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MODEM COMMUNICATIONS WITH THE T1 AND T2E/T2N March 1998
USING T-PDS WINDOWS FOR DIAL–UP COMMUNICATIONS WITH TOSHIBA
T1 AND T2E/T2N PROGRAMMING PORT
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Accessories For T1 Modem Communications (with programming port): PC Side: • a standard “straight-through” 9-25 pin RS-232 serial cable; • a ≥ 9600 baud external modem. PLC Side: • a standard “straight–through” 9-25 pin RS-232 serial cable; • a “null-modem” adapter such as Radio Shack’s 9-9 pin Null Modem • a Toshiba part number TKRS232T1 T1 programming cable • a ≥ 9600 baud external modem. See Note 2 on page 5 Now that we have discussed the basic hardware requirements, let’s look at the
Click on the “Computer Link” button in the System Parameters screen, and the “ComputerLink Setup” menu will appear. Select a station number for the PLC, then click the “Communication Parameter” button . Select “NON” parity setting, and then click the “OK” buttons. When the “Write OK” screen appears, click “OK.” Now go to the PLC/Memory Management menu and select “Write to EEPROM.” The Computer Link parameters will now be stored in EEPROM memory. If you have a T2E, set the “COM” dip switch
Now let’s go to the Modem Control box and finish the T-PDS configuration. The Modem Control box is a handy database that will store a remote site name, modem initialization parameters, and the phone number of the remote site. You can move between the fields using the TAB key. The most important parameter here is the “Initialize” parameter. T-PDS will not successfully dial out or disconnect without this. The parameter shown here is the "S25” register which controls the time that the PC modem
STEP 3: CONFIGURE THE PLC’s MODEM: Now that T-PDS is configured, we are ready for the last part of our setup procedure which is to initialize our remote PLC modem. We suggest that you connect your PC to the PLC’s modem with the straight-through 9-25 pin RS-232 cable, and open up Windows Terminal (or similar). Set up the terminal program for 9600 baud, 8 data bits, 1 stop bit, no parity. Once the terminal connection is opened, you can begin to set the parameters in the PLC’s modem. There are
When the programming port is set to non parity, only the T-PDS software (and the modem) can communicate with the PLC. Furthermore, the T-PDS software must also be setup for non parity. Note 5: For T-PDS versions prior to Ver 1.2 contact Toshiba for upgrade eligibility. A SPECIAL NOTE FOR USERS THAT HAVE OLDER T1’s, T2’s, and T3’s WHOSE PROGRAMMING PORTS DO NOT SUPPORT A “NO-PARITY” SETTING If you have one of these PLCs and would like to use modem communications, you must use a modem that suppor
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When is it too late?
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June 15, 2018 — (Belmopan, BZE) Yesterday, June 14, 2018, the Protected Areas Conservation Trust (PACT) along with the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries, Forestry, the Environment, Sustainable Development and Immigration (MAFFESDI), the Ministry of National Security, and the Friends for Conservation and Development (FCD) inaugurated a new Conservation Post in the South Cebada area of the Chiquibul National Park.
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The following is reproduced with permission of Richard Grossman.
Copyright © 1993 by Richard L. Grossman and Frank T. Adams.
Neither the claims of ownership nor those of control can stand against the paramount interests of the community. It remains only for the claims of the community to be put forward with clarity and force.
Corporations cause harm every day. Why do their harms go unchecked? How can they dictate what we produce, how we work, what we eat, drink and breathe? How did a self-governing people let this come to pass?
Corporations were not supposed to reign in the United States.
When we look at the history of our states, we learn that citizens intentionally defined corporations through charters -- the certificates of incorporation.
In exchange for the charter, a corporation was obligated to obey all laws, to serve the common good, and to cause no harm. Early state legislators wrote charter laws and actual charters to limit corporate authority, and to ensure that when a corporation caused harm, they could revoke its charter.
During the late 19th century, corporations subverted state governments, taking our power to put charters of incorporation to the uses originally intended.
Corporations may have taken our political power but they have not taken our Constitutional sovereignty. Citizens are guaranteed sovereign authority over government officeholders. Every state still has legal authority to grant and to revoke corporate charters. Corporations, large or small, still must obey all laws, serve the common good, and cause no harm.
To exercise our sovereign authority over corporations, we must take back our political authority over our state governments.
Claiming Our Legacy
Today, in our names, state legislators give charters to individuals who want to organize businesses. Our legislators are also supposed to oversee how every corporation behaves. Corporations cannot operate -- own property, borrow money, hire and fire, manufacture or trade, sign contracts, sell stock, sue and be sued, accumulate assets or debts -- without the continued permission of state officeholders.
Our right to charter corporations is as crucial to self-government as our right to vote. Both are basic franchises, essential tools of liberty.
At first only white men who owned property could vote, and gaining the vote for every person has taken years. But as we were winning that struggle, corporate promoters were taking away our right to have a democratic say in our economic lives.
Corporate owners claim special protections under the U.S. Constitution. They assert the legal authority over what to make and how to make it, to move money and mountains, to influence elections and to bend governments to their will.
They insist that once formed, corporations may operate forever. Corporate managers say they must enjoy limited liability, and be free from community or worker interference with business judgments.
The lord proprietors of England's colonial trading corporations said the same things, even boasting that their authority came not from a constitution, but from God. Since the colonists used guns to take land from the Indians, they could easily see the source of that corporate authority was the king's militia.
The colonists did not make a revolution over a tax on tea. They fought for many reasons, but chiefly to create a nation where citizens were the government and ruled corporations.
So even as Americans were routing the king's armies, they vowed to put corporations under democratic command. As one revolutionary, Thomas Allen, said:
It concerned the People to see to it that whilst we are fighting against oppression from the King and Parliament that we did not suffer it to rise up in our Bowels . . . [and to have] Usurpers rising up amongst ourselves.
The victors entrusted the chartering process to each state legislature. Legislators still have this public trust.
A Hostile Takeover
The U.S. Constitution makes no mention of corporations. Yet the history of constitutional law is, as former Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter said, "the history of the impact of the modern corporation upon the American scene."
Today's business corporation is an artificial creation, shielding owners and managers while preserving corporate privilege and existence. Artificial or not, corporations have won more rights under law than people have -- rights which government has protected with armed force.
Investment and production decisions that shape our communities and rule our lives are made in boardrooms, regulatory agencies, and courtrooms. Judges and legislators have made it possible for business to keep decisions about money, production, work and ownership beyond the reach of democracy. They have created a corporate system under law.
This is not what many early Americans had in mind.
People were determined to keep investment and production decisions local and democratic. They believed corporations were neither inevitable nor always appropriate. Our history is filled with successful worker-owned enterprises, cooperatives and neighborhood shops, efficient businesses owned by cities and towns. For a long time, even chartered corporations functioned well under sovereign citizen control.
But while they were weakening charter laws, corporate leaders also were manipulating the legal system to take our property rights. "Corporations confronted the law at every point. They hired lawyers and created whole law firms," according to law professor Lawrence M. Friedman. "They bought and sold governments."
In law, property is not merely a piece of land, a house, a bicycle. Property is a bundle of rights; property law determines who uses those rights. As legal scholar Morris Raphael Cohen said, property is "what each of us shall receive from our work, and from the natural resources of the earth . . . the ownership of land and machinery, with the rights of drawing rent, interest, etc., [which] determine the future distribution of the goods . . ."
Under pressure from industrialists and bankers, a handful of 19th century judges gave corporations more rights in property than human beings enjoyed in their persons. Reverend Reverdy Ransom, himself once a slave treated as property, was among the many to object, declaring "that the rights of men are more sacred than the rights of property."
Undeterred by such common sense, judges redefined corporate profits as property. Corporations got courts to assume that huge, wealthy corporations competed on equal terms with neighborhood businesses or with individuals. The courts declared corporate contracts, and the rate of return on investment, were property that could not be meddled with by citizens or by their elected representatives.
Within a few decades, judges redefined the common good to mean corporate use of humans and the earth for maximum production and profit. Workers, cities and towns, states and nature were left with fewer and fewer rights corporations were bound to respect.
Wielding property rights through laws backed by government became an effective, reliable strategy to build and to sustain corporate mastery.
Some citizens reacted to this hostile takeover by organizing to maintain their rights over corporations. Mobilizing their cities and towns, citizens pressured legislators to protect states' economic rights for many decades.
Others turned to the federal government to guarantee worker and consumer justice, to standardize finance and stock issues, to prevent trusts and monopolies, to protect public health and the environment.
The major laws which resulted, creating regulatory and managing agencies, actually give corporations great advantages over citizens. Some, like the National Labor Relations Act and the National Labor Relations Board, intended that the government aid citizens against the corporation.
But these laws and agencies were shaped by corporate leaders, then diminished by judges. They neither prevent harms, nor correct wrongs, nor restore people and places. These regulatory laws were -- and remain -- reporting and permitting laws, laws to limit competition and to manage destruction.
Congress, betraying its obligation to preserve, protect and defend the U.S. Constitution, has been giving away citizen sovereignty to the EPAs, OSHAs, NLRBs, FTCs, NRCs, SECs, BLMs, RTCs.
Agency administrators act under the assumption that corporations have prerogatives over labor, investment and production. They regard land, air and water as corporations' raw materials, and as lawful places to dump corporate poisons. Business leaders and politicians are given license to equate corporations' private goals with the public interest.
Regulators and regulatory laws treat labor as a cost and employees as disposable. They equate efficiency and freedom with maximum resource extraction, maximum production and maximum profits. They shift what had been the corporate burden to prove no harm onto the citizen, who must prove harm.
Corporations chartered by our states are the cause of political, economic, and ecological injury around the globe. Little wonder so many citizens lament today, as Thomas Paine did two hundred years ago:
Beneath the shade of our own vines are
we attacked; in our own house, and on
our own lands, is the violence committed against us.
A Hidden History
For one hundred years after the American Revolution, citizens and legislators fashioned the nation's economy by directing the chartering process.
The laborers, small farmers, traders, artisans, seamstresses, mechanics and landed gentry who sent King George III packing feared corporations. As pamphleteer Thomas Earle wrote:
Chartered privileges are a burthen, under which the people of Britain, and other European nations, groan in misery.
They knew that English kings chartered the East India Company, the Hudson's Bay Company and many American colonies in order to control property and commerce. Kings appointed governors and judges, dispatched soldiers, dictated taxes, investments, production, labor and markets. The royal charter creating Maryland, for example, required that the colony's exports be shipped to or through England.
Having thrown off English rule, the revolutionaries did not give governors, judges or generals the authority to charter corporations. Citizens made certain that legislators issued charters, one at a time and for a limited number of years. They kept a tight hold on corporations by spelling out rules each business had to follow, by holding business owners liable for harms or injuries, and by revoking charters.
Side by side with these legislative controls, they experimented with various forms of enterprise and finance. Artisans and mechanics owned and managed diverse businesses. Farmers and millers organized profitable cooperatives, shoemakers created unincorporated business associations. Joint-stock companies were formed.
The idea of limited partnerships was imported from France. Land companies used various and complex arrangements, and were not incorporated. None of these enterprises had the powers of today's corporations.
Towns routinely promoted agriculture and manufacture. They subsidized farmers, public warehouses and municipal markets, protected watersheds and discouraged overplanting. State legislatures issued not-for-profit charters to establish universities, libraries, firehouses, churches, charitable associations, along with new towns.
Legislatures also chartered profit-making corporations to build turnpikes, canals and bridges. By the beginning of the 1800s, only some two hundred such charters had been granted. Even this handful issued for necessary public works raised many fears.
Some citizens argued that under the Constitution no business could be granted special privileges. Others worried that once incorporators amassed wealth, they would control jobs and production, buy the newspapers, dominate elections and the courts. Craft and industrial workers feared absentee corporate owners would turn them into "a commodity being as much an article of commerce as woolens, cotton, or yarn."
Because of widespread public opposition, early legislators granted very few charters, and only after long, hard debate. Legislators usually denied charters to would-be incorporators when communities opposed their prospective business project.
Citizens shared the belief that granting charters was their exclusive right. Moreover, as the Supreme Court of Virginia reasoned in 1809:
if the applicants' object is merely private or selfish; if it is detrimental to, or not promotive of, the public good, they have no adequate claim upon the legislature for the privileges.
Citizens governed corporations by detailing rules and operating conditions not just in the charters but also in state constitutions and in state laws. Incorporated businesses were prohibited from taking any action which legislators did not specifically allow.
States limited corporate charters to a set number of years. Maryland legislators restricted manufacturing charters to forty years, mining charters to fifty, and most others to thirty years. Pennsylvania limited manufacturing charters to twenty years. Unless a legislature renewed an expiring charter, the corporation was dissolved and its assets were divided among shareholders.
Citizen authority clauses dictated rules for issuing stock, for shareholder voting, for obtaining corporate information, for paying dividends and keeping records. They limited capitalization, debts, land holdings, and sometimes profits. They required a company's accounting books to be turned over to a legislature upon request.
The power of large shareholders was limited by scaled voting, so that large and small investors had equal voting rights. Interlocking directorates were outlawed. Shareholders had the right to remove directors at will.
Sometimes the rates which railroad, turnpike and bridge corporations could charge were set by legislators. Some legislatures required incorporators to be state citizens. Other legislatures bought corporate stock in order to stay closely engaged in a firm's operations.
Early in the 19th century, the New Jersey legislature declared its right to take over ownership and control of corporate properties. Pennsylvania established a fund from corporate profits which was used to buy private utilities to make them public. Many states followed suit.
Turnpike charters frequently exempted the poor, farmers or worshippers from paying tolls. In Massachusetts, the Turnpike Corporation Act of 1805 authorized the legislature to dissolve turnpike' corporations when their receipts equaled the cost of construction plus 12 percent. Then the road became public. In New York, turnpike gates were
subject to be thrown open, and the company indicted and fined, if the road is not made and kept easy and safe for public use.
Citizens kept banks on particularly short leashes. Their charters were limited from three to ten years. Banks had to get legislative approval to increase their capital stock, or to merge. Some state laws required banks to make loans for local manufacturing, fishing, agriculture enterprises, and to the states themselves. Banks were forbidden to engage in trade.
Private banking corporations were banned altogether by the Indiana constitution in 1816, and by the Illinois constitution in 1818.
People did not want business owners hidden behind legal shields, but in clear sight. That is what they got. As the Pennsylvania legislature stated in 1834:
A corporation in law is just what the incorporating act makes it. It is the creature of the law and may be moulded to any shape or for any purpose that the Legislature may deem most conducive for the general good.
In Europe, charters protected directors and stockholders from liability for debts and harms caused by their corporations.
American legislators rejected this corporate shield. Led by Massachusetts, most states refused to grant such protection. Bay State law in 1822 read: "Every person who shall become a member of any manufacturing company . . . shall be liable, in his individual capacity, for all debts contracted during the time of his continuing a member of such corporation."
The first constitution in California made each shareholder "individually and personally liable for his proportion of all [corporate] debts and liabilities." Ohio, Missouri and Arkansas made stockholders liable over and above the stock they actually owned. In 1861, Kansas made stockholders individually liable "to an additional amount equal to the stock owned by each stockholder."
Prior to the 1840s, courts generally supported the concept that incorporators were responsible for corporate debts. Through the 1870s, seven state constitutions made bank shareholders doubly liable. Shareholders in manufacturing and utility companies were often liable for employees' wages.
Liability laws sometimes reflected the dominance of one political party or another. In Maine, for example, liability laws changed nine times from no liability to full liability between 1823 and 1857, depending on whether the Whigs or the Democrats controlled the legislature.
Until the Civil War, most states enacted laws holding corporate investors and officials liable. As New Hampshire Governor Henry Hubbard argued in 1842:
There is no good reason against this principle. In transactions which occur between man and man there exists a direct responsibility -- and when capital is concentrated . . . beyond the means of single individuals, the liability is continued.
The penalty for abuse or misuse of the charter was not a plea bargain and a fine, but revocation of the charter and dissolution of the corporation. Citizens believed it was society's inalienable right to abolish an evil.
Revocation clauses were written into Pennsylvania charters as early as 1784. The first revocation clauses were added to insurance charters in 1809, and to banking charters in 1814. Even when corporations met charter requirements, legislatures sometimes decided not to renew those charters.
States often revoked charters by using quo warranto -- by what authority -- proceedings. In 1815, Massachusetts Justice Joseph Story ruled in Terrett v. Taylor:
A private corporation created by the legislature may lose its franchises by a misuser or nonuser of them . . . This is the common law of the land, and is a tacit condition annexed to the creation of every such corporation.
Four years later, the U. S. Supreme Court tried to strip states of this sovereign right. Overruling a lower court, Chief Justice John Marshall wrote in Dartmouth College v. Woodward that the U.S. Constitution prohibited New Hampshire from revoking a charter granted to the college in 1769 by King George III. That charter contained no reservation or revocation clauses, Marshall said.
The court's attack on state sovereignty outraged citizens. Protest pamphlets rolled off the presses. Thomas Earle wrote:
It is aristocracy and despotism, to have a body of officers, whose decisions are, for a long time, beyond the control of the people. The freemen of America ought not to rest contented, so long as their Supreme Court is a body of that character.
Said Massachusetts legislator David Henshaw: "Sure I am that, if the American people acquiesce in the principles laid down in this case, the Supreme Court will have effected what the whole power of the British Empire, after eight years of bloody conflict, failed to achieve against our fathers."
Opponents of Marshall's decision believed the ruling cut out the heart of state sovereignty. They argued that a corporation's basic right to exist -- and to wield property rights -- came from a grant which only the state had the power to make. Therefore, the court exceeded its authority by declaring the corporation beyond the reach of the legislature which created it in the first place.
People also challenged the Supreme Court's decision by distinguishing between a corporation and an individual's private property. The corporation existed at the pleasure of the legislature to serve the common good, and was of a public nature. New Hampshire legislators and any other elected state legislators had the absolute legal right to dictate a corporation's property use by amending or repealing its charter.
State legislators were stung by citizen outrage. They were forced to write amending and revoking clauses into new charters, state laws and constitutions, along with detailed procedures for revocation.
In 1825, Pennsylvania legislators adopted broad powers to " revoke, alter or annul the charter . . ." at any time they thought proper.
New York state's 1828 corporation law specified that every charter was subject to alteration or repeal. Section 320 declared that corporate acts not authorized by law were ultra vires, or beyond the rights of corporations, and grounds for charter revocation.
The law gave the state authority to secure a temporary injunction to prevent corporations from resisting while legal action to dissolve them was under way.
Delaware voters passed a constitutional amendment in 1831 limiting all corporate charters to twenty years. Other states, including Louisiana and Michigan, passed constitutional amendments to place precise time limits on corporate charters.
President Andrew Jackson enjoyed wide popular support when he vetoed a law extending the charter of the Second Bank of the United States in 1832. That same year, Pennsylvania revoked the charters of ten banks.
During the 1840s, citizens in New York, Delaware, Michigan and Florida required a two-thirds vote of their state legislatures to create, continue, alter or renew charters. The New York legislature in 1849 instructed the attorney general to annul any charter whose applicants had concealed material facts, and to sue to revoke a charter on behalf of the people whenever he believed necessary.
Voters in Wisconsin and four other states rewrote constitutions so that popular votes had to be taken on every bank charter recommended by their legislatures. Rhode Island voters said charters for corporations in banking, mining, manufacturing, and transportation had to be approved by the next elected state legislature before being granted.
Over several decades starting in 1844, nineteen states amended their constitutions to make corporate charters subject to alteration or revocation by legislatures. Rhode Island declared in 1857:
the charter or acts of association of every corporation hereafter created may be amendable or repealed at the will of the general assembly.
Pennsylvanians adopted a constitutional amendment in 1857 instructing legislators to "alter, revoke or annul any charter of a corporation hereafter conferred . . . whenever in their opinion it may be injurious to citizens of the community . . ."
As late as 1855, citizens had support from the U.S. Supreme Court. In Dodge vs. Woolsey, the court ruled the people of the states [have not]:
released their powers over the artificial bodies which originate under the legislation of their representatives . . . Combinations of classes in society . . . united by the bond of a corporate spirit . . . unquestionably desire limitations upon the sovereignty of the people . . . But the framers of the Constitution were imbued with no desire to call into existence such combinations.
Struggles For Control
Massachusetts mechanics who opposed a charter request by the men who wanted to start the Amherst Carriage Company in 1838 told the legislature:
We . . . do look forward with anticipation to a time when we shall be able to conduct the business upon our own responsibility and receive the proffits of our labor ... we believe that incorporated bodies tend to crush all feable enterprise and compel us to Work out our dayes in the Service of others.
Contests over charters and the chartering process were not abstractions. They were battles to control labor, resources, community rights, and political sovereignty. This was a major reason why members of the disbanded Working Men's Party formed the Equal Rights Party of New York state. The party's 1836 convention resolved that lawmakers:
legislate for the whole people and not for favored portions of our fellow-citizens . . . It is by such partial and unjust legislation that the productive classes of society are compelled by necessity, to form unions for mutual preservation . . . [lawmakers should reinstate us] in our equal and constitutional rights according to the fundamental truths in the Declaration of Independence, and as sanctioned by the Constitution of the United States . . .
This political agenda had widespread support in the press. A New Jersey newspaper wrote in an editorial typical of the 1830s: "the Legislature ought cautiously to refrain from increasing the irresponsible power of any existing corporations, or from chartering new ones," else people would become "mere hewers of wood and drawers of water to jobbers, banks and stockbrokers."
With these and other prophetic warnings still ringing in their ears, citizens began to feel control over their futures slipping out of their communities and out of their hands. Corporations were abusing their charters to become conglomerates and trusts. They were converting the nation's treasures into private fortunes, creating factory systems and company towns. Political power began flowing to absentee owners intent upon dominating people and nature.
As the nation moved closer to civil war, farmers were forced to become wage earners. Increasingly separated from their neighbors, farms and families, they became fearful of unemployment -- a new fear which corporations quickly learned to exploit.
In factory towns, corporations set wages, hours, production processes and machine speeds. They kept blacklists of labor organizers and workers who spoke up for their rights. Corporate officials forced employees to accept humiliating conditions, while the corporations agreed to nothing.
Julianna, a Lowell, Massachusetts, factory worker, wrote:
Incarcerated within the walls of a factory, while as yet mere children -- drilled there from five till seven o'clock, year after year . . . what, we would ask, are we to expect, the same system of labor prevailing, will be the mental and intellectual character of the future generations . . . A race fit only for corporation tools and time-serving slaves? . . . Shall we not hear the response from every hill and vale, "EQUAL RIGHTS, or death to the corporations?"
Recognizing that workers were building a social movement, industrialists and bankers pressed on, hiring private armies to keep workers in line. They bought newspapers and painted politicians as villains and businessmen as heroes. Bribing state legislators, they then announced legislators were corrupt, that they used too much of the public's resources and time to scrutinize every charter application and corporate operation.
Corporate advocates campaigned to replace existing chartering laws with general incorporation laws that set up simple administrative procedures, claiming this would be more efficient. What they really wanted was the end of legislative authority over charters.
Cynically adopting the language of early charter opponents, corporate owners and their lawyers attacked existing legislative charters as special privileges. They called for equal opportunity for all entrepreneurs, making it seem as if they were asking that everyone have the same chance to compete.
But these corporations were not just ordinary individual entrepreneurs. They were large accumulations of capital, and getting larger. By 1860, thousands of corporations had been chartered -- mostly factories, mines, railroads and banks.
Government spending during the Civil War brought these corporations fantastic wealth. Corporate managers developed the techniques and the ability to organize production on an ever grander scale. Many corporations used their wealth to take advantage of war and Reconstruction years to get the tariff, banking, railroad, labor and public lands legislation they wanted.
Flaunting new wealth and power, corporate executives paid "borers" to infest Congress and state capitals, bribing elected and appointed officials alike. They pried loose from the public trust more and more land, minerals, timber and water. Railroad corporations alone obtained over 180 million free acres of public lands by the 1870s, along with many millions of dollars in direct subsidies.
Little by little, legislators gave corporations limited liability, decreased citizen authority over corporate structure, governance, production and labor, and ever longer terms for the charters themselves.
Corporations rewrote the laws governing their own creation. They "left few stones unturned to control those who made and interpreted the laws . . ."
Even as businesses secured general incorporation laws for mining, agriculture, transportation, banking and manufacturing businesses, citizens held on to the authority to charter. Specifying company size, shareholder terms, and corporate undertakings remained a major citizen strategy.
During the 1840s and 1850s, states revoked charters routinely. In Ohio, Pennsylvania and Mississippi, banks lost charters for frequently "committing serious violations . . . which were likely to leave them in an insolvent or financially unsound condition." In Massachusetts and New York, turnpike corporations lost charters for "not keeping their roads in repair."
"No constitutional convention met, between 1860-1900, without considering the problems of the corporations," according to Friedman.
In 1876, New York's constitutional convention authorized the attorney general to bring an action to "vacate the charters" of any corporation which violated the state chartering law or abused their rights and privileges. Eighteen years later, the Central Labor Union of New York City asked the attorney general to request the state supreme court to revoke the charter of the Standard Oil Company of New York. He did.
New York, Ohio, Michigan and Nebraska revoked the charters of oil, match, sugar and whiskey trusts. Courts in each state declared these trusts illegal because the corporations -- in creating the trusts -- had exceeded the powers granted by their charters." Roaming and piratical corporations" like Standard Oil of Ohio, then the most powerful corporation in the world, refused to comply and started searching for "a Snug Harbor" in another state.
Rhode Island enacted a law requiring corporate dissolution for "fraud, negligence, misconduct . . ." Language was added to the Virginia constitution enabling "all charters and amendments of charters to be repealed at any time by special act."
Farmers and rural communities, groaning in misery at the hands of railroad, grain and banking corporations, ran candidates for office who supported states' authority "to reverse or annul at any time any chartered privilege . . ."
The Farmers' Anti-Monopoly Convention, meeting in Des Moines in 1873, resolved that:
all corporations are subject to legislative control; [such control] should be at all times so used as to prevent moneyed corporations from becoming engines of oppression.
That same year, Minnesota Grangers resolved:
We, the farmers, mechanics and laborers of Minnesota, deem the triumph of the people in this contest with monopolies essential to the perpetuation of our free institutions and the promotion of our private and national prosperity.
Because these and other powerful resistance movements directly challenged the harmful corporations of their times, and because they kept pressure on state representatives, revocation and amendment clauses can be found in state charter laws today.
But keeping strong charter laws in place was ineffective once courts started aggressively applying legal doctrines which made protection of corporations and corporate property the center of constitutional law.
As corporations got stronger, government became easier prey; communities became more vulnerable to intimidation.
Following the Civil War, and well into the 20th century, appointed judges gave privilege after privilege to corporations. They freely reinterpreted the U.S. Constitution and transformed common law doctrines.
Judges gave certain corporations the power of eminent domain -- the right to take private property with minimal compensation to be determined by the courts. They eliminated jury trials to determine corporation-caused harm and to assess damages. Judges created the right to contract, a doctrine which, according to law professor Arthur Selwyn Miller, was put forward as a "principle of eternal truth" in "one of the most remarkable feats of judicial law-making this nation has seen."
By concocting the doctrine that contracts originated in the courts, judges then took the right to oversee corporate rates of return and prices, a right entrusted to legislators by the U.S. Constitution. They laid the legal foundation for regulatory agencies to be primarily accountable to the courts -- not to Congress.
Workers, the courts also ruled, were responsible for causing their own injuries on the job. The Kentucky Court of Appeals prefigured this doctrine in 1839: "Private injury and personal damage . . . must be expected" when one goes to work for a corporation bringing "progressive improvements." This came to be called the assumption of risk, what professor Cohen dismissed as "a judicial invention."
Traditionally under common law, the burden of damage had been on the business causing harms. Courts had not permitted trespass or nuisance to be excused by the alleged good works a corporation might claim. Nor could a corporation's lack of intent to cause harm decrease its legal liability for injuries it caused to persons or the land.
Large corporations -- especially railroad and steamship companies - pressured judges to reverse this tradition, too. Attentive to lawyers and growing commercial interests, judges creatively interpreted the commerce and due process clauses of the U.S. Constitution. Inventing a new concept which they called substantive due process, they declared one state law after another unconstitutional. Wages and hours laws, along with rate laws for grain elevators and railroads, were tossed out.
Judges also established the managerial prerogative and business judgment doctrines, giving corporations legal justification to arrest civil rights at factory gates, and to blockade democracy at boardroom doors.
Corporations were enriched further when judges construed the common good to mean maximum production -- no matter what was manufactured, who was hurt, or what was destroyed. Unfettered corporate competition without citizen interference became enshrined under law.
Another blow to citizen constitutional authority came in 1886. The Supreme Court ruled in Santa Clara County v. Southern Pacific Railroad that a private corporation was a natural person under the U.S. Constitution, sheltered by the Bill of Rights and the 14th Amendment.
"There was no history, logic or reason given to support that view," Supreme Court Justice William 0. Douglas was to write sixty years later.
But the Supreme Court had spoken. Using the 14th Amendment, which had been added to the Constitution to protect freed slaves, the justices struck down hundreds more local, state and federal laws enacted to protect people from corporate harms. The high court ruled that elected legislators had been taking corporate property "without due process of law."
Emboldened, some judges went further, declaring unions were civil and criminal conspiracies, and enjoining workers from striking. Governors and presidents backed judges up with police and armies.
By establishing "new trends in legal doctrine and political-economic theory" permitting "the corporate reorganization of the property production system," the Supreme Court effectively sabotaged blossoming social protest movements against incorporated wealth. Judges positioned the corporation to become "America's representative social institution," "an institutional expression of our way of life."
Legislative "chartermongering" attracted as many corporations as possible to their states. In exchange for taxes, fees and whatever else they could get their hands on, some state governments happily provided new homes to Standard Oil and other corporations.
Led by New Jersey and Delaware, legislators watered down or removed citizen authority clauses. They limited the liability of corporate owners and managers, then started handing out charters that literally lasted forever. Corporations were given the right to operate in any fashion not explicitly prohibited by law.
After such losses of citizen sovereignty, twenty-six corporate trusts ended up controlling 80 percent or more of production in their markets by the early 1900s. There were trusts for almost everything -- matches, whiskey, cotton, alcohol, corks, cement, stoves, ribbons, bread, beef.
During the Progressive Era, corporations operated as ruthlessly as any colonial trading monopoly in the 1700s. Blood was often spilled resisting these legal fictions.
Jo Battley, a West Virginia miner, was beaten severely and stabbed trying to organize a union at the Consolidated Coal Company. Mother Jones, one of his rescuers, said, "We tried to get a warrant out for the arrest of the gunmen, but we couldn't because the coal company controlled the judges and the courts."
Corporations owned resources, production, commerce, trade, prices, jobs, politicians, judges and the law. Over the next half century, as a United States congressional committee concluded in 1941, "The principal instrument of the concentration of economic power and wealth has been the corporate charter with unlimited power . . ."
Today, many U.S. corporations are transnational. No matter how piratical or where they roam, the corrupted charter remains the legal basis of their existence.
Taking Back The Charters
Taking Back The Law
We are out of the habit of contesting the legitimacy of the corporation, or challenging concocted legal doctrines, or denying courts the final say over our economic lives.
For most of this century, citizens skirmished with corporations to stop doing harm, but failed to question the legitimacy of the harmdoers. We do not use the charter and the chartering process to stop corporate harm, or to define the corporation on our terms.
What passes for political debate today is not about control, sovereignty, or the economic democracy which many American revolutionaries thought they were fighting to secure.
Too many organizing campaigns accept the corporation's rules, and wrangle on corporate turf. We lobby congress for limited laws. We have no faith in regulatory agencies, but turn to them for relief. We plead with corporations to be socially responsible, then show them how to increase profits by being a bit less harmful.
How much more strength, time, and hope will we invest in such dead ends?
Today, corporate charters can be gotten easily by filling out a few forms and by paying modest fees.
Legislatures delegate authority to public officeholders to rubber-stamp the administration of charters and the chartering process. The secretary of state and the attorney general are the officials most often involved. Sometimes they are elected; sometimes they are appointed.
In all states, legislatures continue to have the historic and the legal obligation to grant, to amend, and to revoke corporate charters. They are responsible for overseeing corporate activities. But it has been a long time since many legislatures have done what they are supposed to do.
In Illinois, the law reads:
12.50 Grounds for judicial dissolution. A Circuit Court may dissolve a corporation:
- in an action by the Attorney General, if it is established that:
- the corporation obtained its certificates of incorporation through fraud; or
- the corporation has continued to exceed or abuse the authority conferred upon it by law, or has continued to violate the law..
- in an action by a shareholder, if it is established that . . . the directors or those in control of the corporation have acted, or are acting, or will act in a manner that is illegal, oppressive or fraudulent; . . . or if it is established that dissolution is reasonably necessary because the business of the corporation can no longer be conducted to the general advantage of its shareholders.
After entering an order of dissolution, "the Court shall direct the winding up and liquidation of the corporation's business and affairs."
In Delaware, Section 284 of the corporation law says that chancery court can revoke the charter of any corporation for "abuse or misuse of its powers, privileges or franchises."
New York requires dissolution when a corporation abuses its powers, or acts "contrary to the public policy of the state . . ." The law calls for a jury trial in charter revocation cases.
The Model Business Corporation Act, first written in 1931 by the committee on corporate laws of the American Bar Association, and revised twice since, is the basis for chartering laws in more than half the states and the District of Columbia. Although strongly protecting corporate property, this model law gives courts full power to liquidate the assets of a corporation if they are "misapplied or wasted."
It requires the secretary of state "from time to time" to list the names of all corporations which have violated their charters along with the facts behind the violations. Decrees of involuntary dissolution can be issued by the secretary of state and by courts.
