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From Marija Bistrica to Zelina
Marija Bistrica - Žitomir - Sv.Ivan Zelina
This is a very short and easy cycling route, which will take you from Marija Bistrica to Zelina in the Zagreb County. When you come near Zelina, you can continue the ride down the cycling routes of the Zagreb County. Parts of this route merge with the routes of TZO (Tourist board) of the Municipality of Marija Bistrica. Note: this is a one-way route of length of 18 km in one direction.
Start the ride at the central square in Marija Bistrica 1 in front of the shrine of Majka Božja Bistrička (Our Lady of Bistrica). There are many parking lots nearby. From the main square, continue along the Ljudevit Gaj Street towards Zelina. Although the route is easy, in Zagorje you cannot avoid the hills, not even on this route. The first steeper ascent begins at 2,5 km from the start and it will lead you to the Y intersection 2 with crucifix, where you must turn left and continue downhill. Continue riding through a picturesque valley down the road with less traffic. In the village of Cecili (5,7 km from start), at the Y intersection 3, keep left and continue downhill. The ride continues through Žitomir and Prepolno until the T intersection 4(9,7 km from start), where you must turn right towards the center of Gornje Orešje. To the left, the road to Konjščina branches off. In the center of Gornje Orešje, you can take a break at the local coffee house. However, if you are in a hurry, you can continue to the intersection 5 with a shrine, where you must turn right and continue uphill. As you climb, the space in front of you will open up and you can enjoy the view of the surroundings.
From this point on, the route leads you over a more flat terrain, and there are no major hills. Ride through the village of Donje Orešje and – at the intersection 6 (14,8 km from start) – you must continue straight forward. Slowly you are getting closer to Zelina and at the intersection 7 (16,4 km from start) turn right uphill. The intersection can be easily missed, so be careful. At the next intersection 8 with Toplička Street, turn left to the intersection 9. At the intersection, carefully turn right into the Vladimir Nazor Street and continue carefully towards the center of Zelina. After the intersection, you can continue riding on the sidewalk, for safety reasons. After 18 km of the ride, you will reach the center of Zelina, where you can rest and prepare for the ride back to Marija Bistrica, using the same route.
One of possible routes for going back is the road through Zelingrad and Kladešćica, but this road is exclusively for mountain bikes, because the descent from Kladešćica towards Marija Bistrica is extremely technically challenging and in certain sections even dangerous.
- Start of the route in the center of Marija Bistrica. Continue along the Ljudevit Gaj Street towards Zelina.
- Y intersection with crucifix. At the intersection, continue left downhill.
- Y intersection. At the intersection, you must turn left and continue downhill.
- T intersection, continue to the right slightly downhill. The road on the left leads to Konjščina.
- Y intersection with a shrine. At the intersection, continue to the right uphill towards Zelina.
- Intersection, continue straight.
- Caution. Y intersection, turn right uphill. The intersection can be easily missed.
- Y intersection, turn left and continue along the Toplička Street.
- Caution. Y intersection, turn right and continue carefully uphill. If needed, you can ride on the sidewalk, for safety reasons.
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Rehearsals began this week for the new West End cast of Harry Potter And The Cursed Child, who will start their performances at the Palace Theatre in London’s West End on 24 May 2017, following the final performance from the current cast on 21 May 2017.
Jamie Glover will play Harry Potter with Emma Lowndes as his wife Ginny Potter, and Theo Ancient as their son Albus Potter. Thomas Aldridge will play Ron Weasley, with Rakie Ayola as Hermione Granger and Helen Aluko as their daughter Rose Granger-Weasley. Playing Draco Malfoy will be James Howard with Samuel Blenkin as his son Scorpius Malfoy.
The new West End cast of Harry Potter And The Cursed Child (Photo: Manuel Harlan)
They are joined by new cast members David Annen, Ruthxjiah Bellenea, Danny Dalton, Leah Haile, Rupert Henderson, Elizabeth Hill, April Hughes, James McGregor, Sarah Miele, Jordan Paris, James Phoon, Henry Rundle, Ged Simmons, Mark Theodore, Gideon Turner and Ed White. Original cast members Nicola Alexis, Rosemary Annabella, Phoebe Austen, Annabel Baldwin, Jabez Cheeseman, Morag Cross, Esme Grace, Lowri James, Martin Johnston, Alfred Jones, Barry McCarthy, Sandy McDade, Tom Mackley, Harrison Noble, Ben Roberts, Nuno Silva, Hope Sizer and Joshua Wyatt complete the 42-strong company playing a variety of characters, including seven children who will alternate two roles.
Harry Potter And The Cursed Child is the eighth story in the Harry Potter series and the first official Harry Potter story to be presented on stage. The critically acclaimed production received its world premiere in June 2016 at the Palace Theatre and is now the recipient of thirteen theatre awards. Earlier this month it was announced that Harry Potter And The Cursed Child was nominated for a record-breaking 11 Olivier Awards, making it the most nominated new play in Olivier history.
Harry Potter And The Cursed Child is currently booking to 29 April 2018. The next advance ticket release will take place on 25 April 2017. Tickets are priced from £15 per part and for every performance there are over 300 tickets at £20 or less per part. Further ticket releases will be announced throughout the year, details of which will published via the official Harry Potter And The Cursed Child website, social media channels and the official newsletter.
It was always difficult being Harry Potter, and it isn’t much easier now that he is an overworked employee of the Ministry of Magic, a husband and father of three school-age children. While Harry grapples with a past that refuses to stay where it belongs, his youngest son Albus must struggle with the weight of a family legacy he never wanted. As past and present fuse ominously, both father and son learn the uncomfortable truth: sometimes, darkness comes from unexpected places.
Jamie Glover’s recent credits include The Rehearsal, An Ideal Husband and If Only, all for Chichester Festival Theatre, as well as Noises Off (at The Old Vic and Novello Theatre) and Waterloo Road on television. Emma Lowndes (Ginny Potter) has been seen in Downton Abbey, Thomas Aldridge (Ron Weasley) in the current cast of Les Misérables at the Queen’s Theatre, and Rakie Ayola (Hermione Granger) in The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night-Time at the Apollo Theatre. Theo Ancient (Albus Potter) and Samuel Blenkin (Scorpius Malfoy) make their professional stage debuts, while Helen Aluko (Rose Granger-Weasley) and James Howard (Draco Malfoy) were both original members of the Harry Potter And The Cursed Child company.
Based on an original new story by J.K. Rowling, Jack Thorne and John Tiffany, Harry Potter And The Cursed Child is a new play by Jack Thorne, directed by John Tiffany with movement by Steven Hoggett, set by Christine Jones, costumes by Katrina Lindsay, music & arrangements by Imogen Heap, lighting by Neil Austin, sound by Gareth Fry, illusions & magic by Jamie Harrison, music supervision & arrangements by Martin Lowe and casting by Julia Horan CDG.
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If you're driving someone else's car right now, you may want to be careful where you go.
Saturday - 03/31/2012, 08:21am EDT
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Monday, February 20, 2012
Cinnamon Apple Spice Truffles
Have you ever agreed to a party and forgot about it?
Have you ever agreed to a party where you are the guest of honor and forgot about it?
Have you ever agreed to a party where you are the guest of honor in celebration of the upcoming birth of your newest child? No? Yes? Am I the only one?
Thank goodness there was a birthday party of another friend the night before, because I would not have shown up to my own baby shower if not! Is this what they call "pregnancy brain"? At what point do I call off work and just sit on the couch because I have become a danger to society?
At what point do I stop forgetting my water with wonderfully crushed ice upstairs? It's body punishment to be forced upstairs to fetch my H20. It's more punishment to have 86 glasses all over the house to wash because I can't remember to bring down my water. I'll just blame it on my toddler.
Also when did I start doing laundry for the neighborhood? I can't quite remember (shocking) such a pile as we have building up these days. Of course it could be the re fluffing of the same load over and over causing the back up. Or it could just be my husband. Husbands are who you blame when something isn't perfect right? I think males probably know this by now. If not, consider yourself "aware".
Delightfully borrowed, slightly altered The Jey of Cooking
1 Package Golden Oreos
6 oz. Cream Cheese, at room temperature
1/4 Cup pureed apple pie filling
1/2 tsp. Ginger, divided
2 Packages White Chocolate Baking Bars
1 1/2 tsp. Cinnamon
Crushed candied pecans for topping (optional)
Chopped white chocolate (optional)
* I made the chocolate in 2 batches, I left out the cinnamon in the 2nd to just add variety in flavor.
Add the Oreos to the bowl of a food processor and pulse until fine crumbs form. Transfer to the bowl of a stand mixer and mix together with the apple pie filling, cream cheese and 1/2 tsp. ginger. Once combined, roll out your truffle dough into bite sized balls. Refrigerate for 2 hours. I even put my dough balls in the freezer 5 minutes before coating to get them extra firm.
Cover a baking sheet with parchment paper and set aside. Melt the chocolate in the microwave according to packaging, until fully melted. Stir in the cinnamon.
Remove the balls from the fridge and dip into the chocolate, making sure they are coated evenly. Place on the parchment paper and repeat until all balls are covered in chocolate. Sprinkle pecans or white chocolate on top (I dipped four truffles, then topped them etc...) and refrigerate until hardened.
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Umbra on green hotels
My husband and I are Americans who own a small budget hotel in Rome, Italy. We try to be as eco-friendly as possible: our cafe is local, organic, and vegetarian, we use compact fluorescent bulbs where we can (although cannot find an alternative for the halogen lighting systems we have), we use eco-friendly cleaning products, including the old standbys like vinegar and baking soda, we recycle and use all recycled paper products, and we use vegetable-based paint on the walls.
However, I really feel we could/should do more, but unfortunately, Rome isn’t that eco-friendly. So, for example, one of our largest expenses — laundry — has no alternative other than to use the typical bleach and heat laundry services. There are no ecological laundry services here, and we have too much turnaround to do all of the laundry ourselves. We already use our poor washer to the maximum for our duvet covers as they are unbleached cotton and cannot be washed by the laundry service. We also don’t change bedding or towels every day except for midway through stays of six or more days, so that does help.
Do you have suggestions for any other things we can do to make our hotel even more eco-friendly without breaking the bank? We are a budget place, after all.
Thanks very much for your time and consideration.
I can’t wait to come visit, when they finish the New York-Rome light-rail system in a few years. Meanwhile, all I could do for you is troll the sea of green-hotel information out there and try to figure what you have missed. There is quite a green-hotel movement, it seems, with various boosters and comradely organizations. If you don’t own a hotel but like to stay in them, there are groups that supply hotel-prodding literature. Ye conference organizers and attendees can find hotel-prodding literature tailor-made for your needs as well.
What makes a hotel “green” or environmentally progressive? For a small hotel such as Linda’s, many of the steps will be similar to those one might take in one’s own home. The practices Linda outlines above include the basics and the added effort: recycling, less-frequent changing of linens, using low-VOC paint, serving local/organic/vegetarian food, switching to compact fluorescent lights, choosing low-toxicity cleaners.
Other steps you might be able to take, Linda, are ensuring the efficiency of your appliances, composting food waste, installing various water-saving gadgets such as low-flow showerheads, and trying to improve the efficiency of the heating and cooling systems through steps like insulating the building (does one do this in Rome?). For a large hotel or a chain of large hotels, the heating and cooling systems are major aspects of their ecological footprint and will be important components of their Plan. I’m not sure your mom-and-pop organization needs to make a Plan, but having one might reveal unnoticed areas and help you feel that you are always moving toward improvement, even if you can’t think yet what that will be.
A Plan could consist of a list of goals, evaluative steps, a timeline, a set of outcomes, and a celebration at the end. You, your husband, and your employees would together set the goals, which might range from reducing water use to increasing staff education to reducing your carbon footprint. If you did decide to reduce water use, the accompanying evaluation would of course be to measure how much water you use and where the use happens. Then with data in hand you can think about ways to reduce the water use, set a timeline for when you can implement the conservation measures, and then celebrate when you achieve the goal (with a nice hot bath … ). Perhaps there are instances where you can’t measure the actual use of a resource; to continue on the water example, maybe you have no way of learning how much water your washing machine uses. Still, you could set a baseline measurement (10 full loads per week, 5 half loads per week) and work down from that baseline.
I found a random list of resources for you — I say random only because I’m not sure how I stumbled onto the page, but it does have a nice bundle of links to international and national green-hotel groups. A few are lists of eco-steps a hotel can take, others are fellowship organizations or advisers, or businesses encouraging you to join their promotional group. I also found, as I mentioned above, an interesting program that assists business and pleasure travelers with evaluating and nudging hotels, the Ceres Green Hotel Initiative. Those of you who plan conferences, or do lots of business travel, might be able to use the Ceres Best Practices Survey to evaluate which hotels should get your business. The BPS also of course gives a good list of the steps hotels should consider (motion-sensor lighting and HVAC systems, environmental purchasing, and more). I hope this is helpful.
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We tasted and compared fro-yo from 10 chains, and one rose above the pack
A look into this week's new chefs and restaurant menus
The Colorado sports bar has a ton of events that you won't want to miss this month
Can this compete with the national popularity of the cronut?
Pronounced ‘Ti-mone-ee’s,” the new restaurant offers New York-inspired pizza and dishes
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The version numbers of OS X
It is good to know the way Apple names the versions of OS X. It can be confusing That apple charges for small upgrades such as 10.3 – 10.4. Well, they don’t. Or yes they do, but it’s not like it looks.
Each 10.x is an own operating system (OS) in itself. A little update or bugfix normally changes the OS system from x.1 – x.2. But not in OS X, where a little bugfix or update makes 10.4.7 to 10.4.8. As I wrote before, 10.3.x and 10.4.x are two different operating systems.
So: The third number in the version number of OS X is to compare with the second number in the version number of other application or OS.
This does not concern the programs in OS X, only OS X.
Apple also gives each OS a Cat-name:
- Mac OS X 10.0 (Cheetah)
- Mac OS X 10.1 (Puma)
- Mac OS X 10.2 (Jaguar)
- Mac OS X 10.3 (Panther)
- Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger)
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After keeping a food journal for a week and taking it to a dietitian I've been told that for my weight I'm not consuming enough calories?!
I don't feel hungry. I'm eating 3 balanced meals plus 2/3 light snacks during the day but my calories are barely making 1000, let alone the 1250-1500 she wants me to take in.
My food includes fruit, salad, Mediterranean vegetables, lean chicken, potatoes, yogurt, muesli, tuna, wholemeal bread, egg, cottage cheese and soups. I also give myself a daily treat, like a packet of light crisps, a weight watchers cake bar, or pot of low sugar jelly.
I don't eat much red meat or fish. So where can I add good calories during the day?
I'll add that I do a 30 minute daily cardo work out, and swim at least 10 lengths each day too.
I would start with nuts and nut butters, if you're not allergic. Almonds, walnuts, pistachios, etc. have healthy fats and protein, and an ounce, which is not that many, has about 160-180 calories. Also, a protein shake or smoothie with protien powder mixed in could also be good choices.
And now that you don't have to be perfect, you can be good.
If you're already feeling full on your current solid food intake, maybe you could try drinking your extra calories. Drinking calories is usually much easier than eating since your body thinks you're getting far less than you really are. Try blending full fat milk with some protein, ice, and fruit (and if you're feeling particularly adventurous, a raw egg or three), and having that once a day to push up your calories.
Good fruits to blend include bananas, berries, and pitted plums, peaches, and apricots.
1) eat real food - more vegetables, moderate meat, moderate fruits, less grains, less sugar, less vegetable oils.
2) exercise - moderate intensity cardio, sprinting, heavy lifting, dedicated stretching and mobility.
3) live - relax, de-stress, meditate.
Disclaimer: I'm not professionally qualified to make any formal recommendations. I've just done my homework and I'm my own guinea pig. All of my data, unless otherwise cited, comes from a sample size of n=1 (me).
Say why don't you come on over and I'll show you how it's done. If eating were an Olympic sport, I would have more gold medals than Michael Phelps.
Actually I concur with cjohnson, nuts make an awesome addition to any diet, especially Brazil nuts and almonds. Tandoorichicken also has a good point about drinking calories, I have a protein shake after every workout. It takes the edge off the hunger I've worked up and gives me a nice protein boost for my aching muscles. Another thing you might try is protein or energy bars, but you have to read the labels, some are pretty much candy bars in disguise.
You seem real low on fat. The right fats are your friend and should not be avoided. Since it sounds like you are not into the animal fats, I recommend coconut milk. I put it in my coffee as well as make coconut milk ice cream... Coconut oil is great to cook with as well.
Not a huge fan of dairy but heavy whipping cream is loaded with quality fat without the bad stuff.
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Fuji GSW690. Objects in this photo are larger than they appear.
Still moving camera equipment around. My 250mm, (10 inch), Commercial Ektar is on ebay. It's replacement, a 250mm, (10 inch), wide-field Ektar is waiting on Monday and a little lens board cutting. May have found the perfect lens for my 8X10. Just trading up to get a little bigger image circle. The new 250 wide field will NOT fit on a lens board for the 5X7. Too bad, but I do have a 12 inch Commercial Ektar that does. Won't lose much. This lens is a slight wide angle on the 8X10. I like it, so far. Cut a board out of foam core to look through it on the Big Deardorff.
Plans being laid for a trip to Shiprock in August after I return from the National Matches. If the Lord lets me live, of course.
Bought a Fuji GSW690. That's a wide angled Japanese 120 film copy of a Leica. Bought for photographing the morning and evening shadow of Shiprock from the crest over the climbers cave. If I can't get my 5X7 up there, I will have this. (8X10 not going.) And its for snapshots of my dog, of course. Run a couple rolls for tests and everything looks peachy. Great looking 6X9 roll film negatives. It was in Hong Kong, but they got it here chop chop.
8X10 with the new 250 Wide Field Ektar on a couple pieces of black foam core.
Tap water all the way to 94 degrees. Wow.
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A waterproof, breathable dual-layer HyVent® shell jacket features a removable helmet-compatible hood, fully sealed seams throughout, strategically mapped lightweight insulation in areas most vulnerable to cold, and underarm zip vents for breathable core comfort. For added protection against the harshest snow conditions, the all-mountain style includes Lycra® spandex hand gaiters with adjustable bonded cuffs, an adjustable interior powder skirt, and adjustable toggled cinch-cord hem.
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Massachusetts General Hospital Receives NIH Grant The Center for Biomedical OCT Research and Translation
Massachusetts General Hospital Receives a 2017 NIH Grant for $171,000 The Center for Biomedical OCT Research and Translation. The principal investogator is Brett Bouma. THe progbram began in 2017 and ends in 2018. Below is a summary of the proposed work.
Overall the Center for Biomedical OCT Research and Translation seeks to push the technological frontier of optical coherence tomography instrumentation and methods in response to challenges in biology and medicine. Fundamental to our approach, CBORT thrives on an intimate, push-pull relationship between physicists/engineers and biological, pre-clinical and clinical scientists. The most direct impact o the Resource will be to develop and provide broad access to powerful new tools for biological and clinical research. Facilitating rapid, high-resolution, high-contrast imaging through tailored, application-specific instruments will accelerate and open new avenues of biomedical research. Results of this effort may include, for example, the identification of new methods for diagnosis, new insights into disease or disease progression, or the formulation of new therapeutic strategies or drug targets. Further, we anticipate that some of the resulting biological and clinicl research will identify new opportunities for commercialization of technology. By developing and making innovative and effective OCT technology available, we anticipate that there will be rapid progress and significant advances in each of these areas. Training and dissemination of OCT instruments and methods is another priority of CBORT. Regular symposia and workshops foster a broader communication within the field, provide access to results of research, and offer a hand-on experience with the construction, operation, and interpretation of data from state-of-the-art imaging systems. External users additionally have access to imaging systems within the Resource to conduct focused experiments or to generate preliminary data. CBORT can also place imaging systems off-site for clinical or pre-clinical pilot studies.
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Jennie Brandmiller has not received any gifts yet
This study reported no difference in weight regain or body composition over 18 months. The high MUFA diet was the least popular. Here's the link:
A recent study in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine showed that women with prediabetes experienced greater mean weight loss 12…Continue
A new study published in Nutrition & Diabetes showed that a fully automated diabetes prevention program improved aerobic capacity and diet composition after 6 months.…Continue
A new study published in Diabetic Medicine shows that 54% of UK adults with pre-diabetes returned to normal glucose tolerances after loosing a small reduction in weight and waist circumferences.
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The couple knew each other from last 10 years and started dating six years back. Hegde informed that both their families are happy as both of them belong to South India. He is choreographing his entire marriage and is extremely excited.
Informing his fans on a social networking site the choreographer wrote, “I am getting married next week and that's the reason why have not been in action here with you guys..it's on the 5th of June and it's in Mumbai..hope I get all the love and best wishes as this one seems to be tough choreography..he he..love g."
Well, we at Oneindia wish him a great married life ahead.
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Introducing Abby Prendergast, Herbalist and Naturopath in Meersbrook, Sheffield. Abby works closely with clients on a one to one basis, supporting people to find greater balance in their health and life through Herbal Medicine and Naturopathic principles.
Here, Abby shares her vision and intention behind her own personal self-care rituals to hopefully help inspire you to cultivate your own.
One of the first things I love to ask other practitioners about are the words they live by. What are the words that really resonate with you?
Empowerment, Truth, Integrity, Adventure, Creativity, Compassion.
What are you driven by as a practitioner?
I’m incredibly passionate about women’s health and believe that women are absolutely integral in creating and implementing so many of the positive changes we need to see in our world today.
I feel that women in particular have a lot to contend with in our modern society and that we often have so many roles we are struggling to juggle and fulfill.
My dream is to work with women in a way that is nurturing, empowering and restorative, acknowledging our strength, supporting each other and sharing our journeys and stories to encourage and inspire each other.
Throughout the next year I will be attending seminars, workshops, conferences and also taking part in a mentoring programme to further develop my skills and experience in herbal healthcare for women. I hope to encourage and support as many people as possible while sharing herbal medicine and the ways in which this can be transformative for our long-term health and well-being.
We know as practitioners that we are so used to giving so much of our energy to helping others, whilst often putting ourselves second. How do you cultivate self-care and what has it come to mean to you?
