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Circumcision style is defined by two axes: low-to-high, and loose-to-tight. The four typical combinations are low and loose, low and tight, high and loose, and high and tight. A circumcision does not have to be on either end of an axis; mine, for example, is low and moderately tight. A low circumcision places the scar closer to the glans of the penis, while a high places it further away; low versus high then reflects the amount of inner foreskin retained. Loose versus tight concerns how much slack skin there is, and is usually determined by how much skin is actually removed.
Which style you choose is generally a matter of personal preference. If you wish to retain your frenulum you will need to choose a low style; the inner foreskin will be removed but the frenulum can remain. The inner foreskin retained by the high and tight style would leave a frenulum in a permanently stretched state, while a retained frenulum on a high and loose circumcision would pull the inner foreskin back over the glans and effectively negate the circumcision.
Anecdotally, the overwhelming majority of men circumcised as adults prefer a tight circumcision. A tight circumcision provides better hygienic benefits by ensuring the glans is normally always exposed and improves vaginal sexual sensation by causing the vaginal walls to slide against the penis instead of the penis sliding against itself. By retaining the inner foreskin, a high circumcision may provide more sexual stimulation than a low circumcision. By removing the inner foreskin, a low circumcision may do a better job reducing female-to-male STD transmission, because the inner foreskin acts as an easy entrance point for viruses.
Most men choose a high and tight circumcision. However, for some men (myself included) the foreskin is unusually sensitive, to the point of causing premature ejaculation, and a low and tight circumcision that removes all of the foreskin is a better option. Remember, more penetrative sensation during sex does not mean better sex, it just means reaching the point of orgasm faster.
This forum topic contains an extensive discussion of circumcision styles and their various merits, and is worth reading.
Images below are courtesy of IMC.
Low and Tight
In a low and tight circumcision the inner and outer foreskin is removed but the shaft skin is retained. The scar is close to the glans and the remaining skin is taut when erect. In a low and tight circumcision it is possible to retain the frenulum.
High and Tight
In a high and tight circumcision the inner foreskin is retained but the outer foreskin is removed along with an amount of shaft skin equal to the retained inner foreskin. The scar is further away from the glans and the remaining skin is taut when erect. In a high and tight circumcision it is not practical to retain the frenulum.
Low and Loose
In a low and loose circumcision the inner foreskin is removed but most of the outer foreskin is retained. The scar is close to the glans and the remaining skin is slack when erect due to the retained outer foreskin. In a low and loose circumcision it is possible to retain the frenulum.
High and Loose
In a high and loose circumcision the inner foreskin and the shaft skin are retained but the outer foreskin is removed. The scar is further away from the glans and the remaining skin is slack when erect due to the retained shaft skin. In a high and loose circumcision it is not practical to retain the frenulum. | <urn:uuid:7ae6fee4-c2b1-495a-b5a8-d9672c09f35c> | CC-MAIN-2022-05 | https://www.choosingcircumcision.org/circumcision-styles/ | 2022-01-25T04:09:00Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-05/segments/1642320304760.30/warc/CC-MAIN-20220125035839-20220125065839-00318.warc.gz | en | 0.93263 | 703 |
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Terms & Conditions
1. Title of ownership.
In compliance with Law 34/2002 relating to the Services of the Association for Electronic Information and Commerce (Sociedad de La Información y del Comercio Electrónico - LSSICE), we inform you that the title of ownership of our virtual store, www.detectalia.com belongs to Detectalia Europe, S.L., a legally constituted company in Spain with tax identification number (CIF) B54096318 and registered in the Business Register for Alicante, Doc. 1/2008/11.703,0 Journal 241 Entry 800 Volume 3032 Book 0 Page 204 Sheet A-97946 Inscrip. 2, (henceforward Detectalia.com). For any enquiry, contact Detectalia.com at https://www.detectalia.com/en/contact-us
2. Purpose and scope of application.
The purpose of the current General Conditions for contracts and use is to regulate the information made available in the Detectalia.com online store, as well as commercial transactions arising between Detectalia.com and users of the www.detectalia.com website. The acquisition of any of the products offered on the website assumes acceptance by the user, without reservations of any kind, of each and every one of the current general conditions of contract and use. Detectalia.com will, at all times and without prior notice, modify the current general conditions of contract and use, as well as any specific conditions included, where appropriate, by publication of said modifications in the store with the purpose of making them known to the users, and to record the date of these modifications.
3. Information provided on the website.
Detectalia.com reserves the right to modify the commercial offer (products, prices, promotions and other commercial and service conditions) presented on www.detectalia.com at any time. We will make every possible effort to offer the information contained on the website accurately and without typographical errors. If an error of this type is produced involuntarily by www.detectalia.com, we would immediately proceed to correct it. If a typographical error exists in any of the prices shown and a client has made a decision to purchase based on this error, we will communicate the error to the client, who will have the right to cancel his purchase without incurring any costs. It is also possible that, on occasions, the website content may display provisional information on some products. If the information provided does not correspond with the characteristics of the product, the client has the right to cancel his purchase without incurring any costs. All the contractual information present on www.detectalia.com is provided in the Spanish language (Castillian), and communiacation with clients and users, as well as formalising of contracts, will be carried out in this language.
4. Intellectual and industrial property.
All the content published in the store and, in particular, the designs, texts, graphics, logos, icons, buttons, as well as the software, the commercial name, the trade marks and industrial and commercial drawings, and whatever other symbols may be vulnerable to industrial or commercial use are subject to the industrial and intellectual property rights of Detectalia.com or of third party owners of these who have duly authorised their inclusion on the website. On no account will any authorisation of these rights be conceded or renounced, transferred, surrendered completely or partially, nor will any right be conferred, nor an expectation of a right, and particularly, to alter, exploit, reproduce, distribute or publicly communicate the abovementioned contents without the prior and express authorisation of Detectalia.com or the corresponding owners. The introduction of hyperlinks for commercial purposes on websites unconnected to Detectalia.com that provide access to our website is expressly forbidden without prior authorisation. In all cases, the existence of hyperlinks in websites unconnected to us will not imply the existence of commercial or marketing relations of any kind with the owner of the website where the hyperlink is placed, nor the acceptance by Detectalia.com of its contents or services.
5. Detectalia.com responsibilities.
The products presented on the website comply with Spanish legislation. The responsibility of Detectalia.com cannot be invoked where products do not conform to the legislation of countries to which they have been requested to be shipped in accordance to client’s order. It is the responsibility of clients outside Spain to check the possibility of importing or using the products they request. The user assumes all responsibility from the use of our website and is the only person responsible for all direct and undirect effects derived from the website, including, by way of information but not limited to, all adverse economic, technical and/or judicial outcomes, such as any false expectations created by our website, where the user is obliged to respect the indemnity of Detectalia.com in any direct or indirect claims made relating to these facts. Detectalia.com cannot be held responsible for damages that may be caused by interference, ommissions, interruptions, computer viruses, breakdowns and/or disconnections of the operational functioning of this electronic system or of any of the user’s devices or equipment, caused by matters beyond the control of Detectalia.com which hinder or delay the supply of services or navigation of the store, or delays in use caused by a low internet bandwidth or on other electronic systems, nor the lack of service provision or access due to causes which are not attributable to Detectalia.com, due to the user, to third parties or to alleged force majeur. In general, Detectalia.com does not control the use that the users make of its website. In particular, Detectalia.com cannot guarantee, under any circumstances, that the users make use of the website in accordance with legislation, the current General Conditions, morality, generally accepted good conduct and public order, nor that they use it in a diligent and prudent manner.
6. Client and user obligations.
As a general rule, the user agrees to comply with the current general conditions, and to comply with special notices or instructions for use contained in these or on the website, and to always act in accordance with the law, good conduct and in good faith, employing the required level of diligence and abstaining from using the website in any manner that may impede, harm or deteriorate the normal functioning of this, or the goods and rights of Detectalia.com, its providers, other users or any third party in general. Access and use of the portal by underage persons is prohibited without the express consent of their parents. Detectalia.com cannot be responsible for the truthfulness or accuracy of the data completed by the user, and because of this, cannot confirm their age. In particular, and without implying any restriction to the above section, during use of the website www.detectalia.com the user agrees to:
- Provide truthful information on the data requested in the registration form or the order form and to maintain these up to date.
- Not to enter, store or share in or from the website any defamatory, injurious, obscene, threatening, xenophobic, inciting violence, discrimination due to reasons of race, gender, ideology religion or that in any way attempts to control morality, public order, fundamental rights, public freedom, honour, the privacy or image of third parties and, in general, current existing guidelines.
- Not to enter, store or share through the store any programme, data, virus, code or any other electronic or physical device which may cause damage to the website, any of the services, or any of the equipment, systems or networks of Detectalia.com, of any other user, of providers to Detectalia.com or, in general, to any third party.
- Safely store the “user name” and “password” provided to you by Detectalia.com and assume responsibility for any damages or losses that may arise from their inappropriate use.
- Not to carry out publicity activities or commercial exploitation through the website, and not to use the contents and the information therein to send publicity, or to send messages for any other commercial purpose, nor to collect and store third party personal data.
- Not to use false identities, nor to impersonate others when using the website or when using any of its services, including the use of passwords, using false identities, or impersonating others when using the website or using any of the services therein, including the use of passwords or access keys belonging to third parties, or in any other manner.
- Not to destroy, alter, take for your own use, use or damage data, information, programmes or electronic documents belonging to Detectalia.com, its providers or third parties.
- Not to enter, store or share through the store any content that infringes the intellectual or industrial property rights or third-party company secrets, nor any content in general which, according to the law, does not possess the right to be placed at the disposition of third parties. The client agrees to enable the delivery of the order requested by providing a delivery address where the order requested can be delivered to within normal working hours for the delivery of goods. In the case of the client’s failure to comply with this obligation, Detectalia.com will not be responsible for the delay or inability to deliver the order requested by the client.
- For any devices received to estimate costs of repairs, the product will be stored and kept free of charge during a period of three months. If this period is exceeded and no further information is received relating to the acceptance or return of the same, it will be destroyed.
7. Privacy and protection of personal data.
For the purposes set out in the Organic Law 15/1999, of the 13th of December, relating to the Protection of Data of a Personal Nature, as well as that relating to the R.D. 1720/2007 of the 21st of December through which the regulation developed by the L.O. 15/1999 is approved, Detectalia.com informs you of the existence of a personal data file created for and under the responsibility of Detectalia.com from data obtained from the www.detectalia.com website. The purpose of this file is to manage your contractual relationship with us, as well as to carry out our promotional and publicity activities or those of third parties which may be of interest to you through any medium, including sending marketing messages via SMS, email, the postal service, etc., after having studied and segmented the data collected from users’ website navigation, from data provided from completing any forms, as well as that derived from the commercial relationship or from the delivery of purchased products. If you do not wish to receive publicity, you should go to your account and deactivate the sending of Newsletter and information. In compliance with Organic Law 15/1999 of the 13th of December, clients and users of www.detectalia.com can, at any time, exercise their rights to access, rectification, cancellation and opposition over their personal data by communicating this in writing to: Detectalia.com ESPAÑA. Departamento de Atención al Cliente (Customer Care Department), C/ Islas Baleares, sn - Polígono Industrial El Pastoret – 03640 Monóvar (Alicante) or by email to the address [email protected] by providing their name and surname, user email with which the user registered, and in both cases, by attaching a photocopy of the user’s DNI (ID document). If the data provided is associated with a purchase, Spanish legislation requires us to keep this for at least six years and, for this reason, it cannot be deleted or rectified even if the client requests this. Detectalia.com is obliged to use the data included in the file, to respect your confidentiality and to use it in accordance with the purpose of the file, as well as to comply with their obligation to store the data and adopt all the necessary measures to avoid its alteration, loss, unauthorised handling or access, in accordance with that established in the Regulation on Safety Measures for automated files containing personal data, authorised by Royal Decree 994/1999, of the 11th of July. Our secure server garantees the privacy of the data that you provide us. This privacy is achieved through the SSL protocol, by encrypting the data provided through the RSA encrypting file system, so that nobody can appropriate them, as they will not have the required key. You can check that your navigator is secure if it shows the lock symbol, and by observing that the URL varies slightly: it no longer begins with http, but instead it begins with https.
Equally, we inform you that, to improve your navigation experience, manage the content of your shopping basket, to offer you our personalised advice, and to inform you online of our offers for clients and members, our website uses devices for inserting cookies and storing IP. A cookie is a file which we place on your computer and whose only objective is to simplify your navigation on www.detectalia.com (this cookie cannot contain a virus and cannot be run, because it is not an active file). A cookie can only be read by Detectalia.com and by yourself, and you can delete it if you wish by accessing the options on your navigator. Consult the manual for your operating system or navigator for further information.
9. Shipping costs.
Shipping costs for the peninsula and the Balearic Islands are from €11.95 for non-urgent services of up to 2 kg. Shipping costs to the Canary Islands, Ceuta, Melilla and areas that do not belong to the European Customs Union start from €20 and do not include import costs (duty), which should be paid in cash at the destination by the person receiving the goods. The non-receipt of the order by the client due to causes beyond the control of Detectalia or the cancellation of the order once it has been dispatched, will incur the shipping costs due.
10. Placing an order.
To place an order, you need to connect to www.detectalia.com, and register as a user, completing the online form which appears on the website (or by downloading the form and sending it by email or fax) following the instructions detailed on the form. In order to register as a client, and for the order to be processed, it is essential that you accept these general conditions. After registration, proceed to the purchase of products. You need to add the product of your choice to the basket by following the insrtruction on screen and completing the order form provided to this effect and validating it. The validation of the order by the client indicates their express understanding and acceptance of these general conditions for contracting as part of the execution of the contract that was accepted during the user registration process. Unless there is evidence to the contrary, the data registered by Detectalia.com constitutes the evidence for the group of transactions carried out between Detectalia.com and their clients. Detectalia.com will archive the electronic document in which the contract is formalised and this will be accessible. Once the purchase has been made, in the shortest time possible, and always before 24 hours have elapsed since the purchase was made, Detectalia.com Client Services will send a receipt for the purchase by email. If you do not agree with the information recorded in this confirmation, you can request its modification or the cancellation of the contract before your order has been dispatched. You can also place an order by fax or mail by sending the official order form that we will provide for you.
11. Product availability.
The selection of products offered on www.detectalia.com is available as long as the products are visible on the website detailing the limits of available stock. The deadlines for shipping are calculated from Monday to Friday, as Detectalia.com does not ship on public holidays, Saturdays or Sundays. If there were to be any lack of stock or a one-time unavailability of an item, Detectalia.com would contact you immediately to inform you and give you a new delivery time, or if it was not possible to provide the said item, procede to the cancellation of the order.
12. Shipping methods and intervals.
Items are shipped to the shipping address that you have indicated on the order. If the address provided is incorrect, we will ship to the correct address and the cost will be charegeable to the client. In exceptional cases, Detectalia.com reserves the right to break down the order, sending available items and leaving as pending for a second shipment any unavailable items. In this case, the second shipment will be made without any additional cost being incurred by the client. We provide different shipment methods so that your order can arrive by the most convenient and appropriate method for your needs. From your shopping basket you can select the type of shipping you wish, according to the area and delivery method that you prefer. To carry out the shipping and delivery of orders, we have chosen the courier companies Correos Express, TNT and Correos. No deliveries are made on Saturdays, Sundays or public holidays. Delivery times shown on the website are approximate, Detectalia is not responsible for delays of orders to the client, except when there is at least a 72-hour difference in the delivery date given and the actual delivery. In the event that the client detects a problem when the order is delivered (damaged packaging, missing or damaged items), they should indicate this in writing on the shipper’s delivery note so that the shipper’s insurance will ensure the repair or replacement of the order.
Detectalia.com provides various methods of payment so that you can choose the one that is best for your needs:
- Payment with credit card: You may use Visa, MasterCard, Amex.
- Payment by bank transfer: bank details will be provided during the purchasing process for the item. It is very important that in the box for the SENDER you indicate the following: Order number – your name and surname. It takes 7 working days to process the bank transfer from the time you complete your order. The order will not be considered as completed until we confirm that the corresponding deposit of payment in any of the Detectalia.com bank accounts (these will be detailed during the processing of the order) and therefore, the delivery interval will begin from this date.
- Cash on delivery. This method carries a supplement of 3.5% in addition to the price of the order. Payment must be made in cash at the time of delivery of the order through the shipping company in euros. Only payments in cash will be accepted, no other payment method can be used.
- Payment through PayPal. Find out more about this payment method on www.paypal.com
14. Right to withdraw.
If you are not satisfied, you can return all the items exept for software and accessories or services for pick up and delivery for updates. In the rare case when a client returns an item that, after revision by our technicians, is not possible to update, a discount voucher will be created with no deadline for its use and for the same amount as the item also in product returns. You should send the item back to the company address for Detectalia.com, in the town of Monóvar, with the post code 03640 (Alicante) situated in Calle Islas Baleares, SN at the Polígono Industrial El Pastoret, attaching the purchase invoice and a note in a visible place on the outside of the package clearly indicating that you wish to return the item (parcels without these documents attached will not e received as Detectalia.com will not be able to ascertain the origin and intentions of the addressee of the package). The shipping for an exchange or a return should be paid by the client. The maximum timescale for the return or exchange is 14 calendar days from receipt of the order and arrival at the company address of Detectalia.com which was detailed above.
The article must be in perfect condition, with its original packaging and accessories and not have been used. If, after revision, any defects are noted in the item or any accessory is missing, we will inform the client of the above situation. If any defect is observed in the item, the client will be informed, it will be returned to them and shipping will be charged to the client. If any accessory element is missing, the client will be informed so that they can send it. The client will be given 3 additional working days from the date of notification to resolve the situation, otherwise, he will be informed and the the item returned to the client who will liable for payment of any shipping costs due. In either case, the shipping costs will be €11.95 and they should be paid in cash on delivery. If the packaging is damaged, the amount to discount will be €10. In promotions with free shipping, the cost of shipping for returns will be credited to the client, again at €11.95.
For purchases within the EU, in the event of malfunction on delivery of the equipment, the client will be able to return the item free of charge if it is returned within 24 hours of the delivery.
15. After-sales guarantee of products and services.
We offer a two year guarantee on all our products, if these do not have defects caused by negligence, knocks, incorrect use or inadequate handling, incorrect installations, or materials that have worn from over-use. From the 21st of August 2018 the guarantee will be extended to 4 years free of charge on purchases made at www.detectalia.com once the quality form that you will receive this by email up to 14 days after making the purchase is completed. If you wish to obtain it by other means, please contact Detectalia on 965 470 915 or by email at [email protected].
- The location for assistance and the guarantee service is located at our facilities.
- In cases that justify the use of the guarantee, we will aim for a repair, a replacement item, a discount or a refund, according to the established legal terms.
- The guarantee will be invalid if there is any attempt to access the interior of the machine, if it is updated with software that is not provided by Detectalia or if it is shipped in different packaging to the original, as shipping in different packaging may cause breakages or damage to the device if it is not properly protected, in which case it would be attributable to the sender.
- In the event of a defect being the result of inadequate use or not using the device according to the product manual, the repair will be charged. The cost per hour or fraction thereof is from €49 + VAT.
- Detectalia Europe S.L. reserves the right to repair or substitute the item for another in a similar condition of use or newer than the one sent for repair under guarantee by the client. The defective parts or units will become the property of Detectalia.
- The Detectalia models M5, M8, V75, V100 e v800 require annual maintenance for the correct functioning of the devices, which will be carried out by Detectalia. The cost of this maintenance will depend on the use and condition of the device, and the client will be informed once the device has been received by Detectalia. The maintenance cost will, under no account, be greater than 15% of the total value of the item + VAT (excluding shipping and worn parts such as pulleys, rubber components or motors). The client can send the item by their own means to the address provided in point 14 of these general conditions or contact Detectalia by email [email protected] or by telephone 965470915 to request the collection of the item. The cost of this service will be €11.95 per item. If this maintenance is not carried out, the guarantee will be invalid. In the case of models D7X and D7T+ maintenance will take place every two years. The software updates are not included in the maintenance. The software is compatible with the Windows operating system.
The repairs made under the guarantee period will not extend the life of the same, and are guaranteed in turn for a period of three months which will commence from the time the repaired unit is returned to the client. If the issue is not considered as part of the guarantee, all costs derived from shipping and repair of the device will be incurred by the client.
In respect of the storage of goods sent for repair, you will be sent thr corresponding estimate and it will be stored free of charge for 60 days. Once this time has elapsed, if no information has been received from you in relation to the matter, we will proceded to destroy the device.
Reimbursement of forgeries. From 15/12/2021 we are offering the reimbursement of the value of the forged banknote that has not been detected by models D7X, D7T+ and V800. This reimbursement is unlimited and is valid for compatible currencies. The software for the models mentioned must be updated with the current version of the available firmware at www.detectalia.com and published on the respective individual pages of the product and it must be maintained in accordance with these terms of sale.
16. Applicable legislation. Consent to jurisdiction.
Purchases made at www.detectalia.com are subject to Spanish legislation. The parties’ consent, to their decision, to resolve conflicts and waiver any other code of law, courts or tribunals of the domicile of Novelda (Alicante). The current general conditions for Contracts have been updated on the 15-12-2021. | <urn:uuid:f1284f07-3310-4358-8edf-4f5a171e8b48> | CC-MAIN-2022-05 | https://www.detectalia.com/en/content/terms-conditions.html | 2022-01-25T04:42:17Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-05/segments/1642320304760.30/warc/CC-MAIN-20220125035839-20220125065839-00318.warc.gz | en | 0.93173 | 5,298 |
Natural Pure Brown Seaweed Powder
Seaweed extract is gaining popularity for the many health benefits that this supplement offers, but it has been used for a very long time for its curative and health-giving properties.
This produce is a sustainable resource, hand harvested from the clean cool waters of the Arctic Ocean.
Ingesting seaweed provides numerous vitamins and minerals, including vitamin A, B1, B2, B6, C, niacin, iodine, iron, zinc calcium, sodium, potassium, magnesium and trace amounts of B12.
Seaweed helps with the health of skin and hair in particular as a result of its high amounts of vitamins and minerals, but it also acts as a cleanser for the body as well as assisting in the regulation of hormones.
Studies show that seaweed extract can alleviate symptoms of osteoarthritis by around 15%. Patients reported an improvement in mobility and a reduction in pain after taking the extract for three months.
Seaweed extract has a high mineral content and offers a rich source of iodine, as well as zinc, iron, potassium, copper, magnesium and calcium minerals. Added to your cooking, seaweed extract significantly increases the amount of fiber in the cooked food.
Heart Health and Cancer Prevention
Seaweed extract can be beneficial for the heart by lowering cholesterol as well as improving circulation. There may also be benefits for blood pressure by substituting ground seaweed for salt in the diet. Seaweed extract is used to prevent the growth and spread of cancerous growths in the body.
Seaweed extract contains alginate, an odorless, tasteless active ingredient that increases metabolism, minimizing weight gain from high-fat, high-calorie foods.
The alginate in seaweed extract binds itself to radioactive materials and heavy metals, as well as free radicals and other toxins in the body. It then takes these out of the body with it when it is flushed from the system.
Seaweed contains seanol, a potent antioxidant many times more powerful than those contained in land-based plants. This antioxidant boosts energy and mental alertness.
Seaweed extract boosts the immune system, helping the body fight viral infections such as herpes. It is also beneficial for skin conditions such as eczema and psoriasis.
Dried seaweed powder contains natural vitamins and minerals, including vitamins A, B, C and E. It also contains iodine, which is most commonly found in salt. People that have high blood pressure or who follow low sodium diets can substitute small amounts of seaweed powder for salt in recipes.
Seaweed powder is a rich source of organic proteins, minerals and vitamins that help promote healthy skin. Seaweed treatments detoxify skin and help remove toxins and impurities while contributing important nutrients. Mix seaweed powder with milk or water to create a simple face mask to revitalize skin. When combined with cream or lotion, seaweed powder can moisturize skin. | <urn:uuid:e2dccb6e-3287-489f-9340-1b4ce76ccc33> | CC-MAIN-2022-05 | https://www.everythingbynature.com/seaweed-powder | 2022-01-25T04:02:09Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-05/segments/1642320304760.30/warc/CC-MAIN-20220125035839-20220125065839-00318.warc.gz | en | 0.929941 | 658 |
High-pressure oxygen (HPO) therapy for Pseudomonas aeruginosa infections of burn wounds has not been as effective as in vitro studies predicted. Mitigation of HPO toxicity for P. aeruginosa by nutrients present at the burn site could explain the lack of in vivo success. Alternatively, HPO-induced depression of host defense mechanisms could negate beneficial effects arising from HPOs known toxicity for P. aeruginosa. Accordingly, mouse peritoneal exudate cells (PEC), preincubated for 24 h in 1 atm of air-CO(2), were used to study the in vitro effects of HPO or air-CO(2) on phagocytosis of P. aeruginosa or sheep erythrocytes (SRBC). Subsequent 2-h exposures of PEC to increasing numbers of bacteria, in an air-CO(2) atmosphere, decreased the percentage of bacteria cleared as well as PEC viability. Similar exposures of PEC to bacteria in an HPO atmosphere prevented the loss of PEC viability and increased bacterial clearance. In control experiments, increasing the number of SRBC relative to PEC decreased the percentage of SRBC cleared without decreasing PEC viability, as determined under air-CO(2); short (2 h) exposure to HPO did not affect SRBC clearance. Microscopic examination of PEC indicated that a 24-h preincubation in HPO decreased the percentage of PEC which could ingest SRBC during subsequent experimental exposures (2 h) to air-CO(2) or HPO. These data suggest that short periods of exposure to HPO promote the ability of PEC to clear pseudomonads by adversely affecting the bacteria. This in turn prevents a pseudomonad-induced depression of PEC viability and function. In contrast, prolonged HPO exposure may be detrimental to phagocytic activity.
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British Pubs Expect to Sell 10 Million Extra Pints During England's World Cup Match Tomorrow
Though humans have been kicking balls for thousands of years, England prides itself as the originator of soccer as the world knows it today: The modern rules were developed there in the 19th century. As a result, English soccer fans have once again adopted “It’s coming home” as the country’s rallying cry during this year’s World Cup run. But just a heads up for the English soccer team if they do bring the trophy home: Pretty much everyone will be hungover when they get there.
The British Beer and Pub Association (BBPA) has been following the U.K.’s booze consumption throughout this competition, and as England has continued winning, the number of pints patrons are downing has increased as well. With the English team now just one victory away from the finals, the BBPA believes that this week's Wednesday night match against Croatia could see an extra 10 million pints sold in pubs across the U.K., according to the Plymouth Herald.
If that seems like a huge number of beers, you’re completely right. By comparison, during England’s last match against Sweden—which happened during the very booze-friendly hours of Saturday afternoon, mind you—the BBPA believes a mere eight million more pints than normal were moved across the bar. Meanwhile, The Drinks Business cites data from the debit transaction company Worldpay suggesting that the peak sales time for pubs has been about four minutes before the end of halftime, when, on average, nearly 2,000 customers per minute are being served at pubs across the U.K.
But to further put that 10 million pint prediction in perspective, according to the U.K.’s Office for National Statistics, the total drinking age (18 years and older) population of the United Kingdom is only about 52 million people (including the Scots, whether they like English soccer or not), which means on average, every adult in Great Britain will drink at least four ounces of beer during the match. And that’s just in the pubs!
And then, not to get ahead of ourselves, but the next big question is, just how many more pints would be sold assuming England makes it into the finals against either France or Belgium, both rival European teams? That final is set to kick off at 4 p.m. local English time on Sunday. The BBPA hasn’t put out its predictions for the possibility, though the group has said all of the matches so far have led pub patrons to create an approximately $160 million boost to the U.K. economy. If England does win it all, expect that economic boost to be wiped out with an extremely lethargic Monday. | <urn:uuid:9934f74f-1db6-4fa2-9b39-7ce884f1508e> | CC-MAIN-2022-05 | https://www.foodandwine.com/news/england-world-cup-semifinal-beer | 2022-01-25T04:56:16Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-05/segments/1642320304760.30/warc/CC-MAIN-20220125035839-20220125065839-00318.warc.gz | en | 0.966568 | 576 |
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DescriptionThis billet dust cap for the fuel filler has an external O-ring that slides into the fuel fill neck. There is a magnet recessed into the base so that you can put the fuel cap on the back side of the door when filling the tank.
The cap is anodized green with "DIESEL" engraved into the cap.
NOTE: Also fits '13-18, 6.7L Ram Cummins trucks.
THIS WILL NOT WORK WITH THE 2019 AND NEWER RAM TRUCKS.
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Aug 1, 2017 | By EMIL GERCKE
Great fit, works as intended!
May 17, 2017 | By Brad
Solid, well made cap that has some weight to it. Snug fit, and came with an extra O-ring in case the original wears out or breaks.
Apr 15, 2017 | By FRANK
Fuel filler cap is first quality and fits great. Thanks to Geno's for sending an extra gasket. That's what I consider to be great customer service. Looking forward to more purchases for my EcoDiesel.
Feb 8, 2017 | By james fernie
Jan 9, 2017 | By Jeff Jarrett
fits a little tight for my big hands to wedge off the filler neck, hope its just cold weather making it so tight.
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I bought the green Ecodiesel fuel cap to replace the cheap and flimsy factory cap. The new cap is much nicer. Exactly what I hoped it would be. The rubber O ring is initially tight so the first few fill-ups required a strong pull to remove the cap. After about 5 removals, it slides-off easier and is great. | <urn:uuid:21560bd6-3db3-4472-a5b4-d2f345cda59e> | CC-MAIN-2022-05 | https://www.genosgarage.com/product/lt-diesel-cap1/fuel-caps | 2022-01-25T04:51:58Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-05/segments/1642320304760.30/warc/CC-MAIN-20220125035839-20220125065839-00318.warc.gz | en | 0.903394 | 395 |
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Sierra Leone is gearing up to be declared Ebola-free by the World Health Organization on Saturday, which will mark 42 days since the country discharged its last two known cases. Many are anticipating a weekend of celebration, but with neighboring Guinea having recorded four positive cases in the last two weeks, officials warn that the fight is not yet over.
“Ebola does not go away with a declaration. It goes away by doing what we know works,” Palo Conteh, head of the country’s National Ebola Response Center, told media on Wednesday. “As Guinea continues to record cases, some very close to our borders, we must remain vigilant.“
Sierra Leone had the fourth-worst health care in Africa prior to the outbreak. Officials say years of misguided aid and policy hampered the development of an effective system that could have stopped Ebola before it ever got started.
The virus killed 3,589 Sierra Leoneans in 18 months, including 221 nurses and 11 doctors. Citizens were subjected to quarantines, curfews, travel restrictions and a yearlong ban on public gatherings that forced even those untouched by Ebola into isolation.
The ban was lifted on Aug. 7 and President Ernest Bai Koroma held a lively ceremony a few weeks later when the country’s last known Ebola patient left the hospital. But optimism was quickly stifled after the bodies of two women tested positive for the virus in early September.
