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Fri, 15th Jun, 2018 This years Cork Summer Show promises everything from farming to fashion and takes place this Saturday 16th & Sunday 17th June at the showgrounds at Curraheen. Organised each year by the Munster Agricultural Society, and supported by Cork County Council, the event boasts a line-up including: drone racing; flower demonstrations; bee-keeping; a fashion and catwalk tent; and a ‘grow your own’ area for horticulture enthusiasts. “The Cork Summer Show has been running for over 200 years; yet every year we bring something new to the show to ensure that families and individuals coming along really experience the agricultural exhibits and animals,” said Gerard Murphy, chairman, Munster Agricultural Society. Other highlights include machinery displays; cattle breeding competitions, sheep, dairy and pygmy goat class competitions not to forget the Taste Cork’ indoor food market, show jumping, dog shows, tug-o-war championships, petting farms, threshing, a huge kids’ zone and live music all day. This year, Cork Summer Show welcomes a number of partners including: Bloom, Bord Bia, Cork City Council, AIB, UCC and CIT. Behind the scenes the hard working team have been working on the extensive programme, organising the competition entries and preparing for what is for many the highlight of their year. Irish online software company, Dotser, based in Tullamore has implemented their SuperShow technology which manages the online competition entries and payments for Cork Summer Show which has streamlined the online entry and payment process for competitors through their mobile phone. The cloud based system which has been specifically developed for Show organisations and Cork Summer Show joins a growing list of the biggest and best Irish Shows reaping the rewards of using cutting edge technology to save them time and free up valuable resources. For more information on Cork Summer Show can be found at http://www.corksummershow.com.

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Susie Morris is on vacation this week. Here are a couple of items from earlier columns she has written. BASEBALL LINGO QUIZ: Think high and tight is only a military haircut? Take the quiz below on baseball lingo and see how you do. Me? I was 5 for 7. Answers at the bottom of the column. 1. Baltimore Chop 2. Can of Corn 3. Moon Shot 5. High and Tight 6. Ribbie or Ribeye (answers at end of this column) EXCELLENT ADVICE BELOW FOR ALL PARENTS OF YOUTH PLAYING SPORTS!!! Since the number one reason good coaches quit coaching is “the parents,” here’s a good read! • Encourage and support your youngster regardless of their degree of success, their level of skill, or playing time. • Model respect for the coach and highlight the critical nature of contributing to the team and its success. • Attend and participate in preseason school-sponsored meetings, communicate with coaches and agree to support guidelines for healthy sports. • Ensure a balance in your student athlete’s life, encouraging participation in multiple sports and other activities while placing academics first and foremost. • Recognize the developmental stages of your youngster, ensuring enjoyment, skill development and team play as cornerstones of sports experiences, with more serious competition left for the varsity level. • Leave coaching to coaches and avoid placing too much pressure on your youngster about playing time and performance. • Be realistic about your youngster’s future in sports, recognizing that only a select few earn a college scholarship, compete in the Olympics or sign a professional contract. • Avoid leading your youngster to early specialization, year-long play in one sport and the potential of burnout. • Understand that today’s youngsters strive for excellence, compete to win, but cherish participation most while rejecting “winning at all cost.” • Be there when your child looks to the sidelines for a positive role model. QUOTE OF THE WEEK: "Regardless of how you feel inside, always try to look like a winner. Even if you are behind, a sustained look of control and confidence can give you a mental edge that results in victory." - Arthur Ashe, professional tennis player ANSWERS TO BASEBALL LINGO QUIZ 1. Baltimore Chop – A grounder that hits in front of or off home plate and hops over the infielders head. 2. Can of Corn – An easy catch by a fielder. 3. Moon Shot – A very long, high home run.. 4. Closer – A team’s late-inning relief pitcher. 5. High and Tight – A pitch that’s up in the strike zone and inside on a hitter. 6. Ribbie or Ribeye – Another way of saying RBI (run batted in) 7. Yakker – Curve ball.

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Our data-driven marketing consulting plan the clients can execute those highly successful results-driven strategies. Digital Advertising Audit The aspects that include the best practices, outcomes, and strategies required for any business brand to improve the growth of its online presence with high rate ROI can be titled ad digital advertising audits. Through the launch of auditing service, the companies can measure what they are doing so far and whatnot. Moreover, they can invest in the right direction. When there is a digital ad audit for any business, then they don’t need to bother about their brand reputation and Return on Investment. Why you need it? It is compulsory to have a digital advertising audit for any business to go ahead of their business career. 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Our team will work in real-time to produce your digital business audits by spending hours researching competitors and your website etc. We also monitor your social media performance by reaching different trending social media platforms where you can find many audiences that are entirely relevant to you. We help you in taking your business growth to the next level through the report of complete analysis. Furthermore, we make recommendations to adopt the best marketing opportunities. To boost your digital marketing strategies, reach our expert auditing consulting team who can help you in achieving your business objectives. What is a Digital Marketing Audit? It is the process of analyzing and investigating all the efforts of digital marketing that includes the ad campaigns, best practices, digital marketing strategies, etc. to find the performance of your business where the digital loopholes exist. How to Conduct a Digital Marketing Audit? Accumulating the overview of the company, defining your business objectives, describing the existing customers and the target of your customer you are interested in, etc. can help in a digital marketing audit. How to Audit the Performance of Your Digital Marketing? Keyword performance, on-page optimization, mobile responsiveness, technical issues, off-page optimization, etc. can helps in auditing the performance of digital marketing. How to Audit Your Digital Marketing Activity? Identify the buyer’s persona and target audience, including the activity of digital marketing one can audit the digital marketing performance. Why should I do a Digital Advertising Audit? To get noticed of sales drop, build social media presence, fall or rise of website traffic, to reach the business goals, to generate potential leads, etc. can be done through the digital advertising audit.

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On 27th December 2011, the death of New York Abstract Expressionist Helen Frankenhaler was announced (b 1928 Manhattan USA). The artist was 83 years old when she died at her home in Darien Conn. Frankenhaler, influenced by Pollock poured thinned oil paint which was diluted with turpentine directly onto canvas to achieve lyrical use of colour (her ‘soak stain’ technique). This technique, which was adopted by Pollock, Morris Louis (1912–1962), and Kenneth Noland (1924–2010 )helped lead and paved the way for a newer generation of abstract painting which became known as Color Field painting. Like Pollock, Frankenhaler also worked on the floor pouring diluted paint onto the canvas and allowing it to soak through to produce the illusionistic stains. Her work was included in the 1964 exhibition Post Painterly Abstraction, which was curated by the critic Clement Greenberg who promoted Abstract Expressionism. Frankenhaler’s work has been exhibited over 6 decades (1950s onwards) and has had several retrospectives. She is also one of the artists I originally referenced when I first conceived the Echostains project in 2002. This year sees the 10th anniversary of my project which has just grown and grown! More news of this later in the year. From Frankenhaler’s legacy to a rather curious and anonymous ‘gift’ which caught my imagination. Last year in an Edinburgh library, a series of sculptures began to appear. The first sculpture, placed on a table in the Scottish Poetry Library was most appropriately carved from paper, mounted on a book and bore a tag with the library’s Twitter account number on @byleaveswelive This is what it said;- It started with your name @byleaveswelive and became a tree.… … We know that a library is so much more than a building full of books… a book is so much more than pages full of words.… This is for you in support of libraries, books, words, ideas….. a gesture (poetic maybe?) Next to the Poetree sat a paper egg with a scattering of words which when put together made up the sentence “A Trace of Wings’ by Edwin Morgan (see here) Despite local news coverage, no information has been found about the maker of the work. Then in June 2011, another paper sculpture was received, the donor this time chose The National Scottish Library as it’s recipient. The sculpture is in the form of a gramophone and a coffin and is sculpted from a copy of Ian Rankin’s ‘Exit Music’ The tag reads;- For @natlibscot – A gift in support of libraries, books, words, ideas….. (& against their exit) In these days of Kindle (smacks of Orwell’s 1984 to me) nothing beats the tactile thrill of holding, caressing, smelling, – the physical page turning, the owning of and even the dog earing of the physical object of a BOOK. A physical object that holds so much of our dreams, imagination and is our portal to another world. It’s wonderful that these paper sculptures should pay homage to this – long may they keep popping up! There are more of these sculptures Frankenhaler portrait and more information about this artist here Sky and Sea by Helen Frankenhaler from here Information and more images are available from this site with thanks! Barbera Hepworth’s birthday (January 10th) read my post about her here Its back! The original and eclectic Bookstains!

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A sportsbook is an establishment that accepts wagers on different types of sporting events. They do this by displaying odds for each game and offering lines that bettors can place their money on. The sportsbook takes a percentage of the bettor’s winnings when they win, and charges the bettor a fee when they lose. This amount is known as the vigorish, or juice in slang terms. The Best Ways to Bet on Sports When it comes to betting on sports, there are a few key things that you need to know before you start placing wagers. These tips will help you make informed decisions and maximize your profits. Before you begin placing bets, it’s a good idea to shop around and find the sportsbook with the best odds. This may seem like a simple task, but it can have a big impact on your overall profit. In order to get the most out of your sports bets, you’ll want to check the odds at multiple online sportsbooks. You’ll want to see what the bookie is offering in terms of point spreads and moneylines, as well as other options such as totals, and you’ll also want to find out if they offer any bonus offers. These bonuses are a great way to entice sports bettors to sign up with a new sportsbook, and they can provide huge benefits for players. By comparing the bonuses offered by different online sportsbooks, you can easily find one that suits your preferences and budget. The Most Popular Sporting Events If you’re looking for a sport to bet on, it’s always best to go with one that has a high following and is likely to attract a lot of interest. These include football, baseball, basketball and hockey. During the season, these games draw massive attention, especially when they’re close to home or are in the postseason. The NBA, MLB and NHL are all consistently among the top five sports in terms of volume. The odds at sportsbooks are often set to reflect public opinion, which can have a big effect on how they line up. For example, if most people think that the favorite is going to win, then the sportsbook may have to move the odds in favor of underdogs. This can be a huge benefit for the smart bettor, as the underdog’s odds will be higher than those of the favorite. You should also take into account where the games are being played, as some teams have better records at home than away. In this case, it’s best to look for an online sportsbook that offers both home and away lines. How to Find a Sportsbook That Works for You When you’re looking for a sportsbook, it’s important to research which ones are legal in your area and what their policies are. This will give you a better understanding of how to bet and how to avoid getting scammed. It’s also a good idea to check whether they offer a mobile platform, as this can be an added advantage for users who are on the go. These sites are often accessible from anywhere, so you can bet on your favorite team wherever you are in the world.

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Setting up a turtle or tortoise pen outside I often have people asking about how to set up an outdoor enclosure for their turtle or tortoise. While I’ve usually just told them to Google it, I decided to start collecting links of places I thought did a pretty good job of showing what good turtle gardens look like. So, here are a few, in no particular order (yet). Aquatic turtles: http://www.mbzponton.org/n2awa/pond.html

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Information We Collect Any personal information collected is provided by you or obtained by us with your permission. We use this information solely for the operation of the Summon App. This information includes: - Cellular phone number - Vehicle information, including make, model, and license plates - Email address Information We Disclose We disclose personal information provided to us only to our clients and the venues using our products. However, our products mask and encode personally identifiable information so that it may not be exported or inadvertently disclosed during the operation of the system by the valets. Personal information collected is securely stored by Summon Inc. and is not exportable to valet management companies. They may view this information, should they need to contact you for any reason. How We Use Personal Information We use personal information for the operation of the Summon App. Text messages may be delivered during the time the vehicle is parked but not after the car has been returned. We may employ third-party companies and individuals to facilitate our Service (“Service Providers”) on our behalf, perform Service-related services, or assist us in analyzing how our Service is used. These third parties have access to your Personal Data only to perform these tasks on our behalf and are obligated not to disclose or use it for any other purpose. We may use third-party Service Providers to monitor and analyze the use of our Service. Google Analytics is a web analytics service offered by Google that tracks and reports website traffic. Google uses the data collected to track and monitor the use of our Service. This data is shared with other Google services. Google may use the collected data to contextualize and personalize the ads of its advertising network. For more information on the privacy practices of Google, please visit the Google Privacy Terms web page: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en Links to other Sites We have no control over and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies, or practices of any third-party sites or services. We utilize reasonable and appropriate protections and procedural safeguards to ensure that personal information in our care is not misused or accessed without authorization. Personal information is stored on our service providers’ platforms with access restricted to those employees or contractors who require such access to perform a legitimate business function relating to our services for maintenance and related issues. If a security breach is detected and data could be compromised, all passwords will be locked, and the Development Manager contacted to re-instate them. By email at email@example.com or by phone at (404) 301-8980

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LEGA Series Low-Depth, Hydraulic-Magnetic Circuit Breakers Power Controls & Circuit Breakers Developed to meet the evolving demand for low-profile datacenter rack power distribution units, the Airpax™ LEGA series circuit breaker provides a cost effective solution with uncompromising performance and reliability in a low-depth package. The UL-489 Listed product includes TÜV certification to EN60947-2 for global acceptance in UL-60950 and EN60950 ITE applications, a variety of limited access actuator styles and secure screw terminals oriented for ease of assembly and efficient power conductor routing. Get a Quote

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ASUS UX21, that 11.6-inch cake slicer that doubles up as an ultrathin laptop, is coming in September with a price tag of less than $1,000. That's according to the Commercial Times, which cites supplier sources in identifying ASUS' aggressive pricing strategy. Word is that the Taiwanese company is aiming to price the UX21 at 80 to 90 percent of the cost of Apple's competing products, namely the MacBook Air family. Of course, with a second-gen Intel Core i5 (or i7) CPU inside it, ASUS' new laptop has a significant spec advantage over Apple's similarly aluminum-encased laptops, so we'd argue simply matching the MBA's price will ensure the UX21 flies off store shelves. ASUS has a fine recent history of breaking through price barriers, as shown by the $200 Eee PC X101 that was announced alongside the UX21 at Computex, so if anyone was going to give us a 17mm-thick slab of up-to-date gorgeousness for less than $1,000, it probably had to be Jonney Shih's crew.

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Degrees and Certifications: Mr. Andy Palmer, Principal I am excited to be starting my seventh year at Stony Point Elementary School. Prior to being named principal at Stony Point I spent eight years as assistant principal at West Alexander and eight years teaching math. I have two boys Weston age 11, and Sam age 8.