To be very honest, it took me years to develop a real routine of self-care! I’m a very driven person and will admit that I can be (a bit!) of a perfectionist ;)
In the past my self-care was at the bottom of the priority pile, especially when I was working as a Nurse where I often found I was over stretching myself and burning out. This experience was so valuable for me as it was a major instigator in making building self-care into my daily life a priority, as I know this is so essential for me to be at my best for my clients and everyone else in my life.
I now love embracing self-care as an indispensable part of life and work and I’m able to share my strategies with my clients, benefiting their health as well as my own. Nowadays I find it helpful to take time out to reflect each month and make a fresh plan for self-care and restorative time moving forward, as life naturally shifts and changes along with our needs at different times.
Essentially I think self-care is about tuning into yourself on a very real level, asking yourself what you truly need and allowing yourself to respond to this with the same kindness you would show for a loved one, wherever you can. This can mean saying ‘no’ to things more often and in doing so, stepping into your power and living more authentically to yourself.
What was your turning point that led you to where you are - in your life, career and health?
It’s so tricky to pinpoint one turning point! I really feel that the journey is continuously evolving along with my own health and sense of well-being as I grow and gradually refine my life to become more aligned with my vision and direction for the future.
I’d say I went through a lot of significant challenges when living in Ireland, which continued fairly relentlessly for almost 5 years. I really had to face up to a lot of personal struggles during my time there, including my own health difficulties and patterns of behaviour that weren’t serving me.
I’m so grateful now for that time as I’m much stronger, and have a deeper sense of happiness and clarity about who I am as a result.
Who are your go-to Gurus for an instant pick me up?
Many years ago I encountered an organisation called The Soka Gakkai International which is a lay Buddhist organisation for world peace, based on Nichiren Buddhism. Daisaku Ikeda is the current President of the organisation and has written many books brimming with guidance which is deeply rooted in the realities and struggles of modern daily life. I turn to his guidance daily for inspiration and whenever I’m feeling stuck or confused.
I also love reading books and articles from various Herbalists around the world who inspire me with their passion, dedication and love for plant medicine. Whenever I’m feeling overwhelmed by some of the challenges of being a Herbalist, these people bring me back to centre and remind me why I’m on this path!
Is there a book that has had a significant outlook on your approach to life and health? Or perhaps a book that you read time and time again, that continues to help you?
Yes, I’ve got two! ‘The Buddha in Daily Life’ by Richard Causton and ‘Braiding Sweetgrass’ by Robin Wall Kimmerer which is a beautiful exploration of indigenous wisdom, intertwined with science and our connection to plants and nature.
What do you do to get your daily glow and flow on? (Your self-care routine)
I start the day by carrying out my Buddhist morning practice of chanting, in front of a scroll called ‘The Gohonzon’ to bring out my wisdom, courage and compassion for the day ahead. I find that this helps me to raise my life condition and move through the rest of my day with greater rhythm and ease.
Good nutrition, hydration, fresh air and plenty of green veggies are also an essential in my day!
Finish the following sentences:
I keep having to remind myself that.... following your dreams takes a lot of hard work and dedication and to really make a positive change you have to stick at it!
It’s that feeling when... you harvest tomatoes and chilli peppers you planted from seed in the spring!
When I’m stressed, I always... get out to nature! If I’m busy I go for a quick walk in the park, or if I’ve time, a good hike in the mountains or forest. We’re so lucky in Sheffield to have lots of green spaces around!
If I ruled the world, the first thing I would do is... get rid of all inequality….I guess that would also mean relinquishing my new role as world leader…ha ;)
And finally, what is in the pipeline for you and your herbal practice?
At the moment I’m also creating a series of upcoming workshops focusing on medicine making, harnessing the wonderful healing potential of our local plants. I’m also hugely excited to be collaborating with the wonderful Yoga teacher Esther Knowles, to create a collection of ‘Yoga and Herbs’ workshops.
Watch this space for our upcoming winter offerings, helping people to gain deeper connection with their body, while simultaneously exploring the power of plant medicine for ultimate health and vitality!
Check out more information about Abby and her herbal practice on her personal website: Abby's Herbal Clinic.
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November Birthstone Bear Plush
- Brand: Demdaco
What better way to embrace the arrival of a newborn or celebrate a child's birthday than with the November Birthstone Bear Plush? This cuddly plush bear, measuring 3 1/2 x 2 x 8 1/2 inches, symbolizes the month of November and comes with a card that explains the month's birthstone and its meaning; in November's case, it is a citrine and its meaning is "courageous." The white bear comes with orange accents on his nose and left foot, matching the color of the month's birthstone. This is a great gift for a baby shower, first birthday, or as a purchase for a new baby!
- November Birthstone Bear Plush
- White plush bear with orange heart and nose accents
- Attached card with birthstone and meaning
- 3 1/2 x 2 x 8 1/2 inches
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Beautiful Pain is a dissection of two seemingly unrelated human states: beauty and ugliness. While on Holiday in Mexico, writer Jacob Sneed witnessed the two colliding to create a wholly new emotion.
She was just a girl in a magical place with a scar. I bought ciggies from her and told her she was beautiful. She held her baby and smiled. I’ve gone from that place now. It is far and distant, but her face remains emblazoned in the frame of my mind, forever visible, as was the scar across her face.
“Hola bonita. ”
She didn’t speak much. Her eyes swept shyly across the cement as if it might open up and swallow her at any moment. I wondered if she wished it would.
I know at times I do.
The headaches never leave; the voices are forever present, pushing me across cities and states in foreign lands, searching for something I fear I may never find. The beauty within pain. My hurts and fears I’ve learned to tuck deep within me, hidden from sight
Her beauty could have been marred but it wasn’t. Etched across her face were painful memories – that pretty, scarred cigarette girl, clutching her new born baby in the twilight of long days in the south of Mexico. I always gave her twice the amount of the cost of a pack of Camel Gold. She didn’t ask, of course – her face held an elegant, yet stubborn pride – and I’d walk the length of the village to buy ciggs from her, despite the myriad hawkers that lined those crooked, cobbled lanes.
Her hands shook always, despite the fact that it was quite warm, most days. She’d be huddled amid a gaggle of older ladies with not much to do, other than chattering away their days in rapid, Mexican-accented Spanish. I wondered at her story, her scar, and who’d cursed her to remain such an unparalleled beauty in a place that hardly would recognize the depth of her intrigue.
Her dress was reflective of her Mayan culture; her tongue of Spanish origin; her baby was a bastard. I know this only because I asked.
“Donde es tu esposo bonita?”
“No tengo un esposo chico, el es no hay.”
She said it with a small, hardly discernable smirk, as if she preferred it that way. I’m not sure why I even asked. I’m not too sure I cared. There was something beyond just her appearance that drew her to me. It was a look in her eyes that was mirrored in my own. Resilience, determination, a brave disregard for the obstacles that might waylay her survival, just as my own has been waylaid so often.
The odd assortment of characters that made up my typical entourage: a wizard, a gypsy, and an illegally immigrated Salvadorean hippie were not privy to my cigg excursions. I would often give them some half mumbled excuse for disappearing to find cigarettes on my own as if my very public relationship with the cigarette girl were some secret. Completely contrary to that, it was played out in one of the largest of the village squares, in which she always sat. It was the only place I ever saw her. Sometimes, when she wasn’t there, the other women would point to me and wave, beckoning me over to tell me she had just left or stayed home that day. Once, when I was ill for a week and didn’t leave home, they told me she’d asked if I had been around.
“Coma estas bonita?”
“”Bien, bien chico. De donde eres?”
The conversations were simple when we did cross paths, constrained by my limited Spanish and her nonexistent English, but that wasn’t the reason I enjoyed them. In such a place, where the streets are littered with the evidence of usually unseen forces, the magic that brings people such as her and I into each other’s company, it was everything we didn’t say to each other, but understood, that meant so much more.
The way that the lines of her face creased into a weary smile said more about her than words ever could. The scar stretched from above one almond-shaped eye, across her forehead, to the back of her ear. I’ve seen enough knife wounds to recognize one, and hers looked exactly like those I’d seen: angry, the residue of violence dripping across her face. In most others, it would have completely ruined their ability to retain such innocence and beauty.
I do not know what has become of that cigarette girl and her little baby. The baby has probably grown. Equally as likely, she still sits in that same square selling loose ciggies to the residents of that magical little place. I am far from her now, and eventually may even forget exactly how she looked – a faded, distant memory clouded by the potency of all the others that float through my unquiet mind – but I will never forget when I found beautiful pain. I am reminded of her every time I look in a mirror. If there are Gods to whom one should pray, and I was as praying man, I’d ask only that, inasmuch as I might survive my own ills, she might survive hers.
“Un cigaro chico?”
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PodMed is a weekly podcast from Johns Hopkins Medicine. In it, Elizabeth Tracey, director of electronic media for Johns Hopkins Medicine, and Rick Lange, MD, professor of medicine at Johns Hopkins and vice chairman of medicine at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, look at the top medical stories of the week.
This week's topics include surgery versus PT for meniscal repairs, dangers of azithromycin, HIV screening recommendations, and allergies in kids in the U.S. and elsewhere.
0:39 Meniscal tears and PT
1:39 Surgery or PT and could cross over to surgery
2:39 70% responded to PT alone
3:30 Heart risk of azithromycin
4:31 Compared to no antibiotics and to penicillin
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7:10 Environmental and infectious exposures and less allergy
8:10 What are they missing in exposure in US?
8:33 USPSTF recommendations on HIV
9:33 Routine test
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Sir James Matthew Barrie (1860-1937), best remembered as the creator of Peter Pan, was a Scottish author and dramatist whose works have enjoyed frequent revivals in film and on stage. The 1917 production of his play, "Dear Brutus", was one in a long string of successes for Barrie. The play, set in the manor of a mysterious man called Lob, takes a group of ordinary men and women and asks the question: What might happen to a person given the opportunity to remake their life? The guests are whisked into a dream-like world where they are shown what their lives "might have been." Throughout the play, Barrie imparts to his audience deep and intriguing insight into human nature. He makes not only his characters, but his audience, question the role of fate versus the inherent nature of the individual, and the true responsibility we take in the path of our own lives.
About J M Barrie
See more books from this Author
Published April 1, 2011
Arts & Photography, Literature & Fiction, Humor & Entertainment, Education & Reference, War.
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AT&T has quietly begun offering DSL service for $10 per month for new customers. Offered as part of the concessions the telecom made to the Federal Communications Commission in order to gain approval for its merger with BellSouth, the speed is nothing to get excited about: 768Kbps down and 128Kbps up.
AT&T is also doing little to publicize the new offering. In fact, I was only able to discover any reference to the low-price service by clicking on the Terms and Conditions link at he bottom of AT&T's residential high-speed Internet product page. A note on AT&T Yahoo! High-Speed Internet buried six paragraphs down says that the "basic speed ($10.00)" tier is available to new customers only, those who have not subscribed to AT&T or BellSouth DSL during the past 12 months, and the service requires a one-year contract.
Customers must also order phone service to get the budget-priced DSL service; those looking for cheap, naked DSL should look elsewhere. Those living in BellSouth's former territory can get naked DSL for the next two-and-a-half years, however.
Along with the budget high-speed Internet and naked DSL, AT&T also promised to maintain a "neutral network and neutral routing in its wireline broadband Internet access service" while also giving up its rights to the 2.5GHz spectrum. (WiMAX provider Clearwire recently completed the purchase of AT&T's unused 2.5GHz holdings.) In addition, AT&T must offer broadband to 100 percent of all residential living units in its territory, with 85 percent of that delivered by wire.
As is the case with the naked DSL offering, AT&T is only required to offer the $10 per month tier for the next two-and-a-half years. After that, the company is free to make whatever changes it wants to the service.
It's only $5 cheaper than AT&T's current lowest-priced service, but at $10 per month, the service could appeal to budget-minded consumers—especially those who are paying about that amount for dial-up service. More importantly for AT&T, it gives the company another platform from which to pitch its U-Verse broadband and IPTV service. After two and a half years of 768Kbps service, U-Verse may look very attractive to lower-tier customers.
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The InternNancy Meyers + The Intern
Sunday, November 18 th, 2018 at 00:11 am Dr. Joy Browne
- Director (s):
- Nancy Meyers
- Robert De Niro, Anne Hathaway, Rene Russo
70-year-old widower Ben Whittaker has discovered that retirement isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. Seizing an opportunity to get back in the game, he becomes a senior intern at an online fashion site, founded and run by Jules Ostin.
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Cut bonding for building
MADISON, Wis. (AP) – The Republican-controlled budget committee has voted to reduce bonding for state building projects by $250 million. The Joint Finance Committee voted 12-4 Thursday along party lines to remove $250 million in bonding authority for the state Building Commission. Democrats objected, saying interest rates are low and the bonds should be allowed to create more construction jobs. But Repu
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The Android Oreo (Go Edition) operating system is designed to work on devices with 512MB or 1GB of RAM by optimizing the operating system along with the pre-installed apps, so that they occupy less space and can run faster on budget-friendly devices.
HMD Global has released a number of new handsets this year, and if the latest rumor is to be believed, the firm is expected to launch the entry-level Nokia 1 handset in March as a part of the Android Go program. The device is expected to launch in Russia as well as other emerging markets for around €80 ($95).
The handset is expected to ship with the lightweight Android Oreo (Go Edition) operating system along with 1GB of RAM, 8GB of internal storage and a 720p display, as per the Russian journalist Eldar Murtazin.
The Nokia 1 won't be the only Android Go device to launch next year, as per Murtazin, Huawei is also working on an Android Go device which will launch next year carrying a similar price tag as the alleged Nokia 1. That said, this is the first time that the existence of this device has been alleged, and as such, it is advisable to take this report with a grain of salt.
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Policy and progress
We are calling on the government to make the UK tobacco free by 2035, but there remains some way to go.
One in five adults still smokes, and it continues to be the leading cause of preventable death and hospital admissions.
Nonetheless, recent gains have been made, with bans on cigarette vending machines and laws against smoking in public places.
Plain packaging in England and Wales
The BMA has long been calling for the standardised packaging of tobacco products.
We successfully lobbied for Parliament to legislate for standardised packaging to be introduced without the need for further primary legislation through the Children and Families Act.
We are encouraged that the government has now announced that it will put regulations on the standardised packaging of tobacco to a vote in Parliament before the general election.
We will continue to lobby MPs before the vote in the Commons.
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Look at this great blog post by Regina Lord! She was a student of mine at Artfest, so sweet!! And I really enjoyed seeing the work she made in class. Please don't laugh at me in her photos; I look like I need about a week's worth of sleep, ahem.....what can I say.
Here is more student art. I completely forgot to take pictures the first two days and I have really been kicking myself for such an oversight. The diversity of student work blew my mind and I am thrilled they were able to find their own voice while also learning new things. That is often hard to accomplish.
Create Chicago is now OPEN for business, yay and Art Unraveled and Art Is....(east & west coast) continue to take signups. But sadly, the Ultimate Mixed Media Cruise has been cancelled. I am completely bummed by this but I guess it just wasn't meant to be. Perhaps another time....
As always, my teaching gigs are indicated in the lefthand sidebar.
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Going to the dogs
February 03rd, 2018
Rachel Rose interviews mutt maven Stanley Coren (2018)
Having produced possibly the bestselling non-fiction book about dogs ever written, The Intelligence of Dogs, as well as Why We Love The Dogs We Do, Dr. Stanley Coren has a career that most writers and researchers only dream of; his lectures at UBC routinely attract hundreds of students. With his fifteenth book underway, Stanley Coren has also written seminal books on sleep deprivation and left-handedness.
In the following interview, Coren discusses the dogs that shaped his childhood, his canine research, his bestselling career as a writer and his family life. He arrived to talk with Rachel Rose at a café on Main Street looking dapper in a dark suit and a broad brimmed Australian hat. Nearly three hours later, they were still in the café, still discussing dogs.
Acclaimed as a poet, Rachel Rose has newly published The Dog Lover Unit: Lessons in Courage from the World’s K9 Cops (Thomas Dunne / St. Martin’s Press $26.99) in which she introduces K9 teams — police dogs and their handlers — in the United States, Canada, Britain, and France (where their group’s official name translates as “the dog lover unit”) and follows them on their police assignments.
As a psychologist, how did you get yourself into the study of dogs?
Most psychologists are trained either to be animal or human psychologists. I wanted to study the human-animal bond, specifically the human-canine bond. I recognized there was a different critter at each end of the leash and you had to understand both of them to understand the relationship. But when I got my doctorate, around 1968, if you’d said to anyone you wanted to study dogs, they would look at you as if you’d descended from a flying saucer.
There was probably zero funding.
Correct. So, I turned to my second love, sensory processing—vision, some auditory work. That’s what led me to studying handedness. I was curious about a phenomenon known as eye dominance. It became quite clear there were some strange things going on with left-handers. The research we had done on handedness was such that when we found the link between handedness and longevity, and accident rates, I had to get it out to the general readership, so engineers could make necessary ergonomic adaptations. That’s when I published The Left-Hander Syndrome. In today’s parlance, it went viral. I worked with Diane Halpern from UC San Diego, a truly remarkable woman. She and I did much more press than it’s healthy to do.
When did you bring your focus back to studying dogs?
Around the mid-1980’s, two wonderful people, Alan Beck and Aaron Katcher, ran a set of studies that showed if you pet a familiar and friendly dog, your heart rate slows, breathing becomes regular, stress hormones reduced in concentration. Psychologists study behavior, but they believe physiology. Finally, here was legitimate evidence.
As the author of Why We Love the Dogs We Do, obviously you know a lot about dog breeds. In my own book about police dogs, I describe a terrible incident that my son witnessed. A pit bull tore apart a miniature pinscher on our corner. I came out just after it happened, and helped the traumatized owner and her remaining little dog. It was shocking.
Stanley Coren: The data is absolutely incontrovertible. If you look at the only statistics in the States, on death by dog bite, studies have shown that between 41-49 percent of all deaths caused by dog bites are caused by pit bulls or pit bull crosses, American pit bull, Staffordshire terrier, and American Staffordshire. They account for ½ to 1 and ½ percent of all dogs.
It wasn’t always this way. Back in the early part of the 1900s, pit bulls were the ultimate family dog. Petey from the Our Gang series was an American pit bull. Mascot WW1 was a pit bull. But here’s another fact. Over 40,000 people in the US earn their living through dog fighting. It’s a huge betting industry. They are breeding surface-to-surface missiles. Game Bred Dogs—search this and you will find that these are dogs being bred to fight. They come from Armageddon Kennels, No Mercy kennels.
I had no idea.
In my book, Why Does My Dog Act That Way, I describe the following story because I felt it had to be told: I got a phone call from an old friend of mine. He was working for Michigan Humane Society. Dog fighting was extremely active in Detroit area. He said, ‘Stan, we’re trying to get data and names associated with dog fighting. We’re going to tell them that we want this dog to be trained to fight. I was wondering whether you could come and handle the dog?’ I said ‘Sure.’ We ended up making contact through an actual dog fight. Rachel, you won’t believe what those scenes are like. This was held in a big empty double or triple garage, where they’d set up the ring. There was a huge amount of money being exchanged, an awful lot of gang colors. Some people had their kids there, kids between 12-14. We made contact with this one guy who was a trainer and a breeder. They do hard genetic selection. They do dogs who have won fights with other dogs who have won fights. The dogs are so aggressive they have to take the puppies away from the bitch at 5 weeks of age or she’ll kill them.
These genetic lines have leaked back into the overall population. You’ve blown the temperament. Temperament is the easiest thing to lose and the hardest thing to establish. Pit bulls now are much more vicious and more dangerous.
I don’t believe in breed specific legislation. I believe the way you handle these sorts of things is on a dog-by-dog basis, but if a person’s dog does damage, they are criminally responsible. It’s assault by canine. If a breeder is found, he is charged for aiding and abetting, and shut down.
The data here in Canada showed the bite rate was no different after breed-specific bans. It doesn’t work. If you are really dealing with the crazies, they’ll get the exotics, the Cane Corsos.
And at the same time, the responsible owners will be penalized.
Stanley Coren: A lot of these attacks are from dogs that are chained out. You can see evidence of this all the way back to ancient times. You can see it on the manuscript Vitruvius, recovered from Pompeii. If you want to create a guard dog, chain him on a short chain near your door. I have fought for legislation against keeping dogs chained out. We got that passed in North Van and in Burnaby, and a sort of limited version here in Vancouver.
So, you must have had dogs as a boy, growing up?
For as long as I remember we always had a dog around the house. The first dog of my memory was a beagle, a wonderful little empty-headed dog, but very, very sweet. I had that dog when I was seven or eight, and I got another beagle we just lost a year and a half ago. People said, ‘What the hell, don’t you believe your own research? Why would you get a beagle?’ I said, ‘Because I needed a beagle!’ I have 9 grandchildren. I needed a dog who was incredibly friendly and who was unbreakable. His mind was perfect! Darby, he’s apt to forget, ‘Oh, that’s the one who just twisted my ear an hour ago.’ After the beagle, we had a fox terrier. He was the first one I tried to train.
As a kid?
Stanley Coren: Yes. The dog of my college years was also the only female dog I had, and the only dog with a human name. She was a boxer. Traditionally, my dad would bring home a puppy wrapped in a terry cloth towel. He’d hand it to one of the kids—usually me because I was the oldest. He would say ‘Give it a name. Give it a life.’ When he brought Penny, he handed me the dog. He said, “Her name is Penny, because that’s what I paid for her. Give it a life.” We didn’t have very much money, so my dad would take additional job in addition to his regular work. He’d insist we have purebred dogs. You can have that dog forever, but if you have a mixed-breed dog its one of a kind. He’d go out and work because we couldn’t afford pure-bred dogs. He worked for this one family who had a litter of boxers, they offered him one of the puppies. My dad said, ‘No, I have to buy it. Give me a figure.’ The guy said. ‘A penny.’
Penny was a wonderful dog. She drank bourbon. She was just at the right height to drink bourbon, not scotch or anything else. Penny was only 55 pounds. You’d put your drink down, and next thing you’d hear the clinking of ice, and you’d turn around and see her little black face in the glass. After, she’d go into the middle of the room, flop down and snore. She’d flop instead of turning around three times.
