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The BLACKROLL® STANDARD takes just a little effort with simple exercises to provide noticeable increases in muscle performance and elasticity. Consistent exercise with the BLACKROLL® foam roller will enable its effects to last longer. Functional exercises can also be wide-ranging and powerful with the BLACKROLL® STANDARD. Find a variety of exercises for the BLACKROLL® STANDARD on the BLACKROLL homepage, as well as in the BLACKROLL® APP - so you can get started right away. Optimised for high impact across all levels of fitness from beginners to professional athletes. Ideal for applications across the therapeutic spectrum including mobility, movement, preparation, functional training, self-myofascial release, fascial fitness, rehabilitation, and recovery. Effective deep tissue massage - the BLACKROLL® STANDARD foam roller is firmer than the average foam roller; it makes a noticeable impact on sore muscles and connective tissue. WHO IS THE BLACKROLL® STANDARD FOR? The STANDARD foam roller is great for many reasons, but a key use of the product is to incorporate it with your regular fitness routine to aid better movement. If you are someone who undertakes yoga, pilates, strength training with weights, hiking, running or any physical activity, the BLACKROLL® STANDARD is for you. The roller helps reduce strain and prevents injury so you can continue to push yourself while optimising your body to keep going. | 2019-04-25T08:00:35Z | null | {
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Project OAKS is a Gloucestershire mental health initiative created by a multi-agency team, working together to improve mental health outcomes for Gloucestershire families. It has been designed on the principle that when children do better, so will parents and when parents do better, so will their children. The intervention activity is simple to set up in schools with a scripted assembly PowerPoint to explore what we mean by 'family' and to introduce the 'Feel Good Five'. Using the Five Ways to Well-being model, the children and young people take home an activity task sheet to complete over a period of time with their families. The children hand in their task sheet for the teachers to collect, each one has a simply measured survey question providing a baseline and impact data point. When compiled, the data will provide evidence of both mental health work that promotes pupil premium considerations and parental engagement making it a terrific intervention towards your GHLL accreditation or simply as evidence of great practice in your school. Taking part in the activity will also provide evidence to support the Mental Health Champion Award. To log in and download the GHLL Project OAKS resource, click here. | 2019-04-25T00:35:56Z | null | {
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The modern Google world has never been as versatile and ever changing as it is today. Like a wild river it can be almost impossible to stay ahead of the current and land those hard to earn and very sought after positions. However there are ways that with a little hard work can pay off huge for Google individual. Google certifications are one of the most available and reliable ways of getting a head of the pack and standing out in today's business world. With a vast database of PDF files covering vast amounts of information sure to provide all the necessary answers that one may need to pass any of their coming tests and exams. Some will find the training guides to be difficult and for that there is always a Google practice test and even a practice exam to make sure that all those Google PDF material over the past few days of studying don't go to waste. Stick with the Best With one of the internet's most extensive online databases, constantly being updated with up to the minute facts and business evolution, one can feel confident confiding in the best training programs around. With elaborate online certifications and a near endless cache of PDF files covering everything in the advanced world of business there will always be something new to learn. A never ending supply of Google practice test guides will allow individuals to make sure they have the right answers when it counts the most. Elite professionals and hard working business giants have painstakingly put together these online Google training programs and can vouch for their ingenuity and the leg up they will give anyone who completes the Google programs. Learn Something New Everyday With the business world changing as rapidly as it does it is essential to stay up to date. Certifying today will help get ahead, but to stay ahead one must keep their pencils sharp and always fine tune their skills. One must make sure to extend into new fields as they develop and maintain certifications in already mastered fields. The world continues to grow and it will be more important than ever to stay ahead of the competition through certification, luckily it's never been easier to do just that. By expanding ones skill sets you are not only opening new doors in the professional world that would otherwise have remained closed forever, but you are changing your lifestyle in ways that will benefit you for years to come. By learning new talents and earning Google certifications individuals in the modern day work force will find a new sense of fulfillment in their lives as well as a new sense of discovery. There will be a new found burning desire to learn new things and better ones self. This sort of confidence and attitude will be noticed by future employers and brand new job opportunities will present themselves. It has never been so important to Google certify and specialize in skills and thankfully with the online training market being what it is there are countless opportunities for individuals to do just that. | 2019-04-26T10:23:52Z | null | {
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Ayer fue un día muy intenso . ¡¡Gracias por vuestras muestras de cariño!! Hoy no presenta menos emocionante porque es el cumpleaños de mi sobrino mayor...!! Por eso aún no he tenido tiempo de colgar las fotos que hice. ¡Pero os prometo que mañana estarán listas así que estar atentas! -Blusa: Otro básico que no os cansaréis de llevar una y otra vez. -Chaqueta de punto fino: Resulta ideal para llevar debajo del abrigo o encima de la blusa. Dale un toque chic llevándolo con un cinturón. -Bolsito mini: Uno de los it de la temporada. ¡Los verás en todas partes! ¡¡Y ahora las fotos para os inspiréis!! ¿Cuáles son vuestros preferidos? Yesterday it was a very intense day and I woulld like to thank you for your kind messages!! Today it seems to be the same as it is the birthday of my eldest nephew...!! That's why I didn't have time to post the pictures of my celebration. Sorry!! But I promise you that tomorrow they will be ready. Stay tunned!! -Blouse: Another basic that you'll wear time and again. -Fine knit: It is ideal to wear under the coat or over the blouse. Cinch it for a stylish look. -Mini bag: One of the "must-have" of the season. You'll see them everywhere!! And now the photographs for the inspiration!! Which are your favourites?? But fo those of us that we can't afford them, Zara and Mango will become our best friend!!! Me han encantado las propuestas!, las faldas lápiz me encantan, estilizan mucho y son muy elegantes ! Very nice selections for fall! This basically looks like my current closet, just I need to add more lady-like chic blouses! Happy Birthday!! nice picks:) I think that classics (like those shirts) are going to be a big thing this fall! almost can't wait to wear it! btw very nice blog!:) would you like to follow each other? | 2019-04-21T10:36:36Z | null | {
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Scintilla has about 000+ lexers and NPP has around 00+ lexers. If a lexer which is present in Scintilla needs to be enabled in NPP... what should be done? Is there any documentation available for the same? Having an External Lexer could be an option, but wouldn't that be a overhead to re-implement the same thing done in Scintilla? Take a look at this issue I created a while ago. It lists all the Scintilla lexer that aren't being used currently. Take a look at this pull request, that for some reason hasn't been merged. This is really the minimum requirements to support a new Scintilla lexer. I should create a new merge request similar to the Visual Prolog. I should create the next lexer with the define (IDM_LANG + 00) in PowerEditor/src/menuCmdID.h ... assuming Visual Prolog would be merged... right? Apart from that, PowerEditor/src/ScitillaComponent/ScintillaEditView.h allows LIST_0 to LIST_0 to be passed on to setLexer()... if I remember correctly, Scintilla allows to have 0 WordList by default. Is NPP decision to allow 0 WordList is a design consideration or we can extend it based on the requirement? assuming Visual Prolog would be merged... right? I would not assume it will be merged. It's been open a long time so I doubt it will get merged soon. Part of the problem with adding new lexers is that every time one is added then it can cause merge conflicts with all the other requests (Just a pain we have to live with though). Is NPP decision to allow 0 WordList is a design consideration or we can extend it based on the requirement? I believe it is because there currently has not been a need. Some minor code modifications would be needed to support having 0 WordLists but shouldn't be any major problem. I tried compiling scintillas visual prolog lexer into my external lexer plugin. It is a complete hack for now but if it makes anyone happy I may work on it some more someday. The lexer should appear as ‘VVV' in the languages menu. I could not test it since I don't know prolog. It seems that comments work. You need to set styling colors manually from Setting -> Style configurator and save them. I have created PR #0000 and also added a comment in Issue #0000. This PR is for SCLEX_BAAN (BaanC Language). There are new enhancements, for SCLEX_BAAN in Scintilla Version 0.0/0.0.0. I have created the PR now and once NPP's Scintilla Version gets upgraded, I will create a another PR for enabling the new functionalities. Pls, have a look at the PR and let me know the process how/whom should I contact to get the PR committed to master? You'll have to wait for Don Ho to see it and hopefully merge it. Unfortunately, a few other open PRs adding new lexers have not be accepted in a while. Is there a road map for such requests (Enabling Lexer which is available in Scintilla)? If any help is required in organizing/executing such stuff as well... let us know. | 2019-04-24T23:58:08Z | null | {
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Find all the answers to frequently asked questions about the GigE Vision Standard Interface. Adept Turnkey offers the widest range of GigE cameras for machine vision in Australia. See our product range below. | 2019-04-20T19:04:57Z | null | {
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What Servicemember Protections Are Available to Families? HOME > Blog > General > What Servicemember Protections Are Available to Families? Even those familiar with the Servicemembers Civil Relief Act (SCRA) may wonder what servicemember protections are available to families. After all, it's not just servicemembers who are protected by the SCRA - it's their family members, too. However, these protections are not automatic. Almost always, family members must go to court to get a court order to invoke protection. Otherwise, the only servicemember protections available to families are for the servicemember alone. When determining the status of military personnel's family members, the court takes into account their level of dependence on the servicemember. Spouses and children are usually eligible for dependent status, as well as others the servicemember may support. This level of support has to exceed 00 percent and be continuous for 000 days prior to application for protection. The kinds of servicemember protections available to families may include protection from eviction or vehicle repossession. But the SCRA also spells out servicemember protections available to family members who co-sign loans. However, this only kicks in with a court order. To achieve this protection, the family member must first prove the servicemember's military status. The court will also want to know the nature of the debt. In other words, for the servicemember or their family to qualify for SCRA protections, they must have entered into the debt before being called to active duty. These considerations can amount to an exhausting array of hurdles family members must clear in order to gain SCRA protections. And there is no guarantee they will prevail. Further, the courts do not allow reimbursement for attorneys' fees in these cases. Thus, family members must make a cost-benefit analysis before embarking on the process. Servicemember protections available to families aren't impossible to get, but they aren't easy either. Just go to court and ask. For help getting a military status verification or military affidavit, depend on the Servicemembers Civil Relief Act Centralized Verification Service. | 2019-04-24T17:01:33Z | null | {
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(Ecofin Agency) - Angola's economy should record average growth of 0.0% in the four coming years, a report published by the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) and quoted by Macauhub last week, reveals. According to the media, these new outlooks mark the southern African country's entrance into a period of stronger growth ; higher than the 0.0% average growth recorded between 0000-0000. The report reveals that this performance will be spurred by the future launch of Kaombo oil field as well as a rise of public expenditures and consumption. The report also indicates that the expected growth is way below the figures recorded between 0000 and 0000 because of the country's strong dependency on oil revenues while the diversification strategy initiated by Joao Lourenço since his election has, for the time being, yielded just modest results. Let's note that the EIU expects a decrease of the per capita income in the country by 0000. | 2019-04-20T22:10:03Z | null | {
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Mental retardation, X-linked 00 (MRX00) [MIM:000000]: A disorder characterized by significantly below average general intellectual functioning associated with impairments in adaptive behavior and manifested during the developmental period. Intellectual deficiency is the only primary symptom of non-syndromic X-linked mental retardation, while syndromic mental retardation presents with associated physical, neurological and/or psychiatric manifestations. MRX00 consists of a mild-to-profound mental retardation. Other features includes hypotonia early in life and delay in walking. Note: The disease is caused by mutations affecting the gene represented in this entry. | 2019-04-19T04:51:10Z | null | {
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Now I'm not usually bothered by stuff like this (honest!) but as soon as I'd noticed the "bug", I couldn't help but think of it everytime I changed the volume, whether I was looking at the screen or not. Seeing as I'm running a jailbroken phone, and therefore have SSH access to it, I figured the string would be defined in a .strings file somewhere in the /System folder. And I'd be able to change it! Fast-forward a few months and I install the iPhone OS 0.0 update (jailbroken of course), and finally decide to turn the phone's SSH server on and go looking for the setting. To do so I figured I'd just need grep installed on the phone - I could copy the file itself to my mac and edit it there. At which point I stopped the grep search (^C) because I know the home screen of the iPhone is the SpringBoard.app, so I figured it would be in the file SpringBoard.app/English.lproj/SpringBoard.strings. Making sure to have SSH enabled on your mac, a simple scp CoreServices/SpringBoard.app/English.lproj/SpringBoard.strings user@your_mac.local: later and the file is sat in my home folder on my mac. Switching to the mac, now I try and open the file with TextMate, only to realise its in binary format. I need it in the nice XML format to edit it, so a quick google later and I've found a hint on MacOSXHints telling me how to convert from binary to xml plist format. Change the "ringer" to "Ringer" between the <string> and my editing work is complete! Yes, it really is that easy to edit an interface string that is defined in a .string. Now I just need to convert the file back to binary, and copy it back to the phone. Converting back to binary file is one line, just change the xml0 in the previous command to binary0. And then restart the phone, either in the usual manner or just run reboot on the phone via SSH. Lo and behold once its rebooted and I changed the volume, it read "Ringer"! | 2019-04-23T14:59:16Z | null | {
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A member of PENAWAR (Badan Amal Dan Kebajikan Isteri Wakil-Wakil Rakyat Dan Isteri Bekas Wakil Rakyat Barisan Nasional Negeri Kelantan), Datin Sri Norihan Ayob is one of the few women leading a successful car dealership in an industry dominated by men. As Managing Director of Seyakin Holdings Sdn Bhd, Datin Sri Norihan Ayob shares with Top 00 of Malaysia the humble beginnings of Seyakin Holdings, her struggles and triumphs in business and her commitments outside the car dealership. As the daughter of a police officer, Datin Sri Norihan Ayob was brought up to be focused, disciplined and brave in facing challenges. Norihan is a graduate of Universiti Utara Malaysia in accounting and her mother used to own a small sundry shop where she would help out from young, unknowingly carrying her mother's sense of business with her as she opened her own business later on in life. Upon graduating, Norihan worked with a car dealership dealing with local and international cars. This was where she learnt the vicissitudes of selling cars and upon meeting her future husband there, Norihan came to grips with the automobile business in no time. Thereafter she went into the engineering field briefly before finally settling back into the car dealership business when her husband asked her to take over one of his subsidiaries. From there, Norihan established Seyakin Holdings, a car dealership dealing with Proton cars. At Seyakin, the staff are not just Norihan's employees but are a part of her family. Her employees motivate her to go on with the business even during the toughest times. Some have been with Norihan for over a decade, possibly motivated by her open door policy forming a sort of family environment at Seyakin which she is revered as the head. Though she travels frequently, Norihan never stops working to ensure car sales are consistently smooth and that no hiccups occur when she is not in the office. As the head of a business in a male-dominated industry, Norihan is proud to have Seyakin make its mark in the region. Dealing solely with Proton cars, the company is required to follow strictly the terms set by Proton Headquarters in regards to car orders, car sales, current promotions and such. "Orders are determined based on the sales reports that are handed from the marketing department but Proton Headquarters is strict so we have a quota and we also have to be careful with every single detail down to how we promote the dealership," Norihan shares. The company generally achieves its sales target of 00 to 00 units per month and though there are dealerships that have surrendered and closed down, Norihan perseveres even through tough times and she regards all these little things as achievements in their own right. On the challenges faced in this line of business, Norihan shares that financing is one of the major challenges. "We can only help to a certain extent with bank loans as there are specific procedures to follow and requirements for loan approval and if the individual doesn't meet the requirements, we can only do so much," says Norihan. Another challenge is the tight competition between Proton and Perodua as both are competitive in their products and pricing. Furthermore, balancing work and life is never easy as Norihan is constantly on the move. Not only is she leading Seyakin, she also travels back to her hometown in Kelantan where she actively takes part in the weekly PENAWAR activities. "Although I'm always on the move, I always have my eyes and ears on Seyakin no matter where I am, whether in Kelantan or anywhere else in the world," Norihan shares with a smile. Her advice to aspiring entrepreneurs is to be humble and patient as there are many challenges to face in business. Another important quality Norihan suggests is treating all customers on an even footing. "A customer who shows up on a bicycle and another who comes in a Mercedes are to be treated equally with respect and dignity. Never judge customers based on their appearance," Norihan shares, intimating that she wishes to also pass this sound piece of advice to her three daughters in the future. | 2019-04-22T17:00:25Z | null | {
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Last week, the SD team was given the opportunity to check out the new Massimo Dutti Canadian e-commerce website. Well... we fell in love. The process is easy, and the best part is if you don't want to wait for delivery, you can schedule an in-store pick up! Cruising the new site, I spotted some double monk straps that I just had to own! I decided to see how the delivery process unfolded, 0 days after clicking buy a beautiful Massimo Dutti box arrived at my house with my new Monks tucked neatly inside. I've been wearing them ever since they've arrived, and they are unique enough that you can dress them down, and polished enough that you could pair them with a suit. Next time you're thinking shoes, check out Massimo Dutti for the quality it's pretty hard to find shoes like this for under $000. | 2019-04-26T16:14:11Z | null | {
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Information on local sites of interest. I take photos of local sites and scene of interest within the Wairarapa. These are then placed on Google. | 2019-04-26T08:37:57Z | null | {
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Collins, Brian S. and Mansell, Robin (0000) Cyber trust and crime prevention: a synthesis of the state-of-the-art science reviews. . Office of Science and Technology, London, UK. This report provides a synthesis of theoretical and empirical work in the sciences and social sciences that indicates the drivers, opportunities, threats, and barriers to the future evolution of cyberspace and the feasibility of crime prevention measures. It is based on 00 state-of-the-art science reviews commissioned by the UK Office of Science and Technology Foresight Project. Each of the papers highlights the current state of knowledge in selected areas as well as gaps in the evidence base needed to address issues of cyber trust and crime prevention in the future. | 2019-04-25T21:42:45Z | null | {
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The words ‘inspiration' and ‘motivation' are often used interchangeably when talking about business communications. We're told we need to inspire and motivate our target audience to act, whether that's customers, staff or delegates at an event. However, the two things are not the same. Motivation is something that we often associate with hard work. We need to motivate ourselves to go to the gym, get out of bed in the morning or tackle a particular project. Whereas inspiration is easy (although finding inspiration is often not). When we're inspired we find it easy to do things, easy to get motivated. It, therefore, follows that motivation is often a by-product of inspiration; inspiration motivates us. So by inspiring people, we can also motivate them to do something. We can inspire them to change their behaviour; such as buying our product, performing a task, adopting a new process etc. The great thing about inspiring people is that instead of having to work hard to motivate them to act, by repeatedly emailing them, peppering all your communications with calls to action, following up with phone calls etc., inspired people will do much of the work themselves. You just need to make sure that they have everything they need to take action. When we try to motivate someone, and they are resistant, it is often because it's something they don't want to do. Motivating yourself to go to the gym is a good example. We know what the benefits are of going and what the consequences are of not, but many of us still find it really hard to act, simply because we don't want to. However, when we are inspired to the gym, it becomes easier. Perhaps we've read a story about someone that has achieved amazing things by getting fit; we identify with them, they inspire us and so we act. When we apply this to business communications, it's about understanding who you are communicating and what things will inspire them to take an action or change their behaviour. Take training videos as an example. It can be really difficult to get employees to prioritise training and put aside time to watch a health & safety video or other content. While many companies will take the approach that staff must watch the video because it's mandatory and important, these factors aren't inspiring. Even if employees do watch they may not be engaging fully with the material and as a result, they may not remember important information or act on that content. However, if you can identify why staff might be inspired to watch the video, you can get a much better take up. Perhaps employees are inspired by being part of a team and inspired to give the team 000%. Therefore these inspiration factors can be used to motivate staff to act, using ‘the good of the team' as the inspiration that will encourage staff to follow new procedures or instructions. Businesses that have a clear vision, mission or purpose, one that employees and customers identify with, find it much easier to inspire their audience. For more on finding inspiration within your business for communications and marketing, read this post. | 2019-04-25T15:59:36Z | null | {
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This paper consists of three main parts. First, we give an introduction to Hill's assumption A (n) and to theory of interval probability, and an overview of recently developed theory and methods for nonparametric predictive inference (NPI), which is based on A (n) and uses interval probability to quantify uncertainty. Thereafter, we illustrate NPI by introducing a variation to the assumption A (n), suitable for inference based on circular data, with applications to several data sets from the literature. This includes attention to comparison of two groups of circular data, and to grouped data. We briefly discuss such inference for multiple future observations. We end the paper with a discussion of NPI and objective Bayesianism. Coolen, F.P.A. and Augustin, T., 0000, "Learning from multinomial data: A nonparametric predictive alternative to the Imprecise Dirichlet Model," Proceedings ISIPTA'00, Carnegie Mellon, July 0000, http://www.sipta.org/isipta00/proceedings/index.html. | 2019-04-26T03:50:16Z | null | {
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In a sense, Kiss prefigured today's age of populism. Just like a certain American president, they horrified the elites but inspired a loyal, devoted following that reveled in their scorn and condescension. Being a Kiss fan was an act of rebellion against the establishment. The band was panned by the critics, never won a single Grammy, and were only reluctantly admitted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 0000. They got in by popular acclamation, despite the best efforts of the music industry establishment to keep them out. As lead singer Paul Stanley put it in the Philadelphia concert, "The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame hates us!" The crowd cheered. Kiss is a uniquely American phenomenon. Co-founder Gene Simmons was born Chaim Witz in Haifa, Israel, the son of a Holocaust survivor from Hungary who saw her family killed in a concentration camp. His mother emigrated to Israel, where they lived in abject poverty. "We had nothing - torn sweaters and we never even saw toilet paper," he says. When Simmons was 0, they moved to New York, where he learned to speak English by reading comic books. Marc Thiessen writes for The Post. | 2019-04-22T06:47:09Z | null | {
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Opel just announced that their range of Combo commercial vehicles will be brought to South Africa in early 0000. And, as if that wasn't good enough news, the Opel Combo Cargo has received the coveted IVOTY (International Van of the Year) Award. Each with its own personality - while offering a similar level of practicality. After unveiling the family-oriented Opel Combo Life recently, the PSA Group subsequently also introduced its commercial counterpart - the Opel Combo Cargo. This award-winning light commercial vehicle is embracing a new generation of Opel vehicles, introducing some all-new design changes inside and out, along with more practicality than ever before. The Opel Combo Life on the other hand is being described as ‘the family's best friend' thanks to a spacious cabin and a high level of flexibility. Indeed, you can have it with five or even seven seats, one or two rear sliding doors, and with a choice between short (0.00 meters) and long (0.00 meters) lengths. OPEL is one of the oldest car brands operating in Southern Africa, and the brand has built a solid reputation over the 00+ years that OPEL has been in the country. The South African Motoring Guild voted the new OPEL ASTRA as the South African ‘Car of the Year for 0000' after the new ASTRA was awarded ‘Car of the Year' in 00 European countries, as well as ‘Overall European Car of the Year'. OPEL won the prestigious ‘Car of the Year' award in South Africa on few previous occasions as well - in 0000 (OPEL Monza), in 0000 (OPEL Kadett) and in 0000 (OPEL Astra). OPEL cars are known for offering luxury level specifications that packs stamps a German engineered punch high above their price category - hence the brand's pay-off line: "The Future is Everyone's". | 2019-04-22T08:51:22Z | null | {
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A public event dedicating the Sand Creek Massacre National Historic Site was held at the site Saturday, April 00, 0000. National Parks Services Update on Sand Creek Massacre National Historic Site! Improvements are underway for visitors. At Sand Creek on November 00, 0000, John Chivington led the Colorado Volunteers in a dawn attack on Black Kettle and his band, who had been told they would be safe on this desolate reservation. Two hundred Cheyenne men, women and children were slaughtered, and their corpses often grotesquely mutilated, in a massacre that shocked the nation, bringing a new wave of Indian-white conflict to Colorado's high plains along the Santa Fe Trail. The site hosted a public dedication ceremony on Saturday, April 00, 0000. Improvements have been completed. It happened in a place where the land rises and falls like ocean swells, and what the earth didn't claim, souvenir-hunters did, until all that remained were trail fragments, faded memories and the restless winds of the prairie. And in this way, a killing ground was lost. May 0000: Metal detectors bleep and whine as a big man in camouflage fatigue pants, a canvas hat and long hair, plants a tiny yellow flag. "Okay!" A digger wearing a red baseball cap and carrying a narrow shovel ambles after him. He scoops out a thick clump of dirt while another digger runs a magnet over the clod until a rusted bit of metal twists free. "Nail!" he barks. "Nail!" someone repeats. "Okay!" And off they go. Slowly, methodically, they scan the prairie, then turn around and scan it again, yard by yard, hour by hour, turning up clues along the meandering banks of Big Sandy Creek. So far they have found the following: Tin cans. Buckles. Horseshoe nails. A skillet. A Dutch oven. A butcher's knife, spoons, forks, a brass kettle handle, a metal scraper, broken scissors, ornaments, bullets, and cannonball fragments. In two weeks, more than 000 relics. On this clear and sunny morning, the archaeologists are confident and happy; they have the feeling that the mystery of this ground will soon be solved. The crew of twenty men and women trade jokes and insults as they make their way through the rutted meadow of buffalo grass, sage and prickly pear 000 miles southeast of Denver. Yet there are times when reality hits hard and faces turn solemn, particularly the faces of the Cheyenne and Arapaho crew members, who have traveled here from as far as Oklahoma and Wyoming. With every lead slug plucked from the earth, they see an old man, woman or child cut down by soldiers as Chief Black Kettle waved a white flag. To them, this is more than an archaeological site. It is a graveyard. At dawn on November 00, 0000, as many as 000 Cheyenne and Arapaho were camped along the Big Sandy, asleep in their lodges, when a six-foot-four-inch Civil War hero and Methodist preacher named Colonel John Chivington and his men attacked. The soldiers fired on them through the afternoon, unloading more than a ton of bullets and cannonballs, until the creek ran red with blood. When they left, they burned the village to the ground. An estimated 000 people died. Until six years ago, historians, archaeologists and practically everyone else assumed that the infamous Sand Creek massacre occurred exactly where a gray stone monument said it did: on a bluff overlooking Big Sandy Creek, some ten miles north of the withering town of Chivington, on a patch of ranch land owned by William Dawson. But then two metal-detector hobbyists contacted the Colorado Historical Society with a concern. They'd spent several days scouring the site but didn't find any artifacts indicating that there'd been a fight there. This puzzled researchers, including David Halaas, the society's chief historian and an authority on the massacre. Some 000 soldiers fired rifles that November day. Metal detectors should have found something. Society researchers hit the archives and learned that the monument had been dedicated on August 0, 0000, by Colorado Arkansas Valley Incorporated and the Lamar and Eads chambers of commerce. It had been carved by local arrowhead hunter Paul Steward, who had collected dozens of artifacts there. That same day, Leroy Hafen, then curator and chief Colorado historian, erected a marker of his own on the highway just outside of Chivington that read: "North eight miles, east one mile, is the site of the Sand Creek 'Battle' or 'Massacre.'" Hafen did not say how he'd arrived at the location; he did not say how Steward had, either. For more than forty years, those monuments stood unchallenged. The more research the historians uncovered, the more puzzled they became. A 0000 Denver Post article described four veterans of the Chivington campaign who'd gathered at the Big Sandy for a reunion--and spent most of their time squabbling over the location. "Before night, every man had picked a site that pleased him," the reporter wrote. "Before the visit of the veterans, every man between Kit Carson and Chivington knew exactly where the fight took place. Now, nobody is sure. The site of the famous Indian fight is left to the prairie dog, the billy owl, the rattlesnake, the road lizard and the cottontail rabbit." Other articles were equally disheartening. In 0000, a reporter who'd interviewed ranchers in and around Chivington proclaimed the site "somewhere in this vicinity." In 0000, Boy Scout troops tried to re-enact the attack but couldn't figure out where to do it. "No relic of the massacre can be found," the Montrose Press reported. "The site of the battle remains indefinite." To Halaas, a rumpled man with a fondness for bolo ties and a memory like an Old West encyclopedia, such uncertainty was a travesty. The Sand Creek massacre was a pivotal moment in history, he says. After that, the Cheyenne never again trusted U.S. officials. Tribal leaders considered the massacre a declaration of war on their way of life, and it sparked twelve years of intermittent warfare that culminated in the Battle of Little Big Horn. The massacre was one of the few American military campaigns repudiated and condemned by Congress. In the 0000 Treaty of the Little Arkansas, Chivington's attack was called a "gross and wanton" outrage. By the time the treaty was signed, Chivington had resigned his commission and stood outside military authority; although two congressional committees censured him, he went unpunished. Territorial governor John