to see a physician, dietician, or a mental-health professional for an assessment. Treatment is available and recovery is possible.
Several triggers for binge eating have been reported in people with binge eating disorder. These include feeling unhappy, anxious, or having other negative emotions, particularly about body weight, body shape, or about food. Sometimes, people are triggered to binge eat when they are feeling bored. Binge eating during or after problems in interpersonal relationships is also common. Many people with binge eating disorder experience weight stigma which can exacerbate binge eating.
These emotional triggers for out of control, excessive behavior are another similarity between binge eating disorder and substance use disorders. People who develop addictions to alcohol and drugs typically find the desire to drink or to use drugs is greatest when they are triggered by negative feelings, such as depression and anxiety, as well as when they are having difficulties in their relationships with others, or when they are bored.
Treatments for binge eating disorder include medications and psychotherapy, such as cognitive-behavioral therapy. Self-help may also effective. Work with your doctor to find the right treatment for you.
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Herbert Molson - Wikipedia
Herbert Molson House, Montreal
Colonel Herbert Molson CMG MC (May 29, 1875 – March 21, 1938) was a Canadian politician, entrepreneur and philanthropist. He was a former owner of Molson Brewery and a member of the Molson family.
He was born on May 29, 1875, the son of John Thomas Molson (1837-1910) and Jane Baker Butler (1850-1926), at Montreal, Quebec, Canada. He was educated at McGill University (B.A.Sc., 1894), and Herbert also attended the United States Brewing Academy in New York.
He entered the family business in 1897 and in 1910 became owner of Molson Brewery. In partnership with Frederick William Molson, he formed Molson's Brewery Ltd. in 1911 and began mechanizing and modernizing the existing plant.
His work was interrupted by the First World War: Herbert went overseas as a Captain and rose to the rank of Colonel. He was wounded in 1916 and awarded the Military Cross (MC), and in 1919, the Most Distinguished Order of St. Michael and St. George (CMG) for his services with the headquarters staff. He was a director of many important Canadian corporations and a generous benefactor of McGill University and the Montreal General Hospital.
In 1899, Herbert was married to Elizabeth "Bessie" Zoe Pentland, daughter of Charles Pentland. Herbert and Bessie had four children: Thomas Henry Pentland Molson (1901-1978); Mary Dorothy Molson MacDougall (1904-1992); Naomi Elizabeth Molson Mather (1906-1992); and Hartland de Montarville Molson (1907-2002).
Molson died on March 21, 1938, in Montreal.[1] His home in the Golden Square Mile is today the Russian Consulate.
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Recipes – Pollys Goat Farm
Pulled goat kebabs
1.Marinate the goat in a roasting tin the day before you cook it. Blitz all the marinade ingredients in a blender with 1 tsp salt, slather all over the goat, cover with cling film and put in the fridge.
2.The next day, heat oven to 160C/ 140C fan/gas 3. Remove the goat from the fridge 30 mins before you cook it to bring it to room temperature. Unwrap, then cover the roasting tin tightly with foil and cook for 1 hr, then add the stock, return to the oven and cook for a further 4 hrs, occasionally basting with the juices, until the meat is coming away from the bones and is easily pulled apart with two forks.
3.Pull the meat from the bones (which can be discarded) and set aside on a plate. Remove most of the fat, then pour a little boiling water in the bottom of the tin and use a whisk to scrape up any of the dark crust, incorporating the juices with the water. Return the meat to the roasting tin and cover with foil. Keep warm in a low oven until ready to use.
4.To make the pickled pomegranate seeds, combine the cider vinegar with the sugar and a pinch of salt in a bowl, stirring until they dissolve. Add the pomegranate seeds, red onion and chilli, and stir to coat.
5.To make the coriander dressing, combine all the ingredients in a food processor with some seasoning and blend until you have a runny green dressing.
6.Warm the flatbreads through on a skillet or griddle and serve topped with the cabbage and warm goat. Garnish with the pickled pomegranate mix, mint leaves and dressing.
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Discover a New Way to Pay at Neiman Marcus | WWD
WWD.com/globe-news/department-stores/discover-a-new-way-to-pay-at-neiman-marcus-6093365/ By Sharon Edelson on July 19, 2012 Share This Article Reddit
It's not the Visa Black Card. In fact, it's the antithesis of that stylish piece of plastic and carbon that carries a $495 annual fee and is limited to only 1 percent of U.S. residents. The Discover Card, born of Sears Roebuck in 1986, is now accepted at 42 Neiman Marcus stores and Bergdorf Goodman, the financial services company said Friday. Card members can earn 5 percent cash back on all purchases made at the stores from October through December. This story first appeared in the July 19, 2012 issue of WWD. Subscribe Today.
Still, it may come as a bit of a shock to those who consider Neiman's credit cards as status symbols in and of themselves, gateways to the company's In-Circle rewards program, where perks include first dibs on sales, free gift wrapping and the opportunity to purchase tantalizing trips and VIP experiences open only to members who spend between $10,000 and $599,999 annually. Neiman's has been moving in a more affordable direction since Karen Katz became chief executive officer in 2010. Her predecessor, Burton Tansky, uncompromisingly toed the luxury line. The luxury retailer struck up a partnership with mass merchant Target and is looking to make its stores more accessible to younger, less affluent shoppers. Neiman's is rebranding contemporary departments in its stores as Cusp, after the freestanding boutiques it launched in 2006, boosting the lower-priced offerings in some locations by as much as 20 to 25 percent. A moderately priced outlet concept, Last Call Studio, stocked exclusively with cheaper product purchased directly for the chain, was developed.
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7 Effective Essay Tips about Abortion essay titles
Read Time: 05:25 Of all the legal, ethical, and moral issues we Americans continuously fight for or against, abortion may very well be the issue that Americans are most passionate about.The issue of abortion is one of the most commonly used as a topic for academic argumentative papers.They have some alternatives: (1) have the child and raise it (2) have the child, then give it up for adoption (3) get an abortio.
This is because, despite what several people may believe, abortion is neither right nor.The issue of abortion causes discussions about human interactions where ethics, emotions and law come together.Abortion is one of the most polarizing topics in America today.What is it that divides families, and keeps old friends Class 11 (High School) Abortion: Freedom Of Choice Words: 362.Read Time: 08:25 There have been an increasing number of abortion cases throughout the world.
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It discusses human interaction where ethics, emotions and law come together.Writing research papers on abortion is a difficult task for students since they have to defend their point of view. There are many points of view toward abortion but the only -1 Class 8 (Middle School) Controversial Opinion Essay On Abortion Words: 1036. While these victims lay waiting in the infested dumpsters to be hauled off to a landfill, the murderers are in their offices waiting for their next patient--the accomplice to the murder.One third to one half of all pregnancies in the United Class 10 (High School) Abortion: Pro-life.
Becky, who is 3 months pregnant, is waiting to cross the street on the corner of 7th avenue and Bell.Approximately 1.6 million murders are committed legally each year.
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This proposal takes away the privacy rights of American women that are guaranteed by our Constitution.Many people believe it is immoral and even consider it to be murder.Abortion is an on-going problem, a source of social and legal discord, moral uncertainty, medical and psychiatric confusion, and personal anguish.
Read Time: 04:42 Years ago when a women would get pregnant she would have a baby.
In Roman times, abortion and the destruction of unwanted children was permissible, but as out civilization has aged, it seemsthat such acts were no longer acceptable by rational human beings, so that in 1948, Canada along with most other nations in the world signed a declaration of the United Nations promising every human being the right to life.Several questions arise from the midst of this multi-faceted jumble of opinions, morals, and strongly held values.In Roman times, abortion and the destruction of unwanted children was.
This is because, despite what several people may believe, abortion is neither right nor wrong.This false perception is fueled part by groups supporting abortion rig.Read Time: 03:46 Abortion is one of the most highly debated issues of our time.The main point of the criteria is to deem it morally right to terminate an unborn baby.Read Time: 09:06 Approximately 1.6 million murders are committed legally each year.Sara is putting in a new CD and not paying attention to the fact that she has a red light.Read Time: 05:47 Abortion is the ending of pregnancy before birth and is morally wrong.
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Panthers pounce on UTEP 75-45 in Miami - El Paso Herald Post
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Katia Gallegos – photo by Michael Berlfein
Panthers pounce on UTEP 75-45 in Miami
MIAMI, Fl. – FIU led from start to finish in a 72-45 win over UTEP on Saturday afternoon in the Ocean Bank Convocation Center.
The Panthers (11-7, 3-4 Conference USA) jumped out to a lead of 16 after the first 10 minutes and never looked back to hand the Miners (12-7, 4-5 Conference USA) the road loss.
FIU came out playing physical, picking up five quick fouls over the first 2:58 to put UTEP into the bonus. Despite being in the bonus, the Miners faced a 24-5 deficit with 39 seconds left in the first after a 14-0 run by the Panthers.
The Miners struggled from the floor in the first half, going 5-of-28 from the field as FIU took a 38-20 lead into the locker room.
On the other side of the floor, the Panthers started hot, shooting 50 percent from the 3-point line and 13-of-28 from the floor over the first 20 minutes.
Despite struggling to score the ball, UTEP picked up the intensity on the defensive side of the floor, drawing five charges in the second quarter alone.
In the second half, FIU continued to be efficient from the floor while maintaining a lead that never shrunk below 17, as UTEP was held to season lows in points (45) and field goal percentage offense (26.4 percent) while turning the ball over a season-high 25 times.
From the 6:49 mark of the third quarter to the 8:08 mark of the fourth quarter, Katia Gallegos scored 12 consecutive points for the Miners as she was aggressive on the offensive side of the floor, attacking the basket with regularity.
For the game, Gallegos finished with a team-high 23 points on 5-of-11 shooting from the floor, hitting 10-of-12 attempts at the free throw line.
Elina Arike had seven points and a team-high 10 rebounds, helping the Miners win the boards 39-34.
FIU finished the day 26-of-57 (46 percent) from the field and 4-of-14 (29 percent) on 3-pointers. The largest lead for the Panthers was 28 in the fourth quarter.
Four players scored in double figures for FIU, led by the 14 points of Grace Hunter.
The 27-point margin of defeat is the largest for the Miners since a 79-49 loss at home to Middle Tennessee on Jan. 19, 2019.
UTEP returns to the Lonestar State to host North Texas on Thursday, Feb. 3 at 7 p.m. MT.
The Miners and Mean Green can be heard on the UTEP Miners app with Mando Medina calling the action. The contest will also be covered live on ESPN+.
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training program – Sandra Schiff
Posted on June 14, 2017 by sandraschiff
As president of Health Mate, Incorporated in southeast Michigan, Dr. Sandra Schiff provides consulting and training services regarding the prevention of elder and youth suicides and workplace violence, along with Alzheimer's research. With more than 20 years of experience in the fields of social work and psychology , Sandra Schiff, PhD, also holds several professional certifications, including as a PeopleMap Executive Coach.
The PeopleMap Executive Coaching system helps students develop "people skills" in all areas of life. The system focuses on empowering students to understand themselves and others, developing their full potential. The Executive Coaching system fosters skills in creativity, planning, and personal vision.
The PeopleMap training program also includes programs in leadership development, teambuilding, and achieving peak performance, working with students to build self-esteem and motivation, developing personality styles, and overcoming procrastination. PeopleMap is designed to be a forum where students who have a desire to become leaders in their respective fields can develop and fine-tune their skills.
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Loopholes and licensing for labour hire lead to valuable lesson » CCIQ
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Here you will be glad to know that we are having one of the best gaming portal tank trouble 4 which you can enjoy online free and in these games you have to defeat other enemies tanks by protecting yours. Also if you played these games for once surely you will not wish to quit them.
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Risky risk parity?
Risk parity has been challenged ever since the world's central banks have brought interest rates to approximately zero via quantitative easing programs post the Global Financial Crisis in 2009.
The strategy aims to allocate the same risk to different asset classes, which results in bonds getting the largest allocation due to these being less volatile than stocks. Given that bonds have been in a bull market since the 1980s, having overweighted fixed income, often with leverage, has been a winning bet. It also created fortunes for early proponents of the strategy, like Ray Dalio at Bridgewater Associates.
Asset managers that offer risk parity products like to highlight that rising interest rates are not all bad for bond allocations as it does imply higher yields. After all, the long-term return of a bond is related to its starting yield. Naturally, this argumentation ignores any losses on bonds that are sold before maturity.
As inflation has reared its ugly head across nations, central bankers have started raising interest rates, which represents a new market environment for the majority of investors. In this research note, we will evaluate the recent performance of risk parity indices and products as interest rates have increased from record lows.
Risk parity indices and interest rates
We use two risk parity indices namely the HFR Risk Parity Index and S&P Risk Parity Index as benchmarks in this analysis. The former consists of single fund managers pursuing the strategy, while the latter is simply an index calculated by S&P. Both target volatility of 10% per annum on the index level, which is achieved via scaling the exposure to asset classes up and down. If required, leverage is used.
We observe that both indices featured the same trends over the last decade, which was similar to a 60/40 portfolio that allocates 60% to equities and 40% to bonds with quarterly rebalancing. However, we also see different total returns across the entire period, which is especially pronounced in 2022 when interest rates have increased. The index from S&P and the 60/40 portfolio are somewhat flat year-to-date, while the HFR Risk Parity index has generated negative returns. Declining bond prices are partially responsible, but falling equity valuations also played a role.
Risk parity ETFs and mutual funds
Risk parity has become available to investors via mutual funds and more recently via ETFs at fees ranging from 0.25% to 1.13% per annum. It is worth highlighting that these cumulatively only manage about $5bn assets under management (AUM), which is less than 10% of what Bridgewater Associates is managing in its equivalent product that is named the All Weather fund.
We compare the performance of these five products and observe the same trends, which highlight similar risk exposures. However, the returns were different in the period from 2012 to 2022, which is explained by different allocation of weights, leverage, or a combination of these.
Max drawdowns of risk parity products
The differences in portfolio construction are best observed during the COVID-19 crisis in March 2020, where all strategies experienced significant drawdowns that can be attributed to the equity exposure. Although all products lost money and failed to be all-weather strategies, some did considerably better.