One day, my university friends were there, we all had a drink together. My dad came downstairs and said ‘Your dog is a sloppy drunk.’
That is hilarious! What other dogs do you like?
I love terriers, but terriers are not everybody’s cup of tea. I wrote a book about the 13-year war my wife had with my Cairn Terrier. You have to understand, my wife was the best first grade teacher on the planet, but she’s a prairie girl from Alberta. She demanded the kids’ behavior be predictable. And whatever it is that terriers are, they are not predictable, and they don’t always obey. I took Flint and made him the highest scoring terrier in history, but people would come and gather around when he was in the ring, because you NEVER knew, he could do any one of a remarkable number of things, all of which were embarrassing.
My wife made me promise I’d never bring another terrier into the house. Now we have sucky-face dogs, very friendly dogs who kiss you a lot. I really love retrievers. So right now I have a Nova Scotia Duck Tolling Retriever. I also have a fondness for Cavalier King Charles Spaniels. That sort of suckiness is just as genetic as the aggressiveness we were talking about.
I love those sweet friendly dogs myself. So let me shift our conversation a bit. You have a very successful career as an author. So for all the writers reading this, can I ask you if you ever had any setbacks as a writer? How did you push through them?
I actually got some death threats over a blog I wrote a few weeks ago. Some data that showed that a raw food diet is not only not better for dogs, but probably worse, and also dangerous for other members of the family. Even if you are careful, if you play with the dog’s face you get exposed to the bacteria in the raw food, and you can get very sick.
With that post, trolls came out from under the floorboards. There’s a term, Orthorexia Nervosa, it’s an eating disorder involving people who are obsessed with the healthiness of their diets. People can become obsessed over their dogs’ diets, too. Anybody who doesn’t agree with their conclusions is immoral and a danger. I haven’t gotten death threats since the left-handedness work, where I was hearing, “You think you right-handers will live longer than us left-handers, but you won’t if we kill you first.”
(Stanley Coren’s blog: https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/canine-corner)
Death threats? That’s not exactly reassuring right before I launch my dog book!
Stanley Coren: If you are writing facts, you are writing facts, and you are relaying facts, that is your armor. If somebody disagrees, you’ve got a shield. “I am relating facts. This is what they say.”
Well, I write fiction and memoir, not just facts, but I appreciate the idea of armour very much. Did you always know you were going to be a writer?
I always wanted to be a scientist. When I started to do science—and I had been really, really lucky when I was in high school (I went to a really bad high-school, West Philadelphia High School, a gang-infested neighborhood. There were 272 people; only 4 of us went to university.) They decided to have an accelerated program to tap the 20-30 kids who had the highest ability. I had a wonderfully abusive English teacher who demanded we write an essay every week. It was absolutely wonderful. When I began to do science, it dawned on me I was good at science, my research was always innovative. But the research was an excuse. You see, I don’t do fiction, I can’t create the plot out of my head. The research created the plot for me, and I loved it.
I write every single day. I try to write at least one typewritten page every single day. When I write a book, I always terrify my editors because we’ll have set a deadline and 6 or 8 weeks before the deadline, you’ll get that call from the editor, ‘how’s it going, how many chapters?’
When I say, ‘None,’ they go ‘ACK!’ The reason is, I write modules. I write about something that interests me that day. I’m never writing about something that isn’t my passion for that day. In the last six weeks before my book is due, I piece them together.
That is so interesting. I think that’s a unique way to write a book. Do you have a vision in your head of what your book will be?
I have a general idea of what the scope is that has to be covered. I’m continually doing literature research to gather research, I’ll hit something and think, ‘I have to write about this today.’
You can’t be overly possessive about your ideas. So that’s the way I write. I sneak things into my books. Mythology and folklore, I’m always tucking in a folk tale or a myth into the science.
I can’t have a next book unless I have a title. That title may not survive. But if I have a title, I have the book.
Of the books that I’ve written, obviously The Intelligence of Dogs brought me the most notoriety. I was told that it has sold more than any other non-fiction book on dogs. Books are like children; each has their own strengths and weaknesses, My book How to Speak Dog paid off a debt. I read Darwin’s 1872 book on the emotions in animals and men. I had never read anything like that in my life. He didn’t know anything about social hierarchies, but it blew me away. I had a couple of wonderful instructors, university graduate and undergraduate. How to Speak Dog is my homage to Darwin. When I retired, I could suddenly do what I could never do before, I had time to start drawing again. All of the books following my retirement are illustrated, and I did the drawings.
When I was in high school, I won this big sexy science award. You got to remember, we were poor as church mice. The award was a one-year subscription to Scientific American, but they allowed me to choose two courses from a number of different academies in the Philadelphia area. I didn’t want to take a science course. I wanted to learn how to draw. The two courses which I took, the first one was in sketching, pencil work mostly, a little pen and ink, and the second was in cartooning. I loved it. When I went to graduate school, you had to sign this document, you wouldn’t take outside employment if they gave you a research assistanceship. But I had a wife who kept getting sick. We survived by me doing cartoons, which I published under a pseudonym.
That’s great. I used to draw and paint every day, though it’s been decades. It’s lovely to think of returning to creative pursuits, as you have, at this point in your career. Amazing also that you got to do so many different things: science, literature, art, teaching—and cartooning!
Stanley Coren: Let me tell you a funny story. I was made a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, equivalent of the National Academy of Sciences in the States. It’s a big deal, it changes your signature, they take you down to the Senate Chamber, either the Prime Minister, or Deputy PM, signature becomes FRSC. So, they read this whole thing about my sensory work, and gave one line about the canine work. So I’m there and they’ve got all these wonderful people—all of a sudden the Governor General of Canada, Adrianne Carr, comes up. All she wants to talk about is her Golden Retrievers. That’s always been what I’ve found: at one level people don’t want to take it seriously, the work on dogs, but it’s all they want to talk about.
Periodically the US and Canada have these meetings with Canadian or American scientists, to foster interaction. Canada always selects members, and so does the US. One held in Ottawa, right after Bush Sr. had been defeated by Clinton. Canada, being polite, invited Bush to come, but Bush took it as an opportunity, he and Barbara came up together. Bush was left-handed. He nearly flunked out of flying school. Bush took one look at me. I had just finished a circuit for one of my books, I’d been on Charlie Rose, on Oprah, Larry King. “You’re the Dog man!” Bush says. Then he promptly proceeds to tell me how every morning Millie, his springer spaniel, would jump into the shower with him. The image of the naked president in the shower I won’t forget. You only reveal these things because you care about your dog.
Rachel Rose was recently the Poet Laureate of Vancouver. For more on her book, The Dog Lover Unit: Lessons in Courage from the World’s K9 Cops (St. Martin’s Press), visit http://rachelsprose.weebly.com/ 9781250110749
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Handmade lace Rose brooch
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• Handmade in my Cornish workshop
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Today is Constitution Day, a commemoration of a document that reportedly once governed the United States of America. At one time, the rules contained therein actually bound politicians and citizens to an agreed set of laws which everybody would follow or suffer consequences.
That was a quaint time.
Today, we know from experience that indomitable will and a talent at evading opponents is sufficient to nullify that Constitution. This week, the Washington Post printed two excerpts
, a new book by Barton Gellman about the Cheney
Presidency. Longtime readers probably already know that Fourthbranch has hijacked the government and used it to his own ends, but reading these excerpts (and I'm sure, the book) reveals one head-scratching moment after another. Here's an example:
The command center of "the president's program," as Addington usually called it, was not in the White House. Its controlling documents, which gave strategic direction to the nation's largest spy agency, lived in a vault across an alley from the West Wing -- in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building, on the east side of the second floor, where the vice president headquartered his staff.
The vault was in EEOB 268, Addington's office. Cheney's lawyer held the documents, physical and electronic, because he was the one who wrote them. New forms of domestic espionage were created and developed over time in presidential authorizations that Addington typed on a Tempest-shielded computer across from his desk .
It is unlikely that the history of U.S. intelligence includes another operation conceived and supervised by the office of the vice president. White House Chief of Staff Andrew H. Card Jr. had "no idea," he said, that the presidential orders were held in a vice presidential safe. An authoritative source said the staff secretariat, which kept a comprehensive inventory of presidential papers, classified and unclassified, possessed no record of these.
The excerpts cover the time period in March 2004 when a significant portion of the upper leadership of the Justice Department threatened to resign en masse
over the illegal spying program, which of course the Democrats were bullied into giving blanket amnesty for earlier this year (a law which the ACLU is continuing to fight
, because they're the ACLU). But this violation of the Fourth Amendment is certainly not the end of Cheney's assault on the Constitution. Scott Horton asked 6 questions
of Gellman today about his book, and the revelations are amazing. Cheney may have burned VP hopeful Frank Keating by releasing damaging information HE GOT DURING THE SELECTION PROCESS to Newsweek. That's just the kind of guy this is. You can see the parallels to other events. Then there's this very important point:
A lot of critics call Cheney and Addington contemptuous of the Constitution. I think that’s completely wrong–a cartoon that misses something important, because it fails to take them seriously. The vice president has an unyielding conviction, to which he has devoted substantial thought, about what the Constitution means. He occupies an extreme position in the usual separation-of-powers debate, sometimes beginning with widely accepted tenets but carrying them beyond the bounds of accepted scholarship. In his own frame of reference, the Constitution not only permits but compels him to help Bush break free of restraints on his prerogatives as commander in chief and leader of the unitary executive branch. But where Cheney does show contempt is for public opinion, the capacity of the citizenry at large to make rational decisions.
Go back and look at what he says about “opinion polls.” Invariably his message is that a politician who pays them heed is failing to do his job. As Cheney sees it, public opinion is fickle, ill-informed, self-contradictory, emotional–nothing like his own conversation with himself and trusted aides. He speaks disdainfully of critics as “elites,” but his own view of democracy is at the far elite extreme. Voters are entitled to choose a president every four years, he said at the National Press Club, but then they need to let him do his job. The transaction is like hiring a surgeon; pick a good one, and don’t try to tell him where to place the knife. This “trustee” model of democracy is associated with Edmund Burke, the Old Whig philosopher in 18th century England. It is not the model that took root here when the Founders designed a plan of government that derived its authority from the people. If you take Cheney’s view, aggressive efforts at secrecy, for our own good, to prevent us from making the wrong choices or interfering with government’s important work, are a rational response.
That is crucial. If you simply don't care about what anyone thinks of you, there is no barrier. You can state without compunction that "To the extent that the Constitution and laws are read narrowly, as Jefferson wished, the Chief Executive will on occasion feel duty bound to assert monarchical notions of the prerogative that will permit him to exceed the law,"
because you feel you know better and you must organize your belief of the Constitution around that belief in yourself. You can lie to Congressional leaders
boldly, asserting that Iraq has suitcase nukes, because you believe that Saddam is a threat and you organize the intelligence around that belief.
Gellman may think that Fourthbranch has given the Constitution a lot of thought, but I don't. I think he's given his own ego a lot of thought, and he's warped the Constitution to fit around it. And he's secure that this interpretation won't be challenged because he has enough will to steamroll right through anyone who would raise an objection. We're seeing this again right now from the woman who would be Vice President with respect to the "Troopergate" investigation in Alaska. The McCain campaign has sent a lawyer
(one of a whole passel
) to shut down the investigation and pressure the state Republicans who allowed it in the first place. Subpoenas have been issued for aides and Todd Palin, but the Governor's hand-picked Attorney General has told investigators that they won't testify
. And Sarah Palin herself has refused to testify
This is not about this particular politician. What is significant here is that Cheneyism is LEARNED behavior. Want to avoid a subpoena? Don't show up. Want to break the law? Just plow ahead and do it, and fight like hell to ignore the consequences, saying things like "I can do whatever I want until the courts tell me I can't."
The question becomes how you end Cheneyism before this cancer grows. Russ Feingold has some ideas
Our next president will face a difficult challenge. He must repair the wreckage the current administration has left, which means renouncing some of the powers the current President tried to amass as he turned a blind eye to the rule of law and separation of powers. No president will want to limit his own power. But if we are to be the nation our founders envisioned when they gathered in Philadelphia more than two centuries ago, we must work together — across party lines and at all levels of government — to protect and defend our Constitution and restore the rule of law.
So does Marty Lederman
1. A Well-Founded View of Presidential Power. To advance the first commitment, the next President should initiate a process to ensure that the new Administration withdraws and repudiates the reasoning of memoranda and opinions that overstate the President’s constitutional powers and that minimize those of Congress and the courts. We have not conducted a comprehensive review of OLC opinions, nor could we as many are classified or otherwise inaccessible. Thus, we cannot offer an exhaustive list of the opinions that should be withdrawn. We do believe, however, that the list should include the Torture Memos, the DOJ Whitepaper on the Terrorist Surveillance Program, and the September 25, 2001 opinion on war powers.
The next President should also affirmatively adopt a view of presidential power that recognizes the roles and authorities of all three co-equal branches and that takes account of settled judicial precedent. We believe that a model the next President should seriously consider adopting is “The Constitutional Separation of Powers between the President and Congress.” Setting forth the principles that will govern the determination of questions of presidential power will provide a constraint against the sort of result-oriented advice-giving that proved so problematic in instances such as the Torture Memo.
2. Openness and Accountability. To advance the commitment to openness and accountability, we offer several recommendations. OLC should review its procedures for releasing opinions and publicly release guidelines that will govern publication decisions. The goal of the review should be to make sure that OLC’s memoranda and opinions are made available to the public to the maximum extent possible consistent with the legitimate confidentiality interests of the Executive Branch.
Congress, the Courts, and the public are unable to check against abuses of executive power if they do not know about them. In this regard, the experience of the past eight years is instructive. It was only years later and due to leaked information that we learned of highly consequential opinions advising that the Executive Branch was not bound to comply with statutory limits on its power, including opinions relating to the treatment of detainees, the President’s domestic surveillance program, and the use of secret prisons overseas for detention and interrogation [...]
The next President should also commit to review the Executive Branch’s practice in asserting privileges, including executive privilege. The presidential communications privilege is, according to the Supreme Court, a legitimate constitutional privilege rooted in the separation of powers. Nevertheless, this privilege is not absolut e and judicial precedent as well as long Executive Branch and congressional practice recognize that the President’s constitutional interest must be balanced against Congress’s legitimate interests in conducting investigations and oversight. The next President should commit that, when disputes over privilege arise, the executive will seek to resolve them through good faith negotiation and meaningful accommodation. This negotiation and accommodation process must include recognition by the Executive Branch of the legitimate claims to information that the Congress does have in its legislative, oversight and investigatory functions. In a recent and highly relevant case, Judge Bates authored a helpful discussion of Congress’ legitimate interests in information, which in our judgment is largely correct.
3. Structural Safeguards against Abuse of Power. To advance the third commitment to enhance structural safeguards, we suggest that the President instruct the Attorney General to pay particular attention to the procedures of OLC. Together with a number of our former colleagues, we have written a set of guidelines that OLC should foll ow in order to best effectuate its role... Public confidence in the impartial administration of justice must be restored. It is not sufficient that the President and Attorney General themselves be satisfied that they have addressed the problem. Their efforts must be considered credible on bipartisan and interbranch bases.
The Constitution has not become an issue
in this election, as much a cause of the failure of the media to cover it as of the candidates to express it. Barack Obama made a strong statement
a week or so ago on habeas corpus, but it went into the ether. Joe Biden made noise
by appearing to put criminal prosecutions of those who violated the law on the table (he later recanted
), but it didn't gather much interest. There are rumblings about a Congressionally-empowered commission in an Obama Administration
to study abuses of the rule of law and maybe prosecute down the road. But you're not hearing a lot about it.
I do believe that ending Chenyism in our time is the greatest challenge for the next President. Unless we restore the fundamentals of American government it won't much matter what we do on an economic or foreign policy or environmental level. I would like you to pledge to be a Constitution Voter
. The pressure will be immense to bind up the nation's wounds and heal the partisan divide, and then we'll have another disciple of Cheneyism 4, 8, 12, or 16 years down the road. We cannot cede the Constitution because it doesn't hit people in the gut. Democracy is at risk, everyone. That cannot be in dispute. Cheneyism must be rejected. Fully.
Labels: Barack Obama, Constitution, democracy, Dick Cheney, Joe Biden, warrantless wiretapping
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The rising tide of red blends was lead by some of these pioneers. Marrietta Old Vine Lot 58? I still have to finish my Lot 13! These are all wonderful values, don't you think? Make sure your voice is heard, vote for your favorite today.
PVA 2013 - Final Days
Checking in on the tighest races as we head for the finish line.
Value Red Blend
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The philosophical differences in Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson’s approaches to foreign policy are highlighted in this lecture outline. The intellectual traditions (e.g., Aesop’s Fables and Book of Isaiah) of both presidents are briefly discussed as a means of introducing broader themes, key terms, and historical events. Key terms include the following: optimism, pessimism, realism, idealism, balance of power, realpolitik, messianism, collective security, national interest, and spheres of influence. Each is illustrated with examples from the dawning of the twentieth century. The lecture outline concludes with sources for further study.
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This weekend there will be barbecues, pies, home-made strawberry soda, and other treats that have become common features of Juneteenth, a celebration of the end of slavery in the United States that has its roots in the joyful celebrations of newly-freed slaves in Texas at the end of the Civil War. It is thought to be the oldest continuous celebration of emancipation and, though it has waxed and waned in popularity over the last 150+ years, it has probably never been as strong a tradition as it is today. Because the 19th falls on a Sunday and Father’s Day this year, most large celebrations are planned for Saturday.
On the 19th of June, 1865, from the balcony of the Ashton Villa in Galveston, Texas, Union General Gordon Granger read aloud “General Order #3″ that carried the message of the Emancipation Proclamation to Texas, and slaves in that state at last learned that they were free. Although the Proclamation was formally issued on January 1, 1863, the news of it had not reached slaves in most of Texas. Union troops then needed to enforce this order throughout a large state, so that slaves were not all released on the same day in Texas — but the 19th is the day that is commemorated. Spontaneous celebrations broke out as the news spread, and these gave rise to an annual events to mark the day. As some of these freed slaves traveled to nearby states to find relatives, they carried the tradition of celebrating June 19th with them and over time it spread to all fifty states.
The American Folklife Center’s collections include recordings of interviews with former slaves who were asked about their memories of becoming free. These are from several collections, anthologized in the presentation Voices from the Days of Slavery. It should be remembered that by the 1930s and early 1940s when most of these were documented, the former slaves were elderly, and most were freed when they were children or teenagers. Here are a few examples.
One of the most memorable interviews in which a former slave describes the day he became free is not from Texas, but Skidaway Island, Georgia, where Wallace Quarterman was among those freed in the sea islands shortly after the Emancipation Proclamation was issued in 1863. He was interviewed in 1935 and says he was born in 1844, so he would have been about 19 when he was freed. When you listen to the recording, you will hear interviewer Zora Neale Huston ask him, “After they said you can go free, then what did you do?” Quarterman describes the newly freed slaves refusing work for pay on the plantation, preferring to go free. Then beats on a drum and sings the chorus from “Kingdom Coming,” an abolitionist song by Henry Clay Work (1862). He then says, “So we had a big big breaking up right there.” “The break up” or “the big break up” is what the end of slavery was commonly called in the South. (This is in part 3 of a 3 part recording. The other recordings and transcripts are available in links at the bottom of the record. In part 2 he recalls hearing that the Yankees were coming.)
As a “big boy” in 1865, Billy McCrea, remembered the Union troops coming into Jasper, Texas. In this interview with John Lomax in 1940, He says he will be about 89 in October, so he would have been about 13. He recalls being impressed by the mules and horses, the cannons, and the blue uniforms of the soldiers, as any boy might be. He also remembers his master telling him and his mother that they were free. (This is part 2 of a 2 part recording.)
Harriet Smith tells a story of the chaos and jubilation that ensued as she and other slaves on the plantation in Hays County, Texas learned that they were free from the Union soldiers to interviewer John Henry Faulk in 1941. She says that she was about 13 at the time of the “break up” of slavery. The second part of the recording (at the link) begins with her story of a friend, a girl who was also a slave, who had lost her arm in an accident with sugarcane grinding equipment. She talks about sitting on a fence watching the Union soldiers and their beautiful horses when her friend took off with one of the soldiers and she never saw her again. She talks about her family’s decision to stay on the plantation and continue working there. (Part 2 of a 4 part recording.)
Laura Smally tells of learning she was free as a child on a plantation near Bellville, Texas. She describes the difficult conditions for slave children there in this 1941 interview with John Henry Faulk. She was a child when she was freed, she says she was about 10 years old when she and her mother left the plantation. She concludes the first segment of the interview with a mention of the annual celebration that would grow out of the freeing of slaves in Texas. When asked about the Civil War she says she remembers that her master went off to the war, and when he came back he did not tell his slaves that they were free. “He turned them loose on the 19th of June. That’s why, you know, we celebrate that day. Colored folks celebrate that day.” Later Faulk asks what happened the day she was freed (towards the end of part 4 of this 5 part interview), but she says she can not remember much. “But I, I remember, you know, the time you give them a big dinner, you know on the 19th.” Apparently she did not understand what the dinner was for on the day she was freed. “We didn’t know. They just thought, you know, were just feeding us, you know. Just had a long table. And just had, just a little of everything you want to eat, you know, and drink, you know. Now, and they say that was on the 19th — and everything you want to eat and drink. Well, you see, I didn’t know what that was for.”