Corporations chartered in other states are called foreign corporations. Corporations chartered in other nations are called alien corporations. Legislatures allow foreign or alien corporations to go into business in their states through this same chartering process. Either may establish factories or do business after obtaining a state's certificate of authority.
In Illinois, foreign corporations are "subject to the same duties, restrictions, penalties and liabilities now or hereafter imposed upon a domestic corporation of like character."
When we limit our thinking only to existing labor law, or only to existing environmental law, or only to the courts, or only to elections -- or when we abide by corporate agendas -- we abandon our Constitutional claim on the corporate charter and the chartering process.
When we forsake our Constitutional claim, we ignore historic tools we can use to define and to control the corporation. We pass up strategies which can inspire citizens to act. We fail to demand what we know is right.
We must name and stop what harms us. John H. Hunt, a member of the Equal Rights Party, wrote this resolution in 1837:
Whenever a people find themselves suffering under a weight of evils, destructive not only to their happiness, but to their dignity and their virtues; when these evils go on increasing year after year, with accelerating rapidity, and threaten soon to reach that point at which peaceable endurance ceases to be possible; it becomes their solemn duty coolly to search out the causes of their suffering -- to state those causes with plainness -- and to apply a sufficient and a speedy remedy.
His resolution was passed unanimously by cheering mechanics, farmers and working people during a mass rally in a New York City park.
Around the nation, citizens are no less willing -- and are quite well prepared -- to educate, to organize and to agitate.
Citizens who have been to folk schools or labor colleges understand that by learning together and teaching ourselves corporate history, we can hone the skills of citizen sovereignty and power.
We can read our state constitutions. Libraries containing our states' constitutional histories, corporate histories, and corporate case law can provide details about what earlier citizens demanded of corporations, what precedents they established, and which of their legal and organizing methods we can use to our advantage.
We can demand to see the charters of every corporation. We need to know what each charter prohibits, especially if it is an old charter. Armed with our states' rich legal precedents, and with our evidence of corporate misuse or abuse, we can amend or revoke charters and certificates of authority.
When corporations violate our Constitutional guarantees, we can take them to court ourselves. Corporate officers can be forced to give us depositions under oath, just as elected officials who spurned the Constitution were forced to do by the civil rights movement -- often in courtrooms packed with angry citizens.
New Yorkers used to get sufficient and speedy remedy through injunctions against corporations. We can revive this tradition. Surrounded by citizens and their peers, judges can be encouraged to enjoin corporate officials from doing further harm, or from stripping the corporation's assets, or from moving the company away.
Stockholders have authority to seek injunctions and file dissolution suits if they fear managers are acting illegally, oppressively, fraudulently, or are misusing or wasting corporate assets.
As in the first half of the 19th century, would-be or on-going incorporators must be made to ask us for the privilege of a charter. We can set our own criteria: workers must own a significant or majority share of the company; the workforce must have democratic decision-making authority; charters must be renewed annually; corporate officers must prove all corporate harm has ceased. For starters.
Who defines the corporation controls the corporation. We cannot command the modern corporation with laws that require a few days' notice before the corporation leaves town, or with laws that allow the corporation to spew so many toxic parts per million. If we expect to define the corporation using the charters and putting legislators on our civic leash, we must also challenge prevailing judicial doctrines. We cannot let courts stand in the way of our stopping corporate harm.
Legal doctrines are not inevitable or divine. When the liberty and property rights of citizens are at stake, as former Supreme Court Justice Louis D. Brandeis said, "the right of property and the liberty of the individual must be remoulded . . . to meet the changing needs of society."
The corporation is an artificial creation, and must not enjoy the protections of the Bill of Rights.
Corporate owners and officers must be liable for harms they cause. No corporation should exist forever. Both business judgment and managerial prerogative must meet the same end as the colonial trading companies' delusion of divine authority.
Our sovereign right to decide what is produced, to own and to organize our work, and to respect the earth is as American as a self-governing peoples' right to vote.
In our democracy, we can shape the nation's economic life any way we want.
["Neither the claims..."]: Berle and Means, p. 310.
RECLAIMING OUR POWER
["It concerned the People..." ]: Thomas Allen quoted in Handlin, p. 16.
A HOSTILE TAKEOVER
["...the history..."]: Felix Frankfurter quoted in Miller, P. 1.
["Corporations confronted..." ]: Friedman, P. 456.
["...what each of us..." ]: Cohen, P. 47.
["...that the rights..." ]: Reverdy Ransom quoted in Meier, p. 185.
[" Beneath the shade..."]: Paine, p. 124.
A HIDDEN HISTORY
[" Chartered corporations are..."]: Earle, p. 19.
["...a commodity being as much..."]: Hartz, p. 196. Page 8
["...object is merely.. "]: Virginia Supreme Court quoted in Horwitz, p. 112.
["...subject to be thrown open..."]; James Kent quoted in Dodd, p. 44.
["A corporation in law..."]: Report of the Packer Committee of the Pennsylvania Legislature, quoted in Goodrich, p. 374.
For details on charter limitations and citizen authority clauses, see Berle and Means, Blandi, Cadman, Dodd, Friedman, Handlin, Hartz, Pisani (in Thelan).
["Every person who shall..."]: Massachusetts law quoted in Berle notes.
["...individually and personally..."]: First California Constitution quoted in Cadman, p. 191.
["to an additional amount..."]: in Cadman, p. 191.
["There is no good reason..."]: Henry Hubbard quoted in Dodd, p. 395.
For details on liability, see Blandi, Cadman, Dodd, Friedman, Hartz.
["A private corporation..."]: Joseph Story quoted in Dodd, p. 60.
[" It is aristocracy..."]: Earle, P. 3 0.
["Sure I am that..."]: David Henshaw quoted in Blau, p. 182.
["... revoke, alter or annul..."]: Hartz, p. 239.
["...the charter or acts..."]: Rhode island Legislature in 1857 quoted in Berle notes.
["...alter, revoke or annul..."]: Pennsylvania Legislature in 1857
quoted in Hartz, p. 240.
["...released their powers..."]: Dodge v. Woolsey, U.S. Supreme Court quoted in Dodd, p. 130.
For details on revocation clauses, see Berle notes, Blandi, Cadman, Hartz, Horwitz.
STRUGGLES FOR CONTROL
["We ... do look..." ]: Amherst mechanics quoted in Handlin, Appendix F, p. 266.
["...legislate for the whole people..."]: Equal Rights Party resolution quoted in Byrdsall, p. 41.
["...the Legislature ought..."]: Trenton Emporium & True American quoted in Cadman, p. 76.
["Incarcerated within..." ]: Juliana quoted in Baxandall et al., p. 68.
["borers"]: Hartz, p. 309.
["...left few stones..."]: Ginsberg et al., p. 8.
["...committing serious violations..."]: Dodd, p. 181.
["... not keeping their roads..."] 1: Dodd, p. 181.
["No constitutional..."]: Friedman, p. 446.
["...vacate the charters..."]: New York Constitutional Convention, 1876, quoted in Lloyd, p. 425.
["Roaming and piratical..."]: William W Cook, quoted in Friedman, p. 458.
["...fraud, negligence, misconduct..."]: Rhode Island law quoted in Berle notes.
["all charters..."]: Virginia Constitution quoted in Berle notes.
["...to reverse or annul..."]: quoted in Martin, p. 510.
["...alI corporations are..."]: quoted in Martin, p. 513.
["We, the farmers..." ]: quoted in Martin, p. 51 0.
For details on job blackmail by corporate managers, see Kazis & Grossman.
["...principle of eternal truth..."]: Miller, p. 54.
[" Private injury..."]: Kentucky Court of Appeals quoted in Horwitz, p. 75.
["a judicial invention"]: Cohen, p. 126.
["There was no history..."]: William 0. Douglas in Wheeling Steel Corporation v. Glander, 337 US 562, 1949.
["...new trends in legal..."]: Sklar, p. 85.
["America's representative social..."]: Drucker, p. 18.
["... an institutional expression..."]: Ford Motor Co. executive William T Gossett, 1957, quoted in Williams, p. 343.
[" chartermongering"]: Nader, et al., p. 44.
["We tried...."]: Jones, p. 44.
["The principal instrument..."]: quoted in Blair, p. 667.
For details on judge-made law, see Alfange, Cohen, Friedman, Horwitz, Miller, Nader et at, Newmeyer (in Thelan), Pound, Sklar, Wright.
TAKING BACK THE CHARTERS, TAKING BACK THE LAW
Illinois Business Corporation Act, Revised Statutes, Chapter 32, par 1.01 et seq.
["...abuse or misuse of..."]: Delaware Code Ann. Title 8, 1 01, et seq.
["...contrary to the public policy..."]: New York Business Corporation Law 101 et. seq.
["...misapplied or wasted..."]: Model Business Corporation Act, quoted in Clarkson et al., Appendix G.
["... from time to time..."]: Ibid.
["...subject to the same..." ]: Illinois Revised Statutes.
["Whenever a people..."]: quoted in Byrdsall, p. 135.
["...the right of property..." ]: Louis D. Brandeis in Truax v. Corrigan, 257 US 312, 1921.
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Best Pillows For CPAP Users
An easy guide to help you find the best CPAP pillow.
CPAP machines are an excellent solution for treating your Sleep Apnea. These machines help you to breathe without any trouble.
Now, are you tired of adjusting to your CPAP machine while sleeping? Do you find it an inconvenience when you wish to sleep comfortably? Are you looking for a better alternative?
Well, worry not, CPAP pillows are here to save the night and set you free from all the inconveniences of using CPAP machines. Take a look at our best CPAP pillow reviews for more ease!
CPAP Pillow: What is it and What are its Features?
CPAP pillow is a customized pillow for patients suffering from Sleep Apnea. These pillows let patients sleep comfortably and offer them flexibility as well.
These pillows are different from regular pillows in terms of shape and design. It has precise cutouts on the side to accommodate the CPAP machine’s mask and hose.
CPAP pillows are great for side sleepers, stomach sleepers, and those who sleep with their face down. It protects them from several underlying issues that can be caused due to CPAP machines.
CPAP pillows are needed for the following reasons:
- CPAP machine users may experience discomfort due to the standard pillow’s bulk and structure.
- Patients who have a habit of moving in their sleep consistently can cause mask leakage and inefficiency of CPAP machines.
- The air pressure can also get reduced in some instances, which compromises the overall effect of CPAP machines.
- CPAP pillows help in reducing skin-related issues like rashes, caused by CPAP machines.
CPAP pillows have the following features:
CPAP pillows are irregular in shape. This irregularity is due to the unique design, which give space to the mask and the hose. The designs are present on both sides of the pillow, thus benefiting patients who tend to switch sides quite often.
Sleep position plays a significant role in efficient breathing. The indented center of the pillow can help one in keeping their neck position adequately aligned.
This helps in maintaining a regular breathing rate and healthy sleep.
CPAP pillows have a curved and recessed bottom to accommodate the patient’s shoulders. It can help in proper alignment of the shoulders and the neck to increase the efficiency of CPAP equipment.
Stabilizers and Tethers
Some CPAP pillows have additional tethers and stabilizers for the CPAP tubes. This ensures additional fixation to reduce pressure on your CPAP masks.
The material of the CPAP pillow helps in offering neck and shoulder support to provide more comfort.
How To Choose The Best CPAP Pillow
There are certain factors to look out for before buying any CPAP pillow. These factors are:
Comfort is the first and foremost step to a good night’s sleep. If a pillow provides all facilities except comfortability, it will not be of any help.
Thus, a pillow that provides comfort with its soft and cool material is a perfect choice.
- Body Support
CPAP pillows should help patients in relaxing their neck, shoulders, and back muscles. It should provide you with proper support.
A bad CPAP pillow can cause soreness and stiffness in your muscles, which is a significant inconvenience for any CPAP patient.
- Sleeping Position
An ideal CPAP pillow will let one sleep in any position that he/she finds comfortable. The patients do not need to form a new sleeping pattern to increase the efficiency of their CPAPs.
They can sleep comfortably with their CPAP pillows, along with increased efficiency and power.
The patient needs to check the compatibility of their CPAP pillow before buying it. If the CPAP machine requires a proper hose and mask and is bulky, the buyer needs to go for a pillow that can accommodate these two properly.
This will ensure more comfort and reliability.
- Cooling Properties
It is essential to look out for CPAP pillows that have cooling properties. Certain CPAP machines release heat and warmth, which can disrupt a patient’s deep sleep.
Therefore, it is necessary to go for pillows that have gel-infused foam and soft material. It should have good customer reviews, as well.
If the buyers check out these factors, it will be a hassle-free CPAP pillow journey for all the CPAP users.
Working Of A CPAP Pillow
CPAP machine users have to face the issue of consistent mask leaking while using regular pillows. However, special CPAP pillows have cutouts on the side and thus, allow better efficiency in breathing.
The CPAP pillow also holds the seal in place even if the patients move at night.
CPAP pillows also provide additional support to your shoulders and neck and prevent any kind of muscle-related issues. These pillows can also be customized and adjusted to your requirements.
Thus, they keep in mind your comfort requirements, along with providing you proper sturdiness.
Best CPAP Pillow Reviews For A Comfortable Sleep
CPAP Max 2.0 Pillow
Brand: Contour Products
CPAP Max 2.0 pillow is one of the best CPAP pillows for CPAP users. These pillows offer help to side sleepers, stomach sleepers, and back sleepers as well.
Additionally, it also stops mask leaking, which allows the CPAP machine to be more efficient. This pillow reduces any noise that can disturb a patient’s sleep. It also removes any unpleasant smell or odor, making the CPAP experience fresh and hygienic.
It has a comfortable design to provide the customers with the best of the facilities. This machine is portable, lightweight, and easy to use anywhere. Thus, it is a multipurpose pillow.
This CPAP pillow is made up of good quality memory foam, which provides customers with sheer softness, longevity, and effective functioning.
This pillow has material properties which give excellent functioning capacity. It also retains its shape permanently. It has a loaf bread structure, which further has underlying benefits of providing rigidity and support to the patient’s neck, shoulders, and back.
This can avoid any future muscle-related problems.
CPAP users have the option of dual-functionality. They can either sleep on a memory foam pillow or go for a fiber-filled one.
The indented center gives your head and back a comfortable position to rest in. The cutout designs are proven to get rid of any back or shoulder related pain.
- It is easily portable and thus can be used anywhere and at any time.
- It is made of excellent quality material that provides efficiency, durability, and consistency throughout its lifetime.
- Provides comfortability in every way.
- Improves air circulation and breathability.
- Decreases muscle pain and stiffness
Sometimes, the small size of the pillow might cause an issue; however, the design works efficiently, even though it may take some time to get used to.
TruContour CPAP Pillow
TruContour CPAP pillow is also a fantastic option to consider for CPAP users. It has a classy beige color and, thus, looks quite modern and stylish.
This pillow has an adjustable height, which is beneficial for patients who are bothered by a regular pillow’s small size, and to side sleepers who have full masks.
It has cutout designs to provide you everlasting comfort. It’s shaped in the form of an anvil, which adds a comfortable touch for users. It is also lightweight and soft, thus ensuring a peaceful sleep to CPAP users.
This CPAP pillow uses the best of the materials to provide quality and help the users in fighting sleep apnea effectively and quickly.
It is made up of excellent memory foam to give the users a comfortable and durable experience. CPAP users need not worry about investing more in this pillow, as it lasts for very long, without any major inconveniences.
Its anvil shape and design give relief to neck and shoulder muscles, and thus, guarantee a restful night without any pain or muscle fatigue in the morning.
One of the unique features of this pillow is its efficient shape, which can accommodate the user’s body adequately. This reduces the risk of any muscle-related problems.
It also comes with a velour cover that can be washed easily, thus making it a hassle-free affair for its users.
Due to sturdy and good quality, it is also resistant to mites and other related things.
The best feature of this pillow is the adjustable height. All the user has to do is add and remove the pads of the pillow, as per their comfort.
- Works well with any machine, be it CPAP, APAP, or BiPAP.
- Super soft and comfortable, provides you with quality sleep
- Increased air circulation and durability
- Height is adjustable unlike other pillows
This pillow does not have a lot of cons.
CPAP Pillow - Memory Foam Contour Design
This pillow is a ‘must-buy.’ With its exceptional design, material, and functioning, it was bound to make it to our list.
It provides users with two head, and two neck supports for more comfort. It can control mask pressure and mask leaks for increased efficiency. It is a flower-shaped pillow. It can help people with sleeping troubles caused due to Sleep Apnea.
It also comes in three different types:
- Memory foam pillow
- Pillow with a cooling mesh case
- Pillow with extra case
Thus, making it the perfect CPAP pillow for side sleepers, stomach sleepers, or any other!
This pillow is made with memory foam that can provide the users with comfort and peaceful sleeping experience.
This material ensures longevity and, thus, does not incur any additional charges in the near future. The user can also lie in any position he/she wants without reducing the effects of the CPAP machine.
It provides comfort and relaxation to the users without needing any extra facilities.
The material is of good quality, which makes this pillow a recommendable one!
Some of the additional features include the well thought design of the pillow that can provide comfort to light-sleepers as well.
The design is such that the users can wear anything they wish to, without compromising on the quality of sleep.
With its proper alignment, it reduces the chances of soreness or pain in your neck muscles or spine. So, the user can wake up to a good and fresh morning without any of these worries.
It also reduces any leaks in the CPAP machine caused due to varying sleeping positions.
- Goes well with any machine - be it APAP, CPAP, or BiPAP.
- Portable and lightweight
- Soft and comfortable pillow
- Long-lasting and durable
- Protects the user from any muscle-related pain
Thus, this CPAP pillow is worth considering and buying.
Best In Rest Memory Foam CPAP Pillow
Brand: Choice One Medical
This premium quality reversible Memory Foam CPAP Pillow not only reduces mask leaks but also introduces a new level of comfort by incorporating aromatherapy within a pillow. CPAP users often face a dilemma: CPAP machine is working well, the mask fits great, but the sleep quality may remain poor. What many CPAP users forget to take into consideration, is the right choice of pillow. No matter how well the CPAP therapy is set, achieving a deep relaxing sleep without the right pillow may seem a very difficult task.
Best in Rest™ new patented revolutionary technology of herbal infusion of memory foam helps CPAP users achieve a deep restful sleep like no CPAP pillow was able to do before.
This pillow is infused with herbal green tea which helps neutralize odors for a long last freshness and smell. The fact that the odor is kept so a nice clean smell helps with headaches and migraines which is a great advantage for those that suffer from excessive headaches. The cooling gel that is part of the pillow helps reduce perspiration which can lead to a more comfortable sleep. Infused in the gel is mint plant extract which provides a sense of calm and relief to those that experience anxiety. Lastly, the ventilated design of the memory foam reduces build up in moisture and promotes air circulation.
- Moulds to the best shape for your body
- Ventilated memory foam
- Infused with herbal green tea
- Mint & Bamboo Infused Cooling Gel Memory Foam
- Adjustable Pillow Height
- Ideal for sleeping in multiple positions
- 100% Cotton pillowcase
CRADLE ME Contour Memory Foam Pillow
Brand: Cradle Me
The Cradle Me CPAP pillow will help the users get a comfortable sleep with its extraordinary properties and features. It is also an Orthopedic sleeping pillow and, thus, can provide more benefits as compared to other pillows.
It is shaped in the form of a cloud with intricate designs and softness to give the users a fantastic sleep.
It is recommended for users who tend to sleep in various positions and wake up to neck and spine aches due to the CPAP machine. So, this machine is not just a pretty sight but also works well for CPAP users.
The material used in this pillow is made up of soft memory foam. This provides the utmost comfort to the users.
It can also support the user’s neck and spine quite properly and avoid any type of muscle pain. Thus, giving a proper sleeping posture to the user.
Although the material is soft, it is long-lasting and durable. Its effect will not dull, even after regular and frequent use.
One of the additional features includes a durable cover with 60% polyester and 40% bamboo. This ensures the protection and security of the users, without any extra cost.
The cloud design isn’t just for aesthetic purposes. It provides support to the back, neck, and spine, and thus, ensures reliability.
It also has orthopedic and other benefits that are lacking in regular pillows. The memory form is also resistant to various substances. It does not cause any allergic reaction due to allergens.
Lastly, it looks fresh, smells fresh, and gives the user a fresh start to their morning!
- Orthopedic and therapeutic benefits
- Long-lasting and does not get damaged easily
- Gives support to the body and prevents muscle pain
- Resistant to allergens and protects the user from any kind of skin damage
- Odorless and has a fresh feel
Cervical Pillow Contour Pillow
Cervical Pillow is yet another one from our list that the users ought to buy.
It is a simple, white-colored pillow with a minimalistic design. It works efficiently by providing users with comfort and support.
The design and shape may look simple, but their purpose goes way beyond that. It helps in providing support to the user’s neck, shoulder, and spine. Along with that, it maintains a proper posture to avoid any kind of muscle-related issues in the morning.
It is an orthopedic pillow and efficient for side sleepers and back sleepers. These pillows can help such users without reducing the efficiency of the CPAP machine.
This pillow is made up of slow rebound memory foam, which can provide the customers with comfort, and peaceful sleep.
The material used to manufacture this lets the users breathe properly with its softness and openness. Along with that, the shape of the pillow can help in reducing muscular pain, too.
This pillow comes with a bamboo case, which the users can wash easily. This bamboo case is also hypoallergenic and thus protects the users from any kind of allergic reaction.
It has a great build and design to avoid any muscle stiffness caused due to changing or weird sleeping positions.
The users can sleep with full freedom to move anywhere without affecting their CPAP machines and their efficiency, or causing any major leaks.
- Hypoallergenic pillowcase which can be cleaned quickly and without any significant effort
- Minimalistic design to suit the needs of users looking for sophisticated pillows
- Long-lasting and durable, even after using it time and again
- Comfortable, and also provides support and balance to the body while sleeping
This pillow is value for money, as it will help the users in getting the sleep they rightly deserve.
Facefit pillow is another excellent pillow to consider while buying CPAP pillows.
It is a miniature, square-shaped, and white-colored CPAP pillow. It is travel-friendly and fairly portable for users to carry anywhere and at any time.
It has a good thickness as well as softness, which gives the users a perfect combination while sleeping. The users can also adjust the thickness and shape, accordingly.,
This pillow is durable with extra filling and, thus, will not slack or go flat in the long run.
This pillow is filled with a good quality memory foam. This gives the pillow its much-needed softness and longevity.
This pillow is filled with other materials like natural buckwheat hulls as well as shredded foam. These materials let the users have a comfortable and relaxing sleep without any kind of inconvenience.
The softness of the pillow has orthopedic and therapeutic properties, which give your head proper support and protect it from any kind of muscle stiffness.
This pillow is excellent for side sleepers, back sleepers, or any other kind of users as they provide proper support.
It promotes better air circulation due to the excellent quality of the material. Other than that, it also has extra filling and zippers, which ensure proper thickness and weight over time, and also prevents the pillow from getting damaged.
The height and size of this pillow are also re-adjustable. Along with all these benefits, it is resistant to any kind of allergen attacks and protects the users from the same, while they’re sleeping.
The material is harmless and odorless as well.
- A simple yet useful structure and design
- Extra packing and zipping for durability
- Comfortable and easy to use
- Portable and compact
- Customizable according to the users’ needs
- Hypoallergenic and prevents any kind of allergic reactions
- Provides support to your head and fixes posture
These are the benefits of the FaceFit pillow. So, we advise the users to go for this pillow.
Hullo Buckwheat Pillow
Buckwheat pillows are great CPAP pillows with their fixed and customized shape. These pillows are made up of organic hulls that can provide users with firm support.
This pillow is adjustable. The users can add, remove, or change the hulls through a steel zipper.
Users who sleep in different positions throughout the night can have a peaceful sleep with this CPAP pillow. This pillow also has a warranty period with a 60-day money-back guarantee.
This pillow lends support to all the users, especially those who have a habit of snoring. It helps them by keeping the airways wide open for enough air circulation to happen. This gives the users a proper sleep without any worries of getting disturbed and waking up in the middle of the night.
The materials used in this CPAP pillow are organic hulls. These hulls help the pillow in getting its firmness. They also make it long-lasting. The users can easily change the hulls if they wish to without any major inconvenience.
The pillow is made up of cotton twill casing that can provide the customers with more softness. The hulls make it durable and flexible and, thus, allow users to relish in the comfort of this pillow.
The buckwheat hulls also have an aromatic smell that can calm the users and have a soothing effect on them.
One of the best features of this pillow is that it comes in three sizes-small, standard, and king. This can help users customize their pillows without any additional requirements.
The hulls are also organic and can help the users get rid of any chemical, or non-eco-friendly product.
It provides users with the adjustability so that they can adjust their head, neck, and shoulders comfortably, and with perfect alignment.
- Provides support to head, neck, and shoulders with proper alignment
- Eco-friendly and organic
- Has an aromatic smell for a peaceful sleep
- Best for people who have migraines
- Helps in preventing snoring
- Excellent and comfortable shape
Thus, this makes for the perfect pillow to give the users a comfortable sleep.
Sleeping in different positions with your CPAP machine can lead to cervical or severe neck pain. However, the users can prevent this by using the TEMPUR-Neck pillow.
This pillow has excellent properties like proper shape and design, keeping in mind the users’ requirements. It is also available in three different types of pillows as per the users’ body shapes and sizes, to provide them with more flexibility.
The primary purpose of this pillow is to allow the users to have a proper posture and also to keep their airways always open. This does not get affected even if the users change their sleeping positions through the night.
This pillow helps to keep the CPAP machine in its place and also increases the efficiency of the machine and the breathability rate.
This pillow has an ergonomic shape that can help the users relax while sleeping, without risking any muscle stiffness.
This pillow comes in three different sizes to provide variety to the customers. It also has a removable pillow cover that the users can wash quite easily. It is great for side and back sleepers.
It has a 5-year warranty to gain customer loyalty and satisfaction. This can benefit the users as well.
This pillow is made up of memory foam. However, it is not just another memory foam. It is a visco-elastic foam that can change its shape according to the body’s temperature changes and weight.
This material uses extra-firm memory foam, which may feel hard, but which, at the same time, provides extra contouring flexibility to the users. This gives stability to the neck, spine, and shoulders.
It has a thick, polyester cover that provides the users with proper air circulation. It also gives the element of softness to the firm pillow. Thus, making it a right combination for the users.
- An ergonomic shape which gives stability and comfort
- It is long-lasting
- Variety of pillow types
- Reduces muscle pain
- 5-year warranty
Thus, making it one of the best CPAP pillows to exist.
Coop Home Goods Adjustable Loft Bamboo Cooling Pillow
Brand: Coop Home Goods
This Adjustable Loft Bamboo Cooling pillow is excellent for heat retention and comfortability.
It is made up of shredded memory foam that can help the users to sleep nicely and with a proper posture. This pillow also has a 30-day guarantee. If the users do not find it comfortable, they can simply return it within the first 30 days.
This pillow, too, is made up of three sizes - standard, king, and queen size. The users can buy the one they wish to, according to their body’s shape and size.
The users can also remove or add shredded memory foam to adjust the height and size.
This gives more flexibility and freedom to the users who are accustomed to varying adjustments or have different sleeping positions.
This pillow has many features like adjustable height and size, as mentioned above.
Apart from that, it also has bamboo covering that is heat resistant and can provide coolness to the users.
The users can also wash this cover very quickly for more hygiene and cleanliness.
It is also great for users with various sleeping positions other than the routine one. This helps them by preventing muscular pain in the neck or shoulders.
It provides comfortability and flexibility to the users with its customized shape and design.
This pillow is made up of shredded memory foam. It gives the pillow its softness, thickness, as well as other properties.
One of the major benefits of the shredded memory foam is that one can remove or add it at any time to change the size and properties of the pillow.
This makes the pillow more versatile than the others.
Shredded memory foam gives the users increased breathability, along with comfort. It also provides proper posture to the users and hence, prevents orthopedic problems.
It is long-lasting and does not flatten easily.
The bamboo case is 60% polyester with 40% bamboo, which gives the user the benefits of both the materials.
This bamboo cover can be washed and reused easily. As bamboo is sturdy and robust, it is resistant to attacks from ticks and mites and is also hypoallergenic.
Due to its thin nature, it does not let the heat seep into it and provides users with the feeling of coolness every time they use it.
- With its flexible nature, it is adjustable for all the sleeping positions.
- The cover is easily washable
- Provides great comfort and support
- It is versatile
- Provides coolness to the users
So, this pillow also is an amazing requirement for all CPAP users trying to find an ideal CPAP pillow.
PureComfort Side Sleeping Pillow
As the name suggests, it is a great pillow for side sleeping and for providing comfort to the users.
It is made up of memory foam that can provide softness to the users. It also helps in supporting the neck, back, and spinal cord.
Additionally, it gives relief to ear-related problems.
It has a unique design which can help the users to adjust it according to their comfort level. It also reduces the pressure to the user’s head and gives relief from all kinds of pain.
This pillow is made up of eco-friendly memory foam to provide comfort, along with the sustainability.
The cover is made up of bamboo. This gives firmness to the pillow and provides the utmost protection from various allergens, ticks, and mites.
The users do not have to worry about washing it as this cover is machine washable.
This pillow gives users relief from earache and increased ear pressure.
It also has an eco-friendly memory foam that is also CERTIPUR certified memory foam. It is best for providing users with comfort and support.
It comes with a 10-year warranty and easy customer-friendly policies.
- Easily washable
- Provide comfort and relief from pain
- It comes with a 5-year warranty and 100 days exchange period
- Protection from allergens, ticks, and mites
Thus, there is a range of options to choose from.
So choose any of these pillows and get the perfect sleep without letting Sleep Apnea come in the way!
Written by The Sleeplay Team
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This year TableAir had an opportunity to participate in two well-known exhibitions and present own production with the new and exciting features.
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Your standard minimally invasive surgery requires three to six small incisions, or ports, but at Cleveland Clinic, surgeons are using single-port surgery that is done through a belly-button incision, leaving little or no scarring. For example, the single-incision gallbladder removal, called a laparoscopic cholecystectomy, is done under general anesthesia and takes about an hour, followed by a two-hour recovery. Patients typically return to work in one or two days with little to no scarring.
But not just gallbladder patients benefit from the less invasive approaches at Cleveland Clinic. In December 2007, surgeons Daniel Geisler, MD, and Feza Remzi, MD, completed a single-port colon removal on a 72-year-old woman who had large colon polyps. A conventional colectemy used to require a foot-long incision, and even a laparoscopic approach involves three to five small abdominal incisions. This patient? “She had just one small incision about four centimeters long and since most of it is in the navel, you can barey see it,” explains Dr. Geisler. Four days later, she was back at home.
We’ve all heard about how difficult kidney replacement surgery can be, especially for the donor. But when Scott Bolender, 39, received a kidney from his niece, Chanda Calentine, her operation at Cleveland Clinic involved just a single-port procedure through her navel, leaving her virtually scarless. Mrs. Calentine was in the hospital for only a few days after the procedure and a few weeks later she returned to her active career as a theater director and dance teacher.
There are many more inspiring tales like these, including the story of Carolyn Morrison, who had a hysterectomy in 2008. She saw Pedro Escobar, MD, a surgeon in Cleveland Clinic’s gynecologic oncology department, and he asked if she would like to undergo a single-port procedure through her navel. “The absence of blood vessels and muscles around the navel area virtually eliminates the risk of certain complications that can occur with conventional minimally invasive surgery,” says Dr. Escobar. Mrs. Morrison, now 60, was thrilled with the results. “I had a C-section 30 years ago and couldn’t stand for six weeks,” she says. “With this procedure, I had medication only while I was in the hospital, which was just for one day. The best part: I had no pain!”
If single-port surgeries sound amazing to you, this next technique will really blow your mind. Natural orifice transluminal endoscopic surgery, or NOTES, is an approach by which a diseased organ is removed through a natural orifice—no port entry required. In other words, this is scarless surgery with a very quick recovery time.
In March of this year, a female patient with a diseased kidney underwent a procedure to remove the organ through her vagina—the entire surgery was performed transvaginally. Cleveland Clinic surgeon Jihad Kaouk, MD, and his team developed the procedure. A traditional approach involves performing some aspects of the surgery through the back, leaving a long scar. A laparoscopic approach involves performing part of the surgery through the belly button, leaving a small scar. This new option is scarless, and the patient was discharged less than 24 hours after the procedure.
Even some heart patients are receiving innovative treatment at Cleveland Clinic; they’re undergoing percutaneous techniques, performed by going through or under the skin. “There are a lot of patients, especially older patients, who we find are very risky for open heart surgery for various reasons,” says Cleveland Clinic cardiac surgeon Lars Svensson, MD, PhD. “We’ve been able to develop techniques without having to open the patient’s chest.”
Some percutaneous procedures are still experimental, but others, such as robotic surgery and percutaneous valve repair, are part of everyday clinical practice. Cleveland Clinic has played a role in developing some key percutaneous treatments and operates one of the largest hospital-based robotic heart surgery programs in the nation.
These less invasive techniques allow Cleveland Clinic patients like 13-year-old Max Byer, who needed his entire colon and rectum removed because of an inherited condition, to leave the hospital with a scar the size of a coin. His mother’s colon removal, which took place 25 years ago, left a foot-long scar along her abdomen. Cleveland Clinic surgeon Daniel Geisler, MD, removed Max’s entire large intestine and rectum through what is believed to be the world’s first single-incision proctocolectomy. The procedure, which also created a j-shaped pouch from his small intestine to reconnect the digestive tract, significantly reduces his risk of developing colon cancer from a condition called familial adenomatous polyposis, or FAP, which causes the growth of hundreds of precancerous polyps in the colon and rectum.