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MAY 22, 2020 LARB IS THE NEW HOME for “Real Life Rock Top 10,” a monthly column by cultural critic Greil Marcus. 1. Little Richard, “I Don’t Know What You Got But It’s Got Me” (Vee-Jay, 1966). “You can only carry ‘Tutti Frutti’ so far,” said Bob Dylan in 1984 (his “We’ll remember always” page in his 1959 high school yearbook featured “Margaret Spinelli: forever having her seat changed,” “Shirley Zubich: not least, but usually last,” and “Robert Zimmerman: to join ‘Little Richard,’” as if Little Richard were not a person but some sort of fictional construct, which among other things he was), but heaven help anyone who thinks he or she can go further than this deep doo-wop blues. Requiescat in Pace? Requiescat in Conturbet. He should have lived forever. 2. Geico commercial, “RATT Problem” (Martin Agency). First they had the band Europe playing in an office lunchroom. Now it’s the creepy ’80s hair band Ratt imitating vermin in a kitchen. Next up: Whitesnake in the bathroom down the hall. “We’ve played some real toilets lately,” David Coverdale says, “but this place is actually pretty clean.” 3. X, ALPHABETLAND (Fat Possum). When X’s Los Angeles appeared in 1980, three years after the group formed — singers John Doe and Exene Cervenka, guitarist Billy Zoom, drummer Don Bonebrake — they stepped past every other punk band in town, or the state (the Avengers had already broken up), or the country. There was nothing to match their perversity and bite: the five last notes of the title song felt like a story being cut off at the neck. This, with all four in the band, could be that first album. The solipsistic, nihilist disgust might be replaced by a refusal that’s more social, but “Goodbye Year, Goodbye” is the best song here, big, fast, complex, all bad weather. The record ends with a beat poem by Exene, which you could have found on a 45 in 1957, never mind 1977. It taps into the occult side of Los Angeles: the way that there are still pockets of the city where you can find people living out everything that ever happened there, adepts even of cults of one. 4. “Wartime,” Ozark, Season 3, Episode 1, written by Chris Mundy, directed by Jason Bateman (HBO). Laura Linney’s Wendy may be Lady Macbeth, but there’s no stain that doesn’t wash right off. Here she’s trying to talk a middle-aged dentist into holding his group’s convention at her family’s new money-laundering riverboat casino on Lake of the Ozarks rather than at entertainment hub Branson. “Have you ever visited?” says the dentist. “It’s not just country. That’s a misnomer.” His eyes light up with awe: “We saw Molly Hatchet open for 38 Special” — and you can’t tell if he’s more astonished that a band as great as Molly Hatchet was fucking opening for 38 Special or that two bands this great appeared on the same bill. As if setting up a murder, Wendy wants to know just what it’s going to take to make it happen for her Missouri Belle. “REO Speedwagon,” says the dentist, gazing off into the middle distance as if he’s just seen the Virgin Mary. She gets it done, too. 5. Bob Dylan explains “Murder Most Foul” to John Cohen and Happy Traum, Sing Out! (October/November 1968). “The thing about the ballad is that you have to be conscious of the width of it at all times, in order to write one. You could take a true story, write it up as a ballad, or you can write it up in three verses. The difference would be, what are you singing it for, what is it to be used for. The uses of a ballad have changed to such a degree. When they were singing years ago, it would be as entertainment … a fellow could sit down and sing a song for a half hour, and everybody could listen, and you could form opinions. You’d be waiting to see how it ended, what happened to this person or that person. It would be like going to a movie. But now we have movies, so why does someone want to sit around for half an hour listening to a ballad? Unless the story was of such a nature that you couldn’t find it in a movie. And after you heard it, it would have to be good enough so that you could sing it again tomorrow night, and people would be listening to hear the story again. It’s because they want to hear that story, not because they want to check out the singer’s pants. Because they would have that conscious knowledge of how the story felt and they would be a part of that feeling … like they would want to feel it again, so to speak.” 6. Guy Trebay, “No Prince Without the King,” The New York Times (May 11). “‘There would be no Prince without the King,’ the costume designer Arianne Phillips wrote in an Instagram post last weekend after Little Richard died at age 87,” Trebay says, and, while carefully noting Richard’s “pompadour adapted from the R&B singer Esquerita,” marches dead ahead: “no Mick Jagger,” “no Madonna,” for that matter likely no Janelle Monáe, H.E.R., or Tyler, the Creator, or a thousand other names you could toss out at random. It’s typical of the mindless reductionism sucking the life out of criticism in a any field: the disbelief in the notion that there might be something new under the sun — or that God forbid anyone should ever feel as if there were without someone to set them straight before it goes too far. The dullest question any journalist can ask a musician is “What are your influences?” which means What box can I put you in. Run the same game Trebay is playing on, say, Prince’s “When You Were Mine.” It’s a perfect record no one else would have made, but dig between the notes and: No “When You Were Mine” without the Beatles’ “I’m Looking Through You” and Robert Johnson’s “Love in Vain”! And no “I’m Looking Through You” without Sam Cooke’s “Wonderful World” and no “Love in Vain” without Leroy Carr’s “When the Sun Goes Down”! Gotcha! And all it does is erect a screen between you and the object of your delight. 7. and 8. Bob Dylan, “False Prophet” (bobdylan.com) and Tom Moon, “Trickster Treat: Bob Dylan’s New Song Sounds Awfully Old … and Familiar,” NPR (May 12). “False Prophet” is the most musical, the most sung of the three songs Bob Dylan has released this spring, and the funniest: a 19th-century Mike Fink brag, from the Colorado River to the source of the Missouri, a drunk standing on a table swearing he wrassles with wild cats, sleeps with thunder, drinks the Mississippi dry, and takes the Ohio for a nightcap. As others have done (where do these people find the time?), Moon sources the song to a number called “If Lovin’ Is Believing,” the B-side of a single by the supposedly everbody-knows Sun singer Billy “The Kid” Emerson, now 94 — with Jerry Lee Lewis one of the last people still on earth who recorded for Sam Phillips in Memphis when he and others were inventing or discovering rock ’n’ roll. “If Lovin’ Is Believing” is as obscure as the music gets; Emerson was never famous. He was a fairly colorless singer who wrote indelible songs: “Red Hot” was cool for Emerson and red hot for Billy Lee Riley, “When It Rains It Pours” was a weather report for its composer and an odyssey across more than 11 minutes for Elvis Presley in 1955. Nobody knows this stuff more minutely than Bob Dylan: “False Prophet” does have Emerson’s arrangement, defined by his lurching beat. But it’s nothing like the way Dylan draped Gene Austin’s 1928 “The Lonesome Road” over his 2001 “Sugar Baby.” With that you couldn’t not wonder where the magical tone of Dylan’s recording came from; “False Prophet” doesn’t ask that question. Moon may offer what seems like a reasonable accounting of how “popular music is an ongoing conversation between the creators of the present and those who came before,” and of how Dylan has made “tweaks or modifications”: “Dylan truncates the form to 10 measures instead of 12.” But you can hear Thief! Thief! between every line. If you read through Dylan’s interviews from the start of his career to the present, it’s striking how consistently he insists that he’s “not a melodist,” that over and over, often citing specific records and performers, he has built his tunes on songs from folk music and early rock ’n’ roll, sometimes speaking in religious terms: “The songs are my lexicon,” he said in 1997. “I believe the songs.” This comes out in the way that, from high school to now, people playing with Dylan have said that songs they thought were his weren’t and those they thought weren’t were. The filmmaker D. A. Pennebaker told the story of a few minutes Dylan had him cut out of Don’t Look Back: in a hotel room after-party, Donovan, in 1965 celebrated and shamed as the latest New Dylan, playing “Mr. Tambourine Man,” convinced it was an old folk song he just hadn’t found before, and how disappointed Dylan was to hear it. “Most of my songs aren’t original,” he said to Pennebaker in the moment. “But that is.” 9. Once Were Brothers: Robbie Robertson and the Band, written and directed by Daniel Roher (Magnolia Pictures). A convincing film about regret, with thrilling onstage performance footage from their days as the Hawks in the early ’60s. Of the talking heads, bandleader Ronnie Hawkins is a firecracker in his 80s; Dominique Robertson, Robbie’s former wife, is a savant. You believe everything they say, even if in Hawkins’s case the tall tale is his first language. The picture lights up every time they come back on the screen. 10. Glenn Danzig, Danzig Sings Elvis (Cleopatra). Maybe not quite as far back as his punk days with the Misfits, but Glenn Danzig has threatened this record for decades. He falls short, or apart, with Sun rockabilly or well-known RCA material (“Baby Let’s Play House,” “When It Rains It Really Pours,” and “One Night”), but with his voice as full and deep as it can go, on ballads — not the ballad as Bob Dylan talked about it, but straightforward manufactured pop love songs — he inhabits levels of subtlety, doubt, certainty, and despair that Elvis didn’t allow himself. The accompaniment is minimal, a fuzz guitar and backing vocals removed to a faraway, echoey dankness, and Danzig stills the room. “Is It So Strange” is not of this world; it seems somehow suspended between Elvis’s death and whenever the singer’s might be. The heart of the music is in the many ballads slipped in as filler on Elvis soundtracks and throwaway albums that now live lives they never lived before, even when you could hear in Elvis’s own singing an implicit admission of how little he cared about the songs, or a listener’s apprehension of how much the songs wanted more: “Lonely Blue Boy,” “First in Line,” “Pocketful of Rainbows,” “Loving Arms,” “Young and Beautiful,” which closed Jailhouse Rock in 1957 — a song it’s hard to credit anyone would try again after the way Aaron Neville sent it to heaven in a live performance included on the bizarre 1990 tribute album The Last Temptation of Elvis: Songs from His Movies. But “Love Me,” played so slowly it’s hard to take, could be the one. The bridge — the I would beg and steal — so barely varies the song it doesn’t actually register as any kind of musical shift. The song is all on one plane, as if there is only one truth in life, as if for a moment someone glimpsed it. Thanks to Jean-Martin Büttner. “Report from Cartier,” on a 2007 encounter with Little Richard (and Tina Turner, Wanda Jackson, Jerry Leiber, Mike Stoller, Jean Dujardin, and Alexandra Lamy) in Paris in 2007, and “Little Richard from A to Zeeza,” from Artforum in 1984, are currently posted on the front page of greilmarcus.net.

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Replacing your home appliances might not be an appealing endeavor because it carries a hefty price tag. When your appliances have been experiencing frequent breakdowns, you know that unit replacement is the only option you have. There are factors that determine the longevity of your units such as the brand, type, and age. Home appliances can serve you for many decades. However, the manner you are using your home appliances can either shorten or lengthen their lifespan. Your air conditioner, for instance, needs regular servicing. An AC repair technician should inspect your unit to find out if there are underlying problems that can cause the unit to breakdown. As for other home appliances, giving them TLC should be the best practice to follow. Even simple practices can definitely make a huge difference in extending the lifespan of your appliances. Clean and unplug your appliances: The simple and yet most frequently forgotten practices are cleaning and unplugging your appliances when not in use. It is important for your appliances to be as clean as possible because dust, stains, and grease can negatively impact your appliances. Whether it is a food processor, oven, fridge or air conditioner, all of them needs regular cleaning. When you are finished using an appliance, do not forget to clean it right away. Cleaning your home appliances might have already slipped your mind but it is an important practice that can keep your appliances in tip top shape. Keep your washing machine at a matching level: All appliances have moving parts which are the ones that wear out first. Even your washing machine has these moving parts and they need to be well taken care of so they stay fully functional. Your washing machine can only get longer lifespan if you consider keeping it level. Check the surface of your washing machine using a spirit level. Be sure to adjust the legs so you can keep them at a matching level to prevent fewer breakdowns and to maximize the performance of your washing machine. Your washing machine’s internal motor and drum will thank you for it. Avoid putting firm items your food processor: Your food processor allows you to blend ingredients and speed up food preparation. However, your food processor’s lifespan can be shortened if you use it for cutting hard ingredients like nuts or coffee beans. These ingredients might blend but they can have a negative impact on the food processor’s blades. Avoid blending them whole. You should cut them into smaller pieces before you put these ingredients in your food processor. Your food processor will continue to serve you if you use it the way it is intended. pre-wash dishes before Placing them in the dishwasher: You can save time when you use your dishwasher for washing dirty dishes. However, if you directly put your dishes in the dishwasher without pre-washing them, this practice can do serious damage to your appliance. Dishes with sticky food items need to be prewashed as the dishwasher might not be able to wash them off completely. Not only will you reduce wear but also ensure that your dishes are free from grease or oil. Regardless of your home appliances, maintenance is sure to prevent untimely repairs or replacement. While home appliances are expected to last for a decade or even more in some cases, your appliances will stop functioning as they should if you do not consider scheduling regular maintenance. The purpose of maintenance is to ensure that minor problems are properly addressed before they become severe. Problems with your appliances that are not immediately addressed can be the reason for considering replacement earlier than you expected. While DIY maintenance can save you money, there is no guarantee that you have thoroughly inspected all aspects of your home appliance. You still need to consider calling a professional to do the job. They have the tools, knowledge, and expertise to ensure that your appliances will be in working condition. You do not have to buy new appliances if you know how to take good care of the existing ones. By following these practices, you can be sure that your home appliances will make your life easier even in many years to come.

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A top boffin has warned that aliens visiting earth will have all the same personality flaws that humans suffer. Simon Conway Morris, professor of evolutionary paleobiology at Cambridge University, told the Royal Society that ET is less likely to want to phone home than call his broker to work out a way to shaft the earth for its resources. He said extra-terrestrials are likely to possess human foibles such as greed, violence and a tendency to exploit others' resources, and are likely to show up to try and buy Manhattan with a chest of iPhones. He said that Governments should prepare for the worst if aliens visit Earth because beings from outer space are likely to be just like humans. While aliens could come in peace they are quite as likely to be searching for somewhere to live, and to help themselves to water, minerals and fuel, Conway Morris will tell a conference at the Royal Society, in London today. He said that extra-terrestrials won't be splodges of goo … they could be disturbingly like us, and that might not be a good thing – we don't have a great record. We guess he is talking about the record Let's Talk About Love by Céline Dion which breaks the Shadow Proclamation as a weapon war. Conway Morris said that alien life is most likely to occur on a planet similar to our own, with organisms made from the same biochemicals. The process of evolution will even shape alien life in a similar way.

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Captivating four bedroom, three and a half bath custom home offering marsh and sound views from every room. This recently updated masterpiece offers exquisite living spaces with open floor plan and large windows showcasing long marsh views. The main level master benefits from fabulous views. Enjoy total privacy while overlooking the marsh. The property boasts custom features throughout including Wolf appliances, hurricane proof windows, Brazilian cherry IPE decking, new HVAC systems, Kinetico water system and more. If you have been waiting for the perfect waterfront low country home this is it. Conveniently located in Hilton Head Plantation. Listing courtesy of Charter One Realty - Office A. We do not attempt to independently verify the currency, completeness, accuracy or authenticity of the data contained herein. It may be subject to transcription and transmission errors. Accordingly, the data is provided on an “as is,” “as available” basis only and may not reflect all real estate activity in the market. © 2019 Multiple Listing Service of Hilton Head Island, Inc. All rights reserved. Certain information contained herein is derived from information which is the licensed property of, and copyrighted by, Multiple Listing Service of Hilton Head Island, Inc.

