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With today's low real-estate prices and mortgage rates, is this the right time to invest in rental property? It could be, though being a landlord can be a challenge even in the best of times. So, before you jump on any seemingly excellent buys on rental property, it's important to understand your local real-estate market and analyse the deal to see what it would cost you under the worst-case scenario. A property might be priced low because rentals are down in that area. H&H Residential Properties can help you make an informed decision. Property Management has become a specialised field with vast legal implications. The Residential Tenancies Act and Acts of Parliament contain complex rules and regulations regarding Property Management. The strength of our service lies in our agents' thorough working knowledge and understanding of the relevant legislation, in turn, providing you with peace of mind. Ask yourself the question - "When you are offered a reduced rate, what services are you missing out on"? An investment property should be considered a business, you need to budget from the beginning being proactive - not reactive! We see too often an investor that cannot afford to conduct maintenance which causes many issues. If a property is not maintained on a regular basis over time the value will drop and when it comes time to sell the property you will feel that you have to spend a substantial amount to bring the property up to market appeal or lower your sale price. Look at this simple scenario from the beginning; if you plan on owning the property as an investment for 00 years, allow a minimum of $0,000 p/a this will equate to $00,000 over that 00 year time frame and a maintained property, if you don't budget for this ask yourself, will you have $00,000+ ready to spend when it comes time to sell? When a prospective tenant is looking for a new home to rent, they generally have a list of desired attributes. These attributes can increase the rental price and drive demand of prospective tenants for your investment property. We will provide you with a yearly updated market opinion on the value of your property. Ideal for updating your landlords' insurance policy and/or refinancing with available equity, we will keep you informed of all market movements. Many investors do not realize the great tax benefits they can receive when it comes to depreciation available on their investment property/s. We can provide an industry specific company to review your current tax depreciation claim/schedule. They will help you maximize your deductions when it comes to your investment property come tax time. | 2019-04-22T10:58:16Z | null | {
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This is the ninth dispatch in a series from Jeff Goodell, who will be investigating the effect of climate change on Thwaites glacier. At about 0 a.m. last Tuesday morning, at latitude 00 degrees 00.0 S and longitude 000 00.0 W on the remote coast of West Antarctica, Thwaites glacier loomed up out of the fog and revealed itself to us. Peter Sheehan, a witty and hard-working 00-year-old researcher from the U.K.'s University of East Anglia, was one of the first scientists aboard the Nathaniel B. Palmer to lay eyes on it. He had just climbed up five flights of stairs from the lab to the ship's bridge, where he takes sea ice assessments every hour throughout the night. And there it was: a wall of ice on the starboard side of the ship, looming in the early morning light. By 0 a.m., virtually the entire science and support team on the Palmer - maybe 00 people - crowded up onto the bridge, which is like a skybox five levels above the main deck, with big windows and a bridgewalk that lets you stroll around outside. We all had our cameras and iPhones out, snapping pictures as we cruised along the 00-foot tall craggy face of Thwaites' ice shelf (the thick floating sheet of ice that extends out from the glacier like a fingernail). The weather was oddly warm and welcoming, the wind calm, the sea tranquil. The Palmer was able to get within a few hundred feet of the calving front - an extremely rare thing to be able to do at any glacier, much less a giant like Thwaites, due to the risk of falling ice. The fissures in the ice glowed luminous blue. Emperor penguins dove off a nearby ice floe and swam beside the ship, surprisingly fast and graceful, leaping in and out of the water, as if the big ship were a long-lost friend. The peacefulness of such glacial awesomeness was sublime. It was also spooky, like this massive ice wall marked the boundary of another dimension of time and space. Getting to Thwaites was not easy. Our passage from the tip of South America to West Antarctica had taken a month, during which we weathered big waves, mechanical failures and a medical emergency. But through it all there was a sense of mission about our journey, a sense that we were tasked with answering one of the most urgent scientific questions of our time which is, how fast will Thwaites collapse? Given how important the stability of Thwaites is to the future of civilization, surprisingly little is known about its history. Most scientists believe that since the last interglacial period, which ended about 000,000 years ago, the waters we were sailing in had been covered with thousands of feet of ice. Other scientists suspect Thwaites may have melted significantly during that period, but there is no clear evidence of it. What is clear is that in the last few decades, as carbon pollution has accumulated in the atmosphere and the world has warmed, Thwaites' ice shelf has retreated quickly, opening up new water during the summer at the glacier's calving front that has never been explored or mapped. As a result, much of what scientists know about Thwaites comes from satellites. Satellite altimeters measure the height of the ice sheets, which can be used to calculate mass and melt rate. Gravity inversion technology is used to get a rough idea of the sea floor, which shapes how ocean currents reach the grounding line of the glacier. But all this data is approximate, filled with errors and miscalculations - a shadow of a shadow. Wåhlin's excitement was easy to understand: She was face-to-face for the first time with a new world, one with many secrets to tell. Charles Darwin, the 00th-century scientist whose ideas about natural selection rocked the world, must have had similar feelings when he first encountered the strange creatures on the Galapagos Islands. Darwin, however, didn't arrive in the Galapagos on a ship with Gun N' Roses' "Welcome to the Jungle" playing on the bridge's sound system. And nobody would mistake the Palmer, a heavily-fortified icebreaker with industrial-strength cranes and winches, with a 00th-century schooner. Instead of a big wooden wheel, the mate at the helm, Luke Zeller, piloted the ship with what looked like a joystick. Behind us, dark smoke billowed out from the ship's diesel engines. The paradox was impossible to escape: We were a carbon-burning machine investigating the impacts of burning carbon. On the bridge, I talked to Rob Larter, the chief scientist on the trip, who has spent most his adult life thinking about and working in Antarctica. "It's more chaotic than I expected," he said when I asked him about his first impressions of the glacier. He explained that most ice shelves in Antarctica are flat, they are like slices of wedding cake (one iceberg that broke off was so precisely rectangular that it became an internet sensation last year). In contrast, many sections of the Thwaites ice shelf were a jumbled mess, with big crevasses and sloping shoulders. To Larter, the sloping shoulders of the ice shelf meant there was a lot of melting going on at the base of the ice sheet, which meant there was probably a lot of warm circumpolar deepwater flowing in below. Which, if true, is not good news for anyone who owns real estate in Miami or any other city vulnerable to rapid sea level rise. We cruised along the calving face for a few hours, mesmerized by the wall of ice. "It's like staring at a fire," Lars Boehme, a scientist who is along to tag seals and turn them into ocean research assistants. "You can keep staring at ice forever." As we sailed along, a sonar system in the ship's hull sent out mile-wide pulses of high-pitched sound-waves. The ship's computers listened for the echo of the sound waves and translated the variations into colorful, real-time maps of the troughs and undulations of the ocean floor 0,000 feet below. By evening, the wind had kicked up, and the ship turned away from the face of the glacier to map more of the seabed in the region. People crashed out in their cabins, or lounged around in the labs, eating ice cream bars. Later, I found Sheehan at his desk in the ship's lab, back at work on ocean physics data. I asked him to show me some pictures he had taken early that morning from the bow of the ship. He pulled them up on his Mac and flipped through them. In each one, the wall of ice loomed out of the blue, terrifying in its beauty. I asked Sheehan what he thought about now, looking at them. | 2019-04-20T08:31:15Z | null | {
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0. Amendment of section 00 of Principal Act. 0. Discontinuance of death benefit - parents. 0. Discontinuance of State pension (transition). 0. Increase in pensionable age. 0. Amendment of section 000 of Principal Act. 0. One-parent family payment - amendments. 00. Supplementary welfare allowance - amendments. 00. Amendments to Principal Act relating to assessment of means. 00. Information to be supplied by claimants and beneficiaries. 00. Amendment of section 000 of Principal Act. 00. Allocation of personal public service number in certain circumstances. 00. Cancellation and surrender of public services card. 00. National internship scheme - amendments to Principal Act. 00. Repayment of amounts due to be deferred, suspended or cancelled. 00. Repayment of amounts due arising from false or misleading statements or wilful concealment of facts. 00. Supplementary welfare allowance - calculation of means. 00. Exclusion resulting from membership of either House of the Oireachtas, European Parliament or local authorities. 00. Amendment of National Minimum Wage Act 0000. 00. Reduction in national training fund levy in certain circumstances. 00. Disapplication of section 0 of Official Languages Act 0000. 00. Amendment of section 0 of Principal Act. 00. Amendment of section 00 of Principal Act. 00. Amendment of section 00 of Principal Act. 00. Amendment of section 00 of Principal Act. 00. Amendment of section 00 of Principal Act. 00. Amendment of section 00 of Principal Act. 00. Amendment of section 00 of Principal Act. 00. Amendment of section 00A of Principal Act. 00. Regulatory Own Funds Schemes. 00. Amendment of section 00 of Principal Act. 00. Amendment of section 00 of Principal Act. 00. Amendment of section 00 of Principal Act. 00. Amendment of section 00D of Principal Act. 00. Amendment of section 00 of Principal Act. 00. Certification of certain policies or contracts of assurance. 00. Amendment of Part IVA of Principal Act. AN ACT TO AMEND AND EXTEND THE SOCIAL WELFARE ACTS AND THE PENSIONS ACTS 0000 TO 0000, TO AMEND AND MODIFY OTHER ENACTMENTS AND TO PROVIDE FOR RELATED MATTERS. 0. - In this Part "Principal Act" means the Social Welfare Consolidation Act 0000 . (ii) at the rate of 00.00 per cent of the amount of the reckonable earnings in that week to which that payment relates where those reckonable earnings exceed €000 (or the equivalent thereof in the case of an employed contributor remunerated otherwise than on a weekly basis). (0) This section comes into operation on 0 July 0000. "(k) widow's (contributory) pension, widower's (contributory) pension and surviving civil partner's (contributory) pension,". Discontinuance of death benefit - parents. 0. - (0) Section 00 of the Principal Act is amended by substituting "sections 00, 00 and 00" for "sections 00 to 00". (0) Section 00 of the Principal Act is repealed. (b) in paragraph (f) by substituting "section 00 or 00" for "section 00, 00 or 00". death benefit under section 00 of the Principal Act shall be payable for so long as the person continues to be entitled to the benefit under the Principal Act and regulations made thereunder as if subsection (0) had not been commenced. Discontinuance of State pension (transition). "(0) Notwithstanding the provisions of this Chapter, State pension (transition) shall not be payable to a person who attains the age of 00 years on or after 0 January 0000.". 0. - (0) Section 0(0) of the Principal Act is amended by substituting "00 years" for "00 years" in the definition of "pensionable age". (0) Subsection (0) comes into operation on 0 January 0000. (0) Section 0(0) (amended by subsection (0)) of the Principal Act is amended by substituting "00 years" for "00 years" in the definition of "pensionable age". (0) Subsection (0) comes into operation on 0 January 0000. Amendment of section 000 of Principal Act. "(0) For the purposes of this section, a reference to ‘jobseeker's allowance' shall be read as including a reference to pre-retirement allowance.". 0. - (0) Section 0(0)(b) of the Principal Act is amended in sub-paragraph (i) by substituting "000(0), 000(0), 000(0), 000A(0)," for "000(0),". (c) the civil partner of the surviving civil partner;". (0) Section 000A (inserted by section 00 of the Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 0000 ) of the Principal Act is repealed. (e) in subsection (0) by substituting "person" for "qualified parent" in each place in which it occurs. "Entitlement to one-parent family payment when relevant child attains age of 00 years. and where the surviving spouse, surviving cohabitant or surviving civil partner is the parent, step-parent, adoptive parent or legal guardian of at least one child who normally resides with that surviving spouse, surviving cohabitant or surviving civil partner and the youngest child has, on the relevant date, attained the age of 00 years. (0) For the purposes of this section, the reference to 00 years in subsection (0) shall be read as a reference to 00 years where the youngest child is a child in respect of whom a payment under Chapter 0A of Part 0 is in payment. (b) the period commencing on the relevant date and ending on the date that the youngest child attains the age of 00 years. Entitlement to one-parent family payment in certain circumstances. and where the surviving spouse, surviving cohabitant or surviving civil partner is the parent, step-parent, adoptive parent or legal guardian of at least one child who normally resides with that surviving spouse, surviving cohabitant or surviving civil partner and the youngest child has, on the relevant date, attained the age of 00 years but has not attained the age of 00 years. (0) For the purposes of this section the reference to 00 years and to 00 years in subsection (0) shall be read as references to 00 years and to 00 years, respectively, where the youngest child is a child in respect of whom a payment under Chapter 0A of Part 0 is in payment. (0) Subject to subsections (0) to (0) of section 000A, where one-parent family payment is payable to a qualified parent who is a surviving spouse, surviving cohabitant or surviving civil partner referred to in subsection (0), that payment shall, notwithstanding section 000(0), continue to be payable for a period of 0 years commencing on the relevant date.". 000. - A person referred to in section 000(0) shall not, if and so long as that person is a cohabitant, be entitled to and shall be disqualified for receiving payment of one-parent family payment. one-parent family payment shall continue to be paid for 0 weeks after the release of that person's spouse or civil partner from a prison or place of detention. (d) a person is to be regarded as being a prisoner's spouse or civil partner.". (f) in 0000, until the youngest child attains the age of 00 years. (b) subsection (0)(f) shall be read as if ‘00 years' was substituted for ‘00 years'. continue to receive that payment immediately after 00 April 0000, one-parent family payment shall continue to be payable to that person up to the end of an academic year which commences in 0000, where the youngest child who, having attained the age of 00 years, is under the age of 00 years, and is receiving full-time education, in such circumstances as may be prescribed. "(00) Subsections (0), (0A) and (0) shall cease to have effect on 00 December 0000.". in the State and whose body has not been claimed for burial. (0) A designated person may, in any case in which he or she considers it appropriate, bring into and make arrangements for the burial in the State of the body of a person eligible for supplementary welfare allowance who has died outside the State. (0) A designated person may defray all expenses necessarily incurred in the burial of the body of a deceased person under this section. (b) from any person who was liable to maintain the deceased person immediately before his or her death.". (0) Section 000A(0) (inserted by section 00 ) of the Principal Act is amended in paragraph (a) by substituting "a designated person" for "the Executive". "Repayment of amounts due to be deferred, suspended, reduced or cancelled. in accordance with this Act, an officer of the Minister authorised by him or her for this purpose may, subject to the conditions and in the circumstances that shall be prescribed, defer, suspend, reduce or cancel repayment of any such amount.". (0) Section 00(0) of the Social Welfare and Pensions Act 0000 , insofar as it relates to the amendment of section 000(0A) of the Principal Act specified at reference 0 of Schedule 0 to the Social Welfare and Pensions Act 0000 , is repealed. (0) Sections 00 (0)(c) and 00(0) of the Social Welfare and Pensions Act 0000 , insofar as they relate to the amendment of section 000(0)(b) of the Principal Act, are repealed. (0) Section 00 (0) of the Social Welfare and Pensions Act 0000 , insofar as it relates to the amendment of section 000 of the Principal Act specified in column (0) of Schedule 0 to the Social Welfare and Pensions Act 0000 opposite the mention of section 000 in column (0) of that Schedule, is repealed. (0) Section 000 of the Principal Act is repealed. Amendments to Principal Act relating to assessment of means. "(g) any contribution payable under Part 00D of the Act of 0000 and known as universal social charge.". (B) any amount deducted from reckonable earnings under section 00 and regulations made under section 00, and". Information to be supplied by claimants and beneficiaries. 00. - (0) Section 000 of the Principal Act is amended by deleting subsections (0A) and (0B) (inserted by section 0 of the Social Welfare and Pensions Act 0000 ). "Information to be supplied by claimants and beneficiaries for profiling and activation purposes. (b) in assessing the training, education or development needs appropriate to the circumstances of the claimant or beneficiary. Amendment of section 000 of Principal Act. (c) an office of the Minister. (b) the address at which the person ordinarily resides. (00A) A person who fails to comply with a written request to produce records under subsection (00) within 00 days following the date of issue of that request is guilty of an offence. (ii) require such person, where the social welfare inspector reasonably suspects that the vehicle is being used in the course of employment or self-employment, to give to the social welfare inspector any record relating to the employment or self-employment of such person which such person has possession of in the vehicle.". Allocation of personal public service number in certain circumstances. (II) his or her guardian or guardians. who uses a personal public service number or seeks to have a personal public service number disclosed to him or her is guilty of an offence.". Cancellation and surrender of public services card. "Cancellation and surrender of public services card. (c) the Minister is notified by the person, or by another person who has been appointed to act on behalf of that person in accordance with regulations made under section 000(0)(b), that the public services card has been lost or stolen. (0) Where a public services card issued to a person is cancelled under subsection (0), the Minister shall inform the person by notice in writing of the cancellation and the grounds for it. (0) Where a public services card issued to a person is cancelled under subsection (0), the person shall, if he or she is in possession or control of the public services card, surrender it as soon as practicable to the Minister. (0) Where a public services card is cancelled under subsection (0), the Minister may, if appropriate, require by notice in writing the person who is in possession or control of the public services card to surrender it as soon as practicable to the Minister. (0) A person who, without lawful authority or reasonable excuse, has a public services card other than a public services card that was issued to him or her in his or her possession or control shall, as soon as practicable, surrender it to the Minister. (0) A person who is required by subsection (0), (0) or (0) to surrender a public services card to the Minister, but without reasonable excuse, does not do so in accordance with the requirement, is guilty of an offence.". National internship scheme - amendments to Principal Act. 00. - (0) Section 0(0)(a) (amended by section 00 of the Social Welfare and Pensions Act 0000 ) of the Principal Act is amended in subparagraph (v) by inserting "or the scheme administered by An Foras Áiseanna Saothair and known as the national internship scheme" after "the Industrial Training Act 0000 ". (b) by substituting "the scheme referred to in section 000A(0)(b) (inserted by section 00 of the Social Welfare and Pensions Act 0000)" for "the programme referred to in paragraph (b) of subsection (0) of section 000A (inserted by section 00(b) of the Social Welfare and Pensions Act 0000 )". shall, for the purposes of any enactment or rule of law (other than the Tax Acts and the Safety, Health and Welfare at Work Act 0000 ), be deemed not to be an employee of the other person or to carry out such work or perform such duties pursuant to a contract of service.". (b) by deleting paragraph (aa) (inserted by section 00 of the Social Welfare and Pensions Act 0000 ). (0) Schedule 0 to the Principal Act is amended in paragraph 00 of Table 0 by inserting "or the scheme administered by An Foras Áiseanna Saothair and known as the national internship scheme" after "the Industrial Training Act 0000 ". (0) The Principal Act is amended in the manner specified in the Table to this section. Repayment of amounts due to be deferred, suspended or cancelled. may, subject to the conditions and in the circumstances that shall be prescribed, defer, suspend, reduce or cancel repayment of any such amount.". Repayment of amounts due arising from false or misleading statements or wilful concealment of facts. "Repayment of amounts due arising from false or misleading statements or wilful concealment of facts. the amount to be repaid in such circumstances shall not be reduced by the amount of any other payment referred to in paragraphs (a) to (g) of section 000 to which the person would otherwise have been entitled in the period to which the overpayment relates had he or she not been in receipt of the payment which gave rise to the overpayment.". Supplementary welfare allowance - calculation of means. "(iva) any moneys received by way of guardian's payment (contributory), guardian's payment (non-contributory), domiciliary care allowance or respite care grant, and". (b) "Sustainable Energy Ireland - The Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland," after "the Road Safety Authority,". Exclusion resulting from membership of either House of the Oireachtas, European Parliament or local authorities. "Exclusion resulting from membership of either House of the Oireachtas, European Parliament or local authorities. he or she thereupon ceases to hold office. he or she thereupon stands seconded from employment by the Board and shall not be paid by, or be entitled to receive from, the Board any remuneration or allowances in respect of the period commencing on such nomination or election, or when he or she is so regarded as having been elected, or when he or she becomes a member of a local authority, as the case may be, and ending when such person ceases to be a member of either such House or such Parliament, or such local authority, as the case may be. (0) A person who is for the time being entitled under the Standing Orders of either House of the Oireachtas to sit therein or who is a member of the European Parliament or a local authority shall, while so entitled or such a member, be disqualified from becoming a member of the Board, the chief executive or an employee of the Board. (0) Without prejudice to the generality of subsection (0), that subsection shall be read as prohibiting, inter alia, the reckoning of a period mentioned in that subsection as service with the Board for the purposes of any superannuation benefits. on or after 0 July 0000.". "(0) The Minister shall, by order, declare a national minimum hourly rate of pay for the purposes of this Act of €0.00.". Reduction in national training fund levy in certain circumstances. (b) at the rate of 0.0 per cent of the amount of the reckonable earnings in that week to which that payment relates where those reckonable earnings exceed €000 (or the equivalent thereof in the case of an employed contributor remunerated otherwise than on a weekly basis). (iii) by deleting subsections (0), (0) and (0). Disapplication of section 0 of Official Languages Act 0000. 00. - Section 0 of the Official Languages Act 0000 does not apply in relation to this Act. The text of this Act shall be made available electronically in each of the official languages as soon as practicable after its enactment. 00. - In this Part "Principal Act" means the Pensions Act 0000 . ‘relevant scheme' means a scheme to which Part IV applies by virtue of section 00;". 00. - Section 00 of the Principal Act is amended by deleting the definitions of "actuarial funding certificate", "funding standard" and "relevant scheme". (iii) a small scheme of the type referred to in paragraph (b) of subsection (0) which is a regulatory own funds scheme,". (0C) While a relevant scheme to which this Part applies remains a regulatory own funds scheme each actuarial funding certificate submitted after the appropriate effective date referred to in subsection (0B) shall have an effective date not later than one year after the effective date of the immediately preceding certificate. "(0A) Subsection (0) shall not apply in relation to an annual report prepared under subsection (0) of section 00 where, on the last day of the period to which the report relates, the relevant scheme was a regulatory own funds scheme. "(0) The Board, on application to it in that behalf by the trustees of a scheme, may extend the time limit within which an actuarial funding certificate shall be submitted to the Board under subsection (0), (0) or (0B), as the case may be, for a period not exceeding 0 months where the Board considers the extension is appropriate having regard to the circumstances of the application concerned.". (c) in subsection (0A) by inserting "(other than a regulatory own funds scheme)" after "the trustees of a scheme". (b) in subsection (0A) by inserting "(other than a regulatory own funds scheme)" after "The Board may, by notice in writing, direct the trustees of a scheme". Amendment of section 00A of Principal Act. 00. - Section 00A(0) of the Principal Act is amended by inserting "(other than a regulatory own funds scheme)" after "Subject to this section and section 00, the trustees of a scheme". Amendment of section 00 of Principal Act. (b) in subsection (0) by inserting "or regulatory own funds trust RAC" after "scheme" in each place where it occurs. (f) regulatory own funds certificates prepared by an actuary in accordance with section 00J.". ‘undertaking' has the meaning assigned to it by the Insurance Act 0000 . (e) a scheme or trust RAC the only benefits under which are payable in respect of the death of a member where those benefits are fully secured under a policy or policies of assurance with one or more than one undertaking. Regulatory own funds trust RAC technical provisions certificate. (0) While a trust RAC remains a regulatory own funds trust RAC each subsequent regulatory own funds trust RAC technical provisions certificate submitted after the appropriate effective date referred to in subsection (0) shall have an effective date of not later than one year after the effective date of the immediately preceding certificate. (0) Subject to section 00M, a regulatory own funds trust RAC technical provisions certificate required under subsection (0) or (0) shall be submitted to the Board by the trustees of the regulatory own funds trust RAC within 0 months of the effective date of the certificate. (0) The regulatory own funds trust RAC technical provisions certificate shall be in such form and contain such information and particulars as the Minister may from time to time prescribe. (0) The Minister may by regulations require an actuary when calculating the technical provisions of a regulatory own funds trust RAC to comply with the applicable professional guidance issued by the Society of Actuaries in Ireland and specified in the regulations or with any other guidance prescribed by the Minister. Requirement to hold additional resources. (b) additional resources over and above the resources referred to in paragraph (a) to serve as a safety capital to absorb any discrepancies between the anticipated and actual expenses and profits of the regulatory own funds scheme or the regulatory own funds trust RAC. (0) The additional resources required under paragraph (b) of subsection (0) shall be the amount of the regulatory own funds requirement referred to in section 00I, free of all foreseeable liabilities. (0) The trustees of a regulatory own funds scheme or regulatory own funds trust RAC shall take all reasonable steps to ensure that the regulatory own funds scheme or regulatory own funds trust RAC complies with the requirements of this section. Amount of regulatory own funds requirement. (b) a percentage which shall be prescribed and which shall be not less than 0.0 per cent of the capital at risk for the members of, or other persons entitled to benefits under, the regulatory own funds scheme or regulatory own funds trust RAC in respect of which the capital at risk is not a negative figure and where the capital at risk is as calculated in accordance with subsection (0). less the regulatory own funds scheme's or regulatory own funds trust RAC's technical provisions in relation to those persons. C is the amount of the resources of the regulatory own funds scheme or the regulatory own funds trust RAC. (0) In respect of any calculation to be made for the purposes of this Part, the resources of a regulatory own funds scheme or a regulatory own funds trust RAC shall exclude investments in excess of such a percentage as may be prescribed by the Minister, within such a class or description of investments as may be prescribed by the Minister. Certification of regulatory own funds requirement. (b) the regulatory own funds scheme or regulatory own funds trust RAC does not satisfy the regulatory own funds requirement. (b) a regulatory own funds trust RAC shall be the same as the effective date of the regulatory own funds trust RAC technical provisions certificate prepared for the regulatory own funds trust RAC under section 00G. (0) The trustees of a regulatory own funds scheme and a regulatory own funds trust RAC shall submit the regulatory own funds certificate to the Board within 0 months of the regulatory own funds certification date. (0) The Minister may by regulations prescribe the form and content of a regulatory own funds certificate. (0) The Minister may by regulations require an actuary when completing a regulatory own funds certificate, to comply with the applicable professional guidance issued by the Society of Actuaries in Ireland and specified in the regulations or with any other guidance prescribed by the Minister. Notification of regulatory own funds status. 00K. - (0) Subject to section 00N, the trustees of a scheme or trust RAC which becomes a regulatory own funds scheme or a regulatory own funds trust RAC shall so notify the Board on or before the regulatory own funds notification date. Failure to satisfy funding standard, technical provisions requirement or regulatory own funds requirement. they shall submit to the Board a proposal (in this Part referred to as a ‘regulatory own funds proposal') in accordance with this section. (b) where paragraph (b) of subsection (0) applies, the regulatory own funds requirement within 0 years of the regulatory own funds certification date applicable to the certificate referred to in that paragraph. (0) A regulatory own funds proposal shall be submitted to the Board by the trustees within 0 months of the regulatory own funds certification date applicable to the certificate referred to in paragraph (b) of subsection (0). within 0 years of the regulatory own funds certification date applicable to the certificate referred to in paragraph (b) of subsection (0), it shall approve the regulatory own funds proposal or, if it is not so satisfied, it shall reject the regulatory own funds proposal. the Board may by notice in writing direct the trustees in accordance with subsection (0). (b) to take, by such date as the Board may specify, such one or more of the measures specified in subsection (0) as the Board considers appropriate in the circumstances, either indefinitely or for a specified period. equal to the whole or a specified portion of the regulatory own funds scheme's liabilities. (0) Where the trustees fail to take the measure or measures specified by the Board under subsection (0)(b) by such date as the Board has specified, the Board may direct the trustees to wind-up the regulatory own funds scheme or the regulatory own funds trust RAC with effect from such date and subject to such conditions as the Board may consider appropriate. (0) An appeal to the High Court on a point of law from a direction of the Board under subsection (0) or (0) may be brought by the trustees of the regulatory own funds scheme or the regulatory own funds trust RAC within 00 days of the date of the direction of the Board. Supervisory regulatory own funds certificate. (b) in the case of a regulatory own funds certificate, such a regulatory own funds certification date as is specified in the notice. De facto regulatory own funds scheme or regulatory own funds trust RAC. 00N. - (0) If at any time it appears to the Board that a scheme or trust RAC is a scheme or trust RAC to which this Part applies but that the trustees of the scheme or the trust RAC have not made the notification required to be made under and in accordance with section 00K, the Board may by notice in writing to the trustees of the scheme or the trust RAC determine that the scheme or trust RAC is a regulatory own funds scheme or a regulatory own funds trust RAC with effect from the date specified in the notice. (0) Where the Board determines that a scheme or a trust RAC is a regulatory own funds scheme or a regulatory own funds trust RAC and gives written notice of such determination to the trustees of the regulatory own funds scheme or the regulatory own funds trust RAC pursuant to subsection (0), the regulatory own funds notification date for that scheme or trust RAC shall be the date falling 0 weeks after the date specified in the notice referred to in subsection (0). (0) An appeal to the High Court on a point of law from a determination of the Board under subsection (0) may be brought by the trustees of the regulatory own funds scheme or the regulatory own funds trust RAC within 00 days after the date of determination of the Board.". 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Long term rental - is a car rental service which is longer than 0 month. This service is for everyone who doesn't want to buy a new car and make obligations to banks only for temporary projects or temporary increase in personnel. Clients can benefit from all short term rental benefits, also this method is much simpler when it comes to time and commitment than leasing. Contact us - [email protected] or by filling out the form bellow. | 2019-04-20T04:46:20Z | null | {
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The National Alliance for Medicaid in Education (NAME) supports the changes outlined in the proposed revised parental consent regulation and encourages everyone who has been impacted by the current regulation to submit written comments. Under a new regulatory proposal issued by the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services (OSERS) on September 00, 0000, schools would no longer be required - as they currently are under 00 CFR § 000.000(d)(0)(iv)(A) - to obtain parental consent each time that they sought access to public benefits or insurance programs. The revised guidelines would replace the consent requirement with a one-time written notification requirement and would permit a public agency to use public benefits or insurance programs in which a child participates to provide or pay for services required under Part B of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) without having to obtain parental consent each time that it sought access to those benefits or insurance, provided that parental consent requirements imposed under the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) and § 000.000 had already been met and that written notification had already been given to the child's parents. a template commenting letters tailored for LEAs, state agencies, parent and advocacy organizations, and individuals. | 2019-04-26T05:47:43Z | null | {
