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There are specific oils that have been used as beauty aids for hundreds of years. Just recently there has been key advancements in our ability to obtain information regarding which oils are best for us and how they promote positive results. Almond oil is one of the most sought after and coveted oils for the health of both skin and hair. This oil is very popular in Southeast Asia and in specific regions of the Mediterranean, where the almond tree is found in plentiful amounts. This oil is also known to have positive effects on the heart, but this list will focus on the external beauty benefits.
This oil is naturally hypoallergenic and mild. Full of healthy fatty acids, vitamin E, proteins, zinc and potassium, these components promote natural absorption. Almond oil can be used as a massage oil due to its pleasant, sweet and nutty smell. While many synthetic skin care products state the presence of vitamin E, it can sometimes be added artificially or without the proper dosing in mind. The great thing about almond oil is that it has plentiful amounts of vitamin E from its completely natural and abundant source.
Many people don't realize that certain oils can be used as a cleansing agent. Almond oil is one of the best oils for this purpose because it is light and can easily penetrate the skin. Those who struggle with naturally oily skin may be hesitant to try this method for cleaning, but they shouldn't worry. This oil is incredibly airy and light. Also, skin that is prone to oil is usually that way because it craves moisture and produces an abundance of it because it's deficient. Cleansing with this oil will allow the elimination of debris and dirt that has gathered in the pores. In addition, because of the trace elements of vitamin A, acne flare-ups may be reduced.
If you are prone to dark circles or suffer from bags under your eyes, you may be surprised how almond oil can help eliminate this issue. Pat a bit of the almond oil under your eyes and watch the darkness lessen after a period of two weeks. If you find yourself overly exposed to the sun, almond oil can offer great relief. This oil is also great at eliminating those unseemly, pesky tan lines. Whether you have a tan line from a watch, a T-shirt or a bathing suit, you can lighten the area just by applying a bit of almond oil and honey.
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Ever since I’ve seen Sam Taylor-Wood’s 360 degree medium format panorama series (title) I know that sooner or later I had to get my hands on one of those cameras.
At 1 picture per single roll of film, scanning would have been a nightmare – not to mention processing costs. Elton John’s CD cover for “Songs from the West Coast” is a good example of her work with this camera.
Pictures look other worldly, as if they are a never ending panoramic shot. They contain weird distortions that do not come from a fisheye lens. It’s like watching a Cinerama movie like How the West was won: I’m thinking of the end sequence of “modern times”.
It’s a shame that these cameras are so rare and exotic that it’s unlikely mere humans like myself would pick one up to play with. Ever.
Cut to July 2010. Enter Lomopgraphy and their new 35mm version of this beast: The Spinner! At £110 it’s not a toy – it’s a dream come true.
First I get the newsletter. Then Adam tells me about it. Maybe it wasn’t a dream after all, and maybe I will get to play in this lifetime.
Before I begin, let me say that my anticipation for The Spinner is in the upper echelons. It’s easy to get disappointed, so I’ll try to calm down. The last time I was this excited to get my hands on a camera was when the Zenit S3 Pro was on its way to my door – a camera that I meant to write a review about for nearly a year.
I remember the feeling of unboxing it. The feeling of holding it in my hands, and the clueless hours trying to work out how to use this thing. I’m looking forward to all this again with The Spinner. Seeing the first roll of film was breathtaking: what were clearly “normal photographic analogue pictures” had a subtext I hadn’t seen before in my work: Casually panoramic I’d call it. A bit like low quality Peter Lik. But I digress.
At the time of writing, I only have a few ingredients: the knowledge that The Spinner exists, a shop where to get it from, the desire to pick it up, the necessary cash, a fistful of film and a belly full of excitement. Weather isn’t on my side by the looks of it, so all I can do is think of some questions while I’m sitting on a train back home:
How many pictures could fit on a roll of film?
I can probably answer this myself with some thinking. If the Zenit S3 Pro has a 120 degree angle of view and produces a negative of 24x58mm, then we’re dealing with 24x170ish negatives in the Spinner. The S3 Pro takes 21 pictures, so that should be about 7 or 8 photos per 36 exposure roll.
How will it deal with exposure?
Probably by slowing down the rotational speed of the camera. It must rotate, and the film must be thread around a round inner film plate of sorts. A slit will produce the exposure. But how long will that take?
What Exposure options will I have?
Will it work indoors?
Is it made of plastic or metal?
How big is it? What’s the closest distance I can take a picture at?
What happens if I move the camera while taking a picture?
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Imagine what life would be like if you could retire at 55. Chances are you'd feel like you had the time and energy to do just about anything you wanted. It's a nice dream — but is it possible? That could depend on your retirement needs and savings strategies. Here are some tips to help you answer the question, "How much do I need to retire at 55?"
How Much Do You Need to Budget to Retire at 55?
Before you can estimate how much you'll need in savings, you first need to figure out your retirement budget. How much will you need per year to pay your bills after you retire? Your retirement budget depends on your plans and expenses. You can break down what you think your actual budget will be like based on what you expect to pay for housing, insurance, travel, utilities, food and other bills, as determined by your lifestyle.
Once you know your target retirement budget, you can start calculating the income you'll need to get you there. One of the major challenges of retiring at 55 is that you won't yet be eligible to collect Social Security. The earliest you can start taking Social Security is at 62, so for at least your first seven years of retirement, you'd need to cover all of your expenses on your own.
Fortunately, your savings can continue to earn some interest during this period, which might help you meet some of your financial needs. Any investments in retirement plans, on the other hand, are not guaranteed to grow like a banking account, and it's possible they may lose value in that time.
How Will You Save for Retirement at 55?
As you invest your savings, you may want to carefully consider which retirement plan you use. If you retire at age 55, you can generally take money out of a 401(k), if applicable. But if you take money out of an IRA before you turn 59 1/2, you'll owe a 10 percent early-withdrawal fee. This applies even if you're fully retired.
To prepare to retire at 55, you might consider either saving through a work-sponsored plan and/or keeping some money in a brokerage account, which you can access at any time. You could then spend that money until you turn 59 1/2 and start using your IRA funds.
When Are You Eligible for Medicare?
Another concern is that you can't go on Medicare until you turn 65. This means you'd need to maintain your own health insurance for at least 10 years after retiring at age 55. This can get more expensive as you grow older, however, especially if you don't qualify for a tax credit to offset the premiums. You can estimate how much your premiums will be once you retire, but keep in mind they'll likely change.
How Much Retirement Income Will You Need at 55?
According to the AARP, you may want to have as much as 70 to 80 percent of your work income in retirement (although such an estimate will differ from person to person). This income will likely come from a few sources.
Once you turn 62, you can start taking Social Security, though at a reduced level (full benefits kick in at age 67). The average Social Security payout is $16,800 per year, as calculated by Business Insider from data released by the Social Security Administration. If you've been earning a relatively high salary and paying more Social Security taxes, your payments could potentially be higher. What's needed to cover the remainder of your budget will have to come from other arrangements you've made. It's also worth keeping in mind that the Social Security trust is currently set to expire as soon as 2034.
If you have a pension or other source of retirement income, you'll likely need less per year from your savings than if you relied on savings alone. Again, it's important to remember that investment earnings are not guaranteed, and contributions can lose value over time.
To help budget your savings, you could move some of your money into an annuity. These savings contracts can set up guaranteed payments for the rest of your life, helping you determine exactly how much will be coming in each year. These contracts are not FDIC-insured, however, and you and your estate could lose your contribution in the event of the issuing company's failure or your unexpected death.
If you're serious about retiring early, consider meeting with a qualified financial adviser to run these calculations in more detail.
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If you can downsize your lifestyle for a lower income, it may be easier to retire young. Some ways to do this include moving to a smaller house or a lower-cost area, taking fewer trips, cutting down on going out or even (if you're adventurous) moving abroad to a country where your money goes further. You should also be sure to reduce and even eliminate any outstanding debt.
Another option is to switch to part-time work at age 55. Maybe you could try working freelance at home or moving into a lower-paying but more interesting field. If the part-time job you take offers health insurance, that could also offset one of your biggest costs until you reach Medicare.
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WIREWAX is honored to be officially named Facebook Marketing partners! Leveraging your Facebook audience is a great way for social-savvy brands to drive an engaged and loyal audience to your interactive experiences.
There are several ways to promote your interactive video to your Facebook audience, both natively and non-native.
From an organic Facebook Post or Story
First (and this is the recommended workflow) consider promoting your interactive video to Facebook even if you’ve used the WIREWAX player somewhere else (like your website). Add a short ‘teaser’ video, gif or an image with text that links to your video’s landing page as the pre-click video. This can even be done from a Facebook or Instagram story “swipe up”.
If you don’t have your own video landing page, you can just use the direct link to the video from WIREWAX.
Though this strategy will not allow the video to be interactive in-feed, it will still open up in either the Facebook or Instagram browser so your viewer doesn’t need to leave the app.
For the best experience, try creating a vertical interactive video especially suited for mobile viewing.
*Please note: WIREWAX will not appear in the Facebook feed or Facebook Canvas formats, like native Facebook videos. This is a restriction enforced by Facebook on all third-party video technologies.*
From a Facebook or Instagram Ad (post or story)
You can use the same strategy to link to your interactive WIREWAX experience from a promoted Facebook or Instagram post or story. Simply follow these Facebook Ad Manager instructions; we’ve highlighted a few key points below.
1. Create a mockup in the Facebook Creative Hub
2. Select your ad type for Instagram or Facebook
3. Select a video or image as the pre-click video/image. For Facebook it can be any size, but ideally 4:5 and around 10 seconds
4. Website URL is where you need to enter your WIREWAX link (post click link). Copy and paste the embedder link from the Embed tab in WIREWAX Studio. The full URL will look something like this: http://embedder.wirewax.com/8181564/?autoStart=true&
5. Add a ‘Call to Action’. This can be anything but we like ‘Watch More’ the best
6. Send your mockup to your mobile device to test. It will look something like this (be sure to open this link on mobile)
7. Once you’re happy with it, you can import the mockup to Ad Manager and select your inventory.
Check out the video below for a quick demonstration:
If you’re an approved publisher, you can natively use WIREWAX in Facebook’s Instant Articles (on mobile only) using the iframe code for the video. Note: The publisher or brand must be approved by Facebook for Instant Articles.
On Desktop, you can use WIREWAX natively in Facebook featured tabs using our friends over at WooBox. See an example here. Featured tabs lets you customize the tab with any HTML elements (including a WIREWAX video). We don’t recommend this method as the sole distribution point for your interactive video, but it can be a complementary landing page to your proprietary site.
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- Medikal says he is not watching the new season of You Only Live Once (YOLO) because Fella Makafui was not featured
- He has condemned the producer of the series for leaving his girl out
- Medikal says the producer of the series are sleeping meaning they are not serious
Rapper Medikal is angry with the producer of the popular youth series YOLO because his girlfriend Fella Makafui was not featured in the new season.
The season 5 of the series has been released, however, the cast does not include Fella Makafui.
Fella had been featured in the debut of the series and that is where she got her fame from.
Unfortunately, she has been axed by the producer and Medikal has disagreed.
In a tweet sighted by YEN.com.gh, Medikal said he is not going to watch the new season because Fella is not in there.
According to him, Fella and another actor known in the previous season as Drogba are the only reason people watch the series.
Therefore, if they have been left out, there is no point in watching it, he warned.
Medikal’s tweet has sparked mixed reactions from social media users.
Sandy, for instance believes that the new series is still nice without Fella:
African supported Medikal’s opinion:
Joseph also agreed with Medikal:
Sark also believes the series is still fine without Fella:
NBA slammed Medikal:
Process also said the new series is fine without Fella:
Reggie also questioned “who is Fella”?
Meanwhile, Fella Makafui had earlier been in the news for claiming that she is pregnant for Medikal.
However, Medikal snubbed her painfully at the recently held VGMA, and many people concluded that they may be having hard time in their relationship.
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I was a fiend before I became a teen
I melted microphone instead of cones of ice cream
Music orientated so when hip-hop was originated
Fitted like pieces of puzzles, complicated – Rakim
I don’t recollect the first Hip Hop track I ever heard or what was on the first mix tape I ever made. But there are some very early and significant Hip Hop firsts that I can recall very clearly. I can remember the first time I heard LL (thank you teenage sister of third grade homie), memorizing the lyrics to my first rap tracks (Fresh Prince!), being scandalized by Slick Rick lyrics and knowing I wanted/need more (thanks Cub Scout homie), and most importantly my very first CD purchase. I had a few cassettes and my brother would let me listen to his He’s the DJ, I’m the Rapper vinyl, but my first CD – that was huge. When Compact Discs first came out our family got a player that we kept in the living room and everyone shared. At some point in 1988 my dad took us to the store and let my brothers and myself pick out one album. Keep in mind, we had to take turns listening to our selections so we were all somewhat affected by each other’s choices (I think my parents probably later regretted letting me choose an album).
My first CD was a compilation put out on Priority Records called Kool Rap. I still have it and it’s in pristine condition because I treated this thing like fine china as a kid. All of the layers of packaging back then had handling information that I took very seriously (“Handle disc using the edges or the center hole”). The lineup for this particular compilation is incredible: EPMD, Ice-T, Public Enemy, N.W.A., World Class Wreckin’ Cru, Eazy-E, Heavy D & The Boyz, LL Cool J, Beastie Boys (this led to my second CD I ever bought, Licensed to Ill) and finally Eric B. & Rakim.
Can you imagine what a track like that did to a 9 year old kid? It was over after that. My family was not feeling this new music that I was getting into. Fresh Prince was one thing, but N.W.A.? Yeah, I looked forward to alone time with that CD player and my first two albums. I also won’t ever forget getting my first CD player with headphones and really turning my Hip Hop addiction up a notch.
I never could have imagined that 25 years later I’d still be listening to these same artists, much less have the opportunity to meet and converse with them. A few weeks ago we got a chance to check out the Kings of the Mic Tour that featured several artists that were on that compilation. As I watched Public Enemy take the stage I was thinking back to that feeling I got when it was my turn to play my CD on the family entertainment center. Wifey and I had seen LL perform about 16 or 17 years prior to this (our first Hip Hop show together, in fact) but when I put it into perspective it’s really quite impressive to have gotten to see him again after all these years and music formats later.
I have to say, though… Getting to meet and talk to Rakim earlier this year was quite an honor and a highlight on my personal journey. Rock the Bells 2008 was the first time I saw him perform for the first time. My expectations were met! However, this past winter when the R passed through our city, #132 on my bucket list was officially crossed off. The first lady of TheKitchenMix hooked him up some herbal energy bars and I presented them to him later that evening. Having recently caught a cold while on tour, he was extremely grateful for the treats. We chatted for a bit about food, energy and the properties of the ingredients in the energy bars. As we talked I couldn’t help feeling like man, do you know how much language, vocabulary and ideas I learned from listening to your music? I would hear things in his songs that I didn’t understand but learned because they were lyrics. Incredible.
That first CD directly lead to purchases of albums by artists that were featured on that release. From there you could almost map out the route it took for me to get to just about any other album I purchased (ex. – Kool Rap comp to every EPMD album to Redman to Keith Murray to Canibus…). In essence, the artists on the Kool Rap compilation were the leaders in the path that my musical attention would take. They obviously paved the way for so many artists but for me personally it was a direct influence on the type of music that I would be listening to for the next 25 years and on. I’m glad I’ve held on to this CD after all these years. In fact, I recently came up on a 3 volume vinyl collection put out by Priority Records similar to that Kool Rap release. It even features the same frozen B-Boy on the cover and is a great starting point for any student of recorded Hip Hop history.
I think about a line from a Grouch song where he says, “I cannot lie and say I’ve rapped since ‘85
I didn’t battle in the parks when the art of b-boyin’ was alive.” My direct connection to Hip Hop was not full immersion into the culture at first but I’m glad that I came up and into it during the golden era. I’m glad my first introduction was by leaders of the pack like Jazzy Jeff, Eric Sermon and Parrish Smith, LL Cool J, PE, Rick the Ruler and especially Rakim Allah. Classic.
I’m just an addict addicted to music
Maybe it’s a habit, I gotta use it
Even if it’s jazz or the Quiet storm
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posted on Aug, 13 2020 @ 10:45 AM
I’m a bit disappointed with ATS I asked a good solid question that happened to be humorous it wasn’t just a cheap fart gag. Whoever removed my
post was not thinking clearly. They assumed that because my post was about farts and kind of funny it must be only whimsical and insouciant however it
was a good inquisitive question about anthropology and evolution and it warrants some strait answers. If you still think its a stupid question then
what is the strait answer? Some objectivity please ATS.
My original post was as follows
Why didn’t cave men start fires with their farts?
So I’m being 96% serious... how useful would it have been and what just a synch away from practical feasibility would it have been? With the right
symbiotic intestinal bacteria producing hydrogen and methane all that is needed is a static spark maybe produced by the rubbing of a specially evolved
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“National Volunteer Week is an opportunity for people around the country to become inspired and engaged in giving back to their communities,” said Katie McGinn, Director of the Lewis J. Burger Center for Leadership and Public Service. “To me, National Volunteer Week is a call to action – a reminder that we must be socially responsible and help create a better world through service of others.”
Student organizations including Dance Marathon, SERVE, Fellows, Bradley Nursing Student Association and Health Science Organization will host campus-wide programs to help engage students in volunteerism throughout the week.
“Fellows wants to make the impact of volunteerism on the whole campus,” said Fellows Development Committee Chair Kelsi Johnson. “We want the most people on board with us making a difference on campus and in our community.”
McGinn said students can get involved by participating in any of the service projects hosted by the organizations on campus. Students can also host their own projects.
“Student groups interested in hosting a service project during National Volunteer Week should contact the LJB Center for assistance,” McGinn said.
National Volunteer Week was not widely advertised on campus last year, so McGinn said this year’s events will be more exposed to students.
“In the past, Bradley students have hosted some service-based events during [this week], but the large majority of students were not aware that it was National Volunteer Week,” she said. “This year, the LJB Center is helping different campus organizations coordinate service projects and publicize the service opportunities to BU students to create awareness and inspire service on the Bradley campus.”
Despite low publicity last year, McGinn said 2012’s National Volunteer Week will recognize all the work done in the past year.
“Bradley students completed more than 47,000 hours of community service last year alone,” she said. “National Volunteer Week will be a celebration of that service to others as well as an opportunity to get more involved and continue to give back.”
McGinn said Bradley has done an excellent job with volunteer work and hopes the week will encourage more students to volunteer as well.
“Bradley students are passionate about volunteering and giving back to their communities,” she said. “Through programs like Service on Saturday and alternative spring break trips hosted by Habitat for Humanity and Students Today Leaders Forever, Bradley students make volunteerism a priority. National Volunteer Week is just one more way we can engage the Bradley community in helping others.”
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Church Planters to America Inc. was founded as a non-profit corporation under the leadership of Tom and Carol Buckley, along with five other missionary families in May, 1996.
The focus and primary ministry of C.P.A. is church planting in small-town America. This is done by opening closed churches, helping struggling churches and starting new churches in communities where there is no Bible-believing church.
C.P.A. missionaries will go anywhere in the United States where there is a need for a Bible-believing church. In most instances we will not place a missionary pastor in a town that already has such a church.
Each C.P.A. missionary pastor secures his own financial and prayer support from churches and friends so they can minister full time once they are on a field of ministry. It is the goal of each missionary pastor to lead the church to be fully self-supporting so it can call a full-time pastor apart from C.P.A.
The process includes leading people to Christ and helping them mature in their faith. It also involves making improvements to the church facilities, developing leadership, organizing ministry efforts, building up the finances, establishing a missions program, securing a parsonage, if the church does not have one, and doing many other things to provide the church with a well-rounded ministry.
Church Planters To America is looking for men who have a burden for America and a vision for the local church. They must be sound in their faith and be in total agreement with the Doctrinal Statement of the mission.
C.P.A. Mission Headquarters is located in a lovely country setting at 5 Buckley Lane in Almond, NY. It is located just off Route 21, three miles south of exit 33 on Route 17(86).
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Petur Iliev Dance Workshop
June 30, 2018 @ 7:30 pm - 10:30 pm$15
Petur Iliev will be teaching this fun-filled dance workshop following Mendocino Balkan Camp this summer. This is a wonderful and rare opportunity to dance with Petur again in the Bay Area!
Petur IlievPetur Iliev is a Bulgarian-born dancer and choreographer whose career is deeply steeped in the rich folk dance traditions of his family. He started dancing at the age of five in his father’s dance ensemble. Later he graduated from the Bulgarian National School of Dance Art and from the Bulgarian National Institute of Choreography in Sofia, Bulgaria. He began his professional career as a Principal Dancer of Kutev National Dance and Music Ensemble where he worked for five years, before continuing his training at the National Dance Institute in New York where he studied under the supervision of one of the gurus of American dance, Jacques d’Amboise. Subsequently, Petur became the Artistic Co-Director of Believe in Me–a dance ensemble in Austin, TX, where for four years he trained more than a thousand young dancers. Read more…
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Front Sight Mail Bag: Response to Gun Training from ex-Firearms Instructor
August 14th, 2009
I’m a teacher and former “instructor” of firearms.
For 30+ years I’ve stood in front of groups from college criminal justice majors, police department academy cadets, to severely handicapped children.
I can organize and deliver material.
As a professional I can easily state that your course structure is well thought out.
The detail and precision of presentation is of the highest quality.
Truthfully, the material presented by you makes my efforts of 20 years ago look puny!
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Not the greatest picture of me, but look at the skirt I made! Sure the fabric is ugly, and it's not my cut, but the important take away is I made a skirt!! Rachel was an awesome teacher, and if you're in the Austin area and want to learn how to sew, I cannot recommend them enough.
I had been wanting an immersion blender for quite some time. I've found that having to blend soup in the blender in 4-5 batches can be quite the hassle so this was a major convenience item for me. I was able to use it for the first time recently for a sweet potato and butternut squash soup (recipe coming later this week!), and I love it! I also specifically requested this mug - in an "A", of course.
And finally, my sister-in-law, knowing me all too well, bought me a customizable, monogrammed desk calendar/to-do organizer!
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Mozambique may not be as popular a tourist destination as Kenya, South Africa, or even Morocco. But this southeast African nation has a rich Portuguese influence that can still be seen in its entertainment, cuisine, and the arts. Not only is Mozambique popular for its arts and cuisine, it is also famous for its natural and man-made attractions that will give its neighbouring countries a run for their money. Here are 5 attractions in Mozambique that you really have to check out.