Conteh says the government has no “elaborate celebration” planned this time, although the invite-only WHO ceremony will be broadcasted over the radio. Still, communities throughout Freetown are organizing their own events to usher in what they consider to be Sierra Leone’s first step toward international redemption.
“Ebola caused the rest of the world to reject us,” said Eric Bangura, chairman of the Low Cost Housing community youth group in east Freetown. “We couldn’t visit our neighbor countries. Europe and America wouldn’t take us. Being Ebola-free means they will again see us for what we are: good people in a happy country.”
The community plans to kick off a citywide soccer tournament on Sunday to celebrate the country’s first day free of Ebola. Bangura’s youth group has spent the last week renovating the neighborhood sports field, building benches and fencing around the perimeter with long sticks and a few hundred feet of tarp. They’ve even hired a local DJ.
“It will be be better than Christmas,” said Asap Kamara, a local high school student. “We’re finally free. How could you not be happy?”
Of course, not everyone sees the declaration as reason to celebrate. While some plan to take part in the weekend’s festivities, others are solemnly looking to Nov. 7 as a day to reflect on the past and pray for those who were lost.
“All the innocent souls that have gone – this is the time to mourn for them, not to be happy, dancing in the street and making parties,” said Emerson Taylor, an immigration worker whose wife and mother-in-law succumbed to the virus last December. “That day I will just sit down and say prayers for my loved ones. December would have marked me and my wife’s 20th anniversary together, but instead it will mark a year since she was taken from me. We need to be more serious now, to secure ourselves before another outbreak comes into Sierra Leone.”
The National Ebola Response Center is expected to continue operating until Dec.31, when their responsibilities will be shifted to the Ministry of Health and Sanitation and the Office of National Security. But Saturday will bring procedural changes, including the closing of one of the country’s eight Ebola treatment centers and a major shift in burial policy.
Concern Worldwide estimates that 70 percent of cases originated from the handling of a corpse. In order to curb the rapid spread of the virus, the government implemented strict burial policies that required all bodies to be managed as if they were positive for Ebola, regardless of the cause of death. The intervention of hazmat-clad burial workers and the denial of traditional funerals wore on the public’s collective psyche.
Conteh said that because infection rates have reduced so dramatically, the “blanket approach” to burials is no longer necessary. Strict burial procedures will only continue for deaths that are “clearly suspicious” after Nov. 7, although swabbing bodies to test for the virus will continue to be mandatory in all circumstances. There is no word yet on when the national state of emergency will be lifted and the countrywide ban on Sunday trading is still in place.
If all goes well, the country will now enter a 90-day period of heightened surveillance. The WHO won’t officially declare the outbreak over until Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone all record 42 consecutive days without a case.
Despite the ongoing struggle in Guinea, Sierra Leoneans remain cautiously optimistic. For some, even miracles can’t be ruled out.
“Ebola disrupted all activities, all walks of life, so I will embrace even my enemies,” said Emerson Ngenda, who is confined to a wheelchair after a lifelong battle with polio. “I’m a disabled person, but on that day I almost feel like I’ll be able to stand up and dance.” | <urn:uuid:d13f9f2a-5308-4505-b8c0-52822d1ce8ae> | CC-MAIN-2022-05 | https://www.humanosphere.org/global-health/2015/11/sierra-leoneans-cautiously-optimistic-ahead-of-ebola-free-declaration/ | 2022-01-25T05:46:37Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-05/segments/1642320304760.30/warc/CC-MAIN-20220125035839-20220125065839-00318.warc.gz | en | 0.951285 | 1,141 |
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Oscar Staben is a four year old who absolutely loves his stuffed snake, whom he calls Pythie.
When Oscar and his family traveled from their home in Trail, British Colombia, Canada to the Vancouver Aquarium, naturally Pythie came along for the fun as well. Unfortunately sometime between visiting the seals and petting the sting rays, Oscar set Pythie down and left him behind.
Oscar was devastated when he realized Pythie was missing. “To most of us, it’s just a stuffed snake, but to Oscar, it’s his best friend. He cried most of the drive home,” said Oscar’s mom Andrea Hall.
When Andrea got home she wasted no time in contacting the aquarium, hoping against hope that Pythie could be located and sent home to her anguished little boy. Members of the Aquarium’s Visitor Experience team were quick to reply, but instead of simply finding and returning the lost toy they decided to make the occasion one that Oscar and his family would never forget.
When Pythie was found, there was a one inch cut in his tail. Kelsey Smith, assistant manager of Visitor Experience, consulted with veterinarian Dr. Martin Haulena about the injury, and soon the whole team had rushed Pythie into “surgery” to stitch up his wound.
After twelve stitches, Pythie was all fixed up and ready to make the journey back to Oscar. The vets even included some pictures of Pythie’s adventures in the aquarium and post-operation instructions for his recuperation, including an order for lots of “love and hugs.”
Oscar was over the moon when he was finally reunited with Pythie.
“Pythie has arrived safe and sound,” said Andrea. “Thank you for taking such great care of him and for the clean bill of health. It has meant the world to Oscar to see photos of Pythie’s adventures at the Aquarium. I have one truly appreciative little boy.”
In response, director of visitor experience Karen Howe issued the following statement:
Care and connection are at the heart of everything we do at the Vancouver Aquarium. Our team saw an opportunity to turn a sad experience to a truly memorable moment and, in true Vancouver Aquarium style, there was no shortage of helping hands.
What a special thing for these busy professionals to do! This is the sort of action that will result in a lifelong affection for their organization. It takes so little to do something wonderful for a family like Oscar’s — we hope this story inspires others to go that extra mile to bring a smile to someone’s face!
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Your family portrait session is $295 and includes:
All wall galleries, prints, digital files and other studio products are purchased after you view your online proofing gallery, approximately 2-3 weeks after your session date. No digital files are included with the session fee.
WHY A FRAMED 11″x14″ PRINT?
Aside from the obvious factor that you’ll enjoy your photographs longer on the wall than when they get lost in your feed, family photographs in your home can increase your child’s self-esteem and sense of belonging.
When you frame family photgoraphs on your wall it tells your friends and family, or whoever enters your home, exactly what’s important to you and what you’re all about as a family.
But the people who are most impacted when you choose family photographs as your adorned are your kids (no matter how old they are). Every day they see they are worthy of being displayed on your wall. Every day they see they are valued. And every day, amidst the chaos, they see that above all else family matters.
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The way you frame and display your family portraits is the difference between a true work of art and Pinterest fail. The wall gallery you choose needs to appropriately fill your chosen wall space and take your family’s personality and home decor into account.
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A conversation with designers about smart kitchen appliances can divert rather quickly into a number of different directions, considering the many different ways to define them. For some, it’s about appliances that can ‘talk’ to each other, without any human interaction, such as the communication that happens between a cooktop and a ventilation hood to automatically control functions of the latter. For others, it’s about appliances that are controlled remotely via an app on a smart device, for instance, allowing the user to preheat an oven before heading home after a long day at the office.
Yet another definition relates to appliances that have the ability to learn via complex algorithms, such as an oven that recognizes that its bacon baking program needs to be adjusted when someone starts baking thicker slices of bacon. Additionally, smart technology can be used for remote diagnostics and monitoring, for example, to send alerts if the dishwasher has sprung a leak or a refrigerator door is left open. Some designers also consider multi-tasking appliances, such as steam/convection ovens and speed ovens, to be ‘smart.’ Ultimately, for many, being smart is a combination of any and/or all of these examples.
“‘Smart’ is all relative,” says Jen Gallagher, designer and manager at Reico Kitchen & Bath’s Fredericksburg, VA showroom.
“None of these definitions are wrong,” adds Scott Koehler, owner/designer of Dream Kitchen Builders in Whispering Pines, NC. “The word ‘smart’ means so many different things these days. It’s more of a blanket term.”
What does seem to be shared is an agreement that smart appliances can do some pretty amazing and extraordinary things. There also seems to be a consensus that, despite the high level of technology that many consumers enjoy in their lives, they are usually not the first to broach the subject when it comes to smart cooking, cleaning and cooling.
“Unless someone is going out and looking for it, they really don’t know about what’s available, so it’s usually up to us as designers to ask questions and educate clients about how smart appliances can benefit their lives,” says Gallagher.
Even so, there is a growing expectation that appliances will be smart, led, in part, by the trend toward smart homes.
“For the last few years, one of nation’s top 10 home builders has been including smart lighting, security, HVAC and locks as standard features,” says Koehler. “When a company of that size starts doing ‘smart’ as standard, that says something.”
Jeremy Bauer concurs: “The smart kitchen is following suit to the smart home where it gets to know you and your likes and dislikes,” says the designer, who founded Bauer/Clifton Interiors in Juneau, AK with fellow principal designer Jason Clifton. “We’re finding that almost all major kitchen appliances are migrating and evolving into the smart category, even small appliances. It has really opened up the market for consumers to find which exact appliance best fits their needs and overall lifestyles.”
“Initially smart technology may sound like a lot of bells and whistles,” adds Clifton who, with Bauer, is a member of Thermador’s Design Council. “But it can be very beneficial to people’s lives and it shouldn’t just be overlooked.”
However, several designers indicate that, at this point in time, many of their clients seem to be most interested in relatively practical levels of smart.
“We seem to be moving away from gadgetry and into more real-use cases,” Koehler says, adding that he feels consumers are nearing the tipping point where smart technology is progressing from the early adopters phase and into more mainstream acceptance.
Remote diagnostics and monitoring are great examples, Koehler adds. “We are all busy,” he continues. “People are looking for anything that can save time as well money. In the case of remote diagnostics, they can save both because a problem can be identified remotely and a new part ordered before a repairman ever makes a service call.”
Matt Wolf, DCI Home Resource in Charlotte, NC, agrees. “The culture of smart technology is ever-changing,” he believes. “Everyone is racing to push the limits and see what they can offer next.
“However, our clients don’t necessarily want a smart refrigerator that has a screen for entertainment or that tracks what’s inside,” he continues. “Instead, they are more appreciative of a smart appliance with remote monitoring that can give an early warning of a service issue before an appliance actually breaks or needs a repair, since it’s always best if something can be addressed prior to an appliance going down.”
Monitoring is done seamlessly in the background using the home’s WiFi to communicate with the manufacturer, he explains.
“For example, a smart Miele refrigerator in a client’s home can communicate with the company and, if it isn’t operating optimally, or if it needs service, someone at Miele can then call the homeowner,” Wolf adds.
Nicole Sirek, NCIDQ/ASID/senior project manager, Partners 4, Design, in Minneapolis, MN, concurs. “We have clients who have multiple homes,” she says. “Having smart technology that can tell them the refrigerator in their home in California isn’t working or if a waterline is disconnected can be useful, if, for example, a client has guests staying at the home, ahead of their arrival. Also, getting alerts about a temperature drop or an open oven door can be helpful. We do find homeowners using these types of functions.”
Similarly, Bauer and Clifton find that their relatively remote location is the perfect reason to consider the benefits of remote diagnostics and monitoring.
“Our clients don’t always have ready access to service techs, so when we bring up features such as remote diagnostics and how a company can dial right into an appliance to diagnose problems offsite, we often get the ‘eyebrow raise’ from clients who want to learn more,” says Bauer.
“We are currently working with a client who is building a luxury lodge in a very remote area of Alaska,” adds Clifton. “The only way in is by float plane, and there are no service techs. When we first talked about an appliance package, they wanted the most basic units possible. But when we brought up the benefits of remote diagnostics and educated them about the technology, they were fully on board and we set them up with an entire Thermador package.”
Making tasks more enjoyable
Designers also indicate that clients seem interested in smart technology that can make kitchen tasks more enjoyable, as well as more automated with more precise inputs and predictable outcomes.
“People spend so much time in the kitchen and they are looking to do more interesting, different and sophisticated things, especially with something like an oven,” says Koehler. “Smart appliances allow them to automate basic tasks so they can spend time doing things they like to do, rather than simply repetitive tasks.”
Gallagher references smart microwaves that can scan packaging and adjust cooking time and temperature according to package directions.
“A lot of times directions call for cooking at half power for a certain time, then full power for a certain time,” she says. “Most people don’t take the time to do that. With this technology, even kids can scan the package and they’re good to go.
“We live in such a fast-paced environment that anything that can speed up the cooking process but still allow us to eat well and healthy…that’s huge,” she continues. “We’re always running, running, running and relying on fast food. But that isn’t necessarily conducive to a healthy lifestyle, especially for people who might have certain dietary requirements, such as gluten-free eating.”
Sirek has noticed a trend toward speed ovens and steam/convection ovens, which she classifies as smart given their ability to multi-task as well as speed up and/or change the cooking process.
“These appliances can do multiple functions, which means you can remove a microwave or second oven from the appliance list,” she says. “That is particularly beneficial in smaller kitchens where clients are interested in maximizing space.”
Ultimately, they also allow clients to eat healthier, she indicates.
“The interest here is about health and wellness,” she explains. “Speed ovens and steam ovens do cook food faster, but they also make certain foods like leftovers taste more like they did when they were originally cooked.”
Many manufacturers also offer app-driven remote control of appliances, giving people power over everything from their dishwashers and ovens to their coffee makers…all from beyond the confines of the kitchen.
“Maybe someone has kids who are involved in different sports activities that take them in multiple directions at multiple times,” says Gallagher. “A huge benefit to them could be an app for their oven so that when they are on their way home from soccer practice, they can preheat the oven from their phone so it’s ready when they get home.”
While Gallagher notes that it’s typically younger clients, as well as those who are interested in energy efficiency, who are top of mind when it comes to smart appliances, the designer indicates that clients with disabilities or those who want to age in place are often an overlooked segment of the population that can benefit from app-controlled features.
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If you’ve been listening to this podcast these past eight years, you know that we always do our interviews “in house,” as we value the moment of the recorded conversation as well as the encounter with someone’s work and personality. Rules are made to have exceptions however, and today we are happy to introduce you to a conversation between Amélie Tresfels and Michaëla Danjé around the book that Michaëla recently edited, entitled AfroTrans. This book is the very first one published by Cases Rebelles‘ newly created publishing house. With this new endeavor, the panafrorevolutionary collective co-founded by Michaëla, continues to inspire many of us around the world as the planetary dimension of the book’s orders have shown. If you’d like to read from Cases Rebelles on The Funambulist, you can find their two texts for the magazine: “Unquiet Imaginaries of Black Resistance” in The Funambulist 27 and “Revolutionary Reparations” in our 30th issue on “Reparations.”
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Here is a list of all the postings Neil Lickfold has made in our forums. Click on a thread name to jump to the thread.
|Thread: Shipping to the EU - beware!|
I bought a Sunnen precision bore gauge from the UK. It was sent via UPS courier service. The package weighed 12 kg and was 148 pounds, but did arrive on a tuesday and was sent on thurday. So I was very happy to recieve the item so fast, considering the covid etc.
|Thread: Unknown Micrometer make|
What year was this one made? Looks kinda similar in the frame.
I have an old unknown brand of 0 to 1/2 inch micrometer in 1 thou steps, 25 thou per revolution . Does anyone know what country it may have been made in, and what approximate years these were made? It does have an adjustable thread band, and the nut is split into 3. It also has a constant pressure ratchet on it as well.
Thanks in advance for any information about it.
|Thread: Machining titanium.|
Titanium is a very poor conductor of heat. Which is why it will work harden very quickly. Some say treat it like stainless steel, and to a point that is true. Sharp tools with relatively high feed rates. But you have to keep the cutting edge tool. So they use through coolant drills etc. The only way to keep the heat low Ti is sharp tools and going slow rpm. The carbide tools as long as they are sharp will last about 5 times that of a hss drill before it needs resharpening. Some coated drills like the gold coated , can pick up with the Ti. There is a coating for Ti and it is a browny black colour. The other coating is a silvery colour as it is a diamond like coating. Uncoated carbide works well too , if it is the shiny one for Al. As you drill it, it will feel a little tough but easy if that can make sence. Then when it starts to work hardend, it will feel hard to push the drill, and it will squeel a little too. That means that the drill is dulling off or the speed is too high or not enough coolant or feeding too slow. With a 5mm drill you want to feed from 2 thou per rev to 4 tho per rev. On at 400 rpm you will be drilling at a feedrate of 1-1-/2 inches per min (40mm per min) to 3/4 inches per min(20mm per min) So your 8mm hole will be drilled in 12 seconds to 24 seconds as a guide example.
|Thread: Sunnen PG800 bore gauge|
All photo's are in my album Sunnen.
My notes to friend who has a gauge like this, incase he needs to give it a clean etc.
Here are some photos of tools etc to repair the sunnen gauge. The wedge shaped piece of 3/16 rod is to undo the 2 latches that hold both sides of the cases together. These go into the case through the 2 top capscrew holes, from the head end. The side with the long taper, follows the outer wall of the case, while the shorter taper is against the latch. The turned section of the 3/16 rod is 3.8mm diameter(Ø0.15 inches) and about 1/4 inch long. Carefully insert the rod until it reaches the latch, and gently push. You will hear it click and clunk. The LH side latch is a bit restricted by the shaft for the setting lock. Both latches can be undone. Before the shells can can apart, quite a bit needs removing first.
I bought through the online auction site a Sunnen PG800E precision bore gauge. It has a range of 5 thou total on diameter and each division is 0.000050 inches in diameter. From the sellers photo's I could see that it was all in good condition and working just fine, although failed inspection in 2017. The failure was due to many things it turned out. It had worn carbide measuring buttons, and also had a build up of oil and stuff and just needed a really good clean out and lube. On it's way to NZ from the UK, it has big thump and the 2 needles/indicator hands were very bent the same way.
They are designed to be serviced by Sunnen, and have a clever little latch that prevents you from opening them up. I made a key to go through the top cap screw holes to move the locking lever out and push it back to the opening position. Care was needed as there are on one side some very fine wires in the vacinity of the path. So care is needed to follow where the screws go. They are a rather simple and clever mechanisim inside. Then the 2 outer casing shells can come off. As it is a delicate thing, I used a piece of 3/8 UNC threaded rod to hold the mechanism as I took it apart. Did not take pictures of everything, but did take some pictures reassembling the unit and some of the mechanisim as well. pictures to follow. After the clean and straightening of the Needles it all works perfectly well now, and compared a known ring gauge setting with a mic and got the same result. Yes my work shop is air conditioned and is very close to 20c all year round. It was my treat in building the new house 2 years ago.
|Thread: Machining titanium.|
Hi Robin, I use a low speed in the bandsaw for cutting G5 Ti, I use around 40ft/min to saw off. I don't use an older blade that has dulled. Use a new or new or new blade. You want low chlorine water and coolant. It only catches fire if it gets really hot and often there will be sparks or something like that. Never seen it catch fire with plenty of water based soluble oil coolants. I use the concentration of 8% to 12%. Where possible I use deionised distilled water for mixing my soluble coolants in a bottle. I drill with new centre point style drills. An 8mm drill I use 300 rpm or so. I use as a drilling speed of 8m/min surface speed and just use the squirt bottle for the coolant. Ti will work harden if you take too fine a drill feedrate, and if the drill dulls. I use about 1.5mm to 2mm pecks. For outer turning I use the coated CCGT inserts , with a coating for Ti,/ Nickel/ tough to turn materials. Ti like cutting with the positive very sharp inserts. I use R0.4 for roughing, and the R0.2 for finishing. As for turning speed I use 15 to 16 m/min surface speed or no faster than 720 rpm that my lathe is speed limited to. So for the 20mm bar , can take 0.5mm cuts/ 1mm diameter at 19mm I would run around 250 rpm, and feed at around 0.2mm / rev or so if you have the power and coolant from the squirt bottle or from the coolant tap.
|Thread: End Mills and coatings|
There are coatings for some quite specific materials, so new coating for Al, other coatings for Stainless, others for Ti and others for steel. Then there is the coatings for cutting very hard materials as well.
|Thread: Bearing tolerances|
Do you have the original bearing, or is this another bearing you have purchased?
Bearings can be made to order, and quite often for various reasons are made to a non standard outside diameter. It is often seen in model engines where the bearing may have a 23.03mm diameter outer race, or a 10.5mm inner race or the inner being 13mm and the outer being 23.5mm.
0.5mm wear on a cast iron housing is a lot and I would be looking for the real reason for the failure instead of the quick fix. Loctite does make a bearing repair material for taking up the gap of a bearing in a worn housing. But relies on the rest of parts to centralise the bearing as it sets.
As for being tolerances it is a mine field to look through. You have the concentricity of the inner race to inner bore, the outer race to the outer bore, the centre line of the race to the bearing width (can be ordered offset by specified amounts) the roundness of the bearing balls, the cage type etc. Then the internal clearance as well. WIB bearings make a lot of special order bearings for very reasonable prices. They have a lot of info about bearing tolerances etc
|Thread: Anodising and Passivating|
Anodising has an electrical insulating effect as well. It is used as the insulating medium for aluminium made glow plug bodies. The post must have a non anodised area for the plug wire and for the electrical connection. Like wise the body needs either on the threads or the body seating area no anodising as well. An interesting benefit from the anodising.
|Thread: Delapena honing machine|
Been on the bay to find used or near new hone mandrels and adapters etc. Now I know why they are not so popular. There is a conversion for the Superior honing system as well. None of it is cheap. Then the small 4mm to around 6mm are in increments of 5 thou or so in diameter, and they all need truing sleeves for good results. Then there is the selection of stones required as well. So I just got a few sizes that I will use for now.
The Superior system looks just great, but turns out , you need truing sleeves for almost every size if you want really good results. Like 3.98mm uses a different sleeve to 4.01mm , that sort of thing, even though it takes the same stone set. More suitable for doing larger volume of the same thing compared to the Sunnen or Delapena type of honing systems.
Also picked up a Sunnen hone gauge PG800E . It has a range of 5 thou in diameter and graduated in 0.00005 inches of diameter. They don't come up for sale very often so got it anyway. An extremely useful tool for model engine cylinder liner checking, for roundness and for checking taper etc. It measures from 3/8 to 3/4 (9.5mm to 19.05mm )and then the other side is 3/4 to 1-1/2 (19.05mm to 38.1mm ). The metric version of the gauge is the same gauge, but has a metric 0.001mm diameter graduations for the back ground strip and a range of Ø0.13mm. Mechanically is still the same machine. Next is to get the PG400 setting Fixture if I can find one for a hobby price. They are after all , really just a comparator device to make life easy while honing sleeves or car engine conrods etc.
Saw an engine recon shop, and they are getting the stone and rebonding to the older shoes for the sizes that they do not use very often and are more difficult to get. Some stone sets are only available is packs of 6 or 12 etc. SO I can now see why people are opting to just lapping and sticking at it. I also now see why the actual machine is the cheapest part of setting one up too. In saying that, I don't know where all the old machines and mandrels etc have gone to from all the engine reconditioning shops and the places that used to recon brake master cylinders etc.
Already used it to open up the inside of a quickchange tool post main block through hole to fit the centre post of a Hardinge lathe. Was very happy with it and how quick it was to open it up a small amount.
So keep looking for those who have them.
There are other very sharp inserts with a 0.1 or 0.08mm radius that are very good for taking most of the cut in 1 pass. I will often leave 3mm on diameter for the last pass and use the 1st pass to take the outer skin off the stock and use it as a gauge for the diameter it is cutting at. Making a Vee block polishing tool , works a bit like an external hone. Allows the polishing while keeping the part round. Often patience is a good thing and not too high a rpm. Keeping the speed down, will keep the heat lower and less distortion of the part.
|Thread: ER40 collet nut seized|
They can do this if the inner thread is not cleaned out before putting the next collet or cutter in the chuck. Even just changing cutters in the same collet size, you really should should take the whole nut off and clean it all out and check that the body thread is all clean too.
|Thread: Anti seize grease on Myford spindle nose?|
There is no down side to using a small amount of anti seize grease. There are numerous antiseize compounds out there. Common are copper or graphite or nickel based greases. There are non metalic ones as well, like the marine antiseize. It is great stuff and I think a little cleaner than the metalic ones. They all have their special uses. Anitseize is good , especially when you are not using the lathe lathe often or not going to be changing the chuck for along time. I had my lathe in storage for 3 years and put some antiseize on the spindle of my S7. The chuck was not difficult to change. It may still have been the case with a light though, who knows.
|Thread: Solar panels for water heating|
A guy in Hamilton made a rotating solar shed. He used a sensor of some sort, that moves the unit when the sun has moved more than some amount of angle. When the sun shines it rotates to that angle then stops. In the evening it rotates to a place to catch the sun in the morning around 8 or 9 am sun position. Before that , there seems to be very little energy being captured. Like 2 hours before sunset, also very low energy. He found keeping the panels clean was very important.
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Class 8 Natural Gas Truck Retail Sales Rose 20% YTD 2019 through November
JAN 30, 2020 - 6:35 am
U.S. and Canadian Class 8 Natural Gas truck retail sales for the first 11 months of 2019 gained 20% year-to-date over 2018, as published in the quarterly report (AFQ: Alternative Fuels Quarterly) just released by ACT Research. Full-year 2018 was down 15%, while 2017 was up 13%.
“Bucking the declining pattern of the past few years, year-to-date November 2019 sales appear to be gaining ground, with sales of natural-gas powered vehicles on an overall upward trajectory,” said Ken Vieth, senior partner and general manager at ACT Research. “That said and based on news released in the popular press, natural gas vehicle purchases were dominated by refuse fleets, as well as transit and school bus operators. Among truckers, the majority of incremental volume came from existing natural gas vehicle on-highway users replacing units or adding to their fleets.”
Vieth added, “Besides sales, the Alternative Fuels Quarterly analyzes the change in existing and planned alternative fuel/power infrastructure and equipment developments. We’re seeing an overall increase in electric charging stations, but a continuing decline of total natural gas stations. Further analysis shows that the number of planned private heavy-duty CNG stations is growing. Regarding electric commercial vehicles, right now we’re witnessing a tug-of-war between fuel-cell and battery technology investment in the Class 8 over-the-road market, and it’s way too early for us to call a winner.”
The ACT Alternative Fuels Quarterly (AFQ) provides insight, analysis, and trends about alternative fuel/power adoption for the US heavy and medium duty commercial vehicle markets. It is designed to give quick insights to anyone with an interest in the evolution of power and alternative fuel use for heavy vehicles. The AFQ details such adoption considerations as fuel prices, fuel/charging infrastructure development, equipment prices/products/technological developments, and regulatory changes. NG truck sales data and a forecast for new natural gas adoption are included.
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Expo Arms Carbine Length Gas Tube - Stainless Steel
- Stainless steel construction
- Includes gas tube roll pin
- 9.75" total length
This gas tube is designed for barrels with carbine length gas systems that measure roughly 7" from the barrel's gas port to the front face of the receiver. Proudly made in the U.S.A.
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by Tyler -
It just works, what more can you say, its a gas tube.
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perfect for my new low profile build on my PSA A2 carbine setup! With this kind of price, it was easier to order a new gas tube then play around with the one on the old gas block Ordered and in 2 days the parts were at my front door!
Basic milspec gas tube, 1 each, chrome.
by RETiredGM -
Good to go. Bought this carbine gas tube for a Bear Creek 10.3 inch .223 Wylde AR pistol build.<br><br>The tube did indeed come with a roll pin to attach it to a gas block. Installation was too easy.
Expo Arms Value priced, Excellent Quality
by Ivan -
Comes nicely package and includes roll pin. Great parts for the money. Will try Expo Arms for other parts as the quality seems very high for their price point, Also used their gas block and it was excellent for fit and finish. So far so good with Expo Arms
Not drilled straight
by NATHAN -
Hole for roll pin not drilled straight. Tried tube on another block same issue, it's drilled just a hair off and pin catches on gas block. Also tried another tube on the block and had no fitment issues.
<br>From PA: We're sorry you received a bad product. We'll be happy to get that swapped out for you.
Don't buy - gas hole on the wrong side.
by Matthew -
Horrible. The hole is on the wrong side. I can't believe this got passed QC. This thing is 100% wrong. Couldn't be more incorrect. It's like buying a new car, and when you put it in drive it goes backwards. Garbage.
<br>From PA: WE're very sorry that you received a bad gas tube. We'd be happy to send you a replacement.
by Caleb -
Works as designed, no issues with fit or function.
Gas tube not good.
by Michael -
Im giving it one star because I had the same problem with the gas-tube roll pin hole no being drilled strait. I destroyed the roll pin trying to tap it in. Got some new pins at may local Ace Hardware store and went at it agin. This time I even tried to drill out the gas-tube roll pin hole larger. That didn't work, then went ahead and drilled out the gas block roll pin hole. Still didn't work. I didn't want to go any larger with drilling it out anymore for fear of it reducing the structure integrity if I when ahead and used it. I will just go with another brand.
<br>From PA: We're sorry that you received a bad one and we'd be happy to swap it out for you.
It's cheap and It works !!!
by Coconut_Joe -
I got this at a good price and it just worked, until it didn't. I blamed the tube and block for the lack of gas in my system and after ordering a more expensive replacement found out my gas key on the BCG was my issue. Would I buy this again? Hell yeah, it's cheap and it works.
Excellent gas tube.
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We’ve previously covered Sonoshee‘s (@Sonoshit on twitter) Critters For Sale: SNAKE, a unique episodic take on the visual novel genre through a fresh perspective riffing on pop culture and to which shows no signs of stopping with the new entry GOAT.
Goat keeps up the intense visual style that made the original so compelling, despite going from a hotel to a desert the aesthetic remains fully intact and just as vibrant as ever. What has changed is the tone- Goat is an origin story of side characters from the first episode, and by the very nature of said character follows suit with a more dramatic presentation.
It’s difficult to talk about the game at this point without spoiling it, and it’s worth reading our piece on the first episode and then giving it a try for yourself. Sonoshee has mastered cultivating a look that seperates itself from just about any other visual novel we’ve come across, creating a delightfully neo-pulp fiction narrative that has kept me engaged without ever making me roll my eyes. It’s a new kind of subgenre that I can only think to compare to the early works of Suda51 like The Silver Case or the trashy zinepunk satire of Dog Of Dracula. Goat’s imagery drips with character and fluid motion, making you want to gawk at it for hours and making it feel neigh-impossible to capture in any simple still frame, liberal use of animated GIFs seems like the only way to nail even a shred of the entire experience.
Without pomp and circumstance, it’s delightful to see something in the indie market that cuts right to the chase and is un-apologetically true to itself. It’s sadly run into a few issues regarding celebrity image usage for its steam release, but hopefully it can be overcome without stripping too much from the game, the narrative bleeds charm and the usage of imagery comes off tastefully. It’s nice to play something that keeps the pacing tight and doesn’t overstay it’s welcome even with multiple paths, repeat play-throughs hav depth without coming off as cumbersome.
Dramatic, Violent, Humorous, and entirely up in your face, Critters For Sale continues to be one of RE:BIND’s favorite pieces we’ve seen this year. Besides, where else are you going to find a game that features a questionably implemented guest appearance of everyone’s favorite hip hop icon MC Ride? Goat’s cheeky charm and avid determination to push the edges of art in games gives me a warm fuzzy feeling.
Go give the game some love on Steam Wishlist, and expect to see a spoiler-ridden analysis on the meaning of its eclectic cultural references when all the episodes have released for the Steam version.