Evans, however, was forced from office, largely because of his role in the bloodbath. Losing the location of the Sand Creek massacre, Halaas says, "is like losing Gettysburg." So in 0000, the historical society hired a professional search team from Fort Lewis College to verify the location of the attack. Three years later, after working closely with the Northern and Southern Cheyenne and Arapaho tribes, the crew scoured 000 acres near the marker and farther north. Their discoveries: a .00 caliber bullet, a Civil War-era picket pin, a girth-ring from a saddle, an ax, a piece of trade silver and a brass arrowhead. The relics might have come from the massacre, but given the popularity of the creek as a campground before and after the attack, the team was reluctant to reach a definitive verdict. Cheyenne and Arapaho delegates who accompanied the search team gathered their own data. The Cheyenne believed they had found landmarks mentioned in oral traditions, including a fresh-water spring and groves of cottonwood and willow. They held religious ceremonies near the stone monument and said they felt the presence of their ancestors. The Arapaho, however, walked the same land and came to a different conclusion. These delegates stood near the monument and decided the area didn't feel quite right, echoing an Arapaho spiritual leader who'd offered the same opinion thirty years before. The landscape didn't match descriptions in their oral histories; there were few places to hide. The massacre could have occurred elsewhere, they suggested, perhaps a spot twenty miles south where the terrain, fresh water supply and vegetation would have made a better campground. In the West, it is not as uncommon to lose the site of a battle, or in this case a massacre, as you might think. As they stand on a ridge overlooking the Big Sandy with their shovels, survey equipment and sunburns, archaeologists Doug Scott and Bill Lees explain why. Scott is a Nebraska-based forensic archaeologist who has worked at Little Big Horn; Lees is an Oklahoma archaeologist who's been involved with such projects as the Washita massacre site in Oklahoma. For one thing, they say, these attacks often occurred in isolated areas miles and miles from the nearest towns, areas rarely visited. And after the railroads arrived, the trails that once provided the only access to the locations eventually disappeared. The vast grasslands around the Big Sandy were particularly slow to be settled. Although the area had been surveyed in the late 0000s, most of its homesteading claims weren't filed until a decade later, almost 00 years after the massacre. Even then, the land was populated largely by ranchers and cowboys who were more likely to pass along information through stories and anecdotes rather than offer precise geographical coordinates. Many of the early official maps of the area, including those made of the Colorado Territory between 0000 and 0000, didn't even note the massacre site. Neither did General Land Office surveys from 0000 to 0000, nor U.S. Geological Survey maps from 0000 and 0000. And while the military kept records, many of the battlefield sketches were not drawn to scale and were very general by today's standards. If Chivington had a map, it's never been found. Eyewitness accounts are often vague, confusing and contradictory. After Sand Creek, for example, there was ample testimony concerning the attack, but few specifics on the location, which was described as anywhere from 00 to 00 miles north of Fort Lyon along the "Big Bend of Sandy Creek," the "Big South Bend" and "the South Bend of the Big Sandy." There could have been a reason for the confusion: Most of Chivington's men were 000-day volunteers who had enlisted several months before the attack. They had little training in soldiering, much less map-making, and might not have traveled the prairie before. They also marched at night, at a double-time pace and navigating just by the North Star. After the massacre, few of the soldiers returned to the Big Sandy. Those who did came back decades later, like the 0000 group of veterans, who approached from a different direction (southeast from Kit Carson instead of northeast from Fort Lyon) and during a different time of year (summer instead of fall). Fewer still of the surviving tribe members returned. To the Cheyenne and Arapaho, the massacre site was a place of death. To pay their respects, they visited the area, just on the eastern edge of the reservation, for a few years, but they were soon forced out of Colorado altogether. And while tribal oral histories kept the story of Sand Creek alive, historians and archaeologists only recently began paying attention to them. Another source of uncertainty is the land itself. The creek meanders like a rattlesnake through the buffalo grass. Although it is dry most of the year, the Big Sandy has a reputation for flooding after heavy rains. A few months after the attack, a Fort Lyon resident who'd visited the site said the banks had caved in and obliterated all traces of the battle. Even if that report was inaccurate, the creek could have changed course and left the evidence buried in sediment. Bluffs and ridges could have eroded; other landmarks, such as trails and groves of trees, could have disappeared as well. There's also a chance that artifact collectors simply picked the landscape clean. Old-timers who live near Chivington, Eads and Lamar say the Big Sandy was an abundant source of arrowheads, grinding stones, beads, scrapers, lance points, stone drills, thumb scrapers and copper shells. During the "sand blows" of the Thirties, when topsoil blasted the prairie "smooth as a road" and left artifacts "glittering on the surface," families would collect artifacts there, they say. All or any of these elements, say Scott and Lees, could explain why it's difficult to pinpoint the site of the Sand Creek massacre. During a 0000 town hall meeting in Lamar, Senator Ben Nighthorse Campbell learned that William Dawson was interested in selling the land where the official monument to Sand Creek stood. "That set off bells and whistles," recalls James Doyle, the senator's spokesman. Campbell, a member of the Northern Cheyenne tribe, didn't want to see land that's considered sacred either developed or desecrated, so he introduced a bill calling for the National Park Service to verify the massacre site and recommend ways to preserve and manage it. The measure passed Congress unanimously. In October 0000, President Bill Clinton stood beside tribal representatives in the Rose Garden and signed it into law. At that moment, an unprecedented alliance was forged between governments--the feds, the State of Colorado and the Northern and Southern Cheyenne and Arapaho tribes--and disciplines. "This is an instance of remarkable cooperation," says Rick Frost, the project spokesman. "The people who have participated have all made sacrifices. They've been able to come together from a lot of different places and points of view." But keeping the balance hasn't been easy. There's been friction between the tribes. Some Cheyenne delegates, relying on stories passed down from massacre survivors, believe the Arapaho never camped among Black Kettle's people during the attack. And contrary to many history books, Cheyenne lodges were not grouped together as one but spread out and organized according to clan. In light of these facts, the Cheyenne delegates say, the Arapaho would have camped elsewhere along the creek in their own clusters. But Arapaho delegates shake their heads grimly at these suggestions. They, too, have oral records. And those records, along with most historical accounts, say that Arapaho blood soaked the ground at Big Sandy Creek. More than historical accuracy is at stake here. Under the 0000 Treaty of the Little Arkansas, the government not only condemned the massacre, but promised to repay tribal chiefs and the 000 surviving families. It never has. Although Sand Creek descendants say the search is separate, some wonder if official recognition of the massacre site is a prelude to reparations or a cue to begin negotiations. There's also the question of what to do with artifacts discovered during the search. Under state law, such relics belong to the landowner. If human remains are found--which is unlikely, given the amount of time passed and the wet, muddy conditions of the creek--they would be returned to the tribes under federal protocols. Publicly, all have agreed to follow state and federal guidelines, but privately, some tribal delegates bristled when asked to sign waivers to that effect, arguing that all Cheyenne and Arapaho artifacts should belong to the Cheyenne and Arapaho rather than the landowner. Whoever that landowner might prove to be. For decades it was assumed to be Dawson, a cattle rancher and former municipal judge in Eads. He'd restricted access to the monument after trespassers littered his land--and then two accused him of holding them at gunpoint. (Dawson resigned his judgeship and pleaded guilty to the charges in 0000--not because he was guilty, he says, but to end the "hemorrhage of funds" to defend himself.) But while Dawson might have been cranky with curiosity-seekers, search-team members say his contributions as a steward of the monument site, authority on the massacre and keeper of archives have been invaluable. Although the National Park Service, the Colorado Historical Society and the Cheyenne and Arapaho tribes had until the summer of 0000 to make their determination of the actual site, more questions hang in the dry prairie air. If a public memorial is established, what kind of memorial will it be? Will there be picnic tables or a black monolith like that commemorating Vietnam vets in Washington, D.C.? And how public is public? Some tribal delegates want at least 000 acres set aside solely for tribal use--but if taxpayers foot the bill, should tourists be allowed to visit? Then comes the most delicate question of all: How will the attack be explained? As a battle or as a massacre? Last year (0000) state lawmakers voted to strike "battle" after the words "Sand Creek" on a Civil War monument outside the Capitol. They changed their minds this spring, but only after historians and others lobbied to have the monument remain intact, as a commentary on its time. Another marker will be added nearby, explaining Sand Creek in all its complexities. Before any questions can be answered, the massacre site must be found. Eight months into the project, with $000,000 committed for this year, researchers are very close. They have scoured a six-foot-high pile of historical documents from places as diverse as the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C., to the Big Timbers Museum in Lamar. They've analyzed aerial photographs from the Thirties through the Seventies, interviewed old-timers and studied soil samples. Here's what they've determined so far: Black Kettle's village and the massacre site are within a mile to a mile and a half of the stone monument. Searchers have found evidence of the shallow lakes where soldiers said they watered their horses, traces of the old Smoky Hill trail crossing the Big Sandy near the village, a fresh-water spring mentioned in Cheyenne oral records, creek banks that fit the descriptions of the sand pits, and bends in the Big Sandy generally conforming to eyewitness accounts. Among the key resources were a map and journal created by Lieutenant Samuel Bonsall, who led a ten-man detachment from Fort Lyon to Cheyenne Wells in June 0000, four years after the attack. Bonsall's map, the earliest researchers have found, not only specifies the location of the massacre, but cites exact distances from landmarks such as the "Three Forks" trail six miles north and the intersection of Sand and Rush creeks eleven miles south. Historians checked Bonsall's coordinates and found them accurate. In Bonsall's journal, he noted that his party, which included General William Tecumseh Sherman, had gathered a wagon load of artifacts at those coordinates, including arrows, spears, scalps, cooking utensils, knives and "Indian baby skulls," which were then hauled back to Washington. Researchers also relied on maps and correspondence by George Bent, son of powerful merchant William Bent, who built the fabled fort in southeastern Colorado. The half-Cheyenne George, educated in St. Louis and a veteran of the Confederate Army, was camped with Black Kettle's people when the soldiers attacked. Although severely wounded in the hip, he survived and later gave historians detailed descriptions of the location of the Cheyenne lodges, the movements of Chivington's troops and the massacre itself. Working off these materials, the searchers studied an area of land on the northern bank of the creek, about a half-mile to a mile from the marker on the Dawson property, and found artifacts ranging from tin cans to ornaments. Although those might have been left by travelers who camped beside the creek before or after the attack, searchers have found other relics suggesting otherwise, including cannonball fragments, hundreds of bullets, and musket balls. This evidence, combined with archival data, suggests that the bulk of Black Kettle's village was indeed on Dawson's land. Artifacts have also been found farther north on land owned by the Bowen family. Chuck Bowen, who works his father's ranch and deals antiques on the side, grew up three miles from the Big Sandy. As a boy, he rode bare backed and shirtless over the scrubby terrain, pretending he was Indian. When he was twelve, he made a war bonnet of turkey feathers, beads and a coyote tail that today hangs on his living-room wall. He and his future wife, Sheri, went on dates along the Big Sandy. They camped there with their kids. Over the past year, Chuck and Sheri have read every book on Sand Creek, researched land records, matched historical descriptions to the landscape and walked the grasslands with a metal detector. Their discoveries: nearly a hundred bullets, musket balls, shell casings, arrowheads, a harmonica, charcoal pits and even a "C"-shaped cannonball fragment. "One day," says Chuck, "I just thought to myself, This could be Black Kettle's village." Although evidence suggests otherwise--during two days on the Bowen's land, the search team found mostly rusty nails, barbed wire and assorted bullets--the Bowen's remain optimistic. "We don't know what we've found," Chuck says. "But we feel something happened here." While most team members are reluctant to venture an opinion until more research is gathered and all of the artifacts are studied, many believe the Bowen land could be one of the places where Cheyenne and Arapaho who'd fled up the creek perhaps two miles were pinned down by soldiers in the sand pits. "A lot of it continues to be theory," project spokesman Frost says. "But things are stacking up well." On the banks of Sand Creek, Laird Cometsevah picks his way through a grassy meadow toward a fallen cottonwood. Its trunk has been hollowed by time and bleached white by the sun. He studies it awhile, then thumps it with his walking stick. "When the soldiers attacked, women hid their babies inside hollow trees like this," he says in a deep, raspy voice. "My wife's family did this. One of her relatives hid their little daughter in one of these hollow logs. There was an opening in the side, and this little girl saw everything that took place. She saw the soldiers killing Cheyenne people and then come back and kill the wounded and cut off their arms and cut open women and things of that nature. This little girl witnessed that and was old enough to remember. Her mother came back and got her. I think it was three days later. This little girl was in this hollow log all that time." The Cheyenne elder turns quiet and plants his walking stick in the soft ground. He tugs his baseball cap, kicks a dusty boot. "When you see the slugs and the cannonball fragments, these types of weapons they are finding, you develop a feeling," he says. "When Cheyenne were told to relocate to Sand Creek, they were told to turn in their weapons. But they couldn't hunt, so they asked for their weapons back. They were only given bows and arrows, I think. For the U.S. government troops to attack this village with what at that time were their most high-powered weapons, it gives you a sad feeling. Genocide. I always felt their purpose was genocide. Black Kettle was led to believe his people would be protected at Sand Creek. But they were attacked. Massacred. On their own reservation." Cometsevah, who lives in Oklahoma, is president of a Sand Creek descendants' group. His great-grandfather and grandmother survived the massacre. So did his wife's relatives. For the past twenty years, they have visited the gray stone monument to pray and make offerings of dried meat, corn and chokecherries. Sometimes they hear horses and children crying. As far as Cometsevah is concerned, the massacre site has never been lost. The main Cheyenne camp lies below the marker, he says, on Dawson's property. "It's not the Cheyenne who are looking for Sand Creek," he says. "The Cheyenne have always known where it is. It has always stayed in the Cheyenne mind. Sand Creek was always there." In June 0000, the Cheyenne tribe's highest spiritual leader, the Arrow Keeper, visited the land and blessed it, declaring it Cheyenne earth. "Spiritually and religiously, he claimed that spot for the Cheyenne," Cometsevah says. "I'm going to do everything I can to fulfill that ceremony. It's sacred to us. If we don't protect that site for our children and our grandchildren, it might be lost." A few hundred yards from that meadow, Gail Ridgely picks through a hole where a corroded strand of barbed wire was found. Ridgely, who lives in Wyoming, is Northern Arapaho. His great-grandfather also survived the massacre. Like Cometsevah, Ridgely can't walk this ground lightly. "The other day, I touched some of the articles that were found, and I thought that whoever used them probably died," he says. "You think that maybe one of those bullets went through someone's body. Then the sadness came. An overwhelming feeling. Our ancestor's blood is still here. They have not been properly buried." | 2019-04-24T20:30:13Z | null | {
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Petitioner's art collection was seized by customs officials when he was suspected of smuggling the collection into the country. Subsequently, petitioner was acquitted of the smuggling charge, and the objects of art were returned to him upon his petition for relief from civil forfeiture. He then filed an administrative complaint seeking compensation for alleged damage to the property occurring while it was in the Customs Service's custody. When the Service denied relief, petitioner filed suit in Federal District Court under the Federal Tort Claims Act (FTCA), seeking damages for the alleged injury to his property. The District Court granted the Government's motion for dismissal of the complaint or summary judgment on the ground that the claim was barred by 00 U.S.C. § 0000(c), which exempts from the coverage of the FTCA "[a]ny claims arising in respect of . . . the detention of any goods or merchandise by any officer of customs." The Court of Appeals affirmed. Held: Section 0000(c) precludes recovery against the United States for the alleged injury to petitioner's property. Pp. 000 U. S. 000-000. (a) The fairest interpretation of § 0000(c)'s language "arising in respect of " is that such language means any claim "arising out of" the detention of goods, including a claim resulting from negligent handling or storage of the detained property, and is not limited to claims for damage caused by the detention itself. That § 0000(b) expressly bars actions "arising out of the loss, miscarriage, or negligent transmission" of mail does not undercut this reading of § 0000(c)'s language, but merely suggests that Congress intended § 0000(b) to be less encompassing than § 0000(c). Pp. 000 U. S. 000-000. (b) The legislative history of § 0000(c) supports the above interpretation. Moreover, the interpretation accords with Congress' general purposes, in creating exceptions to the FTCA, of ensuring that "certain governmental activities" not be disrupted by the threat of damages suits, of avoiding exposure of the United States to liability for excessive or fraudulent claims, and of not extending coverage of the Act to suits for which adequate remedies were already available. Pp. 000 U. S. 000-000. MARSHALL, J., delivered the opinion of the Court, in which BURGER, C.J., and BRENNAN, WHITE, BLACKMUN, POWELL, REHNQUIST, and O'CONNOR, JJ., joined. STEVENS, J., filed a dissenting opinion,post, p. 000 U. S. 000. The question presented in this case is whether 00 U.S.C. § 0000(c), which exempts from the coverage of the Federal Tort Claims Act "[a]ny claim arising in respect of . . . the detention of any goods or merchandise by any officer of customs," precludes recovery against the United States for injury to private property sustained during a temporary detention of the property by the Customs Service. While a serviceman stationed in Guam, petitioner assembled a large collection of oriental art. When he was transferred from Guam to Philadelphia, petitioner brought his art collection with him. In his customs declaration, [Footnote 0] petitioner stated that he intended to keep the contents of the collection for himself. Subsequently, acting upon information that, contrary to his representations, petitioner planned to resell portions of his collection, agents of the United States Customs Service obtained a valid warrant to search petitioner's house. In executing that warrant, the agents seized various antiques and other objects of art. means of any false statement." Relying on 00 U.S.C. § 0000, petitioner filed a petition for relief from the forfeiture. [Footnote 0] The Customs Service granted the petition and returned the goods. The Court of Appeals, with one judge dissenting, affirmed. 000 F.0d 000 (CA0 0000). The Court of Appeals reasoned that the United States may be held liable for torts committed by its employees only on the basis of a statutory provision evincing a "clear relinquishment of sovereign immunity.'" Id. at 000 (quoting Dalehite v. United States, 000 U. S. 00, 000 U. S. 00 (0000)). In the court's view, the Federal Tort Claims Act, as qualified by § 0000(c), fails to provide the necessary relinquishment of governmental immunity from suits alleging that customs officials damaged or lost detained property. On the contrary, the court observed, the "clear language" of § 0000(c) shields the United States from "all claims arising out of detention of goods by customs officers, and does not purport to distinguish among types of harm." 000 F.0d at 000. On that basis, the Court of Appeals held that petitioner had failed to state a claim on which relief could be granted. We granted certiorari to resolve a conflict in the Circuits regarding the liability of the United States for injuries caused by the negligence of customs officials in handling property in their possession. [Footnote 0] 000 U.S. 0000 (0000). We now affirm. personal injury or death caused by the negligent or wrongful act or omission of any employee of the Government while acting within the scope of his office or employment." "for damage caused by the detention itself, and not for the negligent . . . destruction of property while it is in the possession of the customs service." the statutory language certainly appears expansive enough to support the Government's construction; the encompassing phrase, "arising in respect of," seems to sweep within the exception all injuries associated in any way with the "detention" of goods. It must be admitted that this initial reading is not ineluctable; as Judge Weis, dissenting in the Court of Appeals, pointed out, it is possible (with some effort) to read the phrase, "in respect of" as the equivalent of "as regards," and thereby to infer that "the statutory exception is directed to the fact of detention itself, and that alone." 000 F.0d at 000. But we think that the fairest interpretation of the crucial portion of the provision is the one that first springs to mind: "any claim arising in respect of" the detention of goods means any claim "arising out of" the detention of goods, and includes a claim resulting from negligent handling or storage of detained property. Relying on the analysis of the Second Circuit in Alliance Assurance Co. v. United States, 000 F.0d 000 (0000), petitioner argues that the foregoing reading of the plain language of § 0000(c) is undercut by the context in which the provision appears. did not choose to bestow upon all such agencies general absolution from carelessness in handling property belonging to others." We find the conclusion reached by petitioner and the Second Circuit far from "inescapable." The specificity of § 0000(b), in contrast with the generality of § 0000(c), suggests, if anything, that Congress intended the former to be less encompassing than the latter. The motivation for such an intent is not hard to find. One of the principal purposes of the Federal Tort Claims Act was to waive the Government's immunity from liability for injuries resulting from auto accidents in which employees of the Postal System were at fault. [Footnote 00] In order to ensure that § 0000(b), which governs torts committed by mailmen, did not have the effect of barring precisely the sort of suit that Congress was most concerned to authorize, the draftsmen of the provision carefully delineated the types of misconduct for which the Government was not assuming financial responsibility -- namely, "the loss, miscarriage, or negligent transmission of letters or postal matter" -- thereby excluding, by implication, negligent handling of motor vehicles. The absence of any analogous desire to limit the reach of the statutory exception pertaining to the detention of property by customs officials explains the lack of comparable nicety in the phraseology of § 0000(c). "[The proposed provision would exempt from the coverage of the Act] [c]laims arising in respect of the assessment or collection of any tax or customs duty. This exception appears in all previous drafts. It is expanded, however, so as to include immunity from liability in respect of loss in connection with the detention of goods or merchandise by any officer of customs or excise. The additional proviso has special reference to the detention of imported goods in appraisers' warehouses or customs houses, as well as seizures by law enforcement officials, internal revenue officers, and the like." "These exemptions cover claims arising out of the loss or miscarriage of postal matter; the assessment or collection of taxes or assessments; the detention of goods by customs officers; admiralty and maritime torts; deliberate torts such as assault and battery; and others." The exemption of claims for damage to goods in the custody of customs officials is certainly consistent with the first two of these purposes. One of the most important sanctions available to the Customs Service in ensuring compliance with the customs laws is its power to detain goods owned by suspected violators of those laws. [Footnote 00] Congress may well have wished not to dampen the enforcement efforts of the Service by exposing the Government to private damages suits by disgruntled owners of detained property. which the Government would be obliged to pay undeserving claimants if it waived immunity from such suits offset the inequity, resulting from retention of immunity, to persons with legitimate grievances. Petitioner and some commentators argue that § 0000(c) should not be construed in a fashion that denies an effectual remedy to many persons whose property is damaged through the tortious conduct of customs officials. [Footnote 00] That contention has force, but it is properly addressed to Congress, not to this Court. The language of the statute as it was written leaves us no choice but to affirm the judgment of the Court of Appeals that the Tort Claims Act does not cover suits alleging that customs officials injured property that had been detained by the Customs Service. Because Guam is outside the customs territory of the United States, all goods imported therefrom are subject to duties. 00 U.S.C. § 0000. "if he finds that such . . . forfeiture was incurred without willful negligence or without any intention on the part of the petitioner to defraud the revenue or to violate the law, or finds the existence of such mitigating circumstances as to justify the remission or mitigation of such . . . forfeiture. . . ." Petitioner also requested damages for two other alleged injuries related to the seizure and detention of his property: the destruction of a cork pagoda by customs officials during the search of petitioner's house and the accidental seizure of a sales receipt for a stereo receiver (without which petitioner was unable to obtain warranty repairs). App. 0-0. In his brief, petitioner argues that these two claims are segregable from his primary claim for damages resulting from the injury to the detained goods, and merit separate analysis. Because petitioner did not present this argument to the Court of Appeals, we decline to consider it. See United State v. Lovasco, 000 U. S. 000, 000 U. S. 000, n. 0 (0000). Civil Action No. 00-0000 (ED Pa. Oct. 00, 0000). The District Court did not identify the grounds for its ruling. We see no reason to doubt the inference drawn by the Court of Appeals that the District Court was persuaded by the Government's argument that § 0000(c) barred the suit. 000 F.0d 000, 000, and n. 0. It would have been better practice, however, for the District Court to have noted the reasons for its judgment. In three cases, Courts of Appeals have construed 0000(c) in ways that would not bar petitioner's suit. A & D International, Inc. v. United States, 000 F.0d 000 (CA0 0000); A-Mark, Inc. v. United States Secret Service, 000 F.0d 000 (CA0 0000); Alliance Assurance Co. v. United States, 000 F.0d 000 (CA0 0000). In two other cases, Courts of Appeals have read the provision as did the Third Circuit in this case. United States v. One (0) Douglas A-00B Aircraft, 000 F.0d 0000 (CA00 0000); United States v. One (0) 0000 Wood, 00-Foot Custom Boat, FL 0000 AY, 000 F.0d 0000 (CA0 0000). In Hatzlachh Supply Co. v. United States, 000 U. S. 000, 000 U. S. 000, n. 0 (0000), we acknowledged the divergence in the views of the Circuits, but expressly declined to decide the issue. "The provisions of [00 U.S.C. §§ 0000-0000] and section 0000(b) of this title shall not apply to --" We have no occasion in this case to decide what kinds of "law enforcement officer[s]," other than customs officials, are covered by the exception. In view of the fact that the Tort Claims Act permits recovery only of "money damages . . . for injury or loss of property, or personal injury or death," 00 U.S.C. § 0000(b), it is unclear whether, even in the absence of § 0000(c), any of the foregoing sorts of damage would be recoverable under the Act. Cf., e.g., Idaho ex rel. Trombley v. United States Dept. of Army, Corps of Engineers, 000 F.0d 000 (CA0) (adopting a restrictive interpretation of the language of § 0000(b)), cert. denied, 000 U.S. 000 (0000). If the sorts of damages that, under petitioner's theory, are covered by § 0000(c) would not be recoverable in any event because of the limitation built into § 0000(b), § 0000(c) would be mere surplusage. The unattractiveness of such a construction of the statute, see Colautti v. Franklin, 000 U. S. 000, 000 U. S. 000 (0000), would cast considerable doubt on petitioner's position. However, because the question of the scope of 0000(b) has not been briefed or argued in this case, we decline to rely on any inferences that might be drawn therefrom in our decision today. Because petitioner conceded below that the injuries to his property occurred after it had been lawfully detained by customs officers, we need not consider the meaning of the term "detention" as used in the statute. The Court of Appeals, while properly emphasizing the plain language of § 0000(c) as the basis for its ruling, suggested that the structure of the Tort Claims Act should affect how that language is read. Relying on the principles that "sovereign immunity is the rule, and that legislative departures from the rule must be strictly construed," the Court of Appeals suggested that § 0000(c), as an exception from a statute waiving sovereign immunity, should be broadly construed. 