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its the best mobile from HTC till date.....rocking user interface....very good cam...wonderful display....small on size...its just amazing...messaging with this phone is not difficult at all....its the best best best fone.....my frns have it....its good to shimmer around...dnt even think before buying it. i got it for 28,000 and i will never repent it... I've asked this question 100 times with no proper answer. question #101 how can i get the Arabic software just to read Messages? Thank you all wg, 06 Sep 2008Does it come with a stylus pen, or do i have to use my fingers all through?no it comes with a stylus but it goes inside the actual phone so its hard to see I have been using Touch Diamond for over a month. I find that the battery life is very poor. It's far lower than what has been mentioned in the specifications. Has this been a problem with this model? Yak, 07 Sep 2008Ive bought this fone 2 months ago (July2008) and had so much problem using it: 1. No sound ... morego to this website and you'll find tones of upgrades, for free, which will enhance your unit. http://www.xda-developers.com wg, 06 Sep 2008Does it come with a stylus pen, or do i have to use my fingers all through?yes, the unit comes with a stylus pen. There are two stylus pen, actually. One is a spare in case you lost it. Dear LIM, you are really professional. I tried the Message tone, you don’t need even to put it in the windows folder. Anyway. Thank you very much. You are a real sufficient user. Ive bought this fone 2 months ago (July2008) and had so much problem using it: 1. No sound when sms received only until you switched the display on. 2. Backlights flickering when its being charged & when the info page is shown. 3. Cannot change backlight settings (i tried changing the backlight settings so it dims after 30 sec but after switching it off and on again, the settings for the backlight will automatically returns back to 5 sec (very annoying)) 4. Cant switch on Wi-Fi 5. Cant switch on Bluetooth. Another thing is that the transitions is very slow compare to my iPhone. And its a problem for mac users like me to sync data from the fone with my mac. Sent my Diamond back to the shop after two months of using it, luckily it was still under warranty. Im planning to trade the HTC Diamond with Nokia E90. Unsatisfied User of HTC Diamond! Does it come with a stylus pen, or do i have to use my fingers all through? hi. i've been thinking about buying this phone for quite a long time but i heard that typing msg with this phone is difficult, and when u dig deep into the menu bar like searching tools, u can easily miss out the thing u wrong becoz of ur finger position. is tht really true? and another questions is that which phone with wifi would u guys recommend? thx heaps yao, 04 Sep 2008how to set our own song as message tone?? and where can i find the theme for this fon?? sumbod... moremsj tone must use the wave file...u need to convert the song to the wave file n just simply paste it at the "window" folder at your "file maneger".the you can choose the song at the "sound and notification" in setting . Nikosss, 05 Sep 2008Hi! My question for those who own this phone is : is it normal for the phone to get hot when c... moreYes, it does get quite warm especially when you do more then the usual browsing of the 3D-FLo interface, like wi-fi, receiving calls, internet, etc, those that require more loading from the RAM. There's no way to stop the heat but just to avoid palm/finger contact when it gets annoying hot at the bottom part. The battery is to blame cause the more applications you work on, the more the tiny battery has to content with. It is a 900mAH that is chemically producing more energy to support the demands of heavier applications. In short, it's like a small car with small engine trying to pull a truck that weighs 4times. The engine from the small car will overheat putting great effort to pull the truck. It wouldn't explode, but it will not last long either. hTC TD has its good side as well as its flaws. In my 3 weeks of using it wth the initial ROM v.1.35. and then upgrading to ROM v.1.93. through hTC-website, it has improve a fraction of it's 3D-Flo performance. That was still a short lived relationship as the battery life and the screen size (though VGA) stop short of what a 3G pda phone ought to be like. It'll do great if it had screens, 3D performance and battery life similar to the likes of the Apple iPhone. Still the battery life gets me, and I sold it off after the 3rd week. I am still very much into gadgets from hTC Corperation and happy to wait on them till they get it all together the way we like it to be. Hi! My question for those who own this phone is : is it normal for the phone to get hot when charging or when I using it? couse mine is...10X to all!! Hi! My question for those who own this phone is : is it for the phone to get hot when charging or when I using it? couse mine is...10X to all!! This is by far the most stupid, annoying phone I have seen in my life. Let's be clear about one thing: the packaging is neat and the mini-usb for power as well as connections is nicely done. And that's where it stops. I bought this machine becaue I had read the GPS and camera on the 2nd generation Iphone were really crap. I really like making pictures with my camera (I had a decent SE before) and I want a smartphone so I don't need to buy a new navigation system. So the Iphone went and I decided to take the HTC Diamond Touch, which looked nice and small. What a fool I was. 1. I could find no button to access the camera directly. As I said, I love to make pictures, so not having this button is frustrating for me. I don't want to get out my stylus every time I want to do something. Also, the quality of the pictures is so bad it is hardly worth taking one and the camera has no flashlight. 2. I could find no clear way to swith off the volume for the machine immediately. I might have missed it, but there is no simple way to do this. 3. HTC has used a kind of overlay on top of windows mobile 6.1. This overlay repeats some functions in the windows system, purportedly to make them better accessible, and partly replaces others. This overlay is just unworkable. It makes the machine extremely slow and makes the general handling of windows mobile even more complicated, becauwse the central preferences for the functions it says it handles are not connected to those buttons. However, the smart people at HTC have made it necessary to use this layer of junk by adding buttons that are rather handy: pickup the phone, closing a call etc. Obviously, these buttons do not work without the junk. This has caused me irritation to no end. Moreover, on my machine with Dutch localization, all maps with names like 'documents' had been produced in two languages. Obviously, only one map would actually contain the documents, but two were needed to be made for some reason. The same goes for the impossibility to find back pictures, as the machine uses two different folders for 'pictures' and 'images'. Finally, the windows mobile start menu just won't allow me to add more than seven items to my start menu. Why? What is the purpose of limiting your customer in an obnoxious way from something he wants to do? 4. I tried to sync the machine with my windows xp computer. Initially, the machine was not recognized at all, netier as a diskdrive nor as a smartphone. Upon checking on the internet, I found that for other versions of HTC phones, you need to update your active syc software. So that's what I did, although it was not inculded on the cd that came with the machine and the manual doesn't tell you any of this. It worked! Now to the next step: I wanted to use my mac address book on the little thingy, and as outlook does not easily import mac address books, I thought it would be good to make a U-turn via google, updating my google addresses on the run. Downloaded csv file from google, imported it into outlook: all blanks. Not to mention the fact that active sync syncs with outlook only, which is another 3rd party product that I had to buy at great cost and which doesn't do its job properly. Then, it turns out every time I plug in the phone into my windows machine, active sync starts syncing automatically. It loads automatically, runs automatically and it doesn't ask you for the specific settings you want to use for syncing. 5. windows mobile does not sync automatically with my mac. So, I had to find out that there is free software from syncmate which does the trick and I can use oggsync to keep my calendar synced. What syncmate doesn't tell you is that the phone needs a driver too and that in order for the phone to have the drive installed, you need to disable your firewall. By this time, I'm recalling the seemless syncing I experienced between every phone I had without windows mobile and my mac and I start cursing. 6. trying to install route66 map software has given me endless headaches: installation doesn't go automatically under windows and copying doesn't work. In both cases, windows for some reasons reports that it cannot copy directly onto the second disc. then, I decide to do something stupid: I go along with the option provided by Route 66 to format my disc (NAND memory). Stupid idea. 'Can't access disc' is the next step. So, the computer nerd in me cries: I can do it myself, I'll format it! So that's what I do, using windows xp. Thing formats, but doesn't stop the process within two hours. I cancel. Disc has disappeared now and cannot be found under windows. Luckily, I have my trusty mac waiting, which does find the disc and does restore it back to a useable windows partition. 7. the route66 software does copy to my windows machine, but not to my mac. On my windows machine, trying to copy the maps gives an error message like: 'path too long'. Since the copy to my mac failed, I decided to copy the maps from the windows machine onto my mac, then onto the NAND memory. Or just give up and use google maps. 8. After all this, I checked the settings once more. I found out that on my HTC, a little sneaky option had been enabled without any warning. This option means that every time I refuse a call, the phone automatically sends out a text message saying that I am not available right now to the caller. WTF?!?!? Sending text messages without me knowing it or asking for it? I don;t want to send text messages every time I refuse a call, not to mention these things still cost money. All in all, my experience with HTC, windows mobile and Route 66 until now has been extremely disappointing and as time-consuming as I'm used to with the grossly undertested windows family of products. This is not a machine that you should be selling to people. It is clearly not though through, instead asks for immense levels of technical knowhow on the part of the consumer and even then it is simply not foolproof. I will never, ever in my life buy another HTC product if I can help it. The same goes for windows and Route 66. yao, 02 Sep 2008does anybody know where can get the theme for this phone??? i cant find it...thx yagoto xda developers.com you will find all you want and u will love the phone

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Updated: August 28, 2020 8:48:33 am About 30 million migrant workers rushed home to their villages during the pandemic. The question now is will they return to their city jobs? And what will happen to wage growth? About 60 per cent of out-migration from rural India is aspiration-led and the 2.5 times higher income earned in urban jobs may be too attractive to forego, unless rural wages rise. So can incomes in the villages rise? Alas, we are not convinced. True, there is much excitement about the rural recovery. The countryside didn’t face as strict a lockdown as the big cities, the government has directed plenty of stimulus measures towards it, and monsoon rains and the planting of crops has been good. Yet, this optimism could prove short-lived, as eventually the more long-lasting determinants of rural wages could prevail. One, while the government has raised the rural employment guarantee programme (NREGA) wages and outlays, demand for the scheme is outpacing supply, which means that it may not be an effective driver of higher rural wages. Two, a construction slump could be harmful. Many rural Indians, especially those without land, have become building labourers. But 70 per cent of construction is related to real estate and property developers are dependent on funding from struggling non-banking financial companies. Until this type of lending restarts, construction may not normalise. And that means rural wages may not rise quickly either. Three, rising debt levels could be a drag. The increase in borrowing and the sustained fall in inflation over the last few years has increased the “real” indebtedness of rural Indians, particularly the land owners who pay villagers to farm their land. This is likely to hurt their ability to pay high wages. It is possible that rural wages could tick up a shade temporarily. Sowing in the current season has been strong, requiring more hands on the ground. But this may not rise sustainably once the current agricultural season is over, implying that “aspirational” labourers may want to return to their better paid urban jobs. So, are the workers returning to urban India? Unemployment rates have fallen and labour markets have already improved from the April lows. There’s early evidence of labourers going back to their jobs in the cities. Some estimates suggest that 15,500 migrants who had left for their rural homes in other states are returning to Maharashtra every day. A special train service that was started to ferry labourers back to their rural homes has seen demand dry up since early June (after peaking in late May). In fact, there is demand for trains to bring migrants back to their urban work places. All of this suggests that the supply-side disruption from reverse migration may not linger long after the current agricultural sowing season is over, assuming the peak of the pandemic is largely over by then. The situation might even be the opposite soon — more rural workers wanting jobs in urban India than are available. So, what will give? Wages. For three reasons, we think the wage outlook could be dimmer than in the pre-pandemic world. In fact, India may have more of a wage problem than a jobs one. One, as during demonetisation, workers could find jobs again, but at lower wages. During demonetisation, the unemployment rate declined gradually, but was driven by a rise in rural more than urban employment — rural India created double the jobs that urban India did. And despite the employment rate rising, wage growth declined over this period. What could this mean? One explanation is that urban job opportunities waned and some workers were only able to find work in rural India, where wages are 40 per cent of those in urban areas. It’s a similar picture this time around. There’s been an improvement in labour markets between April and July, driven by a faster rise in rural jobs (though some of this could just be seasonal). Two, there could be a second-round of pandemic-led labour market weakness, driven by job losses and falling wages from the first round. If this does materialise, it could be led by a lack of urban job opportunities since sectors like restaurants and accommodation, more prevalent in urban India, are yet to recover. Three, we find that both rural and urban wages are driven by economic growth, and our expectation of India’s post-pandemic medium-term growth falling by one percentage point to 5 per cent does not bode well. We believe that the banking sector, burdened by rising bad loans, will be the key driver of a fall in potential growth. What are the key takeaways? The much-feared labour-led supply disruption may not last, but weak wages could keep demand subdued. To offset this and ensure that things don’t spiral down, policymakers have an important role to play. In particular, they may have to ensure that capital is allocated efficiently — India’s savings are employed where they are most productive, and as a result, investments keep ticking along. After all, investment is the only way to increase the economy’s capacity to create well-paying jobs. But amid the COVID-19 backdrop, bringing back investment growth would also involve capital re-allocation. This means taking it away from sectors that are not working and redeploying it in sectors that are. Improving the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code procedure is a key step here. Another important step is to improve the health of banks as they are the ones allocating capital by giving loans. India’s banks have become risk-averse as a large mountain of non-performing loans threatens to grow further. Implementation of the 5-Rs — recognition, restructuring, resolution, recapitalisation and reforms — for the banking sector may be particularly useful here. To sum it all up, we believe the supply disruption caused by reverse migration won’t last long, but led by lower wages, demand could remain weak, requiring policy intervention. This article first appeared in the print edition on August 28, 2020 under the title ‘Weighed down by wages’. The writer is chief India economist, HSBC Securities and Capital Markets (India) Pvt Ltd. 📣 The Indian Express is now on Telegram. Click here to join our channel (@indianexpress) and stay updated with the latest headlines - The Indian Express website has been rated GREEN for its credibility and trustworthiness by Newsguard, a global service that rates news sources for their journalistic standards.

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The iPad’s display may be gorgeous, but if you’re going to read outdoors, you’ll probably want an e-ink reader: if your retinas don’t pucker into singularities from rays of direct sunlight bouncing off of the glass fdisplay, your iPad might still melt into a toxic soup and pour through your fingers. Well… okay. We cop to the hyperbolic here, but exaggeration aside, the iPad has some significant overheating issues if widespread overheating issues. Perhaps the problem is best summarized by PC Magazine’s Zach Honig, who posted this image on Twitter… the end result of using his iPad for ten minutes in direct sunlight on a 70 degree day in New York City. He had to pop his iPad in the fridge to get it running again. As it turns out, the iPad has the same operating temperature as the iPhone, but it appears that the iPad’s size and speed make it a lot more likely to shut off due to internal temperature. Apple still hasn’t commented on the issue… but it’s a worrying development as summer fast approaches. Still, this isn’t the first Apple product with overheating issues, and I think the same rule of thumb applicable to other Apple devices is just as applicable here: Apple portables, equatorial sun and tropical climes just don’t mix. Any of our readers out there had similar overheating issues? Let us know in the comments.

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Book Name: Building Material Author: S.K. Duggal This book is very helpful for the students of Civil Engineering. Building materials trends are changing day by day. This book aims at providing students with the up to date information about the building materials used all over the world. Details of the materials are given with their manufacturing and fabrication process. Important mechanical and physical properties, influences of various factors on these properties, the causes of defects, their prevention and remedies, testing of materials are discussed in this book very thoroughly and nicely. Use of different materials in building construction and their proper utilizing process are also discussed in brief. Read Review and Get a Paperback Copy of BUILDING MATERIALS BY S.K. DUGGAL

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(Photo courtesy of Chi-town MMAniacs) By Elias Cepeda For me, it’s simple — there’s only so long I can watch something I find fascinating before needing to try it for myself. I saw the first UFC when I was ten and I began training Brazilian Jiu Jitsu when I was 15. Growing up admiring the Gracie family and studying their history, I’d often wished that I didn’t have that five-year gap. More recently, however, I just wished I’d made better use of the time I had. Less taking off for basketball seasons in high school and more drilling in class. Less time getting old in a chair at work and more reps in the ring. Saulo Ribeiro, BJ Penn, and Gunnar Nelson all become elite black belt grapplers in just a few years. That isn’t me and no matter how much time I would have spent grappling I wouldn’t have been a BJ Penn. But I could have been a lot better than I was at Brazilian Jiu Jitsu, competed more and learned more about what I can and cannot do. That’s the thing with fighting – you find out what you know and who you are. Technically, this is true. You may think you’re good in a position or with a move because you hit it on your friends in training, whose games you know and with whom you are comfortable. But wait until you are under duress against a decidedly non-friendly opponent in competition or a fight and see if you execute the same way you did in the gym. If so, you trained well enough to say you really do know that position, that submission. But if you hesitate, if you freeze or if you’re sloppy because of the added adrenaline that hits you when you fight, then you weren’t exactly as good as you thought you were. The fight brings that knowledge out about yourself and your technical abilities. It also brings out much more essential things about your being. Who are you when you’re under attack? Who are you when you’re alone? Who are you when you’re afraid? In 2010 I fought two amateur MMA fights. The first I took on three days’ notice and the second I had about six weeks to prepare for. I was tired of being an inconsistent Brazilian Jiu Jitsu student who, furthermore, had never tested himself in the type of competition that interested me in the martial art to begin with. Street fights are one thing — and they are important — but there’s something extra daunting about fighting another person who’s trained specifically to hurt you for weeks or maybe months. I did better in the fight that I had six weeks to prepare for than I did in the one I took on short notice. The ball was rolling for me and I wanted to continue fighting and learning in 2011. Instead, I used work, injuries and laziness as excuses to not fight again and the whole year passed without my competing again. I had to do something in 2012. This past summer, from May to September, I traveled through two countries, across five states and provinces – from West to East and places in the middle – trained at renowned gyms, fought three times (twice in MMA and once in boxing) and spent time with experts and legends like Randy Couture and Renzo Gracie to learn more about fighting and life through their experiences and philosophies. I fought injured near my hometown, fought in the main event of a televised international card against the organization’s heavyweight champ. I drove across deserts and took long bus rides and many connecting flights. I trained in the fight capital of the world. I had my hand raised by a UFC ref and had ribs broken. I won, I lost. What follows is a series about what I did this past summer — my effort at “doing something.”

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In May 2021, the Poultney-Mettowee and Bennington Conservation Districts planted 221 Vermont-grown native shrubs on Fund for North Bennington property for three purposes: - To support pollinating and other beneficial insects. These insects’ pollinating efforts are responsible for one out of every three bites of human food plus they sustain our ecosystems by helping plants needed by many other species. - To support endangered forest-edge dwelling birds (such as warblers, alder and willow flycatcher, yellow warbler, common yellowthroat, and northern waterthrush). The plants provide seeds and fruit for adult birds. They also support insects that are essential food for 96 percent of newborn birds. - To provide an ecologically viable alternative to aggressively invasive plants (bittersweet, multi-flora rose, buckthorn, euonymous, etc.) encroaching on The Fund’s fields and forests. Below is a diagram of the six shrub species planted in the Monarch Meadow. (This four-acre meadow is located to the right of the oak bench at the southwest corner of The Mile-Around Woods). A detailed botanical survey of the Monarch Meadow, conducted in 2021 by Nancy Felix, can be downloaded here (pdf).