The process of freeing slaves in the United States was long and complicated, as each state came up with its own method of doing so in its own time, from 1777 when Vermont prohibited slavery until the passage of the 13th Amendment to the U. S. Constitution, ratified on December 6th and adopted on December 18, 1865, finally ended legal slavery in the United States. Common in the northeast and mid-Atlantic states were laws that freed the last children born into slavery gradually, with a plan to release them as adults. The Emancipation Proclamation issued by President Lincoln on January 1, 1863 allowed Union forces to free slaves and attempt to recruit them by declaring that they were free. But so long as the war continued, the Confederate states resisted freeing their slaves. The Proclamation only applied to states “in rebellion against the United States,” so states that were still part of the Union where slaves were held could act to free slaves or not depending upon the will of state legislators and voters. It did signal that the end of legal slavery was nearing, but there was great variation on how states responded. It is often said that June 19th, 1865 marked the freeing of the last slaves in the United States. It did not. At that time Kentucky had debated when and how slaves in the state should be freed, but had not enacted a law to free them. Maryland had legislation to gradually free the children of slaves over time, and some slave owners had freed their slaves during the war, but many people were still enslaved. Other states, especially on the border north of the division between what had been the Confederacy and the Union still had some slaves legally owned at the time the 13th Amendment became law in December.
Because of this complex history, different states may mark emancipation on different days, based on the release of slaves in that state. Some of us remember studying about the Emancipation Proclamation on or about September 22, as this coincides with President Lincoln’s 1862 statement of his intent to free slaves in 10 states if the rebellion did not end by January 1. This was the release of the preliminary version of the Emancipation Proclamation. Falling near the beginning of the school year, it is a convenient date for teachers to teach students about that history. The actual date the Proclamation came into effect coincides with New Year’s Day, while the anniversary of the amendment that freed the last slaves falls close to the winter holidays.
There is a powerful need for many Americans to mark the day when slavery ended in the United States and share that across the nation. The laws and the documents we use to mark great events do not provide such a day. So it was up to the people to create their own day and their own ways of celebrating. The 19th of June is the day the people have chosen. It is a good day for a barbecue and other outdoor activities in much of the country. And so we have a celebration of the people and by the people that is still developing as people decide for themselves how to celebrate.
We at the American Folklife Center would be interested to hear how you celebrate Juneteenth. What special foods are commonly served? Are there activities that you especially look forward to in each year? If you are willing to share, please do so in the comments at the end of this article. If you have photographs of Juneteenth celebrations, consider participating in the My Traditions project.
- The presentation from the Manuscripts Division: Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers’ Project, 1936-1938 contains many more narratives of former slaves written down by interviewers. Among the narratives of people who were formerly slaves in Texas is the story of Emma Taylor, who remembers that “One day mars say we’re all free and we have a big celebration, eating and dancing.” [Item number 420253]
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Danny Wilson has no new injury problems ahead of Saturday trip to Essex to face Colchester United.
Matt Hill returned to the starting line-up at Coventry City in midweek, replacing Marcus Williams, whilst Ryan Flynn was an unused substitute at the Ricoh Arena . On the make-up of his squad, which also saw Wilson adopt an offensive looking 4-3-3 system against the Sky Blues, the Gaffer commented.
"We come through Tuesday night unscathed, the game was a big positive and we got a couple of the lads involved in the squad again which is good news.
"From our point of view, we want to get better as we go along instead of winning the first six games and not win any of the next twenty.
"There was a contrast in the way our two opponents performed but we came through them both with a four point reward.
"We changed our system to take a look at a few things and I thought we kept the ball really well.
"We didn't just keep it, we created chances too and we should have gone in with a few goals in our favour.
"The 4-3-3 will help breakdown those barriers when teams set out very defensively and you've got to try your options.
"I think we have players at the club to utilise who we didn't have last season and whether it's the formation or personnel that changes it doesn't really matter."
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Marketing technology has grown and seems to be expanding still with any number of features being rolled out by the major ad platforms and the increasing entrenchment of AI. Some people now argue that the technical stuff needed for a brand’s marketing team to stay competitive should be made more accessible and easier to use, according to Martech Today.
The Mar Tech Council recently put out a report stating that most marketing people prefer the creative aspects of marketing and would prefer to not deal with the tech side; they are savvy enough to realize, in this digital age of desktops and mobiles, advertising technology must be used. But, these creative brains would prefer to create a new campaign rather than sift through columns of attributions that could aid in developing a solid strategy.
One obvious solution would be to hire people who can work effectively on both sides of the computer console. But the second part to this will be hiring trainers who can inspire the existing team to not be so intimidated about usingmartech.
This could be done by illustrating how other marketers have used the tech to work more creatively through digital media and thus advance themselves. Also, the tech-speech should be de-emphasized. Teach applications that marketers can work with creatively before rubbing techno vocabulary, like KPI or ROAS, in their faces.
The barriers between the creative side of their brains and the technical can be further broken down with a little positive incentive. Identify the accomplishments that advance the marketer and the company. Give them ownership of their achievements.
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Seems that most are happy about their 09 F150's, but there are a few TSB's out on the 6 speed, most I saw were how the transmission shifted up and down. Before buying any automobile, I highly recommend looking up the recalls on that model and verifying they've been taken care of.
There are other TSB's on the truck, you can find them here: http://www.ownersite.com/tsb/tsbs.cfm/2009/FORD/F-150/
Bear in mind that al vehicles will have TSB's out on them, so don't let the list scare you off, but make sure they've been taken care of, or use them in a bargaining chip in getting the price down.
But as for safety recalls, the truck seems pretty safe: 2009 Ford F-150 Recalls
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Sony Pictures Classics presents FINAL PORTRAIT, written and directed by Stanley Tucci. Final Portrait stars Geoffrey Rush, Armie Hammer, Tony Shalhoub, Sylvie Testud and Clémence Poésy. Rated R by the MPAA and with a run time of 90 minutes, Final Portrait opens in Los Angeles and New York on March 23, 2018.
Synopsis: In 1964, while on a short trip to Paris, the American writer and art-lover James Lord is asked by his friend, the world-renowned artist Alberto Giacometti, to sit for a portrait. The process, Giacometti assures Lord, will take only a few days. Flattered and intrigued, Lord agrees.
So begins not only the story of a touching and offbeat friendship, but, seen through the eyes of Lord, a uniquely revealing insight into the beauty, frustration, profundity and, at times, downright chaos of the artistic process. FINAL PORTRAIT is a bewitching portrait of a genius, and of a friendship between two men who are utterly different, yet increasingly bonded through a single, ever-evolving act of creativity. It is a film which shines a light on the artistic process itself, by turns exhilarating, exasperating and bewildering, questioning whether the gift of a great artist is a blessing or a curse.
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my name is ***** ***** I will help you with this.
Could you please explain your situation a little more/
I am a director of a company in the uk,The managing director.I have a large DLA account being accused of theft
sorry not finished,theft and misappropriation funds.They have been doing the books last five years.
running the company with me and now are trying to get rid of me and accusing me of all sort of criminal activity as i have insisted to resign if it continued.Which I did and is now coming up with all sort so of allegations.The directors are based in SA.Come down 3 times a year.They do the books with a accountant in the uk.They are also accusing me of collaboration with the opposition which is crazy.The staff will testify to the fact that i have been dissatisfied with the way they have conducted themselves.They have threatened me with hmrc as well the whole damn book.Our accountants have dealt with my tax.
Are the Police involved?
Or is this an employment law question?
No they have not charged me Have sent these allegations today after my resignation.Have informed me that is there intention.I am a 49% shareholder with a 250 000 pound DLA account.
What is DLA?
Ok. So what is your question of me? How to get the £250k?
can they lay criminal charges,would the uk police have to first investigate the claims,this is stressful and upsetting why would i do this if i have such a large investment in time and money.This is a bulling tactic as i do not have the funds they have to properly defend myself.Do i now just waite until they actually lay the charges
They can't no.
The Police are the only ones who can charge you with a criminal offence.
What happens if they go to the police would the police then investigate i have given the files to the accountant.Surely i have a right first to tie up these set of accounts with the accountant.They say they are busy completing a company investigation from SA AND WILL THEN LAY CHARGES.This is a cheap way of trying to get rid of me
The Police would be duty bound to investigate the matter. You cant stop someone reporting it.
If you are all above board then you have nothing to worry about
If you have an accountant who assisted you and its all genuine then you dont need to worry
But you can't stop them making a complaint.
I assume Directors Loan account there will be receipts and an audit trail, so you dont need to be concerned
Its about my expenses that every year has been expensed to my directors loan account now suddenly this has changed
Ok - but again, there should be an audit trail. So you dont need to worry
Can I clarify anything about this today please?
what do you mean
Sorry, I am not with you? Mean about what?
you said clarify it today
Yes, is there anything I can do to clarify ?
Ie is there anything you are not clear or do not understand
Do i need to reply to these allegations it was sent by email
No. Wait Police. It may just be hot air in any event
so you advise me just to get on with my business and day to day activity and wait charges from which ever body
Yes, sadly there is nothing you can do apart from wait
If someone does arrive with there version and knocks on my door,can they arrest me and who do i speak to in the uk .I live in newbury
The Police can invite you interview under caution (not arrested) or they can arrest you. Either way you can have a Solicitor present and to take advice from
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The FMCG Champion
Ashish Sinha profiles Priti Agarwal Sureka, Wholetime Director, Emami Group
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Priti A. Sureka, is one among the two women directors on the board of Emami Ltd, a fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) company engaged in the personal care/cosmetics and healthcare businesses. Sureka is one of the key players in the management team of Emami that is driving the company's product lines, marketing divisions and the research and development divisions. Priti not only leads her team of professionals from the front, but also mentors the group's retail businesses and advocates the cause for woman empowerment and actively supports the Udayan Shalini project that provides education to underprivileged girls.
Daughter of Emami Group co-founder R.S. Agarwal, Priti has been at the numbers game right from her early years. "I had an interest in my father's business since I was in Class VI. I used to go to my father's office from my school [Loreto Day School, Bowbazar], I used to go to the factories with him… I was just drawn towards this entire business and its various facets," Priti told a local daily two years ago.
As per company's annual report, Emami was valued at around
Rs 21,200 crore in market capitalisation as on 31st March 2016, growing by nearly 40 times in value since its Public Offer in 2005. And Priti has been associated with the company for the period and even before that.
Priti has been instrumental in expanding the brand connect of some of Emami's key products like Fair and Handsome, Boroplus, Himani Fast Relief, Himani Navratna Extra Thanda Cool Oil, Boroplus Lotion and the Sona Chandi Chyawanprash by roping in key celebrities as the brand ambassadors. Be it Shah Rukh Khan's association with Fair and Handsome or Amitabh Bachchan's iconic television commercials for Himani Navratna Extra Thanda Cool Oil, it was Priti and her teams customer connect that helped the brand expand Emami's business.
Emami has also acquired a number of brands in the recent years. Priti is said to have played key roles in most of these acquisition. For example, in June 2015, Emami announced the acquisition of ayurvedic hair and scalp care brand Kesh King for Rs 1,651 crore. This marked the company's foray into the fast-growing hair-care segment. Before that Emami had acquired a controlling stake in Australia-based Fravin Pty, along with its three subsidiaries for an undisclosed sum. Fravin Pty manufactures natural and organic personal care products.
In 2014, it acquired sanitary-napkin brand 'She Comfort' from Royal Hygiene Care in an undisclosed all-cash deal to enter into the Rs 2,100-crore women's hygiene segment dominated by Procter & Gamble and Johnson & Johnson. The company also acquired Zandu brand in 2008 for Rs 700 crore. At that time, Emami Director Priti Sureka had said that as part of its core business strategy, the company was always open to growth "through inorganic route".
"We always consider acquisitions that not only add value and have synergy with our current line of business, but also offer opportunities for us to be present in categories that have high growth potential," she had said back then.
Talking to the shareholders in its annual report for FY16, Priti said: "We believe that Kesh King, which has already started contributing significantly to the Company's topline, will emerge as a key business driver in the years ahead. In terms of financial numbers Emami Ltd has been clocking healthy growth over the past several years. Take for example its revenue figures. Its revenue jumped by 40 per cent in three financial years - from FY 14 (Rs 1,705 crore) to FY16 Rs 2.391 crore.
*Fair and Handsome' and 'Himani Fast Relief' is handled by the other second generation promoter - Mohan Goenka. Navratna Oil is handled by Harsha V Agarwal, the younger brother of Priti. Harsha also heads the M&A cell of the group. However, Kesh King as a brand/business is handled by Priti.
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Using a glucose meter to check and monitor blood sugar is a daily part of life for millions of Americans with diabetes.
Glucose meters and test strips are medical devices regulated by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. And the FDA wants to make sure you use these devices safely. Read on for advice.
Beware of Buying Previously Owned Diabetes Test Strips
The FDA is aware that some sellers are marketing pre-owned or secondhand test strips to consumers. These are unused test strips previously owned by someone else.
These pre-owned strips may be sold at lower prices when compared to new strips. For instance, you may see flyers advertising cheap test strips in your neighborhood, or you may see sellers marketing cheap test strips online.
It is technically legal for people to resell their test strips. But the FDA does not recommend that you buy pre-owned test strips or that you resell your unused strips.
That’s because pre-owned strips can give incorrect results—and may not be safe to use with your device.
- Test strips should be properly stored to give accurate results. If you buy pre-owned strips, it is hard to know whether the strips were stored properly. Test strips also could be expired. A lack of proper storage or using expired strips could put you at risk for getting incorrect results from your glucose meter. And incorrect results can put you at risk for serious health complications—and even death.
- Test strip vials that have been opened by another person may have small amounts of blood on them, which can put you at risk for infection.
- Pre-owned test strip vials may have been tampered with, which means that they may not be safe to use. (For instance, the expiration dates might have been changed or covered up.)
- Pre-owned strips also may not have been cleared by the FDA for sale in the United States. (If instructions aren’t in English or the strips look different than other strips of the same brand, this can be a sign of unsafe strips.)
The bottom line? The FDA recommends that you buy unopened vials of glucose test strips designed for your meter—and that you do not buy pre-owned test strips.
Talk to your health care provider if you are not sure where to buy test strips for your glucose meter or if you cannot afford to buy the test strips recommended for use with your meter.
7 More Safety Considerations for Glucose Meters and Test Strips
You may be a pro at testing your blood sugar levels. But consider these safety reminders.
Follow instructions carefully. Glucose meters and test strips are sold with instructions for use. You can call the manufacturer of your device or your health care provider if you have questions.
Ask your health care provider to watch you test yourself. He or she can tell you if you are using your device correctly.
Do quality control checks of your device. Regularly test your meter using a control solution to make sure the test strips and meter are working properly together. (Read the meter’s instructions for use to see how often you should test it.)
Understand what the meter display means. Be sure you know how high and low glucose values are displayed on your meter. Sometimes they are displayed as “LO” or “HI” when the glucose level is beyond the range than the meter can measure. Talk to your health care provider if you have questions.
Know which test site gives the most accurate results. Readings from other areas of your body may not be as correct as fingertip readings.
- Readings from alternate sites—such as your forearm or palm—can be less accurate than fingertip readings when your glucose levels change quickly (like after you eat or during exercise).
- Take a reading from a fingertip if you think your blood glucose is low, if you don’t normally have symptoms when your blood glucose is low, or if results from an alternate test site don’t match how you feel.
Know when and how to clean and disinfect your glucose meter. Cleaning and disinfection instructions can vary, so always read and follow the directions in your manual.
Know when to report device problems. In an emergency, call 9-1-1. For non-emergencies, the FDA encourages you to report any issues to MedWatch, the FDA’s voluntary reporting program. (Problems may include devices that don’t work, suspected incorrect results, or any other problem with your meter or test strips.)
This article appears on the FDA’s Consumer Updates page, which features the latest on all FDA-regulated products.
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I’ve somehow fallen about two months behind on my comics… I’ll need to rectify that.
On to my week in words that other people have written.
The Island of Doctor Moreau by H.G. Wells
The Island of Doctor Moreau is rightly a classic piece of science fiction. Despite its obvious datedness in regards to the world we now live in and what we know of genetic manipulation, this story still works really well. Where it doesn’t work is as a feature film starring Marlon Brando and Val Kilmer, although maybe the freak show film they’ve put together there is actually just another creation of Moreau. Anyway, it is an easy recommend if you love science fiction.
In an effort to clean up some of my comic book backlog, I decided to tackle the last two months of Aquaman. Issues 21 and 22 wrap up the four part series H2.O. After reading this arc I was convinced of throwing in the towel on the series. I’ve given it a year now and it just wasn’t capturing me. The political storylines in Atlantis are engaging but Arthur really isn’t. And it doesn’t help that in 22 issues (11 months) I haven’t been drawn in by a single villain of Aquaman’s, they are all just super lame. The concept behind Dead Water in H2.O is actually pretty cool, as a defense mechanism for an alien entity, fear turns those near it in to ravenous monsters. But somehow Arthur, Mera, and the band of US Special Forces Street Sharks with them make it the least exciting horror story ever put to paper.
This is the third time over the past two decades that I’ve tried to give DC’s fish talker a chance too but before I could close the lid on Aquaman, I had two more issues to get through. And I’ll say this, I’m going to stick around to at least see how this closes out. Issues 23 and 24 start a new story arc called, Crown of Atlantis. The denizens of Atlantis are not having Arthur’s absentee king nonsense anymore. The two parts here set up Arthur being voted out of his throne and letting an Atlantean ultra nationalist that has been committing acts of terrorism take over. It’s the most interesting the series has been since the first issues of this new Rebirth. I’m going to take it one issue at a time.
Dragon Teeth by Michael Crichton
Michael Crichton is one of my all-time favorite authors, so it is always a treat to get a new work of his, especially now that he has been dead for nearly a decade. Dragon Teeth is his third posthumous publication, following the mediocre Pirate Latitudes and the pretty great Micro. Dragon Teeth’s cover is reminiscent of one of his most famous works, that of course being Jurassic Park, but this novel takes place in the 1800s and details an archelogy expedition west of a Yale professor and his students. Crichton’s writing here is crisp as always and while I’m still getting to know the characters, there is a strong set up of mystery and intrigue in the first act of the book. As of right now, I’m really enjoying it.
Well, that is what I’ve been reading this week. What have you been turning pages of?
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Wedding Dress Stolen Days Before Big Day
An Iowa couple worried a little more about their wedding day than most after their car was stolen Thursday.
The crime was reported in Chicago Friday morning. The couple from Urbandale walked out of their Chicago hotel to find shattered glass on the ground and their car gone.
Chicago police officers John McKenna and Paul Sandoval were working the midnight shift when they spotted the stolen 2008 silver KIA with Iowa plates. The man inside the car was charged in the case with criminal trespassing.
"We thought they (the car's owners) were in Iowa. We didn't know what the circumstances were regarding the stolen vehicle and once we were able to talk to him that's when it all started to unravel," said officer John McKenna.
It wasn't the stolen car the couple was most concerned about, but what was inside the trunk.
"When I called him, his first thing was, 'There's a dress in the trunk?' He didn't care about anything else in there," said McKenna.
Police said they found the dress still in the trunk and in one piece.
The officers delivered the gown and stolen car to the couple just hours before their Saturday wedding ceremony.
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COLOR INSPIRATION: I went through a stage of trying to learn everything I could about color theory and the color wheel, and it just confused me. I've learned to trust the colors in a piece of art or fabric that I find beautiful…
• GO TO Julie'S ENTRY PAGE AND ADD IT TO YOUR FAVORITES
Visit the entry page to view all five photos, get tips on how to use color, make a comment, select the room as a favorite and share on Facebook and Twitter. The rooms with the greatest number of favorites in each division at the end of the initial round go on to the finals. You can choose as many rooms as you like as favorites, so be sure to check back each day for all the new entries — the more favorites you find, the better!
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Discussion in 'Ballroom Dance' started by cl5814, May 28, 2006.
hmmm, hard to know how to interpret.
It's alphabetical. They were tied for 9th with 14 recalls (cutoff 21)
Not necessarily, the results are incomplete: the page you are looking at has only 31 couples in round 2.
1. I think those couples listed as "no results for" either did not dance or were eliminiated and did not make the top 31. I think they will fill in the details when they have more time.
2. The lists do not show the couples that have a "bye". That's why you don't see Jonathan and Katusha, yet.
Yes, the results are incomplete but the three couples I mentioned surely would have made it to the top 31. And, they did not have a "bye".
Yes but what I mean is 31 is way way too few couples for round 2. Either this is one of the smallest pro latin event in recent blackpool memory or we're wasting time looking at incomplete results that's still being updated. It's likely the latter.
ooo- i didn't know the site didn't post couples w/byes initially
i can't wait to see what happens w/the pro latin results!
so they are essentially 1 and 2 inthe world?
Yes, because last fall Klaus Kongsdal & Viktoria Franova from Denmark and Riccardo C & Joanne Wilkinson from Italy turned pro.
You are correct. They just updated round 2 to top 102 couples. But, still no Slavik and Elena and Dmitri and Karina. But, Klaus and Viktoria are dancing.
They are still updating round 2. Now Dmitri and Karina are listed. Cool !
hey it's almost like being there... ok, not really :/
Definitely, not really : (
everytime i hit refresh the results are updated
why slavik is not in round 2 ?
they didn't dance?
I am puzzled also. I cannot imagine a scenario where Slavik and Elena would not be dancing...
Maybe someone is injured or they are not ready. I heard another couple took or almost took a dance from them at the Russian Championships.
fourth round results now posted
Sorry to skew the thread a little, but does anyone know where I can find pictures from this year's Blackpool? Dancesportinfo.net doesn't have any, does it usually take a little while for them to put them up?
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GL events have confirmed that Sirha Lyon will be maintained in 2021. However, the 20th edition is rescheduled and will be held from THURSDAY 23rd to MONDAY 27th September 2021, Eurexpo Lyon.
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I was trying to take advantage of the crazy deal on Starbucks coffee (7 dollar coffee and when you buy 3 you get a 5 dollar gift card). But, the cashier couldn't get the card to come up until I bought 4. Hubs probably would have left it alone, but I am
For the record, I'm actually a pretty cowardly complainer. I usually call in my complaints and I keep them few and far between, but what you don't know about me is that I cannot stand gum! Seriously, people pop it, pull it, smack it, and stick it everywhere. It is my number one pet peeve and so I've eliminated it from my life. My aversion certainly didn't help the matter, but is it just me, or is that absolutely ridiculous?!