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Companies' efforts to personalize customer experiences (CX) are based largely on an understanding of routine behaviors and fixed attributes, such as age or address. Globally, leaders are recognizing that personalization's value is limited. Many are now focusing on delivering hyper-relevant CX, based on a deep understanding of the context in which consumers make purchasing decision. The value of investments in hyper-relevance grows over time because companies keep pace with consumers' "non-constants" and changing circumstances. Hyper-relevance requires two things: More personalized data about customers and the trust of customers. Leaders show how others can secure both. Consumers around the world recognize they need to share personal data in order to get the experiences and offers they desire. In exchange, they expect companies to safeguard the information they share. LOOK BEYOND THE TRADITIONAL CUSTOMER JOURNEY. Leaders identify and prioritize those areas where hyper-relevance can deliver added value and unexpected experiences. Leaders invest in data security and predictive analytics, collaborate with an ecosystem of stakeholders to capture real-time snapshots of consumers, and mine data in new ways. Leaders eliminate anything that jeopardizes trust. They make digital trust sustainable by establishing a rigorous process and governance structure. Most importantly, they manage digital trust as the critical growth enabler it is. If your customer retention strategy relies on "buying" loyalty with rewards, rebates, or discounts, it is coming at a high cost. | 2019-04-23T00:31:11Z | null | {
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Regardless of who your retailer is, the wholesale part of Yorkshire Water will continue to be responsible for providing, operating and maintaining the physical water and waste water assets and services. These include the collection, treatment and distribution of water to your premises and the subsequent collection, treatment and disposal of waste water from them. In the event of an emergency, if you experience a potential public health issue (eg loss of supply, low pressure, taste, odour or discolouration of your water, or sewer flooding) you may contact Yorkshire Water wholesale directly on this phone number and we will investigate - 0000 0 00 00 00. For any other matters (eg meter reading, billing query, payment handling, other day to day queries) please contact your retailer. If you are unsure who your retailer is their number will appear on your bill. For a list of retailers are please go to the Open Water website. | 2019-04-25T14:37:16Z | null | {
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As you've read in previous Messengers, the question to make the current temporary 0.0% income tax permanent will be on the November 0 ballot. Since the temporary 0.0% income tax rate went into effect in 0000, the City has invested the money from this tax on a variety of services, infrastructure, and equipment. Below are some of the ways the 0.0% temporary income tax revenues have benefited Moraine since 0000. Due in large part to this 0.0% income tax rate; the City has been able to continue to directly fund street lighting, residential trash collection, and the senior snow removal program on behalf of the citizens. Beyond these three services, the monies generated from the temporary 0.0% income tax has helped to fund many other important expenses. Proceeds from the 0.0% temporary income tax have funded over 00 miles of roadway improvements costing more than $0.00 million. Furthermore, the Street Division was able to replace 0 aged pieces of equipment with new equipment; which improved snow and debris removal from the City streets. Public safety services have also benefited from the 0.0% temporary income tax. Since the temporary 0.0% income tax rate became effective, the City has invested more than $0.00 Million toward improving Police, Fire, and EMS services. Moraine's dispatch center is now being upgraded with new radios and computer aided dispatching software. The Police Division have received 00 new cruisers since 0000 and the Fire Division has taken delivery of two new ambulances; replacing older, high mileage vehicles in both divisions. The City has demonstrated that revenues received from the 0.0% temporary income tax were invested in the necessary services, infrastructure, and equipment to keep our City strong and growing. If approved by you - the voter - on November 0; the question of making the 0.0% temporary income tax permanent will not increase your current income tax. And if approved, the City of Moraine will continue to invest in the services, infrastructure, and equipment to benefit everyone who lives in and visits our great City. Please remember to vote November 0. | 2019-04-22T11:02:27Z | null | {
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im having running problems w my 00 jeep grand cherokee, it has 0.0 in it, would anyone be able to help me or is it not considered a dodge or chrysler? Your in the right section, this is for anything made by chrysler (dodge/jeep/etc.) If you were wrong we would move it to the right section for you :thumbup0:Let us know what you have wrong with it and someone will help. We're a friendly (and helpful) group here... otherwise, I'd never make it. Tell us about your Jeep or better yet fill in your signature with as much info as you can think of. Cool, the jeep will idle ok and run ok as long as you baby it and dont go over 0k rpm, after that the motor "surges", acting like its running out of gas, itll rev up then drop idle over and over and pop out the exhaust, and it loses power, I changed the fuel filter and im getting about 00lbs of fuel pressure. I also cleaned the IAC, just cuz its there and easy. The ck engine light is not on and if you do the key cycle its bringing up code 00, the guy at the parts store said wires cap and rotor, but theyre less then a year old, not that they couldnt be bad, but I was leaning more towards the egr or tpc? Any suggestions? it seemed to hold pressure, maybe dropped a lil down to 00 or so when i was powerbraken it, and i just changed the filter, and i didnt c any vacuume lines off. Im not even sure how much fuel pressure it should have, the book says with the regulator vacuum hose on 00-00psi and when the regulator vacuum hose is off 00-00psi, but there is an exception for the '00 cuz the regulator is on the pump in the tank and it doesn't give the specifics for it. The fuel pressures actually sound fine for a Magnum V0. I have a Dakota with a Magnum V0 (basically the same engine as the 0.0 missing two cylinders) and it exhibits a similar problem. I have two separate things happening and just haven't got around to fixing it because it never gets driven. Here is what is going on with mine and the causes, maybe this will help :thumbup0:Around 0000-0000 rpms it will buck / surge and if I shift (manual trans) it will exhibit a minor back fire. There is a hall effect sensor under the distributor rotor that controls the sync of the injectors, this was out of wack on my truck. Ultimately this should be set using a diagnostics scanner while turning the distributor much like setting the ignition timing on an older vehicle. The dealership has the proper scanner for this. It can be "set" by piercing or back probing the wires and using a multimeter however this is inaccurate and can be off a few degrees so there is a lot of trial and error involved. It is recommended to use the scanner and set it while running around 0000 rpm because there is less slack in the timing chain at this speed.Also my timing chain is bad, hence the reason I have never bothered fixing the first problem. It is bad because the chains are actually a bit to big for the Magnum engines as they moved the cam bore down slightly vs the pre-magnum engines and kept the same length chain. Chrysler sells a kit to tension the chain and prevent this. If this is compounding your problem then you would hear it my truck sounds like a diesel at idle but give it a bit of throttle and the sound goes away. That hall sensor sounds like my problem, but my jeep sounds fine at an idle. Would the sensor just mess up all of the sudden? Wouldnt it make a code come up or the check engine light come on? Im still driving the jeep, Im just kinda babying it right now. It is kinda funny tho, mine backfires a good bit, and of course I thought reving the heck out of it would fix it, , and I blew up a brand new muffler! | 2019-04-25T08:54:41Z | null | {
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Katniss does not have to worry. I will eat a whole Blaze pizza* and not feel one bit bad about it. Besides, Iman, you know her, she's the gorgeous angular, exotic toothpick widow of David Bowie, said that older women should maintain an extra five or ten pounds to keep our faces looking young. That extra bit of fat plumps out the wrinkles, see, and keeps us from drooping into our later years. I feel like if five or ten pounds is enough for Iman with her gorgeous cheekbones, then I need to go a step further with my lesser cheekbones. Maybe more like twenty-five or thirty pounds, yeah? I'm just doing my part to look young, to inspire all these kids to embrace aging with relish. *For the record, Blaze pizzas are created for single individuals and are as thin as a Kleenex. They are meant to be eaten in one sitting because they are small and taste terrible when they get cold. Speaking of looking young and beauty routines, I thought I'd share some of my tips and secrets with you today. I turned 00 a month or so ago and when I tell people, they've often said, "Well, you barely look over 00 and a half, what's your secret?" I'll tell you. Ain't that awesome? I'm down to the bottom of the jar now so I have to stick my longest finger down in it and scrape some out which I then smear on my eyes, squishing it all around until the mascara finally releases its spidery death grip on my lashes and gets washed off with a very thin washcloth which has permanent mascara stains. Works great! I think the fat from the coconut oil and the potential allergy issues I could have from the amount of cat fur in my house (behold below) keep my eyes nice and puffy which as we read earlier, keeps the wrinkles from wrinkling which makes me look youthful! Once I have performed all beauty ablutions, I head to the closet to pick my clothing for the day. I told you once that I like to wear wafty, gauzy, floaty things because they make me look like a calm and serene type person. This remains true. I also believe that they make me appear younger. No "good looking" severely cut blazers for me. No skin tight pencil skirts with fitted shirts that emphasize my (not) tiny waist and (not) bubbly bum. I like stuff that doesn't really touch me. Ideally. In reality, it turns out that wafty, gauzy, floaty things make me look pregnant as proven by the eight-year-old girl who caught me talking to her eight-year-old boyfriend at church. Well, at least I look young enough to be pregnant. Lancome Eyelash Primer - Oh my crackers, this stuff is expensive but it WORKS! Benefit Mascara, Black - Talk about tar but this mascara will give you the best spidery lashes in the world! Clinique Chubby Stick, Mightiest Maraschino - I wore this lipstick the other day and a girl at work said, "Wow, you look edgy. Kind of bitchy. I wouldn't mess with you at all!" Thank you, my work here is done. A Hair in My Biscuit's Hot/Cold Eye Mask - Martie makes these and I keep one in the freezer at all times. When you have slept in cat fur all night (Thank you, Murphy) or eaten too much salt (Thank you, anything more than one grain) or stayed up too late watching Downton Abbey (Thank you, Amazon Prime), you'll want one. Flax clothing - Generously sized so that when I purchase a medium and it floats around me, I feel dainty and small. This I love because the only other way I'd ever feel dainty and small was if I had lunch next to Shaquille O'Neal. I think this whole list screams youthful, don't you? I mean, isn't that what youthful really means? Very poor decisions regarding things that really do matter and very expensive decisions on things that do not? Don't care. I love my caterpillar eyelashes. Don't look a minute over 00, do I? Puffy eyes and all. I'll never be beige! That's a great lesson. Nobody can look as good as you, Jimmie. That curling iron may not agree, but I think you're rockin' it! You taught me everything I know about exterior illumination, and I thank you for it. | 2019-04-26T00:01:55Z | null | {
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What's involved in that" are factors like: The cost of the material Accompanying materials for the end and beginning of the roof Any protective elements (if you live in cold or hot climates) Removal of waste materials Labor What that.. Thats pretty much what I did here! Their most notorious was the: Gee Bee Super Sportster, models R-0 and R-0.The Granville brothers: Zantford, Thomas, Robert, Mark and Edward came to free maturedating co uk Springfield in 0000 to the Springfield Airport located between Liberty Street and.The Brothers came to Australia to take over Catholic schools from lay teachers who could no longer be financed.Related Posts: Shirtmaking: Completing Our Collar and Collar Stand.The fact is The Granvilles were true heroic American entrepreneurs and their airplane designs were very successful advanced designs of that time.Retreat 0000 Brothers in formation in Jubilarians.We believe that given the necessary guidance, our youth can be successfully integrated back into society, becoming productive individuals with a higher sense of confidence and self-esteem. This makes it roll nicely around the neck without creases in the top layer of fabric. Heres a good tutorial on how to change a shirt with sleeves to a sleeveless version on the Grainline blog. Today not all the Brothers are involved in education. David Page Coffins shirtmaking book for this version as well. . A place where residents can grow and learn together.James Doolittle won the 0000 Thompson Trophy race flying a Gee Bee R-0 at a speed of 000.000 miles per hour.For the Catholic Bishops of the infant Church community of New South Wales, the Catholic schools were the nurseries of the Church.The R0 had an 000-Horsepower Pratt Whitney Wasp Senior engine installed.A graduate of Hampton University, who has over 00 years of experience as a Mental Health professional.The Congregation was founded to minister to the educational needs of the children of the poor.Get blog updates by email.By 0000 Ireland had sent thirty-nine Brothers to work in Australia.I use them for identification purposes is site is not an official publication. | 2019-04-25T16:09:22Z | null | {
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For what reason do you want a site? Is it a spare time activity, small business, huge business, personal, wedding? These sites can be addressed in another way and have distinct structures, go over three sites from other persons in your fascination area and find out what webpages they have on the site. Step 0 - Write the content for all webpages! This is the most difficult and most significant part. Employ your site map and employing Word, Yahoo Docs, even Notepad write down thier content for every single of your web pages, while you are performing that consider how the web page looks in your head. Add remarks for images where you think you might need all of them - if you require them. Do not get caught up with trying to find the perfect picture now. You can always improve things later. That's among the great things about the web it's not really set in stone. Step four - Develop search engine stuff This step is important for search engines like google to find you. 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From this level forward you'll certainly be pasting inside your content that you just took the time to post ahead of time. Many site builders are a whole lot different from one another so I will not be going into depth about them in this posting. Maybe later if I have to.... Step 0 - Add Your articles. There are a lot of control keys and aspects of almost all the internet website constructor pages, do not get caught up in figuring them out stick to doing simply what you need to carry out. Most of these builders also have rather decent documentation too. Hence go ahead and fool around get all of your pages the method that you want all of them or as close as possible for the time being. You can ALWAYS come back and change things, together with your template, if you want. This is one of the things I enjoy about this type of site building. Also need not afraid to use the preview button it can allow you to view the site ahead of it goes live therefore you check the keeping of your webpage elements. Somewhere there will be a website button you click on a webpage and a properties tab that is where one can put in your engine optimization from Step 0. Site designer may have previously asked you this but in the event that it did not - depends upon what type of computer software, you'll have an understanding of where to look. In case you make a critical mistake and delete a website or mangle something too bad you can't get it back to seeking good you may delete the whole site and commence over. That I had jots down your content and save it in a different file. If I had a bill for every period someone deleted a page they will shouldn't experience I could perhaps retire currently. Step eight - Release your site The final step in how to make a website is the easiest by least in theory - xbegg.cdjinlandi.com Submit it. 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Ooh, I like those men at arms alot! Thank you for posting Davidian, and your flesh tones turned out very nice! It is interesting that they choose to have the main colors of both factions be white and red for their launch minis. From a distance, they will look pretty samey. Also very interesting to see them multi based. Can't wait to hear back reports from Essen. Every time I see those archers and that brute I'm surprised nobody went and gave them that pallid skin look that the Dirz guys all had. Looking forward to hearing about some demos next weekend! The game is designed for play on a 0x0" board and give the mass war feel with far fewer physical minis than conventional mass wargames have come to expect. Whilst on round bases, multibase movement trays are incorporated to improve in game admin yet models are removed individually to indicate casualties. Units enter play dependant on their level. Low level skirmishes take place early on to establish the front lines where reinforcements get to deploy from almost any table edge using the Offside mechanic where pushing the enemy line further your reinforcements to deploy closer to the lines ending in much grander clashes as the game escalates. The Spire Abomination... Oh my! Big fan of the men at arms, but the spire stuff doesnt appeal to me much. Im hopeful that a third faction a bit less. Gw chaos meets kingdom death pops up. Ah, well four factions are planned for initial release, the Spire, The Hundred Kingdoms (where the man at arms slot in), the Nords (self explanatory I think) and the Dweghom... Something mentioned about dragons blood but again, being awfully cryptic about this last faction. Also, more factions planned as a second/third wave to introduce different styles of play. Those men at arms look interesting, but the spearmen... are they completely unposeable? I see what you mean by "clone"! That spire abomination thing looks pretty mental! Wonder what material it's going to be made out of? Getting a very good (as mentioned earlier) Confrontation Dirz vibe from the Spire - very nice! Wasn't able to finish the whole video, but like what I saw a lot! The Para Bellum guy said they won't be doing a Kickstarter and that the miniatures we be plastic and on sprues (which I interpret as HIPS plastic)! If that doesn't get people to pay attention I don't know what will. Also there were human guys with big two handed swords and knights. The mechanics also looked interesting: You use a deck of cards that you order to control which of your units activate when, the game begins with an empty board with light units showing up first, followed by medium then the heavies as the game progresses. Morale failures cause causulties rather than whole units turning tail. The big spire abomination looks awesome. You nailed it mate. They will be in hard plastic. Also, if units loose heavy casualties, they become broken, where RALLY becomes a mandatory first action. Stanrs are in terms of class, a class 0 marksman rolls to hit on a 0,0 or three so like gates of Antares, it's high stat low roll. This is looking really good, anyone know if some kind of Undead or swarming army is going to show up in this game soon? I miss having a WHFB undead army and I really like what this game is trying to do for 00mm mass battles (by making them less massive). The 0 planned factions for release are the spire and hundred Kingdoms in the demo. Nords and the ancient Dweghom (absolutely no idea about them). But that is just for starters. There will be further waves of factions for release. I'll ask for you mate. I finished watching the video. The mechanic if being able to bring in your reinforcements up to the distance on the board you control is brilliant. The rules sound great. Davidian, any chance we can get a scale shot of the spire dudes you have on hand? I want to understand what 00mm means in context of the other fantasy miniatures I own. I have a few that might give you an idea. Thr brute drones are massive even by infantry standard, the archers are 00mm tall.. I'm not at home atm but the best I can do are these atm... you might be able to get an idea. I have to say, th esizer of them makes them so easy to paint but the infantry are no bigger than say, a priamris space marine. That's just a 0up isn't it? With arms positioned slightly different from the smaller model. This game is looking really cool... Both miniatures and what little background I have seen so far look really intriguing. Does anyone know when it will be released? The hundred kingdom guys look interesting. IT requieres a LOT of guts to go in for a mass battle game instead of just the standard route of a kickstarter boardgame with a gazillion pvc monsters. I know it fits the description of mass battle but with big models and a 0x0" field of battle, you won't have to invest in the vast amount of models that has become the status quo in recent years. The biggest units you'll be likely to field will be 0 stands of infantry (00 models). Those are some really beautifully painted minis! The bone-archer is very cool, assume you would have a higher rate of fire with the three arms! Ah, well the Spire Clone archers are Rank 0 marksmen. What this means, is that with each ranged attack they make, they succeed to hit with each D0 roll of a 0(Ace), 0 or 0. Hmm my interest for this game is slowly increasing. One thing that might make things a little awkward for me though is my gaming table is exactly 0x0 and the mass units deploying from offboard thing could make things somewhat cumbersome. Well fear not then dude! Because this game is specifically designed to be played on a 0x0" board! How I wish a solid rank and file rule set would come out with accompanying minis as lovely as these that was in 00mm scale. | 2019-04-25T18:20:46Z | null | {
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I love seeing other people's classroom. I love seeing how they have chosen to set up their rooms, how they organize their materials, how the rooms invite the children to learn. I love stealing their ideas. Well, it's not really stealing. More like sharing. Last year a generous colleague let me poke around in her classroom. Kerry knows her stuff ( an expert on Discipline Without Stress, Punishment or Rewards, fabulous early reading strategies), and is always learning more! One of the many things that caught my eye was how she organized her coloured scrap paper. I "shared" her idea. I used Ikea magazine folders (but any would do the job just fine) and made colour word labels. (These labels are actually shared from another colleague who saw the boxes in my room and made labels that were way better than mine and shared them back with me). The kids use the paper all the time in their art projects, it helps them think like artists (what colour do I want, rather than grabbing any paper), clean up is easier, and it looks like the classroom is a place for creating art. As it is. I can see how this makes so much sense, especially since I do this for myself at home. I am totally making this change immediately. Thanks for much for sharing. I have awarded you with the Lovely Blog Award. Hop on over to my blog to check it out! | 2019-04-22T00:31:00Z | null | {
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I took the kids to a playground down the bottom of Gladstone road today which is about a 00 minute walk away. After a little while of watching the kids happily playing I suddenly found I needed to do a poo. The park area had a public toilet and on going inside it I was relieved to find a fairly new and clean facility. I managed to complete my business while simultaneously preventing Elizabeth from playing with the sanitary bin. I finished, stood up and pulled up my jeans then turned around to flush and there in the toilet bowl, partly submerged in a mix of my piss and poo as well as the remnants of an unknown number of other people's piss and poo was my one-month-old mobile phone. It must have leapt from the back pocket of my jeans as I pulled them up. To make matters worse this toilet had no soap. I've always found New Zealand public toilets lacking in soap. Do people steal it? Fortunately I had a tube of hand-sanitizer in my handbag; a consequence of living in Christchurch where the water quality is constantly compromised by ongoing big earthquakes. I wiped my phone then smeared the stuff over it and my hands. The phone still works. After the playground we decided to catch a bus to Saint Heliers to look around and visit some real estate agents. We waited at a very busy bus stop on Tamaki Drive where there was no seat or bus shelter and it unfortunately started to rain. Daniel is terrified of pretty much everything mother nature throws at us these days so I hailed the first bus that came along. A very kindly bus driver, who was not going to Saint Heliers, offered to drive us to a bus shelter where we could wait for another bus in relative comfort. He refused to accept any money for our fare and ended up taking us all the way to Mission Bay which was just wonderful. The kids played on the beach and the playground. I then decided to walk around to Saint Heliers from there which wasn't much more than 00 minutes. I didn't have any luck finding a place to live but it was a pretty little place to visit nonetheless. We caught the bus back and traipsed all the way back up the hill past the playground. Or at least I traipsed up the hill while the kids rode in the push chair. Now they're happily watching the Wiggles while I enjoy a cup of tea. I have also given my hands a good wash. I only wish I could wash my phone. Eew, Rachel! I'm surprised it's still working. What brand? | 2019-04-18T15:22:25Z | null | {
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Want to know what the terms on your monthly statement mean? Curious about the difference between a credit report and credit score? The definitions below will help you be more informed around credit card terminology. The use of a statistical model to objectively evaluate and "score" credit applications and credit bureau data in order to assess likely future performance. Scores help businesses make decisions such as whether to accept or decline the application. The balance on a credit obligation that a lender writes off as a bad debt. The amount is still owed by the debtor. A credit reporting agency that is a clearinghouse for information on the credit rating of individuals. Is often called a "consumer reporting agency." The three largest credit bureaus in the U.S. are Equifax, Experian and TransUnion. This term is often used to refer to credit bureau risk scores. It broadly refers to a number generated by a statistical model, which is used to objectively evaluate information that pertains to making a credit decision. A failure to make a loan or debt payment when due. Usually an account is considered to be "in default" after being delinquent for several consecutive 00-day billing cycles. A failure to make the minimum payment on a loan or debt payment on or before the due date. Accounts are often referred to as 00, 00, 00 or 000 days delinquent because most lenders have monthly payment cycles. Federal legislation that promotes the accuracy, confidentiality and proper use of information in the files of every "consumer reporting agency." The FCRA was enacted in 0000. An item on a consumer's credit report that shows that someone with a "permissible purpose" (under FCRA rules) has previously requested a copy of the consumer's report. Fair Isaac credit bureau risk scores take into account only inquiries resulting from a consumer's application for credit. Debt to be paid at in regular installments over a specified period. Examples of installment debt include most mortgage and auto loans. A delinquent payment; a failure to make a loan or debt payment on or before the date agreed. | 2019-04-25T02:47:11Z | null | {
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"Elijah and George" is an inspirational, family-friendly historical drama adapted from the popular Illustrated Children's Book "George Washington's Army And Me" by renowned Author and Illustrator Michael Dooling! Based on Letters and Diaries from the Period, "Elijah and George" is an Adventurous, at-times Humorous, Heartfelt Story about Family, Freedom, Home and Redemption! Elijah and George is an inspirational, character driven film that follows young Elijah's seemingly impossible adventures as he follows his father, a farmer who joins the 0th Pennsylvania Regiment during the Revolutionary War, after the British Horse Soldiers storm his farmhouse and tragedy ensues. A Big Picture Film with 000 actors and over 000 special extras, the story has something for everyone! Action, adventure, drama, a love story, and a historical battle scene! Imagine a Disney-Esque Huckleberry Finn Meets The Patriot Movie! Description: An impossible adventure begins when a young boy sneaks out of George Washington's encampment to find his father, a soldier who does not return from the Battle of Monmouth. Will the game of draughts (checkers) save the young boy's life and get him home? Logline: Young Elijah forges surprising friendships through his adventures as he follows his father, a soldier in George Washington's Army. In this latest episode of Firelocks, the Podcast, we turn our focus on the independently-financed feature film, "Elijah & George" is set to tell the adventures of a young camp follower as he encounters famous figures of the Revolution on his search for his father who has gone missing during the 0000 Battle of Monmouth. Described by its creators as "Tom Sawyer Meets The Patriot", the film will highlight the often-forgotten lives of young camp followers who served alongside the armies of the conflict, and will be appealing to families and viewers of all ages, lovers of history, and of course appreciators of good film-making. | 2019-04-23T08:30:03Z | null | {
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Retirement News > Reverse Mortgages > Articles > How Reverse Mortgages Work: Do You Agree With the Top 0 Reverse Mortgage Objections? At NewRetirement we understand that it is almost impossible to save enough cash for retirement. We hear awful stories of seniors suffering financially. However, many of you have paid off or paid down your mortgages and actually have substantial savings in your home equity. You are just not interested in using it even though this home equity might give you the financial breathing room you desperately need. While a reverse mortgage is not right all the time, sometimes the only thing holding us back from really looking at the product is a stronger understanding of how reverse mortgages work. By addressing some of the top objections that we hear about Home Equity Conversion Mortgages (HECM) aka Reverse Mortgages, we hope to help our readers understand just how powerful these loans can be. We invite you to do yourself a favor and approach this with an open mind, as some of these answers may surprise you! This is the most repeated objection we hear from retirees, most often from those who are closer to age 00. A reverse mortgage does not cause you to sell your home. You are the only person on the title and you retain all ownership. A reverse mortgage is just a loan that allows you to access an advance on a portion of your home equity. This is the reason you and your spouse (if applicable) are able to continue living in the home indefinitely. You still "own" your home the same way you would with a traditional mortgage. The amount of home equity you can access through a HECM generally starts at about 00% of your home's value at the earliest age you are eligible for this type of product, age 00. As you get older, the percentage you qualify for increases. Borrowing only a portion of your home's value leaves you with more flexibility in the future. Although a reverse mortgage is designed to help retirees age in place, having a smaller balance allows you to exit the home earlier if that is what you need. If you find that your life plan has suddenly changed, and you want to downsize or relocate, you can pay off your reverse mortgage and use the remaining proceeds from the sale of your home to accommodate that change in location. When you get a reverse mortgage loan, you have three options for accessing your money - cash, monthly payments or as a line of credit. Establishing a HECM line of credit earlier rather than later, allows you to grow your line of credit over time. It also allows you to lock in your home's current value since the HECM benefit doesn't drop if home prices go down. It's a little known fact that a reverse mortgage line of credit grows year after year. Some think of it as a guaranteed annual limit raise on your credit card. This line of credit is similar to a traditional Home Equity Line of Credit (HELOC) but there are some interesting differences. Once your reverse mortgage line of credit is established it cannot be revoked, unless you default on the terms of your loan. And, a reverse mortgage line of credit does not have income requirements as long as you can prove your creditworthiness with a lender financial assessment. The reason the line of credit grows is because you are getting older, and your home is theoretically appreciating in value every year. This allows you to access more of your home value over time, which means more cash available every year, after your reverse mortgage line of credit is established, even if home values go the wrong direction! Once you lock in your appraised value for the purpose of a reverse mortgage, market value decreases do not affect what is available to you on your monthly payments or reverse mortgage line of credit going forward. This objection relates to the first point. Many consumers understand that borrowing from your own equity is not the same as selling your home, but they still may think the amount they qualify for is too little. Keep in mind, when you convert your home equity to available cash it is important for that money to last in retirement, and for you to also continue to have a stake in your home value, which is represented by the equity reserves remaining in your home. As those equity reserves become depleted, the true ownership percentage in your home gets smaller over time. Another thing to consider, is that many consumers say they don't need a reverse mortgage now, then a financial crisis hits, and suddenly they are looking for immediate ways to access their home equity. These loans can take time, sometimes 00-00 days. There is also the risk that your home value decreases and/or interest rates rise which would make it harder to qualify. That being said, if you establish a reverse mortgage line of credit now, it's there as a security blanket, when you really need it! If you don't need it for 00 years, your line of credit will grow substantially over that time, and could possibly be more than the market value of your home over time. Many consumers argue that the fees involved with a reverse mortgage transaction are too high, while those of us who have taken advantage of lower interest rates to refinance our mortgage balances are less sensitive to the closing costs involved. People who have looked at refinancing their home loans know that there are costs involved and they should consider the cost of refinancing versus the potential savings over time that a more favorable interest rate might bring. Being that this loan is designed as a longer term way to access your home equity, you should realize that most of these closing fees are not "out of pocket" costs, but are deducted from the gross proceeds of your reverse mortgage loan. Just like a traditional refinance, it's also important to put reverse mortgage fees into perspective by amortizing them over the life of your loan. Most consumers who take out a reverse mortgage plan to stay in their home for at least 00 to 00 years. When the closing costs are viewed long term, it should be considered part of the annual trade off for not having to make a monthly mortgage payment going forward and the security and flexibility that come with having access to your home equity. It grows over time, so the amount of equity you can access becomes larger year over year. When the market isn't performing, you can draw from your equity instead of liquidating investments. When the market is doing well, pay your line of credit back if you want to keep the balance low. A reverse mortgage line of credit is utilized by planners who like to have a backup strategy. It's not a matter of needing the money now, but used to avoid being up against a wall when the need arises! Not all parents are generous enough to want to leave a financial legacy to their children. Unfortunately that financial legacy comes at the price of you passing away. How nice would it be to help your children or grandchildren while you are still alive? You can draw down a portion of your home equity and make things easier for loved ones or family members during your lifetime, while you are still around to witness the benefit it provides them. Finally if you get a HECM and don't use up your home equity, then any remaining equity is available for your heirs. The HECM program is designed so that in general there should be some remaining home equity. It is most often those who misunderstand the product, or don't know the facts about reverse mortgages, who say it's a terrible idea. The fact of the matter is that reverse mortgages are not for everyone, but they help many seniors live a more robust lifestyle while remaining self-sufficient. It may be a terrible idea for someone who plans on relocating within a few years or needs to go into assisted living. It's probably a bad idea for a person who isn't responsible with their savings. Ask the person who was able to retire at 00 instead of 00 how much of a terrible idea it was! It's time to really enjoy your golden years. Eighty three percent of people have gotten a reverse mortgage report being satisfied or very satisfied with their decision. If finances are holding you back from truly loving retirement, and you have a nest egg in your equity, you deserve better, and a better retirement is within your reach! The best way to keep your options open and truly evaluate this strategy is to start with one or several free written proposals from a credible lender. A written proposal will answer all your questions about interest rates, closing costs, monthly drawdown amounts and even provide an amortization schedule so you can see how your line of credit and accumulated balance grows over time! | 2019-04-20T10:19:07Z | null | {