For example, the Wealthfron Risk Parity product lost 43% of its value, compared to a mere 18% for Putnam PanAgora's product. A 60/40 portfolio did remarkable well with a 22% loss.
Asset managers tend to be scarce with details on their portfolios, except for the ETF issuers that are forced to disclose their holdings. However, we can run a factor exposure analysis to learn more about portfolio construction. We only use three indices, the S&P 500, the Bloomberg US Aggregate Bond index and the S&P GSCI Commodity Index, as independent variables.
The analysis highlights that the exposure to asset classes varies across products as expected. Furthermore, fixed income dominates in line with the risk-based asset allocation framework, except for the 60/40 portfolio, which has a higher allocation to equities than bonds, per definition.
We can use the results from the factor exposure analysis to derive a contribution analysis and analyse year-to-date 2022 performance of risk parity products. We observe that equities and bonds contributed negatively, while commodities offset some of these losses.
Inflation was high before the war in Ukraine but has reached new highs in some countries like Germany which are large importers of oil and gas. Rising commodity prices have contributed to inflation, where investors have benefitted from commodity exposure, which nicely highlights the case for diversification across asset classes, even if performance has been mediocre, which applies to commodities in the previous decade.
Looking back, it is easy to see why risk parity worked wonderfully over the last few decades. However, looking forward, investors may be concerned about the strategy as there seems more downside from rising than upside from decreasing interest rates, given that they are still close to zero in most countries.
However, if bond prices decline rapidly, then their volatility would increase, and allocations to fixed income decrease in a risk parity portfolio accordingly. AQR recently highlighted that a risk-based allocation approach in commodities would have been superior to size-based weighting in the period from 1991 to 2021, providing support for the asset allocation framework.
Rising interest rates lower the expected return for risk parity strategies, but do not necessarily make the asset allocation framework unattractive. The more significant threat would be a rising correlation between stocks and bonds. Although less conceivable currently, a severe debt crisis and subsequent restructuring might create such a scenario, for example, in Japan, where public debt is unsustainably high, the population steadily shrinking and the central bank is the top shareholder of domestic ETFs.
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The site itself is also provided without warranty of any kind. There are no guarantees that it will be available at any given time, and no guarantees that use of the site will not be subject to interruptions. All direct or indirect risk related to use of the site is borne entirely by you, the user.
The possibility exists that the site and its contents may contain inaccuracies or errors. Hollywood Sourcing makes no guarantees regarding the accuracy of the site or its contents.
The site contains links to other sites operated by third parties. Hollywood Sourcing does not endorse and is not affiliated with these linked sites, and is not responsible for any content that appears on these linked sites.
40. GENERAL USER OBLIGATIONS.
The Hollywood Sourcing Terms Of Service is entered into by, and between the company or individual specified during the Hollywood Sourcing registration process. The policy, terms and conditions of the Terms Of Service limits Hollywood Sourcing's liability and obligations to users. It also allows Hollywood Sourcing to change, suspend or terminate access to, and use of, the Hollywood Sourcing Platform. We urge users to read the Terms Of Service carefully. Hollywood Sourcing may modify the Terms Of Service at any time without prior notice to or the consent of their users. Terms Of Service (the "Agreement") is a contract
A particular job or set of ongoing tasks for which a client has hired services to be performed by a contractor. This contract is between you (the "User") and Hollywood Sourcing. You must read, agree with and accept all of the terms and conditions contained in this Agreement in order to use our website located at www.HollywoodSourcing.com (the "Site") and related software and services (collectively, the "Hollywood Sourcing Platform").
Hollywood Sourcing may amend this Agreement at any time by posting a revised version on the Site. Each revised version will state its effective date, which will be on or after the date we post it. If the revised version materially reduces your rights or increases your responsibilities, we may post it in advance of the effective date in order to give you notice. Your continued use of the Hollywood Sourcing Platform after the effective date of a revised version of this Agreement constitutes your acceptance of its terms.
Your access to and use of the Hollywood Sourcing Platform is also governed by information, guidelines and policies made available on the Site. To the extent that there are any conflicts between the terms and conditions of this Agreement and the Site, the terms and conditions of this Agreement will govern.
YOU UNDERSTAND THAT BY CHECKING THE BOX AND CLICKING THE "SUBMIT" BUTTON, OR BY USING THE HOLLYWOOD SOURCING PLATFORM, YOU ARE AGREEING TO BE BOUND BY THIS AGREEMENT. IF YOU DO NOT ACCEPT THIS AGREEMENT IN ITS ENTIRETY, YOU MAY NOT ACCESS OR USE THE HOLLYWOOD SOURCING PLATFORM. IF YOU AGREE TO THIS AGREEMENT ON BEHALF OF AN ENTITY, YOU REPRESENT AND WARRANT THAT YOU HAVE THE AUTHORITY TO BIND THAT ENTITY TO THIS AGREEMENT. IN THAT EVENT, "YOU" AND "YOUR" WILL REFER AND APPLY TO THAT ENTITY.
THE HOLLYWOOD SOURCING PLATFORM.
Purpose of the Hollywood Sourcing Platform.
The Hollywood Sourcing Platform enables Users to buy and sell Services online. Clients post jobs and invite Contractors to apply. Contractors post profiles and bid on jobs. If a Client accepts a Contractor's bid for a job, a Service Contract is formed directly between such Client and Contractor
A company or individual that uses Hollywood Sourcing to offer services to clients and/or enters into a contract is subject to the terms specified in this contract (Service Contract Terms Between Client and Contractor). Hollywood Sourcing collects payment from the Client on behalf of the Contractor.
41. HOLLYWOOD SOURCING FEE.
Hollywood Sourcing charges employers a fee for services and technology including but not limited to maintaining the Hollywood Sourcing Platform, providing online tracking resources, or collecting amounts owed by Clients and remitting them to Contractors. Typically, this fee is equal to $5 or 10% of Client's payments, whichever is greater. This fee is NOT REFUNDABLE under any circumstances.You can post a job for free on Hollywood Sourcing and you can also apply for a job for free on Hollywood Sourcing. If an employer hires someone to perform a virtual job then the employer pays HollywoodSourcing.com either $5 ( five dollars ) or 10% (ten percent) of the jobs cost, which ever is greater. The Hollywood Sourcing fee is non refundable (to prevent fraud) and is paid by the employer and goes into escrow. When the employer confirms that the job is satisfactorily completed for him by the worker then the escrow system releases the payment to the worker. For example lets compare two jobs. Job A has a budget of $30 so the system will then compare $5 to ten percent of the jobs budget / cost which is $3 and it will charge the employer the greater amount which will be $5. Job B has a budget $25,000. Here the system will compare a possible $5 Hollywood Sourcing fee with a ten percent Hollywood Sourcing fee which will be $2,500 and it will determine that $2,500 is greater than $5 so it will charge the employer $2,500. This means that the employer will have to place $27,500 ( $25,000 job cost plus $2,500 Hollywood Sourcing fee ) into escrow to start the work.
42. GENERAL USER OBLIGATIONS.
Hollywood Sourcing has created a marketplace to connect Clients and Contractors using the Hollywood Sourcing Platform. Hollywood Sourcing is not a service company and does not provide Services or manage individual Contractors or their work, in any manner. Hollywood Sourcing expects a consistent and high level of courtesy, respect and professionalism from all of its Users toward each other. Users agree to use good judgment when posting information, comments, feedback
At Hollywood Sourcing, your feedback is your reputation. The feedback system allows users to rate each other when a contract ends. This allows all active Hollywood Sourcing users to earn and display a reputation within the Hollywood Sourcing community, Hollywood Sourcing or any third party anywhere within the Hollywood Sourcing Platform.
Users may be held legally responsible for damages suffered by other Users, Hollywood Sourcing or any third party as a result of legally actionable or defamatory comments, remarks, or other information or content posted to the Hollywood Sourcing Platform. All Clients and Contractors are to comply with all laws applicable to them or to their activities, and with all posted Hollywood Sourcing Policies, which are hereby incorporated into this Agreement by reference. These policies may be modified from time to time at Hollywood Sourcing's discretion, and the currently effective policies will be deemed to be part of this Agreement.
Under federal law, Hollywood Sourcing is not legally responsible for any remarks, information or other content posted or made available on the Hollywood Sourcing Platform by any User or third party, even if such information or content is defamatory or otherwise legally actionable. Hollywood Sourcing is not responsible for and does not monitor or censor content for accuracy or reliability. However, Hollywood Sourcing reserves the right to remove or restrict access to any information or content posted or made available on the Hollywood Sourcing Platform if ordered to do so by a government authority or if Hollywood Sourcing considers such information or content to be in violation of this Agreement.
Pursuant to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, Hollywood Sourcing has implemented procedures for receiving written notification of claimed infringements and for processing such claims. If you believe your copyrights are being infringed by a User of the Hollywood Sourcing Platform, please fax to Hollywood Sourcing at 313 841-3945 a Notice of Infringement that includes substantially the following: (1) a physical or electronic signature of a person authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed; (2) identification of the copyrighted work claimed to have been infringed; (3) identification of the material that is claimed to be infringing that is to be removed, and information reasonably sufficient to enable Hollywood Sourcing to locate it; (4) information reasonably sufficient to enable Hollywood Sourcing to contact the complaining party; (5) a statement that the complaining party has a good faith belief that use of the material in the manner complained of is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent or the law; and (6) a statement that the information in the notification is accurate, and under penalty of perjury, that the complaining party is authorized to act on behalf the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed.
43. JOB POSTINGS AND APPLICATIONS.
All jobs posted to Hollywood Sourcing must be in English and not contain any information enabling or requesting contact or payment outside of the Hollywood Sourcing Platform. Job postings must be of a professional nature and accurately describe the Services requested. They should be free of offensive language or advertisements for other products or services. Job postings may not request any service that is illegal or violates intellectual property rights, copyrights or the terms of service of another service, product or website. Job postings related to the creation of adult or explicit content or those that involve modeling or acting are prohibited. Job postings that involve exposure to content of an adult or potentially offensive nature should notify potential readers in the title of the job posting.
44. APPLYING TO A JOB.
All information provided in a job application must be true, accurate and complete. Hollywood Sourcing reserves the right to verify any and all information provided on a User's profile or job application. By applying to a job, the User is attesting that he/she/it has the skills and ability to perform the requested Services by the deadline stated in the job posting.
45. FIXED-PRICE CONTRACTS.
Contractors agree that there is no guarantee of payment for Fixed-Price Contracts. Clients have complete and sole discretion to determine whether a Contractor has completed a Fixed-Price Contract and whether to pay the Contractor.
46. NON-PAYMENT.
If Client fails to pay amounts due under this Agreement, whether by cancelling Client's credit card, initiating an improper chargeback, or any other means, Client's Hollywood Sourcing account will be suspended, no additional payments will be processed, and any work-in-progress will be stopped. Without limiting other available remedies, Client must reimburse Hollywood Sourcing for amounts due upon demand, plus any applicable processing fees, charges or penalties, plus interest at the lesser of one and one-half percent (1.5%) per month or the maximum allowed by law, plus attorneys' fees and other costs of collection as allowed by law. In its discretion, Hollywood Sourcing may setoff amounts due against other amounts received from or held for Client, make appropriate reports to credit reporting agencies and law enforcement authorities, and cooperate with them in any resulting investigation or prosecution.
47. HOLD ON FUNDS.
Hollywood Sourcing reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to place a hold on funds for Client payments to clear or if Hollywood Sourcing suspects monies may be subject to charge back or if fraud is suspected. Hollywood Sourcing will release a hold as soon as deemed appropriate. In cases of fraud, abuse or violation of this Agreement, the Hollywood Sourcing payment guarantee
48. DISPUTE RESOLUTION.
Disputes are a way to enforce the Hollywood Sourcing Payment Guarantee. Once the dispute period has passed, the charges are accepted by the Client and can no longer be disputed and can only be refunded by the Contractor. Disputes can only address the hours billed, not the quality of the work performed or deliverables.
49. RATINGS AND FEEDBACK.
Hollywood Sourcing provides its feedback and rating system as a means through which Users can express their opinions publicly. Hollywood Sourcing does not monitor or censor these opinions or investigate any remarks posted by Users for accuracy or reliability. You acknowledge and agree that the Hollywood Sourcing Platform will contain public feedback from Users with whom you have transacted. You acknowledge that feedback results for you may consist of comments and ratings left by other Users and that Hollywood Sourcing may calculate a composite feedback number based on these individual ratings. You may be held legally responsible for damages suffered by other Hollywood Sourcing Users or third parties as a result of these remarks if a court finds that these remarks are legally actionable or defamatory. Hollywood Sourcing is not responsible for any feedback or comments posted or made available on the Hollywood Sourcing Platform by any Users or third parties, even if that information is defamatory or otherwise legally actionable. Any effort to falsify feedback, manipulate or coerce another User by threatening negative feedback or offering to sell or buy Services in exchange for feedback is in violation of this Agreement. Hollywood Sourcing reserves the right to delete ratings and feedback as it deems appropriate.
50. HOLLYWOOD SOURCING SKILL TESTS.
Hollywood Sourcing may provide skills tests through its own means or third parties. These tests are optional for the Contractors. They are meant as a data point in evaluating Contractors and are in no way a certification by Hollywood Sourcing of the User's ability to perform Services associated with a test. Manipulating test scores by providing or receiving answers to the test, allowing others to take the tests or any other attempt at falsifying credentials is a violation of this Agreement.
51. PRIVACY.
Hollywood Sourcing treats personally identifiable information differently from general information. Personally identifiable information can be used to identify, locate or contact you. General information is information that is not personally identifiable information and is not associated with personally identifiable information. Hollywood Sourcing may convert personally identifiable information into general information by excluding information that is personally identifiable. You acknowledge that general information belongs to Hollywood Sourcing and that Hollywood Sourcing has the right to use such general information as it determines in its sole discretion. Hollywood Sourcing may process information in the country where it was collected, as well as other countries (including the United States) where laws regarding processing of personal information may be less stringent than the laws in your country.