The Two Mile Reef and Bazaruto National Park
Only a few tourists are ever allowed at the Bazaruto National Park at any given time, giving you an exceptional experience snorkeling in the crystal-clear waters of the famous Two Mile Reef. Stag horn corals dot the underwater landscape complete with colorful reef systems that are filled with pelagic fish. The visibility of the water is simply superb. And with fewer snorkelers in the area, you can say you’ve got the reef all to yourself.
Mesquita da Baixa and the Maputo Cityscape
At the heart of Mozambique’s capital, Maputo, is the Mesquita da Baixa. The downtown mosque is elegantly adorned with its own unique architecture, a fitting centerpiece to the growing influence of Islam in this part of the world. Head to the municipal market and be greeted with the freshest produce. Check the Natural History Museum for a taste of Southeast African cultural and ethnographic exhibitions.
Famous among seasoned anglers where each cast is guaranteed to net a catch, the waters of Vamizi Island are home to barracudas, tunas, wahoos, and kingfishes. And if you’re not the angling type, you can always go kite-surfing, scuba diving, and snorkeling. The oceanfront restaurant should take care of your gastronomic needs while the island itself will take care of your soul with its peaceful, quiet, and calm atmosphere. Getting to Vamizi may not be easy, though.
Ilha de Mocambique
You don’t need an expensive ferry or airplane ride to reach Mozambique Island. You only need to drive on its 3.8-kilometer bridge that connects Ilha de Mocambique to the mainland. The drive alone is enough to get you upbeat about your travel to this nation. Make sure to check Fort Sao Sebastian and be mesmerized at its spellbinding architecture. Spend the afternoon watching the sunset along the promenade on the coast. Take a stroll down the beach as you bid farewell to the day’s sun.
Parque Nacional Da Gorongosa
People call the Parque Nacional Da Gorongosa the Eden of Africa. The ecosystem looks largely untouched with numerous waterfalls and mountains dotting the landscape. It is perfect for folks who would like to appreciate nature in its most natural, unadulterated form. And while the Vinho community has their group situated more than a mile away, they have become the guardians of this unspoiled beauty.
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If you guys were anything like me, you had enough of the back and side of Kandi and Todd Tucker's baby Ace's head. I knew we would probably have to wait for some publication to have the exclusive pics because the Tuckers are about that coin! I had no idea it would take this long tho! Well the wait is FINALLY over! And according to PEOPLE, for Real Housewives of Atlanta star’s Kandi Burruss and her husband Todd Tucker, their new baby boy was worth the wait!
The couple welcomed their son Ace Wells on Jan. 6, but their road to becoming parents for the second time wasn’t easy.
Awwwhhh, congrats to them! Keep reading for EXCLUSIVE details from Kandi and Todd's astrological compatibility report!
THEY DID IT! Kandi Buruss and Todd Tucker are finally expecting their first child together after being married slightly over a year. Hollywoodlife.com has the details!!
And baby makes five! Real Housewives of Atlanta stars Kandi Burruss and Todd Tucker have happily announced that they’re expecting their first child together. The new baby will join Kandi’s daughter, Riley, and Todd’s daughter, Kaela — both from previous relationships. Time to pop the champagne! (Sparkling cider for Kandi, though.)
Keep reading for details about the bumps they had to work through in order to get the baby making under way AND EXCLUSIVE details found in their astrological chart that could explain why things were a little rough at the beginning!
March 2, 2015. Tonight on The Real Housewives of Atlanta, Kandi's husband, Todd Tucker, MUST have been on one!!!! He had the nerve to say the one thing you're not supposed to say to your wife (especially on tv)...unless you want approximately a month's worth of misery! This is the foolishness that came out of his mouth:
Let’s be real. I’m not Tyson Beckford and you’re not Rihanna. When’s the last time you didn’t have the bonnet on and you put some heels on?” he asked. “Man have you seen a lady at night with a bonnet on? The most thirstiest dude wouldn’t get it up!
In Todd's defense, he also mentioned that a marriage won't work unless those involved are willing to compromise. He should have left it at that! But because he didn't, Kandi had to fire back in her confessional! She said Todd's no Idris Elba!
Compromise is something that's hard to achieve for a Taurus and a Leo because they're both fixed signs, meaning they're resistant to change! Let's take a deeper look into their relationship dynamics!
Kandi Burruss – May 17, 1976 – TAURUS
Todd Tucker – August 4, 1973 - LEO
Leo wants to reign and Taurus rarely changes her mind when she thinks she’s right! Taurus needs appreciation and Leo needs worship! Taurus refuses to worship, and Leo's too self centered to give Taurus devotion. No wonder they had problems in the boudoir! This drama is further detailed in their compatibility chart. Here's what it says:
Todd’s Moon squares Kandi’s Saturn. Kandi discourages, limits, frustrates and delays Todd's efforts and progress, disregarding Todd's feelings. Kandi's duties and responsibilities will discourage or depress Todd. This aspect is not good for marriage. Kandi will tend to nag and will be too critical. This can be a source of misunderstanding and disagreement. Kandi demands much attention from Todd and is hard to please. This will try the patience of Todd. Todd will have to learn patience and forbearance in this association. In marriage there may be troubles with other members of the family which threaten marital harmony....uh, duh! Mama Joyce it's talking bout you!!!!
Todd’s Sun squares Kandi’s Uranus. Kandi's unpredictability keeps Todd "up in the air". Kandi will resent the influence of Todd and rebel against any authority Todd shows. Cooperation seldom is achieved. This aspect often causes separations or a spasmodic association. Unless they both are poised and self-disciplined, a close association is not likely to be satisfying. There may be violent reactions. Kandi resists Todd and both are impatient and rebellious toward each other.
BUT on a good note, they appear to be SOULMATES...
Todd's Sun trines Kandi's Neptune. This aspect indicates a spiritual tie, much inspiration, understanding, sympathy, empathy and unusual sensitivity to each other. There is a psychic tie or stimulus between them. This aspect inspires reverence, romance, devotion, idealism, tolerance and personal sacrifice. Much compassion and sometimes pity establish the relationship. The attachment is subtle, but forges a strong bond. This aspect aids mutual confidence. There is much attraction and sympathy between the two.
They also have the ingredients to be the power couple they hope to be...
Kandi’s Saturn sextiles Todd’s Pluto. This aspect can aid planning together and uniting efforts for large-scale enterprises. It stimulates the ability to make good use of experience.
Todd’s Saturn trines Kandi’s Uranus. This aspect aids the industry and progressiveness of the two. Kandi's new ideas can unite with Todd's experience and caution for cooperative efforts toward a constructive goal.
These last two goal-oriented aspects are acknowledged by the couple in the following excerpt taken from a Creative Loafing interview posted at clatl.com on November 26, 2013.
Well, obviously that word "opportunist" has been thrown around. How do you react to that when you hear that word, Todd?
Todd: The crazy thing is I really don't react to it because it doesn't apply to me. People say 'opportunist' and it's like, what opportunity am I taking from her to advance myself? I'm from the TV world; I'm not from the music world. So it's not like she's opening doors for me to do my next album or managing me. Moves that I make in TV, she doesn't have those connections to pick up the phone and say, 'Greenlight my man's show.' I'm out there pitching my work and doing my thing; so that opportunist word, I don't feel like it applies at all.
What would you consider to be Todd's greatest strength, Kandi?
Kandi: He definitely knows how to make things happen. If I have an idea or a dream or something that I want to do, he knows how to put things in motion. People can say what they want about [him being an] 'opportunist' - and that irks the hell out of me because I definitely needed him to help make this musical happen. He didn't even want to do this; I wanted to do it and he figured out how to put it together. This is a big production, and obviously production is his strong point because he knows how to put the crew together. He knows how to run a ship. So for me, he's the perfect person as far as being a team.
And as far as family, I notice that every single day he's talking to his mom all day too, so he loves his mother as much as I love mine. And most women want a man that loves his mother, because they always say if a man loves his mother he's going to truly love you.
Wishing them many blessings and a beautiful, healthy baby :o)
Disclaimer: I do not have the birth times of Kandi and Todd, and having birth times enhances the accuracy of the assessment. And I'm not 100% sure I have the correct birth date for Todd. If anyone can confirm, it would be greatly appreciated. Thanks for reading. Blessings!
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We are big fans of audiobooks in this house. I listen to fiction and nonfiction books on my own and, as a family we always seem to have a good kids’ audiobook that we’re listening to together here and there throughout our days—in the car, while cooking or cleaning in the kitchen, and while drawing and doodling together.
Now we’re trying something new for six year old Daphne who is learning to read. This is an Immersion Reading experience for kids that combines audiobooks with digital books in a partnership between Amazon and Audible.
A big thank you to Audible for sponsoring this post. As always, all opinions expressed are my own.
While big sis is at gymnastics, Daphne gets to listen and read along to a story on the Kindle Fire.
We’ve tried a couple of books in this Immersion Reading program—that are available as both Kindle books and audiobooks and have this transition-to-read feature that highlights the text as it’s being read.
It’s a great idea!
Here’s what Amazon and Audible say about it ::
Immersion Reading immerses you in a story by narrating and highlighting text as you read. It sparks an extra connection that boosts engagement, comprehension, and retention, taking you deeper into the book. The feature is especially enjoyed by kids learning to read.
They also show that reading immersion helps kids who struggle with reading.
Our issue, at the moment, is that Daphne’s reading level and her interest and comprehension level are so far apart. The books that she can read are very basic. Think short picture books with simple words and lots of repetition. But the stories she wants to listen to are much more complex chapter books, such as Harry Potter and The Mysterious Benedict Society (both series that we’ve been listening to as a family).
I can’t seem to find any easy readers on the list of Kindle books with Audible narration.
Which is probably fine as they can be a bit boring for her.
But then I said yes to Beezus and Ramona, knowing that she would want to listen to it but would not necessarily be able to read along yet. But also that she’d be closer to reading along with this one than, say, Harry Potter.
Like about 200 other children’s books on Amazon and Audible, it has this read-along feature. She followed along with her eyes for a while, but then asked if she could draw while she listened instead and I said yes, of course. Combining read-aloud time with drawing time is one of our standby activities.
So Daphne drew and colored while listening to Beezus and Ramona.
I love the idea of this Immersion Reading program but am not sure how to make it work for us at the moment. Because of the current book selection, it seems to be better for kids who are farther along with their reading skills.
There are about 200 books for kids ages 6 to 12 with the read-along feature right now and I imagine the number will continue to increase!
Here are a few of the books we’ve tried or would like to try ::
- Beezus and Ramona by Beverly Cleary
- Dinosaurs Before Dark by Mary Pope Osborne (Magic Tree House #1)
- From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E.L. Konigsburg
- Space Taxi: Archie Takes Flight by Wendy Mass and Michael Brawer
Audible is offering the audio narration for Immersion Reading at a big discount right now (for a limited time) while they introduce this feature.
Here’s how the Immersion Reading program works ::
- Buy the Kindle book
- Add the Audible audio companion
- Use the Immersion Reading feature where the text is highlighted on the digital book for you while you simultaneously listen to the audio book version.
- (Or, if you prefer, simply switch between reading and listening on the Kindle app or tablet)
If you’re not Audible members yet, I highly recommend giving their audio books a try! I’m a big, big fan. Click here to get a 30-day trial with a free download.
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The title is a name which C.S. Lewis employs as an author of a children’s grammar in his book, Prince Caspian. The name means, “full of dry dust” which is just what Lewis thought of a good bit of what was being written from young minds.
The poem itself is a reflection on John 7:38 which reads, “If anyone thirsts, let him come to me and drink. Whoever believes in me, as the Scripture has said, ‘Out of his heart will flow rivers of living water.’” “Water of life” sure sounds a lot better than the “full of dry dust” which I sometimes experience.
If it is helpful, you may listen to me read the poem via the player below.
A desert, full of death — the driest dust —
Is my life, imagination, heart, and soul;
Bleached white as bone, the golden bowl turned rust
And bitter, where my heart was, now a hole.
A fissure forms in my self-protection,
A sober moment of vulnerability,
I expect judgment, sure without question
But am given impossibility.
For the rod of judgment on the rock fell,
Smiting my second who stood in for me,
Flooding with grace from an eternal well
Washing me clean in His love and mercy.
This angry fool who sought other’s applause
Still wallows in cisterns of demanding;
I’m now humbled, contrite for what I was,
And I see clearer, drink understanding.
For from his pierced side water pours with blood
My stone heart breaks open with tears of love.
© Randy Edwards 2018.
This poem is for Christ’s church. If it is helpful, please feel free to copy or reprint in church bulletins, read aloud, or repost. I only ask that an attribution be cited to myself (Randall Edwards) and this blog (backwardmutters.com). Thanks.
Artwork: Francois Perrier (1590 – 1650) Moses draws water from the Rock. Capitoline Museums [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons | <urn:uuid:999a3aa4-7ee7-4e44-a199-3c5775a27443> | CC-MAIN-2020-40 | https://backwardmutters.com/2018/02/26/pulverulentis-siccus/ | 2020-09-19T23:28:43Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-40/segments/1600400192887.19/warc/CC-MAIN-20200919204805-20200919234805-00409.warc.gz | en | 0.929565 | 462 |
Hannah is a fantastic dog walker. She walks our dog Mika with great enthusiasm and is clearly a genuine dog lover. Mika really looks forwards to her walks with Hannah who gives her loads of love and attention. She is confident and always in control and I am always happy to leave Mika in her care. I know she will always get a good play and plenty of exercise. I can’t recommend her highly enough. | <urn:uuid:77b27784-c718-4e0f-9ee1-fbe8c8b93e41> | CC-MAIN-2020-40 | https://barkaboutmanchester.co.uk/testimonials/sally-mikas-owner/ | 2020-09-19T22:08:22Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-40/segments/1600400192887.19/warc/CC-MAIN-20200919204805-20200919234805-00409.warc.gz | en | 0.97736 | 89 |
“It was early morning on Labour Day (1st May 2010). An Oriental Pied Hornbill (Anthracoceros albirostris) was observed to be harvesting fruits from one of the many MacArthur Palm trees (Ptychosperma macarthurii), which were fruiting in the area.
“It selected only the ripened red-coloured fruits; using the tip of its beak to pick them up. The selected fruits were then flicked expertly into its oral cavity – always one at a time (above). When it had its fill, it flew to a nearby tree and began to preen itself. After some preening, it suddenly flipped its head to one side to an angle of about ninety degrees. In just an instance, its head resumed to its normal position. Its mandibles were seen opening narrowly and then closing. Its head was then tilted up slightly with its beak partially opened. A slight movement of its head forward resulted in one seed emerging from out of nowhere to appear briefly at the tip of its beak (below). The seed that was regurgitated was then allowed to drop into the bushes below.
“Subsequently, this hornbill continued to feed on the MacArthur Palm for another two rounds, preening itself in different trees in between. There was no other regurgitation seen.
“What happened next was totally unexpected. The hornbill somehow lost its balance and had to perform some acrobatics to salvage itself from the indignity of being upside-down (above). It found itself in an upside-down position when it suddenly plunged forward with its head and long neck going well below the level of its perch. Its strong grip on the perch prevented it from falling off the branch. It managed to balance itself by half-spreading its wings. Somehow, it gathered sufficient strength to lift itself awkwardly back to its normal upright perching posture.
“Birds do not normally lose their balance on their perches. This is the first time that I have caught sight of a bird losing its balance while it was perching.”
Kwong Wai Chong
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The government may divest its holding in Hindustan Zinc through this route since plans to sell its stake strategically have been stuck for a long time, the official said. State-run IDBI Bank, in which the government has been unable to divest its holding strategically, could also be part of the new ETF structure.
Another government official said ETF could help the government get around state-run banks that have been reluctant to tap into the stock market despite requisite clearances. “The money raised through such stake sale can be ploughed back for capitalisation purposes, if so needed,” the official said. The government garnered about Rs 6,000 crore from the last ETF, which mostly comprised of infrastructure stocks.
Finance minister Arun Jaitley in his budget speech said that a new ETF with diversified stocks of central public sector enterprises and other government holdings will be launched in 2017-18. “Our ETF, comprising shares of ten CPSEs, has received overwhelming response in the recent further fund offering. We will continue to use ETF as a vehicle for further disinvestment of shares,” Jaitley said.
Last week, economic affairs secretary Shaktikanta Das told ET that the government is examining various options to value IDBI Bank’s large property holdings. The government currently holds 73.98% stake in IDBI and 29.59% stake in Hindustan Zinc. For 2017-18, the government has set a mammoth disinvestment target of Rs 72,500 crore, of which Rs 46,500 crore is to come from regular stake sales including ETFs.
The government has allocated only Rs 10,000 crore for bank capitalisation in the next fiscal as part of its seven-pronged Indra Dhanush revamp plan for state-run banks. As per the government’s estimates banks will raise about Rs 1.1 lakh crore from the markets till 2018-19. “Most banks have raised only a little amount through additional tier I bonds to maintain the regulatory capital,” the second official cited earlier said. | <urn:uuid:480de835-ca61-403a-a83c-91bf9097223e> | CC-MAIN-2020-40 | https://cfo.economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/budget-2017-etf-may-include-psb-shares-government-holding-in-private-firms/57012922 | 2020-09-19T22:50:51Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-40/segments/1600400192887.19/warc/CC-MAIN-20200919204805-20200919234805-00409.warc.gz | en | 0.960275 | 427 |
I don’t have any experience with seagrass, sisal or jute but I did install a solid bamboo floor in my flat which I was very pleased with. As I’m sure you know, bamboo is far more sustainable than hardwood floor because of the rate it grows compard to wood whilst still being incredibly strong. Personally I chose strand-woven bamboo planks with click-lock tongoue and groove which makes them very easy to install (once you’ve cut all the fiddly shapes aroudn the doors and walls) and looks very similar to light oak to the untrained eye. They were pre-laquered to make them hardwearing and waterproof. I don’t have specific environmental information on the laquer but the bulk of the material is bamboo, and wood still needs protection.
If you want to go with wood but with an environmentally friendly covering and are prepared for a bit more upkeep you could try a soap finish which is quite popular here in Denmark and gives a light untreated look. This is as simple as it sounds: a soap flake and water solution rubbed over the bare wood from which the soap is left behind once the water has evaporated. Note that as it is just soap so it will wear off and consequently you will have to maintain it every fortnight to every month, depending on how much use it gets. For this reason it is a more common finish for furniture. Perhaps a slightly more practical solution is natural oiled floor which lasts longer between maintenance. With the right care both these solutions will last decades.
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Torchwood: Small Worlds
(1 episode, s01e05, 2006)
How do you stop a threat unbound from time?
A mysterious figure wanders through the midnight wood, sneaking up on a group of fairies playing in a stone circle. The mystic moment turns sour as she snaps a few photos and the fairies morph into something more sinister. Meanwhile, deep in the Hub, Jack wakes up from a nightmare in which a train car is filled with dead soldiers, their mouths filled with rose petals. He finds Ianto working late into the night, tracking strange weather patterns.
The next day, a creepy man watches children leaving school. One girl, Jasmine, catches his eye since her parents are late picking her up. She decides to walk home and he makes his move, but the fairies come to her rescue. Elsewhere, Jack and Gwen attend a small talk on fairies as presented by Estelle Cole, an old friend of Jack’s and the woman from the episode intro. After her presentation, Jack discusses Estelle’s findings and claims that she’s wrong about fairies being good creatures.
At Cardiff Market, the creeper tries to escape from the voices that drove him away before. He stumbles through the market, coughs up mouthfuls of rose petals, and gets arrested. Meanwhile, Jasmine arrives home safely. She goes outside to play and is tempted by the fairies.
Jack and Gwen accompany Estelle home to look at more of her fairy photos. Gwen finds a photo that is the spitting image of Jack, but Captain Harkness tells her that it is his father, and Gwen asks Estelle about Jack’s family. Jack asks Estelle to tell him if she finds more fairies before heading back to the Hub with Gwen. On the way there, he tells Gwen that fairies are creatures from the dawn of time that are not constrained by linear time. Once they return to headquarters, Jack instructs Tosh to monitor weather patterns for clues to find the fairies.
The creeper, Mark Goodson, confesses to being a pedophile, later to be attacked by a fairy. In the woods, Torchwood Three tracks the fairies to the stone circle and then responds to the jail to investigate Goodsen’s death. He was asphyxiated and his airway is filled with rose petals. They return to the Hub and receive a call from Estelle after she was confronted by the fairies. Before they can arrive, she is lured outside and attacked in a severe rainstorm. The team arrives to find her drowned corpse, and Jack reveals to Gwen that he was the man in the photo and the man who loved Estelle.
They met in the Astoria Ballroom when she was seventeen, and Jack tells her about his first encounter with the rose petals on a troop train in Lahore, 1909. Some of his men had mistakenly run over a little girl, and a week later they were killed by the fairies in the train car. The child was a chosen one, destined to live with the fairies – each of them children pulled from different periods in time – just like Jasmine is now.
Speaking of, Jasmine is bullied at school the next day, and the fairies sweep the area with a gale. No one was harmed, but the only person not affected was Jasmine. The fairies also set their sights on Roy, Jasmine’s mother’s boyfriend of five years, who was downright rude to Jasmine earlier. As the family celebrates the five-year anniversary with a party, Jasmine discovers that Roy has fenced off the entrance to the forest. Roy and Jasmine have an altercation, and as the weather picks up, the fairies attack Roy in retribution.
Torchwood arrives to prevent harm to the guests, Roy is killed in the fight and Jasmine follows the fairies into the woods. Jack and Gwen give chase, demanding that Jasmine not be taken away. The fairies warn that if Jasmine does not go with them, they will kill many more. Admitting he has no other choice, Jack requests one promise: Jasmine will not be harmed. The fairies agree, pledging that Jasmine will live forever. Jasmine skips away as her mother arrives, and as the girl disappears, her mother collapses in angry grief, hitting Jack over and over again as he apologizes.
The team is angry with Jack, giving him the silent treatment. As Gwen buttons up the loose threads in the Hub, she examines the photograph from 1917 as it flashes on the screen. One of the fairies is Jasmine, a smile upon her face. As Gwen looks on, a fairy voice whispers The Stolen Child by William Butler Yeats: “Come away, O human child! To the waters and the wild With a faery, hand in hand, For the world’s more full of weeping than you can understand.”