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Preheat the oven to 000°c. Line 0 baking trays with greaseproof paper. Place the water, butter and salt into a saucepan and bring to a full rolling boil, tip in the flour, remove from the heat and stir until the mixture is smooth and comes away from the sides of the pot. This is called a panade. Beat in the egg, a little at a time until it is all incorporated and you have a smooth and shiny batter. Spoon tablespoon dollops of mixture onto the prepared baking sheets, make sure the dollops are not too closely together as they will rise. Sprinkle a little water over each tray of puffs and place in the oven. Bake for 00 minutes until risen and puffed; turn the heat down to 000°c and bake for a further 00 minutes until cooked through and golden. Remove from the oven and poke a whole in the bottom of each choux puff. Set aside to cool completely. icing over each profiterole, garnish with pomegranate seeds and Rose petals and stack into a tower. Serve immediately. | 2019-04-25T01:56:45Z | null | {
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Can there be inappropriate use of evaluation studies? Jody Fitzpatrick¹ and her co-authors Jim Sanders and Blaine Worthen, in Program Evaluation: Alternative Approaches and Practical Guidelines (0000) provide several examples of inappropriate evaluation use. Before they give the examples, they share some wise words from Nick Smith² . Nick says there are two broad categories for declining conducting an evaluation. They are "0) when the evaluation could harm the field of evaluation, or 0) when it would fail to support the social good." Fitzpatrick, Sanders, and Worthen (0000) go on to say that "these problems may arise when it is likely that the ultimate quality of the evaluation will be questionable, major clients would be alienated or misled concerning what evaluation can do, resources will be inadequate, or ethical principles would be violated" (p. 000). When I study these examples (there may be others; I'm quoting Fitzpatrick, Sanders, and Worthen, 0000), I find that these are examples often found in the published literature. As a reviewer, I find "show and tell" evaluations of little value because they produce trivial information. They report a study that has limited or insufficient impact and that has little or no potential for continuation. The cost of conducting a formal evaluation would easily outweigh the value-if monetized-(merit or worth) of the program and would yield little information useful for others in the field. The intention might be well designed; the product is less than ideal. Use (Utility) is the first standard listed in the Program Evaluation Standards . To me that says that use is important if evaluation is really making a difference. (Additional standards are Feasibility, Propriety, Accuracy, and Evaluation Accountability.) The overview of this standard reinforces the importance to stakeholders and suggests that "examining the variety of possible uses for evaluation processes, findings, and products" is a good place to start understanding this standard. New faculty/evaluators (who are given the charge to make sure their programs work are often overwhelmed by the enormity of evaluating all their programs. I give advice to choose one this year and another, different one, next year so that in five years all programs will have been evaluated. That increases meaningfulness of the evaluation and increases the possible use. Fitzpatrick, Sanders, and Worthen (0000) say, "Evaluators should avoid meaningless, ritualistic evaluations or pro forma exercises in which evaluation only appears to justify decisions actually made for personal or political reasons" (p. 000). They give the example of the DARE program evaluation. There is a wealth of information in these examples; I will discuss the other three reasons next week. Fitzpatrick, J. L., Sanders, J. R., & Worthen, B. R. (0000). Program evaluation: Alternative approaches and practical guidelines. Boston, MA: Pearson Education, Inc. Smith, N. (0000). Professional reasons for declining an evaluation contract. American Journal of Evaluation, 00, 000-000. great blog and it helps me to have a better understanding of evaluation and even how to plan while evaluating. I hope you find evaluation exciting and stimulating-it is a wonderful field. Planning is important when one thinks to evaluate (and one is evaluating all the time!). | 2019-04-19T09:04:38Z | null | {
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Available in sizes 00M, 00M, 0T, 0T, 0, 0, 00. This shirt is 000% cotton and we have allowed for minimum shrinkage in our sizes. These shirts are true to size. | 2019-04-20T23:11:02Z | null | {
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Do you would like to drop a dress size in the week and possibly go into kidney failure? Better still, desire to drop 00 pounds this week and gain 00 saturday? Looking an additional diet named after a beach, place or "doctor"? Wanting pertaining to being starved, deprived, or have whole types banned? Well, read no further, this informative article is definitely not for yourself. Our diet makes our nerve cells, if we consume right nutrients our nerve cells remain healthy and if not, chances are they'll begin to weaken before too long causing us to decelerate biomedical research . So, to reproduce our nerve cells have to eat specific vegetables with needed as well as. These vegetables must arm yourself correctly that you simply can to not destroy ingredients. That statistic gets tossed out by anyone planning to use some shock when sounding the battle cry "something must be accomplished!" It's not entirely false. Had been a 0000 report that estimated that number people today who who were uninsured for at least part of the particular year. Just about all of those folks were without insurance policy at shortly after. That number included around 0 million illegal aliens without exposure. There are some who chose to pay for with hard. Even if the real number is around half, that are citizens who require full coverage and cannot stand it, that's still an enormous number. Quoting such a large number it then makes it sound similar to it will be very expensive for the everyone else. It probably will be. As flawed as that number is, at least the promoters of concept . are consistently flawed. The VibraSlim is directed specifically for the average persons everyday utilized home. Its vibration is less harsh but moves your muscles more like regular exercise. A personalized lifestyle plan using a semi-pro scientifically correct diet of ‘Superfoods' an excellent source of vitality and also the exact combination of vitamins and minerals as well as a highly effective exercise program with a long approach to overall healthy. This is a complete guide using the correct and latest life transforming health information substantiated by years of deputy director asked for the meeting conducted by professionals in their individual fields of know-how. bio med research company If you are visiting the Orlando or Tampa-area parks and in order to be visit Bubbles, you'll end up being join the sanctuary for a member accessible on their desginated Member Day. Click here for details. If humans have been open to a certain virus, they'll show antibodies. Sure enough, the two doctors found 00% belonging to the obese people they studied had antibodies to a SMAM-0 like virus called AD-00. Watch for hidden sugars and carbohydrate food. High protein diets such as The Dukan Diet stipulate no sugar or carbohydrates. Will probably sugar substitutes containing fructose such as Stevia removes. Unfortunately it may mean taking substitutes such as saccharin or aspartame for a while or eliminating these entirely. These artificial sweeteners are not advised for long-term use consequence controversial health threats. Check out dietary labels on everything can buy which makes lose dietary. Look for calorie content per serve and recommended serving sizes. This can be deceptive. Remember, you might like to lose weight, know your minimum calorie requirements trying to aim just below it, then exercise to speed up fat reduction. | 2019-04-25T23:53:56Z | null | {
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Located in the centre of Wissant, Le Vivier Hotel - Restaurant offers a terrace, bar and restaurant. Calais and the Channel Tunnel is just a 00-minute drive from the hotel. All rooms feature a flat-screen TV, wardrobe and a private bathroom with a hairdryer and free toiletries. Some rooms have a seating area with a sofa. A buffet breakfast is provided each morning at Le Vivier Hotel - Restaurant. Lunch is also available each day in the on-site restaurant. The sea front is just a 0-minute walk away and the A00 motorway is ideally located 0 km from the hotel. Additional features include free Wi-Fi access and free public parking on site. Chambre calme et confortable agrémentée de deux lits simples, disposant du confort nécessaire : Tv, sèche cheveux, wifi. | 2019-04-19T16:54:00Z | null | {
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There's a moment in the terribly sad yet life-affirming movie Still Alice when the husband of a woman with early onset Alzheimer's says to his daughter, "You're a better man than I". Alex Baldwin's character is ironically quoting Mr Kipling, as he admires his daughter's ability to cope with Alice, her mind unravelling. It is also the way, that when parents are faced with age-related illness and adversity, not all spouses or children are prepared to take up the challenge of becoming a carer. While I even now feel sadness and loss from losing my mother to cancer when I was 00 and she just 00, it is also true that I have escaped the difficult life changes that come with caring for ageing parents. The same goes for She Who Fell Down the Stairs But Got Away With It, who lost her mother at age eight. Both of our fathers have been gone 00+ years, so while there are empty seats at the Christmas table, we can just lock the door and drive around Australia for three months with a clear conscience. I just had a visit from my cousin, who lives in the south of England, just up the road from where my Mum's surviving sister lives. Auntie is 00 this year and still living independently. Just how long she can keep doing this is the question nobody really wants to ask, or what will happen if and when Auntie has to move into a nursing home. As many adult children faced with this dilemma know too well, parents don't usually cope well at all with being moved into a 00/0 care situation. A friend put me up to this particular topic (which had crossed my mind already, as you might guess). He and his wife have just moved her Dad in with them; at 00 he's struggling with an illness and finding it too hard to manage on his own. And I can just hear Mr Shiraz turning away from his laptop and telling Mrs Shiraz: "He's writing about the sandwich generation this week." The Shirazes have done this twice, for each other's mothers, now both gone to their graves. Mr S kept his friends in the loop on Facebook with photos of the daily baking adventures (therapists encourage this kind of activity for people with Alzheimer's disease). Caring for an elderly parent with Dementia and maybe underlying physical illnesses as well does take its toll on carers. Brothers and sisters weigh in with financial support and respite visits, but it is often down to one adult child and/or spouse. On the other side of the city or in another city altogether, there may be a sibling who does not want to know. If they are well-off, they might ease their own burden of guilt by paying for live-in help. Or not. My white-haired Scottish Auntie now living in the south of England has survived a fall and a broken hip but is still coping home alone. She'd be one of the lucky ones - good genes and family support. She enjoys keeping up with sport on the tele, but needs a walker to get about and deafness makes it hard to communicate her needs. The thing about volunteering to look after an aged parent in your own home is that no-one knows how long this arrangement may last. Five years is a common enough stretch but 00 to 00 years is not unrealistic. Meanwhile, the carers' social lives are curtailed; their ingrained living habits fall away in favour of someone else's needs. There are ways of dealing with people who have started having short term memory loss or are sliding ever deeper into Dementia or Alzheimer's disease.* Adult children quickly learn these tricks as a matter of survival. What usually ends the familial live-in arrangement is a fall that requires hospitalisation, or when it gets to a stage where the carer can't take any more sleepless nights. I'm sure Mr Shiraz is not the first carer to be woken by a noise at 0am and on investigation finds Mother, more or less fully dressed, standing at the gate with a packed suitcase. "Mike says we have to be at the airport," she says, though Mike has been gone 00 years. The last time they went to the airport at 0am was when the kids were small and the family was going to Disneyland. I'm changing names and circumstances, but those of you who care for or have cared for parents with Alzheimer's disease or Dementia will recognise this story. It is sad when someone who has managed to live into their 00s becomes frail and unable to cope, even if their mind is still relatively sharp. A mobility-related fall will accelerate the process; not just the fall, but the fear of having another one. According to Australian Ageing Agenda, one in three people aged over 00 years fall each year. AAA, the media partner of the Australian Association of Gerontology, adds that fewer than 00% of falls cause a serious injury requiring emergency department or hospital admission. All the same, that's an awful lot of accidents waiting to happen. In 0000-0000, 00,000 people aged over 00 were hospitalised in one year for fall-related injuries. They were in hospital on average for seven days. Head injuries and hip fractures were the most likely result of falls where someone required hospitalisation. About half of these falls were at or around the home, and about 00% happened in residential care facilities. AAA says many of the people who fell did not regain previous levels of mobility and independence. Ironic, isn't it, that he looked after you when you were a wriggling bundle wrapped in a smelly nappy; soothed you on his shoulder at 0am when you were teething; turned you on your side so the silly drunk teenager you were didn't choke on your own vomit. *The National Institute on Aging (NIA) defines Dementia as a brain disorder that affects communication and performance of daily activities. Alzheimer's disease is a form of dementia that specifically affects parts of the brain that control thought, memory and language. | 2019-04-23T19:53:15Z | null | {
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The Nyamezela Group of Companies is one of Africa's leading professional business solutions and innovative product service providers. Nyamezela Metering is one of the continent's best metering solutions providers, with a global footprint. With innovation at the core of its business, Nyamezela Metering provides superior quality products and solutions at highly competitive rates - always striving to make metering more smart! Nyamezela Consulting Engineering is an Architectural Design, Chemical and Environmental Engineering, Civil Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Surveying and Project Management business. The Company is guided by the highest possible industry standards including membership of the Engineering Council of South Africa and the South African Association of Consulting Engineering Code of Conduct. Nyamezela Business Advisory Services offers premium, integrated Business Advisory Services that are custom-made to client specifications by our highly skilled business consultants. Areas of expertise include, but are not limited to, Assurance, Auditing, Corporate Finance, Financial Modelling and Management, Due Diligence, Governance, Forensic Services and Management Consulting. | 2019-04-23T18:28:46Z | null | {
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Witt/Kieffer, the nation's largest search firm that specializes in health care, education and not-for-profit sectors, hired NeigerDesign to conduct a communications audit to identify weak spots and inconsistencies to help unify their communications materials to align with their strategic plan. As a result of our findings we recommended creating a graphic family look and communications standards that bridged all Witt/Kieffer materials. We created document templates and usage guides that allowed internal and external creative resources to plug into the system and maintain the brand identity. | 2019-04-23T16:04:54Z | null | {
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This is a pretty, big bodied, dark buckskin by a NRHA money earning son of NU CHEX TO CASH. She is out of a daughter of AQHA earner of 000 performance pts/ 00.0 halter pts, AQHA Open champion, and NRHA multiple titles RAWHIDES SLVR BULLET. She is gentle and willing to please, and would be an asset as a performer or broodmare program. 0 panel N/N. HPRBA Futurity Eligible. | 2019-04-18T12:33:14Z | null | {
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Radisson SAS Muscat says it will lay extra emphasis on the Iftar buffet this Ramadan. "There will be extra focus on the Iftar Buffet at the Radisson SAS this year, where we aim to erect traditional tents and take advantage of the excellent climate," said sales and marketing director Marc Fletcher. The hotel will be offering a special rate of RO00 ($00) for a single room and RO00 ($00) for a double room, both including a super buffet breakfast. The offer will be available from November 0 to December 00. Fletcher said the hotel recorded an "excellent" occupancy rate of 00 per cent last Ramadan, and was looking forward to notching-up another good year during the 0000 holy month. Though there was little change in business travel during the season, there was an increase in leisure tourism, he said. "The leisure tourism sector is undergoing a period of steady growth in Oman," said Fletcher. | 2019-04-25T22:50:32Z | null | {
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"Does the bleak, cold dullness of winter sometimes get you down? Then why not bring springtime into your home by forcing tree and shrub branches into bloom? Branches can be used as background for an arrangement or for an entire floral display, and you can prune your shrubs and trees as you selectively remove branches for forcing." Thanks to Horticulture Chair Carol Giunta for this full article from the Purdue University Cooperative Extension Service. http://charlotteskitchendiary.com/0000/00/00/a-foodie-guide-to-andalucia/ Become a Rowayton Gardener! | 2019-04-23T15:54:07Z | null | {
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Dazu reicht es aus, wenn man heißes Wasser durch den Schlauch laufen lässt. Senseo Kaffeepads mit Vielzahl an Sorten köstliches Crema eine Tasse in 00 Sekunden.. Guide to Pairs Trading. Top ETFs And What They Track: A Tutorial. If you don't have several thousand dollars budgeted for one-on-one training, you are probably.. Mehr anzeigen Read more Do you prefer to #trade with the trend, or against it? RT @AidanFX: #eurnzd Possible Market Patterns? Oanda, fxTrade und die fx-Markenfamilie.. or to PassiveTeX or FOP (non-commercial offerings). Scroll, recent news, blogher events, looking back at the past 00 years, even we're amazed by all the phenomenal females who have taken the main stage. . You can download the files developed in this article here: xsl-fo-assets. 0 /xsl:stylesheet In 0 and 0 we see the namespaces, respectively, of the xslt and FO content in this document, which differentiates transformation requests from output content. Ken Holman, m Using XSL Formatting Objects,. In order to get a better grasp of all this, let's fill out, minimally, how it forex board game might fit into a stylesheet whose task is to take a simple XML document and produce another XML document, which is then fed to an XSL-FO formatter. David Eisenberg, m XSL-FO: Making XML Look Good in Print, Dave Pawson, O'Reilly Associates. We can now combine the two snippets above to do something useful. It also contains the region-body element, which may be seen as the main body of the page layout. Matching a source document element and outputting an appropriate element from the XSL-FO vocabulary. At 0, 0, and 0 I'm back in the normal world of XML and xslt. Laurie Hernandez 0000, sheryl Crow 0000, kim Kardashian West 0000. Finally, at 0, we can start to add useful processing. This differentiates the body of the page from the outer areas (margins, header, footer etc.) of the page. Printing from XML: An Introduction to XSL-FO. | 2019-04-26T00:47:28Z | null | {
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Middle-class family life is breaking down as pressurised parents choose work over time with their children, a government study has found. It claims parents are 'cash rich' but 'time poor', with half feeling they should be at home more often to eat a family meal and help with school work. Instead, they try to compensate by taking their children on special trips at weekends. But the report found that parent-child relationships had 'broken down' in 'a sizeable minority' of families. The researchers warned that children in these strained families were far more likely to take extreme risks, such as trying drugs, getting into fights and drinking. The findings came in a survey of nearly 0,000 parents and children for the Department for Schools. Only 00 per cent of parents earning more than £00,000 a year spent time at home with their family at least four times a week. But 00 per cent of lower earners, on less than £00,000, enjoyed regular family time at home. | 2019-04-24T19:44:56Z | null | {
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Rent a Dumpster in Rio Vista Now! Simply give us a call and we will answer any questions you may have about the Rio Vista dumpster rental procedure, allowed materials, size you may need, etc. Our roll off containers can usually be delivered in Rio Vista the day after you place your order. Make sure to call us early to ensure timely delivery. Dumpster rental businesses generally have set prices, but the fine art of negotiation is constantly in play. Should you want to dicker on the cost, call around to other businesses first so you understand what the going rental rate is. When you are talking to the business you would like to use, simply mention other prices that are better than theirs. Some businesses WOn't only match that lower cost, they'll really overcome it to please their customers. You may also ask about discounts when you are renting a dumpster in Rio Vista. 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If you believe you'll need to be sure that it stays on the street for a number of weeks or months, however, you may need to get a permit. Contacting your local permits and licensing office is generally a good idea. Even if it's an unnecessary precaution, at least you'll learn that you simply are following the law. Dumpster rental businesses that charge flat rates in many cases are the top options for contractors and home owners. When you take advantage of a business that bills a flat rate, you can expect at least two benefits. Paying a flat rate usually means that you just get to avoid any hidden fees and costs. Businesses which don't charge flat fees may contain extra costs for basic services like dropping off the dumpster. Keep in your mind, nevertheless, which you still may have to pay extra if you wish to include certain items and stuff in the dumpster. Having a flat rate also means you can prepare your payment ahead of time. This is especially useful when you need someone else to make the payment for you. When you understand the precise quantity, you can write a check in advance. Then, anyone can pay the rental business when its driver drops off the dumpster. Most dumpster rental businesses in Rio Vista normally rent containers for a normal rate for 0 days, although most one-time customers end up keeping their container an average of three and a half days. When you phone to allow the container, talk with all the customer support representative about the amount of time you believe you'll need. In case it turns out that your job takes longer than you expected, merely telephone the dumpster business to clarify. Most businesses will bill you on a per-day basis after your initial seven days. It's vital that you communicate this added need as soon as you understand you've it since most dumpster firms have a limited number of bins that could already be allowed. 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For the fourth time, I have a story in Zoetic Press Non-Binary Review. "She-Wolf" appears in the new Dante's Inferno issue. It's also available as a podcast, the first time I've had a fiction story appear as an audio story. As I ran from the shadows of the other beasts, the third of their cohort came before me. A she-wolf, lean and burdened with the cravings of every unfortunate soul who'd traveled this path. Her snarl and her bared teeth inspired a fear so great that I forsook my mountain destination for the darkness nearby, hoping to hide from the gaze of the lupine huntress. | 2019-04-19T14:40:31Z | null | {
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This entry was posted in Budget, Food, Iceland, Travel and tagged budget travel, food, hot dogs, Iceland, jetsetting fools, Reykjavik, what to eat. Bookmark the permalink. This entry was posted in Iceland, Itinerary/Sights, Travel and tagged Iceland, itinerary, jetsetting fools, Reykjavik, things to do, tour, tourist, travel, what to do. Bookmark the permalink. This entry was posted in Iceland, Photo Essay, Travel and tagged Iceland, images, jetsetting fools, photography, photos, pictures, travel, winter. Bookmark the permalink. This entry was posted in Budget, Drinks, Iceland, Travel and tagged bars, craft beer, happy hour, Iceland, jetsetting fools, microbrew, Reykjavik, travel. Bookmark the permalink. This entry was posted in Iceland, Travel, Travel Stories and tagged Aurora Borealis, Iceland, jetsetting fools, Northern Lights, photos, tour, travel, what to see. Bookmark the permalink. This entry was posted in Day Trip, Iceland, Itinerary/Sights, Travel and tagged day tour, Day Trip, Iceland, itinerary, jetsetting fools, Reykjavik, Reykjavik Excursions, South Shore, tour, tour bus, tourist, Vik, what to see. Bookmark the permalink. This entry was posted in Day Trip, Iceland, Itinerary/Sights, Travel and tagged Day Trip, geyser, Golden Circle, Iceland, itinerary, jetsetting fools, Thingvellir National Park, tour, tourist, travel, waterfall, what to see. Bookmark the permalink. | 2019-04-22T07:04:24Z | null | {
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Soncell North America (SNA) is a Public Safety Company. SNA is comprised of two divisions, Products and Services. Our Products division manufactures reliable and superior quality products for the public safely industry in both domestic and global markets. Our Services division encompass the nations leading public safety vehicle upfitters. Soncell North America uses 0-S efficiencies in every location and follows ISO0000 manufacturing processes. American Emergency Products is the premier emergency vehicle upfitter in the Western United States with locations in Arizona, California, and New Mexico. AEP specializes in the custom outfitting of patrol, undercover, battalion command, fire, utility, and construction vehicles. Focused on production of quality, reliable, and consistent vehicles in a team-centric environment. Positions in our Phoenix Location: Pre-Tech The Prep-Technician is a part of production support. Activities will take place in the forms of shop maintenance and cleanup, preassembly, bench work, or vehicle preparation for build teams or specialty technicians. It is the Prep-Technician's responsibility to prepare sub-assemblies, prepare vehicles by either disassembly or assigned functions by Team Lead. Prep work of parts will be determined by the Team Lead and will derive from the Vehicle Build Sheet. This includes, but not limited to window bars, TLO boxes, push-bumpers, prisoner door panels, assembling of various products, etc. while maintaining a high level of quality. • Qualifications o Have a valid driver's license o Able to work in a high pace environment and adapt to change o Ability to learn quickly o Ability to work independently and within a team o Positive attitude is a must o Own and able to operate basic tools and power tools o Basic 00 volt knowledge o Preferred but not required, 0 year of mechanical automobile experience or a certificate of completion from an automotive or related technical school Full-time, part-time, and temporary positions available. Pay is based on experience. This is contract employment. | 2019-04-26T04:13:39Z | null | {
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This post originally appeared on iamwire. During 0000, India has the potential to become the world's biggest smartphone market. Consumers want to access entertainment and other digital content through smartphones, and smart device ownership is growing at an unprecedented rate. Yet while the digital divide is diminishing, another challenge is becoming worrisome for digital content merchants: Monetization. The growth of the Indian digital ecosystem has enabled many local companies to become successful due to being early movers in a quickly growing industry - Flipkart (e-commerce), MakeMyTrip (Travel), Naukri (Jobs), Octro (gaming), Gaana (music streaming) to name a few. Most of their audience is now accessing the content or transacting from mobile devices. So what does it mean for companies gearing up for a mobile-first approach? Previously, most people accessing online content were doing so from non-mobile devices, e.g. desktop and laptop computers. On an average, this user group has a larger income and is socially more advanced than the average consumer. But now that you can get a smartphone for as cheap as INR 0,000, and content is increasingly becoming more accessible to a much wider demography. The reason why income matters in this case is because of the primary monetization solution for selling anything online: digital banking. People with more wealth are able to (and permitted by their banks) to own a credit card, but lower income groups do not have access to this payment solution. So how big is the gap? Data from the Reserve Bank of India shows there are currently approximately 00.0 million credit cards in circulation in India: a growth of just 0.0% during 00 months: nowhere near the triple-digit growth rate of smartphone ownership. This means already over 000 million smartphone owners are trying to access paid content online but failing to do so. The issue is clearly illustrated by Google Play revenue numbers: India is #0 in terms of global downloads, but disappears from the top revenue countries list. It is unlikely that the credit card problem will go away for some time. Issues such as identity & reputation verification, debt enforcement and the prevalence of an informal, cash-based economy are not going to change in India as quickly as people are buying smartphones. What's the solution? The lack of accessible online payment solutions creates an opportunity for mobile operators and large-scale adoption of carrier billing as an alternative payment method for people who do not own a credit card. With carriers in the country struggling to keep up with the growth of data consumption, stepping in as a payment provider for the digital economy can alleviate the pressure put on networks. Granted, a lot of issues (such as replacing outdated Premium SMS technologies with direct carrier billing and low revenue shares unacceptable to physical goods merchants) still need to be resolved for carrier billing to become a widespread payment method. However, implementing change on the carrier & merchant side is a much more controllable process than hoping a large amount of smartphone owners magically get access to credit cards. Affordable smartphones have resolved the challenge of giving users access to online content in India - but now the issue of monetization needs to be resolved as well. Here the responsibility lies on the mobile operators to decide whether they want to grab the leading role in the digital economy or remain basic infrastructure providers. | 2019-04-21T12:11:53Z | null | {
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We hold a variety of educational webinars throughout the year on topics of interest to organisations looking to improve the customer and employee experience, reduce support costs and build brand loyalty. If you missed one of our past webinars, check out our Previous Webinars page to view event recordings on-demand. We are not currently accepting registrations for any upcoming webinars. Please check back again soon for our next webinar! In the meantime, take a look at our Previous Webinars page to view recordings of our past webinars on-demand. | 2019-04-23T06:47:19Z | null | {
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An excellent fulfilled tasty dish. This is the best breakfast dish too. Take a large ball from the kneaded dough and press it on a banana leaf. Cover it with banana leaf and steam cooks it for 00-00 minutes. | 2019-04-25T08:25:27Z | null | {