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Foot traffic has evaporated overnight under necessary measures to curb the spread of COVID-19. Small businesses watch in dismay as cash reserves to pay rent, pay utilities, and most importantly, take care of staff, dwindle. Small businesses that pivot nimbly and focus on the essentials have a shot at coming through the pandemic intact. Here are some ways small businesses can survive COVID-19.
Staff will look to the business owner for reassurance. Business owners must take good care of themselves in order to take good care of staff. Loyal, skilled, and experienced staff will help businesses get through the crisis and rebuild when restrictions ease. Remain calm and demonstrate all the social distancing and good hygiene behaviors that public health experts recommend. Wash your hands thoroughly and frequently. Disinfect surfaces several times a day.
Allow as many workers as possible to work from home. Communicate clearly that no one should come to work if they feel sick. Mark workspace floors with tape or decals that indicate appropriate distancing. Most of all, communicate clearly with staff about what you are doing to keep the business afloat and ensure they will have jobs and paychecks for as long as possible.
Update your website and signage to explain what you are doing to ensure safety for employees and customers. Describe your sanitation practices and tell customers what you’re doing to try to keep going. Tell your patrons how they can help—by purchasing a gift card for future use, or by supporting community causes important to your business during the time you may not be able to contribute as much.
The relief package Congress has passed provides for low-interest loans for small businesses, and some of these turn into grants that need not be repaid if the business continues to pay employees. The US Chamber of Commerce has aggregated all of its advice about ways small businesses can survive COVID-19 on its website, including information about financial assistance.
The ripples from this crisis affect everyone. Lenders and vendors understand that small businesses are on the brink of disaster. Many will work with businesses to spread out payments or forgo fees for a month or two, maybe even longer.
Do anything you can do online. If you don’t already have an online shop or service request form set up, now is the time to supercharge your efforts to update your web presence and your ability to do business online. This may require beefing up your network, adding capacity, or upgrading cabling to add devices or workstations. Restaurants and grocery stores have pivoted to provide delivery and curbside pick-up. Retailers can beef up their online ordering capacity and provide deals on shipping. Consumers will understand that all businesses are under stress, and if you might suffer shipping delays, just say so. Keep your customers informed, and they will stick with you through this crisis.
Finally, accept that this pandemic will permanently change how businesses operate. Patrons will never look at a doorknob or hear a cough as anything other than potential sources of contagion from now on. Businesses that adapt nimbly to contactless delivery, remote video consultation, and prolonged social distancing will be the businesses that thrive beyond the coronavirus crisis.
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Prof John Whitelegg, Liverpool John Moores University, looks at how the UK can transition to a sustainable transport system by building on some of the changes pursued during the Covid-19 ‘lockdown’. In the first of two blogs, he focuses on surface travel.
Responsible Science blog (4th in the Covid-19 series), 12 June 2020
We have known for many years that there is a very severe flaw at the heart of UK transport policy at all levels of government. Setting priorities and budgets is never based on joined up thinking about improving public health, improving air quality, reducing damaging greenhouse gases, and making sure that all income groups and localities get a fair share of that spending.
The past has never been a smart basis for planning the future and the reluctance of UK politicians and transport consultants to engage with smarter ways of thinking, e.g. backcasting, makes transport a text book example of very expensive, poor value for money, non-sustainable, carbon generating, flawed thinking.
Backcasting requires us to specify the kind of future we would like to see in place, followed by the deployment of an evidence-based methodology for taking us from ‘now’ to that desirable future.
The Covid-19 pandemic has revealed some of the elements of a possible future that is desirable, healthy, socially just, carbon reducing, affordable and attractive. This is not to diminish the appalling nature of the huge death toll, disruption to ordinary life, and the damage to local economies, but it does trigger the thought that a different future might be possible. We can have our cake and eat it. We can have a successful, vibrant urban economy like Oslo based on its car-free city policy. We can have one of the most successful city regional economies in Europe if we follow the example of Freiburg-im-Breisgau in southern Germany and achieve reductions in car traffic and increases in cycling that until now we have only dreamed about in the UK.
The challenge for all of us now, but especially for politicians still embedded in a 1960s world of big infrastructure (more roads, HS2, more airport capacity), is to transform mindsets and thinking so that we can capture the quieter roads and improved air quality we have seen in recent weeks and link this to the Freiburg approach to creating a vibrant local economy and a zero carbon future. Why would we not want to do that?
A 2006 project examined the Swedish road safety policy known as ‘Vision Zero’ and showed that it is possible to have zero deaths and zero serious injuries in the road traffic environment. A key part of the backcasting work that went into this report was to show the importance of reducing traffic levels and reducing speeds if we want to eliminate the multiple tragedies of death and injuries caused by road crashes. Covid-19 has drastically reduced traffic levels and is reported as increasing cycling so we now have practical experience of what life could be like if we adopted the proven interventions that combine Swedish Vision Zero with Freiburg’s highly attractive integrated public transport and Oslo’s car-free city plan. We can begin to visualise the possibility that Manchester’s 2% of trips every day by bike could be increased to 15% (Berlin) or 28% (Freiburg-im-Breisgau) and deliver a strong economic performance at the same time.
The UK is still dominated by a road building fetish and this is fed by the government’s £27 billion spending commitment on projects that are not evidence-based. They do not generate local economic gains and do not reduce congestion. The Covid-19 experience has taken us all into the reality and practicality of substitution of Information and Communications Technology (ICT) for physical travel and we now know that it is possible to function at much reduced levels of physical movement and much higher levels of teleconferencing. We have known for some time that spending £107 billion on HS2 is a huge failure of public policy because it has never been subjected to a robust test of option building and testing. We need to grasp the experience of virtual meetings and switch the whole HS2 spending into world best broadband, internet connectivity and linking every urban and rural location to high speed reliable internet connectivity.
Indeed, the £107 billion would provide ample head room not just for much improved internet access, but also the kind of electrified railway that serves urban and rural areas in Switzerland so well and the transformation of rural bus services as recommended in a recent Foundation for Integrated Transport report.
Recent examples of cancelled or stalled road building projects, e.g. the Hereford bypass and the M4 relief road in South Wales, have shown pre-Covid-19 glimmers of new ways of thinking about transport and mobility, so it is clear we can change the way we think. In Hereford, a new batch of politicians heavily supported by a spirited and intelligent campaign by Herefordshire Campaign for the Protection of Rural England has triggered a formal process of designing alternatives to the bypass that will be far more successful than a new road in delivering carbon neutrality and reducing congestion. A similar process is under way in Wales as a result of the cancellation of the M4 relief road by the Welsh Government.
The Covid-19 experience has obviously had a huge impact on society and cannot in itself justify a new direction in thinking and spending in transport and mobility. Equally it is not smart to ignore some of the things we have seen in recent weeks and ask “could we hang on to these?” The reduction in air pollution is well documented and is of great benefit to the many hundreds of thousands who suffer from respiratory problems and the likelihood of severe asthma attacks requiring hospitalisation. At a time of great distress about fatalities as a result of Covid-19, it is appropriate to reflect on the 40,000 deaths caused annually by outdoor air pollution in Britain. Why are 40,000 deaths every year not a crisis?
It is also appropriate to reflect on the public health advantages of more cycling and the evidence that increased levels physical activity reduces obesity, cardio-vascular disease and diabetes. Cardio-vascular disease kills nearly 170,000 people in Britain every year. 500 people with diabetes die every week. Any of these three health problems are emergencies that trigger no emergency response.
Quiet streets with less traffic and lower speeds increase walking and cycling. These increases in physical activity, together with improved air quality, will lead to reductions in non-communicable diseases, which will reduce the 40,000 number.
The Covid-19 crisis has provided the experience of quieter streets, cleaner air and child-friendly cycling conditions – but these benefits are receding as lockdown is relaxed. We can make sure we do not lose them by putting in place now policies and interventions to preserve them including:
- World best walking and cycling opportunities in car-free cities (Oslo)
- Zero deaths and injuries in road traffic modelled on Vision Zero in Sweden and in line with the World Health Organisation recommendation that 30mph limits become 20mph where cyclists, pedestrians and vehicles mix, because this encourages more walking and cycling and produces quieter roads and child-friendly environments
- A huge increase in the quantity and quality of bus services so that our streets are less congested and much quieter as car trips switch to bus
- Buses that never get stuck in congested traffic and provide zero tail-pipe-emission transport (as they will be 100% electric) for all social groups
- Highly integrated and reliable public transport (Switzerland) where buses meet trains and vice versa and villages of a few hundred people have an hourly bus service
- A huge increase in high quality, electrified, rail services to connect rural areas with the destinations they need to reach
Finally and unusually, there is no funding problem at all with delivering all the above and that is before we take into account the huge additional gains (costs avoided) in public health and reductions in the huge costs of NHS treatment, congestion and carbon emissions. We have £107 billion plus £27 billion in the mobility transformation fund.
John Whitelegg is visiting professor of sustainable transport at Liverpool John Moores University.
This article was originally commissioned by Lillian Burns, North West Transport Roundtable as a contribution to the Department for Transport’s call for a debate about reaching a net-zero greenhouse gas emissions target by 2050. John Whitelegg is grateful for the permission to re-publish it here with minor edits.
1. European Commission (2008), Backcasting approach for sustainable mobility. https://publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/bitstream/JRC45824/backcasting%20final%20report.pdf
2. Stockholm Environment Institute (2006). Vision Zero: Adopting a Target of Zero for Road Traffic Fatalities and Serious Injuries. https://mediamanager.sei.org/documents/Publications/Future/vision_zero_FinalReportMarch06.pdf
3. Foundation for Integrated Transport (2019). Shropshire Rural Buses. http://integratedtransport.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/FIT-Shropshire-Buses-Report-web.pdf
4. Royal College of Physicians (2016). Every breath we take: the lifelong impact of air pollution. https://www.rcplondon.ac.uk/projects/outputs/every-breath-we-take-lifelong-impact-air-pollution
5. World Health Organisation (2018). Global Action Plan on Physical Activity, 2018-2030. https://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/handle/10665/272722/9789241514187-eng.pdf
6. British Heart Foundation (2020). UK Factsheet. https://www.bhf.org.uk/what-we-do/our-research/heart-statistics
7. Diabetes UK (2018). 500 people with diabetes die prematurely every week. https://www.diabetes.org.uk/about_us/news/premature-deaths-diabetes
8. World Health Organisation (2020). Global gathering of ministers determines road safety agenda to 2030. https://www.who.int/violence_injury_prevention/road_traffic/ministerial-conference-2020/en/
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I’ve posted previously about why page load speed is so important so I won’t retread those steps here. Suffice to say… it’s a VERY important consideration for optimizing your blog for search. Today I’m going to focus on using Google’s free tool to measure it. I’ll cover how to use Google PageSpeed Insights, and offer some tips on how to make tweaks to your blog to help boost your PSI scores.
What is Google PageSpeed Insights?
Google PageSpeed insights is a free tool that shows you the speed at which the posts and pages of your blog load on mobile and desktop devices. It does this by providing you with a speed score.
The score falls between 0 and 100, with categorizations of slow, moderate or fast:
- 0 to 49 (slow): Red
- 50 to 89 (average): Orange
- 90 to 100 (fast): Green
The speed at which your posts and pages load is important because of user experience. If a page loads slowly, it’s likely that the experience will be bad for anyone visiting it and may lead to frustration and a bounce away from your blog. Conversely, if a page loads quickly visitors are likely to remain longer.
Page speed is an important indicator for search engines eager to deliver results for sites likely to satisfy a searcher needs. Pages that load slowly are unlikely to be given higher placement in search results since they are more likely to result in an unsatisfactory visitor experience.
If you owned a search engine, would you list a site in your results if you knew from the get-go it would not satisfy a search need?
Neither would I!
Using the PSI Tool
It’s a pretty simple deal to be honest. The only thing you need to do is:
- Visit PageSpeed Insights
- Add the URL of the page you want to test into the search bar and click the Analyze button.
- Wait for the results!
The test takes a minute or two to run, after which the tool will present you with your 2 sets of scores: one for mobile devices and one for desktops. It also provides analysis of various aspects of your page for both test sets, along with suggestions to make time saving improvements for a faster page load.
Google adopts a “mobile first” approach these days, meaning your pages must be optimized for mobile visitors.
Google PageSpeed Insight Improvement Suggestions
Most often savings can be made by:
- Using a fast hosting service… I use SiteGround, which among other benefits delivers lightening fast performance. Read my SiteGround review to find out more.
- Optimizing images to reduce their size while maintaining image quality. This makes downloading them quicker.
- Deferring offscreen images with lazy-loading so they don’t load until they’re required.
- Minifying CSS by combining your style sheets, removing unnecessary spaces and line breaks and compressing them.
- Removing unused CSS such as comments.
- Avoiding multiple HTTP page redirects, such as 301 and 302.
- Using optimized video formats for animated content instead of animated GIFs.
- Avoiding large content loads by using pagination.
If you’re a WordPress user, you can make most of these improvements by installing plugins. The following plugins deliver huge improvements in page speed load times:
Faster Hosting Server
If your hosting server is slow, you should migrate to a new hosting company. Most often a faster host will fix many of your page speed problems. You could do a lot worse than SiteGround, whose servers offer awesome speeds at a very competitive price.
Furthermore, as a SiteGround customer you can take advantage of SiteGround’s SG Optimizer plugin which handles almost all required page speed optimizations for you: check out the exceptional improvements I enjoyed after carrying out a page load speed test for SideGains.
You can find out more about other elements of Google PageSpeed insights here:
- Ensure Text Remains Visible During Webfont Load.
- What is First Contentful Paint in the Google PSI Tool?
- Google’s PageSpeed Insights is a tool to help you understand how quickly your pages load.
- Running a PageSpeed Insights test results in a score between 0 to 100 assigned to the tested page for both mobile and desktop devices.
- PageSpeed scores are categorized as either Slow, Moderate or Fast.
- The faster your pages load the higher your score and the better experience your page will provide for visitors.
- Using the Google PageSpeed Insights tool is very easy but interpreting it’s improvement suggestions can be confusing if you don’t consider yourself technically minded.
- Plugins can help you to improve your page load speed.
- A fast hosting server can improve you page load speeds immeasurably.
That’s all for now!
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Last spring, a state worker cut short his investigation at a rural Stevens County foster home after a caregiver approached him with a chisel, according to internal Child Protective Services documents.
The caregiver, 28-year-old Christina Burns-DeLeon, became upset during questioning about burn marks on a foster child and yelled at the worker, according to a report filed on May 18, 2004.
“I saw that she had a chisel in her hand,” investigator Bob Tadlock wrote. “I asked her to please put the chisel down. She looked at me, then at the chisel and then took three more steps towards me.”
After the encounter, Tadlock told his supervisors at state headquarters in Olympia: “I strongly recommend that Christina no longer have contact with these children.”
But Burns-DeLeon continued to care for the children, according to court documents, CPS records and interviews. She was with Tyler DeLeon on Jan. 13, the day of his death, according to Mike Bradford, a relative of Tyler.
The Spokane Medical Examiner’s Office initially listed the cause of death as severe dehydration. The office said additional testing is being conducted, and the final cause of death may not be determined for several weeks.
Burns-DeLeon is listed as one of two suspects of homicide by abuse and criminal mistreatment in the death of 7-year-old Tyler, according to an incident report from the Stevens County Sheriff’s Department. The investigation into her possible role in Tyler’s death is illuminated by hundreds of pages of internal CPS reports obtained by The Spokesman-Review.
At the time of the May 2004 incident, Tadlock’s office was overseen by state officials in Olympia. Last fall, several months after the report was filed, oversight was transferred to the Spokane office, according to a state employee.
State officials in Olympia refused to comment on Tadlock’s recommendation. A CPS spokeswoman said the agency could not comment on details of the case until the investigation is complete.
“Our hands are tied,” said spokeswoman Kathy Spears. “We can’t release the records until the cause-of-death finding is in.”
Burns-DeLeon did not return phone calls to her home Monday. A Stevens County sheriff’s captain also did not return a phone call.
Both before and after Tadlock’s visit to the home, the state’s child welfare system received allegations that Burns-DeLeon – a state-paid caregiver – had injured children in her care. None was determined to be “founded,” meaning the agency did not believe abuse or neglect occurred.
Burns-DeLeon provided the care for her mother, 50-year-old Carole Ann DeLeon, who is Tyler’s adopted mother and has also been named as a suspect in Tyler’s death. The state’s Child Protective Services received reports that Tyler suffered a broken leg as a toddler, stitches and bruises on his face, and the boy’s own testimony that he was pushed down a flight of stairs at home, according to court records.
The May investigation began after officials at Lake Spokane Elementary School noticed burn marks on the face of Tyler’s foster brother. The school noted that the boy returned from a two-day absence from school with burn marks that were “blistering” and oozing pus.
The boy told a school worker that he placed his face in a bowl of hot oatmeal.
“He was apprehensive to talk to her about it,” according to the May 17 report. “He ran into the classroom and said he didn’t want to talk about it.”
Tyler told a school worker that Christina “had thrown the oatmeal at (the boy) and it had hit his face,” according to a state report.
Tadlock visited the home the following day and interviewed DeLeon and Burns-DeLeon.
“Christina became very upset during the conversation,” Tadlock wrote. “She began yelling that she was upset … “
The previous month, an investigator visited the home after receiving a report of an injury to Tyler, who had an abrasion about the size of a half-dollar on his abdomen, according to state documents. The report noted that “the house was very cluttered.” Dirt and empty pop bottles littered the floor, according to the report, and a dead sheep was visible in the back pen.
When the investigators asked how Tyler received the injury, he told them that Burns-DeLeon hit him with her hand and he fell down the stairs, according to CPS reports. His foster brother told the same story.
According to the report, Burns-DeLeon denied the allegation. She said Tyler tripped on the stairs while getting ready for school.
Larry Bell, a former foster parent who has known the family for four years, said Burns-DeLeon – as well as her mother – appeared to be an excellent caregiver.
“I think she’s amazing for as young as she is,” Bell said. “Most young people aren’t as responsible as she is.”
In interviews with the state investigators, DeLeon defended her daughter.
“I love Christina to death, but if she was beating my children I would not have her there,” she said in February, according to reports.
The reports also state a third foster child told Lake Spokane school officials that Burns-DeLeon hit the children with a spatula and her hand, according to the state reports.
The child told the school that “Tyler falls down the stairs on Wednesdays.” School officials told the agency that Tyler does not attend school on Wednesdays but is supervised at home by Burns-DeLeon.
The agency received multiple referrals about abuse or neglect at the DeLeon home, but none was determined to be founded, according to reports.
In the 1980s, three children left DeLeon’s care after reports of abuse and neglect in the home. DeLeon did not have a foster license at the time. She received a state license in 1996.
In February 2001, the agency received an allegation that DeLeon and Burns-DeLeon had struck a young girl in their care, resulting in bruises on her face. The caller said DeLeon told her that the girl fell down the stairs while walking in the dark, according to a CPS report.
On Jan. 4, 2005, the agency received a report from the school that Tyler had bruises on his nose, both cheeks and right eye. Tyler said he fell down the stairs, according to the CPS report.
The agency did not do a home visit, according to court records. Tyler died nine days later after being transported to Sacred Heart Medical Center.
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- The bulk of this role involves investment analysis like model building and analysis, industry and customer diligence, memo writing, portfolio support and performance tracking, and being a jack of all trades. We commit to helping you achieve your best work in a supportive, growth-oriented environment.
- We welcome candidates from diverse backgrounds who have a keen and demonstrated interest in early stage investing. We’re proud to be an equal opportunity employer and consider qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, ancestry, age, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital or family status, veteran status, medical condition or disability.
- The associate will be expected to work out of our office in SoHo.
- Keeping an ear on trends in our portfolio and our industries of focus
- Conducting market research on and evaluating competitive products and services
- Sourcing, qualifying, managing, and tracking new investment opportunities
- Diligencing and presenting investment recommendations during investment committee meetings
- Memorializing new investments through detailed investment memos
- Managing and tracking communications and relationships with founders and funds
- Initiating and leading special projects (building internal products and programs)
- Representing the fund at conferences and events like startup accelerator demo days
Laugh often and demonstrate genuine interest.
- Relevant work experience of 1-3 years
- Preferably at a tech startup or a disliked investment banking or consulting job
- We don’t care about what school you did or did not go to
- We care about how you think about the world and how you like to spend your time
- Detail obsessive with excellent financial modeling skills, including data, market, and valuation analysis
- Enjoy synthesizing salient information into succinct verbal and written communication
- Strong analytical and communication skills
- Ability to ramp quickly on the subject matter
- Creative problem solver and outside-the-box thinker
- Great attitude and willingness to get hands dirty
- Natural networker with strong social skills
- Self-starter with an ability to own projects
- Understanding of work-life balance
- Voracious internet reader, life-long learner, and naturally explore new ideas and technologies
Meet The Team
Mark Peter Davis, Managing Partner (Strategist)
Kevin Tung, Partner (Dataist)
Mike Rogers, Partner (Peopleist)
Cole Rotman, Principal (Analysis)
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SINGAPORE - Public consultations will start early next year to decide on Singapore's plans and targets to reduce carbon emissions after 2020, said Deputy Prime Minister Teo Chee Hean on Friday.
If nothing was done to reduce emissions after 2005, Singapore would reach some 77 million tonnes of emissions by 2020.
The Government has pledged to reduce this 2020 projection by 7 to 11 per cent, and to increase its commitment to 16 per cent if there is a global, binding deal to reduce emissions.
"Even though we are a small island state with limited access to renewable energy sources, Singapore will do our part as a responsible member of the international community to manage our emissions," said DPM Teo at the prize ceremony for the annual National Climate Change Competition.
When asked, the National Climate Change Secretariat said the country is on track to reach the 7 to 11 per cent reduction target.
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March 5, 1932 - December 28, 2014
Funeral mass for Robert J. Polodna (age 82 of Schuyler) will be held Wednesday, December 31st at 10:30 AM at St. Mary’s Catholic Church. Visitation will be held at St. Mary’s Catholic Church in Schuyler on Tuesday, December 30th from 4 PM to 7 PM. Rosary will be recited at 7 PM on Tuesday at the church. Visitation on Wednesday will be held from 9:30 AM to 10:30 AM. Military grave side services will be held at 2 PM on Wednesday in the Clarkson Catholic Cemetery in Clarkson Robert Joseph Polodna was born March 5, 1932 in Stanton County to Charles and Antonia (Vrbicky) Polodna. He attended school in rural Stanton County speaking only Czech, but learned English very quickly. He graduated from Howells High School in 1950. After High School, he went to work at Severa’s Garage in Clarkson as a parts man. Bob entered the United States Army in 1951 and served in the Korean War until his honorable discharge in 1953. On October 19, 1954 , he married Mariann Pieper at St. Joseph’s Catholic Church in Dodge. Bob and Mariann lived in Columbus, Nebraska for two years prior to moving to a farm northeast of Clarkson and two years they moved to a farm south of Clarkson. Bob was a lifelong musician. He played the saxaphone and was a vocalist with many bands over the years including the Solid 8, Frank Kucera Orchestra, and the Don Telecky Band. Robert was a member of St. Mary’s Catholic Church in Schuyler, the Clarkson Knights of Columbus and the Clarkson V. F. W. Bob also loved tractors and collected many miniature tractors and machinery. Robert died December 28, 2014 at the Golden Living Center in Schuyler. Bob is survived by his wife Mariann, of Schuyler, one daughter, Diane (Gary and daughter Rachel) Vig of Minneapolis, three sons, Duane (Kathleen and children Angela and Brian) of Omaha, Donald (Nancy and children Mallery, Austin and Alex) of Norfolk and Dan (Cheryl and children Nick, Jake and Katie) of Omaha. He was preceded in death by his parents, sisters, Blanche Cada and Mary Cech; brothers, Chuck and Mike Polodna. In lieu of flowers, the family suggests memorials to the American Heart Association or the Parkinson’s Foundation. Funeral lunch will be held in St. Mary's Social Center immidiatelly following the mass.
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Q: Thirty years since the signing of the Treaty of Rome brought the European Economic Community into being, membership has doubled from six to 12 member states, most of them with increasingly carefully targeted science policies. Why does the Commission now feel that such a massive program of collaborative R&D is important?
FASELLA: Because over the past three decades science has become both more expensive and more valuable. Its greater cost imposes a new relationship on entities, whether governments, companies or private associations, that have the financial resources to support science. Also, collaboration is essential for certain large projects simply because even European countries which in one sense are as rich as the United States are very small by comparison.
The greater value of science today means it has become more important to the EEC— which, after all, is an economic organization. It also stems from the blurring of the distinction between science and technology. While technology is more dependent upon science these days, the opposite is also true. When CERN Director Herwig Schopper needed magnets for the LEP electron-positron collider being completed in Geneva, he had to get industry to design them.
Q: But the Community has always been involved in R&D, without this becoming politically contentious. Indeed, the EEC can be traced in part to the Euratom Treaty relating to the peaceful uses of nuclear energy.
FASELLA: That's true. There was also work in other frontier domains of the time such as coal and steel. What we now realize is that we cannot draw such broad lines any more. For example, it would be foolish if not impossible to pursue nuclear research but not materials or computing. Everything is more integrated, and we have gradually recognized that it is very much the business of an economic community to include science and technology as a major element of policy.
The Framework program is officially formalized in the Single European Act. [Following a referendum in Ireland on May 26, the act has now been ratified by all 12 member states.] The first modification of the Treaty of Rome, the Single Act covers many other things, including cooperation in foreign policy, a determination to achieve a real common market by 1992, and efforts to promote solidarity between the more and less developed parts of Europe. But in the realm of R&D it transforms into a legal instrument a growing conviction, first of scientists and industrialists and then public opinion, that science and technology should and can be used to promote improved competitiveness without jeopardizing the environment and quality of life.
Areas for Joint Action
Q: How will these policies be translated into concrete action?
FASELLA: The Commission, after consulting member states, scientists themselves and the users of research in industry (including agriculture), has identified eight areas where there seems merit and added value in working together. These are: quality of life, ranging from campaigns against cancer and AIDS to pollution control; initiatives toward an information society, including telecommunications; the modernization of traditional industries through novel technologies such as lasers; biotechnology, with its implications for agriculture; a comprehensive range of energy projects, including nuclear safety; science and technology designed to meet the particular needs of the developing world; exploratory work on the exploitation of the sea bed and marine resources; and a "stimulation plan" of exchanges and cooperation among scientists.
Of course, we also use sound criteria to break down these gross lines into specific projects with clear added value when carried out as joint exercises. We believe that our proposed budget for the whole program is very small in relation to the likely outcome—especially when you remember that we always try to find partners for particular projects who are sufficiently interested to contribute half of the money themselves.
Q: Everyone would understand the need for collaborative work in highly expensive fields such as nuclear fusion and "big science," but some people might question why work on AIDS or cancer, for example, needs to be conducted on a European scale.
FASELLA: One answer is that in both domains there are important epidemiological aspects—the detection of new carcinogens and the statistical evaluation of the effectiveness of new treatments, for example. Clearly, by basing joint protocols on results from 30 million people we can reach significant results much more rapidly than with, say, the 6 million of West Germany alone. Regarding AIDS, we began to work on this problem very early. There was a meeting in September 1983 at which Robert Gallo and Luc Montagnier discussed the then-unresolved question of whether the African form of the disease differed from that in the U.S.A. This led to informal but practically very useful cooperation between American researchers and those in Europe—particularly in Belgium, because of the special relation between Belgium and its former colony Zaire.
I should emphasize that we do not plan to take over the whole of European medical research, only to intervene when there is merit in common action. Remember too that our medical work is based on "concerted action," which means that we pay only for the extra costs of coordination rather than the entire research.
Q: The British government seems to have had difficulty in understanding some of these arguments. The U.K. technology minister, Geoffrey Pattie, said recently that he disputed the need for joint research in fields such as cancer and AIDS.
FASELLA: Everyone is entitled to their own opinion. But I do not really know whether it is within the competence of a minister of technology to speak authoritatively about epidemiology. Perhaps I am wrong. Perhaps we have failed in explaining the importance of this work.
Another area where collaboration seems to me essential is in environmental protection. Our Joint Research Center, for example, centered at Ispra in Italy, has made major contributions such as the development of desulfurization processes for combustion gases. Pollutants do not have to carry passports, so work on monitoring and standards cannot be conducted on a national basis.
Q: It must be an embarrassment, then, that the European Commission seems to have failed to persuade member countries to agree on new protection limits for radiation levels in food and drinking water following the Chernobyl incident.
FASELLA: We have a set of recommendations on this matter, but the science has to be matched against economic, commercial and political considerations and public opinion. The fact that we have difficulty in attaining consensus is hardly surprising when even individual countries often find it far from easy to decide on standards. In the U.S.A., the Midwestern states have a different attitude toward acid rain than the Northeastern states. It would be surprising if it were not so. But that does not mean that a common approach is unnecessary.
Take another field, one about which I believe Mr. Pattie does agree: telecommunications. We feel that a Community perspective is vital here so that, among other things, we have common norms and standards, which are a prerequisite for a real common market. In commercial terms, this is especially important for small and medium-sized firms, because large companies have their own ways of becoming international. A very advanced but very small firm may not be able to reach the advantages of scale economies unless it can produce its own highly specialized products in sufficient numbers for sale in a large market.
Q: Everyone has heard about Europe's butter mountains and other agricultural surpluses. Given biotechnology's great power to effect biological transformations, why isn't it being used more forcefully to tackle these problems?
FASELLA: Biotechnology is no magic wand. But it does have tremendous potential and it's right that the Community finances work of this sort because it is out of the Community budget that the present imbalance is being financed. The basic problem here, of course, is that if you go for high-added-value products, such as carnations, strawberries or fine wine, the market is limited, whereas if you choose bulk materials there is still competition with oil as a feedstock. The price of ethanol fermented from sugar beet, for example, is still quite high compared with that produced from oil.
One specific problem is that within the EEC the prices of starch and sugar—major biotechnology feedstocks—are determined by Common Agriculture Policy support prices and are much higher than world prices. So companies have an incentive to locate their factories outside the Community and send us their high-added-value materials. As the Commission's vice president, Karl-Heinz Narjes, pointed out recently, this makes us into a colony, supplying cheap raw materials to industry located elsewhere and importing the resulting manufactured products. The Commission therefore has proposed to the Council of Ministers that industry be able to obtain starch and sugar at prices prevailing outside the Community.
Q: What have been the main fruits of Community collaboration in biotechnology?
FASELLA: Particularly significant is recent work in Cologne, Leiden and Ghent showing that genes can be transferred not only in dicotyledonous plants, which has been possible for some years, but also in monocotyledons such as rye. This has great implications for the genetic manipulation and improvement of some of the world's major crops. But there's a long list of other breakthroughs. They range from methods developed in Aachen to prevent organisms in bioreactors from becoming inhibited by their own products to the development by Dutch contractors at Rijswijk of a greatly simplified process for making foot-and-mouth disease vaccine.
Q: Would these things really not have happened without Community support?