52. INFORMATION GATHERED
If you register to buy or sell Services using Hollywood Sourcing, we collect and store personally identifiable information, including your name, address, email address and password. Hollywood Sourcing may request additional information from you or third parties to validate or supplement this information. Clients are also required to enter information regarding a payment method
A payment method is how employers pay for their Hollywood Sourcing contracts. You agree to provide us with information reasonably requested by us, even if the request is made after conclusion of your work on a particular Contract.
53. PERSONALLY IDENTIFIABLE INFORMATION.
The Hollywood Sourcing Platform describes how personally identifiable information is shared in profiles, job postings, Form 1099 filings, and other services we provide. We also use personally identifiable information for our own internal purposes, including contacting you via email to inform you about updates to the Hollywood Sourcing Platform and providing you with services and information relating to transactions that you conduct on the Site. We provide personally identifiable information to third parties who process it in accordance with our instructions in order for Hollywood Sourcing to provide services to you. We reserve the right to disclose your information if we have a good-faith belief that the disclosure is (i) required by law, regulation, or legal process; (ii) appropriate to detect, prevent, or remedy violations of this Agreement, fraud, security, or technical issues; or (iii) permitted in order to protect Hollywood Sourcing, other Users or the public. If Hollywood Sourcing is involved in a change of control through merger, acquisition, sale of stock or assets, we will give notice before your personally identifiable information is transferred or becomes subject to a different privacy policy.
"Contractor profile associated with that person's Agency on Hollywood Sourcing. If an Agency Contractor is no longer working for an Agency, the Agency may not use the Contractor's profile in any way. Contractors leaving an Agency must contact the Agency manager to remove their association. Agencies may not refuse to release an Agency Contractor. When leaving the Agency, Agency Contractors keep their profiles, including their work and feedback histories. Their histories are meant to reflect work done by them. The Agency's work and feedback history will retain the Contracts of Contractors who have since left the Agency. An Agency that requests the immediate suspension of a Contractor must provide the documents and supporting legal authority that prove, to Hollywood Sourcing's satisfaction, that the Contractor has breached a non-compete agreement or an Hollywood Sourcing policy.
54. ENFORCEMENT
Hollywood Sourcing has the right, but not the obligation, to suspend or cancel your access to the Hollywood Sourcing Platform if it believes that you have violated or acted inconsistently with the letter or spirit of this Agreement or violated our rights or those of another party. Without limiting Hollywood Sourcing's other remedies, we may suspend or terminate your account, use self-help in connection with our rights to reclaim any available funds, and refuse to provide any further access to the Hollywood Sourcing Platform to you if (a) you breach any terms and conditions of this Agreement or other written policies and procedures posted on the Site; (b) we are unable to verify or authenticate any information you provide to us; or (c) we believe that your actions may cause legal liability for you, our Users or for Hollywood Sourcing. Once suspended or terminated, you MAY NOT continue to use the Hollywood Sourcing Platform under a different account or reregister under a new account. If you attempt to use the Hollywood Sourcing Platform under a different account, we reserve the right to reclaim available funds in that account and/or use an available payment method to pay for any amounts outstanding. In addition, violations of this Agreement may be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law and may result in additional penalties and sanctions. When your User account is canceled, you may no longer have access to any parts of the Hollywood Sourcing Platform, including data, messages, files and other material you keep on Hollywood Sourcing. All intellectual property provided by Clients for the purposes of completing Contracts will be returned by Contractors immediately upon termination.
55. SERVICE CONTRACT TERMS .
User agrees that all Service Contracts between any Client or Contractor shall: (i) include the terms and conditions provided herein; (ii) name Hollywood Sourcing as an express third party beneficiary under the Service Contract; and (iii) make no representations or warranties or enter into any contracts on behalf of Hollywood Sourcing, except as may be otherwise provided for herein. Client and Contractor may agree to terms in their Service Contract materially different than the Standard Terms; however, nothing in such Service Contract will in any way limit or modify Hollywood Sourcing's rights.
56. SERVICES.
Contractor shall perform Services in a professional and workmanlike manner. Under Fixed-Price Contracts, Contractor shall deliver the agreed-upon Work Product. Under Hourly-Rate Contracts, Contractor shall use reasonable efforts to create the desired Work Product.
57. FEES.
Client shall pay Contractor the agreed-upon fees for time spent (under Hourly-Rate Contracts) or delivery and acceptance of the Work Product (under Fixed-Price Contracts). All amounts paid by Client shall be paid through the Hollywood Sourcing Platform to Hollywood Sourcing as the Contractor's agent, and Client's obligation of payment to Contractor is met when payment is made to Hollywood Sourcing.
58. UNDER HOURLY RATE CONTRACTS, EITHER PARTY MAY TERMINATE THE SERVICE CONTRACT AT ANY TIME FOR ANY OR NO REASON. HOWEVER, THE CLIENT REMAINS OBLIGATED TO PAY FOR ANY TIME THE CONTRACTOR WORKED PRIOR TO TERMINATION.
For Fixed-Price Contracts, the Client may terminate at any time but may not recover any payments made to the Contractor unless mutually agreeable. The Contractor may terminate a Fixed-Price Contract at any time if no payment has been made. If a payment has been made on a Fixed Price Contract, the Contractor may terminate only with written agreement from the Client or after the payment has been refunded.
59. INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY IN WORK PRODUCT.
Contractor shall ensure that no Work Product created or delivered by Contractor includes any pre-existing software, technology or other intellectual property, whether such pre-existing intellectual property is owned by Contractor or a third party including, without limitation, code written by proprietary software companies or developers in the open source community (collectively "Pre-existing IP") without obtaining the prior written consent of the Client to the inclusion of such Pre-existing IP in the Work Product. Contractor acknowledges that, without limiting any other remedies, Contractor shall not be entitled to payment for, and shall refund any payments to Contractor for, any Services performed on a Contract if the Work Product contains any Pre-existing IP that was not approved.
60. ENTIRE AGREEMENT.
The terms and conditions set forth in this Section 3 and any additional or different terms expressly agreed by Client and Contractor shall constitute the entire agreement and understanding of Client and Contractor with respect to each Service Contract and shall cancel and supersede any other prior or contemporaneous discussions, agreements, representations, warranties, and/or other communications between them.
61. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS BY USER OF HOLLYWOOD SOURCING'S ROLE.
User expressly acknowledges, agrees and understands that: (i) the Hollywood Sourcing Platform is merely a venue where Users may act as Clients or Contractors; (ii) Hollywood Sourcing is not a party to any Service Contracts between Clients and Contractors; (iii) User recognizes, acknowledges and agrees that User is not an employee of Hollywood Sourcing and that Hollywood Sourcing does not, in any way, supervise, direct, or control User's work or Services; (iv) Hollywood Sourcing shall not have any liability or obligations under or related to Service Contracts or any acts or omissions by Users; (v) Hollywood Sourcing has no control over Contractors or over the Services promised or rendered by Contractors; and, (vi) Hollywood Sourcing makes no representations as to the reliability, capability, or qualifications of any Contractor or the quality, security or legality of any Services, and Hollywood Sourcing disclaims any and all liability relating thereto.
62. PROPRIETARY RIGHTS.
Hollywood Sourcing and its licensors reserve all Proprietary Rights in and to the Hollywood Sourcing Platform. User may not use the Hollywood Sourcing Platform except as necessary for the purposes of discharging its obligations under this Agreement and any Service Contract entered into pursuant to this Agreement and on the terms set out in the License Agreement. Hollywood Sourcing reserves the right to withdraw, expand and otherwise change the Hollywood Sourcing Platform at any time in Hollywood Sourcing's sole discretion. User shall not be entitled to create any "links" to the Hollywood Sourcing Platform, or "frame" or "mirror" any content contained on, or accessible through, the Hollywood Sourcing Platform, on any other server or internet-based device.
63. HOLLYWOOD SOURCING'S COMPENSATION.
All Hollywood Sourcing Fees are non-refundable, whether or not Service Contracts were satisfactorily completed.
64. PAYMENT.
Client hereby authorizes Hollywood Sourcing to run credit card authorizations on all credit cards provided by Client, to store credit card details as Client's method of payment for Services, and to charge Client's credit card (or any other form of payment authorized by Hollywood Sourcing or mutually agreed to between Client and Hollywood Sourcing).
65. PAYMENT GUARANTEE.
Hollywood Sourcing will guarantee performance of the Client's payment to you as a Service Contractor working on Hourly-Rate Contracts where the Client has a verified payment method
A verified payment method is the way employers pay their outstanding balance automatically after having undergone a security verification process. Verified payment methods are an integral component of the Hollywood Sourcing Payment Guarantee. Determination of whether these criteria have been met is at the sole discretion of Hollywood Sourcing. The Payment Guarantee will not apply to Contractors or Contracts in violation of this Agreement, where the Contractor is aware of or complicit in another User's violation of this Agreement, or where there is any other involvement in fraudulent activities or abuse of this Payment Guarantee.
66. CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION.
To the extent a Client or Contractor provides Confidential Information to the other and/or to Hollywood Sourcing, the recipient shall protect the secrecy of the Confidential Information with the same degree of care as it uses to protect its own confidential information, but in no event with less than due care, and shall not: (i) disclose Confidential Information to anyone except, in the case of Hollywood Sourcing, to any Client or Contractor engaged in a Contract; and (ii) use the Confidential Information, except as necessary for the performance of Services for the relevant Contract (including, without limitation, the storage or transmission of Confidential Information on or through Hollywood Sourcing Platform for use by Contractor).
67. WARRANTY DISCLAIMER.
HOLLYWOOD SOURCING MAKES NO EXPRESS REPRESENTATIONS OR WARRANTIES WITH REGARD TO THE SERVICES, WORK PRODUCT, HOLLYWOOD SOURCING PLATFORM OR ANY ACTIVITIES OR ITEMS RELATED TO THIS AGREEMENT. TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, HOLLYWOOD SOURCING DISCLAIMS ALL EXPRESS OR IMPLIED CONDITIONS, REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, AND NON-INFRINGEMENT. SECTION 10.2 (TERMINATION) STATES USER'S SOLE AND EXCLUSIVE REMEDY AGAINST HOLLYWOOD SOURCING WITH RESPECT TO ANY DEFECTS, NON-CONFORMANCES OR DISSATISFACTION.
68. LIMITATION OF LIABILITY.
IN NO EVENT WILL HOLLYWOOD SOURCING BE LIABLE FOR ANY SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, INCIDENTAL, EXEMPLARY OR INDIRECT COSTS OR DAMAGES, LITIGATION COSTS, INSTALLATION AND REMOVAL COSTS, OR LOSS OF DATA, PRODUCTION OR PROFIT. THE LIABILITY OF HOLLYWOOD SOURCING TO ANY USER FOR ANY CLAIM ARISING OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THIS AGREEMENT SHALL NOT EXCEED THE GREATER OF: (A) U.S. $2,500; AND (B) ANY HOLLYWOOD SOURCING FEES RETAINED BY HOLLYWOOD SOURCING WITH RESPECT TO CONTRACTS ON WHICH USER WAS INVOLVED AS CLIENT OR CONTRACTOR DURING THE SIX (6) MONTH PERIOD PRECEDING THE DATE OF THE CLAIM. THESE LIMITATIONS SHALL APPLY TO ANY LIABILITY, ARISING FROM ANY CAUSE OF ACTION WHATSOEVER, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE), STRICT LIABILITY OR OTHERWISE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH COSTS OR DAMAGES AND EVEN IF THE LIMITED REMEDIES PROVIDED HEREIN FAIL OF THEIR ESSENTIAL PURPOSE.
69. INDEMNIFICATION.
Each User and visitor to this site shall indemnify, defend and hold harmless Hollywood Sourcing and its subsidiaries, affiliates, celebrities, officers, agents, employees, representatives and agents (each an "Indemnified Party" for purposes of this Section 9) from any and all claims, damages, liabilities, costs, and expenses (including, but not limited to, reasonable attorneys' fees and all related costs and expenses) arising from or relating to any claim, judgment, or adjudication that any Work Product, Services or action or omission by such User infringes Proprietary Rights or other rights of any third party.
70. INDEMNIFICATION BY CLIENT.
Each Client shall indemnify, defend and hold harmless the Indemnified Parties from any and all claims, damages, liabilities, costs, and expenses (including, but not limited to, reasonable attorneys' fees and all related costs and expenses) arising from or relating to (i) such Client's use of Services, including without limitation claims by or on behalf of any Contractor for Worker's Compensation or unemployment benefits, or (ii) any Service Contract entered into between such Client and a Contractor.
71. INDEMNIFICATION BY CONTRACTOR.
Each Contractor shall indemnify, defend and hold harmless the Indemnified Parties from any and all claims, damages, liabilities, costs, and expenses (including, but not limited to, reasonable attorneys' fees and all related costs and expenses) arising from or relating to (i) such Contractor's provision of Services, or (ii) any Service Contract entered into between such Contractor and a Client.
You consent to the use of (a) electronic means to complete this Agreement and to deliver any notices pursuant to this Agreement; and (b) electronic records to store information related to this Agreement or your use of the Hollywood Sourcing Platform. Notices hereunder shall be invalid unless made in writing and given (a) by Hollywood Sourcing via email (in each case to the address that you provide), (b) a posting on the Hollywood Sourcing Site or (c) by you via email to HollywoodSourcing.com or to such other addresses as Hollywood Sourcing may specify in writing. The date of receipt will be deemed the date on which such notice is transmitted.
72. MODIFICATIONS.
No modification or amendment to this Agreement shall be binding upon Hollywood Sourcing unless in a written instrument signed by a duly authorized representative of Hollywood Sourcing. For the purposes of this Section 11.5, a written instrument shall expressly exclude electronic communications such as email and electronic notices but shall include facsimiles.