“This is just so different,” marvels his mother at the results. Not only did her son experience less pain, a quicker recovery and less visible scarring than she did two decades ago, he also faces a dramatically lower chance of developing scar tissue and complications later in life.
“At Cleveland Clinic, we are always researching better ways to deliver what is truly the least invasive option for patients,” says Dr. Geisler.
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Those of you who have been in our store (downtown Salem, Ma.) know what an eclectic place we have; Where else would you find Wizard of Oz and Harry Potter items, Halloween collectibles (including Jim Shore), and cute stuffed toys? Along with books on Salem's History and Modern Day Witchcraft, jewelry, the best souvenirs and tee-shirts in the Witch City, and an ever-expanding selection of gifts, we've been the place to shop since 1991.
This website contains just a sampling of our favorite items, and we add new items often. You can place an order online or you can call us with your order at 1-800-821-8179 or 978-745-3003. And when you visit Salem, be sure and stop in to see us at our store at 191 Essex Street or our sister store, Salemdipity on Pickering Wharf near The Friendship of Salem.
For a look at what we're doing, what's happening in Salem, and what we're interested in, like us on Facebook!
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The crash version of the Replacements’ song “Achin’ to Be” was released on the Facedown Records tribute CD, Left of the Dial: a Pop Tribute to the Replacements. You can hear the tune on Spotify. Or better yet, buy the CD at Amazon or CDBaby.
Crash tracked “Crank” for the Catherine Wheel tribute CD called Too Much is Not Enough – The Catherine Wheel Cover Compilation. Stay tuned for release info.
crash worked up a mock commercial jingle called “Top Popsicles” for The New Sell Out – A Tribute to The Who, released by Futureman Records. Other bands featured on the disc include The Shazam, BMX Bandits, Mitch Easter, Jim Babjak (Smithereens). Our track is part of the Commercial Jingle, track 24.
“I Forgot,” track 3 on the debut CD, from blind to blue, appears on a compilation CD, titled Hit the Hay Vol. 4, that was released by Swedish label Sound Asleep Records. Sound Asleep boss Jerker Emanuelson lined up an impressive list of artists for this CD including Will Rigby (ex-db’s), Ron Flynt (ex-20/20) and Tom Stevens (ex-Long Ryders), just to name a few. Needless to say, it is a treat for crash to be included on a compilation with such legendary musicians.
An alternate version of the song “Wave” from from blind to blue is featured on a CD sampler being distributed free with the Spring issue of Pop Culture Press magazine.
“Breakthrough,” a track off the crash full-length release Another Vivid Scene, appears on a sampler CD sponsored by Dewars and Oasis CD Manufacturing called “Dewars Rocks Atlanta 2002” to be released at the Atlantis Music Conference 2002. Sponsored by Dewars, Oasis and Sonicbids, this CD features 19 Sonicbids artists and was given to all attendants of the Atlantis Music Conference in Atlanta.
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Microsoft’s mobile engineers appear to be paying close attention to the work of their peers over at its application development business. In that world, if a certain component is used multiple times throughout a project, you simply split it off into a standalone library that is shared among the other program files to avoid burdening the user’s system with duplicate code. The camera that debuted in one of the most recent of Redmond’s patent filings to have reached their disclosure date applies the same principle to capturing images.
The design separates the lenses from the sensor that turns the incoming light into usable electrical signals and implements that functionality in a standalone circuit meant to be positioned about halfway between the front- and rear-facing camera of a Surface Pro. Right above is an adjustable mirror placed directly on the path of the optical output that shifts in the appropriate angle when a photograph is taken to reflect the light down to the sensor for processing.
Microsoft is weighing a couple of different options for implementing the design. The first is illustrated to the left and involves using a motor to rotate the mirror on its hinge in the direction of the camera being used for a shoot. It’s the more straightforward of the two but may present some difficulties in the limited confines of a tablet, where a moving mechanical instrument may not necessarily be too welcome. That’s why any future Surface Pro models that might use the arrangement are much more likely to feature the second implementation.
That setup swaps the motor for a pair of electrically-activated mirrors that can turn transparent at a certain voltage. In the second illustration above, the panels are arranged in a crossed formation that automatically activates the reflector corresponding to the camera being used to let the incoming light pass through down to the image sensor. The patent filing specifies that the mirrors could also be positioned above one another when the front- and back-facing lenses are not aligned, which reserves Microsoft the option of the lowering the Surface Pro’s rear camera in future iterations.
That arrangement removes the need to attach a dedicated image sensor to each camera, which Redmond believes could free up space within its tablet for other components. All the minor placement adjustments facilitated as a result can potentially add up to make the Surface Pro noticeably thinner and thereby narrow the gap with the iPad.
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Zinnia Naqvi, May 2020
Still-life is a genre I never imagined I would dabble in. I came to photography through the genre of documentary, and at first I wanted to be a photojournalist. In university I realized that I don’t have the temperament to work in photojournalism. I don’t like to carry a camera on me at all times or be in the middle of action. I like to work slowly and process my ideas over time. All of my work has included in some way, performance for the camera, usually with human subjects as the focus. With this project, I wanted to create a similar kind of performance with objects rather than people. The objects are arranged in a precarious and unnatural way, to emphasize the fickleness and spontaneity of the concepts I am merging in the images. These set-ups could not exist in the gallery space—even a light breeze would knock them down. Their positions are preserved for the camera and only that moment.
For this work I drew particular inspiration from the techniques of artist Leslie Hewitt, particularly the “Riffs on Real Time” (2002) and “Still Life” (2013) series.1 Hewitt is an African American artist who works in photography, sculpture, video, text and assemblage. She was born in 1977 in Saint Albans, New York, and earned a BFA from the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, New York, and an MFA in sculpture from Yale University.2
When I first came across Hewitt’s photos online, I was not overly impressed but rather saw them as a call to minimalism and sculpture. However, when I started examining them more closely, I started to understand and pick up on the political implications of her work.
Many critics draw comparisons between Hewitt’s work and Dutch vanitas paintings. What I love about this comparison is that visually, the two works are completely different. I have never been a big fan of European Renaissance painting, and I was skeptical of the comparison between the two genres. I thought predominantly white critics must be fabricating comparisons in order to fit Hewitt’s work within the canon of European art history. It surprised me, then, to hear Hewitt’s statement, when asked about this parallel in an interview with Julia Wolkoff from 2017: “I began to reread Dutch still life through a sociopolitical lens. This artistic form emerged at the beginning of global capitalism and the intensification of our relationship to displaced objects, things we don’t make ourselves.”3
She talks about the loaded nature of these paintings as referencing time, globalization, industry and more. Her contemporary counterpoint for this genre is thinking about the immateriality of images, as well as creating a space which flattens and distorts the ways in which we collect objects.
She creates instead “visual puzzles”4 that examine how we construct meaning between images and objects, doing so in a way that suggests “many concurrent histories and experiences.”5 “I select objects and arrange them to suggest different meanings without a directive or a didactic mode of address.”6 Hewitt says that the process for creating her works can start out as impulsive or irrational, but then goes through self-imposed stages of logic or structure.
I have very much borrowed this technique from Hewitt in order to create my still lives. I began with the images as a source document, and then chose corresponding objects to illustrate the ideas I am imposing onto the images. I have had to create certain boundaries or rules for each arrangement, which perhaps are only visible to myself. The sites I am dealing with in these images have been photographed by millions of people and exist in many public archives, but I chose to limit myself to only use my own family’s images, and only from a few particular years, in order for some limit and consistency in aesthetic. Using my own family’s images affords me a certain sense of freedom with regards to how they can be manipulated. Ultimately, my own family’s experiences are illustrative of how millions of other people interact with these spaces. They are just specific examples that pertain to my upbringing.
Hewitt says when asked about her childhood and her parents, “This probably sounds strange to say now, but home was a politicized space.”7 She talks about how her mother attended the March on Washington in 1963. She and her brothers would spend hours studying a documentary series about the March, trying to spot their mother on the screen. They did not succeed, but Hewitt learned to pay attention to less central stories, not only that of Martin Luther King but of all the people in the crowd. She learned to appreciate how individual stories create a support structure for a central experience. Hewitt states, “The snapshots that I choose to include in my works, for example, don’t always depict my personal family, but they do show manicured lawns or other little hints that complicate the conventional notion of the black experience.”8
This work embraces both the domestic and studio spaces as sites of production, something I find deeply resonant—especially since, for many artists today, they are one in the same.9 While Hewitt does maintain a strategic distance between the inclusion of her body and her work, she says that if there is anything intrinsically feminine about the work, it is the use of the domestic space. She likens the home or the domestic to the womb—a space for incubation, tests, nurturing, and safety. By extension, one can say the same about the home studio.
One thing that drew me to her work as an inspiration is the perceived quietness of its politics. I mean “quiet” in the sense that the political is not the first thing one would notice about the work. At first glance, these works are sculptural, and draw parallels to minimalism. Closer readings of the work reveal deliberate political and historical allegories. Only those who dare to spend time with her work will be able to read those connections.
Hewitt strategically fills her photographs with political undercurrents that aren’t apparent to the untrained eye, giving her work a marketable edge. She says “I select objects and arrange them to suggest different meanings without a directive or a didactic mode of address.”10 The work could be collected by a private buyer, a gallery or museum. It could just as easily hang in a home or in an educational institution. To me, this is a clever way to draw in a broad public while in a sense, tricking them into buying into your politics.
In comparison to this project, my work centers my political views and ongoing critique of the structures that form my experience of identity. I use a similar strategy, to try to make works that are visually appealing, yet also centre my political beliefs. For the viewer who does not want to engage in that level of the work, they may focus purely on aesthetics, but they would be missing my central position on to the way the images have been arranged. Through closely looking at Hewitt’s work I began to understand how to use beauty as a strategy, to engage the viewer in the first glance, and tempt them to engage in my politics if they have the will.
1. Julia Wolkoff, “Leslie Hewitt: In The Studio,” Art in America, September 2017, pp. 108-115)
2. “Leslie Hewitt,” Guggenheim Collection Online (2020 Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation), accessed January 2, 2020, https://www.guggenheim.org/artwork/artist/leslie-hewitt)
3. Julia Wolkoff, pp. 108
4. Ibid, 109
5. Ibid, 109
6. Ibid, 115
7. Ibid, 111
8. Ibid, 114
9. Ibid, 115
10. Ibid, 114
All images © Zinnia Naqvi 2020.
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Go any place on any date in history See nations, armies, battles, ships. Historic city streetmaps. Explore any date in the history of human civilization from 3000BC to today. Historic cities & battles. Battle maps. Fires, quakes, eruptions.
A Facebook meme accurately describes some of Columbus's most brutal practices in the Caribbean.By Dan MacGuillChristopher Columbus sold sex slaves — some as young as nine years old. As time passes, a greater and greater number of people have been exposed to the often uncomfortable historical details of Christopher Columbus’s voyages to the Americas at the turn of the 15th and 16th centuries. The murder, enslavement and mistreatment of the native peoples of the Caribbean islands which Columbus and his crews conquered, can provoke shock and even disbelief, more than 500 years on. In May 2018, readers asked about the veracity of a meme which claimed that Columbus had been involved in procuring and distributing women and even children as sex slaves: Columbus Provided Native Sex Slaves to His Men: In addition to putting the natives to work as slaves in his gold mines, Columbus also sold sex slaves to his men — some as young as 9. Columbus and his men also raided villages for sex and sport. In the year 1500, Columbus wrote: “A hundred castellanoes are as easily obtained for a woman as for a farm, and it is very general and there are plenty of dealers who go about looking for girls; those from nine to ten are now in demand.”
The origin of humans and early human societies. The origin of humans and early human societies, a tutorial in Technological and environmental transformations (to c. 600 BCE), the first period in the AP World History course.
World history or global history (not to be confused with diplomatic, transnational or international history) is a field of historical study that emerged as a distinct academic field in the 1980s. It examines history from a global perspective.
Where did humans come from and how did those early communities function? How did the advent of agriculture change human society (neolithic revolution)?
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Navigate through 3 000 years of world history, world timelines of civilizations (plus maps), people and world events.
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The immediate past Governor of Imo State Rochas Okorocha played host to a delegation of Igbo student resident in Jos, Plateaue State.
In his office in Abuja, Rochas, who is now the senator representing Imo West senatorial district, received the Jos based Igbo Student’s Community who had paid the him a courtesy visit.
It became an emotional session for the ex Governor after meeting with the student and realizing one of the leaders of the delegation was a graduate of his foundation – Rochas Foundation
Rochas shared the video on his twitter page. You can watch below.
I received in audience the Igbo Students Community in Jos, the Plateau State capital.
It was an emotional meeting for me as one of the leaders of the delegation was a graduate of the @Rochas_fdn.
— Senator Rochas Okorocha (@realRochas) September 24, 2019
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Here’s what you need to know to end your day. China’s economy weakened in the third quarter. while phonemaker Xiaomi is said to be heading back to the loan market after a two-year break. Chinese.
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Home > Plan Participation > Loans and Withdrawals > TSP Loans > Loan Basics. If you meet the loan eligibility rules and your loan request is approved, the loan amount is removed from your TSP account.. Must not have a court order against your tsp account. residential loan Eligibility Rules.
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How far along: 39 weeks
Size of Baby: 20 in & 7.25 lb
Fruit/vegetable comparison: Small Watermelon
Total weight gain: 28 lbs (almost 29 lbs)
Sleep: Not too bad other then getting up to use the restroom several times a night and having to continue to turn over to relieve my sore hips. I'm honestly not complaining now that the heartburn & indigestion are almost none existent!
Movement: Love feeling her move. As she is running out of room her little kicks and punching can be a bit more painful, but I know I'm going to miss this feeling once she is out.
Unglamorous body changes: My stomach is starting to feel pretty stretched. There are times when I feel like it can't stretch any farther and my belly can be quite sensitive. Still no stretch marks though! Fingers crossed it stays that way. Ha!
What I miss: I remember the days when I could get pretty comfortable pretty easily but these days it takes a little more time to get there. Then I'm only comfortable for a short time before I have to switch positions.
Milestones: She's probably able to flex her limbs now. Her brain is still rapidly developing -- she's getting smarter by the week! Her nails may extend past his fingertips. (the bump.com)
Labor Signs: I've been having a lot of Braxton Hicks lately. There were even a couple of times this week that I thought I could be going into labor. Friday night the contractions were so strong that is was contorting my belly and you could even see the shape of Maggie!! It lasted for a few hours but then started to lessen. I've definitely been having contractions everyday but they are inconsistent. I saw the doctor today and she said I was still 1 cm dialated but maybe a little more then that. I was also 50% effaced, and she still thinks I will go into labor after my due date. :(
Best moment this week: The nursery is finally finished and I took pictures of it this weekend. I plan to post them this Thursday!! I also got to have lunch with my friends Brittney (who was in town from Houston) & her sister Chelsea on Friday. I also met with a photographer on Wednesday to discuss newborn pictures. She was a little pricey so I'm still looking. Finally, Ryan and I had probably our last date night on Saturday night. It was a pretty great week (other then Maggie didn't come).
Looking forward to: Maggie's due date being here and obviously being that much closer to the day she actually decides to make her appearance. I'm also looking forward to 3 months off from work to spend with my little girl.
Since I think little Maggie is going to miss St. Patrick's Day I wanted to post what will most likely be her first holiday outfit. How cute is this bunny onesie and leg warmers??? I also got a black bow to go along with this.
This outfit is from here. (Picture is from the etsy shop.)
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Jephthah the Gileadite was a mighty warrior. His father was Gilead; his mother was a prostitute. -- Judges 11:1 (NIV)
Jephthah was the son of a prostitute.
That’s not exactly the start of greatest; far from it—it’s really the start of something that’s doomed to failure before launch. In the eyes of man, Jephthah is pretty much dirt—as low as you can get. Surely not fit to be a warrior that leads Israel to victory.
But the Bible rarely gives us what we expect—it only gives us what we need. Israel wanted a mighty warrior—a respectful figure. God gave them a warrior—but on his terms. God, time and time again, shows that family doesn’t make you; religion doesn’t make you; money doesn’t make you. There’s only one thing that makes you: God. Constantly God turns a nothing into a something.
God doesn’t go out and chose the ones who should excel. He doesn’t find the large, strong man to lead his people; he finds the outcasts and weak men—the men who are better off tending to sheep. And with these men he makes greatness. What does it show? It shows that in God’s eyes that no man is better or stronger or more fit for his grace; we are equal to him. He doesn’t need to find the norm to do the job, because to him the norm is any man and to him any man can do the job just as well.
The thing about God is he never sees anyone or anything like man does. He doesn’t see circumstance—he only sees opportunity. He can turn all of us into opportunity if we let him. There is no one greater and no one less in God’s eyes—every person, when we open our hearts to change, can do amazing things through God.
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The Honda Pilot is a roomy and versatile mid-size SUV that offers seating for up to eight in three rows of seating. A smooth 3.5-liter V6 with cylinder deactivation mated to a 5-speed automatic provides good fuel economy and adequate power. Overall, the Pilot is focused on comfort and safety rather than outright handling, featuring a comfortable and composed ride, but also noticable body-roll and vague steering feel. Thanks to optional all-wheel-drive, the Pilot remains sure-footed, however, and excels with good safety equipment and crash test ratings.
Changes for 2014
For 2014, the Honda Pilot receives no significant improvements.
The 2014 Honda Pilot SUV is available in 8 trim levels.
The Honda Pilot LX comes standard with front dual-zone automatic air conditioning, rear air-conditioning, cruise control, power windows, cloth seat-upholstery, 6-way driver bucket seat, 4-way passenger bucket seat, split-folding bench rear seat, split-folding third-row bench seat, tilting and telescoping steering-wheel, AM/FM radio with CD-player, wireless connectivity, ABS, stability control, front airbags, front side airbags, side-curtain airbags, tire-pressure monitor, parking assist and trailering hitch.
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Assalammualaikum and Hello everyone !
The last post I update on how I cleaning my makeup brush, there so many comment that said I clean my brush wrong, this supposed to like this and this and that..bla blaa blaaa.. Wahhh! Thank you guys for the advise. So, right now I'm updated my version of cleaning my makeup brushes by making my own brush cleansing palette. YEAYYY.. Hehehee..
Only simple equipment you need. Yahh!
Container lid/cover tu I just using the last raya biskut container. Teehee~
and Hot glue gun..
Why I used Container Lid/Cover?? Because it can hold water in it. Where it is not to much water nor less. You can easily make your cleaning process easier with no clumsy messy works done.
After that, just let the hot glue gune dry and you have it! Your own personal brush cleansing palette.
***Another option you can choose is to find something or plate with texture in it. That works too but if you don't have it. You can try this idea..
And now, I have new technique on how I clean my makeup brushes!
I'm still using the Makeup Cleansing from Daiso and mix with water. Then, take my makeup brushes and using a circular motion around the texture kinda feel. This technique will not make your brushes to sit in water for a long time. This can ensure that the glue that holds the ferrule, the handle and the bristles not broken. You only need to clean the bristles part only. Get it?!
By the way, this cleansing palette is easy to be keep as well. I normally keep it in my drawer and everytime I want to use it I just take it and get my makeup brushes clean!
Thank you for reading this ^_^
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Peter and Margaret Eaton owned Lilies from 1969 until the 1990s. They lived in the house and also ran a bookselling business from it.
Peter Eaton wrote this booklet on the history of Lilies in 1986. There are printed copies still around in the village, and we felt it was worth publishing the text online. Click HERE or on the picture for the pdf.
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He was once one of the Republican party's rising stars.There was even talk of Bob McDonnell running for the White House. But today, the former Virginia Governor and his wife are charged with taking gifts from a local businessman in exchange for using the governor's position to help his company. According to the indictment, they accepted:
–A silver Rolex, engraved with "71st Governor of Virginia."
–Two sets of golf clubs.
–Two gold Oscar de la Renta dresses.
–Two Armani dresses and matching jacket.
- Louis Vuitton shoes, wallet and purse.
- Also, a 50-thousand dollar loan and a 15-thousand dollar wedding gift for the McDonnell's daughter.
The big question is whether their actions add up to corruption. Joe Johns has the latest.
John Berman discussed the case with Senior Legal Analyst Jeffrey Toobin.
Anderson Cooper goes beyond the headlines to tell stories from many points of view, so you can make up your own mind about the news. Tune in weeknights at 8 and 10 ET on CNN.
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On a warm and sunny summer, cool and refreshing drinks can make our day. Whether you’re just chilling in the garden or being exhausted from a 10 kilometre run in the burning midday sun – grabbing a nicely chilled and flavoured canned drink is never a bad idea. However, there’s one thing we frequently tend to forget about: Our experience of enjoying a sparkling drink could become even better if we knew that during production people and environment were treated respectfully. Therefore, many companies have recently shifted their focus from creating more and more spectacular flavours and increasing their turnover to fair trade, eco-consciousness and sustainability. Here are five beverage companies that support the environment and whose canned drinks you should definitely put on your next shopping list.
Among all soft drinks, Cola might be the most famous one. New Zealand based Karma Cola recently surprised their Twitter followers with the following fact: “2 billion cola-branded drinks are consumed around the world every day but not one contains cola.” Accordingly, it was their goal to put cola back in the can – and so they did. Since 2010, Karma Cola has sold 12 million units of their fair trade organic cola, lemonade and ginger ale. But there’s even more to this: From each sale three Cents go back to the cola nut growers in Sierra Leone, who provide the base ingredient of the cola drink.
Fourpure, a brewery from Bermondsey established in 2013, was the first London brewery to exclusively use cans for their entire product range. This way, they decided to choose the lighter, more durable and more recyclable material compared to glass. Moreover, before the end of 2017, they had almost halved their water usage of 2014. “Sustainability was a driving force when we started, and the more we go on, the more integral it’s becoming” states Jethro Holman from Fourpure. Overall, the company is a true role model and acts exemplary in many respects.
There’s no doubt that naming your drink ‘ugly’ requires a decent amount of courage, but this company had quite a good reason to do just that. They wanted to expose the ugly truth, which is products promising health and happiness, even though they might be stuffed with unhealthy ingredients. Ugly Drinks, on the contrary, feature all natural, flavoured sparkling water with no sugar, sweetener or calories. Aside from that, sustainability is a serious issue for them: Their cans are made from recycled metal and claimed to be 100% recyclable.
Green Sheep Water
Green Sheep Water is very likely to become my favourite drink on this list. Founders Nicole Doucet and Jess Page are very ambitious to promote the use of eco-friendly metal, which they explain can be recycled more often and more efficiently than any other packaging material. First, they started selling their water in metal bottles only, however, they recently launched a standard 12-ounce can version of their still water. The minimalist look of the products makes them appear very high-quality.
Dash Water is another zero-calorie sparkling water with no sugar and sweeteners. But providing a drink made of natural and just a few ingredients is only half the mission of founders Alex Wright and Jack Scott: As they both have a farming background, they’ve seen first-hand how much food gets actually wasted. Therefore, they’re aiming to reduce food waste by using wonky fruits and vegetables for their drinks. They source wonky cucumbers from Essex farms, while ugly lemons are imported from Sicily. “We’re passionate about offering drinks that are healthy but also crafted in a sustainable way,” says Alex Wright.
Which one of these drinks would you like to try? Do you know some other beverage companies that support sustainability? Leave us a comment in the section below.
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Williams v. Jackson
ORDER signed by Magistrate Judge Edmund F. Brennan on 10/12/2017 GRANTING 44 Request to the extent that plaintiff shall have another thirty days within which to file objections 40 and 41 Findings and Recommendations. (Hunt, G)
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA
BOBBY JAMES WILLIAMS,
No. 2:16-cv-2567-MCE-EFB P
Plaintiff is a state prisoner proceeding without counsel in an action brought under 42
U.S.C. § 1983. In his October 2, 2017 filing, he states that as of September 6, 2017, he has been
transferred to and from various prisons. He claims that his personal property, including legal
documents, is “missing” and that he “cannot defend” himself in this lawsuit without his property.
ECF No. 44. He requests a court order directing CDCR to locate and produce his property. He
also requests a “90 day extension of time.” Id.
It is not clear what deadline plaintiff wishes to extend in this action. The only deadlines –
which have now expired – were for the parties to file objections within fourteen days to the
court’s September 1, 2017 and September 5, 2017, findings and recommendations. See ECF No.
40 (recommending that plaintiff’s motion for a preliminary injunction be denied) & ECF No. 41
(recommending that defendant’s motion to dismiss be denied). In an abundance of caution, the
court will direct the Clerk of the Court to reserve these findings and recommendations upon
plaintiff and grant him a thirty day extension of time to file any objections.
Should any delay in the return of plaintiff’s legal property interfere with his ability to meet
a court-imposed deadline in the future, plaintiff may request that the court grant him an extension
of time, explaining why he has been unable to meet the deadline in the time provided. If plaintiff
seeks additional time on the grounds he did not have adequate access to his legal property, he
must indicate why he is unable to meet the deadline without that property, what specific requests
he has made for access to that property, and how prison officials have responded to those
To the extent plaintiff seeks the return of his personal property, such claims cannot be
adjudicated in this action, where they cannot be properly exhausted through the administrative
appeals process. See McKinney v. Carey, 311 F.3d 1198, 1199-1201 (9th Cir. 2002) (per curiam)
and Rhodes v. Robinson, 621 F.3d 1002, 1004-07 (9th Cir. 2010) (together holding that claims
must be exhausted prior to the filing of the original or supplemental complaint); Jones v. Felker,
No. CIV S-08-0096 KJM EFB P, 2011 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 13730, at *11-15 (E.D. Cal. Feb. 11,
2011); Fed. R. Civ. P. 20(a)(2) (multiple defendants may be joined in an action only where the
suit regards “the same transaction, occurrence, or series of transactions or occurrences” or “any
question of law or fact common to all defendants”).
Accordingly, IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that plaintiff’s October 2, 2017 request (ECF
No. 44) is granted to the extent that plaintiff shall have another thirty days within which to file
objections to the court’s September 1, 2017 and September 5, 2017 findings and
recommendations. In addition, the Clerk of the Court is directed to serve upon plaintiff a copy of
each findings and recommendations (ECF Nos. 40 & 41).
DATED: October 12, 2017.
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Disaggregated Trade Flows and the "Missing Globalization Puzzle"
Boriss Siliverstovs and
No 08-209, KOF Working papers from KOF Swiss Economic Institute, ETH Zurich
This study analyzes the stability of the distance coefficient values over time in the generalized gravity equation of Bergstrand (1989) using both aggregate and disaggregated trade flows among 22 OECD countries recorded for the sample period covering 1970 until 2000. We estimate the gravity equation both in its traditional form as well as by taking into account multilateral resistance as suggested in Baier and Bergstrand (2007). First of all, we find that the missing globalization puzzle, typically observed in empirical gravity models for aggregate trade flows, largely disappears when one estimates a gravity model using disaggregated trade data at the level of individual industries. Secondly, we document that accounting for multilateral price resistance alone can provide some evidence against the missing globalization puzzle. At the same time, the results obtained for a traditional specification of the gravity equation emphasizing the importance of disaggregated trade flows in explaining the distance puzzle remain largely intact. We also illustrate how the aggregation bias could have contributed to a typical finding of a non-declining trade-deterring role of distance in the existing literature.
Keywords: Gravity model; Missing globalization puzzle; Distance coefficient; Multilateral resistance (search for similar items in EconPapers)
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Ruins of Espíritu Pampa
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Vilcabamba (in hispanicized spelling), Willkapampa (Aymara and Quechua) is often called the Lost City of the Incas. Vilcabamba means "sacred plain" in Quechua. The modern name for the Inca ruins of Vilcabamba is Espiritu Pampa (Plain of the Spirits). Vilcabamba is located in Echarate District of La Convención Province in the Cuzco Region of Peru.
Vilcabamba was the capital of the Neo-Inca State from 1539 to 1572. The Neo-Inca State was the last refuge of the Inca Empire until it fell to the Spaniards and their indigenous allies in 1572, signaling the end of Inca resistance to Spanish rule. Subsequently, Vilcabamba was abandoned and its location forgotten. In 1911 explorer Hiram Bingham met local Peruvians who knew where the ruins were, which they called Espiritu Pampa . In 1964, Gene Savoy identified the ruins of Espiritu Pampa as the fabled Vilcabamba, a designation widely accepted by archaeologists and historians.
Vilcabamba or Espiritu Pampa is located near the Chontabamba River, a tributary of the Urubamba River. The Inca capital has often been referred to as Vilcabamba the Old to distinguish it from the town of Vilcabamba the New, of Spanish origin and 35 kilometres (22 mi) in straight-line distance southwest of Old Vilcabamba.
In 2010, items belonging to the Wari culture and radiocarbon dated to about 700 CE were found at Espiritu Pampa. This discovery indicated that the site was occupied long before it became the Inca capital in 1539. As of 2013, archaeological investigations of the site were incomplete and the ruins of Espiritu Pampa were inaccessible by vehicle.
La Convención province in which Vilcabamba is located is extremely rugged, occupying the north-eastern slopes of the Andes and sloping down to the Amazon Basin. The terrain includes snow-covered mountains, forest, lowland jungle, and rivers running through deep canyons. Access and transportation within the area was difficult and would hinder Spanish efforts to destroy the last outposts of the Inca Empire.
The Incas had occupied the Vilcabamba region since about 1450 CE, establishing major centers at Machu Picchu, Choquequirao, Vitcos, and Vilcabamba. Thus, the Incas were familiar with the region when Inca emperor, Manco Inca Yupanqui, won the Battle of Ollantaytambo against the Spanish and their Indian allies in January 1537. Despite the victory Manco was under intense pressure from the Spanish. He decided that Ollantaytambo was too close to Cusco, controlled by the Spanish, so he withdrew westward to the Inca center of Vitcos. Almagro sent his lieutenant Rodrigo Orgóñez in pursuit with 300 Spaniards and numerous Indian allies. In July 1537, Orgoñez occupied and sacked Vitcos taking many prisoners, but Manco escaped.
Manco Inca survived another Spain raid in 1539 by Gonzalo Pizarro, 300 Spanish soldiers, and Indian allies. The Spanish and the Incas fought a battle at Huayna Pukara (Huayna Fort), west of Vitcos and about 22 kilometres (14 mi) from Vilcabamba. Several Spaniards and Indians were killed, but Manco again escaped. Pizarro stayed in the region for more than two months searching for Manco unsuccessfully, but capturing Manco's principal wife Cura Ocllo. The Spaniards wrote of the region that "great resources are needed to undertake a penetration of that land. It can be done only with very heavy expenditure." The Spanish would not attempt another major military expedition into Vilcabamba until 1572. As the two Spanish raids demonstrated, Vitcos was accessible to the Spanish and Manco developed Vilcabamba as a more remote refuge.
In the years following the Spanish raids, the Incas and the Spaniards maintained uneasy diplomatic relations with visits back and forth between Vilcabamba and Cuzco, the Spanish capital. The murder of a Spanish envoy by the Incas persuaded Peruvian Viceroy Francisco de Toledo to conquer the Vilcabamba region and end Inca rule. On June 24, 1572, a Spanish army, led by veteran conquistador Martin Hurtado de Arbieto, made a final advance on the Incas' remote jungle capital. "At 10 o'clock," wrote Hurtado in his account of the campaign, "they marched into the city of Vilcabamba, all on foot, for it is the most wild and rugged country, in no way suitable for horses." What they discovered was a city built "for about a thousand fighting Indians, besides many other women, children, and old people" filled with "four hundred houses."
In 1572, the conqueror and governor of Vilcabamba, Martin Hurtado de Arbieto, founded San Francisco de la Victoria de Vilcabamba, also known as Vilcabamba la Nueva ("the New"), 5 kilometres (3.1 mi) west of Vitcos. It is located on the Pampaconas River, a tributary of the Vilcabamba River, which is a tributary of the Urubamba River. Hurtado was a brutal administrator, offering encomiendas to Spanish soldiers and making the local Indians virtual slaves. Many of them died, or abandoned their homes and fled elsewhere. Silver deposits were discovered nearby and the town enjoyed a brief boom, although the production of the mines was meager and by the early 17th century Vilcabamba the New and the Vilcabama region was no longer of much interest to the Spanish. Hiram Bingham visited the town in 1911, noting that, "Instead of Inca walls or ruins, Vilcabamba has three score solidly built Spanish houses...due to the prosperity of gold diggers, who came to work the quartz mines which were made accessible after the death of Tupac Amaru." Catholic clerics had built a church and a monastery in the town.
The lost city
The location of the Incan Vilcabamba was forgotten during the 17th century by the few remaining inhabitants of the region. In 1710, an explorer, Juan Arias Diaz, found Choquequirao, 70 kilometres (43 mi) southwest of Vilcabamba, and identified it as the Incan capital. Later historians and explorers identified Choquequirao as Vilcabamba. In 1909, Peruvian historian, Carlos A. Romero, debunked the claim that Choquequirao was Incan Vilcabama based on his studies of writings by Spanish chroniclers of the 16th century. Romero identified the village of Puquiura as the site of Incan Vilcabama.
In 1911, Hiram Bingham was on the expedition which resulted in him bringing to a wider world attention the Incan ruin of Machu Picchu. Romero pointed him toward Puquiura as the site of Vilcabamba, and Bingham discovered there the ruins of Rosaspata. He correctly identified Rosaspata as the Incan Vitcos rather than Incan Vilcabamba. Drawn by rumors of another lost Inca ruin in the lowland forest, Bingham ignored tales of a hostile plantation owner and dangerous Indians and proceeded onward. After a difficult three days of foot travel, he found the plantation. Its owner and the Asháninka or Campa Indians working there were friendly and helpful. They assisted him in cutting a trail through the jungle and two days later he found Inca ruins at a place called Espiritu Pampa. He found artificial terraces, stone houses, including a rectangular building 192 feet (59 m) long, a fountain, Inca pottery, and a stone bridge. But Bingham was running out of supplies and only spent a short time at Espiritu Pampa. Based on his brief observations, Bingham concluded that Machu Picchu was the Incan Vilcabamba. That opinion went largely unchallenged for 50 years.