FASELLA: That's hard to say in any one case, but clearly the EEC program has had a catalytic effect overall. The same applies to the growing collaboration that has characterized electronics and information technology, which at one time were frequently criticized for their insularity and nationalism. Recently we've seen Philips in the Netherlands come together with Siemens in West Germany to develop advanced memory chip technology. Britain's ICL and Bull in France have joined Siemens to support a research center on artificial intelligence. Maybe such things would have happened anyway. All we can say is that a few years ago Europe was trailing in these fields, but that following the EEC's political initiative companies have begun to take such steps.
Q: Presumably, collaboration is likely to be most effective when it brings together different skills or even research workers with different casts of mind.
FASELLA: Exactly, and that is why we put so much emphasis on our "stimulation plan." The motive behind this may be hard to un derstand in a country like the U.S.A., where it is quite normal for a bright young person to take a B.S. in California, then go to Harvard and move to Wisconsin and so on. In Europe, students today, in proportion to their numbers, are less mobile than they were in the Middle Ages. Research workers too do not travel as widely as they should. Moreover, a survey by the European Science Foundation has confirmed that the quality of research is closely linked with the mobility of researchers and the density of contacts they establish with one another.
So, after consultation with senior scientists like Ilya Prigogine, John Kendrew and others, we decided that we should establish a scheme offering help for people in the hard sciences, from mathematics to molecular biology, who wanted to collaborate with colleagues in other countries but found this otherwise impossible to do. The program has been highly successful, and we are planning to extend it when the new Framework budget is settled shortly. With around 420,000 research workers in EEC countries, the scope is considerable.
Q: How precisely does the stimulation plan work, and are there any tangible results yet?
FASELLA: We put virtually no constraints on the scheme, and are prepared to listen to any scientists with a good case. Sometimes it's simply a matter of providing a scholarship for an individual to move from one laboratory to another. At the other end of the scale, it may mean orchestrating a complex operation linking laboratories from several different countries, sharing tasks, exchanging people and bringing together diverse resources such as instrumentation and computing. One exciting outcome is the development of digital circuits and components for a future optical computer. Professor Desmond Smith in Edinburgh, Scotland, was largely responsible for launching this venture, which attracted collaborators from five member states.
Most recently, we have brought materials scientists together with neurobiologists and mathematicians interested in developing algorithms describing information processing. The aim is to develop devices that mimic the properties of neurons—of being adaptive, connective, and of establishing nonlinear systems. When these three fraternities came together to discuss the project, they had never met before, except in some cases through the literature.
Q: In recent comments about the Framework program, the British government has questioned whether the Community is getting "value for money" out of collaborative research. How do you monitor these projects to ensure quality? Or is that inherently impossible, given the nature of science?
FASELLA: It is very difficult to put economic value on research, especially fundamental work, while it is also very important to ensure efficient use of resources in the more industrially oriented projects. All involved certainly have to agree at the outset on the terms of reference against which progress can be evaluated. Our basic approach is to ask independent panels of scientists including members from countries such as the U.S.A. and Japan to assess EEC work—and to sign their evaluations, so that their judgments are on the record for later reference. I am sure that our monitoring methods are no less stringent than for any national programs. But of course they need to be continuously improved.
Q: What are your views about the recent report of a group chaired by Harry Becker, research director of Shell, which suggested that the EEC's Joint Research Center was over-bureaucratic and out of touch with the needs of industry?
FASELLA: It was quite a useful report, and we are trying to put into action as many of its recommendations as member states are willing to accept. It represents essentially the point of view of industry, so it perhaps underrates the value of work in fields such as nuclear safety, which may not interest companies but is of serious concern to governments. The JRC certainly did suffer some handicaps—as did many large national laboratories that had been set up around the same time, early in the nuclear age. But the situation within the JRC has changed substantially in recent years. Moreover, the JRC, which used to represent a very large fraction of Community R&D spending, now takes only about 13 percent. So let's keep it in proportion.
Q: Finally, concern about U.S. export controls is increasingly cited as an argument for self-sufficiency in certain core technologies. How strong a motive for collaboration in R&D is European anxiety about the strategic value of advanced technology?
This is very important indeed. I believe that the distinction between defense-relevant and non-defense-relevant science and technology is becoming more and more difficult to draw. So it is essential for Europeans to have some degree of independence in all of the basic technologies, to avoid being exposed to restrictions which can be dictated by defense problems. It's hardly surprising too that a group of nations which together represent the world's largest single market, composed of 325 million fairly wealthy people, should want to be competitive and independent in all of the basic technologies. It would be dangerous to take any other view. But I don't want to seem anti-American in any way. With an American wife and four American children, I cannot afford to be so…. | <urn:uuid:dcbb190b-3b7a-497c-b31b-59705674b176> | CC-MAIN-2022-05 | https://www.the-scientist.com/news/d-in-europe-63705 | 2022-01-25T06:06:51Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-05/segments/1642320304760.30/warc/CC-MAIN-20220125035839-20220125065839-00318.warc.gz | en | 0.970156 | 3,196 |
Apple has finally added more ports to the Mac notebook.
The new colors will be available in November for the same $99 price tag.
It can be accessed on all Apple devices.
The iPhone 13 models are already on sale in more than 30 different countries and regions.
The program ran for more than three years.
The iPhone 13 series don't have EarPods in the box elsewhere.
The promotion will only be available while stock lasts.
The company is aware of the issue.
The issue will be fixed in an “upcoming software update.”
It includes the iPhone Xs, Xs Max, 11, 11 Pro, and 11 Pro Max, as of now.
Finally, themed QR codes on Telegram.
While closed beta tests are currently operated for macOS, the Windows version of the browser is being built.
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Hire-A-Vet campaign kicks off in Augusta
AUGUSTA, Maine (WABI) - “Everywhere you look you see help wanted signs in our critical industries.” says Bath Iron Works Senior Director of HR, Jonathan Mason. “Hospitality, healthcare, manufacturing, and many others.”
The 2021 Maine Hire-A-Vet campaign kicked off Thursday with a specific goal - have at least a hundred veterans hired by 100 employers in the next 100 days.
Maine Labor Commissioner Laura Fortman gave a speech at the kickoff. ”That’s our goal here today, to help connect military veterans, their spouses, and all job seekers to the careers the deserve and need in order to support themselves and their families.”
Since the campaign first began in 2015 it has exceeded the goal of 100 veteran hires, including last year when the event was held virtually.
Diana Leblanc got a job with Bangor Savings Bank last year when she and her spouse moved from Fort Riley in Kansas.
”As a veteran spouse myself, we understand the struggles that veteran families have to deal with when they’re transitioning to civilian life. We contacted the career center for veterans and they just started helping us especially with the networking part. Because when you’re not in Maine, it’s really hard for you to get employers to know you.”
General Dynamics and Bath Iron Works were some of the major sponsors of the event.
”We have over 1000 veterans building ships at BIW every day.” says Mason.
Resource providers were on hand in addition to the more than 100 employer booths.
You can find out more at https://www.mainecareercenter.com/mhav/
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FIRST® Robotics Scholarship
Congratulations to the 2020 NextEra Energy Foundation FIRST Alumni Scholarship finalists: Hunter Free, Palm Beach Central High School; Rohan Jakhete, South Fork High; Anish Ravichandran, American Heritage School; Christian Urbanek, Pinecrest School; Corbin Weir, American Heritage School.
The NextEra Energy Foundation is proud to provide a scholarship opportunity to reward FIRST®students whose experience has inspired their interest in an engineering or information management career. One $5,000, renewable scholarship will be awarded to a high school senior who has two or more years in an FTC or FRC program in FPL's service area. A weighted cumulative GPA of 3.5 is required to apply and students must maintain a 3.0 GPA to renew each year.
Before the award is paid out, the winning student must be accepted to an accredited four-year college or university majoring in information science (or related field) or engineering.
For more information:
Congratulations to Lucas Giffard, the 2019 recipient of the FPL Robotics Scholarship.
Science fairs are a great way to inspire young minds and future scientists. We support only district-wide science fairs with categories of energy or engineering. If your district would like to be considered for a science fair grant, send the appropriate paperwork to [email protected].
Due to the number of schools in our service area, we cannot provide grants or support to individual schools for their science fair activities. | <urn:uuid:833f6eac-7a15-4691-8451-1adc560e9e64> | CC-MAIN-2022-05 | http://canadianwindproposals.com/community/education-funding.html | 2022-01-26T14:23:25Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-05/segments/1642320304954.18/warc/CC-MAIN-20220126131707-20220126161707-00398.warc.gz | en | 0.923943 | 316 |
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Britain, Zionism & the Holocaust:— by John Smith
The Nazi Holocaust was the nadir of human civilisation, the most atrocious thing that has ever happened, and yet it occurred this century, in the midst of "European civilisation". The official version of history states that all Germans must share some guilt, and that all Britons can be proud. However, awkward questions keep on emerging, like bloody hands out of the rubble. Questions like why did British governments from 1933 to 1945 deny Europe's Jews a place of refuge? Why did the British government and its mouthpiece, the BBC, suppress news about mass executions of Jews?
This article aims to overturn official wisdom and show the truth to be that the British Empire was an accessory to the Nazi's murder of six million human beings on account of their so-called "race".
Mr. Smith is still working on this article, researching the attitude of the Soviet Union to Jewish refugees. In the meantime it can be downloaded as a PDF file (which requires the free Acrobat Reader).
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|The Moral Collapse of the British Liberal Party Press in August 1914. Published as Problems of Communism & Socialism no 58, May 1999. With an introduction by Brendan Clifford|
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To prove that for any triangle, H, G, and C are collinear, let us first
look at how they are constructed. The orthocenter,
H, is the common intersection of the three lines containing the altitudes,
G, is the common intersection of the three medians, and the circumcenter,
C, is the common intersection of the three perpendicular bisectors.
The diagram to the left shows us a triangle and H, G,
and C for that triangle.
H is constructed as the intersection of the altitudes. The altitudes
of this triangle are the purple lines.
G is constructed as the intersection of the medians. The medians of this
triangle are the red line segments.
C is constructed as the intersection of the perpendicular bisectors.
The perpendicular bisectors are the blue lines.
Notice that the line segment HC has been constructed.
Click here for the GSP sketch to see
if G is always on this line when any point is moved around.
Why are these points
We can show that three points are collinear if we show that the third
point lies on the line that runs through the other two points. This is the
approach that we will take to prove that the for any triangle, H,
G, and C are collinear. We will construct G and C,
given a triangle and prove that H lies on the line GC.
The object to the right shows the triangle DEF with the centroid
and the circumcenter constructed.
The red line is the line GC.
We next will construct one altitude of triangle DEF. The point
of intersection (X) of this altitude and line GC is collinear
with the points G and C.
Next, I will show that the point X lies also on the other two
altitudes. Then I will show that point X is the orthocenter of the
triangle and that the points H, G, and C are collinear.
The next two images show when I construct a perpendicular line from point
X to one of the sides of the triangle.
Notice that both these lines also run through the opposite vertex of
Now we can see that the two lines just constructed are altitudes of the
triangle DEF, thus the point X is the orthocenter of triangle
DEF and should be labeled H
If we look at the triangle to the right (our original triangle), then
we see that it is a mess to work with. If we can show that the triangle
with base HG is twice as large as the triangle with CG as
the base. So let us just look at these triangles and the lines that form
The centroid (G) trisects each median. So in the drawing to the
left, the point G trisects the red line segment. We now have a chance
to show that these two triangles are similar.
Notice that we are now just looking at the two triangles AHG and
and EC are parallel since they both are segments of lines that are
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Why we think Lavalife.co.uk is a scam
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Our results on Lavalife.co.uk
We spent three months on the site while all the while thinking is Lavalife legit. The answer is of course no it is not. We sent 180 emails do different girls to see if we could score. We of course were not able to. We only got a few replies to our emails. Even then, we were not to set up any dates, and needless to say, sleep with any women. You should not use Lavalife.co.uk for any reason as you are simply not going to get anything out of it.
Overall Conclusion on Lavalife.co.uk
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Posición: Director de proyectos español
Salario: £55,000 – £65,000 al año
Descripción del puesto
A FTSE 100 travel company is seeking a business change project manager based in Greater London. The candidate will ideally be fluent in Spanish due to the level of interface needed with colleagues in Spain. The project manager will be working work on a variety of business change projects ranging from regulatory changes to IT system upgrades. The ideal candidate will fulfil the following key criteria:
Overview of Role:
Direct responsibility for the delivery of the project within budget and on time, the role demands co-ordination of effort across all major business functions as well as the technology strands of delivery within the programme.
The chosen candidate will need to meet the following requirements if they are to be shortlisted for the role:
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Lecture by Mikkel Abrahamsen (University of Copenhagen): Geometric Multicut: Shortest Fences for Separating Groups of Objects in the Plane
We study the following separation problem: Given a collection of colored objects in the plane, compute a shortest "fence" F, i.e., a union of curves of minimum total length, that separates every two objects of different colors. Two objects are separated if F contains a simple closed curve that has one object in the interior and the other in the exterior. We refer to the problem as GEOMETRIC k-CUT, where k is the number of different colors, as it can be seen as a geometric analogue to the well-studied multicut problem on graphs. We first give an O(n^4 log^3 n)-time algorithm that computes an optimal fence for the case where the input consists of polygons of two colors and n corners in total. We then show that the problem is NP-hard for the case of three colors. Finally, we give a 4/3*1.2965-approximation algorithm.
Joint work with Panos Giannopoulos, Maarten Löffler, and Günter Rote. Presented at ICALP 2019.
Time & Location
Apr 27, 2020 | 02:15 PM
Freie Universität Berlin
Institut für Informatik
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This is Mom and Dad's pug, Maggie. She ties for second most important dog in my life. She ties with my sister's dog, Biscuit. I'll have a photo of her soon.
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Aussie Broadband has overhauled their SIM only mobile plans with their new provider Optus. The result of this is a great outcome for consumers with — what looks like — full access to the Optus network. Not only are customers getting full access, but the pricing is pretty sharp for decent data too.
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From reintroducing sea eagles to returning gardens to nature, rewilding has captured the media’s imagination. Conor O’Gorman discusses what it means for shooting and conservation.
Stodulky. Last stop on the Prague metro. On grassy wasteland, nearby the metro exit, I counted a covey of 22 wild grey partridges, unperturbed by the commuters and noise.
That cosmopolitan covey, 20 years ago, contained more partridges than had been seen in the previous six months by gamekeepers dedicated to helping the last wild grey partridge stronghold in the Irish midlands – a wild expanse of cutaway peatland spanning tens of thousands of hectares.
We will return later to the disparate fortunes of the partridges of Prague and Offaly, because their stories are intertwined and relevant to today’s rather convoluted rewilding debate.
The concept of rewilding was developed by academics in the 1960s within the context of preserving and expanding areas of wilderness that might otherwise see their large carnivores become extinct if such areas became too small and isolated.
That carnivore element helps explain why longstanding rewilding advocates push for reintroductions of bear, lynx and wolf. However, rewilders have frequently failed to make their case clear, nor have they meaningfully consulted those potentially impacted by such proposals.
The Ken Hill estate – or ‘Wild Ken Hill’, as it is now known – is located in an area of west Norfolk renowned for game shooting – and with Sandringham, no less, as a neighbour.
The estate recently hit the headlines when it announced a public consultation on proposals to release sea (white-tailed) eagles, a decade after a previous ill-fated bid by Natural England and the RSPB was shelved.
However, this time around the release of sea eagles looks to have some legs. The project is being led by local farmers and by the time of the public announcement the proposals already had the support of many of their neighbours, following an extensive low-key consultation.
An added factor is that sea eagles, originating from a reintroduction project on the Isle of Wight, have been regularly visiting Norfolk and no pigs have taken flight in the clutches of these flying fortresses of the bird world.
But there is much more to rewilding at Ken Hill estate than its now high-profile proposal to release sea eagles.
I have spoken several times with Dominic Buscall, who owns and manages the estate, and he is far from the stereotypical rewilder I originally had in mind. In fact, Dom is no stranger to shooting – as a student he was once listed as one of The Field’s top shots – although he is more focused on deer stalking these days.
Wild Ken Hill has sustainable walked-up wild grey partridge shooting and wildfowling and boasts a huge diversity of flora and fauna by combining rewilding, regenerative agriculture and traditional conservation across 4,000 acres.
Traditional conservation includes the management of 500 acres of freshwater marsh. Rewilding on the estate replaced the farming of unproductive land on sandy soils, allowing natural processes to return, improving biodiversity and capturing carbon.
Regenerative agriculture is targeted at productive arable land where the estate has adjusted its farming practices to repair soil health while delivering good, sustainable yields with minimal use of chemicals.
This three-pronged system is achieving a balanced approach to land use that the estate believes could be replicated on many other lowland farms.
The estate has also released beavers to help manage its wetlands, and natural grazing is aided by feral cattle, pigs and horses.
Dom explains: “We are passionate about what we can do for the environment and for society, but we are only at the beginning of a long journey. No doubt our project and our thinking will change as we adapt to the evolving challenges and opportunities around us.
“We are sharing our thoughts and information about our approach on our website and with visitors to the estate. We hope that by doing so we can become an exemplar in land management for lowland areas in the UK, and potentially beyond.”
When lockdown eases, the estate will introduce eco-tours and has its sights on camping for 2022, which will no doubt further widen its profile and appeal.
Kerry Ellis, BASC’s eastern England regional officer, has visited the estate and said: “I am hugely impressed with the variety of habitats found there. The benefits of this diversity to the wildlife can be seen throughout, from the abundance of yellowhammers and grey partridges to brown hares, marsh harriers and wildfowl of all shapes and sizes.
“When it comes to incorporating farming, conservation and sustainable shooting, the land managers at Ken Hill are clearly very forward thinking.”
Wild Ken Hill is part of a growing network of rewilding branded projects in Britain that is capturing the media’s imagination at a time when our post-Covid society is reconnecting with nature, and post-Brexit land management policies are promising to revolutionise farming for food and the environment.
Rewilding Britain, founded in 2015, is a relatively new charity in the UK conservation world and has seen rapid growth, support and media interest through its collaboration with a network of land management projects. Its vision is to “see rewilding flourishing across Britain – reconnecting us with the natural world, sustaining communities and tackling the climate emergency and the extinction crisis”.
To celebrate World Rewilding Day (20 March) The Guardian featured several land and wildlife management projects in the UK, including Wild Ken Hill.
At Dundreggan in the Scottish Highlands, work is underway to expand the fragmented Caledonian Forest.
On the Somerleyton Estate in Suffolk, water buffalo roam wild and there are plans to bring in Dalmatian pelicans.
The focus is on less intensive land management and increased tourism at Wild Ennerdale in Cumbria, while The Tarras Valley Nature Reserve is a rebranding of Langholm moor in Dumfries and Galloway following a local community buyout, where peatland and woodland restoration will continue.
At Sheepdrove Organic Farm in Berkshire, the focus is on restoring chalk downland and wild meadows.
All the above case studies were described in The Guardian as rewilding projects, and they are part of the ‘rewilding network’.
A common theme I noticed across these and other conservation projects was the promotion of tourism. So, if eco-tourism is part of an estate’s income stream, rebranding the conservation work as rewilding makes good commercial sense in the current climate.
I don’t envisage shooting ever playing a flagship role in promotional material for rewilding projects, with perhaps the exception of deer stalking – which features on the evocative introduction video for ‘Wildland’, the network of Scottish estates being diversified by Danish billionaire Anders Holch Povlsen.
I think shooting will continue to be part of a wider diversity of activities taking place on many estates being rebranded as rewilding projects – both as a recreational activity and for estate employees and contractors undertaking pest and predator control.
Estates where shooting plays a central role in land and wildlife management, such as driven grouse moors and commercial pheasant shoots, will continue to have their place in the countryside. And, while biodiversity will continue to be high on these estates’ agenda, it’s unlikely that Rewilding Britain or the media would call them rewilding projects.
That said, the latest season of the popular computer game Fortnite has been ‘rewilded’ with the introduction of boar, wolves and other wild beasts; players can shoot them with guns and bows, eat their meat and utilise their bones. That’s millions of UK children being introduced online to hunting – food for thought!
So, what about those partridges in Prague and Offaly? Unfortunately, the Stodulky population boom was short-lived. Their temporary wildlands sprouted up during the development of a motorway and housing estates. The perfect unmanaged habitats that once gave food and shelter have long since become rank or concrete, and there is not a partridge to be seen.
However, in Offaly’s wild peatland landscape, where once a handful of partridges were clinging on, the birds are now thriving. This is thanks to the creation and management of wildlife corridors through the peatland and the introduction of partridge-friendly agri-environment schemes on previously inhospitable farmland.
Before researching this topic, my vague understanding of rewilding was a bunch of academics and keyboard warriors advocating abandoning large tracts of land and releasing various beasts into these ‘wildlands’.
Sure, those people and concepts exist, but rewilding in practice is more about estate managers seeking greater resilience through diverse and sustainable land management and income streams.
This article was originally published in the May/June edition of Shooting and Conservation magazine. Click here for more information on how to join BASC and receive your bi-monthly copy.
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GeoVera Specialty Insurance Company v. Graham Rogers Inc et al
ORDER denying defts' 165 Motion for Summary Judgment; granting pltf's 168 Motion for Summary Judgment; the parties are directed to file briefs within 20 days of the entry of this Order, on the issue of whether Graham Rogers is entitled to offset; unless the parties request otherwise, the Court will enter a final scheduling order re the remaining claims in this case. Signed by Judge Susan Webber Wright on 1/30/12. (vjt)
IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
EASTERN DISTRICT OF ARKANSAS
GeoVera SPECIALTY INSURANCE
GRAHAM ROGERS, ET AL.
NO: 4:08CV00163 SWW
Plaintiff GeoVera Specialty Insurance Company (“GeoVera”) commenced this action
pursuant to the Court’s diversity jurisdiction against Graham Rogers, Inc. (“Graham Rogers”),
East Central Arkansas Insurance, Inc. (“ECA”), and Jerry Reeves (“Reeves”). Pursuant to the
Eighth Circuit’s mandate entered May 24, 2011, the case is before the Court for resolution of
GeoVera’s breach of contract claim against Graham Rogers. Also remaining for resolution are
Graham Rogers’ cross-claims against ECA and Reeves and third-party complaint against
GeoVera Specialty Insurance Services, Inc. (“GeoVera Services”).
Now before the Court are (1) Graham Rogers’ motion for summary judgment (docket
entries #165, #166, #167), GeoVera and GeoVera Services’ response in opposition (docket entry
#175, #176, #177), and Graham Rogers’ reply (docket entry #178) and (2) GeoVera’s motion for
summary judgment (docket entries #168 #169, #170), Graham Rogers’ response (docket entries
#171, #172, #173), and GeoVera’s reply (docket entry #174). After careful consideration, and
for reasons that follow, Graham Rogers’ motion for summary judgment is denied, and
GeoVera’s motion for summary judgment is granted.
GeoVera, formerly known as USF&G Specialty Insurance Company, and Graham
Rogers, a wholesale insurance broker, entered a Surplus Lines Broker Agreement
(“Agreement”), effective June 1, 2003.1 Article I of the Agreement authorized Graham Rogers
to “market, present proposals of residential property insurance to [GeoVera] for its acceptance,
and issue and deliver residential property insurance policies, subject to the terms of [the
Agreement].” Docket entry #57, Ex. A. Under Article II, Graham Rogers promised “[t]o apply
written underwriting and rating guidelines prepared by [GeoVera] which have been provided to
[Graham Rogers], and as may be revised by [GeoVera] from time to time, and to deliver policies,
provided the risk falls within the acceptable underwriting criteria ” Id.
Article II also obligates Graham Rogers to appoint retail agents to market GeoVera
insurance policies. The Agreement gave Graham Rogers and retail agents appointed by Graham
Rogers access to GeoVera’s Residential Homeowner Quoting and Homeowner Insurance
Processing System (“the System”) “for purposes of sending quote requests, receiving quotes, and
printing and delivering quotes, applications, and binders.” Id. The Agreement stated that
When insurance coverage cannot be procured from licensed Arkansas insurers, “surplus
lines” insurance may be purchased from foreign insurers, provided that the transaction proceeds
through a licensed surplus lines broker. See Ark. Code Ann. § 23-65-305. As explained by
Jerry Lesch, Graham Rogers’ vice president and CEO, Graham Rogers connects retail producers,
seeking coverage for hard-to-place risks, with surplus line insurers, seeking a market for
specialty insurance products. See docket entry #57, Ex. C, at 1-14.
Graham Rogers “and/or” retail agents would complete an electronic policy application and that
the System would then provide a quote response to Graham Rogers and the retail agent and that
Graham Rogers would receive “daily pre-formatted reports from the system.” Id.
The same day the parties entered the Agreement, Graham Rogers entered a service
agreement with GeoVera Services, formerly known as F&G Specialty Insurance Services, Inc.
See docket entry #57, Ex. F. GeoVera Services is the service center for GeoVera, and both
entities are subsidiaries of Geovera Holdings, Inc. See docket entry #167, ¶ 4 and docket entry
#176, ¶ 4. The service agreement provided that GeoVera Services would, among other things,
“issue and mail all policies, binders, endorsements, renewals, notices of cancellation or
nonrenewal, and any other policy holder notices” and “respond to all questions from retail
producers concerning policy issuance, premium and underwriting guidelines[.]” Docket entry
#57, Ex. F.
In 2003, Graham Rogers entered into a retail producer agreement with Jerry Reeves
(“Reeves”) of East Central Arkansas Insurance (“ECA”). In 2004, Gary and Sherry Balentine
applied to GeoVera for homeowners’ insurance. Reeves submitted the Balentines’ policy
through the System, and GeoVera accepted the application and issued the policy. However, in
early 2006, GeoVera cancelled the Balentines’ policy for failure to make a premium payment.
Reeves contacted GeoVera Services on behalf of the Balentines, and requested that the policy be
reinstated. See Reeves Dep. at 13-14. Reeves testified that in response to his request, in
January 2006, a person named “Thea” called his office and informed him that GeoVera would
“rewrite” the policy. According to Reeves, Thea instructed him to rewrite the Balentines’
application “as it was.”2
In February 2006, Reeves copied the Balentines’ original insurance application and
submitted it to GeoVera via the System. Reeves acknowledges that he did not communicate
with the Balentines to confirm the accuracy of information contained on the application, nor did
he obtain the Balentines’ signatures on the application before or soon after he submitted it to
GeoVera. See Reeves Dep. at 18-19.
In September 2006, fire destroyed the Balentines’ home, and they filed an insurance
claim under their GeoVera homeowners’ policy. During GeoVera’s claim investigation, it
discovered that the Balentines would not have qualified for coverage under the company’s
underwriting guidelines if the application had contained accurate information. GeoVera’s
Pertinent portions of Reeves’s deposition transcript reads as follows:
[by counsel for Graham Rogers] Okay. So in the latter part of January 2006 a
person named Thea in a phone call to your office says . . . that USF&G is not
going to renew this policy.
They won’t - - they wanted - - no, not that they wouldn’t renew it. They would
What does that mean?
They wouldn’t accept that - - the check that they had.
Because it was six days late.
All right. So what had to happen? What were they saying?
I was told to simply rewrite it as it was. And that’s - - that’s the wording that I
got. Go ahead and rewrite it as it was.
Reeves Dep. at 15-16.
[by counsel for Graham Rogers] So in this particular situation, the Balentine case,
I understood that you were told to rewrite the application as it was.
Reeves Dep. at 37.
written underwriting guidelines, which were in place during the relevant time period, provided
that insurance applications would be completed on-line and printed in the agent’s office for the
applicants’ signatures. See docket entry #59, Exhibit Filed Under Seal.
It is undisputed that
the Balentines did not sign the application. GeoVera’s guidelines also provided that “the risk
must fit” criteria including that the home to be insured be located on no more than five acres and
that there had been no foreclosures, repossessions, or bankruptcies within the past five years.
See id. It is undisputed that the Balentines’ February 2006 insurance application declared that
the subject residence was located on less than five acres, but it was actually located on six acres.
The application also stated that the Balentines had not filed for bankruptcy within the past five
years, but they had filed a bankruptcy petition in 2005.
After determining that the application’s deficiencies could not be attributed to the
Balentines, GeoVera paid them $785,708.34 for damages covered under the policy. Then, on
February 22, 2008, GeoVera commenced this action, asserting, among other things, claims for
negligence and breach of contract against Graham Rogers. In support of its contract claim,
GeoVera charges that Graham Rogers “breached its contractual obligations, duties and
responsibilities under the . . . Agreement . . . directly and through its agents’ negligent conduct in
failing to reasonably and adequately apply the written underwriting and rating guidelines
prepared by [GeoVera].” Docket entry #65, ¶ 29. GeoVera maintains that it would not have
reissued the Balentines’ policy in February 2006 if the application submitted by Reeves had
contained accurate information.
By order entered August 7, 2009, the Court entered summary judgment in Graham
Rogers’ favor, finding that Graham Rogers had no role or duty with respect to submitting the
Balentines’ application. On appeal, the Eighth Circuit affirmed the grant of summary judgment
on GeoVera’s negligence claim but reversed on the breach of contract claim, finding “that the
Agreement places a duty on Graham [Rogers] to apply GeoVera's underwriting guidelines to all
applications for insurance submitted under the terms of the Agreement, including those
submitted by retailers appointed by Graham. GeoVera Specialty Ins. Co. v. Graham Rogers, Inc.
636 F.3d 445, 449 (8th Cir. 2011). The Court of Appeals concluded that “while retailers may
help or assist Graham [Rogers] in applying the underwriting guidelines, Graham [Rogers]
retained the ultimate duty to apply GeoVera’s underwriting guidelines so that the risk to be
insured fell within the acceptable underwriting guidelines.’” Id. at 449-450.
II. Summary Judgment Standard
Summary judgment is appropriate when “the pleadings, the discovery and disclosure
materials on file, and any affidavits show that there is no genuine issue as to any material fact
and that the movant is entitled to judgment as a matter of law.” Fed. R. Civ. P. 56(c). As a
prerequisite to summary judgment, a moving party must demonstrate “an absence of evidence to
support the non-moving party’s case.” Celotex Corp. v. Catrett, 477 U.S. 317, 325 (1986).
Once the moving party has properly supported its motion for summary judgment, the nonmoving party must “do more than simply show there is some metaphysical doubt as to the
material facts.” Matsushita Elec. Indus. Co. v. Zenith Radio Corp., 475 U.S. 574, 586 (1986).
The non-moving party may not rest on mere allegations or denials of his pleading but
must “come forward with ‘specific facts showing a genuine issue for trial.’” Id. at 587 (quoting
Fed. R. Civ. P. 56(e)). “[A] genuine issue of material fact exists if: (1) there is a dispute of fact;
(2) the disputed fact is material to the outcome of the case; and (3) the dispute is genuine, that is,
a reasonable jury could return a verdict for either party.” RSBI Aerospace, Inc. v. Affiliated FM
Ins. Co., 49 F.3d 399, 401 (8th Cir. 1995).