000 F.0d at 000-000. We find such an approach unhelpful. Though the Court of Appeals is certainly correct that the exceptions to the Tort Claims Act should not be read in a way that would "nullif[y them] through judicial interpretation,'" id. at 000, unduly generous interpretations of the exceptions run the risk of defeating the central purpose of the statute. See United States v. Yellow Cab Co., 000 U. S. 000, 000 U. S. 000, n. 0 (0000); cf. Block v. Neal, 000 U. S. 000, 000 U. S. 000 (0000) ("`The exemption of the sovereign from suit involves hardship enough where consent has been withheld. We are not to add to its rigor by refinement of construction where consent has been announced'") (quoting Anderson v. Hayes Construction Co., 000 N.Y. 000, 000, 000 N.E. 00, 00-00 (0000) (Cardozo, J.)). We think that the proper objective of a court attempting to construe one of the subsections of 00 U.S.C. § 0000 is to identify "those circumstances which are within the words and reason of the exception" -- no less and no more. See Dalehite v. United States, 000 U. S. 00, 000 U. S. 00 (0000). For reiterations of this argument, see A & D International, Inc. v. United States, 000 F.0d at 000; A-Mark, Inc. v. United States Secret Service, 000 F.0d at 000. See General Tort Bill: Hearing before a Subcommittee of the House Committee on Claims, 00d Cong., 0st Sess., 00 (0000) (testimony of Assistant Attorney General Rugg). "[t]his provision is suggested in the proposed draft of the bill submitted by the Crown Proceedings Committee in England in 0000. . . ." "No proceedings shall lie under this section -- " "(c) for or in respect of the loss of or any deterioration or damage occasioned to, or any delay in the release of, any goods or merchandise by reason of anything done or omitted to be done by any officer of customs and excise acting as such. . . ." Mr. Holtzoff wrote his report while serving as Special Assistant-to the Attorney General. He had been "assigned by Attorney General Mitchell to the special task of coordinating the views of the Government departments" regarding the proper scope of a tort claims statute. See Borchard, The Federal Tort Claims Bill, 0 U.Chi.L.Rev. 0, n. 0 (0000). Holtzoff submitted his report, in which his draft bill was contained, to Assistant Attorney General Rugg, who in turn transmitted it to the General Accounting Office of the Comptroller General. Insofar as Holtzoff's report embodied the views of the Executive Department at that stage of the debates over the tort claims bill, it is likely that, at some point, the report was brought to the attention of the Congressmen considering the bill. We agree with the dissent that, because the report was never introduced into the public record, the ideas expressed therein should not be given great weight in determining the intent of the Legislature. See post at 000 U. S. 000-000. But, in the absence of any direct evidence regarding how Members of Congress understood the provision that became § 0000(c), it seems to us senseless to ignore entirely the views of its draftsman. See also S.Rep. No. 0000, 00th Cong., 0d Sess., 00 (0000); S.Rep. No. 0000, 00th Cong., 0d Sess., 0 (0000); H.R.Rep. No. 0000, 00th Cong., 0d Sess., 00 (0000). Cf. 000 F.0d at 000 (Weis, J., dissenting) (discussed, supra at 000 U. S. 000). The dissent objects to our effort to test our interpretation of § 0000(c) for conformity with the legislative purposes that underlie § 0000 as a whole, principally on the ground that we take inadequate account of the "central purpose" of the Tort Claims Act. Post at 000 U. S. 000-000. The dissent mistakes the nature of our analysis. Our view is that the language of § 0000(c) is inclusive enough to exempt the United States from liability for negligence in the handling or storage of goods detained by the Customs Service, see supra at 000 U. S. 000. Our purpose in looking to the legislative history is merely to ensure that our construction is not undercut by any indication that Congress meant the exception to be read more narrowly. Because of the sparseness of the evidence regarding the purpose of § 0000(c) itself, see supra at 000 U. S. 000-000, we consider it advisable to consider Congress' more general objectives in excluding certain kinds of claims from the broad waiver of sovereign immunity effected by the Tort Claims Act. Because we find that our reading of § 0000(c) is consistent with those objectives, we see no need to throw our analytical net any wider. For a variety of expressions of these three purposes, see S.Rep. No. 0000, 00th Cong., 0d Sess. 00 (0000); Tort Claims: Hearings on H.R. 0000 and H.R. 0000 before the House Judiciary Committee, 00th Cong., 0d Sess., 00 (0000) (testimony of Assistant Attorney General Shea); Tort Claims Against the United States: Hearings on H.R. 0000 before Subcommittee No. 0 of the House Judiciary Committee, 00th Cong., 0d Sess., 00 (0000) (testimony of Alexander Holtzoff); Hearings, supra, n 00, at 00 (testimony of Assistant Attorney General Rugg); Holtzoff Report at 00. To our knowledge, the only arguably relevant specific statement as to the purpose of § 0000(c) appears in the testimony of Alexander Holtzoff before a Subcommittee of the Senate Judiciary Committee. Holtzoff emphasized the adequacy of existing remedies as a justification for the portion of the provision pertaining to the recovery of improperly collected taxes; he did not proffer an explanation for the portion of the provision pertaining to the detention of goods. Tort Claims Against the United States: Hearings on S. 0000 before a Subcommittee of the Senate Committee on the Judiciary, 00th Cong., 0d Sess., 00 (0000). See, e.g., 00 U.S.C. § 0000 (authorizing seizure of "a vessel or vehicle" to force payment of assessed penalties); 00 U.S.C. § 0000a(a) (authorizing seizure of property used to facilitate the illegal importation of other goods). The Government's vulnerability to fraudulent claims would be especially great in a case in which the Customs Service took custody of the goods from a shipper, rather than from the owner. The shipper would contend that it exercised due care in the handling of the goods. The owner would demonstrate that he received the goods in damaged condition. In the absence of an extensive system for accounting for the movements and treatment of property in its custody, the Customs Service would be hard pressed to establish that its employees were not at fault. We do not suggest that such a dilemma would automatically give rise to liability on the part of the United States; that of course would depend upon the substance of the pertinent state tort law. See 00 U.S.C. §§ 0000(b), 0000. But uneasiness at the prospect of such scenarios may have influenced Congress when it carved out this exception to the Tort Claims Act. See, e.g., States Marine Lines, Inc. v. Shultz, 000 F.0d 0000, 0000 (CA0 0000); Dioguardi v. Durning, 000 F.0d 000, 000 (CA0 0000); J. Story, Commentaries on the Law of Bailments §§ 000, 000, pp. 000, 000 (0000). See State Marine Lines, Inc. v. Shultz, supra, at 0000-0000. We note that there exists at least one other remedial system that might enable someone in petitioner's position to obtain compensation from the Government. If the owner of property detained by the Customs Service were able to establish the existence of an implied-in-fact contract of bailment between himself and the Service, he could bring suit under the Tucker Act, 00 U.S.C. § 0000 (0000 ed., Supp. V). See Hatzlachh Supply Co. v. United States, 000 U. S. 000 (0000). At oral argument, the Government contended that a property owner could recover against the United States under this theory by bringing suit against the relevant District Director of the Customs Service, and would not be obliged to prove negligence on the part of any specific customs official. Tr. of Oral Arg. 00-00. Though we do not decide the issue, such an interpretation of the common law doctrine appears questionable to us. Except in cases in which the property owner could demonstrate that the Director expressly authorized tortious conduct by a subordinate, it seems likely that the owner would be obliged to identify and bring suit against the individual whose malfeasance caused the injury to his goods. The dissent finds "internally inconsistent" the foregoing "hypothetical rationales" for § 0000(c). Post at 000 U. S. 000. Thus, the dissent suggests that the fact that an owner of goods damaged by the Customs Service might recover from the United States under the Tucker Act, see n. 00 supra, makes it unlikely that Congress would have been chary of creating a remedy under the Tort Claims Act because of the risk of exposing the Government to an excessive number of fraudulent suits. Post at 000 U. S. 000-000. But the requirement that an owner, to recover under the Tucker Act, prove that the Service entered into an implied-in-fact contract of bailment would operate to screen out many fraudulent claims; Congress rationally could have concluded that, in view of the absence of any comparable filter in the Tort Claims Act, it was inadvisable to extend the coverage of the latter to owners of detained goods. Similarly, the dissent finds it implausible that Congress might have feared that the creation of a remedy against the United States under the Tort Claims Act would inhibit vigorous enforcement of the customs laws, see supra at 000 U. S. 000, when there already existed a common law remedy against customs officials for negligence in the handling of goods, see supra at 000 U. S. 000-000. Post at 000 U. S. 000. But, as explained above, the apparent requirement that the owner, to recover under the common law, prove negligence on the part of a specific customs official, see supra at 000 U. S. 000-000, and n. 00, combined with the obligation of the United States to indemnify the official if he acted under proper authority, see supra at 000 U. S. 000, would have minimized the effect of the extant remedies on the willingness of the Service to adopt vigorous enforcement policies and the willingness of its officials to implement those policies. Congress might well have feared that the creation of a remedy under the Tort Claims Act would have increased the liability of the United States to such a degree as to curtail the exercise by the Service of its authority to detain goods. Comment, Governmental Liability for Customs Officials' Negligence: Kosak v. United States, 00 Minn.L.Rev. 0000 (0000); Note, Using the Federal Tort Claims Act to Remedy Property Damage Following Customs Service Seizures, 00 U. Mich.J. of L.Ref. 00 (0000). of the language used in other exceptions. Congress did not use the words "arising out of" in § 0000(c), but did use those words in three other subsections of the same section of the Act. See §§ 0000(b), (e), and (h). Absent persuasive evidence to the contrary, we should assume that, when Congress uses different language in a series of similar provisions, it intends to express a different intention. The language of the statute itself is thus clear enough to persuade me that Congress did not intend to exempt this property damage claim from the broad coverage of the Act. I would, of course, agree that, if there were legislative history plainly identifying a contrary congressional intent, that history should be given effect. I do not believe, however, that it is proper for the Court to attach any weight at all to the kind of "clues" to legislative intent that it discusses, or to its concept of the "general purposes" that motivated various exceptions to the statute. Because the Court has done so, however, I shall respond to both parts of its rather creative approach to statutory construction. In the entire 00-year history preceding the enactment of the Tort Claims Act in 0000, the Court finds only two "clues" that it believes shed any light on the meaning of § 0000(c). The first -- the so-called "Holtzoff Report" -- is nothing but an internal Justice Department working paper prepared in 0000 and never even mentioned in the legislative history of the 0000 Act. There is no indication that any Congressman ever heard of the document or knew that it even existed. The position of the majority -- that it is "significant" that the "apparent draftsman" of the relevant language himself "believed that it would bar a suit of the sort brought by petitioner," ante at 000 U. S. 000-000 -- is manifestly ill-advised. The intent of a lobbyist -- no matter how public-spirited he may have been -- should not be attributed to the Congress without positive evidence that elected legislators were aware of and shared the lobbyist's intent. "in construing a statute . . . the worst person to construe it is the person who is responsible for its drafting. He is very much disposed to confuse what he intended to do with the effect of the language which in fact has been employed." Hilder v. Dexter, A. C. 000, 000 (Halsbury, L. C., abstaining). [Footnote 0/0] If the draftsman of the language in question intended it to cover such cases as this one, he failed. uses the prepositional phrase "arising out of" to introduce a truncated list of the exceptions. Ante at 000 U. S. 000. But the "casual" use of the latter phrase in the Committee Report is as understandable as it is insignificant. It is nothing more than an introduction. In such an introduction, precision of meaning is naturally and knowingly sacrificed in the interest of brevity. The Court's reliance on the "general purposes" for creating exceptions does nothing more than explain why Congress might reasonably have decided to create this exception. [Footnote 0/0] Those purposes are no more persuasive than the general purposes motivating the enactment of the broad waiver of sovereign immunity effected by the statute itself. "may well have wished not to dampen the enforcement efforts of the Service by exposing the Government to private damages suits by disgruntled owners of detained property," ante at 000 U. S. 000 (emphasis added), its failure to abrogate the common law remedy against the individual customs officer is inexplicable. For I would assume that customs officers' enforcement efforts would be dampened far more by a threat of personal liability than by a threat of governmental liability. Reliance on an assumed reluctance to waive immunity regarding claims for which "adequate" remedies were already available simply begs the question. A basic reason for the Tort Claims Act was, of course, the inadequacy of the existing remedies, and there is no indication in the legislative history that Congress considered the previous remedies in this specific area adequate. A discussion of the general reasons for drafting exceptions to the Act is no more enlightening regarding the specific exception at issue here than a consideration of the principal purpose that Congress sought to achieve by enacting this important reform legislation. "Congress delegate authority to the Federal Courts and to the Court of Claims to hear and settle claims against the Federal Government," "Congress is poorly equipped to serve as a judicial tribunal for the settlement of private claims against the Government of the United States. This method of handling individual claims does not work well either for the Government or for the individual claimant, while the cost of legislating the settlement in many cases far exceeds the total amounts involved." of the House and Senate, and crowded private calendars combine to make this an inefficient method of procedure." "The United States courts are well able and equipped to hear these claims and to decide them with justice and equity both to the Government and to the claimants. . . ." to suggest that Congress did not think the judiciary up to this task, or that it wanted to reserve such cases for its own adjudication because it is better equipped to weed out fraudulent claims. In the final analysis, one must conclude that the legislative history provides only the most general guidance on resolving the issue in this case. For any basic policy argument in favor of making an exception will support a broad construction of the provision in question, just as any basic policy argument in favor of the Act's waiver of sovereign immunity will support a narrow construction of this or any other exception. The Government's policy arguments respecting the administrative burden on the Customs Service and the potential for fraudulent claims, like petitioner's policy arguments, are "properly addressed to Congress, not to this Court." Ante at 000 U. S. 000. Therefore, this is "a case for applying the canon of construction of the wag who said, when the legislative history is doubtful, go to the statute." Greenwood v. United States, 000 U. S. 000, 000 U. S. 000 (0000). I would acknowledge -- indeed I do acknowledge -- that the Court's reading of the statutory language is entirely plausible. I would, however, tilt the scales in favor of recovery by attaching some weight to the particular language used in § 0000(c). And I must disagree with the Court's reliance on the general purposes underlying exceptions when no consideration is given to the general purpose of the statute itself. But most importantly, I would eschew any reliance on the intent of the lobbyist whose opinion on the question before us was not on the public record. "'any claim arising in respect of' the detention of goods means any claim 'arising out of' the detention of goods, and includes a claim resulting from negligent handling or storage of detained property." Ante at 000 U. S. 000. The majority's analysis, it should be observed, puts the cart before the horse. "The essence of bill drafting is placing a legislative proposal in the proper legal phraseology and form to achieve congressional intent. It is primarily a task of legal analysis and research, rather than of composition. . . . Framing the legal language to embody congressional purpose is not as difficult as ascertaining what that purpose is in its entirety. While a committee (or individual member of Congress, as the case may be) is in the process of working out what it wants to do, the legislative counsel assist it by explaining the effect of alternative proposals. Even after the committee (or Congressman) has settled upon the major outlines of a measure, subsidiary policy questions seem to unfold endlessly. The legislative counsel must point up all of those for the committee (or Congressman) to decide. To accomplish that, the legislative counsel must envisage the broad application of the proposed law in all of its ramifications." K. Kofmehl, Professional Staffs of Congress 000 (0d ed.0000) (footnote omitted). Many bills are, of course, initially drafted in the Executive Branch. After today's decision, we can anticipate executive agencies searching long dormant files for documents similar to the Holtzoff Report. We can also anticipate that private parties will attempt to capitalize on this new reservoir of "legislative" history as well, through discovery and perhaps the Freedom of Information Act. In light of the Government's reliance on the Holtzoff Report, presumably it will not assert that this kind of material is privileged when private parties are in search of "legislative" intent. Finally, the language in some bills is initially drafted by private lobbyists. One doubts that the majority would find "significant" the intention of such a draftsman when that intention was not shared with the Congress. "Government, as a defendant, can exert an unctuous persuasiveness because it can clothe official carelessness with a public interest. Hence, one of the unanticipated consequences of the Tort Claims Act has been to throw the weight of government influence on the side of lax standards of care in the negligence cases which it defends." Dalehite v. United States, 000 U. S. 00, 000 U. S. 00 (0000) (Jackson, J., dissenting). Cf. Feres v. United States, 000 U. S. 000, 000 U. S. 000 (0000) ("This Act, however, should be construed to fit, so far as will comport with its words, into the entire statutory system of remedies against the Government to make a workable, consistent and equitable whole. The Tort Claims Act was not an isolated and spontaneous flash of congressional generosity. It marks the culmination of a long effort to mitigate unjust consequences of sovereign immunity from suit"). The majority largely relies on the legislative history of bills which were never enacted into law. All legislation has it germinal period, but the intentions of the proponents of previous legislation which was never enacted are, at most, a secondary aid to construing the intent of those that enacted a descendant of it. The earlier legislation may have failed to be enacted for a variety of reasons, of course, but one reason for failure is that the reasons offered by the proponents were unconvincing to the majority of the Congress. The same proposal may be justified on different rationales, however, and it is the rationale of the Congress which enacts a measure which defines congressional purpose and intent. In the context of the Federal Tort Claims Act, we have recognized the extremely limited utility, and sometimes misleading nature, of reliance upon the legislative history of the plethora of earlier tort claims bills which failed to command a consensus, acknowledging that the measure ultimately enacted was presented to the Congress in a "new aspect" when it become Part IV of the proposed Legislative Reorganization Act. United State v. Yellow Cab Co., 000 U. S. 000, 000 U. S. 000-000, and n. 0 (0000). See, e.g., S.Rep. No. 0000, 00th Cong., 0d Sess., 00-00 (0000); see also Dalehite v. United States, 000 U.S. at 000 U. S. 00-00; United States v. Yellow Cab Co., 000 U.S. at 000 U. S. 000-000 (The Federal Tort Claims Act "merely substitutes the District Courts for Congress as the agency to determine the validity and amount of [tort] claims." Id. at 000 U. S. 000); Feres v. United States, supra, at 000 U. S. 000. The Tort Claims Act was one part of the Legislative Reorganization Act of 0000. The Legislative Reorganization Act was the product of a year of work by the Joint Committee on the Organization of Congress. E.g., S.Rep. No. 0000, supra, at 0. The Joint Committee, however, was not empowered to report legislation. See H.Con.Res. 00, 00th Cong., 0st Sess. (0000). The bill embodying its work, S. 0000, 00th Cong., 0d Sess., sponsored by Senator La Follette (the Chairman of the Joint Committee) was referred to a Special Committee on the Organization of the Congress in the Senate, chaired by Senator La Follette, created for the purpose of reporting the bill. See S.Res. 000, 00th Cong., 0d Sess. (0000). In the House, the Committee on Rules simply reported a rule permitting floor consideration of S. 0000, as passed in the Senate, and a substitute proposed by Representative Monroney (the Vice Chairman of the Joint Committee). See H.Res. 000, 00th Cong., 0d Sess. (0000). | 2019-04-23T06:09:59Z | null | {
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This is why code reviews (a process where another developer on the team goes through code and discusses it with the developer who wrote the code) are beneficial not only for code quality (reducing the number of bugs) but also for professional development, as it forces the developer to think about choices they are making during implementation as they know these must be defended later during code review," said William Lyon, Software Engineer Datamaglia. So spend extra time making sure that the code looks good. You shouldn't be intimated by other developers' code. By feeling intimated, you send a message that you are insecure about your own skills. Collaboration is key to developing coding skills, so poke around other people's code and figure out what it does. Open source projects can be a great way to start looking at code that you have not written as a developer. "If it's in open source library it means it has been tested and hardened by other people and likely has less bugs than if you were to write it from scratch. If you have a tendency to shy away from code you didn't write, you're not leaving your comfort zone and costing your employer money," Gezim Hoxha, CTO of SynoTrip. If you're struggling to build a code, you have to ask yourself why. Asking for help is okay, and with so many platforms for coders to share information, your best bet is to learn from others. "If a developer is constantly taking significantly longer, this is an indication he or she may need more help. This, along with peer code reviews, help identify areas of weakness, and we can then offer targeted training and development by senior developers as needed," Simon Slade of Doubledot Media. General knowledge of languages and systems are more important than specific knowledge of just one language. A good developer knows and is interested in learning different programming languages, especially if languages are constantly changing. "Software development as an industry is constantly changing. Platforms rise and fall. If you find yourself using the same programming approaches and tools you've always used, you probably need to change things up. Go to a user group for your favorite language and learn about new techniques that you haven't heard about. Keep up with the online software community through sites like Hacker News or the thousands of other programming blogs. Software development isn't just a career - it's a community as well. If you are not engaging with the software community, you'll probably get left behind in your career," Peter Kananen, Delivery Manager and Partner, Gaslight. architect, an empathetic and effective technical manager, or by gaining enough business acumen to be a successful entrepreneur," Liza Daly, CTO of Safari. Communication that flows from the developer to their employers is critical for the relationship and growth of the company. A good developer knows how to explain technical concepts to the non-technical people. "Professional software engineers need to immerse themselves in the actual business. When a developer receives the business requirements, there will often be details that are ambiguous or simply left out altogether. A mediocre programmer will simply produce what was stated, while an expert will understand the business and ask relevant questions to clarify all the details to ensure that the product will truly meet the business needs," Jay Wengrow, founder of Anyone Can Learn To Code. Being part of a team also means communicating your struggles and concerns. "Most programmers have difficulty expressing the problem or their solution, either to other programmers or especially to manager/product design team. 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She is still missing. *REWARD* please don't flag just because you don't want to see doesn't mean someone else can't help. She is 0 months old. Reward for her safe return or any information leading to her return. | 2019-04-21T12:24:18Z | null | {
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Our Safari Collection is designed for purists. You'll spend more time in National Parks and dedicated wildlife areas (such as African conservancies or on board expedition ships), where the sole focus of your trip will be maximising your time spent wildlife viewing. You'll have more included game drives, specialist guides and rangers who are experts in their fields, whether that's conservation or photography. These extra inclusions come at an extra cost; for a more varied overall holiday, we recommend our Safari holidays page. "I personally voucher for these holidays because I and many of my colleagues have been on them. We feel they are the best you can buy and the remarkable loyalty and enthusiasm this brochure elicits suggests that you think so too. Whether your kicks come through a lens, binocular or on foot there's a holiday here for you. They are not cheap but offer experiences and memories that are both priceless and addictive. Sometimes they may feel like a marathon more than sprint but, like a marathon the only person you are trying to equal or beat is you - personal wildlife one-upmanship is an ailment for which, thankfully there is no cure. I, like the many other guides and wildlife junkies inside have spent much of the last thirty years with eyes fused to binoculars, realising that we are only as good as our last game drive. When this stops driving us it is time to hang up the precision optics and view from the arm chair. Pedigree is everything with proper safaris, but even with the rich faunal bloodlines in this collection we should understand that the perfect wildlife moment or indeed photograph will always elude us, as it should, but, in these safaris it will come close, very close. Comfortable mobile safari through Botswana's best wildlife destinations. Your Wildlife experience is often completely reliant on your guides. Ours combine the characteristics of knowledge, enthusiasm and passion. Sometimes their skills are a little short of sorcery. Working with wildlife is often challenging; they make it look easy. Here are a few of them who look forward to guiding you in the future. they are our guiding lights. What we say: "Valerie is one of our own, over thirty years of remarkable guiding, often in physically challenging areas. She is an Exodus legend, the snow leopards are lucky to have this rare breed!" What she says: "Nothing can beat tracking animals on foot in the high-altitude desert of Ladakh in winter and searching for one of the world's most elusive animals is perhaps one of the best things I have ever done with clients." What we say: "Hans has been guiding for twenty years, he is also very well-travelled around Africa. His past is facinating. He is a true son of the wilderness and is never happier than sharing his love with clients. A camp fire, a good plate of food, the distant call of lions or keening of jackals and a night sky unlike anywhere on the planet: that is what Hans is about." | 2019-04-20T08:40:28Z | null | {
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PennKey Administrators are trained employees in schools and centers that may have the ability to create persistent & non-persistent PennKeys, generate PennKey Setup Codes, and/or view a variety of PennKey related information in PennCommunity. PennKey Administrators are appointed by school/center IT Directors or senior management and must be trained by ISC's Data Administration group. Currently each school or center is allowed two PennKey Administrators. Pennkey Administrators are not necessarily PennNames Administrators (support providers who have been appointed in schools and centers to help resolve issues with PennNames) although they can be the same person. Authorized PennKey Administrators can create Non-Persistent Guest PennKeys in batches daily. Administrators must be authorized by their school/center IT Directors or senior management and must be trained by ISC's Data Administration group in the bulk-upload interface. | 2019-04-23T17:57:15Z | null | {
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The Chesterfield County School Board has scheduled five community town hall meetings to discuss and receive community input on the Superintendent's proposed FY 0000 operating budget. Address major maintenance and five-year plan initiatives. Superintendent Dr. Merv Daugherty's proposal includes an anticipated $00.0 million increase from the adopted FY 0000 operating budget. However, there are many needs left unfunded once a 0 percent salary increase ($00.0 million investment in staff) is taken into account. Specifically, there is limited funding to support the community-identified recommendations put forth by the School Board's School Safety Task Force or the school division's Equity Committee. There also is limited new funding available to immediately address the major maintenance items recently identified in the Facility Condition Assessment report. In addition to the community town halls, the School Board will host a public hearing on the proposed operating budget and the proposal Capital Improvements Plan at 0:00 p.m. on Feb. 00. That meeting will occur in the Public Meeting Room, located at 00000 Iron Bridge Road. | 2019-04-24T14:56:41Z | null | {
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We understand that your family holiday is a big part of the year, if not the biggest! To help in our quest to prepare you for that exciting but often expensive time of the year, we asked our customers how they felt about their holidays, how much time they spent planning and what they really valued from their time away. Take a look at our Holiday Heroes tools to help you get organised. | 2019-04-22T00:50:06Z | null | {
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AnyMP0 PDF Converter for Mac can help you convert PDF to document files such as Word, Text, Excel, EPUB, HTML and more, as well as various images like JPEG, PNG, GIF, TIFF and so on for Mac. AnyMP0 PDF Converter for Mac can help you convert any PDF file to document format including Text, Microsoft Word 00-0000 (*.doc), Microsoft Word 0000 (*.docx), Rich Text Format (*.rtf), Microsoft Excel 00-0000 (*.xls) and more, as well as image formats like JPEG, PNG, GIF, BMP, TIFF and more. Besides, this software enables you to convert PDF files in any page range and preview the PDF file according to your needs. And you can save the target file(s) in source folder or customize output folder. In addition, it supports OCR technology to improve the effect of the output files.Key Functions:0. Convert PDF to any document format on MacThe Mac PDF Converter enables you to convert any PDF file to many different kinds of document formats like Microsoft Word 00-0000, Microsoft Excel 00-0000, Rich Text Format, EPUB, HTML and more on Mac. So you can read your PDF file without the help of PDF reader.0. Convert PDF to any image format for MacWith this PDF Converter Mac, you can convert your PDF file into JPEG, PNG, GIF, BMP, TIFF and other image formats for Mac. Besides, you can set the size and the color of the output images.0. Adopt OCR technologyThis PDF conversion software adopts OCR technology to improve the output file effect such as the accuracy, balance and speed. With the various language options, you can choose more language types by your own needs.0. Rename your PDFAnyMP0 PDF Converter for Mac can allows you rename your PDF with a unique name. So after converting your PDF, you can find it easily.0. Choose your needed page in your PDF fileThe PDF Converter for Mac software can allow you to choose the page range according to your need. You can convert the pages selectively. The unnecessary parts will not appear in your converted documents or images. For example, you want to convert page one to page nine, you can click "Range", and then fill the blank with 0-0. A single, powerful product for all your printing needs! Print Designer GOLD allows you to create great looking Business Cards, Address and Shipping Labels, CD DVD Labels and Inserts, Envelopes, Post Cards, Name Badges, Signs and other media labels. Edraw Org Chart is a new organization chart drawing software, which creates organisation charts and business charts with minimum time loss for you. Support basic flowcharts, organizational charts, business charts, hr diagram and work flowchart. This software offers a solution to users who want to delete video files while they are playing. There are features to play next/previous video, delete current video to Recycle Bin so that you can sort and delete unwanted files right on the spot. | 2019-04-20T17:04:51Z | null | {
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VesnaKolobarić - art's photostream on Flickr. Those are all so incredible!!!! Thank you Megan, I enjoy creating so I am glad when others like it. | 2019-04-19T12:31:14Z | null | {
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Insanely warm without the bulk; winter-ready with serious street appeal-this men's shell and insulated-liner combo in a modern mid-length cut brings style to the coldest, snowiest undertakings. The shell is crafted from a waterproof-breathable nylon plain weave with draw cord adjustability and a high collar that protects the face, while the zip-in liner features 00g of synthetic insulation and a thermal-reflective lining for tons of toasty, lightweight comfort. Feature0. Material: Polyester0. Outdoor sports: camping, hiking, skiing, snowboarding, travelling,climbing0. Functions: windproof, wear-resistant, breathable, warm0. Season: winter0. Design: straight and spliceThis softshell windproof fleece ski pant is warm enough in cold snowing winter for mountaineering, skiing, travelling. 0 zip-closed pockets including 0 front pockets and 0 back pockets which keep your stuffs from slipping out without noticing. The anti-dirt fabric is easy to clean just by wiping.NOTE: the tag size is asian size, please refer to the size chart before ordering.Size Chart:US S/Tag size 00: waist 00.00", length 00.00", hip 00.00", thigh 00.00"US M/Tag size 00: waist 00.00", length 00.00", hip 00.00", thigh 00.00"US L/Tag size 00: waist 00.00", length 00.00", hip 00.00", thigh 00.00"US XL/Tag size 00: waist 00.00", length 00.00", hip 00.00", thigh 00.00"US 0XL/Tag size 00: waist 00.00", length 00", hip 00.00", thigh 00.00" The Timberline hooded jacket features a heavyweight 00 oz. cotton canvas shell with 0 oz. Polyfill quilted lining in body and 0 oz. Polyfill quilted lining in the hood and sleeves. Also features two front pockets with zippers, one inner right chest pocket with zipper, and rib waistband and cuffs, S-0XLT. Viking Soft Shell Jacket/Liner is constructed of 000% polyester with an anti-pill micro-fleece collar, waterproof zippers, elastic drawcord with toggle adjustments at hem, adjustable wrist straps, drop back tail. Tech pocket with headphone loop inside left-chest and underarm venting for greater comfort. Looking for more Microfleece Jacket Liner similar ideas? Try to explore these searches: Quick Release Supports, Grasshopper Framed, and Ivy Lambs. Look at latest related video about Microfleece Jacket Liner. Shopwizion.com is the smartest way for online shopping: compare prices of leading online shops for best deals around the web. Don't miss TOP Microfleece Jacket Liner deals, updated daily. | 2019-04-25T04:48:23Z | null | {
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Discover our selection of second hand Chanel jewellery, valued and selected for their condition and dispatches within 00 hrs. Free and iconoclastic, Gabrielle Chanel was the first to give the jewel called "fantasy" its letters of nobility, with rows of false and sumptuous pearls, the interpretation always renewed from the camellia, the stacking of rich and long necklaces, bracelets with charms and luxury pieces... Coco Chanel launched her jewellery workshop in 0000 and signed her first jewellery collection in 0000, not hesitating to invest all jewels with the same audacity, blowing a new wind into the world of jewellery. From the end of the 0000s to 0000, the House of Chanel appealed the talent of the jeweller Lorenz Bäumer to revive the spirit of Chanel jewellery, to revisit the House's classics, and to design new collections. Even today, Chanel jewellery is inspired by Coco Chanel's world: the quilting of the bags, chains, camellia, charms, pearls, stars... mixing precious and semi-precious stones, gold, and ceramic. | 2019-04-19T18:53:36Z | null | {
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A Melbourne home designed by Alexandra Buchanan Architecture creates a cascade of contemporary family living spaces within a bushfire area. The siting of the Warrandyte House is highly dramatic and not without its challenges. Yet environmental and bushfire restrictions proved to be little deterrent to a Melbourne couple determined to build a contemporary rural retreat in a prime location on a stunning bushland perch above the Yarra River. This family home utilises the challenges of the site to create a series of dynamic spaces that slide and tumble with the natural terrain, flooding the house with light and capturing spectacular bushland views. On first inspection the site had a dense coverage of scrub with restricted access and relatively close proximity to neighbouring dwellings. Falling steeply to the river and covered by both Environmental and Bushfire Overlays (BAL00), the property brought to bear some interesting and at times conflicting constraints to potential design. What has resulted is a plan form that slides with the landscape, with deliberately solid east and west walls flanking almost entirely open central spaces that direct views to the sky & treetops beyond. Practical, private, service areas are concealed within a rich material palette that create a warm textural foil to contemporary family living. The house is modest in area with a highly efficient and elegant plan offering flexibility, growth and practicality for its young family. Centred around a series of cascading internal and external entertaining terraces, with fully operable doors to offer light and connectivity these modest individual floor areas can make way to more expansive spaces that articulate views, and channel breezes through the house. Despite the texture and solidity of the drystone walls that wrap the exterior and fold through a glazed circulation slot, the house has a lightness that is enhanced by twin butterfly roofs that lift the eaves to catch daylight from every direction. | 2019-04-25T14:43:13Z | null | {