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This week I had a chance to sit down with Kelly Rigg, the Executive Director of GCCA (the Global Campaign for Climate Action) and TckTckTck during Climate Week NYC for an informal conversation on the state of affairs in the current climate negotiations, the differences between China and the U.S. and what the future looks like for the climate advocacy movement. Here are her thoughts:
We are seeing increasing numbers of people writing in to our different partner organizations asking what they can do. People want to make a difference. They realize climate change is an issue that is really going to affect their lives, and their families’ lives. They feel somewhat powerless to get their governments to do something about it, so they’re starting to take matters into their own hands reducing their own emissions wherever they can.
But I have to say at the end of the day, personal efforts are only going to take us so far. Until governments create the necessary incentives for industry to put their investments into the right places, we will probably never have enough action to turn this thing around. So it needs to be a combination of both personal and political action.
People need to take action. They need to change their light bulbs and power down their appliances… all those things we have the power to do. But people also need to let their government representatives know that they want them to take action as well — politically.
With the heads of state meeting in New York this week to discuss, amongst other UN initiatives, the climate commitments pledged in the Copenhagen Accord, will we see any significant progress in international climate negotiations?
I think one of the most difficult problem with the Copenhagen Accord now, leaving aside the problems with how it was negotiated, is that the U.S. continues to suggest it’s an all or nothing package deal — that they are not going to move on anything until the complete package is acted upon. At this point a lot of countries are looking for the U.S. to move first. In particular because the U.S. has asked to be exempted from the kinds of commitments that everyone else is being asked to make.
The U.S. is talking about 17 percent reduction on 2005 emissions, not the 25-40 percent commitment on 1990 levels that the IPCC says is necessary. This is something like a 3 percent reduction on 1990 levels compared to the 20 percent commitment that the EU has made. So the U.S. asks for special treatment while at the same time suggests they won't move until others do. That rubs a lot of countries the wrong way.
I think that what needs to happen is that in particular the U.S. must signal it will meet those commitments it made, and do it unilaterally — not on the condition that they will do so only once everyone has signed up to the complete package. That’s not helpful and will not stimulate a breakthrough in the negotiations.
What’s wrong with climate perception in the U.S.?
The politicians are the ones lagging behind. They have a misperception that the electorate is not interested in climate. A Thomas Friedman column this week talks about the difference between the U.S. and China on climate. In China, climate change spells J-O-B-S and in the United States it spells J-O-K-E.
I think the public is being scandalously misled in the U.S. Because of the divisions in our political system and the vitriolic debate between Democrats and Republicans, people are just being shamelessly misled. They’re being told that global warming is a hoax by powerful lobbies in Washington and unfortunately there are certain network news stations and radio stations that feed that propaganda and misinformation. At some point I have to believe truth is going to prevail. The fact is there is not a trade-off between jobs and solving global warming. In fact doing so is good for the economy. People are being lied to, and until people start getting the real information things will not change.
We need more politicians to be leaders, telling the truth and encouraging the country to do the noble thing. This needs to be validated by other respected leaders and then it will become a more serious issue in the U.S. Civil society has a role to play as well, reaching out to people who have not previously been engaged on the issue and speaking to them in meaningful ways. And we need to put pressure on our political leaders to stop being held hostage to fossil fuel industry lobbyists.
Is there a country where we’ve seen a major public rally on climate issues?
How about Australia? In the previous election a new government came to power with climate change as one of its major agenda points. Then the prime minister reversed himself and people got really, really angry that their government let them down. That was part of the downfall of Kevin Rudd. It’s still a major issue and the recent success of the greens in this election shows that the public wants action now on climate. Australians are on the front lines of climate change — they are facing major problems with drought, for example as a result of global warming. People are a lot smarter than politicians think, and once politicians catch up to where business and the public is on climate, things could change very quickly.
What’s the outlook for China in the upcoming climate negotiations this fall?
After the Copenhagen debacle, China took a lot of blame which I think was scandalous. Most of the developed country governments that were there must share the blame for what happened. And the U.S. played no small part. But China can play a much more constructive role. In particular China has been reluctant to embrace the 1.5 degree temperature rise target. There are more than 100 countries that have supported that target for the very survival of low-lying countries that are most vulnerable to the impacts of climate change. China I think needs to listen to that and play a strong counter-role to the kind of laggard behavior being shown by other major economies.
It is important to recognize that China is doing a massive amount on renewable energy. They are now in the lead in the clean energy race and they should get a lot of credit for that. Per capita greenhouse gas emissions are far lower in China than the U.S and while they are developing quickly they have the opportunity to set an example.
The UNFCC Intercessional in China provides an opportunity to communicate the fact that China is ahead in the “Race to the future” and that other countries need to get with the program. They can cry all the way to the bank and complain about “command and control” economies, but at the end of the day they are going to lose that race if they don’t mobilize now. That could be the game-changer, for people around the world to see in China what a massive investment in clean energy technology really looks like.
What gives you hope?
At the climate week New York opening ceremony, all these heavyweights in business and finance stood up and talked about fact that the technological solutions are here. Amazing things are going on. Last year, for the first time more than 50 percent of new electrical power installation in Europe was from renewables. That's an amazing milestone! There’s a road map in the EU which says we can get to 100 percent renewable electricity supply by 2050. People are getting on with it and doing it, and there is now a public appetite for change because of increasing concerns around climate change.
If there is a will to do it, it will happen. It’s the political will that’s missing — a game of brinksmanship. Once we have that, everything will fall into place. Look at the Americans in the race to the moon or the national mobilization during WWII. Once Americans make up their minds to do something, they roll up their sleeves and make it happen. We need to see that spirit in Americans on climate and tap into that innate sense of American heroism. They can do it. They can save the world while ensuring long-term economic growth in a low carbon economy.
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Mr. Taffany is an Albany personal injury lawyer and a founding member of Anderson, Moschetti & Taffany, PLLC.
Since his graduation from law school, Mr. Taffany has zealously represented clients who have suffered personal injury. He specializes in all types of personal injury and wrongful death cases, including complex medical malpractice, products liability and labor law. Over the years, he has obtained numerous verdicts and settlements in excess of $1 million.
Mr. Taffany is also involved in the defense of individuals charged with criminal offenses. He has obtained numerous acquittals representing clients who have been charged with felonies or misdemeanors. He handles cases in federal and county courts as well as local criminal courts.
He has for several years been a Mediator in Federal Court for its Alternative Dispute Resolution program.
As an experienced Albany personal injury and criminal defense trial lawyer, Mr. Taffany lectures frequently to lawyers and law students in the areas of personal injury, criminal law and trial practice. He has argued appeals at the state and federal levels.
Mr. Taffany has for many years received the highest possible peer review rating of “AV” in the Martindale-Hubbell Directory for Attorneys. He has also been named a “Super Lawyer” by Super Lawyers magazine every year since 2010.
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Sir Gordon Beveridge, vice chancellor of Queen's University Belfast, has warned business leaders that Government funding cuts could severely hamper Northern Ireland's economic development and lead to the loss of local jobs.
Both Queen's and Ulster Universities are fighting against a Pounds 4 million cut in research funding next year, potentially rising to Pounds 6 million in each of the following years. This is a result of increased Government spending on security following the resumption of violence in the province.
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Flash Mob: White Pilots Can Dance!
Flash! White Pilots Can Dance!
(Sort of.) Need proof? Look no further than the American Airlines “Flash Mob” at PHX Sky Harbor Airport!
Around 25 AAL employees, including Flight Attendant Bunny and Yours Truly, participated in a Flash Mob at Terminal 4, dancing to Beyonce’s “Move Your Body.” As the “token pilot,” the director even had me bust a move mid-song!
If you can handle it, here it is. But strap in tight, you’re in for some major turbulence!
Direct Link: https://youtu.be/51nrsVQInb8
OK, so I may be a tad “Rhythmically Challenged,” but a good time was had by all!
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Hence, volunteers can be located anywhere and do not require any specific skillset except willingness to help precious, fragile and delicate kids lives. Since our mission involves minors excellent judgement and civility are virtues consistent with applicable laws and morality.
Impacts: Enhance children healthcare and contribute to community advancement by donating your time, etc. As inspired by the critical real life threatening ordeals of our survivor-advocate, the JMF core mission is to improve survival of precious, fragile and delicate infant lives through preventive and supportive programs to cure microcolon, adenoid hypertrophy and other potentially fatal and/or permanently disabling health disorders. JMF urgently needs funds to enable it's charity business operations to achieve the mission free service programs by embarking on this grass-roots fundraising campaign.
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Convergent Games is a Canadian board game publisher situated in the city of temperature extremes: Winnipeg. Founded in 2012 by Trevor Lehmann, we are presently working on two projects: Crop Cycle and Centaurus.
Crop Cycle is a fast-paced, farming card game and homage to Canadian Prairie agriculture.
Centaurus is a game of tactical skirmishes set in an apocalyptic fantasy setting.
Totally different games, but that is how we like it!
We also deeply enjoy engaging with fans and you find us regularly participating in social media our fans along with regular blog posts and updates via Twitter (@GamesCg), Facebook, Email, etc.
We also like to step outside on occasion. See where we are at, check out our events page.
Still curious? Learn more about Trevor Lehmann and check out the Convergent Games Blog
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Matt, a stubborn 17 yr old, is bought by another man at an another auction. In the midst of being a pet, he finds someone who cares about him.
Category: Romance - Rating: NC-17 - Genres: Angst,Horror,Romance - Warnings: [!] [V] [X] [R] [Y] - Published: 2012-05-09 - Updated: 2012-05-10 - 1932 words
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Acupuncture, as a distinct health care profession in New Hampshire, is authorized and defined by the state statute known as RSA 328-G.
RSA 328-G defines the standards for the licensing and regulation of NH Licensed Acupuncturists in order to protect the public health, safety and welfare. It ensures that the people of NH will have access to and be able to identify qualified acupuncturists.
RSA 328-G establishes a licensing board and defines the rulemaking authority, powers, and duties of the board. The statute spells out the qualifications to obtain an acupuncture license in NH and the parameters of licensure renewal, continuing education, scope of practice, hearings, disciplinary actions and penalties.
Additionally, the statute specifies in RSA 328-G:9 which other licensed healthcare professionals may legally practice acupuncture in NH, namely, those licensed as Physicians and Surgeons under RSA 329 and those specially qualified Naturopathic Doctors certified under RSA 328-E:12.
Administrative rules are the vehicle by which details of all areas authorized by statute are clarified and spelled out. This is done so that all applicants and licensees will be treated equally, uniformly and fairly under the law.
The NH Administrative Rules which regulate the practice of acupuncture in New Hampshire are known as Chapter Acp 100 through Chapter Acp 600.
Chapter Acp 100 defines the organization and responsibilities of the acupuncture licensing board within the Department of Health and Human Services. It gives pertinent definitions used throughout the statute and rules, a method for contacting the board, and information regarding public access to board meetings and records.
Chapter Acp 200 establishes the process by which the NH board of Acupuncture Licensing is empowered to conduct proceedings in order to obtain sufficient information and make reasonable decisions on matters within its jurisdiction. These matters include decisions on applications and complaints filed against licensees. This Chapter includes step-by-step instructions on how proceedings should be conducted so as to secure a just, efficient and accurate resolution. This Chapter includes possible disciplinary sanctions that will be imposed if the board determines that misconduct has occurred. To lodge a complaint, contact the New Hampshire Board of Acupuncture Licensing in writing informing the board of your concern with detailed information so that we may respond.
Chapter Acp 200 also describes how rule changes occur and how a request for a board clarification can be made.
Chapter Acp 300 deals with licenses, licensing requirements, applications and fees. Acp 301.01 through Acp 302.05 describes the actual application procedure for regular licensing including what qualifications are required of applicants and possible waivers of certain education requirements. New Hampshire does require certification from the National Certification Commission for Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine (NCCAOM).
In addition, this Chapter includes information regarding board approval of acupuncture schools, requirements related to visiting acupuncture teachers, acupuncture interns, student observers, office assistants, and chiropractors. In NH chiropractors may not legally practice acupuncture unless they are exempted by the Board of Acupuncture Licensing under the rules of Acp Chapter 300.
Chapter Acp 400 spells out the procedures for renewal of acupuncture licenses. New Hampshire does require that licensees maintain NCCAOM certification.
Thirty (30) Continuing Education Units (CEUs) or Professional Development Activities (PDAs) must be completed for every two year licensing period. Chapter Acp 400 further defines what constitutes acceptable CEUs and PDAs. Proof of participation or activity must accompany renewal applications.
Chapter Acp 500 deals with the responsibilities of licensees and the ethical and professional standards to which all licensees are bound.
The responsibilities cover, among other things, such subjects as display of licenses, notification of changes of address, mandatory use of sterile, disposable needles, maintenance of patient records, and compliance with state and federal regulations regarding safe practice and disposal of medical waste.
All licensees, under this chapter, must adhere to the Code of Ethics of the NCCAOM [link] to which all NH licensees have agreed in order to become NCCAOM certified. NCCAOM certification is required to obtain and to renew acupuncture licensure in NH.
In addition, Chapter Acp 500 specifically requires licensees to: provide honest and accurate information in medical reports; report evidence of professional misconduct by another licensee if such misconduct threatens life, health, or safety; maintain proper sexual boundaries with patients; and be truthful in advertising or representation of the practitioner to the public, avoiding false, deceptive, misleading statements, exaggerated claims or guarantees of success, and unsubstantiated claims of training, expertise, or certification in any specific areas of the scope of practice.
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I’m sure you’ve heard many times that introverts hate small talk. This is frequently misunderstood as introverts hate talking, period. However, this is not so. Introverts like the right kind of talk. So what is the right kind of talk, and why do introverts avoid small talk at all costs?
Small talk can be defined as polite conversation about things that are not important or that don’t really matter. It is when you ask about the weather, or any of the other things you say when passing a stranger or having to stand next to them for a few minutes. It seems rude to remain silent and pretend like they don’t exist, so you fill the silence by saying something. Anything.
Small Talk Fails to Engage My Brain
For me, whenever I’m in an elevator or some other form of obligatory closeness with a stranger, I much prefer the silence. It doesn’t offend me in the slightest if the other person ignores me. In fact, I prefer it this way. However, most of the time, the stranger will feel the need to say something bland and completely uninteresting in an attempt to be friendly for the next thirty seconds until we reach our respective floors.
Once, while discussing a similar topic with my husband, I told him, “I don’t hate it when people talk to me. I hate it when people talk at me.” And talking at me is pretty much what small talk is. It is something that requires little to no reciprocation. There is nothing I can respond with other than “okay” or “yeah.”
Do you know how much brainpower is takes to say a single word that you already say multiple times a day? Zero. Absolutely none.
And therein lies the problem. My brain is not engaged in the slightest. And since we’ve established by now that, for many introverts, the brain is what it’s all about, that is an essential element to any good interaction.
Imagine if I were riding in an elevator with another young woman. I would be, as usual, flipping through my phone and pretending that I am very busy. Suddenly, she shivers a little and says to me, “My sister died in an elevator, so they really freak me out. Sorry if I seem shaky or weird.”
I could mutter off some reassurance to her, but my brain would start buzzing with questions. Wow, her sister died in an elevator? I wonder what happened. How long ago was that? Did the elevator cause it, or did she just happen to be in an elevator but would have died regardless? And so on.
There would be a lingering invitation for me in the air. I could ask, and genuinely want to know the answer to, the obvious question: How did your sister die in an elevator? I could choose whether or not to accept that invitation, and there are different ways the woman could respond. Maybe she would tell me all about it, grateful that I cared enough to ask. Or maybe she would be offended at my intrusion and would decline to answer. Either way, it would still give my brain something to do.
Just for the record, this has never happened to me, and I doubt it ever will. People usually don’t blurt things like that out. Instead, my elevator rides with a stranger go a little more like this:
The other person sighs and says, “What a pretty day to be stuck inside the office.”
And I say, “Yeah.”
And… that’s it. There is nothing more I can say. There is nothing else I can even think of; my brain becomes a dead zone. I’m sure I could explain that it’s a Wednesday and it is completely normal for me to be “stuck inside the office” on this day, no matter how pretty it is outside, but I already feel pretty confident that this person knows what a normal work week is like. I’m sure I could chime in with my own version of how nice it is outside, but that seems redundant. I could speak up with my own personal, somewhat painful confession, like the young woman in my imaginary elevator story. But instead of interest in understanding, this would probably bring confusion and judgment. An elevator isn’t a therapist’s office, after all.
Conversationally, Introverts Are Meat-Eaters
If I ever have to explain my hatred of small talk in person, I usually say that introverts are meat-eaters, as carnivorous as they come. The bread on a sandwich is put there out of necessity and because that’s what you do. It’s weird to have a sandwich without bread, so introverts chew their way through the bland, doughy nothingness that is small talk until they get to what really matters. Once they hit the salty, satisfying meat of the issue, the conversation suddenly becomes loads more interesting.
As always, introverts crave mental stimulation. It’s not hard to give it to them, either. All it takes is honesty. They want to know what you’re afraid of, what you love, what you hate, and why you feel those things. They want to know your secrets, too, but not so they can gossip and use them against you — rather, so they can get to know you as a person on a deeper level.
In other words, introverts want to talk about things that matter. Anything less than that may make their brain enter sleep mode.
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Formula can be expensive! Even if you plan to exclusively breastfeed, I would recommend signing up just in case.
I want to start off by saying that I am not affiliated with any formula brand. I just wanted to share these freebies because I felt lucky to have come across it and had them handy. So many things you buy with a new baby and when something is offered free to you, you take it!
I just recently remembered about all the samples free formulas you get when you sign up, because I currently have several friends and family who are expecting and shared it with them; and so, I thought it’s be helpful to share with all of you! I loaded up free samples of formula every time I had gotten pregnant. It wasn’t hard to do and it doesn’t take much time.
It’s good to get all you can free as back up- and if you don’t get to use it, you can always give it to someone else who could use it.
I supplemented pumped breastmilk with formula with Olivia because she had trouble latching. She was born almost a month early, so I’m not sure if they attributed to her lack of interest in breastfeeding. Ayla and Esme were both exclusively breastfed, no bottles, until I transitioned them to formula. I had one child who wasn’t interested in feeding on the breast and the other two who only preferred the breast. Nonetheless, I signed up and every year, and I would either gift my samples to a friend or leave it at my pediatrician’s office.
The link below, is for Enfamil:
I’m happy to see that they still have the sign up and free formula samples! Last time I signed up was in 2016!
I don’t know whether or not your family has a history of dairy allergies, but you can email them directly and tell them it runs in your family and if they can send you dairy- free Nutramigen, instead of the regular enfamil. The customer service I came upon was great! It was years ago, but I recall them being warm and helpful!
Nutramigen was the formula we used with Olivia when we found out she was allergic to dairy. Taken from their website:
Nutramigen® with Enflora™ LGG®* Hypoallergenic Formula for Cow’s Milk Allergy
Clinically proven to also reduce colic due to cow’s milk allergy fast—often within 48 hours.
We had started with Similac because that was what the hospital had available to feed in the little bottles at that time.
Here’s the sign up link for Similac –> https://similac.com/formula-coupons-free-samples
We had signed up for samples of Similac because we didn’t know before Olivia was born, that she’d be allergic to dairy (she’s not so allergic she needs an Epipen, but we just try our best to avoid it because it does trigger her eczema) . We signed up for Similac for Ayla and Esme as well, just in case they weren’t allergic.
Below, is the sign-up link for Gerber:
I don’t remember for sure, but I believe they did send a small sample in the mail as well of their formula. You can email Gerber directly and ask them to send you a sample of Goodstart- which is what all the girls used- even Olivia eventually after she turned 1- It wasn’t dairy free, but our pediatrician felt comfortable having us give it to Olivia because the proteins in there somehow makes it easier to digest.
I believe they take about a month to send the formulas to you. I’m not sure which brand, but some even send it to you, even closer to your due date.
I also recommend you to ask at your OBGYN’s office because sometimes, you need to ask for them to give it to you. I think once or twice, I was able to get freebies from there, whether it be formula, bottles, pacifiers or all.
Last time I did this was over 3 years ago, and since then, I’ve seen a lot of new formula brands. Are there any other free formula samples you would like to share with expectant parents that are not on this list? Please share!
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New Delhi, Feb. 27
The Government is optimistic of ending this fiscal at a 5 per cent inflation level, despite the volatile global petroleum prices. However, cautioning against the possibility of high and volatile global petroleum prices imparting "uncertainty" in the inflation outlook, the Economic Survey has said this could reflect on interest rates and investment in the country.
"This inflation uncertainty, together with the unresolved global macro economic imbalances cast a shadow on the interest rate scenario. A continued firming up of global interest rate beyond a point poses the risk of dampening the domestic investment boom," the survey said.
The survey, however, added that by discounting the uncertainty associated with high and volatile international petroleum prices, the near and medium-term inflation risks in the Indian economy appear to be "manageable." "Given the sufficient foreign exchange reserves and Government's commitment to further trade and tariff reforms, strict fiscal prudence, monetary discipline and orderly movement of the exchange rate of rupee, the annual inflation rates in terms of both wholesale and consumer price indices are likely to witness declining trends in the medium term and to remain within tolerable limits," it forecast.
It said the overall wholesale price rise in most of 2005-06 remained below 5 per cent and is likely to remain around 5 per cent at the end of March 2006, thanks to "sound macro-economic management" along with effective management of supply and demand for essential items. Wholesale price index inflation averaged 6.5 per cent last fiscal.
Fuel prices the culprit
Higher fuel prices were the main contributor to inflation this fiscal, followed by primary and manufactured products. The low inflation in primary articles observed in the previous two years came to an end with supply shortfalls in commodities such as onion and potatoes and a firming up of demand for minerals.
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Introducing Riser Art
How To Order
Thanks for visiting our web store! We hope you are excited by the opportunity to decorate your stairways and bring a bit more artwork into your home. Here is what you need to know to be able to place an order and get the right product for your home:
Stairways are all different, so you do need to take some careful measurements before you order. There are 3 numbers that are important,
- How wide are your stairs?
- Confirm your riser are 7 inches (do not include the overhang).
- How many stair risers are there that you can put artwork on?
With these 3 measurements you can can order.