73. NO WAIVER.
74. ASSIGNABILITY.
User may not assign this Agreement, or any of its rights or obligations hereunder, without Hollywood Sourcing's prior written consent in the form of a written instrument signed by a duly authorized representative of Hollywood Sourcing (and, for the purposes of this Section 11.7, a written instrument shall expressly exclude electronic communications such as email and electronic notices but shall include facsimiles). Hollywood Sourcing may freely assign this Agreement without consent of User. Any attempted assignment or transfer in violation of this Section will be null and void. Subject to the foregoing restrictions, this Agreement will inure to the benefit of the successors and permitted assigns of the parties.
75. SEVERABILITY.
76. CHOICE OF LAW.
This Agreement and any controversy, dispute or claim arising out of or relating to this Agreement ("Claims") shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of Michigan, without regard to its conflict of law provisions and excluding the United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods (CISG).
77. ARBITRATION
Hollywood Sourcing and User hereby agree that any claims shall be settled through the Hollywood Sourcing arbitration system. Hollywood Sourcing shall resolve arbitration claims within 60 days of their being filed on our system. All decisions and verdicts rendered by the Hollywood Sourcing Arbitration System are FINAL, NON REVERSIBLE and NON APPEAL-ABLE. The only money that you can win back in an arbitration case is the money that still resides in the Hollywood Sourcing escrow account. Funds that have already been sent to the worker like 1) upfront payments and 2) milestone payments cannot be retrieved by arbitration from the worker once they are sent so we strongly recommend that you keep your upfront payments and milestone payments as modest as possible. We also strongly encourage you to work out your disagreements before resorting to arbitration because filing an arbitration case is a lengthy process and can result in a decision which may be less favorable to you then if you agreed on a solution with the other individual yourself.
78. JOB POSTING RULES
Job postings in the Hollywood Sourcing marketplace are subject to review by Hollywood Sourcing. They must be posted in English. If a posting is deemed to be inappropriate for any reason, it may be edited or removed immediately and may result in the suspension or even termination of the posting user's account and/or company. The company owner may be held responsible for the job postings of all their hiring managers and recruiters.
Offering payment using any method (Western Union, PayPal, etc.) outside the Hollywood Sourcing billing and payment system
Accepting any solicitation to pay for work using any method (Western Union, PayPal, etc.) outside the Hollywood Sourcing billing and payment system.
In addition, job postings which are clearly discriminatory in nature are not permitted and will be removed.
Disclosing direct contact information (email address, phone number or chat ID) in your job posting or attachments. Direct contact is only permitted with active candidates and team members, NOT other contractors or applicants.
Requesting applicants submit their direct contact information (email address, phone number or chat ID) in their cover letters.
Requesting fees from contractors for applying, bidding, or winning a contract
Including offensive language or content
An organization that seeks to make money at Hollywood Sourcing by selling the services of their Agency Contractors
Posting work related to school projects
Intending any illegal activity or violation of other websites' Terms of Service
Involving the use of spyware, spam-bots, viruses or any other products with malicious intent
79. NON REFUNDABLE FEE
The ten percent fee which Hollywood Sourcing charges the employer who posts jobs that have 1) found a worker and 2) been funded with money placed in our escrow system is NON REFUNDABLE. If you cancel a job that you've placed funds in escrow for then the price of the job may, under some unique circumstances be refunded, but the ten percent Hollywood Sourcing Fee is never refundable
80. FUNDS TRANSFERRED TO WORKERS AND EMPLOYEES
Once Hollywood Sourcing is notified by the employer that a job has been completed it can take up to ten days for Hollywood Sourcing to release the funds from escrow and place them in the employees account.
81. HOLLYWOOD SOURCING MAY CONTACT YOU VIA EMAIL, PHONE AND PHYSICAL MAIL
Hollywood Sourcing reserves the right to contact users via email, phone and physical mail with regards to business related matters. It may be something as simple as sending you a confirmation email or it may involve contacting you by phone or physical mail to address other business related matters.
82. PAYMENTS ( UPFRONT PAYMENTS - MILESTONE PAYMENTS - FINAL PAYMENTS )
Whenever two individuals ( an employer and a worker ) enter into an agreement on a job there are several components to the payment process.
1) The first is the budget for the job which is the price that the employer agrees to pay the worker for the completed work. This is held in escrow by Hollywood Sourcing and is only distributed to the worker as both parties agree.
2) The second component is the upfront payment that the worker usually requests be paid immediately ( at the beginning of the job ) so that the worker can begin working on the job. Whenever the employer hires the worker and funds the contract by placing the budget / price for the job into the Hollywood Sourcing escrow account our system then sends the agreed upon upfront payment to the worker. Unlike the funds that are still remaining in Hollywood Sourcing escrow account once the upfront payment funds are taken from the escrow account and sent to the workers account they CANNOT be retrieved by arbitration or any other means. This is why we strongly recommend that your upfront payments be as low as possible. How much of an upfront payment you agree upon or even if you agree to make an upfront payment is entirely negotiable in the beginning but once an agreement is made and a deal is funded we cannot retrieve your upfront payment if there is a dispute submitted to arbitration later.
3) The third component of the payment system are the milestone payments which both parties can negotiate and decide amongst themselves. Milestone payments are paid out by the employer to the worker as the worker completes certain agreed upon stages of the work. Whether you decide to make milestone payments and how much you make is entirely up to both parties as they negotiate their deal in the beginning of the process.
4) The fourth component of the payment system is the final payment. This is only made when both parties agree that all the work has been completed.
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USP Compact .45 vs XD .45This is a discussion on USP Compact .45 vs XD .45 within the Defensive Carry Guns forums, part of the Defensive Carry Discussions category; I currently own an XD .45 and its the first pistol I've owned. When I purchased the gun, it was only going to get range ...
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Posts 51 USP Compact .45 vs XD .45
I currently own an XD .45 and its the first pistol I've owned. When I purchased the gun, it was only going to get range use, but I've since acquired my CHL, and carry when I can. Under a Carhart jacket, you can hide just about anything. However spring is coming, and I feel like it is just too much for me to adaquately conceal. Perhaps I'm just being too paranoid about it and need to work on adjusting my wardrobe a bit more, but I really like shorts and t-shirts. I digress.
I'm thinking about going after a USPc .45. Size-wise it seems a little smaller than my XD, perhaps a tad thicker. I can't find one around here to shoot. So I'm asking for opinions from those that have shot both. Secondly, in a perfect world, where the money tree blooms $100 bills, I would just buy the gun, however I must have gotten a defective tree. I'm thinking about selling the XD, with 4 mags. I'm not really sure how much to ask. I'm open to suggestions about either selling locally, online, whatever. I have an idea about what I would like from it, but I'm open to suggestions.
Reply With Quote February 13th, 2007 06:43 PM
Posts 2,147 Well, I haven't shot the XD, but I do have a USP Compact .45. It's a great pistol, I use it for my EDC. Buy it, you won't regret it.
Reply With Quote February 13th, 2007 06:57 PM
Posts 3,288 The XD .45 you currently have, is it compact version? With it's 10+1 and 13+1 round capabilities, it is rather a versatile selection. But then again, you can never really go wrong with an HK. I have never shot an XD in .45, but I have shot the USPc. I found it to be a great firearm but could never justify spending the dough on one. I'd forgo selling the XD for a USPc and wait until you've actually held and possibly shot one. Just my humble opinion.
February 13th, 2007 08:07 PM
Posts 51 Originally Posted by eagle5
The XD .45 you currently have, is it compact version? With it's 10+1 and 13+1 round capabilities, it is rather a versatile selection. But then again, you can never really go wrong with an HK. I have never shot an XD in .45, but I have shot the USPc. I found it to be a great firearm but could never justify spending the dough on one. I'd forgo selling the XD for a USPc and wait until you've actually held and possibly shot one. Just my humble opinion.
No, I wish it was the compact version, for that very reason. I have handled a USPc .40. and liked the feel of the gun. Just wish I could shoot it before I buying it. I think also like the idea of having a saftey/decocking lever. Yeah, I know, the XD is just as "safe" as the USP, just a preference.
Reply With Quote February 13th, 2007 08:16 PM
Posts 2,570 Most sold guns end up being a source of great regret.
If it works keep it and sell something else, maybe have a garage sale or two, you might need the XD one day.
Reply With Quote February 13th, 2007 08:21 PM
Posts 1,226 I have the XD45 Compact. It hides well under a t-shirt. Rule #2: Never sell your handgun. Share
Reply With Quote February 13th, 2007 08:32 PM
Posts 51 Originally Posted by lowflyer
I have the XD45 Compact. It hides well under a t-shirt. Rule #2: Never sell your handgun. Thats a given, I would never sell my handgun without having something to replace it first. I also just realized that the USP has a polygonal bore, which means, unless I'm mistaken, I can't shoot the 1000+ rounds of 230 gr LRN I've loaded though the USP. So..... I HAVE to keep the XD. Darn the luck. Share
Reply With Quote February 13th, 2007 08:37 PM
Posts 18,227 Both guns are excellent shooters. I carry a full size USP .40 for the winter. Have shot the XD service .40 . At the very least , try handling a USPc before buying, however the grips feel similar.
Reply With Quote February 13th, 2007 08:58 PM
Posts 58 You can sell me the XD45 Share
Reply With Quote February 16th, 2007 02:45 PM
Posts 4 I personally have both guns. Both are great and DO NOT sell the XD !! I have the XD45, 9 and subcomp 9 as well as the HK USP 45 and 45c. I will never sell any of them.
The HK is one of the highest quality handguns you can buy. No joke, no debate. The HK was built and designed as a military and law enforcement handgun so you don't get much better as far a carry piece in my mind. Just go look at one and you can feel it. I really like the different options of carry considering it is DA/SA. You can even carry it cocked and locked like a 1911. The XD, while a fine weapon, does not give you the versility nor it as proven as the HK. I forgot who said it but someone said that the only handgun they would feel comfortable taking from the retail counter straight to the battlefield would ba an HK. Both of mine have NEVER had anything so much as a hickup. My XD's haven't had any either but the round count is not near the HK's. That is why i carry my HK as my daily piece. The HK is a very accurate gun just as the XD is. the only downside to the HKc is the 8 round mag capacity. carry mine with 8+1 and at least one extra mag (& my .357 airlite BUG )
Reply With Quote February 16th, 2007 03:02 PM
Posts 70 How well do you shot the XD? Any complaints with it? Because if you shoot it well & have no complaints. It seems like the XD45c would be a great fit for you.
Option of carrying with the smaller 10 (plus 1 in chamber) round mag & can carry the extended 13 rd for additional ammo. Giving you 24 rds of 45acp. Plus your new carry gun would function just like the your current one. Use the money save to buy more ammo & burn it at the range. Now with that said the HK is a great gun & they have a really good reputation. I had a USP 40 & really liked the gun. My only complaint was the DA trigger pull was on the heavy & long side.
Reply With Quote February 16th, 2007 03:45 PM
Posts 1,275 i think with the right holster and belt setup you could carry the XD in the summer with shorts, and cover shirt. I have the xd45 and I carry it in Gary Brommeland's Max Con V and matching belt. I can carry it in khaki shorts and a cover shirt. just my .02...
I have a 'man Law'...once a firearm is purchased, it is owned for life. either yours or its......that depends on the gun.
Reply With Quote February 16th, 2007 03:49 PM
Posts 407 Don't get rid of the XD! I've got an XD45 as well and it makes a terrific HD pistol or nightstand gun. I'm also going to give it a whirl on Sunday and see how she carries.
For EDC, right now I use a Sig P239 in 9mm, although you can get them with swappable .40 and .357 Sig barrels/magazines which hold 7+1 instead of the 8+1 in 9mm.
Perhaps see about an XD9 if you like the XD45, or if you're set on the .45 as your carry caliber, look into a Glock 36 (not too recommended from me due to pinching issues) or a 4" or so 1911 for carry use (Kimber makes a great selection, as I'm sure RetSupt will attest to shortly )
Reply With Quote February 16th, 2007 03:52 PM
Posts 1,759 First I agree completely with snowdoctor - keep the XD. You will regret getting rid of it. As for the USPc, I have one in .40 and one in .357 sig. I will probably buy the .45 in the near future. I think they are one of the most versatile, accurate and well made weapons out there. You just can't go wrong with HK (of course, I am pretty biased).
Reply With Quote February 16th, 2007 04:09 PM
Posts 109 Like posted many times before, keep the XD, look for deals around, save some money and then get the USPc .45 to complement it.
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Traits are a simple composition mechanism for structuring object-oriented programs. A Trait is essentially a parameterized set of methods; it serves as a behavioral building block for classes and is the primitive unit of code reuse. With Traits, classes are still organized in a single inheritance hierarchy, but they can make use of Traits to specify the incremental difference in behavior with respect to their superclasses.
Unlike mixins and multiple inheritance, Traits do not employ inheritance as the composition operator. Instead, Trait composition is based on a set of composition operators that are complementary to single inheritance and result in better composition properties.
We have implemented Traits in Squeak, an open-source Smalltalk-80 dialect. In the meantime, Traits have had a significant practical impact and have been ported to various other languages.
A mailing list is available for discussion and questions [email protected] , but you need to register first.
Selected Publications
The following papers give an overview of Traits and show their practical usability. Note that the material of all these papers and more is also available in Nathanael Schärli's dissertation Traits — Composing Classes from Behavioral Building Blocks.
Traits — Composable Units of Behavior is the concept paper introducing Traits. It also compares Traits to mixins and multiple inheritance, summarizes a formal model for Traits, briefly discusses our implementation and gives an overview of a realistic application: refactoring the Smalltalk collection hierarchy.
Traits: A Mechanism for Fine-grained Reuse is a newer paper accepted to TOPLAS. This paper is a mature description of traits and contains a formal model of traits.
Applying Traits to the Smalltalk Collection Hierarchy is an experience report of applying Traits to refactor the Smalltalk collection hierarchy.
Uniform and Safe Metaclass Composition presents how traits can be used at the metalevel and offer safe metaclass composition model for Traits and defines some basic properties of Traits and classes.
Traits: The Formal Model presents a formal model for Traits and defines some basic properties of Traits and classes.