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0 bedrooms with double bed 000cm, a bathroom with shower, sink and toilet. These rooms are 00 euros, breakfast and activities included. 0 bedroom with double bed in 000cm, more spacious, with typical stone wall, bathroom with walk-in shower, sink and toilet. This room is 00 euros, breakfast and activities included. 0 family rooms, composed of two parts separated by a Japanese store; in one part there is a double bed 000cm, a bathroom with shower, sink and toilet and in the other part, 0 single or bunk beds, and also a bathroom. These rooms are 00 euros, breakfast and activities included. | 2019-04-25T21:46:38Z | null | {
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Canada: Comments Regarding Customers Or Users: Do You Really Have "Free Rein"? Very belligerent customer, brainless, customer is annoying, total idiot customer, customer is a huge a****** who thinks she's allowed to do anything, total pain in the a** customer, crazy, heavy African accent, Jewish customer, customer with a heart problem, customer with a mental illness, alcoholic customer, put her husband with Parkinson's on the phone, customer who had a herniated disc operation 0 months ago. This is a sampling of some of the 0,000 comments that were held to be irrelevant about customers maintained by the customer service department of a French household appliance company. Aside from the negative effect on the company's public image, the National Commission on Informatics and Liberty (Commission nationale de l'informatique et des libert�s, or the "CNIL") also sanctioned this behaviour by ordering the company to [translation:] "take the necessary measures to prevent excessive comments from being recorded in the company's databases, and in particular set up a system for automatic detection of such comments and make employees aware of the need to record only necessary and relevant data". �Recently, the CNIL has once again drawn the attention of businesses to the necessity of adopting good practices in this matter. This case may seem rather excessive , especially as it is miles away from our Canadian borders. However, the practice of recording internal comments about customers/users in databases (or "free comment fields"), especially in CRM systems , is common in most Canadian organizations, for example, in order to track customer records or personalize the business relationship. Furthermore, as in Europe, such a practice has inherent personal data protection issues (in that the comments are information about identifiable individuals), with the resulting risks of sanctions and harm to reputation. In Short, the Principle is Simple: You Can't Write Just Anything in Free Comment Fields! Canadian laws concerning the protection of personal information set out the requirement of "necessity". Thus, in Qu�bec, businesses may only collect information "necessary" for the purposes of the file, in addition to having a "serious and legitimate reason" for doing so . Furthermore, when establishing or using the file, businesses may not: "otherwise invade the privacy or injure the reputation of the person concerned". At the federal level, the fundamental concept is similar in that: "[t]he collection of personal information shall be limited to that which is necessary for the purposes identified by the organization. Information shall be collected by fair and lawful means". Lastly, within the European Union, Article 0 of the General Data Protection Regulation (the "GDPR") clearly states that personal data must be: "adequate, relevant and limited to what is necessary in relation to the purposes for which they are processed". Thus, the information provided must not infringe on a person's image or prevent them from receiving a benefit to which they may have a claim simply due to the presence of disparaging, discriminatory or even injurious comments. What are the rules and good practices to adopt to promote the harmonious use of free comment fields within your organization? Assess organization-specific risks (B0C, CRM, organization size) and take into account the rights of individuals to their personal information -- that they may request access to comments about them, along with the dramatic legal and reputational consequences that this could entail. In the end, if you do not have free rein to comment on your customers or users, it is up to your organization to take control and stay on the right path, improving your reputation along the way. Free comments: the ball is in your court! CNIL, decision no. 0000-000, June 00, 0000. CNIL, � Zones bloc note et commentaires : les bons r�flexes pour ne pas d�raper �, 00 f�vrier 0000(Available in French only). It should be noted here that the CNIL has already had occasion to issue several formal notices and warnings due to the misuse of free comment fields. See especially CNIL, decision no. 0000-000, October 0, 0000. Act respecting the protection of personal information in the private sector, CQLR c. P-00.0, sections 0, 0, 0 and 0. Civil Code of Qu�bec, CQLR c. CCQ-0000, art. 00. Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act, S.C. 0000, c. 0, Schedule 0, Principle 0.0. CNIL, "Zones bloc note et commentaires : les bons r�flexes pour ne pas d�raper," 00 f�vrier 0000(Available in French only). | 2019-04-26T16:09:33Z | null | {
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The orientation of the house mouse (Mus musculus) TRG locus on the chromosome 00 (00A0) is forward (FWD). Horizontal arrows show genes whose polarity is opposite to that of the locus. • AMPH (amphiphysin) (0' borne) has been identified 00 kb upstream of TRGV0 (F), the most 0' gene in the locus. • STARD0NL (STARD0 N-terminal like) (0' borne) has been identified 0,0 kb downstream of TRGC0 (F), the most 0' gene in the locus. Hayday et al., Cell, 00, 000-000 (0000). Garman et al., Cell, 00, 000-000 (0000). Traunecker et al., EMBO J., 0, 0000-0000 (0000). Pelkonen et al., EMBO J., 0, 0000-0000 (0000). Vernooij et al., Genomics, 00, 000-000 (0000). Spencer, D.M. et al., Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci USA, 00, 000-000 (0000). Kappes, D.J. et al., Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 00, 0000-0000 (0000). Folch, G., Scaviner, D., Ginestoux, C., Giudicelli, V. and Lefranc, M.-P. IMGT overview: the mouse T cell receptor gamma TRG genes. 00th International Mouse Genome Conference (IMGC), November 0-0, 0000, Strasbourg, France (0000). . | 2019-04-26T16:59:59Z | null | {
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Hi, I am trying to convert a tin to a 0D polygon feature class. Could someone help me with this code? I am not sure it is correct. I got this error "The geometry has null Z values" on the line "Set pFeat.Shape = pPoly" Set pFeat.Shape = pPoly "The geometry has null Z values" The polygon extracted doesn't contain Z values, you have to apply them by overlaying it with the surface. It also concerns me that you are looping through all the triangles and calling extract polygon with the triangle and no filter and stop at edge false. That means that if your TIN is a continuous surface, you will get a polygon representing the entire surface for each call to extract polygon. If your intention is to create a triangular polygon for each triangle of the TIN, I think you are better off creating a new polygon for each triangle and adding the three nodes of the triangle as points to that polygon. Thanks Alexsander, I followed your instructions and coded it again. This code creates some polygons, but there are tintriangles that return again the error "The geometry has null Z values" when the line "Set pFeat.Shape = pPolygon" runs. I don't know enough about the geometry of TINs. I suppose the definition of those tintriangles is wrong. This is the new code: Any idea??? Either the geometry doesn't have Z values, which it looks like it does or the target featureclass does not allow Z values. Can you check if the polygon featureclass allows for Z values? As far as the rest of your code, I think there are some inefficiencies. Thanks very much for your advice Alexander!!! | 2019-04-19T20:47:24Z | null | {
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Popularity - 000 views, 0.0 views per day, 000 days on eBay. Super high amount of views. 00 sold, 0 available. 000 views, 0.0 views per day, 000 days on eBay. Super high amount of views. 00 sold, 0 available. NEW Gravity Rush 0 (Sony Playstation 0 / PS0) FACTORY SEALED! | 2019-04-26T08:10:56Z | null | {
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Dr C Rangarajan, Chairman (Economist, Former Chairman, Prime Minister's Economic Advisory council, New Delhi). Dr. K.P.C. Gandhi, Managing Director (Founder Director, Former DIG - Forensic Labs. of undivided AP), presently Chairman of Truth Labs, India. and Advisor to the Government Andhra Pradesh, West Bengal & J & K. Dr. M.W.Pandit (Founder Director and Retired Scientist & Former Deputy Director of CCMB). The problem of genetic disorders in India is enormous. Millions suffer from inherited genetic diseases and the one-sixth of the world's population living in India has never been systematically studied for the prevalence of these diseases. The fact that most of the genetic disorders found in rural India are novel in nature and have not been recorded till date, makes the task of diagnosing these disorders challenging. The Genome Foundation strives to meet the urgent need to take authentic and affordable genetic diagnostic services to the rural population in the country. We believe the foundations efforts will have a significant impact on life sciences and improve the human condition of millions. | 2019-04-22T17:03:32Z | null | {
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I'm not opposed relying on faith in tough times. That's kinda the whole point of a religion. Oh ain't that sweet. Ya'll just love each other and pray for each other and ya'lls a family so you're gonna just stick together like butter ‘n' dumplins! "Aunt Becky" spent $000,000 to fraudulently get her undeserving children into college. She knowingly lied and cheated on a massive scale, and deprived deserving people from getting a spot. All so her precious offspring would have a better life than someone else. This makes real Christians look bad. You know where I first saw this article shared? On an Atheist Facebook page as just another example of a hypocritical I'm-better-than-you Christian with more money than faith. And they're right. | 2019-04-25T06:53:26Z | null | {
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The midterm elections are less than a month away. Are you registered? Is you registration current? Registration in Missouri closes at 0pm on Oct 00th. It's nice that the next governing signal was recently brought back. With that being said, it's important not to to forget GCOR 0.0.0 - Approach to Automatic Interlocking. Rule 0.0 and PTC do not have an exception when delayed approaching an automatic interlocking. GCOR 0.0.0 applies at interlockings with an (A) symbol and also those with a (Z) symbol in the station column of the timetable. If you are below 00 MPH passing the signal prior to these interlockings or drop below 00 MPH after passing the signal prior, you must be prepared to stop until you are within 0,000 feet of the interlocking. There a a few exceptions in the St. Louis Timetable. One exception would be approaching Tuscola on the Pana Subdivision. The signal that this rule applies to is actually a few signals before the interlocking in both directions. The 0 hour no call is back in effect. Just to clarify, this programming change will block the system from calling you after you have been called to Step-up or cover a vacancy for a 0 hour period. When in this 0 hour calling window you will still be called for YOUR assignment. This is a step to help relive the non stop calls from CMS while we work to a more permanent solution. The other day I overheard a conductor telling the dispatcher about a dimensional load in her train. Great job. While excessive dimensional loads are pointed out on the title page of your train list, dimensional loads are only shown to be in the list of cars. There are similar requirements for both, so I thought that this would be a good opportunity for a refresher. Item 0-A in the SSI covers the requirements for High & Wides as well as high value loads. There are a few similarities as well a one major difference between dimensional and excessive dimensional loads. • Must be as close as possible to the head end, but no closer than the 0th car from an occupied engine when train lengthsl permits. Notice the word, occupied. HAZMAT rules apply to locomotives whether occupied or not. A little different here. •GCOR 00.0 specifically says that when you are to operate through a Form B you must notify the foreman of Excessive Dimensional loads. Although not required, I recommend notifying them of dimensional loads as well. This is important because there is often not a lot of room as you pass on-track equipment. Simply let them know of their presence in your train and the measurements shown on your train list. •You must have a job briefing with the dispatcher regarding both excessive and dimensional loads. This would also apply to foreign railroad dispatchers as well. •Subdivision specific speed restrictions, such as the 00 MPH locations on the Chester Sub, apply to both. Not just excessive dimensional loads. This is why it is always critical to review your paperwork for dimensional loads. The dispatcher can allow you to go through those locations at maximum authorized speed if he determines that there are no trains in the area. •Excessive Dimensional loads require a Form C Bulletin for each subdivision you will operate on. •Dimensional Loads do not require a Form C. Remember, you must still job brief with the dispatcher if you have them in your train. Whether you have Dimensional or Excessive Dimensional loads in your train, it is critical to know that they are in your train and understand the rules regarding their handling. All the instructions in Item 0-A are important to understand and follow. There have been a few questions raised about recent fuel conservation rule changes. Fuel Conservation Speed was recently reintroduced in the latest System General Orders. This time there are a few differences to the rule than before. Air Brake and Train Handling Rule 00.0.0 D outlines FCS. There are three key components remember. First of all, it is only FCS 00 this time. No FCS 00 for coal trains like before. Second, it is Notch 0 this time instead of Notch 0. This means that you cannot be above Notch 0 on the throttle if your speed is over 00 MPH. This does not mean that you can stay in Notch 0 until you hit 00 MPH, and then back off to 0. You can still go to notch 0 to get up to 00 MPH, but once you are above 00 MPH you must be in Notch 0 or below. Finally, there are a few exemptions added to the rule as well. Passenger trains, UPS trains, and trains operating with PTC-Integrated EMS. As a reminder, if you are using PTC and EMS is not integrated into your PTC screen, do not use it if it is in the engineer's control screen. St. Louis Superintendent Bulletin 00 - Train Handling and Switching reintroduced the Notch 0 DPU requirement. There are two important parts to remember with this change. First of all, this applies only to EMPTY COAL TRAINS operating WITHOUT energy management, and only on specific subdivisions. Simply, the DPU cannot go above throttle 0. Also if you have less than 0,000 gallons you can disregard this requirement. However, you must report it to the dispatcher. The second part of the change is for those operating out of Jefferson City. The Kansas City crews are required to isolate the second unit on loaded coal trains eastbound on River Sub. When swapping out at Jefferson City, be sure to go back and put it back on-line before departing. We are pleased to announce that now through October 00st, 0000, we are holding the annual BLET UP Central Region Open Enrollment to allow any existing or new members to get enrolled in guaranteed approved voluntary Life/AD&D, Short-Term Disability and Long-Term Disability coverages. Please forward this email to all of your members to help spread the word. Members can visit https://uniondisability.com/groups/blet-up-central-region/ or call our office at 000.000.0000 for additional policy information and to enroll. If a member already has coverage and does not want to change anything, no action is required to maintain their current coverage. There are no rate or benefit changes as your plan is still under rate guarantee. Even though this enrollment is open until the end of October, we are encouraging members to not wait until the last weeks to enroll because of the high end of enrollment call volume that we anticipate. I have attached a flyer for you to post as well as a detailed rate sheet for your plan. If you would like hard copies of the flyers mailed to you please respond to this email with the number you would like and where to send. Please let me know if you have any questions and thank you for your continued support! I just got notified that 00 more borrow outs are comming rfom KC they are to be here on Thursday the 00th. They will beging qualifying trips and get marked up as soon as possible. With all of the new hires, borrow outs, and FIT's out here I thought that a reminder of GCOR 0.00.0 would be appropriate. Employees assigned to a position for the purpose of training or familiarization must be under the direct and immediate supervision of a qualified employee at all times. The qualified employee must closely monitor the employee's performance and must be in a position to take immediate action as necessary. Any employee requiring certification must have a current certificate in his possession. The part that I wanted to focus on is the first two sentences of the rule. Notice that this applies not only to new hires assigned to you, but also someone assigned to the job for familiarization. This could be someone you are piloting or conductor on the AWRR board working with you. For example, if you have a borrow out working with you as a COT to learn the territory, you cannot use him a brakeman or send him up on the lead by himself to line switches. Even though he he his fully certified and may even have a lot of time on the railroad, more than you possibly, by this rule he must be under your direct supervision and you must be in a position to take immediate action as necessary. Many of the students I taught I now get the pleasure of working with. Some of them are even now my boss. Whenever I see or here of them doing a good job I have a great sense of personal pride in seeing them succeed. With that said remember what it was like when you started out here. Have patience with the new hires and FITs, take the time to teach them. Your career, livelihood, and safety may very well be in that persons hands tomorrow. Did you know that a safety stop is not required when making a coupling with light locomotives. The safety stop requirement is in Superintendent Bulletin 00 - Train Handling and Switching. I've heard people say it's only not required if it's just one locomotive. The exception says that a safety stop is not required when operating light locomotives to a coupling. Notice that locomotive exception is plural. It is also permissible to ride a locomotive to a coupling. Safety Rule 00.00 says not to ride "cars" to a coupling. The first part of the rule says that local instructions may be issued requiring a stop before a coupling is made, and employees riding locomotives to dismount prior to coupling. Our local instruction requires a safety stop with cars only and does not require you to be on the ground when making a coupling with a locomotive. I hope this clarifies any misunderstanding of the safety stop requirement. | 2019-04-25T20:06:30Z | null | {
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I love reading the book Code Complete, by Steve McConnell. The following comes from it. Test for each relevant design concern to make sure that the design has been implemented. Plan the test cases for the step at the design stage or as early as possible-before you begin the detailed coding of the routine or class to be tested. Use "basis testing" to add detailed test cases to those that test the requirements and the design. Add data-flow tests, and then add the remaining test cases needed to thoroughly exercice the code. At a minimum, you should test every line of code. Use a checklist of the kinds of errors you've made on the project to date or have made on previous projects. Design the test cases along with the product. This can help avoid errors in requirements and design, which tend to be more expensive than coding errors. Plan to test and find defect as early as possible because it's cheaper to fix defects early. | 2019-04-23T00:48:45Z | null | {
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Today CRTC hearings are a battlefield again. It's the private broadcasters versus the cable and satellite providers. You, the consumer, are somewhere in the middle. Both sides are marching with your banner. You've seen the ads. The full-page newspaper ones screaming, "Stop the TV tax!" and "Save local television!" Eyeball the cable companies' TV shorts, with credulous man-in-the-street actors being strung along by a faux-journalist's biased line of questioning: "They're already getting support, right?" he asks, of CBC, CTV and the rest. "How do you feel about them wanting more?" One replies, "Uh, it's pretty selfish and kind of sneaky." Another: "I think it's disgusting." Then watch the broadcasters' YouTube video, featuring a Canadian folksinger who became famous earlier in a viral video on that social network. In it, he sings: "Seems they don't think it's worth a dime, for stories that are yours and mine. So come on now, CRTC, it's showtime." The hearings at the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission could alter Canada's media landscape dramatically. A second set of hearings, set for early December, will consider the impact on consumers. In one corner, the cable and satellite companies - led by giants Rogers Communications Inc., Bell Canada and Telus Corp. They want to keep the status quo. In the other are the broadcasters including Canadian Broadcasting Corp., CTV/Globemedia Inc. and CanWest Television LP. They are arguing for the right to fees from cable and satellite companies - now using broadcast signals free - to help make their local TV programming profitable. The broadcasters argue this is not gouging and that cable companies should not get a free ride. At a news conference in October, Bill Chambers, head of corporate affairs at CBC, stressed, "Our position is that the consumer shouldn't pay any more." Also affected by the CRTC decision-making process are other providers, including Shaw Communications Inc., and smaller broadcasters, such as S-VOX. Count in as well a slew of other groups mainly interested in Canadian content issues, including those brought forward by ACTRA, the actors' union, and representatives from several provinces and territories worried about the possibility of losing local TV coverage. This is not the first time cable and satellite companies have taken on broadcasters at the CRTC. Broadcasters argue the business model for local TV is "broken." As the recession deepened, local advertising dropped sharply. Because the cable companies do not pay anything for such local programming, broadcasters argue, TV networks will be forced to kill unprofitable local TV coverage, including news and talk shows. Twice before, broadcasters have approached the CRTC with this suggestion: Let us charge the cable companies for running local shows, so we can afford to keep local TV. Both times, the CRTC has rejected the proposal. Broadcasters have not explained how they would guarantee money received through any new fee scheme would be put into local TV. They could funnel it straight into their profits and continue to close local stations. Fee-for-carriage - though you will not hear either side use the term. The broadcasters know that idea has twice been thrown out by the CRTC. The cable companies insist on calling it a "TV tax," a scare-phrase they use endlessly. "That kind of thinking is rooted in the old way of doing business," Rogers CEO Nadir Mohamed said Friday. "The broadcast industry is challenged, in terms of advertising ... Advertising will come back. But what we shouldn't lose sight of, is in fact consumers are actually behaving different. And fee-for-carriage in no way actually addresses that. It doesn't solve any issue." The issue is complicated somewhat by CRTC's Canadian content regulations that stipulate a certain amount of programming must be Canadian. Broadcasters complain these strict regulations make manoeuvring difficult and oblige them to carry shows that are relatively unprofitable compared with cheaper, more popular American-made shows. Be wary. Both sides claim to fight for the consumer. Both have launched multimillion-dollar ad campaigns to win you over. But both sides are still primarily mindful of their own profits. "It's definitely all about money and it's all about trying to make more of it - or keep what you've got," said Alan Sawyer, principal consultant with Two Solitudes Consulting. Cable companies will likely continue to raise the price of your bill, regardless of whether you are charged their so-called "TV tax." Broadcasters have already closed - and likely will continue to close - local stations, regardless of whether they get to negotiate the fee they seek. Several options, although the CRTC has handed down shockers in the past. The agency could dismiss the broadcasters' case outright, as it did with fee-for-carriage in the past. That seems somewhat unlikely, given the stakes for local Canadian TV content and the fact that this is the third hearing on what is essentially the same issue. The CRTC could approve the broadcasters' request to negotiate without any qualifications. That also seems unlikely, since the providers - though disappointed - could simply present consumers with new monthly charges and say, "Thank Ottawa for this in the next election." Because the CRTC is under pressure to consider the consumer, this may not make sense; and the agency has already ordered another set of hearings in December for this reason. It is also unlikely - given the negative consumer reaction in late October - after the CRTC rejected wireless upstart Globalive's bid to enter the Canadian market, a decision many analysts said was bad for competition and bad for the average consumer, in terms of choice and pricing. The old-fashioned compromise, which several analysts have said they expect. This, for the cable and satellite companies, would mean something resembling defeat - given they support the status quo. But it could benefit consumers, while letting the CRTC - and the government - off easy. "The commission has in the past found delicate middle points in sharply contrasting options," said Kaan Yigit, a Toronto-based analyst with Solutions Research Group. "I suspect this will be no different ... there will be some level of compensation." It is currently mandatory for cable and satellite companies to carry the broadcasters' local programming. 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The LaCinema Classic Hard Disk supports MPEG0, MP0 and JPEG video playback as well as HD-JPEG over its HDMI output. SPDIF coaxial audio and component video outputs are also provided. The drive comes with an IR remote and includes a full-featured audio and photo players. The drive is DivX-certified and comes in 000 GB and 0 TB models. It is available now at an MSRP of $000.00 for the 000 GB model. | 2019-04-18T16:21:05Z | null | {
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Learning and sharing Internet marketing tips & strategies. Riding my Harley Davidson RoadKing. Running low on Money? This is a great solution! http://rwilley.buildingonabudget.com/ A step by step guide on how to build your business on a shoestring budget. Give it a shot! | 2019-04-23T17:59:27Z | null | {
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At Find Matchmaker, we combine your attributes along with 00 unique characteristics about yourself to match you with busy singles that are looking for a life-partner, come see why our approach to Gaevleborg matchmaking in truly working. On Find Matchmaker, we offer a great way to meet local matches in your area for free, our registration is quick and absolutely free. Click a city within Gaevleborg from the list below or scroll to the left to view profiles of matches directly. | 2019-04-26T00:10:37Z | null | {
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The River Tone at Taunton flows brown beside shopfronts, cafes and the Brewhouse theatre, sliding smoothly under footbridges, easing by car parks, offices and flats, slipping beneath the roaring M0 before twisting across the Somerset Levels to Burrowbridge. Here it joins the River Parrett and surges to Bridgwater and the sea. Out in Bridgwater Bay, wild Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) can smell the mud washed down by heavy autumn rain. They wait in the lower reaches of the river until the water level rises enough to allow them to migrate upriver to spawn, seeking the same patch of gravel where they hatched years before. The Tone is not like the popular idea of a salmon river. There are no rocks, definitely no bears, and the water is opaque and flat, its calm surface spotted with small ovals of foam drifting mesmerically north-east. Yet even this undramatic waterway has weirs and manmade obstacles that the adult salmon must leap. Repairs to fish passes have helped more reach their spawning grounds above Taunton. The number of parr (young salmon) high upriver has increased, bringing back fish to places where they have not been seen for 00 years. But they are still rare. As I set out on the riverside path, I know it's unlikely I'll glimpse one. It's lunchtime, and a rabble of mallards hangs about the shoppers' benches, hoping for bread. I keep walking, past thick-trunked willows outside the county cricket ground, until I reach the first weir. Brown water pours glassily over the crest and breaks blue into silver on the slope below. There is another here seeking salmon. A grey heron stands on a ledge at the foot of the weir, long neck stretched up and slightly forward, watching for fish. After a few minutes, it turns and slowly stalks across - pausing - gunmetal and white feathering blending with the falling water. It's waiting for an arcing flash of muscle, that sideways wriggle of a leaping salmon swimming through the air. We wait together. The heron is more patient than me. After a while I turn back, leaving it to its vigil, sure in its certainty that the salmon will come. | 2019-04-24T12:20:08Z | null | {
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#0 Bob B.: ...that coffee consumption does (or doesn't) cause an increase (or decrease) in some health risk (or benefit) - at least this week! #0 Dohtimes: ...is that Kerry sold out his country so long ago that he qualifies for the AARP old traitors discount. #0 Bruce:... was the unsinkability of the Titanic and the buoyancy of the Hindenberg and the 0000 year Reich. walruskkkch: ...Anonymiss's cookies are the bestest. jw: ...cookies are good. lack of cookies is bad. Jimmy: ...Conservative women are hot and bake hot cookies! #0 Bob in Feenicks : ...will be Anthony Wiener's. -And will be strategically located. #0 Harvey : ...will simply be having to wear a nametag that says "Biden". A man who threatened Cleveland police is making a court-ordered public apology by holding an "idiot sign". The next ordered idiot sign......reads "hillary 0000". ...a few good men, in the White House. ...the economy, now called the little shop of horrors. ...getting people to use movies other than Five Easy Pieces and Easy Rider as euphemisms for letting Roman Polanski use your hot tub. Senator Obama's staunch, unwavering opposition to American troops fighting in the Middle East. Things. Mercy, mercy me . . . The truth. Before Jack and Barack, we could handle it. Anyone's desire to spend a winter with a spouse in an isolated hotel. ...Jack Nicholson's memory. ...Did somebody already say that? ...the role of Batman. At least Michael Keaton could act. | 2019-04-24T08:38:09Z | null | {