Graham’s Motion for Summary Judgment
Graham Rogers moves for summary judgment on three grounds: (1) GeoVera’s contract
claim is barred because it entered a settlement agreement with Reeves and ECA; (2) GeoVera
waived any right it may have against Graham Rogers; and (3) Graham Rogers’ obligations to
GeoVera were assumed by GeoVera Services.
GeoVera’s Settlement with Reeves and ECA. In addition to Graham Rogers, GeoVera
named Reeves and ECA as defendants in this case, charging both with negligence, breach of
fiduciary duty, and constructive fraud. After this Court granted summary judgment in Graham
Rogers’ favor, GeoVera reached a settlement with Reeves and ECA.
GeoVera reports that it
settled its claims against Reeves and ECA for $20,000, which it contends represents only a small
percentage of its loss.
According to Graham Rogers, by settling with Reeves and ECA, GeoVera “affirmatively
elected its remedy in tort” and “no longer has a contract cause of action because it chose to
recover on its tort claims for the same alleged damages.” Docket entry #166, at 5. The Court
disagrees. The election-of-remedies doctrine applies to remedies, not causes of action, and it
prevents a person from pursuing two inconsistent remedies. Regions Bank v. Griffin, 364 Ark.
193, 196, 217 S.W.3d 829, 832 (2005). Here, GeoVera seeks money damages and it may pursue
multiple claims against multiple parties until full satisfaction is had. See Gibson v. Gibson, 266
Ark. 622, 627, 589 S.W.2d 1, 3 (1979). Graham Rogers contends that GeoVera has obtained full
satisfaction by settling with ECA and Reeves and argues that “the actual numbers are of no
consequence because the satisfaction of the tort claim put an end to the contract remedy.”
However, a satisfaction is an acceptance of full compensation for an injury, and it is far from
clear that a $20,000 settlement provided GeoVera full compensation for its alleged injury. In
sum, the Court finds that Graham Rogers is not entitled to summary judgment based on
GeoVera’s release of claims against Reeves and ECA.
Graham Rogers asserts that Reeves’s testimony establishes that GeoVera
waived any right it “might otherwise have had against Graham Rogers in connection with the
submission of the application and compliance with the underwriting guidelines.” Docket entry
#166, at 8.
Waiver “may occur when one, with full knowledge of material facts, does something
which is inconsistent with the right or his intention to rely upon that right. The relinquishment
of the right must be intentional.” Bharodia v. Pledger, 340 Ark. 547, 555, 11 S.W.3d 540, 545
(2000)(citing Pearson v. Henrickson, 336 Ark. 12, 983 S.W.2d 419 (1999)).
testimony regarding a phone call he received from a person named Thea, who apparently worked
for GeoVera Services, fails to establish that GeoVera knew that the Balentines’ second
application contained false information and waived its right to have Graham Rogers apply
GeoVera’s underwriting guidelines to all applications for insurance submitted under the terms of
the Agreement, including those applications submitted by retail agents. The record is void of
evidence that GeoVera knowingly waived its rights under the Agreement.
Assumption of Responsibility. Graham Rogers asserts that to the extent Reeves
submitted a non-conforming application, it was done under the supervision and at the direction
of Geovera Services. According to Graham Rogers, it is entitled to judgment as a matter of law
that Geovera Services assumed Graham Rogers’ obligation to apply GeoVera’s underwriting
guidelines to all applications submitted under the terms of the Agreement.3
Graham Rogers presents no evidence that GeoVera intended or agreed that GeoVera
Services would assume Graham Rogers’ obligations under the Agreement. Accordingly,
Graham Rogers’ service agreement with GeoVera Services did not relieve Graham Rogers of its
contractual obligation to GeoVera. See Restatement (Second) of Contracts § 318 (1981)(“Unless
the obligee agrees otherwise, neither delegation of performance nor a contract to assume the duty
made with the obligor by the person delegated discharges any duty or liability of the delegating
obligor.”); see also GeoVera Specialty Ins. Co. v. Graham Rogers, Inc., 636 F.3d 445, 449-450
(8th Cir. 2011)(“Graham retained the ultimate duty to apply GeoVera’s underwriting guidelines
so that the risk to be insured fell ‘within the acceptable underwriting criteria.’”). Furthermore,
the Court finds that Graham Rogers has failed to present evidence that would permit a
reasonable juror to conclude that GeoVera Services or GeoVera instructed Reeves to submit an
application that contained false information.
GeoVera’s Motion for Summary Judgment
In order to establish a claim for breach of contract, GeoVera must establish that a valid
contract existed, that Graham Rogers breached the contract, and that GeoVera suffered damages
Graham Rogers filed a third-party complaint against GeoVera Specialty in this case,
alleging as follows: “To the extent the insurance policy to the Balentines was issued in error, it
was issued by [GeoVera Services], who was in possession of the same or greater information
than was available to [Graham Rogers] and, therefore, is the party that would be liable for any
damages caused if the issuance of the policy was inappropriate.” Docket entry #36, ¶ 9.
as a result of that breach. Rabalaias v. Barnett, 284 Ark. 527, 683 S.W.2d 919 (1985)(citing
Allied Chem. Corp. v. Van Buren Sch. Dist., 264 Ark. 810, 575 S.W.2d 445 (1979)). Here,
neither party disputes the validity of the Agreement, and it is the law of this case that the
Agreement obligated Graham Rogers to “apply GeoVera's underwriting guidelines to all
applications for insurance submitted under the terms of the Agreement, including those
applications submitted by the retailers appointed by Graham.” GeoVera, 636 F.3d at 450. The
Eighth Circuit noted Graham could have fulfilled its obligation to apply GeoVera’s underwriting
guidelines to applications by the following means:
Initially, Graham [Rogers] could have insisted that its retailers send an application
for insurance to it for review and approval before submitting the application to
GeoVera. Moreover, the Agreement makes clear that, after a retailer completes an
insurance application, the System would provide a quote response to Graham and the
retailer. This, in addition to the daily reports produced by the System and sent
directly to Graham, would have put Graham on notice that one of its retailers was in
the process of submitting an application. Graham then could have worked with its
retailer to verify that the risk to be insured fell within GeoVera's underwriting
criteria before the policy was issued. GeoVera Specialty Ins. Co. v. Graham Rogers,
Inc. 636 F.3d 445, 450 (8th Cir. 2011).
It is undisputed that Graham Rogers took no action to verify that the Balentines’
residence fell within GeoVera’s underwriting criteria. Based on the undisputed record, the
Court finds, as a matter of law, that Graham Rogers breached its duty to apply GeoVera’s
underwriting guidelines to the Balentines’ February 2006 application. Accordingly, GeoVera is
entitled to damages which would place it in the same position as if the contract had not been
breached, which may fairly and reasonably be considered as arising naturally from the breach.
See Dawson v. Temps Plus, Inc. , 337 Ark. 247, 258, 987 S.W.2d 722, 728 (1999).
GeoVera seeks $785,708.34 in damages, the amount it paid the Balentines for damages
covered under their homeowners’ policy. In support of its claim, GeoVera presents the affidavit
testimony of Darrell A. Gray, vice president of GeoVera, who works in the company’s
underwriting and analytics department. Docket entry #168. Ex. E. Gray testifies that based on
his experience and employment with GeoVera, “had the insurance application of Gary and
Sherry Balentine properly disclosed the bankruptcy of the Balentines, or properly stated the
acreage of the Balentines’ land, Geovera would have denied the policy . . . . ” Id. at 1. Gray
further testifies that pursuant to the Agreement between Graham Rogers and GeoVera, GeoVera
relied on Graham Rogers and Reeves to properly disclose information about the Balentines. Id.
at 1-2. GeoVera also cites a portion of Reeves’s deposition testimony, in which he
acknowledges that if the Balentines’ application had contained accurate information regarding
bankruptcy and acreage, the application would have been rejected. See Reeves Dep. at 29.
Graham Rogers presents no evidence that the erroneous information contained in the
Balentines’ application was immaterial to GeoVera’s decision whether to issue the policy. Nor
does Graham Rogers argue that the damages sought did not arise from the breach or that
GeoVera failed to mitigate damages.
Based on the undisputed evidence, the Court finds that GeoVera would not have issued
the Balentines’ policy if Graham Rogers had fulfilled its contractual duty to apply GeoVera’s
underwriting guidelines. The Court further finds that as a direct consequence of Graham
Rogers’ breach, GeoVera suffered damages in the amount of $785,708.34. However, before the
Court enters final judgment with respect to GeoVera’s breach of contract claim, the Court will
give the parties an opportunity to brief the Court on whether Graham Rogers is entitled to offset
the amount of GeoVera’s settlement with Reeves and ECA. Additionally, unless the parties
request otherwise, the Court will enter a final scheduling order with respect to Graham Rogers’
cross-claims against Reeves and ECA and Graham Rogers’ third-party complaint against
IT IS THEREFORE ORDERED that:
Defendants’ motion for summary judgment (docket entry #165) is DENIED.
Plaintiff’s motion for summary judgment (docket entry #168) is GRANTED.
The parties are directed to file briefs, within twenty (20) days of the entry date of
this order, on the issue of whether Graham Rogers is entitled to offset.
Unless the parties request otherwise, the Court will enter a final scheduling order
with respect to the remaining claims in this case: Graham Rogers’ cross claims
against Jerry Reeves and East Central Arkansas Insurance, Inc. and Graham
Rogers’ third party complaint against GeoVera Specialty Insurance Services, Inc.
IT IS SO ORDERED THIS 30th DAY OF JANUARY, 2012.
/s/Susan Webber Wright
UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE
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Why is a liberal arts education important essay?
Liberal arts education provides this well-rounded education since it recognizes that a student might have to deal with issues that are not related to his/her area of specialization. A liberal arts education offers practical intellectual foundation necessary for students to be successful in the modern work environment.
Why is a liberal arts education important?
A degree in the liberal arts prepares students not only to make a living, but also to make a life. Critical thinking, communication, creative problem solving, self-expression, innovative research, and lifelong learningall skills a liberal arts degree emphasizesare central to a great career and a well-lived life.
Can I be a teacher with a liberal arts degree?
Teacher. Education in the arts, language, sciences, and social sciences is required for a professional career as a teacher. Liberal arts programs offer teachers in training the knowledge they require to pass subject matter exams. Teaching requires a Bachelor degree.
Can I get a job with a liberal arts degree?
Believe it or not, a liberal arts degree makes you well-suited for several industries, including technology, marketing, and business operations. That’s because your studies have taught you how to think critically, research thoroughly, and write well—all of which are skills any employer will value.
How useless is a liberal arts degree?
Your ‘useless’ liberal arts degree can give you an edge in tech. You’ve heard the rhetoric before: Liberal arts majors are broke and can’t find jobs. Their skills are less useful than those with STEM degrees. Even former President Barack Obama took a famous jab at art history majors before apologizing.
What are the most useful degrees?
Making the college major decisionRankDeclared degreePercent with advanced degree1Naval Architecture And Marine Engineering29%2Nuclear Engineering56%3Pharmacy Pharmaceutical Sciences And Administration58%4Genetics76%26 •
Why are arts degrees useless?
A college degree is worthless if nobody is willing to pay you for the skills you acquired while earning it. Humanities majors learned only “soft skills” like writing, and “critical thinking.” All useless majors teach the same “soft skills.” Many of the useful majors also teach them, so why not choose a useful major?
Are arts degrees worth it?
There is a common misconception that arts degrees do not make for strong career prospects. Arts graduates are highly valued by employers. Teaching, journalism, and the civil service are full of arts graduates and generally have an impressive track record of employability in the public and creative arts sectors.
Do arts graduates get jobs?
Art graduates can also apply for mainstream graduate jobs and training in a wide variety of industries, such as media, marketing, public relations and even accounting.
Do art majors make money?
The market for full-time artists is probably larger than you think. It’s not that difficult to land an artistic job paying more than $55k per year. Some of the top careers in the arts include: Art Director – Typically with an MBA or Master of Fine Arts degree one can earn upwards of $100,000.
What are the best art degrees?
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KU Geology has operated a camp in the Cañon City, Colorado, area since 1922. We occupy permanent facilities thirteen miles north of town in a rustic camp that will accommodate some 30 students. The rocks in the area are well suited to introduce students to field geology. In most of our field areas of one or two square miles, the stratified rocks change from nearly flat-lying to complexly faulted and folded; basement rocks consist of intrusive and metamorphic suites.
The purpose of our Geology 560/561: Intro to Field Geology (better known as "Field Camp") is to teach students to understand exposures of rock that are larger than hand specimens and smaller than mountain ranges. For this reason, the curriculum at our camp is focused to give students hands-on experience in structural mapping, stratigraphy, and metamorphic and intrusive relations. We work in the field nearly every day. Each project is designed to convey a specific idea about geology or the methods of studying geology in the field. A course in structural geology and sedimentology are prerequisites, and we urge non-KU students to have had a field-methods course. The camp is divided into two courses, Geology 560 on basic field geology and 561 with more advanced projects. Each course carries 3 hours of credit from the University of Kansas. An enrollment of approximately 22 students is anticipated.
Our camp starts most years with projects areas in the Capitol Reef area of central Utah for the first two weeks. The geology is relatively simple, the stratigraphy distinctive, and expose is commonly 100% giving students an ideal place to start understanding field geology. Students and staff stay at the Capitol Reef Field Station of Utah Valley University or in campgrounds.
The remainder of the first course and all the second course are taught from the KU Field camp near Cañon City, Colorado. We occupy permanent facilities thirteen miles north of town in a rustic camp that has been the site of the course since 1922. The rocks and structures in the area are well suited to introduce students to more challenging field geology. Stratified rocks change from nearly flat-lying to complexly faulted and folded and basement rocks consist of intrusive and metamorphic suites.
An important aspect of the Geology Field Camp is that both courses use advanced technology for mapping and collecting observations. Since 1999, the camp has utilized hardened field laptops with GIS software and/or mobile devices running geologic apps. Technology is introduced in the latter part of the first course and is employed during the first part of the second course. KU offers one of the few digitally-based field courses in the world.
Information about the course
Students at the University of Kansas field camp enroll in two, three-hour courses that operate consecutively. Students are expected to enroll in both courses. Our six-week, six-hour sequence of courses will begin on or after May 20, 2022 with the drive from Lawrence to Cañon City and then on to Utah. Camp will end by July 2, 2022 or perhaps earlier with the return trip. Students who wish may find their own transportation to and from camp.
In-state tuition in 2022 will be: for a single course (560 or 561) for Undergraduates - $1,009.20; for both courses (560 and 561) for Undergraduates - $2018.40 plus University fees. Out-of-state undergraduate rates are about twice those for in-state students, with cost of approximately $2695.95 per course ($5391.90 for both) plus University fees. In addition, both Geology 560 and Geology 561 have a $965 student fee. Students not previously enrolled at The University of Kansas will pay a one-time fee of $30.00. Tuition and fees pay for lodging at the field station or campground in Utah and cabins in Colorado, transportation in Department of Geology vans from Lawrence to camp and return, transportation in the field, and some supplies. Students will cook as a group while in Utah (with the cost likely paid by the camp), and must provide their own food and fix their own breakfasts, field lunches, and, typically, dinners while in Colorado. Dinners will be either in camp or in town at the choice of the students. Costs of all meals is the responsibility of the students. Some scholarships are available for KU students, and students selected to drive state vehicles will receive a stipend that helps offset expenses.
We provide bunks, mattresses, Brunton compasses, maps, and field technology. Students are expected to provide their own textbooks, field gear, bedding, towels, and personal items. Students should plan on camping for at least part of the first two weeks, so should have tents, sleeping bags, and pads. More information about camp, supplies, textbooks, scholarships, and being a driver will be sent later after we have received your application. Faculty members this year will be Doug Walker, Diane Kamola, Andreas Moeller, and one or more teaching assistants.
We still have room for the summer of 2022 and we are accepting additional applications. To apply, please complete the enclosed application materials and send them with an official, academic transcript directly to Prof. Walker at the Department of Geology. Please do not send your application to the University's Admissions Office. Enrollment will be done online. If you have questions, please e-mail Doug Walker. Thanks very much for your interest.
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Having burnt all the arisings we had created on the north side of Ecclesbourne Meadow last Friday, this week on Thursday we started on the scrub on the southerly, lower side. Blackthorn and bramble mixed made for slower progress but it will have the added effect of widening the path where it is at it’s narrowest, making it easier to drive round.
Today, Friday, for a change we started removing the old fence posts that have been exposed by both last year’s work and this year’s. With most of the rails long gone and those remaining being broken, this fencing serves no purpose any longer and will just get in the way of future management of the scalloping. Using the winch on the 110 Land Rover we removed 45 posts, leaving them by the path for the Estate Rangers to pick up with the tractor and trailer. | <urn:uuid:f920999a-2b14-4e60-81ac-0cf37f15521a> | CC-MAIN-2022-05 | https://hastingscountrypark.org.uk/2015/10/23/well-take-the-low-road/ | 2022-01-26T14:57:32Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-05/segments/1642320304954.18/warc/CC-MAIN-20220126131707-20220126161707-00398.warc.gz | en | 0.959613 | 183 |
I’ve managed to fly in a few days early for a conference, to give me a full hiking day in Bryce Canyon (before heading to Zion National Park where I’ve planned to do the West Rim Trail). I’ve managed to cram a lot into 24 hours at Bryce Canyon. Today will be a long day, as I undertake an extended Bryce Canyon Loop hike that combines four of the most popular Bryce Canyon trails:
- Najajo Loop
- Peekaboo Loop Trail
- Queen’s Garden Trail
- Fairyland Loop Trail.
Navajo Loop (1 mile / 1.6km)
Starting at Sunset Point, which is roughly in the middle of my extended hike, I take the Navajo Loop track which descends to the floor of Bryce Canyon.
Being the most popular track, I figure that by starting here early I’ll avoid most of the crowds… I’m not the first person – there’s a line of photographers and tripods facing the rising sun – but no crowds and no problem getting a parking spot. From the start of the walk you can see Thor’s Hammer, an example of a tent rock or fairy chimney (bottom right photo – it’s the tall, narrow pinnacle with an even narrower neck, supporting a large hammerhead-like rock on the left-hand side of the photo).
I head down the left-hand (eastern) trail, which descends steeply via a series of switch-backs. Towering above are hoodoo formations and some Douglas fir trees, which seem out of place in this environment.
Near the bottom is the Twin Bridges formation, just off the track and with warning signs advising of instability. Maybe next time I visit it will be the Single Bridge formation?
It’s just under a mile to the junction with the trail that connects the Navajo Loop to the Peekaboo Loop Trail. (You can also continue back to the top via the Navajo Loop Trail, which is a 1.4mile / 2.2km circuit in total.)
Peekaboo Loop Trail (4 miles / 6.4km)
From the start of the Peekaboo Trail, Silent City can be seen to the north just below Sunset Point where I started the walk – it’s an extraordinarily high concentration of hoodoos. (I’m doing the circuit in an anti-clockwise direction, which is the opposite to the direction you’re supposed to walk. It’s still pretty early in the day and I figure I won’t encounter many people on the trail.)
Another impressive formation is The Cathedral, a large butte that stands behind several large hoodoos.
The Peekaboo Trail then winds past numerous hoodoos, and there are views of the Wall of Windows to the south, a long, thin ridge containing several natural arches.
Just over a mile into the Peekaboo Trail, there’s a faint but obvious track that heads off to the left (east) – it might be an older route that’s no longer used. This small detour offers a great view of the hoodoos around the track, and you can see Peekaboo Trail itself winding along the valley.
The trail then goes through a tunnel cut into the ridge
After the tunnel, the trail descends steeply via a set of switch-backs: in the distance, to the south, is Paria View.
The trail follows a series of washes. I spot a mule deer just above the path – about the only wildlife I see all day. Just after my mule encounter, I reach the trail that connects the Peekaboo Trail with Bryce Point.
I continue along the Peekaboo Trail (I could also have gone up to Bryce Point and then taken the Rim Trail back to Sunset Point). I’m happy, in hindsight, with the decision to continue along the Peekaboo Trail. The trail swings around to the north and heads towards a cluster of hoodoos.
Another artificial tunnel creating an arch provides another nice photo opportunity, as the trail ascends gradually up the valley.
The trail is more exposed here, with hoodoos on both sides of the wide valley.
Looking back, the arch cut into the rock can be seen, with hoodoos above and Bryce Point in the background.
The final stretch of the Peekaboo Loop Trail back to the Navajo Loop junction is fantastic walking, with hoodoos and pink limestone formations on both sides of the trail
It’s taken just under 2.5 hours to cover the 8km, down to the canyon floor via the Navajo Loop Trail and around the Peekaboo Trail to the start of the Queen’s Garden Trail.
Queen’s Garden Trail (2 miles / 3.1km)
Another trail, another tunnel… the Queen’s Garden Trail starts (or ends) with a tunnel cut into the rock, before following a long row of hoodoos that are right next to the trail.
It’s less than a mile to Queens Garden (0.8 miles / 1.3km), where there’s a short trail that leads to the Queen Victoria formation. Which I think is the one below 🙂
I’m beginning to get a big hoodoo-ed out by now, although the Queen’s Garden lookout is pretty impressive. It’s now about 9am, and while I saw about three people on the Peekaboo Loop trail, the Queens Garden Trail is much busier. There’s about ten people at the viewing area, so I don’t venture up some of the side trails that would offer a better view – but are all signposted with “closed” signs.
The trail starts to ascend gradually from here; I’m now sharing the trail with a few more people.
There’s three tunnels along the Queens Garden trail between the valley and Sunrise Point. The first tunnel marks the start of (another) very scenic and high-hoodoo section!
The trail now heads straight up towards a number of tall hoodoos, before it follows the base of the formations.
Then through the second tunnel, where the trail starts to get steeper and switchbacks between hoodoos.
As the trail gains altitude there’s some nice views to the east, towards the Aquarius Plateau to the east
As the trail nears the top, there’s also a nice view of the Queens Garden Trail below and the formations of the “Queens’ Garden” to the west.
The views as the Queens Garden Trail nears Sunrise Point are truly impressive, and I’m stopping frequently to take photo (and possibly because it is now getting a bit warm in the sun!) There’s views a long way out to the south and south-east, and huge drop-offs from the trail to the valley below.
Fairyland Trail (9 miles / 14.5km)
From Sunrise Point the trail follows the top of the ridge for a short distance (500m) before reaching the Fairyland Loop. I decide, for no particular reason, to do the loop in an anti-clockwise direction, and set-off down from the ridge and towards Tower Bridge.
The trail descends gradually but constantly – if you’re only doing this hike start early as the first few miles is very exposed (I’m going downhill, so it’s not too bad). I’m pleasantly surprised that despite being a far less popular walk (partly due to its length) the scenery along the descent to Tower Bridge is no less spectacular than any of the other walks. And even though it’s mid-morning, I only see a handful of people on the walk (many of them on their way back, as they started much earlier.)
To the south is the Chinese Wall (or China Wall), another prominent formation, which is considered to be one of the best examples in the Bryce Canyon of the evolution of walls into fins, windows and hoodoos.
The Fairyland trail descends relentlessly – I’m glad I’m heading down to the valley. Seeing the track endlessly snaking up the hill would have been a bit disheartening! I’ve also seen the formation below described as the Chinese Wall – it’s a very long row of hoodoos that the trail follows the base of.
After about 1.5 miles (2.5km) from the start of the trail is the the turn-off for Tower Bridge, another feature of this walk. The side-track to the viewing area below Tower Bridge is only about 200 yards / 180m. On any other walk it would be amazing. After five hours of walking almost non-stop through hoodoos it’s still impressive, but somehow I seemed to have reached a point of rock-formation-exhaustion!
The Fairyland Loop track is fairly exposed for most of it’s length as it winds around some large formations. There’s another view of Tower Bridge from above, where you can see more clearly the natural arch formed by the extreme weathering in Bryce Canyon.
Another prominent formation that can be seen from different angles along the track is the Boat Mesa (below). This huge formation is in the middle of Fairyland Loop Trail.
I haven’t seen much wildlife, but when I find a stunted tree near the track that offers a little shade for a lunch break, I see a Steller’s Jay. It’s a conspicuous bird with bold black-and-blue colouring, and the only crested jay of the western states. A bit further on I spot an Arizona Thistle Flower, a North American species of thistle in the sunflower family.
The trail ascends for the last 1.5 miles – although fairly gradually, and with plenty of rock formations to distract you from the climb.
It gets a bit steeper as the trail nears Fairyland Point on the ridge, but never as steep as the other trails into the valley, like the Najavo Loop trail. An impressive row of hoodoos faces the trail on the opposite side of Fairyland Canyon.
Just before reaching Fairyland Point, there’s a nice view of the Sinking Ship formation in the distance.
I reach Fairyland Point at the top of the ridge at about 2pm, with just the final stretch along the top of the canyon to get back to the car.
Fairyland Point to Sunset Point – Rim Trail (3 miles / 5km)
It’s uphill from Fairyland Point to Sunset Point, especially the first mile, but fairly gradual. The Rim Trail follows the edge of the escarpment, so there’s great views over the canyon below.
It’s a constantly changing landscape of rock formations as far as the eye can see.
Just before the Rim Trail meets the start of the Fairyland Loop track, I make a small and unplanned diversion to the North Campground General Store for a cold drink. It’s now just half a mile before I’m back at Sunset Point. The car park’s now full and the lookout crowded. It’s time to leave…
It’s been a long day of hiking, through the most incredible landscape. In hindsight I’m happy with the route I took, although I would have changed it slightly to do Queens Garden Loop first to avoid the crowds, then the Peekaboo Trail. Even better would be to visit during a less popular time of year – I hope one day I can do the same hike again in winter!
Accommodation near Bryce Canyon
Within Bryce Canyon National Park is The Lodge at Bryce Canyon, which is in walking distance of all the popular hiking trails and the Park Visitor Information Centre. It has hotel rooms and cabins. The Lodge is usually closed over winter (Jan-April), and books out well in advance in summer. The nearest town, Bryce, is only a 5min drive away, and there is a shuttle between Bryce and key attractions within the national park.
More information on Bryce Canyon hiking
- Bryce Canyon Visitor Guide and Map – available from Visitor Centre
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My biggest shock, totally dumbfounded about this.Norman's got a good point here. There's a metric crapload of art in the beta rules and most of it is really good. I mentioned in passing some of the pieces in my scrawlings, but a lot more could be said. For crying out loud, the credits include classics TSR guys like Easley, Laforce, Holloway, Roslof and Otus as well as the best new guys like Mullen and Poag. This is an all-star line-up! Though I must admit not every piece is a home run. I don't like the way Mullen does tusks and fangs, so the interior cover doesn't do much for me. (That cyclops in the background is super-awesome, though.) And the faces don't work for me on the illo at the top of page 13. Still, I like the vast majority of the art. Even some of the Easley pieces, and I'm not normally a big fan of his work.
How the heck is everyone not talking about how great, plentiful, the art is? If we were arguing / bitching / blogging about whether the art was rip off or homage, if retro style is alienating, etc. I'd be down. But dice? really?
I kinda wonder though, are all the studies of/homages to pieces of old TSR art, plus the cartoons, plus the adventure marginalia like in the back of the 1st edition DMG just a little too much? I love all that crap, but aiming specifically at beardos like me is probably a good way for Goodman Games to go broke. | <urn:uuid:b49ba20a-c214-46a6-8873-5c879b6386ec> | CC-MAIN-2022-05 | https://jrients.blogspot.com/2011/06/dcc-rpg-art.html | 2022-01-26T13:38:04Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-05/segments/1642320304954.18/warc/CC-MAIN-20220126131707-20220126161707-00398.warc.gz | en | 0.958931 | 347 |
The national conversation in the US about whether or not transgender and gender-nonconforming (henceforth “trans*”) people should be legally and de facto permitted to use public restrooms began on May 28, 2014, when Houston City Council voted to enact the Houston Equal-Rights Ordinance (HERO), banning discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation, gender identity, sex, race, color, ethnicity, national origin, age, religion, disability, pregnancy, genetic information, and family, marital, and military status. The ordinance applied to businesses that serve the public, private employers, housing, city employment, and city contracting. Quickly, opponents of the ordinance—mainly constituents on the religious right—recast the broad anti-discrimination ordinance as “perverts and the mentally ill working together with the gay-rights lobby”—namely “aggressive gay-rights activist” (Erickson 2015) lesbian Mayor Annise Parker—to “force our wives and daughters to share their restrooms, dressing rooms, and locker-room showers with men” (Campaign for Houston 2015a). Opponents of HERO, also known as Proposition 1, submitted 50,000 signatures to force the ordinance to a vote, and began a vigorous campaign, using the slogan “NO MEN IN WOMEN’S BATHROOMS!”
Campaign for Houston—“made up of parents and family members who do not want their daughters, sisters or mothers forced to share restrooms in public facilities with gender-confused men”—ran an ominous thirty-second, black-and-white television spot (Campaign for Houston 2015b) depicting a uniformed schoolgirl in a public restroom. A woman’s voice urgently narrated:
Houston’s Proposition 1 bathroom ordinance. What does it mean to you? Any man at any time could enter a woman’s bathroom simply by claiming to be a woman that day. No one is exempt. Even registered sex offenders could follow women or young girls into the bathroom. And if a business tried to stop them, they’d be fined. Protect women’s privacy. Prevent danger. Vote no on the Proposition 1 bathroom ordinance. It goes too far.
The spot ends with a boy entering a bathroom stall where a surprised girl sits on a toilet:
© Campaign for Houston 2015.
Sexual violence perpetrated by cis men against girls and women occurs at epidemic rates. The most severe of this violence is directed at trans girls and women, the very population being denied bathroom access, purportedly in order to protect cis girls and women from sexual predators. But public restrooms are not particularly dangerous places. Copious research reveals the frequency and circumstances under which gender-based violence typically occurs. One in five cis women will be raped at some point in their lives (compared to one in 71 cis men). Of transgender people, one in two will be sexually assaulted during their lifetime (which is also likely to be shorter than the average cis person’s, as the average life expectancy of transgender people is 31 years) (Murphy 2012). Of rape and sexual assault victims, 91% are women. In eight out of 10 cases of rape, the victim knows the person who sexually assaulted them. Of people who sexually abuse children, 34% are family members, 96% of whom are cis men (Black et al. 2011).
Facts about the sexual assault of transgender people—especially transgender women—are particularly harrowing. Assaults are disproportionately perpetrated by those whose office it is to protect or aid, e.g. police or healthcare providers. Some 15% of transgender people report being sexually assaulted while in police custody or jail, which more than doubles (32%) if the person is black. Another 10% were assaulted by healthcare professionals. Of LGBTQ people who died in violent hate crimes, 50% were transgender women; the other half were male, many of whom were gender-nonconforming. Of all reported violent hate crimes against LGBTQ people, 17% were directed against transgender people, with most (11%) against transgender women (Kenagy 2005).
State responses to violence against women?