In 1964, Peruvian explorer Antonio Santander Caselli visited Espiritu Pampa and later claimed the discovery that Espiritu Pampa was the Incan Villabamba. In the same month, American explorer Gene Savoy reached Espiritu Pampa. He discovered that Bingham had only seen a minor part of the ruin at Eremboni Pampa and that the main ruin of Espiritu Pampa was 700 yards (640 m) distant. Savoy found 50 or 60 houses and 300 houses at Espiritu Pampa. Savoy concluded that Espiritu Pampa was Vilcabamba, contradicting Bingham. Savoy's 1970 book Antisuyo brought the site to even wider attention.
Researcher and author John Hemming also concluded the Espiritu Pampa was Incan Vilcabamba in his 1970 book The Conquest of the Incas. He cited contemporary Spanish and Inca accounts of Vilcabamba as evidence. Titu Cusi Yupanqui said that Vilcambamba had a "warm climate," unlike Vitcos which was in "a cold district." This statement is consistent with the elevation of the two places: 1,450 metres (4,760 ft) for Espiritu Pampa and 2,980 metres (9,780 ft) for Vitcos. Moreover, both the conqueror of Vilcabamba, Hurtado de Abierto, and chronicler Martín de Murúa cited the tropical crops--coca, cotton, and sugar cane—grown near Vilcabamba and that the city lay in a "hot country" unlike most Inca cities. The Inca preferred to live in the high, cool climate of the Andes. Hurtado also described Vilcabamba as being in a valley with "pastures for cattle," unlike Machu Pichu which is on a steep ridge. Finally, Hemming cited Spanish sources indicating that Vilcabamba was northeast of Vitcos—unlike Machu Picchu which is west of Vitcos. Thus, Bingham's claim that Macchu Picchu was Incan Villabamba and other claims that Vitcos was Vilcabamba were discredited.
In 1976, Professor Edmundo Guillén and Polish explorers Tony Halik and Elżbieta Dzikowska continued to explore the ruins at Espiritu Pampa. Before the expedition, Guillen visited a museum in Seville where he discovered letters from Spaniards, in which they described the progress of the invasion and what they found in Vilcabamba. Comparison between the letters' contents and the ruins provided additional proof of Espiritu Pampa as the location of Vilcabamba.
Later extensive archeological work by Vincent Lee, and especially his exhaustive study, his 2000 book Forgotten Vilcabamba, gave further and even more precise confirmation that has made Espíritu Pampa the definitively accepted site of the historical Vilcabamba.
On 16 June 2006, a museum in Cuzco unveiled a plaque that commemorates the thirtieth anniversary of the 1976 Vilcabamba findings.
In popular culture
The lost city of Vilcabamba features in the educational computer game series The Amazon Trail, the Tomb Raider videogame and its remake Tomb Raider: Anniversary, and the books Evil Star and Necropolis by British thriller author Anthony Horowitz. Vilcabamba is also a playable place in the PlayStation 2 RPG Shadow Hearts: From the New World.
The second episode of Michael Wood's 2000 documentary series Conquistadors visits the site of Vilcabamba while telling the story of the fall of the Inca and retreat of Manco and his followers to the remote region as the last surviving remnant of the empire.
The city was the location of British writer Colin Thubron's 2002 novel, To the Last City, which was short-listed for the Man Booker Prize, and tells the story of a group of people who set off to explore the ruins of the Inca city in what has been described as a "Heart of Darkness narrative" in a "Marquezian setting".
An episode of the TV Series In Search Of . . . (1976-1982) titled "Inca Treasures", highlights the expedition taken by professor Edmundo Guillén to explore the ruins of Vilcabamba.
- Amazon Trail
- List of archaeological sites in Peru
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- Spanish conquest of Peru
- Túpac Amaru
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- Teofilo Laime Ajacopa, Diccionario Bilingüe Iskay simipi yuyayk'ancha, La Paz, 2007 (Quechua-Spanish dictionary): willka - s. Nieto, ta respecto del abuelo. / s. Dios menor en la teogonia incaica. pampa s. Campo. Lugar generalmente plano. Pampa. / s. Llanura. Terreno uniforme y dilatado, sin altos ni bajos pronunciados.
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- Mariko Namba Walter,Eva Jane Neumann Fridman, Shamanism: An Encyclopedia of World Beliefs, Practices, and Culture, Vol. 1, p. 439 willka or vilca (Anadenanthera peregrina and Anadenanthera colubrina):
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- MacQuarie, Kim (2007), The Last Days of the Incas, New York: Simon and Schuster, p. 445
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- Hemming, John (1970), The Conquest of the Incas, New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc., pp. 485-494
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Let the hype begin.
The third 'Wonder Woman' movie is in production and images are starting to emerge from the set, giving fans a hint of what the movie will look and feel like.
Perhaps the most important photograph for fans is of Wonder Woman herself and Gadot took to Twitter to give them what they wanted.
Here’s what Wonder Woman will look like in ‘1984’-
— Gal Gadot (@GalGadot) June 16, 2018
At first glance there doesn’t appear to be much of a difference in the look or costume this time around but we’re sure director Patty Jenkins has a few surprises up her sleeve.
This week Jenkins also revealed that Chris Pine’s character Steve Trevor will be returning, despite appearing to meet his maker in the first movie.
‘Wonder Woman 1984’ will see Gadot in the lead role face-off against comic book villain Cheetah, played by Kristen Wiig. Game of Thrones actor Pedro Pascal is also joining the cast.
After the huge box office success of Wonder Woman for DC, Jenkins was recently confirmed as the highest paid female director in the world.
‘Wonder Woman 1984’ is due to hit Irish cinemas in November, 2019.
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Diesel engine is paired to a 6-speed manual transmission.
The all-new 2015 Honda Jazz will launch in India on July 8, 2015, Honda Cars India confirmed at the media drive held in Goa this week. When launched, the Jazz diesel will be India’s second most fuel efficient diesel passenger vehicle, apart from offering best-in-class efficiency.
The ARAI-rated efficiency of the Jazz i-DTEC is 27.3 km/l, just marginally lower than the recently-launched Celerio diesel’s 27.62 km/l. However, bear in mind that the Celerio diesel is a 900 kg small hatchback with a twin-cylinder 47.6 PS engine, whereas the Jazz is a premium hatchback with a four-cylinder 100 PS engine, weighing more than 1.1 tonnes.
The Jazz diesel gets the i-DTEC unit borrowed from the City capable of 100 PS and 200 Nm of torque, paired to a 6-speed manual transmission. Compared to the City, engineers have given taller gear ratios for the Jazz (as much as 8 percent higher than the City).
The Jazz petrol gets a 1.2-liter four-cylinder i-VTEC petrol engine capable of 90 PS and 110 Nm of torque. With a 5-speed manual, this version is good for 18.7 km/l whereas a CVT results in a higher 19 km/l ARAI figure.
The Jazz is the only vehicle in its segment to get a CVT; the Polo relies on a 7-speed DSG whereas Hyundai does not offer an AT on the Elite i20 just as yet. While the Nissan Micra does offer a CVT, it is positioned a step lower than the Jazz, and competes with the likes of the Hyundai Grand i10.
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by Alex Robles
Well my fellow cannabis enthusiasts, this is a new day. 20 years after medical cannabis was legalized in California, the great citizens of that state voted to legalize it for recreational use by anyone over the age of 21. So as of Wednesday November 9, 2016 adults can legally consume cannabis for the fun of it. This matters to me because I live in the beautiful Golden State and I believe in the free and open access to cannabis by adults.
The “Adult use of Marijuana Act” or “Prop 64” basically allows adults to use, possess, purchase and grow non-medical cannabis within certain limits. Here are some of the highlights:
- ANYONE over the age of 21 years old can possess, process, transport, purchase, obtain, or give away no more than 28.5 grams (a hair over 1 ounce) of cannabis flower and no more than 8 grams of concentrated cannabis.
- ANYONE over the age of 21 years old can possess, plant, cultivate, harvest, dry, or process no more than six living cannabis plants and possess the cannabis produced by those plants within a single private residence.
- Prohibits the consumption of cannabis in a public place that isn’t licensed for such use.
- Denies access to cannabis by ANYONE younger than 21 years old who are not medical cannabis patients.
- Prohibits cannabis products and smoke within 1,000 feet of a school, day care center, or youth center while children are present, except in or upon the grounds of a private residence.
- You still CAN NOT consume cannabis and DRIVE any type of vehicle!
- It bars cannabis businesses from being located within 600 feet of schools and other areas where children gather.
- Insures the non-medical cannabis industry in California will be built around small and medium size businesses by prohibiting large-scale cultivation licenses for the first 5 years.
- Imposes strict anti-monopoly restrictions for businesses that are in the non-medical cannabis industry.
- Regulates and brings all aspects of cannabis production into the light.
This law doesn’t make me want to give up my medical cannabis patient status, but I am thrilled to see cannabis prohibition becoming an old way of thinking. The tricky part of this transition is that recreational cannabis store fronts and businesses won’t be fully licensed until January 1, 2018. So for now the black market is still the only place you can find it if you’re not a patient.
These are just a few of things that are in California’s new “ Adult use of Marijuana Act”, trust me there’s a lot more in it. So before you go off and do something crazy based on the information here, please know that every local government has the right to change certain parts of this law. Just remember to triple check the law, the devil is in the details.
That’s all I’ve got for today, I hope everyone has an awesome week.
Grow, Learn, Teach
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East of the Belle Isle Pedestrian Bridge on Tredegar Street is a put-in and take-out for serious paddlers who can navigate the Hollywood rapids.
Steps to the river provide access to the first official Parks Department take-out point and the place that many whitewater kayakers and rafters get out of the river after running Hollywood and Pipeline Rapids. The steps were built in the Fall of 2005 with major funding and labor from the James River Outdoor Coalition and the Friends of the James River Park under the supervision of James River Park staff. The land was a gift from the Department of Public Utilities. Swimming is not allowed at the boat ramp. There is wheelchair access concrete walkway to the first landing of the takeout.
Other North of the River Locations
Bike racks: None
Bathroom: Port-a-Potty at both locations
Boat ramp: both locations
Wheelchair accessible: 14th St take-out
Hours: Sunrise to sunset
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This kid’s first big story could very well be his last!
It was the crime of the Century. An act of violence so horrible that a country is plunged into mourning with its beloved leader dead. The assassination of President John Fitzgerald Kennedy is one of those events that everyone remembers where they were when it happened. Probably nobody remembers where they were at this time in history more than John Wilson, a one-time Presidential assassin who has carried the truth of what happened that day with him for the past 50 years. Now finding himself terminally ill, he seeks out Frank Riles, a rookie journalist with the intention of setting the record straight no matter what the cost. His co-conspirators, however, are determined that the past stays buried. As the bodies start to pile up, Frank finds himself caught up in the biggest story of his entire career, but will this story be his swan song?
This fictional account of the Kennedy assassination starts fast and doesn’t let up for a second. As the story unfolds, more and more of the conspiracy unravels, letting the reader see the depth of corruption and calculation that resulted in the death of the leader of the free world. While definitely not a true account, there are still plenty of conspiracy theories abound regarding what truly happened that day to make this read fun and thought provoking. Frank Riles is a very likeable character… a young gun who finds himself in the midst of a shit-storm that can make or break him if he can only survive it. Even knowing John Wilson’s past and his role in the events that transpired roughly 50 years ago, I still found myself rooting for him as the protector of Frank and the person dead set on bringing the truth to light.
Having now read all of Lucian’s books to day I have to say that this has got to be my favorite to date. I am looking forward to more “Conspiracy” series novel from him.
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it has been way too long since my last post. please forgive me. i’ve been busy with the work of life. you know how it is. i’ve been juggling two jobs, several volunteer efforts, and some fantastic new relationships. today is the national celebration of our hero, the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and i was on hand at the national cathedral for a special tribute service. my friends from the Urban Nation H.I.P. H.O.P. Choir rocked it again this year, and as always the house was packed. that acronym stands for Hope, Integrity, Power, Helping Our People. two of the students that i work with at Operation Understanding DC are in the group, and it was very special seeing them perform on such a stage today. i wish you all could have been there.
i will post more soon.
much love. stay strong. unite my people, unite!
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Silver Lake Contemporary Home Near Ivanhoe Elementary School
Posted by Jenny Durling on Tuesday, January 17, 2012 at 9:18:31 AM By Jenny Durling / January 17, 2012 Comment
3007 Angus Street, Silver Lake, CA
This Silver Lakecontemporary home closed as a trust sale in May 2011 for $705,000. If you had seen it before and you see it now, you would never know it was the same property! Talk about positive changes! What was once a tired traditional is now an ultra-modern 2-story home in prime Silver Lake. You’ll fine 3 Bedrooms and 4 baths in 2,400 Square feet of living space is just a hop skip and a jump from Silver Lake’s coveted Ivanhoe Elementary School.
You’ll love the giant master suite with its walk in closet, sitting area and cool architectural bath. It also opens onto one of two view decks. What’s not to love about that?
To top it off, the this Silver Lake home is equipped with "Smart House" technology, allowing the owner to control light, sound, video and even the alarm system from their smart phone.
The front entry courtyard includes fire pit while the two decks along the back of the house provide for great views and indoor outdoor flow, perfect for entertaining. Don’t miss the bonus studio with its own separate entrance.
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ColorBoost Magic Hair Dye Comb Set
Instant, safe & vibrant – ColorBoost Magic Hair Dye Comb Set dyes your hair in a flash with just an easy brush.
With extra herbal essences added in the formula to avoid damaging or caking, the color will stay perfectly vibrant with just a brush. Brush harder for a more explicit result. The smart handheld comb design allows you to dye hair without getting your clothes & hands dirty, which means dying hair is no longer a daunting task!
Thanks to the washable feature, you can dye all or just part of your hair for various looks in special occasions like parties. Go for a stylish 2-tone look or a fancy galaxy twist is now as easy as a breeze.
- Instant hair dye with no mess
- Quick, clean & 100% safe & non-allergic
- No damage to your hair
- Super easy application: just brush
- Washable with water & shampoo
- Achieve vibrant result without the need to bleach
- Perfect for parties & special occasions
- Portable & lightweight
- Lasts up to 2 days
Size: 9g per stick
1x ColorBoost Magic Hair Dye Comb Set (6 Colors)
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*This letter was greatly condensed in a version that was submitted to the Daily World in accordance with their word count standards.
Horseback riding on the beach has been an Ocean Shores draw for decades and is part of what makes our beach experience so special. It’s been brought to my attention that the City of Ocean Shores is doing everything it can to get rid of the business my father owns (Honey Pearl Ranch) while doing nothing to infringe upon another horseback riding business (Chenois Creek). If there was a movement to get rid of all horses on the beach fine, but it seems only Honey Pearl Ranch is being targeted and there is a history of unfair mistreatment of my father’s business.
Every year the mayor adds new requirements to the contract HPR must sign making it increasingly more difficult for my dad to stay in business. For example, one year she wanted to make it a requirement for HPR to clean up all the manure left by the horses along the beach. HPR already cleans up all the manure near the trailers and horse lines but it is simply not feasible to send someone walking miles up and down the beach behind the horses cleaning up all the manure. The horses walk close to the water so the manure is washed away by the sea. What’s more is that to my knowledge, no requests have been made of Chenois Creek to clean up their manure. Seems odd.
The request wasn’t feasible and HPR expressed these concerns in front of the Ocean Shoes City Council. Thankfully the requirement was voted down. What’s interesting is that this year (and last year too) the mayor gave HPR less than a month’s time to question, adjust and sign the new contract. In 2016, HPR had from December 5th to December 29th to sign. Worth noting is that there was no council meeting in this time frame meaning HPR had no opportunity to dispute the contract in front of city council….again, seems odd.
This year, the mayor is demanding HPR get special immunizations for its herd. These immunizations would cost $5,000 to $10,000. These immunizations are not required for any other horseback riding business in the state. There is no public health or safety issue being addressed. These immunizations are simply not important or needed, (my father has confirmed this with multiple vets) they are just another financial burden to impose upon HPR. No other horses need be immunized. This means tourists and locals can bring their horses to the beach without the immunizations just fine, only HPR horses must be immunized. How does this make any sense? Why is HPR being specifically targeted? What’s more is that just outside the city limits is the other horseback riding business, Chenois Creek. Chenois Creek horses are not required to be immunized and Honey Pearl Ranch’s horses walk along the same path. Why must only one set of horses be immunized?
Apparently the mayor is getting advice from an anonymous equestrian group. This group only lobbies against HPR even though their powers are not restricted by city limits like the mayor’s are. My father told me that he has not been allowed to meet with the equestrian group nor know who is amongst it’s members. My father told me he would be more than happy to talk with the group but their identity has remained a secret and all meetings are closed door. This equestrian group has never lobbied against, sued or made complaints about Chenois Creek which is essentially running the same exact business as my dad.
These are just a few examples of the city and said equestrian groups attacks on Honey Pearl Ranch. These attacks are made on Honey Pearl ranch alone.
Look, I’m a vegan with no problem calling out anyone including my own father. The last thing I want to see is abused horses but there is no evidence that my dad is abusing his horses or that they are sick. In fact, he has more land and barn space for his animals than Chenois Creek. That’s not to say Chenois Creek is abusing horses, I have no reason to believe they are, I’m simply pointing out the flawed logic backing these one-sided accusations.
I am not quick to come to this conclusion but the only difference between Chenois Creek and Honey Pearl Ranch operations that I can find is the skin color of the one in charge of the operations. It is with great shame that I even consider that people in my community are targeting a man because of his skin color. It’s disgusting and not something I take lightly. If someone can point out a fair reason why one business is being targeted while another is not that would be greatly appreciated. Why does this equestrian group take such great interest in HPR while ignoring Chenois Creek? Why does the mayor want to enact laws that would only effect my dad’s horses and ignore others? I trust the people of Ocean Shores and Grays Harbor County are with me when I say racial injustice will not be tolerated here. I hope this is not the issue but until someone can show me why my father is being specifically targeted it is the only logical conclusion I can come up with.
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MEMBERS AND PARTNERS OF THE ASSOCIATION
TERNOPIL QUARRY, PJSC
PJSC “Ternopil Quarry” is one of the leading companies of Ukraine in the limestone market, which is engaged in the development of limestone stone deposits with its further processing into construction and other types of materials. The active development of PJSC “Ternopil Quarry” has allowed to increase the annual production capacity up to 2 million tons of production per year. Production is carried out on three quarries in the Ternopil region. PJSC “Ternopil Quarry” is making consistent efforts to introduce high-tech methods of limestone stone extraction and processing, which allow to increase the quantitative indicators of production and to ensure the stable quality of finished products. Particular attention is paid to the logistical issue – optimization of warehousing, sorting and shipment processes has provided several times increase in the daily shipment of products by rail and motor transport. The products of PJSC “Ternopil Quarry” are certified and meet all requirements and standards of Ukraine. The partners of the company are the largest enterprises of metallurgical, sugar, silicate, construction and other industries of the country. In 2011, PJSC “Ternopil Quarry” was among the founders of the Ukrainian Lime Industry Association.
- 47372, Ternopilska obl., Zbarakyy r-n, s. Maksymivka, vul. Stara Maksymivka, 29
- phone: +38 (0352) 24 32 71, +38 (050) 442 89 08
The company extracts limestone and burns lime in mine furnaces using anthracite. For production of lime we use our own high quality raw materials – limestone from the Stryganets deposit. The main consumers of the company’s products are the enterprises of construction, energy and chemical industries. Shipment of products is carried out both by road and by rail. In 2011, Halychyna-Lime LLC was one of the founders of the Ukrainian Lime Industry Association.
- 76000, Ivano-Frankivsk region, Halych, Vitovsky st., 32A.
- Tel. fax: +38 (050) 373 34 88,
- +38 (050) 447 78 95
- email: [email protected]
SMA Mineral AS
SMA Mineral AS – the first company to become a member of the Association for Associate Membership, which is offered for foreign companies and companies that are not participants in the limestone and lime market, but are consumers of these products, service providers, provide logistics, etc., who are interested in developing relationships with industry representatives and have access to up-to-date and reliable market information. SMA Mineral AS is one of the largest producers of lime products in Northern Europe and Bulgaria. The company owns limestone quarries and limestone plants that supply high-quality products of a wide range for industries such as metallurgy, paper industry, agriculture, water and flue gas treatment, construction industry and more. SMA Mineral AS offers easy access to products for its customers thanks to its large production volumes and well-developed logistics department. The company can also act as a partner in planning, construction and financing.
- Männiku tee 123/1 EE-Tallinn 11216 Estonia
- Phone: +372 658 59 60
- Fax: +372 655 92 35
The group of companies “UKRSPECYZVEST” specializes in the production of high-quality lime for steel mills and other industrial enterprises. Modern furnaces, a multi-level firing control system, qualified personnel, clean raw materials – all these factors make it possible to obtain a quality product and provide industry leadership. Production of the company’s products is based on two factories: – Kupyansk plant (Kupyansk, Kharkiv region); – Gubinsky plant (Gubinikha town of Dnipropetrovsk region). Each of these enterprises has undergone a major modernization, which includes the installation of modern electronic systems for the control and automation of industrial processes, advanced kilns, crushing equipment, other devices that provide high production efficiency and quality of products. The introduction of high production technologies and effective management allow the company to take a long standing leading position among lime producers in the free market.
- 49000, Dnipro, Sicheslavskaya Naberezhnaya, 45
- Tel. fax: +38 056 719 90 61
- email: [email protected]
PAT NOVOTROYITSKE RUDOUPRAVLINNIA
Novotroyitske Management is the largest producer of limestone in Ukraine with a production volume of 4 million tons per year and a market share of 33%.
The volume of realization of Novotroitsky ore management has increased 5 times in the last 5 years, since 2013.
The company was founded in 1933 and for many decades is a reliable supplier of products of its own production for the enterprises of mining and metallurgy, glass, sugar, lime, construction, agricultural and road-repair industries in Ukraine.
- 85732, Ukraine, Donetsk region
- Volnovakha district Novotroitske, Kyiv st., 85
PJSC “Zaporizhstal” is a company with a full metallurgical cycle, which occupies a leading place in steel production in Ukraine, in the export of metal products to more than 50 countries of the world, as well as in tax deductions. In 2018, the Works increased tax transfers to the budget of Ukraine, sending more than 3.8 billion hryvnias to the state treasury.
- Zaporozhye, Juzhnoe shosse, 72, Ukraine, 69008
- e-mail: [email protected]
- Phone: +38 061 286 60 99
- Fax: + 38 061 218 10 41
INDUSTRIAL AND BUILDING GROUP “KOVALSKA”
Kovalska is a leading construction materials manufacturer and property developer of Ukraine.
- 01011, Kyiv, Panasa Mirny st., 4
- email: [email protected]
- Phone / Fax: (044) 591-77-00
MP DNEPROSTEEL LLC
INTERPIPE STEEL is the first metallurgical plant, built in Ukraine from the scratch for almost half a century. Total volume of investments has amounted to 700 million US dollars. INTERPIPE STEEL is the largest electric steel-melting complex for production of round steel billets in the Eastern Europe. INTERPIPE STEEL has been designed to provide the Company’s pipe and wheel production with its own steel billets.
The production capacity of the new mill is 1.32 million tons of round steel billets a year.
- 49051, Dnepropetrovsk region, Dnipro, Dneprostalivska st., 4
- Tel. +380563715040, +380567474040
LLC DNEPROVSKIY CONSTRUCTION MATERIALS PLANT
DNEPROVSKIY CONSTRUCTION MATERIALS PLANT is one of the largest enterprises in the production of building materials with a wide range of products and rich history. The company has two workshops for the production of silicate and concrete bricks, a shop for the production of aerated concrete, lime shop. The production capacity allows to produce up to 10 million units per month of silicate brick for the construction of both high-rise and low-rise buildings. Since 2014, it has been launched in the production line of colored brick and tile. Distinctive features of the product are precise geometric dimensions, high durability and frost resistance. Only natural materials – sand, lime and water – are used in the production of silicate bricks, making it an environmentally friendly building material.
- 49051, Dnipro, Alexander Otsupa st., 1b
- Tel. fax: +38 (056) 729 51 84, +38 (056) 729 51 83
- [email protected], [email protected]
KP “Azovbudmaterialy” Firm is an enterprise with a centuries-old history, which dates back to the beginning of the last century, having passed through this time through numerous modernization and improvement of production capacities and processes. In recent years, the company has mastered many new and required types of construction products, the peculiarity of which is the high quality, non-declining demand, uniqueness in use. All production is made in accordance with the requirements of GOST, DSTU, TU and is certified in the system UkrSEPRO. Shipment of products is performed by road and rail.
- 87538, Donetsk region, Mariupol, Marteniv arrey, 135
- Tel. fax: +38 (0629) 48 44 88; +38 (0629) 48 20 31
Actis Group LLC is a leading supplier of a full range of specialized equipment: crushers, screens, sand and crushing plants, equipment for the transfer of bulk materials. The company also occupies a leading position in the market of Ukraine in providing crushed stone production services with its own mobile crushing and sorting complexes. Actis Group is based on the desire to continuously create significant competitive advantages for its customers.
- 49027, Dnipro, Dmytro Yavornitsky ave., 42, of. 4
- Tel. fax: +38 (056) 766 05 45, +38 (067) 632 63 09
- email: [email protected]
TFC VERTICAL LLC
TFC Vertical LLC is one of the largest freight forwarding companies in Ukraine with 18 years of experience providing a full range of quality services in the organization of freight transportation and freight forwarding in Ukraine, the Baltic States, the CIS, Asia and Eastern Europe. The company provides the organization of transport support for road, rail and water modes of transport, with the support of a complete cycle of related operations and a full package of documentary support. TFC “Vertical” Ltd. has offices in 8 regions of Ukraine and its own dispatch center.
- 04073, Kyiv, S. Bandera ave., 9-V
- Tel. fax: +38 (044) 406 60 60
- email: [email protected]
“VBA” Trade Group
“VBA” Trade Group works in B2B market segment since 2007! Major companies, nationwide manufacturers, small organizations and private manufacturers as well are among our customers. Each of them has found his advantages of cooperation with us. We accept any ideas from our partners and do our best to bring such ideas to life! Our partners can always reckon on prompt delivery of order and high quality of goods as well as on due payment and comfortable cooperation conditions! Young, energetic, hard-working and ambitious guys work in our company. They teat any difficulty as personal challenge and do everything they can to make the customer satisfied!
- 49023, Ukraine, Dnipro, Manuilovsky (Vorontsova) avenue, 17
- Phone / Fax: +38 (056) 790 79 03, +38 (067) 382 70 70
- email: [email protected]
PP “Kratos” is engaged in development of limestone and clay of the Fedosievsky deposit in the Odessa region and construction of new mining production for further processing of raw materials. The approved lime stock is about 150 million tons and the clay component is 46 million tons. The company is in close proximity to markets, which reduces transport costs and offers a number of competitive advantages for potential consumers.
- 67920, Odesa region, Krasnooknyanskiy district, Fedosiivka village
- Phone: +38 0 67 441 86 22
- email: [email protected]
Representative Office in Ukraine Lhoist
Lhoist Group is the world leader in lime, dolomite and mineral production. The company is headquartered in Belgium. Also represented in 25 countries with more than 100 factories. The business is determined by working closely with customers, understanding their needs and delivering high quality products to meet customer requirements.
- Ukraine, Lviv region, Lviv, Petliuri st., b.41
QuartzMelProm JSC SLS GROUP
- 225920, Belarus, Brest region, Maloritskiy district, Khotislavskaya village, 10, k.53, 2 floor
- Phone: + 8-01651- 42499, Fax + 8-01651-42428
- email: [email protected]
Ferromet1 LLC is one of the leading Ukrainian enterprises in the field of non-metallic materials supply. The company supplies raw materials to metallurgical plants, cement enterprises, sugar mills, road construction organizations and other industrial sectors of Ukraine.
The volume of products shipped by the enterprise is an average of 1.2 million tons per year.
- Base st. 9, Zaporozhye 69005, Ukraine
- Tel. +380 50 4869462
Mining and geology is the basis of Itaka-PV LLC. The company has extensive production experience in the development of carbonate and sand pits, as well as the latest modern mining equipment, mobile crushing and sorting complexes of world brands that allow to carry out mining and geological projects at a high technological level with low cost of production. Successfully developed technology for the development of carbonate quarries with a high content of clay without the use of BPD (drilling and blasting). Modern equipment and advanced production and enrichment technologies allow to conduct selective field development and integrated use of natural resources of different quarries of Ukraine.
- 49027, Dnipro, Fuchika st., 18, of. 536
- Tel. fax: +380 (567) 32 42 79, +380 (66) 771 77 41
- email: [email protected]
TOV Ukrainian-Greek Enterprise “IMTREX”
TOV HIRNYCHA KOMPANIIA UKRHEOPROEKT
Mining company “Ukrheoproekt” is the first in Ukraine private independent production-consulting company providing services in the field of exploration and use of natural resources, in particular in the field of evaluation, prospecting of solid minerals, fresh and mineral underground waters, mining engineering geology. Our clients include mining companies, banks, investment companies and funds. geological prospecting enterprises, public authorities and individuals in Ukraine and abroad.
- 01001, Kyiv, st. B. Hmyri, 8-b
- Tel. fax: +38 (044) 573 05 19, +38 (067) 996 29 65
Department of Chemical Technology of Silicate Materials of Lviv Polytechnic National University
The scientific direction of the department is “Development of physicochemical bases of the latest energy-saving technologies for obtaining new and improving the operational characteristics of existing refractory non-metallic and silicate materials”. Today the department is the only educational unit in Western Ukraine, which trains silicates specialists in three specializations: “Chemical technology of glass and sieve”, “Chemical technology of ceramics and refractories”, “Chemical technology of binders and products based on them”. According to the results of the departmental scientific researches more than 160 copyright certificates and patents have been obtained, more than 1000 articles and 15 monographs have been published.
- 79000, Lviv region, Lviv city, Sq. St. Yura, 9.
- Tel. fax: +38 (032) 258 21 67
Department of Mining and Mining Of National University of Water and Environmental Engineering
Professional direction of the department training of specialists in the specialty of mining, as well as economics, management, computer technologies and scientific and technical activities. The graduates work as mining engineers, surveyors at mining enterprises of various profiles. The specialty is licensed by the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine and accredited by IV level, which allows to conduct training on educational and qualification levels – bachelor, specialist, master.
- Ukraine, 33028, Rivne city, 11 Soborna St., NUWEE
- Tel. : +38 (0362) 23 35 11, +38 (0362) 22 21 97
Magazine “Aspects of Construction”
All-Ukrainian information and advertising magazine Aspects of Construction covers all spheres of construction. The magazine brings to the reader the latest information about construction technologies, products and services in the construction market. A wide range of information – from the project to all the work that accompanies the construction, renovation of the home, its design and arrangement will be useful to the reader.
- Lviv, V. Chornovola avenue, 59
- Tel. fax: +38 (0322) 42 25 10, +38 (050) 955 68 97,
+38 (098) 572 90 92, +38 (0322) 42 25 11
The KAPSTROYTELSTVO publishing group includes three independent printed projects: Kapstroytelstvo magazine, Beton & Asphalt magazine and the CIS Special Equipment catalog, as well as two Internet resources: www.kapstroy.kiev.ua and www.specmash.com .ua. Capstroitelstvo magazine is a professional analysis of the situation and prospects of the construction market. Concrete & Asphalt Magazine is an issue covering two important topics: the concrete industry and the road construction industry. Catalog “Special equipment in the CIS” – a directory of world manufacturers of special machinery, equipment, spare parts, components, available on the Ukrainian market. www.specmash.com.ua – online catalog of manufacturers of construction equipment: construction, road, municipal, lifting, quarry, equipment, spare parts, components.
- 04205, Kyiv, Obolonskiy district, Lugova st., 9
- Phone: +38 (044) 451 64 08, Phone / Fax: +38 (044) 581 59 50
- email: [email protected]
The main building portal of Ukraine “Build Portal”
Build Portal is the first all-Ukrainian rating portal made in Ukraine. The largest database of manufacturers, suppliers of building materials and services, masters of construction profile, shops, specialized exhibitions – all information is gathered on one resource – on the Build Portal.
Daily news, articles and analytics. The Build Portal covers all the important activities of the construction market.
- 02660, Kyiv, E. Sverstiuk st., 11B
- Tel. fax: +38 (044) 500 47 97
- email: [email protected]
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Some say that now is a wonderful time to be a psychometrician — a testing and measurement professional. There are jobs aplenty, with high pay and great benefits. Work is available in the private sector at test development firms; in recruiting, hiring, and placement for corporations; in public education agencies at all levels of government; in research and teaching at universities; in consulting; and many other spots.
Moreover, there exist abundant opportunities to work with new, innovative, “cutting edge”, methods, techniques, and technologies. The old, fuddy-duddy, paper-and-pencil tests with their familiar multiple-choice, short-answer, and essay questions are being replaced by new-fangled computer-based, internet-connected tests with graphical interfaces and interactive test item formats.
In educational testing, the Common Core Standards Initiative (CCSI), and its associated tests, developed by the Smarter-Balanced Assessment Consortium (SBAC) and the Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC), has encouraged the movement toward “21st century assessments”. Much of the torrential rain of funding, burst forth from federal and state governments and clouds of wealthy foundations, has pooled in the pockets of psychometricians.