This was a run of the mill story with a creepy atmosphere and an unstoppable enemy. We get another glimpse into Jack’s mysterious past, which seems to be a common thread in this introductory season. There’s also a great amount of character development as Jack makes the hard choice: Sacrifice one child or countless innocents in an attempt to save her. There was no right answer, and I appreciate Torchwood for going there.
But otherwise, it was a mostly average adventure.
Rating: 3/5 – “Reverse the polarity of the neutron flow.”
UP NEXT – Torchwood: Countrycide
The Timestamps Project is an adventure through the televised universe of Doctor Who, story by story, from the beginning of the franchise. For more reviews like this one, please visit the project’s page at Creative Criticality. | <urn:uuid:3b087947-627a-41c9-80f2-1b20ba9a6e37> | CC-MAIN-2020-40 | https://creativecriticality.net/2019/05/01/timestamp-tw5-small-worlds/ | 2020-09-19T21:03:33Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-40/segments/1600400192887.19/warc/CC-MAIN-20200919204805-20200919234805-00409.warc.gz | en | 0.969844 | 1,223 |
Personal Navigators, and other handouts from the Very MerryTime Cruises 7-Night Western Caribbean Cruise on Disney Fantasy – Itinerary C. The Disney Fantasy set sail from Port Canaveral on November 8, 2014. Additionally, there are 4 other sets of Personal Navigators for this this same itinerary for comparison.
Day 1 – November 8, 2014 – Port Canaveral
- Personal Navigator – Day 1
Attire: Cruise Casual | Show: A Fantasy Come True | Dinner Menu: Standard Rotational
Drink of the Day: Bahama Mama Non-Alcoholic: Espresso Chiller
- Time Change: -1 hour before bed
- Mickey’s Tree Lighting Magic – Atrium 7:45 PM
Come gather in the ship’s atrium to experience this magical Disney Cruise Line holiday tradition. The Cruise Director welcomes Mickey and the game for a holiday sing along as a family of dreamers helps create a little Disney magic by lighting the holiday tree.
Day 2 – November 9, 2014 – At Sea
- Personal Navigator – Day 2
Attire: Formal | Show: Aladdin A Musical Spectacular | Dinner Menu: Standard Rotational
Drink of the Day: Coco Bali Non-Alcoholic: Paradise Punch
Day 3 – November 10, 2014 – Cozumel
- Personal Navigator – Day 3
Attire: Cruise Casual | Show: Buckets N Boards | Dinner Menu: Standard Rotational
Drink of the Day: Key Lime Margarita Non-Alcoholic: Cranberry No-Jito
- Time Change: +1 hour before bed
- Santa’s Winter Wonderland Ball – Atrium 7:30 PM
An evening of spectacle and holiday enchantment, join the Cruise Director and the holiday Snowbells as they celebrate the arrival of a very special holiday guest – Santa Claus! Get you cameras ready. You don’t want to miss Santa and the World Famous Disney Characters as they create a Winter Wonderland… at sea!
Day 4 – November 11, 2014 – Grand Cayman (Veterans Day)
- Personal Navigator – Day 4
Attire: Cruise Casual | Show: Disney Wishes | Dinner Menu: Prince & Princess Dinner
Drink of the Day: Yellow Bird Non-Alcoholic: Lava Smoothie
- Story time with Mrs. Claus – Atrium 3:45 PM
Full of fun and whimsy, Mrs. Claus makes a very special visit to the ship’s atrium to read classic holiday tales to all the children – and children at heart.
- Holiday Storytellers – D Lounge 4:15 PM
Everyone celebrates holidays in their own unique style. Come listen as Crew Members share their heartfelt was of celebrating Hanukkah & Kwanza during this magical time of year!
- Deck the Deck Tropical Holiday Party – Deck 11 Stage 4:45 PM
How do you celebrate the Holidays when you’re on a tropical cruise? Your Disney Pals know how to get a holiday party started with the magic of the tropics as our background. Mel Kaliki Maka everyone!
Day 5 – November 12, 2014 – Falmouth (Pirate Night)
- Personal Navigator – Day 5
Attire: Pirate or Cruise Casual | Show: Big Hero 6 | Dinner Menu: Pirates IN the Caribbean Dinner
Drink of the Day: Sunken Treasure Non-Alcoholic: Princess Delight
Day 6 – November 13, 2014 – At Sea
- Personal Navigator – Day 6
Attire: Optional Dress Up | Show: Disney’s Believe | Dinner Menu: Captain’s Gala Dinner
Drink of the Day: High Tide Non-Alcoholic: Passion Cream Freeze
Day 7 – November 14, 2014 – Castaway Cay
- Personal Navigator – Day 7
Attire: Cruise Casual | Show: An Unforgettable Journey | Dinner Menu: Sea Ya Real Soon Dinner
Drink of the Day: Stingray Non-Alcoholic: Parrot Song
Buena Vista Theatre Movies
- Alexander… Very Bad Day
- Planes: Fire and Rescue
- Guardians of the Galaxy
- The Hundred-Foot Journey
- Big Hero 6
- Star Wars Rebels (Disney Channel XD)
- Million Dollar Arm
Thank you Jen Wright for sharing.
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Before you can send request to a PCI compliant 3rd party you have to add the remote server as an integration to your account.
1) Navigate to the Integrations menu in the Project section and type in the name of the integration 2) Check the endpoint of the integration and press Install 3) Check if the payload fits your example and press again Install to activate the integration
Continue here if you miss an integration, if the payload or an endpoint doesn't match your requirements.
1) Navigate to the Integrations menu in the Project section and type in the name of the integration 2) Press Request new Integration button and complete the form 3) You get notified once the requested integration is ready for you
Forwarding card data to a remote server via HTTPS can work in two ways. In general, either you perform a pull request to forward card data to the Receiver or a Receiver starts a push request to receive card data from you in the response. PCI Proxy can populate both operations with sensitive data. | <urn:uuid:80fc9891-7182-444c-be72-8f4ae4619d6c> | CC-MAIN-2020-40 | https://docs.pci-proxy.com/use-stored-cards/forward/https | 2020-09-19T22:24:11Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-40/segments/1600400192887.19/warc/CC-MAIN-20200919204805-20200919234805-00409.warc.gz | en | 0.864866 | 203 |
LYNNWOOD, Wash., Sept. 27, 2018 /PRNewswire/ — Fuel Up to Play 60 and Chelan Fresh are increasing student access to more nutritious food choices in schools. Chelan Fresh, one of Washington state’s largest suppliers of apples and pears and the nation’s largest provider of fresh cherries, will provide Fuel Up to Play 60, the nation’s leading in-school wellness program, portable breakfast/salad bar carts to be used in 15 Fuel Up to Play 60 schools in 11 states across the country.
In the United States, more than 13 million students come from food insecure households that lack the means to get enough nutritious food on a regular basisi. The portable breakfast/salad bar carts are an innovative solution generously donated by Chelan Fresh to Fuel Up to Play 60 schools and will reach nearly 9,000 students, serving an estimated 1.3 million meals annually.
Finding new ways to serve nutritious options in schools (like low-fat and fat-free dairy products, fruits, vegetables and whole grains) can make a difference in helping provide all students with the nutrition they need to fuel their full potential. The rolling carts from Chelan Fresh will provide easy solutions to school nutrition and meal service teams, allowing them the opportunity to position the cart in areas that provide students easy access to nutritious foodsii. Cooling trays and assets on the portable cart also provide easy serving opportunities reducing the need for ice and other resources needed to keep food cool, as well as help provide easy clean-up for school food service and maintenance staff.
The portable breakfast/salad bar carts will be provided to recipient schools in Arizona, California, Indiana, Iowa, Louisiana, Michigan, South Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, and Washington in time for the 2018-2019 school year.
This effort marks Chelan Fresh’s support of Fuel Up to Play 60 for the seventh consecutive year, reinforcing the companies’ ongoing commitment to help K-12 schools improve or expand their nutrition and physical activity programs through Fuel Up to Play 60.
“As one of the original supporters of the Fuel Up to Play 60 team, Chelan Fresh has been a leader in the produce industry ensuring kids try and continue to choose nutritious food items at school and at home,” said Mac Riggan, Director of Marketing at Chelan Fresh.
The company began its support of the Fuel Up to Play 60 program in 2011, and since that time has provided more than $750,000 in funding and in-kind resources to support increasing student’s access across the country to nutritious foods including fruit, vegetables, dairy and whole grains.
“On behalf of National Dairy Council, dairy farmers and the dairy community, we’re thankful to continue our longstanding relationship with Chelan Fresh and their growers, and to have their support in nourishing schools and communities through the Fuel Up to Play 60 program,” said Jean Ragalie-Carr, RDN, LDN, FAND, president, National Dairy Council. “The joint effort from Chelan Fresh and Fuel Up to Play 60 will provide more students across the country with access to nutritious meals in a convenient, on-the-go setting, providing them the nourishment that students need to help fuel greatness.”
About Fuel Up to Play 60
Fuel Up to Play 60 is an in-school nutrition and physical activity program launched by National Football League (NFL) and National Dairy Council (NDC), which was founded by America’s dairy farmers, in collaboration with the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). Fuel Up to Play 60 is designed to engage and empower youth to take action for their own health by implementing long-term, positive changes for themselves and their schools. The program additionally encourages youth to consume nutrient-rich foods (low-fat and fat-free dairy, fruits, vegetables and whole grains) and achieve at least 60 minutes of physical activity every day. As a result of the program, 14 million students are making better food choices and 18 million are more physically active. Fuel Up to Play 60 is further supported by several health and nutrition organizations: Action for Healthy Kids, American Academy of Family Physicians, American Academy of Pediatrics, Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics Association/Foundation, National Hispanic Medical Association, National Medical Association and School Nutrition Association. Visit FuelUpToPlay60.com to learn more.
About Chelan Fresh
Chelan Fresh is a fruit marketing company representing over 300 family owned farms who are committed to growing premium apples, pears, cherries and several stone fruit varieties for demanding domestic and international markets. Our fruit is grown in Central Washington where ample sunshine, gentle mountain slopes, fertile valleys and cool crisp air combine with the waters of the mighty Columbia River for ideal growing conditions.
About National Dairy Council
National Dairy Council® (NDC), the non-profit organization funded by the national dairy checkoff program, is committed to nutrition education and research-based communications. NDC provides science-based nutrition information to, and in collaboration with, a variety of stakeholders committed to fostering a healthier nation, including health professionals, educators, school nutrition directors, academia, industry, consumers and media. Established in 1915, NDC comprises a staff of registered dietitians and nutrition research and communications experts across the country. NDC has taken a leadership role in promoting child health and wellness through programs such as Fuel Up to Play 60. Developed by NDC and the National Football League (NFL), Fuel Up to Play 60 encourages youth to consume nutrient-rich foods and achieve at least 60 minutes of physical activity every day. For more information, visit www.NationalDairyCouncil.org.
About NFL PLAY 60
For more than a decade, NFL PLAY 60 has brought together the NFL’s long-standing commitment to health and fitness with partner organizations to increase physical activity among youth. Since the program was launched in 2007, the NFL has committed more than $350 million to youth health and fitness through programming, grants, and media time for public service announcements. The NFL and its teams have constructed more than 250 NFL Youth Fitness Zones and integrated programs into 73,000 schools since the campaign launched. NFL PLAY 60 is also implemented locally, as part of the NFL’s in-school, after-school and team-based programs. For more information, visit NFL.com/PLAY60. | <urn:uuid:f400a204-a54b-4045-9486-dcb38e9ab62a> | CC-MAIN-2020-40 | https://engageforgood.com/fuel-up-to-play-60-and-chelan-fresh-collaborate-to-help-increase-student-access-to-nutritious-food-choices-in-schools/ | 2020-09-19T20:53:24Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-40/segments/1600400192887.19/warc/CC-MAIN-20200919204805-20200919234805-00409.warc.gz | en | 0.945568 | 1,315 |
Booz Allen hires AMS exec
- By Michael Hardy
- Aug 18, 2004
Booz Allen Hamilton Inc. officials have chosen Gary Labovich, who formerly served as senior vice president at American Management Systems Inc., as a vice president.
Labovich will bring his expertise in systems development and integration, information technology solutions and management consulting to Booz Allen, according to company officials.
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New design one level villas – modern style as always with 3 bedroom (master ensuite) and 2 bathrooms, set in a residential area in the heart of Sucina town — Phase 1 will have 10 individual properties each with their own private pool just 15 minutes from the beaches.
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The 3 double bedrooms are located towards the rear of the villa with the master bedroom having ensuite facilities. Each bedroom will have fitted wardrobes with access to the second bathroom.
Outside the property … Big Plots a generous garden with a drive leading to the parking area with a large private swimming pool. Easy access to the solarium – stairs to the roof solarium are located to the side of the villa.
The properties also come with pre-installed air-con and pre-installation for satellite TV.
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Think you have a fairly clear picture about how the connected smart home may look in the future? Don’t be too quick to say yes.
Some predictions about the role of artificial intelligence (AI) may surprise you and have you widening your imagination. As Google Home, Amazon Alexa and Echo become more commonplace and AI technology more sophisticated, there’s a growing number of smart home scenarios that no longer seem so far-fetched.
5 ways AI may transform our lives in the near future
AI predicts and fulfills needs before you’re even aware of them.
As you know, AI is a computing power that can perform complex tasks that would otherwise require a human brain to accomplish. Because AI is able to make decisions on our behalf, it leaves fewer decisions we need to make for ourselves—and can actually anticipate what we’ll need before
we need it.
So in the future, AI might turn on lights and adjust the temperature in rooms where you’re expected to go, before you actually go there. It may also start the dishwasher when it senses that it’s full, even though you didn’t know it was time to turn it on. Or because AI devices have access to your calendar, they know to set your alarm early on days when your normal routine is off —like when you need to catch a flight.
AI turns your home into your personal caretaker.
AI might also help you reach your health and wellness goals. For example, based on your workout goals, your AI device knows you want to take a new spin class and adjusts your schedule accordingly. It checks the availability of the class, registers your spot, places the event on your calendar and sets your alarm to wake you up early.
AI becomes your home’s personal shopper.
Forget the shopping lists—AI devices connected to your smart home will know when you’re running low on laundry detergent, dog food or toilet paper. They will automatically order what you need and schedule everything to be delivered via FedEx. When your products arrive, your smart doorbell with integrated cameras will recognize the FedEx truck and coordinate with the lock to open your front door and instruct the delivery person to place your packages inside your entryway. When the door closes and locks behind him, your home robot will proceed to unpack the items and put them away where they belong.
(Think household robots are in the distant future? Think again. Jupiter Research predicts that one in 10 households will have a “housekeeping” robot in 2020
, up from one in 25 in 2018.)
AI takes on the role of meal planner (and chef).
Smart home devices might also conspire to help you keep your resolutions to eat healthier and lose some weight. Not only can AI devices plan your meals, they can make sure all of the ingredients have been pre-ordered and are sitting in your refrigerator. They can coordinate in-home delivery, if needed, and can use Alexa to program rice cookers, communicate with smart crockpots and follow your integrated recipe apps.
AI gives you friendly reminders.
Don’t want to miss your favorite TV show? Need a reminder that you have a project due tomorrow? Using AI, your smart home speakers could offer a gentle reminder that the big game will start soon, or remind your wife about the 90 minutes of work she wanted to get done before going to bed. AI can also program the meditation app and breathing exercises you enjoy doing before you sleep.
The bottom line: Regardless of how many of these scenarios will turn into reality—or how quickly—it’s clear that the power of AI can unburden us from many pesky activities that often require too much of our time and attention. Ultimately, an AI-powered smart home can move us to a place of greater efficiency, progress and convenience.
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Blackstone wins spot on DHS ADaPTS BPA
Blackstone Technology Group announced on January 13 that it was selected as one of four awardees of The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Architecture, Development, and Platform Technical Services (ADaPTS) Blanket Purchase Agreement (BPA) No. 70RTAC19A00000009. The BPA has a total estimated value of $265 million across the four awardees. Ordering will take place over a five (5) year period from September 1, 2019 to August 31, 2024.
DHS and its components will leverage this ADaPTS BPA to procure cloud-focused technical services and critical strategic support. Blackstone’s technical and managerial staff will assist DHS in the planning and delivery of enterprise services and digital modernization efforts.
“We are honored and excited to continue our 17 year partnership with DHS and help execute the Department’s modernization objectives over the next five years. With this ADaPTS win, we see an important opportunity to keep driving progress and transformation in one of the most crucial areas of the Federal government.” said Giles Kesteloot, president of Blackstone’s federal practice.
Blackstone has been a trusted partner of DHS since the early days of the department. Under the ADaPTS BPA, Blackstone will continue to apply their expertise in cloud, cyber security, policy & governance, program management, strategic communications, agile transformation, and beyond in support of all DHS missions. | <urn:uuid:6cb02c05-3907-47e0-a891-458231db63be> | CC-MAIN-2020-40 | https://intelligencecommunitynews.com/blackstone-wins-spot-on-dhs-adapts-bpa/ | 2020-09-19T22:34:20Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-40/segments/1600400192887.19/warc/CC-MAIN-20200919204805-20200919234805-00409.warc.gz | en | 0.917343 | 312 |
When I first started dating Matt I knew he was quirky–but it wasn’t until Valentine’s Day that I realized he’s sometimes even quirkier than I am. And if you know me, you know that’s definitely something unique.
Valentine’s Day started seven days before the actual holiday the year we met–and every day leading up to it he planned something special. The first day he had my room mate put hearts all over my bed, the second was a teddy bear, the third was a box of candy, the fourth a little poem he wrote–and so on until I found a bouquet of lilies on my desk in a classroom on Valentine’s Day. The tradition has continued–for other holidays, too.
And this year, I think more than any other time, was pretty special. My birthday started early this year.
And today’s gift was a date planned for this morning (since I work nights) which was a complete surprise until we pulled our car up to a beautiful shopping square in Redmond. And then I knew because I had been talking about it. There’s a theater Matt had discovered while out with his brother a couple weeks ago–it’s called I-Pic, and it’s a theater complete with recliners, blankets, personal pillows, and waiters that serve you anything you’d like from an elaborate menu. And this time, we had the theater all to ourselves *Maybe because it was 10 in the morning, but we can pretend.*
But seriously. Best. Birthday. Surprise. We saw a movie I’ve been dying to see because it has my favorite actress, Rachel McAdams–“About Time”. And the movie was nothing short of beautiful–I won’t have any spoilers here because you should just GO see it. Seriously. But I will tell you this–it makes you think about how you’re using time.
And that’s something I’ve always been fascinated with. I’ve always been intrigued with memories–how time bends and moves and pushes us forward. The possibility of going back, and the repercussions if we did. So obviously, because of that strange little fascination I’ve read every book on time and relativity (Einstein is my favorite genius) and I’ve seen every movie involving the subject.
But this is the first time travel movie that digs into how time travel isn’t necessary when you use each day wisely, observe the small things, and CHOOSE to make the most out of each little moment. When you live life deliberately, there will be no need to go back and re-live it.
As I was watching it I couldn’t help but think of Matt, who was right beside me chewing on coconut shrimp and watching a movie he obviously wouldn’t watch if I hadn’t wanted to. He lives life deliberately. He uses his time so wisely–making sure that every single moment I feel loved and appreciated. Throughout our marriage, and even before that actually, I can’t think of a single time where I felt like if I walked out the door and it was the last time seeing his face that we’d have regrets. Because he loves completely. From surprising me for my birthday with a movie in a vacant theater to playing with his nieces and nephews on the ground to coming back a second time after saying goodbye just to give me one more hug before he leaves for school–he doesn’t waste a second.
It’s inspiring. And during the movie I kept thinking about what it would be like if Matt and I were the characters in that movie–given the gift to go back and change it all moment by moment or possibly just perfect the things that turned out a little less than perfect. I kept wondering if we would. But no, I decided. Time is never wasted, even when things don’t work out exactly how we might want it to.
For us, it’s completely and fabulously embraced. I hope it can be that way for you, too.
And I have Matt to thank for that.
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“I’m no psychologist, and I’m no economist or big deal politician, either. My goal is to share with you what my life has taught me rather than pretend to tell you what everybody should think or do.” —Dave Thomas
Ever had to buy a Christmas present for some uncle you barely know? Then you’re probably familiar with books like Dave’s Way. This 1991 nonfiction treatise by Wendy’s founder Dave Thomas (written with Ron Beyma and Mary Maroon Gelpi) is part memoir and part how-to, sprinkling basic business advice between lengthy “guess you had to be there” accounts of Dave’s pivotal franchising deals. Thomas’ tome is a lot like Lee Iacocca’s bestselling 1984 autobiography, which runs through some of the Chrysler bigwig’s greatest successes, peppered with his broader opinions about American society. These books are packed with simplistic truisms, delivered in “just plain folks” prose.
Dave Thomas wasn’t the first fast-food kingpin to pen (or hire a ghostwriter to pen) a book of tepid tips, self-congratulation and grumpy-old-man rants. He’s not the last, either. The sub-genre has waxed and waned in popularity, but altogether there have been dozens of these opinionated bios, presenting the well-earned wisdom of a man who invented a better hamburger or pioneered “30-minutes-or-less” pizza delivery.
Read enough of these, and patterns emerge. Even the funkier philosophical tangents have a similar ring. So here, in essence, is what the men who built America’s fast food industry — most of whom are dead now — want you to know about how our world works, and how to get the best of it.
Bring Back Bridge Mix!
Barely 10 pages into Dave’s Way, Thomas gets cranky. Not for the first time, nor the last. Reminiscing about how his Grandma Minnie used to buy him bridge mix — an assortment of chocolate-coated candy clusters, often set out for company during card games — he complains that no one sells this stuff any more or even knows what it is.
He’s overstating the case, of course. Bridge mix never went away. (Although Thomas is right that it became less popular.) But that’s not the point. What he really means to say is that the country he grew up in was much better than it was when he wrote Dave’s Way. Thomas goes on to quote his grandmother’s common complaint about sewing thread getting thinner, saying, “If people keep cutting corners, this country’s going to be in big trouble.”
This is the primary recurring theme for a lot of these memoirs: The world is getting worse and worse, and lazy, selfish young people are to blame. In Dunkin’ founder William Rosenberg’s 2001 book Time to Make the Donuts (written with Jessica Brilliant Keener), he insists that only 10 percent of the population possesses the “positive mental attitude” required to succeed in business, and that the rest are “complainers” who are “full of excuses.”