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Royal Herbs Terms & Conditions We appreciate your interest in Royal Herbs and look forward to your business. As a valued customer, the following are some important things you should know if you wish to access, and browse through information, or make purchasing decisions using information available on the website https://royalherbs.ca (the “Site”). DISCLAIMER & LIMITATION OF LIABILITY Royal Herbs is providing the Site on an “AS IS, AS AVAILABLE” basis to users. The information on the Site is for educational purposes only and not meant to substitute for the advice provided by your physician or other qualified medical and or health professional. You should not use the information or products available on or through the Site for diagnosing or treating a health problem or disease, or prescribing any medication. Neither Royal Herbs, nor our officers, directors, employees, agents, third party content providers, sponsors, licensors or the like assume any obligation to update such information or advise on further developments relating to such information. You hereby acknowledge that any reliance upon such information, reports, commentary, or any other content, views, opinions, recommendations or advertisements is at your sole risk. Royal Herbs assumes no liability or responsibility for the use of its products. Please carefully read all information provided on or in the product packaging and labels before using any products purchased on or through this Site. Royal Herbs advises all users to consult their own physician with respect to the safety and efficacy of alternative and complementary treatments. Under no circumstances will Royal Herbs, or any other party involved in creating, producing or distributing the Site or the information, products or services advertised or otherwise made available on or through the Site be liable for any direct, indirect, incidental, special or consequential damages that result from the use of or inability to use the Site or the products or services advertised on or otherwise made available through the Site, including but not limited to reliance by you on such information, obtained from or through the Site or that result from mistakes, omissions, interruptions, deletion of files or e-mail, errors, defects, viruses, delays in operation or transmission, or any failure of performance, including without limitation those that result from acts of God, communications failure, theft, destruction or unauthorized access to our records, programs or services. We attempt to display all products shown on the Site in an accurate manner, however, because of the technical differences in the equipment of our customers, we cannot be responsible for photographic differences in size, shape and color of the products. The receipt of an email order confirmation is simply recognition that we have received your requested order, and does not constitute an offer to sell. We reserve the right to limit the quantity of any item sold, or prohibit a sale altogether, including but not limited to prohibiting sales to resellers. COPYRIGHT AND PERMITTED USE This section applies to all information, advertisements, products and services available on or through the Site. Because some jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion or limitation of liability for consequential or incidental damages, in such jurisdictions liability is limited to the fullest extent permitted by law. Except where otherwise noted, all of the Site’s design, text, graphics and arrangement thereof, and software used herein, is our copyrighted material or that of our content providers. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. You are permitted to electronically copy, and print in hard copy, portions of the Site for your personal use only. Any other use other than as noted above, modification, distribution or republication without our prior written permission is strictly prohibited. Unless otherwise indicated in this Site, the information and materials available through this Site are the property of Royal Herbs and are protected under copyright, trademark and other intellectual property laws. No intellectual property or other rights in and to the information and materials on this Site are transferred to licensee and visitors to this Site. You may not frame any of the content of this Site or incorporate it into another Web site. The Site, all page headers, custom graphics and button icons are our service marks, trademarks and/or trade dress. All other trademarks, product names and company names or logos displayed, cited or otherwise published herein are the property of their respective owners. Requests for permission to reproduce or distribute materials found on this Site should be sent to firstname.lastname@example.org

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Heroes of the Storm enters closed beta, adds ranked queue The next big multiplayer online battle arena just moved one step closer to launch. Players at level 30 or higher and who own 10 or more heroes will be able to queue for the Hero League, where they’ll be matched up against other evenly skilled players and ranked based off skill level. Unlike League of Legends and its infamous solo queue, Heroes players can queue for ranked with any number of teammates, but they’ll be matched against groups of equal size. That’s a controversial change for many who want a pure solo queue experience, where individual player skill is more of a factor than teamwork. Blizzard has also implemented a stiff penalty for leaving a ranked match—leavers must play an unranked game before they can queue for ranked. Whether that serves as a valuable deterrent remains to be seen; critics believe it may encourage players to AFK in ranked games when they would usually instead leave. Also coming is the ability to host custom games, something the competitive community has sorely missed through the alpha. The combination of custom games and ranked play provide the framework the small but robust esports community centered around Heroes of the Storm to continue its growth. In addition to new content, a number of existing heroes received balance changes and even some major reworks. Abathur, Falstad, and Lili were each overhauled, receiving new ultimate abilities, updated talents, and fundamental gameplay changes. Abathur, for example, finally has two ultimate abilities. His new ultimate, Evolve Monstrosity, turns a minion into a monster that gains health and damage for every nearby minion killed, and can be controlled by his Symbiote ability. Lili received major changes to her kit and buffs to the scaling output of her ultimate abilities. Falstad’s W, which passively damaged nearby enemies, is now changed to an active ability, mitigating some of the frustrating randomness of the ability. It’s a massive set of changes for the budding new MOBA, but the one thing many fans were hoping would change with the move to beta—the fact it's closed—still remains. Still, with the game in beta, it’s likely many more invites will soon hit battle.net accounts the world around. So make sure to check your email for an invite. Heroes of the Storm is steadily shaping up to be a top tier MOBA title. Image via Blizzard

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The enigmatic “U Smile 800% Slower” has become a sensation on the web. “U Smile,” the second single from Justin Bieber’s new album, was slowed down 800 percent and uploaded to the web by Nick Pittsinger, a 20-year-old aspiring music producer in Florida. The song’s trippy atmospherics have attracted more than 1.7 million plays online. You can listen to the 35-minute “U Smile 800% Slower” here. “U Smile 800% Slower” is eight times as long as the original four-minute pop song , turning the high-pitched bleats of the pubescent signer into primal howls and cries that seem to linger forever. The song is reminiscent of late ’90s work from Icelandic singer Bjork, with Biebert’s voice heavily deconstructed and eerily intimate. This YouTube video is a watered-down version of the “U Smile 800% Slower”. Compare this with the original “U Smile” which sounds much less memorable.

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The two new trimarans will each be capable of transporting over 1,100 passengers (Image: Austal) Austal has won a €126 million (AUS$190 million) contract to design and build two 117-metre-long, high-speed vehicle passenger trimaran ferries for Canary Islands-based ferry operator Fred. Olsen Express. The aluminium trimarans will be the second and third Austal will build for Fred. Olsen Express, which already operates the trimaran vehicle passenger ferry, Benchijigua Express, delivered by Austal in 2005. “It is truly exciting to announce this major shipbuilding contract with Fred Olsen, who had the courage and foresight to work with Austal’s advanced trimaran technology in developing the Benchijigua Express in 2005,” said David Singleton, Austal’s CEO. “The Benchijigua Express has become an industry benchmark for blue-water commercial ferry operations, exceeding expectations for performance, speed and customer experience in the Canary Islands.” The two new trimarans will each be capable of transporting over 1,100 passengers and up to 276 cars at speeds of up to 38 knots. Constructionnstruction will begin in 2018. The vessels are due for delivery in 2019. “This is a watershed contract for our next generation trimaran design that will deliver new levels of seakeeping, passenger comfort and efficiency, and proves the trimaran is the right tool for the job in the challenging sea conditions of the Atlantic,” said Ben Marland, Austal’s vice president of sales and marketing. “It is a game-changer in the market.” Share this story

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Money-Saving Tips for Yard and Lawn Care LESLIE: A beautiful lawn and garden really is the envy of every neighborhood. And while you might think an expensive landscaping service is the only way to get that lush, green look, you can have that great-looking yard while being thrifty at the same time. And Roger, one of the simplest tips that you have is just to create a smaller lawn. I mean you’re not an advocate of blacktopping the yard, I’m sure, but what else can we do? ROGER: No. Well, it depends on the use of the lawn. If you’re having football games in the backyard, then you need a big area. If it’s just for social gatherings and your own enjoyment, you don’t need that much lawn. So, a great thing to do is create beds and add more plant material for added attraction and not have the maintenance you would of a lawn. TOM: Yeah. Less lawn, less maintenance. ROGER: That’s right. Plant beds go in and they’re pretty well – grow in and they don’t need a lot of fertilizer or water, where the lawn does need that extra care, plus mowing. LESLIE: Yeah. But I think when people sort of have this American dream of what the perfect house and property looks like, you imagine this big, green, lush lawn. So if that’s something you want, can I do something with the watering to help? ROGER: Absolutely. The first thing you can do is water it on a not-every-day schedule. People have an expensive irrigation system, they think it has to run every day. It doesn’t. ROGER: A lawn can exist on 1 inch of water a week here in the Northeast. And I usually do that in two applications so that the water is getting on the lawn, soaking down into the ground where the roots will go get it. TOM: Now, a little trick of the trade for figuring out what 1 inch of water a week is – can you put a can out or something like that? ROGER: Simplest thing is just put a can out on the lawn and run your sprinkler system and then measure the amount of water. If you have a ½-inch after 15 minutes, that means you want to water the lawn for a half-an-hour; it’ll give you an inch. So you split it up. Water one day, skip three and then water a fourth day. TOM: Now, another thing I think that’s counterintuitive: people try to save money by – when they cut the grass, they cut it right down to the nubs, figuring, “Ah, I won’t have to cut it nearly as frequently. I won’t have to pay to have it cut nearly as frequently.” But if you do that to the grass, the grass doesn’t survive very long or at least it doesn’t look very good, does it? ROGER: Well, you have to remember that grass is one – the one plant that grows from the tip. ROGER: So that keeps growing up and up and up. But when you cut it back that low, you’re cutting back past the green part: the good growing part. And the lawn sometimes can get diseased or it’ll take a really long time to bounce back and look good. So, no, a great height is 2 to 3 inches. LESLIE: What about the clippings? Do you want to leave them in there to sort of help thatch anything with the lawn itself or get rid of them? ROGER: They found that if you leave the clippings on the lawn, that it takes away one fertilization a year you have to do. So that’s actually saving some money and helping the soil. TOM: Oh, interesting. And today’s mowers can actually sort of mulch those clippings to the point where you’re not really seeing them around, right? ROGER: Right. A lot of them have either a door that opens if it’s going to get bagged. You shut the door and that way, the clippings get recycled underneath and cut into a really small particle so that they break down. The one thing you have to remember: that is the grass is really long and really wet, it’s going to be hard to mulch it. TOM: Now, one other point that you make is about fertilization. You really don’t want to over-fertilize, because that’s going to make the grass grow really excessively and you’re not really helping the plant, are you? ROGER: No, not at all. You’re forcing it to grow artificially fast. That’s why I’m not a big proponent of putting down fertilizer early in the spring. ROGER: That grass is going to grow fast enough from the fertilizer you put down late fall. And if you put more down, you could have 6 to 8 inches of growth in a week and that’s just bad for the grass and bad for you mowing it. TOM: And bad for your back, for sure. LESLIE: And I think there’s so much confusion over which fertilizer is right for the type of lawn. How do you sort of make that easy decision when you’re in the home center? ROGER: Well, the first thing you need to do is do a soil test on your soil and find out what your soil is and how much fertilizer it needs. Many times, we just go grab a bag of product and bring it in and throw it on the lawn. And it may have too much nitrogen for the soil and not enough phosphorus and things like that. And it’s very easy to do a soil test. Send it off to a state lab and they’ll come back with recommendations on exactly what type of fertilizer and how much you should be putting down. TOM: Absolutely. Now, Roger, we’re talking about ways to save money on a lawn. What about other plants that really can help you cut costs if you’re not doing grass? Are there any types of plants that you might recommend? ROGER: There’s all sorts of groundcovers and they range from the things you see every day, like Vinca and ivy and Pachysandra. But there’s a whole bunch of native groundcovers that when they grow in will perform splendidly with little or no water or fertilizer. TOM: Great advice. Roger Cook, the landscaping contractor on TV’s This Old House, thanks for helping us save some money on our landscape. ROGER: My pleasure. LESLIE: Alright. Catch the current season of This Old House and Ask This Old House on PBS. For local listings and step-by-step videos of many common home improvement projects, visit ThisOldHouse.com. TOM: And This Old House and Ask This Old House are brought to you by GMC. GMC, we are professional grade.

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The Ellen DeGeneres Show is an hour-long, five-days-a-week, talk-variety show. Find Ellen's monologue, celebrity photos and videos, games, giveaways, how to get tickets and more on The Ellen Show website. The babysitter fidgeted. "Yes, everything is fine, the kids are sleeping. But... um, the huge clown in the spare bedroom. I thought it moved earlier. Does it move? Is there a way to turn him off?" When there was no reply, she added. "I know. I'm being silly..." "No-no," the mother's voice sounded worried. "You're not silly, it's just... I lock that door to keep the kids out. You said it's open? And, I don't mean to panic you, but, we don't own a clown doll--at all.

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14 Automakers List More Models in Takata Recall DETROIT (AP) — U.S. safety regulators have released models from 14 different automakers that are being recalled to replace potentially deadly Takata air bag inflators. Documents posted Thursday by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration include many made by Ford, Nissan, Mercedes-Benz, Ferrari, Daimler Vans, Toyota, Tesla, BMW, Fiat Chrysler, Mazda, Subaru, Jaguar-Land Rover, McLaren and Volkswagen. Toyota , Ford and Honda released some of their models last week. Earlier this month Takata recalled an additional 3.3 million faulty air bag inflators as it expanded the largest automotive recall in U.S. history. Models released Thursday are equipped with those inflators. The company uses the chemical ammonium nitrate to create a small explosion and fill air bags quickly in a crash. But the chemical can deteriorate when exposed to high humidity and temperatures and burn too fast, blowing apart a metal canister. That can hurl hot shrapnel into unsuspecting drivers and passengers. At least 21 people have been killed worldwide and more than 180 injured. The U.S. recalls, which are being managed by NHTSA, are being phased in over the next three years. Older models and those in states with high humidity and temperatures are getting priority. Some of the recalls are limited to certain groups of states. To see if your vehicle is involved, go to https://www.nhtsa.gov/recalls and key in your 17-digit vehicle identification number. It can be found on your registration and is stamped on the driver’s side dashboard. Automakers and the government say the recall repairs should be done as soon as possible. The latest recalls are part of the largest series of automotive recalls in U.S. history, with 19 automakers having to recall up to 69 million inflators in 42 million vehicles. The problem brought a criminal conviction and fine against Takata and forced the Japanese company into bankruptcy protection. Here are the models posted Thursday: FORD: 327,796 vehicles including the 2013 Ford Mustang; 2010 Ford Edge, Fusion, Mustang and Ranger, Lincoln MKX and Zephyr, and Mercury Milan, 2009 Ford Edge, Fusion, Mustang and Ranger, Lincoln MKX and Zephyr, and Mercury Milan. NISSAN: 52,614 vehicles including the 2009-2012 Versa Hatchback and 2011 Versa Sedan. MERCEDES-BENZ: 132,167 vehicles including certain 2013 C250, C250 Coupe, C350 Coupe 4Matic, C300 4Matic, C350, C350 Coupe, C63 AMG, C63 Coupe, E350 Cabrio, E350 Coupe, E550 Cabrio, E350 Coupe 4Matic, E550 Coupe, GLK350 4Matic, GLK250 Bluetec 4Matic, GLK350, SLS Coupe, SLS AMG GT Coupe, and SLS Roadster; certain 2010 C300, C300 4Matic, C63 AMG, E350 Coupe, E550 Coupe, GLK350, and GLK350 4Matic vehicles; certain 2009 C300, C300 4Matic, C63 AMG, and C350 vehicles. FERRARI: 1,073 vehicles including certain 2013 California, 458 Italia, 458 Spider, FF, and F12 Berlinetta vehicles. DAIMLER VANS: 17,413 vehicles including certain 2013 Freightliner Sprinter 2500 and 3500 and Mercedes-Benz Sprinter 2500 and 3500 vehicles. TOYOTA: 15,000 vehicles including certain Toyota Yaris cars from 2010 through 2012. TESLA: 17,846 of the 2013 Model S. BMW: 41,808 vehicles including the 2007-2013 X5 xDrive30i, X5 xDrive35i, X5 xDrive48i, X5 xDrive50i, X5 M, 2009-2010 X5 xDrive35d vehicles and 2009-2013 X6 xDrive35i, X6 xDrive50i, and X6 M; 2007-2010 X5 xDrive30i, X5 xDrive35i, X5 xDrive48i, X5 xDrive50i, X5 M, X5 xDrive35d, X6 xDrive35i, X6 xDrive50i and X6M; 2007-2009 X5 xDrive30i, X5 xdrive35i, X5 xDrive48i, X5 xDrive50i, X5 M, X5 xDrive35d, X6 xDrive35i, X6 xDrive50i and X6M. FIAT CHRYSLER: 317,000 vehicles including 2009-2013 Jeep Wrangler, Chrysler 300, Dodge Challenger and Dodge Charger vehicles, and 2009-2011 Dodge Dakota; certain 2009-2010 RAM 4500 Cab Chassis, RAM 5500 Cab Chassis, RAM 3500 Cab Chassis, Jeep Wrangler, Chrysler 300, Dodge Dakota, Dodge Challenger, and Dodge Charger; certain 2009 RAM 3500, RAM 2500, RAM 4500 Cab Chassis, RAM 5500 Cab Chassis, Dodge Durango, Chrysler Aspen, RAM 3500 Cab Chassis, Jeep Wrangler, Chrysler 300, Dodge Dakota, Dodge Challenger, and Dodge Charger vehicles. MAZDA: 70,918 vehicles including certain 2013 Mazda6 and CX-9s; 2009 and 2010 Mazda6, CX-7 and CX-9s.; certain 2009 and 2010 RX-8s; certain 2009 B-Series trucks. Mazda previously announced 159 2006 B-Series trucks. SUBARU: 229,538 vehicles including certain 2009-2010 Tribeca, Impreza, Forester, WRX, Legacy, and Outbacks; 2009-2013 Legacy, Forester, Tribeca, WRX and Outbacks; 2009-2011 Imprezas. JAGUAR-LAND ROVER: 36,520 vehicles including certain 2009-2012 Land Rover Range Rovers; certain 2009-2015 Jaguar XFs. MCLAREN: 231 vehicles including certain 2013 MP4-12Cs. VOLKSWAGEN: 10,166 vehicles including 2009-2011 Audi A6 Avant, A6 Sedan and S6 vehicles; certain 2009 Audi A4 Cabriolet and S4 Cabriolet vehicles. This story, by Tom Krishner, was first published on apnews.com