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WordPress is one of the best options when it comes to developing a good website fast and affordably. The open source system allows complete flexibility to experienced developers. You can have your site just as you have envisioned with a cool design service. However, web development companies specialize in different fields. You must make sure the company is exclusively an expert at WP. Hire with a creative perspective because internet appreciates uniqueness. Your site should be able to exude a unique personality through customized templates and plugins. A competent design service can definitely make this possible. Verify the following aspects. Proper customization would require good skills to come up with creative designs. You can also work on the reference of a competitor site but this approach may lack uniqueness. Your objective should be to have a site that is totally special in its niche. Now, you may have creative ideas but it is up to the programmers to execute that digitally. Creative thinking is imperative everywhere, from developing backgrounds and graphics. Find a cooperative wordpress design service where perfection is the motto. Check out the service portfolio to assess their skills. Many clients also ask for a demo site at first before signing the long term contract. Any kind of site development project must be done with SEO integration. On-site SEO requirements are typically about coding in a manner that gets the right signals to Google. The programmers should have updated understanding of search engine algorithm in terms of coding and other on-site SEO aspects. Of course, you should be checking whether the programmers can guarantee sufficient technical expertise at open source PHP coding. Verify the experience of the developers. See if they can create custom WP themes using jQuery, CSS0, and HTML0. PSD designs would be needed to be converted to custom WordPress templates. The code sheet should be made bug free with the guarantee of manual testing. Find if they handle installation and customization of Buddypress among other things. It is best to send across detailed mails with your queries and judge the service by their response. Contact details should be readily available at the website. The service should be working on the basis of a neat contract. Avoid messy deals where things are kept confusing and at last you find hidden costs! You have to be sure on the infrastructure and human resource aspect as well. Many clients make it a point to talk with the designer who is assigned on the project for direct collaboration right from the beginning. In case the developer working on your site is on an urgent leave, the company should be able to guarantee continuity without any compromise on quality. The contract should have well defined terms on the number of revisions that are allowed without extra cost. WP packages need to be maintained with regular attention. Find out whether the wordpress design service can commit to professional management with month end reporting. Customer support must be available 00/0 for fast troubleshooting of any issues. | 2019-04-24T12:53:57Z | null | {
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And The Winner Of The ASPCA Gift Pack Is...! We're pleased to announce the winner of the ASPCA Gift Pack featured in the photo above! We're especially excited that the film by ASPCA, "Second Chance Dogs", which follows six rescued dogs given a second chance at life, is included in this Gift Pack! If you're not the lucky winner, you can check it out on Netflix! Picked by Rafflecopter via Random.org, our lucky winner is... Margot C.! Let's all put our paws together in a round of applause for Margot! A huge thank you to Margot and all who participated! I was amazed by you. the way you create a website very thorough and good. This is very very impressive. Thank you for sharing hopefully more successful. I support the ASPCA and all of their causes. I would like to help spread the word. | 2019-04-19T07:01:43Z | null | {
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The Horse Guards Building of Scotland Yard. From Dickens to Sherlock Holmes, Agatha Christie to James Bond - no police institution in the world has caught the public imagination in the same way as Scotland Yard. The name has become synonymous with London's police force, but actually comes from the location of the original police headquarters building. Its officers and "Bobbies" are often seen as protectors of the Royal Family and British officials, but Scotland Yard is most often associated with police detectives. Some contemporary sleuths reveal the secrets of what it takes to become a modern-day Sherlock Holmes and the program uncovers some grim and grisly details of detectives who have gone before. | 2019-04-23T12:04:34Z | null | {
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Pricing is important and you need to know your budget before making any decision. You not only need to give consideration to the upfront costs but you also need to pay attention to the long term costs which you need to face to get benefited from CRM solution. You also need to consider costs of software customization, system integration and other additional equipment. Make a choice of best CRM solution which can integrate with your existing IT infrastructure as affordable CRM in the start will not benefit you if you have to face large investment later on. Flexibility is an important factor while making choice of a CRM system. Basic functionalities are offered by almost all the systems but you may need customized fields to address the specific needs. CRM customer management software needs to have the flexibility in order to give you the right solution according to your business requirements. You need to make a clear set of business goals because you need to understand how data is accessed, generated and stored. Strengths and weaknesses related to each approach needs to be determined. Make weighted, prioritized and measurable requirements for software selection as it will serve as the benchmark for follow up analysis on ROI and on software success. Each approach of CRM has its own drawbacks and benefits. Some organization opt for cloud CRM software because of quick and easy access to sophisticated equipment. It also let them negate the need to buy expensive technologies. On the other hand some organizations opt for onsite deployment and make their own setup because of their needs. You need to verify that you're CRM and project management software will be able to grow with your business or not. You definitely don't want to buy new system in the next few years due to the changing requirements and that is the reason you need to be sure of best scalability of the system which you are going to purchase. It is always good to have a look at your industry and competitors. You can take full advantage from the existing experience if CRM systems are already working in your industry. You can also opt for an industry specific solution related to your industry and then customize it according to your needs. No matter how much costly or advanced your CRM business management software is, it will not be a good one for you if your people are not comfortable working with it. User friendly CRM software will benefit your organization in an intuitive manner. CRM software must also facilitate users so that their operations start getting completed conveniently. It is a crucial factor as your data needs to go in to CRM solution no matter which CRM software you choose. You don't want to integrate each and every entry to your client management software and that is the reason you need to find an easy way to make data integration possible with your CRM system. Previous Post Importance of ERP in Wholesale and Distribution Next Post What makes A Well Implemented HCM System a Necessity for any organization? | 2019-04-19T10:40:03Z | null | {
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above/ground press: The Volta Book of Poets: Wilkinson, Browning, Baus, Carr, Gordon, Wagner, etc. The Volta Book of Poets: Wilkinson, Browning, Baus, Carr, Gordon, Wagner, etc. Each poet offers a statement of poetics to accompany their selection of poems. Contrasting styles, diverse voices, unique obsessions, differing poetic influences and approaches to cultural identity, THE VOLTA BOOK OF POETS is a celebration of contrasts. Think of it less as a unifying, thematic gesture than a starter map -- radiating out to poets, books, journals, reading series, nonprofits, and other organizations committed to the advancement of poets and poetry. | 2019-04-21T18:36:35Z | null | {
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Why would you hate it? ah. yea that is understandable. Are you ok? I think you had a little too much gas. Someone's been drinkin' some dirty ol swish. bubbles is awesome. but nobody can beat ricky and what he say sometime. by far ricky is my favorite character. Here we 'reddit' about the Trailer Park Boys which is a documentary-style comedy about the inhabitants of Sunnyvale Trailer Park, located in the beautiful Maritime province of Nova Scotia, Canada. The show follows the exploits of Sunnyvale's most notorious residents, Ricky, Julian, and Bubbles, as they attempt to make money through various greasy (and mostly illegal) get-rich-quick schemes, hotly pursued by the park's drunken supervisor, Jim Lahey, and his shirtless sidekick, Randy. | 2019-04-21T20:49:26Z | null | {
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I doubt anyone is very happy with the tone of political discourse today. Certainly I am not, the press is likely not, the president is not and neither are most in Congress, possibly on both sides of the aisle. And principally, the folks who read and write columns such as these are particularly disgusted. Hiding behind icons, avatars and screen names, they are in no small way responsible for that; it is now very common to have profanity and ridicule as the norm in the Comments section of news articles. I assume that the people who write that way are happy to have an outlet for their upset and their venom, but it is not a "happy" I would be comfortable with. I have written a few times about my very liberal grand-niece, a Ph.D. candidate and Bernie Sanders supporter, and probably will be until she has to earn a living. She is the child of conservatives, at least one set of grandparents were conservatives, including the surviving grandmother, and her grand-uncle and aunt are certainly conservatives. We disagree with her on so many things. But we are not able to communicate that. The past few years, when the family was together, she would declare that she was not going to talk politics, although the rest of the clan certainly would. She did not want to have the conversation. I don't want to presuppose anything, or put words in her mouth, but it struck me that she did not feel capable of having a persuasive argument with people a generation or two her senior. As I wrote once, I believe this is exacerbated by the associations on social media that such youngsters have, that evolve to where only like-minded people talk to each other. My best girl closed her Facebook account recently, after posting a reasonably-presented counter to a relative's statement of assumed (leftist) fact, and being condemned for her opinion with venom far higher than imaginable, since her counter had been presented without anger at all. That refusal of my grand-niece to engage at all is likely the exception to the rule, I fear. More frequently, such encounters as with my best girl erupt into arguments that cannot be won once the anger rises to a certain point. And so it was with great interest that I received a lengthy email from Kevin, a classmate in college, fraternity brother, and also a roommate for a year. We had not especially kept up a great deal over the ensuing years, an occasional message but that was about it as we went through our respective careers. I had not seen him for 00 years when we got together at our college reunion and spent some time at some of the scheduled events and talking with the other few brothers of our class who had attended. Kevin's email brought up a piece I had written a few weeks ago, and was intended to ask if what I had written expressed a true feeling, or was rather a literary exaggeration-for-effect to make a point. More importantly, it was indeed lengthy, and included several questions intended to break down the content I had written and get to what I was actually saying. I think I can comfortably say that he felt differently from the way I did on that particular topic. That fact is relevant, since for the first time in I-don't-know-when, there was the case of people disagreeing on a specific topic, actually asking the other person, ever so politely, to explain the root of their feelings in regard to that topic. Now, I suspect that Kevin and I agree on other things, possibly many. If memory serves, we were of a fairly common mind back in college, so although there was real difference on this issue, there might still be fundamental agreement on other areas. Possibly, but I don't know. It doesn't matter. What does matter, and I hope you will apply this to your own daily dealings, is that differences on an issue were addressed by trying to understand the nature of the other's points. Obviously therapy, such as marriage counseling, tries to get married couples to try to understand each other's perspectives, to listen, to ask, to try to divine the source of the other's opinion before trying to argue them out of it, and certainly before belittling them because of their view. Let us imagine ... what kind of astronomically better world would we be living in, if it were populated far more by people who asked what lay behind your opinions, and far less by those quick to anger, quick to belittlement or, sadly, quick to avoid the discussion in the first place, lest they actually learn something from it. I am strongly for the world with more Kevins in it. And I will point out that since his initial inquiry, I did respond -- not quickly, though. Thoughtful questions deserve thoughtful answers, and it took some real thought to get into the fundamentals behind my own opinion (!). I didn't change my view, mind you, but I was able to clarify the connection between my experiences and my views, and communicate that. We have had a slow and careful discussion on another issue, since. And my first reaction is invariably how good and pleasant it is to talk about an issue without raising arms. Good. Pleasant. Nice thoughts to get a week going. #000: Where Have You Gone, CNN? Back in the '00s, I had to travel around to military headquarters in different locations in the world for my assignment. This was in 0000-00 or so. One thing that was a fairly common sight back then were the war rooms, or situation rooms, where the brass would meet to brief and be briefed. They were pretty high-tech for the time, with large TV screens around an otherwise normal conference room type of setting. Obviously it was a bit intimidating to be in such a space while a war was going on, or at least winding down, although I was never that close to any of it. Well, I was in Panama less than a year after their internal war, and there were still bullet holes in the outside walls. That wasn't fun and it defined "intimidating", although Panama City then was certainly safer than south Chicago now, or south Chicago in 0000 when I lived there. In each one of those situation rooms, one of the television screens would be running the Cable News Network, known then and now as CNN. Twenty-five years ago, CNN was the McNews of the traveler, in the same sense that USA Today was called "McPaper." The point was simple. For pretty much ever, news was delivered locally even when the content was national. If you watched an affiliate of a network in the evening, you got a half-hour or so of local news followed by the anchor of the local affiliate's network doing a half-hour or so of world and national news. But you watched Channel 0, or whatever, in your town, to get it. The print media were the same. The Herald, or the Times, or the Post, or the Press, or the Times-Picayune, or the Register, of whatever city or town, well, they carried world and national news but were delivered locally. They were associated with their locality and were loyal to their locality. The larger ones had bureaus in Washington and other places to represent them and deliver customized reporting, but they were the reporter or bureau chief of the Springfield Whatever, not of a press service. All that changed with CNN and with USA Today. These outlets had no locality to represent. They vaguely resembled AP or UPI, the news services, except instead of being news services that fed the working press, they were their own outlets. USA Today put kiosks in every airport for their paper, and stuffed one under hotel doors all over the place, a perk for guests, or at least guests with frequent-traveler status. And CNN, ahh, CNN. They, too, were all over, on the screens in airports, hotel rooms and all manner of "non-local" places. We of a certain age grew up in the '00s and '00s when "news" was available first thing in the morning, and 0-0pm at night. That was it. CNN brought to us the concept of news being updated all the time, a 00-hour news cycle wherever you were, and the same news in Idaho, Texas, New Jersey, Maine and Alabama. Some of that is the same 00 years later. It is still there, CNN is, still delivering "non-local" news. But so is Fox News Channel, and so is MSNBC, possibly (we're not sure if it actually is, as this column has not found anyone who actually watches it). CNN is owned by Time-Warner, and while we can't really say that has mattered, and I don't want to go all post hoc, ergo propter hoc on you, what we know is that their reporting is unabashedly to the left, or at least anti-Republican. I expect that what bothers me most about whither CNN has drifted -- and I don't have to remind you of stories they have recently filed that are factually incorrect but reliably anti-Trump -- is that they had a position they could have staked out. CNN built its reputation as a non-local news provider, practically the inventor of the 00-hour news cycle. It could have been an essentially neutral provider, as it was in the 0000s. It could have reported Barack Obama's warts and failures along with whatever good he might have done (I have forgotten if there was any, but I'm not pretending to be neutral). It could have critiqued the Democrats in Congress for their fruitless stalling of Cabinet appointees with the same vigor that it criticized Mitch McConnell for holding up any hearings on the Supreme Court nomination last year of ... of ... gaack, I've already forgotten his name. It could have been a reliably unbiased provider of 00 hours a day worth of news, a position that its origin allowed it to be. I know that news virtually everywhere else is reported with bias, in some cases with a lot of it. CNN had set a position for itself where it could have been a respected journalistic beacon. It is now something quite smaller than that. It has become advocacy journalism, unabashed Hillary supporters frustrated by their backing of the wrong side. They appear to be solely inclined to enhance the political position and power of establishment Democrats, and to minimize the political power and position of Republicans, currently by their corrupt bashing of President Trump. By doing so, they have sacrificed their standing as a respectable outlet, and their journalistic endeavors, which are at their highest when they are neutral and unbiased, are compromised everywhere. MSNBC is to the left, we get that. Viewers, if any remain, expect that and want that. Fox News is to the right, and we who do watch it expect that point of view as well. I didn't watch CNN that often, but I used to. I trusted that their purpose dictated that they would tell us what happened, no more, no less. I asked too much. CNN ran away from me. I have mentioned that I am a member of the Barbershop Harmony Society, although my quarter-century of world competition is now behind me, and although it is not the actual topic of this piece. Having competed for decades at the highest competitive level of the art form, I am as aware of anyone how amazing well-done barbershop is at its best, which I link to, and how awful it is at its worst, which I won't hurt you with. Of, course, I have often been asked to speak about the art form, and when I do I try to separate out the more complex musical attributes from the entire "other part", which is the story-telling nature of barbershop songs. Barbershop is both. It is the musical complexity of three male voices harmonizing to a melody in such a way as to produce a blend wherein you regularly hear more than four notes. It is also the capacity to bring an audience inside the story that the lead singer is telling in his rendition of the lyrics. Those stories are often unhappy ones, some of lost love, or lost family. They are popular, at least among the singers, because they allow the performer to plumb the deep emotions that he has felt for an analogous situation in his own life -- in fact, we advise and coach performers to find that analogy to make them better at delivering the emotional impact of the song. Accordingly, I have always made the point that barbershop singers value our emotional "lows" as well as our highs, because it is a form of exercise to experience the entire emotional spectrum and react viscerally to it. So although this piece is not at all about singing, I wanted you to know where I am coming from; that I think it is valuable to experience real breadth of emotion. What it is about is actually a television show airing on the TLC channel on cable. The show is called "Long Lost Family", and is hosted by Lisa Joyner and Chris Jacobs. Long Lost Family is an adoption show, an adaptation of a BBC production of the same name. Both hosts were, themselves, adopted. An episode typically consists of two stories, one handled by each host, in which an individual seeks a blood relative separated since birth (or extreme youth) by an adoption. It may be a child seeking biological parents, or parents seeking children given up at birth for adoption -- both scenarios are common. In each case, the subject has reached out to the show producers, having failed on their own to find the person or couple they seek to connect with, or being uninformed and incapable of doing the search themselves. Early in the show, the subject shares with Miss Joyner or Mr. Jacobs everything they know or have found in their own unsuccessful attempts. The assigned host then goes back to work to find the people sought. The tools for finding people, even with only a first name and a date of birth, are pretty sophisticated in the hands of someone determined enough. I may have mentioned, for example, that I am the secretary of my class of 0,000 at M.I.T. from 00 years ago. In 0000, I started trying to find the 00-odd classmates whom the college had lost touch with. Within 00 months I had found all of them, including one who didn't want to be found (I counted speaking with his sister as a form of success). So it can be done. But I digress, probably quite a bit. These stories are all deeply emotional, not the least of which reason being that the parties themselves are emotional about it. Imagine having to have given up a child for adoption when you were a teenager, loving the child for 00 years without any idea where he might have been all that time, or even if he wanted to see you. Then Lisa Joyner comes to see you and tells you, softly, "We found him. Yes, he wants to meet you." The reunion scenes are amazing and touching. I can't say if they have many failed reunions and select out the successful ones, or don't do stories on the ones where the found person doesn't want to meet, but it would be OK if they did. Even produced and edited to highlight the drama, you can see the amazing, happy, stressful wonder is real, and amazingly tear-inducing. The stories are striking even at their least. In several cases the person sought has been within a few miles of the seeker all that time. In one amazing case, a woman was seeking the mother who had given her up for adoption at birth over thirty years earlier. She discovered not only that they had worked at the same hospital in Rochester, NY, but they had worked together and knew each other! I can still remember when the host brought the picture of the mother over for the daughter to see, and she said with a shock "I know her!" How would you feel watching that, knowing that the story was not a movie plot, but absolutely real -- the whole thing is quite real, and the flaws of the characters are quite there on display, where in the movies they would be played by glamorous and attractive stars? How would you feel being the son in another case on the show, a young man living in Idaho, given up by a teenage Texas high school couple at birth? You are contacted by the show, and discover that the couple stayed together after you were given up, married and had several other children -- your full-blooded siblings! That reunion was a truly special moment, especially when the young man, now married, introduced his natural parents to their daughter-in-law -- and grandchild -- they never knew existed. The producers of this show, to their credit, have been doing "follow-up" episodes from previous years' stories, to show what has been happening since the initial reunion. I say "to their credit" because the stories don't always work out the way we wish they would have happened. Remembering that in most cases, the person sought was surprised to have been found, we have someone searching for years for a relationship with someone unaware of their being sought. That's not an ironclad recipe for success. I confess that this show regularly brings me, a 00-year-old mature adult, to tears. I also confess that it is why I watch it -- back to barbershop songs for a moment -- because the exercise of extremes in our emotions is a valuable practice, and seeing real, actual stories like these definitely taps emotions as extreme as it gets. I have already learned that such extremes are healthy to explore. So I value the situations -- whether a barbershop ballad or a TV show about adoptive family reunions -- where we can do that. I do urge you to watch the show in its various iterations. It is quite well done, and the situations are dealt with real sensitivity and without added drama -- the situations and stories are more than dramatic enough. I'm not a celebrity, so I can't be a celebrity endorser, but this one rings a lot of bells with me. President Trump has made a point of addressing the problem of cities whose mayors and city councils refuse to turn over illegal alien criminals to Federal authorities. Now, we know that even non-criminal illegal aliens are already criminals by virtue of being in the USA without authorization, but this isn't it. The president is not actively trying to deport those people anytime soon. He is, as those who give him the benefit of the doubt can see, a compassionate man, and is reluctant to come down hard on people such as those brought here illegally at a young age by their parents. Those people have nothing to do with this piece. He is far less compassionate for those who, on top of being here illegally, are doubly criminal by virtue of having committed serious crimes while here. Those people he intends to deport as soon as they can be found, given that they are not entitled to the due process granted to the US citizen by the Constitution. Come here illegally, commit a serious-enough crime, and you're out of the country. Apparently a number of cities don't follow that reasoning. Calling themselves "sanctuary cities" (pass on the Hunchback of Notre Dame references), they have declared that they will protect such criminals by refusing to notify the Department of Homeland Security or the Customs and Border Protection people to come get them for deportation. "You're safe here", they say to criminal aliens, which should make criminal US citizens wonder what's in it for them. "Not so fast", says President Trump. Not surprisingly, the Federal government sends billions of taxpayer dollars to local governments for any number of purposes. In the largest cities, the order of magnitude is in the mid-to-high hundreds of millions, each. US cities certainly get their share. So the president, who has campaigned in opposition to the notion of sanctuary cities and stressed their illegality, is planning to implement a policy cutting off funding for sanctuary cities. Already Miami, to note one city, has dropped its "sanctuary" policy rather than lose its funding. In the meantime, we have had plenty of reactions to the policy of cutting funding to such cities. And, needless to say, I have one as well. You see, here's the thing. The Federal government does not "have money", per se. It has the funds that it has taken through taxes to fund its budget. That budget, as we know, has for many years authorized spending of money that the government does not have. You and I can't do that, but the government can. The result is that while the government spends the taxpayers' money, it is, without our consent, borrowing money and spending it, leaving us, the taxpaying class, holding the credit card bill. So accordingly, it ought to be a heck of a lot more careful what it borrows money from places like China to spend on. Think about it, and you don't have to think hard. If San Francisco, which gave us fog, more fog, and Nancy Pelosi, but I repeat myself, takes money from the Federal government, it is actually taking from you and me, who don't live in California at all, to give to them. San Francisco, a sanctuary city, then uses my money to allow serial illegal alien criminals to commit crimes, be deported, commit more crimes, be deported again, ad nauseam, until one of them murders an innocent person like Kate Steinle. If San Francisco's elected officials choose to ignore Federal law, there are consequences that they should not be surprised at. If President Trump pulls Federal funding from San Francisco, or Chicago, he is also saying that he respects every penny the IRS seizes from hardworking Americans. He is saying that such cities have no "right" to that money, and accordingly are subject to punishment if they disobey the law. They certainly don't have the right to break Federal law and be rewarded by being given money from taxpayers in other parts of the country to fund lawbreaking public officials. Very little is given by the Constitution to the Federal government, as far as authorizing it to take on. All else, per the Tenth Amendment, is the responsibility of the states. Border security and immigration law are among those precious few duties reserved for Washington. If Washington is being thwarted in doing one of the few things it is supposed to do, there are indeed consequences. I can't wait for the citizens of one of those cities to react to losing Federally-funded city services by asking why they voted for the clowns in charge in the first place. I can't wait for the next city that calls "BS" on their perpetually failing leadership -- Chicago, Detroit, Philadelphia, San Francisco, New York, Baltimore (Washington, DC is hopeless) -- and starts electing conservatives to help clean up their cities. I'll bet you can't wait either. "No Trump (beat, beat) no K-K-K no [unintelligible] ..." Yep, that's what was being chanted, rhythmically, at some protest march a few days back in some city somewhere. It wasn't near me, so I wasn't exactly put out very much, but it did get my attention. Back when I was in college, we were in the peak of the Vietnam War, and I was in Cambridge, Massachusetts (I actually lived in Boston, but classes were in Cambridge; it didn't matter). Lots of protests, lots of riots. Occasional shooting of firearms outside the MIT range. Screaming at servicemen in uniforms. While there was a lot of screaming and protesting about different things, it was centered on the Vietnam War, at least much of the time. And while I was not an opponent of the Vietnam War, I will at least give the protestors of the day this: They were asking for something. They wanted the Vietnam War to be over. Oh, sure, there were lots of other things, but that was fairly central to the protests and rallies and what-all else they were doing. It was at least something. This became fairly obvious when you looked at the signs at the rallies, and really obvious when you hear the protestors' representatives talking. For example, on Monday night there was a protest leader interviewed by Fox News's Tucker Carlson on his eponymous TV program. I don't know the kid's name, but it didn't take long for Carlson to ask what he was protesting about. I mean, there's a lot of made-up angst around the nation since the election and thereafter, when the Clintonistas' fans panicked at not being able to fathom not winning (typically called "losing"). So the kid was asked "why the protest." He started in on platitudes for a short bit, and when asked by Carlson to get specific, he mentioned that he was gay, and that there were issues with the LGBT community and an executive order that they had heard might be considered. He then went back to the platitudes, meaning that he couldn't cite anything they actually wanted changed, you know, specifically. Carlson immediately stopped him, and took him back to the gay thing. What particular thing about President Trump, he asked the kid, was he afraid of regarding gay people. At that, the protest leader said two words about a possible executive order, without any detail, and went back to the platitudes ("This is a movement, blah blah blah ..."). If you have ever watched Tucker Carlson, you can't sneak that kind of thing past him. Back he brought the conversation to this mythical executive order planned ... "What executive order?", he asked, "What is it supposed to do?" In reply, nothing but platitudes -- he was being pressured by Carlson on being gay, he insisted, when there were so many important issues. "But you brought it up!", Carlson replied. "Tell me what you are afraid of!" Finally the allocated time had expired without a single tangible thing having been aired as a reason to go for a walk, let alone to have a "Not my president" rally. Let us step back and think for a moment. Conservatism, when actually implemented, works. It rewards effort, talent, motivation and intelligence. Our concomitant compassion motivates us to take care of the helpless at the same time. Socialism, on the other hand, has never worked, certainly without a dictatorship to force people to accept it for a period of time. Venezuela, Cuba, Russia, Red China, North Korea, Vietnam -- it doesn't work. So the callow and idealistic youth, with their signs, are too young to look broadly enough and recognize that it is abject failure for the government to own or run everything. Now, absent a model of success for them to want to emulate and declare that they want to emulate it, their protests -- and youth always protests -- inherently lack anything to be for. Lacking that, the passion flies out the window along with the content. This is why you can see that the organized protests are indeed organized, recruited in newspaper and online ads we have now seen, and are led by paid mercenary protesters. There is no substance, because these are people without a mission. Opposition is fruitless without a tangible goal. This was followed last night when the ever curious Mr. Carlson brought yet another protest leader on the show and gave her air time. Again, after a few minutes of copious Hitler references (remember that whoever mentions "Hitler" first loses the argument), Carlson found himself unable to get her to answer the same "What do you want?" question. Finally, after being unable to get her to shut up enough to ask her a question, he ended the segment with her ranting in the background. It's so ironic. People with no mission but a few more dollars in their jeans are shouting "No Trump, no KKK" as if the two were somehow remotely related. They may have missed, among the rather modest number of explicit issues requiring solutions which Trump spoke to in his campaign, that unlike his opponent, he had made a commitment to helping the inner cities, working to update their schools and provide private-sector job opportunities to help them recover. The protestors screaming "KKK" may have missed the fact that Trump's predecessor (and opponent, by the way), literally said and did nothing for black inner cities. The kid on the Tucker Carlson show was claiming to fear some kind of anti-gay "executive order." But it would come from the guy who stood in front of the nation in Cleveland and accepted his nomination for the presidency, declaring his intent to protect the LGBT community (while, if the kid was old enough, he doubtlessly voted for the previous president, the one who for years opposed gay marriage). There is nothing to protest, whether or not you're upset. President Trump said he would do X, Y and Z in regard to some pillar issues in the country. He is trying now, as he finally gets his Cabinet and senior executive-branch people, to start to do those things he said he would. The people voted for his solutions. It's a representative democracy we have, with a very sound Constitution. Under it, we have chosen a leader for the next four or eight years, same as always. If he implements something, actually implements it, and you want something different, well, our representative democracy is a free country -- have at it, as you ask for a different solution. But if you march through the streets, at least know what you want. An hopefully it isn't just your protestor's paycheck from George Soros. Although this piece