Traits: Tools and Methodology describes the Trait Browser and the programming methodology that we have developed around the use of Traits and the Trait Browser.
A Browser for Incremental Programming describes the virtual categories used in the Trait Browser in more details.
Traits in C# is a technical report about traits in a statically typed object-oriented language
Implementations
Squeak Smalltalk
Traits are available for Squeak. Starting with version 3.9, they are part of the standard distribution: Download Squeak 3.9
Perl
Stevan Little implemented Traits in Perl 5. The first Traits implementation by Stevan little is now obsolete. Stevan has created Moose, a "postmodern object system for Perl 5", that has huge impact on the Perl community. Moose has a metaobject protocol, much like CLOS or Smalltalk; the notion of traits is called "Roles".
In his series about the unfolding of the Perl 6 design, Larry Wall, the creator of Perl, gives a description of Roles, the variation of Traits that is planned as a fundamental language element of Perl 6. See also: Updated docs on the design of Perl6 (objects and roles)
Discussions on roles vs inheritance are quite active among Perl bloggers. See for example
http://www.modernperlbooks.com/mt/2009/04/the-why-of-perl-roles.html
http://use.perl.org/~Ovid/journal/38862
http://use.perl.org/search.pl?tid=&query=roles&op=journals
Scala
Scala is a modern multi-paradigm programming language that smoothly integrates features of object-oriented and functional languages. Scala also features Traits, which is particularly interesting because they are smoothly integrated into Scala's static type system (which is similar to the type system of Java and C#).
C
We have worked on a Microsoft funded research project aimed to bring Traits to C#/Rotor, the shared source implementation of .NET.
Stefan Reichhart implemented a simple prototype (including examples/demos) of traits in C# during a student project. The work is accompanied by a technical report and presentation slides from the SSCLI Capstone Workshop 2005 at Microsoft Research, Redmond.
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Fort Chaffee AR Tennis Lessons - TENNIS PRO NOW
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Bipartisanship | The Fifth Column
December 24, 2011 · 5:25 AM West Wing Week: 12/23/11 or "#40dollars" The White House Blog With the holidays in full swing and the countdown clock ticking away, President Obama continued to press for the extension of the payroll tax cut for 160 million working Americans and unemployment insurance benefits for those looking for work. The President urged House Republicans to put aside their political games and pass a bill that garnered overwhelming, bipartisan support in the US Senate.
Tagged as Bipartisanship, Pennsylvania, President Obama, President of the United States, Republican Party (United States), United States, White House, Whitehouse.gov
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Welcome to the West Wing Week, your guide to everything that's happening at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. This week, President Obama announced a bi-partisan compromise to reduce the deficit and avoid default (infographic), announced a historic fuel efficiency standard that will save American families money, welcomed the crews of the Space Shuttle Endeavour and International Space Station expedition 26, held acabinet meeting, and celebrated his 50th birthday. That's July 29th to August 5th, or West Wing Week.
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Tagged as Barack Obama, Bipartisanship, Democratic Party, Joe Biden, Mitch McConnell, Republican, United States Congress, Yahoo News
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Heritage Village of Gladstone | Senior Living Community Assisted Living in Gladstone, MO | FindContinuingCare
Heritage Village of Gladstone is a peaceful assisted living community in Gladstone, Missouri. It is within wonderful Clay County which is part of the Show Me State.
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2021/12/08 10:19:36
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Sell customers on the benefits of talking with a Mortgage Professional by understanding general Mortgage options that may be available to them.
Handle questions of many types from customers with the ability to direct the customer to the appropriate resource for resolution.
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Atlanta Hawks Provide Thanksgiving Day Essentials to 350 Families - Sports Illustrated Atlanta Hawks News, Analysis and More
Hawks, UPS, GoodR Provide Thanksgiving Day Essentials
Volunteers from Atlanta Hawks served over 350 Clayton County Families.
During the week before Thanksgiving, the Atlanta Hawks and UPS, the official delivery and logistics partner of the Hawks, teamed up with Goodr, an Atlanta-based social impact startup leveraging technology to reduce food waste and end hunger, to provide 'Thanksgiving Day essentials' to more than 350 families in Clayton County.
"Thanksgiving is one of my favorite times of the year. I love eating and preparing for Thanksgiving. Today with the help of UPS, GoodR, and the Hawks Foundation, we have the opportunity to serve our community and give back to them for Thanksgiving." - Coach Nate McMillan
The event, which took place in Riverdale, Georgia, at the Virginia Burton Gray Recreation Center, featured Head Coach Nate McMillan, Assistant Coach Joe Prunty, the 2020-21 NBA leader in rebounds per game Clint Capela, and the team's 2021 first-round draft pick Jalen Johnson. They were joined by team executives, various members of Hawks Entertainment including Harry the Hawk and the ATL Hawks Dancers as well as volunteers from UPS.
For nearly two hours on Thursday, they worked together packing and distributing free groceries to families in need. The grocery items included various options: tea, lemonade, milk (or non-dairy alternative), turkey, eggs, rice, rolls, chicken broth, canned vegetables, mac and cheese, cornbread mix, sweet potato casserole ingredients, banana pudding ingredients, dessert option, two breakfast items, one produce bag, and one shelf-stable bag.
"Since I came to the city, I felt like it's a big part of the team to give back to the community. So, it's something that I really like, and I really want to be involved with. So, that's why I'm here. I really understand the culture, and I love it." - Clint Capela
Earlier this year, the Hawks and State Farm Arena opened the 'True To You' Career Center, as a workforce development center to assist the unemployed and underemployed in the metro Atlanta area. Located downtown at the arena, the 'True To You' Career Center offers vocational development workshops to help build skills around resumé writing, preparing for an interview, effective communication, and customer service for those hoping to work at the award-winning venue and for those seeking employment elsewhere. To learn more about job opportunities with the Hawks and State Farm Arena, visit Hawks.com/TrueToYou.
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https://www.si.com/nba/hawks/news/hawks-ups-goodr-provide-thanksgiving-day-essentials
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I have often looked for some sort of small flap that would not detract from the look of the E, but would protect the bottom panels from getting chipped from junk thrown up by the tires. Best think is to find an auto store that has a selection, see how they look, see what fits. Actually a very good idea. Hope you find something. Once considered a small piece of lexan.....might do the job, and would not look too bad.
A had generic mudflaps on my car for years and they worked fine - unfortunately with a black car and black tyres they do not stand out in pics of my car.
They just screws to the inner wheel arches with self taper screws. They were the standard rubber style similar to these.
They followed the curve of the wheel arch pretty well both front and rear, work well, looked OK and are cheap.
I don't understand why proper mudflaps appear to be unobtainium. Just drive through the tiniest of puddles and the entire car is messed up all along the car, front to rear bumper!!
I ended up putting a clear self healing protection film on those areas underside. Most dirt will now rinse off, although that doesn't prevent the splatters being there in the first place, but does give the protection against stone chips etc.
Hey !! Thats a good idea ! We used to use on Formula Atlantic cars. Nickname was "helicopter tape' ! Good stuff.
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What Makes Napa Valley Olive Oil Special - Fantesca Estate & Winery
Napa Valley is quite well-known for the production of wines and because the vineyards are biodynamic, the bees in wineries also help in the production of honey. However, there is another Napa Valley product which is definitely a must-have: olive oil.
Napa Valley has already been producing olive oils since the early 1990s and has been dubbed as liquid gold. Since then, olive oils have been widely used by a growing number of people for lots of things such as cooking. In Napa, olive trees are usually planted at the end of the rows of grape vines. They are considered as one indicator of a good vineyard along with the presence of bees.
A lot of growers would say that Napa Valley is one of the best regions to grow olive trees and grapes. High-quality wines and olive oils are a testament to that. But the question is, how do they achieve that?
The reason is because of Napa Valley's climate and the soil. The dry Mediterranean type of climate of Napa is ideal for the growing of not just grapes, but also olive trees. Mornings tend to be sunny and warm followed by cool evenings. This transition allows the fruit to ripen slowly and evenly. On the other hand, the structure and composition of the soil also affects the quality of the fruits. In Napa Valley, there are 100 different soil variations due to the region's tectonic plate movements and volcanic activities in the course of history. The valley floors are deeper and more fertile while hillsides have rocky soils.
Because of the great combination of weather conditions and soil composition, wineries have chosen to grow both grapes and olives in their vineyards and estates. Aside from wine tasting, visitors also try olive oil tasting although not all wineries have that option.
As a primary olive oil producer, California has been producing 99% of the olive oil within the United States.
A lot of people do not know the difference between a regular olive oil and an extra virgin olive oil. When an olive oil is referred to as "extra virgin", it means that it is processed and developed in the purest, high-quality method. In this process, the olives which are used are pure and cold-pressed. Extra virgin olive oils also needed to pass through agencies such as the California Olive Oil Council in order to verify that they are truly made with only high-quality ingredients.
Olive oils with names other than regular or extra virgin are made with a combination of standard and cold-pressed olives.
The Olive trees of Fantesca
Fantesca Estate and Winery not only produces high-quality wines but also olive oils. There are over 70 olive trees of 3 different varietals planted in the estate: Arbequina, Mission, and Manzanilla.
The Arbequina trees grow well during long, hot dry summers but they are still resistant to frost and pests. The Mission trees are known to be the most resistant to cold and the Manzanilla trees, which originated from Sevilla, Spain, is considered to be one of the most abundant olives and commonly used for stuffing. Manzanilla olives are also found on a toothpick when serving martinis.
Fantesca produces two special, hand-bottled extra virgin olive oils: the Arbequina and Mission-Man, a combination of olives from both Mission and Manzanilla trees.
If you wish to know more about Fantesca's olive oils and have a tasting session, contact us here to book an appointment!
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https://fantesca.com/newsletter/uncategorized/what-makes-napa-valley-olive-oil-special
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Falling Tree Limb Accident | O'Connor, Parsons, Lane & Noble
Falling Tree Limb Accident
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If a tree branch falls on your car, for example, it can be extremely expensive to repair. You may have to replace the car entirely — which is money out of your pocket, despite the fact that you were not at fault. In other cases, falling tree branches hit people, causing broken bones, paralysis, or even fatalities. The financial costs of such an accident can be huge: soaring medical bills, for example. But the emotional costs can often be even worse.
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2019/02/19 14:40:31
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Ah the joys of summer, windows thrown open and the heady scent of lavender wafting throughout the house.
Hmmm yes it should be, but alas here in the UK we are having the wettest summer on record and windows are firmly shut against the onslaught of wind and rain.
If your house doesn’t have that summer fresh fragrance you would have hoped for, and is possibly bearing more than a passing resemblance to a kennel in the scent department due to wet dog/cat and pet hair, panic not! Here is a handy trick to bring the outdoors in, debug your carpets and make the whole house smell wonderful – what’s more it is totally natural, does not plug into the wall, puff out rainforest inspired chemical goo and give you a nasty headache.
Simply take a box of Baking Soda (Bicarbonate Of Soda) and tip it into a big jar with a handful of dried mint, rosemary ( store bought packets will do) and also lavender. You can use essential oils if you can’t get the herbs. Just use 10 drops of each.
Seal the jar and give it a really good shake. Leave it overnight to let the herbs mix thoroughly with the Bicarb.
Sprinkle this all over your carpet or rug in the manner of the old Shake’n’Vac ad from the 1970s if you can remember that far back (alas I can more is the pity!), feel free to sing the dreadful jingle too, it all passes the time.
Your floor will be cleaner and a whole lot fresher. This will also help deter those pesky fleas, ticks and other nasty little bugs that are so fond of our pets at this time of year.
So when the weather isn’t playing summer outside, at least you can freshen floors naturally and the house can smell like a garden inside.
Yes use that lovely fresh rosemary you have there. Break off the needles and toss it into your food processor to really chop it finely and release those magical oils. Add the bicarb into the processor to really blend well just for one quick whizz. Now use this on the rug. It will smell wonderful and be full of great beneficial antibacterials. If you don’t have a food processor just chop really finely and then put in big jar with the bicarb and shake like mad.
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Antibody-Drug Conjugates - Analysis of Protein Post-Translational Modifications by Mass Spectrometry -
Hydrophobic interaction chromatography (HIC) can be used for the determination of drug-to-antibody ratio (DAR) and to monitor drug distribution for cysteine-linked ADCs; molecules with more drug conjugated exhibit increased hydrophobicity [59, 146]. DAR calculations can also be performed following the reduction of the ADC and the analysis of the composite LC and HC by RPLC with UV detection [147, 148]. MS, however, is currently emerging as a new method of choice for ADC characterization and evaluation of DAR due to the additional structural information offered [21, 56, 84, 149, 150].
In the case of lysine- or engineered cysteine-conjugated ADCs (types 1 and 2, respectively), the interchain disulfide bonds between the HC and LC of the antibody remain intact. This means that DAR can be determined using LC-MS methods employing organic mobile phases [63, 151]. ADCs conjugated at the interchain cysteine residues produce a mixture of noncovalent mAb tetramers (two LC and two HC with a variable number of drug molecules attached) after reduction of interchain disulfide bonds; hence the application of more classic LC-MS analytical strategies would result in the dissociation of this noncovalent ADC. The organic solvents used disrupt the noncovalent nature of the ADC structure producing conjugated LC and HC fragments, making it hard to define average DAR [152]. Careful sample preparation needs to be employed for the analysis of interchain cysteine-linked ADCs, especially if using denaturing conditions, to avoid ADC denaturation, which in turn could affect average DAR calculations.
There are a few different methods reported in the literature that employ native MS for the intact mass and DAR analyses of these cysteine-linked ADCs [56, 153, 154]. In 2012, Valliere-Douglass et al. [153] presented the first method for the rapid determination of intact mass and DAR for interchain cysteine- conjugated ADCs. Following ESI-MS analysis of deglycosylated ADCs, the authors observed some dissociation of the noncovalent ADCs into conjugated LC and HC but reported levels sufficiently low enough to not impact the relative levels of the intact drug-loaded species. The results acquired by MS were similar to those obtained from the orthogonal HIC method.