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The Queensland government will pour $460 million into its flagship skills and training programs over the next four years. Treasurer Cameron Dick will hand down the Queensland budget on Tuesday and says the economy is "surging back to life" after the economic blow delivered by the pandemic. "Who would have thought (a year ago) that we'd have labour shortages in Queensland in some industries and some communities," he told reporters on Sunday. The budget will set aside $320 million for the Skilling Queenslanders for Work program and $140 million for the Back to Work program to address those shortages and make sure Queenslanders get and keep jobs. Mr Dick also predicted a lower than expected deficit after some dire warnings at the end of last year. "When I handed down the budget in December, under extraordinary circumstances leading to two budgets within broadly six months, I predicted the deficit for Queensland in 2019/20 and 2020/21 would be the two largest in Queensland history," he said. "The deficit of 19/20 will still be significant," he warned. However Queensland's economic rebound means "the deficit this year will be lower". Mr Dick said the government would keep its election promise not to increase existing taxes or introduce any new ones, in its current term. "We'll be delivering that." Mr Dick said the skills and training programs to be funded on Tuesday have helped 60,000 Queenslanders secure work since 2015. "This budget will be about setting Queensland up for the future. We'll be providing the skills that Queenslanders need to get the work of the future."

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Jump start learning French with the first three eBooks of the French Essentials series. For students in Grades 5-8 or highschool with no previous French. Ideal for students who want to cover a lot of ground quickly. 50 Lessons (10 Units) 1643 Audio Files ● 290 pages ● Grades 5+ ● 264 Mo (94Mo/95Mo/75Mo) ● Workbooks & answer keys ● Pronunciation exercises ● Cultural exploration + Download for FREE eBook 1 Glossary With your purchase you will get the free download of the glossary containing all content from the eBook 1 lessons. Screen capture - Look inside! The images do not contain audio features Parents! No need to speak French yourself. Easy to follow step-by-step method that promotes confidence building and success.

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New Catholic Church in Marx/Wolga Neue Katholische Kirche in Marx/Wolga "New Catholic Church in Marx/Wolga." Volk auf dem Weg, February 1994, 4. Translation from German to English by Ingeborg Wallner Smith, Western Springs, Illinois A new Catholic church in Marx on the Volga has been consecrated. The apostolic administrator from Moscow, Archbishop Tadeuz Kondrusiewicz and Cardinal Georg Sterzinsky of Berlin took part in the ceremony. The bishopric of Berlin had participated financially in the construction of the church. According to, Clemens Pickel, priest of the parish, around 250 people are currently attending Sunday services [mass?]. Many Russian-Germans travel long distances to be present. The editors, Dec. 1993 Our appreciation is extended to Ingeborg Smith for translation of this article. to use any images from the GRHC website may be requested by contacting Michael

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Charlie Chaplin In The Kid Charlie Chaplin and Jackie Coogan Classic Scene Poster, 61cm x 91.5cm View all Posters… Comedy Actor Poster: Vintage still of the King of the Silent Movie Charlie Chaplin. Here we see him pictured sitting in a doorway with Jackie Coogan, who plays "The Kid". Lovely piece of cinematic movie history. Custom Frame It: High quality custom framing to order with a choice of frames:

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As a homebuilder, you certainly know how to design houses that can satisfy your customers. But how do you reach potential customers faster? “Simply by leveraging digital marketing. According to research by the National Association of Realtors, 97% of home buyers go online to search for homes on sale. Therefore, an excellent online presence and investing in digital marketing services for home builders can help scale your business to new heights. Here are online marketing strategies to help you reach and convince your real estate customers. Make Your Company More Visible on Search Engine Search Engine Optimization (SEO) involves making your website appear on top in search engine searches. For this to happen, your business website must have in-demand informative and educative content. To enhance your business ranking on Google, do the following: - Create quality content about the homes you build - Use keywords on your pages’ titles - Add key phrases to your homepage’s copy The above actions will show the search engine algorithm that you offer content relevant to your specialization. But note that you can’t rank well if you stuff keywords in your website content. You should provide information that appeals to readers. Use Social Media Today, many are on social media platforms such as Twitter, Pinterest, and Facebook. In fact, about 3.196 billion people are active on social networks. And what’s more, social network users spend about 2hrs and 33min daily on different social media platforms. Social media platforms can help you to: - Create online networks - Reach potential customers - Sell your homes Come up with an Email Newsletter Engaging your potential customers is very important. It’s prudent to have a way of keeping your prospects informed about your company’s developments, even when they aren’t necessarily interested in buying a house. The goal is to ensure potential customers contact you when they decide to buy a home in the future. One way of keeping customers abreast is to create email newsletters that can make them sign up on your site. Use the newsletters to alert them about new home listings by your company. Digital Marketing is the Way As you have seen above, digital marketing can make it very easy for you to market your homes. But to do it well, you may require the help of a digital marketing agency. A digital marketing company will help you in the following ways: - Attract more customers into your business - Grow your business online - Leave you with enough time to concentrate on other essential company operations. - Saves you money in the long run. Online marketing can make it easy for you to grow your real estate company. No doubt about that! But don’t hesitate to seek help from experts who offer high-quality digital marketing services for home builders. They will multiply your chances of succeeding.

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The Wrestling School is a European theatre company based in London that explores the relationship between language, performer and audience through the work of Howard Barker. Considered one of the major writers of modern European theatre, Howard Barker's plays fearlessly explore power, sexuality and human behaviour with a poetic and compelling language that is rich in ideas, beauty and dramatic violence. In his Theatre of Catastrophe each performance is a challenge in which actors and audience are inspired to find meaning and resonance from a multiplicity of interpretations. winning Wrestling School has a reputation for outstanding productions of these texts, inspiring enthusiastic audiences with their highly theatrical and imaginative use of language, sound and image. A new Howard Barker play, In the Depths of Dead Love, a witty and poignant tale of a man facing an impossible dilemma, is being presented in London by The Print Room at the Coronet 16 January – 11 February 2017. Full details here. Howard Barker's book Arguments For a Theatre has recently been published in a fourth edition. This collection of lectures and essays explore aspects of The Theatre Of Catastrophe. www.oberonbooks.com

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Think of a premium motorbike, and the instant recall among the motorbike community are the motorbikes from the stables of BMW Motorrad. Motorbike models are exclusive, influential performers and style icons for the motorbike community. The year 2021 saw BMW Motorrad launching close to 6 new motorbikes and increasing its overall sales by 6.7%. The new year 2022 promises even better for BMW motorbikes with a lineup of 5 more trailblazers. If you are a BMW motorbike fan and want to know all about BMW’s newest motorbikes, you have come to the right place. Read this article to get notes on the all-new motorbikes from BMW in 2022. 2022 R 18 The newest 2022 R 18 successfully combines its legacy and iconic style. This cruiser motorbike from BMW is a powerful and mean machine fitted with the largest boxer engine with enhanced looks provided by its teardrop fuel tank and dual crib metallic frame. The 2022 R 18 is marketed by BMW as a cruiser motorbike. - This motorbike has a fly line stretched out and lows with a dual crib type metal frame that encloses its heavy-duty engine, which is the heart of this cruiser motorbike, defining its style and performance. - BMW has made this 2022 R18 motorbike very appealing to its core customers by making it fully customizable. - You can select four new metallic colors: Black storm, Mars red, Manhattan metallic in a matte finish, and a unique option, 719 galaxy dust metallic / titan silver metallic, a combination of blue and violet, giving the motorbike an eye-catching look. - The 2022 R18 has an engine and motor transmission in Nurburg silver color glossily polished to perfection. The raised handlebars in chrome give it a classy look. Engine Housing Cover The 2022 BMW R18 has an engine cover made of composite aluminum designed to give this motorbike a stylized look. The engine cover is produced on state an art machine to provide it with premium quality. The 2022 R18 has flat, long, and rider-friendly floorboards giving this motorbike the requisite cruiser appeal. Dual-Tone Black Cylinder Head Covers The dual-tone premium-quality aluminum head cover houses the powerful engine giving the overall classy look to the motorbike. This motorbike is fitted with fishtailed-shaped silencers to muffle the engine sound and give it a perfect cruiser motorbike look. Fuel Filler Cap The fuel filler fitted on this motorbike is also dual tone in color and manufactured with quality-conscious machining to give the motorbike a striking premium look. The R18 is boxer styled motorbike with a legacy of 95 years. Shaft and Frame The 2022 BMW R18 has a nickel-metal open driveshaft that brings attention to its high-end torque. This motorbike also comes with a double cradle type frame. The fork-type bridge on its high handlebar gives the R18 a classy look. The design is smooth and curvy. - The 2022 BMW R18 comes with Automatic Stability Control as a standard feature for better manoeuvrability. - The LED headlights are powerful to light the darkest of roads with easy operations with a keyless start. - The rear end with LED back lamps and signal indicators gives a safe riding experience. - The console is fully digital with a built-in microprocessor and loads of meters for indicating speed, fuel, and run kilometers. - The motorbike rider gets three options of riding- Rock, Roll, and Rain. As the name suggests, the rider is spoilt for choice while riding this motorbike. The 2022 BMW R18 expects to be around Rs. 11.5 Lakhs ex-showroom New Delhi. A great motorbike with legendary looks and powerful performance. 2022 BMW R18 Classic The 2022 BMW R18 Classic has a legacy of its own but at the same time appeals to the GenX motorbiking community. - The latest R18 classic sports the same white dual pinstripe design launched in its 1st edition. - The motorbike’s heart is a power-packed engine with the best displacement for a comfortable long ride even on the roughest of roads. - The highlight of this motorbike is its drop-shaped fuel tank giving it a distinctive look, and the frame made from steel which encompasses the powerful engine. - Riding this motorbike will put you in a league of your own—a classic motorbike for everyone in the motorbike community. Separate Pillion Seat Though the 2022 BMW R18 Classic is a cruiser motorbike, it features a separate pillion rider seat for better comfort during long and rough rides. The R in R18 The R18 Classic derived its name from the stylized boxer push rods and continued its legacy for 95 years. The two well-defined auxiliaries LED lights are best suited for dark, isolated roads. The R18 Classic provides complete rider comfort with its broad footboard for the feet support during exhaustive long rides on rough, bumpy roads. The 2022 BMW R 18 Classic motorbike comes with a sizeable all-weather windshield which protects the rider from the wind and rains. Exhaust Pipe and Cradle Frame The R18 Classic is classy with a round exhaust pipe, open-ended driveshaft, and twin cradle frame in shining chrome. Petrol Tank and Logo The prominent and historic BMW logo on its huge black petrol tank and the twin striping on the petrol tanks gives it an iconic look and styling. The classic leather saddlebag for storing essentials you may require on a long and winding road trip is a perfect companion with a 4.1-gallon capacity. The 2022 BMW R18 Classic may cost around Rs. 13.5 Lakhs ex-showroom New Delhi. A perfect cruiser motorbike with a classy style and powerful performance. BMW K 1600 GTL A German proverb goes something like this “anyone who travels with ambitions never travels alone.” It becomes true when you have company for a long drive. The BMW K 1600 GTL derives its strength from this proverb and matches it to perfection. - The motorbike performance is comprehensive and wishes fulfilling when you take for a ride. - This motorbike comes power-packed with a six-cylinder dynamic engine which gives a superior riding experience. - The design of the BMW K 1600 GTL provides the rider with complete riding comfort even on rough roads. - The instrument cluster is modern and classic simultaneously, with clear indicators giving correct information on speed, mileage, fuel, engine temperature, and other alerts for the motorbike rider—a perfect companion for the wanderlust in you. The BMW K 1600 GTL comes fitted with a powerful engine, smooth-riding capability, and an impressive performance. Integrated Smartphone Charging Compartment This motorbike provides the rider with complete integration with a smartphone for better navigation besides a special waterproof compartment with a USB C-type connector for charging your smartphone on the go. Favorite Buttons at a Click There are easy-to-use one-click favorite buttons for pre-selected functions. The rider can assign any function he wants to access quickly to these four buttons for easy selection. 719 Classic Forged Wheel The 1600 GTL has the best in class option 719 forged wheels, giving it a classic look and feel and powerful performance. The quality standard is high class and provides the rider with complete safety and security. Large TFT Display The BMW K 1600 GTL boasts a digital instrument cockpit with a 10.23-inch large color display integrated with Google maps for easy navigation. The bright and vibrant show is user-friendly and fully loaded. The boot space for storage is enormous and adequate even for long cross-country rides. It gives the rider peace of mind to carry large loads during long journeys and bring back souvenirs. Bright LED Headlights The front headlight is LED-based and bright enough to light the darkest of the road, adaptive to outside lights to use less energy, and gives the best results for safe rides. Audio System 2.0 The top-class sound system for immense pleasure, easy-to-use menus, superb output, and sound produced takes away all the stress while going on a long drive. The BMW K 1600 GTL is a premium tour motorbike made for exclusive motorbike enthusiasts. At 18.5 lakhs, it’s a tad expensive, but a motorbike is worth every penny invested. So as the new year approaches, the motorbike community and the motorbike fans have a lot to cheer for with these three motorbikes from the BMW Motorrad stable. 2022 will be a memorable year for BMW and its loyal motorbike fans. Disclaimer: This article was prepared or accomplished by it's author in their personal capacity. The opinions expressed in this article are the author's own and do not reflect the view of Motorbikes India or it's owners. The views and opinions expressed on this web site are soley those of the original authors and other contributors. These views and opinions do not necessarily represent those of Steve Gerweck, the GERWECK.NET staff, and/or any/all contributors to this site.