At the same time, however, the country’s most authoritative psychometricians—the very people who would otherwise have been available to guide, or caution against, the transition to the newer standards and tests—have been co-opted. In some fashion or another, they now work for the CCSI. Some work for the SBAC or PARCC consortia directly, some work for one or more of the many test development firms hired by the consortia, some help the CCSI in other capacities. Likely, they have all signed confidentiality agreements (i.e., “gag orders”).
Psychometricians who once had been very active in online chat rooms or other types of open discussion forums on assessment policy no longer are, unless to proffer canned promotions for the CCSI entities they now work for. They are being paid well. They may be doing work they find new, interesting, and exciting. But, with their loss of independence, society has lost perspective.
Perhaps the easiest vantage point from which to see this loss of perspective is in the decline of adherence to test development quality standards, those that prescribe the behavior of testing and measurement professionals themselves. Over the past decade, for example, the International Test Commission (ITC) alone has developed several sets of standards.
Perhaps the oldest set of test quality standards was established originally by the American Psychological Association (APA) and was updated most recently in 2014—the Standards for Educational and Psychological Testing (AERA, NCME, APA). It contains hundreds of individual standards. The CCSI as a whole, and the SBAC and PARCC tests in particular, fail to meet many of them.
The problem starts with what many professionals consider the testing field’s “prime directive”—Standard 1.0 (AERA, NCME, APA, p.23). It reads as follows:
“Clear articulation of each intended test score interpretation for a specified use should be set forth, and appropriate validity evidence in support of each intended interpretation should be provided.”
That is, a test should be validated for each purpose for which it is intended to be used before it is used for that purpose. Before it is used to make important decisions. And, before it is advertised as serving that purpose.
Just as states were required by the Race to the Top competition for federal funds to accept Common Core standards before they had even been written, CCSI proponents have boasted about their new consortium tests’ wonderful benefits since before test development even began. They claimed unproven qualities about then non-existent tests because most CCSI proponents do not understand testing, or they are paid not to understand.
In two fundamental respects, the PARCC and SBAC tests will never match their boosters’ claims nor meet basic accepted test development standards. First, single tests are promised to measure readiness for too many and too disparate outcomes—college and careers—that is, all possible futures. It is implied that PARCC and SBAC will predict success in art, science, plumbing, nursing, carpentry, politics, law enforcement …any future one might wish for.
This is not how it is done in educational systems that manage multiple career pathways well. There, in Germany, Switzerland, Japan, Korea, and, unfortunately, few jurisdictions in the U.S., a range of different types of tests are administered, each appropriately designed for their target professions. Aspiring plumbers take plumbing tests. Aspiring medical workers take medical tests. And, those who wish to prepare for more advanced degrees might take more general tests that predict their aptitude to succeed in higher education institutions.
But that isn’t all. SBAC and PARCC are said to be aligned to the K-12 Common Core standards, too. That is, they both summarize mastery of past learning and predict future success. One test purports to measure how well students have done in high school, and how well they will do in either the workplace or in college, three distinctly different environments, and two distinctly different time periods.
PARCC and SBAC are being sold as replacements for state high school exit exams, for 4-year college admission tests (e.g., the SAT and ACT), for community college admission tests (e.g., COMPASS and ACCUPLACER), and for vocational aptitude tests (e.g., ASVAB). Problem is, these are very different types of tests. High school exit exams are generally not designed to measure readiness for future activity but, rather, to measure how well students have learned what they were taught in elementary and secondary schools. We have high school exit exams because citizens believe it important for their children to have learned what is taught there. Learning Civics well in high school, for example, may not correlate highly with how well a student does in college or career but many nonetheless consider it important for our republic that its citizens learn the topic
High school exit exams are validated by their alignment with the high school curriculum, or content standards. By contrast, admission or aptitude tests are validated by their correlation with desired future outcomes—grades, persistence, productivity, and the like in college—their predictive validity. In their pure, optimal forms, a high school exit exam, a college admission test, and vocational aptitude tests bear only a slight resemblance to each other. They are different tests because they have different purposes and, consequently, require different validations.
Let’s assume for the moment that the Common Core consortia tests, PARCC and SBAC, can validly measure all that is claimed for them—mastery of the high school curriculum and success in further education and in the workplace. The fact is no evidence has yet been produced that verifies any of these things. And, remember, the proof of, and the claims about, a new test’s virtues are supposed to be provided before the test is used purposefully.
Sure, Common Core proponents claim to have just recently validated their consortia tests for correlation with college outcomes , for alignment with elementary and secondary school content standards, and for technical quality . The clumsy studies they cite do not match the claims made for them, however.
SBAC and PARCC cannot be validated for their purpose of predicting college and career readiness until data are collected in the years to come on the college and career outcomes of those who have taken the tests in high school. The study cited by Common Core proponents uses the words “predictive validity” in its title. Only in the fine print does one discover that, at best, the study measured “concurrent” validity—high school tests were administered to current rising college sophomores and compared to their freshman-year college grades. Calling that “predictive validity” is, frankly, dishonest.
It might seem less of a stretch to validate SBAC and PARCC as high school exit exam replacements. After all, supposedly they are aligned to the Common Core Standards so in any jurisdiction where the Common Core Standards prevail, they would be retrospectively aligned to the high school curriculum. Two issues tarnish this rosy picture. First, the Common Core Standards are subjectively narrow, just mathematics and English Language Arts, with no attention paid to the majority of the high school curriculum.
Second, common adherence to the Common Core Standards across the States has deteriorated to the point of dissolution. As the Common Core consortia’s grip on compliance (i.e., alignment) continues to loosen, states, districts within states, and schools within districts are teaching how they want and what they want. The less aligned Common Core Standards become, the less valid the consortium tests become as measures of past learning.
As for technical quality, the Fordham Institute, which is paid handsomely by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to promote Common Core and its consortia tests, published a report which purports to be an “independent” comparative standards alignment study. Among its several fatal flaws: instead of evaluating tests according to the industry standard Standards for Educational and Psychological Testing, or any of dozens of other freely-available and well-vetted test evaluation standards, guidelines, or protocols used around the world by testing experts, they employed “a brand new methodology” specifically developed for Common Core and its copyright owners, and paid for by Common Core’s funders.
Though Common Core consortia test sales pitches may be the most disingenuous, SAT and ACT spokespersons haven’t been completely forthright either. To those concerned about the inevitable degradation of predictive validity if their tests are truly aligned to the K-12 Common Core standards, public relations staffs assure us that predictive validity is a foremost consideration. To those concerned about the inevitable loss of alignment to the Common Core standards if predictive validity is optimized, they assure complete alignment.
So, all four of the test organizations have been muddling the issue. It is difficult to know what we are going to get with any of the four tests. They are all straddling or avoiding questions about the trade-offs. Indeed, we may end up with four, roughly equivalent, muddling tests, none of which serve any of their intended purposes well.
This is not progress. We should want separate tests, each optimized for a different purpose, be it measuring high school subject mastery, or predicting success in 4-year college, in 2-year college, or in a skilled trade. Instead, we may be getting several one-size-fits-all, watered-down tests that claim to do all but, as a consequence, do nothing well. Instead of a skilled tradesperson’s complete tool set, we may be getting four Swiss army knives with roughly the same features. Instead of exploiting psychometricians’ advanced knowledge and skills to optimize three or more very different types of measurements, we seem to be reducing all of our nationally normed end-of-high-school tests to a common, generic muddle.
McQuillan, M., Phelps, R.P., & Stotsky, S. (2015, October). How PARCC’s false rigor stunts the academic growth of all students. Boston: Pioneer Institute. http://pioneerinstitute.org/news/testing-the-tests-why-mcas-is-better-than-parcc/
Nichols-Barrer, I., Place, K., Dillon, E., & Gill, B. (2015, October 5). Final Report: Predictive Validity of MCAS and PARCC: Comparing 10th Grade MCAS Tests to PARCC Integrated Math II, Algebra II, and 10th Grade English Language Arts Tests. Cambridge, MA: Mathematica Policy Research. http://econpapers.repec.org/paper/mprmprres/a2d9543914654aa5b012e4a6d2dae060.htm
Phelps, R.P. (2016, February). Fordham Institute’s pretend research. Policy Brief. Boston: Pioneer Institute. http://pioneerinstitute.org/featured/fordhams-parcc-mcas-report-falls-short/
American Educational Research Association (AERA), American Psychological Association (APA), and the National Council on Measurement in Education (NCME). (2014). Standards for Educational and Psychological Testing, Washington, DC: AERA.
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By Steve Schiffman
The following article was written by Steve Schiffman, President of DEI Management, one of the largest sales training companies actively working with our industry. DEI can be reached at 800-224-2140.
I meet many salespeople who are distracted by their own selling tools. They get so excited about the chance to show off their fancy proposal that they don’t ask themselves a basic question: What do I really know about this person and this organization I’m selling to?
The salespeople I’m talking about lose sight of the importance of being righted by the prospect, which is an essential step toward being right. As a result, they spend most of their time preparing long-winded, fancy-looking proposals, laminates, and PowerPoint® presentations that aren’t – and can’t be – right from the prospect’s point of view. Why not? Because the essential assumptions haven’t been verified yet! Too often salespeople think of their written materials as finalizing tools, when they should be using them as verifying tools. Consider these selling sequences:
Sequence #1: Your first meeting with a prospect leads to a full-blown presentation with all the bells and whistles at the second meeting. “Gee, let me think about it” is the response from the prospect.
Sequence #2: Your first meeting leads to an abbreviated mini-proposal listing key assumptions at the second meeting. The prospect scribbles all over mini-proposal at second meeting which leads to a “This looks great!” response from the prospect at the third meeting.
Which would you prefer to see? I don’t know about you, but I’ll do just about anything to avoid closing the meeting with a “Gee, let me think about it” outcome. In Sequence #1, you’re letting the materials drive the sale. In Sequence #2, you’re using the materials to provoke a reaction from the prospect. You’re making noise! And when you do that, you can expect the prospect to make a little noise in return. “Hold on a minute – this isn’t what I had in mind. We were thinking in terms of something totally different. You see, the thing is…”
One of our senior trainers, Steve Bookbinder, pointed out that the prospect words “the thing is” are music to a good salesperson’s ears. But, as a general rule, the only way you get to hear that music is by taking initiative, drawing some conclusions, and being willing to be corrected. You can’t get to “the thing is” if you’re afraid of being corrected! And that’s what selling tools should do for you: give the prospect the opportunity to correct you.
We have to walk in the door looking to be corrected. We can’t fool ourselves into thinking that a beautiful color document, or a slick brochure, or a snazzy PowerPoint® presentation, will do the work for us. The only way we can expect to find out what makes this person different from the last 30 or 50 or 90 we spoke to is to use our materials as verifying tools, not closing tools. If you don’t use written materials to help you make the noise that gets you “righted,” you’re wasting your time developing that multi-colored proposal and animated PowerPoint® show!
Recently, I went on a sales call with one of my own salespeople. Her materials looked fantastic –but they didn’t match what the prospect wanted to do! Obviously, she hadn’t verified her information. As a result, she lost the sale. After the meeting, I shared with her the concepts I’m sharing with you. Namely: it isn’t what you show – it’s what you know that counts.
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Casey Donahew to Perform at Radio Texas, LIVE! Studio for a Few Lucky Listeners
He's what venues call a "sure thing," what festivals call a "headliner," and on Wednesday Nov. 11th Casey Donahew is back at Cowboy's for the first time in just over a year. But wait, there's more. He'll be stopping by to perform a dinner show at our studio, and you could get invited!
Keep an eye on the Radio Texas, LIVE! Facebook page, and be listening to Mandee Montana and Danny Merrell for your chance to win on-air. Winners will get an invite, and dinner provided by Coach's Sports bar.
Buy your tickets now.
So, we've got Casey Donahew and the boys will be back on Wednesday Nov. 11th for Wild Texas Wednesday. Then it's a Thanksgiving Day sandwich of concerts with Curtis Grimes returning home to perform the night before Turkey Day, then it's Cody Johnson taking the stage on the Friday after.
December will be big too as Josh Abbott Band and JB and the Moonshine Band both return before the new year.
- Wednesday Nov. 11: Casey Donahew Band (Full Band).
- Wednesday Nov. 18: Prophets and Outlaws AND Kaitlin Butts (Acoustic Show).
- Wednesday Nov. 25: Curtis Grimes (Full Band).
- Friday Nov. 27: Cody Johnson Band (Full Band).
- Wednesday Dec. 16: Josh Abbott Band.
- Wednesday Dec. 23: JB and the Moonshine Band.
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Socks for all seasons! Whether you’re a fan of Toe-up or Cuff-down, we’ve got your feet covered.
All of our socks are written in both directions, so nobody will ever have to feel excluded from knitting a rhyFlower sock pattern due to their knitting preferences. Don’t worry; they’ve all got charts & written directions too and tons of information about how to get a perfect fit every time.
Browse through all of our knitting patterns here on our website. You’ll also find them on your favorite sites like Ravelry,Knitcrate, and Love Crafts. All patterns are delivered via digital download for instant gratification.
All of my patterns are available through the Ravelry In-Store sale program. If you’re in your local yarn store (if they’re set up on Ravelry), they’re able to purchase the pattern for you when you’re scooping up your yarn and your pattern at their LYS discounted price!
I love seeing your rhyFlower WIPs and FOs! Be sure to tag me @rhyflowerknits or #rhyflowerknits on Facebook and Instagram, so I don’t miss a stitch. ♥
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Spiegel: the German intelligence service, for years, carried out surveillance by Interpol
In the list of data and criteria for the implementation of the electronic surveillance were phone numbers, e-mail domains employees of Interpol, the weekly writes.
BERLIN, April 22. /Offset. TASS Vyacheslav Filippov/. The Federal intelligence service of Germany (BND) has for many years carried out surveillance by Interpol. This was reported by the weekly Der Spiegel.
According to the publication, in addition to the headquarters of Interpol in Lyon, the BND spied on the latest with 2000 for the organization in Austria, Belgium, Greece, Denmark, Spain, Italy, the United States and several other countries. In the list of so-called selectors — data and benchmarks for implementation of electronic surveillance — were telephone numbers, e-mail domains employees of the Interpol.
According to Spiegel, the purpose of surveillance by the BND was also a police service of the EU — Europol.
About two years ago there was a scandal after it became known that the NSA for many years, followed by “thousands of targets in Europe,” with nothing knowing about it of German intelligence. The NSA purposefully provided the BND data and criteria for the implementation of electronic monitoring of objects, among which was the European policy and communications companies in the EU, for example, the aerospace concern EADS and helicopter manufacturer Eurocopter (now called Airbus Helicopters). With approximately 40 million search queries from the NSA about surveillance was contrary to the German or European interests.
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Sharrow Community Forum is a membership organisation, our main office is at the Old Junior School on South View Road in Sharrow. Our main areas of work are around supporting children, young people and families, community cohesion and community involvement, and providing accessible and affordable spaces for hire. We deliver a range of services and activities from the Old Junior School and Highfield Adventure Playground and manage the community spaces at Highfield Trinity Church.
Membership is open to anyone who lives, works, or has an interest in Sharrow. We currently have around 80 members, most of whom are individuals who live in and around Sharrow . Our members elect officers to the board of trustees at our Annual General Meeting, held each year in the Autumn.
A note from The Chair, Jill Nanson
The following is from our 2018 Annual Report. To download the full version click here.
This has been an exciting year for Sharrow Community Forum, and one that marks the beginning of a new phase. A very generous donation from a local entrepreneur gave us some stability that helped us to focus on preparing a successful bid for the Big Lottery Reaching Communities Fund.
This funding will allow us to build on our current activities, such as Tea at Adventures, our food programme which supported over 900 people over the summer holidays, and more since then. The success of this initiative has been widely acknowledged and has led to invitations to join citywide health partnership boards, which will further benefit the people of Sharrow. It also allows us to continue to support partnership working through the Abbeydale and Sharrow Stakeholder Group, and create new opportunities for local people to have a stronger voice and greater influence when it comes to local decisions and issues.
As always, I’d like to say a huge thank you to everyone who has contributed this year – to those who’ve taken part in an event, visited the Old Junior School, or used Adventures; to partners across the city; to our funders and donors; to colleagues old and new, and to trustees past and present.
Longer-term financial security gives us the opportunity to do more to support local organisations and people; develop local volunteering, and build social capital. To do this we also need your input, after all, our purpose is to strengthen communities in Sharrow, by improving the quality of life, building the community’s voice and bringing people together. Please let us know where you’d like us to focus our efforts; join us at an event or activity; encourage your friends and family to become members, or find out about joining our friendly Board of Trustees.
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While working on a recent muslin, I came upon a one of those funny little things about women’s patterns that makes no sense outside the Snowglobe of Sewing — the annoyance of “cup size.”
Of course, when I say “cup size,” I don’t mean bra cup size. Bra sizes (in the United States, at least) are chosen by measuring your under bust circumference (to find your band size), and then your full bust circumference. The difference between your full bust and your under bust will dictate your cup size, in theory.* In garment sewing, though, “cup size” refers to the difference between your high bust measurement and your full bust. So, in essence, you are measuring the amount of projection between your high bust and full bust, or the amount your chest extends outwards.
For example: a typical pattern is drafted for a “B cup,” which is a 2″ projection from high bust. 3″ = C, 4″ = D, etc. This then tells you what size to make, by matching your “cup size” to the pattern “cup size”. (For more information on sewing pattern cup sizes, see this excellent guide from the Curvy Sewing Collective.)
What’s so confusing about this? The alphabetical naming convention. We already measure bra cups in “Alpha” sizes — why call something else a cup size, using the same letters to differentiate it as bras already do, but have it mean something completely different? If you end up choosing a pattern size based on what bra cup size you wear, there’s a very good chance your garment won’t fit. Why call something a name that means something patently different everywhere else, except for this one tiny niche? It makes no sense to me! This is incredibly confusing to many sewists, new and seasoned alike.
I wanted to find out if there was some history behind this convention, so I popped on my deerstalker, and networked my way into a conversation with a friendly soul who works for the Big 4 pattern companies. It appears this method of choosing a size, or using a pre-drafted cup size pattern piece, is based on the idea that garments are fit on a model who is a specific cup size — for straight sizes this is usually a 36B, as it is also in most RTW apparel. There’s even an explanation on the new Something Delightful website (the home of the Big 4) about how to measure this — which, while helpful, isn’t explicitly clear on printed pattern envelopes.
My source mentioned that of course, the best way to get a good fit using this method is to tissue fit or muslin. I agree!
But what about if your high bust and full bust measurements are the same, or don’t have a typical difference? My source and I also agreed on this one — measure the shoulder on the pattern and your body, and also check your actual bra cup size, if applicable, or the difference between your full bust and underbust. If there’s a significant difference, choose based on your shoulder measurements and make your own full/small bust adjustment.
There are so many factors that come into play that can complicate a high bust measurement: the width of your shoulders and back, how high or low breast tissue or muscle sits on your ribcage, and even what undergarments you are wearing. Push up bras and binders can give you a larger high bust measurement by lifting some of the breast volume up there, and wearing something with less anti-gravity properties will yield the opposite.
To get to the heart of the issue, I’d like to suggest that we stop referring to the way things are drafted as “cup size,” and instead call it “chest projection.” This not only eliminates confusion, but it removes cultural bias inherent to the terminology, and it’s gender neutral, for all those non-binary folx in our people spectrum. The actual method in which pattern drafting or personal adjustments are done shouldn’t need to change, but instead of calling things B, C, and D cup sizes, they can be called 2″ chest projection, 3″ chest projection, 4″ chest projection, etc.
The reason I am proposing this is because chest projection itself encompasses many things — fat, muscle, breast tissue, ribcage angle, and so on. I think that referring to that measurement as a “cup size” is disingenuous; cup sizes themselves, referring to a bra cup, also take into account breast shape, drop, and breast placement on the ribcage, all things that are not specifically accounted for in a “cup size” pattern draft. The term “cup size” is very gendered, using specific terminology based on people with breasts.
Cup size drafting relies on circumference and vertical measurements, but only in certain categories (intimate apparel and swimwear for example) does it actually base itself on the way a fit model’s individual breasts are shaped on their individual skeleton. Calling chest projection “cup size” in garment sewing is needlessly confusing, unless there is actually a cup in the garment (hello, evening wear!).
A further point: drafting patterns according to chest projection is a good starting point, but depending on your apex placement (the fullest circumference point of your chest measured vertically from your high point shoulder), it may be less helpful to use a pre-drafted “cup size” piece. If you are shorter, or have a higher apex, for example, you will probably still have to raise the armholes on styles that have “cup size” extensions. I have a 5″ difference between my high bust and my full bust, but my apex placement is a standard ~11″, which is around what a B cup draft placement would be. However, apex placements are graded vertically from that base size, so a D cup pre-draft apex is way too low on my body.
In conclusion: let’s throw “cup size” wording out the window and adopt “chest projection”. It’s certainly easier to understand and explain. I know I’ll be making that mental change the next time I pick a pattern size!
* Of course, and slightly OT, there are bra companies that will have you measure your high bust when determining a band size. However, I would beware of that method. Depending on your breast shape, and where your breast/muscle begins on your chest, you may not get an accurate circumference measurement.
Gabby is a technical designer, fit specialist, and prolific googler. She lives in Denver, raises tiny littles, reads, embroiders, makes, experiments, fails, learns, tries again. See her on instagram @ladygrift.
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UV Visible Spectrophotometers Series Set New Standards
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An extensive range of accessories is available for diverse applications in pharmacy, biology, chemistry and physics.
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At the heart of all of our instruments, the optical components are quartz coated and equipped with high-quality encapsulation. They guarantee highest quality, maximum performance and extreme durability. The monochromator with imaging holographic grating enables stray light reduction and absolutely precise measuring results. The minimized number of movable components ensure best reliability, notably improved signal-to-noise ratio and best energy throughput.
Real double-beam mode for highest precision and a better long-term stability by measuring the sample and reference signal at exact the same moment.
The measurement results always show a current comparison of both beams. This way lamp fluctuation and drifts are corrected by the second beam. Furthermore is a direct compensation of the blanc solution possible.
- Innovative CDD technology – two temperature controlled detectors for outstanding long-term stability
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The polychromator systems, designed to work without any movable components, are the heart of the SPECORD® S 600. The high-precision optics consists of an aberration-corrected grating, a mechanical slit and the diode array detector. Encased in a rugged quartz-ceramic body, it is permanently adjusted, fixed and insensitive to external influences.
This design ensures extremely accurate and highly reproducible results. At the same time, SPECORD® S 600 provides all the flexibility needed to solve most analytical problems. Ruggedness, thermal stability as well as their high light yield are additional advantages of this device.
With a minimum scan rate of 12 milliseconds, from a spectral range of UV to NIR, the SPECORD® S 600 offers extremely fast analyses.
SPECORD – Brochure.pdf
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The Importance of Proofreading Blog Post I alwas proofread. I live writing. Is it so fun! I mom good at it.
Did that sentence make sense? Absolutely not! That is why it is important to proofread.
Proofreading your work is SO repetitive, and quite frankly, we get it. It can be really annoying! However, it is so important to always proofread your work.
Why should I proofread my work?
Proofreading is important because it is the only way that you can truly ensure that your work is flawless before submitting it or publishing it. It is not enough to simply rely on Spellcheck or http://www.grammarly.com. Frequently, automated tools miss advanced errors, and sometimes they even miss simple errors too. If you constantly rely on technology to edit your work for you, you’ll never learn how to do it yourself, and you may end up submitting work with a ton of missed mistakes. Additionally, by manually proofreading, you are subconsciously rereading your writing and internalizing it, which allows you to evaluate the quality of the work. It also sharpens your proofreading skills, and proofreading is an important skill to have as a true writer.
Ok fine! I’ll proofread it. Should I do it all at once?
NO! DO NOT PROOFREAD ONCE AND WALK AWAY EXPECTING YOUR WORK TO BE PERFECT! When you are proofreading your work, it is important to do it in short intervals, or even multiple times. If you sit down once to proofread your work and then expect it to be perfect, you are only fooling yourself. There is no way that you can find and correct every error in your work in just one sitting. It is important to proofread in increments. This allows your brain to take a break and refresh before sitting back down to continue proofreading. By taking breaks when you proofread, you optimize your brainpower and are likely to find more mistakes than if you sit and try to proofread an entire work in one sitting.
Additionally, it can become very frustrating when you are trying to perfect a work and keep finding that it is not perfect. If you take frequent breaks when you are proofreading, you will prevent yourself from growing frustrated quickly and you’ll have a clearer mind. With a clearer mind, you’re more likely to find the errors in your work!
Moral of the story? PROOFREAD! It is important, and you cannot rely on a computer to do it for you! Finally, TAKE BREAKS! You don’t need to perfect your work in one sitting. Happy writing!
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I was in an Excel Dashboarding class a couple of weeks ago and learned some interesting techniques for building highly summarized and graphical snapshots for a business. It was an interesting class that covered lots of areas of Excel. It was a great concepts class with tons of interesting, somewhat technical, techniques. The ONE thing that had almost all the class OOHH-ing and AAHH-ing is a simple tip that a few knew about, but most didn’t.
On the toolbar, there is a little paint brush icon titled, Format Painter. With it, you can copy the format of a cell to another cell or cells. First, you select a cell (make it the active cell) from which you want to copy the format, then click the Format Painter icon. Next, click on the cell you want to copy the format to. If there are is a block of cells you want to copy to, you can select a range of cells and they all get the new format assigned to them. After you click on the receiving cells, the Format Painter button turns off and you repeat for the next format copy process. You probably know this already. It’s pretty intuitive. But, here is the part that was new to lots of people in the class.
When you click on the Format Painter button,
it instead of just the normal single click, the format you are copying stays available and doesn’t go away. You can paste the new format to lots of non-contiguous cells – even cells on different worksheets and different open workbooks. The format stays available to be pasted until you click on the Format Painter button again or press the Escape key.
If you do a lot of Excelling in your job, you probably spend a lot of time making your spreadsheets look good. Hopefully, his technique will save you some time. Enjoy!
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Torrential storms and thunderstorms have killed at least seven – including a baby – after weather in the Mediterranean turned severe.
Flash flooding hit the Greek island of Evia over the weekend – with seven deaths connected with the storms recorded on Sunday.
A baby was among the fatalities, with the child’s body being found alongside two others in the village of Politika.
While fire rescuers discovered another four victims in the village of Amfithea and the area of Bourtzi in central Evia, northeast of Athens.
One other person has been reported missing with a search by the local emergency services said to be underway.
A Bourtzi resident told Reuters: “We have been in the mud since six in the morning.
“There was nothing I could do, I climbed up onto the table to save myself. I was alone.”
Fire teams were overwhelmed when hundreds of affected locals requested help pumping water from homes and to pull cars and vehicles from mud.
Evacuations saw 43 people air lifted by helicopter while roads in the area were flooded and rivers burst their banks.
Deputy Civil Protection Minister Nikos Hardalias warned: “We are faced with phenomena that we haven't experienced before.”
While Reuters claims he went on to add that: “climate change is make it harder to predict their intensity.”
Forecasts gave predicted 63mm of rain to fall over 24 hours on Saturday – but this number was greatly underestimates as more than five times the amount fell with 350mm recorded.
The UK has endured extreme weather conditions over the weekend with temperatures hitting 36C.
The Met Office issued a yellow alert weather warning for the whole country on Saturday warning that severe thunderstorms could take place at any time from Monday to Wednesday as the heatwave is expected to come to a dramatic end.
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The 25-year-old midfielder is wanted by several top clubs across Europe and looks likely to be on the move at the end of the season.
According to The Daily Mail, Manchester City are closing on a £23m deal for the German after his agent held talks with sporting director Txiki Begiristain.
But City face competition from Arsenal, Barcelona and Juventus with Gundogan looking set to be a major name in this summer's transfer window.
And those potential suitors can be buoyed by the latest quotes coming out of Dortmund.
Ahead of their Europa League clash with Tottenham tomorrow, Tuchel said: "I am not convinced that he will stay.
"If [he leaves], we will have to deal with it.
"I can not understand the fuss. That's daily business. We are also planning our squad and speaking with [agents]."
The BVB coach also said that Gundogan should think carefully about his next move and ensured him that Dortmund still has plenty to offer.
He added: "I am sure that Ilkay knows what he has at this club, which development can take here, which leader he can be in this club.
"Ilkay knows these things very well."
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Tasty Dosa is a heaven for the people who love to immerse into the South Indian flavours. The exotic varieties of dosa and uttapam served over here will transport you into a different world. The presentation of the dishes is exquisite. Located in Eros Market Place, Indirapuram, Ghaziabad, the quick-service restaurant is a great place to relish your taste buds and excite your senses. Tasty Dosa has an appealing and extravagant ambiance. The staff is cordial and efficient and all items on the menu are pocket-friendly.
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Today we wear red to support and raise awareness surrounding heart health for women . Heart disease remains to be the leading cause of death in the U.S. according to the CDC FastStats (followed by cancer #2 and accidents #3). And for women it is the number one killer. Sadly, 1 in 3 women’s lives are taken away by heart disease and stroke. I bet someone you know who is affected by this disease.
Actually, earlier this week, one of the women I volunteer with confided in me about her mom suffering from a heart attack. It was unexpected and devastating for her mom and the rest of the family. They have always seen her mom as someone who is upbeat and full of energy. Now she is just the opposite. And she is quite young, in her 50s. Today, it’s becoming more common in younger generations to experience a heart condition.
However there is light and hope, because about 80% of cardiac events can be prevented.
About 80 percent of deaths from premature heart disease and stroke could be prevented by changes in physical activity, diet, smoking and management of common medical conditions.” – Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
To learn more about the ‘whats’ and ‘hows’ of healthy living, check out the resources available from Go Red for Women. They have simplified the approach of “Eat smart. Add color. Move more. Be well.” You may be familiar with some or all of these information already and its impact on your wellness: making healthy food choices, getting enough movement throughout the day, quality sleep, managing your stress, and having meaningful social connections. But the challenge with most people who already know about healthy living is taking action.
I love Jim Kwik’s adage about knowledge: Knowledge is not power—it has the potential to be power, but only becomes power when you apply and use it.
Check out his podcast episode about How to Turn Your Knowledge into Action where he used 3 quick questions. Questioning is a powerful tool as it brings you into focus and you discover insights and connections to what matters to you most. As a Wellness Coach, this is a skill I use frequently with my clients – the power of questions!
Here are additional questions you can ask yourself:
What is your greatest hope related to your health?
Which fitness activities can you see yourself doing?
What changes would you like to make in your eating?
When you answer these questions, it leads you to consider in trying out your ideas. Whether it’s adding more fruits and veggies to your meals or taking a 10min walking break from working at your desk. There are countless possibilities! However, any change, big or small, as long as it’s in the direction towards better wellness counts.
What action are you ready to take today to lower your risk for heart disease? Are you wearing red today?
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Bowhunting: How to Find Your FOC
I was hanging out at the local archery pro-shop with the teens in my High School Archery club. The kids were having fun flinging arrows and poking holes in paper. I was chatting about different arrow setups with the shop owner, as will happen in an archery shop, and we were discussing the FOC of various arrow set-up we have used. After our conversation came to its inevitable conclusion, and young lady in the archery club called me over. “Mr. Grippa,” she said. “Umm, I heard you guys talking about your arrows, and I had a question.” “Sure” I replied, “What did you guys mean when you were talking about the FOC of your arrows?” That’s when I remembered that not everyone has been shooting a bow most of their lives and is as obsessed with this stuff as I am. So after I gave her a brief run down, it occurred to me that she probably isn’t the only person out there that may have the same question.
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What is the FOC of an Arrow?
First let’s talk about the acronym. FOC is short for Front Of Center. So what does that mean? It is referencing how much or what percentage of an arrow’s length is the fulcrum of an arrow in front of the center of the arrow. Simply put, how far is the balance point in front of the middle of the arrow? I assume most archers realize that the front of the arrow is the heavier end, but many may not realize that the FOC can make a difference in arrow flight and even penetration. More on that later.
Finding Your FOC
My guess is there are a lot of bowhunters that never think about or care to think about the FOC. They get their arrows cut, glue in the inserts, screw in the broadheads and never give it a second thought. If you’re like me and primarily hunt whitetails, that scenario works. A 100 grain head, and an insert in the front in will provide a good enough FOC to do the job. If that’s you and you aren’t worried about it, then you will can probably stop right here and move on to the nest article. If you think you may need to know how to find your FOC then please read on. So here is how to find your arrow’s FOC.
First step, measure the full length of the arrow. From the very back of the nock all the way to the tip of the head. Divide that length in half to find the center. Mark that spot with a pencil.
Next, balance the arrow on a relatively narrow plane. I usually use the back of the blade of one of my pocket knives. Once it balances mark the balance point of the arrow with a pencil.
3rd step is to then measure the distance from the balance point to the measured center of the arrow.
Finally divide that distance by the total length of the arrow, multiply that number by 100 and that will give you the percentage of arrow shaft the fulcrum is in front of the center of the arrow, or the FOC. For example let’s use an arrow that is 30” long. The center of that arrow is 15”. If the fulcrum or balance point is found at 12” from the front tip of the arrow then its 3” in front of the measured center. We then divide the 3” distance by the 30” length of the arrow to give us a FOC of 10%.
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What Does This Tell Us?
So now that we know how to find the FOC what does that tell us and what FOC do I need? Well that really depends on what you intend to do with that arrow. In my opinion an arrow that is being set up for a 3D target bow can have a different FOC then an arrow that is going to be used to hunt big game. You will find that opinions will vary but here is what I have found.