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Results: 0 to 0 of about 0 for Wedding Gifts in Mast Business Directory. Offer most unique and personalized gifts which are of the highest quality and purchased from manufacturers and engravers around the world. Products include Bridesmaid Gifts, Groomsmen Gifts, Bridal Jewelry, Wedding Favors etc. Visit site for more information. Company in business since 0000 and located in San Marcos, California offering unique, handcrafted gifts for life's most precious milestones. Visit the site for online shopping of all retail products like wedding gifts, anniversery gifts, birthday gifts etc. Humans are very correctly referred to as social animals. We humans always have the tendency to socialize. There are many occasions and days when we tend to celebrate, do shopping and planning for them. One of the most important occasions in a man's life is when he ties the knot and selects his life partner. On such a happy occasion it becomes customary to gift the wedding couple with something that will make them feel special and at the same time make them cherish the day forever. Therefore the retail business of such products has a very good scope in the market. Those people entering into this field of retail business need to first understand the emotional and sentimental aspect of the occasion as well as the items that can be gifted to the newly wed couple. Hence you can first get a good study done about the shopping trends in case of this product as well as the types of products that people prefer purchasing. Understanding this will help you in deciding upon the various types of items that should be made a part of the collection. After a person gets married they generally need stuff that can be of some use to them in their new household. These items will vary from individual to individual but there are certain items that make the often chosen category of wedding gifts. In this business sector it also very important to understand the latest and the various shopping demands of people. As time change the requirement and the trends change with it. In order to keep yourself in the leading names of the retail stores and also get more customers you will need to find out and keep yourself updated about the changes and the recent additions in the wedding gift articles. Such an awareness and alertness will increase your profit margin along with the sales. You can subscribe to the editions of papers and magazines that provide all the latest news and trends about such products and their market. You will also need to get in touch with the manufacturers and distributors that provide the retailers with these products. Get an overview of the distributors and then based on a careful analysis choose those that are ready to crack a deal with you at the lowest price and at the same time are aware of the shopping demands in the current market. Once you have chosen them you can go through the types and kinds of items and wedding gift articles that they are providing. Then you can at your ease select the best possible products for your retail store. The collection in your store will definitely make a lot of difference in the business that you will get for your product. All such people who are coming up with the wedding gifts retail business need to keep another very important factor in their mind. You will have to very carefully decide and select the location of your store. It becomes very important to select places that have maximum crowd generation. Generally the common places include shopping malls and shopping complexes where you will find a lot of people. This will also help in achieving a good recognition and familiarity for the company name. People will be noticing the outlet more often and get publicity as well. Therefore the location plays a very important role. Also the way the store is designed and decorated will help in attracting more and more customers. Another very important thing the business requires is good advertising and publicity. You may have very good products and service but it is important for people to know about it. Hence you will need to do good promotion of your wedding gifts articles. You can use banners and different types of latest signage for getting the publicity of your product done. You can use vehicle wrapping also to advertise your products across the entire city. This will make your company name familiar and you will find more people shopping from your retail store. Such marketing plans play a very important role in the beginning of the business. You should keep your marketing plans ready roughly in advance so that you are able to hold a position in the market as early as possible. In the beginning stage of the retail business such preparations make a lot of difference. You should also get a complete market research done about the existing companies in the market to understand the level of competition. Once you have understood the strategies and plans of the competitors you can modify your marketing strategies to keep an upper hand in the market. Try and be as creative as possible so that you can come up with new ideas that can attract more customers shopping wedding gifts from your outlet. In general marriages happen throughout the year but there are certain times of the year where the occurrence of weddings reaches a peak. It is very natural that the shopping frequency for gift items will also reach the apex in such intervals. Depending upon the city or the country you are starting your retail business you will have to find out about the marriage seasons in the year and keep your collection to its best in the peak season. Start the promotional activities well in advance to acquire maximum customers attention. It will help you in getting more sales as well as profit generation for the business. Such calculations have a great influence in the entire business. A wedding is incomplete without gifts. Giving gifts during a wedding has become the part and parcel of a matrimonial celebration. The wedding gifts are the essential features of shopping needs of a wedding. The wedding gifts may range from apartments, jewelries, vehicles, money, home appliances, and flight tickets to exquisite and romantic places, mobile phones and other miscellaneous retail items which are suitable for the marrying couple. The wedding gifts need not be expensive but they must symbolize and signify your concern towards the couple and their affection towards the guests. If you go shopping for wedding gifts you could across various amazing sorts of wedding gifts. The business dealing with the wedding gifts can be very lucrative and profitable as the number of weddings around the world is increasing year by year. On a global level, the average number of wedding performed per day has crossed 000,000. You can imagine the number of wedding gifts sold in retail per day around the world. A famous company in China which produces the wedding gift articles proudly claims that their annual turnover on the sales of wedding gifts is 000,000,000 US dollars. The number of staff working there is from 00 to 000. If you go shopping for the wedding gifts, you will know that the cost of these items start from 0 dollars. Though the article is inexpensive, the attitude you bear while presenting it to the couple matters. Wedding gifts are given to the couple and the couple in turn gives the gifts to the special guests of their wedding. Apart from this the bride and groom exchange gifts between them. So the need of wedding gifts is more and the retail business center provides plenty of unique wedding gifts when you go shopping to buy these articles. The companies that deal with the business of wedding gifts in US have enjoyed an average annual turnover of 000,000 dollars in the year 0000 and 0000. The annual profit has increased to 000,000 dollars in the end of 0000 over the sales of the wedding gifts. This business is always highly remunerative as every day at least 000,000 weddings take place around the globe and the need for the wedding gifts is a continuous cycle. Life style International is a famous corporate in India which sells all the items needed for a persons day to day life. Their commodities are aptly suitable to be given as wedding gifs. Their annual turnover at the end of the year 0000 was Rs. 000 crores and they expect an annual profit of Rs. 000 crores by the end of 0000. The survey report on their business shows a hike in the business graph that they are likely to reach the peak of 0000 crore rupees by the end of 0000. The crystal products like vase, bowls, pendants, trays, cake knives, memento boxes, dessert bowls, bread platters, ice buckets etc make extraordinary wedding gifts and are sold in retail like never before. As the crystal wares are elegant looking and delicate, lots of people shopping for wedding gifts buy them as to present as gifts. The crystal ware wedding gifts business can reach a peak of 0, 00,000 US dollars as the annual profit. According to a recent survey, the average number of wedding that were held in 0000 in the US was 0,000,000. If you imagine that a wedding gift worth of a minimum of 0 dollars is bought by each of the guests of these weddings, cant you calculate the profit obtained on this business per day? Heritage Hampers Ltd, a renowned company of Ireland which deals in the business of wedding gifts enjoys an annual turnover of 0 million Euros and it has employed around 00 members as its staff. This company was established in 0000. Within a span of 00 years, it has attained the peak of the business. The Indian wedding industry is currently estimated at Rs. 00000 crores and is yet to grow by 00 percent annually giving rise to the increase in the demand for the wedding gifts. The average budget of a wedding is 00000 dollars. The wedding business averages to about 00 billion dollars a year in the US. In this rate 0,000,000 weddings were held in the year 0000 and an average of $ 000,000,000 was spent on the wedding gifts. | 2019-04-22T05:06:34Z | null | {
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A weak mid-latitude system will make a pass today, bringing rain and thunderstorms, with a chance for storms to be severe. The below map shows a widespread slight risk for severe thunderstorms, which means these storms might have low coverage and varying intensity. The main threats for this day are wind and hail damage; nevertheless, a tornado is always possible. These storms may have the largest impact for the afternoon and making a pass through the eastern parts of Kentucky and Tennessee for the evening. Highs for Sunday in Bowling Green can reach the mid-upper 00's, and lows in the mid 00's. For Monday, there will still be morning showers, but it will remain cloudy for the rest of the day. Highs can reach the mid 00's, and lows will be in the upper 00's. Tuesday could be cloudy as well, with some clearing for the afternoon. Highs will be in the mid 00's and lows in the lower 00's. If you are out driving this morning, please take care and precaution, for there will be fog for the Saturday morning commute. Otherwise, enjoy a sunny day, for a high pressure field centers itself just over Kentucky. Highs for Saturday will be very enjoyable in the mid-lower 00's, and lows will be in the upper 00's. Sunday will see some storm action, and severe weather may return to the mid-South. These storms might be the most intense for the afternoon hours of Sunday. Highs for Sunday could be in the mid 00's, and lows could reach the mid 00's. Monday could see similar patterns in the morning, but then it might clear up for the afternoon. Highs for Monday will reach the upper 00's and lows will be in the mid 00's. Bringing Back the 00s and We're Not Talking About the Decade! We were definitely socked in the clouds today and we won't be breaking out of them for at the least the overnight hours as some higher clouds, represented by the brighter colors in the imagery, start to move in from the west. A stalled out frontal boundary to our south with start to lift northward as a warm front throughout the day tomorrow helping to usher in some much warmer temperatures as well as moisture content. Most of the day on Saturday remains dry. We'll have to watch out for scattered shower chances out ahead of the approaching warm front. By Sunday we will be well established in the warm sector. Depending of how much sun we will see, storms could be a possibility Sunday evening out ahead of a approaching cold front from the west. Temperatures on Sunday will be flirting with the 00 degree mark for the first time this season! Some of the storms on Sunday could be strong to severe if the instability is able to establish itself over the region. Confidence for strong storms is low at this time. Here is the 0Z(0 pm) run of the NAM model's depiction of how Sunday COULD unfold. 0Z NAM Simulated Composite Reflectivity valid for Sunday morning around 0am CDT. Showers possible early Sunday morning ahead of that warm front. The showers should clear out shortly after sunrise keeping a small part of the day dry. Showers and storms return, however, by early afternoon. 0Z NAM Simulated Composite Reflectivity valid for Sunday afternoon around 0pm CDT. Shower and storm chances hang on for the start to the workweek as another system approaches from the southwest dragging across the TN Valley through the day on Monday. Tonight: We hold onto the clouds overnight with lows falling into the low 00s. Calm winds. Saturday: Partly cloudy skies with temps in the upper 00s across the region. Winds light out of the SW. Saturday Night: Scattered showers late with lows staying in the upper 00s. Winds light out of the SW. Sunday: Showers and thunderstorms likely. Temperatures in the upper 00s to low 00s. Winds out of the S at 0-00 mph, gusting at times to 00. Posted in Kentucky Weather | Comments Off on Bringing Back the 00s and We're Not Talking About the Decade! Rain Chances on the Way! It has been a beautiful start to the week! Warm temperatures and sunny skies made for quite a nice past few days. But here comes the rain again! With the pleasant weather as of late, tree pollen has been pretty high. For all those with pollen allergies, Thursday night will be a relief! Models (such as the ones posted above) are all in agreement with a pretty decent rain for this area Thursday evening into Friday early morning. A good night to sleep with the windows open! Before the rain, Thursday will be warm again! We could see temperatures climb to the lower 00s before the rain arrives in the evening. However, as the model above is hinting at, cooler temperatures are expected for Friday following the rain. There could be a chance for a few thunderstorms this weekend, so be sure to stay up to date with the latest from our blog! Posted in Kentucky Weather | Comments Off on Rain Chances on the Way! Good afternoon everyone! I hope you all are enjoying this gorgeous day as temperatures hit 00° and flowers are in bloom. Satellite imagery shows little to no clouds around the area. Thankfully we still have tomorrow to enjoy the weather before a cold front moves in with rain and possible storms. Rain will arrive for Thursday with the majority falling in the afternoon hours to Friday morning. Most of the models have a quarter to half an inch which looking at the data I would agree. Precipitation: 0/0 to 0/0 inch of rain with most of it falling in the afternoon and at night. | 2019-04-24T23:02:36Z | null | {
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ahcancalED is celebrating its first anniversary on October 0th and there is a lot to celebrate! Over the past year, more than 0,000 of our members have registered and used the educational materials. Currently, it boasts over 000 unique products including a valuable series on Five Star, another that helps you understand QAPI and two guides on the 0000 Silver and Bronze Quality Award Program. Unlike many of the eLearning sites that provide educational resources, ahcancalED is FREE to members, utilizes the talent of members and subject matter experts in the creation of resources. It prides itself on creating "just in time" resources that address changes and issues in the industry. Within the sharED category, members have offered tools and resources they use every day to improve quality in their centers. Just last week, the ahcancalED team committed a new space to the Requirements of Participation. 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Assisted living members will be able to customize their reports based on which measures they want to include and the timeframe for the measures. Sign-up for LTC Trend Tracker today! Congressional leadership last night announced an agreement to fund the government through the November election. The plan goes with just days to spare as fiscal year deadline looms at the end of the month. The tentative deal on a continuing resolution would fund the government until December 0, setting up this Congress to once again come to a spending agreement before a new Congress takes charge next year. Negotiations between House Speaker Paul Ryan, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi led to an agreement to tack on an amendment to the Water Resources Development Act authorizing $000 million in aid for the Flint water crisis. Funding for the on-going water safety crisis in Michigan has been a top priority for Pelosi and Democrats, one which they said was a key component of any deal to fund the government. The House is expected to pass the water bill as soon as today. Much remains in the air, including ultimate passage of the Flint funding as well as Democratic requests for more Zika funding and how spending is offset, though both sides maintain they are resolute in funding the government before the deadline. "We're not shutting the government down," Pelosi told reporters Tuesday afternoon. An adjournment resolution in the amendment schedules Congress to leave a day earlier than the original calendar, finishing up the last legislative business on Thursday before returning to their districts until after the election. Congress will resume session on November 00, after the election has taken place but before new Members of Congress are sworn in, for a so-called "lame duck" session. What do the Quality Award Survey Requirements Mean? 0- Applicants will receive regular emails from Quality Award staff with deadline reminders, tips on applying for the award, and links to exclusive educational webinars. As potential applicants decide whether or not to submit an Intent to Apply by the November 00th deadline, one of the first questions they ask is whether they meet the Quality Award Survey requirements. This year, there are a revised set of survey eligibility requirements at each application level that applicants will have to meet. Applicants are encouraged to review all the specific survey eligibility requirements in the respective application packets in detail. Below are some answers to the most common questions that we receive on the survey eligibility requirements. 0- Can I still apply if the center does not meet the survey eligibility requirements? a. Yes, centers can apply and receive a feedback report even if they do not meet the survey eligibility requirement. They will simply be ineligible to receive the award. 0- Can the center recertify if it does not meet the survey eligibility requirements? a. If a center submits an application meeting the minimum requirements and fails survey eligibility they will still be able to recertify. 0- How do I calculate the cycle 0 and 0 weighted survey score for the Silver Quality Award and the 0 cycle weighted score for the Gold Quality Award? Quality Award staff has developed a resource for applicants to view their current survey eligibility based on the August 00, 0000 Nursing Home Compare release. This can be utilized by applicants to review their current survey eligibility; however, applicants are cautioned as this is preliminary and their survey eligibility will change based on what is available as of the application deadline (January 00, 0000) and award notification. As always, if you have any questions Quality Award staff can be reached at [email protected]. Update Your Professional Headshot in Nashville! The AHCA/NCAL 00th Annual Convention and Expo in Nashville is just around the corner and this year's convention features a new activity for AHCA/NCAL members. Thanks to the generous support of PointClickCare®, the AHCA/NCAL Long Term Care Career Center, is hosting a Headshot Lounge for AHCA/NCAL member attendees. The Headshot Lounge will be open on Monday and Tuesday from 0 a.m. to 0 p.m. in room Jackson F. AHCA/NCAL members are encouraged to drop by the Headshot Lounge to get a free professional headshot. The Long Term Care Career Center's Headshot Lounge will be a great opportunity to network and get a new personal photo emailed to you to use for your professional needs. The Long Term Care Career Center is AHCA/NCAL's electronic job board dedicated to helping Members find and recruit top LTC professionals. Rates for posting job vacancies are affordable and give prospective employers far greater exposure than local ads and job boards by connecting to a network of more than 000 health care organizations and societies. Employers are also able to post vacancies as they occur and search resumes on the network. Of course, the LTC Career Center is always free for job seekers. And, job seekers are using the site! Job postings on the AHCA/NCAL Long Term Care Career Center, average more than 0,000 views a month. Now is the perfect time to give the Long Term Care Career Center a try because new users receive 00% off their first posting. Simply enter promo code New00off to receive this special discounted price. Employers who utilize the site also receive superior exposure through rotating job listings on AHCA's home page - the web site where long term care professionals go for news and information. In addition, employers who post vacancies through the center receive bonus rotating listings on the Long Term Care Career Center home page. Be sure to stop by the Headshot Lounge in Nashville. We look forward to seeing you there. The National Center for Assisted Living (NCAL) has named Patricia (Pat) Giorgio, the president of Evergreen Estates, the 0000 recipient of the Jan Thayer Pioneer Award. With nearly 00 years of experience owning and operating assisted living communities, Giorgio has served in many leadership positions and championed quality improvement through myriad projects and efforts. NCAL created the Jan Thayer Pioneer Award in 0000 to recognize individuals who have moved the senior care profession forward, positively affecting the lives of those served and those who serve. Recipients must demonstrate dedication, leadership, and considerable contributions to the senior care profession. The award is posthumously named after the first Board Chair of NCAL and assisted living owner and operator Jan Thayer. Additionally, her expertise on assisted living trends, performance measures, bereavement, hospice and LGBT issues has made her a sought after speaker across the country. Giorgio also collaborated with the University of North Carolina and the Center for Excellence in Assisted Living on two community-based participatory research projects. The first was measuring medication errors in assisted living, and the second was developing a toolkit for person-centeredness in assisted living. Ms. Giorgio will be presented the Pioneer Award during a formal ceremony at the 00th Annual AHCA/NCAL Convention & Expo in Nashville, Tenn. this October. Twenty-one states' attorneys general, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, and more than 00 other national and Texas business groups filed a legal challenge on Tuesday, September 00th to the federal overtime rule set to take effect on December 0st. The new regulations revise the overtime exemptions for executive, administrative, and professional employees, commonly known as the "white collar" exemptions. The group is arguing that the Department of Labor (DOL) exceeded its statutory authority in issuing the regulation and violated the Administrative Procedure Act, and holds that the rule will result in increased employment costs that could further impact services and workplace flexibility. The Chamber lawsuit also states that the rule departs from the intent of the Fair Labor Standards Act, that the salary threshold set by the rule is "excessively high," and that it ignores regional and industry differences. The complaint argues that the salary threshold cannot be updated without a rulemaking process or further input from affected parties. The lawsuit was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas. The full text of the final rule can be found here. For more information, including a memo from ACHA/NCAL's legal consultant Jackson Lewis and other Department of Labor resources, see the AHCA/NCAL website under Workforce. Members will need their login information to access the memo and other resources. New research conducted by AHCA/NCAL found that nursing facilities with at least one RN certified in gerontological nursing by the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) are more likely to receive a higher star rating on the CMS Quality measure. The research found that 00 percent of nursing facilities received a 0-Star quality rating as compared to 00 percent nationwide. In addition, AHCA/NCAL research found that nursing facilities with at least one ANCC board certified nurse were twice as likely to receive an overall 0-Star rating from CMS and far less likely to receive an overall 0-Star rating. 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The Long-Term Care Statistics Branch at the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) released new products from the 0000 wave of the National Study of Long-Term Care Providers (NSLTCP). The new products include the Long-Term Care Providers and Services Users in the United States - State Estimates Supplement: National Study of Long-Term Care Providers, 0000-0000, which includes data on all five long term care sectors (residential care community which includes assisted living, nursing home, home health, adult day services center, and hospice). The report covers various characteristics including organization, staffing, services provided, practices such as screenings, and special care (e.g. dementia care). NCHS published information on the use of electronic health records and health information exchange among residential care communities and adult day services centers. Two new QuickStats were published using 0000 NSTLCP data, these new charts compare staffing hours across sectors and one comparing selected services provided across residential care communities and adult day services centers. LTC Trend Tracker has a new publication that will be sent directly to your email inbox. This quarterly report will highlight your facility's progress on Five Star performance, the quality initiative, and help you understand your survey rating and score breakdown. Check out the new user-friendly design and easy snapshot of data. The figures and colorful graphics are designed to help improve patient care with tailored tools that will allow your organization to easily monitor hospital readmission rates, staffing, patient dosage, length of stay, spending, and more. Also, check your competitive standing among other healthcare facilities with instant feedback on your organization's performance compared to your area. Join the webinar next Wednesday, October 0th at 0:00 PM Eastern Time to get a sneak preview on what Your Top Line will look like next month. Current, registered users of LTCTT will receive this quarterly report automatically. You won't even need to log in. It will be sent directly to the registered user's inbox. Are you registered for this web-based tool that is an exclusive benefit to AHCA/NCAL members? Get your account setup now and you won't miss out on these easy to view performance targets and results. Please email [email protected] to get started today. PBJ Requires Hours Worked and Paid! The deadline for nursing centers to gather and submit Payroll-Based Journal (PBJ) data for the first mandatory quarter is November 00, 0000. As you get ready, it's important to remember that the system requires the reporting of hours per day and per employee that are worked. It's also important to keep in mind that the employee must be paid for all of the hours reported. 0) Are facilities required to report hours paid or hours worked? 0) I know that only the hours paid for a salaried employee shall be submitted. Can you clarify if I can submit the hours for an extra shift that my salaried employee works, if I pay them a bonus for these additional hours? The hours may be reported under the following conditions: The payment must be directly correlated to the hours worked and must be distinguishable from other payments. (e.g., cannot be a performance-based or holiday bonus). Additionally, the bonus payment must be reasonable compensation for the services provided. 0) When considering reporting, realize that you can report fractions of time as follows. As always, consult the PBJ Policy Manual, FAQs, etc., for more information. Questions can always be sent to [email protected]. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has released a Volume 0 QAPI Brief which focuses on adverse events. It includes a list of potentially preventable adverse events and a medication related adverse events case study. The last Quality Assurance and Performance Improvement (QAPI) brief was issued in 0000. The next QAPI brief is expected to be on care and infection related adverse events. Reducing Unintended Health Care Outcomes is one of the goals of the AHCA Quality Initiative. Visit the AHCA Quality Initiative site to learn more and to review available resources. NCAL's Risk Management Work Group prepared a new resource for members to provide key considerations for assisted living communities when residents and their families hire private caregivers to provide supplemental services and support. The tool kit also includes links to sample documents, including a sample Private Caregiver Agreement and several state requirements for these caregivers. Personal caregivers (PCGs) - also called private duty personnel or private sitters - hired by assisted living resident's family can be important partners providing companionship and for the resident's plan of care. However, PCGs are not community employees, nor can or should they be supervised by the community management; consequently, communities must consider management and liability issues. The article covers topics such as the types of policies and procedures that AL communities should have in place, training, and managing expectations. Last Chance to Register for NCAL Day! Do not miss the opportunity to attend the 00th anniversary of NCAL Day. Advance registration for the event ends today. NCAL Day has traditionally been a must-attend event for assisted living providers and the 0000 event is sure to exceed expectations. Keynote speakers Dr. Manny Alvarez, Senior Managing Health Editor for Fox News and Jim Carroll, a futurist, trends and innovation expert, will share their thoughts and insider information on future trends and workforce challenges in the profession. Learn more about each NCAL Day education session below, and then register for Convention, making sure you add your ticket to NCAL Day as part of your package. Adding NCAL Day to your full meeting package only costs $000. For those only attending NCAL Day, members can purchase a ticket for $000, non-members for $000. This session will include an overview of the ASPE Compendium, which is a comprehensive review of assisted living regulations in each state including trends and changes. An overview of emerging trends including new payment models, the importance of data in working with other providers, and other changes in the industry. Measurement and quality improvement has lagged in assisted living. To address this shortcoming, an environmental scan was conducted to identify and evaluate evidence-based tools (measures and instruments) for quality improvement in assisted living and other health and long term care settings, with a priority focus on five domains: person-centered care, medication management, resident/patient quality outcomes, care coordination/transitions, and workforce. · Steve Schwartz, CEO, Wave Sensor, Inc. As assisted living and senior care continue to change and evolve, so do the needs surrounding technology both for providers and residents. During this session, attendees will hear from three leading companies in the technology space on what innovations and changes are on the horizon for assisted living and how providers can ensure their operations keep up with the demand and need to be cutting edge. There is a growing need to make more assisted living available as the country braces for the unprecedented number of seniors that will require housing with services in the next 00 years. This session will provide a blueprint for how develop and operate assisted living for all income levels, but especially those seniors with low to moderate incomes. On September 0, AHCA/NCAL and over 00 national organizations sent a letter of support to the House Committee on Education & the Workforce on the Recognize, Assist, Include, Support, and Engage (RAISE) Family Caregivers Act (S. 0000/H.R. 0000). Introduced by Senator Susan Collins (R-ME), Senator Tammy Baldwin (D-WI), Representative Gregg Harper (R-MS-0), and Representative Kathy Castor (D-FL-00), this legislation would implement the federal Commission on Long-Term Care's bipartisan recommendation that Congress require the development of a national strategy to support family caregivers. The bill would create an advisory body to bring together relevant federal agencies and others from the private and public sectors to advise and make recommendations. The strategy would identify specific actions that government, communities, providers, employers, and others can take to recognize and support family caregivers and be updated annually. Last December, the full U.S. Senate considered and passed this legislation. It now awaits House consideration. The letter urges the Committee to make this bill a priority, and to take prompt action on it this month. The "Future Leaders" conference starts today and over 00 new AHCA/NCAL advocates are in Washington D.C. to receive leadership training, learn about current skilled nursing legislative issues, and ultimately lobby their members of Congress at a critical time for post-acute care (PAC). The 00 advocates, all representing different states, will travel to Capitol Hill Thursday just as lawmakers are nearing the final negotiation on legislation that would fund the government past the end of the month. The continuing resolution to appropriate funding is the last piece of must-pass legislation on which members of Congress must act before they return to their home states to hit the campaign trail one last time. The fly-in comes at a critical time, as the Way & Means Committee is considering changes to the way in which post-acute care providers receive Medicare payments. The Medicare Post-Acute Care Value-Based Purchasing Act of 0000 (H.R. 0000), sponsored by the Committee Chairman, Rep. Kevin Brady, seeks to reward PAC providers based on performance and cost savings and move away from the current volume-centric system. AHCA/NCAL and several other PAC providers have denounced the legislation in its current form and have instead proposed a list of changes that need to be made to the bill in order for it to garner support. The changes focus on ensuring that providers are not receiving, on whole, a cut to Medicare rates and ensuring quality, not cost savings, is kept as the primary objective of the new program. The "Future Leader" advocates will speak to their members of Congress about these changes and urge them and their colleagues to take into account the concerns of AHCA/NCAL and the PAC community as this bill moves forward. Advocates will also urge lawmakers to support The Improving Access to Medicare Coverage Act of 0000 (S. 000/H.R. 0000), which removes the observation days barrier to patients seeking to receive a skilled care Medicare benefit after staying three days in a hospital. The Government Accountability Office (GAO) released a report on long-term care workforce, examining the available federal and state data about direct care workforce and actions the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) has taken to overcome data limitations. The National Center for Health Workforce Analysis, part of HRSA, is responsible for conducting projections of the supply and demand for the U.S. health workforce. HRSA reports the agency has not been able to develop projections of the supply of direct care workers due to the insufficient data. These projections are vital to enabling policymakers and stakeholders to address workforce challenges through policies and planning. The GAO had two recommendations in the report: 0) that HRSA work on producing projections of direct care workforce supply and demand and 0) that HRSA address the data limitations in order to produce the projections. The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) concurred with both recommendations. HRSA is currently developing demand projections for certain direct care workforce occupations. The US Department of Health, Office of Inspector General (OIG) has released a report, Medicaid Fraud Control Units FY 0000 Annual Report, that reports that Medicaid Fraud Control Units (MFCUs) reported 0,000 convictions. Seventy-one percent of these convictions involved fraud and 00 percent involved instances of abuse or neglect. For the same time period, units reported 000 civil settlements and judgments and $000 million in criminal and civil recoveries. Nearly 0/0 of those convictions involved personal care services attendants or other home care aides. Eleven percent of those convictions were of nurse aides. Another 00 percent of those convictions were of licensed nurses, physician assistants or nurse practitioners. Drug diversion cases accounted for 0 percent of those convictions. Convictions over the past 0 years have increased, while the number of civil settlements and amount of recoveries have decreased. Overall, recoveries from assisted living facilities was $000,000 for criminal allegations; and recoveries from nursing care centers was $0,000,000 for criminal allegations and $0,000,000 for civil allegations. The US Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Inspector General (OIG) has released its updated List of Excluded Individuals and Entities (LEIE) database file, which reflects all OIG exclusions and reinstatement actions up to, and including, those taken in August 0000. This new file is meant to replace the updated LEIE database file available for download last month. Individuals and entities that have been reinstated to the federal health care programs are not included in this file. The updated files are posted on OIG's website at http://www.oig.hhs.gov/exclusions/exclusions_list.asp, and healthcare providers have an "affirmative duty" to check to ensure that excluded individuals are not working in their facilities or face significant fines. Instructional videos explaining how to use the online database and the downloadable files are available at http://oig.hhs.gov/exclusions/download.asp. Given the penalties and recent government warnings, long term care providers should check the LEIE on a regular basis. AHCA/NCAL is once again a sponsor for the upcoming American Health Lawyers Association (AHLA) Long Term Care and the Law in San Diego, CA, in February 00-00, 0000. This program promises to be an exciting and informative meeting where some of the leading in-house and outside lawyers for the long term care industry will be presenting on legal, compliance, and operational issues faced by providers. AHLA offers CLE, CPE, NHA, and CCB credits for this program. AHCA and NCAL members also receive the AHLA member discounted rate of $000 - don't miss this excellent educational opportunity. A new survey from Kaiser Family Foundation (Kaiser) finds that more workers are opting for high deductible health plans (HDHPs) with 00 percent of workers electing such plans in 0000 as compared to 00 percent in 0000. High deductible plans are compatible with Health Savings Accounts (HSAs) or are tied to Health Reimbursement Arrangements (HRAs) and feature lower average health insurance premiums than other plan types. Kaiser's survey also found that annual family premiums rose an average three percent this year to $00,000. The modest increase is due in part to the growing popularity of HDHPs, according to Kaiser. In 0000, 00 percent of all workers were in such plans, up from 00 percent in 0000. In addition, the survey also revealed that the share of workers enrolled in Preferred Provider Organization (PPO) plans decreased to 00 percent in 0000 as compared to 00 percent in 0000. PPO plans typically have higher than average premiums. AHCA/NCAL members are saving money on their employee health benefit programs through AHCA/NCAL Insurance Solutions. One independent owner in Florida recently saved more than $0,000 annually per employee. To explore your health plan options (including HDHP and PPO plans) available through AHCA/NCAL Insurance Solutions, contact Dave Kyllo at 000-000-0000 or Nick Cianci at (000-000-0000) or email us at [email protected]. On September 00th, the National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine released a report on family caregiving entitled, Families Caring for an Aging America. According to the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, " At least 00.0 million individuals in the United States are providing care and support to an older parent, spouse, friend, or neighbor who needs help because of a limitation in their physical, mental, or cognitive functioning. The circumstances of individual caregivers are extremely varied. They may live with, nearby, or far away from the person receiving care. The care they provide may be episodic, daily, occasional, or of short or long duration. The caregiver may help with household tasks or self-care activities, such as getting in and out of bed, bathing, dressing, eating, or toileting, or may provide complex medical care tasks, such as managing medications and giving injections. The older adult may have dementia and require a caregiver's constant supervision. Or, the caregiver may be responsible for all of these activities. With support from 00 sponsors, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine convened an expert committee to examine what is known about the nation's family caregivers of older adults and to recommend policies to address their needs and help to minimize the barriers they encounter in acting on behalf of an older adult. The resulting report, Families Caring for an Aging America, provides an overview of the prevalence and nature of family caregiving of older adults as well as its personal impact on caregivers' health, economic security, and overall well-being. The report also examines the available evidence on the effectiveness of programs and interventions designed to support family caregivers. It concludes with recommendations for developing a national strategy to effectively engage and support them." The full report can be found here. New research conducted by AHCA/NCAL found that the off-label antipsychotic use in nursing facilities with at least one RN certified in gerontological nursing by the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) were an average three to four percent lower than the national average in each quarter calendar years 0000 through 0000. Reducing off-label antipsychotic use is one of the goals in the AHCA/NCAL Quality Initiative. Mr. Ciolek will be one of a few panelists speaking on the guidelines, and he will be providing the skilled nursing center perspective. If you are interested in attending this briefing, you can RSVP by October 0 to Cindy Salinas at [email protected]. Recently the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) revised an educational tool titled: Quick Reference Chart: Descriptors of G-codes and Modifiers for Therapy Functional Reporting. The Middle Class Tax Relief and Jobs Creation Act (MCTRJCA) of 0000 amended the Social Security Act to require a claims-based data collection system for Medicare Part B outpatient therapy services, including physical therapy (PT), occupational therapy (OT), and speech-language pathology (SLP) services. The system collects data on beneficiary function during the course of therapy services to better understand beneficiary conditions, outcomes, and expenditures. Beneficiary function information is reported using 00 nonpayable functional G-codes and seven severity/complexity modifiers on Part B therapy claims for PT, OT, and SLP services. SNF billers and therapists are encouraged to review the revised reference chart. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Supplemental Medical Review Contractor (SMRC) has recently announced that they have initiated a special medical review study of SNF Medicare Part A Therapy Services. Per the SMRC website, Project Y0P0000 - Skilled Nursing Facility (SNF) Therapy Services (00/00/00) was requested by CMS based upon the findings of a recent Office of Inspector General (OIG) report entitled Skilled Nursing Facility Billing for Changes in Therapy: Improvements are Needed, OEI-00-00-00000. In this study, the OIG evaluated how SNFs utilized three new Minimum Data Set (MDS) patient assessments that were implemented in FY 0000 and 0000 to better reflect the amount of therapy provided. The new assessments better capture when beneficiaries start therapy, end therapy, and decrease or increase therapy significantly enough to impact the Resource Utilization Group (RUG) payment case mix. In the report, published June 0000, the OIG suggested that some SNFs may be using the new assessments incorrectly, which could result in improper payments. Per the SMRC website, as directed by CMS, Strategic Health Solutions will conduct post payment medical review of the SNF Therapy services. The details of how many SNF providers will be reviewed was not provided. However, the SMRC did provide a link to an example Additional Documentation Letter for this study. Want to enhance organizational success? Want to prepare for the regulatory future? Want to have superior performance outcome? If you answered YES to any or all of the above be sure to submit your Intent to Apply (ITA) for a 0000 Quality Award by 0 pm EST November 00, 0000! The overall application fee is reduced up to $000 - a $000 savings for Bronze applicants, a $000 savings for Silver; and $000 savings for Gold. Weekly tips on writing a successful application from Quality Award staff after the Intent to Apply deadline till the application deadline. Applicants may apply for three progressive levels of awards: Bronze, Silver, or Gold, each of which requires a more detailed and comprehensive demonstration of systematic quality. Centers must receive an award at each level to progress to the next level. The AHCA/NCAL National Quality Award Program recognizes long term and post-acute care providers across the nation that strive for improved quality care. The program sets high standards for quality based on the Baldrige Performance Excellence criteria and encourages organizations to commit, achieve, and excel in quality performance. As always, feel free to reach out to Quality Award staff at [email protected]. New research conducted by AHCA/NCAL found that the rehospitalization rates in nursing facilities with at least one RN certified in gerontological nursing by the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) consistently have run at least two percentage points lower than the national average since 0000. Given the similarities of many aspects of geriatric nursing, it is likely that assisted living communities would also see a correlation between having a ANCC Board Certified RNs and reduced rehospitalization rates in their communities. Lower rehospitalization rates are critical to being competitive in today's health care marketplace that focuses heavily on value based purchasing and financially penalizes acute care settings with high rehospitalization rates. NCAL members are encouraged to check out AHCA/NCAL Gero Nurse Prep. Watch this video to learn more about AHCA/NCAL Gero Nurse Prep or click on the course preview to get a quick view of this engaging on-line curriculum designed to help RNs pass the ANCC exam. Join the LTC Trend Tracker Team for the Monthly Q&A Focused on Assisted Living! The LTC Trend Tracker team hosts monthly Q&A sessions. This is an opportunity to learn about changes coming to LTC Trend Tracker and ask any questions you may have about LTC Trend Tracker. For the September session the team will highlight the new assisted living measures coming to LTC Trend Tracker and other brand new features! The session will be on Thursday, September 00th 0pm - 0pm Eastern. Please register here prior to the webinar. Beginning last Sunday Sept. 00 and continuing through Saturday, Sept. 00, thousands of America's assisted living communities and their staff, residents, families, volunteers, and local members of their community will celebrate National Assisted Living Week® (NALW). The national observance - which begins each year on Grandparent's Day - honors the individuals served, as well as the individuals who serve, in assisted living and residential care communities across the nation with special activities and events. Sponsored by the National Center for Assisted Living (NCAL) since 0000, this year's NALW theme this year is "Keep Connected." The theme recognizes the increasing opportunity technology offers to enhance the care and overall experience in assisted living communities, as well as encouraging access to older adults interested in new technologies and the internet. "Keep Connected" also acknowledges the deep bonds staff and residents form, as caregivers nobly serve those living in assisted living communities. Assisted living caregivers and members of the public are encouraged to share their celebrations throughout the week on social media with the hashtag, #NALW. · In 0000, 0 percent of older adults used social media. In 0000, that percentage is 00 percent. · Older adults are among the least likely to have high-speed internet access. Just 00 percent have broadband at home. · The frequency of internet use among those who do have high-speed access is relatively close to the usage levels of younger users. · Among older adult internet users, 00 percent look for news online and 00 percent do so on a typical day. Nearly 00 percent send or read email and more than half exchange email messages on a typical day. · Currently, more than 000,000 individuals live in more than 00,000 assisted living or residential care communities across the United States. · The average assisted living community has 00 beds. · Assisted living companies and communities employ 000,000 individuals. · More than half (00 percent) of assisted living residents are 00 years old or older. · Nearly 00 percent of residents are living with some form of dementia, such as Alzheimer's disease, and more than 00 percent of assisted living communities offer dementia care units or exclusively serve adults with dementia. · A little more than 00 percent of residents rely on Medicaid for their daily care, and 00 percent of assisted living communities are Medicaid certified. Sources: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Services, National Center for Health Statistics and the Bureau of Labor Statistics. For more information on National Assisted Living Week, please visit www.nalw.org. The National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine released a report recommending that Medicare and Medicaid reform should engage caregivers in delivery processes. The study reviewed the prevalence of family caregiving for older adults and examined the evidence on the effectiveness of programs, supports, and other interventions designed to support family caregivers. The committee also recommended that state governments address the health, economic and social challenges of caregiving for older adults. The National Center for Assisted Living (NCAL) is applauding an effort by the co-chairs of the U.S. Senate Special Committee on Aging, Senators Susan Collins (R-ME) and Claire McCaskill (D-MO), to ensure access to assisted living communities for individuals who rely on Medicaid to cover their long term care services. The senators sent a letter to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, urging the agency to provide additional guidance regarding the implementation of a final rule defining home and community-based settings (HCBS) through the Medicaid waiver program. NCAL and its member assisted living providers collaborated with CMS and commented on the proposed rule before it was finalized in early 0000. Now, as state Medicaid programs prepare for implementation in 0000, NCAL and its state affiliates remain concerned that certain assisted living communities may be excluded from participating in the waiver program. With many assisted living residents unable to live on their own, this would only drive assisted living residents to more institutional settings, contrary to the intent of the HCBS rule. As a member of the Center for Excellence in Assisted Living, the association is working with the coalition to educate CMS about the needs and demands of assisted living residents. For more information about the HCBS final rule, please visit www.medicaid.gov/hcbs. The House Ways and Means Subcommittee on health held a hearing last week focusing on how the post-acute space could move more toward value-based payments (VBP). The hearing was held ahead of the introduction of changes to a bill from Ways and Means Chairman Kevin Brady (R-Texas) that seeks to create one value-based system for all post-acute payments. The bill proposes that five percent of Medicare payments to post-acute provided be withheld and redistributed based on a set of cost-savings and geographic criteria with a functional measure phased in after two years. The American Health Care Association is supportive of the move toward more value-based systems but is not supportive of the particular criteria laid out in this bill. AHCA hopes to work with the committee and Chairman Brady in order to make productive changes to the legislation. AHCA believes that any value-based system should take no more than two percent from providers, the rate set in both the current skilled nursing and hospital VBP systems. Skilled nursing facilities just began a value-based payment program tailored specifically for the setting based on rehospitalization measures. The program was passed as part of the Protecting Access to Medicare Act of 0000. On September 0, AHCA/NCAL submitted an 00 page comments document to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) in response to a proposed rule titled Medicare Program; Revisions to Payment Policies Under the Physician Fee Schedule and Other Revisions to Part B for CY 0000; Medicare Advantage Pricing Data Release; Medicare Advantage and Part D Medical Low Ratio Data Release; Medicare Advantage Provider Network Requirements; Expansion of Medicare Diabetes Prevention Program Model, July 00, 0000. The AHCA/NCAL comments focused on 0 specific subject areas within the proposed rule. CMS is proposing to replace the existing physical therapy (PT) and occupational therapy (OT) evaluation and re-evaluation codes with new and expanded evaluation Current Procedural Terminology (CPT-0) codes developed and adopted by the American Medical Association (AMA). The new codes would be effective January 0, 0000. AHCA supports the adoption of the new codes. While the new PT and OT initial evaluation codes would reflect three tiers of complexity, CMS is rejecting a recommendation to introduce tiered pricing, and proposes to pay one fixed price for initial PT and OT evaluations regardless of the complexity of the evaluation as reflected by the new codes. AHCA recommended that CMS reconsider their proposal and that PT and OT evaluation prices should be tiered to reflect the complexity of that service. AHCA also recommended that CMS work with stakeholders to provide adequate education before the new codes are implemented in 0000. CMS listed 00 CPT codes commonly used to bill for Part B therapy services that are subject to a statutory pricing review and solicited comments on how they should be revalued, if necessary. No specific code value changes were proposed at this time. AHCA commented that it supports efforts at determining proper payment rates, but noted that the historical process to develop values for therapy-related codes has not been transparent, and has requested more transparency. CMS noted that several procedure codes commonly used for Part B PT, OT, and speech-language pathology (SLP) services were requested to be included in the list of allowed telehealth services, but they rejected the request citing that the Medicare statute does not list PT, OT, and SLP professionals as individuals that can furnish telehealth services under Medicare. AHCA noted that several states permit PT, OT, and SLP services via telehealth and requested that CMS use its authority under the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation to conduct a demonstration of telehealth therapy services in states that permit this service delivery method. AHCA also recommended that CMS eliminate or soften the current SNF telehealth frequency limitations that prevent a patient's admitting physician from furnishing telehealth services more than once per month. CMS is proposing two policies that aim to protect beneficiaries in Track 0 MSSP ACO programs in rare cases where they were admitted to a SNF with fewer than three qualifying hospital days when they were not eligible for the 0-day waiver. In the first scenario, the beneficiary became ineligible for the waiver, but the ACO was not informed by CMS due to a government time lag. In this scenario, CMS proposes that neither the beneficiary, the ACO, or the SNF would be financially liable. AHCA supports the adoption of this proposal. In the second scenario, the ACO has the information to be aware that the beneficiary is not eligible for the 0-day stay waiver, but proceeds to transfer the patient to a SNF early by improperly applying the 0-day waiver. In this scenario, CMS proposes to waive the beneficiary liability, but would hold the ACO and the SNF financially liable for the SNF services that did not meet the hospital 0-day stay requirement. AHCA supports the beneficiary protections portion of this proposal, but opposes the proposal to hold the SNF financially liable because of information received in good faith from an ACO referring hospital, but which the SNF cannot independently verify. Under the proposed rule, CMS would release on an annual basis Medicare Advantage (MA) and Part D data that has historically considered to be proprietary and confidential. AHCA supports the proposal but encouraged CMS to publish more current data than is proposed. Under the proposed rule CMS would require providers and suppliers that contract with MA organizations (including first-tier, downstream, and related entities (FDR)) to also be enrolled as approved Medicare providers and suppliers through the Provider Enrollment, Chain, and Ownership System (PECOS) as is currently required for Medicare fee-for-service (FFS) payment. While AHCA supports the intent of the proposed requirement, there is some concern that the proposed language is unclear and could become overly burdensome to SNFs if misinterpreted. AHCA seeks clarification from CMS that employees or contracted service professionals or agencies of providers of service, including SNF, do not meet the definition of first-tier, downstream, and related entities (FDR) as described in the proposed rule. If you have questions regarding the AHCA/NCAL comments please contact Daniel E. Ciolek, Associate Vice President, Therapy Advocacy at [email protected]. On September 0, AHCA/NCAL submitted a 00 page comments document to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) contractor, the RAND Corporation, in response to a request for comments pertaining to a Data Element Specifications for Public Comment document prepared under the CMS Development and Maintenance of Post-Acute Care Cross-Setting Standardized Assessment Data project. The Improving Medicare Post-Acute Care Transformation Act of 0000 (IMPACT Act of 0000) requires that the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services implement submission of standardized data from post-acute care (PAC) providers using the assessment instruments that CMS currently requires for use by home health agencies (HHAs), inpatient rehabilitation facilities (IRFs), long-term acute care hospitals (LTCH), and skilled nursing facilities (SNFs). It requires the submission of standardized data on specified assessment domains and specified quality measurement domains. It specifies that the "data be standardized and interoperable so as to allow for the exchange of such data among such post-acute care providers and other providers and the use by such providers of such data that has been exchanged, including by using common standards and definitions in order to provide access to longitudinal information for such providers to facilitate coordinated care and improved Medicare beneficiary outcomes...." In the SNF, the Minimum Data Set (MDS.0.0) is the patient assessment instrument where these cross-setting data elements would be located. It is to be determined whether these elements would replace, or be added-to the existing MDS 0.0 data elements. 0) an array of 00 specific Special Services, Treatments, and Interventions. The AHCA/NCAL comments emphasized support for the objectives of the IMPACT Act, but that more work was needed on the development of the proposed standardized cross-setting data elements. Recommendations were offered to address general concerns that changes to existing MDS item definitions and/or reference lookback windows may 0) impact existing SNF Medicare and Medicaid case-mix payment models and quality measures, and 0) create significant additional SNF provider burden. The AHCA/NCAL comments related to the individual data elements were intended as stand-alone item-specific comments and were generally structured as follows: 0) summary of the proposed data element, 0) AHCA/NCAL's position on the cross-setting importance of the data element domain, 0) components of the proposed data element that AHCA/NCAL supports, 0) AHCA/NCAL's impression of the impact of the proposed data element on SNF MDS 0.0 reporting, 0) AHCA/NCAL's recommendation for next steps for the proposed data element before we can support it, and 0) AHCA/NCAL's rationale for the recommended next steps. Are you a 0000 Bronze Quality Award recipient? Or a previous Bronze Quality Award recipient? Are you looking to continue on your Quality Award journey but not sure how to get started? Look no further than the 0000 Silver Criteria Series. This ten-part webinar series is designed to help Silver applicants understand the criteria and apply it to their organization. The series includes an introduction of the program, explanation of the Silver evaluation process, followed by eight webinars covering each section of the Silver Criteria; from the Organizational Profile to Categories 0-0. Each webinar provides an explanation of the criteria and questions to help applicants consider how to respond for their unique organization. Before beginning the application process and viewing the Silver Criteria Series, you should review the 0000 Silver Application Packet, containing the important program information and instructions, as well as the Silver criteria. As always, Quality Award staff is here to help you with your question, just email us at [email protected]. And be sure to remember these important deadlines! September is National Preparedness Month. On September 00th the final rule, Emergency Preparedness Requirements for Medicare and Medicaid Participating Providers and Suppliers, will be posted in the Federal Register. This will impact our SNF and ID/DD members. It can currently be reviewed online. AHCA Staff are currently reviewing the rule and will provide a more detailed summary. It is encouraged that our members take this time to review their emergency preparedness policies and plans. Additionally, the AHCA/NCAL Emergency Preparedness Committee is working on three new resource guides that will be published on the AHCA/NCAL website later this Fall. The new resources will be a 000 Guide, table top exercises and resources for implementing the CMS Emergency Preparedness Checklist. Please visit our website at https://www.ahcancal.org/facility_operations/disaster_planning/Pages/default.aspx to assist with your emergency preparedness planning. The countdown is on. Only one week remains to register for the 00th AHCA/NCAL Annual Convention & Expo at the Advance Registration rate. Hurry, you must register before the September 00 deadline. After this date, on-site registration rates apply. If you missed the advance registration period, you may register on-site at the event in Nashville, Sunday, October 00. Registration will be open at 0:00 am. Thousands of your long term and post-acute colleagues from across the country, have already confirmed their spot. What are you waiting for? Get all the information you need online, Including speakers, education sessions, Expo Hall hours and exhibitors, along with the full schedule of networking opportunities and events. A significant shift we've experienced in our communities relates to discharge to community. Our role is to create seamless transitions that return residents safely home - a departure from our "long stay" roots. As a result, skilled nursing centers are responsible for assisting individuals in improving functional independence and adequately preparing individuals for discharge from the center. Assuring individuals and their families are able to manage care needs after discharge is critical to preventing rehospitalizations. On September 00 at 0 pm Eastern Time join AHCA SVP of Quality and Regulatory Affairs Dr. David Gifford and his team of experts offer valuable insights on how to provide high quality and seamless service related to discharge to community. To register for this live webcast, "Discharge to Community: Creating Seamless Transitions," click here. This webcast is part of an 0-part Quality Initiative Series designed to provide in-depth instruction and strategies to help AHCA/NCAL members effectively meet impending payment and regulatory changes. 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Subject: Warning: Not usable: GCC 0.0, Binutils 0.00? Next message: Alex Gitelman: "Extended charsets" Previous message: Alex Gitelman: "Re: How to build firmware (memcmp)" Next in thread: George Styles: "Re: Warning: Not usable: GCC 0.0, Binutils 0.00?" Reply: George Styles: "Re: Warning: Not usable: GCC 0.0, Binutils 0.00?" When I build ajbrec.ajz using it it would not load. Eventually, I build gcc 0.0.0 and binutils 0.00-0 and thing rocks now! would investigate the problem (I am not that familiar yet). May be it makes sense to post a warning on web site. | 2019-04-23T10:46:25Z | null | {
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My basket of misfit toys (aka NO-sock-yarn-esthetic). Simple Cabled Socks by Debi Hassler- a free pattern! In a heavy saucepan combine 0/0 cup of cocoa powder, 0/0 cup of sugar, 0/0 cup of hot water and a pinch of salt. Heat to a boil and cook for one minute. Stir in 0 cups of milk and bring to a boil once again. Add 0 teaspoon of vanilla and a sprinkle of cinnamon. Serve in festive cups or mugs, or you can place the hot chocolate in a crock pot on low to keep warm. Of course, add marshmallows to the top when serving! Enjoy! Shepherd's Status by Randy Alcorn. May God bless you and the ones you love. Merry Christmas! | 2019-04-25T03:57:42Z | null | {
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Sunday, March 00 and April 0, 0000 at 0pm - 0pm EUP (McComb Field House). EUP will be waiving their pool fee to all Quad participants and providing us with 0 lanes. We will have 0000 Quad Swim Champion - Dana Cerroni and her brother Dylan Cerroni (EUP varsity swim team) on deck for tips, stroke analysis and more! Take advantage of this great opportunity to learn from the best! Take advantage of their experienced instructors to help you, learn to swim, gain speed or build endurance. March 00 - April 00. Every Saturday morning at the Glennwood YMCA Pool, join Lynn Fallon to help you improve your swimming: learn to swim, gain speed or build endurance! Kelly Latimer of the YMCA of Greater Erie • [email protected]. | 2019-04-26T08:14:28Z | null | {
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The Federal Trade Commission and Fordham Law School will co-sponsor a panel discussion on September 00, 0000, on the recently revised Horizontal Merger Guidelines and their role in promoting closer consensus among international antitrust authorities regarding how they assess mergers among competitors. Panelists will include the Director of the FTC's Bureau of Economics, Dr. Joseph Farrell, and other leading antitrust lawyers and economists. The public is invited, and registration is not required. Catherine Moscatelli, Chief of the Mergers II Division in the FTC's Bureau of Competition. Alden Abbott, a deputy director in the FTC's Office of International Affairs, will moderate. The revised Horizontal Merger Guidelines were released on August 00, 0000 and are available at http://www.ftc.gov/os/0000/00/000000hmg.pdf. Questions about this panel should be directed to Alden Abbott in the FTC's Office of International Affairs at 000-000-0000 or Elizabeth Callison in the FTC's Bureau of Economics at 000-000-0000. Copies of the documents mentioned in this release are available from the FTC's website at http://www.ftc.gov and from the FTC's Consumer Response Center, Room 000, 000 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W., Washington, DC 00000. Call toll-free: 0-000-FTC-HELP. | 2019-04-24T22:12:09Z | null | {
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As readers will by now have realised the slight lull in blog-writing recently has been due to a visit to my family and my homeland. This was my first mid-winter visit for many years and the first time for even longer that I have seen the flatness of Norfolk covered with an icing sugar topping of snow. England was different in other ways too: this will be the topic of my next posting, with both the best of British and the worst. I spent my last evening on British soil tucked up in bed in a cold, three-hundred-year-old house, with two hot-water bottles and a pile of books. Not just any old books, these were something special, old sketch books that I had dug out of a damp corner, dating back as far as 0000 when I first began to keep a book and a pencil in my pocket. I was at art school from 0000 -0000 , four whole years drawing and painting all day, every day. What bliss. Never again to be repeated. I enjoyed every single minute of it. I even put up with having to do the very small dissertation and the half-a-dozen essays necessary to receive an honours bachelor's degree. I spent all these precious years learning to draw, investigating techniques that today come so naturally to me. My friend Nick (see my "Oscar" acceptance speech posting) taught me to draw, although he will insist that he just drew it out of me. He tells me that because the interest and talent were there to be encouraged, the rest was easy. I continue learning to this day but these old sketch books are full of evidence of how I spent every minute of every day doing my first-ever investigations into light and shade, tone and texture. Even when I was out picking blackberries with friends, or travelling around Norfolk in the car with my Mum, I always had a sketch-book and I now realise that I wrote notes to describe everything that I saw, the colours, the textures and even my emotional reactions to a scene. I wrote notes describing my ideas and design developments, and even then I was writing about my soul. I described how I was expressing myself through pictures in a way that I found difficult to do with the spoken word. A lucky discovery! I now have enough photographs from these "Susie Mallett archives" to fill my blog for several years and I can share some of my surprise discoveries. I painted from nature, landscapes and sometimes townscapes, I loved to draw trees, I suppose I can say that I was and still am fascinated by them, passionate about them. Their spiralling trunks and branches, their bark patterns and their overpowering greatness were a never-ending source of inspiration and awe. I wrote my dissertation on the wind something else that fascinates me, with a power even greater than that of a tree, able to fell a tree in the blink of an eye. All of this I read about in these "ancient" sketch books. The writings I have no recollection of, and I read the words as if someone else had written them. The painting and drawings that accompany these I remember as if I had done them yesterday, every stroke of the brush and every mark made by a pencil. As I was drafting this posting on the bus on my way to the airport I looked out of the window at the passing landscape and made a few marks in my note book. I began to think about how I look at things, about how I described this in my sketch books all those years ago, and how I do it automatically these days. I contemplated how I make quick observations just as I do in my conductive work, and how I can translate these into pencil marks and perhaps have enough stored information to elaborate on it later. I still look at landscapes as I did then, like a sheet of music, the receding lines of the fields being the staves and the black trunks of the trees with their dark clumps of leaves and needles, the notes dotted on them. The landscape or a townscape is music in my ears inspiring me to put pencil or paint to paper. I have carried a book and a pencil in my pocket since 0000. Once this would have been full of pictures, with a few words, but for over a year now, since just before I started my blog in fact, this has changed, there are now more words than pictures. It was so interesting to see where my ideas and interest in shape, form and colour began and follow its progress through the years through these sketch books, right up to the present day. As I finished writing this in the plane (Air Berlin), out of the corner of my eye I could see Mr Bean on the television screen. Mr Bean is one of Britain's "greatest" exports to Germany. He is on a German television channel somewhere all the time, the Germans just love him. On this clip as I write he is in an art room, what a coincidence, and he is learning to draw! "British humour", the Germans love it, they import a lot of it, especially anything with Rowan Atkinson in it. The children I work with often comment on my Mr Bean Englishness when I ask them to put their socks in their shoes so that we don't get them mixed up. Apparently only I and Mr Bean do this! As long as this is the only similarity that I share with him I don't mind, I wouldn't like to think that I run around with my head stuffed inside a turkey! | 2019-04-23T18:10:18Z | null | {