How to Install
OK, you think this looks like a fabulous addition to your home, but you want to know how difficult it is going to be to install. Good question! The answer is, we've come up with a way to make this product that is super easy to install. The product itself is a tough, durable adhesive vinyl material with a special adhesive that will securely attach to your stair risers, but that can also be removed a day or a year or two later without damaging your stair risers*.
About us RiserArt
The inspiration for our store came from traversing the Moraga & 16th St stairways in San Francisco, which, if you're not familiar, are an absolute must see if you make it to the city. A bit hard to find, they are well worth journeying from the usual tourist areas to find this hidden gem a few blocks south of Golden Gate park.
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Impending Phone and Broadband Price Hike Announced by BT
December will not be a fun month for millions of BT customers who will be met with a price increase on their phone and broadband prices soon. The leading telecoms company is set to increase their prices for standard business landline line rental for all direct debit subscribers by £1, or 6.25%, to £16.99 from December 1, 2014. Additionally, the PPM or pence per minute rate for all calls to UK landlines and 0870 numbers will spike up to 6.44% from 9p a minute to 9.58p.
The whole set up charges for business landline calls is expected to increase from 15p to 15.97p. While, all residential calls made to the Timeline speaking clock will also have a surge from the usual 36.6p to 38.97p and call return will also increase to 21.19p, a 10p increase from the previous 19.9p rate.
The broadband charges will go us to as much as 6.49% percent, even though BT said its present in demand press and TV broadband bundles will remain the same price. But, the price of BT Basic, the cheap business landline plan for low income customers, will still be priced £5.10 monthly with applicable call allowances.
The majority of the customers are all on inclusive call packages and they are not required to pay the set up fees or the ppm charges, and BT further said that the call bills had dramatically dropped to 14% percent over the past five years. However, BT claimed that those customers under the Unlimited Anytime Calls plan would surely see the price increase by 6.43% percent from £7 every month to £7.45. BT’s recent move came after its rival telecoms Sky company announced that it will increase their tariffs on September 1, 2014.
Last month BT declared that its Premier League offering was helping it a lot in their competition with Sky as it grew their broadband and TV profits by a quarter. Moreover, BT said that it added a net 104,000 broadband clients in the three months towards the end of June, making a fourth successive period that BT has outperformed and outwitted its rival.
Consequently, BT will soon start its second season of a £738 million deal to screen 38 top flight games every year for the next three years to come which took over Sky’s reign of top flight football. BT has likewise paid some £897 million for the three year Champions League deal from year 2015. BT stated that their TV sport offering had helped boost their revenues in its consumer department, which were up to ten percent to £1.04 billion compared with the same period from last year, and their broadband and TV profits rose to 26% percent. There has been a marked increase on BT’s consumer division by twelve percent to up to £808 million owing to the costs of the sports broadcasts.
BT had made a bold move into football coverage last year as part of their strategy to improve its position in the broadband segment, by offering the TV access for free as part of a bundle for customers taking its internet as well as cheap business landline services.
Not too long ago, BT took a big leap back into the mobile phone market segment as they launched a brand new business services targeting the delivery of fixed line as well as mobile calls on the same device. BT intends to launch a mobile offering for the greater public by the end of its financial year.
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The shalmi store has a huge variety of cables included:
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The Shalmi Store offers you a huge variety of cables and we have affordable rates but the best quality of the USB cables. You can rely on us while buying USB cables from us. People prefer o buy the best quality USB Cables to connect their cameras, speakers, and mobile phones with their systems. We also have fast cables to transfer your data. We assure you about the quality of our products.
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“A small West Virginia town of 3,000 people got 21 million pills”
By Mark A. York (February 26, 2016 )
(MASS TORT NEXUS MEDIA) Drug companies deluged tiny towns in West Virginia with a monsoon of addictive and deadly opioid pills over the last decade, according to ongoing investigations by various public and private entities. After Opioid Big Pharma has reaped billions in profits over the last 15 years at the expense of US citizens, often those in the most rural and distressed areas of the country, it now appears that the time has come for Big Pharma to be called to answer for its conduct.
For instance, drug companies collectively poured 20.8 million hydrocodone and oxycodone pills into the small city of Williamson, West Virginia, between 2006 and 2016, according to a set of letters the committee released Tuesday. Williamson’s population was just 3,191 in 2010, according to US Census data. These numbers are outrageous, and we will get to the bottom of how this destruction was able to be unleashed across West Virginia,” committee Chairman Greg Walden (R-Ore.) and ranking member Frank Pallone Jr. (D-N.J.) said in a joint statement to the Charleston Gazette-Mail.
The nation is currently grappling with an epidemic of opioid addiction and overdose deaths. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimate that, on average, 115 Americans die each day from opioid overdoses. West Virginia currently has the highest rate of drug overdose deaths in the country. Hardest hit have been the regions of West Virginia, Ohio and Kentucy where for some reason the opioid industry chose to focus on, the how and why will be address in the federal and state courts across the country, as the opioid crisis has caused the “Opiate Prescription Multidistrict Litigation MDL 2804” , to be created and heard in the US District Court-Northern District of Ohio, in front of Judge Dan Polster, see Opiate Prescription MDL 2804 Briefcase.
OPIOID BIG PHARMA INDUSTRY CONSPIRACY
Beside drug distributors, drug manufacturers such as Purdue Pharma and others bare responsibility for the flood of opioids to hard hit areas of West Virginia, Ohio and Kentucky and they are very familiar with the “opiate litigation dance” often paying hundreds of millions in fines without accepting real responsibility or pleading guilty to criminal charges. They often enter into consent decrees where they pay a huge fines and promise to monitor the bad conduct in the future. This is actually considered a “get out of jail free” card, a very expensive card but a free pass for Opioid Big Pharma, none the less.
Purdue isn’t new to court battles. In 2007, the infamous drug maker and three of its executives pled guilty in federal court and paid out $634.5 million in fines for purposefully misleading regulators, doctors, and patients about the addictiveness of their opioid painkiller. Around the same time, Purdue was also sued by several states, including Washington, over similar allegations. Purdue agreed to a $19.5 million multi-state settlement. And in 2015, Purdue settled a case with Kentucky, agreeing to pay $24 million.
As part of the state settlements, Purdue was supposed to set up monitoring programs to make sure that its opioid drug didn’t wind up in the wrong hands. It was supposed to watch out for shady pharmacies, unusually large orders, or suspiciously frequent orders. But on this front, Everett alleges that Purdue once again put profits over people.
In released letters that were addressed to two regional drug distributors, Ohio-based Miami-Luken and Illinois-based HD Smith, related to both companies having distributed eye-popping numbers of pills to small cities in the state. In the letter, the committee lays out distribution data it has collected and asks questions about the companies’ distribution practices, including why they increased distribution so sharply in some towns and why they didn’t flag suspicious orders.
But Miami-Luken and HD Smith are not the only distributors that have drawn the committee’s attention. The letters are just the latest in the committee’s ongoing probe into what’s referred to as pill dumping amid the opioid crisis. Last year, the committee sent similar letters to three other drug companies, asking about their drug distribution in the state, these included the largest opiate distributors in the country AmerisourceBergen, Cardinal health and McKesson Corp, with all three listed in the top 10 of Fortune 100’s corporate hierarchy.
Miami-Luken followed through by providing some data and requested files, according to the committee. But those new pieces of information “raise a number of additional questions,” according to the committee.
WV FLOODED WITH OPIOIDS
Combining data collected from the Drug Enforcement Administration and Miami-Luken, the House Energy and Commerce Committee dove into the situation in Williamson. Between 2006 and 2016, drug distributors collectively shipped 20.8 million hydrocodone and oxycodone pills to two pharmacies in the small city. Those pharmacies were located roughly four blocks apart from each other, the committee noted. Miami-Luken alone supplied 6.4 million of those pills to just one of the pharmacies between 2008 and 2015. And between 2008 and 2009, the company inexplicably increased the amount of pills it delivered by 350 percent. The committee pressed Miami-Luken to explain how a town of 3,191 people could require such massive supplies and why the increases didn’t raise alarms.
The letter also reveals that in Kermit, West Virginia, a town of just 406 people, the company delivered 6.3 million hydrocodone and oxycodone pills between 2005 and 2011. For just the year of 2008, the numbers work out to Miami-Luken providing 5,624 opioid painkiller pills for every man, woman, and child in the town, the committee notes.
Likewise, Miami-Luken also delivered 4.4 million hydrocodone and oxycodone pills to the 1,394-person town of Oceana, West Virginia, between 2008 and 2015. And in Beckley, West Virginia, the company didn’t hesitate to fulfill a string of orders for tens of thousands of opioid doses placed by one pharmacy in the span of five days.
WHERE WAS THE OFFICIAL OVERSIGHT
The House committee repeatedly asked if the company thought these orders were appropriate and what limits—if any—it would set on such small towns. Miami-Luken would not respond to a request for comment. The committee had similar questions for HD Smith, who delivered 1.3 million hydrocodone and oxycodone pills to a pharmacy in Kermit—the 406-person town—in 2008.
“If these figures are accurate, HD Smith supplied this pharmacy with nearly five times the amount a rural pharmacy would be expected to receive,” the committee wrote. It noted that the owner of that Kermit pharmacy later spent time in federal prison for violations of the Controlled Substance Act. Still, the committee pressed the question of whether HD Smith thought its distribution practices were appropriate.
“We will continue to investigate these distributors’ shipments of large quantities of powerful opioids across West Virginia, including what seems to be a shocking lack of oversight over their distribution, all the while collecting record breaking profits and paying sale reps in the field enormous bonuses. This is the pattern that all Opioid Big Pharma has followed across the United states for the last 20 years, pay field sales rep many thousands of dollars on bonuses, to push opiates on doctors, hospitals and anyone else who can move drugs into the healthcare treatment assembly line.
OPIOID INDUSTRY HAS INFLUENCE
To show the far reaching tentacles of Opioid Big Pharma, West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey was a former lobbyist for a trade group that represented Miami-Luken and other drug companies. In 2016, Morrisey ended several state lawsuits with drug companies, including one with Miami-Luken. The lawsuits, filed by the state’s former attorney general, Darrell McGraw, alleged that the companies flooded the state with opioid painkillers.
How this conduct would be viewed outside West Virginia would normally not have become an issue if Morrisey’s halt to the litigation would have been the end of the legal story. But fast forward to December 2018 and the official opening of the “Opiate Prescription MDL 2408”, where hundreds of counties, cities, states, hospitals and others impacted by the opioid crisis across the country, are now able to file lawsuits against all “Opioid Big Pharma” players. The defendants include drug makers, distributors, major pharmacies and others, there may a second long hard look at Patrick Morrisey’ conduct and reasoning for stopping prior legal action against the prescription opioid industry.
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Nov 3, 2016
And so the season turns, and the cold winds sweep in, and candles and fires and stoves are lit. Black branches against a white sky. There are more stories to tell, though. There are always more stories to tell. It’s not long before we meet our old friends again, I promise. They’re waiting, right now. They’re kicking the frost off their boots, cold fingers on metal buckles. Before we find them again, though, there is an old story to tell. Perhaps you’ve heard it before. Perhaps this is the first time you’ve heard it. There’s a small island, you see? Waves crash around its rocky coast. There is the silhouette of a tower. It’s better, don’t you think, to bring everybody up to speed?
Cover Art by Craig Sheldon (@shoddyrobot)
Episode description by Jack de Quidt
Music by Jack de Quidt
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I totally blame this post on two fabulous friends who are big into their craft beers: the ingenious Kate Packwood, from The Wild Flour Bakery, and the super mad Steve Mooney (AKA @pasty_face), who is well known on twitter as the outrageously funny guy behind the entrepreneurial Anto (his alter ego). A while ago, Kate, Steve and their respective other-halves went out for a few drinks; a bit into the night, I received a very funny text from Ms. Packwood along the lines of 'You gotta taste this beer, it's f***ing sensational'. She was referring to a concept beer by BrewDog made with ginger, black raspberries and chipotle peppers (check it out here). I trust Kate's taste completely. She's after all, one of the most inventive and talented young bakers in Ireland. Despite the hefty beer price, 19.99 euro for a bottle, I asked her to get me a bottle as I love cooking with beer. As it turned out, the beer was gorgeous, but way too stout-y for what I wanted it, so ended up drinking some and using the rest in a steak and 'chipotle beer' pie. However, the flavour of the beer was the inspiration for this fish tacos recipe. I truly hope you enjoy them as much as we did.
Note: for the chipotle chile powder I used the Cool Chile Company one, but you can also pass a dry chipotle pepper through a spice grinder and make your own; this is much cheaper but a little more labour intense. You will also need a generous quantity of chipotle mayonnaise, I make a home made version, but if you want the cheat version, you can mix 1 cup of shop bought mayonnaise (full-fat is best) and crush 1 or 2 chipotle chiles in adobo sauce into them. Chipotle chiles in adobo are smoky and delicious. You can buy them in Ireland in our shop. Since you're only using 1 or 2, put the rest of the tin contents in a glass jar or a plastic container with a lid and keep them refrigerated. They last forever that way!
Put all the batter ingredients in a good size bowl and whisk them until it's all incorporated and you have a boozy chipotle batter.
Dry the fish well with a kitchen paper towel and slice it into finger-size bites a bit like fish fingers. In another plate, mix flour, salt and pepper and leave it to a side.
Heat the sunflower oil in a deep non-stick pan. The oil must be very hot in order to fry the fish for only a few minutes and obtain a crispy goujon. While the oil heats, get on with making the goujons
Roll the slices of well dried fish in the plate with the flour mix making sure to coat the fish well with the peppery flour.
Dip the floured fish piece in the boozy chipotle batter and drop it gently in the hot oil to fry.
Fry the fish for a few minutes on both sides and take it out once the batter is fully cooked, golden and crispy. Place the fish goujons on a plate lined with kitchen paper and repeat the step until all your fish pieces are done.
Cover the fish goujons with tin foiled while you heat the tortillas to keep them warm. Heat your corn tortillas on a dry non stick pan for about 30 seconds on both sides, use a tortilla warmer, or a tortilla oven to keep them warm. When serving tacos, I always suggest to do it the Mexican Family way: put all the components of the tacos in the middle of the table and get each person to assemble their own tacos. It's fun and saves a lot of work.
Assembling your Boozy Chipotle Fish Tacos:
Take a warm corn tortilla, spoon a generous amount of home made chipotle mayonnaise, place a leave of gem lettuce on top and crown it with a fish goujon; fold it and eat it.
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PRESIDENT Benigno Aquino III fired back Thursday at Vice President Jejomar Binay, saying the people know who was telling the truth, and who is not.
Reacting to Binay’s attack on his administration Monday, the President said the Vice President never brought up those issues when he was still a member of the Cabinet, but said other Cabinet members would answer his allegations point-by-point.
Aquino admitted he was surprised by Binay’s sudden departure from the Cabinet, and said he called up the Vice President after he received his resignation letter, which was submitted to Executive Secretary Paquito Ochoa.
“I was surprised why there was a resignation at this point in time. So I called him up and eventually we got to talk and I asked him specifically what was the reason,” Aquino said.
Binay replied, “A lot”, and said that the Vice President would just write it all down and send it to him (Aquino).
“After our conversation, I told him, ‘Okay, I will wait for it’,” said Aquino.
Aquino noted that Binay declared himself as the leader of the opposition on Wednesday.
“Well, I and the Cabinet will answer point-by-point all of the allegations,” Aquino said.
The President also said he never treated Binay like “a spare tire.”
He said that their agreement was he would be given the assignment on housing, and he asked for the work on overseas Filipino Workers. These assignments, Aquino said, gave Binay the opportunity to maintain his popularity ratings.
Aquino said, that although Binay was not an ally, this did not stop him from recognizing his work.
But Aquino said it was not his primary function to become involved in political discussions regarding the 2016 elections.
“I have the responsibility to improve this society, this country. And I will not allow our attention to be distracted by getting involved in political discussions, which I think, it is clear with the people who is telling the truth and who is not,” Aquino said.
Aquino recalled that he and Binay have been together for a long time since the 1986 EDSA Revolution and even before that.
Aquino also recalled that during the 1987 attempted coup, when he was ambushed, Binay was also an ally.
But politics has changed their relationship, he said.
Aquino said Binay may have had many ideas about how to improve he country, but he had an obligation to share these as a Cabinet member but did not.
“Why didn’t he share these? Maybe you should ask him (Binay). If you have any help to provide to make the lives of the people better, which you have vowed to do, why did you make it a secret?,” he asked.
On Wednesday, the Vice President called the Aquino government callous and incompetent.
The presumptive Liberal Party candidate for president next year, Interior Secretary Manuel Roxas II, said he found it laughable that Binay would criticize the administration for its “crooked leadership and selective justice.”
“I find it funny. The thing is, he’s had every single day over the last five years to point out these wrongdoings or mistakes in this administration,” Roxas said.
“But we did not hear anything – zero, until now,” Roxas added.
Justice Secretary Leila de Lima, on the other hand, defended the Aquino administration from the charge of selective justice.
De Lima said the Vice President should first explain his and his family’s involvement in various graft and corruption charges before even making such accusations.
“Apparently the Vice President has not heard of the saying that people who live in glass houses should not throw stones. He should first put his own affairs in order, especially the corruption cases against him and members of his family, before he even starts talking of so-called selective justice. There is no selective justice here,” De Lima said, in a text message to reporters.
“Just because high officials and big fish like him are feeling the long arm of the law does not mean there is selective justice,” she added.
The Vice President, his son, current Makati Mayor Jejomar Erwin Binay Jr. and several other Makati City officials are facing charges over the alleged overpricing in the construction of the Makati City Parking Building II, which was started when the elder Binay was still Makati mayor.
Early this week, the fact-finding team of the Office of the Ombudsman recommended placing Mayor Binay under preventive suspension and recommended graft charges against him, his father and other Makati City officials over the alleged rigging of the bidding for the construction of the 10-story Makati Science High School building.
Binay’s wife, Elenita is also facing graft charges before the Sandiganbayan for the allegedly overpriced purchase of hospital equipment and furniture during her term as Makati mayor.
In his speech, the first following his resignation from the Cabinet, Binay accused the Aquino administration of employing selective justice against him and his family while turning a blind eye to administration friends and allies implicated in controversies like the pork barrel scam, the Disbursement Acceleration Program which was ruled unconstitutional by the Supreme Court, the Metro Rail Transit project and the Mamasapano tragedy that left 44 elite police commandos dead.
De Lima earlier was criticized for the delay in the filing of the third batch of charges related to the multi-billion peso pork barrel scam whose respondents include close allies of the President such as Technical Education and Skills Development Authority Director General Joel Villanueva and Cagayan de Oro Rep. Rufus Rodriguez.
The first batch of PDAF-related criminal charges were filed in September 2013 against 38 individuals, including opposition Senators Juan Ponce Enrile, Ramon Revilla Jr., and Jinggoy Estrada, as well as alleged fund scam mastermind Janet Lim-Napoles.
The second batch, filed two months later, involved graft complaints against former Customs Commissioner Ruffy Biazon and 33 others over the alleged misuse of their pork barrel allocations.
Also on Thursday, the Department of Budget and Management denied Binay’s claim that internal revenue allotment (IRA) releases were withheld or delayed.
“We do not withhold these appropriations and they have always been released without condition or delay. All agency transactions between the DBM and LGUs in 2013 have been properly documented,” said Budget Secretary Florencio Abad.
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The Story of Ferdinand (Paperback)
On Our Shelves Now
A true classic with a timeless message All the other bulls run, jump, and butt their heads together in fights. Ferdinand, on the other hand, would rather sit and smell the flowers. So what will happen when Ferdinand is picked for the bullfights in Madrid? The Story of Ferdinand has inspired, enchanted, and provoked readers ever since it was first published in 1936 for its message of nonviolence and pacifism. In WWII times, Adolf Hitler ordered the book burned in Nazi Germany, while Joseph Stalin, the leader of the Soviet Union, granted it privileged status as the only non-communist children's book allowed in Poland. The preeminent leader of Indian nationalism and civil rights, Mahatma Gandhi--whose nonviolent and pacifistic practices went on to inspire Civil Rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr.--even called it his favorite book. The story was adapted by Walt Disney into a short animated film entitled Ferdinand the Bull in 1938. Ferdinand the Bull won the 1938 Academy Award for Best Short Subject (Cartoons).
About the Author
Wilbur Monroe Leaf (aka Munro Leaf) (1905-1976) was an American author of children's literature who wrote and illustrated many books during his long career. His books were illustrated by a number of famous artists, including Ludwig Bemelmans, Robert Lawson, and Theodor Seuss Geisel (Dr. Seuss). He is best known for The Story of Ferdinand (1936). Robert Lawson (1892-1957) received his art training at the New York School of Fine and Applied Arts. His favorite medium, pen and ink, is used expressively and with detail in his black and white illustrations in The Story of Ferdinand (by Munro Leaf). In addition to illustrating many children's books, including Mr. Popper's Penguins, Robert Lawson also wrote and illustrated a number of his own books for children. In 1940, he was awarded the Caldecott Medal for his picture book illustrations in They Were Strong and Good and in 1944, he was awarded the Newbery Medal for his middle grade novel Rabbit Hill.
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I enjoy using tags in my art and found time to make this tag for the Artistic Stamper Challenge.
I used some text printed paper and coloured it with Distress Inks. I printed the word HOME and again aged it with Distress Inks. The stamps are a favourite by Paper Artsy and I stamped these onto text paper and cut them out. To finish I added a key by Tim Holtz tied with twine.
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- Good customer service
- Impressive feature set
- Easy to use
- Limited support materials
- Fair public reputation
SimplifyThis embodies founder Sanjay Kumar’s serious commitment to simplicity. This strict standard is designed to keep SimplifyThis from the “frustration” of “feature-burdened software products that try to be everything for everyone, and end up doing nothing for anyone.”
For a quiet, media-shy company devoted in name and spirit to freedom from complexity, SimplifyThis has a surprising number of features. Offering POS, invoicing, and project management solutions in addition to the usual scheduling features and customer relationship management, it does indeed simplify life for small business. The software maintains its simplicity through an incredibly consistent, fun, intuitive graphic user interface, excellently designed despite a couple tics. The company’s lack of an FAQ and failure to reveal or explain upgrades to the software to its customers are minor irritations well worth suffering for an excellent, streamlined service at an incredibly low price.