strays far from the realm of politics, it does at least provide a touching reminder that the world of Federal contracting, the one that occupies my working hours, has its "competitive humor", at least when you look from the perspective of time and a little distance. The genesis of this piece was from a previous one about the amusing reaction during the S*per Bowl by Google voice-responsive devices around the country, to a commercial featuring those devices. A bit hard, it apparently is, to demonstrate a voice-response system in a TV commercial without having thousands of such devices within earshot all go off and respond. Well, I laughed. At any rate, I compared the issue to the 0000 "Y0K" situation that we all remember, and for which I had managed a group that worked to fix programming code that was subject to the "bug" of Y0K. A reader brought it up, and it all reminded me of the most memorable story of those years in the late '00s. I was working for Litton Industries at the time, Litton having acquired the fairly large firm called "PRC", an information technology contractor for whom I had been working a number of years at the time. Such acquisitions were as common then as they are now; Litton had in fact purchased PRC from Black and Decker in 0000, which had acquired it as a component of a company called Emhart in 0000, who in turn had bought PRC in the mid '00s. One of PRC's larger contracts was with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office as an IT support contractor, covering a few hundred people. A big element of that was COBOL programming. Even then, COBOL was a "very old" programming language, meaning that the people who used it were pretty much, well, old. I programmed in COBOL for years, if that tells you anything. With the Y0K bug having started to be the subject of alerts in 0000, PRC decided the next year to form a group to "remediate" older programs, meaning to overhaul them to make all the date fields four-digit, and to test that they did what they were supposed to do thereafter. Much of that was COBOL code, meaning that there was a big need for COBOL programmers capable of doing the work, and that meant, politely, older software engineers. PRC's five-year contract with the Patent and Trademark Office was coming to an end in 0000. Although PRC was confident of winning the recompetition of the work, having done a really good job and gotten high review scores, government contracts are almost invariably price sensitive, and a solid-performing contractor can lose to one who slashes their prices, even if the latter is at risk of not being even able to hire people at the salaries they bid. Now that brings up a peculiar aspect of contracting. When you have a hundred people working full-time on a project, they have almost all of what is called "institutional knowledge." In other words, after five years of managing, developing and fixing code, those 000 people know everything about the code and no one else knows anything. So if a different company is competing for that work, they would normally expect, if they win, to try to hire all, or most, of the people working for the current employer, the "incumbent." That's often difficult, since the challenger has to get their price down below the incumbent while still planning to hire the same employees already there. To do that with the already-thin profit margins in such work, you have to plan to pay the people less, or give them poorer benefits. Essentially, you "hope" to keep them and learn everything you can from them before they quit for a higher-paying job. I believe the past eight years showed how good "hope" is as a strategy. Obviously the employees, even old COBOL programmers, are not stupid. They know what's going on, but there has to be an alternative for them. Typically there isn't, so they just stay on the project for the new contractor, at lower pay or weaker benefits or both. That was the tack taken by CSC, yet another three-letter contractor. In their bid, they cut the price of the proposed workforce, while declaring that they would hire the incumbent team. USPTO assumedly never asked how CSC could be so sure that they could retain much of the work force while paying them less, looked at their proposed price and awarded them the contract in 0000. But a funny thing happened on the way to that award, though. Y0K happened. Now from the perspective of the programming staff PRC had on the USPTO contract, well, they were not excited about changing companies, and even less excited on learning what would happen to their salaries and benefits. And at just about the same time that award was being worked out, PRC's brand-new Y0K organization was looking for a mess of COBOL programmers for a new task with some of its other customers, to fix old COBOL code. That meant that, at just the time CSC was looking and ready to hire all those PRC programmers about to come off the USPTO task as it expired, PRC had alternative work for them, allowing them to stay with their company, and keep their salaries and benefits. Needless to say, a large percentage of them decided to stay and not go over to CSC. I would have felt sorry for CSC had they not been PRC's competition, and had they not won away an important PRC contract by bidding a price so low that they were going to have a tough time living up to it. Plus, I was running the services part of the Y0K group at PRC, and I needed those programmers just as much. So each one we kept was good for me -- and we kept about 00 of them. Our competitor was not so lucky; they quickly found themselves obligated to deliver on a contract for which they had fewer than half the staff members they expected to have, and all that institutional knowledge they expected to get from them, well, they didn't get it. USPTO was not particularly happy, although they might have wanted to have looked in a mirror and evaluated how they determined contract awards and to what extent price should have been a factor. My Y0K team did excellent work, and for a couple years, until just after January 0, 0000, most all of them were busy and productive. I accepted a good offer and left PRC a month or so before that, and the rest is history. CSC had a rough time at USPTO and lost the recompetition in 0000. In fact, if memory serves, USPTO had to execute a sole-source contract to PRC just to get some of that institutional memory available to them. For the record, the above is certainly not a slight against CSC, as much as a historical reckoning; they did nothing out of the ordinary for the time (or since). If anything, the blame falls squarely on the contracts people at PTO for accepting a bid so fraught with risk if the contractor failed to hire enough incumbent staff. A lesson in there somewhere? I don't know, except for the suggestion that Federal contracting officers look a bit harder at bids for services that charge a lot less than what the agency had been paying. Hopefully they will, but don't hold your breath. Just a nice, non-political tale for the day. Like what you read here? There's a new post from Bob at www.uberthoughtsUSA.com at 00am Eastern time, every weekday, giving new meaning to "prolific essayist." Advertising, sponsorship and interview inquiries cheerfully welcomed at [email protected] or on Twitter at @rmosutton. Let's start the week, if we may, with a question for the left. A surprising amount of flak has been received by President Trump from the left and from the overwhelming left-dominated media in regard to a campaign occurrence. This was back in November of 0000, early in the campaign, when Trump did a contemptuous reference to a reporter. Mocking the words of the reporter, he waved his arms around and parodied him. This was turned into a "mocking the disabled" narrative by the media since this, of course, was a reporter with a disability. It survived even to this day, and was part of Meryl Streep's acceptance speech at some recent theater-people-celebrating-other-theater-people awards ceremony. Of course, as it turned out, while mocking the reporter's words, Trump was simply using the very same arm-waving mocking gesture that he had used to mock all manner of non-handicapped people, including Donald Trump himself, Senator Ted Cruz, and an Army general in the same speech as he mocked the reporter. Evidently, Trump's capacity for mocking includes a rather limited repertoire of gestures. But that wasn't quite good enough for the left. That would be the ever-friendly comedy writer-turned-senator from Minnesota, good old Al Franken. Al Franken was the fellow who was as nasty as you please (or should we say "indignant" and thus by his definition, "unattractive") at the hearings for a couple of President Trump's Cabinet nominees. Those words about the "unattractiveness of people who live to be indignant", of course, were in a 0000 book written by none other than Al Franken himself. Wow, who would have thought that he would not have learned about how he looks when he lives to be indignant. But the important part is that the quote was from a book entitled "Rush Limbaugh is a Big Fat Idiot." I'm not kidding; that was the title of the book. I remember when it came out; Limbaugh was pretty much the same level of fame and wide audience that he is now, meaning that the indignant left thought they needed to try to minimize his credibility by ... well, in this case, body-shaming. I don't think the term "body-shaming" was used in 0000. But since then, it has been as in vogue to bash people who make fun of the overweight, as it used to be to make fun of them in the first place. You can follow the scandals involving critiques of so-called "plus-size" models, and the associated criticism of the critics, as evidence that overweightness (?) is the next protected class among us. As an example, I've been curious about the oddly high level of attention (in the form of articles in the media) about the very obese actress Chrissy Metz, who plays one of a set of triplets in the very good TV show "This is Us." Her part is no bigger (sorry) than any of the rest of the ensemble cast, but they, as they say, get "no ink" by comparison -- for example, I know her name, and do not know the names of the other two triplets off the top of my head. She is, in fact, on the cover of People magazine, with a caption quoting her as saying "I'm Proud of Who I Am", whatever that means. I'm sure she is a very nice person, but she might be a bit upset to think that she and her story are being "used." My inference is that the media are making her prominent -- putting her forward, as it were -- as bait to attract body-shamers to make fun of her and add another protected class of victims. Those who comment negatively on her weight are positioned right up there with the likes of their image of Donald Trump, who was supposed to have made fun of "the handicapped." So where, then, was the indignation in the portrayal of Rush Limbaugh in the crudest terms, blatantly using the term "big, fat" right there in the title on the cover? I mean, I thought when the book came out it was a bit of an over-the-top choice of words, given that Limbaugh, at least at the time, was indeed notably overweight. I've been searching a bit, for the purposes of this column, for the first left-leaning type who criticized Franken when the book came out for the 0000 equivalent of "body-shaming." I haven't found a word yet, but I sure am trying. Readers need to know. But we know nothing will ever come up. Franken can be indignant in Senate hearings (despite his professed and printed distaste for such posturing), without mainstream media quoting his words to him. He can body-shame someone, since the recipient of the shaming is a conservative radio commentator, and thus subject to such ridicule without hesitation. And the left will find new classes of victims and continue to seek redress of their grievances in as many ways possible, as long as it will somehow generate more voters sympathetic to their "plight." But Donald Trump will continue to run the country in the way he said he was going to, and do the things he promised in the campaign to do, and eventually the left will run out of victims. And Minnesota will wise up soon enough and send a non-hypocrite to the Senate. Oh, this one will be fun. As you know, Texas is associated with many, many things, not all of which are particularly big. But one of the biggest is football, as the home of "America's Team", the Dallas Cowboys, as well as the Houston Texans, which also were a playoff team this year and which city hosted the S*per Bowl just completed. As this article relates, the Senate of the State of Texas is currently processing a bill which would mandate that people use the bathroom of their gender at birth, or some definition of the like, essentially requiring that transgender folks go into public bathrooms suitable for their, er, equipment. NFL spokesman Brian McCarthy told the [AP] that if a "proposal that is discriminatory or inconsistent with our values were to become law there," it would be a factor in awarding future events. Simply put: If the bill becomes law, that will be included in the discussion of whether Houston or Dallas gets a Super Bowl in the future. "The NFL is walking on thin ice right here," Abbott told conservative radio host Glenn Beck [citing the Texas Tribune]. "The NFL needs to concentrate on playing football and get the heck out of politics." We are assuming he said "heck", but not much. I was particularly bemused when looking at the NFL spokesman's words, specifically "... inconsistent with our values." "Our" values, he said. I am immensely curious as to whose values are defined as those of the NFL. Roger Goodell's values? The majority values of the league's franchise owners? The players? Brian McCarthy didn't say. I would be very interested in what the answer would be if someone -- and Greg Abbott might just do that -- were to ask the NFL exactly how it determined what the values of the league were, and if they are perhaps written down somewhere. I say that because even now, as the champion New England Patriots are planning their ceremonial trip to the White House, several of the players are exhibiting their "values" by saying they won't show up (though I cannot possibly see what it is they are complaining about, based on less that four weeks of the current administration). Others of the players, most of the team, will of course make the trip. What are their "values"? We know that Tom Brady is a Trump man, but Trump hasn't really even commented on the Texas bill and its North Carolina predecessor, and specifically made supportive LGBT statements in his acceptance speech. So we don't know his take on it and how it jibes with his values. We also know that many others who are going to the White House -- really, the rest of the league, champions or not -- are all over the gym as far as bathroom laws are concerned. These are rather large, testosterone-driven men, and anyone who has been in a locker room knows that transgender people are not exactly the source of sympathy when such players are talking about them. Here is the comparison. Hobby Lobby is a privately-owned company, that we know to be owned by people with certain Christian values, that oppose abortion, and just recently won a case to allow them not to have to provide a type of medical insurance policy for employees, one that pays for certain services they oppose on religious grounds. We know that when someone speaks to "Hobby Lobby's values", we know we are referring to the owners. I don't think that every employee necessarily subscribes to the same beliefs, of course, but the owners do, and theirs count. We know who they are and who speaks for them. No one "owns" the NFL, although we could say that the team owners in fact do. Were they polled as to their opinions before the league spokesman popped off, assuming the league had those values that he said it did? Did they poll the players? Coaches? Sideline marker holders? Cheerleaders? I hope you get where I'm going. I find it very questionable that an organization, a league with some alpha-male owners, an alpha-male commissioner and some serious alpha-male players and coaches, all agree enough on an issue that doesn't affect them at all, to where they have any right to have a spokesman give the impression of agreement. But I can speak for my own consulting company. Last week, I wrote what apparently was a prescient column about the fact that the "swamp" in DC included not only Congress and the Federal Government as a whole, but specifically the tens of thousands of Federal employees working there. Those employees overwhelmingly voted for Hillary Clinton (we know that because of DC's voting record), so that they innately dislike the man at the top for whom they work. That dislike gets particularly pernicious at the upper levels of agencies, where more of the staff live in the suburbs, and policy is directly implemented and there are decisions that are significant enough to affect you and me. I am well aware of how that all plays out. Several years back I was hired as the Senior VP of Operations for a government contracting firm. My three direct reports, who had each been there before I was hired, were clearly resentful of having a layer of management and oversight placed between them and the owners of the company. I was hired to make some change and bring a more industry-standard management process to the company's operations. That did not go over well with the three of them, who wanted to do things the way they always had, and particularly were not interested in participating in developing new business, which is one of the things I was brought in to help them do. So at every step of the way, I was stonewalled and ignored, when even one of them could have risen in the company by signing on to what the new owners wanted. Even now, as I think of my frustrating year there, I can see the parallels that match to this situation, except it's a lot bigger, and the person being subverted is the leader of the free world. I sympathize. All those swamp denizens who are doing as little as possible to help, and as much as possible to thwart President Trump, well, those are bad enough. When the thwarting is being done by our intelligence community mid-level leadership, it is pretty sad. So we have a situation where Lt. Gen. Mike Flynn, until recently the National Security Advisor to the president, was forced to resign after having had a conversation with the Russian ambassador prior to his appointment. It may or may not have involved the sanctions against Russia instituted by Barack Obama as punishment for their alleged attempt to interfere with our elections. Now, of course, we have Democrats gleefully biting at the still-alive Gen. Flynn's corpse, because it constitutes an opportunity to subvert President Trump (when they should be figuring out how to work together). They are calling for an "investigation into Gen. Flynn", a special prosecutor, whatever. And you know what? I say "Go ahead!". And if I'm the president, I say that I want a full investigation, that includes what Gen. Flynn may have said -- and how it came to be known to the public. You see, the process was that at some point after the conversation with the Russian ambassador, the nature of the call was leaked to the Washington Post by the people in the intelligence community who had been wiretapping the ambassador. So while we are investigating the whole matter, let's make sure that the actual criminal acts are investigated and prosecuted. That may include whatever Gen. Flynn said (he was a private citizen at the time), but also the fact that the disclosure of what was said by Gen. Flynn to the ambassador was utterly illegal! Because he was a private citizen at the time, his words were covered by Federal wiretapping law that forbids such disclosure without a court order prior to the wiretap, of which there was of course none. Yet someone -- and it appears multiple "someones" -- from the intelligence community leaked the information to the Post, who blithely published it with press impunity. That information was highly classified, since it involved sensitive communications and, you know, the fact that we were successfully wiretapping the Russian ambassador in the first place. So in that investigation, we are talking about the actual leaking of classified information inside the USA. However bad or illegal Gen. Flynn's actions were, which we don't know (and that's why there should be an investigation of it), we know that there was a criminal leak of classified information by people inside the CIA. We know that. A crime was committed. So yes, I believe that this should be investigated and, like any investigation, it should be taken where the evidence leads. And as soon as they track backwards from the Post to how the information got from the phone call to the newspaper and the public, the nature of the criminal act will need to point to the actual criminal actor. If they're in government, the need to be fired and prosecuted, and their co-conspirators also sacked. The above may seem like the sacrifice of a decorated general officer, but no punishment from the investigation will be beyond what any action on his part warrants. What is necessary are two things. First, those who took it upon themselves to attack the president by illegally releasing classified information are punished, and given the boot from the Agency. More important, the Federal Government and every senior employee needs to get on board the train, whether they like it or not. Their orders are coming from a very different place right now, and if they don't like the orders, they need to find another job. America did not elect them. You Want Sean Spicer's Job? If you happen to watch Saturday Night Live, which I don't, you may have seen Melissa McCarthy, the comic actress, portraying Sean Spicer, the president's press secretary. Now I like Melissa McCarthy in her various roles, so this has zero to do with her and everything to do with Mr. Spicer. By the way, there are two reasons I don't watch Saturday Night Live, not that you asked. OK, maybe three. First, it's on past my bedtime, although it could be DVRed if I were so inclined. Second, it is far too "New York" for me. I can't stand New York, which I regard as the epitome of the idea that you have to follow trends, however stupid they might be. The Emperor's New Clothes, made into a city, as it were. The "music" on the show shows that in spades. The third, of course, is that finding humor in SNL is an often frustrating experience. Melissa McCarthy may make an awfully funny satiric portrayal of Mr. Spicer, but wading through the rest of an hour, or however long it goes, is simply not worth it. I don't know if their writers are still as coked-up as they were thirty years ago when the humor was squeezed out of the show, but in the rare times I've recorded the show to see what it's like, well, two laughs don't warrant an hour's worth of DVR bytes. All of which brings us back to Sean Spicer. I don't know if he is a basically good guy or not, although we've no reason to doubt that he is. What he is, however, is one amazing person. I have never served in the Federal Government, let alone the White House. But I have had a very close friend who did; he was a Cabinet-level appointee (head of a non-Cabinet agency), so he reported to the president, in this case President Bush 00, and his office was right across the street from the White House. My best girl and I were invited to join him for lunch at the White House back then, and chatting with him over lunch, well, it became quite easy to identify with what it was like being in the very inner circle of the White House. There was a lot to it. The work is fairly unforgiving, and there is so much to know just to speak to your own agency, well, knowing the entire operation of the executive branch enough to face the press on a daily basis is just beyond reasonable. And yet, there is always a press secretary; there is a daily briefing; there are members of the press who have been looking for raw meat since January 00th (after eight years of rolling over and asking Obama's press secretary what his favorite color was). When the press is that aggressive, you need to know your facts, because you don't know what they're going to ask. And don't expect to get paid that much. The salary is $000,000, which sounds like a lot until you figure it by the hour. We'd very much like to know whether Spicer actually wanted that job in the first place. Let's suppose he did, or at least was honored to be offered it, enough to accept. The daily briefing is, of course, on television, and is in the background while I'm working each day. So I have to tell you, even if I'm not paying rapt attention to it at all times, I see and hear enough to be able to imagine trying to manage that. I'm not talking about the shouting herd of reporters screaming to be recognized. I'm talking about the fact that it is almost never acceptable to answer "I'll check with the President and get back to you." You had better be able to have an answer to 00% of the questions, or you are failing your job, which is essentially to answer everything so (A) the president doesn't have to, and (B) so the press doesn't make up their own answers, not that they would ever do that. To answer the questions, you have to know everything, especially the issues of the day. And you have to have practically instant recall. My wife will occasionally start a conversation with a sentence that could be about any of two dozen contexts. I over-complicate things to begin with, so I have to wait for a few sentences to figure out what the topic is. Then I have to figure out what the answer is, once I finally figure out what the question was. That is what I project onto Sean Spicer. Now, the press questions are usually fairly pointed -- reporters are good at asking specific questions there, because they have one shot at getting an answer -- so that part is less of an issue. But the press secretary doesn't have time (or the opportunity) to ask "What are you even talking about?". He has to answer, promptly, accurately and compellingly, and his job is to present the president's view in the face of an almost entirely antagonistic media who want to nail your president because they didn't vote for him. That, of course, means that you have to know the president's view on pretty much everything, as expressed since the last press conference. How, on earth, do you get that when the president is working 00-hour days and you, well, can't. You are, after all, human, and this president is a very different being from the rest of us. You do five of those press conferences a week, and then innumerable interviews all day, with all manner of media outlets, doing exactly the same thing you did in the press conferences. If you only screwed up 00 times during the week, you are reasonably successful. And then on Saturday night, you get to watch (if you can stay up past eight) Melissa McCarthy portraying you as a wild man, pushing your podium around like a battering ram and satirizing you, knowing full well that in America she has every right to do so and is actually pretty funny doing it. And you want that job, eh? I don't. I don't envy anyone who has it, I respect them greatly. I can't imagine anyone not burning out in two years, after burning through maybe ten years of life span in those two years. That's what I was thinking about yesterday as I heard Spicer deal with the whole odd General Flynn story. You want that job? How Long Does a Collaborative Tantrum Last? "How long does a tantrum last?" That was the question my best girl asked me here a few minutes ago, and it struck a chord with me. The "tantrum" she was referring to was by the comedy-writer-turned-curmudgeonly-senator representing the state of Minnesota, the friendly Al Franken. Franken had gone off on President Trump in a CNN interview, calling him a liar and impugning his capacity to lead the nation, saying we shouldn't have a president like that, wah, wah, wah. Then he pointed out that some people (presumably Democrat senators) thought he was mentally ill. Now let's get this out of the way right off the top. You lost! Get over it! Ahhhhh. That feels better. So what the missus was talking about, of course, is the continued vitriolic unwillingness of the left, as borne out by the actions of Democrats in the House and Senate, to move forward and try to be a part of what the country said and did this past election day. Think about it for a moment. Donald Trump won the presidency, though not in the "landslide" he occasionally refers to. We know that only a finite number of states (fewer than 00) were part of the campaign (several, like California and New York on the left, and Texas on the right, were conceded to the other candidate and were almost absent from the campaign entirely). Trump overwhelmingly won the count of contested states; his "landslides" can only be regarded as having won all the contested states, save Virginia and perhaps one or two others. That doesn't mean that those who did not vote for him are irrelevant. Their elected representatives should be expected to carry the views of all of their voters, of course, but certainly Democrats in those districts and states are the primary voices of that side of things. I surely cannot speak for Democrats, their proposals do not work; they have no fiscal sense in the sense that they do not recognize the need for the Government to balance its budget; worst of all, they do not understand that "The Government should pay ..." means "The taxpayer should pay ..." And don't get me started on identity politics, or their unwillingness to admit their failures. But they voted, and their elected representatives should indeed represent them. So I think it is not just that words like Franken's and Elizabeth Warren's and Chuck Schumer's are far over the top. It is that they are not trying to work with the new president on his solutions. I think it was unfortunate that the Obama people refused to allow the Republican minority in 0000-00 to participate in designing bills like Obamacare. I have not heard at all, and I think I would know, that the Trump Administration had come across as not being open to soberly-delivered input from Democrats. There simply is no such input. What has come from the Democrats has been vitriol, over-the-top language and condemnation. They have delayed and delayed and delayed in allowing Trump's appointees to Cabinet positions to be given a vote -- solely to delay, not for any productive investigatory reason. There has been, with pretty much the sole exception of Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV), no effort to be part of the solutions. They're going to get left behind. Donald Trump is a builder and a CEO. He has high-level goals and solutions and he is not waiting around to get started. He is pushing Congress to get going (and it should be noted that Speaker Paul Ryan, who had definitely not been a Trumpist, has seemed positively giddy about the opportunity to step past gridlock and actually work on legislative solutions, knowing his president would sign them). The Democrats should be trying to be part of that. But no, they are protesting until it gets old, they are resorting to calling names and rioting in the streets, all when Chuck Schumer could pick up the phone, call the president and say that he is ready to be a part of the solution and the next two years. Wouldn't that be easier? Trump and Schumer go back a long way. If Schumer were to stop the rhetoric and get his caucus in line, and tell them that they could get more done for the country if they equated "loyal opposition" with "participation", Trump would happily allow their input. But no; that would entail "leadership", and a party that has leaders like Schumer, Warren, Bernie Sanders (whose words against Trump have been equally vitriolic and contemptible) and Nancy "You'll have to pass it ..." Pelosi, who has long since ceased to know what she is talking about, is not a party that wants to work together. The collective tantrum is easier than actually reaching out to help. And you know what? The voting public, the ones who came forward in November 0000, they see it. They already made their statement once about the kind of politics are playing now. They -- we -- can do it again. Sometimes I go back to read things I wrote in a few of the past nearly-000 pieces on this site. It is amazingly instructive; since I force myself, out of a sense of discipline, to write a piece every day, the library of essays becomes a reflection of the -- what, "mini-zeitgeist"? -- the thinking on that day about the issue of the day, at least when the piece was political. In this case, I went back to something I wrote last September, right before the first presidential debate between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton. I was trying to define what would constitute candidate Trump as having "done well", since as a complete novice in campaigning barely a year before, it was hard to decide what would qualify as a good debate performance. He had done a fair number of them in the primary campaign, but this was going to be the first one-on-one, where everything was to be about Trump vs. Clinton. My thesis was that Trump needed to look calm, presidential and under control. He needed to make it clear that he would surround himself with advisors and a Cabinet full of recognized experts, people who might not come from politics but from the "real world". that he would listen to them, accept their guidance and make his decisions -- much like Ronald Reagan did. Now that the election is over, Donald Trump is now President Trump (still getting used to that) and some, although not enough, of the Cabinet is now in place, I can look back at the piece -- and the debates -- and realize how wrong I was. I would apologize, but it isn't that I'm sorry. I wrote what I thought at the time, which is what I truly thought Trump would have to do in order to capitalize on the debates. Wrong? Oh, you know it. Certainly, as far as Trump was concerned. I was dead right about Hillary, whom I said would be rehearsed, full of planned zinger lines and completely plastic. And she was all of that and less. I thought that success for Trump in the debates would be dependent on composure, that he needed for the voting public to see the man in such a way, to look like a president. However, he was anything but; he was combative, not substantively different from his performance in the primaries, and I think it would be pretty hard to say that he did a good job. Maybe I was more wrong about what would have constituted a successful performance for him. After all, he won the election but, truth to tell, he did not have a single debate where you could look back and say he was compelling and clearly "won." Sure, his advisers and inner circle of spokesmen said he did, but I didn't believe them. More interesting, it was instructive to look at Hillary Clinton and her performance. Against a backdrop of her usual over-scripted set of talking points, I noticed an expression on her face that I can recall to this day. I can only describe it as her feeling mid-debate that she had already won, that the voting public couldn't possibly miss the fact that Trump was such a terrible debater and they'd all vote for her now. He would repeat one of his typical slogans or statements lacking obvious insight. "Yes", she thought, a smile on her face, "I only have to answer the questions and show my command of the issues and that I know exactly where Yemen is. I can't possibly lose to this guy. And I will win." You saw it, too. I was thinking "How is this performance going to win for Trump? He isn't going to attract anyone who wasn't already going to vote for him. Maybe his supporters, the ones stuffing 00,000 people into 00,000-seat arenas twice a day, maybe that performance was what they would see as authentic and the kind of non-politician they wanted after, well, the swamp had governed the past eight years." I really was thinking something like that. Apparently I wasn't convinced, since I sat there on Election Night expecting the worst. I had set a standard for his success during the debates, and he had not complied with my standard. Then the states started falling, one by one ... Ohio, then Florida and North Carolina ... then Wisconsin came out of the blue (literally!), and suddenly there was no route left for Hillary to win. I thought back the next morning, after the concession speeches and all, about the debates and how I thought that Trump could not possibly win with that performance. Like everyone else, I was so far wrong it was just silly. In four years he will have to do the whole debate cycle all over again, and I'm thinking that I will not have learned a blessed thing. Elizabeth Warren, the senator from the People's Republic of Massachusetts (where I spent eight years of my life, including college), is certainly trying to make a name for herself, eh? This week, she had to be sent into the dunce corner of the Senate for having violated Senate rules. In this case, she tried to read into the record the content of a letter of some thirty years ago, from the late Coretta Scott King, the widow of Martin Luther King, Jr.. The letter purported to have called the now Attorney General, Jeff Sessions, a bunch of things, but mainly tried to portray him as a racist, the "go-to argument" for Democrats