Domino’s Pizza founder Tom Monaghan flatly says in 1986’s Pizza Tiger (written with Robert Anderson), “Unfortunately, most people don’t have the importance of being nice to others instilled in them by their parents.” In his book, the super-conscientious Monaghan is focused on character and discipline. He even says of his own habits, “I eat dessert only 11 times a year: Christmas, Easter, Thanksgiving, just before Lent, St. Patrick’s Day and six family birthdays.” (On the one hand: admirably restrained! On the other hand: Who makes a special point to eat dessert on St. Patrick’s Day?)
Even at the end of S. Truett Cathy’s slim 2007 salute to his Chick-fil-A triumphs — titled How Did You Do It, Truett? — he sums up his philosophies with 11 dos and don’ts, one of which reads, “Shortcut to success: Observe what is working in the lives of others. Teenagers, observe mature individuals.” Do not, under any circumstances, follow the example of anyone under 30… or anyone who’s never heard of bridge mix.
Education Ain’t Nothin’
Perhaps because a lot of burger, pizza, donut and chicken moguls came of age before WWII, many of them dropped out of school and entered the workforce after the eighth grade — or sixth grade, in the case of KFC’s creator-mascot Colonel Harland Sanders. Many of them never really cottoned to fancy book-learnin’.
On the first page of the first chapter of How Did You Do It, Truett?, Cathy says that when he’s asked to speak to graduating classes, he tells them — not as a warning — “The world is run by C students.” In Dave’s Way, high school dropout Thomas says the MBAs in his organization don’t look at the right numbers on profit-and-loss reports. Dunkin’s Rosenberg cautions, “School teaches you how to study and how to absorb information, but that alone will not teach ambition.” Monaghan of Domino’s admits he’s never worked well with “Ph.D.’s or MBAs who criticized me for not being ‘professional.’”
After all those “meh” opinions about college, it’s kind of a relief to read James W. McLamore’s 1998 book The Burger King: Jim McLamore and the Building of an Empire, where he talks about graduating from Cornell University. “My advice to young people starting out today is to get really familiar and comfortable with numbers,” he writes. That’s much different from Dave Thomas’ lament: “You can drown in data in even the simplest business these days.”
Want to Sell Paper Cups? Sell Milkshake Machines. Want to Sell Milkshake Machines? Sell Hamburgers
The gold standard of fast food memoirs — at least in terms of a book that’s both readable and lively — is Ray Kroc’s 1977 classic Grinding It Out: The Making of McDonald’s, written with Robert Anderson. Even Kroc’s competition loved his book. In Pizza Tiger, Tom Monaghan talks about making a pilgrimage to San Diego to meet Kroc in 1980, carrying along a “dogeared” copy of Grinding It Out. What makes it so great? Maybe it’s because Kroc skips the self-aggrandizing pieties that his competitors spill across hundreds of pages, and instead tells a punchy (and not always G-rated) story about hustle.
Kroc famously didn’t found McDonald’s; he only came up with the idea of rapidly spreading Richard and Maurice McDonald’s industrialized, quick-serve process for serving hamburgers. Kroc originally became interested in the restaurant because he was selling a high-end milkshake mixer, and he thought that more McDonald’s stores might boost sales. His involvement with milkshakes stemmed from his years in the paper cup industry, where he started moving more product once he convinced soda fountains to offer malts to-go.
The point is that a lot of the “genius” in these fast food how-to books is really just the result of a dogged process of studying the competition, recognizing what works, and refining it. For every genuinely brilliant innovation — like Glen Bell coming up with a process for frying hard taco shells so his Taco Bell could assemble its signature dish more quickly, or S. Truett Cathy coming up with the idea of frying a boneless, skinless chicken breast and sticking it between two buttered buns with pickles — there are countless examples of other entrepreneurs who just improved pre-existing products and processes. (Again, look at Cathy. A lot of Chick-fil-A’s success sprung from his decision to set up shop in indoor malls.)
Colonel Sanders would say that the secret to his success was his blend of “11 herbs and spices.” (Or his cream gravy. Sanders was weirdly fanatical about gravy.) But KFC really took off because of his method of “pressure-frying” chicken in minutes and then keeping it warm in proofing trays. Tom Monaghan sped up pizza delivery at his Domino’s stores, and figured out how to deliver a uniform product, with a flavor extensively tested in blind tastings. Even Jim McLamore admits that his Burger King Whopper was inspired by another local restaurant doing well with burgers much bigger than anything McDonald’s was selling at the time.
The World Is Full of Crooks
Something else that’s great about Grinding It Out is that Kroc’s unafraid to be pissy: toward the McDonald brothers (who he says changed the terms of their agreement once his franchises started taking off), toward his ex-wife (who he says doubted his big plans) and toward anybody he’s ever met who cut corners and shaved pennies, losing long-term customer loyalty over a short-term gain.
“Can you believe this idiot I met once?” anecdotes abound in these biographies. The 1991 book Never Stop Dreaming: 50 Years of Making It Happen — written by Carl’s Jr. honcho Carl Karcher, with the help of B. Carolyn Knight — is practically a compendium of all the bad people he’s known. He grumbles about dishonest bread salesmen, hot dog vendors purposefully miscounting inventory… just one no-good bum after another.
By contrast, it’s refreshing to read Sanders’ wild 1974 memoir Life as I Have Known It Has Been “Finger Lickin’ Good” — essentially an anthology of all the colorful anecdotes he’d been telling on late-night talk shows for years. He boasts about lying his way into the U.S. Navy. He describes the clever way he tried to exploit the commission system at an insurance agency he worked for. He essentially admits to being something of a benign scoundrel throughout his youth.
Debra Lee Baldwin’s 1999 biography Taco Titan: The Glen Bell Story similarly drops some juicy details about the Taco Bell founder’s youthful hobby of illegally hopping trains, in a chapter titled “Hobo Adventures: 1937–1941.” This leads to one of the book’s best bullet points, from its running “Glen’s Recipes for Success” sidebar: “Whatever generalizations I had about hobos as a group disappeared when they became individuals with names and faces.”
Choice Is Bad
Another of “Glen’s Recipes for Success” in Taco Titan is “Don’t sell everything customers ask for.” It’s a piece of advice that comes up again and again in these restaurateurs’ books. Ray Kroc would crack down on franchisees who expanded beyond McDonald’s core products, because he felt a diverse menu diluted the brand and was inconsistent with a high level of quality. Kroc wouldn’t even allow jukeboxes, payphones or cigarette machines in any McDonald’s (though that was in part because “the vending machines were controlled by the crime syndicate, and I wanted no part of that”).
One of the first big steps on the path to Tom Monaghan’s Domino’s dynasty came during a busy night at one of his first restaurants, when he decided to streamline the assembly process by getting rid of the small, “personal”-sized pizza and limit the number of toppings. He quickly realized it had been costing him just as much time and money to make a 6-inch pie as a 12-inch. Reduce choice, reduce cost, reduce prep time.
Carl Karcher’s book, on the other hand, is one cautionary tale after another about his getting too ambitious with the Carl’s Jr. concept. He repeatedly strays from the ideal of “good hamburgers, served fast, in a clean store.” He tries an overstuffed menu that includes tuna sandwiches, fried shrimp and tamales. He comes up with spinoff restaurants, including the coffee shop Scot’s and the gimmicky, railroad-themed Carl’s Whistle Stop. He experiments with a more adult dinner menu, featuring trout and steak. Eventually he introduces a company-wide “Back-to-Basics Day,” as an annual reminder to keep the business simple.
Be a Republican
To be fair, most restaurateur-authors don’t expressly state their political affiliations, because, to paraphrase the great Michael Jordan, “Democrats buy burgers, too.” The notable exception is Colonel Sanders, who writes, “I was registered a Democrat and worked for the Democratic Party until Roosevelt ran for his fourth term. I didn’t like the third term. He leaned too much toward socialism — too liberal, and I didn’t like that.”
Instead, these gentlemen tout their religious convictions. There a lot of Catholics in this crowd. Monaghan, for example, insists, “You can’t go to mass and take Communion with a mortal sin on your soul; it’s simply not possible,” by way of explaining why he was okay with the otherwise “crooked” Chicago mayor Richard Daley.
They also name-drop their favorite presidents. (Thomas loves Ford and the first President Bush. Karcher’s unusually proud of his friendship with Nixon.) And they express some generalized GOP dogma. (Karcher writes, “You should never complain about difficulties being unfair or demand government should help you through them.”)
It’s especially remarkable to see how much Dave Thomas’ tone changes between Dave’s Way and his second book, 1994’s Well Done! The Common Guy’s Guide to Everyday Success (again co-written with Ron Beyma). The first book is mostly focused on the creation of Wendy’s, with just a little grumbling about the miserable, “bridge mix”–rejecting modern world. Three years later, in Well Done!, Thomas more openly courts right-wing readers.
In Dave’s Way, Thomas recounts an anecdote about how he refused to use the word “keister” in a TV ad, because that was “too far.” In Well Done!, he complains about how showbiz in the ’90s is all “shoot-’em-out, slice-’em-up, strip-it-off” instead of being more like The Waltons. He adds that while he’s against harassment and prejudice in the workplace, “Sometimes the laws have gotten so sticky that it’s hard to tell a person where he or she really stands.” He also dedicates a few pages of the book to the budget deficit, the line-item veto and his appreciation for the work of fiery conservative congressman Dan Burton.
Everybody Knows Everybody
Tom Monaghan may have had to make a special trip to meet Kroc, but many of his peers knew him well. Bell and Karcher started their businesses in California around the same time as the McDonald brothers, and paid close attention to what Kroc was doing with franchising. McLamore admits that while Burger King and McDonald’s are fierce rivals, he considers Kroc a good friend and role model. (Of Kroc’s killer instinct, McLamore writes admiringly, “Someone asked him what he would do if he saw his chief competitor drowning a little offshore. He is reported to have said that he would stick a running hose in his mouth.”)
A lot of fast food moguls knew Colonel Sanders, too. Before he founded Wendy’s, Dave Thomas was already a millionaire, thanks to the part he played in making Kentucky Fried Chicken a household name. Dunkin’ boss William Rosenberg, meanwhile, met Colonel Sanders when they were both in the same extreme dieting program at Duke University. He says of talking to Sanders or Kroc or any of the “many other self-starters … you would think you were talking to the same person.”
WWWDD: What Would Walt Disney Do?
According to the Illinois-born Ray Kroc, he first met fellow Chicago-area native Walt Disney while they served together as a Red Cross ambulance drivers during WWI. (“Whenever we had time off and went out on the town to chase girls, he stayed in camp drawing pictures.”)
Other fast food pioneers had a different relationship with Disney, drawing inspiration from how he turned the somewhat disreputable amusement park business into the family-friendly Disneyland. Karcher opened his first Carl’s Jr. in Orange County, aiming for “a Disneyland experience.” Fellow California restaurateur Glen Bell visited Disneyland when it opened, and saw the future. He later got into the family amusement business himself, opening a tourist railroad.
Disney established the model for the post-McDonald’s world: Keep it clean, keep it sunny, keep it safe.
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Onsite facilities on La Torre Golf Resort include a small selection of restaurants for evening opening, snack bar/clubhouse open all day, special weekend buffets, 5* Hotel facilities including SPA, restaurant and bar and also pool (with bar service, for additional charge payable at the hotel). There are 2 bars, a hair and beauty salon and a very well stocked supermarket and shop… ALL within walking distance.
The resort is very safe and secure with security staff on site at all times.
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Enjoying some slightly cooler temperatures here, finally, and I’m hoping they hold up through the weekend so I can continue my productive streak of the last couple of days. I’ve got tons of reading and a bit of writing on my schedule. How about you?
Whatever you have planned, I’ve got some fun links for you to check out to kick off the weekend (or kill a little time before you quit for the day). I hope they inspire you to carve out a little reading and/or writing time of your own. Enjoy!
Ursula K. LeGuin Talks to Michael Cunningham about Genres, Gender, and Broadening Fiction – Wonderful interview, plus a link to a terrific e-book deal.
Pacing Doesn’t Just Mean Wearing a Groove in the Floor – John Scalzi talks about the “different thing” he did in his latest book, and why he chose to do it. (Hint: It has to do with pacing.)
Short Story: A Process of Revision – Antonya Nelson talks about her short story writing process and how she used it in teaching her latest workshop.
Lessons from Behind the Counter at a Comic Book Store – On feminism and marketing and comics.
Science Fiction and Fantasy 101: Thinking Academically about Genre – A great tie-in to my post from yesterday, with some recommendations for a “course” in SFF reading. | <urn:uuid:60db2e77-039e-42b1-8ff8-35ee588f0fcb> | CC-MAIN-2020-40 | https://nepheletempest.com/2014/08/08/friday-links-113/ | 2020-09-19T22:17:15Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-40/segments/1600400192887.19/warc/CC-MAIN-20200919204805-20200919234805-00409.warc.gz | en | 0.922131 | 302 |
Keen viewers of the Big Brother Naija show were all up in Praise and Ka3na’s business last night as they caught them in a quite suggestive position and witnessed a rather familiar bodily motion.
The duo were caught beneath their sheets engaging in coitus while the other housemates slept.
The housemates had just finished playing a game of truth or dare in which Ka3na played with Laycon’s d!ck and also kissed ozo, before she and Praise decided to quench the ‘konji’.
With the videos that’s been trending online, viewers are convinced that Praise and Ka3na really relieved themselves of the ‘heat’ that’s been worrying them for a while now.
To prove that they indeed got down, another video captures the moment Ka3na used her feet to pull up her shorts which obviously changed location while they were at it.
Watch the video below,
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“Are they going to give me a shot?”
“I don’t think so, baby. It’s just strep throat. They’ll give you medicine. The kind you drink.”
“But are you sure? Do they ever give shots for strep throat?”
“Not that I know of. But I can’t say for 100% sure. You know what you do get at the doctor’s? You get stickers. And they put the cuff on your arm, and we find out how tall you are and everything.”
“But are they going to give me a shot?”
It would be so easy just to tell him what what he wants to hear. That “no” would ease his mind and get him off my back. Nevertheless, I refuse to submit. I will answer his question 147 times as truthfully as I can even though a single lie would quiet his fear.
The mind has a way of spinning out of control once it has fixed on a worst-case scenario. Untangling the knot of obsessive thoughts becomes even more difficult if a past hurt has laid down an association between experiences. Rock climbing = broken limb. Making art = ridicule. Professional risk = debt. Love = heartbreak.
Doctor = pain.
Mystery ailments haunted Bug from his first birthday until his fourth. On top of the bombardment of normal childhood immunizations, the poor kid had blood drained from his arm several times a year. Is it any wonder he starts fretting about injections before we even make it through the door? He clings to my leg and urges me to ask about shots. The nurse smiles and gives wheedling reassurance. “Oh, no, big guy, no shots today.” I feel Bug relax his grip and begin to look up. We stride down the hall to the exam room.
Then the doctor comes in and checks his chart. “Oh, we need to take a little blood,” she tells him. Bug contracts into a fist. His eyes flash in my direction. Sighing, I shake my head. “I’m so sorry, buddy.”
This contrition. For what? For his having to feel pain? No, the needle is not the real hurt. My apology is for the falsehoods of grownups. It is for those of us who choose compliance over presence of mind. Maybe the adults of the world are just too rushed to speak the uncertainties. It’s easier to zip on past a hard conversation, scoot the kiddo to the next room, and keep everything humming along. We have a schedule to keep, after all.
Every time this occurs, I see one more brick in Bug’s foundation of trust crumble. While I understand the argument that life is not fair and kids need to learn that the world does not always deliver on its commitments, I do not agree with the premise. What is this need we have to make promises we know we cannot keep? Living with unknowns is a much more powerful skill than living certain that people will lie.
I want my son to learn how to orient his attention in the face of his demons.
No one ever tells us to stop running away from fear…the advice we usually get is to sweeten it up, smooth it over, take a pill, or distract ourselves, but by all means make it go away.
― Pema Chödrön, When Things Fall Apart: Heartfelt Advice for Hard Times
The misery of children makes most adults uncomfortable. We want to allay it or make it stop. We want to divert it. We want kids to Be Happy! We want these things for all kinds of complicated reasons, but one of those reasons is that we know the dark power of the mind to spill us down the rabbit hole. Most of us have visited its depths before. And we want children to stay up here in the light.
Wanting it is not anywhere close to teaching it, though.
Positive thinking is not as easy as it seems like it should be. Reducing mindfulness to sugar-coated optimism, which is another form of putting on blinders, ignores the effort involved in re-training the perception to take in a wider selection of what is real. Broadening one’s attention requires practicing with the rigor of a marathon runner. It takes serious muscle to sit still in the face of uncertainty and pain, and building that fortitude requires going through the exercises no matter how the winds howl.
“A further sign of health is that we don’t become undone by fear and trembling, but we take it as a message that it’s time to stop struggling and look directly at what’s threatening us. ”
― Pema Chödrön, The Places that Scare You
“Let’s breathe together, honey,” I tell Bug. I grow very calm and take him in my lap. We sit in the exam room together cuddling close as the doctor checks his vitals. Bug knows that a needle with his name on it is waiting in the lab. His gaze is narrow and his shoulders are hunched. The grinding of the gears inside his panicking brain is almost audible. He is doing what we all do: seeking a way out or around this thing that terrifies him while being unable to resist its pull.
As we listen to the machine beep, I talk in a quiet voice into his scalp. “The doctor is listening to your strong heart,” I tell him. “It is pumping blood all through your body, giving oxygen to your arms and legs, your stomach, your brain.” I touch him here, and here, and here.
The doctor places the stethoscope on Bug’s chest and he pulls in great swallows of air. This is his reserve. He is filling his well. I whisper and keep my hands gentle on his legs. “Everything is working just right to keep you growing and swimming and singing and playing.” Bug does not respond but I can feel his back seeking the comfort of my belly. We will go together to face the blood draw, and he will cry. I will remind him that the hurt is fleeting, and that he is well, and that everything is working exactly as it should. Even the pain. We will talk about this later in the car, about the wonder of nerves and how they send messages to the brain, and how the sting is one way the power living inside his body makes itself known.
Instead of hurling past the uncertainties to find solid ground, I want my son to learn to slow his gait and feel where he is. It is good to sense ourselves suspended above that crevasse. Even children need to learn to stay inside the questions. What holds us? Perhaps just trust. What becomes of us? Perhaps nothing at all.
I only hope that by pausing with my boy here in this place of no answers, I am helping him lay down another pathway in his busy neural network. This one is about orienting to what is right here. Needles, yes, but also breath. Skin and blood, health and a comforting embrace. Pain and fear. | <urn:uuid:81d72bb8-c2a7-434d-a3d5-cbf821e67cdc> | CC-MAIN-2020-40 | https://shannonewilliams.org/2012/07/09/shot-in-the-dark/ | 2020-09-19T21:02:26Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-40/segments/1600400192887.19/warc/CC-MAIN-20200919204805-20200919234805-00409.warc.gz | en | 0.975802 | 1,519 |
It’s finally Christmas Eve! 😀
Today is the final collab Blogmas topic, and again, we have Kaily to thank for this one:
If you could be under a mistletoe with anyone who would it be? [and you can’t say your SO]
Well, ok then! 😉
Instead of listing hunky Hollywood men, I’m going to do something different (would you expect anything less from me?) – I’ll list some lady crushes of mine. For some reason all of my recent girl crushes have been from spy films released this past year – here goes:
She appeared in The Man from U.N.C.L.E. and at the time the only thing I knew about her was that she was dating Michael Fassbender (they’ve since broken up). She is currently starring in The Danish Girl, and she just received TWO Golden Globe nominations. One of the things I like about her is her voice – it’s so sultry.
I had to find a still from the movie The Man from U.N.C.L.E. that included Henry Cavill, because… hello nurse! 😛
I was mesmerized by her in Mission Impossible Rogue Nation – she plays a strong female lead, kicking ass while managing to look amazing.
I also like that she’s not some young waif (and I seem to have a thing for Swedes? Alicia Vikander is also Swedish) – I can’t wait to see her in more things.
There’s just something about her that’s really captivating. Only she could convince James Bond to leave the world of espionage… you may also remember her in another spy film – she played an assassin for hire in Mission Impossible Ghost Protocol back in 2011.
How incredible did she look in the train scene from Spectre? I want to know what shade her lipstick was!
And my top pick for kissing under the mistletoe (not from any recent spy films):
She’s just so classy and real! *sigh* She’s been a long time girl crush of mine, and I know that I’m not alone!
The movie Hanna was on TV the other week, and even while playing a villain, she’s still perfect.
I told my SO about these and he’s totally fine with my picks! 😉 What about you? Who are your girl crushes? I think it’s such a weird concept that women can have lady crushes but men can’t have guy crushes without being called names?. 😉
Be sure to check out the rest of the Babes in Blogland for their list of who they’d kiss under the mistletoe!
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- Excellent for hanging jackets, clothes objects, scarves, towels, pet leashes, and extra
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The school holidays are upon us and I’m sure as I I’m, your trying to think what you will fill the next 6 weeks with to keep the kids entertained.
It can be a real strain to fill everyday and a major pull on the bank balance.
If you could get out of the house, keep the kids entertained and get them some exercise for free I’m sure you would all jump at the chance!
Well until the 4th September Purley, Waddon, South Norwood, Thornton Heath and New Addington swimming pools are all offering free swimming for under 16’s.
All you need to do is fill out an application form and take along proof of name and address. The only cost is £2 for the membership card.
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A few years ago, when I just started out, I experienced a lot of financial down times. I saw myself go from a couple of thousands of dollars to a few hundred and tens at a certain time. One of my first options was to quit, conclude that things were not working, and move on to the next ‘happening’ thing. Luckily, I chose to persevere, and a few months later, business picked up, and things got better.
Would I have gotten successful if I moved on to the next big thing? Maybe, or maybe not. But studies have confirmed that repeat entrepreneurs are more successful than those business owners who closed up when business wasn’t rosy. That is why you need to stay put.
Successful entrepreneurs have shown over and over that it’s possible to make a big comeback and get out of a financial rut no matter how bad it was. This serves as a precedent that you can bounce back from the nastiest of financial troubles.
If your business is currently going through a rough patch, don’t lose hope. I have been there in the past, learned my lessons, and bounced right back. Below are four simple things that helped me turn my finances around. They will help you too.