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This story contains scenes depicting gay characters and gay sexual situations. If you find that offensive, if you are under the legal age of consent to view/read such material, or it is forbidden in your particular jurisdiction altogether, it is suggested you move on. You have been warned. All characters are fictitous. Any similarities by name or description to actual persons whether living or dead are purely coincidental. No, really, I mean that... mostly. © is 2003 by Keith Morrisette, all rights reserved. No part of this story may be copied or reproduced without the express consent of the author, and not one word may be changed. Comments to Keith_Hackwriter@Lycos.com. More of my work is available at Archerland.net . Here, There Be Dragons Part the Second I'd gotten the idea that the river and the army wasn't all that far away - but then, Cérosk could fly and I had to walk so it's just how you look at it, I suppose. It was long and tedious picking my way across that burnt out plain, stumbling over rocks and stumps of what might have been trees once, not to mention skirting dried out dragon shit. Dragons are a lot like seagulls; the first thing they do when they take to the air is take a dump. My host may have had hang ups about sex but he had no problems about his toilet training. Dried out isn't bad - the fresh stuff is a different. It's not only corrosive it'll turn your stomach inside out. Still, I'd found on my first time around on this world that the locals `harvested' the dry stuff whenever they could; apparently it burnt better, longer and hotter than wood in the winter months. And it lost most of its, uh, natural effervescence when it lay out in the sun for a few weeks. Not all of it, though. When you came to villages, on top of the stench of humans (bathing was a vague notion on a lot of these worlds), livestock, and the privies not quite as far from the houses as one might wish, it combined to create an interesting essence to the tapestry of the simple, pastoral life. Think of sewage and sulfur. Well that wasn't much on my mind as I trudged across the plain, wearing a pair of boots that were great for riding but not so good for walking. And I wasn't really that much into walking. That's what horses are for. Or at least, something like horses. The sun burning down on my head didn't help much either... Magicians are a fair skinned lot, and I hadn't thought to grab a hat before bolting my last residence. My black hair was stuck to my head in sweat, and it didn't help that I'd taken to wearing it long these days. And robes are clumsy things for hiking. Very stylish and comfortable around the castle, mind you, but not too practical on the long road. Once I cleared the empty plain and got into the woods I hacked at it with my knife and trimmed it back to more of a kilt. I slit some of the extra fabric into strips to tie back my hair in a ponytail and make a sweatband for myself and used the scabbard to cinch the waist. Kilts had their plusses, although in the back of my mind I had the nagging idea that my ensemble looked less like a kilt and more like a girls-school uniform from Andrew's world. If I blinked, I could see his face flicker; if I closed my eyes, I could see his body; if I stood still, I could feel his hands on my body, caressing. I shook off the memory of him, and inspected my new garment and I felt foolish all over again. Favoring bright colors in my lounging wear didn't help. If I'd stuck to brown or green I'd have a safe stroll through the woods, but somehow I thought magenta would stand out. Then again, I wasn't really trying to hide from anyone for a change. Even outlaw bands weren't likely to work their trade too close to a dragon's lair. On a hunch I tried a few mild magic things, and was satisfied. Distance between the dragon and me was helping, but I was by no means powerful. I managed to set a feeble fire. Parlor trick stuff. If I met a band of merry men in this place, I'd have to depend on my sword. I was still stronger than anyone else I was likely to encounter, and I'm good at hacking with a blade. If something did happen I'd at least have a chance, but there'd always been a certain comfort in knowing that when a fight went bad all I had to do was use my mind to search out the elements to use what was around me for protection. Like in the last world, where I'd sensed the making of gunpowder in a mountainside when I met Maddràs the first time, and manipulated nature enough to combine them so they'd explode. I can't create things; just use the forces around me to make them work. Fire and light - well, they're both a part of my being. Just a matter of channeling the static electricity in my body. I sniffed the air and caught the scent of running water, but it was still a good distance away. I couldn't catch the scent of anything else that wasn't ordinary though, and aside from the hum of insects and the occasional small rustling in the bushes I didn't catch much of anything else, either. I cut myself a walking stick - small bushes can hide some pretty nasty if not exactly life threatening things. Having something along to poke the overgrowth couldn't hurt. Plus a good, hard stick can give you a little bit of an edge on something coming at you when you knew how to swing it right. I pushed into the forest, sniffing my way to the water, figuring it would take me to what I wanted to find sooner or later. There was what amounted to a path cleared through the wood, and since it took me more or less where I wanted to go I took it, following my nose. Easy travel, I told myself. Until I heard something snap that shouldn't, and a fat log swung down at me suspended from ropes and caught me in the middle. Then the world got all dark and fuzzy again. * * * * * "What is it, ya think? Can't be a man. He'd be dead." A small voice, squeaky and nasal. Rather la-ti-da, too. "You and your men. What's it matter?" came in a second squeaky voice contemptuously. Not quite so grand but with a snotty, superior tone. "Once her nibs is done with it, it will be." I opened an eye and looked around. I was tied this time, leaning against a wall and sitting in a pile of straw. And judging by the itching I was starting to feel, the straw had its own residents that took me for a snack bar. I looked around, hoping for something to take advantage of. I'm good at taking advantage of things. Not much of a room, I thought. Typical peasant chic -- not much more than saplings and branches tied together, the larger gaps filled with dried mud. Thatched straw overhead and loose straw on the floor, covering the natural earth. There was a pile of stones in the corner that more or less served as a hearth, what could have been two chairs if you used some imagination and a small, more-or-less flat-topped thing that could have been a table. I tried the ropes but even with my natural extra strength they weren't going to snap. Maybe a little fire would help them but I'd hold back on that just yet; I didn't really like the idea of singed skin. And sitting on a pile of dried straw with burning ropes probably wasn't a good idea either. "It's awake," I heard the lat-ti-da voice squeak from a dark corner. "Go get the witch." "Why me?" The arrogant one whined. "Why don't you get her? Since when am I the servant?" "Ah, for--don't be such a pain in the ass, okay? Just go get her and don't argue for once!" I heard a grunt and the shadows moved. A one-foot-tall bird-like thing (minus a beak) with spiky black hair dressed in shabby looking brown britches and a shirt scuttled out of the darkness. He (it?) was a skinny little wretch of a thing with cat-like eyes, and his mushed-in mouth seemed cast in a perpetual sneer. He paused long enough to give me a withering look and snorted before snapping his fingers contemptuously in my direction from a safe distance, and flapping small, leathery wings. He headed out what passed for a door to the hovel. "Snotty bugger," the shadows grumbled, and the other creature came out. A little shorter and as thin at the top and bottom as his fellow but with a sudden pot in the center, and with the same flair for fashion. But the face wasn't all pushed in; he sported a long, wide nose, jowls, and the eyes were green. Unlike his companion with the black spiky hair, he had longish, unnaturally red curls that looked suspiciously like a bad hairpiece. "Who are you?" he demanded, also from a safe distance. "And what are you?" Great, I thought. Another pixie with attitude. I tried to keep it light. "George," I answered blithely, trying to look as stupid as I wanted to sound. Stupidity is usually a safe bet when you're out-flanked; obnoxious creatures like to think they're superior. "And what do I look like? I'm just another man. I'd offer to shake hands, but I seem to be bound. Don't suppose you'd like to untie me?" It snorted. "Don't suppose I would," he said, getting a little closer but still careful to keep some distance, and trying to get a peek up my kilt. "George, eh? Common enough name for men, but not one I'd brag about this close to a Dragon's lair. And as for you being a man, I've got some doubts. When that log came down it should have caved in your chest. And even if that didn't work, when you flew back and hit the tree, that should have split your skull open and snapped your spine." His eyes raked over my body, sniffed me suspiciously, and there was a glimmer in his eye. He liked what he saw but he also wanted to gloat. "But here you are, all cheery and trying to be a buddy. I'll let the witch deal with you." Rude little bastard, passed through my mind. But of course it wouldn't do to say it. "Well, maybe I'm a little... different," I said with a smile. "Uh, don't suppose you have a name?" He looked me over carefully, wondering about me. I can't read minds, but I can read faces pretty good, at least the ones that are made more-or-less like mine. He may have sounded belligerent, but he was scared of me, too. "You couldn't pronounce it even if you wanted to - Tim will do. And you can call my, uh, associate, Ken -- for short." He sniggered at his own joke, which was more than I was inclined to do even if I was at his mercy. I tried to take it in stride, and string him for information. "And you are from--?" "It's only me from across the swamp," he said in a vague way, still eyeing me. "Lovely legs," he added in a forlorn voice, reaching out and running his fingertips over my skin, playing with the hair on my legs. "So very much like someone I knew once... so very long ago..." he trailed wistfully. "Lost, lost and gone," he moaned. I raised an eyebrow, not caring to encourage any further fondling even if I did want to score some points. "And who's this witch I keep hearing about?" "That would be me," cut in another voice. I twisted my neck sharply, and wished I hadn't. I'm not usually hung up on appearance; I've been to worlds and met creatures whose faces would crack mirrors in other worlds. There's ugly, but there are defining moments in ugliness. Actually, this witch defined a particular eon of ugliness. >From her filthy dress to her matted hair, and the cakes of just plain dirt and greases imbedded in her skin, she made you want to shudder. I tried to smile, hiding the shudder that swept through me. She shuffled into the hovel, fixing me with her black eyes for a moment and studied me. I've faced a lot of creatures in many places in my time, but usually I'm the one doing the studying. It was interesting being the one on the other side of things. Not pleasant, but interesting. She turned to Tim, who rocked on his heels with his nasty little friend Ken beside him. "You two can hop it now," she said in a flat, no-nonsense voice. "I can take care of the man by myself. Just wait outside until I send for you." "Not home?" Tim whined. Her nostrils flared. "Does `wait outside' sound like `go home?' " Ken gave me a dirty, doubtful look but he shrugged and yanked Tim who was still trying for a peak up the kilt and the two of them scampered for the door without another word, Ken stomping and Tim mincing. My hostess chuckled as she watched their retreat. I shook my head. "What are they, anyway?" She gave me a gap-toothed smile. "Them? Just a couple of old færies," she cackled. "Outcasts, really. They're such a pair of obnoxious little pains in the ass, even their own don't want them," she said, studying me. "Ran `em out of their own place years ago, and I found them in the woods and gave `em a place to call their own. I let them make a borough across the swamp -- they do favors for me now and then when I need something." I sniffed the air again. If I could smell the river that wasn't far off, I should have been able to smell a swamp. And given the look of this woman, I should have been able to smell her, too. Nothing. Nothing unnaturally pungent, anyway. I turned my attention back to the crone, who'd dropped to a chair near the table and continued studying me. I studied back. She may have looked like a peasant, but she didn't act like one. I'd seen that they way she carried herself. I suppose I could have gone on trying to play stupid to get some information, but something in those eyes told me she was a lot smarter than she wanted most folk to think and I wouldn't be able to carry it off. At least, not with her. "You're not what you seem," I commented dryly, after a silence. I locked my eyes onto her, and my voice lost its casualness. "And there's no swamp. I'd smell it." Her eyes sparkled, and the corners of her mouth twitched. We'd both made a decision about the other in those few moments, and her voice changed. Not confiding, not commanding - but pitched to the level of equals who both know there's a good deal more to the other than what they wanted people to believe. "They think there is, and that's the important thing," She said casually. "Thinking there's a swamp between us keeps them away -- they're convinced it's a two mile walk around, and on four inch legs that's a good haul." She narrowed her eyes. "And you're not what you seem, either," she said pointedly. "The, uh outfit you're wearing means you're no peasant - around here clothing comes in two colors -- filth and dirt. That particular shade of pink would cost a tax collector three years of thieving. Plus you're hands are un-calloused though you're fit enough; even merchants and nobles have to do work here. You may look like a man, but you're not." She nodded, still with the slight curve at the edge of sunken lips. "Those two were right -- you should have been dead when you walked into one of my traps. Or at least injured enough so I'd have to nurse you. But all you did was sleep through the night and this morning." That was news. A day? I could go a long time without sleep, but I liked sleeping. Even so, I seldom slept for more than a few hours at a time. The witch smiled mischievously and her eyes became slits. "And I can see enough of what's in your mind to know I've met your kind before." She rubbed her chin, scratching a hairy wart. I considered the significance of her comment on having met my kind before. Many of my kind like to travel, and we sort of have a history in a lot of places. Being recognized for a Mirror Walker isn't always good news. "And what kind would you be?" I asked, no longer playing the fool as I had for the færies. "Someone who could do that," she said calmly, twitching a finger and my hands and legs were free. Then she blurred for a moment and -- changed. Completely. The hump was gone. So was the filth, along with the stringy grayed hair. All the other ugly things, too, and she was dressed better. She wasn't a raving beauty mind you, not that it would have made any difference to me. She was a woman in early middle years, a striking if not beautiful face; handsome I've heard it called. The frizzled, matted hair was now a shortish auburn streaked lightly with gray. On a lot of worlds with the right assists she would have been considered a beauty, but she didn't seem interested in the cosmetic. Her clothes weren't the rags I'd thought them, either. She was in a long, lightweight blue gown tied off at a slightly chunky waist. She wasn't a `goddess' but she was hardly a worn out old woman. A graceful hand pointed to the stool opposite, which now looked more like a comfortable chair with cushions. I dropped into it and studied the room. Cleaner now, smooth-cut stones on the floor and covered not with woven straw but carpets. The walls were rough logs still, but not the rickety lean-to I'd first seen. Instead of clumps of dirt the gaps were filled in with something cleaner and more solid. And it was a whole lot larger. But my straw matting and its inhabitants hadn't changed, and I stood carefully, brushing the dead grass from me. I rubbed my ankles and wrists which should have been sore but weren't. There were also no marks from the ropes. I noticed the rude pots filled with dirty animal fat were gone and small braziers glowed burning scented oil, their light reflected through the room. I looked at her and pursed my lips. "Which was real? What I see or what I saw?" She gave me a thin smile. "I could have cast a spell and made this. Or what you saw," she said mysteriously. I leaned back and shook my head, stretching out my legs and crossing my ankles. "This isn't magic," I said quietly, watching her soberly. "I'd know if it were. We're still too close to Cérosk to manage much in the way of magic. And you're not a Magician, either," I said with confidence. "I'd know that, too." She got up and poured some tea from a brass pot sitting on a grid in the no-longer make shift hearth and passed me a cup before settling down. I sniffed it. Plain herbal, nothing more. She smiled again, without any gaps in her teeth. "No spells," she said lightly. "I can't do things like that. But I can create illusions - like telling you while you were out your hands and feet were tied." She eased back into her chair and sipped. "I can make you see things, or think you do. I can make you think things, too." She waved a hand around. "This place is what I built or had built with help from grateful - clients. Except for the carpets -- those are still straw mats, but they're the best I can do here. Everything else you see right now is real, including me. I'd have given you a goddess to behold if I thought it would do any good, but I already sense your not-well, women aren't exactly your thing, are they?" she said coyly, and laughed a pleasant laugh. "I could have been a prince for you, but one grab in the right spot and you'd have known something was wrong - you might think something was there but your hands would grab air. I can fool you're mind, but the other senses still work if you focus -- like your nose. And besides, I'm not much interested in dining on any Trouser Trout at this point." She chuckled, nodding. "Most people would have never noticed, but your other senses are a lot keener than everyone else's, aren't they?" I stared down at the carpet intently, admiring the pattern. Then I concentrated on the fiber of the rug itself and bent over to touch it. Stiff, brittle. Finally I could see it for what it was but it took some effort to break the illusion. Woven straw. I concentrated on her next. No trickery that I could find. It took a lot of effort and my head still ached so I took for granted the rest of what was around me was real. "Illusions... and you can read minds?" She tapped a long finger on her jaw, watching me thoughtfully. "Not exactly, at least with you. But I can get a strong sense of what people are thinking, and even when I dropped the illusion around myself you weren't exactly -- interested, shall we say. I'm not a raving beauty, but I'm not half bad, either. Something should have registered and it didn't, so that part was easy to figure out." She glanced around the room again. "And as for what this place looks like... well, that's an on-going thing. When there isn't a damned Royal Army camped a few miles away, these woods are thick with-undesirables, lets say. They can't go into the villages, and so if they see a woman on her own, they get ideas of their appeal to my sex - and in my case, there isn't anything mutual about the appeal. On the other hand, if they see an old bat in a dump with the reputation for being the local witch, I don't have to waste any time on rapist-wannabes. And stealing scraps from a witch isn't too good an idea, either. So, they move on, I don't have to put on a big show, and everyone's happy. Including me." She poured a clear liquid into her tea from a jug and sipped at it, smiling. My nose told me there was more than a little alcohol in the liquid and I eyed it. She shook her head. "Not after that whack to the head," she chuckled before getting back to business. "I've an idea what you are, and even your kind can get a concussion. Anyway, my illusions keep the rogues away, and the old hag routine plays pretty well with the locals. They're always out here with offerings trying to snag a love potion or to get a wound healed. I treat the wounds as best I can since the cutting edge in medicine around here seems to be prayer and leaches. And handing some poor, ditzy kid a bit of water laced with berry juice and booze with instructions to mumble some stuff, along with some whacko instructions about dancing naked under the full moon, and everyone's happy. Local legends are satisfied." She shrugged and smiled apologetically. "Hey, it's a living. But the medical treatment is real enough. And it's not like I bleed the poor wretches, either - their lives are tough enough without me making it tougher. The potions are paid for with a cushion or some plain cloth. And the broken bones, well, even men are known to have gratitude from time to time. A little free labor when I need it, and I stay comfortable here." I smiled. "Regular fairy god-mother, are you? Ah, well. So, what do I call you?" "Sapphy's good," she said nodding, still studying me but without hesitation, so I took it we were both on good terms. Finally her eyes narrowed and she leaned onto the table. "Okay, cards on the table. What the hell is a Mage doing on a world where magic doesn't work, eh? And don't bother lying," she added flatly. "Because I'll know. I've met your kind before." I eyed her. No point in denying the magic thing if she could see even part of my mind. "Getting here was-an accident. I had to make a sort of quick exit from where I was and, well..." I shrugged. She pursed her lips, her eyes still narrowed. "By any chance did your quick exit have anything to do with some no-good son-of-a-bitch named Patrick?" Now I pursed my lips but my eyes opened wider. Being recognized for something different was one thing. Finding someone who knew Patrick was something else. But I tried to keep it casual, nonchalant - and the gut level of panic out of my voice. "Uh, you know Patrick?" Sapphy grimaced, slammed her cup down. "Yeah, I know Patsy," she growled, wrinkling her nose. "He's the worthless wonder who dumped me here. Came to me all smiles and promises when he found me, of course. Flat out, I'm from a world close to your own, and like you guys we've got powers; but just like all reflections, nothing is ever quite the same from one place to the next. We see a Prism, but we can only wander the places reflected from our own world and nothing beyond. "Well, good ol' Pat said he needed an Illusionist in a world without magic. I should have known better of course -- no one can trust you Magics. Never knew a place where you'd been where they had a kind word for you. But I was getting a bit bored with my own life and a tour beyond my prism worlds sounded like a good adventure. Not that my life was bad or anything -- Patsy showed up when I had this good gig going on an island -- just me and a bunch of, uh, like-minded women. Had the natives scared shitless of us, so they came with food every day and kept their distance. It was a nice life, sitting around catching some rays on a beach, writing poetry all the time." She nodded pleasantly, leaning back in the chair and looking up at the ceiling, smiling. But then she sat up abruptly and her eyes darted back to me. "Usually," she added in a particularly acid voice, "about how much guys suck. "Anyway," she continued, sipping the tea again, "Like I said, I was getting a little bored and thinking of walking the Prism when out pops Pat. Feeds me a line of bull about how he's recruiting from the Reflections near him for some joint ventures. Well, what the hell? I like a little adventure. Long and short of it -- he doesn't find the rogue mage he's looking for and he can't get me off this place he claimed. So I got dumped quicker 'n a used chamber pot the morning after a chili-and-salad buffet. This rat-hole is outside my Prism so I'm stuck since I can't walk the mirrors. Two hundred years I've been marooned - not much to you guys, but for us it's different. We don't kick as fast as the humans but we die sooner or later, and I haven't found a decent girl friend here yet that wasn't gone in a blink. And you have to spend years fighting with them to bathe on a regular basis." Sapphy poured a little more of the hard stuff into her cup but didn't bother to add any more tea. "So, you had to leave your last place in a hurry... and I already know good ol' Patsy was here looking for you, so I guess he found you." She leaned in confidentially. "Any way, you're stuck here, so it seems to me we can work a little deal on the side. I can help you -- for a favor. I can help you in this place, and all I want in return is for you to get me out of here and back into one of my Prism worlds so I can find my girls back on the island. I'm not picky about which one -- if I can see it, I'll know it's one of mine." Well, everything's a gamble, and since there was no point in any pretense that I was anything other than what she already knew, I filled her in on Cérosk. I held back about Andrew, though. Too much information here might not be a good idea. Sapphy sat there, laughing at me. "That's so sweet - Saint George himself comes back to his people - but this time he's the champion for the poor, oppressed dragon! You know, if there are any gods, they've got a sick sense of humor!" I eyed the jug again; I could have used a drink about then. And as for being worried about a blow to my head -- hey, remember what I said about half a parapet landing on me? I drank most of a wine cellar that week and a half of recovery out of sheer boredom, but Sapphy wouldn't budge. Instead she decided I should eat and filled a plate with a strange looking, orangey meat. I ate. "This is good, what is it?" Sapphy giggled. "What's it taste like?" she asked. I thought about it. "Kinda like chicken." More chuckles, which put me on edge. "In that case, lets just say it's - chicken." She paused while I gorged. Maybe it wasn't chicken, and I probably didn't want to know what it was, but right then it was good. "So, about stooging for the dragon," she began. I shook my head. "I have no intention of fighting for a dragon or anything else if I can manage it," I said in a huff. "I'm far enough away from Cérosk where I can do a few things. A little razzle-dazzle, and I'll have the King eating out of my hand, along with this arch-bishop of his." She raised an eyebrow. "You've been away, boyo. Things have changed here, and the locals ain't so easily impressed." I snorted this time. "I know humans," I said feeling smug. "Shake some beads and rattles at `em and they head for the hills or fall on their knees. I tell them I'm a saint, flash a few parlor tricks and that's it. They settle with Cérosk and I get-well, I get what I need back from him." She peered at me, and I felt some nudging in my head but I pushed it back. She frowned. "You can't hide it all. Besides, Patsy liked my home-brew jug too -- maybe a little too much." She leaned in closer. "I know you've got a mortal with you, and just a boy, too. My guess is our friend in the cave has him, which is the only reason I can think why you might want to help a dragon. I just can't see what's the big deal about a human, though - they're mean tempered and stupid enough to kill anything they don't understand. And when they run out of other creatures, they kill each other. So, what's in it for you? Just a little rough trade?" I shrugged, began to get up. "Well, thanks for the tea," I said smiling. "I'll be moving on now. I'll just have to remember to watch out for swinging logs in the trees." "George, we could cut a deal here," she began earnestly. "I really can help, just like I helped Patrick before he cut out on me - and all I want is a ticket out of here. You could use me." I smiled. "And what would I do with a woman?" I expected a lot more argument, and I should have been suspicious when she gave in so easily after being marooned for so long. It wasn't likely any other mage might come back to this world any time soon. But Sapphy gave a thin-lipped smile and pointed to the door. "We'll see," she said, smiling grimly and cocking her head to the door. Sapphy pointed with her chin. "Hang to the left when you go out, Magician -- that'll take you to the river. Head downstream, and you should come to the army's camp by evening. And Good luck -- I've dealt with ol' Sequiosa before." She giggled, but her face wasn't pleasant. "And, uh, King Daffyd's a trip, too." I hung in the door for a few seconds, watching her. Down deep, I knew she couldn't be trusted to give up this easy. But I decided to press my luck. "I don't imagine I could bargain with you for some different clothes, could I? I mean, a pink kilt might not go over too big in an army camp." Sapphy eyed me malevolently. "Probably not, since you've got nothing to bargain with. And pretty much you're leaving me here to rot, so it's not like I'd much give a damn about you, would I?" She used her chin to point to the door. " Your stuff's outside. Mind the door when it slams behind you, Magician. Oh, and one more thing," she added with a small smile and an evil squint. "In case you see these hand-sized, furry, eight-legged things crawling after you, don't be fooled by all the fuzz and antennae. They're a sort of local delicacy around here -- they taste a lot like chicken, even if they do feed on dung and insects. The meat's sort of orangey once you boil it too." My stomach was thrilled with that information and I stepped out of the cabin. Interesting. I couldn't smell the swamp a few yards away, but I could sure as hell see it. These Illusionists were pretty good at what they did. But what I didn't see were a pair of nasty little færies standing by as instructed, although I could smell them. I retied my scabbard around my magenta kilt and headed off into the bush, following my nose to the river. Along the way I picked up on sounds, just a little bit of rustling behind me, and I suppose most times I wouldn't have paid much attention. But they were too consistent -- always just the same distance behind me. I would casually turn my head now and again and catch a little movement. It didn't take long to figure out I was being shadowed, most likely by Ken and Tim. I wondered how they kept up with those tiny legs of theirs, then remembered the leathery little wings. It didn't surprise me much. Sapphy didn't strike me as a very trusting soul, and I'd have done the same thing myself, and the two of them were harmless enough now that I was loose. Most likely they'd been sent to spy, and that didn't matter. But that didn't mean I couldn't have some fun, so I quickened my pace once I came to the edge of the river and I could hear the two of them stumbling along trying to keep up. I could hear the low rumble of Ken's complaining and the nasal tones of Tim's whining. Well what can I say? Pissing them off gave me something to do. The sun was sliding down in the western sky, signaling the mid-afternoon, when I came to the first sign of habitation outside of dragons, witches and færies. I saw the remains of a small village near a bend in the river. No people - and like I said, just the remains of a town. It had been burnt. At first I thought it might have been a place that could have pissed off Cérosk, but the closer I got I saw other signs. This was a systematic burning. Every structure had been torched, and judging by the condition of the ruins, the thatched roofs were what flamed first. There were items strewn into the streets too, and that was evidence of looting. This wasn't the work of Cérosk on a fly-by stopping for some fun and maybe the catch of the day. He'd have exhaled on a few of the big structures, snaffed up a peasant or two on the run, and then been on his way. There would still be survivors lurking around, putting out some of the fires. I explored the town a little, still conscious of my escort scuttling behind me. Likely for this place it was a large settlement, capable of housing perhaps four hundred people. Well, when I came to the center of the town, I found some of them. Or at least what remained of them. Charred bodies were piled up. And by what I could see, they'd been pretty well hacked up before they were set afire. They'd been armed as well as a peasant could be armed I suppose - scythes and heavy, blunt instruments were strewn about. Here and there was the occasional long bow and a sword or knife. There might have been some women in the mess, but it was hard to tell and the remains had been here too long for me to start digging through. I didn't see any signs of children, though. I turned quickly, quickly enough to see some movement in the shadow of a doorway. "You two," I snapped. "What happened here?" No answer, naturally. I picked up a rock and flung it at a particular bit of shadow, and heard a satisfying cry of pain. Ken, I suspected. The two of them scuttled into the street, Ken leaning on Tim and rubbing a bony knee, muttering. "Next time I ask you something, you'll answer me, okay?" I snapped. "Now, what happened here?" Tim's voice quivered as he looked at the pile of corpses. "Men," he said simply. "This is all man business. Not ours." "Why?" I asked softly, knowing the answer. Tim shrugged. "When did a man ever need a reason to kill?" I considered the answer. He was right. Of all the places I've been and with all the creatures I'd seen, only men killed like this - wholesale, for the sake and pure pleasure of killing itself rather than for food or safety the way a beast will. It's one of the reasons I've never had much of a problem manipulating the many races of men for my own comfort. If nothing else, in return I usually managed to keep them from butchering their own kind for sport. "Do you know what happened to the rest?" Ken stopped rubbing his leg and pointed up into the hills, and my eyes followed. I swallowed hard when I saw them... row after row of poles stuck into the earth, crowning the surrounding hills. And I could see things on the poles. Things that may have been human once. My sharp eyes told me some were small, so I knew what happened to the children. Whatever crime committed in this village must have been severe. Usually the children and the women are simply raped and taken prisoner, then enslaved one way or another once the armed rebels were put down and executed. The survivors of the rout had been impaled. Poles shoved into their rectums, then the poles set upright, allowing the struggling prisoner to die slowly as their weight pulled them lower and lower on the wood stakes. If they were lucky, the pole was sharp and the prisoner would sink quickly at an angle and pierce the neck, ripping out the throat so they'd die quickly. The not-so-lucky ones would have the stick slowly crush up into their brain. Those truly enjoying the curse of the gods would only slide down so far and get stuck, slowly bleeding to death on the insides. They might last for days that way, crying out in agony and begging to die while the carrion swooped down on them. It's a myth that such birds only wait until death. They're content with their prey being helpless, and the prisoners' arms and legs would have been bound. Then it occurred to me that children didn't weigh much, so were less likely to sink all the way down. I shook my head at the thought and felt my stomach roil. I hoped they were smart enough to struggle, so they'd die quicker. "Why?" I said, incredulous. "Rebels--" I said, gesturing at the bodies. "Well, that's part of the gamble. Why wipe out an entire town?" "Heresy," Ken said fearfully, for once speaking without an edge of bitterness in his voice, his eyes straying over the body pile. "They refused the Archbishop's new levy to restore his cathedral, and drove out his collectors. Claimed it was unjust. The Archbishop said they was all heretics and had to die, or the whole country would rebel. But it were done in their god's name, and by King's Men. After all, a priest may not kill." When did it ever change? A religious leader commanding men to do the dirty work for him, and men doing it in order to save their own souls. Assuming the men needed an excuse to murder. I looked up to the hills, wondered for a moment if I should check for survivors and see if I could do anything. Then I considered the state of the bodies around me. This had all happened weeks ago. There couldn't be any survivors. "How far before we reach this army?" Tim peered into the sky. "We could reach it not long after sunset," he answered, still wary of me. I looked down on the two of them, who were still eying the piles of bodies stacked up in the middle of the square. "Stay close, the two of you. I know you're spying for Sapphy, but there's no point in your scuttling through the brush anymore -- I've known you were there since we left." I set off down along the river bank again, flanked by a couple of unlovely, weasely old creatures who did a hop-fly sort of thing with their leathery little wings, but preferring their company more than any other kind for the moment. to be continued... Copyright 2003 by Keith Morrisette. All rights Email comments to Keith_Hackwriter@Lycos.Com. Check out my other stories at Archerland.net., The Boyfriend and Little Secrets, Little Lies (Formerly And The Other Friends). Thanks to JFinn for helping me get this ready for posting