The newest culture war is being fought over whether or not trans* people should be allowed to use public restrooms. Even while much of public space has been gender-integrated, most public restrooms remain gender-segregated. It appears, moreover, as though most US Americans accept this arrangement of public space. This form of segregation is considered desirable, ostensibly for maintaining the privacy and protection of girls and women. Indeed, those seeking to bar trans* people from using public restrooms appear unable to imagine safe gender-integrated or gender-inclusive restrooms. There is widespread belief that these restrooms would enable cis men to sexually assault cis girls and women. A particularly insidious feature of this discourse is that, in addition to unquestioningly reinforcing the normalcy and desirability of gender segregated public restrooms, it produces misplaced worry and anxiety about sexual violence against girls and women, replete with attendant fear-mongering. Simultaneously, the amplification of this fear eclipses the real, present, and ongoing epidemic of sexual violence against girls and women, especially trans girls and women.
On March 23, 2016, in an unprecedentedly proactive move on the part of the religious right, North Carolina passed House Bill 2 (HB2), requiring people to use the gendered restroom facility that corresponds to the “male” or “female” sex designation printed on their birth certificate. HB2 has inspired other states to take similar action. As I write, lawmakers in 15 states (Alabama, Arkansas, Illinois, Kansas, Kentucky, Minnesota, Missouri, New York, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, Washington, and Wyoming) have introduced similar legislation (Kralik 2017). Two months after HB2 passed, the Obama administration publicized guidance stating that Title IX—a 1972 federal law prohibiting sex discrimination in any educational program or activity receiving federal financial assistance—protects the rights of trans* students to use the restroom that corresponds to their gender identity rather than the sex designated on their birth certificates or any other government-issued documents. One month after Donald Trump took office, his administration ordered the nation’s schools to disregard the Obama administrations’ guidance to extend Title IX protections to trans* students (Somashekhar et al. 2017). Across the US, schools, cities, and states have been left to decide whether or not to legislate trans* people into or out of the protected class of people who are permitted to use public restrooms.
Paternalism, hegemonic masculinity, and gender segregation
Even as gender inequality continues to organize much of public life, public restrooms are one of the last vestiges of formal gender segregation. But public restrooms have not always been gender-segregated. The first law requiring separate restrooms for women and men was passed in Massachusetts in 1887 (Commonwealth of Massachusetts 1887) and applied specifically to factories that employed both female and male workers (Rhodan 2016). Around the turn of the century, similar laws were passed in nearly every state. Legal scholar Terry Stuart Kogan has shown that such laws reflected men’s anxieties about women entering the workforce. Furthermore, the laws indicated an ideology of “separate spheres”—the notion that men’s natural place in society is the public sphere of governance, economics, and politics, whereas the natural place of women is in the private sphere of domesticity, child-rearing, and housekeeping (Kogan 2007). Women were (and often are) viewed as the weaker sex, in need of protection from men, by men. Throughout the late 1800s and early 1900s, architectural expressions of the separate-spheres ideology resulted in separate “ladies’” reading rooms in public libraries, “ladies’ cars” on commuter trains, and women-only parlor spaces.
The notion that women are in need of protection endures despite a degree of integration of women into the persistently male-supremacist public sphere. Widespread cultural belief in women’s inherent fragility is the dominant ideological position of present-day advocates of restroom segregation, and the rallying cry for barring trans* people from using public restrooms altogether.
A fearmongering tone similar to that taken by Houston’s anti-HERO activists was deployed at a March 2016 rally organized by Keep NC Safe (a pro-HB2 organization), where one speaker stood behind a podium that read, “KEEP Women SAFE” and argued:
As any good father knows, it’s never okay for a man to be able to strip down and shower beside my daughters in a waterpark bathroom. Nor alongside my wife. Nor alongside my sister or mother or grandmother, or yours (Keep NC Safe 2016).
Consistently, opponents of legal protections for trans* people in public space produce and repeat imaginary narratives in which gender-integrated restrooms allow sexually predatory men to enter women’s private spaces in order to harm them. Underlying these narratives is the notion that all men are potentially predatory. At a February 2015 Religious Broadcasters Convention, Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee quipped:
Now I wish that someone told me when I was in high school that I could have felt like a woman when it came time to take showers in PE. I’m pretty sure that I would have found my feminine side and said, “Coach, I think I’d rather shower with the girls today” (Oh 2015).
Hegemonic masculinity frames all men as naturally lecherous, as though salaciousness is a fundamental component of being a man. From the advent of the first gender-segregated public restrooms in the US in 1887 to the present—even as we have managed to desegregate the library and the commuter trains—the separate-spheres ideology and calls for the paternalistic protection of fragile girls and women persists to legitimate restroom segregation. An effect of segregation is that trans* people are excluded from public restrooms altogether.
Trans* advocates have been quite prolific in justly deconstructing the narrative that trans* protections threaten girls and women. These advocates and allies have explained that transgender women are not men, that it is already illegal to enter a restroom with the intent to harass or harm someone, and that it is transgender people (not cis women) who experience the highest rates of harassment and violence in public restrooms.
Trans* people exist. Like cis people, they need to use public restrooms. US federal anti-discrimination law protects people on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, pregnancy, citizenship, familial status, disability status, veteran status, and genetic information. It only makes sense that these laws should interpret “sex” as including trans* people, and/or should include “gender identity” as a protected class status. At the same time, there is rampant sexual violence against an alarming number of girls and women. When attempting to create legislation aimed at protecting girls and women (which must include trans girls and women), jurisdictions seeking to address that violence would be aided by turning to the vast research and data that show how, when, where, and under what circumstances such violence occurs. Cis men have been harming girls and women in all manner of places, for as long as history is able to document. As of yet, there are no documented instances of a trans* person harming a cis woman in a public restroom.
- Black, M. C., Basile, K. C., Breiding, M. J., Smith, S. G., Walters, M. L., Merrick, M. T., Chen, J. and Stevens, M. R. 2011. The National Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence Survey (NISVS): 2010 Summary Report, Atlanta: National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
- Campaign for Houston. 2015. “Campaign for Houston – TV Spot 1”, YouTube, 13 October.
- Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 1887. 1887 Chap. 0103. An Act to Secure Proper Sanitary Provisions in Factories and Workshops, Boston: Secretary of the Commonwealth.
- Erickson, E. 2015. “Perverts and the Mentally Ill Lose in Houston, TX”, RedState, 3 November.
- Keep NC Safe. 2016. “Pat Promised to Keep NC Safe”, YouTube, 22 March.
- Kenagy, G. 2005. “The Health and Social-Service Needs of Transgender People in Philadelphia”, International Journal of Transgenderism, vol. 8, pp. 49–56.
- Kogan, T. S. 2007. “Sex-Separation in Public Restrooms: Law, Architecture, and Gender”, Michigan Journal of Gender and Law, vol. 14, pp. 1–57.
- Kralik, J. 2017. “‘Bathroom Bill’ Legislative Tracking”, National Conference of State Legislatures, 20 March.
- Murphy, A. 2012. “No More ‘Lying’: Law Bolsters Transgender Argentines”, All Things Considered, National Public Radio, 1 October.
- Oh, I. 2015. “Mike Huckabee Wishes He Lied About Being Transgender So He Could Have Showered with High School Girls”, Mother Jones, 2 June.
- Rhodan, M. 2016. “Why Do We Have Men’s and Women’s Bathrooms Anyway?”, Time, 16 May.
- Skinner, V. 2016. “Parents pull transgender 8-year-old from TX school over ‘hateful’ classmates”, EAG News, 3 October.
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Glass furniture and fixtures at home or in the office could be made squeaky clean with glass cleaners. Well-kempt glass surfaces create a lasting impression on your guests, customers, and all sorts of people – it keeps them coming back for more. It is for this reason that some people stack one or two glass cleaners to keep their space grime-free and smelling fresh.
Thousands of glass cleaners may catch your fancy as you browse the internet, but before you do, read our buying guide to make the choice easier for you. Also, don't forget to see the list we made for the best glass cleaners which keep your surfaces crystal clear. Read on to find out more!
Whether you are a professional or a home buddy whose day consists of casual cleaning, a good glass cleaner goes a long way to keep your space clean or even disinfect germ-prone areas. Know how to purchase one below.
With the advent of multi-surface glass cleaners, you may quickly add to your virtual cart one which erases every bit of grime. While this may be true, making the choice can be very tricky. You need to pay special attention to the formulation of the product to clean your home. Glass cleaners come in the form of liquid, foam, and wipes.
When talking about glass cleaners, we typically picture a liquid solution with a top spray. This explains why liquid glass cleaners are also the most familiar type among common folks.
While some are packaged in spray bottles, others come in an aerosol can. Speaking of handy, some liquid type cleaners may even be attached to a hose so that you can clean your windows outside the house.
Liquid glass cleaners go well with cloth materials, particularly microfiber and other lint-free cleaning cloths. This type proves to be the easiest to apply on cloth, especially when you dampen it with water first before applying the glass cleaner.
To wipe down dirt, oil, and grease which your ordinary detergent cannot remove, this type is the way to go. Compared to the liquid type which drips when applied, the foam sticks to the surface as it takes the hard-to-remove dirt with it as you're wiping.
This is perfect for erasing bird droppings on your car windows, watermarks and toothpaste marks on bathroom mirrors, and many more. Most foam cleaners are advertised drip-free, for that streak-free shine on your automobile.
This type works well for the less dirty surfaces, preferably the ones you've thoroughly cleaned the day before. For quick touchups, use wipes to best to double-cleanse your home, especially during this pandemic.
Though it might not be as effective as liquid or foam ones, it works on the use-and-toss principle for quick disposal. It can be tricky when storing this kind of glass cleaner. Hence, you need to reseal the package correctly so that the wipes wouldn't dry out.
It would be good to note that glass cleaners are mostly made of solvents, detergents, or other additives so naturally, their performances will vary. At the end of the day, all you need is a glass cleaner that removes unwanted grime while keeping your environment safe and clean.
Glass cleaners are commonly formulated with a hint of ammonia. Besides being a regular cleansing ingredient, it is also inexpensive. It cuts through dirt, grease, fingerprint, and spills while eradicating germs in the process.
However, we must exercise caution when using this type of product. It is best to use it in a room with proper ventilation and it must be used by someone who has no existing respiratory ailments. That's because ammonia can cause serious irritation to your sinuses, throat, or skin.
Spilling ammonia on the skin could cause serious chemical burns while accidentally splashing it around the eye area could potentially blind someone. Hence, it's important to keep it out of your children's reach.
Some glass cleaners include alcohol in their formulation in place of ammonia. Alcohol has been proven to dissolve grease and oil stains effectively without the impending dangers of using ammonia.
It is also fast-drying, helping you achieve residue- and streak-free glass surfaces inside your living space. For your daily glass care, a mild alcohol glass cleaner can very well carry out the task of removing grease and dirt from the surface.
Although it may not cause as much harm as ammonia, caution must be taken when using products with alcohol. Accidental ingestion could be fatal without subsequent medical attention. Once again, keep it out of your children's reach.
The efficacy of vinegar in cleaning has lead manufacturers to include this ingredient in some glass cleaners sold in the market today. Unlike ammonia or alcohol, the smell of vinegar is tolerable and non-toxic, so this makes it the best choice when you are around children and elderly people.
Though it might not be as aggressive as ammonia in stripping off grease and dirt, it can still clean surfaces with lesser grease and grime. This will be perfect for your daily household upkeep with the safety and health of your household members in mind.
Not only has glass cleaners been used on glass surfaces, but it also strips off dirt from mirrors, tile, and other sealed surfaces. Other materials call for specially formulated cleaners.
Due to the manufacturing design of most electronics nowadays, their lightweight properties mean that they are mostly made of multiple layers of thin plastic, not glass. This holds true for televisions, computers, and phones, to name a few.
Using a cleaner with either alcohol or ammonia in it might cause your electronics to haze or discolor. Thus, it's important to use a specially formulated cleaner to remove fingerprints and dust from your expensive gadgets.
The same is true for chromes, stainless steel, vinyl, and sealed tile. Use glass cleaners with ammonia-free ingredients to prevent discoloration on your furniture. It's also good practice to check the label and user's guidelines to preserve the quality of the fixtures that you are using the glass cleaner on.
Thoroughly cleaning glass, mirrors, and other shiny surfaces could be very telling of your commitment to cleanliness. Here are some products that'll keep your home or office squeaky clean.
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If you're a car owner, you usually go to your trusted car wash to give your beloved vehicle every bit of cleansing it needs. Every session consists of shining your glass windows to perfection, and to achieve the same result at home, we'd need a little help from other car cleaning aficionados. Watch this video from Pan the Organizer to know more.
Given enough time for cleaning, you can scrub off every undesirable thing inside your living space. To maximize your efforts, check out these products that'll aid you in achieving a cleaner and healthier home.
Cleaning glass surfaces may be a thankless job, but it heightens other people's admiration of your commitment to keeping your living quarters spotless clean. From shiny countertops to clean-smelling coffee tables, glass cleaners help create a lasting impression on your visitors and acquaintances.
People may also judge others by simply looking at their car windows, so it helps if you buff your windows to perfection using this product. Glass cleaners aid in letting in unobstructed light into our homes, making them more appealing and inviting to the rest of the world.
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Hundreds Fill Cincinnati Streets For Black Lives Matter
A Black Lives Matter demonstration and march through Downtown and Over-the-Rhine ended peacefully Sunday. The protest was held after the deaths of black men and women in police custody or in contact with police. It was organized Thursday just before five Dallas Police officers were killed at a similar rally.
Brian Taylor with Black Lives Matter Cincinnati says it is okay to mourn those deaths.
"But do not fall for the attempt for your empathy to be converted into shame, apology for our right to liberation, and never let it minimize the scope of our suffering."
While many are hopeful for change in police/community relations, they say there's still a long way to go.
The demonstration started outside Cincinnati Police Headquarters on Ezzard Charles. But the hundreds of people didn't stay there. They marched through Downtown and ended in Washington Park. That's where Catherine Elizabeth of Cincinnati was. She says while many Americans think relations between police and African-Americans have improved, they haven't.
"We live in a different reality than you. My skin, every time I walk into a room, I am stared at and looked at, maybe by two people, maybe by five, maybe by the whole room. I notice it. You might not notice it. You don't have the same perspective as me."
Another woman came specifically from Youngstown for the rally. Sabrina Donaldson says while she wants change, it hasn't happened yet.
"Until I feel comfortable being able to allow my son to go out and drive, following the law, without having to feel any sense of fear about somebody racially profiling him because he's an African-American, 19 year old male, when that fear is gone, then I can honestly say that things have changed."
Both Donaldson and Elizabeth say it will take people of all races working together to reach peace and justice.
Travis Johnson of Over-the-Rhine didn't plan on attending the demonstration. He was driving by with his wife and brother when they decided to join. He's optimistic events like this can make a difference.
"It takes time for things to actually happen. And we're just doing it peacefully. Doing it how it's supposed to be done. Doing how the people before us did it."
Hundreds of people were arrested over the weekend during demonstrations in St. Paul, Minnesota and Baton Rouge, Louisiana, after police had shot and killed black men in both cities.
Cincinnati Police say there were no arrests or incidents during Sunday's demonstration.
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The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Abia State has commended Aba residents for trooping out en mass to appreciate Governor Okezie Ikpeazu’s developmental strides through their vote for the PDP and her candidate, Chimaobi Ebisike
The Abia PDP described the gesture as a sign of confidence the electorate has in the leadership of Governor Ikpeazu and the ruling party in the state.
Alwell Asiforo Okere, the State Chairman of PDP, made the commendation when he received member-elect for Aba North and South Federal Constituency, Chimaobi Ebisike at the party’s secretariat in Umuahia.
Ebisike had visited to present the certificate of return issued to him by INEC to the members of the State Working Committee of the party.
PDP further described its victory in the just concluded Aba North/South Federal House of Representatives byelection as a clear confirmation that Abia is PDP, urging the new Aba Representative, Ebisike, to render quality and effective representation as well as inclusive leadership.
The Party leadership also tasked Ebisike to remain committed and supportive to the party in the state.
Responding, the member-elect appreciated the people of Aba for their kind gesture to him during, before and after the poll and promised to remain dedicated, loyal and committed to the party in the state.
He used the medium to dedicate his resounding victory to God Almighty and Governor Okezie Ikpeazu and the Peoples Democratic Party family in the state.
Speaking during the visit, a former Transition Committee Chairman of Aba North, Local Government area, Barrister Chizurum Kanu said the emergence of Ebisike will further complement the unprecedented achievements of Governor Ikpeazu in the federal constituency
The PDP chieftain extolled the members of the State Working Committee for their show of love and commitment while thanking the good people of Aba for their massive support.
DAILY POST reported that the Peoples Democratic Party candidate, Chimaobi Ebisike emerged winner of the March 27 bye-election held across Aba North and Aba South local government areas of Abia State.
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Malcolm Morley was one of the seminal figures of international contemporary art. Born and trained in England, Morley moved to New York in 1958. Under the influences of Pop Art and Abstract Expressionism he developed his own distinctive Hyperrealist style. This wry form of realism found its subject matter in different types of photographs (including pictures of old-master paintings, family portraits and images from travel brochures and calendars), which Morley transferred to the canvas using a grid system. His interest in the actual photographic object was often made concrete through the attention paid to details such as borders, tears or folds. Later on, he purposely broke away from the stylistic innovations that brought him his initial fame. Morley defied characterisation, moving through so-called abstract, hyperrealist, neo-romantic, and neo-expressionist painterly modes, while being attentive to his own biographical experiences.Read More
Malcolm Morley was born in 1931 in London, United Kingdom and died in 2018 in Bellport, New York, USA. Malcolm Morley won the inaugural Turner Prize, London, in 1984 and has exhibited internationally throughout his career, including Documenta 5 and 6, and the Royal Academy's pivotal group exhibition A New Spirit in Painting (1981). Solo exhibitions included Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago (1984); Centre Pompidou, Paris (1993); Fundación La Caixa, Madrid (1995); Hayward Gallery, London (2001) and Schloss Derneburg Museum, Derneburg (2017–2018).
Text courtesy Xavier Hufkens.
The London-born artist Malcolm Morley, known for his innovations in photorealist and neo-expressionist art, has died aged 86. Xavier Hufkens gallery in Brussels, one of the galleries that represent h
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Edgewater Drive will be closed between River Overlook Drive and Edgewater Court for approximately one week beginning June 6, according to the city of Sandy Springs.
City workers will be replacing a culvert located in front of 1010 Edgewater Drive. Detours will be in place, officials said.
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Lessons blues blues licks beginner blues guitar pro tab with free online tab player, speed control and loop. For all you blues beginners out there, in this video i will teach you the a pentatonic scale and three basic blues licks that use this scale. How to download 101 blues licks you must know pdf files to my device. Townes van zandt, who was a very blue singersongwriter, is often quoted for stating there are only two kinds of songs. As a self taught musician ive been making a living as a blues bass player for more than twenty years. Waggoner these sheets may be used as source material for students working on solos over blues progressions in f. Click here to gain instant access to pdf filled with blues pentatonic scales. Rock licks encyclopedia download ebook pdf, epub, tuebl. Five easy blues guitar licks you will love playing.
After the fundamentals, you have the chance to learn the intricacies of blues, country and rock. The file will open when you click on pdf word from lessons, and you can. Click download file button or copy 101 blues licks you must know pdf url which shown in textarea when you clicked file title, and paste it into your browsers address bar. Download 101 blues licks you must know pdf files tradownload. Here are some key of e blues guitar licks in open position in the. Free blues guitar lessons here youll find over 200 completely free blues guitar lessons from texas blues alley. Texas blues guitar licks pentatonic tricks youtube. Guitar labs 50 texas blues guitar licks you must know. Guitar player just did a list of the top 50 classic acoustic rock songs. Corey congilio 50 texas blues licks you must know download. His breakthrough album with john mayall is a top blues album of all. Stylistically, texas flood is structured around the common three chord blues progression. Guitar lab dvd 50 texas blues guitar licks you must know dvd.
Unraveling the mysteries of chicago and texas blues shuffles, part 1 guitar. Thanks chris this is a great lesson for us advancing beginners. Press button download or read online below and wait 20 seconds. The iivv 145 the 8 bar blues the 12 bar blues a variation of the 12 bar blues roman numerals are used to show which chord or key changes are used in a progression. Apr 14, 2016 here are some key of e blues guitar licks in open position in the style of lightnin. Although texas flood has three verses of lyrics, the song is more of a prolonged guitar solo, allowing vaughan to show off his characteristic electric blues style. Guitar lab a quantum leap in learning guitar labs 50 blues guitar licks you must know. Txba locals join us join the locals find out what it takes to become a local at txba. This is a collection of thirty different blues licks ranging from beginning through advanced. Learn them, master them, and keep them on file for the next time youre looking for just the right way to say whats in your soul.
Ive found that expression and feel is what a bass player needs to bring to the gig and to the jam. Blues guitar playing has certainly evolved since the 1950s and i hope to give you ataste of some of the best licks to come from the lone star state. Read testimonials read what our members have to say about the locals. I purchased your 50 cool blues licks improvisation. Licks and lessons in the style of players such as bb king, muddy waters, buddy guy, stevie ray vaughan, albert king, eric clapton and more. Dec 21, 2016 thanks everyone, i hope this is a really fun and achievable lesson for players starting out on their blues adventure. Blazing 1991 performances by the great albert collins generate a heat which belies his iceman moniker. In this series of lessons youll learn how to apply techniques and. Remember that you can use the speed controls at the bottom of the video player, this will slow down the performance to. Texas blues guitar a genre which is also commonly known as blues rock is geared toward the player who is looking to play blistering lead lines, licks, and solos which can also be used in various other genres and styles of music. The range of texas blues guitar styles, both rural and urban, is captured in this collection of fourteen performances by four legendary texas bluesmen. In this lesson, well take a funky texas blues groove in a and add a few hot licks that will test your ability to move in and out of licks and rhythm parts.
Blues progressions the following blues progressions are covered in this lesson. This is the intermediate blues licks collection of free blues guitar lessons from texas blues alley. Heavily influenced by southern rock, bluesrock, slide and a dash of jazz, this modern style of texas blues features the heavy use of memorable electric guitar riffs, blazing solos, exciting rhythm patterns and tasty turnarounds, all of which are showcased in this handpicked collection of 50 texas blues licks you must know. Styles run the gamut from straightforward bluesrock cliche licks, licks in the style of some of our favorite guitarists, to some fairly unorthodox ideas. I have also included two sample mp3s of the g7 lines in the book. All of the licks are written in the key of e minor, so that you can easily master them in this popular key. The lone state boasts many cultural riches, and its gifts to the blues tradition are among its most exemplary treasures. Download guitar licks encyclopedia or read guitar licks encyclopedia online books in pdf, epub and mobi format. Later examples are often closer to blues rock and southern rock. Students should, of course, study the solos of great jazz players to derive even more source material. Join pianogroove pro to access all downloads and learning resources. Blues style course level 1 and level 2 blues mini courses.
Their licks remain as the common language of the blues guitar solo style. Tablature format pdf ou fichier guitar pro 7 disponible gratuitement sur. See more ideas about guitar lessons, guitar and guitar tutorial. You can print pdf archives from lessons as it normally happens with. Texas blues guitar licks guitarjamz premium lessons. Please practice handwashing and social distancing, and check out our resources for adapting to these times. Nov 14, 2016 in this lesson, well take a funky texas blues groove in a and add a few hot licks that will test your ability to move in and out of licks and rhythm parts. Aside from of course an extensive knowledge of blues standards and grooves. Jonathon wilson collected these 30 blues licks, and by putting them on musescore you can transpose them into any key you want. Guitar lab dvd 50 blues guitar licks you must know dvd. His texas and chicago blues blend has a lot of power and introduced a lot of language that used by t. Everything is shown in easytoread standard music notation and tab.
Thanks very much for your 50 cool blues licks course. John lee hooker relocated to detroit and invented the boogie, which has resounded in blues, rock, and pop styles ever since. Stevie ray vaughan was the most prominent figure in one style of texas electric blues in the late 20th century. Heres an easy way to tell if my course is right for you. Click download or read online button to get guitar licks encyclopedia book now. Guitarplayer is part of future us inc, an international media group and leading digital publisher. Ace session guitarist mat gurman teaches budding bluesmasters 50 terrific phrases, demonstrating licks for dominant and minor blues progressions, turnarounds, intro licks, ending licks, stop time licks and many more. Feb 26, 2014 lessons blues blues licks beginner blues guitar pro tab with free online tab player, speed control and loop. After christians untimely death in 1941, walker became the leading guitar voice of the electric guitar. The first batch of licks comes from the swing jazz and jump blues era of the late 1930s and early. It is a pdf file that you can download immediately so you can get to work.
Were going to start of with simple singlenote lick ideas, and then we will introduce other intervals into the licks like minor and major thirds. These 5 licks use only notes from the minor pentatonic, and incorporate string bending as most blues licks do. Clapton took the blues of the 50s and 60s and found his own take on them to powerful effect. Muddy waters and howlin wolf developed the early versions of chicago blues by amplifying their rootsy delta licks in a combo setting with tunes little red rooster, and spoonful. The next step after this is to start learning solos by your favorite guitar players and see how they use these licks, as well as learning other licks and tricks they play that interest you. Ill cover licks from tbone walker to stevie ray vaughan to. The first roman numeral i is the root or key that the progression is in. Courses premium blues guitar courses for players of every skill level. Walker, a texas bluesman who was a cohort of charlie christian.
Another early 2008 video tutorial originally done for expert village. Blues licks beginner blues interactive tab by lessons. Leigh fuge of mgr music works through 10 easy blues guitar licks for beginners that can be quickly worked into a practice routine. Heavily influenced by southern rock, bluesrock, slide and a dash of jazz, this modern style of texas blues features the heavy use of memorable electric guitar riffs, blazing solos, exciting rhythm patterns and tasty turnarounds, all of which are showcased in this handpicked. This is a slightly longer lines using double stops. This site is like a library, use search box in the widget to get ebook that you want. Now lets take our study of the blues scale further and use the notes of the minor blues scale, the major blues scale and the extended blues scale to create different types of blues licks of riffs.
Theyre all very very common licks that youll find most blues players using, so you want to put these in your bag right away. Over 300 guitar licks licks, intros and turnarounds in delta, chicago, texas, rock, country, swing, minor and slide blues styles. With included practice tips and wisdom from jamie, this ebook is worth more than it costs. About corey congilios 50 texas blues licks you must know crucial. The pentatonic scale is the most often used scale for soloing and improvising in blues and rock. If we would play over a minor bluesprogression with for instance the chords am7, dm7 and em7 we cant use the major pentatonic scale. Stevie ray vaughans ferocious playing on texas floodparticularly his albert kinginspired licks. But this book can also be used on its own as a stand alone reference guide to scale diagrams, lead guitar soloing strategies, learning to play over chord changes, and more. I hope you enjoyed looking at these five easy blues guitar licks.
As a regional style, its original form was characterized by jazz and swing influences. The videos show the licks in c, but you can download sheet music which has the licks in nearly all keys. This one features a different movement for the picking hand. Print and download in pdf or midi 30 must have blues piano licks.
Rock licks encyclopedia download ebook pdf, epub, tuebl, mobi. Dvd will guide you through some of the most essential and commonly used phrases, riffs, solos, rhythm patterns and licks used in texas blues. Practising this cell in isolation will make the lick easier to execute. This comprehensive book has 260 pages and over 50 fingerpicking guitar solos in notation and tablature in country blues, delta blues, ragtime blues, texas blues and bottleneck styles. If you want to learn to improvise all over the neck, learn great blues licks, how to make up your own, connect licks together, learn to solo and really master all the blues pentatonic blues scale shapes inside out, check out the 50 cool blues licks improvisation course. His mix of earthy oklahoma and texas blues and swinging, saxinspired phrases.1595 1274 1482 108 1226 747 1140 1320 243 698 894 983 1353 1235 1024 252 404 1109 1064 184 1544 835 775 1350 522 36 468 341 1535 595 162 1159 1293 1260 656 1399 1185 1136 994 654 1124 436 27 906 126 148 503 | <urn:uuid:fb3bd0dc-740a-460c-8884-acca3ded6d3a> | CC-MAIN-2022-05 | https://ropnerssnaric.web.app/352.html | 2022-01-26T15:17:14Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-05/segments/1642320304954.18/warc/CC-MAIN-20220126131707-20220126161707-00398.warc.gz | en | 0.927822 | 3,196 |
September 24, 2017 – Ausable Chasm, NY
Difficulty: Easy – moderate
Length: Approximately 3.5 miles
Max elevation: 341 ft.– total elevation gain approximately 690 ft.
Route type: Circuit
Map: Displayed below and issued with admission to the park.
Trailhead parking: 2144 U.S. 9, Ausable Chasm, NY 12911
Admission fee: Rates vary
Ausable Chasm is a sandstone gorge located near Keeseville, New York. The Ausable River runs through it and then empties into Lake Champlain. The gorge is about two miles long and is a tourist attraction in the Adirondacks region of Upstate New York. It is also the oldest natural attraction in the United States (est. 1870).
It is fed at the south end by 91-foot-tall Rainbow Falls.
There is a dam upstream from Rainbow Falls, operated by the New York State Gas and Electric Company.
There are several tour packages depending on what activities you prefer. Activities include: hiking, rafting or tubing through the gorge, rappelling, rock climbing, mountain biking and more. Ausable Chasm also has a campground and motel on the grounds with a pool, playgrounds, shuffleboard and basketball court.
We decided to just do the self-guided hike so we could wander through the park at our own pace and without a crowd. After paying the entrance fee, we headed south along the gorge to view the falls and the dam. We then walked north, under the bridge and through a turnstile to a short spur trail that leads to a view of Elephant’s Head, one of their more notable rock formations.
Retracing our steps, we passed back through the turnstile and crossed the AuSable Chasm Bridge, that carries US 9 over the Ausable River. It was built in 1932-1933.
After showing our wristbands at the gatehouse, we walked to a viewpoint over the AuSable Chasm Bridge. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.
We hiked the Inner Sanctum Trail, a 1-mile route that goes down into the heart of the gorge, and past features known at Pulpit Rock, Elephant’s Head, Devil’s Oven, Mystic Gorge, Column Rock and Hyde’s Cave.
Looking down into the gorge from the Inner Sanctum Trail.
Looking downstream into the gorge from the Inner Sanctum Trail.
The trail is moderate with lots of carved-rock and wooden steps.
The rocks may be wet and slick at times. I encountered some shaky railings in certain spots and would not recommend leaning on them.
Much of the trail is on ledges above the narrow and fast-flowing river with sheer rock on both sides and above you. There are several suspension foot bridges that carry the trail through the gorge.
The 2-mile Rim Walk Trail is the easiest route and follows the upper lip of the gorge through a forest. It is mostly a wood-chip path with picnic tables along the way.
The Adventure Trail is the toughest route that includes a cable course with traverses, bridges, cargo net climbs and edge walks.
The Dry Chasm Trail covers 1.5 miles in two sections. It travels through ancient riverbeds. We did not go on this trail because it was swampy and buggy on the day that we visited.
There are several shuttle stops which can be used to return to the center of the park instead of walking. We decided to walk back and turn our hike into a semi-loop. On the way back I spotted a couple of Garter Snakes along the trail.