Table of Contents
SimplifyThis offers a 30-day free trial (no credit card required) in which you can add two staff members and send up to 15 invoices. Monthly pricing plans vary according to only to the number of staff you need to support; features and customer support remain consistent for all users. A minor gripe: the tier descriptions are a little confusing within the program, with the “description” heading describing the number of users the plan will accommodate and the “staff” heading showing the number of staff it can accommodate. It refers to both the users and staff as “staff.” The whimsically named pricing plans may sound familiar.
1. Tall: $18 per month
- Up to two staff members
2. Grande: $29 per month
- 3 – 5 staff members
3. Jumbo: $39 per month
- 6 – 10 staff members
Ease Of Use
SimplifyThis’ passionate emphasis on simplicity and efficiency really shine through in its user interface. Even if you’ve never used booking software before, SimplifyThis’s interface is extremely intuitive and easy to learn.The layout of each page and organization of the whole site is consistent and incredibly clear. At no point during exploring the software was I confused about the options presented to me or unsure about how to navigate to a different view, setting, or feature. The SimplifyThis team has done a great job anticipating the needs of a small service business – including the need not to be overwhelmed by extra features or intimidated by an unfriendly layout.
- Graphic User Interface: The spacing, tabs, headers, buttons, icons, colors… almost everything in SimplifyThis is optimized for the ease of users of any experience level. The great use of popout windows cuts down on the need to constantly move from one screen to another and back, making navigation super-simple. Bold, clear icons are used whenever possible. Unfortunately, the only problem I found while using the site was that pages don’t always adjust well to different window sizes on my computer. Certain tabs on the side and pieces of text on the bottom of the screen got cut off unless I expanded the window to full-screen.
- Settings: Without undercutting its commitment to simplicity and ease of use, SimplifyThis offers a wealth of configuration options accessible through a button sporting the traditional gear icon in the header of the site. Checkboxes beside well-organized and well-spaced settings make your options, including the choice to restrict clients to book only from packages or whether to block the calendar for unpaid appointments, very clear.
- Schedule: Changing the schedule requires some experimentation. Though adding time slots was simple for me, it was too difficult to change the preset time slots at first. I finally figured out that marking and then unmarking individual days as “off days” clears the schedule so you can set up new open times. When I tried changing the preset times for another day, however, there was no problem. In SimplifyThis you can create multiple schedules and configure them to start on a certain date and repeat every 1-4 weeks as needed, perfect for businesses with seasonal calendars.
- Calendar: You can easily add business-wide holidays and staff-specific time off from the main calendar page. Make time off recurring and send the staff a confirmation email if you wish. You can add notes to both kinds of schedule blocks any staff with access to the calendar to see. Different tabs on the calendar page allow you to choose from day, week, or month views. Alternatively, you can choose to see more linear, graphic representations of your whole staff’s availability or a day calendar separated according to staff members.
- Mobile App: The iOS app is old–we’re talking iOS 3 old, so best to steer clear of it even though it’s still technically available on the App Store. Luckily, the website offers pretty solid mobile functionality at the cost of hiding some buttons and showing you an appointment list for the day rather than a calendar view. You can still book appointments and schedule time off for any date, however.
- Customer Booking: The customer booking process is beautiful, logical, and linear. A timeline at the top of the page shows clients how far along they are in the process. Customers can easily create an account to keep track of their payments, invoices, and appointments.
Customer Service & Support
SimplifyThis offers free phone support Monday-Friday during regular business hours (9 am – 5 pm) in Pacific US time. You can also email support; I received a next-day response for my first email and none for my second…
Unfortunately, it lacks the FAQ and customer help base many self-motivated software users tend to rely on. Even the blog and tutorials are difficult to access from the software. Clicking the large “Help and Feedback” button at the bottom of the page gives you the option of writing customer service an email or posting a suggestion in feedback.
SimplifyThis had previously maintained a strong social media presence, but has been inactive on most of their accounts since 2014.
In summary, SimplifyThis offers:
- Phone Support: Call (425) 298-6702 during business hours to connect to the Washington State company office.
- Email: Contact [email protected] for customer service questions.
- New Blog: SimplifyThis’ standard blog features, including the entertaining post “Three Tips for Running Your Own Business from Biggie Smalls…” Unfortunately, it hasn’t been updated since 2014.
- Old Blog: Founder and CEO Sanjay Kumar personally managed an different version of the SimplifyThis blog from 2006-2011.
- YouTube: Find nine software tutorials from mrSimplifyThis.
- Twitter: The company’s Twitter @SimplifyThis features links to old articles, but hasn’t been updated since 2014.
- Feedback: Give feedback and track the progress of responses by opening a popout window from the footer of your account page. According to the feedback page, a text message reminder feature will be released soon and a followup reminder function is planned.
Negative Reviews & Complaints
Most criticism of SimplifyThis came from customers wanting more from its accounting solutions.
- Customer Support: One user complained that email was answered inconsistently for Easy-Bill, the billing software that could be purchased independently from the scheduling side.
- Invoice Customization: An online billing review site gave SimplifyThis’ billing software a 6/10 rating, noting,
We liked that it can accept partial payments, but we did not see that it can apply one payment to more than one invoice. Currently they only offer invoice types, such as by service or product, but they do not offer a variety of templates to choose from.
- Improve Reports: A SimplifyThis user suggested via the feedback portal that SimplifyThis include Income & Expense Reports and Earnings Reports to track business growth over time.
- Limited Presence on the Web: SimplifyThis is a very media-shy company, so it can be a little difficult to stay abreast of what’s going on with them.
Positive Reviews and Testimonials:
SimplifyThis received great reviews from Google Apps Marketplace (five stars), AppVita, and SEO Maids in addition to its own client testimonials. Reviewers praised its customization, customer support, ease of use, and multi-functionality.
- Responsive Support Team: Counter to others’ experiences, one reviewer from SEO Maids wrote,
Any time I’ve had a question I get a response back very quickly. There have been times when I’ve said, ‘Hey, I’d like to be able to do this’ and they have actually incorporated my idea into the software within a day or two, you can’t beat that!
- Integrated Business Solution: An AppVita reviewer called SimplifyThis “a fantastic application” useful for “a full range” of small business solutions. Other users noted as examples that it offers a fast way to invoice on the fly and track client service contracts, just two of the software’s many helpful features.
- Easy to Use: Billing with SimplifyThis is simple even for someone who hasn’t used accounting software before. Users liked that schedules can be adjusted quickly and easily.
- Customizable: Some users enjoyed the highly customizable templates that allow you to make the booking page match your business website.
SimplifyThis truly does simplify many aspects of running a small business. From helpful minor functions like keeping a customer-specific to-do list to major solutions like billing and invoicing, the software offers a seamlessly integrated business solution beyond individual, single-service appointment booking.
- Manage Projects: SimplifyThis is the only appointment booking software I know of that offers project management solutions. You can create projects as easily as services or classes, although projects are attached to specific customers rather than being generally available. Each project has either fixed, hourly, or non-billable charges. Once you’ve created a project, you can create specific tasks within it to be billed to the customer. Manually track time or enter a flat rate till the project’s completion – then bill the customer as easily as if they had come in for a service!
- To-Do List: You can add to-do items by customer name that show up on the home screen as well as in the customers’ accounts. Set a due date for each item and mark them when finished.
- Calendar: The calendar can be viewed daily, weekly, and monthly and as a list (for easy printing). Staff and availability are easy to access from the calendar, which is color-coded according to staff. Set seasonal schedules and separate schedules for the whole business, different locations, or staff members. Staff can be scheduled at more than one location!
- Multiple-Member Customer Accounts: You can add multiple individual contracts to a single account – good news for companies that offer services to businesses or families. You can easily change the account name, add notes to its invoices, or set special pricing from the account page. Fields in the customer account profile include “Referred by,” “Status,” and “Invoice Notes.” You can also choose whether to give each customer access to his or her account. Custom search parameters help you analyze your customer data.
- Self-service Customer Account Management: Customers can access their own account to view upcoming and historical bookings, packages, and invoices as well as make payments. You can choose whether to let clients make their own accounts or not.
- Custom Reminders: One confirmation and two (customizable) reminder emails are available for each appointment. You can choose how long before an appointment to send reminders and customize the message with your own text. A helpful list of placeholders for the message template appears on the page to take the guesswork out of how to customize your reminders with client names, service types, etc.
- Mobile Apps: You can manage appointments, clients, and finances from the iOS app, which has been upgraded seven times since its release in 2010. Staff can sign in individually on the app, which runs constantly in the background of your device so that it’s never out of sync with the online scheduler.
- Group Booking: SimplifyThis makes it easy to schedule classes, events, courses, and workshops, for which you can track attendance and no-shows. You can make the class fee taxable and add a fixed or percentage-based booking fee. Once you create a class or workshop, you can organize them in a hierarchical structure and add recurring or independent sessions.
- Sell Items: SimplifyThis offers a functional POS system that includes items with a name, description, price, and option to be taxable. Items can also be grouped and organized.
- Sell Packages: You can sell bundles of services, classes, and apparently products as packages. Unfortunately when I was trying to create packages, not all the classes and none of the items I had created appeared as optional additions, but this is a software glitch the support team could easily fix. When creating a package you can set expiration dates for them, perfect for creating seasonal or limited sales. Package sales reports are available to track their popularity and income.
- Reports: You can view sales, invoice, payments, aging, and customer reports. Reports show itemized summaries within a specified date range for each topic. Though they don’t show you total numbers (of income, for example), you can export the data into Excel easily and analyze the data more from there.
- Payment Options: SimplifyThis’ payment options, including the ability to take deposits and create customizable invoices, are some of its most versatile and exciting features. See the “Payments” section below for more details.
Billing and invoicing customers via SimplifyThis – for services, classes, packages, products, and projects – is truly simple.
- Options: You can accept partial or full payments before or after services on-site, over the phone, or online via cash, check, credit card (via Authorize.net), PayPal and X-Charge. Because payment options are integrated into the scheduler, client accounts are updated automatically when they make any form of payment.
- Account Billing: While appointments are made according to individual customers, billing occurs according to accounts. This means that services purchased by various members of the same account show up on the same bill, given to the account holder, rather than on separate bills for individual clients.
- Invoices: You can send PDF invoices through email from any account page. These invoices are totally customizable, down to which header fields to include and what to name them. You can set invoices to recur in cycles of any frequency, with its release on any day of the month or day of the week you choose. You can also track add-on charges to be included on future invoices and send automatic reminders to clients with overdue bills
- Currencies: Finally, the software supports over a dozen currencies, making it a viable small business option internationally.
While the site itself offers no information about the scheduling software security directly, the billing software SimplifyThis uses employs 128-bit encryption. Its credit card portal, Authorize.net, is PCI compliant and stores client data securely so that SimplifyThis doesn’t have to, which would make that data more vulnerable. The software is hosted by GoDaddy, which uses multiple-site storage, round-the-clock monitoring, fire protection, chilled water cooling, firewall protection and other measures for security.
Integrations & Add-Ons
SimplifyThis offers integrations to support its project management, payment, and scheduling solutions:
- Basecamp: Keep track of time and manage projects through Basecamp, which syncs with SimplifyThis.
- Google-Calendar: SimplifyThis offers two-way sync with Google calendar for the whole business schedule or separate staff/location schedules.
- Authorize.net: The company’s gateway for credit card payments.
- PayPal: Sync your PayPal and SimplifyThis accounts to allow clients to pay you online. Service fees apply.
- X-Charge: X-Charge allows you to take credit card payments as well. You must create an account with X-Charge to use it in SimplifyThis.
SimplifyThis takes taxes and booking fees into account; has a flexible, highly interactive calendar; offers support for project management, invoicing, customer relationship management, point of sale, class scheduling, and group/family accounts; presents a distinct, well-designed and –organized graphic user interface; allows individual clients to create their own accounts; and functions well on mobile devices.
While the company offers a great product with a reasonable amount of customer service for $18-$39 per month, there are a few issues that hold me back from enthusiastically recommending SimplifyThis to small businesses. Most of these problems seem to be related to the small size of SimplifyThis’s operation: the lack of a searchable FAQ and the conspicuous social media silence over the past couple years. One gets the impression that the company’s human resources are spread a bit thin. If that doesn’t bother you, and you’re a small company looking for easy-to-use appointment scheduling software at a reasonable price, it’s worth giving SimplifyThis a shot.
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The Progress of Love is a three venue, transatlantic exhibition in which contemporary African artists explore the meaning of the L-word in today's ever-changing global society. The emotional baggage has been scattered from city to city to city, forming an unprecedented love triangle made up of three concurrent presentations. Houston, Texas, will tackle Global Systems of Love; while in Lagos, Nigeria, artists are going to examine The Lived Experience of Love. Here in St. Louis, the Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts (3716 Washington Boulevard; 314-754-1850) hosts Love as Mourning, featuring film and video presentations by British-Nigerian artists Zina Saro-Wiwa and Yinka Shonibare, as well as a multimedia installation from a France's Sophie Calle. The Progress Of Love: Love as Mourning opens with a free public reception at 6 p.m. Friday, November 16, and remains up through Saturday, April 20. The gallery is open Wednesday and Saturday. For details on all three exhibits and their unique love connection, visit www.pulitzerarts.org.
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A Tale from the Netherlands
Ildiko, a gypsy, gets caught stealing some diamond studded earrings. When she claims that they are hers Susanne and Orsi become judge, jury and executioner. Poor Ildiko is hanged despite her threats of vengeance from her family and the promise of nasty curses.
Starring: Ildiko, Susanne and Orsi
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Maybe most, if not all, of my performances take place with my friends ... in my living room ... after the bars close, but we’re still just as legitimate as any other band.
After all, we use instruments (intricate controllers electronically connected to our game console). We play gigs (virtual venues decided by Nintendo Wii’s complex algorithm). And most of all, we rock out (develop carpal tunnel and arthritis from repeated wrist and shoulder movements).
But whether you’re a professional musician or just a lame 25-year-old, there’s one thing I know: it takes a lot of effort to manage a successful band.
Expatriate Pittsburgher Amy Rose is no stranger to managing a successful band. Through healthy relationship building and a mix of the right talent, she’s kept her klezmer band, Klezamir, strong for over 23 years.
“We are a five piece band and three of us play three different instruments,” said Amy, who plays piano, flute and accordian in addition to serving as the band’s manager.
A current resident of Amherst, Mass., 52-year-old Amy divides her time between Klezamir, giving private music lessons and raising two kids with her husband, Neil.
Many of the band’s shows are within one and four hours of New England and New York City, but Amy says that the group has flown to Michigan and Alabama for some select performances.
“Most of our work is weddings and I think that we’re just really, really good at playing parties,” she said.
After 23 years in the business and dozens of concerts and gigs each year, it’s no surprise that Klezamir also has a four-album collection. Its latest album, “Warm Your Hands,” can be purchased through their Web site (Klezamir.com).
A Squirrel Hill native, Amy (formerly Amy Rose Finck) received her first piano lesson from her mother when she was 8.
When she was 15, she added the flute to her repertoire.
“I needed a hobby,” she joked. “My piano studies were really intense, so I made a decision that I would only take [flute] lessons when I felt like it.”
She continued piano lessons through high school before graduating from University of Michigan in 1980 with a degree in music. But it wasn’t until 1985 when she started experimenting with klezmer.
“The rabbi at University of Massachusetts asked me to do a Jewish music ensemble through Hillel,” said Amy. “From that group, Klezamir evolved.”
Since its formation in 1986, the band has seen a few changes in personnel, but overall, there hasn’t been that much turnover in its two-plus decade existence.
At one point, Klezamir was performing together about 50 times per year, according to Amy. Now, since the recession, that number has been reduced to once or twice each month, splitting performances between concerts and paid gigs.
But for Amy, there’s more to klezmer than just a paycheck and a steady gig.
“Maybe it’s because of my heritage — my grandmother was a Russain musician and my grandfather put on Yiddish plays” she said. “It lit a match in my heart and soul.”
I can only pray they come out with a klezmer edition for Nintendo “Rock Band.”
(Jay Firestone, a Pittsburgh native and Web and multimedia editor for the Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles, writes about Pittsburghers who now live somewhere else. He can be reached at [email protected].)
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1) A common minor place-name with no very early references.
Dog Pots Plantation in the township of Nidd, Dog Pits in Brearton and the Minskip field name Dog Pits are three of the names recorded by Smith in his work on West Riding place-names but the evidence for them is late. One or two earlier examples are on record, in Barwick in Elmet for example, which has Dog Pitt Close listed in a terrier of 1693 and in Tong where Dog Pitt Close is shown on the 1725 estate map, sited near to the hall, tenanted by Peter Ver. The repeated use of the name is a clear indication that it referred to some commonplace feature of the landscape, and Smith’s suggestion that it ‘presumably denoted a pit frequented by dogs’ is hardly satisfactory. The function of the dog pit is made clear in a North Bierley lease of 1618, in which the highway to Bradford was said to lead upward by a little runninge water on the south to a pitt made for keepinge of horsflesh, heretofore for the hounds of William Rookes of Roodes Hall . The practice of feeding hounds on horse flesh has continued until the present day and there are clear references to it in local estate records. In 1745, for example, a payment of 13 shillings was made at Whitley Beaumont to John Jessop for Horses for the Doggs and in 1772 the Mirfield diarist John Turner wrote Bawle my good old horse died aged 23. Thomas Shaw had him for hounds. The North Bierley lease of 1618 quoted above makes it clear that such pits served as storage places for the horse flesh before it was fed to the dogs, so we should look for the place-name close to the kennels or the dog-keeper’s cottage. It is worth noting that in Tong the field named Dog Pitts Close lies immediately to the south of Keeper Lane and some distance from the hall. The noise created by the dogs when they were feeding might partly explain that. Norristhorpe near Liversedge has the by-name ‘Doggus’ locally
that is dog house, and this must surely be where the dogs for Liversedge Hall were kept. A deed records the sale of the messuage called Doghouse in Liversedge to Sir John Armytage of Kirklees in 1725. In 1560, Ralph Hawkesworth surrendered one messuage called Dogghouse in Thornsett.
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October 2015 Newsletter
A MESSAGE FROM STEPHANIE MARTINO
I hope all of you had a wonderful Summer and that you are starting to enjoy the beginning of the Fall season. The past few months have been extremely busy for my staff and I. Before the school year ended in early June, FFI produced the annual CINEMA screenings/awards event on May 13th, 2015 at Miami Dade College, North Campus, in collaboration with The School of Entertainment and Design Technology. It was a huge success and all of the students and teachers enjoyed seeing the films in the state of the art motion picture screening room. In addition to the screenings, all attendees were given a tour of the studio facilities. It truly was a special event for everyone involved in this year’s short film productions! You can see the complete list of CINEMA winners below.
I am extremely proud of everything we have accomplished so far this year, and now we are entering into yet another exciting phase of production with our restructured programming. A few weeks ago FFI began the 2015-2016 school years with a brand new after school CINEMA program which takes places in three separate Miami-Dade County sites. Please read all about it in this newsletter!
As always, thanks for supporting FFI and our award winning programs. And please stay tuned for our weekly updates and news in the coming months!
STUDENT FILM AWARDS 2014-2015
And the Winners are!
Best Film – MATCH.KOM (MBSHS)
Best Director – DIMITRYUS GRAZIANA (APMAYS), A PART OF HER STORY
Best Sound – MATCH.KOM (MBSHS) and A PART OF HER STORY (APMAYS)
Best Lighting – THE OUTCAST (WHSHS), A PART OF HER STORY (APMAYS), CURIOSITY AT BEST (HMLSHS)
Best Cinematography – UNDERGROUND ARTIST (JFSHS) and SIMPLE STEPS (SMSHS)
Best Editing – UNDERGROUND ARTIST (JFSHS), SIMPLE STEPS (SMSHS), A PART OF HER STORY (APMAYS)
Best Screenplay – UNDERGROUND ARTIST (JFSHS), MATCH.KOM (MBSHS)
Best Lead Female Actor- MADISON DECK (MBSHS), STEPHANIE BAKER (JFSHS)
Best Lead Male Actor – SANTIAGO PAEZ (MBSHS), MILTON MENDEZ (JFSHS)
Movie Poster Design
1st Place – MATCH.KOM (MBSHS)
2nd Place – THE OUTCAST (WHSHS)
3rd Place – UNDERGROUND ARTIST (JFSHS)
CONGRATS TO ALL OF THE FILMMAKERS!!!
SUMMER FILM CAMP UPDATE
In the middle of June the six week annual summer film camp program began at The Coral Gables Art Cinema! The students that were chosen to be a part of the camp were absolutely wonderful to meet, teach and learn from. My staff and I are always excited to work with such focused and creative students that are dedicated to experience the adventures within the journey of filmmaking. This year’s group filmed their project, COUNTDOWN, at the end of July @ Miami Dade College, North Campus (SEDT). I would like to personally congratulate our cast and crew on another successful summer camp. Everyone enjoyed the premiere of COUNTDOWN on September 26th at 10am @ CGAC in Coral Gables!
The official trailer for the Florida Film Institute’s Summer Camp film COUNTDOWN!!!
After School CINEMA Program
The Florida Film Institute has been awarded a grant by the Children’s Trust to produce an after school filmmaking program. This program is solely designed to help at risk high school students, with a focus on those children that have learning disabilities and/or behavioral issues. FFI is providing a creative and educational outlet for students that need to focus on their potential and also help them plan for their future careers. In addition, the vision of this program is to provide a fun, captivating and necessary environment that allows students be involved in something that will encourage them to follow a positive path in life. The program runs for a full school calendar year (Sept – June), and the program meets 2 days per week after school. Throughout the duration of this program students will receive the following:
- homework assistance for 2 hours a week
- 4 hours of learning film studies
- critical thinking
- team work, writing, and technical skills
- planning for production deadlines
After School CINEMA Program Sites Selected for 2015 – 2016:
Miami Beach Senior High School
Booker T. Washington Senior High School
Joe C. Celestin Center
FILM FESTIVAL NEWS
MAD WORLD, a short film FFI produced with students from CRSHS was selected to be screened at Arlington International Film Festival, check out www.aiffest.org.