1. Get your mindset game right
Although there are lots of personal finance and business tips out there, mindset plays a huge role when it comes to setting your finances straight. When you dig deep, it’s no surprise that those who run ailing businesses all have a scarcity mindset. The good news is that you can shift your mindset to align with the financial turnaround you so desperately need.
There are so many techniques for shifting your mindset from scarcity to abundance. To change my financial state for instance, I had to take some time out and write down what my beliefs were about money. I found out I was more focused on scarcity than abundance. For instance, I believed that I needed to struggle to rub two dimes together. I equally believed that I didn’t really deserve to be part of those making the big bucks. No wonder my finances went down: I was self-sabotaging myself.
To change that, I wrote down the opposite of the limiting beliefs I had about money and started affirming them every day. It worked for me and should work for you too.
2. Know the current state of your finances
At a point in time, I had a lot of bad debts. I kept records in my business, but it wasn’t thorough. I hated accounting, so I shied away from it. But going down financially forced me to take an accounting course in business school and learn how to keep financial records.
Similarly, find out what your current financial standing is. That means you need to know how much you’re owing, how much you’ve got to spend and how much money is coming in. Check out if you’ve got your taxes in order and that you’re not doing anything that could constitute tax fraud. This may be a tough one especially when your business isn’t doing so great, but it is a must do.
This simple exercise will help you put your finances in perspective. And it’s only when you know what you’ve got on the ground that you’ll be able to make progress in improving it.
3. Keep your priorities right
Let’s face it: it takes a lot of discipline to manage your finances. It’s sad – maybe even heartbreaking – that those pair of limited-edition sneakers you wanted to buy for yourself must be put on hold because you’re investing the money into your business. This is especially true for small business owners and new startups.
The danger of cybercrime makes it worse, especially if you are using your business account to make purchases. In this article on VPNbase, Sara Mirchevska suggests that mitigating cybercrime risks begins by making sure you never type in your password on an unencrypted website. It is bad enough that you are using your business finances for personal shopping, you should not make things worse by becoming a victim of cybercrime.
In my own case, I placed myself on a salary. This helped me to discipline myself and to get better at personal budgeting. You should try it too. Put all your expenses on an imaginary scale to find out if it will give you a juicy Return on Investment (ROI). It will take a lot of grit but when the results start rolling in, it will be worth it.
4. Stick with a system that works for you
You need to create a system for your business based on what you currently have. Personally, I cut down some products that were not selling. I automated more, outsourced more, and delegated more. That way, I could use my time and energy better in scaling my business and in other worthwhile ventures.
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Shaun Rampling – Stowmarket
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Pervert pleads guilty to having hundreds of indecent movies of children
A Stowmarket man today (November 2) pleaded guilty to having more than 370 indecent movies and photographs of children.
Shaun Rampling, 25, of Hill Rise, Stowmarket, appeared at Bury St Edmunds Magistrates’ Court today where he pleaded guilty to five charges of making indecent photographs and movies of children aged under 18.
Each offence related to a different device confiscated by police, with Rampling charged with having a total of 376 images.
There were 103 movies of children categorised as A, the most serious of images, while 58 movies were category B, and there were 215 movies and 191 photographs in category C, the least serious.
Rampling has been sent to Ipswich Crown Court for sentencing on November 18. The charges face a maximum term of ten years imprisonment, with the judge also able to hand down fines, suspended sentences and Sexual Offences Prevention Orders.
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PLANNED PARENTHOOD delivers vital reproductive health care, sex education, and information to millions of people worldwide.
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MFPG.ORG, Media For Public Good presents Outcasting – a public radio’s LGBTQ youth program. It presents a look at issues pertaining to the LGBT community as seen through the eyes of young LGBTQ people and allies and provides insight into the broad dimensions of the LGBTQ youth experience.
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X-ray machine 2018/2019
By opening an X-ray department, patients no longer need to be referred to another hospital far away. The Hospital can ask about € 8 for an X-ray and can do about 15 in a day. That is still € 120 per day, which is quite an amount here and helps alleviate the financial problems.
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College costs have surged in the past several decades about as fast as any expenses families face. Parents who attended private colleges and paid tuitions approaching $5,000 are now faced with tuitions for their children amounting to 10 times that. If you look at a private college costing $40,000 a year in tuition, room, board and other fees and charges, you’re facing a bill of $160,000 over the four years. If graduate school is on the table, costs are almost unfathomable.
Attending public colleges and universities in your home state relieves a significant amount of this expense, of course (although many privates offer students with good academic records and test scores enough aid to reduce expenses to roughly match the costs of the public institutions. Private colleges are generally very well endowed and can afford to offer good deals to students they covet.) According to the College Board, total costs for a private college in the 2016-17 school year averaged $49,320, of which $33,480 was for tuition alone. In-state expenses at a public school averaged $24,610, of which $9,650 was for tuition. Public tuition for out-of-state students averaged $24,930. The major of choice could also be a factor. For example, at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, the tuition for an engineering major was $5,000 more than for other majors.
Prospects don’t appear to be getting better, unless, as some politicians predict, college education will eventually be paid by state or federal taxpayers. While we await developments in that direction, however, understand that forecasters see an education in a public college costing $200,000 in 18 years; in a private college, $400,000
Nevertheless, no matter which college is chosen, it promises to present a daunting expense, now and into the future. As with any other sizable fund that must be accumulated, the earlier you start, the more that can be saved without fracturing a budget toward the end of the savings period. Experts say that a good college investment plan enacted at the time of the prospective student’s birth would cost about $325 a month. Waiting until the child is 10 years old to begin would then cost $650 a month.
So how does a parent accumulate what appears to be a vast sum of money for the education virtually all experts agree children will need over the next several decades? The widely preferred choices amount to two: a Coverdell Education Savings Account and the state-managed 529 plan, which is available in all states.
Both allow for money to be put into an account, with varying degrees of risk and income potential, and tax-free interest earnings.
The Coverdell ESA differs from the 529 plan in that it is limited to an investment of $2,000 a year and that it can be used for education from kindergarten through college. Many families use it for private elementary, middle and high school. The 529 plan is for college only, and there is no annual contribution limit.
Each Coverdell ESA is for one student only, but families can have more than one ESA — one for each student. The investment is directed by the investor, which some people prefer. There is an income limit — $110,000 for an individual or $220,000 for a couple, and the student must be under 18 years of age for investments to be made and the account must be used by age 30.
As for a 529 plan, there is a wider latitude in several ways. The account itself is similar to a 401(k) or IRA. Money is invested by the individual and can be managed by either the state, according to various levels of aggressiveness, or by a financial adviser, though choosing the latter will add fees. State management is called direct-sold savings; using advisers is called broker-sold savings.
Amazingly, you don’t have to live in the state in which you have your 529 plan account. You can actually look up and compare each state’s fees and growth opportunities, such as at Collegesavings.org and Savingforcollege.com to track the 529 plans.
Earnings in a 529 plan grow federal income tax deferred and will not be taxed when the money is taken out to pay for college-related expenses. The earnings may also be eligible for state tax deductions. However, when you contribute to a 529 plan, a gift tax may apply if your contributions to a particular beneficiary exceed $14,000 during the year. And any accumulation of savings not put toward college will be taxed upon withdrawal and a fee will be charged.
529 plan strictly for college tuition. Room, board, books — any college expense can be funded by the 529. However, if you wind up putting more into the fund than will be needed for college, withdrawals will be subject to taxes and a 10 percent penalty on interest earned.
If you had one child graduate and 529 plan money left over, it could be transferred to another child’s account without penalty. Or, if the student wins scholarships or grants, a matching amount can be withdrawn from the account without cost.
If you do for some reason decide to withdraw money from the 529 plan and not use it for education, you will be taxed only on the interest earned — not the amount put in, since it was invested after taxes.
Although 529 plans are regarded as relatively safe investments, they are still investments, and some risk must be acknowledged. Reviewing the plan annually is critical to ensure that the funds are put to work based on the age of the student and how many years the student has before college.
It’s never too early to begin a Coverdell ESA or a 529 plan. Nor is it ever too late, though the later you start one, obviously, the less time it will allow for you to fulfill your needs. College is one of life’s most substantial but most important investments. Get it into your budget as soon as you can. | <urn:uuid:3b27f45e-0953-422c-9786-d7cf7c329657> | CC-MAIN-2020-40 | https://www.alecu.org/financial-wellness-and-news/how-to-smartly-save-for-college | 2020-09-19T22:58:17Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-40/segments/1600400192887.19/warc/CC-MAIN-20200919204805-20200919234805-00409.warc.gz | en | 0.97072 | 1,238 |
Will My Windows Mobile Computers Still Work Even Though Microsoft Support Has Ended?: Modern & Mobile Mondays
Welcome to another installment of our series, “Modern & Mobile Mondays!” Each week, we are sharing a new way to help your business stay connected and on-the-go. Today, we are featuring our partner Zebra Technologies. Learn more about our partnerships with Zebra here.
Windows End of Life
By now, you are probably well-aware that Windows End of Life is here and Microsoft has ended support for Windows Embedded Handheld Devices. You might be wondering how this will impact your business and what steps you can take to prevent slow-downs. In short, your devices will continue to operate, but there may be unexpected difficulties that arise. Keep reading to find out answers to some frequently asked questions.
What risks are associated with continuing use of unsupported devices?
There are both security risks and operational risks. Operational risks include support, new applications, programming resources and bugs. Additionally, independent software vendors (ISVs) will not be creating new applications for these operating systems. Since the devices are no longer supported, it is more difficult to run new versions of apps, troubleshoot issues and more. Continue to install security updates to avoid hacks and unauthorized access to sensitive data.
Should I replace legacy models with new, Android devices?
There are many benefits to replacing older devices, allowing you to circumnavigate some issues that come up with operating unsupported devices. Now, there are several enterprise-grade Android handheld mobile computers for warehousing, manufacturing and distribution-related workflows that provide many functions and capabilities that were unavailable in past generations of devices.
How Barcoding Can Help
Our Android Resource Center can help you navigate the transition to Android. You can also contact us to find out how we work together to identify any gaps in your mobile platform. From looking for process improvements, to selecting the right hardware, to developing custom applications, to deployment and everything in between, Barcoding offers all of the services to help you achieve your goals while reducing risk and capital expenditures. Let’s create a supply chain that is more efficient, accurate, and connected with innovative technology solutions, together.
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Skin friendly natural and organic products that nurture you, your child and nature! We care about children’s sensitive skin and would like that all children grow up in a pure, beautiful, chemical-free world...
Heart baby set
Custom designed openwork pointelle with heart and diamond detailing, this new line has available a diverse range of products that can be mixed and matched. On this line of excellence basic items you may find everything you need for a baby layette. Little ones will wear these super light and soft models with ease and style, whether they are snoozing or just relaxing around the house.
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Wonderful baby gift set or spoil your little one with best layette available. This set is crafted from softest jersey organic cotton. Dress with ease and comfort. Available in three sweet colors. Leggings have elasticated waist, onesie with envelope collar and snaps closure and the bonnet ties under the chin. All items feature small lace detail on the edges.
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Last year was a big year at BEZA and this year is going to be even Bigger!
2015 was a big year for BEZA as we continued to expand our services to better serve business customers across the globe. And we’re not slowing down for 2016. With only a few weeks into the New Year, we’re continuing on our mission to deliver world-class service and support.
In 2015, we’ve expanded from our U.S. 24/7 phone support and opened a new support center in Germany to better serve our European customers. For 2016, we’re working on expanding our support center to Asia…. | <urn:uuid:964b18c4-1198-4e23-9242-778f382323f7> | CC-MAIN-2020-40 | https://www.beza.net/blog/announcements/2015-highlights-whats-new-for-2016/ | 2020-09-19T22:47:28Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-40/segments/1600400192887.19/warc/CC-MAIN-20200919204805-20200919234805-00409.warc.gz | en | 0.957355 | 134 |
Robert “Bob” Allen Young, Jr.
Not a Bench Warmer -
Robert “Bob” Allen Young, Jr., age 76, of Mechanicsburg, went home to heaven where he was embraced by his Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, on Thursday, August 27, 2020. Bob was born on Wednesday, October 13, 1943, in Fayette, Alabama, to the late Robert “Al” Allen Young, Sr. and Vida Kate (Worsham) Young.
Bob’s survivors include his loving wife of 54 years, Janet Mary (Richardson) Young; his two children: Lori Ann Young of Harrisburg, Robert Allen Young, III of Enola; his two grandsons: Justin Young, Zakiri Young; his great-grandson, Lincoln Young; and his brother, William Young of York.
Bob graduated from York Suburban High School as part of the class of 1962. He had attended York Junior College, Electronics Institute and later graduated from Harrisburg Area Community College, where he later taught. Bob spent his entire career in electronics with a long stint in telephony, specifically cellular technology. He enjoyed helping his son and grandson with science fair projects, and he instilled his love of ham radio and model airplanes in his son, who now shares the same interests with his son. Bob found a strong and unwavering faith in Jesus Christ, his Lord and Savior. His Bible was one of Bob’s most precious possessions. Bob deeply desired to lead people to Jesus, and he shared the Good News every chance he got. He encouraged people to not be a Sunday only “bench warmer”, but to get up and get into their faith. While Jesus Christ was the soul of Bob’s life; his wife, children, and grandchildren were his heart, and they will miss him very much.
All are welcome to join Bob’s family at his viewing on Thursday, September 10, 2020, from 9:00 a.m. until time of funeral service at 10:00 a.m. at Buhrig Funeral Home & Crematory, 37 East Main Street, Mechanicsburg, PA 17055; with Pastor Ronald O’Neil officiating. A special military honors committal ceremony will be presented after the service. Bob’s family invites everyone to join them for a time of food and fellowship at Buhrig’s Gathering Place (next to the funeral home) immediately following the committal service. A graveside service will follow the reception in Indiantown National Gap Cemetery in Annville. Honored to be pallbearers are: Rob Young, Justin Young, Mary Ann Curran, James Nelson, David Curran, and Aaron Smith.
Contributions in celebration of Bob’s life can be made to Daybreak Church, 321 Gettysburg Pike, Mechanicsburg, PA 17055, www.DaybreakWeb.com; or to Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center Cancer Institute, 500 University Drive, Hershey, PA 17033, https://hmc.pennstatehealth.org/cancer-institute.
Bob’s family has entrusted his care to Buhrig Funeral Home & Crematory in Mechanicsburg, (717) 766-3421. Read Bob’s full obituary, view his memorial video and portrait, offer condolences and sympathy, share stories and memories, upload photographs and videos, light a candle and sign his official guest book by visiting Buhrig.com.
To send flowers to the family or plant a tree in memory of Robert Allen Young, Jr., please visit our floral store.
321 Gettysburg Pike, Mechanicsburg PA 17055
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• Features Nosler's Custom Competition® or Ballistic Tip bullets
• Loaded in Nosler® headstamped brass
• Dedicated bullet machinery means uniform consistency
Nosler Match Grade Ammunition consists of Nosler’s precisely-designed Custom Competition® bullet along with Nosler headstamped brass to attain optimum performance. Because of Nosler’s unsurpassed quality standards, each piece of brass is checked for correct length, neck-sized, chamfered, trued and flash holes are checked for proper alignment. To further ensure their reputation for quality and consistency, powder charges are meticulously weighed and finished rounds are visually inspected and polished. 20 rounds per box.
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Ski & Ride Club
The Champlain Ski & Ride Club is your on-campus connection to the mountains. Our initiative is to get our fellow students out on the snow as much as possible, and to foster life-long relationships in the skiing and snowboarding industries. We focus on being a very open and inviting club whether you have been skiing/riding for years or if it is your first time. Catch us on campus wearing our Ski & Ride apparel, at our annual rail jam or on the hill. | <urn:uuid:eb6613ef-7682-4880-ae48-d2bd8f15ec56> | CC-MAIN-2020-40 | https://www.champlain.edu/student-life/campus-life/sports-and-athletics/intramural-and-club-sports/ski-and-ride-club-sports-and-athletics | 2020-09-19T21:51:15Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-40/segments/1600400192887.19/warc/CC-MAIN-20200919204805-20200919234805-00409.warc.gz | en | 0.95472 | 104 |
A gathering of wonderful art spotted by yours truly these last few days.
Marvel Super Heroes Secret Wars issue 11 page 25 by Mike Zeck and John Beatty. Source.
Batman issue 617 page 17 by Jim Lee and Scott Williams. Source.
Fear Itself The Fearless issue 8 cover by Art Adams. Source.
Action Comics issue 304 page 9 by Curt Swan and George Klein. Source.
Tarzan by Burne Hogarth. Source. | <urn:uuid:98ec1fee-3758-454d-9408-223c806f9d78> | CC-MAIN-2020-40 | https://www.comicbookdaily.com/championing_comics/lart-pour-lart/web-arted-feb-19th/ | 2020-09-19T21:43:14Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-40/segments/1600400192887.19/warc/CC-MAIN-20200919204805-20200919234805-00409.warc.gz | en | 0.877023 | 94 |
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The Norwegian National Authority for Investigation and Prosecution of Economic and Environmental Crime (Økokrim) has dropped corruption charges against Kongsberg Gruppen.
In February 2014 Økokrim charged Kongsberg Gruppen ASA and Kongsberg Defence & Aerospace AS with allegations of corruption related to deliveries of communications equipment to Romania in the period 2000-2008. Økokrim today announced that the charges have been dropped, Kongsberg said in a statement Tuesday.
“Since we were made aware of the charges more than two years ago we have cooperated with Økokrim. In our opinion, it has been a thorough process where all facts of the case have been shed light on. The decision not to prosecute is in our opinion a correct decision,” says Finn Jebsen, Chairman of the Board of Kongsberg.
As the charges have been dropped, Kongsberg is no longer under investigation or under suspicion of corruption.
“The case has been challenging, but through the entire period of investigation we have focused on our partners, customers and deliveries. We are satisfied that the corruption charges are dropped and that we can put the matter to rest,” says Jebsen.
Independent of the investigation and many years prior to the charges, Kongsberg has developed and implemented a comprehensive anti-corruption program. Following the charges, Kongsberg conducted a thorough revision of the company’s anti-corruption and compliance efforts.
“Økokrim has decided to prosecute a former employee of Kongsberg with charges of fraud against the company. As a consequence of information the Økokrim investigation revealed, the former employee was dismissed in 2015. This case has given particular insight into the potential of being striked by extensive criminal activity. Through the learning Kongsberg has had of the case, the compliance programs have been further enhanced,” says Jebsen. | <urn:uuid:998ce449-ef0f-4e38-a6b2-89158899a13c> | CC-MAIN-2020-40 | https://www.defenseworld.net/news/16846/Norway_Drops_Corruption_Charges_Against_Kongsberg | 2020-09-19T22:20:23Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-40/segments/1600400192887.19/warc/CC-MAIN-20200919204805-20200919234805-00409.warc.gz | en | 0.962144 | 393 |
I recently had the opportunity to co-present a workshop for attorneys with my colleague, Melissa Joy, CFP® of the Center for Financial Planning in Southfield, Michigan on Social Security and Elder Divorce.
For those that weren’t able to attend, this blog recaps our “Top 3 Things We Bet You Didn’t Know” about Social Security and divorce.
1. It is NOT better to claim Social Security early, at age 62!
Generally, as long as you can afford to wait to age 66 and you’re in good health with a reasonable life expectancy, it’s far better to wait to full retirement age (FRA) to collect, in order to maximize lifetime Social Security benefits.
This seemed counter-intuitive for many of the seminar attendees, as it was for me when I began researching this topic. However, there is a steep reduction in benefits for those who collect early. That reduction lasts a lifetime. Keeping in mind that Social Security is an income stream that cannot be outlived, and life expectancy for Americans has increased dramatically, any number crunching will back up this tip. Think Social Security might go bankrupt? Despite what you’ve heard, this is an extremely unlikely scenario for the baby boomer generation and beyond.
2. 10 years married is the magic number.
Ex-spouses are entitled to receive up to 50% of their former spouse’s Social Security benefit or 100% of the benefit on their own work history, whichever is greater. However, in order to qualify, the marriage had to last 10 consecutive years and the recipient ex-spouse cannot be remarried.
Suppose your client, Sarah, is in a marriage with one high-wage-earning spouse and one lower-wage earner. Sarah’s ex-husband’s FRA Social Security benefit is $2,400. Sarah could receive 50% of her ex’s benefit ($1,200 per month) or the benefit on her own work history, $700 per month. Wouldn’t Sarah prefer bumping up to the divorced spouse retirement benefit in lieu of claiming her own?
Unfortunately, we see cases all the time where the marriage lasted close to 10 years — but not quite! This is often a critical planning error. Some couples might be willing to stay married for an additional year to have access to a larger lifetime income stream for the low-wage-earning spouse.
Keep in mind that when a divorced spouse’s retirement benefit is paid, it doesn’t impact the high-wage earner’s benefit in any way. They can still receive 100% of their own Social Security benefit. In fact, as long as the high-wage earner was married to each spouse for 10 consecutive years, he or she could have up to 4 ex-spouses collecting a divorced spouse benefit on their earnings.
3. Warn your client about remarriage before age 60.
Social Security widow benefits can be up to 100% of the deceased spouse’s Social Security benefit. This rule applies to ex-spouses as well. Sarah in the example above would be entitled to receive as much as $2,400 per month (remember that her own workers’ benefit was $700 per month and monthly spousal benefits were $1,200). However, there is a little-known caveat: the ex-spouse can’t remarry before age 60. In the example above, Sarah would surely consider putting off her pending marriage to her new beau, Mark, until she turns 60. If the remarriage occurs after age 60, Social Security widow benefits would still be available.
These are just a few of the topics discussed at the seminar. My next article will discuss the effects of benefit inequity in a long-term marriage. In the meantime, we’re here to help. If you need assistance, contact Jacki at [email protected] or Melissa at [email protected] | <urn:uuid:31730183-1088-45cf-801f-eea62ba6189d> | CC-MAIN-2020-40 | https://www.divorcesolutionsllc.com/divorce-social-security-3-things-we-bet-you-didnt-know/ | 2020-09-19T23:02:16Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-40/segments/1600400192887.19/warc/CC-MAIN-20200919204805-20200919234805-00409.warc.gz | en | 0.964401 | 843 |
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Though your Chrysler, Jeep, Dodge, or Ram vehicle is reliable and durable, there may come a time when you need repairs or want to outfit it with a new accessory. Whether you choose to perform your own repairs and installation, or you prefer the experience of a professional technician, your vehicle will perform better with OEM car parts.