In 2013, Chen et al. [56] reported an MS method engaging limited enzymatic digestion, nESI, and native MS for the direct determination of intact mass and calculation of the average DAR of cysteine-linked ADCs. Utilizing an nESI source provided improved ionization, sensitivity, and increased confidence in DAR determination. The cytotoxic drug monomethyl auristatin E (MMAE) is reported to have high hydrophobicity. This meant that high-drug-load species were underestimated due to reduced affinity for protons causing inefficient ionization. To minimize this ion suppression and equalize ionization efficiency among species, proteolytic drug removal was induced. The hydrophobic moiety was selectively cleaved, using cysteine protease, from the ADC while leaving the linker attached indicative of the original drug load. The DAR values obtained following enzymatic digestion were more comparable with those determined by HIC methods.
Hengel et al. [154] have described a customized sample preparation method for cysteine-linked ADCs from an in vivo source using native SEC LC-MS for accurate drug load distribution determination. The results confirmed that higher-drug-loaded species were undetectable shortly after dosing; however, after 30 min the predominant species was the ADC with four conjugated drug molecules. The observed shift was likely due to clearance of the higher-loaded species and/or deconjugation. The MS dimension of the analysis was also capable of quantifying the in vivo increase in ADC mass heterogeneity. Overall this method provides useful PK and stability insights into the in vivo changes in drug load distribution and ADC structure.
Shortly afterward, Debaene et al. [55] developed a semiquantitative method for the determination of average DAR and DAR distributions based on native IM-MS data. The authors utilized TWIMS to conformationally characterize and separate each drug-loaded species and observed constant drift time/CCS shifts between consecutive DAR variants. This indicated that no conformational changes were induced upon drug binding and that all shifts were attributable to changes in mass. By plotting the intensities for each drift peak for the different drug binding stoichiometries against charge state, the areas under each curve were found to be representative of the relative abundances of the different ADC species present. This enabled the calculation of an average DAR value with excellent agreement toward HIC and native MS obtained data as well as accurate DAR distribution profiling.
An Orbitrap Exactive® mass spectrometer with extended mass range (EMR) [Thermo/Finnigan] enabled the Heck group to isolate native ADCs as part of tandem MS/MS experiments for localizing bound drug moieties [155]. The cysteine-linked ADC brentuximab vedotin was studied and the authors present a direct approach for the assessment of drug distribution and localization. In the same paper, insights into hexamerization of IgG1 mutant assemblies (the mechanism by which IgG mAbs facilitate complementary activation) were reported. Their tandem MS/MS workflow enabled insight into the stoichiometry of antigen binding, even for protein assemblies with molecular weights over 1 million Da, and concluded that IgG hexamerization does not significantly affect bivalent antigen binding. These results were expected to an extent as IgG hexamer interactions have previously been shown to be confined to the Fc region [155].
Charge reducing agents have been used to reduce spectral complexity. Recently, Pacholarz et al. [156] have used the charge reducing agent triethyl- ammonium acetate (TEAA) to help preserve intact mAb structure during
ADC analysis and DAR calculation (paper submitted). Marcoux et al. [157] also used native MS in combination with the charge state reducing reagent imidazole to reduce the charge states observed for the lysine-linked ADC tras- tuzumab emtansine (T-DM1) to below 20+. With the addition of imidazole and use of a high-resolution Orbitrap® mass spectrometer, the authors were able to avoid the overlapping of peaks corresponding to the D0 and D8 species of sequential charge states (zero and eight drug moieties linked, respectively), even without deglycosylation. It was emphasized also that DAR calculations should be performed from raw data to avoid the introduction of bias upon the application of deconvolution parameters. A solution to this type of bias was recently published by Firth et al. [57] whereby use of enzymatic digestions meant that default deconvolution parameters could be applied to the raw data. MaxEnt1 (UNIFI, Waters) parameters, applied to data for intact or fragmented proteins greater than 40 kDa, can require significant manipulation, which often leads to skewed results that would invariably affect DAR calculations. However, the addition of middle-up enzymatic cleavage steps using IdeS and DTT reduction meant that three different fragments (all ~25 kDa) for thiol-linked ADCs were generated and then analyzed using their in-house LC-MS method with minimal chromatographic separation. Analysis of LC, Fc, and Fd fragments meant that default parameters could be used, which offered mass accuracy within less than 20 ppm (<1 Da).
In terms of MS developments for ADC analysis, the most recently published method was proposed by Gautier et al. [158] who demonstrated the use of a tandem mass tag (TMT) to identify "hotspot" lysine residues on IgG1 mAbs. TMT labeling relies upon the same chemistry as drug conjugation in ADCs, and therefore this approach enables straightforward identification of mAbs suitable for lysine-linked ADC development. Attachment of the TMT label was confirmed using LC-MS/MS, and the comparison of glycosylated and deglycosylated IgG1s concluded that glycan presence can sterically protect lysine residues from TMT labeling and hence block cytotoxic drug conjugation. This technique could provide fundamental information with regard to controlling drug load and specificity within lysine-linked ADCs.
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Trustees gave approval for Head Start Director Hillary Young to apply for continuation and refunding of the non-competitive Head Start grant. The district is in the fourth year of a five-year funding cycle. To receive the funds annually, the district must submit a refunding application annually.
The 40-page document submitted to trustees at their March 6 meeting included the district's plan and goals for the Head Start program, as well as annual results, and annual budgets.
The 2016-17 budget was $1,585,553; the refunding application breaks that down into about a dozen different pieces. Of that amount, $986,464 is designated for personnel. That includes funding for base salaries for 21 full-time Head Start personnel and 17 staff partially funded with Head Start dollars. The staff also includes seven full- and part-time bus monitors and five full and part-time drivers' fully funded with Head Start dollars. That's 50-65 percent of all classroom teachers' salaries and 100 percent of teachers assistants, instructional aides, bus drivers and bus monitors salaries.
The Head Start budget for 2016-17 included $166,391 for fringe benefits for Head Start employees who work a minimum of 20 hour per week. These benefits include Medicare contributions, a month health insurance option, workers' compensation, unemployment benefits and Teacher Retirement System contributions.
Budgeted for out-of-town travel reimbursements for $2016-17 was $5,000. An additional $22,000 was budgeted in 2016-17 for office and classroom supplies. That's $2,800 for office supplies, $7,700 for classroom and education supplies, materials and activities; $2,200 for medical and dental supplies for the education and proper care, safety and hygiene of children; $2,250 for family services, parent involvement and other supplies; $1,000 for classroom cooking and food experiences; $500 for disabilities supplies; $2,250 for miscellaneous operating costs; and $2,800 for playground maintenance.
That budget also showed $50,700 allotted for contractual services from on-site consultants in each content area to ensure compliance with federal regulations and continued quality of services, including $3,500 for health, dental and disabilities services; $5,000 for mental health assessments; $4,500 for children's food; $9,500 for adult food; $2,500 for Galileo assessment technology, $2,000 parent as teachers curriculum; $1,000 child care education institute; $2,000 for miscellaneous duties and subscriptions; $2,500 for catering and meetings; and $16,000 to The Faulk Company for a full-time custodian.
An additional $17,749 was budgeted for other funds, including $1,000 for child liability insurance; $200 for local travel; $500 for nutrition services; $9,000 for substitutes; $1,500 for subscriptions; $3,000 for equipment, repair and maintenance; $1,749 for extra duty pay; and $800 for non-employee travel and parent volunteer travel expenses.
The $317,111 non-federal share match includes in-kind salaries for 17 staff who are partially funded with Head Start dollars and fringe totals for employees that are not paid with Head Start funds. That includes $197,283 for 10 teachers, one health specialist and one campus principal; $48,067 for fringe benefits packages funded through SSISD for employees not paid with Head Start dollars; and $72,828 additional in-kind contributions such as fuel and diesel costs, utilities, volunteer hours, community donations and routine maintenance costs.
Trustees gave approval for the Head Start director to apply for $1,613,649 in continuing and refunding for the program. That includes $1,270,773 for total continuation/refunding, $20,138 in training and technical assistance, and a $322,728 in-kind match.
Additional routine Head Start items approved by the school board as part of the consent agenda at their March 6 meeting were a standard of conduct for Head Start staff, volunteers and consultants and Head Start rational for program option.
The standard of conduct outlines basic activities staff, volunteers and consultants must refrain from when disciplining, punishing, talking to and otherwise educating students.
The rationale for program option outlines the SSISD Head Start program as a center-based option with no more than 20 children enrolled in a predominantly 4- and 5-year-old classroom and no more than 17 enrolled in a 3-year-old classroom. The program operates 180 days per calendar year, with six class hours per day. The district serves 550-plus students who would not otherwise have access to affordable, reliable and consistent childcare services if they were not involved in SSISD's early childhood programs which include Head Start, pre-kindergarten, preschool program for children with disabilities and kindergarten. Many of the students in the preschool programs benefit from school transportation services and also a limited number of children enrolled in Head Start. Pre-k and bilingual pre-k services are provided for children meeting Texas Education Agency and SSISD enrollment criteria.
Additional items approved March 6 as part of the the consent agenda included tax credits and supplements, delinquent tax collections, and financial statements and bills payable for February 2017. Trustees also approved Ordinance 1-17 declaring the May 6 trustees election unopposed and canceling the election. Incumbents Robert Cody and Robbin Vaughn will be reelected to the board for another 3-year term to begin May 1.
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Anushkha Sharma wore a blush pink lehenga on her wedding and challenged the conventional tradition of wearing colors like red, pink, yellow in the Indian wedding. She looked jaw-dropping gorgeous with the choker necklace, matha patti and earrings.
Asin looked divine in the heavily embellished ensemble by Sabhyasachi lehenga on her wedding. She wore pastel colored lehenga which looked modern and chic. Her gold jewellery with red beads need to be given special mention to complete her sophisticated look.
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This one was a must-share, since it was planned, start to finish, by my husband. He set up an overnight in New York City, and it was heavenly. We have always loved the city and used to spend many date nights there, something we have not done as much of lately, which made it a perfect choice for a close-to-the-babies-but-still-away trip.
You guys, stop for a minute and consider the awesomeness of not having to think about anything at all for 2 days. Are you feeling as relaxed as I felt? Wonderful. Here are some photos.
(I told you I was feeling relaxed. This was from the first few minutes inside our hotel room. I didn’t even take off my shoes. #momoflittles #sleepisaluxury)
Our hotel had a private garden across the street. And I do mean private. We needed the door attendant to let us in and then we needed to call him to let us back out. It was mildly thrilling and quite definitely amusing. Also, it was beautiful in there – a little world apart in the middle of the city noise!!
My husband is the reason I fell in love with photography. Not like we’re pros or anything, but I love so much seeing the world in a different way. Capturing faces; moments; real-life, genuine interactions… seeing it all as so much more than a posed group of smiling faces – although those are good, too! 😉 To be honest, I’m more comfortable behind the camera than in front of it… except when Trevor is the photographer. ❤
The Village Vanguard! Ahhh! So fun. For those of you that don’t know, my husband is a huge jazz fan, and actually played saxophone for many years. (Beautifully, I might add. I miss it. Hint hint.)
(Side note… I never know where to LOOK for a selfie. Is this just me?! How do all these people look right where they’re supposed to! Anyways. Moving on. bwahaha)
True story: we had big plans to sleep till noon because we were kid-free and whooo hoooo sleep. Ha. I woke up at 7 am (totally missing the babies like crazy, if I’m being honest haha), and Hubby woke at 8:30. So… we found an uber touristy 80’s themed diner and had breakfast… followed by some city strolling and antics. 😛
I would like to dedicate the next several photos to my sister-in-love, Jenn, because she completely understood the importance of me texting her pics of these fabulously funky hotel lights in the middle of a romantic getaway. #thegirlappreciatesgoodlighting
Our last stop was Eataly, and if you are ever in NYC, you really need to try it! The market is huge and fascinating, and the cooking class/dinner was just wonderful. Hubby and I tried our best, but quickly fell into our old college habit of sitting near the back and passing flirty notes. Oops.
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Tibetan antelope taken off China's endangered species list
Wildlife advocates cheered the removal of the chiru, or Tibetan antelope, from the endangered species list, but pledged to continue campaigning.
A joint report by the Ministry of Environmental Protection and the Chinese Academy of Sciences, published in June, announced that the Tibetan antelope was no longer an endangered species.
"Due to effective protection, there are now around 200,000 Tibetan antelope in the Qinghai-Tibetan plateau area, and the population is steadily climbing," said Shirab, Forestry Police chief in Nagchu prefecture, Tibet.
Tibetan antelopes mainly live in western China, in Qinghai province, and Xinjiang and Tibet autonomous regions. About 80% live in Changtang in northern Tibet.
Poaching for the antelope's pelts led to a sharp population decline in the 1990s. By the beginning of 2000, only 70,000 were left.
Shahtoosh, an ultra-soft shawl woven from yarn made from the animal's down fur, can fetch upward of US$40,000. On average, it takes the hide of three antelope to create one Shahtoosh.
In 1996 and 1997, more than 840 kilograms of yarn were seized at two customs points in Lhasa, capital of Tibet, according to Tibet customs data.
"Protective measures since 2000 have paid off. In 2000, Changtang Nature Reserve was elevated to the national level, creating a protected habitat for the species," said Drolma Yangzom, the director of wildlife protection at the regional forestry department.
"Thanks to increased funding, we set up more bases, bought specialized vehicles and installed better communication facilities. Wherever the Tibetan antelopes go, we send groups to watch over them," said Yangzom.
Thanks to the work of about 400 wildlife protection specialists, in the past five years, 346 cases of poaching were discovered and 18 people were prosecuted, he said.
Last May, Xinhua followed an inspection tour organized by Tibetan forestry police who were tasked with guarding the antelopes during their migration. No evidence of poaching was found but a few herdsman were found in possession of sculls and pelts, which they had collected from dead antelopes. They were confiscated and suspects of poaching were handed to police.
Zongga, deputy forestry chief in Tibet, called for a continuation of the "precious work" that had helped bolster the antelope's population. However, for the protection team, this is no easy task.