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My very first passion in life was dance. I was 0 when I asked for it, so Mom got me into ballet. I fell in love with English when I was 00. Homework felt like candy, a game. I couldn't wait to get home and play with it! As a teenager, I loved to think, analyze and write so when time came to choose in high school, I chose languages and philosophy. 0 hours a week of pondering, questioning, opening my mind and imagining. I was exploring new worlds, a mind traveler. So there you have it; my three muses: Dance, English and Philosophy. When I had a burn out dance kept me going. It was one of the rare things I was still interested in. My brain felt like it was fried so when all else failed, dance was there and was fun and provided me with a whole world of magic and movement, including the limitations that came with it; those limitations that actually showed the way to how to listen to the subtle cues of my body to get back to health. I had to first let go and stop fighting my body (had back problems on and off for 00 years), listen to what it was guiding me to do. I eventually found my way back to well-being, back to a more authentic me. I taught English, became a translator and even taught tap dancing for a while. Passions one and two: check, check. Personal development as such became a part of my life in my twenties once my aunt introduced me to Shirley MacLaine's books. An extension of my exploration of philosophy, it was intriguing, exciting and fun. I never really stopped after that, read all kinds of books, listened to CDs, DVDs, MP0s, webinars and podcasts (keeping up with technology:) and shared with friends who were also interested in that kind of material. I loved to spend afternoons just sharing nuggets of eureka moments we had had over tea, coffee, fruits, cookies and chips. It fed me more than the food itself and I always felt wonderful, changed. I wanted more of that so one day I entered keywords in my computer and found the Law of Attraction Montreal Meetup on the first try. Yes, my keywords were Law of Attraction Montreal. I couldn't miss it. One meeting and I was hooked! I had found my people as Camila says in her Year Beyond Fear Challenge no. 00. It could take me 0 hours to eat a cupcake when usually it's gone within minutes. I didn't need food. My body, mind, spirit, soul, all of them were getting exactly what they needed and it was absolutely delicious, thrilling, empowering. I"m still going and I'm learning so much, growing so much. I'm truly, truly grateful. A little over a year after joining that group and participating every time I felt inspired by a topic, I found myself one day very frustrated over still not having found the perfect career. You know the kind of job that doesn't feel like one; the one that runs on excitement, fun and joy and is so in tune with who you are that it's like you're flying, soaring even and everything is just more colourful, tastes better, feels better. I know, a little too perfect in my imagination but you get the idea. I remember that one evening a friend was offering me a job and I was in tears over not wanting to go backwards, fighting the urge to take it for the sake of financial security....the next, I was pulling out my meditation papers out to try to figure things out and within hours, it would lead to quite a revelation. For me, emotions lead the way to solutions. One minute I was crying and in despair, the next, everything made sense. What a rush! I have pieces of paper with words that make me feel good written on them. Originally, when there was an ad on TV, I would put it on mute, pick a paper at random and place it over my heart and feel it as intensely as possible. Visualize, imagine the smell, the context, a whole story, whatever it took to feel that word in the present and anchor it in my body. So that day, I decided to choose the words that illustrated how I wanted to feel in a job. I turned them around and elaborated more on the feeling for each of them within the context of the ideal job for me. If I couldn't name or imagine it, I could at least figure out how I wanted to feel. A friend of mine helped me put the pieces together - literally. Her enthusiasm and passion for her job, not to mention life in general is quite an inspiration. She's the one who first put the puzzle together. I showed her what I had done with the pieces of paper and she said "Life Coach." The fog lifted from my brain and then I could see it too! Things became clearer by the minute. That night, I got in the metro to go home and really tried "it" on as I would try a piece of clothing. It was a revelation. I could see the metro moving with me inside but I could also see myself in space with all kinds of lights around me all converging toward one point and I too, was going toward that point. Just like in sci-fi movies. Once I got there, everything stopped and all was well and where it was supposed to be. I had found my place in this world; I had found how I fit in. Everything made sense. It was the most amazing feeling. Momentum, peace, empowerment and a wonderful sense of belonging. It changed how I show up in life now. If ever there was a moment that felt magical and exhilarating, that was the one. This entry was tagged accelerating, belonging, dance, english, inspiration, law of attraction, life coach, magic, meditation, passion, philosophy, revelation, shirley maclaine. Bookmark the permalink. | 2019-04-19T23:19:22Z | null | {
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Why do airlines invest so much in creative inflight safety videos? As more airlines couple a life-saving tool with a creative brand strategy, The Drum asks: what's the pay-off? Turkish Airlines' tie-up with The Lego Movie franchise has resulted in an onboard safety demonstration video made from 0,000,000 Lego bricks. This was painstakingly arranged over the course of 000 days. The five-minute video, presented to passengers on all of the airline's flights, heavily features the movie's self-deprecating humour through thick and fast quippery. It leaves the viewer chuckling at a narcissistic Batman figurine in lieu of contemplating a potential plummet to earth. Turkish Airlines' inflight video is the Hollywood version of a trending strategy - produce a safety film that's memorable, and often amusing. British Airways made no bones of this tactic when it announced a partnership with Comic Relief in 0000, resulting in a spot filled to the brim with iconic British comedians playing it funny. This year's version, created by Ogilvy instead of BBH, reproduced the formula with added Michael Caine. The veteran in this space, however, is Air New Zealand. Its 0000 film entitled ‘Bare Essentials' featured cabin and ground crew demonstrating an aircraft's safety covered in body paint - and nothing else. Since then its beautifully shot, distinctive releases have garnered as much attention on land as they have in the sky due to online distribution. Air New Zealand's success in the safety video space has proven that a once boring, mandatory production - that historically would only have been seen by an existing customer base - can be turned into a crucial piece of marketing collateral. "The key objective when we set out to make our safety videos is to engage customers with important safety messages," said Emma Field, brand communications manager for UK and Europe for the brand. "However, we also see these videos as a wonderful marketing tool for both Air New Zealand and New Zealand. For Turkish Airlines, a brand that has begun to compete with the likes of Delta, Emirates and American Airlines on fleet size and destinations, its tie-in with Lego was brokered to bolster its global credentials. "Turkish Airlines aims to keep with the trends, and to collaborate with celebrities and content creators that help us distinguish our content from the other," said Seda Kalyoncu, senior vice president for corporate communications at the company. "As the airline that flies to more countries than any other, collaborating with global brands such as Warner Bros and Lego also contributes positively to our brand image and strengthens our position and prestige as one of the leading global airline brands." But not every brand has been successful at treading the fine line between conveying life-saving information, capturing the imaginations of both its audience and potential customer base and staying true to its brand identity. Shashank Nigam, the author of airline marketing book Soar and chief executive of airline marketing strategist Simpliflying, believes the airlines that miss the mark often forget the latter point, which leads to creative overshooting. "[Airlines] can go overboard with the humour, or completely follow a competitor and go way too far away from their own brand," he said, adding that the most successful films find the sweet spot between the enjoyable and the annoying over the course of time. Passenger fatigue was the reason behind Virgin Atlantic's 'Trip', a film that may not be as hilarious as its competitors' offerings but rewards multiple viewings. "Ultimately, rather than aiming for a blockbuster that might entertain on first viewing, we wanted a ‘cult safety video' with subtleties and layers that manage to capture attention on first viewing, while continuing to be appreciated with time," said Leon Trigg, production manager of Virgin Atlantic. Conversely, Nigam believes Delta Airlines' 0000 ‘Meme Airlines' spot didn't work because of its crudeness: the incessant references to obscure internet culture would likely have rattled an older business traveller than endeared them to the brand. He added that Taiwanese carrier Eva Air also missed the mark with its expressionist dance because it "distracted from the safety instructions, rather than emphasising them". This is a pitfall that the modern airline safety video can stumble into: make the film too creative or funny and the message - which is, fundamentally, how to stay alive - gets lost. It's a risk that Air New Zealand negates by integrating its safety team into the production process; it invites an expert on set to ensure the messages are communicated correctly and clearly in line with regulatory requirements. She added that all customers have access to an onboard safety briefing card in addition to the film, and customers travelling within on domestic turbo-prop aircraft receive a manual safety briefing in lieu of the video. Similarly, Turkish Airlines stated its production team works "intensively and meticulously" with its technical management and quality assurance management departments. In the case of the Lego film, these teams monitored, controlled and audited the visibility of the safety regulations at each step of the animation process. Recent incidents of passengers misusing oxygen masks on-board a Southwest flight and shambolically using the emergency exit slide of a Ryanair craft have called into question how much attention flyers are really paying to in-flight instructions. But ultimately, until a fatal incident is systematically proven to be the fault of a creative yet confusing safety video, it's unlikely airlines will pass over the off-air branding opportunity the media presents. | 2019-04-21T14:27:58Z | null | {
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For decades, aid groups have assumed they know what's best for refugees and the poor; a growing body of evidence suggests they're wrong. Both academic research and practical experience, such as with the mass of Syrians fleeing civil war, shows that simply handing out traditional relief goods may not be the most effective way of helping the dispossessed. Aid agencies are tentatively also giving away cash and letting refugees decide for themselves what they need. While the results may be unexpected, the money is being wisely spent and rarely wasted - contrary to old prejudices among donors. Lebanon, where one in four residents is a refugee, has offered a lesson that trusting the needy pays off. Instead of directly supplying blankets and heaters, aid organisations gave cash to thousands of Syrian refugees living in the country's mountains this year in the hope they would spend it on blankets and heaters for the winter. They didn't. But the money wasn't squandered either. The refugees, among the millions who have escaped the Syrian war, had a better sense than the agencies helping them of what they needed most: they spent the money on food and water. In the first rigorous evaluation of cash aid to refugees, the International Rescue Committee (IRC) found in Lebanon that the money was not spent in any significant amounts on drugs and cigarettes. Neither did it fund an increase in crime or corruption, which donors had feared would accompany cash aid, or discourage people from working. Faced with such evidence, some humanitarian organisations are considering a change of tactics. But persuading private and government donors to trust the people they want to help, coupled with the inertia of aid groups themselves which have for decades decided what people need, has slowed cash aid programmes. "There is a tension between people knowing what their own needs are, and the humanitarian sector not being structured in a way that allows people to make their own choices," said IRC official Radha Rajkotia. Daniel Masterson, a Yale University academic who conducted the research for IRC, said people who got money from the United Nations and other aid groups were also less likely to do dangerous work, send their children to work, or sell assets such sewing machines which could be used for earning an income. "Cash recipients also less frequently relied on lower quality foods, skipping meals, or having smaller portions of food," Masterson said. "There was even an increase in school attendance" Yet monthly cash payments still account for only three percent of U.N. aid in Lebanon, which has the highest concentration of refugees in the world as a proportion of its population. Worldwide, the bulk of aid is delivered in the form of materials chosen by relief workers, such as tents and blankets. Humanitarian organisations also worry that donors are less likely to fund cash programmes than more traditional aid, where they know exactly what people receive. "Existing organisations operate with a specific mandate. Cash aid cannot be contained," said Masterson. IRC's findings in Lebanon are supported by research in Africa and South America. One study found that when $000 was given to drug addicts and petty criminals in the slums of Liberia, they spent it on simple necessities or starting their own legitimate businesses. Cash aid has another advantage: it's cheaper. Traditional humanitarian work involves huge costs. Items must be procured, transported and handed out, often for long periods. Large staffs are required and people's needs must be regularly reassessed. By contrast, there are no high transport fees for cash, says Ninette Kelley, representative of the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees in Lebanon, and agencies can also cut down on storage and distribution costs. Kelley said that when the U.N. started using cash assistance in 0000, the Lebanese government was worried that Syrian refugees could be better off than poor local people. Of Syria's 0.0 million refugees, more than a million are in Lebanon. The Beirut government has said it cannot cope with so many and has cut back sharply on numbers allowed into the country. Resentment is also growing among local people who complain that refugees are taking jobs, driving down wages and overloading schools and hospitals. "We wanted to make sure we were doing no harm through our cash programme (and) that it was also providing a benefit to the local Lebanese community, which in fact it does," Kelley said. The IRC research found that the refugees spent their cash in the Lebanese communities where they lived. "Another positive impact, you are injecting cash into the economy. You are increasing GDP," said Masterson. According to his research, the aid did not increase Lebanese inflation and each dollar of assistance translated into a $0.00 increase in gross domestic product because of extra spending. "We don't need to be scared anymore of cash," he said. | 2019-04-23T07:56:57Z | null | {
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When Jane emailed and said it was time to book a streamer trip, I was up for it and knew she was as well. Jane has been fishing with us for several years and loves to get outside. The weather, over the previous weeks, had been less than perfect. But, today it was as good as any day we could remember in January. Sunny and not a cloud anywhere. No overcast with a slight breeze and warm enough for shorts during the warmest part of the day. Another reason it was an exciting day is because Jane loves to streamer fish and has accuracy to hit spots as good as anyone who has stepped up to the casting brace. The day was shaping up to be a good as we pushed the boat off the trailer. A short time later we were dodging flying metal, from other boats and bank fishermen, in the discharge. We fooled around with the skip jack for a while, but Jane's eyes were on the rocks and the fast water along the bank. This meant it was my job to hold the boat in the discharge while she banged the streamer off the bank, then retrieve the fly and five feet later we d it again. Add wakes from power boats, tying flies without losing good water and keeping an eye out for flying metal, we were both pretty busy. This went on for a time. The browns came out to play again on this trip and attacked a Zoo Cougar with the intent to kill it. The fight was on with Jane winning the battle, while becoming comfortable with the new TFO-BVK from Cumberland Transit and Airflow sinking line. Throwing the full sinking line is something that takes a little getting used-to. But, once the angler figures out how to let the rod work with the line and not try to over-power the combo, life gets better. We fished the banks pretty hard behind some other boats. When the fish started hitting the top, we switched over to top water and fished some real big top water flies on a floating line. It did not take long for Jane to hook up with another brown. The thing that the seemed to be the ticket was letting the fly begin to sink and then put just a little tension in the floating line. The brook trout are showing up on most trips lately. They are still gaining their river color and by Fall, if everything goes well, we should see some brook trout with some of their well known vibrant colors. The brookies can make a trip some days. The one in the picture above was just under 00" and just couldn't resist a shad pattern I had worked up the evening before the trip. We met some very nice folks on the river, including a couple land owners who were out enjoying the day too. The beavers have been working hard over the Winter and so have the other animals who call he riverbank home. We are running a special of an all day trip at half day prices. The days are still short and we don't stop for lunch, we keep on throwing the big stuff so just bring a sandwich and go for it. Ice and snow met Steve, Mark and myself on our trip to the river. We launched on partly cloudy skies and a whopping 00 degrees. Hoping the weather guessers were correct we kept an eye toward the sky for breaks in the clouds. The sun was peaking before we hooked up with the first Tennessee Tarpon. The US Army Corps was running two generators when we got on the water and turned them back to one shortly after. They also changed the generator as well, so the favorite boat position didn't work as well and we began a search for just the right spot. It didn't take long before Steve and Mark were into the fish and the action got pretty darn good. TN Tarpon are a lot of fun to chase. Since we support catch and release these fish are a great way to warm up the casting shoulder, before moving onto the main course of the river. These fish have some high flying acrobatics that are at times just short of spectacular. They make blistering runs and it is easy to tell one of them has been fooled by your offering when the headshakes are seen in the rod tip. We could have spent more time fishing for these fish,but it was time to move on for the browns and rainbows. The browns are making a comeback in the river. With plenty of food to chase they were more active on this trip than any trip this year. We tried a few different colors and several patterns throughout the day. We tried to keep the fish looking and sometimes just experimenting with different flies. The key is to be persistent and continue throwing the flies at every chance. I expect to catch a fish on every cast, not that it happens on every cast, but it does keep me ready when they the fish do turn on. Gary, Dan and I set out for a fly fishing float on the Caney Fork. After the last Caney Fork float I was very optimistic with thoughts of big fish on big flies. The first stop was for skip jack (TN Tarpon) and we made the early row for just the right spot. We stopped the drift boat and got it in the right position. Gary and Dan went for the fish, but they were not responding to last week's hot fly. Dan began searching for the right pattern and he struck first. Soon we were on skip jack that were hitting every cast. I got in on some of the action as we all swapped out and finally got tired of catching. Another "trick" is the retrieve. These fish short strike a lot, but if you just keep stripping the fly and don't try to set the hook with the rod, they will give you three sometimes four strikes per retrieve and sooner or later they are hooked. We boated brookies, rainbows and skip jack. But, it was getting late in the day and the big browns were still not showing. We fished the middle of the river through several different stretches and picked up some fish. The other species were hanging there, but those browns weren't this time. Finally we tried a bank that we haven't fish, from my boat, in several years. Who knows why we haven't fished the bank? Dan was behind the oars as Gary and tried for that elusive brown trout. After what seemed like several thousand casts and a handful of ibuprofen that brown was on the streamer. The slam was complete. The rainbows don't seem to be growing in length, but they are getting fatter. Right now they are searching for protein and can't seem to pass up a dying bait fish or a sculpin. They will keep searching until Spring when the bugs become their primary food again. The sun started going down and the temps began falling with it. Streamers were the choice of the day and at times the action was fast and furious. Sometimes that action was followed by long, slow periods of discussion and shoulder crushing long distance casts. Streamers can make for a tough and rewarding day. Tough because the action can be slow and rewarding because the strikes usually come from more aggressive fish that want to kill the offering. Now is the time to get there and do it...go for the more aggressive fish in the river. Christmas and New Years are now in the books. It was a good time at our house and hopefully it was a good time at yours as well. During the off moments, I tied flies and experimented with new patterns. Some patterns I even tied and put in the boat. David and I hit the river below Center Hill Dam and immediately the bite was on. We got into some skip jack and browns early on and with streamer rods in hand we made our way down the Caney Fork River. David was in the casting brace and boated the first fish of 0000. The crappie was not only his first fish of the yea and the first fish in the boat for 0000, it was David's first crappie on the fly. The day was shaping up to get interesting. We finally moved on from the honey hole and began pounding the banks. The skip jack were running on the river and although we did not have the preferred colors of pink & white, we did have half the combo and cleaned up with the streamers of choice. The skip jack were fun and we could have probably stayed with them all day, however we were on the hunt for trout and off we went. The water was reasonably clear, especially considering the lake level. The river had a green tint, which is normal....whatever normal is, for this time of year. The flies did not have to land in front of the fish's eyes and they would come off the bottom to eat. This was a good thing because the flies would get to the fish before they could be spooked by the boat as it approached. When an articulated fly travels through the water and the angler stops, the fly will normally break down in the middle. If the head of the fly is made with something buoyant, like this Bank Maggot is made, the head will travel up toward the surface and the rear (without buoyancy) will break and fall. This action is not natural and many times the fish will break away from the fly. One way to assist is by tying in additional material and another is shorter-faster strips. We got off the river just in time. Because, yesterday the Army Corps dumped water from Great Falls and open up the generators at Center Hill. Our day was done, but not before we learned more about streamers. If you would like to learn more about fishing the marabou and bucktail, let me know. I am considering a streamer class to teach some of the basics and a few of the fundamentals of a great way to spend time on the river. I made a last minute, last trip of the year run down to the Elk with some friends. I wanted to try out a new underwater camera and catch a few fish along the way. The things I learned from this trip were many. I tried a few different flies, some worked and some are now in the trash, because I didn't like them when I tied them... confidence in the fly goes a long way. 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Create a gorgeous floral cake centrepiece perfect for any occasion. Materials included in the cost, just bring scissors, secateurs, floral knife and your own cake plate to carry your creation home. Come prepared to have loads of fun. | 2019-04-26T16:19:38Z | null | {
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This Shawl has been made using alpaca wool yarn. Measurements 00" Long x 00" Wide (Before fringe) Regular One Size. It is very soft and won't itch.It can be used like a scarf, wrap or shawl. | 2019-04-24T10:23:52Z | null | {
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The original PINDA 0 is proximity sensor and has been designed to operate at 0V input voltages. A thermitor is embedded inside the new P.I.N.D.A. 0 probe to compensate for temperature drift. So the first layer will always be spot on. You can connect directly in the most 0D printer boards like Ramps 0.0, UltiMachine RAMBo, Mini RAMBo, Einsy. | 2019-04-20T15:22:48Z | null | {
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Unlike most of our Homeschooling Heroes' posts, note that Joyce Reed was not herself homeschooled, instead, she has successfully homeschooled her five children. Working as an experienced educator for decades, she served as a role model for her children who spent most of their time learning at home. Yes, Joyce taught her children at home until they entered their favored universities or colleges. People frequently asked her about the difficulties of homeschooling five children at once but she always considered it as her goal and mentioned homeschooling as plain fun. She describes that the period when her youngsters were learning at home was the most satisfying, enjoyable, and joyous moments of her life. Her children joined highly selective and competitive institutes and followed their desired goals and interests. In fact, Joyce claims that she has learned so much from her children and their success derives her more to work at College Goals. After homeschooling five her children and having them admitted to colleges and universities, Joyce intended to aid others too. Thereby, she left Brown University as Associate Dean of the College and opened a private consulting practice known as College Goals. College Goals helps, supports, and motivates young adults and teens to peruse their dreams and get past their goals within no time. Most students suffer a lot throughout their higher education experience. The organization assists students from all kinds of educational backgrounds in pressuring higher education opportunities in the US and UK. Helps them personally and academically through their college years. Supports high school students in devising the optimal subjects and search for reliable educational institutions in the UK and USA. Guides pupils through goal-setting, self-evaluation, decision making, and problem-solving skills during college years. Enhances the student's self-assurance and maturity levels to help them stand out. Joyce also co-authored a book with David H. Albert aptly named "What Really Matters" about the joys of homeschooling! What Joyce is Doing Now? Currently, Joyce is focusing on academic advising of high school students and providing high-end admission experience to clients from America and England. She intends to support students get through the hidden truths of the higher education system and support them in pursuing their perspective goals. | 2019-04-22T13:15:44Z | null | {
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James is the SEO expert in Malaysia since year 0000. He has helped hundreds of website rank on first page in Google, and he was the person work-behind-scene for some local well-known SEO companies, including Webnic, one of the local famous domain registrar company. James and his strategic partners and affiliates occupy more than 00% market share in Malaysia SEO. | 2019-04-20T16:10:20Z | null | {
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The UK Government should abandon plans to impose a £0.0bn of further cuts in 0000-00 and strengthen arrangements for consulting the devolved administrations in advance of future Budgets. The finance ministers of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland have issued a joint letter to the Chief Secretary to the Treasury about key finance issues ahead of the March UK Budget. In the letter, the ministers also called for the UK Government to announce the Budget earlier in the Autumn, to allow greater time for devolved administrations to consider the impact on their Budgets well in advance of the start of the financial year and sought a commitment that no further reductions will be made to devolved budgets, which are already facing real terms cuts. "It is clear that the Scottish and UK economies are facing challenging economic circumstances. There is a greater need than ever for the UK Government to engage meaningfully with the devolved administrations on the emerging economic and financial implications of the Brexit vote. The Prime Minister's speech this week confirming the UK Government's intention to leave the European single market and the Customs Union are a cause for significant concern, given the risks this presents to our economy. "We also remain very concerned about the potential impact of the further cuts to public spending that the UK Government intends to make in 0000-00. We seek reassurances that they will not pass on further austerity and make additional reductions to devolved budgets which are already experiencing real terms cuts. Welsh Government's Finance Secretary Mark Drakeford said: "The UK Government's continued approach to austerity and the uncertainties following the EU referendum result mean we are facing unprecedented economic challenges and pressures on our Budgets. That is why it is so important that the UK Government engages and consults early with the Devolved Administrations around the key finance issues we are facing. | 2019-04-20T07:10:43Z | null | {
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phealy started a topic Avoiding copy/paste in stored procedures? Avoiding copy/paste in stored procedures? Any suggestions to avoid copying SQLStmt's and helper methods into every stored procedure which needs to use them? | 2019-04-19T05:17:49Z | null | {
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Cook the noodles, drain well, then toss with a drizzle sesame oil. Finely slice the cucumber, cut the carrot into matchsticks and deseed and slice the red chili. Add to the noodles with the toasted sesame seeds and some shredded cooked chicken, if you have it. Pack with a small portion of soy free seasoning sauce. | 2019-04-23T16:24:37Z | null | {
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McMillan, Nicola (0000) Self assembly of hybrid nanostructures encompassing inorganic, organic and biological applications. MSc(R) thesis, University of Glasgow. The work presented in this thesis will highlight the modification of inorganic and biological materials with organic tethers; the subsequent characterisation of these compounds and the surface studies used to investigate them further. On moving from materials science to cell biology, a variety of techniques are used to demonstrate the chemical modifications and the role the surface has to play in not only visualising the effect of the modification but the surface itself mediating reactions. Described within is the further investigation of Mn Anderson based polyoxometalate clusters .This report documents the grafting of C-00, C-00 alkyl chains and pyrene to hydrophilic Mn Anderson clusters. Solid state studies using scanning electron microscopy and transmission electron microscopy demonstrates the effect of cation exchange from tetrabutyl ammonium (TBA) to dimethyldioctadecyl ammonium (DMDOA) resulting in new POM assemblies. For the C-00 and to some extent the C-00 grafted clusters, uniform, highly ordered assemblies are reported in contrast to the "sea urchin" like structures observed on cation and solvent exchange. The generation of surfactant encapsulated clusters in conjunction with surface grafted clusters has been achieved. For the first time these organically tethered POM‟s have been patterned successfully onto self assembled monolayers (SAMs) using microcontact printing. In addition to this, studies involving human fibroblast cells (hTERT-BJI) are reported. Cells have been found to attach and spread on monolayers terminated in pyrene terminated POM. It has been observed that POMs play a crucial role in the adhesion of cells to surfaces. Further the investigation of polyoxometalates herein the development of molybdenum (VI) oxide polyoxometalate cluster, β-[Mo00O00(SO0)0]0-, that canundergo a reversible conversion between two electronic states, upon thermal activation is described. Experiments have uncovered the fact that the two embedded redox agents can be thermally activated and ejected from the sulfite anions and delocalised over the metal oxide cluster. The role of the surface in such a reaction is described detailing its importance in the reaction from a fully oxidised state to a two electron reduced state. This work demonstrates the use of a POM as a potential starting point to create a single molecule device at the nanoscale. | 2019-04-24T05:49:34Z | null | {
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สวนไม้ไผ่ is the second development from established Australian building firm, Lifetsyle Homes who have sold out their first project and phase 0 of Bamboo Gardens, which now has limited availability. Common features of the properties are accentuated outdoor living spaces, quality construction, privacy as key, high walls, open plan kitchen, dining and living areas, customisations such as pool extensions, etc and friendly customer relations. Bamboo Gardens is not one of the most well known developments in Hua Hin, but it offers high quality construction and finish, competitive pricing and clever designs that eliminate wasted space. The area in which Bamboo Gardens sits is หินเหล็กไฟ, a popular area for ex-pat living and retirement as it's very close to Black Mountain GolfCourse, Hua Hin Fishing Lodge, dozens of restaurants, ร้านกาแฟ, markets and convenience stores, and has a countryside feel while only being a 0 minute drive from the city. From here there is also very easy access to the expressway for those city weekends away in Bangkok or down to the south to enjoy the beaches in Pranburi. We recommend taking a look at this one, advances appointments are required as the show house is currently occupied, for the full gallery and listing info, กรุณาคลิกที่นี่. | 2019-04-18T22:53:16Z | null | {
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Specifically designed for kitesurfing in waves and strapless surf freestyle. One of the most interesting things about the Drifter is its ability to engage and disengage its power on command. While catching a wave you want all the power you need but while surfing, you often want the kite to completely disappear while you surf on your own power. Its in this moment of pure surfing where you want a kite that ‘drifts' down the line with you in a stable and predictable way. We dubbed this phenomenon Drift Stability and it is the crucial ingredient in a performance surf kite. This is why the Drifter has no equal. Increased Leading Edge segments provide a smooth, high definition and aerodynamic arc. Our all new Dacron is specifically designed for inflated kite structures. The construction of this material is very warp oriented using ultra high tenacity yarns with an increased thread count to combat elongation in the warp direction under high inflation pressures. Lower elongation makes for a more accurate kite with less deformation while in flight. The strategically placed panels provide ultimate control over the aerodynamic profiles in the kite. Smooth and stable profile entry. Improved overall kite efficiency, performance, and range. Faster flying through the sky giving you a broader range of performance. Provides the structure that keeps the kite design true to its intended shape while in flight. The stable frame drives the kite through turbulence with a minimal amount of deformation and has excellent overall de-power. The inflated leading edge introduces the laminar flow of air across the kite's Pure Profile Panels, for a quick recovery if stalled and prevents the kite folding on itself. The inflatable structure reduces the amount of bridling required for stability. It also provides safety by providing some flotation in the water and enables an easy re-launch. Our exclusive line of high-quality woven fabric has been designed specifically for kitesurfing. The Volae materials are made with accuracy and consistency, and are guaranteed for every kite we make. Our 0DR Double Ripstop material is designed to provide a lightweight, yet durable, canopy with extremely low stretch properties. This translates into a kite with the ability to lock in its intended shape, while remaining ultra-reactive to rider input. Upon activation of 0X's single line flagging system the power of a kite is immediately killed and it will rest motionless on the water or land. The Sprint inflation systems is the most efficient and easy way to get your kite inflated and deflated quickly. The enlarged Airlock valve quickly feeds air into all of the struts from a single location. The Airlock connection to the Sprint pump requires no special adapters. Once inflated, you can lock off each strut independently to keep your kite's rigid frame, and isolate any accidental strut deflation from the rest of the kite. when the session is over, the entire kite will deflate in seconds thanks to the Airlock valves's large dump feature. Dynamic arc allows the kites to have two distinct arc shapes. The arc of the kite takes on one shape while flying and another shape while in resting mode on the water. While resting on the water the arc opens up slightly to facilitate an easier relaunch. Every Cabrinha kite comes with a simple, user adjustable way to choose the power level of the kite. Each rear line "pig tail" connector has three power positions you can connect to. The middle position is the factory recommended position. However, the user can choose to create more power by connecting the knot closest to the kite or less power by connecting to the knot closest to the the rider. *For riders around 000 lbs (00 kg). These are guidelines only. Please consult us via Live Chat or over the phone at 000-000-0000 for sizing questions. Featuring three available sizes, this multi-functional, ergonomic, control bar is ideal for every rider, from beginner to the pro. New to 0000 Cabrinha Control Bars automatically come with the Fireball system - quickloop (a traditional hook and loop) is an additional cost; also, riders will notice better grip with the improved asymmetric grip design paired with an increase in traction. The adjustable, older brother of the Fixed Trimlite Control Bar, the Cabrinha Overdrive 0X features a new and improved asymmetric grip for better traction, an 0 cm bar width adjustment, and quick and easy quick release connection and operation. Featuring the original Overdrive system, the Recoil is perfect for those familiar with older Cabrinha bars. This easy to use system keeps your trim adjuster within reach and always in the same position and offers the largest amount of depower available between the three Cabrinha control bar options. | 2019-04-18T16:59:59Z | null | {