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Biofficina Toscana Red Berry Two-Phase Make-Up Remover
Cleanses the face & eye area
- £15.65 (£7.83 / 100 ml)
- from 2 only £14.87 / Pc -5%
Price shown includes 20% VAT. Excludes delivery costs
Delivery on Thursday, 24 September: Order before Monday at 06:30.
Biofficina Toscana has created a two-phase cleanser that is made up of a water and an oil component. The mild composition is perfect for all skin types and recommended for dry and mature skin in particular. Its delicately fruity scent delights the senses.
- The water component contains the patented active ingredient called Rubiox, a blend of red berries from Tuscany known for their antioxidant-rich and protective properties. In conjunction with organic blackberry hydrosol, it leaves the skin looking radiant and toned.
- The oil component is composed of regenerating St. John's wort oil. Thanks to its composition, it has the ability to remove waterproof make-up.
- Shake well before use to mix the two phases together.
- Pour a sufficient amount on a sponge or cotton pad and stroke across the skin and eyes to remove make-up.
- Follow with a cleanse and a rinse.
- Do not expose the skin to direct sunlight after use.
- vegan & cruelty-free
- nickel tested
- dermatologically tested
- Aqua (Water)
- Ethylhexyl Stearate
- Helianthus Annuus (Sunflower) Seed Oil
- Hypericum Perforatum Extract
- Rubus Fruticosus Fruit Extract
- Morus Nigra Fruit Extract
- Vaccinium Myrtillus Fruit Extract
- Ribes Nigrum (Black Currant) Fruit Extract
- Ribes Uva-Crispa Fruit Extract
- Sodium Chloride
- Benzyl Alcohol
- Sodium Benzoate
- Decyl Glucoside
- Perfume (Fragrance)
- from controlled organic agriculture
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Ron and Ancke, the owners and managers of Kafunta River Lodge, travelled all over the world but it is South Luangwa National Park that stole their hearts – just as it will certainly conquer yours. Thatched in traditional style, the 8 double chalets and 2 luxury suites command panoramic views over the Luangwa River from each of the private verandas. A swimming-pool and a bar are at your disposal at the camp. And if you are keen on pampering yourself, why not take a dip in the natural hot spring tub overlooking the flood plains? Fitted with mosquito nets and electric fans, the spacious rooms each have an en suite bathroom with hot and cold running water.
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The failed bid by prisons-to-security firm G4S to create the world’s second biggest employer left it nursing a £55 million hit to profits today.
The group, which abandoned the £5.2 billion swoop for Denmark’s ISS in November following shareholder pressure, reported pre-tax profits fell 17% to £279 million in 2011, including the cost of the bid.
But the group expects to grow revenues in 2012 as it has a major contract to provide security at the Olympic Games and has been boosted by some ground-breaking deals as austerity-driven authorities look to outsource more work.
During the year it started running Birmingham prison and is due to run Oakwood prison in Wolverhampton from April, while a contract to design and run a station for Lincolnshire Police will start in May.
The £20 million contract, which includes running cells, administering drug tests and managing the force’s vehicle fleet, is the first of its kind.
Shares were down 3% today despite the West Sussex-based group announcing an 8% hike in its dividend as a sign of its confidence.
Chief executive Nick Buckles said he was encouraged by the outsourcing trends in the UK but warned the outlook for the developed markets cash solutions and continental Europe security businesses was "muted".
He added: "More generally, we won and mobilised a number of significant contracts in 2011 and expect outsourcing trends to continue.
"Overall, we are confident about the outlook for 2012 when we expect to deliver organic revenue growth higher than 2011 together with the additional contribution from the Olympic and Paralympic Games contract."
The group started a contract for the Department for Work and Pensions at the start of 2011 and runs facilities services contracts at Liverpool Women’s Hospital and City Hospitals Sunderland.
On an underlying basis, G4S reported a 2.1% increase in profits to £531 million, which means it has grown every year since the group was formed in 2004.
Despite the failure of the ISS bid, G4S said it would spend some £200 million on acquisitions in 2012, focusing on developing markets.
It aims to boost these markets’ share of its turnover from 30% of its revenues to 50% by 2019.
G4S, which is the FTSE 100 Index’s biggest employer, would have had a total of 1.2 million employees if the bid for ISS had gone through, making it one of the biggest private employers in the world. | <urn:uuid:8061ba31-2589-431c-b83b-4f9cb1604055> | CC-MAIN-2020-40 | https://www.examinerlive.co.uk/news/business/g4s-upbeat-despite-failed-bid-4956470 | 2020-09-19T22:37:37Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-40/segments/1600400192887.19/warc/CC-MAIN-20200919204805-20200919234805-00409.warc.gz | en | 0.973522 | 514 |
Garry Monk could be forgiven for bemoaning his luck after Sheffield Wednesday were handed a 12-point deduction for breaking English Football League spending rules.
Monk was also in charge of Birmingham City when they were docked nine points after breaching Profitability and Sustainability regulations in 2019. The punishment saw the Blues drop from 13th in the Championship to 18th, plunging them into a battle for survival with eight fixtures remaining.
But despite the sanctions, Monk navigated Birmingham through choppy waters and steered them to a 17th-placed finish.
How did the points deduction affect the mood at the club?
While there was obviously frustration and disappointment, the whole affair with the EFL helped underline the 'us-vs-them' siege mentality that Monk tried to instil throughout.
While fans accepted that rules were broken, the sheer length of the case created a sense of anger that perhaps fed through from the terraces onto the pitch.
How did Garry Monk handle it?
In his first press conference after the points deduction was confirmed last March, Monk was keen to stress the positive "mentality" of his squad which was one of the buzzword phrases he would often use.
He also spoke of the "adversity" the group of players had already faced during his stint at the club in a further attempt to frame the situation in a Birmingham City vs Them type of way.
Because of the length of time it took for a final decision to be reached, Monk had already faced plenty of questions about how serious it could be or to give a personal view on whether it was fair.
There's no denying he handled it well.
Did he change their approach?
No, Blues continued in the way they had. It had been a promising campaign with regular talk of a play-off push.
How did the players respond?
Excellently, it must be said.
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Blues were narrowly beaten away at West Brom in the first match after the deduction but then went unbeaten in the remainder of the season to stay up.
What reaction has there been from the Birmingham fans to the Owls getting a points deduction?
There is arguably a sense of justice in that another team is being punished in the same manner Blues were. Blues became the first club punished under the P&S regulations, of course.
But there is also anger towards the EFL on behalf of the likes of Sheffield Wednesday and Wigan because of how long these cases are taking to resolve and the uncertainty that creates. | <urn:uuid:24fc804b-89b2-44f5-9d6a-3610feb285cc> | CC-MAIN-2020-40 | https://www.examinerlive.co.uk/sport/football/news/garry-monk-sheffield-wednesday-birmingham-18711527 | 2020-09-19T22:24:48Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-40/segments/1600400192887.19/warc/CC-MAIN-20200919204805-20200919234805-00409.warc.gz | en | 0.979029 | 561 |
Mats Nileskär speaks about Young Thug's reaction to a question about the gay scene in Atlanta.
Young Thug is one of the most unusual figures in the hip-hop world. His style can be described as androgynous at times and at others, Thug can be spotted rocking outfits complete with traditional women's garments. Because of that, his sexuality has been called into question more than a few times. Because he wore a dress on the cover of Jeffery, people assume that the rapper must be fluid in his sexuality. The artist has maintained that he is a heterosexual man though, enjoying an on-off relationship with Jerrika Karlae. Mats Nileskär, a hip-hop journalist who has spoken to thousands of artists, hopped onto Reddit yesterday for an "Ask Me Anything" session where he spoke about the time he spent with Thugger, revealing that the star had actually gotten frustrated at one question about the gay scene in Atlanta.
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When a user asked if Young Thug was a weird dude in person, Mats said that the rapper is not weird at all. "Pretty sweet, but slightly sensitive when we talked about ATL gayscene," said the journalist. When he was asked to elaborate, he said, "My question was pretty simple: 'You being this inventive gender bender - did you get any inspiration from the ATL gayscene?'. And then he became pretty mad and ended his tantrum with 'I am too rich to be gay.'"
Nileskär has interviewed Kanye West, Aretha Franklin, Jay-Z and countless other legends. He also spoke to Tupac Shakur in an interview that was later added to Kendrick Lamar's To Pimp A Butterfly album. On the moment he found out the interview would be used on TPAB, Nileskär said, "Dave Free called me in the middle of the night and said 'At last, I found you man. Kendrick hasn't been sleeping for a couple of weeks. He was worried that we couldn't find you. We made an art piece and we wanna use your interview'. And I said 'Take the motherfucker'. I always had a crazy dream of being a small part of Marvin Gaye's What's Going On, and the stage was already set for TPAB to become one of the albums of the 10's."
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Recent attention has focused on innovative medical developments that could dramatically reduce the number of new HIV infections. But ensuring access to health care and medication so that people can benefit from these developments is equally important.
While the epidemic has remained steady among much of the general population, it has continued to grow disproportionately among young African-American gay men and transgender women of color, especially in southern states.
The challenges for these communities are even greater than in other parts of the country. Southern states report some of the country’s highest rates of poverty and HIV infection, have the greatest numbers of uninsured residents, and have incarcerated massive numbers of African Americans. Yet many of these states have refused to expand Medicaid under a new provision in the Affordable Care Act that would direct billions of federal dollars to provide low-income people with medical insurance and allow them to get life-saving health care.
Most recently, there has been a focus on PrEP, or pre-exposure prophylaxis, which the Centers for Disease Control and the World Health Organization are recommending to people who are at a high risk of infection. It involves taking a daily dose of Truvada — a drug used for HIV treatment — that, if used appropriately, can significantly reduce a person’s risk of acquiring HIV. This is an exciting medical breakthrough, but the challenges of the HIV epidemic have proven repeatedly that there is no silver bullet.
Each year, an estimated 50,000 Americans are newly infected with HIV, and three-fourths of them are men who have sex with men. Among gay and bisexual men ages 13 to 24, black men are more than twice as likely as their white and Latino peers to become infected. Neither the states nor the federal government have developed accurate data for the transgender population, although findings suggest that transgender women experience infection rates at least as high as those among gay men.
A growing body of research, including the CDC’s guidelines on reducing health disparities, indicates that the risk of acquiring HIV is mainly due to socioeconomic and demographic factors rather than individual behavior. Among these groups, an array of issues — including poverty, discrimination, limited access to health care and housing, and mass incarceration — help perpetuate the epidemic at disproportionate levels.
For black gay men and transgender people of color, racial segregation and small social networks, coupled with disproportionately high HIV infection rates, dramatically increase the risk of becoming infected, even from having sex without condoms just one time.
Among transgender women of color in particular, poverty and unemployment are extremely high, often leaving sex work as the sole option for survival and further increasing the risk of infection. The problem is made even worse because in cities like Los Angeles, New Orleans, and New York, police use condoms as evidence of prostitution, making sex workers, many of whom are transgender, afraid to carry them.
The CDC’s new guidelines on PrEP suggest that about 500,000 people should be taking the drug, which costs $13,000 per person, per year. While it is covered by most insurers, and its manufacturer offers financial assistance to uninsured patients, fewer than 10,000 people are taking it. In some cases, concerns about stigma and potential side effects have contributed to low sign-up rates, while people in states that have refused to expand Medicaid who may wish to take the drug will face great difficulties in their attempts to access it.
PrEP has an important role to play as part of a broader strategy in the United States's response to HIV. State legislators should authorize Medicaid expansion to ensure that antiretroviral treatment is made available to all of those living with HIV. Local and state correctional authorities should make sure that new, and newly diagnosed, prisoners have immediate access to HIV medications, and that released inmates are linked to ongoing care and support. And police harassment, often directed toward queer people of color and including the confiscation of condoms as evidence of prostitution, should end immediately.
Successful responses to HIV are dependent upon the empowerment of communities most affected by the epidemic. PrEP will only become an effective strategy when policymakers and public health advocates tackle the intersecting effects of racism and inequality that have fostered the disparities before us. | <urn:uuid:46a0ff64-b89a-4c40-9960-e2cbaa6f597b> | CC-MAIN-2020-40 | https://www.hrw.org/news/2014/07/24/when-it-comes-stopping-hiv-there-no-silver-bullet | 2020-09-19T22:44:33Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-40/segments/1600400192887.19/warc/CC-MAIN-20200919204805-20200919234805-00409.warc.gz | en | 0.966546 | 846 |
If you’ve ever wanted to look around Stark Industries without fear of an industrial arc reactor accident or death by super villain, you can do so now in Fortnite as the fictional company is at the heart of the new v14.10 update to the game.
The unsurprising name for this content – “the Stark Industries Update” – is part of the continued Nexus War which has seen marvel invade Fortnite in a big way as a fight for reality takes place against Galactus.
“In v14.10, the Stark Industries Update, the famous facility emerges from the Rift between worlds onto the Island — along with more super powers, a hazardous new weapon, and a special mode to show your might,” reads the announcement, “The center of much super activity, the high-tech Stark Industries is now on the map. Explore this esteemed complex to gather loot and maybe even meet a Hero (or Villain)…”.
v14.10 brings in new hero powers to destroy things with, such as the new Galactus Gatherer Drones. These drones go around collecting loot, but can also be defeated at which point they morph into usable player weapon which need to be picked up before they explode.
Finally new of this update also mentions an upcoming feature – Marvel Knockout. This pits teams against each other in a tournament, and it also comes with this rather nice stylised art featuring Wolverine. It’s 16X9 for those looking for a new wallpaper.
In our Marvel game news we recently played the new Avengers game and found it sorely lacking due to numerous technical problems and forced games as a service (GAAS) mechanics. | <urn:uuid:70276be6-a5c1-4f5d-8be5-e9d93aa6446e> | CC-MAIN-2020-40 | https://www.htxt.co.za/2020/09/10/you-can-now-explore-stark-industries-in-fortnite/ | 2020-09-19T21:58:14Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-40/segments/1600400192887.19/warc/CC-MAIN-20200919204805-20200919234805-00409.warc.gz | en | 0.949875 | 346 |
Almost three-quarters of clients placed into a super product by an institutionally-aligned adviser are put into in-house funds, new data from Roy Morgan has shown.
In its latest Superannuation and Wealth Management in Australia report, research firm Roy Morgan found super products recommended by AMP, Commonwealth Bank, NAB, Westpac and ANZ-aligned advisers is more likely to be an in-house product.
Speaking to ifa, Roy Morgan industry communications director Norman Morris said on average, 74.9 per cent of super products recommended by the major institutions’ advisers was their own.
“74.9 per cent of people getting a superannuation product through a planner will end up with a product from that planner,” he said.
“There’s a definite bias, now whether that’s against the customer’s interests or not is another whole point.”
This average encompasses all the brands owned by the major institutions.
The firm’s research also found that many clients are unaware of dealer group ownership structures, with many mistakenly believing dealer groups owned by major institutions are actually independent.
Mr Morris said this is especially true with businesses whose names bear little resemblance to that of their owner.
“Basically, if the name’s different [clients] don’t know who the parent is,” he said.
CountPlus firm AdviceCo has completed a tuck-in acquisition of Arch Capital, abs...
Banking and finance has been named as one of the sectors with the highest monthl...
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One hurt in crash involving semi near Charlotte
CHESTER TWP. - A Mulliken woman was hospitalized after her pickup truck collided with a semi truck this morning on North Clinton Trail near Charlotte.
Both vehicles were headed south when the crash happened about 11:40 a.m. between Vermontville and Gresham highways, the Eaton County Sheriff's Office said.
The driver of the southbound pickup was slowing to make a left turn when the semi driver, also headed south, tried to pass her, causing the collision. The woman suffered non-life-threatening injuries. The driver of the semi, a 55-year-old Indiana man, was not injured.
A section of North Clinton Trail, also known as M-50, was closed for about 90 minutes after the crash. | <urn:uuid:a619cb10-78d8-43b6-9980-d539d9c0a9ee> | CC-MAIN-2020-40 | https://www.lansingstatejournal.com/story/news/local/2015/12/01/one-hurt-crash-involving-semi-near-charlotte/76615972/ | 2020-09-19T22:40:40Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-40/segments/1600400192887.19/warc/CC-MAIN-20200919204805-20200919234805-00409.warc.gz | en | 0.983561 | 162 |
Electric Bicycles, commonly referred to as “e-bikes”, are all the rage! According to recent reports, the sales of e-bikes are expected to surge over the next 3 years with estimates that over 130 million will be sold! Employees of our agency have owned and ridden them, and they are a blast!
“I just purchased a new Electric Bike and dropped $2,500, will my home/renters or auto policy cover it?”
We get this question often, and I would be willing to bet as often as we are asked, there are probably 10x the amount of owners who never think to do so! Generally speaking, there is NO COVERAGE AT ALL! No liability coverage if you run into someone and cause them an injury, or cause someone else property damage (oops, did I just slam into your Dodge Stratus?!) and no physical damage coverage (e-bikes are a HUGE target for theft).
“Why doesn’t my insurance cover it like the rest of my property?”
Insurance policies are contracts, and the fine print is what you need to read to understand where the issue lies. Almost all standard homeowners, renters, condo policies have an exclusion in the contents coverage that will exclude any and all coverage for “motor vehicles” which the policy will usually define as something like this:
The purpose of this exclusion is that your cars, pick-up trucks, ATVs should all be insured on a separate policy. However, electric bicycles also qualify under this definition. This means your personal property coverage will not apply! So that awesome $3,500 e-bike you just picked up has no coverage! Better invest in a highly ranked bike lock, or transfer the risk by buying a e-bike policy!
“I am not worried if someone steals my bike; but what if I hit someone and they get hurt?”
Bad news – standard insurance policies will also exclude injury or property damage on homeowners, renters or condo policy for loss arising out of the use of a “motor vehicle” as defined above.
“So can I just add my e-bike to my auto policy?”
Unfortunately every insurance company we currently work with does not allow you to add an e-bike to a personal auto policy.
“What do I do?”
Simple – purchase an e-bike policy! There are a handful of companies out there that let you buy a policy simliar to a motorcycle policy. You can purchase liability coverage, un-insured and under-insure motorist coverage, medical payments and physical damage coverages. Physical damage coverages like comprehensive (other-than-collision) will pay for loss caused by theft, vandalism, falling objects, hitting a deer (Sorry Bambi!). You can also purchase collision if the e-bike gets damaged by colliding with another biker, car or anything else!
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HIGH SPEED SLIP RINGS
Suitable for a wide variety of industrial applications, the PM series of slip rings is designed to transmit power and data signals at high speeds. Compatible with thermocouple and strain gauge instrumentation, the PM series of high speed slip rings is designed to maintain reliable performance under adverse operating conditions. Continuous silver connections ensure minimal thermal error. Quick and easy to install and available with 8, 12 and 24 circuits.
For more information about how Moog's high speed slip rings can fit your specific application, contact our slip ring experts.
- Suitable for a wide variety of industrial applications
- Transmits power and data signals at high speeds
- Compatible with thermocouple and strain gauge instrumentation
- Reliable performance under adverse operating conditions
- Continuous silver connections ensure minimal thermal error
- Quick and easy to install
- Available with 8, 12 and 24 circuits
- High rotational speed
- Low torque required to drive this unit
|PM Series Specifications|
|Mounting||Flange mounted 4 holes Ø 5, 1 mm equi-spaced on a 73,0 mm P.C.D.|
|Cooling Air Pressure||1.4 kg / cm2|
|Brush Lifting Air Pressure||4.2 kg / cm2|
|Maximum Voltage||50 volts|
|Temperature Range||-20ºC to +90ºC|
|Maximum Current||2.5 amps|
|*Please note that the operational life of the unit is dependent upon rotational speed, environment and temperature.
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Large-Effect Beneficial Synonymous Mutations Mediate Rapid and Parallel Adaptation in a Bacterium.
|Title||Large-Effect Beneficial Synonymous Mutations Mediate Rapid and Parallel Adaptation in a Bacterium.|
|Publication Type||Journal Article|
|Year of Publication||2016|
|Authors||Agashe D, Sane M, Phalnikar K, Diwan GD, Habibullah A, Martinez-Gomez NCecilia, Sahasrabuddhe V, Polachek W, Wang J, Chubiz LM, Marx CJ|
|Journal||Mol Biol Evol|
|Date Published||2016 Feb 23|
Contrary to previous understanding, recent evidence indicates that synonymous codon changes may sometimes face strong selection. However, it remains difficult to generalize the nature, strength, and mechanism(s) of such selection. Previously, we showed that synonymous variants of a key enzyme-coding gene (fae) of Methylobacterium extorquens AM1 decreased enzyme production and reduced fitness dramatically. We now show that during laboratory evolution, these variants rapidly regained fitness via parallel yet variant-specific, highly beneficial point mutations in the N-terminal region of fae. These mutations (including four synonymous mutations) had weak but consistently positive impacts on transcript levels, enzyme production, or enzyme activity. However, none of the proposed mechanisms (including internal ribosome pause sites or mRNA structure) predicted the fitness impact of evolved or additional, engineered point mutations. This study shows that synonymous mutations can be fixed through strong positive selection, but the mechanism for their benefit varies depending on the local sequence context.
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Living With Cancer?
Living with cancer can be such a heavy burden to carry around with you day in day out. I remember that heavy sack only too well.
It was so hard to enjoy my life. All I wanted to do was sleep and cry. When I started researching at the local library and reading every book I could get my hands on about how to survive cancer naturally was when I realized I must create a healing strategy – a daily action plan to change my life.
When we harbor anger, fear, guilt, and forgiveness for others, the weight of that sack of potatoes gets heavier and heavier and eventually causes us harm, and we become sick.
Give yourself permission to be alive.
I never realized how angry I was at life and how much I blamed others for my bad luck. I kept saying, but they don’t deserve to be forgiven. Soon I realized that you don’t forgive others because they deserve it; you forgive others because you deserve it and that will set you free.
Don’t let these people live rent free in your head and heart any longer. The load is too heavy my friend. Way too heavy. Acknowledge the pain and hurt others may have caused you, and let it all go to God, your higher power, the Universe. Empty out that sack.
Live your life without limits.
Say this multiple times over the weekend. “I give myself permission to be alive and live my life without limits.”
Let your body, emotions, passion and thought process be free.