"On average, one person has to cover 500 square kilometers," said Karma Tsedrub, Ngari deputy forestry chief.
"Every winter, the patrol team must spend more than one month in the wild. The living and work conditions are harsh," Tsedrub said.
Though removed from the endangered list, Tibetan antelopes still face threats, such as increased tourism.
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Fall Semester Dance Classes – utpalasia
Time to get fit and healthy for those long hours you know are coming in front of a computer screen as more and more people work remotely and schools begin their online fall semester. Workout machines are great, but nothing matches the joy and excitement of getting up and dancing your heart out.
Utpalasia is offering:
Himalayan folk dance
Beginner/Intermediate Kathak
Advanced Kathak
Want a great workout and enriching activity for learners of all ages with no prior dance experience? Give Utpalasia's Himalayan folk dance classes a try! Get a first hand view of Nepal's cultural heritage as you learn to dance using easy-to-follow choreography.
We've also got you covered with classes in popular styles like Bollywood fusion, a mix of Indian movie dance paired with hip hop, contemporary, and other styles.
If classical Asian dance is more your speed, we offer classical North Indian Kathak at beginner/intermediate and advanced levels. You'll find incredible beauty in this challenging visual art and reap a long list of physical and mental benefits along the way.
The fall semester starts on September 6. Sign up for classes before August 24 for the early bird special to save $25!
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UCR Newsroom: Grant Awarded to LGBT Center
Grant Awarded to LGBT Center
LGBT Resource Center Opens Wireless CyberCenter April 21
A special technology grant makes state-of-the-art center a reality.
RIVERSIDE, Calif. — The UC Riverside Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Resource Center (LGBTRC) has been awarded a $16,000 technology grant to open the David Bohnett Wireless CyberCenter on campus.
The CyberCenter will include four state-of-the-art ThinkPad laptop computers, a laser printer and a scanner. The new technology resources will create a safe space for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) students and their allies to access online resources and connect with community organizing and advocacy information. UC Riverside is the fifth college campus in the nation to open a David Bohnett CyberCenter.
"We hope the David Bohnett Wireless CyberCenter will provide tools for reaching out to students not yet accessing the LGBTRC's space and services," said center director Nancy Jean Tubbs.
"We know from a 2004 campus climate study that the experiences of LGBT students at UCR improve if they connect with a wider campus community. The wireless CyberCenter will help us reach out to otherwise unconnected students," she said.
All students, faculty and staff, regardless of their sexual orientation or gender identity, will be granted access to the center.
The Los Angeles-based David Bohnett Foundation is a grant-making organization with a $30 million endowment dedicated to improving society through social activism. Michael Fleming, executive director of the foundation said, "our goal is to provide funding, state-of-the-art technology and technical support to innovative organizations and institutions."
In 1994, David Bohnett founded GeoCities, an Internet-based media and e-commerce company acquired by Yahoo! in 1999. In the course of his career, Bohnett became keenly aware of what the Internet can contribute toward facilitating change. He has made it the mission of the foundation established in his name to ensure that the LGBT community is well positioned to leverage the transformative power of the Web.
The Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Resource Center will hold a grand-opening celebration for the center Friday, April 21, 2006 in 250 Costo Hall from 3 pm to 6 pm. For more information go to www.out.ucr.edu or call (951) 827-2267.
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Clutter is a spiritual issue
Posted on April 20, 2018 by seriouslyseekinganswers
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Ecclesiastes 3:6 reminds us there is “a time to keep and a time to cast away.” With that in mind, I resolved to make clearing out clutter a priority during this year’s recently-completed Lenten season.
Using the “one baby step at a time” approach, I actually managed to make an initial dent in the mounds of clutter littering our house. I thoroughly cleaned the refrigerator/freezer and about half the pantry, got caught up with a month’s worth of ironing, repotted several plants in the sunroom and took down the Christmas tree (yep, the first week in March). I even sorted through a drawer full of paper and shocked our accountant by giving her everything she needed to file our tax return on time this year rather than file for an extension the way I usually do.
As I cleaned and sorted, however, I realized the clutter in my life consists of more than just endless piles of paper and other physical “stuff.” My spiritual director has challenged me to identify the “spiritual” clutter clogging up my life as well. For example:
Computer clutter. As I said in a previous article, I could spend hours at my computer playing solitaire, mindlessly surfing the Internet or actually getting sucked into “news” articles about Miley and Taylor and Selena and the Kardashians. I am particularly likely to do this when I’m anxious or avoiding a task on my to-do list.
Calendar clutter. Some of the commitments overwhelming my schedule are things I really want to do – a visit with family or friends, singing in the church choir, community volunteer work. But too many other commitments have landed on my calendar because I can’t say no to people.
Nutritional clutter. Big-box stores, supermarkets and even health food stores seek to sell me cereal with sugar as the first ingredient, highly processed trans-fat-laden “dinners” I can pop into the microwave and whole aisles of cookies and candy. Restaurant buffets, family gatherings and church potlucks feature entire tables of desserts.
Mental clutter. And finally there is the steady stream of anxieties and resentments that keep me pre-occupied during the day and awake at night.
Why is all this clutter a spiritual issue?
When I put junk food into my body – the temple of the Holy Spirit – it clogs my arteries as well as adding extra pounds to my hips. The mindless Internet-surfing and solitaire games suck hours and hours out of my day that could be better spent taking a walk, connecting with other people, or just about anything else. Endless ruminating about resentments interferes with my ability to love my neighbor as myself. Turning down excessive demands on my time would help me focus more energy on those commitments that are really important. When the physical clutter in my house is out of control, my whole life feels out of control.
Alas, I still have quite a way to go just to address the physical clutter. Piles of paper cover nearly every surface in my office. My closets bulge with clothes and shoes I haven’t worn in years. Boxes and boxes and boxes marked “miscellaneous” remain stashed in the basement, many unopened from our last move nearly 10 years ago. And I don’t even like to think about the mess in the garage.
But I did make a good start during Lent, enough to motivate me to keep going. As they say around the tables at 12-Step group meetings, “One day at a time!”
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Baby steps
Posted on March 2, 2018 by seriouslyseekinganswers
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I began the Lenten season with our church’s Ash Wednesday service and a pledge to:
Give something up: Participate in the 40 Bags in 40 Days Decluttering Challenge, which involves decluttering one area of our home each day and letting go of “stuff.”
Add a positive habit: Include 3-5 daily servings of fruits/veggies in my diet.
Resume my Morning Meditation routine, which I had allowed to lapse over the winter.
How am I doing so far? Well, let’s just say my husband and I also began our Lenten discipline with “His” and “Hers” prescriptions for Tamiflu. Ugh! This has been the capstone of a L-O-N-G winter, which has included three separate bouts of illness for both of us. I’m still sniffling, in fact.
But I haven’t given up on my Lenten pledge.
I had embarked on the 40 Bags Challenge with an ambitious list: Clean the refrigerator on Day 1, the freezer on Day 2, the pantry on Day 3, and so on. I had also planned to try a batch of new veggie recipes.
Instead, the notorious fatigue that accompanies flu, coupled with a bit of nausea, meant I managed to finish one shelf of the refrigerator each day and I ended up drinking my fruits and veggies for several days running. (The good news is, an 8-ounce glass of V-8 juice equals two servings of vegetables and orange juice contains all kinds of Vitamin C.)
“Baby steps,” my spiritual director said, when I explained my modified plans. “That’s what matters.”
The baby steps seem to be working. After two weeks, I’ve finished cleaning the fridge (one shelf at a time), sorted through several weeks’ accumulation of junk mail, gotten caught up with a month’s backlog of ironing and am now halfway through the freezer (one shelf at a time).
Meanwhile, when I ventured outside to feed the birds – and squirrels – a few mornings ago, I spied a patch of snowdrops in our backyard. YES!!!!! Those little flowers make me so happy. Their appearance signals this L-O-N-G winter is finally coming to an end and spring is on its way … a baby step at a time.
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Lent: Borrowing a tradition
Posted on February 14, 2018 by seriouslyseekinganswers
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Even though I grew up Protestant, from early childhood on, I’ve usually participated in the annual tradition of giving up something for Lent.
My Aunt Marie – Sunday School teacher extraordinaire and a great Christian role model – believed that while Protestants didn’t require people to make a Lenten sacrifice, there was no reason why we couldn’t borrow this idea from the Catholics. “It’s good discipline,” she explained.
One year, as my sisters and I sat around the kitchen table discussing what we would give up – cake, ice cream, chocolate – my father added his two cents to the conversation.
“I’ve never really believed in the idea of sacrifice just for the sake of sacrifice,” he said. “Not when life gives us so many opportunities to make real sacrifices. If you’re going to give up something for Lent, I think you should make a sacrifice that actually means something.”
We all looked at him quizzically.
Dad grinned from ear to ear. “Instead of cake and ice cream, why don’t you kids give up fighting for Lent?”
“That sounds wonderful,” Mom chimed in. “No fighting for six whole weeks!”
I think my sisters and I may have actually accomplished this feat for a week or two.
In recent years, some of my Christian friends – including Catholics – have added a new tradition to their Lenten discipline. Instead of (or in addition to) giving something up, they approach Lent as a time to “take something on” and acquire a new positive habit. This could include anything from healthy eating and exercise to daily prayer and meditation or a new charitable commitment.
Since Ephesians 4:22-24 tells us to put off the “old self” and put on a “new self,” I’m thinking it would make sense to include both a sacrifice and an “add-on” this year.
In Dad’s honor, I’ve decided to make a sacrifice that would really mean something – letting go of a significant portion of the “stuff” that clutters every nook and cranny of our house. Toward that end, I’ve decided to accept the 40 Bags in 40 Days Decluttering Challenge.
The 40 Bags in 40 Days Challenge coincides with the 40 days of Lent, and involves decluttering one area of our home each day. The Challenge was started in 2011 by Ann Marie Heasley, author of the blog White House Black Shutters. It has become an annual event and the blog’s companion Facebook group now boasts 67,000 members. The 2018 Challenge starts February 14 and goes until March 31. (Click HERE to read more about The Challenge.)
For the “add-on” part, I’d like to acquire the habit of eating 3-5 servings of fruits and vegetables per day as recommended by nutrition experts. I’m lucky if I get in one or two servings on most days – some might say my eating habits resemble those of a rebellious 10-year-old – so this will be a challenge! Fortunately, psychologists say it takes 30 days for a new behavior to become a habit, so Lent would give me a bonus of 10 extra days to make this new habit my own.
Meanwhile, I also plan to get back in the habit of morning meditation. My meditation ritual, which I’ve practiced for several years, involves starting my day in front of the fireplace with a cup of coffee at my side and a cat in my lap while I journal about everything from the meaning of life to my plans for the day. Some days my husband joins me and serenades me with folk tunes played on his dulcimer.
Alas, looking through my journal entries this morning, I realized I haven’t partaken of this lovely ritual for several weeks. I’ve allowed a combination of illness and other people’s drama to crowd out a habit that helps me feel centered – no wonder I’ve been a tad bit crabby lately. I definitely want my morning meditation ritual to be a keeper!
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Feeling like the Apostle Paul
Posted on October 7, 2017 by seriouslyseekinganswers
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It’s not that I haven’t tried to address the issues detailed in my late-night laundry list, I told my spiritual advisor at our second meeting.
My bookshelves literally overflow with self-help books: First Things First, Meditations for Women Who Do Too Much, Take Back Your Time and Stop Screaming at the Microwave! My husband and I like to joke that we’re powerless over self-help books and that our bookshelves have become unmanageable. However, I don’t need a self-help book or a therapist to tell me I should practice self-care and set better boundaries.
I know intellectually what I need to do to get my life in order: eat right, exercise, get enough sleep, stay away from toxic people or environments, pay more attention to my relationships and practice self-discipline. The challenge lies in translating that intellectual knowledge into action. I’m usually so immersed in all the dramas of my life that I ignore problems until they become a crisis that can’t be ignored any longer. My life seems to be in crisis mode about half the time.
Periodically I grab myself up by the scruff of the neck and resolve to do better – on New Year’s Day, the first day of Lent, my birthday, the first day of spring or summer or fall, or any month in which the first day falls on a Sunday or Monday. I vow I’m going to turn over a new leaf, get my priorities straight and start doing things differently. My reform efforts may work for a week or two, or if I really buckle down, for a month. But then my life returns to the same chaotic reality that has become the new normal for me in recent years.
Sometimes it seems as if my life has been reduced to crossing items off endless To-Do lists: my To-Do List for volunteer work, my To-Do List for household chores, my To-Do List of personal self-care routines, my To-Do List of urgent matters, even a Master List to keep track of all the To-Do Lists. This elaborate system of lists was suggested by the day-planner I carry around constantly and jokingly call “my conscience.” I’m constantly juggling so many balls in the air, I’m convinced I have to keep these multiple To-Do Lists or I won’t remember to do simple things like brush my teeth. Despite all the To-Do lists designed to help me hold myself accountable for how I spend my time, I can’t seem to keep up with all the demands.
Repeated efforts to get my life under better control often leave me feeling more frustrated than ever, I told my spiritual advisor. I’m reminded of the Apostle Paul, when he says in Romans 7: “I don’t understand myself, for I want to do what is right, but I don’t do it. … I want to do what is good, but I don’t. I don’t want to do what is wrong, but I do it anyway.” Yep. That’s me, all right.
The good news is, I’m nowhere near the state of spiritual bankruptcy I was in 25 years ago, when the combination of psychic pain and fear for my future led me to put down the booze and start attending 12-Step meetings. Nor does my life feel quite as out of control as it did prior to my retirement, when I was juggling the 24/7 demands of running a social service agency, caring for an aging parent and trying to have a life at the same time. My current state feels more like a case of spiritual sleepwalking alternating with existential questioning.
But I also know I need to make some changes if I want the next chapter of my life to amount to more than eating, sleeping, dodging other people’s dramas and crossing items off To-Do lists.
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Schools must "prepare for worst," Pennington says
Ponca City Now - March 29, 2016 11:20 am
Kay County school districts must "hope for the best and plan for the worst," Ponca City Superintendent Dr. David Pennington said Monday night.