For an arrow I am going to bowhunt whitetails with it will have a larger FOC than my 3D arrow. I want my hunting arrows to have an FOC of at least 10% but I’d prefer them to be about 12%. A larger FOC means a little more weight up front and that arrow will deflect less. If I want it to penetrate and drive through bone, then I will strive to get that larger FOC. An arrow I’m building for a 3D set up is one that I want to have a flat trajectory. A smaller FOC will give me that, all things being equal. So what is the best for 3D? Great question. I have talked to guys that like theirs to be as small as 6% and others prefer 10%. Here is their line of reasoning. Small FOC equals flatter trajectory, that is true, but I have found that 5% to 6% and that arrow gets a little squirrely down range, especially in some wind. The people in the larger the FOC camp are concerned about hitting arrows in the target and deflecting out of the 12 or 11 ring. I think both are valid points, and that’s why I aim for the best of both worlds. I set my 3D arrows up to have an FOC of around 9%. I feel that it is happy medium between flight and deflection.
Hopefully this clears things up and you now know how to find the FOC of your arrows. I also hope that everyone now has better understanding of what the FOC of your arrow means for your particular set up. Happy hunting, shoot straight and I’ll see you in the deer woods.
Eric Grippa, GetZone.com Contributor
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Disruption in Banking, Stockholm, 22 April 2016
True Global Ventures have held highly praised Disruption Banking events in Stockholm (10 November 2015), London (20 January 2016) and Paris (21 January 2016). Upcoming events are confirmed for San Francisco (18 April 2016), Stockholm (including Nordics, 22 April 2016) and finally in Beijing (11 May 2016).
The most prominent fintech experiences in Europe, Asia and the US will be presented. Disruption Banking Stockholm will be a nordic event featuring entrepreneurial stories from founders of USD+100M revenue fintech companies, the latest trends in fintech, insightful panels and a nordic fintech growth stage startup competition. Competing companies are growth stage fintech companies in the Nordics and companies abroad with Nordic founders.
08:30-09:00 Breakfast & Registration
09:00-09:05 Welcome Address
Fredrik Oscarson, Head of Deloitte Digital
09:05-09:30 Global Fintech Hubs and the Evolution of Fintech Segments with focus on Blockchain
Dušan Stojanović, Founder of True Global Ventures, European Angel of the Year 2013 awarded after 3 Fintech exits in a week (total of 9 Fintech exits out of 18 investments). Awarded Top 100 Fintech leaders in Asia 2016.
09:30-10:20 Entrepreneurial Stories - Each panel member has founded and ran fintech companies from scratch to revenues of approximately 100MUSD
Jacob de Geer, Founder & CEO of iZettle
Ola Johnsson, CFO of Bima (Milvik)
Jostein Svendsen, Establised Bankia Bank ASA, one of the earliest successful banking concepts in the Nordics
10:20 - 10:35 Coffee Break
10:35 - 10:55 Asia Trends
Shailesh Naik, Founder of Matchmove - Leading remittances and lending to the underbanked. Based in Singapore, it is one of the fastest growing fintech companies in Asia
10:55-11:15 Transforming an Offline Company to an Online Company
Dan Ouchterlony, Investment Manager of Schibsted
11:15 - 12:00 Enterprise Use Cases within Underbanked, Blockchain, KYC, Compliance and Big Data
Daniel Döderlein, Founder & CEO of Auka (acquired by SpareBank1)
Pavel Bains, CEO of Bluzelle Networks - Blockchain/Ripple/Ethereum
12:00 - 13:15 Networking Lunch with Table Seating
13:15-14:00 London Trends
Nigel Verdon, co-founder of Currency Cloud
Giles Andrews, co-founder of Zopa, the first P2P lending site in the world
14:00-14:15 Competition Kick-Off
Frida Jonsdottir, Fintech specialist at Deloitte’s Fintech hub “The Grid”
Oscar Stibeck, Partner of True Global Ventures
Erik Tobieson, Partner of True Global Ventures
Kristian Hansson, Partner of True Global Ventures
14:15-15:45 Growth Stage Fintech Finals - 5 fintech growth stage finalists to present their growth stage fintech company & a winner will be voted by the audience
- Cloud Insurance: Cloud Insurance is a Software-as-a-Service platform for the insurance industry, with extensive policy and claims management capabilities. Cloud Insurance aims to be truly globally scalable, and is already in use in 15 countries across 5 continents. The solution is highly data driven, emphasizes direct customer involvement, and offers the flexibility needed to create new and unique insurance products. The Cloud Insurance team is based in Oslo, Norway.
- Zervant: Zervant provides intuitive invoicing software for small businesses, freelancers and entrepreneurs. To date, Zervant’s software has over 90,000 business users in 160 countries. Headquartered in Helsinki, Finland, Zervant was founded in 2010 and has raised over 4 million of venture capital and angel funding.
- Instantor: Instantor offers a fast and convenient Bank API to obtain information from a person's bank account from over 150 banks in 12 countries. Use the information to evaluate a person’s creditworthiness when there is a lack of official registers with information regarding income or when such register contains non-satisfactory data.
- Billhop: Billhop is an SaaS payment service provider which enables companies and private individuals to pay their bills/invoices by credit card
- Lendify: Lendify operates the leading online marketplace lending platform in Sweden and is in the strongest position to become the leading marketplace across the Nordics. Lendify focuses on unsecured consumer loans to the prime segment ( borrowers with high credit worthiness) and has a strong core team with a mix of top talent from entrepreneurship, credit scorig, IT development, digital products as well as investment banking.
Victor Kotnik, Managing Partner Consulting, Deloitte
Ji Bo, Assistant Dean, Global Executive Education, Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business
16:00 After-Event Networking and Drinks
As we are hosting a crowd from all over the Nordic region, we have made some extra space for meet and greets with a dinner the evening before by special invitation, a “fika” before the event, a mingle lunch and some afternoon drinks to end the evening.
Venue and accommodation
Kammarsalen, Berns Salonger Main Entrance, Berzelii Park, Stockholm. For out of town guests accommodation is available at Berns Hotel. [email protected] or +46 8 5663 2291. All our guests receive a 15% discount, include “Event2016” in your booking.
Competition and applications
True Global Ventures is welcoming applications to crown the most promising growth stage fintech company in the Nordics. Applications will be shortlisted by our international jury (more to be added later) who will select 5 finalists to compete during the event. The winner will be chosen by the audience.
Dusan Stojanovic - Business Angel of the Year 2013 - Founder True Global Ventures
Tom McNerney - Co-founder Markit (MRKT on Nasdaq, market value $5B) - Partner True Global Ventures
Richard Brenner, Bay Area - Co-founder Bridge Bank, +50 angel investments - Partner True Global Ventures
Joo Seng Wong, Singapore, Co-founder and Chairman of M-DAQ, from Jan 2010 to Nov 2015
M-DAQ has grown to a S$250 million Series C investment round with a paid up cap of $70 million. Partner True Global Ventures.
Sam Myers - Balderton Capital, a European Venture Capital fund focused on early-stage investments.
Seth Pierrepont - Accel Partners, a Venture and Growth equity firm funding companies from inception through the growth stage.
Pascal Bouvier, CFA - Venture Partner, Santander InnoVentures. Santander Group’s Global Fintech fund.
Criteria to enter
- Based in Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Iceland or a fintech company abroad with a Nordic founder.
- Fintech - Blockchain, Security, KYC, Compliance, Regulation, Insurance, Payments, Underbanked, Big data or others (Wealth Management, P2P lending and crowdfunding).
- Raised at least $1M in funding
- Have existing customers and revenue stream
- Founded within 5 years
- Business Model
- Problem Solved & Description of Solution.
- User case of paying customers/partnerships
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Starbucks expands beyond coffee with Teavana deal
Starbucks wants to make the tea shop as ubiquitous as its namesake cafes.
The Seattle-based company said that it will pay $620 million in cash to buy Teavana Holdings Inc., which sells high-end, loose leaf teas in 300 shopping mall locations.
The plan is to grow Teavana's footprint beyond the suburban mall with stand-alone shops around the world, while adding tea bars where customers can buy hot and cold drinks.
The deal marks Starbucks latest push to expand beyond its cafes, with the company facing intensifying competition from fast-food chains offering specialty coffees.
Last summer, Starbucks bought small bakery chain La Boulange for $100 million. Last year, it added fresh-juice maker Evolution to its stable for $30 million.
The Teavana deal also positions Starbucks for stronger sales in parts of the world where tea is more popular than coffee.
Teavana recently opened its first store in the Middle East with Alshaya, which is Starbucks joint venture partner as well.
CEO Howard Schultz noted in an interview that Starbucks cafes had modest beginnings as well. The company's 11 locations only sold coffee by the pound in 1987, with its dizzying menu of specialty drinks and baked goods evolving over time.
Schultz said the company would use that experience to transform Teavana and tap into the $40 billion global tea market.
Starbucks Corp. already owns the Tazo tea brand, which it purchased in 1999. The company has signaled its growing interest in tea. It recently opened its first Tazo tea shop.
Starbucks has described the Tazo shop as a place where customers can buy specialty drinks, packaged chocolates and dozens of loose leaf teas -- not unlike the shops it's now envisioning for Teavana.
Schultz said the Tazo shop will serve as a "learning laboratory" for its development of Teavana stores. He said the brands give the company a two-tiered approach to the fast-growing tea category, since Teavana is a premium loose leaf tea, while Tazo is a bagged tea product sold in supermarkets
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Starbucks cafes, for example, are defined by their rush-hour bustle in the mornings. Tea shops have a more serene, cerebral feel. When walking into a Teavana store, Schultz said people feel as if they've "stepped into a shrine to tea."
Teavana shareholders will get $15.50 per share cash in the Starbucks deal, which is expected to close by the end of the year. Starbucks says it will add a penny per share to its 2013 earnings.
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No matter where you live, surely you have seen the mayhem, chaos, and fear a microscopic entity called Covid-19 (aka Corona Virus) has brought upon this world. Not specific to a region or country, this little bug is taking over the world, while we scour the streets for soap, hand sanitizer, and toilet paper. Humans are a curious bunch...
I hear pollution (air, water) has decreased since this pandemic first started. I guess that's good news for the planet. Maybe Mother Nature has finally gotten sick of what we are doing to her and is taking action... (The Happening anyone?).
Businesses are having to close due to the enforced (or strongly suggested) self-isolation for everyone. People are losing their income from no work. Eldery are unable to get basic supplies due to people buying more supplies than they need, and hoarding them.
Hospitals are running out of medical supplies, especially N95 masks which are supposed to be efficient at filtering out the Covid-19 virus, especially considering it can survive in the air for 3-4 hours, let alone on surfaces and clothing for much longer. My sister is a nurse at a hospital short on supplies, and are now using masks that are ineffective at protection, yet she keeps working. Bless those that continue to be on the front lines
Schools in our area are now going into week 2 of being closed (as of the date of this blog posting). Our two kids, grades 3 and kindergarten, are usually dropped off at daycare in the mornings. The daycare buses them to school, picks them up once school is over, and we are then able to pick them up from daycare after we get off work. The daycare is still open and operating (although not sure how that is possible), but we elected not to send our kids to daycare. It feels like that's essentially the same environment as the schools, and they were shut down for a reason. I can see the need for daycares to remain open, especially for kids whose parents work in the medical or law enforcement fields during this time. Luckily my wife has been able to work from home since the schools were shutdown. I work in the IT field, but my job is still currently open, so I go into the office 5 days a week until told otherwise.
In any case, all over social media you'll see hastags #isolation, #selfisolation, #coronavirus, etc. Those people around the world who actually have been taking this seriously, and trying to stay indoors and self-isolated are going a bit stir crazy. You feel captive in your own house. You can of course go take a walk outside, enjoy the flowering plants and trees as Spring creeps in amongst the chaos. I was walking my dog Saturday, mid-afternoon. During this time, you'll see people working outside, kids playing in the streets, etc. It looked like the neighborhood was abandoned. Not a single person was out and about. I walk a few blocks around the neighborhood to give my dog a bit of afternoon exercise. Aside from other dogs, there wasn't a single soul. Squirrels were out foraging, birds were chirping and fluttering about. It was actually peaceful and serene. Calm before the storm?
My parents are 70 and 80 years old. Despite the constant reminders from myself, as well as my siblings, they still continue to venture out, looking for groceries and household items. I've been doing what I can, picking things up here and there and dropping them off at their house (well, their front door rather. Any groceries or items I get for them, I spray down with disinfectant spray first)... and yes... I have disinfectant spray, disinfectant wipes, toilet paper, and even hand sanitizer. That stuff is like gold nowdays. We shop at Sam's Club on a regular basis, and as luck would have it, we had just recently restocked on those items right before all of this crap happened.
Finding things to do, to entertain, to keep you busy, can be challenging when you are stuck at home. My kids and wife, they seem to be perfectly fine with Netflix, Amazon, Hulu, Disney+. The kids do have some schoolwork they were sent home with, but it's getting finished quickly. We'll have to find resources online with worksheets for them to do before too long.
I've mentioned it a few times... I think it's on my profile here on my website, and on my Instagram profile. I'm a bit of an introvert, a homebody. People out there are going batty about being at home, and I'm as content as can be. Is self-isolation really a prison sentence for those that do it on the regular? So far it hasn't bothered me. Will it a week from now? A month? Who knows. I tend to be pretty resilient and go with the flow of things. No sense in worrying what you can't control. Right now, we can't control this virus, but we can control the spread of it, or rather slow down the spread of it until our world brainiacs can figure out how to best fight back against this pandemic.
I see some photographers still venturing out with models for shoots. Eh, best of luck to them. I figured I didn't have a lot of selfies, so it was about time for a new one. What better theme for a selfie than the Corona Virus? I wanted to make an image that draws out the emotion of isolation, fear, and loneliness.
My kitchen was my studio... or rather, a very small piece of my kitchen. I took a couple of light stands with clamps, and used them to hold up a piece of plexiglass to serve as my window. As you can see, I was literally sitting right next to a real window... but I didn't want my camera equipment outside.
I used a shutter speed of 1/500 to kill off a lot of that ambient. The picture makes it look brighter than it actually was outside. The light source for this shot was an AD200 with the AD-S7 modifier. It's essentially an 18-19" octabox. I used this with a grid to help control light spill onto the plexiglass.
a piece of black foamcore served as a fake wall for the photo. The real wall behind it was white, and I didn't want light reflecting back.
Taking a selfie with a phone camera is easy. Taking a selfie with an actual camera? that can be a bit tricky. Luckily Fuji has a smartphone app that connects to your Fuji camera via bluetooth/wifi. You can see a live preview, make camera setting adjustments, and take photos. I took around 2 dozen photos before I came out with one I was happy with. Trying to nail focus through plexiglass has its moments... And yes, my l-bracket is not being used the way it should be. I was constantly reaching around/under the plexiglass to adjust it (which would constantly make the plexiglass fall between takes), and that's how the camera position came to be in the end. As long as the end result works right? :)
makeup and wardrobe consisted of a medical mask, a black hoodie, and contact lens drops. The drops were for my eyes to get them a little wet. Perhaps sweat from a fever? Maybe wept tears from isolation? Fear? Depression? You decide what feeling is invoked.
Camera settings for those who care are as follows: Fuji XT-3
Fuji XF 23mm f/1.4 at f/2.8
1/500 shutter speed
AD200 at 1/8 power
Stay safe. Stay healthy. Stay inside, unless it's to see the beauty of nature.
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With Fay & Andy
I had recently been given the pleasure to photograph Fay and Andy at their wedding in the Diocese of Birmingham’s, West Midlands, at the lovely Kings Norton Saint Nicolas Church on May 25th 2019.
Most church weddings I attend to photograph at are filled with tombstones without space or opportunity to really photograph the bride and groom during those special moments or after the ceremony around the church grounds.
However, Kings Norton Saint Nicolas Church offers a little more within the grounds as it also hosts a 17th century Old Grammar School at Saint Nicolas Place which features charming and intimate Tudor characters that are perfect for bridal portraits and family group shots.
Just outside the main entrance, the church has two leading paths making it an ideal opportunity for capturing the colourful confetti shots of the bride and groom along with happy guests, the confetti shot is one of my favourite wedding photography moments of the day so this was a real treat for me.
I asked Fay & Andy why they choose Saint Nicolas Church, and they said that its close to their hearts; they can see the spire from their house and loved hearing the church bells at the weekends.
I started the day with a quick recce around the church before heading off to photograph Fay and her three lovely daughters getting ready as bridesmaids. Fay was really accommodating from the start, showing me around her house and allowing me crack on with photograph her wedding dress and all the important details.
I then gave Fay a few moments to put on her dress which gave me time to photograph her daughters with grandad, I love these family shots too, the girls and grandad were really keen to be photographed. 15 mins later I entered the room to see Fay all beautifully dressed and ready to add the finishing touches to her hair and makeup. This was shortly followed by Fay’s Dad who was yet to see her ready for the big day.
I made my return back to the church to grab a few images of Andy and his best man before heading back out to wait the arrival of Fay just as she entered the church, another great opportunity to capture Fay with proud dad and daughters. The girls had smiling faces and Fay and her father were glowing with excitement as they entered the main entrance to the church where Andy was waiting to see Fay for the first time. The ceremony went well and the vicar was in top form, making jokes along the way which provided a refreshing touch! Another +1 for Saint Nicolas Church.
After the ceremony, confetti shots and quick candids of the guests I grabbed the opportunity to photograph Fay & Andy around The Old Grammar House before heading back down the other entrance path for some walking shots. Fay did say that they didn’t really want any posed shots of them, so I kept the shoot quick and on point, allowing them to be natural and in the moment without posing. I think they will love the outcome from such a short bridal portrait session, and to have some images of them together at the church they love so much should be a real treat for them.
Whilst I took a few shots of Fay & Andy, the rest of the guests headed off to the reception venue at The Bell in Broughton which was about a 25-minute drive away, The Bell was a charming pub that complemented The Old Grammar House offering a nicely decorated rustic barn, set up ready for the wedding breakfast and speeches. It’s during the speeches that I normally take a break to eat and photograph the local area, this where I discovered an ideal spot for a family group shot of Fay, Andy and Children. I also used the opportunity to compose and grab just one last couple shot that also captured the name of the venue and them kissing in a moment beneath an old street lantern.
The day was beginning to draw to a close with just the first dance to go before I was due to head home, Andy had promised to perform his special dance moves, so I had to make sure I stayed long enough to capture some of the action! He was nervous before the dance but they both rocked it together which everyone enjoyed.
I would finally like give a huge congratulations once more to Fay & Andy and I wish you both a lifetime of happiness together. I hope you enjoy your photos as much as I did in capturing them.
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Snatched by the masked man from the park, blond scally lad Justin is pinned down and strapped to a board by Darius Ferdynand, who’s found his prey and wants to enjoy him long and slowly. Pulling out his rock hard juicy dick for his boy to suck hard on, our top fucker gets slowly undressed, keeping his power all the time with our Aussie captive. Face fucked hard, Justin takes the whole shaft down his throat, lapping at Darius’ smooth tasty balls. Showing off his toned and hairless body for us, the hung young man moves his attention from Justin’s face to his ass, raising his legs, the only free limbs he’s got, and plunges his entire length into him, fucking that tight white hole harder and deeper against his tied boy, working those hips and giving us the best fuck we’ve seen in ages, those loose balls slapping against slapped and rosy ass cheeks until Darius gets coated in spunk, not what he wanted, as he’s far from finished with his prize!
Tempting his mate over with his surprise, Luke Desmond arrives already semi hard at the thought of having a piece of this ass! Instantly whipping that famous big dick out and slapping it over Justin’s face, there’s no waiting around for the action to start! Pulling his polo shirt over his head, Luke’s fit lean body will give us all hard-ons whilst watching his giant dick work hard on the boy tied beneath them. Darius loves showing off his boy to his mate, and moves aside to let Luke get to work on his ass, fucking him hard on his back, sliding his meat in and out as Darius wanks over the scorching hot scene, just like the rest of us! Flipped and fucked doggy, Justin gets twice the pleasure as Luke’s dick already inside him is joined by Darius’, pounding Justin with two massive dicks, pulling him back onto them both until he feels about to split down the middle and then fucked some more! The sight of Luke’s monster firmly wedged inside Justin whilst Darius slides back and forth is a picture to behold and will have us all shooting our loads just as much as Luke and Darius do.
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Profits of preservation
Part of a failed development project is on its way to becoming open space that would protect wildlife and make Granby almost $3 million.
The town board of trustees has begun the process of negotiating an easement with the Colorado Headwaters Land Trust on certain lands Granby owns, specifically a portion of the former Shorefox property near US Highway 40 and US Highway 34.
An easement is a contract restricting development and subdivision, and anything else that could be done with the land must be negotiated between parties. The town has begun the negotiation process with Colorado Headwaters, and the board wants to get input from stakeholders before anything is finalized.
“We want your feedback. Nothing is written in stone yet,” Granby Mayor Paul Chavoustie said Friday during a public meeting to discuss the open space. “It’s what you guys think could and should go out there. Once you do a land trust easement, it’s pretty much poured in concrete.”
The Shorefox development had been on the market for $60 million after a foreclosure in 2008, but it didn’t sell in part because of the investment needed for the property. In 2016, the town purchased the roughly 1,500 acres of land, including 1.5 miles of the Colorado River and 233 acre-feet of water rights, for $4.5 million.
Later that year, the town sold 400 acres to Sun Communities for $6.2 million to become River Run Ranch, an RV park currently in the works. Through this deal, the town kept 1,100 acres of land, the river and water rights while recovering the value of the entire property, paying off old town debt and supplementing town reserves.
The land trust will put 739 acres of the town’s land into an easement, including the section of the river. Taxpayers will not pay anything for this and the land will still belong to the town.
A conservation easement is a tool to conserve real property, Colorado Headwaters executive director Jeremy Krones explained, meaning even if the property were to change hands, the title document would stand. The easement restricts property rights of what can be done to the land, but the town will still own it after this process.
Land easements can be donated or purchased, though usually it’s a mix of both, as in this case. The $3 million Colorado Headwaters will pay for the easement does not cover the entire value, so the remaining amount will be a donation.
The mayor and Krones both said the primary reason for this easement, beyond the money, is preservation and protection.
“People come to Colorado, people come to Grand County for a reason,” Krones said. “It is our wide open spaces. It’s our access. It’s the wildlife that we see. It’s the water that we have. Conservation easements help to protect that.”
A portion of the easement will be a “no-go” zone, which wildlife experts say is critical for protecting elk and other animals in the area. Initial drafting of trails is roughly 10 miles that could include Nordic, biking, equestrian and multiuse trails, but this is all subject to change based on public feedback.
The town would pay an estimated $60,500 in mostly legal expenses, but would make it back with the money Colorado Headwaters would provide for the easement. A portion of the $3 million will go toward creating the trails and other amenities, like restrooms, on the easement.
Contract negotiations can take at least 10 months, according to Krones, but the contract will need to be signed by December 2021. No plans for the land will be finalized or permanent until the closing date. After the easement is settled, Colorado Headwaters will monitor the use of land annually to make sure the contract is upheld.
The town board was expected to approve a memorandum of understanding with Colorado Headwaters at the Granby trustee’s Tuesday meeting. The mayor emphasized that there would be many more discussions moving forward.
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Boca Helping Hands itself got a hand on Tuesday, just hours after a suspicious blaze heavily damaged the nonprofit's headquarters.
Volunteers from St. Andrew's School and 1-800-GOT-JUNK, Helping Hands' neighbor in the light industrial area at 138 NW 16th St., donated 10 computers and several workstations and were on hand to help clean up the mess after the fire at 8 p.m. Monday.
Boca Raton Fire-Rescue called in the State Fire Marshal to lead the investigation into the blaze, which officials suspect might be arson. Before the fire, an eyewitness noticed a "strange" car parked near Helping Hands that vanished once the building was ablaze, said Lt. Anthony Stafford of the State Fire Marshal's office. The investigation is ongoing.
"We do have some signs that it's not accidental," he said, but he said he could not elaborate further.
The State Fire Marshal's Office is called to assist in investigations during high-dollar fires, arson cases and blazes in state buildings, he said.
When Boca Helping Hands executive director Linda Gove returned to the office Monday night, she noticed a broken window and smoke pouring out of the building. She had been making baskets for an auction Sunday for the charity's third annual Bowling for Bread fundraiser at Strikes @ Boca.
Gove said the fire started in a clothing closet.
The headquarters was condemned. Helping Hands' landlord gave the nonprofit temporary space in another building he owns nearby.
The organization is awaiting its move into a new home it had purchased and asked the Boca Raton council for permission to use as a family resource center.
Council members Tuesday approved the charity's proposed plan for the new 15,000-square-foot building. Helping Hands' request was on the agenda before the blaze even became an issue.
Gove said the nonprofit plans to move into its new digs by December.
There is no damage estimate yet, but Gove said that professional clothing that had been donated for prospective job applicants and backpacks filled with school supplies for children were lost. Helping Hands also needs to replenish office supplies and equipment, including printers, printer ink and fax machines.
Boca Helping Hands began its job mentoring program in April and assisted about 50 people last month. The charity's financial assistance program also helped about 500 families with payments such as rent and electric bills last year, Gove said.
The organization also operates a food pantry and serves hot meals.
"We operate with volunteers," said president Gary Peters. "Without them, we can't do much."
Tuesday afternoon, the scent of smoke still hung in the air as investigators and volunteers walked through the charred space. Eva Herman, 14, a ninth-grader at St. Andrew's School, was helping to label boxes and move chairs and other debris. She also brought her dad to do some heavy lifting of furniture.
Herman said she heard the announcement during lunch soliciting students for help.
"So, I texted my stepmom. I was like, 'Let's go, let's do it,' " she said. "The fire's a big deal. It's bad. People need help."
Staff Writer Patty Pensa contributed to this report.
Erika Pesantes can be reached at [email protected] or 561-243-6602.
How to help
To make donations or volunteer, call Boca Helping Hands at 561-994-7330. Make checks payable to Boca Helping Hands and mail to 138 NW 16th St., Boca Raton, FL 33432.
Watch a video report on the fire. SunSentinel.com/hands
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Anti-digital dualists tend to list off scholars and popular authors, including Evgeny Morozov or Sherry Turkle, as dualists without quoting from them or presenting much evidence. Apparently their works are so flawed as to not require a basic level of engagement before being dismissed, as if their purported flaws were obvious enough not to need justification.
Jurgenson’s recent piece in The New Inquiry continues that tradition. For instance, while noting that “there has been a long tradition of social theory linking the consequences of altering the “natural” world in the name of convenience, efficiency, comfort, and safety to draining reality of its truth or essence,” he drops names like Robert Putnam and Sherry Turkle as if this were an adequate description of their research. For anyone who has read Putnam’s Bowling Alone, this interpretation is simply nonsense. The draining of reality of its truth or essence is nowhere an evident concern in his work. Rather, he studies the quantifiable and demonstrable decline in certain kinds of social practices and explores the potential effects of such a decline on well-being and the functioning of civil society.
Turkle, likewise, never promotes as simplistic a view of authenticity as Jurgeson and other anti-digital dualists like to claim. For instance, she writes in Alone Together:
“There are no simple answers as to whether the Net is a place to be deliberate, to commit to life, and live without resignation. But these are good terms with which to start a conversation. That conversation would have us ask if there are the values by which we want to judge our lives. If they are, and if we are living in a technological culture that does not support them, how can that culture be rebuilt to the specifications that respect what we treasure – our sacred spaces” (p. 277).
Furthermore, Turkle does not simply champion “disconnectionism.” Rather, she carefully documents the ambiguities and trade-offs within the practices and experiences of users of digital devices, taking their concerns more seriously than Jurgenson seems willing to do. Disconnection is meant to be a self-reflective experiment: What is lost? What is different? What can be wrong with promoting a critical, but inevitably partial, break from a set of devices that suffuses and co-shapes one’s daily life? To me, it seems like an opportunity to explore whether or not contemporary technological civilization is all that is cracked up to be, which might motivate users to demand better devices and/or their subsequent regulation. Anti-digital dualists, however, find it dangerous.
In the last section of Jurgenson’s article, he throws around a bit of Foucault to make those who worry about the trade-offs of screen time appear to be the modern-day equivalents of prudish but sex-obsessed Victorians, stifling the steering of digitally evoked desires “away from progressive ends and toward reinforcing the values that support what already exists…maintaining traditional understandings of what is natural, human, real, healthy, normal.” What worries Jurgenson the most is that new taboos could emerge about when, where and how digital devices enter into one’s practices, and attempting to build social norms is apparently everywhere and always a bad thing – you know, because of Foucualt: “Digital austerity is a police officer downloaded into our heads, making us always self-aware of our personal relationship to digital desire.”
Since when is mindfulness concerning our relationship with our desires and how they may lead us to undesirable places immediately a bad thing? Apparently, little do I know that all my efforts to, for instance, not get too drunk at social gatherings or learn to handle strong emotions like anger in ways that do not cause loved ones to suffer have really just been exercises in self-repression.
What is most bizarre about this kind of logic, which Jurgenson’s piece unfortunately shares with a great deal of post-modernist-inspired theorizing, is that the labeling of deviance or pathology, along with those little internal police officers that come with it, is inevitably omnipresent. To exist within a culture, within a community, is to have an understanding and contribute to the evolution of standards of behavior. Jurgenson does not seem to realize the irony of his final plea: “Take breaks. Unplug all you want. You’ll have different experiences and enjoy them, but you won’t be any more healthy or real.” In short, do what you want but, whatever you do, do not refer to the practices you value as anymore real or healthy.
Jurgenson’s whole project, as such, is not dedicated to the elimination of self-policed thought, but rather ensuring that everyone is policing their thoughts for any hint that they might believe or wish to advocate their vision of the good life to be superior to his more digitally-infused one. The argument built up through his entire article amounts to the normative judgment to ‘Do your own thing but don’t judge anyone else, because…you know…they might feel bad.’ Doing otherwise would probably be “problematic,” the contemporary intellectual’s go to word for labeling something as unhealthy, deviant or pathological without seeming like they are doing so.
The real lesson of post-modern thinkers like Foucault, however, is that power is inescapable and everywhere. There is no escaping the labeling of deviance or notions of authenticity or reality. People need words to separate the practices they find desirable from those they find undesirable. Those who disagree with the current state of those boundaries can do so, but they cannot claim to be above the fray of defining normality and what is real. Anti-digital dualites are just partisans who wish to draw a different line in the sand. They are not seeking an escape from the “normal” but its establishment as a degree of openness and acceptance of the desires and pleasures of digitality that happens to serve their interests and vision of a more desirable world. The new deviance they define is implicit but clear: Concerns about digital devices and their impacts on social practices amount to techno-prudism.
While critics of certain digital technologies wish to be precautionary about radically altering the ecology of community and other social relationships by augmenting them with certain mediating devices, Jurgenson wants us all to embrace the “disruptions” caused by them. Do not worry too much about their potential harms, for they might spur new “possibilities” for “disrupting the status quo.” Which disruptions? Are they desirable or not desirable? Who knows? Let’s wait and see. You don’t want to be a techno-prude do you? Just do your own thing and keep your judgments to yourself.
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The roof is an essential part of a property. It offers safety and protection to the objects and occupants of the building from weather elements. Due to its exposure to the weather elements, the roof is highly susceptible to wear and tear. Even with quality roofing material, you may find yourself in need of roofing services at some point. When you require these services you will find that you have numerous companies available to select. It is important to be duly diligent when it comes to selecting these services. You will ensure that you get quality work done by hiring professionals. Several factors need to be weighed in on your decision of the roofing company to go for. Here are some of the factors you should consider.
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Thorpe Park attracts almost 500 triathletes to race for National Championship honours over the Sprint distance
Over 470 athletes descended on Thorpe Park in Surrey for the first Triathlon England National Championship of the year. With sunny conditions and rollercoasters in the background, the stage was set for a morning of compelling racing over the sprint distance course of 750m swim, 21km bike and 5km run.
First across the line was Sam Wade (25-29). Sam was the only person to go under one hour, finishing in a blistering 59:46 on a sunny day in the South East, beating Carl Shaw (35-39) and James Phillips (20-24) into second and third respectively. Speaking to Sam, he told us that he really enjoyed the flat and simple bike course, which made for a really quick bike split.
"It’s not often that you get to race with such a unique backdrop – running through the theme park on the final leg is a really nice add-on to the end of the race."
Next up for Sam is his first attempt at the Dambuster Triathlon, before heading off to Rotterdam for the ITU World Triathlon Championships in September.
Brit Tate (20-24) was the fastest female of the day, holding off the challenge of the fast-finishing Michelle Willocks (30-34) to take the win in 1:07:40. Brit told us that coming out of the water in second place was ideal ahead of her favourite leg, the cycle, which enabled her to take the lead on a fast, flat course and hold on for the win during the 5km run.
Battling an infection all week makes the result event more impressive. Brit is focussing mainly on sprint distance racing this season – you can catch her next week on the start line at Columbia Threadneedle World Triathlon Leeds, with Dusseldorf and Rotterdam also in the pipeline.
Claire Stirling, Triathlon England Independent Director Business Strategy, thanked the organisers TriProject and their team of volunteers, as well as all the competitors and supporters for a great morning’s racing, urging people to become members of Triathlon England to make the Championships even more keenly fought.
TriProject and Thorpe Park will also host a British Triathlon Age-Group Team qualifier in September. More details about how to register your interest can be found here.
Next up in the Triathlon England Championships calendar is the National Aquathlon Championships, again taking place at Columbia Threadneedle World Triathlon Leeds on Saturday 10 June, where competitors will swim in Waterloo Lake the day before some of the world’s best triathletes. More information about the rest of the Triathlon England Championships can be found here.