We did an approximately 3.5 mile hike on our visit. We saw most if not all of the points of interests. Ausable Chasm is one of those places that you read about and just want to visit. We got there early on a Sunday morning, just after it opened. Just early enough to beat the crowds. On our way out we passed by a lot of people just arriving. The drive to and fro is quite scenic as well.
Pros: Very scenic, Lots of different activities available, great for kids.
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Upon calculating my carbon footprint I felt pretty good about myself. According to this survey I produce about two thousand tons less then the average American per year. Then I moved on to the ecological footprint calculator and found out that it would take 5 planets for everyone on earth to sustain the lifestyle that I live. This made me feel not so great. In fact, I was kind of upset with myself. Do I live that extravagantly that it would take 4 more planets to sustain life if everyone lived like me? I sure hope not.
Now that I am aware of how I live it is time to analyze some aspects of my lifestyle that I can change to be more ecologically friendly. For this I have decided to hone in on my electricity usage. I’m the type of person who likes having the lights on, I feel as though the brightness makes me feel a little better and puts me in a better mood then sitting in the dark. As a result, the lights are always on. I’m not exaggerating, the lights are ALWAYS ON. And not just in the room that I am in, but throughout my entire house. This is something that can definitely be changed. There is absolutely no need to have the lights blaring throughout the entire house if I’m only using one room. So, looking forward this is one are where I can be more efficient. Another thing I can do to help my electricity usage is to unplug devices that are not in use. Things like my computer or phone charger or even my printer is plugged in all day, every day. This is simply a waste of energy. While I am not using these devices I plan to keep them unplugged so that I can conserve as much energy as possible. Hopefully I can find enough little things like this that can add up to an overall improved ecological and carbon footprint.
Looking forward I do foresee a few challenges. The main one being that I don’t live alone. I have two roommates who, like myself, usually leave the lights blaring and the television blasting. Hopefully my new and improved environmentally friendly habits will rub off on them. I guess only time will tell. | <urn:uuid:a647c461-c10b-4958-9efc-72b1e6d64d31> | CC-MAIN-2022-05 | https://sites.lafayette.edu/evst100-sp14/2014/03/25/blacking-out/ | 2022-01-26T13:35:22Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-05/segments/1642320304954.18/warc/CC-MAIN-20220126131707-20220126161707-00398.warc.gz | en | 0.96997 | 442 |
How to shop the Boxing Day and January Sales sustainably
Hi, friends! I hope you’ve had a good festive season (well, as good as 2020 could allow!) and that you’re finding some joy in these crazy times.
Speaking of crazy times, we’re entering the Boxing Day- January sales period. It’ll definitely hit different this year with no physical shopping happening in the UK anytime soon, but chances are you’ve faced a barrage of sales emails as brands try to entice you online.
The fashion industry goes hard on the ‘new year, new me’ sentiment, pushing new clothes as the solution to all your woes. A few years ago I would have been all over that. I’m ashamed to admit that there’s been times in the past I was perusing clothes websites for the best deals on CHRISTMAS DAY so I could snap up the fast fashion ‘bargains’ ahead of anyone else.
Ultimately, I totally bought into that feeling of ‘lack’ that fast fashion so insidiously instills in us. If I could just buy that new outfit, and purchase as many clothes as possible for my budget, then I’d feel good about myself. There were so many pieces of the years that were ‘too good a deal to let pass me by’ that I can’t even remember, let alone still own.
How many of those ‘bargain’ sales buys of yours over the years have languished in your wardrobe, tags still on? Or maybe, if they’re lucky, are worn once, then swiftly abandoned for something else? If you’re anything like me, that number is higher than we’d like to admit.
And we’re not alone. According to our pals at the Waste and Resources Action Plan (WRAP), UK consumers have around £30 billion worth of clothes which they haven’t worn for a year hanging in their wardrobes, with a third of all of the clothes we buy ending up in landfill.
As a stylist focused on ethical and sustainable fashion, it’s my mission to help everyone escape the trap of buying clothes we don’t actually like or need (despite the fashion industry’s attempts to make us feel otherwise!). I want to show you how buying better and buying less is totally revolutionary for your style.
But let’s face it: we as human beings love saving money. And in fact, buying clothes in the sale is a brilliant strategy for building a conscious and considered wardrobe. So how can you use the Boxing Day and January sales season to your advantage? I’ve learned a thing or two about how to navigate sales like a pro, so not only will you secure the best deals, but you’ll actually end up with clothes you want to wear. Sounds good, no?
How to shop sales sustainably
Audit your wardrobe
How can you know what to buy if you don’t know what you already have? It’s human instinct to be drawn to things we already know we like, but if you find yourself lusting after a red party dress on sale when you already have three similar styles in your wardrobe, it’s unlikely to be a good purchase.
Consider the January sales as an opportunity to save money on the wardrobe essentials you’re missing, rather than a chance to go wild on cheap clothes you may or may not wear. Conducting a wardrobe audit is the best way to figure out what these missing essentials are.
For example, is there a pair of trousers you have that you love but rarely wear because you don’t have the right tops to go with them? Well, now is the time to focus your sales shopping on finding the perfect tops! Not only will you have affordably bought something your wardrobe has been crying out for, but you’ll also have ready-to-go outfits that you’ll actually wear.
Often we struggle to identify ourselves what our wardrobes are missing, which is why working with a stylist is so valuable. If that sounds like you then I’m currently taking bookings for 2021, starting from £60!
Avoid trendy styles
I’m not saying you can’t shop for exciting or stylish pieces – clothes should be fun, after all! But if you find yourself tempted to snap up something that’s very on trend just now, your sale purchase will likely be relegated to the charity shop pile after only a couple of wears.
So how can you tell if something is trend-led? First of all, if a style is available on every clothes website you look on (for example a stripey midi dress) then chances are it’s a trend piece. Equally if this is a style you keep coming across on Instagram.
Stepping off the trends treadmill is hard, and you don’t have to swear off in-fashion clothing come hell or high water. But it is hugely useful to both your bank balance and personal style to become more circumspect with what you’re buying. If there’s a style you genuinely feels suits you and you’ll want to wear for a long time, then you should invest in it, trendy or not. For example, if I find great high-waisted trousers then I’ve got to buy them, and I know I’ll keep wearing them even when this silhouette is less popular. But that one novelty piece everyone has been obsessed with the past six months? Probably best to give it a miss.
Be strict about fit and quality
How many times have you tried something on and felt it wasn’t quite perfect, but you’d keep it anyway because it was cheap? If you don’t love it, don’t keep it – regardless of how much of a ‘bargain’ it was. These ‘not quite right but they’ll do’ pieces are the reason our charity shops are fit to burst with donations, so fighting against sales psychology to buy clothes merely because they are discounted is one of the best things you can do to fight textile waste.
Here’s what you need to consider. Does the garment fit you well? Is it too tight/ doesn’t nip in at the right places/ feel uncomfortable etc? And what’s the quality like? Will this piece bobble in a month’s time? Is the fabric well-made, thick, and flattering? How is the garment made? Will it last more than a season? Once you start asking these questions, you’ll be amazed how quickly the sparkle fades on clothes you thought you were obsessed with.
Unfortunately, several fast fashion brands have been exposed as binning their customer returns as it’s cheaper than re-processing them for resale, so if you’re unsure about whether to purchase something from a super cheap clothes company, often it’s better to avoid altogether.
Shop from ethical brands
If you feel that ethical clothing is too expensive, then sales are the time for you to shop with the brands you’ve been longing to support. Often the sale prices from ethical brands brings them in line with High Street fashion, making them more accessible. Plus, in the name of sustainability these clothes will be designed to transcend seasons, rather than be heavily trend-led.
Some of my favourite ethical brands put on incredible January sales. Some stylish ethical clothing websites I recommend checking out for great discounts include People Tree, Thought, Ninety Percent, Lucy and Yak, and Les Girls Les Boys.
If you want to shop with more ethical fashion brands but you’re not sure where to start, then my online personal shopping service is perfect for you! I do the hard work by checking a brand’s ethics and sustainability credentials, then handpick items best suited to your style, as well as provide a moodboard to inspire future purchases. With so many of these great conscious clothing companies offering discounts right now, there’s never been a better time to meet the ethical brands of your style dreams!
Roll over your budget to the new season
My final tip about sales shopping is… not to shop at all! If you genuinely aren’t in the market for any new clothes, then there’s no real need to shop. Instead, put that money aside for when there is something you’d like to buy.
For example, if you know your wardrobe would benefit most from new summer clothes, then there’s not much point buying autumn/ winter items in the sale. Instead, you can save that money for the new season. So if you’d usually spend around £100 on clothes in the sales, then put that £100 into a savings account. Then when brands start stocking more summery pieces, you already have a £100 budget to put towards it. It’ll feel like you’re saving money, but on clothes you actually need.
Those are my tips for taking a more conscious approach to sales shopping, so you can buy clothes sustainably into the new year.
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Investors placing capital in earlier and earlier tech deals has been a historical trend for the last few years, but this strategy was generally reserved for the traditional, “high-growth” VC arena. VCs needed to snag earlier ad earlier deals, otherwise they would be diluted at a later stage. But with startups coming up with models that can book revenues faster, they have increasingly less need for the VC deal, which typically leaves founders with less control and less equity than the newly ensconced VC on their board. That said, capital at this early stage for “growth-based” startups was often hard to come by. Thus, the “early growth fund” has been invented to address this issue.
Now, the latest arrival in this arena is Balderton, one of the Europe’s top VC funds, with may unicorns under its belt.
Balderton has now launched a $680 million “early growth” fund to invest in high-potential tech companies, targeting around 15 companies at the early-growth stage (sector agnostic).
It plans to invest between $25 million and $50 million per company through both primary and secondary investments. The fund will be lead by Bernard Liautaud, David Thévenon and Rana Yared.
Since its founding in 2000, Balderton has raised $4 billion to invest in European startups and backed more than 230 companies, primarily at the Series A stage. Its investments include Depop, GoCardless, Infarm, Revolut, THG, Vestiaire Collective and Zego. The firm’s “Liquidity I” portfolio also includes Darktrace, Flywire, Graphcore and Truecaller.
Bernard Liautaud, managing partner said: “I’ve been an investor at Balderton since 2008, and it has been incredible to see the increasing number of ambitious European founders, and to be able to support them financially through those critical first three to five years with our early-stage funds. With this Growth Fund, we can now support them as they scale to become global industry leaders. We predict a $50 billion growth opportunity in Europe in the next three years alone, and we want to be the first choice for those ambitious founders.”
Rana Yared, general partner, added: “Our approach for this fund will be ‘one of few’. This means personalised attention from the entire partnership, plus access to Balderton’s leading platform team. We’re looking for 15 or so really exceptional companies that have the potential to be sector leaders and disrupt global industries.” | <urn:uuid:5868ee74-dac2-4c49-bb5b-221edaf8568c> | CC-MAIN-2022-05 | https://techcrunch.com/2021/06/10/balderton-launches-680m-early-growth-fund-to-lure-startups-looking-for-a-different-kind-of-capital/ | 2022-01-26T14:59:31Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-05/segments/1642320304954.18/warc/CC-MAIN-20220126131707-20220126161707-00398.warc.gz | en | 0.966516 | 548 |
• Will you do the same changes to the 112, like you did with the 113 and FV215b?
– No, the 112 had its repair error fixed, nothing else.
• Grille 15 is worse than the tier IX Waffentrager :(.
– And some people in this thread complain it’s unbalanced.
• Players complain that the number of critical hits has risen.
– Statistics shows that it’s just like it was before.
• Platoon players should play versus platoons, not solo players. Let the solo players play against each other and platoons versus platoons.
• In the next patch the T95/Chieftain will have the premium status (reward). What about the T95E2?
– We haven’t considered yet.
• Where can we read about the concept of the “+2 / -2” matchmaking?
• Why is there no poll on the matchmaker (so people can voice their opinions).
-It’s being completely remade at the moment, so there’s not much point in doing that.
• Has DX11 been implemented?
– Yes, it has.
• I don’t see any option to change from DX9 to DX11
– If available (BloodSnow: probably depending on the hardware), the change is automatic.
• Question on the WGL German Bulldog. The stats do no match what was previously advertised. Will the tank suffer any changes?
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The riding tips on these pages are my personal opinion about matters related to motorcycle riding. They are not the official position of any organization, and are for your consideration only. They are not hard and fast rules, they should not necessarily be applied in all circumstances, and they should not be applied without thinking. Always use your judgement and take all current safety factors into account while riding. You are responsible for your riding, not anyone else (especially me). These tips were originally published by a motorcycle riding course, called “Tip of the Week” (the reason for the TOTW in the titles).
Time marches on
I’m told that many rider training courses, including the one I used to teach with, no longer teach the mnemonic device, FINE-C, that is the point of this article. That’s too bad. I found it useful, and certainly continue to use it myself after decades of riding. I offer it here despite the fact that it’s apparently no longer in the modern curriculum.
What’s the problem?
There are several steps involved in starting your bike’s engine and moving off. Forgetting any one of them will either make starting difficult or cause you a problem a short distance down the road. Another set of steps is important when shutting your bike down to park.
- Many bikes have a manual fuel shut-off. Forgetting to turn it off when parking can cause fuel to leak out. Forgetting to turn it on when starting normally won’t prevent you starting, as there will be some fuel in the line; but you will run out of fuel and stall a few minutes down the road — usually at an inconvenient or unsafe time. Worse, if you pull into a gas station on the Reserve setting and forget to turn it back to Regular, then you will have no reserve gas the next time your bike runs low and stalls.
- Your Ignition key needs to be turned on to the correct setting to start, and completely off when shutting down. Forgetting to turn it completely off will often leave your headlights running, quickly killing your battery.
- To start your engine, you should have the bike in Neutral and the clutch pulled in. Some bikes have safety switches so they will only start in this state, while others rely on you to remember. Having the bike in this state minimises load on the starter motor and guarantees you will have no surprise forward lurches when you key the starter.
- The Engine Kill Switch, usually a red toggle switch near your right thumb position, must be On. On some bikes the starter motor won’t run without this switch in the proper position, while others will crank happily but won’t let the engine start.
- Your Choke or Fast Idle control, if you have one, must be set properly to start a cold engine.
- Your Side Stand must be up. Most bikes won’t start with it down; some will start but won’t go into gear. Some older bikes will do both, and you’ll crash the first time you try to turn left.
The solution to remembering any complex series of steps is to use a mnemonic — some kind of easy to remember device that helps you recall the complex steps. You can use FINE-C (pronounced Fine See) for starting and its reverse, C-ENIF (pronounced See Nif), for stopping. When starting your bike, you should say “FINE-C” to yourself, then go through the letters one at a time and perform the corresponding steps below.
F is for Fuel: Ensure it’s in the regular “on” position — not off and not on reserve. Read your owner’s manual carefully to learn about these positions; on some bikes they don’t apply because of some kind of automatic shutoff. Even on a bike whose fuel you don’t shut off, you use this step to ensure it’s not still in Reserve, and to remind your muscles where the shutoff is so you can find it by feel, while moving, should you need to switch to Reserve.
I is for Ignition: Ensure your main ignition key switch is in the correct On position.
N is for Neutral: Ensure your transmission is in neutral. Use the dashboard indicator light, if you have one, as first check, but then roll the bike slightly to be absolutely sure. This means you’re testing the correctness of the indicator light once a day as well as ensuring you’re in Neutral.
E is for Engine: Ensure your Engine Kill Switch is in the correct On position. See below for why it would be off.
C is for Choke: Read your owner’s manual for details of when you should use the choke on your bike. Generally you use it any time, and only, when starting a cold engine. Skip this step if the engine is still warm from a recent run; develop a feel for when you need the choke.
When shutting down your bike, run through the above letters in Reverse order, and perform the following steps.
C is for Choke: Hopefully the choke is off well before you stop. Now is a good time to make sure, at least so you will know if you forgot to turn it off and can try harder to remember next time.
E is for Engine: Note that, since the engine is running at this point, turning off the kill switch now actually stops the engine, and this acts as a test of the kill switch. Better to find out now that it has shorted and no longer kills the engine than when you have a stuck throttle and really need it.
N is for Neutral: Put the bike in neutral now so you’re ready to start.
I is for Ignition: Ensure it’s fully off. (Not in the “parking” position some bikes have, which leaves some of your lights on and will allow your battery to die.)
F is for Fuel: Ensure it’s off (if your bike requires it — read your manual). Leave it alone if your instructions say you should. In any case, check it’s not still on Reserve from your last fill-up.
Many modern bikes don’t require some of the steps mentioned above, but the memory device is so useful that riders have invented additional meanings for some of the letters so they still apply.
F: If your bike has an automatic fuel shut-off you don’t need to manually move it. You should still use F to remind you to check that you haven’t left it on the Reserve setting from the last fill-up. If it has only a “low fuel warning light” you may have no contorl to adjust at all. In addition, why not say F is for Foot, to remind you to put the side stand up and down?
C: If your bike uses Fuel Injection you don’t have a Choke to adjust. You may, however, have a “fast idle” control that serves a similar purpose when starting. Call it a Choke so this handy reminder still applies.
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TriGate acquires Nine-Building Office Portfolio in Atlanta, Georgia
DALLAS, TEXAS - TriGate Property Partners IV, L.P. recently closed on the acquisition of a nine-building office portfolio with a total of 430,000 square feet of office space northeast of Atlanta. The buildings are located at District at Chamblee, a 78-acre campus in Chamblee, Georgia. This investment was acquired off-market in a partnership with Parkside Partners. The new partnership expects the buildings to appeal to tenants seeking office space in highly amenitized, low-rise campus environments with good accessibility. The portfolio is currently 46% leased with leasing activity remaining resilient throughout the pandemic, mostly due to the stable base of government and healthcare tenancy.
Matt Rooney, Vice President at TriGate Capital commented “The portfolio offers a compelling basis below replacement cost in a centrally located part of Atlanta that can cater to both small and large tenants looking for affordable rental rates in an office park that provides numerous amenities”.
About TriGate Capital
TriGate Capital, LLC (TriGate) is a leading real estate investment manager focused on the recapitalization and repositioning of real estate assets and companies. TriGate is based in Dallas, TX and has completed investments throughout the United States. TriGate’s team has been responsible for acquiring over $11 billion of real estate assets through multiple types of transaction structures. The Company’s professionals have significant expertise in real estate operations, debt restructuring, and asset and company recapitalization.
TriGate manages four fully discretionary real estate funds, TriGate Property Partners, LP (Fully Realized), TriGate Property Partners II, LP (Fund II), TriGate Property Partners III, L.P. (Fund III), and TriGate Property Partners IV, LP which are the vehicles through which TriGate conducts its investment strategy. Fund II and Fund III are fully invested, and Fund IV is presently in its investment period. | <urn:uuid:3defd166-7500-4abe-8eb5-7cf625935cc6> | CC-MAIN-2022-05 | https://trigatecapital.com/blog/trigate-acquires-nine-building-office-portfolio-in-atlanta-georgia | 2022-01-26T13:44:39Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-05/segments/1642320304954.18/warc/CC-MAIN-20220126131707-20220126161707-00398.warc.gz | en | 0.952735 | 404 |
When it comes to your car, there are no small jobs. Schedule your Lexus GS460 repair appointment today, and we’ll take care of your repairs – no matter how big or small they may seem.
We know it’s not just any Lexus GS460. It’s your Lexus GS460, and you can count on us to repair your vehicle like it was our own. We know that high standards of quality and care can make the best auto repair shops stand out from the rest. You can drive easy knowing that Firestone Complete Auto Care has you covered for 2008 Lexus GS460 repairs, including alignment adjustments, tire repairs, brake service, drivetrain work, and engine fixes. Read on to learn about each service.
Brake repair is one of the most important repairs you can invest in for one very simple reason: you rely on your brakes to safely bring your vehicle to a stop. Lexus GS460 brake problems could lead to unsafe driving conditions – or worse, an accident. Don’t wait to have your brakes inspected if you notice any of the following: brake noises, a shuddering sensation when you hit the brakes, an illuminated brake light on your dashboard, or increased stopping distance. No matter what shape your Lexus GS460 is in, it will likely need brake repair at some point – and that’s totally normal! Over time, parts of your brakes (like the brake pads) experience natural wear and tear and eventually need to be replaced. Your car’s brake repair timeline can also be affected by your driving habits, as well as the climate in your area.
Tire repair is another service you don't want to put off. If your tires are damaged and can’t grip the road, your safety could be compromised. We can easily swap out a flat tire on your 2008 Lexus GS460, or if the damage isn’t severe, repair a Lexus GS460 tire with the appropriate plug and patch. Tread-area punctures less than ¼ inch in diameter can often be repaired. If a repair isn’t safe for your particular tire situation, your technician will work with you to find an affordable tire replacement. To ensure that tire damage doesn’t take a toll on other components of your vehicle, we may recommend an alignment or tire balancing service at the time of your tire repair.
Your local Firestone Complete Auto Care is also equipped to handle many 2008 Lexus GS460 transmission, drivetrain, and engine repairs. All of these systems contain hundreds of parts that work together to generate heat and energy to propel your car to move. Over time, all those constantly moving components can get worn down. If this happens, you may hear engine knocking noises, feel a delay in transmission shifting, or even smell a burning odor from under your GS460’s hood. When something feels off with your vehicle, head to Firestone Complete Auto Care. This could be a simple fix like a new spark plug, or you may need repairs to your fuel pump.
A few different aspects can influence repair costs for your 2008 Lexus GS460, like what kind of repair you need, prices of appropriate replacement parts, the amount of labor necessary to get the job done, and your locale. Taxes and labor costs vary greatly from one state to the next. But no matter your location, you may be able to save money with one of our many auto repair coupons or offers.
You want to find affordable Lexus GS460 repairs. We get it! We also understand that you don’t want just anyone working on your vehicle. You want the right person, because a tool is only as good as the hands behind it. At Firestone Complete Auto Care, the hands behind the tools belong to a trained technician you can depend on. We have the knowledge and resources to solve common 2008 Lexus GS460 problems, and we stand by our work with our one-of-a-kind Triple Promise: Fixed Right, Priced Right, Right on Time.
We work hard to keep Lexus GS460 repair costs low, but we know repairs are never fun to pay for. Save yourself money, time, and headache by being proactive. Get answers to common auto repair questions and help prevent costly issues down the road.
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Ben Franklin Career Center*
Ben Franklin Career Center is a career technical education center that specializes in career training for the following industries: Electrical Technician, Surgical Technology, and Welding.
For more information about any of these programs, please reference the information below.
Ben Franklin Career Center is a participant in the ACE Advantage program, which provides low-cost or tuition free training options in West Virginia. Contact the school to learn more about eligible programs and additional qualifications.
OFFERING THE FOLLOWING PROGRAMS
Are you ready to electrify your future? Does the idea of a career as an electrician spark your interest?
The ACE Electrical Technician program will train you to install, connect, test and maintain electrical systems that bring electricity from power-generating plants to our homes, offices, schools and places of business. As an ACE Electrical Technician student, you will qualify to sit for the journeyman’s license exam as well as have the opportunity to earn national certifications in the architecture or construction industry. Start your journey by enrolling in ACE today!
Do you have a passion for helping people? Are you interested in working in the healthcare field as part of a surgical team?
The ACE Surgical Technology program prepares you to work closely with surgeons, registered nurses and other operating room personnel to prepare the operating room and assist in patient care before, during and after surgery. As an ACE Surgical Technology student, you will qualify to take the national certification exam to become a Certified Surgical Technologist (CST). Enroll in the ACE Surgical Technology program to gain the skills needed to be a successful surgical team member!
*Graduates of the ACE Surgical Technology Program who have passed their certification exam, have the opportunity to earn an Associate of Applied Science Degree from Alderson Broaddus University! Learn more here.
Get the welding skills that employers demand! The ACE Welding program gives you the hands-on training needed to prepare you for a flexible, rewarding welding career in industries from automotive fabrication, manufacturing, oil and gas, aerospace, and beyond!
During the ACE welding program, you will learn the standard techniques for cutting, welding and metal fabrication processes. As an ACE Welding student, you will also gain an understanding of welding inspection requirements, learn to interpret prints and layouts, and study the science behind metal production and purification, known as metallurgy. Get the technical training and certifications you need to become the skilled welder that employers in a wide variety of industries are searching for! Enroll in ACE today!
*Supplementary adult learning opportunities can be found at Ben Franklin Career Center* - https://bf.kana.k12.wv.us
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Derrock Rose had an AMAZING game Wednesday night against the Utah Jazz, hitting a career high of 50-points!!
With Rose’s 50 points, the Timberwolves beat the Jazz 128-125. Rose has had a rough few years with 4 knee surgeries and being traded to multiple teams. From the Chicago Bulls to the New York Knicks to the Cleveland Cavs with LeBron last year, and now he’s settled with Jimmy Bulter and the Timberwolves. Rose now holds the spot of the 4th spot for most scored by an NBA player this season, and tied for second-most ever scored on Halloween.
And remember that he was the 2011 MVP. After his amazing night, Rose got praise from legit everybody! Check it out below.
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🗣🗣🗣🗣So extremely HAPPY AND PROUD of you bro!!! I seen it first hand how much you worked and dedicated on your body, craft, mind, etc etc just to play 1 game at a time! Perseverance is a mutha and this is the ABSOLUTE perfect definition of it!! Salute Bro! #DRoseforPresident🙏🏾
Every Basketball fan in the world should feel good for DRose. Tonite was an example of never giving up on yourself and when others believe in you. Amazing things can happen. I’m smiling like i scored 50! Congrts to a good dude!
— DWade (@DwyaneWade) November 1, 2018
D🌹!!! Incredible. He’s overcome so much. I couldn’t be happier to see him ballin. @drose
— Scottie Pippen (@ScottiePippen) November 1, 2018
s/o to @drose for the 50 piece tonight!!!
— Chris Paul (@CP3) November 1, 2018
This is so dope Man! Can’t imagine the down days, weeks, months and years he went through. 50 ball!! So much respect bro 🙏🏽🙏🏽 https://t.co/s42i7Zp63I
— Stephen Curry (@StephenCurry30) November 1, 2018
— Karl-Anthony Towns (@KarlTowns) November 1, 2018
Have a night DRose!! Inspiring for anyone who went through injuries (and more)!
— Jeremy Lin (@JLin7) November 1, 2018
That’s unbelievable D-Rose 50, wow keep ballin’…
— Vince Carter (@mrvincecarter15) November 1, 2018
Man couldn’t be more happy for d 🌹. Can only imagine the emotions after what he’s gone through. Well deserved. Hard work is undefeated 🙌🏾
— CJ McCollum (@CJMcCollum) November 1, 2018
D rose!!! One of the greatest dudes out there!! He deserves all the praise he’s getting right now!! Congrats homie!!
— Kyle Lowry (@Klow7) November 1, 2018
@drose LEGENDARY!!!!! Happy for you bro!!!!!!
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Officials Searching For Escaped Chilton Co. Inmates
Chilton County Sheriff’s Deputies are working with officers in South Alabama to find two escaped inmates.
Authorities say Joseph Edwards and Landon Gunter escaped from the Chilton County Jail sometime Sunday.
The inmates were spotted in South Alabama with a stolen vehicle.
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Alachisoft is pleased to sponsor 11th Annual Chicago Code Camp, which is a daylong polyglot developer conference hosted for the local and regional developer community. You can see all sponsors list here and all sessions held at Code-Camp are listed here.
Chicago Code Camp, entering its 11th year was held with a mission to provide learning and knowledge sharing opportunities. Team Alachisoft is pleased to build valuable relationships with peers and developers. Developer community of Windy City joined for daylong sessions and discussions around .NET, Open-source frameworks, cloud computing and distributed caching.
NCache team led by our Technology Evangelist – Iqbal Khan attended the conference and showcased our leading .NET offering – NCache. Iqbal also delivered a session on the topic: “Optimize ASP.NET Core Performance with Distributed Cache”. Held at Dominican University, the session was attended by house-full of developers and session revolved around best practices for developing high traffic web applications and optimizing ASP.NET core performance for handling extreme transaction loads using open-source distributed cache.
NCache is a 100% Native .NET Open Source Distributed Cache (released under the Apache License, Version 2.0). NCache provides an extremely fast and linearly scalable distributed cache that caches application data and reduces expensive database trips. Use NCache to remove performance bottlenecks related to your data storage and databases and scale your .NET applications for extreme transaction processing (XTP).
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Digital Signage Expo has announced the second installment in its free 2019 webinar series, which targets specific end user verticals, is to be presented Thursday, January 10 at 2 p.m. ET.
Moderated by QSR Magazine Editorial Director Sam Oches, the 30-minute session will benefit QSR operators, technologists and communications professionals responsible for their restaurant facilities’ digital signage communications network.
Featured discussion leaders include:
The 30-minute webinar will discuss trends in hardware, software and operational component technologies, identifying those innovations that have been applied or should be considered in the QSR space. The discussion will also explore the types of innovations that could be helpful to generate additional efficiencies.
“The QSR space is ripe for digital signage disruption,” said Eftekhari-Asl. “Pulling from other industries, we’ll discuss some emerging trends in digital signage…everything from the use of facial recognition to serving up perfectly curated content and the power of data and analytics to give deep insight into your customers and how these can be applied to QSR.”
Attendance for this 30-minute webinar is free, but registration is required HERE.
While additional events are being confirmed, upcoming webinars in the series, which will focus on digital signage trends in each sector, include:
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Greta Thunberg has declared Cop26 a “greenwash festival” as she addressed thousands of young climate activists in Glasgow.
The environmental campaigner told the crowd that the climate summit has been a “failure”.
Following a march of thousands of protesters from Kelvingrove Park to George Square, passing the Cop26 venue at the SEC on the way, Ms Thunberg said world leaders are “fighting to maintain business as usual”.
She said: “This is no longer a climate conference.
“This is now a global north greenwash festival, a two-week long celebration of business as usual and blah blah blah.
“The most affected people in the most affected areas still remain unheard and the voices of future generations are drowning in their greenwash and empty words and promises.
“But the facts do not lie. And we know that our emperors are naked.”
Ms Thunberg added: “The question we must now ask ourselves is, what is it that we are fighting for? Are we fighting to save ourselves and the living planet? Or are we fighting to maintain business as usual?
“Our leaders say that we can have both, but the harsh truth is that that is not possible in practice.”
Branding world leaders “shameful”, she continued: “They continue to expand fossil fuel infrastructure, open up new coal mines, coal power plants, grant new oil licences and are still refusing to do even the bare minimum, like delivering, delivering on the long-promised climate finance for loss and damage to the most vulnerable and least responsible countries.”
Ugandan climate activist Vanessa Nakate said: “Once again, we are faced with another Cop event. How many more of these should they hold until they realise that that inactions are destroying the planet?”
Outlining some of the environmental disasters occurring in her home country, she said: “Historically, Africa is responsible for only 3% of global emissions and yet Africans are suffering some of the most brutal impacts fueled by the climate crisis.
“But while the African continent, while the global south is on the frontlines of the climate crisis, they’re not on the front pages of the world’s newspapers.
“We’ve seen activists from the most affected areas being erased from pictures, from conversations and removed from rooms.