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I just uploaded a small batch of images from when I and a friend (Olle) visited Abisko in the northern parts of Sweden back in 2004. The early winter there caught us by surprise, so we had to cut the joureny short, but still managed to get some nice shots out of it. I also added some of my abstract and nature photos. In good time I hope to add more or less all my photos to flickr since they do not have a storage limit (even if there is a traffic limit of 2GB per month). Stay tuned for more images in the next few months!

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In commemoration of the 20-year anniversary of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, Presbyterian participants in the 59th Session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women will join the march for gender equality on International Women’s Day! Please join us and our partners, the City of New York, the UN Women for Peace Association, NGO CSW New York, Man Up Campaign, and the Working Group on Girls. We will march through New York City midtown, starting at Dag Hammarskjold Plaza and ending on Times Square. 1:30 p.m. Participants begin to assemble (Dag Hammarskjold Plaza – 47th St and 2nd Ave) 2:30 p.m. March begins (see below map for the exact route) 4:15 p.m. Final convening point: Renewing commitments to gender equality (Times Square – 42nd St and 7th Ave) 5:00 p.m. March concludes Participants are welcome to produce and bring their own banners with powerful messages calling for women’s rights. If you attend the march, share your images and messages on social media via the hashtag #Beijing20, and follow @UN_Women on Twitter for coverage!