TriProject Triathlon England National Sprint Distance Championships
Thorpe Park, Surrey – Sunday 4th June 2017
750m / 21km / 5km
1st – Sam Wade (Team Pedalcover) – 59:46 (25-29)
2ND – Carl Shaw (Race Hub Triathlon Club) – 1:00:33 (35-39)
3rd – James Phillips (9 Endurance) – 1:01:27 (20-24)
4th – Rich Sumpter – 1:02:10 (35-39
5th – Alex Lawton (Torq) – 1:02:51 (25-29)
1st – Brit Tate (Hampstead Triathlon Club) – 1:07:40 (20-24)
2nd – Michelle Willcocks – 1:07:56 (30-34)
3rd – Rhiannon Middleton – 1:08:54 (20-24)
4th – Mireille Cook – 1:09:06 (40-44)
5th – Amy Prtichard – 1:09:16 (35-39)
Full results: visit here
Photographs from the day will be available soon on Tri Project’s Facebook page.
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Medical technology has advanced significantly since the days of the American Civil War, where a gunshot more often than not meant death for the soldier. Now, doctors are able to replace muscle destroyed from explosion by growing new muscle with the help of animal tissue.
Dr. Peter Rubin of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center is leading a study, in which he is learning how to use tissue from a pig to regrow muscles on limbs. Sgt. Ron Strang, a Marine, is one of the first beneficiaries of such a procedure.
A roadside bomb ripped away part of Sgt. Strang's left thigh a couple of years ago in Afghanistan. Afterwards, he wasn't sure if he would ever be able to walk normally again.
Initially after a number of surgeries Strang — with a divot in his upper thigh — could only walk awkwardly. He was able to move his leg backward. But, because most of the quadriceps muscle was missing from his thigh, he was unable to kick the leg forward. That was about two years ago.
Last Fall Dr. Rubin removed all of the scar tissue and stitched in a sheet of tissue from a pig's urinary bladder. Now Sgt. Strang is able to run and jump. He is even thinking of becoming a police officer as a post-military career.
Sgt. Strang is one of the first test cases of what will be an 80 person trial for the growth of limb muscle with the help of animal tissue. The study is financed by the Defense Department's Office of Technology Transition.
The sheet of tissue, called an extracellular matrix, consists of collagen and other proteins and provides a framework for humans to grow new muscle cells. The matrix is attached to healthy muscle and promotes an immune response strong enough to encourage new tissue growth but not so great that the matrix is rejected by the body.
After Dr. Ruben sewed the pig tissue into Sgt. Strang's remaining healthy thigh muscle, his body began to break down the matrix. As the matrix broke down into simpler compounds, the immune system signaled stem cells to come to the site where they could become muscle cells.
The divot in Strang's leg still exists, but the little amount of muscle grown makes a huge difference.
“It was amazing,” Strang told the New York Times. “Right off the bat I could do a full stride, I could bend my knee, kick it out a little bit, just enough to get that initial spring where gravity would take it the rest of the way.”
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This recipe makes delicious blueberry muffins with a crusty sugar topping. They are quick and easy and use few ingredients. Remember to use paper liners!
Great, easy recipe. The muffins came out really well and were tasty. - 31 Oct 2012
A good basic blueberry muffin recipe with a nice buttery flavor. I can’t say it was my favorite blueberry muffin recipe, but it certainly was respectable and everyone enjoyed them. - 18 Aug 2012
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Sweet Reason is a CBD beverage startup that recently closed a $2.5MM seed round to fund its early stage growth. According to an article on TechCrunch, Sweet Reason has had to deal with some growth pains navigating the evolving regulatory environment. For starters, they thought that they could launch in cannabis-friendly Canada but that was a nonstarter thanks to changing laws. From there, they changed their launch strategy to focus on America.
Starting sales in New York they have expanded out to other states through online sales and are doing well enough to have raised a round from some heavy hitters. They are doing very well and there are important lessons you can learn from their experience.
CBD Consumer Product Launch Expenses
Hilary McCain, the Chief Executive and founder of Sweet Reason, is a pro in the food industry having been a consultant at Boston Consulting Group. What she and other veterans of that industry know is that it costs a decent amount of money to launch a consumer product. Hilary started Sweet Reason with a couple hundred thousand dollars of her own money and that money went towards “market research, brand development and the creation of her CBD-infused concoctions.”
That’s what it costs for someone who knows what they are doing so, if you’re thinking that you want to start a consumer product CBD company, keep that in mind. It will cost more than you think.
CBD Branding – Sweet Reason
There are many different directions to take it and Sweet Reason looks like their branding is directed towards a younger demographic. If you look at their site, or the screen grab below, Sweet Reason is focusing its brand on natural products. Their sparkling water comes in glass bottles, has clean and clear labeling, and they don’t overdo it. It’s straightforward packaging that communicates value.
The color palette throughout their website and their social media mostly centers around pastels and women who are living happy, healthy lives. Their Instagram feed is a combination of black and white portraits of women enjoying life, inspirational quotes, and every post is artistically done.
Their Instagram bio speaks to how they are positioning their brand not as a CBD-infused sparking water company but as a part of a great life: “CBD-infused sparkling water made to help you slow down, relax, and pursue a life well-lived.”
Price is also a way to communicate your brand and they have priced their products in a way that positions them as a upper scale company. There is definitely psychology in play here because price certainly communicates quality for most people. Maybe purchasing this product can also serve as a status symbol for some people.
Their bottles are made of glass and are on the shorter size. Looking at the Instagram post below, even though the Sweet Reason bottles are not in an optimal location, well below a person’s eye line, their bottles still stand out. The bottles with the large labels are probably cheaper to produce but they are communicating the message that they’re hiding something. The aluminum cans communicate a lower value. Sweet Reason’s packaging, on the other hand, communicate freshness and quality.
CBD Consumer Products Lessons Learned
Launching consumer products is an expensive endeavor. You need to clearly identify what demographic you are going to target and then lean into that. Sweet Reason has seemingly determined that their demographic is younger, upwardly mobile, and mostly women. At least their branding seems to indicate that.
When launching a consumer product you will be faced with many choices. Do you want to go up market or down market? How will you price your products? How many products will you offer? How will you distribute your products? How will you market your products? How will you package your products? And the list goes on.
The best takeaway from this is that you need to clearly answer one straightforward question: Why will people purchase my products?
Sweet Reason started out like most other companies, they wanted to make money and that is a very good reason to start a business; if you’re a devotee of Milton Freedman then that is the primary reason to start a business. But you have to take it a step further and figure out why people are going to care enough about your products to part with their hard earned money to purchase your product.
For Sweet Reason, they determined that customers will purchase their products because Sweet Reason’s products accentuate their customers’ lifestyles. There are already other CBD water options in the marketplace and there will be only more options as time goes on. Sweet Reason has identified a niche and they are leaning into it. You should do the same.
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Queendomino: build the most prestigious kingdom by placing wheat fields, forests, lakes, grazing grounds, marshes and mountains. Your knights will bring you riches and if you expand your towns new buildings will appear, opening up the opportunity for new strategies. You may win the Queen's favors but always beware of the dragon.
- Includes 4 castles, 48 dominoes, 8 kings, 1 queen, 1 dragon, 21 knights, 15 towers, coins, scorepad and tokens.
- Recommended for 2–4 players age 8+.
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This post marks the official beginning of a new series of studies of classic Chicago Building Types. Each city has its history of materials, wealth, population shifts and popularity, written in its buildings. Don’t miss our studies of Chicago Bungalows, Worker Cottages, Courtyard Apartment Buildings, Residential Hotels, Greystone Flats, Four-Plus-One Apartments, and Fire Cottages.
THE COURTYARD APARTMENT: Chicago’s Low Rise Density Workhorse
This quiet building form so common in Lakeview and other north side neighborhoods makes a private, livable and densely packed home for many Chicago residents, including myself. The pair of images above (of my own building, in fact) illustrate the most important feature of the Courtyard building: the double access points from the court and from the back staircases. This simple design move makes for exceptionally pleasant, livable spaces.
As Architectural Record put it in 1907, comparing Chicago’s apartments with New York’s:
“On the whole, one gets the impression that the Western apartment houses are built in order to supply pleasant residences for people of some taste, whereas the New York apartment house is the victim from start to finish of conditions which force their tenants merely to take what they can get.”
The courtyard form ensures that, regardless of who owned or built on the adjacent properties, this assembly of units will always have a little patch of green space in their tiny interior court. What’s more they all have access (both to airflow and view and for physical exits) to both the interior court side of the building and the exterior with its tiny porch/fire stair exits.
WHAT MAKES A COURTYARD BUILDING GREAT?
If you’re not an apartment dweller you may never have given much thought to what sets these courtyard buildings apart from other types of apartment dwellings. The answer is in the organization.
Multiple Core vs Double Loaded Corridor
Unlike more modern apartment block in which each unit on a floor is connected to a long hallway that has two (or three) vertical access points by elevator or fire-stair, these courtyard apartments aren’t connected horizontally to the other units on their floor but only vertically by a front entry stair and a back porch stair to the five other units on their stack.
Sustainable and Livable
Each set of six apartments (two per floor) shares a main stair, front door, mail box and address. All the blocks share the courtyard and (usually) access to the half buried basement with the entire building. The thin building form provides cooling cross vent and the shared utilities allow efficient use of a whole-building boiler system for heat – both demonstrations of the sustainable ideal, despite being designed and built long before the term was coined.
The result, a stair tower shared with just five neighbors, is much more personal and friendly than a long sterile hallway lined with anonymous doors on both sides.
HOW CHICAGO CREATED THIS BUILDING TYPE
Chicago: City of Alleys and Fire Escapes
Some of the peculiarities of the Courtyard building have to do with the long narrow shape of our standard city lot size (25 x 125 ft), our street layout with alleys for service access and our (somewhat extreme) fire code which requires two exits for every dwelling unit. Curious City’s explanation of “Chicago’s flammable ‘fire escapes‘” from last year explains that Chicago’s street with alleys as service spaces, as well as our fire code, drove this design. The residents of Chicago’s back stair units have profited by the fact by turning their fire access into de-facto porches and functional service spaces. As they put it:
“Originally, these back areas were used to receive milk, ice and other deliveries, even when residents weren’t home. Physical markers of those uses persist today; some buildings still have a small door in their back walls that once allowed icemen to place ice directly into kitchen iceboxes (fun fact: that’s why kitchens in these buildings are next to the back porch).”
Tenement Ordinance of 1902 and Minimum Standards for Dwelling
Those constraints still could have resulted solid blocks of building which stretched from the street at the front to the alley at the back had it not been for a 1902 ordinance intended to prevent the type of dangerous crowding and unhealthy city life that Jane Addams was combatting with her hull house work. As Perry Duis explains in his book “Challenging Chicago: coping with Every day life, 1837 to 1920″, the standards laid out by the ordinance required that multi unit buildings like these have “windows in every room, garbage-burning furnaces and toilets in every building.” They were also restricted to building on no more than 65% of the lot (80 if it was a corner unit).
(Unfortunately for the tenement dwellers of the time, there were many work arounds which allowed unscrupulous landlords to exploit their residents but the apartments buildings which still stand today represent the best intentions and execution of that ordinance.)
The “L” Module and the Courtyard Form
The “courtyard” form is actually just one variety of a range of systems for connecting up tiny L modules which meet the 65% rule. The types are very clearly illustrated by Larry Shure of Ultra local in his post, Typology of Courtyard Apartments in Rogers Park. Below is his diagram:
Ultralocal’s post further points out, the Chicago code provides a powerful financial incentive to keep these buildings under four stories – any taller and they would have needed to be made from more fireproof materials – with a steel and concrete structure. In buildings without an elevator, three (and a half) stories also seems the most people would want climb.
THE RANGE OF POSSIBILITIES
The type is almost infinitely variable. Courts can be grandiose or plain, narrow or wide, depending on the inclinations of the builder and the constraints of the site. My favorite examples all have trees growing in the inner court which provide privacy in views across, as well as a little feeling of enclosed forest as I walk by on the street.
Lest we imply that the building FORM goes hand in hand with a certain set of materials, its clear that this building type has lasted beyond the era of brown and yellow brick being in vogue well into the modernist period. These units may be townhouses (occupying two floors in one unit) but the concept is the same – shared access through a protected green space and cross vent and double access through the court in front and back porch/stairs in back.
And what would be the fun of a typology study without a nice photo series. Here’s our informal collection of courtyard buildings in the area. The author of A Chicago Sojourn has a very comprehensive set of courtyard building photos as well. See them here. Further, Larry Shure of Ultra Local, has a detailed analysis of courtyard types in Rogers Park (L, U, S, and W forms) with specific building sketches here. Both are well worth a look! For even more on the subject of Courtyard buildings, check out Richard Gnat’s detailed (and complimentary) paper Looking backward in order to move forward: The Chicago courtyard apartment building.
What’s your favorite Chicago Courtyard building? Tell us in the comments!
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If the workers compensation insurance companies deny your claim or give you a counteroffer after an injury, you have two options: settle your case out of court or take it all the way to the judge. Both options have their benefits, and you'll need the help of a skilled attorney no matter which route you pick.
What Are The Benefits Of Settling?
Settlements are typically much quicker to resolve than court cases for a number of reasons:
- You don't need a court appointment.
- Your attorney doesn't need to gather witness testimony or call in medical and vocational experts.
- Talks can be performed informally from your home or hospital bed with the assistance of your attorney.
- If you have a strong case, insurance companies will want to preempt your suit in order to save on legal fees.
Typically, settlements are also significantly less expensive for the person claiming workers compensation funds. Not only can you save on court fees, but attorneys will charge less at the end of a case if it settles out of court. Putting together witness and expert testimony, readying evidence to be presented to the judge, booking the court date, and representing you in court all constitute significant effort on your lawyer's part, so going to court will almost always hike up the price of your lawyer.
Should You Take Your Case To Trial?
Sometimes taking the case to trial is simply unavoidable. If the compensation insurance company continues to lowball you or doesn't acknowledge the legitimacy of your injury, you have no choice but to prove to a judge that you deserve compensation.
When you settle, you may be able to get an amount that covers your current missed work and medical bills, but having the cost of future missed work due to disability assessed can be difficult. You'll need to not only factor in your lawyer's fees, but also your type of disability and remaining number of working years to calculate your needed compensation. After all that work, insurance companies may still try to offer you less than what you need. Judges, however, are more likely to award you the money you request once you can prove your case.
You can also never pursue additional compensation if you settle your case, while a case won in court sets a precedent for future compensation claims. For example, if you suffer a back injury and settle your case and then need surgery several years later due to complications, it will be entirely up to you to pay for your treatment. However, if you win a claim in court and later need additional treatment, you can file another claim or sue if need be to cover the costs.
How Can A Lawyer Help Your Case
Whether you want to settle your case quickly or take the insurance company to court, you'll need a well qualified lawyer with experience winning workers compensation cases. In both scenarios, the skills of such a lawyer are invaluable.
Settling Your Case: An attorney can look at aspects of your case and give you a general estimate for the value of your settlement, as well as the likelihood of being able to cover all of your expenses with settlement money. Disability payments can also be reduced by poorly planned settlement payments, but a good lawyer can structure your payments so as to keep you from losing any of your vital assistance funds.
Going To Trial: Prior to a trial, your lawyer will gather together your doctor, witnesses to your accident or condition, vocational experts in your field, and all paper and visual evidence for your case. If you've been recently injured, having a lawyer do all of the phone calls and case organization can greatly reduce the stress of the case. A good lawyer also eloquently presents your case to the judge and knows how to counter potential arguments from insurance company attorneys.
Don't settle for less than you deserve or step into the courtroom unprepared. Talk about your options today with a legal expert and you'll get a much better idea of where your case is headed. With the help of an attorney who specializes in workers compensation cases, you might just be able to get the money you need to get your life back to normal. Go to this web-site for more information.
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This is a Runescape Drop Rate Ultimate Guide, which would help you to save some Runescape Gold and show you how to drop rate works in the game.
I have created this Guide explaining how the drop rate system works in Runescape. The great majority of Runescape players do not know how the drop rate system works or they have a wrong idea of it. So I hope this simple yet basic guide will help to have a better understanding on Drop Rates. Enjoy
26-Feb-2014 14:46:36 – Last edited on 06-Aug-2014 17:16:08 by Assyrian
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Just about any Monster, Boss, Mini-Game or anything that has a chance of receiving an item has a Drop Table.
Always: This is a guaranteed drop.
Common: At most a 1 in 10
Uncommon: At most a 1 in 100
Rare: At most a 1 in 1,000
Very Rare: At most 1 in 10,000
Super Rare: Greater than a 1 in 10,000 chance
(Usually a 1 in 100,000 or a 1 in 1,000,000)
Items categorized under, Common / Uncommon / Rare / Very Rare/ and Super Rare, are all determined by the greatest chance of receiving them.
For example: If coins were classed as a common drop, that would mean that they can not exceed the 1/10 chance of receiving them. Jmods give each monsters a drop rate number for example the coins can be 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10/10 but NOT 11/10. If it was 11 then it would not and can not be classed as common but instead another one of the 5 rarity.
A great way of explaining the rarity is with a dice. A dice with 10, 100, 1000, 10000, and 100,000 – 1/1,000,000 sides.
So for example lets use a dice that has 10 sides. You would need to land on the 1 specific side of a 10 sided dice in order to obtain the reward. Only 1 side on any dice may contain the drop and you must land on it in order to receive it
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by Glen Depke
If you pay attention to most conventional doctors and mainstream thoughts on medicine, than yes, cholesterol is killing you. If you pay attention to the basic needs of the body, you will learn that cholesterol is always exactly as it should be.
I know what we have been told; if your total cholesterol is above 200 you need to get this down. If you cannot get it down on your own, you will need to take some form of stating to reduce your cholesterol.
Let’s first understand some of the basics about cholesterol. Most important is to get that cholesterol is produced in the body by the liver based on a determination of need by the body. When anyone tells us that our cholesterol is too high, they are telling us that the body does not know what to do. I don’t know about you but I know my body is smarter than my “taught” intelligence and the intelligence of any other human being. If we are doing something to artificially lower this we are potentially creating many other challenges in the body.
So what factors are substantial in regard to our liver producing cholesterol? Just a short list of some of the necessary roles of cholesterol is listed below:
• Cholesterol is a part of EVERY cell membrane in your body
• Cholesterol is a part of EVERY myelin sheath within your nervous system
• Cholesterol is one of the core components to producing hormones to maintain balanced health and wellness
• Cholesterol is very important in the conversion of sunlight into Vitamin D in your body
• Cholesterol also plays a role in manufacturing Vitamin A, E and K
• Cholesterol is a significant aspect of producing bile acids
• Protects against infectious disease
This short list shows the importance of proper cholesterol production to create health and wellness. Now if your cholesterol levels are being lower artificially, the question to ask yourself is, which of these many processes in my body are not happening and what is this costing me? The other question is what is potentially happening to your body if you are taking statins? Today millions of people all over the world are taking medicine that may create muscle weakness, bad memory, bad temper, impotency and painful legs, just to name a few of the potential side effects.
So what’s a person to do it they have high cholesterol? First of all, don’t put your main focus on the total cholesterol. The most significant factor is looking at the ratio of HDL and LDL. Notice I do not call them “good” or “bad” cholesterol because they are both necessary for health and wellness. It is preferred to find your HDL above 55 and your LDL not more than double your HDL. So let me give you an example of one of my clients. This man is a regular participant in triathlons so you can imagine the regular stress that is put on his body. He had a total cholesterol in the 270s which would have normally had him on statins immediately. When we looked at the HDL and LDL separate this told us a different story. His HDL was 95 and his LDL was about 165. This with his VLDL gave him the total in the 270s. Why were all these numbers so high? As I mentioned, his body is under a lot of stress and his liver manufactures this amount in order to keep balance. I not only suggested that his cholesterol was fine but I mentioned that due to the ratio, he had room for it to increase.
Obviously everyone reading this article is not a triathlete but I would guess that many reading this are also under a lot of physically and mental/emotional stress. If your cholesterol is high, it would make sense to me. A healthy liver will produce more cholesterol when you are in a healing crisis with the eventual goal of balance in the body. When the healing crisis is complete the cholesterol will lower on its own. I see it all the time.
So if your cholesterol is high, your HDL is low or your ratio is out of balance, it is time to look at what’s challenged in your body. Make some new choices and changes in your life, let your body complete the healing crisis and watch the cholesterol go down. To learn more about the overall changes needed to shift to health, visit Depke Wellness and click through the links provided for free health information to begin your journey to health and wellness.
Please feel free to post below with any questions or comments you may have to this article. This is a subject for an entire book but I wanted to expose some of the very basic understands for you.
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I have been a Neil Gaiman fan for quite some time now. Presently I am reading the Sandman comics of which I adore. A little late in discovering them but perfect timing for me. I have tried before to like comics and graphic novels but not until Sandman did I see, actually see, how wonderful this medium could be. Now I have two giant volumes of collected Sandman comics sitting on my desk waiting to be cracked open again. He gives me places to wander and maybe get lost for a while.
When this video was posted on facebook by a friend of whom I very much appreciate her point of view, I was eager to learn from one of my favorite artists. What I learned was to enjoy what I am doing and make good art, whatever that art may be. Enjoy the ride.
I have dabbled in art here and there since I was a wee lass. I have painted, made jewelry, blown glass (my favorite), thrown pots, taken photos, and went through phases. I made some money blowing glass but blew it all. Most of the art I have made came into existence because I was inspired or felt compelled in some way to make it and not a penny was made but it made me happy.
Over the years I have come to accept that art comes in many different forms and is loosely defined. Making art comes easy for me. I feel it and love it in many ways regardless of whether its "good" or not.
These days I write in this blog. Often my art is drawing things for my spawn to color in and it makes me happy. I love to take pictures and am inspired to explore that further and maybe break some inner taboos. Recently I blew out an egg and painted it just because I had a pretty duck egg. I am fascinated by math and biology in art or art in math and biology. I have a couple of top bar bee hives to make and in making them I hope to learn some more building skills. There is no shortage of desire of which I am quite thankful for.
The opportunities and ways in which one can send their art out into the world is exploding and changing and it is invigorating. So many things to explore. So much I can do right now even on the days when my body and circumstances might make me feel stuck. I can still make good art.
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Hickson got one last draft several days before Hegsted meant to submit it for publication. The funder ended up being delighted: “Let me ensure you this can be quite that which we had in your mind and we also look ahead to its look in print,” Hickson wrote.
If the documents had been published the year that is following writers disclosed other industry financing, but made no mention of glucose analysis Foundation.
Hegsted’s reviews examined a range that is wide of. He downplayed and dismissed documents that argued that sugar had been a reason of coronary artery illness. He discovered merit just in the ones that saw fat and cholesterol levels being a culprit.
Glantz, Kearns’s coauthor, stated the main issue utilizing the review is it was perhaps not even-handed: when you look at the instances when sugar ended up being implicated, Hegsted and peers dismissed entire classes of epidemiological proof. Nonetheless they didn’t hold studies that implicate fat to your exact same standard, Glantz stated.
He stated the standard of the Harvard researchers’ cooperation is obvious: “The industry says, ‘below are a few papers we’re actually unhappy with. Deal with them,’” Glantz stated. “They then did. That, for me, ended up being the plain thing that i came across the most wonderful.”
Glantz stated the sugar industry utilized a playbook that is similar the tobacco industry, whose internal papers he's got discussed extensively. The letters expose just how advanced the sugar professionals had been in swaying opinion that is public he said. They closely monitored the study and had been careful about which scientists that are influential approach.
“By dealing they got what they wanted,” Glantz said with them with a light touch.
Glantz, Kearns, and their coauthor, Laura Schmidt, acknowledged that their research had been restricted to the actual fact which they could maybe not interview the protagonists as they are dead.
Dr. Walter Willett, whom knew Hegsted and today operates the nourishment division at Harvard’s general general public wellness school, defended him as a principled scientist.
“He had been a really http://eliteessaywriters.com/blog/informative-essay-outline difficult nosed, information driven person, that has an archive for taking a stand to industry interests,” including losing employment during the USDA for taking a stand to your beef industry, Willett composed in a contact. “I really much question which he changed exactly what he thought or would conclude centered on industry financing.”
Willett stated today, research has be more clear, showing that refined carbs and beverages that are especially sugar-sweetened danger facets for coronary disease,” while “the form of fat molecules can be important.” But he stated that during the right time Hegsted and peers had been writing, proof for fat as being a danger factor for cardiovascular system illness had been “considerably stronger” compared to sugar, in which he would agree with “most of the interpretations” the scientists made.
“However, by firmly taking industry capital for the review, and achieving regular communications throughout the review with all the sugar industry,” Willett acknowledged, it “put him Hegsted in a posture where their conclusions could possibly be questioned.”
“It can be feasible why these relationships could cause some bias that is subtle even in the event unconscious,” he included.
Willett called the account that is historical “useful caution that industry money is an issue in research as it may bias what's posted.” He stated it is “doubly an issue in reviews as this inevitably involves some judgement in regards to the interpretation of data.”
But Willett, whoever professorship is termed after Fredrick Stare, stated Stare and his other researchers broke no guidelines. Conflict-of-interest requirements have actually changed significantly because the 1960s, he noted.
Since 1984, the latest England Journal of Medicine has required writers to reveal disputes. While the log now calls for writers of reviews not to have research that is“major” from relevant businesses.
NEJM spokeswoman Jennifer Zeis stated the log now asks writers to report all economic disputes throughout the three years ahead of book, and also conducts a rigorous peer review that “aids us in guarding against prospective disputes of great interest.”
Glantz stated the log should connect an editorial note “describing exactly what really occurred” aided by the review. “The provenance regarding the paper is quite misleading,” he stated.
Zeis stated the journal intends to just just take no action.
Meanwhile, Kearns is continuing her campaign to show more internal documents from the sugar industry.
In a present meeting at a UCSF meals court, she steered away from the “gigante” chocolate chip snacks and decided on a chicken sandwich and a good fresh fruit glass. She said she’s driven to some extent by her experience as being a dental practitioner, whenever she saw clients whoever mouths had been wrecked by tooth decay — one of who needed dentures at age 30.
The government that is federal getting on board with scientists like Kearns who've been warning regarding the perils of sugar — brand brand new dietary tips suggest not as much as 10 % of a person’s daily calories originate from added sugars.
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Stroke outcomes in Ireland could be significantly improved if more people were willing to act on key stroke warning signs. the Irish Heart Foundation (IHF) has said.
A survey carried out for the IHF’s National FAST Awareness Week which takes place this week, showed that public awareness of stroke warning signs has increased by 190% since the IHF launched its Act FAST campaign three years ago.
However, it was found that only one in two people would call an ambulance immediately in the event of someone likely to be having a stroke.
The survey revealed that just 52% of respondents would phone 999 as their first reaction to a stroke.
The IHF says this shows a worrying change in public reaction compared to the FAST campaign launch in 2010 when stroke-related hospital admissions soared by 87% because people knew to go to hospital as soon as they recognised a stroke symptom.
The F.A.S.T. acronym stands for:
– Face – has their face fallen on one side?
– Arms – can they raise both arms and keep them there?
– Speech – is their speech slurred?
– Time – time to call 999 if you see any one of these signs.
The low rate of people who say they would call an ambulance immediately is in sharp contrast to overall awareness of FAST warning signs – including facial droop, arm weakness and slurred speech which has increased from 30% to 87% of the adult population, the IHF says.
Its Head of Advocacy, Chris Macey said since 2010 the numbers receiving life-changing clot busting treatment have dramatically increased by more than 400% nationally as a result of the FAST campaign and the rapid development of 24/7 thrombolysis services nationally by the HSE’s National Stroke Programme.
“This has helped cut death and disability rates from stroke significantly against demographic and international trends.”
“But the survey proves that a lot more lives could be saved in Ireland and a lot more stroke sufferers could be spared from severe disability requiring long-term institutional care if more people acted on the warning signs by calling 999,” Mr Macey added.
In response to being asked what’s the first thing they would do if they thought they were having a stroke, just 52% said they would call an ambulance, whilst 23% said they would tell a family member, friend or neighbour and 12% said they would call their GP, the survey found.
The IHF says these statistics are alarming because there is little point in people knowing when they’re having a stroke if they don’t know that the only proper response is to call an ambulance immediately.
The average stroke destroys two million brain cells every minute, which means the quicker you get emergency treatment, literally the more of your brain can be saved, the IHF stressed.
by Niall Hunter
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The decision by the Department of Homeless Services to move 36 homeless families into the Pan American Hotel at 79-00 Queens Boulevard – with close to 200 more to potentially follow - caught local Elmhurst residents and politicians by surprise last week, despite the city’s assertion that it properly notified the community.
Councilman Daniel Dromm told this newspaper that he was unaware of the plan to move several families into the Pan Am until the move was already in progress. While the city may be able to argue notifying the community board fell through the bureaucratic cracks, certainly a city councilman should be in the loop on these issues.
Already, the Metro Hotel Homeless Shelter is located just one block away from the Pan Am, and Dromm fears that moving in over 200 homeless families into the Pan Am is going to overburden his district. And rightfully so.
Truth be told, it is understandable that any homeless shelter is going to be controversial, since really, no one wants a shelter near their home – look to Glendale and the Samaritan Village if you don’t believe us - but the city and Pan Am are doing themselves a disservice by being secretive about the decision to house more homeless families in Elmhurst.
If the current situation is any indicator of Pan Am’s overall M.O. moving forward, then things don’t bode well for Elmhurst residents and immediate neighbors of the shelter.
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The Spectator Index has reported that the recorded number of coronavirus has reached 200,000.
However, Worldometer, a website providing updates on the virus, and the Johns Hopkins University tracker as at this morning, reported 199,338 with the worst hit being China, Italy, Iran, Spain and Germany.
The number of death resulting from the disease is now 7,994 while 82,783 patients have recovered from it.
This has led various government across the world to take drastic measures to limit the spread of the disease.
Border closure, airport shutdown, travel bans and suspension of congregational prayers are some of the decisions made by governments across the world to tackle the spread.
US President Donald Trump had declared a national emergency and announced a $50 billion fund to fight the disease.
A new study by the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) showed that the virus can stay in the air and on surfaces for days.
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An interesting opportunity to listen to some articulate, if callow, teenagers attempting to resolve the housing crisis.
Exclusive Philip Hammond interview: Budget plan to get UK’s broadband up to speed
— Read on www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2018/10/27/budget-get-uks-broadband-speed/
“Chantal Delsol : «Ensauvagement des jeunes, où sont les pères ?»” : http://www.lefigaro.fr/vox/societe/2018/10/23/31003-20181023ARTFIG00235-chantal-delsol-ensauvagement-des-jeunes-o-sont-les-peres.php
“One spouting about companion frequently”: now that I know what a cachalot is, the clue makes sense, but I was ignorant of this term for a sperm whale. Learning all the time…
An interesting acknowledgement of the organisational and educative strengths of religion in its relation to personal fulfilment and society. Alain de Botton suggests that the western world may have ventured too far in its assertion of personal freedom, implying that this is not coextensive with wisdom. There are yet things to be learned from such practices as ritual discipline,nor should the didactic or instructive dimensions of art and science be ignored. I am reminded, somehow, of the Rabelaisian maxim “Guide de Dieu et compagnie d’homme” and also that I should return to my reading of George Steiner, whose analysis of the problems entailed by post-modernism I find particularly compelling, since it chimes with my own reflections, albeit more eloquently.
“Behold the sea itself!”
He may stretch the truth, but he gets things done.
The competition is in the mirror. Gratitude for the opportunity of being alive is proper to our condition. Envy is nothing new, indeed it is an error as old as the world, though it is true that people are now seeking the wrong axis through self-scrutiny and in social media, nor is the answer generally to be found in the vapourings of the lifestyle articles of the Guardian. The confessions of the first paragraph are ugly revelations, better dissembled, since they are of limited objective interest. Seek wisdom, not status. Study for the joy of discovery, learn a few languages, take some exercise and don’t look for rewards. Delight in the success of others and help them to achieve it; often, their progress will bring burdens of responsibility you would prefer not to shoulder anyway. That is their affair. The author of this article, who feels she is doing something important, could have learnt the rudimentary grammar of a language in the time it took to write this commentary on our times. Envy has always been the enemy; my father, who possessed little that he hadn’t forged by his own effort, by-passed it altogether by taking pleasure in birdsong, gardening and playing the flute. The implicit message of this article is that the author has been aspiring to be her own axis; this is a cardinal error, known as that of the “moi désaxé”, or the misplaced axis of the self. If there is no longer a being external to us in whom to invest our faith, there is still the business of studying the accumulated knowledge of our forebears in science and in the arts, an endeavour that will free us from solipsism. This is an endless cure for envy. LJ
Social media has created a world in which everyone seems ecstatic – apart from us. Is there any way for people to curb their resentment?
— Read on www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2018/oct/09/age-envy-be-happy-everyone-else-perfect-social-media
“Stop au politiquement correct ! Quand les dérives américaines menacent la France” : http://www.lefigaro.fr/vox/monde/2018/10/12/31002-20181012ARTFIG00003-stop-au-politiquement-correct-quand-les-derives-americaines-menacent-la-france.php
[OTA] Memoirs of the extraordinary life, works, and discoveries of Martinus Scriblerus. By Mr. Pope — Memoirs of Martinus Scriblerus
— Read on ota.ox.ac.uk/text/3685.html
Exclusion Crisis – Wikipedia
— Read on en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exclusion_Crisis
“Exclusif : ces 6000 communes qui ont augmenté leur taxe d’habitation” : http://www.lefigaro.fr/impots/2018/10/11/05003-20181011ARTFIG00321-exclusif-ces-6000-communes-qui-ont-augmente-leur-taxe-d-habitation.php
Dryden’s satirical assault on Shaftesbury, thinly disguised as Achitophel,
“A name to all succeeding ages curst
For close designs, and crooked counsels fit.”
which, rather reminds me of my last employer. LJ
In pious times, ere priest-craft did begin,
Some very interesting reflections on the Jewish Torah, of particular importance in this age of heteronomous transference of personal responsibility to agencies beyond the person, that is, to others.