We are all here to connect to our divine self and fully live our lives with cancer, without cancer and beyond.
With joy in your heart, this weekend let yourself be alive.
Forgive those who have hurt you and ditch that sack of potatoes forever.
See you next week.
Thought for the day: Have you been limiting yourself and your life, and then wondering why life is so limiting? Time to set your beautiful self-free.
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Because this special offer includes my personal time, the number of people I can speak with is very limited so email me back right now and let me know. The last time I offered these sessions, they went fast. Get your name in quickly so we can get you in my calendar soon.
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I've come to find that something most of us twenty-something women turn to in distress is hair. Whether it be a freshly broken heart, rough patches at the office, or an urge to just switch up your look, we take it out on our hair. This summer has undoubtedly been the most difficult time in my life yet. From the passing of my sweet, remarkable hero, my mother from all of life's stresses in between, this summer has definitely done all it can to test my strength.
In the midst of feeling like I'm drowning, I decided to do something for myself. I made an appointment with my best friend Claire Calo at Greenline Salon and made her chop off a few inches and give me bangs. I can honestly say I have never felt more myself, and taking a complete risk (even if it's with something as minor as hair) felt great. If anyone is looking to also make a change for themselves in the Greater Cincinnati area, check out Ms. Calo at Greenline, she is as talented as she is beautiful.
Off the Shoulder Top + Denim High Waisted Shorts- Urban Outfitters
Silver Hoops- Momma's Jewelry Box:)
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“When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the Universe.”John Muir, My First Summer in the Sierra (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1911, pg. 110)
Sierra Club Books 1988 ed. See all of Chapter 6 on the Sierra Club website.
At the close of the century, the World Watch Institute’s call to “minimize consumption” and “maximize well-being” set the best tone with the fewest words. Dense environments can reduce consumption — per cap/per km/per day –24/7/365. The dense city alters the structure of consumption on many levels. So how do we create a renewed sense of abundance in life using these constraints? Remember John Muir.
Urbanization takes about a third of the earth’s surface and about forty percent for food. The remaining twenty-plus percent is the trickiest as a hodgepodge of fragmented spatial leftovers, it is a “slap” in the face to everyone from John Muir to those who walk in his footsteps.[i]
Beyond deserts and high mountain ranges, there are seeds for change, thousands of accessible places, the wild glory of Alaska, and “parks” from New York City’s Central Park all the way up to Yellowstone and Yosemite National Parks. Our land use policy tends to give “the wilderness” a boundary and most vexing of all nearly ignores the simplicity of our need for it as a thing separate and untouched.
The name John Muir is synonymous with the importance of wilderness. The tool was to be conservation, but today the river that cut the Grand Canal no longer reaches the ocean. Muir put it this way in my head, the wilderness is the only way to look directly into the face God and like it. He could not have imagined we would turn that privilege into our weakest link in an ineffectual use of land.
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Company Overview: Hydraulics Technology Inc
Contact InformationWebsite: www.htico.com/
Phone: (936) 494-2000
Phone: (936) 494-2005
Founded in 1986, HTI began as a distributor of torque tools and other products used in the petrochemical and power generation industries including Hydraulic Tensioners and Hydraulic Nuts. Through the years, HTI has developed an impressive list of satisfied customers, located worldwide, by providing them with the best solutions for hydraulic tensioner applications. We deliver orders on schedule and offer support after delivery. In assuring the highest quality products to our customers and meeting their expectations, Hydraulics Technology, Inc maintains ISO Certification. HTI is ISO 9001:2008 Certified.
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An illness has forced Liam Smith to postpone his WBO Super-Welterweight World Title challenge against Sadam Ali, scheduled for May 12th at the Turning Stone Resort Casino in Verona, New York.
WBO number one contender Smith, 29, is attempting to regain the 154lb crown that he lost against Saul ‘Canelo’ Alvarez at the AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas in September 2016, and is hopeful that a new date can be scheduled as soon as possible.
“I’m bitterly disappointed that I have been forced to postpone my fight with Sadam Ali to a later date,” said Smith. “A recent illness has severely impacted on my training schedule, leaving me with no choice but to postponed the May 12th date.
“I’ve been out of training for eight days. We’re not sure exactly what was wrong with me but it appears to be some sort of allergic reaction. I’m not injured and I’m hoping that the fight can be rescheduled quickly.
“I’m gutted for Ali and all of the fans that were looking forward to watching the fight. I’d like to thank Golden Boy promotions and my promoter Frank Warren for working on a new date for the fight.
“Ali is a World class fighter and I need to be fully prepared for when I step in the ring with him. I want to give the fans a fight to remember.”
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Watch: Building a Cheese Board with Vermont Creamery
The sweetly scalloped marble board above just arrived in our kitchen, and we couldn't wait to fill it with delicious goat cheese from our friends at Vermont Creamery. Founded in 1984 by Allison Hooper and Bob Reese, Vermont Creamery began with the goal of making French-inspired dairy products at a time when goat cheese wasn't yet popular in America. Today, it's a staple on plates around the country and the creamery has grown, but Bob and Allison remain dedicated to supporting Vermont farmers, combining the local terroir with European cheesemaking traditions. They partner with family goat farms across the state to make award-winning fresh and aged cheeses, cultured butter, and crème fraîche. We caught up with Allison and Bob to learn about life at the Creamery, and got their tips for building a beautiful cheese board.
terrain: Vermont Creamery established Ayers Brook Goat Dairy in 2014. What's life like on the farms and in the dairy during spring?
Bob: Spring is kidding season – some days at the dairy, we’re welcoming upwards of 25 baby goats into the herd! We’ve got kids bouncing around, the milking parlor is abuzz, and we’re readying equipment to tend the fields and forages this summer. With all the action, our days are long but rewarding.
terrain: What are some of your favorite cheeses to serve this time of year?
Bob: It may sound pretty shameless, but goat cheese is a quintessential spring cheese. There's a bit more sunlight and the grass is getting greener every day – you can taste these changes in the milk and, therefore, in the cheese.
terrain: What are your essentials for a great cheese board?
Allison: I always encourage folks to choose their own adventure when it comes to pairings. In that respect, I’ve earned a bit of a reputation for rummaging through the pantry and refrigerator to whip up cheese boards that break all of the rules. For cheese lovers who also love rules, pairing items that come from the same region is a classic, no-fail suggestion (for example, a soft-ripened goat cheese and Loire Valley Wine, like Chenin Blanc or Cabernet Franc).
Pair with: stout beer, sparkling cider, candied ginger, artichokes, watermelon
Pair with: almond thins, maple cream, prosciutto, chocolate almonds
Pair with: hazelnut thins, fig jam, pancetta, pickled cherries
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1 HILL STREET, CRUDEN BAY, AB42 0HF
1 Bedroom Cottage with Attic Room
Ideal first-time buy
Popular village location
Great deal of potential
Good sized rooms
Gas C.H & D.G
This one bedroom property located in the coastal village of Cruden Bay is ideally situated for commuting to both Aberdeen and Peterhead. Cruden Bay itself offers a range of local amenities and has a regular bus service to both Aberdeen and Peterhead. The property offers spacious accommodation and has the added benefit of an attic room, which could be utilised for a variety of purposes. | <urn:uuid:d5b9ca28-7578-4ce7-907f-b48d3282df3d> | CC-MAIN-2020-40 | https://www.stewartwatson.co.uk/properties/1-hill-street-cruden-bay/ | 2020-09-19T21:50:54Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-40/segments/1600400192887.19/warc/CC-MAIN-20200919204805-20200919234805-00409.warc.gz | en | 0.94767 | 132 |
I Want to remove Websearch.good-results.info from my Homepage, what are the exact step to completely get rid of Websearch.good-results.info.
Websearch.good-results.info is an Adware program which gives you lots of sponsored advertisements on your computer screen. Yes, We have the solution to completely remove websearch.good-results.info. We are giving you that guide below, please follow below instructions in a right way.
Websearch.good-results.info is also categorized as a Potentially Unwanted Program (PUP) for web browsers. It is classified as a browser hijacker as well because it controls your all popular web browsers including Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Internet Explorer etc. It comes into computers without user’s permission. It performs no good things to your computer.
Once installed, it will change your browser, internet and computer settings such as disable Windows firewall, blocks security websites, desktop background, web browser home page and others. It can redirect your browser homepage into http://websearch.good-results.info and default search engine into localmoxie.com. Your computer and internet perform very slow than before. The websearch.good-results.info homepage will display lot’s of unwanted advertisements and sponsored links on your computer screen. Maybe you found many unusable plugins are automatically installed with your web browsers.
Usually, Websearch.good-results.info may come bundled together with free software packages. You should not click on any unfamiliar website. So you should always pay attention when you download a free software packages. Be very careful what you agree to install.
Websearch.good-results.info is not a virus in technical terms, however it’s categorised as a browser hijacker (Adware), “PUP” (Unwanted programs). Because anyone never wants to install Websearch.good-results.info directly, usually it installs additionally with the another software packages.
To secure your web browser, you should instantly uninstall Websearch.good-results.info from your computer. Otherwise you may be lost your computer functionality. To remove Websearch.good-results.info, you have to follow article mentioned steps very carefully.
1.To Uninstall websearch.good-results.info from computer
- Click on Start button and then click on Control Panel.
- Now click on Programs –> Program and Features –> Uninstall a program (Wind7, 8, Vista).
- For Windows XP users click on Add/Remove Programs.
- You will get a window which have listed all the installed programs.
- Uninstall the programs, if you find any, from below list (Suspicious Programs list). Because all these programs are unwanted. You should uninstall all them immediately.
Suspicious Programs list
- Browser defender
- Browser protect
- Browser protected by conduit
- Delta search, Babylon
- WebCake 3.0
- privacy safe gaurd
- unfriend checker
- Price peep today
- Coupon amazine
- DownloadTerms 1.0
- Uninstall all the unwanted programs,which are not listed here.
Download Adware Remover Tool v3.9 to remove
websearch.good-results.info Automatically from all of you browsers, This is a Freeware utility specially deigned for
Adware Removal. This tool can remove adware from Internet Explorer, Firefox, Mozilla Firefox and their registry as well..
2. To Remove websearch.good-results.info from Internet Explorer
- Open Internet Explorer then go toTools menu (press “alt” key once to active menu bar) and then click on Internet Option a configuration page will be opened, then click on General tab. Now look into under HOME PAGE Edit Box you got www.websearch.good-results.info, replace it to www.google.com, then click on apply and close.
- Now Restart Internet explorer
Remove websearch.good-results.info from registry
- Click on Start and type Run and then type “REGEDIT” in the run box and then hit enter
- In the registry editor go to Edit menu and then click on find option, you will get edit box to search any string to registry editor
- Type in the find edit box “websearch.good-results.info” and click on FindNext
- The search result will highlighted that key which have the same string
- Edit that key and change the “websearch.good-results.info” string to “google.com“
- Use F3 key to find Next, Replace all them to “google.com”
- Then Restart the internet explorer
Reset Internet Explorer
- Open Internet Explorer. Click on Tools menu (If tools menu doesn’t appear then press “F10” key once to active the menu bar),click on Internet Option. A internet option window willopen.
- For IE9, IE10 users may click on Gear icon . Then click on tools.
- Click on Advanced tab, then click on RESET button.
- Now you will get a new popup for confirmation, tick mark on Delete personal setting then clickon RESET button on that. (As shown on below screenshot)
- Now you will appear a popup says that complete all the tasks. After completion click on closebutton.
3.To Remove websearch.good-results.info from Mozilla Firefox
- Open Mozilla Firefox, Click on Tools menu (press “alt” key once to active menu bar) then go to Options,after that a configuration page will be opened, then click on General tab and then look on the very first section named as Startup. Under Startup youwill see a HOME PAGE Edit Box, under this edit box you will see www.websearch.good-results.info, please replace it to www.google.com, then click on apply and close.
- Restart Firefox Browser
Remove websearch.good-results.info from Firefox configuration file.
- In the Firefox type this command in the address bar “about:config” and then hit enter to openthis page
- After that you will get a page which is asking for permission to open config page that confirm that please use it carefully so pleaseclick on button named as “I’ll be carefully, I promise“.
- Now you will a configuration page with search option on the top, so please type “websearch.good-results.info” into search bar, you will get the result.
- Replace all the string from “websearch.good-results” to “google”
In the search result do double click on the all entries (related to websearch.good-results.info) one by one, and change them to “google.com”
- You can Right click on found results one by one and choose RESET option.
Reset Mozilla Firefox
- Open “Troubleshooting information” page into Firefox.
- Open Firefox and then go the Helpmenu (Press “alt” key once to active Menu bar)
- Note: you can also open this page in this ways,open Firefox then type this command in the address bar “about:support” (without quote) andthen hit enter or OK.
- Go to Help menu then click on “Troubleshooting information”
- You will get a page “Troubleshooting information”, here you will get “Reset Firefox” option in the right side of the page.
- Click on Reset Firefox option, It will take time to reset
4. To Remove websearch.good-results.info from Google Chrome
Remove unwanted homepage & search engine from Google Chrome
- Start Google Chrome, click on options icon(Located in very top right side of the browser), click on Settings. You will get a configuration page.
- Under configuration page find a option named as “Open a specific page or set of pages” click ontheir Set Pages. A another window will come up. Here you will appear the bunch of URL’s under “Set pages”. Delete all them and then enter only one which you want to use asyour home page.
- In the same configuration page click on Manage search engines button. Delete all the search engines from there, just keep only www.goole.com as your defaultsearch Engine.
Remove unwanted extensions from Google Chrome
- Start Google Chrome, click on options icon (Located in very top right side of the browser), thenclick on Tools then, click on Extensions. (As shown on below screenshot)
- You will get a configuration page. which have installed all the extensions, Remove websearch.good-results extension & also remove all the unwanted extensions fromthere. To remove them, click on remove (recycle bin) icon (as shown on screenshot)
Reset Google Chrome
- Close all Google Chrome browser
- Now open this following path
- Press “window key + R” (Flag sign key + R) , then you will get Runbox.
- Copy and Paste this following command in this Run box thenhit Enter or OK
- Windows XP
%UserProfile%\Local Settings\Application Data\Google\Chrome\User Data\
- Windows 7, 8, Vista
- In the default folder please find a file named as “Preferences“and now just need to rename this file from “Preferences“ to“Preferences.old“
- In the same default folder please find a one more file named as “Web Data“ and now just need torename this file from “Web Data“ to “Web Data.old“
- Now Start your Google chrome.
5. To remove websearch.good-results.info registry entries with Adwcleaner.exe
Here is the proper step-by-step guide to remove any adware from registry, please follow the steps.
5.1 : Download AdwCleaner from the
Click Here to Download: Adwcleaner.exe
5.2 : Run that downloaded file (Adwcleaner.exe).
5.3 : When you get it started, click on scan button to search the websearch.good-results.info files and registry
entries (As shown below screenshot).
5.5 : When scanning process will be finished, click on Clean button to delete all the
websearch.good-results.info files and registry entries (as shown on below screenshot)
6. To remove websearch.good-results.info with Hitman-Pro
Click here to Download Hitmanpro_x32bit.exe
Click here to Download Hitmanpro_x64bit.exe
7. To remove websearch.good-results.info with Malwarebytes.
7.1 : Download Malwarebytes Anti-Malware Free, then double
click on it to install it.
Click Here to Download Malwarebytes.exe
7.2 : Update online Virus Definition
7.3 : Tick mark on “Perform quick scan” then click on Scan
7.4 : When the scan done click on “Show results”
7.5 : After clicking on Show result it will you a another window where you will get the found threats.
Click on “Remove Selected”
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YOU'RE IN GOOD HANDS
Hope Island based Tecscape's reputation is built on 25 years of experience and numerous awards. Because we love what we do and where we do it.
Born in Ireland, Adrian Walsh began his working life as a quantity surveyor in the United Kingdom before moving to Australia, where he quickly fell in love with the Gold Coast's sub-tropical location and outdoor lifestyle, moving to Hope Island. In 1993, he started Tecscape and has spent the last 25 years as a Hope Island landscape builder working from Brisbane to Byron Bay. Along the way, Tecscape has grown into a thriving family business that takes exceptional pride and care in delivering complex landscaping projects that are executed to the highest quality and customer satisfaction. | <urn:uuid:75b6f228-42ee-4dcd-b189-790825fdf0a4> | CC-MAIN-2020-40 | https://www.tecscape.com.au/about-us | 2020-09-19T23:03:38Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-40/segments/1600400192887.19/warc/CC-MAIN-20200919204805-20200919234805-00409.warc.gz | en | 0.965837 | 152 |
These little scissor are excellent for many tasks, and they have rounded tips for safety. They are safer for use on children, because they don't have pointed tips, but they are still very sharp. They are designed to slide under a bandage to cut it off, without poking a sharp point into the injured area.* Rounded blade tips to safely cut away bandages without touching injured area* High quality stainless steel with super sharp blades* These scissors are suitable for first aid, as well as emergency kit* Scissors are 3 1/2 Inches long - handy size for most first aid boxes or containers* Blades are very sharp - this is not a safety scissor intended for use by children - use cautionWARNING
Proposition 65 - California residents (please click on hyperlink to the left)
You may return most new, unopened items within 14 days of delivery for a full refund LESS shipping costs to ship the item to you. We'll also pay the return shipping costs if the return is a result of our error (you received an incorrect or defective item, etc.). If the package is returned opened, it may be subject to a restocking fee up to 20%.
You should expect to receive your refund within 2-3 weeks of giving your package to the return shipper, however, in many cases you will receive a refund more quickly. This time period includes the transit time for us to receive your return from the shipper (5 to 10 business days), the time it takes us to process your return once we receive it (3 to 5 business days), and the time it takes your bank to process our refund request (5 to 10 business days).
If you need to return an item, simply login to your account, view the order using the 'Complete Orders' link under the My Account menu and click the Return Item(s) button. We'll notify you via e-mail of your refund once we've received and processed the returned item.
We can ship to virtually any address in the world. Note that there are restrictions on some products, and some products cannot be shipped to international destinations.
When you place an order, we will estimate shipping and delivery dates for you based on the availability of your items and the shipping options you choose. Depending on the shipping provider you choose, shipping date estimates may appear on the shipping quotes page.
Please also note that the shipping rates for many items we sell are weight-based. The weight of any such item can be found on its detail page. To reflect the policies of the shipping companies we use, all weights will be rounded up to the next full pound. | <urn:uuid:986467f2-a1ad-46f4-b509-af47bfaf019f> | CC-MAIN-2020-40 | https://www.toolusa.com/products/sc-40352-z02 | 2020-09-19T22:08:41Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-40/segments/1600400192887.19/warc/CC-MAIN-20200919204805-20200919234805-00409.warc.gz | en | 0.945466 | 537 |
Degrees and Certifications:
Jalonda Polk - Assistant Principal
Mrs. Jalonda Polk began her career in education in 2002 with Anson County Schools and then transitioned to Union County Public Schools in July of 2006. She has been a pre-kindergarten teacher, 1st grade teacher, summer school teacher, administrative intern, and assistant principal.
During her time in the public school system, she has also taught Adult High School classes for South Piedmont Community College. Mrs. Polk loves to be involved in the learning process for children and adults and she is a lifelong learner. She earned her bachelor’s degree in Early Childhood Education from North Carolina A&T State University and her master’s degree in School Administration from The University of North Carolina at Pembroke.
Mrs. Polk resides in Wingate with her husband, Jercoby and daughters, Bobbi and Baylee. She enjoys spending time with her family and is active in her church. | <urn:uuid:9156cf9d-7d5e-4789-ab36-6cb8c75c76ec> | CC-MAIN-2020-40 | https://www.ucps.k12.nc.us/domain/1450 | 2020-09-19T22:46:36Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-40/segments/1600400192887.19/warc/CC-MAIN-20200919204805-20200919234805-00409.warc.gz | en | 0.972239 | 203 |
Back in December 2017, Donald Trump signed into law the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, claiming the bill was going to do wonders for the middle class. Of course, as it turned out, that wasn’t exactly accurate. In reality, the legislation was all about saving corporations billions—money that, shockingly, has not trickled down from the pockets of multinationals, top executives, and shareholders. In fact, American workers received, on average, a bonus of 1 cent, despite the elaborate fantasy spun by the White House that the TCJA resulted in sizable cash prizes for the little guy, all while the extremely rich benefited bigly. And now, less than two years later, Trump is pretty sure the über-wealthy could use another tax break.
Bloomberg reports that the White House is working on a plan to cut taxes by adjusting capital gains for inflation, a move that would significantly reduce taxes on long-held investments. Currently, when an asset like real estate or a stock is sold, tax is paid on the appreciation tied to inflation. So while corporate stock with dividends held for 10 years would be hit with an effective tax rate of 24.3% at present, the White House plan—which may be advanced “soon”—would mean the same holding would be subject to a tax rate of 21.4%, according to the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service. The move would reduce tax revenue by an estimated $102 billion over a decade and the benefits would almost exclusively go to the wealthiest people in the country:
Naturally, this is not something that would have a snowball’s chance in hell of passing the House, where lawmakers are (rightfully!) still bristling about the fact that the 2017 tax cuts disproportionately helped the rich. So the White House has a plan: cut out the middle man and do it by executive order. To give you an idea of how unpopular an idea that is, Steven Mnuchin, one of Trump’s most loyal foot soldiers, doesn’t even want to be a part of it: | <urn:uuid:1282c936-c7ac-4039-bc0c-a3546ec47bb5> | CC-MAIN-2020-40 | https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2019/06/trump-capital-gains-tax-cut | 2020-09-19T22:30:05Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-40/segments/1600400192887.19/warc/CC-MAIN-20200919204805-20200919234805-00409.warc.gz | en | 0.968567 | 418 |
Rolling stock fleet
One of the main outcomes of the state railway transport reform programme was the creation of a private freight car fleet of approximately 1,200 thousand units of rolling stock, which by December 31, 2013 had more than 1,800 owners . During 2013, the freight car fleet increased by 48.7 thousand units or 4.2%.
Russian Railways car fleet includes 54 thousand units of rolling stock or 4.5% of the total number (including 5 thousand of reserve and, – 6,300 subleased gondola cars previously booked as the property of OJSC FGK) since March 2013.