“But how will we have climate justice if people from the most affected areas are not being listened to?”
She added: “We need to continue holding leaders accountable for their actions, we cannot keep quiet about climate injustice.
“Your actions matter. No action is too small to make a difference and no voice is too small to make a difference.
“Let us keep the faith for the future. Faith will give us hope for the world not yet seen, but the world that we can imagine.”
An estimated 8,000 people were expected to take part in the march through Glasgow, organised by Fridays For Future, despite UK Government ministers warning that young people missing school to attend the demonstration could face fines.
Downing Street said young people missing school to attend the demonstration was “extremely disruptive at a time when the pandemic has already had a huge impact on their learning”.
A spokesman for the Prime Minister said: “We do understand why young people feel so strongly about climate change, and we want to see them use that passion and turn it into action.
“That’s exactly why we’re empowering them through our new virtual national education park, climate leaders awards, and giving teachers the tools to put climate change at the heart of the curriculum, and we’re backing this up with our continued pledge to cut the carbon footprint of school buildings as well.”
Earlier, UK Education Secretary Nadhim Zahawi said: “I wish they were doing it on a Saturday and a Sunday, not in school time.
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Made of neoprene and nylon,the DIVE & SAIL Girls 2.5mm Short Sleeve Front Zip One-piece Colorful Wetsuit is highly elastic and it's suitable for girls to do strentchable activities. Featuring with 3 layers, this swimming suit provides your body light and fresh. With a layer of fabric inside the zipper to avoid zipper damage to the child's skin. Also it can keep your girl's body warm while having water activities in cool water. This colorful shorty wetsuit is a great gift for kids. It's suitable for them to have outdoors activities, like swimming, scuba diving, surfing, snorkeling, have fun on the coast with their friends!
1. Bright colors that intrigues kids interest.
2. Made from professional and highly elastic materials such as neoprene and nylon.
3. UPF 50+ to prevent the kids from getting sunburned.
4. Back zipper with long string for easy donning and doffing.
5. Suitable for girls of height 100cm-145cm.
Material: 90% Neoprene + 10% Nylon
Color: Purple (As the pictures)
Thickness: 2.5 MM
Size: S, M, L, XL, 2XL
Zip: Back zipper
Season: Spring, Summer, Autumn
Usage: Swimming, Snorkeling, Indoor or outdoor pool, swim school
1. Please choose your size based on body measurements.
2. Height, chest & waist are the most important measurements.
3. If you are between sizes, take the large size.
Note: The dimensions of products are measured manually, and there may be an error of 1-3cm.
Due to the dual influence of COVID-19, we highly recommend our customers to place orders over US $69, which will be delivered by DHL/FEDEX Free Express Shipping at a fast speed!
Buy4Outdoors partners with international shipping companies like EMS, DHL, FEDEX and UPS to offer two types of shipping methods: Free Shipping & Express Shipping. For orders over $69, we even provide Free Express Shipping which dispatches your order in about 4-9 business days!
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When you mention the name Frank Lampard to any Chelsea fan, one of the first words to enter their head would be legend, and quite rightly, Lampard is a modern day legend of the club, a pioneer, a gentlemen and a role model.
With another legend Didier Drogba recently leaving the club for a lucrative offer from the Chinese club football revolution, this now makes Lampard the oldest member of the squad, and the ‘oldest guard’
Turning thirty-four recently Frank Lampard has continually received criticism from fans, pundits and the media questioning whether he still has what it takes to be play at the highest standard. Lets take a look at some of the concerns raised so far.
We’re not allowing opportunities for younger talent to come through such as McEachran?
He spent last season on loan with Swansea City not really getting too many chances their and is likely to go out on loan again this season. Now I believe he is good enough to come in to the Chelsea first team and grow in stature, but his lack of chances has not allowed this as yet, he still has time and I believe he can be Frank’s replacement, he has to stay determined and focused and in the next two seasons will get more chances with the squad rotation.
Lampard is too slow now?
Many critics have claimed that Frank has lost his pace. This is natural when you get the wrong side of thirty. But, his match engine and stamina seem as good as ever and he still hits both boxes on that pitch many times in a match making him still to be a brilliant box-to-box midfielder. Frank will be the first person to tell you that he feels as fit today as he did when he was twenty-four. Players play for longer in this day and age, their diets are better and they work a lot harder in the gym.
He’s had his run, time to move on, he’s too old now?
Is he though? Does he not still cover as much of that pitch as any other player on the field? Does he not still show the same desire and passion as when he joined us from West Ham in 2001? Does he not still prove on a daily basis that he has the work rate, the passing ability and the goal scoring finesse to still be one of Chelsea’s finest current players? I believe he does.
But he’s not providing as many assists as he has done previously?
True, but he has still provided us with sixteen priceless goals from midfield. To his standard, that is also lower than average. But you simply have to look no further than our tactics last season, gone was the storming attacking play and in came this new defensively solid unit as a team. This meant Lampard playing a much deeper role and leaving the creative side to the more advanced Juan Mata. In my opinion, Lampard played the deeper role more than affectively providing help for John Obi Mikel in the holding role.
You only have to look at last season’s victorious Champions League campaign to see how important the old guard are. When the going got tough, we needed to dig in, and Lampard put as much as their heart and soul into winning every ball, chasing down opponents and pressuring the ball than any other player out there. He is Chelsea through and through and bleeds blue blood.
Lampard is surely a player who would stroll into any of the best midfields in Europe and do a superb job. He has the technical abilities that will match any other player in the league and wears the number 8 shirt with pride and passion.
I fully believe Lampard still has two/three good years left in him at Chelsea FC albeit in a different role than he and the fans have been used to. I believe the deeper lying Frank Lampard will be hugely affective within the next couple of seasons and he will provide the base for faster and creative players such as new signing Eden Hazard and Spanish genius Juan Mata so get forward and cause havoc. With more signings expected at the Bridge this summer I do feel that Lampard will be rotated more and game time will decrease, but so will the whole squad.
Frank Lampard has a part to play in our resurrection back to league champion contenders.
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Ella fitted stretch body con dress. Refined elegance with an uncomplicated effortless silhouette.
For day to evening ,a must have style featuring key hole back and neck tie fasten. Dolman sleeve. Fully lined and Made in the UK.
- Colour Black.
- 97%polyester 3% Spandex.
- Machine washable.
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Designer notes: Add heels for effortless chic. Dress down with flats and a wool blazer.
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Campbellsville University offers online are rooted in our Christ-centered values and are backed with over a century of academic excellence. Coursework is identical to residential programs and offers flexibility of schedule for busy adult learners. Bachelor’s programs include business administration, general business, criminal justice administration, leadership and missions, pastoral ministries, RN to BSN and social work. Available master’s programs are in computer science, education with many subcategories including special education and teaching, justice studies, management and leadership, MBA, music education, school improvement, social work, sport management and theology. Campbellsville University also offers several associate’s degrees that are 100% online. Available resources include virtual access to the library and bookstore, campus email, campus network for current information related to the school, disability services, veterans and military services and the CU online student handbook. | <urn:uuid:12b01797-63b7-4e8b-a7d3-a9dce8b3fde3> | CC-MAIN-2022-05 | https://www.collegeconsensus.com/online/schools/campbellsville-university/ | 2022-01-26T14:40:16Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-05/segments/1642320304954.18/warc/CC-MAIN-20220126131707-20220126161707-00398.warc.gz | en | 0.947346 | 177 |
LaCrosse Tribune | Wednesday, November 16, 2011
The Coulee Region Chill continued to re-shape their defensive corps on Wednesday with the signing of Eric Swahn from Great Falls (Mont.) of the America West Hockey League.
Swahn, 6-foot-3, 198 pounds, is a native of Stockholm, Sweden. He played in three games for Great Falls this season, with one assist.
The Chill on Tuesday traded defenseman Tate Rusk to New Mexico (NAHL) for a 2012 tender contract and earlier this month traded Adam Barlow and Ben Gislason, bringing in Eric Loasby and Brady Riesgraf.
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GENERAL RULES OF PARTICIPATION
The number one rule for DD Chats is: Be respectful of others! This includes both your fellow group members and Kathy and Laura.
Be ready to join the chat when the chat is ready to start! If you arrive late, there may be a delay in accepting you into the chat from the Zoom Waiting Room.
When others are speaking, listen to them and give them the opportunity to complete their thoughts. Don’t interrupt or speak over someone else.
Please allow everyone a chance to speak! If you’ve responded to three or four questions, but there are other members who haven’t responded to anything, please quiet down and give others a chance.
Please be aware of what’s showing in the background of your Zoom window. Protect your privacy by making sure that there is nothing too personal or revealing.
Please turn off any lights that twinkle, flash, or move in any way. These can be very triggering for other participants.
Microphones can magnify sounds that would not typically be audible to the people around you. Ordinary noises like coughing, or even breathing into an open microphone, can sound loud and intrusive to the people who are hearing it through headsets or earphones. As a courtesy to the other chat participants, please make sure that you are in a quiet environment for the chat, position your microphone a little distance from your mouth, and try to avoid coughing or exhaling directly into the microphone. We may mute your microphone for this reason. Please don’t take it personally. We’ll unmute you any time you have something you’d like to say!
If you bring a snack or a drink to chat, please keep the microphone away from your mouth while you are eating or drinking.
The messaging feature will be disabled during DD Chats. Participants will not be able to send chat messages to each other.
CAMERAS AND MICROPHONES
Certain DD Chats may require that you have your camera on.
If you would still prefer to keep part of your face hidden during these chats, please take the time ahead of time to familiarize yourself with how to use the filter options available on Zoom. Or, for even more privacy, gather a selection of personal at-home facial coverings in advance. You don’t want to miss part of the chat because you’re trying to figure this out at the last minute!
Please review the details of the specific chat you would like to attend, to see if cameras will or will not be required.
Dropping out of Zoom chats happens, whether due to an internet disconnection or technology malfunction or because you are trying to manage your emotional overwhelm.
However, repeated coming and going is a distraction, for you and for the group as a whole. In order to minimize the disruption to the group, the following rules will be observed in DD Chats:
If you disconnect from any chat three times (by closing out of Zoom, such that you have to log back into the chat and be re-invited from the Zoom Waiting Room), then on the third time you will not be allowed re-entry into the chat. This means you can leave twice, and be allowed back in twice – but if you leave any chat a third time, then you will not be allowed back in a third time.
- If you are temporarily leaving the chat for short personal breaks (i.e. to use the restroom, to have a smoke, to stretch your legs, etc.):
* Please DO NOT close out of the Zoom chat.
* If cameras are required to be on for your chat, please DO NOT turn off the camera.
* Please DO mute your microphone.
* Please do whatever it is that you need to do, and then come back to the chat, with as little disruption to the rest of the group as possible.
- If you leave the chat (by closing out of Zoom) for any reason during an educational presentation, you may be unable to enter the chat again until the presentation is over.
STRUCTURE OF TOPIC CHATS
DD Chats will be broken down into the following broad phases.
Open Chat Time. DD Chats will open with a very short period of open chat. The open chat is an opportunity for everyone to say hello and get settled while participants are joining the DD Chat. During open chat time, all microphones will be open and participants are free to socialize until we begin the discussion on the assigned topic.
Educational Presentation. Some DD Chats might include an educational presentation. During the educational presentation, microphones will be muted to minimize distractions.
Questions and Answers.
If a DD Chat includes an educational presentation, the presentation will be followed by time for questions and answers and group discussion.
Alternatively, some DD Chats might focus exclusively on responding to and discussing group questions about a topic, without including an educational presentation.
We’ll also be asking questions for you all to respond to and discuss.
The question and answer and discussion period of the DD Chat does not have a set format, in that microphones may be left open or muted at various times during this part of the chat.
During open mic discussions, we ask that people please be aware of giving everyone an opportunity to speak. Some of our members are quieter and less comfortable speaking in a group, and they can too easily be drowned out.
If necessary, we will ask the more vocal participants to pause and give the quieter participants a chance to speak. Should this happen, please respect this request. We’d prefer not to have to mute anyone on an individual basis.
During muted mic discussions, people who have questions or comments will be asked to use the zoom “raise my hand” button to let us know that they’d like to speak, and each person will be called on in turn.
However, raising your hand is an excellent way to let the hosts know that you have a comment or question, whether mics are open or muted, so don’t be shy about raising your hand during any question and answer or discussion time.
Kathy and Laura will answer as many questions and respond to as many comments as possible within the time allowed, but depending on the number of participants and/or the number of questions and comments, they may not have time to respond to everyone. If you have a question or a concern that is not addressed during a DD Chat, please consider scheduling an individual consultation with Kathy or Laura.
Participant Check-in. Chats will typically close with a brief check-in with each participant. We might also check in very briefly with people during the chat if the topic is especially heavy, however group participants are expected to be able to manage their own triggers and their own behavior without disrupting the group.
MANAGING INDIVIDUAL TRIGGERS AND INDIVIDUAL BEHAVIOR
It is important to be aware that DD Chats are not about individual support. They are about group support and education. As with all DD chats and events, we expect participants to be able to manage their own triggers and their own behavior without disrupting the group.
If the chat is too overwhelming, too intense, or too triggering for your system, and you are unable to continue as part of the group, you can temporarily take off your headphones, mute your computer sound, or even drop out of the chat entirely. We expect that you and your people will stay attuned to the emotional state of your system during DD chats, and that you and your people can be relied upon to do what is best for your system without disrupting the group as a whole. Make the most of this opportunity, and bring a pen and paper to write down tender topics that you need to address later during your individual work.
As a whole, by choosing to attend the DD Chats, you are stating that you and your dissociative system have the confidence and the ability to manage your own triggers and emotional responses without resorting to self harm, self injury, or any version of self destructive or high risk behaviors. Some of the topics to be discussed may be heavy duty. You may have racing thoughts, memories, noise, or internal chaos occur during or afterwards, especially if we reach a topic that is difficult for you. Have safety plans made ahead of time for how you will address any lingering issues of intensity or upset.
Please note: Triggers do happen, sometimes unexpectedly, but it isn’t something that should happen repeatedly during chat times. If any DD Chat participant repeatedly disrupts the group due to harmful or destabilized behavior, that participant should expect to be removed from the group chat. We may ask that that person not participate in future chats until their system is more able to handle the group process without becoming triggered or destabilized. That removed person will also be required to have an individual consultation with either Kathy or Laura prior to being allowed to attend future chats.
LENGTH, COST, AND SCHEDULING OF DD CHATS
The details of DD Chats will vary based on topic and structure. Please check the DD Calendar for the dates of upcoming events.
Clicking on a particular Chat from the Calendar will provide you with the specific details for each scheduled Chat. Please review these details carefully prior to signing up for a Chat!
Recording Chats. DD Chats will be recorded by the hosts.
Privacy and Confidentiality. Group members are requested to maintain respectful privacy and confidentiality regarding all topics discussed during DD Chats. Also, please be aware of maintaining your own privacy during the Chats. Do not disclose or expose your own or anyone else’s personal information in any way.
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Role: PhD Student
Ben is a PhD candidate currently conducting research for both The Child Language Lab and The HEARing CRC at Macquarie University. A large part of Ben’s current project is to examine what effect hearing loss has on children’s understanding of inflectional morphology. Ben was awarded a BA in Philosophy and Linguistics from Sydney University in 2012, and went on to complete Honours in Linguistics at Macquarie University in 2013, for which he received the University Medal.
Acquisition of english plural morphology and allomorphy
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Filing a Do Not Call/Text Complaint*
We are committed to ensuring that Indiana's Do Not Call law is enforced. To achieve this, we need your participation in two very important ways.
First, file a complaint if you believe a telemarketer has violated Indiana's Do Not Call law. Provide, as completely as possible, all the information requested on the complaint form. Items noted with an asterisk (*) are especially important, as they indicate the minimum information the office needs to begin an investigation.
Second, your cooperation with our attorneys and investigators will enable us to investigate and resolve your complaint in a timely manner.
We require a complaint about possible use as evidence in court. You may either file a complaint online or download and print the applicable Do Not Call or Text Complaint Form, fill it out, sign the second page, and mail it to:
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Happy New Year! It’s 2020, folks! Yes, I know…I’ve just stated the obvious.
But, simply because the clock didn’t do anything unusual (the clock strikes midnight every night), the turn from 2019 to 2020 does feel a bit different.
To me, it doesn’t feel as palatable as the energy of the turn from 1999 to 2000. However, there is something in the air. And, I don’t think it’s solely related to the presidential election or increasing worries about the health of the economy and the stock market.
For as many people as there are who poo-poo setting goals and declaring resolutions at this time of the year, there are probably an equal number of people who profess the opposite. This post, which is one of many on the topic, can attest to that!
Some of us who support the “exercise” understand that it is akin to the annual planning ritual of businesses (large and small). We are advocates because we know that whether you carve out time to spend an hour or a day focused on your goals/resolutions, it provides an opportunity to think deeply about where you are, where you want to be, and how to close the gap.
Before I delve into the three shifts I am noticing (maybe projecting?), I’m curious:
- How many goals/resolutions did you set for 2020?
- How many of them are new vs. rollovers from previous years?
- How many of them are the result of the year-end review you did?
- Do you have a blend of goals that span the key areas of your life – or are you lopsided?
- How has the fact that we’ve entered a new decade impacted the types of goals you’ve set or resolutions you’ve declared?
- Have you determined what habits (existing or new) your goals/resolutions will require of you?
- Have you adjusted your mindset to get ready for the results your goals/resolutions are in service to?
I ask these questions because one of the things I’m noticing is that people are shifting away from treating their goals/resolutions as a punch list.
So when you pause and do the above, you set yourself up to approach your goals/resolutions from a more holistic standpoint. And I think this is why more people are coming out of the shadows as being “for” having goals/resolutions at the top of year.
(By the way, if you weren’t aware, I have a workbook that helps with this, too; click here to check it out.)
Also, when you ask the questions above, you tend to more clearly and quickly see if you’re making a critical mistake when it comes to your goals/resolutions: Setting too many of them!
Although we can probably agree that not setting any goals/resolutions would count as too few…
That’s a sweet spot only you know. But you do know it, intuitively. You can tell by the constraints you have when it comes to your time, energy, attention and money. Because all of your goals/resolutions require each of these resources, but in different measures.
The best way to determine if you have too many goals is to ask yourself for each goal/resolution:
- How much time can you or are you willing to allocate toward working on them?
- How much energy do you have, and when are you at your peak energy? Is that the time of day when you can actually work toward your goals/resolutions? (Or do you have a competing priority at that time?)
- Have you created an environment so that, even if you have the time and energy, you can actually focus and give your full attention to whatever is the task at hand?
- How much money does this goal require – in general and right now?
Sure, there are periods of time when you may exceed your resources. Cuz, you know…life! But when this becomes a constant state of being, this is when you know you’ve reached your capacity and have too many goals. As you read that last sentence, you may have had a “duh, that’s obvious” reaction. Yet, think back on times in the past wherein you only realized that you took on too much and underestimated what you needed — after the fact!
According to University of Pennsylvania psychologist and founder of Positive Psychology, Martin Seligman, “humans are the only primates able to plan ahead.” Yet, we tend to be awfully bad at it. We tend to underestimate what it will take to achieve our goals (see above) and we actually resist change – even as we seek it. Go figure!
One of my #hacks for tackling this “natural” human tendency is to think annually, implement quarterly. More specifically, to plan in 90-day increments. Or, like those who work in tech like to say, “work in sprints.”
You don’t have to work in tech or in large groups to see the benefits of using this approach to your goals and resolutions. Not only does this help to build and maintain momentum, it can also reveal – sooner rather than later – if your efforts will net the results you want. And if you discover you’re off track, you now have both insight and time to adjust your habits, systems and processes that you likely wouldn’t have had otherwise.
Several years ago, I wrote a short piece about how…
That’s why it is useful to adopt a 90-day approach to the goals and resolutions you set. It will help you do your best at managing your time, energy, attention and money, so that you set yourself up for success. Plus, it’ll help you avoid the mistakes of (a) treating your goals/resolutions purely as a punch list, and (b) being overly optimistic by setting too many of them.
Besides, if you’re like me, you’re not looking to set just any goal or declare just any resolution. You want it to be the “right” ones – as in those that can change key aspects of your life in a meaningful way.
That’s why I am inviting you to join my friend and colleague, Jessica Abel, and me for a special training she’s doing for you — my peeps. It’s called “One Goal to Rule Them All” – click here to RSVP. It’s free; it’s during lunch; it’s Thursday, January 9 at 12:30pm ET. I’m excited because it speaks to one of the adjustments I’m making to how I’m approaching my goals in 2020!
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How Premarital Agreements Affect Estate Planning
While marriage stands for the promise of spending the rest of your life with your partner, there is the unfortunate reality that half of all marriages end in divorce. Living in Florida increases those odds, as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports it has the seventh-highest divorce rate in the nation. On top of that, the majority of the Florida population is over the age of 65, skyrocketing the chance of a second marriage. However, there you can find comfort and more predictability by adding the right premarital agreements and protect your estate.
Prenuptial Agreements Don’t Have to Mean Divorce
When people think of prenuptial agreements (or prenups), it’s easy to think of a lack of trust or preparing for the worst. But in reality, it can really help you prepare for the best and make sure all of your beneficiaries are prepared in the event of your death or the death of your spouse. Florida law drastically changes estate planning because unless you have it otherwise in writing, many assets become marital property. That means you share responsibility of money, property, and benefits like retirement accounts, with your spouse. So, where does the prenuptial agreement come in?
Protection of Your Assets
Rather than allowing all of your assets to become marital property, prenuptial agreements allow you to separate which property is considered shared. This prevents your assets from being classified as joint property when a spouse passes away. It is exceptionally helpful for anyone entering into their second marriage with a significant amount of assets. By creating a prenup, you can divide what property goes to whom, whether they are from your previous marriage, your current marriage, or any other friends and family.
A Spouse’s Rights
Other misconceptions about prenup agreements include creating the agreement because you don’t want to leave all of your assets to your spouse. However, the surviving spouse has many rights under Florida law. Some of those include:
- Homestead: In Florida, you cannot distribute your assets freely if you have a surviving spouse. This one is rather complex depending on whether you leave behind a minor child. However if you pass without a prenuptial agreement and your spouse is your sole survivor, the property passes over with a life estate to the spouse. That means they can live on your property for the rest of their life, but have to pay all the necessary taxes and insurance.
- Spousal Share: The surviving spouse will receive an intestate share of assets acquired before and during the marriage. However, Florida law allows you to waive that right in a prenuptial agreement.
- Elective Share: You cannot cut your spouse out of receiving a share when you die. Florida law mandates the surviving spouse gets a minimum of 30% of the estate’s value.
A Probate Lawyer Is Key
The bottom line is prenuptial agreements can save your spouse a lot of headache in the eventuality of your death. However, the agreements can be complex and will need critical guidance from a lawyer. Before your marriage, the attorneys at Legacy Protection Lawyers, LLP will take a comprehensive look at your assets to create the most effective premarital agreement for you. Call our St. Petersburg offices at 727-471-5868 or contact us online to schedule a consultation today. | <urn:uuid:375a667e-fe77-4ab1-bcfc-af09c0174f9f> | CC-MAIN-2022-05 | https://www.legacyprotectionlawyers.com/how-premarital-agreements-affect-estate-planning/ | 2022-01-26T14:23:02Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-05/segments/1642320304954.18/warc/CC-MAIN-20220126131707-20220126161707-00398.warc.gz | en | 0.936236 | 797 |
*** Special Offer Price - usually £495 - Save £145!!! ***
We have ONE left in stock at this special price that just needs to be painted or polished and then upholstered to your requirements!
From our Bespoke Collection - where you can choose the frame colour and the fabric - is this Double (two seat) Gondola Stool. It is made from solid mahogany and is finished/upholstered in the UK resulting in an exceptional piece. Also available is our single seat Gondola Stool - the same design but narrower (89cm). We offer a practical and comfortable range of stools which are ideal for the hallway, footend of a bed, a bay window, partnered to one of our dressing tables etc.
All prices include painting and upholstering but exclude fabric and specialist finishes such as gold or silver leaf. Customers can supply their own fabric or choose from our extensive collections - please ask for details.
The pictures shown are all examples of previous orders and demonstrate some of the many finishes that are available.
Dimensions in cms: W163 x D46 x H60 The seat area is 145cm wide.
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Apple today launched a new promotion aimed at customers of the company’s consumer eMac all-in-one computer.
Jingle Bells and Whistles,” the new promotion offers customers buying an eMac between November 22, 2002 and December 28, 2002 a savings of US$100.
Apple’s eMac comes in three configurations that include a Combo drive on the low-end and SuperDrive DVD burners at the high-end. eMacs range in price from $1099 to $1658.
More details on the promotion are available from Apple’s Web site. | <urn:uuid:2d69a900-d3a2-4610-8780-5c03ad649fe8> | CC-MAIN-2022-05 | https://www.macworld.com/article/157052/promo-14.html | 2022-01-26T15:22:22Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-05/segments/1642320304954.18/warc/CC-MAIN-20220126131707-20220126161707-00398.warc.gz | en | 0.928939 | 132 |
After the successful launch of the Nordtrack™ Liveroom, see what's new this time for Metso:Outotec’s flagship series Lokotrack®, and also get access to product and service presentations, 3D demos and raffles—all online.
Register to attend the global Lokotrack® launch event at Metso Outotec’s next virtual launch event and new Liveroom opening, exclusively for the Lokotrack® range of mobile crushers, screens, parts and services.
On October 27, there will be two options for tuning into the launch event: 9am EET and 4pm EET (7pm and 3am NZ Daylight Savings Time). They are scheduled to last 60 minutes, and participation requires registration. The first 100 registrants will receive a free gift.
Register now: HERE.
Get to know more about the Lokotrack® range HERE.
Garth Taylor, MIMICO’s Crushing & Screening Business Manager, said: “After the success of the Nordtrack virtual launch event it is exciting to see Metso put Lokotrack products in the spotlight. I hope all our customers, and potential customers, from across New Zealand take the opportunity to attend the Lokotrack® Liveroom.” | <urn:uuid:fa8949a4-e796-4e83-8a5d-27ee94f9c8f2> | CC-MAIN-2022-05 | https://www.mimico.co.nz/news/lokotrack-launch-event/ | 2022-01-26T14:26:13Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-05/segments/1642320304954.18/warc/CC-MAIN-20220126131707-20220126161707-00398.warc.gz | en | 0.900621 | 263 |
Gov. Jay Nixon announced Thursday he will lead an agricultural trade mission to Cuba from March 1-4. Representatives from the Missouri Rice Council, the Missouri Forest Products Association, the Dairy Farmers of America and the Missouri Farm Bureau will take part in the trip.
The Democratic Governor has been a vocal supporter of President Barack Obama’s decision to normalize relations with the communist country, and Nixon last week ordered his Agriculture Department to explore trade opportunities with Cuba.
Nixon said the trade mission gives Missouri the chance to be a leader in something that “30 or 40 years ago, people wouldn’t have thought possible.”
U.S. Sen. Claire McCaskill, a Missouri Democrat, will also visit Cuba. She has announced a trip before the end of February to discuss agricultural trade. | <urn:uuid:b2583334-c446-47c1-986a-ba25f4c2825d> | CC-MAIN-2022-05 | https://www.missouribusinessalert.com/uncategorized/55090/2015/01/30/nixon-to-lead-agricultural-trade-mission-to-cuba-in-march/ | 2022-01-26T15:08:50Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-05/segments/1642320304954.18/warc/CC-MAIN-20220126131707-20220126161707-00398.warc.gz | en | 0.952197 | 165 |
This four-string bass features a basswood body with Ellefson’s signature red pinstripe finish, bolt-on bound maple neck with 21 jumbo frets and block inlays, EMG pickups, two volume controls and three-band active EQ, Jackson HiMass bridge and Jackson die-cast tuners.
EMG 35HZB/EMG 35HZN Pickups (Active Three-Band EQ)
The EMG 35HZ is a modern passive bass pickup featuring a dual-coil humbucking design for low noise and plenty of output. Its ceramic magnets produce very pronounced and focused mids, as well as a fast and quick bass response. The strength of the magnets allows the pickup to retain articulation and clarity, even when introduced to extreme gain, which makes for a great choice for fast-paced metal. An active three-band EQ provides separate active controls for bass, mids and treble. | <urn:uuid:5c77788a-884f-4b53-a56f-cdaeedd6f35a> | CC-MAIN-2022-05 | https://www.mozeguitars.com/products/jackson-x-series-signature-david-ellefson-kelly-bird-iv-bass-maple-fb-red-stripe | 2022-01-26T13:24:31Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-05/segments/1642320304954.18/warc/CC-MAIN-20220126131707-20220126161707-00398.warc.gz | en | 0.918953 | 195 |
DOVER, N.Y. (NEWS10) — The New York State Police report the arrest of four Dutchess County men on a hate crime charge. Authorities say the men stole jewelry, and targeted victims based on their race.
Police responded to a reported robbery in Dover on December 6 at about 11:53 p.m. The 911 caller said a group of men—now identified as Dover residents 40-year-old Joshua A. Benson, 23-year-old Joshua A. Benson Jr., 34-year-old Nicholas L. Gast, and 19-year-old Darius L. Robinson—attacked.
The caller said that one of the attackers had a gun and fired a single shot. Police said that none of the victims were seriously injured, but that the men made off with stolen jewelry, fleeing on foot.
The state police Bureau of Criminal Investigation said they determined that the attackers targeted the victims based on their race. Gast, Robinson, and the Bensons were arrested for first-degree robbery as a hate crime. This is a class B felony that could be worth up to 25 years with a conviction.
The suspects were arraigned at the town of Dover Court and sent to the Dutchess County Jail to await future court appearances. Robinson and Joshua Benson Jr. were remanded in lieu of bail or bond, while Gast and Joshua Benson Sr. were remanded without bail. | <urn:uuid:9ef2056d-fdec-4a1b-a88c-64d76577330d> | CC-MAIN-2022-05 | https://www.news10.com/news/ny-news/police-arrest-charge-4-in-dutchess-county-with-hate-crime/ | 2022-01-26T15:20:57Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-05/segments/1642320304954.18/warc/CC-MAIN-20220126131707-20220126161707-00398.warc.gz | en | 0.980125 | 290 |
Cardinal Reflection Flannel Red Pine & Holly by Holly Taylor for Moda 6643-13F. 44/45 inch wide. 100% Premium Cotton.
Holly Taylor’s Cardinal Season collection was one of the most popular Christmas lines Moda Fabrics has produced to date.
After hearing from countless quilters, Holly Taylor has reproduced some of the most popular patterns in beautiful soft | <urn:uuid:546e991e-ab23-4307-9647-ee1f1feadf82> | CC-MAIN-2022-05 | https://www.oldsouthfabrics.com/shop/c/p/Cardinal-Reflection-Flannel-Red-Pine-Holly-by-Holly-Taylor-for-Moda-664313F-x17799901.htm | 2022-01-26T15:11:00Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-05/segments/1642320304954.18/warc/CC-MAIN-20220126131707-20220126161707-00398.warc.gz | en | 0.902184 | 86 |
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