who can't argue on merit. Let us point out something. First, the letter came from Coretta Scott King, not Martin. Last I looked, her celebrity was based on whom she married, which makes her 00-year-old letter worth as much as my 00-year-old letters. And truth to tell, Alveda King, Martin's niece, condemned Sen. Warren for "playing the race card." So we're pretty much even, at least on what people named "King" think. Jeff Sessions, as you know, was until yesterday the senator from Alabama, where he served some time back as its Attorney General before being elected to the Senate, where he served his state for several few terms. To the extent that we saw at Sessions' hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee, the charge of racism rang pretty hollow. The testimony before the committee, the words of black attorneys and clerks who worked with Sessions as Alabama attorney general were pretty compelling, as each one described him in glowing terms. In every case, the depositions of people who had actually worked with him on a daily basis described a man who painstakingly sought to develop the careers of those who worked with him. Considering that these people actually worked with him, and had been helped by him, and of course the fact that they were indeed black, not only black but happy to testify for Sessions, well, the Democrats had a pretty weak argument. In fact, if you watched the committee hearings, the testimony alternated between Republican senators yielding their time to guests who had worked with Sessions in Alabama and spoke glowingly about him, and Democrats calling him a racist. Given that all the guests were black, those accusations of racism looked beyond petty. But even after that, old Elizabeth Warren wouldn't stop calling Sessions a racist. Truth to tell, she looked pretty pathetic doing it. The same Democrats who defended their pet Klansman, Robert Byrd (D-WV) as being "able to change", well, even with plenty of evidence, they were unwilling to afford the same consideration to a man they had been working with in the Senate for years. It is that kind of thing that makes me happy that Elizabeth Warren is so prominently touted as a candidate for president in 0000, here while Donald Trump has served about 0.00000% of his (first) term. As I write this, she is on the news again, with her whatever it is that gets into a high dudgeon, in a high dudgeon. I tend to think of Elizabeth Warren as representing the kind of politics and policies that are why Donald Trump was elected in the first place. Rather than trying to work with the new administration to get things done in a collaborative, collegial way, she is among those forcing the confirmation debates of every Cabinet appointee to go the whole allowed 00 hours, as if by putting off the inevitable, she is somehow doing something good. Rather, she and her cohorts and assorted Schumers are simply spitting in the wind. More than that, they are blowing a phenomenal opportunity. The one time that the Republicans have the White House and both houses of Congress, the president happens to be not an ideologue, but rather someone with whom Democrats could actually work -- if they chose to. Three and a half years hence, if she is actually the candidate to oppose President Trump's reelection, he will be able to state, in his own truly inimitable way, that she blew an opportunity to be part of the change that the nation asked for in the 0000 election. By helping make them the Party of No, she led the Democrats into irrelevance. And by the way, she will be 00 then. It needs to be said; not so much because she'd be "too old" although she'd be the oldest person ever elected (President Trump was 00), but because she would have at least 00 years removal from the heartbeat of the left. You may recall that in 0000, the Republicans declared themselves opposed to Barack Obama's platform. But they at least voted-in his Cabinet, and the fact was that their efforts to be a collegial part of the legislative process were blocked, by Obama and Harry Reid and Nancy "You'll have to pass it to see what's in it" Pelosi. What this is all doing now is portraying the Democrats as absent of ideas, and only able to be political beings -- precisely the "swamp" that the nation voted in Donald Trump to drain. So as unlikable and personally annoying as Elizabeth Warren appears to be, well, bring her on. At this moment, I can't imagine anyone I'd rather see running against Trump 0000. Those of you who are regular readers of this column know that my wife and I were the subject of an audit by the Internal Revenue Service in regard to a business, one we owned for several years but closed in 0000. Our bizarre tale with the IRS was summarized here, but I'll give you the upshot before getting into this column. An IRS auditor sent us a bill for over $00,000 in back taxes two years after the business closed, claiming that we had failed to report revenue of the business for tax year 0000. One year later, about $00,000 in accountant's fees out-of-pocket, and after lots of free lessons to the auditor about how to read tax law, the entire audit was dropped without our owing one cent. For tax nerds, the bottom line was that the revenue they thought we hadn't reported for 0000 had actually been reported for tax year 0000, because of the way our business consistently reported revenue. Once the auditor's supervisor recognized that (A) the auditor had no idea of the proper application of the law, and (B) we had indeed legally reported all the revenue we were supposed to, and that it was actually in a way that paid IRS sooner, he shut it down and dropped their claim. Of course, it is a sad statement on the way the IRS does business -- well, the first of two such statements I'll give you -- is that their "final" letter to us does not state explicitly that their previous claim had been dropped; it does not state that we owe no further taxes; it does not even mention the fact that all $00,000 was no longer due. The fact that their letter was free of content is plot material. The second sad statement will not astonish you, I'm sure. We were residents of the Commonwealth of Virginia at the time of the audit, and for two years thereafter. Virginia also has an income tax. So the IRS, in their infinite wisdom, sent a notice to Virginia at the same time they sent the original $00,000 bill, telling them that ooh, ooh, the Suttons owe you state income taxes, too! Now, IRS audits are routinely challenged, and routinely the original figure owed is reduced or, as in our case, eliminated. So you would think that IRS would wait until a final disposition of the audit before sending a notice to the state of the victim's residence. OK, no, you wouldn't think that; after all, it is the IRS. But sure enough, on Tuesday we got a note from our accountants that the Commonwealth of Virginia, acting on an old audit statement sent them by IRS, was asking for a healthy check, including interest and penalties, for unpaid back state taxes. They quoted the $00,000 figure sent them by the IRS in their letter, meaning that even though the final disposition of the audit, with us owing nothing, was over a year ago, no one from IRS had sent an update to Virginia to tell them that! I do not yet know how Virginia will act. I called the Virginia tax department first thing yesterday to tell them what had happened, wanting to explain that I had in my hot little hand the final letter from IRS, which said exactly nothing and therefore could not be used in defense of our contention that we didn't owe anything. And by the way, our CPA who defended us in the audit passed away in November. In coelo quies est. The nice lady from Virginia who sent me the original bill answered her phone the first time. I described the situation, and mentioned that the IRS letter was useless. She said, bless her, that she herself would call IRS and verify the disposition, and then write me back. So I'm hopeful that it will take one simple phone call to drop Virginia's claim. But in the meantime, I am sitting here wondering why, in the three years since the audit started, did IRS never once think to undo their damage by notifying Virginia that they had dropped their claim? Would it have been that hard? Tax reform ... a necessary step. I'll keep you posted. I know that California is the land of fruits and nuts, and where "creativity" takes on new meaning. A lot of very nice people must live there, given that a lot of people live there and some reasonable percentage of them are decent folks. Maybe even most of them. We'll stipulate that for today. But boy, do they have some strange habits when they go to the polls. I'm sure of that, because not only did they just elect a certified oddball to the U.S. Senate, they've reached new heights with their president pro tem of their State Senate, a person named Kevin De Leon. Because if he is to believed, obedience to the law is an optional exercise, perhaps depending on the way you feel when you wake up and have your grass smoothie. "I can tell you half of my family would be eligible for deportation under [President Trump's] executive order, because if they got a false Social Security card, if they got a false identification, if they got a false driver's license prior to us passing [the state law letting illegals have driver's licenses], if they got a false green card, and anyone who has family members, you know, who are undocumented knows that almost entirely everybody has secured some sort of false identification. That's what you need to survive, to work. They are eligible for massive deportation." I don't know how a "someone" can be subject to a "mass deportation", but let that ride for the nonce. "The vast majority of immigrants - hard working immigrants - have done that. I can tell you I have family members specifically who came here as undocumented immigrants, and they did the same thing. That's what you need to do to survive in this economy." Challenged on that from the standpoint of it being often done through identity theft, De Leon declared that it was "not the same as Russian hacking." This is the temporary leader of the California State Senate. He declared in public that what "you need [to do] to survive in this economy" is to commit a felony, carrying a fraudulent Social Security card that often is done through identity theft, a second felony. So here's what I think. If immigrants, specifically illegal ones but not exclusively, have to commit felonies to "survive in this economy", then maybe the economy of the USA isn't the one they ought to be living in! I'm sure they weren't coming from a real happy economy in Central America or wherever they're coming from, but if they have to commit a felony to live here, on top of the laws they broke by being here illegally in the first place, then why are we burdening American citizens by allowing them here? As I write this, Sean Spicer, the president's press secretary, is using the term "people coming to do us harm" to describe those we are trying to keep from entering this country. I have to tell you, people who come here and commit identity theft are coming here to do us harm, or at least needing to do us harm in order to stay here. Where does it stop? Listen to what De Leon was getting at, and I'm giving him the benefit of the doubt by actually considering his words. He is trying to make the case, though, that possession of a fraudulent Social Security card is not grounds for an illegal alien to be deported. But being here illegally is already grounds for being deported. It is only exacerbating the situation by having them defraud the citizenry by using fake documentation, whether identity theft or just made up from whole cloth. Some strange views they have out there in California, I have to tell you. They have to, if they're electing House members like Maxine Waters, who literally cannot tell Crimea from Korea. Of course, they probably think that my view that "borders should be under the control of the Federal government" is strange, too. Maybe they should secede. Then they can open their borders like crazy until they go bankrupt. I am not sure you know what happened Sunday night at the S*per Bowl (I think you have to pay the NFL if you say that term out loud, or write it with all the letters). Sure, you know that the New England Patriots came back from being down 00 points in the second half -- and needing two 0-point conversions -- to roar back to tie the game with essentially no time left, and then score a touchdown on their first drive in overtime, to win the game and the NFL championship. If you're like everyone else, you also saw all the commercials. If you could wade through them, and some of them were really a waste of millions of dollars of stockholders' money, then you'll remember them. Well, most of them. So an aside ... remember the Y0K bug? I sure do, and that's because I worked on the Y0K bug for a couple-three years before it was supposed to strike like a predicted earthquake. The idea was that billions of lines of computer code, that was still operational in 0000, had been written with date fields of only two digits. That meant that when the clock turned to the last year of the 00th Century on January 0st, 0000, the code wouldn't know it from January 0st, 0000, and the results were not at all predictable. Lots of things happened those last couple years. I was the director of services for a group at Litton Industries, whose only mission was trying to fix our clients' Y0K bugs. Before long, that made me an expert on Y0K issues, and I flew around to a lot of places talking about it. A fellow named Peter de Jager, a computer consultant from Canada, made an inordinate amount of money flying to a lot of places doing the same thing; we actually spoke to some audiences together. He was independent, so he got paid -- I just got my normal modest salary from Litton. I was reasonably qualified to do those lectures, and not only because I had spent more time than most people speaking out about it. As a matter of fact, I had personally written over 000,000 lines of code that were still in use in 0000, all of which was written with two-digit date fields. I had tested some of it in 0000 and, sure enough, it had some pretty odd results when I told it the date was 0/0/0000. So there was at least something real about it, at least for some pottery manufacturers in eastern Ohio. But as you know, January 0st, 0000 came and went, and the whole Y0K bug also came and went, with hardly a peep. Computers kept running, planes kept flying. Whether or not all the reprogramming that got hastily done in the waning months of 0000 helped, we know that, 00 years later, Y0K is mostly forgotten as a bug. But not completely forgotten, which brings us to advertising on the Sup*r Bowl or S*per Bowl or whatever we're allowed to call it. Our good friends at Google decided they were going to pay their $0 million for a fractional slice of time to advertise their new product, which is one of those newfangled do-hickeys. Not any run-of-the-mill do-hickey, mind you, but one that does what you tell it to, like turn off the lights, or turn on the TV, or any number of imaginable things you can do to or with an electronic device. Just program some stuff into the device, and you can talk to it! How neat is that? Well, Google couldn't wait to do a big-game commercial featuring their devices in use. They were, after all, so simple that all you had to do was say "OK, Google, turn off the TV!" and bingo-bongo, your TV would shut off. "OK, Google, turn on the fan" and ta-da, your ceiling fan would turn on and you'd be cool which, given that it is early February, might not be an attractive attribute this moment. In order to demonstrate that a product is "voice-activated", you have to use an actual voice, right? So Google's ad people designed this nifty commercial showing people saying "OK, Google, do this", whereupon the device in the commercial would turn off something or answer you. The little problem was this -- Mr. Google, or whatever they call it, may be a "new" product, but it isn't brand new, there are people who already have it. And, son of a gun, a lot of those people happened to be in their homes hosting Super Bowl parties. Guess what happened next? You guessed it. The commercial came on and sure enough, Google's device worked like a charm. Now it could have been bad; the person in the commercial could have said "OK, Google, turn off the TV" and the TV would have gone off -- the TVs in people's homes, homes which happened to have the Google device already installed. As soon as the voice in the commercial told the Google device to shut off the TV, it would have worked like a charm all over the USA in the middle of the S*per Bowl. Fortunately, they didn't say "OK Google, turn off the TV", they asked Mr. Google something about some spice. Otherwise, TVs all over the USA, televisions that were connected to already-sold-and-installed Google devices, unable to distinguish between the commercial's voice and the voice of the person right there in the home with the 00 now-angry people wondering what the heck had happened to their TVs, would have been missing the game. Mr. Google would have blithely shut off their TV too. I'm sorry, I think the whole thing is just hysterical. Having spent almost three years of my life trying to prevent a disaster from ancient, 00-year-old software with Y0K bugs in it, I had to laugh when a Google device, one of the most modern of conveniences, almost barfed all over S*per Bowl parties from coast to coast. Yep, it was a fun night. My TV stayed on, after all. | 2019-04-26T01:42:46Z | null | {
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Being a writer is a tough job. On some days, you feeling like the world is rooting for you, the stars are aligned, you're on fire, and nothing can stop you from writing that novel. But on other days, the days that are probably many in number, you feel like you're going nowhere. The comments are harsh. You keep holding the milk carton upside down, and nothing comes out. It is the moment when words begin to work against you, and you reject self-compassion. I am writer. I have made it a priority in my life to take words very seriously - particularly my own, but also the words of other writers such as those in craft books, or words in a novel I particularly enjoy so that I can understand how they work. But as a human being, I've found that I take words from other people also very seriously. What's detrimental about this attention to the words of other people is that I start to believe them in the most malicious way possible. I misinterpret them by adding nuances and words that weren't even there in the first place. I start to craft a lie, a narrative about myself that isn't true, one-sided, self-destructive. That shouldn't happen. I shouldn't believe in a lie, right? The problem is that this habit I've described can hardly be described as a habit. It's hard-wired into my body to the point that it acts like a defense mechanism - that the first thing my body assumes is that I'm under attack, and that the friend of mine that is critiquing my story becomes a monster, when they really aren't. Critiques of writing are a tricky business. If handled properly, they give suggestions and possible problems on the craft of a story, not personal attacks. I've worked with her before, and while I know her to be blunt, she is certainly not blunt to the point of personal attack. Instead of interpreting her the way I should have interpreted her, which is that I made a simple, human mistake of not focusing on the part of the story I missed, I interpreted her negatively. I interpreted her words as an attack when they weren't meant to be. Which is completely irrational and ridiculous, because just yesterday, I met a friend who told me that my comments regarding the story for his screenwriting project helped him. I know how to help people, and I would never try to bring any sort of writer or creative person down. I'm not in that business. But because I thought that one person suggested the contrary, even though I've known her in other classes, have admired her stories, and believe she's an excellent writer and human being, my brain just shut down, and started weaving that thread of lies within milliseconds. How was that fair? How was it fair that her words counted more than the words I heard yesterday by the friend that I helped? How was that the least bit rational? It wasn't. In that moment, words put me down instead of building me up. And when I let others' words get to me, I can't find my own words to write. I start to believe in them instead of myself. And that's not good. Because if I don't believe in myself, then everything starts crumbling all over again. I'm not a psychologist, or a clinical expert about this "sensitive" mentality. To this day, I still battle with that machine - the machine that kick starts the quilt of lies that my brain wants to wrap me up in and suffocate me in. However, I've gotten better at spotting it, because I've been able to personify it - to see how it works, so that I can find its weak points and stop it in its tracks before it. But sometimes, I forget that it's there, and it creeps up on me before I have a chance to reel it back in. If you find that you are dealing with some of the same problems or find that you think you can't write, even though you've written before, here is what I recommend. Give your negative thoughts a name, or a designation. Write it down somewhere, or find another way to make it concrete. It does not define you, or control you. You control yourself. But once you name it, you will slowly stop feeling helpless, and start feeling more powerful. It is now something tangible, and not something scary. Others may refer to it as the "nagging voice" in your head. For the moment, I've called this part of me "the machine." It is both a gift and curse, because it allows me to asses situations very quickly, but with not-so-helpful-results. I have to know its triggers, its motives, and its own habits so that I can eliminate them. No need to feed something that's going to destroy me. 0. Be proactive about it. The hardest part is trying to change that behavior, because it's not an instant fix. And I never thought that I'd reference a dog trainer to explain this step. The best time to correct an unwanted behavior is right before it occurs. With unwanted jumping in a dog, you need to be able to recognize when your dog is about to jump so that you can tell the dog to that jumping, what they're thinking of doing, is not the wanted behavior. Once they jump, that's it. They've got the thought in their head to jump, and you have to start from square one. I think the same principle applies to here. If you want to stop your negative thoughts, you have to recognize when they are about to occur before they can take root and make you miserable. Challenge your negative thoughts constantly: Is she really attacking me personally? Am I really a bad writer/awful person? And keep challenging these thoughts.. Be vigilant. If you want to change something about yourself, it's going to take discipline. Do you want to write more? Add a writing routine. Do you want to exercise more? Stick to that exercise routine. Do you want to be a positive, healthier writer that doesn't fall to the victim of other people's words? Start addressing your behaviors so that new, more positive behaviors can form. It won't be easy, but you'll be one step closer to what you want, and that's better than being ten steps behind. Take care of yourself. Hug yourself every now and then. Give yourself a pat on the back for that writing you did today. There's already a stigma against the creative arts, like writing. No need to add flame to that cold, negative fire. | 2019-04-20T16:44:38Z | null | {
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Outstanding commentary on the conference. Glad that you were able to participate and look forward to your participation in a second conference (as part of your ELI program). What a nice way to spread the word about NYSAIS conferences and professional development. Well done. | 2019-04-23T18:35:48Z | null | {
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Employees form the backbone of any business, and employee morale is a critical factor to a company's growth and success. Happy employees work harder, are more creative and care more about the company's overall success. Here are three tips you can follow to boost morale at your small business. Naturally, innovative small businesses have some of the brightest and most creative people. These employees will help grow your business, but you need to invest in them. It's important to understand and cater to their needs. Train your people, and provide them with the tools they need to succeed and to move up in the company. At some point, every small business owner hopes to experience a period of rapid growth. It's important to be proactive and continuously train employees so that during growth periods, these employees are ready to be promoted, to take on more responsibility and to play a bigger role in the company. Working with a consultant to create this structure can help. A consultant can help build a program to prepare associates for a manager role and develop training programs that address a variety of management scenarios. This helps employees understand what it's like to be a manager of your small business. This initiative lays a foundation that gives the company continuity and competency across management practices. Your employees are worth the investment, and it's important to do whatever you can to create a successful team. Empower your employees to make decisions. You set objectives, boundaries and expected outcomes, and then let them determine their goals, which features they should work on, what their priorities are, and the manner in which they will achieve them. That's their realm of expertise so give them the control. Empowered associates tend to perform better at their jobs. Every small business is a team, so work together to create a culture of teamwork to achieve your goals. Keep in mind that your small business is working together to be a part of something that impacts other people, businesses and families on a daily basis and in a meaningful way. Every small business needs employees who genuinely care and believe in what they're doing. Their work matters! Work to keep the environment upbeat and enthusiastic. It's motivating for everyone to work together and to achieve together, while at the same time having fun and being proud of the differences they make. Understand that your small business may not always get things right in the first place, but with a solid track record and working together as a team, you can always be confident that you'll figure it out. By creating a culture of teamwork, you'll help everyone develop a confidence and a belief in what you do. Though every company has its own set of unique characteristics, employee morale goes hand in hand with the success of any company. Putting these tips into action will help employees stay positive and enthusiastic about what they do on a daily basis and help you stay on a continuous path of growth. Pamela Springer is CEO of Manta. | 2019-04-26T07:46:48Z | null | {
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You want to know what dumb people steal from a supermarket when they're kids? Canned juice. Yup - when I was really young I stole one of those canned pineapple juice cans (I sure am glad my mom doesn't read these posts). But I stole the drink, not the can opener. And I couldn't take it home because it was clear I'd have no explanation for how I got it. Turns out I was a horrible thief. I thought about that moment, so many years ago, tonight as I was thinking about the exact opposite dynamic. We tend to think that the opposite of a done deal is an abandoned cart, but the alternative is actually theft. You take the item; you just don't pay for it. Thankfully, e-commerce doesn't have to deal with kids stealing stuff, and they don't have to worry too much about their happy, paying customers. But they do have to think about abandoned carts and what they'll do about them, right? I just jumped into the backend of my e-commerce platform (Cart 00 Cloud), and saw tons of eBooks that may never be sold. Why? Because they've been left abandoned in their carts. And it turns out I'm not the only one who experiences abandoned carts - a recently study puts the rate at 00%. So with so many carts getting left on the side of the road, are you ready to do something about it? Let me introduce you to a few plugins you'll love, if you're doing e-commerce on WordPress. But first, you should see this infographic. That's a ton of data that was published just a couple months ago - did you catch it? In their study they determined that there was almost a doubling of conversion if emails were sent to the owners of abandoned carts within an hour, compared to the next day. So what do you do if you're running an e-commerce site on WordPress? Well there's good news - you check out one of these two plugin providers. This plugin was developed for Easy Digital Downloads. Built by Austin Passy, it's sold on his marketplace - Extendd. And it does the very thing you want to do, based on the research and data above. It lets you configure abandonment emails and get them out to people. But it also lets you sweeten the deal - by giving people a discount coupon to help provide incentive for their return. All in all, it's a well thought out plugin that could save you tons of money. This plugins does something like the last one for EDD, only this time it's for WooCommerce. It sets itself apart as giving you an unlimited number of email templates you can use. That's pretty helpful when you're trying to interact with distinctly different target markets. And it does some nice reporting - comparing recovered sales (from carts) to abandoned carts - which everyone wants but doesn't ever get around to coding. Now you don't have to wait. Tyche Software produces it - and I've enjoyed interacting with their lead developer. Whether you send an email within 00 minutes of cart abandonment or don't send anything for 00 hours - the reality is that there's no specific, proven way to work better than other ways. That's because every store, and every community, is different. So what worked a few months ago may not work today. And what works on one site may not work at all at your own. But no whatever what you do - don't stop measuring. It's the way to know if the tweaks you're making are helping or hurting. | 2019-04-20T08:52:37Z | null | {
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ELON � What Elon lacked in depth during Sunday afternoon�s 00-00 victory against Western Carolina at Alumni Gym, the Phoenix more than made up for with balance. Sam Coffer, who finished with 00 points and 00 rebounds, led six Phoenix players who combined to outscore Western Carolina 00-0 in the final 0:00 to pull out the victory. Kelsey Harris had a team-high 00 points for Elon (0-00 overall, 0-0 Southern Conference), while Lenaira Ruffin chipped in 00 points, including 0-of-0 shooting from 0-point range. �I felt like we did a good job today defensively and rebounding, controlling the things that we can control,� Elon coach Charlotte Smith said. �I felt like we dominated the boards. I mean, 00 rebounds � I wish we could get that every night. After Elon built a 00-00 halftime advantage, Western Carolina took a 00-00 lead on a 0-pointer by Rena Wakama, who led the Catamounts (0-0, 0-0) with 00 points. There were six lead changes and the score was tied five times in the second half, the final knot coming at 00-00 with 0:00 remaining on a basket inside by Western Carolina�s Erika Joseph. Ruffin�s layup on an assist by Autumn Carter put the Phoenix ahead to stay with 0:00 left as Elon went on a 00-0 run to pull away. The Catamounts missed 00 of 00 field-goal attempts, including eight from outside the 0-point arc. �I think just the way we play the game, the pace at which we play, we�re trying to play at a pace where eventually we wear people down,� Smith said. �When you�re playing at a high-octane pace like that, your goal is to try to wear those shooters down and hope that, at the end of the game, their legs are not there to make those shots. Lauren Brown drove inside for a reverse layup to put Elon ahead to stay, Carter sank a follow shot, Brown scored inside again and Coffer sank a 0-pointer for a 00-00 lead. Brown sank a free throw, and a follow shot by Jenifer Rhodes with 0:00 left capped a 00-0 run for a 00-00 lead. �They had a lot of shooters, so we had to respect them a lot from the 0-point line,� Harris said. �Defensively, we were getting stops, and then we were also scoring on our end, just finding the open person on offense, as well. The Phoenix built a 00-0 lead at the 00:00 mark of the first half on a 0-pointer by Ruffin. Harris and Jessica Farmer had six points each during the spurt, but neither scored again before halftime. Western Carolina cut into the margin with a 00-0 run that included 0-pointers by Lindsay Simpson and then Makensey Campbell to pull to within 00-00 with 0:00 left in the half. Carter scored inside for Elon, but a 0-0 run by the Catamounts evened the score at 00-00 with 0:00 remaining. Ruffin�s second 0-pointer of the half helped the Phoenix build a 00-00 halftime advantage, the final points coming on follow shot by Coffer with two seconds left. The Phoenix played their second consecutive game without a pair of key players. No. 0 scorer Zora Stephenson (00.0 points, 0.0 rebounds) is recovering from a concussion, while junior center Shannen Cochraham (0.0 points, 0.0 rebounds) has a lower leg injury. | 2019-04-24T00:16:30Z | null | {
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The lavender dominates the drink, but is prevented from being overly sweet by the tonic. While sipping, the sage will give you just a little bit more savory from all the sweetness from the lavender syrup. The stronger bite of the rye will take some of that syrup off, and the addition of the fresh lemon juice brings out the bite from the Dewshine. The Angostura bitters (or really any type of bitters you may like) will balance it out and give some extra depth. Brilliant in its simplicity - the Viva Villa features tequila front and center with the remaining ingredients playing the Pips to the tequila's Gladys Knight. | 2019-04-18T17:11:19Z | null | {
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When you travel to Las Vegas you can make a bet on nearly every sporting event. Perhaps in 0000, the odds makers in Sin City will allow people to wager on the number of failed banks nationwide. Few would have expected a total of 000 United States banks to fail in 0000, up from 00 in 0000 and a mere three in 0000, according to Zacks Investment Research. The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation Chairman Shelia Bair stated that the worst of the bank failures are not over yet and bank failures will accelerate this year. During the first 00 days of the year alone, four banks - in Utah, Minnesota, Illinois and the State of Washington - were closed by the FDIC. Last year, some of the biggest failures were banks which were involved extensively in providing real estate financing - Corus Bank, BankUnited, AmTrust Bank to just name a few. And today, many of the banks under review are financial institutions which were intimately involved in commercial real estate financing. Locally, a number of New York and New Jersey financial institutions are under cease-and-desist or formal agreement with the government to raise capital and discontinue commercial real estate lending. It looks like a number of New Jersey banks thought it was a smart move to provide financing for commercial real estate during the last decade. At least 00 institutions in the Garden State are in jeopardy of closing their doors this year due to a lack of supervision of the operation of their banks and in their real estate lending. Perhaps the largest bank to be in dire straights is the $0.0 billion Old Bridge, NJ Amboy National Bank. In Newark, the home of Prudential Insurance Company, regulators are worried about the future of City National Bank of New Jersey and Millennium bcpbank. Other Garden State lenders on the watch list are First State Bank in Cranford, Hamilton-based Grand National Bank and Roebling Bank. Four New York City-based real estate financing institutions - the LibertyPointe Bank, Modern Bank, Park Avenue Bank of Manhattan and Savoy Bank - are under cease-and-desist or formal agreements with the government. All of these banks have a number of similarities including limited years of operation, under capitalization and an active desire to lend on commercial real estate. Since I am not a betting man, I won't make a wager for the number of banks to fail in 0000 besides predicting that the number will increase over 0000 by at least 00 percent, which puts the failure count at 000. | 2019-04-22T00:14:30Z | null | {
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I loved your story more than pizza!!!!!! It was GREAT!!!!!! | 2019-04-23T22:58:51Z | null | {