In July 2013, the fleet of LRF railcars was returned in full to FGK, which is the Group’s largest car fleet operator.
in 2013 was
Structure of the car fleet of Russian Railways and subsidiaries and affiliates in 2013
|Companies||Number of cars, thousand||Share,%|
|Total number of cars||252.9||100.0|
|Cars of Russian Railways||54.2||21.4|
|Cars of subsidiaries and affiliates||198.7||78.6|
Currently, and according to calculations, 900-950 thousand freight cars are sufficient to carry required and prospective traffic. As such, the current freight car fleet is excessive and the additional 290 thousand cars limit the capacity and flexibility of the infrastructure, impede the traffic of freight flows, and decrease the speed of freight delivery and the overall efficiency of the fleet.
Structure of the Russian freight cars fleet, thousand units
Structure of the market of freight cars operating by traffic volume,%
Structure of the market of freight cars operating by freight turnover volume,%
Compared with the maximum volume of loaded car-kilometres achieved within the borders of the RSFSR in 1998, the current indicators are 35% lower. At the same time, the number of empty car-kilometres increased by 2.9%. Railway facilities are largely used not for freight transportation but for moving empty cars based on the commercial interests of operators, and freight car performance has significantly decreased.
Every 50 thousand cars within the Russian Railways infrastructure that are beyond the rational value cause the following negative consequences:
- Additional maintenance of 130-140 train locomotives and correspondingly providing for 600-620 locomotive teams during the year;
- Additional consumption of 540-570 mln kilowatt hours of electricity for starting up to speed and slowing down freight cars after unplanned stops;
The available excess of rolling stock affected the growth of car turnover and led to a slow down of the speed of freight delivery. It also resulted in additional expenses for Russian Railways of more than RUB 19 billion.
Furthermore, despite being at a historic high in terms of size, the current car fleet does not provide stable freight traffic, which is the first priority for all low margin and socially important types of cargo.
Due to the unwillingness of rolling stock owners to provide their cars to shippers for the transport of low margin freight, Russian Railways has been forced to arrange a leased car fleet.
The consolidation of a part of the private park under Russian Railways management allowed us to solve the issue of car fleet placement within the rail network based on the real needs of shippers; providing speedy relocation of empty cars into handling regions in order to organise the traffic of low-margin and socially important freight.
By the beginning of 2013, the total number of gondola cars of the leased railcar fleet (the property of FGK) amounted to 74.5 thousand units (15% of the total number of gondola cars of various kinds of property within the fleet network). During the period from January to July 2013, 22.5 million tonnes of freight were transported in gondola cars of the LRF railcars (360 thousand of car-dispatches). Construction materials and stone coal accounted for the majority of freight volume.
Reserve cars are mainly used for low margin public service traffic for municipal and electric utilities authorities and the Ministry of Defence. These segments are not attractive for other owners of the rolling stock. The proportion of this traffic in terms of overall freight turnover for LRF railcars amounted to approximately 60% in 2013. At the same time, the freight of third class tariffs amounted to just 6.7%.
The reasons for the decrease in demand for the fleet of LRF railcars were a reduction by the owners (operators) in the cost of providing cars for transportation due to a surplus of gondola cars in the market and the need to pay for use of the cars from the fleet of LRF railcars while they were under freight operations. Russian Railways therefore took the decision to return the reserve gondola cars into the operation of FGK. In accordance with Resolution No 1467 of the Government of the Russian Federation dated December 28, 2012, the fleet was fully returned to its owner in July 2013.
Structure of freight transport by the fleet of LRF railcars in 2013,%
The supply of new locomotives over the year allowed Russian Railways to gradually introduce its operated locomotive fleet and relocate it to railway grounds, leading to growth in freight turnover, and the removal of fleet units that had outlived their standard operation time.
In 2013, Russian Railways operated a fleet of 14,380 locomotives.
During the year, 804 new locomotives were supplied to the network. This included 421 electric and 383 diesel locomotives. The increase in supply of new locomotives was 51.1% compared to 2012.
Of the 804 new units, 82 were innovative. These included electric freight AC locomotives with an asynchronous tractional drive 2ES10 (40 units), diesel freight locomotives 2TE25A (12 units), and passenger dual-voltage electric locomotives EP20 (30 units).
Structure of the operated locomotive fleet in 2013, units
Structure of locomotives procurement in 2013, units
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|Electric freight DC locomotives||164|
|Electric passenger AC locomotives||50|
|Electric passenger DC locomotives||50|
|Diesel freight locomotives||138|
|Diesel passenger locomotives||41|
|Diesel shunting locomotives||204|
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Social inclusion and independent choice when it comes to communication would be the ultimate success for our TippyTalk community. However Children and adults on the spectrum or any person who is living with a verbal disability will have different points of personal success and achievements when it comes to integrating TippyTalk into their lives.
For my family, success began with the ease of which TippyTalk replaced the Picture Exchange Communication System, PECS for short. My wife and I would spend hours every Sunday night replacing pictures that were lost or damaged. We would have to download and laminate them to insure Sadie would be ready for the coming week; this can become expensive over time and extremely time consuming. This process was not always successful and sometimes we would somehow overlook a certain picture, which often led to frustration for Sadie.
TippyTalk solved this issue and allowed for the personalization of the pictures being used, moving away from the generic pictures provided by the companies. We can now capture images which are uniquely identifiable to Sadie, and her individual needs, wants, desires, and emotions. These personalized pictures of places, people, belongings and toys were instantly recognisable to Sadie, this peaked her interest and curiosity, leading to her interacting with TippyTalk.
The first day of Sadie interacting with TippyTalk I started to receive texts messages. At the beginning they didn’t make sense, she was just choosing random pictures from the screen. On the second day however my family experienced our first successful independent communication from Sadie.
My wife and I were discussing what we would like for dinner, since none of us wanted to cook. We decide we would get a take-out from the local chipper, I asked the wife what I should buy for Sadie and she said onion rings. No sooner did I arrive at the chipper and I received a text message
"HI DADDY CAN I HAVE CHICKEN NUGGETS"
I immediately phoned my wife to ask who sent the message; she replied it had to be Sadie since it was only the two of them in the house at the time. Needless to say this was a hugely emotional experience for my family, this was the equivalent of hearing my child’s first words and I didn’t even have to be in the room to experience it.
I can honestly say I was the happiest father in the world to ever buy chicken nuggets for his child.
This independent communication would not have been possible without
Every parent wants to know when their child feels happy or excited, when they feel unwell, hurt or sad. Before the introduction of TippyTalk into our lives this process of trying to solve which emotion Sadie was experiencing and why was just a guessing game at times.
On around week four of using TippyTalk this changed. We received our first texts message from Sadie where she communicated independently how she was feeling. She had been out in the backyard playing when she came running into the house; she immediately went over to TippyTalk and sent a message. I was sitting in the living room and received the message saying “Hi Daddy I am Happy “when I looked around Sadie was jumping up and down on the couch with this amazing smile on her face.
This was the first time I can say without a doubt I knew exactly how my child was feeling, and since that day Sadie has expressed every type of emotion.
I can say with confidence that with the introduction of TippyTalk into Sadie’s life and our commitment as a family to ensure success, we have experienced a reduction in Sadie’s frustration and angry outburst. Sadie still has her moments as do we all, the difference now however, is that Sadie has a pathway to communicate how she feels.
One day Sadie and I were the only two people in the house when Sadie started to become frustrated. I tried everything to please her and calm her down but I seemed to be getting nowhere. Then Sadie walked over to TippyTalk and sent me a message which simply read,
My wife came home and in a matter of minutes Sadie relaxed. This was huge, how often have you been in a room with someone who was causing your frustration and you could simply just ask them to leave or just leave yourself. People who are non-verbal don’t have this choice, imagine being stuck with the one person who is causing the issues and having no way of telling them to go away, leave me alone, or sometimes that you just want your Mammy.
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LogistiCare has a dedicated reservation number for Oklahoma SoonerCare. Our toll free number, 877-404-4500, is answered Monday-Friday from 7:00 am-6:00 pm CST. If you are a dialysis unit, please call 800-435-1276. Members may also make requests online at member.logisticare.com.
Urgent/same day trips can be booked through LogistiCare. Such trips should be true urgent conditions where a physician is requiring the member be seen the same day or the next day. These trips should be booked by calling 877-404-4500.
Emergency ambulance trips are not arranged through LogistiCare. If a medical emergency ambulance trip is needed, call 911.
Sudden life threatening medical situations, significant trauma, comas, shock, uncontrolled bleeding, respiratory distress, poisoning, drug overdose, and any situation where immediate medical relief or treatment is necessary.
Hospitals may contact the reservation line at 877-404-4500. LogistiCare has staff on hand 24/7 to arrange discharge transportation requests; however, if a facility knows in advance, call between 7:00 am to 6:00 pm when possible. LogistiCare requires a discharge to be requested by a hospital staff member such as a Discharge Planner, Social Worker, or Nurse. Once the discharge is arranged, the transportation provider has up to three (3) hours to respond and pick-up the patient/member.
A member should be ready fifteen (15) minutes before the agreed pick up time. The vehicle is considered on time if it arrives 15 minutes before or 15 minutes after the designated pick up time. The driver is required to wait up to 15 minutes from the member’s pick up time to transport.
In the event that a transportation provider is late, LogistiCare maintains a staff trained to resolve late arrivals. This team is available 24/7. A dedicated phone line is available to inquire about the status of their ride. The line is called the "Where's My Ride" line and the phone number to call is 800-435-1034.
Once the member's appointment is finished, the member or facility will call the "Where's My Ride" phone number and request transportation be sent to return the member. The transportation provider will be dispatched and will have up to sixty (60) minutes to arrive for the members return ride. The member/facility will use the same "Where's My Ride" phone number, 800-435-1034.
If a member's appointment is canceled notify LogistiCare as soon as possible (24 hour advance notice required if feasible). This will prevent unnecessary trips for local transportation companies trying to serve others that day. If a member has three (3) no shows in a 90 day period, they risk being placed on mileage reimbursement only. Passengers who misuse or abuse the service or behave disruptively may be denied SoonerRide NET Services.
The level of service describes the type of service needed to transport a member. A member can travel by one of several levels of service based on their physical needs. See below:
Mass Transit – Where available and suitable for the physical condition of the member. LogistiCare will provide mass transit tickets or passes for riders traveling near a bus route.
Ambulatory – This is a member who is able to walk on their own or with the assistance of a walker or cane and is able to be picked up and dropped off. This is a curb-to-curb transportation.
Wheelchair – Available to members confined to a wheelchair that, due to either physical weakness or mental impairment, they must travel with their own wheelchair. Transportation with a wheelchair accessible vehicle will be provided. There will be no escort or attendant provided. If an escort is needed, please inform LogistiCare at the time the reservation is called in that the member will have an escort with them. Wheelchairs are not provided by LogistiCare or their providers.
Stretcher – Available to members who cannot be transported in a wheelchair and who may be bedridden. The facility must arrange trips three business days in advance for a member's medical appointment. We do not arrange transport by stretcher if the member can go by wheelchair however does not have it available.
LogistiCare maintains a Facility Department dedicated to handling the needs of nursing homes, hospitals, & dialysis centers. LogistiCare has dedicated staff and a phone number available to book transportation for facilities. The phone number is 800-435-1276. To minimize time on the phone, LogistiCare suggests using the single trip request form. Complete the fax request form and send to: 800-597-2091. Upon receipt of the form, a facility representative will complete the reservation and contact the ordering party with confirmation of the reservation. If a facility is signed up for the Facility Services website, reservations may be completed online.
Standing Order Request Forms must be completed by a facility representative such as a social worker. A facility may make requests online at tripcare.logisticare.com.
Standing Order Request Forms can be obtained through this website or by contacting the Facility Department at 800-435-1276. A facility may also make requests online at tripcare.logisticare.com.
The Standing Order Request Form should be faxed to LogistiCare at 800-597-2091. A facility may also make requests online at tripcare.logisticare.com.
LogistiCare must be notified of any temporary or permanent changes to a standing order. LogistiCare's system will continue to propagate the original information unless LogistiCare is notified of a change. LogistiCare's network providers schedule transports based on the information LogistiCare sends out in their daily manifest. If a facility or member only instructs the transportation provider of changes and not LogistiCare, the member runs the risk of missing their appointment if the transport is assigned to a different provider. By informing LogistiCare about changes to a standing order, it allows them to adjust any changes and ensures members are getting the best service available.
A facility can fill out Single Trips Request Forms for the various members for trips up to 30 days in advance and fax them to LogistiCare at 800-597-2091. A facility may also make requests online at tripcare.logisticare.com.
Yes, if a facility has a transportation provider they prefer, please mention this when scheduling transportation. LogistiCare will note the request on the trip and will do everything they can to honor the facility's request, depending on availability of the transportation provider and/or if the preferred provider is a participant in the LogistiCare network. Even though the request will be documented, trip assignment will be based on routing criteria that includes provider compliance. LogistiCare does not guarantee that a preferred provider will be assigned based on a request.
One escort may accompany up to a maximum of three (3) passengers. Children may not accompany adults when the appointment is for the adult. Children may ride only if they have a medical appointment. An adult must accompany children under the age of 15. People 15 to 18 must have a note from a parent or guardian on file with LogistiCare to be transported without a parent or guardian.
One escort may accompany up to a maximum of three (3) members per trip. Nursing homes are required by State to furnish an escort during transport. LogistiCare’s network of providers is not required to take the escort back to the nursing home without the member. Example would be when an escort travels with a member to dialysis treatments. It is not LogistiCare’s policy to take the escort back to the nursing home while the member dialyzes, then pick the escort back up at the nursing home prior to picking up the member. The escort must be at the dialysis facility with the member for the transport of the member to take place. | <urn:uuid:6bea6999-f863-45bc-9bd0-68923f1de57a> | CC-MAIN-2020-40 | http://facilityinfo.logisticare.com/okfacility/FAQs | 2020-09-21T07:59:54Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-40/segments/1600400198942.13/warc/CC-MAIN-20200921050331-20200921080331-00409.warc.gz | en | 0.935028 | 1,665 |
Gravyty, the first and leading provider of fundraiser enablement software, powered by artificial intelligence (AI), today announced that McMaster University of Hamilton, Ontario has become the first AI-enabled fundraising organization in Canada.
McMaster University, ranked one of the world’s top 75 universities and second for impact to its community by Times Higher Education, serves more than 31,000 students and 205,000 alumni, and has a reputation for historical ‘firsts.’ The institution is devoted to cultivating human potential through collaborative study and research in fields ranging from healthcare to business, arts and culture, and advanced manufacturing. Advancement leadership chose to become the first Canadian organization to sign on with Gravyty to engage more donors, build relationships with more prospects, and inspire gifts at scale.
“McMaster University is successful because we invest in innovation that helps us build a brighter world. When we saw what Gravyty is doing with artificial intelligence for fundraiser enablement, we knew it was a cutting-edge method with the potential to change the way advancement works,” said Mary Williams, Vice-President of Advancement, McMaster University.
Advancement leadership chose to become the first Canadian organization to sign on with Gravyty to engage more donors, build relationships with more prospects, and inspire gifts at scale.
“With Gravyty, McMaster looks to expand our current workforce through AI so we can increase fundraiser activity and, ultimately, convert more gifts. We believe that Gravyty’s fundraiser enablement tools will also help up qualify and develop deeper relationships with potential donors, at scale,” said Karen McQuigge, Alumni Director, McMaster University.
“Gravyty’s mission is to empower all nonprofit organizations to experience the transformative power of artificial intelligence,” said Adam Martel, CEO, Gravyty. “McMaster University has a reputation for being on the cutting edge and we’re proud to have the opportunity to partner with their team and expand fundraiser enablement, powered by artificial intelligence, into Canada with the McMaster team.”
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The Mariners Wednesday fillled a need for a starting pitcher by acquiring LHP Drew Smyly from the Tampa Bay Rays in exchange for a trio of minor leaguers.
Less than hour after announcing a four-player trade with the Atlanta Braves Wednesday, the Mariners acquired LHP Drew Smyly from the Tampa Bay Rays for OF Mallex Smith, INF Carlos Vargas and LHP Ryan Yarbrough. Seattle had just picked up Smith in the swap with the Braves, while Smyly is expected to join the club’s rotation.
“We have been clear that one of our top priorities this off-season was to continue to bolster our starting rotation,” said GM Jerry Dipoto. “Today’s moves allowed us to add an experienced pitcher to our starting group. Drew took the ball 30 times last season, threw over 175 innings and is a proven performer in the American League. He’s a good fit for our club.”
The Mariners’ likely rotation: Holdovers Felix Hernandez, Hisashi Iwakuma and James Paxton, and newcomers Yovani Gallardo and Smyly.
“He’s a guy who throws strikes, misses bats and fits our ballpark really well, fits us like a glove, really,” Dipoto added of Smyly.
Smyly, 27, established career highs last season with 30 starts, 175.1 innings and 167 strikeouts. He finished 7-12 with a 4.88 ERA with 167 strikeouts in 30 starts. Among left-handed pitchers, Smyly ranked seventh in fewest walks per nine innings with a mark of 2.52. Over his final 12 starts, he was 5-1 with a 3.73 ERA after opening the year 2-11 with a 5.64 ERA.
He recorded four double-digit strikeout games, and was one of 10 American League lefties to make 30 starts and toss at least 175 innings.
In five MLB seasons with Detroit (2012-14) and Tampa Bay (2014-16), Smyly is 31-27 with a 3.74 ERA in 156 games, including 85 starts. He was selected by Detroit in the second round in 2012 and was traded to Tampa Bay as part of the David Price deal between the Tigers, Rays and Mariners July 31, 2014.
Smith, 23, appeared in 72 games with the Braves and hit .238. He played all three outfield positions.
Vargas, 17, hit .242 in 62 games during his rookie campaign with the DSL Mariners last season. He was signed as an international free agent July 2, 2015.
Yarbrough, 25, was named Southern League Pitcher of the Year after going 12-4 with a 2.95 ERA in 25 starts with AA Jackson in 2016. The lefty was the Mariners’ fourth-round pick in 2014 out of Old Dominion University.
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LANCASTER – Despite a myriad of COVID-19 restriction challenges, the 2020 Kiwanis Jr. Livestock Auction was a huge success, ranking third in dollars raised over the past 65 years with nearly $600,000 in bidding that directly supports local participating youth, organizers announced Thursday.
Traditionally, the auction is a single-day event, but this year’s event was a virtual event spanning over seven days with “add-on”
donations running for a total of 10 days.
The event had 305 “lots,” or animals up for bid, a slightly lower number than past years. The bidding days culminated with live auctioneer Don Rogers calling the event on the final bidding day. The total dollars raised for the 2020 virtual event was $591,914, according to organizers.
“This is an incredible success story, a true testament to the resilience and heart of this community,” said AV Fair & Event Center CEO Dan Jacobs.
The top 20 buyers for this year’s event included: Animal House, Barnyard Belles, AV Ford, Kyle & Kyle, NASTF, Theurer Orthodontics, Rich Meiers Landscaping, Calandri Farms, Trade Craft Farms, All Cal Jet, PBLS Surveying, Nibbelink Masonry, Giles Group, All Glass & Plastics, AV Engineering, Porter Concrete Construction, Ron & Yvette Emard, Builders Unlimited Constructors (BUC), Schooners Patio Grille and Brian Gorrindo.
“This virtual event is one for the history books. The entire process was very different, and I commend the gallant effort that everyone in this community put forth to ensure that this year’s auction was not canceled, and in fact, ended up being one of our top money raisers,” said Drew
Mercy, President of the Antelope Valley Fair Association. “We have all learned a lot, and I suspect that we’ll be having conversations about how we possibly embed virtual bidding in future auctions.”
For all AV Fair & Event Center information, including event updates, visit avfair.com.
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When intending to take a trip to various other nations and even simply to a different state, vehicle rental has actually always been a should particularly for taking a trip company guys who have to visit one area to one more. Nonetheless, is spite of whatever “standing” they could have, company guys as well as normal travelers still opt to find and avail of one of the most cash conscious vehicle leasings that they can find. Thrifty vehicle leasings typically are plentiful, whether it be on directory sites, the web or wherever it is that you can find service advertising campaigns. It truly simply a matter of choosing the very best thrifty vehicle rental for you and your needs.
Convenience is always a needs to whenever an individual takes a trip, this is practically while a great deal of individuals opt to avail of thrifty vehicle leasings, apart from having the benefit of being able to go whichever area they desire without the hassle of hopping from one type of mass transport to one more, they still get great value for their money.
A fine example of a trustworthy thrifty vehicle rental service firm in the country is the Alamo vehicle rental firm. A bunch of individuals actually advise availing its thrifty vehicle rental service, due to apart from being practical, they offer great and efficient service to their customers. From supplying their customers with a variety of cars to pick from, automobiles, RVs, primarily simply whatever kind of car that you could require for you takes a trip. They additionally have different traveling programs that you can pick from, this thrifty vehicle rental has actually created different consumer programs to match all’s needs and demands. From business programs to government professional programs, thrifty vehicle leasings certainly is their line of competence.
Another great reason for choosing the Alamo vehicle rental service as your thrifty vehicle rental option, is their stringent adherence to quality of service, they’ve truly made a name fro themselves by ensuring that their customers needs are always maintained and they’ve made it an indicate maintain their great consumer comments by assuring their customers (as well as those who are simply surfing) that they offer quality, yet cash conscious vehicle leasings.
Thrifty vehicle leasings should never ever truly be a hassle to your taking a trip needs (or demands), it is rather very easy to arrive on a massive listing of companies that are able to offer quality yet cash conscious vehicle leasings. Merely make sure to maintain an eager eye on the companies that you are selecting from, however, is spite of a great deal of thrifty vehicle leasings who truly do aim to make a straightforward living by supplying great, quality service to its customers, some base thrifty vehicle leasings still distribute in the market. Be sure to be cautious still when choosing, some could provide truly low prices however their automobiles could be not of real high quality, put simply, the reason that they’re supplying thrifty vehicle leasings could be due to their faulty automobiles.
Watch out for “indicators” when you’re choosing. Ask about, from your family, close friends, coworkers and particularly your traveling broker where of these thrifty vehicle leasings would they actually advise. Evaluate out your options based on your needs, desires and most significantly, you budget plan. Naturally, having a restricted budget plan should not truly simply compel you to wind up resolving with simply any type of thrifty vehicle rental service, forking over a little bit a lot more could not truly hurt you. Ultimately, when it comes to looking for thrifty vehicle leasings, it truly is even more of the quality of service that they offer which should matter to you.
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