He addressed a crowd at West Middle School to discuss the state's budget crisis and what it means, in particular, to education and local schools.
Pennington began the talk with explanations of funding formulas and showed where legislative action spelled cuts in funding to local schools.
In the end, however, it boils down to much less money per student in all school districts.
The second part of his talk focused on what happens going forward.
The superintendent said the Ponca City School District must:
Save as much money this year as possible
Halt spending on supplies and materials
Reduce instructional budgets
And consider having fewer days of school.
"Some of us have the option of using hours rather than days to determine school year," he said.
He said reducing student contact days (the days students go to school) saves money in several areas:
"Those are all support personnel," Pennington said. "They are the lowest paid employees in our district. They are very valued and can least afford to go unpaid."
He said there are other options which must be considered, including staff reductions.
Pennington said "85 percent of general fund expenditures are salaries and benefits for district personnel."
Eliminating student transportation
"Booster clubs/activity accounts pay for athletic and fine arts travel. We have to go a long ways to play schools of the same size. Our closest competitor is Stillwater. We spend a lot of money on transportation to Tulsa and Oklahoma City.
Reduce instructional days which could save $25,000 a day (the estimated minimum, through cuts in support staff salaries).
Eliminate non-revenue sports such as golf, track swimming, tennis
Eliminate 8th grade sports to save $54,000
Eliminate 6th – 7th grade band/orchestra, to save $102,000
Seek volunteer substitutes.
"I never thought, in my career, that I'd ever have to consider these things," Pennington said.
He said the options Ponca City's Board of Education most likely will take would include a reduction in secondary staff; a reduction in substitute teacher costs (excluding long-term and contract subs); salary freezes; and a reduction in student contact and/or employee contract days.
He did say that the 2016 graduation date will remain as scheduled, on May 20, 2016.
"All our elementary classes exceed class size maximums," the superintendent said.
"Class sizes don't mathematically work the same in high school. You may have 27 students in one class in the elementary schools. In high school, you may have 27 for one class and then 15 in another, such as AP English classes.
"You can't put all of those students in one class, because of band in first hour, or orchestra, or physics, or statistics. Those are classes that are essential to students for a quality education and we have to offer them when they fit into a student's schedule," Pennington said. "We don't want them to have to choose whether to take AP English or orchestra, or Spanish or orchestra. There will be situations where class sizes don't match up like we would like them to. And students will have to make some choices."
The board will have to negotiate with teachers and support staff, Pennington said.
"We may have to negotiate no salary increases," he said. "We have a great relationship, but we may have to have a discussion I've never had in 22 years. I've never ever not negotiated a step increase with my staff. That's probably 1.8 percent per step. We're not talking about a cost of living increase, but minimal increases in someone's salary."
In Ponca City, Pennington said, "We would keep our finals schedule and graduation schedule the same. We would not do a 4-day week, but we would start later in the year, end earlier, and take longer breaks."
"Is there any hope?" Pennington asked. He then outlined Gov. Mary Fallin's proposals to increase revenue include:
Sales Tax expansion $200,000,000
Cigarette Tax increase $182,000,000
Agency revolving funds $125,000,000
Agency revenue sharing $125,000,000
School consolidation no estimate
School building funds $200,000,000
Another funding problem, Pennington said, is the failure of Oklahoma to collect sales tax for online purchases.
"The Internet is killing Main Street Oklahoma," Pennington said.
He also talked about school consolidation discussions.
"Consolidation doesn't save much — only if you close schools. If we got rid of every superintendent, we would still be 49th in education, only above Mississippi," he said.
"Some schools are looking at their building fund. In some districts it is a lot of money. In others it's not very much. In Ponca City we have about $1.2 million a year," he said.
"President Boren has circulated an initiative petition for a state penny sales tax to be dedicated to education," Pennington said. "For public schools that would be about $600 million and would include $5,000 raises for teachers. But that doesn't do anything to keep our staff at the same level, or to hire people back, or to keep schools going on a daily basis. But Boren says he has yet to hear a better idea."
The problem, Pennington said, is a reveue problem in Oklahoma.
"Former Gov. David Walters has written an editorial that will be published this week that says our revenue crisis is about 30 percent oil and gas. That's part of it, but that's not all of it," Pennington said. "People ask me all the time what we need to do.
"We need ot ask ourselves what's important. What's important to me is kids," he said. "It's important to me that we provide the best education we can for the students who attend Ponca City Public Schools every day. We can't do that with the budget cuts we have. We're doing a good job, yes; teachers are working hard, yes; but you can't take that money out of our budget and provide the same quality of education.
"We are very committed in this state to low taxes," Pennington said. "We're proud of that. We have to decide – how's that working for us? Can we provide the education and social services for our students?"
He said some say the budget crisis must be solved by "starving the beast."
"That's 27 student in a classroom," Pennington said. "Every time that class size goes up, the quality of education goes down.
"We have to decide. If you are of the opinion that what is currently happening is not in the best interest of our children, you have to elect different people," he said.
"Mary Fallin did exactly what she told us she would do. We can be mad because we don't like the results, but she did exactly what she told us she would do. Rep. Steve Vaughan voted against the internet use tax. He did exactly what he said he was going to do. He said he would never vote for a tax increase," Pennington said.
"If we want individuals to represent us in Oklahoma City, we have to let Vaughan know that times are tough in Oklahoma and we know you are a fiscal conservative, but we're in a crisis in this state and we have to think differently. We need to say 'I will still support you and work in your campaign, if you get an opponent because you vote for a tax increase.' Or you have to have a candidate with another point of view, with an obvious difference in philosophy."
Pennington said there are those who think this is good for the state and the budget crisis will wring all the excess out of state government.
"Education cuts never heal," he said. "If you experiment with 30 kids in the classroom to see if that works, you won't get that back. If a student has to choose between classes, they cannot get that experience back. Tax cuts never heal."
He said he was fortunate enough to raise his children right after the passage of HB 1017, passed 26 years ago. Among other things, it limited classroom sizes.
"My children had that benefit. They got to take classes they needed and had smaller class sizes. Because of that, they had a great education. My oldest is a professor of mathematics at Creighton University. You don't get that without 1017."
A member of the audience asked Pennington if he would publicly defend his salary.
"Obviously that's a tough question," the superintendent said. "I would say that in 2008-09 I did take a salary reduction. I am the only certified or support person in this district who did that. My salary now is still less than it was in 2008-09."
Another audience member asked about funding from the lottery.
"The reason the lottery did not solve our problems after Gov. Brad Henry said the video lottery would make us the most money, is because the Legislature cut the video lottery," Pennington said. "We have cut taxes. Our cuts are three times what the lottery brings in.
"Look at the state of Oklahoma and our people," Pennington said. "Our citizens have always been willing to step up, which is why we passed the lottery. This is policy and takes writing to the Legislature. We didn't do anything different than we did in the 1980s. HB1017 and SQ640 put the current law into effect that required 75 percent of the people to approve a tax increase."
He answered other questions about when school breaks would be extended.
"We haven't gotten that far to know what breaks we would extend," Pennington said. "Probably
Christmas, probably some breaks in the spring. Maybe professional development days. If we had more professional development days during the year, we would not have to hire substitute teachers, which would be a win-win for us. That does not affect teacher pay. It is the same whether we do 177 days or 1,080 hours."
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Are You a Candidate for Invisalign®? | Oradell, NJ
Uncategorized / May 24, 2013 September 9, 2021
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I love cilantro pesto but haven't made it in years, thanks for reminding me about it! These potatoes sound amazing
Thank you, Sara. I think cilantro is better in many ways and cheaper.
Love red potatoes and I cook them skin-on too. This looks so warm and satisfying – YUM!
Thank you, Debra. Skin-on tastes so much better when roasted.
So delicious! Love pesto, love potatoes. love this dish. 🙂
I never would have thought of tossing potatoes with pesto. What a genius idea. Yum.
Any and all potatoes are fine by me 😉 I crave potatoes every day, for ever and always!
I am such a sucker for anything with pesto! This sounds fabulous – I want it!
Thank you, Sarah. Pesto makes me very happy.
Dear Rini, Your potato salad sounds wonderful. I love cilantro based pesto…such delicious flavors. xo, Catherine
Love, love, love the idea!. I have made a cilantro cashew pesto, but adding potatoes into the mix just makes everything better!
Thank you, Ramya. I LOVE the idea of adding cashew to the pesto.
This looks like a lovely dish – I just saw it featured on Reddit's cheap eats and had to pop over to see it! And yes, it is nutritionally better to leave the skins on, for two reasons:
The skin is an amazing source of dietary fiber and fiber helps to slow down the glycemic process.
Many of the nutrients in potatoes (and other vegetables) lie just below the skins. As you pare away the skin, you lose some of the best part of the potato. If the potatoes have a greenish cast to the skin, the skin and should be pared away!
I'm off to explore a little more of your blog! Thanks for the lovely (and frugal) recipe! 🙂
Thank you, Frugal. Welcome to my blog. I am so happy that you like the recipe. Your information on the potato skin is very helpful. From now on, I am going to make all my potatoes this way. Happy exploring.
The cilantro pesto sounds delicious! 🙂
What a beautiful, luxurious potato dish Rini!
What a fun new way to enjoy potatoes. Can't wait to give this a try!
I love using red potatoes w/skin on. It feels like you're cheating or taking a shortcut by not peeling the potatoes, but their skin is delicious too! Yummy recipe, can't wait to give this one a try!
I love potatoes, so much that I can eat them as a complete meal. This recipe is calling my name, that is like dinner in a bowl for me. I'm so with you on them being wonderfully comforting.
These look absolutely marvelous, Rini. xo, Catherine
My family loves roasted potatoes–I always make a ton because the kids will eat the leftovers for breakfast or lunch. I've never tried to toss them with pesto before, though–great idea!
I love your cilantro pesto and I even have all the ingredients on hand for the whole recipe!
We used to smoother red potatoes in butter and parsley to serve with meatloaf as a child–this just takes that to a whole new level of yum.
As a confirmed cilantro lover, these look amazing!
My wife and I are always looking for new and inventive munches whilst we binge watch our favorite television shows. This Roasted Potatoes with Pesto recipe is PERFECT for the occasion! Amazing stuff Rini, thanks for sharing!
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Hurteau's Texas Nilgai Hunt, Part 2 - Racks & Reels
Hurteau's Texas Nilgai Hunt, Part 2
By White Tail 365 on April 10, 2013 at 8:23 AM
Two quick notes before we get stared: first you can click here if you missed Part 1, and second, for anyone who'd like to flatly call me a hypocrite or anything else, I invite you to do so in the comment section below, and don't feel like you have to read the story first.
Taking several shots to check the zero on the .45-70, I threw one way high. On a Texas nilgai hunt, you shoot standing off sticks in the African tradition (even though nilgai are Asian). Noticing the flyer, Sports Afield Editor Diana Rupp, with whom I was hunting and who shoots standing off sticks far more often than I do, pointed out that with this method there's a tendency to shoot high if you're not careful to hold the fore-end down on the sticks. "Okay," I said, and we went hunting.
Nilgai were introduced on the King Ranch in the 1920s as a game species and supplemental food source for the cowboys. But the ranch's low fence, designed to keep cattle in, does not prevent wildlife from getting out, and today about 30,000 free-ranging, wild nilgai roam various portions of south Texas, including about 10,000 of them on the King Ranch. What's striking is how these huge, exotic beasts vanish so naturally into the scraggly branches of mesquite and live oaks—almost like they evolved here.
Our guide Clay drove us from camp a few miles to where the road narrowed to a sandy ribbon threading thick banks of mesquite. We parked and got out—a good sign. We were told we would do some "spot and stalk" hunting, which in some places is a euphemism for "drive around in the truck." Not here. Clay led Diana and I slipping through groves of low-growing live oaks and Guinea grass. This was not even spot and stalk; this was honest-to-goodness still-hunting.
And the nilgai, we learned, were not going to fall into line like carnival ducks. After agreeing that Diana would take the first shot unless there was a good close opportunity for the .45-70, we hunted hard that first morning. We blew several stalks. While bringing up the rear, I could see plainly when Clay was onto a bull; he'd stop, peer, and glass. So I'd stop, peer, and glass, too, in the same spot—but I'll be damned if I could see anything. Finally, toward the end of the morning, I spotted four jet-black legs swishing though the Guinea grass, and then barely made out a gray body hidden in the gray branches. Then he bolted.
Before arriving, I knew I'd be hunting a wild critter; the question was, "How wild?" I was guessing not especially. Most people who go nilgai hunting, after all, get a nilgai. That's why I chose the open-sighted .45-70—to make things interesting. But on that first morning, we'd had the wind and a damp, almost-silent forest floor; yet we never came close to getting a shot. On the way back to the truck, a big-rumped bull shot to its feet not 15 yards away and plunged into the brush. He'd let us walk right past him, just like a whitetail.
The afternoon hunt was more of the same—quite a bit more. Slipping along a sandy trail, we were spotting bulls left and right, and blowing one stalk after another. It become obvious why most hunters get their nilgai: because while each one is fabulously wary, every bit the equal of a whitetail from what I could see, there are a whole lot of 'em here. Sooner or later, you're going to get your chance.
Diana got hers late that first afternoon, when, miracle of miracles, while still bringing up the rear I spotted a bull she and Clay had walked past. He was slinking, head down, through the low oak branches at a little over 100 yards, no idea we were there, for a change. Quickly on the sticks, Diana, shooting the Model 70 in .264 Win Mag loaded with (I believe) a 140-grain Nosler Partition bullet, hit him perfectly with the first shot, and gave him another for good measure.
Driving the dusty road back to camp with Diana's bull in the back, roadside whitetails lifting lazily from their chewing to amble into the mesquite, I felt like this had already been a more challenging and rewarding hunt than I expected. And that getting within open-sighted-.45-70 range of a nilgai tomorrow would not be easy.
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1108 Panamount Bv Northwest, Calgary Panorama Hills - MLS C4262903
MLS® #: C4262903
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