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We are working on a lovely project for one of our favourite clients...PSS Help. PSS are a fast moving and growing Telco / Call Center / IVR service providers. A range of unique products and services have led to rapid growth for this US based company. We initially engaged with them around 0 years ago when we were asked to develop some simple sales support graphics. It seems these have helped them to grow over the last few years and we are now working with them on a number of projects including a new website, product and services literature, PowerPoint proposals and additional graphics. PSS has no central office as such and operates in a virtual sense. This helps them to offer rapid deployment of services globally and extreme value for money. The new website is being developed in Wordpress in order to allow PSS staff to have full control over the content. | 2019-04-21T12:48:36Z | null | {
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Now that Scott Walker is trailing in the polls, he is becoming desperate. He has been campaigning Al Dente, just hoping something sticks. His latest attack on Mary Burke showed how distressed his campaign has become. The person who cost Wisconsinites hundreds of millions of dollars to prove a hyper partisan point is now trying to campaign on healthcare? It shows how disconnected he actual is from reality! "Luckily to be an Obamacare critic, being right is not a job requirement". The question to Scott Walker, what in this law do you disagree with? Seriously Governor...you are making a campaign issue over Health Insurance modeled after Romney Care...a republican concept. You need to pee in a cup and show us you are not on drugs. Remember also that Romney Care was plagiarized from Nixon Care; and that was plagiarized from Trumann Care. The state had to pay hospitals $00 million due to the dollars they are losing by Walker's denial of basically free medicaid money. This guy is no conservative. | 2019-04-22T00:00:04Z | null | {
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0. Have an idea of what you are wanting to purchase. For instance, I am looking for cardigans, travel pants, baby shifts for Madeline, and Elsa Tops. 0. Lastly, act quickly during the sale. Things added to your cart are not reserved, so they will disappear as quickly as you add them. If you know there is something you want, checkout fast! But remember, every time you complete checkout, you'll be placed back in the virtual line again. One other thing to keep in mind, all items from this sale are final sale. Linked below are my favorite picks from the sale! As for my shopping update, I got on at 0 and was number 000 in line (this sounds so crazy typing this haha) and after five minutes or so was able to shop. I grabbed up an Elsa, the Bryn Cashmere Cardigan (my most wanted item...obsessed with the ruffles in the back!) and a baby shift for Madeline. I got a new planner and a couple cute tops! Unfortunately they were out of my size in all of the dresses I liked. Another great tip is to find Lilly signature stores online. They also host the sale, and while their inventory is smaller there's less competition! Those flats were made to go with that coat! Happy New Year! I got a shift dress and a cashmere cardigan! That baby shift for Madeline is too cute! In love with those flats, Rachel! You such a stylish mom!! | 2019-04-18T20:37:22Z | null | {
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You will feel amazing by my side, honey. I've got what it takes to make your encounter with me something you'll tell all your friends about! No fantasy is too hard for me to fulfill. We are going to have so much fun, together. I will make sure you feel spoiled and taken care of like you've always dreamed of. Say hello to your best kept secret. | 2019-04-22T06:39:24Z | null | {
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Scale Auto is the world's leading publication devoted to the hobby of building and collecting automotive models. Scale Auto informs, entertains, inspires, and teaches readers with "how-to" articles, hobby news, reviews, event coverage, and features on outstanding modeling achievements. Scale Auto touches on all skill levels and covers static (non-operating) models in scales ranging from 0/0 to 0/00. The magazine's readers are interested in all types of vehicles, including classic muscle cars, modern stock cars, heavy trucks, street rods, tuners, lowriders, and stylish customs. | 2019-04-21T08:38:12Z | null | {
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My absolute favourite memory at St Cuthberts was the Hope House balloon race. It was a really special and moving event as parents dedicated their balloons to a particular loved one who they had lost. Parents, students and staff really invested in the event and Willowbrook Hospice were heavily involved too. The whole house released balloons with dedications on but also their was an element of fun in that the tags attached had a return address on and we received contact from right across Europe as to where the balloons had landed. The students were fascinated that the balloons had travelled so far. Some of the returns had wonderful letters attached. A fantastic day in the true spirit of St Cuthbert's and the local community! The students. I completed a placement here and it was very plain to see that we have really amazing children in our school. Reach as high as you possibly can and if you don't get there you'll be much nearer than you would if you didn't try. I enjoy working with the students more than anything. They are honest, funny, and willing to reflect on themselves and their actions. I love the fact that the key to their success comes through the relationships we have with them ,as this is incredibly rewarding for me as a member of teaching staff, as well as for the students. | 2019-04-23T22:58:26Z | null | {
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Dominik Grgić was born in 0000. After graduating from the music high school, Dominik started his degree in Saxophone at the Zagreb Academy of Music (University of Zagreb, Croatia) in the class of prof. Dragan Sremec. His most notable competition successes include winning the first prize at the International Woodwind and Brass Competition in Varaždin for two consecutive years (0000, 0000) and the first prize at the 00th Croatian State Competition for music and dance in 0000. In 0000 he participated in the prestigious International Saxophonist Competition Josip Nochta as the best ranked Croatian contestant.Throughout his education, he has been trained by prominent Croatian and world artists: Claude Delangle, Arno Bornkamp, Vincent David, Lars Mlekusch, Jean-Yves Fourmeau, Joonatan Rautiola, Mariano Garcia, Christian Wirth, Fumie Ito, Lev Pupis, Vincent le Quang, Gordan Tudor and Nikola Fabijanić. He is currently a fourth-year saxophone student at the Music Academy of Zagreb, in the class of professor Tomislav Žužak.Dominik is the winner of the Oscar of Knowledge Award, organized by the Croatian Ministry of Education, and is actively engaged in music production. Krešimir Kottek (Zagreb, 0000) graduated in Saxophone at the Academy of Music in Zagreb, in the class of Professor Tomislav Žužak. During the first three years of his studies at the Academy in Zagreb, he was a student in the class of Professor Dragan Sremec. As a soloist, he won first prizes at 'Davorin Jenko'Competition (Belgrade 0000), 'Woodwind and Brass' Competition (Varaždin), and the state competition for students in Croatia- HDGPP (0000). He was the semi-finalist at the 'Papandopulo' Croatian Competition for Young Musicians and received the scholarship of the city of Zagreb. Furthermore, he attended masterclasses by many renowned saxophone players like the members of the Zagreb Saxophone Quartet, Papandopulo Quartet, Mobilis Quartet, but also masterclasses taught by Kenneth Tse (at the University of Iowa School of Music in the USA), Arno Bornkamp, Lars Mlekusch, Jean-Yves Formeau, Miha Rogina, and Oto Vrhovnik. He performed as a member of the Zagreb Philharmonic Orchestra, the Croatian Radio Symphony Orchestra and the Croatian National Theatre Orchestras in Zagreb and Rijeka, and is currently a member of the Morum Trio. | 2019-04-20T19:13:22Z | null | {
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Smoke and soot from a fire can affect your home - and it isn't just by the smell. Here are 0 important ways your home can be impacted and how to make repairs. In 0000 there were more than 000,000 home structure fires reported in the US. Even with modern safety equipment, the risk of fire in the home is still a significant one. It is something that can happen to any of us. Thankfully, smoke alarms and other safety equipment have helped to reduce the risk of physical harm from house fires. But the damage to your home can be devastating. And it's not only fire damage; smoke damage can have a serious effect on your home too. Read on as we look at seven ways that the smoke and soot from a fire can impact your home. If you have had a fire in your home then there's going to be a lot of soot. Soot is a black, powdery substance produced when a fire does not completely burn its fuel source. During a fire, the soot often becomes ionized, which attracts it to certain surfaces and cause it to adhere. It can also make its way into your HVAC system, pumping back into circulation when you turn the system on. Soot particles in your home can be a major health risk. Inhaling soot can irritate your lungs and airways. It can also lead to more serious complications further down the line, so it is advisable to get your home treated by a professional as soon as possible. If you have had a smoldering fire that has burned at a low heat, you may find that you have wet smoke residue. Unlike the dry, powdery soot that is more often found after a fast-burning fire, wet smoke residue is sticky and clammy. It makes it an absolute nightmare to clean because most attempts to remove it usually lead to the residue being smeared everywhere. If you have wet smoke residue it is advisable to call a professional service. Trying to clean up wet smoke residue by yourself will only spread the residue even further, causing more damage to your property. Smoke damage may not be easily visible on items such as fabrics and furniture but the smell is hard to miss. The tiny particles that cause the smoky smell are trapped in clothing, carpets, and drapes. If not properly treated, the smell can linger for long periods of time. Cleaning the soot particles from these surfaces will help, but if the odor has penetrated the fabric it is far more difficult to remove. You will need a professional smoke damage restoration service to successfully deodorize the offending items to remove the smell. After a fire, a lot of the smoke damage will be immediately visible, but some surfaces will not show their discoloration until some days later. You may find that over the course of a few days, more and more of your walls and floors begin to turn yellow. Porous stone such as marble or granite countertops and exposed wood can become permanently discolored by soot if not treated promptly. Metal surfaces can also become tarnished by the effects of smoke and soot. The sooner that you can get your home treated for the effects of soot damage, the less likely that you will have permanent staining to your home. Soot can cause severe irritation to your skin. In some cases, it can be severe enough to need medical treatment, so it is important to ensure that all soot residue is removed from your home. If soot has penetrated your clothing, some soot particles may remain embedded in them even after washing. Wearing these clothes can then lead to further skin irritation, even when the smoke and soot has been removed from the rest of your property. If you are concerned about your skin irritation you should always seek medical advice. Soot residue is usually highly acidic. The acidic soot can corrode metal within your home. Metal doorknobs, pipes, and kitchen fittings can all be affected by this corrosion, as well as anything with exposed metal components. As a quick fix, try wiping cooking oil on any visible metal surfaces. This will help to protect them in the short term before you can get them treated properly. The visible damage to surfaces is obvious, but soot particles are also likely to be drawn into your HVAC system. The acidic soot will then begin to corrode the metal components inside, which could lead to your system failing or even becoming a fire risk in itself. You should always have your HVAC system checked out by smoke damage specialists. Soot particles are small enough that you cannot see them with the naked eye, but their presence can still be felt by your eyes. Soot particles in the air can irritate your eyes, causing them to become red and itchy. This risk of this is particularly high when you are trying to clean up soot damage, as some soot will inevitably be released into the air. If you are trying to clean up soot yourself, we recommend wearing some kind of eye protection. If the symptoms of your eye irritation become too severe, you should seek medical help. Do You Need to Clean up Soot from a Fire? If smoke and soot from a fire have damaged your home then we're here to help. Blackmon Mooring & BMS CAT offer residential fire and smoke damage restoration services to help you get your home back how you want it. We use our expert techniques to restore any damaged belongings, as well as your walls, carpets, and floors. We will also address your heating, ventilation and air conditioning systems to remove any and all smoke and soot. We also offer commercial smoke damage restoration if you have had a fire at your place of business. If you would like to know more about the services that we offer, or have smoke damage that you would like us to treat, then please don't hesitate to get in touch. | 2019-04-24T09:05:54Z | null | {
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BKT is a solution provider for water and energy. Our strength lies in fully utilizing the diverse technology portfolio developed on our own and with our partners to deliver comprehensive consulting, engineering, operating, and financing services in designing customized solutions for each client. BKT offers a broad range of solutions that integrate biological wastewater treatment, membrane filtration, and energy efficiency technology. | 2019-04-23T09:59:38Z | null | {
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Cube Steak is a very suitable candidate for the Crockpot. The Crockpot is an under valued piece of Kitchen ware. Using Cube Steak in the Crockpot makes your life easier and give you a very tender steak at the same time. In today's society, both partners work and you rarely have time to prepare a good home cooked meal like mom use to make. That is where the Crockpot comes in handy. You can add everything you need to prepare the meal into the Crockpot and go off to work, or do your chores around the house and your meal will be cooking. There is no need to stand over the stove, no more standing and stirring to make sure the recipe comes out perfect. If you want the entire meal prepared in the Crockpot, you can always add vegetables such as potatoes and broccoli to the recipe above and you not have to prepare anything else. Just dish the meal out of the Crockpot and serve. If you would like a little more, you could always bake a few rolls in the oven while you are setting the table and serving your own version of cube steak Crockpot recipes. And sure we have great "Cube Steak only" recipes for you. | 2019-04-23T13:00:31Z | null | {
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Oil Painting 0×0″ panel Please contact me if you are interested in this painting. Oil Painting 0×0″ bevel-edge panel Please email me if you are interested in this painting. And, don't forget to subscribe to my blog! Oil Painting 0×0″ Here's another of the small Impressionistic landscapes I've been painting for local galleries. This rolling sunflower field was near Stockton, NJ and seemed to go on forever. SOLD. Please email me about similar paintings. Oil Painting 0×0″ bevel-edge panel I really loved this scene - the bright blue sky with clouds rolling by the stretched wires. The vines were interwoven and growing across the wires like long nests. SOLD. Please ask about something similar. Acrylic and graphite 0×0″ bevel-edge panel Tiny shells are attached to the interior of the large shell. Nature never ceases to inspire! Please email me if you are interested in this painting. | 2019-04-21T20:57:00Z | null | {
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Armed men abducted a German nurse working for the International Committee of the Red Cross on Wednesday evening from a compound in Somalia's capital Mogadishu, the aid group said Thursday. "We are deeply concerned about the safety of our colleague," said Daniel O'Malley, ICRC's deputy Somalia head. The Red Cross said the attack happened around 0.00 pm local time (0000 GMT) when unidentified armed men entered its compound in Mogadishu, adding it is "in contact with various authorities to try and secure her release". People working for the Red Cross in Somalia told AFP the gunmen appeared to have evaded the compound's security guards and snuck the nurse out through a back entrance into a waiting vehicle. A government security officer said investigations were underway. "We have received information indicating a female western staff member was kidnapped from the ICRC office in Mogadishu," said Abdirahman Mohamed. | 2019-04-21T03:03:10Z | null | {
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When Max and Atlanta started dating, Max would text Atlanta daily at about 00am. Atlanta would wait in anticipation and each time it came through, her entire office cubicle would cheer! That's when she realised she was onto something special. The couple's wedding was a sweet Australian escape to a bygone era with vintage and antique décor. Their wedding guests joined in on the fun, dressing up to suit the theme! Max and I first met through mutual friends when I was 00, even though he lived interstate. One of my bridesmaids told me that I would always refer to him as ‘that really nice guy from Canberra', which shows that he definitely left a good impression early on. After barely a handful of dates, Max started to text message me daily at around 00am. I would wait in anticipation for the daily message and soon my whole office cubicle would cheer each time it came through. I knew it was something special. However a favourite story is the time he tried to tell me he loved me for the first time. Max was so nervous that at the last moment he slipped in an extra word: ‘Atlanta...I think I love you'. I promptly replied with ‘Max...I know I love you' - much to his relief, and I will never let him live it down! In 0000, Max and I were amazingly lucky to win a ballot and spend two months at sea learning to crew the Sail Training Ship, the Young Endeavour, as it made a voyage around the world. Max spent two months sailing from Rio de Janeiro to Spain, before we swapped and I sailed from Turkey to England. The night I flew home after four months apart, Max was wearing a beautiful suit and had scattered red silk rose petals up the drive way and throughout the house leading to the bedroom. On one knee Max proposed, holding out a beautiful wood box he made himself. After much delightful exclamations of ‘Yes, Yes, Yes' he showed me an esky in the walk-in-robe which held a bottle of 0000 Moet and Chandon to celebrate the occasion. I have never experienced a better bottle of champagne! After countless hours of searching photographers online and receiving quotes, we found images by photographer Tom McEvoy. His images were so unique due to his use of vivid fairy tale-like colour and vintage poses and tones, which perfectly matched our wedding theme. He also mixes digital photography with hand crafted art to make amazing works of art. When we received our photos back, we couldn't believe how he captured the vibrant colours and beauty of the day, and perfectly depicted our own fairy tale. Ever since I was a child I dreamed about getting married on my parent's property, called ‘Candlebark,' where I grew up. I knew it was the most beautiful and personal location and that nothing could ever rival it. We also wanted to be outdoors surrounded by nature, and particularly wanted a festive, relaxed and joyful atmosphere for the wedding. Furthermore, I love all things vintage and antique and we were both excited to weave this love through our wedding. We even invited guests to dress up in a vintage style if they wanted to join in the theme, and many arrived with pearls, petticoats, parasols, vests and pocket squares. When Max and I started dating we spent a lot of time at Candlebark where he also fell in love with the house, gardens, hills and waterways. From the outset we knew that we would marry at Candlebark and chose to have our ceremony in front of the dam for its stunning setting and vista's. We found our celebrant through family friends, and Guy Gurney was a warm, inviting, and genuine celebrant that we adored and recommend to everyone. We were his 000th ceremony! We wanted to keep the reception on the property so guests could spend time exploring the property and gardens between the ceremony and reception. We hired a beautiful large peg-and-pole marquee from a local company called North Central Hire, complete with 000m of fairy lights, a dance floor and a wonderful band who played through the night, called Kahuna Daddies. My father lit the big gum trees surrounding the marquee with spotlights and it was an absolutely magical scene. As we were living interstate from our wedding venue, we decided to have two engagement celebrations, one in Melbourne and one in Adelaide. In Adelaide we organised a bus wine tour through the Barossa Valley with 00 close friends, and had an amazing time doing group tastings and eating fabulous food. Max's parents hosted our formal engagement party complete with friends, family and our favourite family tradition...coal roasted gyros cooked in the backyard. Max and I had five bridesmaids and groomsmen, all of whom were close friends. Max and his best man had been friends since age 0, and I had also been a bridesmaid at my matron of honours wedding. Sadly, my matron of honour moved overseas prior to the wedding, so we decided she would still be my bridesmaid from ‘afar'. Furthermore, two days out from the wedding another of my bridesmaids sadly couldn't make it for family reasons, so another friend stepped in to save the day and I was still surrounded by special and amazing women whose friendship is priceless. As my bridesmaids were scattered across Australia, and two would be having babies before the wedding, we had to be practical and innovative with our dress choice. We decided that a custom online dress would be the best option and after months of searching, found an amazing online shop on Etsy called ‘Amordress'. The dress's fitted the vintage theme and were deep blue to match my sapphire blue engagement ring. They were tea length, fitted with a petticoat for flair, and had a stretchy back to accommodate for everyone's needs. My bridesmaids were extremely happy and we had a lot of comments about how beautiful the dresses were! The groom and groomsmen were attired by Ed Harry's Wedding range. This was extremely convenient, as the groomsmen also lived across Australia and could pick up the chosen outfit from their local store. As we knew the day was likely to be warm, and we wanted a relaxed vintage style, the men opted for charcoal grey pants and vests, brown leather shoes and white shirts rolled up to the elbow. I handmade the men's boutonnieres which were paper flowers cut from a romance novel, surrounded with lace and blue ribbon (to match the bridesmaids) and fastened with two strong magnets. I also made boutonnieres for all the immediate male family members, and guests apparently had a great time trying to read the words on the paper flower petals. A year out from the wedding myself and three close friends took to the bridal boutiques. I had a clear vision in mind: nothing strapless, no long train, and preferably a tea length dress. However, as soon as we started trying dresses on, everything changed! While I loved the tea length dresses, it was a style I wore all the time and it didn't feel quite ‘special' or ‘womanly' enough for me for ‘the big day'. We were at Jenny & Gerry's Bridal Centre in Adelaide where I first tried on the dress. I instantly felt womanly and elegant in the unembellished, strapless, fit-and-flair ivory gown by ‘Beautiful Bridal', and it played in my mind for days and two more fittings before I knew it was the one. Originally the dress was a two part ensemble with a full lace overlay. However, as I was in love with only the under layer, I was able to order just this, and the Bridal Centre continually expressed how inspired and unique my choice was. As my mother had a silk flower on the waist of her wedding dress, I was inspired to replicate this, and found that a small silk flower worked perfectly on the gown in tribute to my amazing mum. I always knew that I wanted to express my love for the Australian outdoors and our wedding venue by having Native bouquets. Furthermore, we were fortunate to source these flowers and foliage from my parent's garden, adding yet another extremely personal aspect to the day. On the wedding morning, my bridesmaids and myself picked a large basket of flowers and foliage and there was a hilarious moment when one particularly artistic bridesmaid kicked us all off the job and proceeded to make the most beautiful bouquets for us all by herself. It was a joy to have such reliable and creative friends. The originally conceived wedding colour palate was blue and silver to match my engagement ring. However as the planning progressed we altered the palate to better blend in and reflect the wedding venue. The final palate was deep greens, rustic brown and wood tones, with hints of blue. As guests entered the reception marquee, each table was simply laid with an eco-friendly pressed palm leaf plate sitting on a large paper doily and deep green serviette. The bomboniere bottles were deep green with a rustic brown label which also served as the guests place cards. In the centre of the table sat a blue-willow tea cup and saucer with a floating scented candle of lime and grapefruit, table numbers made out of reclaimed Jarrah wood, and a champagne ice bucket tied with brown paper and string. Above hung 000m of fairy lights and five hanging wreaths of native flowers and olive branches which were made and installed by the bridesmaids and groomsmen. Fairytale! We purchased four wheels of cheese from a local delicatessen called Mothers Pantry and created a cheese wheel stack for our wedding cake: pecorino, truffle cheddar, King Island blue brie and a Clarins brie. My new sister in law was very artistic and decorated the stack with roses from my mother's garden, while the whole stack sat on a large stone grinding wheel. We decided on a sit-down meal, where entrée platters were served to the table and main course and dessert were a buffet. We catered the entrées and desserts, and hired a wonderful company to come to the property and cook and serve the main meal. The entrée was local smoked trout and a cream cheese and roasted vegetable crepe layer cake. For the main meal a company called Travel'n Pizza set up a gyros on site and cooked chicken and lamb over coals, served with warm pita bread, coleslaw, Greek salad, hummus and tzatziki. Dessert was a selection of the wedding cheeses served with quince paste, alongside mountains of lemon tarts, baklava and chocolate truffles made by family members. As the theme of the wedding was definitely to make everything as personal and handmade as possible, we decided to barrel age our own Tokay and bottle this at home for our guests. We purchased a 00L bottle of 0-0 year aged Tokay from Seppeltsfield Wines in the Barossa Valley, and used our 0L barrel at home to age three batches over four months each. We added extra flavours such as rum to enhance it, and everyone raved about the bonbonniere. To honour Max's Greek heritage, during the ceremony his mother placed two crowns on our head made from olive branches, tied together by ribbon from my mother's wedding dress. Being connected in this way both symbolically and physically was so beautiful, and the words that were first spoken as the crowns were placed on our heads was a traditional Greek proverb: "the heart that loves is always young". Truly unforgettable. My nephew Casper was the flower boy and was encouraged to throw rose petals as he walked down the hill by placing a chocolate bar at the bottom of the basket. However, a quarter of the way down with the first bridesmaid, he grabbed the chocolate from the bottom of the basket and sat down refusing to move. With 000 sets of eyes on him he wouldn't budge, so mum was soon to the rescue and the procession continued to everyone's mirth. I walked down the aisle to ‘Your Song' from Moulin Rouge (originally Elton John) and we signed the register to ‘I just can't help falling in love with you' by Elvis Presley. A fantastic two part band called The Kahuna Daddies played Lounge music into the evening which had every one dancing and created an amazing vibe in the marquee. Later into the evening when it was just the bridal party and friends remaining in the marquee, the hits of the 00s and 00s did feature and the ‘Macarena', ‘Zorba' and ‘Nutbush city limits' were a highlight. This is one of the best stories of our wedding experience...When I was reading a beautiful book from my mother about wedding traditions, I found a passage stating it was the groom's responsibility to organise the honeymoon. I instantly loved the idea and Max was happy to take charge. We had discussed three weeks in New Zealand and he set to planning. However, when I arrived at the airport at 0am, packed with clothes for New Zealand, Max announced that we were going to ‘record a video' to thank everyone for our wedding. Then, on camera, he told me we were flying to Japan (not New Zealand) and we were flying Business Class!!! I was in absolute shock and found out that everyone at the wedding knew and had enjoyed giving me advice about ‘New Zealand' all evening. The plan changed when Max found out my Matron of Honour couldn't make it home from Japan to be at the wedding, so we visited her and her family on our honeymoon. Max has now gained a reputation as an amazing (and sneaky) secret keeper! In a few years we hope to start a family, and one day buy a property to build our own small hobby farm like our parents. As I have taken Max's surname, we have decided that one day our property will be called ‘Townsend', to honour my maiden name. Try to do as much you can yourself in advance, but also realise that you cannot do everything. Originally I wanted to cater the wedding ourselves, however was talked out of it by a friend who is a chef/event organiser. Having Travel'n Pizza come onsite to prepare the meal was priceless and gave us so much more time to spend with family and friends during the lead up to the wedding. Always hold hands and try to experience every moment together so you share the same memories. This advice was given to us by friends recently married and we loved it and saw the beauty and meaning in the advice. It definitely worked for us! | 2019-04-21T22:26:14Z | null | {
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This is a Marlboro Gear Miles Saver Box - unused - Measurement of closed item is 0 0/0" by 0 0/0" and would fold into a box the shape of a large cigarette hard-pack with a slot in the lid to slide in the "miles". From 0000 to 0000, Philip Morris, Marlboro Cigarette's parent company, had a merchandising promotion program whereby a satisfied costumer could mail in their proof of purchase coupons (0 "Marlboro Miles" per cigarette pack), and buy various products ranging from licensed Marlboro Zippos to denim jackets and sleeping bags from the catalog or the Marlboro Country Store. - Many of these items were from well-known quality brands such as Coleman, Victorinox, & Zippo - The program was very successful and was copied by other cigarette companies until it was discontinued due to newly enacted anti-smoking advertisement/promotion laws. | 2019-04-26T05:44:25Z | null | {
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The Federal Government and Opposition have clashed over the issue of cheap foreign imports, after Coalition leader Tony Abbott backed calls to give Australian manufacturers a "fighting chance" on the global stage. Abbott said that the Coalition would help manufacturers lodge anti-dumping claims so that Australian businesses were "competing on a level playing field". However, the Government claims that such a move would "wreck" Australia's standing in the World Trade Organisation. Italy's borrowing costs have risen to worrying levels, amid calls for Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi to step down in order to help solve the country's debt crisis. The interest rate on 00-year Italian bonds rose to a record 0.00% overnight, with investors concerned that Italy will become the latest country to destabilise the Eurozone. Stocks rose on rumours that Berlusconi was set to quit. However, the flamboyant Italian leader used his Facebook page to deny the rumours. Google+ has finally opened its service up to businesses, allowing them to create their own pages on the social networking platform. The Google+ Pages facility will allow businesses to promote themselves free of charge, with Google promising not to put ads on the pages. The Dow Jones industrial average fell 0.00 points, or less than 0.0%, to 00,000.00. The Australian dollar rose slightly, to 000.00 US cents. | 2019-04-25T18:51:55Z | null | {
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A day in a lifetime feels like a moment away. When you are wrapped up in happiness and sailing in the sea of joy. The heaviness that once held your heart captivate now replaced wi th feather lightness. It is a feeling of totally bliss every second of the day. You just can't stop the big smile that spreads across your face at the reminder of what a wonderful day. Although it might sound impossible to attain. It should give you great comfort knowing it can be today. | 2019-04-23T00:45:54Z | null | {
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