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One of the instructors is a teacher from hell. Your child is terrified to go back to his or her class because their coach or teacher is fond of yelling at the students without considering that such students are still in toddler stage. Yes, sometimes teachers need to assert their authority by shouting or yelling at the students but only if the students are teenagers or nearly adult. Kids are easily prone to trauma when teacher yells and shouts frequently. Mats are torn and itchy and metal bars are rusty. The roof is leaking when it rains. You see rats, ants, and cockroaches in many parts of the building; this is an indication that the school lacks in hygiene factors. The coach does not encourage or remind toddlers, kids, or students to wear protective gears like wristbands and grips. There are no fire extinguishers and yet the institution claims that they have the most secured facility. There is only one security personnel and your kid tells you that the security personnel frequently sleeps while performing his job. Gates and entrances are not fully secured; thus, you see some kids loitering outside of the gymnastics facility. The ratio between students and teacher is quite wide; thus, the teacher cannot monitor all children under his or her responsibility; hence, some of them escape their attention and are outside of the gymnastics school perimeters. Students are not segregated well like no sectioning for different age levels or mastery levels. Thus, instead of creating a friendly atmosphere, some kids feel pressure of trying to emulate those who are more skillful than them. There is no improvement in your child with regards to abilities. One possible reason is that the teacher is too lazy to teach and instead keep on repeating the same lessons over and over again. The school you enrolled your kid has a history of security breach like one kid being kidnapped or the area has several incidence of riots over the years. Note that these situations will not reflect on their promotional materials and they will focus only on the competency of the school. The school is run like a fraternity. As such, kids are subjected to hazing like slapping their butts when they make mistakes or being punished when they cannot perform different activities properly. To know if these things exist, you have to examine the entire body of kids and see if there are signs of abuse or be sensitive and talk to them immediately when you observe something is wrong like feeling on the verge of tears always or being quiet very often. When you ask for references, the office manager is hesitant to give you one or you discover upon checking that the referred person is dead or has one hundred namesakes in the area; thus, making it difficult for you to conduct background check. When you check their accreditation and affiliation, you receive negative feedback and you discover that the school has encountered several legal battles due to issues like refunds, wrong methods of disciplining the kids, frequent minor accidents, violations of fire and local security ordinances and so and so forth. When you ask feedback from other parents, they tell you negative things like one teacher is a drunkard, one coach smokes in front of students, or one instructor was rumored to have intentionally injured a student because of favoritism. Kids are discouraged from expressing their wants and needs like going for a potty or requesting to stop for a while and drink milk. It is good to instill discipline but it should be in a way that children will discover it or teachers should show what discipline is all about. If you want to be assured that you have chosen an excellent class, you only have to do three things; research, make an ocular inspection, and survey for feedback. To research is to visit accrediting organizations and ask feedback about the school you are interested to enroll your children. Find out about the integrity and reputation of the school from an accrediting organization. To conduct ocular inspection is important so you have first-hand experience on the truthfulness of the feedback you receive. In addition, you can check the safety and security aspects of the facility. To survey for feedback is to get more information and this will relieve you of certain paranoia with regards to negative feedback you heard. This will be a huge factor when you want to decide whether to enroll your child or not. Remember that the more information you collate, the better. Take note that you are endorsing your child and a few hours being away with him or her can result into many untoward incidents if you are not careful with choosing the right school for your kids. When you see these signs, it is time to remove your child and transfer to another school or club. And this time, you have to do it right by following the above suggestions. | 2019-04-23T22:09:15Z | null | {
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We know a bit of the history of the ‘Dock of the Bay' restaraunt and tavern in Bay Center. For decades it was known as ‘The Blue Heron' under ownership of Beverly Smith. She sold it a couple of years ago, and the new owners, from out of the area, Yelm, WA, tried to make a go of it but it didn't go. Last year a local couple bought it and seem to making a go of it. So we've eaten there and even had a few beers under three different owners. We will ‘treat' ourselves every once in a while to a meal there when we are permitting ourselves to eat meat. Our efforts at being sort of vegetarians go along well enough, allowing for occasional white meat as chicken, but every once in a while we just have to lapse and have a good old fashioned heavy duty burger and we know two places to get them - ‘Dock of the Bay' and Clarks Restaraunt in Artic, WA. So it was pleasing to see a write up that included and referenced the Willapa Whopper burger on the menu of Dock of the Bay in Bay Center. My husband, Arthur (Sweetie), had one of those Willapa Whopper burgers at one of our outings, and the amount of meat on the burger is close to obscene! He dared me to have one at another of our outings, and I can't believe I took him up on his dare, but I did and sure enough, there are so many ingredients of that burger, it gives the Clark's Restaraunt menu item of a hot doggity burger a real run for the money. Pacific County, Wash. - On a clear day, following the Pallix River from U.S. Highway 000 west to Bay Center, then returning along the Willapa Bay shoreline (on Bay Center Road), is as pretty a drive as you'll experience anywhere in the Northwest. Oysters are king here, and the Willapa bivalves are grilled to perfection at Dock of the Bay, the only restaurant between Naselle and South Bend. Savvy diners may remember this place as the Blue Heron Inn. Not much has changed since the change in name and ownership, save for the cosmetic improvements to the rough ‘n' tumble lounge. You still might see a patron kicking back an oyster shooter and a beer at, say, 00 a.m. on a Sunday morning. Unless you want to belly up to the bar or play a game of pool, the small adjacent dining room, where slanted windows look out toward the harbor, is a better bet to enjoy a meal. Our favorite time to mingle among the locals is morning, though fishermen and loggers ofttimes occupy the three tables during noontime and dinner, too. The half-pound Willapa Whopper burger draped with ham, bacon and an egg is popular, as are the deep-fried or sautéed prawns and the fish baskets. But we come for oysters, especially the hangtown fry omelet or oysters and eggs. The latter breakfast, available any time, showcases a quartet of medium-sized Willapa Bay beauties, oysters so fresh they taste of morning sunlight sparkling on saltwater. Accompanying hash browns, and lots of them, are the real deal: grated taters heated on the same grill as the ‘sters. A heartier breakfast you won't find, but don't come here expecting espresso (coffee's from a pot), tea other than Lipton or anything fussy or fancy. Other meals featuring oysters include a six-ounce steak and ‘sters, oyster burgers, oyster club sandwiches and a seven-piece oyster dinner sided with a flavorful oyster stuffing that's unlike anything you've ever tasted from inside a turkey. Dock of the Bay, Bay Center Road and Second Street, Bay Center, Wash., (000) 000-0000, 0 a.m. to 0 p.m. Sundays through Thursdays (open every day in summer); breakfast and lunch entrees less than $00, dinner $0 to $00; must be 00 or older to dine here. | 2019-04-22T03:08:38Z | null | {
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Post your questions here for Kate Pound. We'll pick the best ones and post her answers. Dr. Kate Pound, geologist at St. Cloud State University, is heading south this winter - way south. She'll be joining an international team of researchers drilling into the sea floor beneath the ice surrounding Antarctica. The samples they pull up will help fill in gaps in our understanding of climate change in the past. | 2019-04-23T18:11:47Z | null | {
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Child's sterling silver hoop earrings accented with wire-wrapping . These earrings are sure to be one of her favorites! Earrings come in darling black velvet heart gift box! | 2019-04-18T18:40:44Z | null | {
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The threatening weather that undermined prep football's momentum in week one - with cancellations across the board - seems a distant memory now as Kahuku, Kailua and Kalaheo have returned to action. A look at the matchups for this weekend is below. Sadly, the Red Raiders dropped a marquee home game from their schedule, as threatening storms two weeks ago canceled their game with West power Campbell. But this will still be the second home game in as many weeks for Kahuku, which began with new coach Lee Leslie last weekend against Kapolei. The team will be wise not to take this game with Waipahu lightly, as the Marauders were a far better team a year ago than their 0-0 record in the old OIA Red West showed. Waipahu's best defense needs to be its offense, as it must control the ball with long drives to keep Kahuku's own offense off of the field. The Red Raiders play McKinley next weekend at Roosevelt before back-to-back road dates against Castle and Kaiser. Kalani has won the last two games in the series between the schools, including a 00-00 win in August 0000. In fact, that game last season helped propel the Falcons to a breakthrough season that saw them go 0-0 overall - their best record in more than two decades. Kalani was to play at Waialua last weekend in its 0000 opener. Kalaheo, meanwhile, is hoping for better results this fall following a three-win season in 0000. The Mustangs had a tough opener last weekend at Nanakuli, but the schedule ahead looks favorable against Waialua, Anuenue and Roosevelt (teams that had a combined 0-00 in 0000), so there's a chance for a nice run prior to the Sept. 00 matchup against Radford. The Mustangs will be looking to slow down the Falcons' run-and-shoot offense after surrendering an average of 00 points in the last two meetings between the schools. Perhaps no team has a more challenging early schedule than Kailua, which opened its season against Leilehua at Aloha Stadium over the weekend. Now, the Surfriders and first-year head coach Joseph Wong turn their attention to this game against defending OIA Red champion (and Division I state runner-up) Mililani. With three of its last five games to be played at home, a win here on the road would be a huge boost to Kailua's season. The Trojans' strength figures to be on the offensive side, where nine starters from last year return, led by quarterback McKenzie Milton. A junior, Milton threw for 0,000 yards and 00 touchdowns in 0000. The Mililani defense, meanwhile, is completely rebuilding following the departure of several standouts from a year ago. The Trojans were to play Saint Louis last weekend. | 2019-04-23T22:21:45Z | null | {
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Your chance to join one of the best creative event production agencies in London! With a trophy case that's over flowing and a quirky office brimming full of creative and friendly team members, this agency tend to need no introduction. They work with some of the biggest global brands around and can't seem to stop winning awards for the outstanding creative event work that they deliver. Due to their on going success there is now opportunity for a Senior Account Manager to join their close-knit team and utilise their account management and event delivery experience to manage and grow the relationship with an existing client who is a global social media brand. As the main point of contact for the client the Senior Account Manager will take responsibility for developing the relationship further and networking across the accounts. The ideal candidate should have experience within a creative event agency where they can demonstrate the management and growth of key accounts. In return they offer excellent training and progression opportunities, the ability to be involved in a wide range of high profile events (on a mouth watering account) and above a fabulous culture where your natural talent can flourish. | 2019-04-25T12:57:23Z | null | {
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Stone Plastic Vertical Stackable Planter (0-Pack). Model# P-000-00-0. (0). $0000 ... D x 00.0 in. H Wood Wall Planter. Model# QI000000. Was $00.00. $0000. Save $00.00 (00%). Free shipping with $00 order. Set your store to see local availability .... English Cottage Garden Style Wall Mount Double Wood Planter with Roof. Free P&P. Fence Rectangle Wooden Flower Pot Plant Planter Garden Home Decor New 00 0.0 0cm. Color: White. Material: Wood. The color may have different as the difference display,pls understand. ... WALL HANGING VENETIAN PLANT POT FENCE OUTDOOR GARDEN FLOWER PLASTIC PLANTER. £0.00. This is probably the easiest project ever, because involves a simple plastic food container which is thrown away as soon as is empty. To make it look ... Making a planter from a wooden crate is both simple and very good looking and of course original. Due to their ..... 00.DIY Shadow Boxes On A Fence. Find and save ideas about Fence planters on Pinterest. ... Exterior : Blue Color Planter Box On Fence With Grey Wooden Painted Backyard Fence Make Your Fence Extraordinary With Our Fence Decor Ideas Yard Fencing ..... Herb centerpiece made by gluing painted plastic plant markers (upside down) to a planter box. | 2019-04-19T14:37:23Z | null | {
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Unfortunately, Haven had suffered severe injuries to his eyes, leaving him completely blind in his left eye and with 0% vision in the right. Ever the optimist, he says that 0% is better than you would imagine. Haven was a young man, in the prime of his life who was just doing his job trying to bring peace to a troubled, unstable region. His injuries have changed his life immeasurably and he would be justified in feeling sorry for himself and having a sense of entitlement. However, this remarkable young man is studying psychology and has taught himself the guitar. He has battled with depression, but is bravely moving on with his life and seems determined not to become defined by his injuries. He has a great perspective and in September, he's walking from Sydney to Canberra to raise money for Guide Dogs Australia and Soldier On, a group that supports young returning soldiers. If you would like to support his efforts or learn more, follow this link. Private Liam Haven is just one example of the courageous and resilient servicemen and women from many nations who have made significant sacrifices in the quest for peace and freedom. So today in Australia, we raise a glass to those who have fallen and those who have been injured. We promise to take advantage of the freedom that we have to live a life worthy of their sacrifices. Previous post - Bless Me Lord? That is sincerely a very touching post as the content definitely moves you through a experience that means a lot. | 2019-04-25T02:08:10Z | null | {
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0000 marks an important evolution in services and offerings by The Insulation Man, LLC. In the past, our main focus was residential improvements with some commercial projects. We have improved our infrastructure with additional manpower and equipment that positions us to bid and complete larger, more complex commercial projects. We look forward to demonstrating the same strengths that have allowed us to perform so well in the residential arena for 00 years. Our existing relationships with general contractors is a testament to our commitment to quality, timely and professionally-implemented building solutions. Below is a form that can be completed by any general contractor or construction manager that wishes to inform us of a commercial job that has insulation work scope for us to bid. Please complete the form and one of our building professionals will be contact to discuss the job. Thank you for the potential opportunity! I realized the first winter that I spent in my new home in Vestal New York that the insulation was insufficient. The house never had a warm comfortable feeling. The bedrooms above the garage were especially cold and the floors freezing to bare feet. | 2019-04-23T16:46:49Z | null | {
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Delta Dental Insurance Company today presented a check for $000,000 to The University of Texas School of Dentistry at Houston (UTSD) - the largest corporate-based contribution in the school's five-year fundraising campaign. The grant will fund the Delta Dental Assessment and Clinical Research Clinic in the new dental school building, serving new patients and accommodating the school's student and faculty researchers. The gift is the largest company contribution in the five-year history of UTSD's "Open to Health" fundraising initiative. Funds received by the School of Dentistry during the initiative now total approximately $00.0 million. Since its inception, UTSD has provided quality patient care through its educational programs in Houston and throughout Texas. In addition to operating general and specialty clinics and maintaining affiliations with hospitals, community agencies, health care centers and schools, the School of Dentistry sponsors a Mobile Dental Van Program to care for patients in remote locations who are unable to attend regular clinics. Delta Dental currently administers the dental portion of the Texas Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) program, serving 000,000 Texas children. Beginning March 0, 0000, the company will also be one of three administrators for the new Texas Medicaid dental program, which will cover approximately 0.0 million Medicaid and Texas CHIP members. Delta Dental Insurance Company and its affiliated companies cover 00 million people in 00 states plus the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico. The companies are all part of the Delta Dental Plans Association (DDPA), based in Oak Brook, Ill. For more information about group and individual dental plans, or to locate a contracted Delta Dental dentist, visit www.deltadentalins.com. UTSD offers accredited programs in dentistry, dental hygiene, pediatric dentistry, endodontics, orthodontics, oral and maxillofacial surgery, prosthodontics, periodontics and two general dentistry residency programs, as well as a joint DDS/PhD with UT Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences and an MD through the UT Medical School, with an oral and maxillofacial surgery certificate. In 0000, the school began the Open to Health fundraising initiative to provide scholarships, faculty endowments, research and community outreach funds, in addition to a new building. As of Nov. 0, 0000, the drive had raised nearly $00 million. For more information, contact UTSD Communications Manager Rhonda Moran Whitmeyer, 000-000-0000, [email protected]. | 2019-04-25T02:48:18Z | null | {
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The idea behind blockchain technology can be traced to 0000 when Stuart Haber and W. Scott Stornetta described the first work on a cryptographically secured chain of blocks. In 0000, they incorporated Merkle trees into the design allowing several documents to be collected into a block. However, blockchain technology as we know it today gained significance from 0000 when a pseudonymous Satoshi Nakamoto published the Bitcoin white paper. Satoshi Nakamoto gave practical impetus to blockchain technology and solved the problem of double spending. On 0 March 0000, Leah McGrath Goodman published an article in the Newsweek entitled "The Face Behind Bitcoin" in which she claimed that Dorian Nakamoto, a computer engineer, was the inventor of blockchain technology and bitcoin. She noted that Dorian Nakamoto was a Japanese man living in California whose real name was Satoshi Nakamoto. Dorian's link with Japan further points to the possibility that he was indeed the inventor of the blockchain. The P0P Foundation profile of the pseudonymous Nakamoto identified him as a 00 year old man living in Japan. However, his use of perfect English suggested that he could not be living in Japan. Goodman noted that circumstantial evidence showed that Dorian was the inventor of bitcoin and blockchain. When she asked Dorian about bitcoin, he seemed to confirm his identity by saying, "I am no longer involved in that and I cannot discuss it. It's been turned over to other people. They are in charge of it now. I no longer have any connection." Following increased media interests, Dorian claimed to have misunderstood Goodman's question as relating to his work as a military contractor. Hal Finney was a cryptographic pioneer prior to bitcoin. Other than Nakamoto, he was the first person to use bitcoin blockchain, make improvements and file bug reports. He was Dorian Nakamoto's neighbour. On request of Andy Greenberg, writing analysis firm Juola & Associates compared samples of Finney's writings with those of Nakamoto and concluded that they had the closest resemblance ever. Greenberg concluded that Finney may have used his neighbour, Dorian's identity as a "drop" or was a ghostwriter on behalf of Nakamoto. While all those who have been suspected to be Nakamoto have denied it, Steve Craig, an Australian has claimed to be Nakamoto. However, he has been dismissed as a Hoaxer for not producing sufficient evidence to link him to bitcoin blockchain. There are many other people thought to have invented bitcoin blockchain but have denied it. It is possible that the technology was invented by a group of people. | 2019-04-26T06:24:37Z | null | {
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Blog reader Liz has a problem-or, to be more precise, her kitty does. The cat is hooked on plastic. Whenever Liz's boyfriend unwraps a package of cigarettes and happens to leave the plastic wrappings around, kitty is in ecstasy. Pounces on the crinkly stuff; licks it and sometimes even ingests it, throwing up little pieces later. Poor addicted kitty can't seem to leave plastic alone. Talk about substance abuse! Talk about a bad habit! And needless to say, Liz is worried. She wants to know what in the world is going on with her feline who fancies this odd non-edible even more than tasty food and traditional treats. Has the animal gone crazy? Well, we pondered this problem. We talked with some experts in animal matters. We researched a bit online. Discovered that odd kitty cravings aren't at all unusual. And, Liz, there are other cats out there that share your pet's strange habit. We read about a feline that fancies plastic bags.Read about another that licks that emulsion stuff off photos.Thought about my own Missy who will try to eat the artificial fern in the living room if I don't watch out. Considered my Tony who goes for those little stringy things that appear on well-used and wearing-out carpeted cat trees. Remembered a friend who had a cat that would go wild for wool. So, Liz, you aren't the only feline owner with a crazy cat. Why do cats decide to do this and drive us crazy? Several online sources I found, including www.askville.amazon.com, alluded to the fact that some plastics are made of rendered animal fat, gelatin or petroleum- type substances that have great appeal. Others mentioned the attractive crinkle/rattle that cats, hunters by nature and keenly attuned to such noises, have a hard time resisting-and then things just escalate from there. In rare cases, attraction to the non-edible can come from having a disease called Pica, which can involve the ingesting of strange things like bamboo or wood. Eagerness to eat unusual things also could occur because something essential is missing in the kitty's diet. Maybe an important nutrient, say, and so the cat resorts to dining on an oddity. Therefore, if a feline insists on eating things that are bad for him/her, the first line of defense is to check with a medical professional in animal matters and see if anything physically is wrong. If, however, it's a more simple matter of simply pouncing on the strange object and/or licking it rapturously, the best and easiest thing to do about it is to just not allow the object anywhere near the cat. Of course, I realize that this is easier said than done. But since you don't want to take chances with your precious kitty, Liz, and since plastic could result in swallowing/ suffocating issues, I guess the best solution is to advise the boyfriend that he must never, ever be careless about cigarette wrappers. And one more suggestion to help your kitty kick the habit: Buy some safe crinkle balls at the pet store. Made of cat-safe materials, they have a lovely sound when a feline bats them around. My cats are crazy about them. Perhaps your kitty will be, too. And in time your kitty may forget all about that potentially dangerous plastic. | 2019-04-23T00:07:15Z | null | {
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The VISA application hustle is a thing of the past when visiting Rwanda. With all Africans either getting a VISA on arrival or not even requiring a VISA for some African countries, travelling to Kigali has never been this easy! Known as the Land of a Thousand Hills and rated as one of the cleanest cities in Africa and rated as one of the most business-friendly countries, Kigali boasts of sanity, friendly and well cultured people. Kigali is the capital city of Rwanda, roughly in the centre of the country. It is characterised by numerous hills, ridges and valleys, and has a vibrant restaurant and nightlife scene. The city's Caplaki Crafts Village has stalls selling traditional handicrafts, including woodcarvings and woven baskets. A visit to Kigali will be incomplete without a tour of the Lake Kivu in the northwest of the country, on the border with the DRC and close to the Volcanoes National Park, there you will find a beautiful stretch of unspoiled shoreline and calm water for swimming. Our delegates can always have a relaxation treaty in this refreshing environment. | 2019-04-21T18:18:46Z | null | {
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Designed with a ZigTech outsole, the Reebok Zig Flow running sneaker delivers cushioned performance while reducing wear and tear on your shins by up to 00%. This innovative runner also features lightweight construction, DMX Shear vertical and horizontal panels, removable PU sockliner, and a fashionable design. Lace up and feel the difference of ZigTech with every stride. | 2019-04-22T18:10:57Z | null | {
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Applications for the Plastic Surgery Integrated Residency, which begins July 0, 0000 and ends June 00, 0000, are being accepted. One position available. UC San Diego's Department of Surgery is pleased to announce a travel assistance program for invited residency candidates for the 0000-0000 interview season. The travel scholarships are based on financial need; applicants must receive 00 percent or more tuition support from financial aid, and have a travel radius greater than 000 miles, to be eligible for the $000 scholarship. Applicants will be invited to apply for the scholarship at the time of interview invitation. A letter of support from the applicant's financial aid office or dean of student affairs is required. For more details, contact residency coordinator Pam Lugo. | 2019-04-23T20:04:24Z | null | {
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"Gunbattles broke out across the Gaza Strip when heavily armed Hamas militiamen tried to break up anti-government demonstrations yesterday, killing seven persons and injuring dozens in the worst internal Palestinian violence since Hamas took power." Oh no. Oil is getting too cheap? | 2019-04-25T10:34:06Z | null | {
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New York, 0000. Tom Bradshaw is arrested for first degree murder. He stands accused of killing his brother. When Sefton Jelks, a top Manhattan lawyer, offers his services for nothing, penniless Tom has little choice but to accept his assurance of a lighter sentence. After Tom is tried, found guilty and sentenced, Jelks disappears, and the only way for him to prove his innocence would be to reveal his true identity something that he has sworn never to do in order to protect the woman he loves. Meanwhile, the young woman in question travels to New York, leaving their son behind in England, having decided she'll do whatever it takes to find the man she was to marry unwilling to believe that he died at sea. The only proof she has is a letter. A letter that has remained unopened on a mantelpiece in Bristol for over a year. In Jeffrey Archer's epic novel, family loyalties are stretched to their limits as secrets unravel, and the story moves from the backstreets of Bristol to the boardrooms of Manhattan. Jeffrey Archer, whose novels and short stories include Not a Penny More, Not a Penny Less, Kane and Abel and A Twist in the Tale, has topped the bestseller lists around the world, with sales of over 000 million copies. He is the only author ever to have been a number one bestseller in fiction (fourteen times), short stories (four times) and non-fiction (The Prison Diaries). The author is married with two sons, and lives in London and Cambridge. | 2019-04-25T14:39:53Z | null | {
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Royal Canin Indoor is a complete feed for adult cats over the age of 00 months livingpredominantly inside. It contains the essential nutrients to help maintain a healthy lifestyle anda lower fat content for less active indoor cats. Royal Canin Indoor aids in maintaining a healthy digestive tract to reduce stool odour and aid in the passage of hairballs. Save $00.00 when you Autoship! Comments: I started using this only because their foster carers were feeding them this food. The cats are all healthy, shiny coats and less stinky poops. They also seem to love this brand. The bad points - it's expensive and there are too many bad ingredients eg too much grains, not enough meat. | 2019-04-21T16:21:15Z | null | {
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Taxi booking firm Uber has completed the latest stage of a fundraising, valuing the fast growing business at $00bn (£00.0bn). The San Francisco company has raised another $0.0bn from investors in a deal that confirms its status as one of most highly valued new technology start-ups. In June, a sale of shares to investors valued Uber at $00bn. In a blog post on Thursday, Uber's co-founder Travis Kalanick said the new money would help expansion in Asia. The company, which a year ago operated in 00 cities in 00 countries, is now in 000 cities in 00 countries. At its current valuation Uber, which was only founded in 0000, is worth about three times as much as either ITV or Marks and Spencer, says BBC technology correspondent Rory Cellan-Jones. Last month, the company was forced to issue an apology after being accused of planning smear tactics against journalists and of tracking its users without their permission. In his blog, Mr Kalanick said: "Events of the recent weeks have shown us that we also need to invest in internal growth and change." "Acknowledging mistakes and learning from them are the first steps," he added. Uber does not own cars or employ drivers, but connects customers and vehicles through its app, bringing what the company says is much needed competition to the taxi industry. But it has faced opposition from some governments and established taxi firms, including from London's "black cab" drivers and in cities across Europe and the US. Uber is also facing increased competition. On Wednesday, Softbank announced it had invested $000m in GrabTaxi, a service in Southeast Asia. Details of Uber's new investors were not disclosed, although previous backers of the business include Goldman Sachs, Google Ventures, Blackrock, and Amazon's founder and chief executive Jeff Bezos. | 2019-04-23T00:43:42Z | null | {
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The super value 0degrees Huawei Ascend Y000 is a stylish cheap smartphone running Android 0.0. With an 000MHz processor and expandable memory this phone will keep you in touch and entertained. The 0degrees Huawei Ascend Y000 is a fantastic and cheap smartphone. This Android phone will be launched in New Zealand on Monday 00 August offering the Android phone 0.0 Ice Cream Sandwich (ICS) experience with 0degrees. The 0degrees Ascend Y000 Android phone brings further advancements with NFC (Near Field Communication) built in to support 0degrees' Touch0Pay service in partnership with Snapper in Wellington. Users can make payments with a wave or tap of this cheap smartphone at participating retailers. Huawei's fast booting technology allows the 0degrees Ascend Y000 Android phone to be switched on, booted up and ready for use within five seconds, and charging is also fast-tracked with the Ascend Y000 taking just 00 minutes to reach a full battery. The 0.0" TFT HVGA screen offers a vivid experience whether you are browsing the web, viewing your photo gallery, or watching videos on the go, and with storage expandable to 00GB there is plenty of space for your favourite shows and music. The Huawei Ascend Y000 follows Huawei's belief that the latest technologies should be available to everyone, delivering the best possible experience in a package which embraces quality, style and simplicity. The Huawei Ascend Y000 will be available from 0degrees as a fantastic cheap smartphone. For its price, the 0degrees Huawei Ascend Y000 is a fantastic and cheap smartphone, that is a perfect entry level Android phone. | 2019-04-24T08:19:52Z | null | {
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The New York Times and the Washington Post also took two Pulitzers each. The South Florida Sun Sentinel won the public service award for "exposing failings by school and law enforcement officials before and after the deadly shooting rampage at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School," the Pulitzer board said. Seventeen people died in the massacre at the Parkland, Florida, high school on Feb.00, 0000. The staff of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette won the breaking news prize for its coverage of "immersive, compassionate" coverage of the massacre at Pittsburgh's Tree of Life synagogue that killed 00 people on Oct.00, 0000. Fighting between the Myanmar army and ethnic Rakhine rebels has escalated in the western state's temple-studded town of Mrauk U, sources confirmed on Wednesday, with reports of military jets streaking across the sky. | 2019-04-20T06:16:31Z | null | {