“Le mieux est l’ennemi du bien.” (Voltaire)
I was reminded of this whilst reading Locke, which is unsurprising, given Voltaire’s admiration of him:
“An Essay Concerning Human Understanding: Full and Fine 1689 Edition in Book 1, 2, 3, and 4 (Illustrated)” by John Locke:
“Men may find matter sufficient to busy their heads, and employ their hands with variety, delight, and satisfaction, if they will not boldly quarrel with their own constitution, and throw away the blessings their hands are filled with, because they are not big enough to grasp everything.”
Start reading it for free: http://amzn.eu/efMs6CL
La fille au ballon a été broyée par son propre cadre alors qu’elle venait d’être adjugée plus d’un million de livres à Londres. On suspecte un canular du mystérieux artiste.
Molière (Hippolyte DURAND) | théâtre-documentation.com
— Read on www.xn--thtre-documentation-cvb0m.com/content/molière-hippolyte-durand
“La première lune en dehors du Système solaire serait absolument gigantesque” : http://www.lefigaro.fr/sciences/2018/10/05/01008-20181005ARTFIG00225-la-premiere-lune-en-dehors-du-systeme-solaire-serait-absolument-gigantesque.php
12 Organic Ways to Control Harlequin Bugs – Hobby Farms
— Read on www.hobbyfarms.com/12-organic-ways-to-control-harlequin-bugs-3/
This is probably good news, but we have to remember that this is the company that destroyed Pears Soap.
“Emmanuel Macron, le Général de Gaulle et les retraités…” : http://www.lefigaro.fr/politique/2018/10/04/01002-20181004ARTFIG00354-emmanuel-macron-le-general-de-gaulle-et-les-retraites8230.php
Mountains of grease and debris known as fatbergs are blocking toilets, breaking pipes, and even being illicitly converted into cooking oil.
— Read on news.nationalgeographic.com/2017/08/fatbergs-fat-cities-sewers-wet-wipes-science/
As young British women are revealed to be the most overweight in Europe, Louisa Peacock explores what factors are at play.
— Read on www.telegraph.co.uk/women/womens-health/10863001/Why-are-British-girls-so-fat.html
“Le chanteur Charles Aznavour est mort” : http://www.lefigaro.fr/flash-actu/2018/10/01/97001-20181001FILWWW00149-le-chanteur-charles-aznavour-est-mort.php
Beneath the surface, politics remain volatile, he adds. “One cannot not be slightly nervous about the prospect of having the extreme right or the extreme left at the helm of France one day.”
This is just one of an increasing number of narrowly circumscribed areas in which impediments to freedom of expression are doing untold practical damage. I could foresee this all as early as 1985, when I had my first whiff of the speech codes associated with political correctness. I don’t wish to judge the intentions of the misguided advocates of this “premature synthesis”, which has evolved into a toxic ideology, but for humanity the cost has been very high indeed. It is no exaggeration to state that lives are at stake as a result of the austere neo-puritanical monitoring of human speech. Children and adults need to be informed if they are gluttonous; the idea that we should refrain from doing so lest we be guilty of “fat shaming” is preposterous, therefore it is refreshing to read an article in which plain truth is acknowledged to be an important part of the way forward. LJ
Most amateurs run into the same problems: undefended pieces, being unaware of their opponents’ best moves, falling victim to simple tactics, etc. Those things are common. However, once in a while you’ll see a player making one specific mistake over and over. This is actually a good thing, since instead…
— Read on www.chess.com/article/view/how-to-cure-a-serious-chess-disease
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Diarrhea is common in cats and has a variety of causes. In many cases, digestive enzymes and probiotics can help improve your kitty’s digestion and prevent upsets.
A single bout of diarrhea is generally not a cause for concern in cats, although if it persists longer than a day or two it can lead to dehydration. Lethargy, vomiting, fever, dark-colored or bloody stools, straining to defecate, decreased appetite or unexplained weight loss are all red flags that something serious is going on with his digestive system. When you see any or all of these signs, make an appointment with a veterinarian without delay.
However, many cases of diarrhea are much simpler, with causes that include:
• The quality of food being eaten
• The freshness of the food
• The cat’s ability to digest the food
• Increased stress levels
• Dairy or other food intolerances
• Rapid food changes
• Antibiotic use
Cats prone to hairballs can also experience occasional bouts of diarrhea. One thing that can help is kitty grass, which aids in preventing hairballs, adds vitamins to the diet, and soothes troubled tummies. Cats that spend a lot of unsupervised time outdoors may eat inappropriate foods that could also lead to stomach upsets.
In the wild, cats kill and eat fresh raw food. While good quality raw food diets are available, most domestic cats eat canned or kibbled foods. Cooked food doesn’t contain the naturally-occurring enzymes found in raw food, which means it doesn’t digest as well on its own, stressing the cat’s system and possibly contributing to food allergies. Whatever the cat cannot digest could cause an allergic reaction, prompting his digestive system to eliminate the problem quickly through diarrhea.
If you’re not feeding your cat a raw diet, be sure to choose a high quality premium packaged food. Adding digestive enzymes to the food will enhance his digestion and help eliminate any food allergies while raising the nutritional density of what gets delivered to his system. Make sure to choose a product made from vegetarian sources and containing at least 16 different enzymes to help digest all the various food ingredients.
Supporting your cat’s digestion with enzymes is only half the solution. Probiotics play a huge part in the natural balance of the intestinal tract. Without them, our systems would be overrun with yeasts and disease-causing bacteria, resulting in diarrhea, dehydration or even more serious conditions. Cats are no different. Without a proper balance of “good guy” bacteria (probiotics), the result can be either constipation or diarrhea.
There are hundreds of different species of naturally-occurring probiotics. Each has its own special job or benefit, so it makes sense to implant and colonize as many different species of possible. Look for a product that offers at least 11 different stabilized live species of probiotic. A supplement with only three or four species will not do a good job colonizing the entire intestinal tract. Since each probiotic species gravitates toward a certain pH range, introducing multiple strains that each like a different range will colonize more of the intestinal tract than a supplement offering only one or two species.
I recommend avoiding probiotics that use yeasts instead of lactobacilli and bifi dobacteria strains. Look for a supplement that also includes prebiotics, which act as food for the probiotics and greatly improve their colonization. Add probiotics to every meal you feed your cat. Each day, your cat’s system is assaulted with things that kill off the natural balance of probiotics in his gut:
• Antibiotics, while sometimes necessary, are notorious for killing off the good bacteria along with the bad. Administer probiotics during a course of antibiotics, but don’t give them to your cat at the same time.
• Drinking chlorinated tap water kills probiotics.
• Eating meat, poultry or dairy products containing antibiotics will kill off probiotics.
• Emotional stress can alter the pH range in the intestinal tract and adversely affect probiotic colonies.
• Viruses and disease-causing bacteria can alter the ideal balance.
The idea is to top off the probiotics in the gut at every meal, and to replace those that have been lost. As a maintenance dose, include 250 million CFUs (Colony Forming Units) of live, stable probiotics in each half cup of pet food, every day at every meal. During times of loose stool, this dosage can be easily doubled. Return to the maintenance dose when the bowels are normal again. Coupled with digestive enzymes and a good quality diet, probiotics will help ensure a cat with healthy digestion.
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In Sunday School I learned about the “Good Samaritan.” He demonstrated “loving his neighbor” by picking up a hurt man on the side of the road and caring for him. This was the model of the second most important command to love your neighbor as yourself.
‘One of them, an expert in religious law, tried to trap him with this question: “Teacher, which is the most important commandment in the law of Moses?” Jesus replied, “‘You must love the Lord your God with all your heart, all your soul, and all your mind.’ This is the first and greatest commandment. A second is equally important: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’The entire law and all the demands of the prophets are based on these two commandments.”’ Matthew 22:35-40
Today in my #DailyBibleReading (Luke 17) I read about another Samaritan, this one embodying the first command: loving God.
Jesus was traveling by foot when he met a group of men with leprosy. They were outcasts with debilitating diseases. Shunned by society. Considered unclean. Nine of the men were Jewish, like Jesus. One was a Samaritan. (And as much as I’d like to geek out on the biblical history of the Samaritans and Jews, I’ll control myself!)
The group of men saw Jesus and starting calling out to him to have pity on them. Jesus told them to go show themselves to the priests. Again, not to get too much into history and law, but if someone had a skin lesion or leprosy they would have to show themselves to a priest – and show that they were healed – to be considered “clean” of the disease. (Leviticus 13).
I am sure these men were thrilled. They had probably heard stories about Jesus healing people, casting out demons, and feeding thousands of people with just a few loaves of bread and fish. Maybe they had even heard about him raising people from the dead. And now Jesus was sending them to the priests which could only mean one thing – he was going to heal them and they would be declared clean and could return to society.
As they were going to find a priest to declare them clean, Jesus healed them. I imagine they looked down at their hands and arms as they walked, and the blisters and ulcers on their skin vanished. The pain in their joints was gone. The sensation on their skin returned. They could feel the sun and wind.
One man – the Samaritan – saw he was healed and stopped in his tracks.
The other nine men kept running to find the priest, probably more eager to get to the priest than ever before.
The Samaritan turned around and headed back to Jesus.
He was praising God in a loud voice.
He threw himself at Jesus’ feet.
He thanked Him.
Who am I? The one who returned to thank Jesus or the nine who were too busy?
When I am feeling lonely or outcast, do I praise God? When I am healed, and rejoicing do I humble myself and throw myself at Jesus’ feet? Do I praise God in a loud voice, regardless of my circumstances, because He has saved me?
No, usually I behave like one of the nine.
But, like the Samaritan, I am a foreigner. I was unclean and sick in my sin. But God took pity on me and saved me. Healed me. Made me clean.
And I should express my gratitude daily. With all my heart, all my soul, and all my mind.
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In this episode, we talk with Jewel Daab, a mother, community builder, livestreamer, and fitness enthusiast who balances her priorities taking care of her family while also sharing with others her passion for and enjoyment of all things gaming. Having built and maintained a healthy fan-based games community on Discord in the Coven, as well as an impressive growth and outreach on social media with her gaming content on Mixer and Twitter, Jewel has shown how you can be games-adjacent and still find time for the things that matter. We talk with Jewel about her journey into games, her values and principles in shepherding gaming communities, and how raising a family has helped shape her outlook on games in the past, present and future.
Jewel’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/Namaslays
Jewel’s Mixer: https://mixer.com/Namaslay
The Coven on Discord: https://discordapp.com/invite/coven
Frank’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/phoenixred
Kristen’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/MiniWhiteRabbit
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This is an invitation to anyone interested in trying out (or helping out) with a mini #TvsZ game
Pete and Andrea will be presenting a Learnshop at Educause ELI 2015 about #TvsZ and the plan is to get participants in the room playing online with others on twitter.
The learnshop takes place Tues Feb 10 at 10:45am PST (that’s 13:45 EST, 20:45 Egypt time) – we were hoping some of our friends could help us out by starting to play the game a bit earlier, say 10:15 PST so that learnshop participants come into an already running game and get a full-on experience, so they may be playing from like 10:50am PST til 11:20… We can keep playing a bit after they’re gone 😉 if you like
Could you please let me know if you’re “in” so i can remind you beforehand? Here or on twitter
P.S. i just wrote my first column for Hybrid Pedagogy talking about the beautiful inclusiveness of the awesome group of people who hacked the non-zombie version of #TvsZ – here is the post
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When it comes to solving business challenges, enterprises are generally eager to adopt new technologies, such as cloud computing, workforce mobility and automation. But now, many enterprises are finding their digital transformation journey laden with new challenges, including a surge in the number of connected devices, millions of encrypted connections, increased bandwidth needs, continually evolving evasive attacks and increased operational costs. On top of that, the uncertainty accompanying the COVID-19 pandemic has just redefined something as basic as the way work gets done.
To solve these challenges, enterprises want to deploy best-of-breed technologies while minimizing costs. However, many point products in the market pose challenges of their own, including management complexity, lack of interoperability, complicating or preventing unified security, and compliance requirements necessitating multiple appliances. All of these can lead to an explosion in overall operating costs.
Introducing SonicWall NSsp 15700: a NGFW for Enterprises, Government, Higher Ed & MSSPs
The SonicWall Network Security Services Platform (NSsp) 15700 is a next-generation firewall (NGFW) with multiple 100/40/10Gb interfaces that can process millions of connections. Its high-speed connectivity and large port density — coupled with superior IPS and TLS1.3 inspection support — make the new NSsp 15700 is an ideal threat protection platform for enterprise internet edge and data center deployments. And the newly introduced multi-instance capability (modern multi-tenancy) allows MSSPs and enterprises to provide guaranteed performance, reliability and availability while adhering to service level agreements.
SonicWall NSsp 15700 combines validated security effectiveness and best-in-class price performance in a high-end, multi-instance-capable next-generation firewall.
High-speed connectivity with built-in redundancy
NSsp 15700 is an energy-efficient, reliable appliance in a compact 2U chassis. Powered by the next-generation SonicOSX 7.0 operating system, it is capable of processing millions of encrypted and unencrypted connections to deliver the uncompromised security required for large organizations.
The high-port-density NSsp 15700 includes 6x100GbE, 4x40GbE and 16x10GbE interfaces. It features a dedicated management port, 960GB of built-in storage, and redundant PSU and fans.
Specifications at a glance:
- Up to 82Gbps of threat prevention performance
- Up to 85Gbps of application inspection performance
- Up to 21Gbps of TLS inspection performance
- Up to 80 million stateful and 50 million DPI connections
- 100/40/10GbE interfaces
- Redundant power supply and fans
Powered by the new SonicOSX 7.0
The SonicWall NSsp 15700 is powered by SonicOSX 7.0, a new operating system built from the ground up to feature a modern user interface, intuitive workflows and user-first design principles. SonicOSX 7.0 provides multiple features designed for enterprise-level workflows, including support for TLS 1.3 encryption standard and Unified Policy, which brings Layer 3 and Layer 7 access and security under a single policy. SonicOSX 7.0 also introduces multi-instance architecture — including complete tenant isolation, resource reservation, and firmware and configuration management options — allowing MSSPs and organizations to offer multiple firewall instances on a single hardware appliance.
- Unified policy
- Multi-instance architecture
- Security services profiles
- Configuration audit and change management
- New application framework
- Enhanced APIs
- New dashboards for device, network, application, threats and Capture Advanced Threat Protection (ATP)
- Notification center providing actionable alerts
- Consistent look and feel between firewall and Network Security Manager (NSM)
- Usage statistics for rules, objects and services
More details about the new SonicOSX 7.0 can be found here.
Unified Policy for modern enterprises
With Unified Policy Layer 3 to Layer 7, access and security controls are combined in a single policy to reduce rule management overhead and provide a centralized location for policy configuration. Security services like Gateway Anti-Virus, Anti-Spyware, Capture Advanced Threat Protection (ATP), Intrusion Prevention and Geo-IP Filtering can be enforced per policy to provide greater flexibility for enterprises.
The SonicWall NSsp 15700 features an intuitive interface of contextual security policies and actionable alerts, all manageable with point-and-click simplicity. This helps administrators reduce configuration errors and deployment time, improving overall security posture. Views such as “shadow rules,” “active and inactive,” and “used and unused” help with maintaining overall rule hygiene.
Multi-instance architecture — the modern multi-tenancy
SonicWall has taken a modern approach to legacy multi-tenancy with its multi-instance, containerized architecture. This feature enables the platform to run multiple independent firewall instances on the same hardware without having to manage multiple appliances. The ability to establish degrees of separation across business units or customers helps enterprises and MSSPs meet their compliance requirements.
While traditional multi-tenancy architectures suffer from resource starvation and tenant failures that can affect other tenants, SonicWall’s multi-instance architecture shines by allowing dedicated hardware resources, independent firmware and separate configurations for its instances.
The following comparison of multi-instance-based architecture comparison with legacy multi-tenant solutions clearly illustrates the superior value of NSsp 15700 solution.
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|Complete Tenant Isolation||✔||X|
|Independent Firmware Versions||✔||X|
|Independent Configurations and Management||✔||X|
|Single Tenant Failure Resistant||✔||X|
|Resource Starvation Resistant||✔||X|
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What’s more, NSsp 15700 offers huge cost savings by eliminating additional license costs for its instances and security services.
Overall Solution Value
With the introduction of the new NSsp 15700 NGFW, SonicWall continues its commitment to providing enterprise-class security at a very reasonable budget, all without compromising performance.
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By Nick Shook
Read full post on NFL.com
Jordy Nelson said his goodbyes to Green Bay less than 48 hours ago, and now he has his new team.
The former Packers wideout is headed to the Bay, signing a two-year deal with the Oakland Raidersworth $15 million ($13 million guaranteed), NFL Network’s James Jones reported. The team later officially announced the signing.
Nelson moves from a team that wasn’t willing to pay him the back end of an extension that included a salary-cap number of $11.5 million last season to a franchise so desperate for him, it guaranteed the veteran wideout $13 million of a $15 million deal. Nelson arrives to replace Crabtree, who had his worst season in Oakland in 2017, catching 58 passes for 618 yards and eight touchdowns. Statistically, Nelson was even worse (53 receptions, 482 yards, six touchdowns), but was also playing a good chunk of his season with Brett Hundley.
Nelson joins an offense led by Derek Carr, who could use Nelson’s route-running savvy opposite Amari Cooper. Oakland’s receiving corps also includes Cordarrelle Patterson and Seth Roberts, as well as new addition Griff Whalen, among others.
What Nelson’s ceiling is in Oakland is anyone’s guess, because while the wideout had an excellent 2016 season (earning Comeback Player of the Year), it became clear in 2017 he was no longer the team’s best wideout. At 32 years old (he turns 33 in May) and entering his second season after an ACL injury, his expected contribution lands somewhere between 2017 Crabtree and bordering on a 1,000-yard season in a best-case scenario.
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Cavallari's friend and hairstylist Justin Anderson, who appears on her reality show, asked fans to stop judging others.
Disneyland officials announced Thursday that both Walt Disney World and Disneyland would close through the end of the month. Other parks quickly followed suit.
Kim Kardashian is celebrating the end of spring break with a back-to-school photo of herself, and sister Kourtney Kardashian with their daughters, North West and Penelope Disick. And it’s getting mixed reactions.
Four men were on spring break in Florida when they thwarted a pair of armed robbers in a gas station by overpowering them and wrestling their gun away.
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I’m really excited to share with you my next Inside My Beauty Bag that comes from my friend Libby Reynolds, an editor and calligrapher living in London. (You can take a peek at some of her beautiful scribing skills on Instagram @CalligraphyByLibby).
I asked Libby to contribute as she has the most beautiful, flawless complexion and hair and through her job at one of the biggest luxury retailers, she really knows her stuff – I never miss an opportunity to ask what beauty products she’s using and what’s not worth the ££.
With that said, you would be wise to follow her lead. I hope you enjoy and don’t spend too much money afterwards.
“I’m relatively low-key when it comes to my makeup routine – I suppose I’m what you would call a “no makeup makeup” person. As a base, I use Charlotte Tilbury The Retoucher concealer and Givenchy Teint Couture Balm which has a lovely blurring quality and is light and breathable. It was a Sali Hughes recommendation a few years ago, and I basically consider Sali to be the oracle on beauty matters. If I want a bit more glow and coverage, I prime with Hollywood Flawless Filter or add a little highlighter. I recently bought Glossier Play Niteshine and a little of that goes a long way. I always use beautyblenders to apply my base and have done since I discovered them for my wedding – too much tugging and dragging really highlights the texture in my skin”.
“In an ideal world I would love to always have eyelash extensions, as nothing really beats them for looking instantly bright-eyed with minimal effort, but until then it’s Charlotte Tilbury Legendary Lashes just on the upper lash line. I’ve yet to find a mascara that doesn’t just transfer straight onto my skin when applied to my bottom lashes. My brows are probably my favourite feature, and to define them I use Glossier Boy Brow as I’ve found it to have the perfect balance of tint and hold without making them look too dark or ‘done’”.
“I fall in and out of love with blusher, but when I’m favouring it I wear Clinique Chubby Stick in Amp’d Up Apple as it’s dewy and foolproof to blend. As my skin has quite a lot of texture and can be dry, I don’t find powder work well for me. Though I adore lipstick, it always ends up looking dry on me regardless of how moisturising the formula, so I’ve been enjoying the resurgence of gloss. Favourites are Charlotte Tilbury’s Collagen Lip Bath (noticing a pattern here?) as it has just a slight pink tint, and Chanel Rouge Coco. If I’m feeling fancy, I might amp up my eyes with something glittery like Glossier Play Gelée in Firewalk”.
“Skincare is something I take probably more pleasure in than makeup. I was lucky and never had trouble with my skin as a teenager, but suffer from bouts of (albeit relatively mild) adult acne now I’m in my thirties. I try not to overcomplicate my routine, and I hate throwing things away that I haven’t used, so I do a fair bit of reviewing reading and research before changing anything major. To cleanse I use Votary Clarifying Cleansing Oil with Rosemary and Oat (and a fluffy face cloth), but at the moment I’m switching to the Deep Cleanser by QMS Medicosmetics after a great facial with their head facialist Rowan Hal-Farrise at Liberty. I always double cleanse if I’ve worn makeup or spent a lot of time on the tube – I dread to think what’s working its way into the skin in London! In the day, I layer The Ordinary Hyaluronic Acid serum with their Natural Moisturizing Factors. In the evening I layer the same serum but with the 100% Plant-Derived Squalane”.
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BrevilleBreville BJE530BSS1BUS1 the Juice Fountain Cold Plus Countertop Centrifugal Juicer, 70 fl oz
Cold spin technology cold spin technology allows juice to flow up and through the stainless steel cutting disc surrounded by an Italian-made mesh filter to ensure an insignificant temperature increase.
Space saving design with the pulp Bin located behind the product base, The juice Fountain cold plus features a new and unique space saving design for a better use of your countertop space.
Shortened prep time The unique 3. 5" extra wide chute Feed allows you to juice whole fruits and vegetables without pre-cutting. Less prep for larger produce.
Xl juicing capacity juice and seal in a high capacity 70 fl. Oz. Jug for the whole family or store it in the refrigerator for up to 3 days.
Custom designed juice nozzle perfect for mess-free juicing straight into a glass. Simply invert the nozzle when finished to avoid juice drips.
COLD SPIN TECHNOLOGY:
Cold Spin Technology allows juice to flow up and through the stainless steel cutting disc surrounded by an Italian-made mesh filter to ensure an insignificant temperature increase.
SHORTENED PREP TIME:
The newly designed 3.5 inch extra large wide chute feed allows you to juice whole fruits and vegetables without pre-cutting.
NOISE REDUCTION TECHNOLOGY:
Juicing on quiet setting reduces mechanical noise by 40%
Extract up to 70 fl.oz. of delicious, nutrient rich juice up to 5x faster than a 'cold press'.
XL JUICING CAPACITY:
Juice and seal in a XL 70 fl. oz. jug for the whole family or store it in the refrigerator for up to 3 days.Power:1200 Watts ; Voltage : 110-120 Volts.
COMFEE'COMFEE' BPA Free Masticating Juicer Extractor with Ice Cream Maker Function. 3.4inch Large Chute. 55RPM Slow Cold Press Masticating and Grinding. High Yield.Quiet Motor. Reverse Function. Mint Green
High rate juice Extractor and slow masticating juicer: slow squeeze and cold press juicing technology retains maximum nutrition and leaves the driest pulp; giving minimal oxidation, no foam juice and maximum health protection. Processing speed: 55 RPM
Extra wide feeder chute and reverse function: wide feeder chute easily accommodates large fruits and veggies, for example it can fit in one orange or big Apple without cutting It. Reverse function helps the juicer keep working smoothly when the the pulp get clogged inside, just select reverse function and problem can be solved.
Cold press juicer with user-friendly design: the juice Extractor comes with 2 outlets that for Dry pulp and juice separately, and you can adjust the lever next to the pulp outlet to set the juicing type that for soft fruit or hard fruit.
Versatile and multi-function juicer: the juicer is professional for making silky and fresh juice and smoothie, and it is also a great ice cream maker, Easy to make tasty ice cream with frozen fruits. Ice strainer and filter are designed for making ice cream and juice separately. And anti-drip adjustable flow spout for easy pouring.
Easy operation and clean up: one simple control knob for easy operation. Clean up process is easy with flush water and the clean function. Bpa free material and superior quality. And we offer 1 year . If you have any question, please feel free to Contact us!
Included_components: main unit*1; juice cup*1; filter; ice cream strainer*1; drive shafts; juice cup lid*1; juice collector*1; pulp collector*1; cleaning brushes; pusher*1
TribestTribest GS-P502 Greenstar Pro Commercial Cold Press Complete Masticating Juicer, Juice Extractor with Jumbo Twin Gears, Gray
ALL STAINLESS-STEEL BIO-CERAMIC MAGNETIC TWIN GEARS - For the freshest, highest quality juices possible from any cold press juicer by preserving living enzymes and vitamins and preventing nutrient degradation for a longer shelf-life
SIMPLE AND EASY TO ASSEMBLE AND CLEAN - Fewer parts in the modern, sleek design so you can always incorporate healthy juices into your routine, and included cleaning brushes and a unique Scraper Tool to make cleaning easy
HIGHER YIELDS - designed to maximize the yield and nutritional value of your juice.
SLOW 110 RPM COLD PRESS JUICE EXTRACTION - For minimal oxidation for superior quality juices from all your vegetables, fruits, and greens, including high yield and better taste
EASY Clean Locking Mechanism -the quick latch system easily allows you to remove the gears and auger housing quickly for fast clean up
15 Year Warranty for home use, 3 Year Warranty for personal use
Increased Versatility - By adding the mixing stage in between the crushing and pressing stages, juicing soft fruits has now become much easier and more effective.
Increased Value - By including only the most popular items into one convenient package, there is only one model to Greestar Elite and only one optional accessory - soft fruit outlet adjusting knob.
Tamper Holder - Place the tamper into the tamper holder for added convenience
Create fresh, cold-pressed juice at home: juice a variety of fruits and vegetables. Easy to assemble.
3-Year limited from the #1 selling juice Extractor brand*: includes access to us-based customer support.
Easy to clean: removable parts easily rinse clean. No scrubbing or scouring. Easier to clean than traditional juicers. Cleaning brush included.
Lower energy and less noise: just 150W of power creates a quiet, slow press.
Smoother results: masticating action creates smoother texture and less separation than the leading Centrifugal juicer. Extracts 2x more juice when juicing spinach.
Juice a variety of fruits and vegetables: from soft foods like spinach, kale, berries, grapes, and tomatoes to harder foods like apples, cucumbers, pears, carrots, oranges, celery, pineapple, ginger root and beets, this juicer processes a rainbow of colors and flavors.
*Source: the npd group/ Retail Tracking service, U. S. Unit sales, 12 months ending March 2019.
Omega JuicersOmega Juicer TWN30S Twin Masticating Juicer Makes Continuous Fresh Fruit Vegetable and Wheatgrass Juice with Stainless Steel Gears and Low Speed, 150-Watt, Silver
INDUSTRY LEADING 15-YEAR coverage on parts and performance
STAINLESS STEEL two interlocking stainless steel augers work together to slowly squeeze the maximum amount of juice from fruits, vegetables, leafy greens, and wheatgrass
LONGER LASTING JUICE the twin gears turn at a low speed of 160 RPM and results in minimal heat buildup and oxidation promoting healthy enzymes
NUTRITION CENTER Use the twin gear juicer as a food processor to make nut butters, frozen fruit sorbets, baby food, and grind other foods such as Coffee and spices
EASY TO USE Automatic pulp ejection and lock-latch for easy assembly
All components included such as a coarse and fine juicing screen
110/120 Volts, 150 Watts
Ulysses PressCold Press Juice Bible: 300 Delicious, Nutritious, All-Natural Recipes for Your Masticating Juicer
BrevilleBreville RM-JE98XL Juice Fountain Plus 850-Watt Juice Extractor (Renewed)
This Certified Remanufactured product is tested & certified by Breville to look and work like-new. The product is backed by a 6 month warranty
Simple to operate, the 850-watt unit features an extra-wide 3-inch feeder chute
Choose high speed (12,000 RPMs) for denser fruits and harder vegetables and low speed (6,500 RPMs) for leafy vegetables and soft fruit
Accessories include a 1-liter juice jug with a froth separator, a stainless-steel micro mesh filter basket, and a cleaning brush for the micro mesh filter basket. The two-speed countertop juicing machine
90-day limited warranty. Note : Refer to the PDF attached below in Technical Specification for User Manual and Troubleshooting steps.
My Breville Juicer Extractor Juicing Recipe Book, A Simple Steps Brand Cookbook: 101 Superfood Juice Machine Recipes for your Centrifugal Juicer, to ... Machines, Juice Extractor, Juicing Books)
Rockridge PressJuicing for Beginners: The Essential Guide to Juicing Recipes and Juicing for Weight Loss
Juicing for Beginners The Essential Guide to Juicing Recipes and Juicing for Weight Loss
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Welcome to LIVE | WORK | PLAY | SUSTAIN | CARE
How do we care ?
Society currently has significant limitations in regards to the way we show concern and care. This is evident in our business models, communities and the way we treat the environment as well as each other.
In 1997, James Lazok created LWPSC to offer a plan to achieve conscientious change through restructuring and redefining how we live, work, play, sustain and care. By bringing this master plan to philanthropists, foundations and corporations we create an alliance where the LWPSC standards and guidelines are implemented to bring forward a vision of a brighter future for all of humankind.
What do we do ?
We offer Consultation for philanthropists
Before giving starts, LWPSC represents philanthropists who are looking to finance foundations. LWPSC evaluates your chosen foundation and gives an unbiased report holding accountability for their actions and operations based on the LWPSC standards and guidelines. Using this report, the philanthropist can invest in the foundation with absolute confidence.
We offer Consultation for foundations who are expanding
LWPSC offers value to foundations by enhancing their performance and improving their image. We assist in new paradigm branding and marketing, upgrading antiquated system operations by implementing new procedures and processes based on how well the Live | Work | Play | Sustain | Care.
We offer Consultation for corporations
LWPSC gives corporations the ability to think outside of the box. We do this by providing cohesiveness which brings together management and model operations based on how well the corporation currently lives, works, plays, sustains and cares. This holds corporations accountable for their place in the world today and in the future.
We Give Back
LWPSC creates new business startup projects, holding to our own fundamentals as an example of conscious change which in turn benefits all of humankind.
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Simply put our main initiative is to help solve the evolving energy, environmental and economic needs as we realize these are the countries most critical challenges.
FOUNDER / CEO
Founder and CEO of Live Work Play Sustain Care. Responsible for creating conscientious change focused on helping society and humankind. This has been achieved by offering new and unique answers to complicated and overwhelming problems. He created LWPSC as a consulting firm to work with foundations, corporations, businesses and philanthropists.
Technology representative for LWPSC. Extensive experience in software development and real-time telecommunications, including the design and implementation of applications for large scale systems. Specializing in website development, software design and public relations.
BUSINESS MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS
Economic business plan strategist for LWPSC. Excels in bringing culturally-significant products and services to businesses and consumers in regulated and free-market economies. Proven expertise in business management, product launch, service delivery, sales channels, and marketing disciplines. Fluent in several languages. Overseas corporate liaison for Motorola Iridium Division.
DR. ROBERT ZIEVE
ADVOCATE / REPRESENTATIVE
Assistant consultant with LWPSC and a physician with broad expertise in integrating natural and conventional medicine. Was a Board-Certified Emergency physician and past emergency department director. Currently the Medical Director of Partners in Integrative Cancer Therapies. Has authored two books, co-organizer of international cancer educational conferences for physicians and the public.
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As a real estate professional, I understand that buying or selling a home is more than just a transaction: it’s a life-changing experience. That’s why I am dedicated to providing exceptional, personalized service for all of my clients. I take great pride in the relationships I build and always work relentlessly on the client’s behalf to ... Continue Reading »
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We have has a wide range of products in stock needed for your business and customer service is ready to take your orders or answer your questions. As a company we strive to offer you the products you need, when you need them and at a fair and competitive price.
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Fiona Bigwood & Orthilia Take Saumur CDI3* Grand Prix, 2nd Victory of Year
5 years ago admin Comments Off on Fiona Bigwood & Orthilia Take Saumur CDI3* Grand Prix, 2nd Victory of Year
SAUMUR, France, May 1, 2015–Great Britain’s Fiona Bigwood and Atterupgaards Orthilia won the Saumur CDI3* Grand Prix Friday with a personal best score for the second win of their first year at Big Tour.
Fiona and the 10-year-old Oldenburg mare posted 74.720 per cent for the win in only their third international Grand Prix that improved on their 74.660 per cent result six weeks ago.
The 39-year-old British team World Games and four-time European Championship rider began competing Orthilia at Grand Prix in March this year, two years after acquiring the horse that was sucessfully ridden by Denmark’s Young Rider Catherine Dufour.
France’s Arnaud Serre on Robinson de Lafont de Massa was second on 71.760 per cent with Germany’s Isabelle Steidle on Long Drink third on 71.220 per cent.
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