MATCH.KOM, the short film produced at MBSHS last year through FFI’s CINEMA program has been selected to be screened at the Miami short Film Festival, www.miamishortfilmfestival.com.
UNDERGROUND ARTIST, a short film produced by JFHSHS has been selected to screen at the KIDS FIRST! Film Festival, www.kidsfirst.org.
Congrats to all of the filmmakers!
Brian is a rising sophomore at the University of Florida. He is currently majoring in Telecommunication Production in the College of Journalism and Communications. He plans to graduate in May of 2018. While he’s in college, Brian also works with Tangible Productions, a UF-based video production group. For greater experience in the entertainment industry, Brian just completed a summer internship at 2C Media, a Miami-based television production company, where he became well-versed in Avid editing software. His love for and knowledge of cinema brought him to the Florida Film Institute three years ago, where he learned the various aspects of making a movie, including lighting, sound design, and camerawork. Through FFI, Brian had the experience of actually helping make a short film, along with others who shared his passion for filmmaking.
FFI’s NEW STAFF MEMBERS
Alexandra O’Neale, Assistant Site Coordinator
A South Florida native, Alexandra is a graduate from The New School University with a degree in Culture and Media with a Digital Media focus. While earning her degree in New York City, she gained experience within different fields of media. As a Corporate Public Relations Intern at Nickelodeon, Inc. she worked events such as their annual upfronts and press events promoting various shows such as Avatar, The Last Airbender and Spongebob Squarepants. Alexandra developed her love of television and working behind the scenes as a Production Intern at the Emmy awarded show, The Colbert Report. Post graduation, she continued to work in the comedy scene while studying improv at The Upright Citizens Brigade theater in New York City before moving back to Miami, Florida.
Jeff Soldinger, Assistant Site Coordinator
Jeff’s production career started working on print shoots while still in high school. After graduating from the University of Miami with a triple major in Scriptwriting/Literature/Creative Writing, Jeff spent several years working on music videos, commercials, and feature films. Today Jeff works almost exclusively in non-scripted formats, helping to both develop and produce projects across a variety of platforms. Jeff has produced shows for networks such as ABC, CBS, Fox, TNT, & VH1 to name a few. Jeff is extremely excited about joining the Florida Film Institute as it allows him to combine two of his greatest passions: storytelling and working with young people.
Chichi Pierce, Assistant Site Coordinator
Chichi Pierce is the TV/Film Production instructor at Miami Beach Senior High. She comes directly from the industry as a producer in New York. She worked in small production companies producing for Nickelodeon, HBO, Lifetime, Court TV, National Geographic, A&E and more. She started out in animation and moved into mixed media; working in mediums such as commercials, IDs, children’s series and informationals. She then got very involved in real stories, producing Nick News for Linda Ellerbee. That grew into a love for documentaries. As a graphic designer and painter she was the creator of 3d&i, the webby award winning website in 2001. Chichi’s production classes mimic that of a production company. She has been teaching for ten years and creates a hands-on teaching environment where students learn the ins & outs of production.
Claudio Marcotulli, Director & Producer – Instructor
Venezuelan-born, Claudio received his B.F.A. in Communications from Emerson College in Boston and his M.F.A in Film Production from the Miami International University of Art and Design. Parallel to his freelance work as producer and director of feature and independent films, he worked with Venevisión Continental, producing and directing broadcast content. Claudio has over 12 years of experience as aerial cinematographer and filmmaker, building and flying his own radio-controlled (RC) helicopters. He likes integrating aerial footage into his commercial video productions, which include real state, music business and marketing clients. He taught Film Production and other courses at Miami Dade College for five years. Claudio has also collaborated with Miami-based choreographer Pioneer Winter, spoken word artist Oscar Fuentes and theater director Jose Manuel Dominguez, mixing film with other genres. Biscayne Blues, Claudio’s most recent short film, combines aerial and underwater cinematography.
Thank you for your continued support!
I want to send a special thanks to the wonderful organizations that provide us with the funding we need to operate, they are the real heart of our Institute. With their help we are able to create an increased educational awareness in hundreds of students a year, many of whom would never get the kind of life altering experience that our programs bring to them.
The Children’s Trust
Miami Dade College
Florida Division of Cultural Affairs
Coral Gables Art Cinema
Miami-Dade County Public Schools
Sponsored in part by the State of Florida, Department of State, Division of Cultural Affairs and the Florida Council on Arts and Culture, and with the support of the Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs and the Cultural Affairs Council, the Miami-Dade County Mayor and Board of County Commissioners, The Children’s Trust, is a dedicated source of revenue established by voter referendum to improve the lives of children and families in Miami-Dade County, Miami Dade College North Campus, School of Entertainment & Design Technology (SEDT), Garnet Productions, Coral Gables Art Cinema, VideoLab Solutions, and Miami-Dade County Public Schools.
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Increase contents insurance at Christmas
Over the Christmas period Britons spend an average of £385 each on Christmas presents for their friends and family. This means that across the UK around £18.3bn worth of gifts will be sat in people’s houses over the Christmas period.
But research by Direct Line Home Insurance reveals that 42% of Brits hide all their presents in one place – in the main bedroom – giving burglars a better chance of finding all the Christmas gifts in one go.
Andrew Lowe, head of home insurance at Direct Line, said: “With all the extra possessions in the home, Christmas can be a popular time for burglaries so people need to make sure they are vigilant with their home security.
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“After Christmas and New Year some may find that the value of their household contents has significantly increased in value, so it is worth reassessing home insurance policies to make sure people are not underinsured.”
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3211 Kaliste Saloom Rd
Budget Blinds is located at 3211 Kaliste Saloom Rd, Lafayette, LA. This business specializes in Window Treatments and has 1 review(s) with a star rating of 1.0.
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A recent workshop on community fisheries has revealed a lack of effective regulations and a gap between what local authorities and fishing communities expect from the process.
Hor Sam Ath, a local representative from Battambang province and one of 160 participants at the workshop in Kampong Cham, complained that some local authorities are not only unwilling to cooperate with villages in creating fisheries communities, but in some cases they actually encourage villagers not to join, claiming that membership would only benefit a small number of people.
"People in my village were told that if they joined the [community fisheries] group, it would show they likely were members of cooperatives during the time of Pol Pot," he said.
The word sakhakor, which means 'cooperative' in Khmer, was common currency under the Khmer Rouge, and is associated with a time of suffering, he said.
Mak Sithirith, environment network coordinator at the NGO Forum on Cambodia, said that the concept of community fisheries was still new to many authorities and fisheries officials, who wanted to maintain their control.
"I believe that these people still think that communities cannot manage and preserve fishing resources," said Sithirith. "However, it is important that communities manage their fisheries because it is something that takes place in their area and they are the ones who will benefit."
Nao Thouk, Director of the Fisheries Department, agreed that some local authorities did interrupt the process of creating community fisheries. In some places, he said, commune chiefs prevented people attending the meetings and discussions.
"The local authorities, for example in Patsanday commune of Kampong Thom province, don't want the people to create community fisheries. They want to keep that area for their own benefit," he said.
He added that the process was facing problems since it involved work his staff were unaccustomed to doing and had little experience in. However, he said, a lack of funds to implement the process was also an issue.
Thouk said that 105 community fisheries had been established, even though the relevant sub-decree was yet to be issued by the government. Sam Ath said that the lack of a decree had caused problems in his province: local authorities felt free to ignore steps to create the communities.
Nao Thouk disagreed, saying that the letter from Prime Minister Hun Sen ordering the creation of communities should overcome that.
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Climbing Monviso: not only Normal Route. Come and discover what else! | Rifugio Quintino Sella
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Archived material is restricted to Rantburg regulars and members. If you need access email fred.pruitt=at=gmail.com with your nick to be added to the members list. There is no charge to join Rantburg as a member.
- AQ-Maghreb has more funding sources than just drugs. In fact kidnap for ransom probably exceeds the drug cash. They also get direct contributions from rich moslems in the peninsula.
- The destruction of cultural shrines in Mali isn't a cultural war as such. Its the result of a particular religious imperative (to AQ, Shrines are a source of idolatry)
Posted by lord garth 2013-01-18 05:43||
#2 Another CIA trained Afghan alumni running the show.
Remind me, how many Afghan commies have killed westerners in the past?
Whoever thought it was a good idea to spend American money fostering radical Sunni Islam should at the very least be in prison, and possibly looking at the electric chair.
Posted by Clort Elmorong6031 2013-01-18 06:00||
#3 @ Clort: Please remind me again how those foks in McClean are doing us any favours.
Posted by Besoeker 2013-01-18 08:08||
#4 From March 2001. A seventh-century Buddhist shrine at Tap-e-Sardar, near Ghazni in central Afghanistan, is the latest victim of the Taliban's religious edict that pre-Islamic Afghan culture must be destroyed. Blew them up they did. Destruction is their way.
Posted by JohnQC 2013-01-18 10:41||
#5 puts the lie to the Obama administration's claim that the war on terror is all but over
Is there anything whatsoever that, when viewed honestly, doesn't put the lie to Obama?
Posted by AlanC 2013-01-18 10:47||
#6 The Hussien Regime armed Al Qaeda Northern Africa when he destabalized Egypt and Libya with the over throw of Mubarack and Khadafy, replacing them with the radical Muslim Brotherhood.
Al Qaeda is now solidifying there assault on Americans within North their reach in North Africa. The Dictionary book burnings (cannot use certain non PC terms) and the disarmament of Americans domestically is Husseins' continued support of Islamic elements world wide. Impeachment of Hussein is only the first step to be taken or Americans will continue to be hunted down, something I predicted here while many seemed to be passing the popcorn while watching Khadify and his sons being hunted down and butchered in Lybia.
#7 Whoever thought it was a good idea to spend American money fostering radical Sunni Islam should at the very least be in prison, and possibly looking at the electric chair.
How true.The Bush/Saudi connection has caused havoc in the world with Saudi funded Jihadis running around without any fear of the West.
Give the muslims their Sharia Law if they want it and see them wallow in their ignorance/poverty.
Its about time people in the West were self sufficient without the need for middle eastern oil.
Had enough of this jidadi bullshit.
Posted by Ho Chi Omaigum4727 2013-01-18 19:19||
#8 Its about time people in the West were self sufficient without the need for middle eastern oil.
Ho Chi Omaigum4727, according to BP, the U.S could become the world's top oil producer this year.
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Visionary Iraqi-born architect Zaha Hadid passed away last week, leaving a legacy of incredible buildings such as the amorphous, sweeping curves of the lauded London Aquatics Centre, and futuristic plans for an otherworldly stadium to host matches during the 2022 World Cup in Qatar.
Less familiar to many people are her paintings: dizzying, crystalline, fragmented perspectives and spacious conceptions. While most architects favour the use of hand-drawn sketches, pen and ink drawings, and watercolour renderings to visualise their ideas, Hadid chose to take her imaginative explorations of space to the level of fine art. Her concepts, some of which are purely theoretical, are a cut above the more prosaic and solely diagrammatical drawings seen by many of her contemporaries, and the influence of constructivism on her work is evident in the way she chose to map three-dimensional space on a two-dimensional plane.
I was lucky enough to catch her extensive 2007 exhibition at London’s Design Museum – a former banana warehouse that she went on to buy in 2013, rededicating its purpose to champion architectural achievement. The show presented a grand array of both paintings and furniture, all with Hadid’s unique personal vision; sleek, stylish and fiercely contemporary. It’s a great shame we won’t get to see any more of her fascinating creations, but the quantity and quality of work she produced in her lifetime has made a real mark on the world and will continue to inspire the architectural profession for years to come.
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Car Seat Headrest
Plus Murder City Devils, Rocket from the Crypt, Superchunk and more.
Will Toledo and company seem to question the definition of rock music on their new LP.
Hear the first single, “Can’t Cool Me Down.”
The 150 albums we love most from 2010-2019.
Hear a new live version of “Fill in the Blank.”
East Coast dates lined up, plus a show at the Hollywood Bowl.
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Our favorite tracks from the past year.
The records that made the first six months of the year worth remembering.
Plus serpentwithfeet, U.S. Girls, Unknown Mortal Orchestra and more.
More headlining dates announced in support of Twin Fantasy.
Ten songs where the hook-filled climax happens only once.
A stellar reworking of a home-recorded 2011 lo-fi classic.
Watch the new video for “Nervous Young Inhumans.”
Hear a new recording of a 2011 song that’s pretty epic.
Band lines up shows with Weezer, Preoccupations, Future Islands.
Fifty albums that redeemed 2016.
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Also watch the band on ‘Fallon’.
Car Seat Headrest have been touring for most of the year so far in support…
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If you have ever wondered what made Hollywood the Sin City of the world during the 1920s and how it finally cleaned itself up, this book will reveal some of the startling answers. Why is it that Hollywood stars, who seem to have everything -- money, fame, love -- find it necessary to take to the needle, booze, and the "dolls"? What is it about the "town" -- the industry -- that uses up talent as if it were some kind of stone object, without feelings, emotion and driving ambitions, which finally is responsible for the destruction of its most important products? Is it the town or the touch of "talent" that drives the "beautiful people" towards escape through fast sex, wild parties, and the "happy pills"?
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Published December 18, 2012
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Check out this video in which the awesome Steve Sidelnyk is sampling a DW kit for the project “Now Thats What i Call 80s Drums” — an album of classic 80s Drum Tracks.
The incredible MDNA drummer, Brian Frasier-Moore rocked Rio de Janeiro past week with Justin Timberlake. Check out the full show in HD below!
Brian Frasier-Moore doesn’t not need to rest – as soon as he wrapped up the MDNA tour, he got into his Suit & Tie to rock with Justin Timberlake at the Super Bowl party. Brian has switched to PEARL drums for 2013 and we can say that his kit looks impressive!
The AWESOME Brian Frasier-Moore, who rocked our world in the MDNA Tour, is nominated in the 2013 Modern Drummer Readers Poll as “Best Pop Drummer”. Click HERE to vote for Brian!
One of the many highlights of the MDNA show that Brian shined: “Give me all your luvin'”
The incredible Brian Frasier-Moore got to jam with Nowis from the Canadian based band TheReaktion in Vancouver a few days ago. Check out the video with Brian doing what he knows best!
Brian is playing with MDNA tonight for the 2nd time in Seattle!
Brian Frasier-Moore will make a special appearance today @ 2pm at Vic’s Drum Shop in Chicago and will be teaching private lessons. Spots are limited so call the store to sign up!
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One thing about modern day devices would be this – receiving a firmware update has been taken for granted, and we as consumers tend to think that companies behind these devices owe us some firmware updates at the very least – a school of thought that I myself subscribe to, and I am unashamed to say so. After all, we have paid good money for that piece of gizmo, so is it that much to ask for a new firmware for current hardware to increase its performance, it might be a wee bit too much to fork out for a totally new piece of hardware once a year.
Having said that, there is a new firmware update in the pipeline for the Sony Xperia P, where this is touted to be a low-key release. You should end up with the firmware build number 6.0.B.3.162, but to date, no official changelog is available for our perusal, so there is no telling just what is so different from the current 6.0.B.1.564 firmware. Your Android version will remain at 2.3.7 though.
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http://www.ubergizmo.com/2012/07/sony-xperia-p-gets-new-firmware-update/
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Local airport tower on possible closure list
MOV airport could be victim of budget sequester
February 23, 2013
WILLIAMSTOWN – The Mid-Ohio Valley Regional Airport’s air-traffic control tower is on a list of potential closures due to automatic spending cuts scheduled next month. On Friday, U.S....
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[Mesa-dev] Another Take on the S3TC issue
simon.schmidt at cs-systemberatung.de
Tue Aug 13 11:53:41 PDT 2013
I have read about the issue of implementing the S3TC Extension in Mesa:
As I understood, the problem is, that encoding and decoding S3TC in
software is covered by patents, while passing S3TC compressed data to the
GPU is still ok.
If "force_s3tc_enable" is enabled in Mesa3D, uploading a S3TC encoded
texture works if format==internalFormat is true. If format!=internalFormat
is true, it would fail (as i know).
SO MY PROPOSAL:
If 'format' is one of the S3TC types, and format!=internalFormat is true,
then set internalFormat:=format.
Else, if 'internalFormat' is one of the S3TC types, but the 'format' isn't,
set internalFormat:=format (or any other format, Mesa3D can encode).
More information about the mesa-dev
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* Australia has instituted a system by which Smartnumbers, these being the numerical bases for alphanumerical telephone numbers, are auctioned to the highest bidder, subject to minimal conditions and limitations (thus a bid may be made for 13-473462623, which is the numerical equivalent of 13-IPFINANCE);The event was both pleasant and informative -- and there's more to come. Julian's paper is likely to be published towards the end of this year in the Journal of Intellectual Property Law & Practice (JIPLAP). If you want to be notified when it comes out, email me here and I'll let you know.
* the successful bidder for a Smartnumber acquires no more than a licence to use that number in any alphanumerical form, but this licence is transmissible even, it seems, to parties that are disqualified from bidding from it initially;
* there is no clear guidance as to whether the use of a Smartnumber in which the alphanumerical form incorporates a trade mark or trade name constitutes a trade mark use which can be prohibited by the trade mark owner;
* there are no provisions for the interplay between (i) Smartnumbers, (ii) trade marks, (iii) domain names and (iv) company names, though particular problems arise where a word which is a generic term for some products is a well-known trade mark for others (eg APPLE)
* there appears to be no accepted basis for the calculation of the value of a Smartnumber at its point of acquisition or disposition, nor has any practice yet developed with regard to the place of the Smartnumber within the balance sheets.
Wednesday, 15 July 2009
"Smarter than the average number ..."
Julian Gyngell's talk on "Phonewords and Finance", kindly hosted yesterday at the London office of McDermott Emery & Will, was a treat for those who attended. In short,
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Coming into the tournament it was obvious Team Canada was going to be in tough to make it this far, to the Gold medal game.
But they have lived up to and surpassed expectations that the fans, media and even I had for them.
Tonight is the final test as they take on Team Russia in Buffalo, New York for Gold.
Canada handled the US to get to this point with Team Russia knocking off Team Sweden in a shootout. Canada is looking for it's 6th Gold in 7 years; Russia hasn't won the tournament since 2002.
These two teams have already met once in this tournament, with Team Canada knocking off a pesky Russian squad 6-3 in the tourney opener on Boxing Day.
The one big area this game will be won or lost is in goal. Canada's Mark Visentin goes head to head with Dmirti Shikin of Russia.
The two are underdog stories as both were expected to be backups going into the tournament. Oliver Roy for Canada and Igor Bobkov for Russia both had their sights on being the top guys for their country.
But Visentin and Shikin have stolen those jobs, and will look to steal Gold for their team tonight.
The game goes at 6:00 SK time on TSN.
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Story From The Beloit Call
(CONCORDIA, KS) -- Senior athletes from across North Central and North East Kansas will be showcasing their volleyball and basketball talents in the 2012 NCK All-Star basketball games and volleyball match.
These athletes from all across the area will display their talents in Arley A. Bryant Gymnasium on the Concordia campus of Cloud County Community College. The volleyball match will be played Saturday, March 24 at 3 p.m. The basketball games will be played Sunday, March 25. The girl's game tips off at 2 p.m. and the boy's game will follow at 3:30 p.m. Ticket prices for the games are $5 for adults and $3 for K-12 students.
Athletes and coaches for the 2012 All-Star Volleyball teams include:
Coaches: Kate Hale - Cloud Co. CC and Maria Bujanda - Cloud Co. CC; Blair Russell - Marysville HS; Haley Thompson - Phillipsburg HS; Kelsey Lacy - Abilene HS; Kelsey Atchinson - Thunder Ridge HS; Erin Terrel - Norton HS; Ashlyn Macy - Minneapolis HS; Mykaela Smart - Frankfort HS Mikaela Miller - Washington Co. HS; Michaela Brenhoff - Thunder Ridge HS; Caley Greving - Logan HS; Michaela Sasse - Smith Center HS; Sophie Simon - McPherson HS; Melissa Christener - Frankfort HS; Chelsie Detimore - Marysville HS
Athletes and coaches for the 2012 Girl's All-Star Basketball teams include:
Black Team:Coach Dallas Cox - Beloit HS; Tangie Hileman - Smith Center HS; McKenzie Benoit - Smith Center HS; Maggie Leonard - Marysville HS; Blair Russell - Marysville HS; Maggie Schotte - Marysville HS; Kennedi Smith - Hutchinson- Trinity HS;Brenna Alexander - South Central HS; Madison Shetlar - Salina Central HS; Autum Pittman - Lincoln HS
Gold Team: Coach Jon Holliday - Holton HS; Jayna Smith - Holton HS; Nichole Boden - Wetmore HS; Emily Tucker - Randolph-Blue Valley HS; Kayley Johnson - Republic Co. HS; Saren Hobelmann - Republic Co. HS; Olivia Housholder - Pike Valley HS; Aubrie Gritten - Pike Valley HS; Brooke Lanoue - Salina South HS; Meghan Oliver - Salina South HS; Evelyn Fagan - Salina South HS
Athletes and coaches for the 2012 Boy's All-Star Basketball teams include:
Black Team: Coach Brandon Rice - Concordia HS; Derek Nordell - Concordia HS; Kalen Cromwell - Republic Co. HS; Eric Huerter - B&B Baileyville HS; Clint Glaser - Ellsworth HS; Jacob Froese - Ellsworth HS; Tyler Herrs - Linn HS; Reid Blackburn - Ellsworth HS; Joel Garver - Riley Co. HS; Austin Thurman - Thunder Ridge HS; Michael Glatczak - Centralia HS.
Gold Team: Coach Brian Ebert - Frankfort HS; Drew Erkenbrack - Concordia HS; Dylan Grove - Republic Co. HS; Andrew Yoxall - Mineapolis HS; Alex Hermesch - Nemaha Valley HS; Jacob Broxterman - Frankfort HS; Brandon Smith - Lakeside HS; Alex Renken - Lakeside HS; Derek Henry - Wetmore HS; Emeka Okoronkwo - Topeka West HS; Adam Heald - Topeka Seaman HS.
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