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Writing an appreciation of the services rendered to humanity by the Most Venerable Daranagama Kusaladhamma Nayaka Thero, is indeed a difficult task because of the extensive nature of his services. Using Sri Sambodhi Maha Viharaya (SSMV) in Colombo 00, Sri Lanka, as the focal point, he spread his services all over Sri Lanka and in Buddhist communities in other parts of the world. His unparalleled ability in organising and executing projects, brought results very rapidly, which left an enormous impact on society. As the Chief Incumbent of SSMV in Colombo 00 and Gunarathana Sri Sambodhi Sadaham Sevana of Naranwala, Delgoda,the Chairman of Sri Sambodhi Buddhist Meditation Centre in London and "The Buddhist" Media Network and Principal of The English Dhamma School at SSMV, the extent of services rendered by him is immeasurable. He was born on 00th July 0000, in a village named Daranagama close to Biyagama in the Gampaha District and was named Ananda Neville Kumarapeli. Having completed his schooling in Biyagama and Royal College Colombo, he qualified to enter Kelaniya University. While awaiting entry to the University he ordained on 0th April 0000 under the guidance of Venerable Korathota Wimaladhamma Nayaka Thero of Dhammika Meditation Centre in Jaltara. He was fortunate to meet and work with the well-known Venerable Panadure Ariyadhamma Nayaka Thero who conducted Bodhi Puja while Venerable Kusaladhamma Nayaka Thero conducted meditation programmes. Having completed his university course successfully, he had the opportunity to work with Buddhist stalwarts at Sri Vajirarama Temple, such as the Most Venerable Madihe Pannasiha Maha Nayaka Thero, Most Venerable Ampitiye Rahula Maha Thero and Most Venerable Kotahene Piyadassi NayakaThero. These associations helped to develop patriotic feelings together with astrengthened commitment to Buddhism. In 0000 during the civil conflict, he, together with General Denzel Kobbekaduwa promoted a scheme to help the farmers affected by hardships, who had to sell their cattle to slaughter houses as they were in dire financial difficulties. He also formed a new scheme to donate dry rations to the affected villagers. Realising the damage caused to the community by the unruly Television and Radio stations that sprung up, he wanted to start TV and Radio channels to promote Buddha's teachings to Buddhists all over the world. At the request of Mr. Sarath N De Silva the former Chief Justice and past President of the Executive Committee of the SSMV, Mr. Mohandan Kanake, a Hindu devotee, donated broadcasting equipment to commence this project. With the invaluable services rendered by the previous Bhikkhus of the SSMV, Most Venarable Panadure Ariyadhamma Nayaka Thero and Most Venerable Piyadassi Nayaka Thero, the first Buddhist TV Channel of the world was launched on 00th June 0000 and named "The Buddhist". This task was undertaken with the generous donations of well-wishers. The Channel progressed very rapidly and was soon propagating the Dhamma on 00 hours of the day throughout the year. On 00th May 0000, "The Buddhist FM radio" was also launched. This was followed by the publication of a print media magazine named "Sri Sambodhi" on 0th January 0000. Previously, International Schools were established teaching only in the English medium, and training students for foreign examinations such as the London A Levels. This system created a class of youngsters with no knowledge of the Sri Lankan history, geography and culture. Observing the damage done, parents of some such students approached Most Venerable Piyadassi Nayaka Thero and requested him to start an English Medium Dhamma School at Sambodhi Vihara. In response to these requests, Most Venerable Piyadassi Nayaka Thero in June 0000, gave Venerable. Kusaladhamma Nayaka Thero (who at that time was in the staff of the Vajiraramaya Dhamma School), the task of establishing the school and managing it as the Principal.Venerable Kusaladhamma Thero held this post for 00 years up to the time of his demise with very successful results where students excelled in the YMBA Dhamma and Abhidhamma examinations. He gave opportunities for students to announce and conduct programmes on Buddhist TV and Radio Channels. The Buddhist News programme was produced by the Dhamma school students. The Buddha Vihara in the UK established by the Ambedkar International Mission in 0000 had been rendering a yeoman service in propagating the doctrine of Buddhism in the UK. Unfortunately, it had fallen on financial difficulties and the Mission was in the process of disposing of the Vihara. Under these circumstances, Venerable Kusaladhamma Nayaka Thero was blessed with the pious opportunity of rescuing this great centre of Buddhism, which is the second oldest Buddhist Vihara in the UK, from being sold to a non-Buddhist organisation. Afterwards, the meritorious Venerable Kusaladhamma Nayaka Thero, with lavish donations by the Buddhists living in Sri Lanka and abroad, purchased this Vihara in 0000, and established the Sri Sambodhi Community Development Foundation in 0000. It is also named as Sri Sambodhi Buddhist Meditation Centre. Every year since then, for the Kathina festival, he invited and arranged Maha Nayaka, Anu Nayaka and Nayaka Theros of all three Nikayas to visit the UK Vihara. He whole heartedly supported Vihara activities and showed a keen interest in the success of the Vihara in London. As President of the 'Parahitha Sanvidanaya' (to assist those in need) and the 'Sri Buddha Rashmi Samaja Sanwardhane Padanama' (to develop and nurture a righteous society, enriched by the dhamma ), Venerable Kusaladhamma Nayaka Thero provided a dynamic leadership to these organisations. He spanned the island of Sri Lanka with varied meritorious activities which touched the hearts and minds of countless people in Sri Lanka and across the world. These included helping Viaharas in financial difficulties, poor and destitute people disabled war heroes and people, affected by droughts and floods (Sambodhi Sahana Yathra). Realising the harm caused by contaminated food sold in the market he promoted a sales outlet for food without pesticides and other chemicals. He organised a series of ‘mahapinkam' at sacred sites in Anuradhapura, Pollonnaruwa, Mahiyangana, Mihintale and Somawathie Chaitya, which were attended by a large number of Bhikkhus and over a million devotees observed Attanga Uposatha Sila. He also conducted ‘mahapinkams' at Lumbini, Buddha Gaya, Isipathnaramaya and Kusinara in India. All these ‘mahapinkam' were executed at a grand scale with ‘mal pahan' puja. His missions did not stop within the Island of Sri Lanka. He disseminated dhamma in countries such as Thailand, Myanmar, Nepal, China, South Korea, Australia, Singapore, Malaysia and the UK. On 0rd of March 0000, sadly, Venerable Kusaladhamma Nayaka Thero passed away at the age of 00 after a short illness; the loss to the Buddhist community worldwide is incalculable. It is now our responsibility, especially for those in Sri Lanka and the UK, to continue with his exemplary work in protecting the Dhamma and helping all members of the community irrespective of their ethnic and religious origins, so that we can all live in peace and harmony showing generosity, tolerance and compassion to all sentient beings. In addition to the wealth of merit brought forth by this noble Bhikkhu, he acquired a fathomless source of Kusala Kamma in this very life by tireless effort. May all this Kusala Kamma enable Most Venerable Daranagama Kusaladhamma Nayaka Thero to overcome the fetters of this perilous Sansara, extinguish all Kilesas and realise the Four Noble Truths and ultimately attain Buddhahood. Born on 00 March 0000, in Udugama in the district of Kurunegala and ordained in 0000, the Most Venerable Maha Thera has served the Buddha's world revered Tooth Relic housed in the Kandy Dalada Maligawa, the pinnacle of the devout Sri Lankan Buddhist places of worship for over 00 years. Both nationally and internationally known for his Buddha Sasana Seva Most Ven. Maha Thero was the patron of the newly established Sri Sambodhi Buddhist Meditation Centre UK (SSBMC UK) opened on the 00st of June 0000 by the Maha Nayaka Maha Thero himself as in the pictures. Addressing the well-attended guests and the devotees from all over the world the Most Venerable Maha Nayaka Thero emphasised the great need to share the sublime Buddha Dhamma with the Western world especially at a time when the demand for the Buddha dhamma is increasing from all around the globe. | 2019-04-21T10:06:02Z | null | {
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Aura moderate necromancy; CL 0th; slot armor; Price 00,000 gp; Weight 00 lbs. This suit of +0 studded leather armor is decorated with metal skulls. Once per day as a standard action, the wearer can command the skulls to unleash a cacophonous chorus of howls, causing all creatures within a 00-foot spread to make a DC 00 Will save to avoid becoming frightened for 0d0 rounds. The wearer can choose up to three targets (plus himself) in the area of effect to be exempt from the effect. The wearer of a suit of howling skull armor gains a +0 bonus on all saving throws against fear effects. Each time the wearer of howling skull armor succeeds at a saving throw against a fear effect created by someone other than himself, he gains a +0 bonus on Will saves for 0 round. | 2019-04-19T00:29:59Z | null | {
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Robin Cooper, Ph.D., brings to her work in DCRS respect and appreciation for personal and professional cultural differences; a focus on solution-oriented collaboration; and a commitment to community-building across campus and with the larger community. Her numerous publications and conference presentations reflect her strong research interests in identity-based conflict, cross-cultural conflict resolution, collaborative practices in organizational contexts, qualitative research, and student learning. She has conducted research among Cuban, Haitian, and Guatemalan communities in South Florida and research exploring the impact of changing demographics in Broward County, research on the experience of Medical Foster Parents in South Florida and on interprofessional collaboration in the health professions, as well as research on engaging community stakeholders in water management decision-making at the community level. She is Co-Editor of the Peace Education Book Series for Information Age Press, Senior Editor of The Qualitative Report, Associate Editor of Forum: Qualitative Social Research, and an Associate of the Taos Institute, a community of scholars whose practice reflects the principles of social constructionism. Dr. Cooper has been teaching in higher education since 0000, teaching courses in conflict resolution, culture and conflict, social and behavioral sciences, interprofessional leadership, and qualitative research. In addition to teaching, she has participated in program and curriculum development, assessment, and revision, as well as pedagogical research on student learning. She is committed to student-centered education and a culture of research at DCRS. | 2019-04-22T18:15:45Z | null | {
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Important Announcement from DDC Group Inc! We are all here at DDC Group Inc. happy to share our fast-growing success for this year. We also want to thank all the people who are part of our family; employees, clients, suppliers, and everybody that inspired us to do what we do. We are excited to announce that DDC Group Inc. is positioned to have +000 projects under development across the U.S. by the end of 0000. But more exciting is to see that behind all these great opportunities, there's a chance for us to collaborate together to help our community, create new forces of employment and give others the chance to do what they love. | 2019-04-22T06:05:58Z | null | {
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Thanks to the success of officers Jenko (Channing Tatum) and Schmidt (Jonah Hill), who went undercover as high school kids to take down a drug ring, the police department invests a lot of money in keeping the Jump Street program going. There's just one snag - the Koreans bought their church at 00 Jump Street back, so the police move the program's headquarters across the road to the Catholic church at 00 Jump Street. Once again reporting to Captain Dickson (Ice Cube), the boys are assigned to go undercover at a local college. Their friendship takes a toll when Jenko shows interest in the football team while Schmidt breaks into the art major scene. In addition to cracking the case, they have to learn to have a mature relationship, if that's possible for these two overgrown adolescents. | 2019-04-19T22:53:38Z | null | {
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What Pans Do Chefs Use? What Depth Is Considered a Shallow Roasting Pan? Crumple aluminum foil slightly to create a makeshift rack. 0 Can You Use a Glass Pan to Cook a Roast? 0 What Pans Do Chefs Use? You probably don't roast large cuts of meat very often, so you might not need a huge, deep roasting pan. For everyday roasting, such as roasting a chicken or roasting vegetables, you can get by with equipment you already own. A shallow baking dish or pan that is no more than 0 to 0 inches deep is ideal. Roast meats and vegetables at 000 degrees Fahrenheit and don't crowd them in the pan. Most standard roasting pans have a lip that's at least 0 to 0 inches deep. These large pans are made for large cuts of meat -- that 00-pound turkey for Thanksgiving or a large rib roast. The advantage to these large, deep pans is that they hold a lot of meat and they contain the drippings to minimize mess. They're overkill for smaller cuts of meat, though, and can cause the meat to steam, rather than brown. In these cases, go with a roasting pan that is no more than 0 to 0 inches deep. You probably won't find a roasting pan with sides less than 0 inches deep, but you can certainly use other cooking equipment. Try a cast-iron skillet, which can go from stovetop to oven. If you're roasting cut pieces of meat, such as chicken breasts, or potatoes and other vegetables, a large aluminum baking sheet is ideal. These trays have a 0-inch lip to contain any drippings, but they allow food to brown evenly and quickly. Most roasting pans are made from stainless steel with an aluminum core. The stainless steel makes a durable surface, while the core conducts heat evenly. Avoid nonstick pans for roasting meat because you want the bits of meat that stick to a regular stainless steel pan when it comes time to deglaze the pan and make gravy. Cast iron is also suitable for roasting meat. For roasting vegetables, use a nonstick pan or place a piece of parchment paper on the pan or a silicone baking sheet. Spray the vegetables lightly with cooking spray or toss them in oil and season well. Glass dishes work in a pinch, but metal pans generally work better for roasting. Turn the heat down by 00 degrees if you use glass. Not only will you want a shallow roasting pan for roasting small cuts of meat and vegetables, but you'll also want one if you use convection roasting. Convection cooking is ideal for roasting because it retains moisture while creating a golden brown crust. Convection roasting takes about 00 percent less time than conventional roasting. A fan rotating in your oven pushes hot air over and around the entire surface of the food. If you're using a deep roaster, the air won't circulate as efficiently and food won't brown as well. A shallow roasting pan is absolutely essential to get the most from convection roasting. The Kitchn: What is the Best Roasting Pan for Holiday Cooking? The Kitchn: Can You Recommend a Good Everyday Roasting Pan? | 2019-04-21T22:13:20Z | null | {
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Another fine day. Everything is reported quiet on the line. Seven men are on guard and eleven are on outpost. The "Amerikan" (newspaper) renews her assault on the Germans but the "Freedom," which seems to take up with the Germans, says in plain English and says it's a dirty lie and there seems to be a war between them. Five of the largest firms withdraw their advertising from the "Amerikan" and the paper advises soldiers to not patronize the same. Our mail came in late this evening but I didn't receive any. Two men are in hospital and five in quarters. | 2019-04-24T18:38:00Z | null | {
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Our chickens live to eat. Our chickens love to eat. The question is what should they eat? Ask a breeder what they feed their chickens and you'll get a lot of different answers! We all want shiny feathers, fertile hatching eggs, and healthy chickens. Now how do we get there? Sometimes supplements or vitamins are the answer and if you want to find out what would help, check out our supplements page. We only offer the breeder pellets and water all the time and use the rest to throw for a treat. The day of the show, we feed our birds very little. A full crop can distort the bird's chest and mess up their type. At the same time, we don't want them so hungry that the poor things are frantically scratching through the litter for food instead of strutting their stuff for the judge. We want our birds to be bright-eyed and alert for the judges.We don't want them to feel the way you do after a big Thanksgiving dinner when all you want to do is rest on the couch.We try to be attentive to our birds, watching them closely and following their cues. I know we have a lot to learn but we've been happy with how this combination has maintained the condition of our birds and we've had a good hatch rate with our fertile eggs. Check out our experience with incubator hatching here. What do feed your birds to keep them in peak condition? | 2019-04-23T18:53:37Z | null | {
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This Version of Rocketalk a global connection 0.0.0 was added on 00-00-0000 in our apps store. It has been downloaded for free by 000 times by our valuable users. Download Latest Version of Rocketalk a global connection 0.0.0 for Free. mobile-phones.com.pk is online mobile phone app stock so you come and enjoy unlimited free downloads. Other versions of Rocketalk a global connection 0.0.0 may also available in our Mobile App store you can search them from related software category. Make sure that your mobile phone is compatible for this version of Rocketalk a global connection 0.0.0, Before download Rocketalk a global connection 0.0.0 Mobile Phone App you should know about the screen resolution, hardware compatibility of your mobile phone device. If you feel this version is right option for your mobile device then go and download Rocketalk a global connection 0.0.0 for absolutely FREE. You can go to Internet category for large number of related free downloads. In case of any problem for downloading this version please contact us to solve this problem. Download Latest Version of Rocketalk a global connection 0.0.0 for Free. Mobile Phones is online mobile phone software stock so you come and enjoy unlimited free downloads. Mobile phone App store to Download Android Apps , Phone apps, rocketalk a global connection 0.0.0, Best 0d Android Game dialing software, Entertainment software, Travel Apps, Medical Apss, Multimedia Apps, Utilities Apps for absolutely free. Many more stuff waiting for you e.g skype to chat with your family and friends. ÷ Do direct phone to phone video chat. ÷ Share your experiences with friendsââ¬â ¢ real time. Whatever you do, where every you goââ¬Â¦keep your friends posted with endless streams of videos and pictures. ÷ Keep in touch with near and dear ones around the world and save money too! ÷ Fulfill your desire to meet new people and make friends. ÷ Download, post, share content like wallpaper, videos, pictures, etc. ÷ Easily send favorite photos, videos, or audios to friends, family, and loved ones. ÷ Join communities on Rocketalk, debate and discuss on favorite topics. ÷ Connect to instant messengers like Yahoo!, MSN & Google Talk! from phone using a single buddy list. ÷ Break the language barrier interact in your own voice- in the language you are comfortable. ÷ Build online relationships with people who share interests and/or activities. ÷ Get endless hours of instantaneous entertainment while building long lasting friendships. ÷ Discover, chat, read and share information and content using highly accessible and scalable publishing technologies. ÷ Participate in contests polls, Win exciting prizes. ÷ Post your own content. Become a mobile content publisher. | 2019-04-25T22:27:14Z | null | {
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Design, prototyping, assembly, or production, we have experience in all aspects of the process. We can help you at any stage you need. We work diligently with customers from design to production, or anywhere in between, to ensure their success is met with precision and accuracy. | 2019-04-20T19:20:38Z | null | {
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I can't show you the full piece yet, so, instead, here's a little peek at a new work submitted for an upcoming art show. I'll reveal the final piece once I'm accepted (or rejected!). | 2019-04-24T12:05:40Z | null | {
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Besides catastrophic and speculative risks, a company also faces risk of having various kinds of legal cases and claims against them. GLOBAL helps companies deal with liability risks of all types. Apart from catastrophic risks and speculative risk a company also faces risk of having various kinds of legal cases and claims against them. A good liability risk management will help to reduce the risk, but it can never eliminate it entirely. Liability insurance is any insurance policy that protects an individual or business from the risk that they may be sued and held legally liable for acts such as malpractice, injury or negligence. It covers both legal costs and any legal payouts for which the insured would be responsible, if found legally liable. Our company has advised clients for a long time on the importance to minimize and manage liability risks to accomplish the required aim, set by both the client and us. Our services range from the traditional structure to complex insurance programs. We analyze your entire business model including elements such as cost, reputation etc. Companies are required to have a crisis plan effectively in place in the event that they come under direct fire. Here, is where our liability specialists come in. We interact with various stakeholders in your business and then offer our assistance in identifying and classifying the liability risks (both insurable and non-insurable). We finally counsel you in transferring the risks using liability insurance products by giving an effective method and solution tailoring them to the needs of the company. Our professionals are deeply rooted in terms of knowledge and understanding of the liability sector and aim to provide the best in risk guidance and supervision with the support of a universal platform. In addition, specifically with respect to our financial institution clients, we provide operational risk consulting services to define risk exposures, establish risk tolerance levels and design optimum risk transfer structures. Crime including specialized Financial Institutions Bond, Electronic & Computer Crime and Unauthorized Trading Risk Solutions. For more sophisticated firms, such risk transfer structures can, through the creative use of insurance and reinsurance capital, be used to achieve regulatory capital relief. Our technical competency helps us to enhance the negotiating position and competitive pricing in the market. We anticipate and effectively act on the challenges and goals. | 2019-04-20T09:28:56Z | null | {
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The recent conclusion of the 0000 Farnborough International Airshow - one of the world's premier aviation events saw the signing of big order contracts between Vietjet and two world-leading aircraft manufacturers Airbus and Boeing. New-age airline Viejet signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Airbus for the purchase of an additional 00 A000neo single aisle aircraft. The agreement worth USD0.0 billion was signed by Vietjet Vice President, Dinh Viet Phuong and Airbus Chief Commercial Officer, Eric Schulz. The additional aircraft will be used to meet the airline's development demand as well as optimize its efficiency and operation range. Vietjet has a long-standing relationship with Airbus, collaborating on various projects ranging from safety, techniques and operation management. Currently, the Full Flight Simulator located in Ho Chi Minh City - a joint-collaboration between Vietjet and Airbus - is well under way to its final phases and equipment installation which will be ready for operation this October. The latest agreement will see the carrier's backlog of orders for the A000 Family rise to 000 aircraft, including 000 A000neo and other A000ceo. The delivery will be from now until 0000. This follows Vietjet's recent MoU signing with Boeing for 000 B000 MAX aircraft. Worth USD00.0 billion, the new order with Boeing is aimed at serving the carrier's development of airline alliances across the Asia Pacific region and worldwide, and further enhance the airline's fleet synchronization, modernization and fuel efficiency up to 0000. The deal is also expected to increase bilateral trade turnover between Vietnam and the United States, the home of Boeing. As part of this contract, Boeing Commercial Airplanes has committed to deploying a series of strategic partnership programs to develop modern aviation service ecology in Vietnam, inclusive of Maintenance, Repair & Overhaul (MRO), training for pilots, technicians, engineers, and more, as well as special programs for enhancing the management and automation capabilities for airlines in Vietnam and the Vietnam aviation industry as a whole. | 2019-04-24T10:45:31Z | null | {
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On behalf of Timothy J. Casey posted in products liability on Wednesday, July 00, 0000. Arizona motorists might be affected by the expansion of Takata's airbag recall. Already managing one of the largest airbag recalls in automotive history, the company has found possible faults in an additional 0.0 million vehicles from Ford, Nissan and Mazda. There is the possibility of serious injury or death if the defect is not corrected. The expanded airbag recall comes as the result of tests conducted by Takata revealing that airbags previously thought safe could degrade over time and result in similar dangers posed by the previously recalled airbags. The tests revealed that ammonium nitrate used to inflate the airbag can deteriorate when exposed to high temperatures and humidity. At first, the company believed that a drying agent called a desiccant would prevent this deterioration, but further tests proved that to be false. Airbag failure due to a faulty inflator can cause serious injury or death to vehicle occupants. Shrapnel from the explosion is propelled through the airbag and may strike the person behind it. The fragments may also fly about the cabin during a collision, potentially striking other occupants. A total of 00 people have died, and another 000 have been injured already due to the initial set of faulty airbags. Dangerous products such as these airbags can cause catastrophic harm to their users. Under products liability law, the financial responsibility can be pinned on all parties that were in what the law refers to as the chain of distribution. This could include the manufacturer, the wholesaler or the retailer. People who have been harmed might want to have the assistance of legal counsel in seeking appropriate damages. | 2019-04-25T11:46:29Z | null | {
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Stop. Doing this. Do you mean women? Great, say women. Do you mean female people who may not identify as women? Female people is fine. Do you mean female people of all ages? You mean "women and girls." Do you mean people who were assigned female at birth? Say that. 0. Grammar Girl weighs in. 0. Ask Demetria gives her perspective. 0. Jezebel's got something to say, too. 0. And, my personal favorite, an explanation of why "female" is demeaning with panda visuals. I like the panda example. So infuriating. | 2019-04-24T23:45:59Z | null | {
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The second Lost In Disco podcast from The Sheen Resistance. An hour of great upbeat, feel-good disco tunes including Diana Ross, Rainbow Brown, Donny Hathaway, Carly Simon, Ashford and Simpson, Teena Marie, Brooklyn Dreams, and more. The next Lost In Disco event features international DJ Sarah Main, at Bush Hall on May 00th. Tickets and more info here. | 2019-04-23T19:03:20Z | null | {
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Home Phone Cases Phone Case Cover vs Phone skin? Always get the case! There's no denying that the phones today are really really fragile. Many a time, both the front and back of the phone are made out of glass. One drop and you must shell out hundreds of dollars. Getting a phone case or a phone skin is your best solution. But Phone Case Cover vs Phone Skin, which one should you get? Let's find out. In this Phone case vs Phone Skin article by Techxchina, the author has made clear about the pros and cons of getting a phone case. However, for me, getting a phone case is the best decision there can be. And in this article, I will explain why it is a better idea to get a phone case instead of a phone skin. Not only will you be getting better protection, but you will also be saving a lot of money. Also Read: $00 vs $00 Phone Case: Are Premium Phone Cases worth it? So, let's get started with this Phone case cover vs phone skin article. Here are the top reasons why I strongly feel like phone cases are the way to go. Phone cases usually cost anywhere from $0-$00. Phone Skins, on the other hand, will cost a lot more ranging from $00-$00. Let's face it. Phone Skins are nothing but stickers. And how much protection can a sticker actually provide? Phone cases can be thin and thick and will definitely meet your requirements. Some rugged cases can also phone survive 0 floors worth of drop. Who on this earth will not be able to able to install a phone case? Everyone can do it and that too in a matter of seconds. The same cannot be said about installing phone skins. Not only are they hard to apply but if you mess things up, it will cost you extra money. The phone case covers are also more durable and happen to last a longer period of time. On the other hand, phone skins peel off after a period of time which will not only cost you money when you finally decide to get a replacement but will also look ugly when you carry your phone with a peeled off skin. These are just some of the reasons I think it is better to get a phone case cover. Phone Case cover vs phone skin is also going to be a discussion but for me, phone case cover is always going to be the winner. What's your take on this topic? Do let us know down in the comments section. As always, thanks for reading through this post. Previous article$00 vs $00 Phone Case: Are Premium Phone Cases worth it? | 2019-04-20T01:16:27Z | null | {
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Taxes and other liabilities to HM Revenue and Customs When you have a HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) invoice that you cannot afford, it is important to get in touch with them as soon as possible to try to reach an agreement. Failure to do so and your invoice remaining unsettled will result in HMRC initiating a recovery procedure. If you do not settle your income bill, HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) will take "enforcement action" to obtain the funds. Perhaps you can prevent this by contacting them. In the event that you do not come to an understanding (or do not meet the payment terms), there are several possibilities for you. You can have your funds collected by the HMRC directly from your home savings or banking accounts. The HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) can take and trade things you own to settle your debts. Even if you cannot afford to be taxed, you are entitled to receive equitable handling from the HMRC. However, your taxes will not be refunded. Whom should take the competence test? Every candidate for advanced tuition for teaching staff (ITT), as well as those for assessment only (AO) programs, must have passed the vocational proficiency test for future teaching staff before the start of the course. ISVs will use the results of the competency testing to make their decision about candidates' course entrance. Students enrolled in degree programs beginning in the 0000 to 0000 Academic Year can now take exams. Students can take their skill test after proving that they have applied through UCAS Instructor Education (for AO programs, please contact your school). It is possible to reserve your test in anticipation, provided that an request is made before visiting the test center. Students who began their education before 0 July 0000 must successfully complete the examinations before being commended forQTS. Testing can be done at any point during the course. It is strongly recommended to exercise the test before performing to familiarize yourself with the test functions. Further information and the use of our practical test can be found on the pages Numerics and Litacytests. Booking your reading and arithmetic experiments is possible via PSI, the supply partners of the Ministry of Education. First 0 trials are free of cost. They can take the test in PSI test centers throughout the state. Be sure to get there in good time to avoid being flagged as missing and lose your first free trial. They are not permitted to do a test without them, so please take enough ID-check before your test. Primal ID must be current and contain a photo, name and sign. Sub ID must be legitimate and contain a name and sign. In case you have modified a part of your name since you registered for the test, you must provide proof of your name modification, e.g. wedding certificates, certificates or other documents. Failure to provide the appropriate proof will result in rejection and loss of your first free try at skill testing. Skill testing is computer labeled. As soon as you have completed a test, you will receive a printout of the results of the test. Certifications are not awarded and it is strongly advised that you keep the paper copy for your own use. When you feel that a test score has not been properly posted, please refer to the Skill Test Help Line. Allows your workout vendor to view your results, see how many trials you've done, what results you've obtained, and what your overall results look like. You will use this information in the recruitment procedure and check the success of both exams before you allow the candidate to begin your course. After starting your course or successfully completing a course, you can review the results of your qualification test at any point. Educational institutions use the results of student assessments to check the success of both exams before recommending them for qualification for QTS. The qualification test for candidates for ITT language course shall continue to be effective for 0 years from the date of the examination taken. When you apply for a course that extends beyond the expiry date, you must take the skill exams again. When you have already begun or finished an ITT course, your test results are indefinite. The Teaching Information Line at 0000 000 0000 can be contacted for guidance on teaching education on a larger scale, covering issues related to teaching education, qualifications issues, financing opportunities and teaching educational experiences. Teaching Information Line can also help you verify that you are entitled to personal assistance from a skilled instructor to help you get prepared for the skill test and interview. - Employer in an appropriate manner and in accordance with the UK Privacy Act. It is the responsibility of the German Research Institute (DfE) to manage the competence test files. Occasionally, these other persons and entities may be located outside the European Economic Area (EEA) in jurisdictions that do not have the same level of privacy protections as the United Kingdom. It is our intention to pass on the results of the applicant tests to our suppliers. We can supervise and maintain records of communication with you (including telephone calls and e-mails) for QA, regulatory, compliance and educational reasons. If you wish to receive information on the information PSI has stored about you or if you have any queries regarding our provisions on the protection of your private information, please do not hesitate to get in touch with PSI at any point. When you register to conduct the Testing, you are consenting to the use of your Testing Information and any personally identifiable information contained therein as described above. Should you not agree to such use, you should consult DfE's Privacy Commissioner. | 2019-04-22T04:33:59Z | null | {
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Accepted by President Halstead, 00/0/00 - Effective 0000-0000 catalog - to be reviewed for possible continuation or termination prior to publication of the new 0000-0000 catalog. The College at Brockport, College Senate, "Business Department 0-Strikes Rule" (0000). College Senate Resolutions. 0000. | 2019-04-26T12:41:59Z | null | {
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We are delighted to welcome couples for wedding ceremonies at All Saints' Church Appley Bridge. Our small, friendly church is a lovely venue for a wedding. The minister can help to blend ancient tradition and modern experience to reflect your story and help to make you wedding ceremony personal and memorable. A church wedding will add a spiritual dimension to your marriage, asking for God's blessing and looking to Him for help and guidance. You can make special vows, which can help you to stay together and grow together. God and our church are there for you to help. For more information please email [email protected] or telephone Rev'd Sue Timmins on 00000 000000. | 2019-04-26T16:35:01Z | null | {
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Click above for photo gallery. Follow the jump for the music video. The music video for the updated Speed Racer theme, "Go Speed Racer Go", has hit the web, and while the song itself gets annoying after a couple of verses (how many times can you listen to that refrain before going insane?), the actual video is mesmerizing. There's a lot of footage that hasn't been seen in the trailers and ads so far, and the cartoon come-to-life visuals are simply eye-popping. In that respect, anyone who ponies up ten bucks for a ticket is going to get his or her money's worth. Hopefully, the strength of the story can match the undeniable visual power the Wachowski's onscreen kaleidoscope is set to deliver. At least one early review indicates that may not be the case, unfortunately. We'll wait 'till we see it ourselves next weekend to pass final judgement. In the meantime, feast your eyes on the new video after the jump. | 2019-04-20T12:10:45Z | null | {
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