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Huawei pushes back foldable Mate X launch as its product plans for 2019 get shredded 2019 was supposed to be the year that foldable smartphones shook up what has been a market with one candy bar form factor after another. With the Galaxy Fold currently MIA, hopes had been pinned on the Huawei Mate X. Unfortunately, Huawei has announced that what was supposed to be a June rollout has now been pushed back to at least September. However, Huawei seems to be putting up a smokescreen to explain the delay by shifting the blame to Samsung, not its run in with the US Government. Speaking to CNBC, a Huawei spokesperson said that the delay was due to additional testing to ensure it avoids the hardware issues that plagued the Galaxy Fold review units. "We don't want to launch a product to destroy our reputation," the spokesperson told CNBC. While that could well be true, the fact that Huawei has been scrambling to find an alternative to Google's Android operating system is, however, the likely culprit. Despite this, the Huawei spokesperson insisted that the Mate X would launch with Google's Android onboard as it was unveiled before the company was unceremoniously dumped on the US government's Entity List. Undoubtedly, Huawei's preference would be to launch the device with Android, but the new planned launch window is more in line with reports that this is when Huawei could start shipping new devices like the Mate 30 with its HongMeng/Oak OS or even Jolla's Sailfish OS, albeit the Russian Aurora fork.

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Islamabad, Jan 16: At least three people, including two policemen, were killed Thursday in separate incidents of firing in Karachi, Pakistan’s largest city. In the city’s Shafiq Mor area, unknown armed men opened fire at a police mobile patrolling near the Taimuria police station, which killed two policemen, Javed and Asif, and injured two others, Dawn online reported. According to Senior Superintendent of Police Amir Farooqi, banned organisations were involved in the attacks targeting the police. In another incident in Karsaz area, a man was killed when an unknown gunman riding a motorbike fired at a car. Karachi is riddled with targeted killings, gang wars, kidnappings for ransom, extortion and terrorism.

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Regarding the Panama Papers the next weeks seems to become interesting. But one can say that some of the until now mentioned entities are not so unknown or even shrouded in absolut secrecy: Take the company which is seen now as pure evil and responsible for the activities of the bad guys around the world: Mossack Fonseca. Nearly all newspaper talk about an "unknown", "secret", "hidden" company, somewhere located in the more shady corners of the world. But is this true? As far I can trust my own database I already found entries and documents e.g. from 2000, when Mossack Fonseca was enlisted in a directory of "Banking, Trust & Financial Services": In the face of successfull business no wonder that in 2003 a worker of the company came to this statement: There are a lot of more entries to find and I only came to those I find in my own database. Some of them were already leaked or hacked years ago and also the name the companies and people, who benefit from off-shore services: Years ago thousands of entities from a Panama database were ready to be analysed with software - as it is done today again. Panama is only one little, of course important place in this network: A discussion about Offshore (and Onshore!) service providers is necessary and it seems not to be legitimate or even feasible to condemn now every company in this business. Too many people without any deeper knowledge or expertise now start to argue on a low level.

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The Run Down Under/Gettin' Giggy with Shadowrun - Thursday, October 4th, 2007 Montana Role-Playing Calendar October 4th, 2007, 6:15pm - 11:15pm 217 W. Koch St. Bozeman, MT 59715 The building is on the corner of Koch and Third. The apartment is at the top of the stairs. Sonny called Trinny, his fixer, as Rainbow started north. "What is it?" Trinny answered groggily. "Do you have any pull in any Indian ports?" "Suffice it to say I'm a little leery about crossing the India-Pakistan border, and would rather not have to." "What are you looking for?" Trinny asked. "A passenger? A briefcase?" "A van with a bad rap," Sonny replied. "If you can do that, the rest'll be a cakewalk." "Let me poke around. I'll call you back. "When do you need it?" "Now would be nice," Sonny replied, "but really just as soon as possible." "I'll see what I can find." "How long will it take to get there, Rainbow?" Sonny asked after hanging up his phone. "Well, between 8 and 10 hours, plus whatever the border crossing takes," Rainbow replied. "OK. We may hear back about a seaport egress shortly." About and hour later, Sonny's phone rang. Trinny had tracked down a container ship leaving port that evening from Cuddalore. After a few minutes of tracking down Cuddalore on the southeast coast of India, they had to turn Trinny down and resume planning for a border crossing. Nigel suggested that they just pick a busy crossing and he control the guard they had to deal with if anything came up. Though there was general concent for this plan, Rainbow thought it would be better to find a smaller crossing, or maybe even cut across the border through the wilderness. After some discussion, it was decided to go with Nigel's plan. However, on the drive up Rainbow headed off the main road about mid-morning to follow a side road that had a spur that went over to the border. "Nigel," Rainbow said, stopping for gas at the little town at the fort in the road about 5 kilometers from the border crossing, "why don't you go check out the crossing here and tell us what's there." A few minutes later Nigel returned. "There are two mages and a small group of other people," he reported. "I still think we should go to a busier crossing," Giggy said. "There will be much more opportunity for distraction if there are more people around, and it will be easier to just blend into the crowd." They drove on, and Rainbow kept trying to see what was down in the river bottom to their left. Several times on the way to Amritsar, Rainbow again suggested cutting across the fields, into the river, and then traveling downstream several kilometers before exiting the river on the other side. This was repeatedly refused by the rest of the group. When they got to Amritsar shortly after noon, Rainbow stopped near the border crossing. The area was crowed and there were many cars and people stopped everywhere. Nigel went on astrally and looked around. There was a fire elemental who was not manifest waiting near one of the gatehouses. There was also a single mage in one of the buildings, and innumerable people milling about. Giggy and Sonny watched the process at the gates as best they could without getting too far from the van. There were three lanes each way, and they seemed to get stopped on both sides of the border, though the exit inspection on the Indian side actually seemed to be more detailed than the entrance inspection. Nigel returned, and Rainbow radioed to Sonny and Giggy to get back and they started toward the gate. Nigel and Giggy were in front, with Giggy in the driver's seat and Nigel beside him, with Michelle, Sonny, Rainbow and Jack crowded in back. Michelle watched closely as they approached the gate, and as they approached they formulated another plan. Michelle took Giggy's motorcycle helmet from beside the rockets and C-12 on the floor under the bench seat and stuffed it under her shirt. If they couldn't just get through the gate, she was planning to pretend to be pregnant and hopefully the border guards would not want to deal with a pregnant woman about to give birth and would just let them through.They pulled up to the gate, and the guard tapped on Giggy's window. "Papers, please," he said. Giggy handed him a forged passport, and the man accepted it. After a cursory glance, he smiled at Giggy and turned, with the passport still in hand, and walked back to one of the buildings. Giggy rolled up the window to wait. A few minutes later, after Michelle commented that no other cars had been treated this way, the guard returned, with two other soldiers of higher rank than him. Giggy opened the window again as they approached. One of the new men asked that the rear hatch be opened, and Rainbow obliged, then the original guard asked for the papers of the rest of those in the van. Concerned about some of them not having papers, and possible some not having good forged papers, Nigel attempted to control the senior officer, but his spell was cut off immediately after he cast it. "Frag it all," he grumbled, pulling his assault rifle out from under the seat. Hearing that, Rainbow hit the gas and deployed the turret, driving through the gate and over one of the gunmen standing behind it. Immediately the van was surrounded by fire and something stopped the rear wheels all together. Spotting an unarmed man in a military uniform at the door to one of the buildings, Rainbow shot him, dropping him before he could react.Nigel started to take aim past Giggy out the open window, when Jack shouted, "Open the door!" pulling has axe out from between his legs. Rainbow opened the door, and Jack leaned out, slicing into the fire elemental and nearly pushing Sonny out of the van. Rainbow was unceremoniously dumped onto the floor in the back seat. Giggy punched through the open window, into the fire elemental as Michelle shot, and the fire elemental disappeared. Rainbow managed to get the van to break free of the grip of the earth elemental holding the back of the van just as flame erupted again, this time it went completely through the van. The van continued to roll toward the Pakistani gate, clearly through the Indian side as the whole scene was engulfed in a series of explosions. From the remains of the van, Giggy was able to call for help and asylum from the Pakistani soldiers at their gate. The Pakistani soldiers came up to the van and their mage immediately took to Nigel, who was clearly in the worst shape. Miraculously, Giggy and Jack had managed to retain consciousness. The soldiers took the five bodies to a building on their side of the border, and waited for Docwagon to show up. In the mean time, their mage worked on Michelle and Sonny. When they came to in the hospital, they each realized that they were clearly under guard. The Pakistani government was not interested in them slipping away in the night, apparently. Over the course of the next several weeks, the group were interviewed by Pakistani intelligence. Fortunately, all the group's electronics had been destroyed in the explosions, so their contact numbers could not be retrieved, nor could Rainbow's RC deck's logs. From the information they gathered, the Pakistani investigators were able to piece together that the group had illegally entered India, done something to disturb the military, and then released an insect spirit which had subsequently been destroyed by Knight Errant and the Indian military. However, since India refused to give Pakistan an acceptable, official reason for extradition, Pakistan did not turn them over to the Indian authorities. However, as Pakistan did not want them in Pakistan any longer than necessary, once they were all released from the hospital and their hospital bills were all paid, Pakistan sent them off - Nigel and Giggy to London by suborbital, and Rainbow, Jack, Sonny and Michelle to Australia by intercontinental flight. Now we'll have to see what's in order for next time... - Game: The Run Down Under/Gettin' Giggy with Shadowrun - System(s): Shadowrun (2nd Edition) - Contact: Keith Seyffarth - Number of current players: 7 - Number of players wanted: 6 - Login or register to be able to receive email notifications about The Run Down Under/Gettin' Giggy with Shadowrun - Game Quotes: From The Run Down Under/Gettin' Giggy with Shadowrun posted in Great Quotes from Montana State Uinversity (and Other Places) Be the first to comment here!

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My name is Elena and I've been living with Lupus since 2001. I aspire to present my blog, "Face Forward" as a meeting place and a virtual hug to my readers (lupus and non-lupus warriors alike). It keeps me accountable as I try to live my best life with lupus, while allowing me to promote chronic illness awareness and patient/caretaker advocacy. Since its inception in 2009, Face Forward has been recognized by Healthline.com as one of the “Best Lupus Blogs of 2014," nominated for 3 WEGO Patient Leader Awards and featured in New Life Outlook – Lupus, My Lupus Team, and quoted in the Fox News article: “5 Things You Probably Didn’t Know About Lupus." I’m a Patient Leader

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DetailsCO2 Distributor's are an economical way to run more than one keg off of a single CO2 tank. Each shutoff has its own ball check valve to prevent the flow of liquid into the regulator. This gas distributor is made out of aluminum and offers a one piece construction for easy mounting. Note: Swivel Nuts are not included. Proposition 65 Warning for California Consumers: This product contains chemicals known to the State of California to cause cancer and/or birth defects or other reproductive harm. - Details & Instructions 5.0 / 5.04 ReviewsGREAT PRODUCTiT WAS EXACTLY WHAT I NEEDED TO RUN 2 KEGS AT THE SAME TIME. It is great quality at a great price.April 18, 2018Purchased 1 year agoCO2 distributor 2 wayJust what I needed for my two keg set up! Never be without choices of two home brew beers again!Added Mar 10, 2017March 10, 2017Purchased over 2 years agoGreat ProductI purchased this distributor to assist with bottling my beer from a keg -- I used this to split the CO2 lines to my keg & beer gun. This was cheaper than purchasing the individual parts and would highly recommend this product since it is pre-assembled.July 24, 2013Worth every pennyThis is a great distributor and works perfectly for my two-keg setup. Everything was leak free right out of the box and the 1/4" MFL connections make it quick and easy to attach different lengths of gas line if needed. I was very pleasantly surprised at how solidly this was built.February 16, 2013 - Customer Q&A

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A Batch-Fabricated Single-Layer Elastomeric Actuator With Corrugated Surface Date of this Version8-2012 In this paper, we report on the first laser-micromachined batch-fabricated single-layer elastomeric actuator with a corrugated surface profile. The structural material of the cantilever actuator is a single [polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS)] layer, and electrodes are soft lithographically patterned conductive carbon grease. The asymmetric corrugated surface provides a bending moment in a single PDMS layer without the need for a second inactive layer. An actuator which is 5 mm long, 1 mm wide, and 80 mu m thick can generate up to 2-mm out-of-plane displacement with zero applied force and 15 mu N at zero deflection while consuming 20 mu W of static power when actuated with 500 V. Nanoscience and Nanotechnology

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[OpenIndiana-discuss] etherstub and bridge anilj at me.com Sun Feb 26 04:49:20 UTC 2012 What I am really trying to do is, isolate the zone, but also at the same time have it be able to talk the outside world. Going over the "real link" means it would see all the wire traffic (broadcasts etc... from the rest of the network, it isn't isolated). There are various examples out there that do NAT'ing (assigning RFC 1918 address on the non-global zone and then doing NAT'ing on the global zone) but I would much prefer not to do that and use real routable IP addresses in the zone, but still be able to virtualize and go over it's own "virtual wire". How would I route this traffic properly, if at all? On Feb 25, 2012, at 10:43 AM, James Carlson wrote: > On 2/24/12 8:06 PM, Anil Jangity wrote: >> I tried to setup a etherstub and a vnic. I then tried to setup a bridge between that and the physical interface, as follows: >> LINK CLASS MTU STATE BRIDGE OVER >> igb0 phys 1500 up zbridge -- >> igb1 phys 1500 up -- -- >> workswitch0 etherstub 1500 unknown zbridge -- >> work0 vnic 1500 unknown -- workswitch0 >> zbridge0 bridge 1500 up -- workswitch0 igb0 > Perhaps a dumb question here, but why would you do that? The whole > point of an etherstub object is that it's not connected to the outside > world. And if you want a connection to the outside world, why not just > create the vnic on top of a real link? > That aside, I think you might get further using 'dladm create-simnet' > rather than an etherstub. A simnet is a simulated Ethernet interface. > As for the "STATE unknown" bit, I believe that's because etherstubs > don't have physical links and thus don't have physical link status. > It's probably harmless. > James Carlson 42.703N 71.076W <carlsonj at workingcode.com> > OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list > OpenIndiana-discuss at openindiana.org More information about the OpenIndiana-discuss

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A History of the County of Essex: Volume 10, Lexden Hundred (Part) Including Dedham, Earls Colne and Wivenhoe. Originally published by Victoria County History, London, 2001. This free content was digitised by double rekeying. All rights reserved. From 1246 the lords of Wivenhoe manor were entitled to free warren in their demesne lands in Wivenhoe. (fn. 1) In the 14th and 15th centuries courts with view of frankpledge were held at least once a year, with usually 12 to 16 jurors. Cases of animals trespassing on the lord's land, breach of the assize of ale, and of infringing the lord's rights of avesage, pannage, and larder were heard; admissions to and surrenders of copyholds were enrolled. (fn. 2) Courts also dealt with portions of the manor called Cockaynes, in Elmstead and Alresford, and Kelars or Rebandishide, in Elm stead, except in the reigns of Henry VII and Henry VIII when those estates were treated as separate manors. (fn. 3) A court leet continued to meet once a year during the 16th and 17th centuries; the number of jurors was sometimes as high as 21. (fn. 4) In 1584 a court baron was held every three weeks; there were stocks in the parish. (fn. 5) In 1624 two con- stables, 2 alefounders, and 2 heath drivers were appointed. (fn. 6) Between 1743 and 1786 the court baron met between one and four times a year, with a leet at the spring meeting, when 2 constables, 2 common drivers, 2 bread and ale tasters, and 2 meeters (perhaps officers connected with measures) were elected; the court was usually held by the lord's steward, Charles Gray, or his deputy. By that period the business was mainly concerned with conveyancing. (fn. 7) An annual court baron with leet was still held in 1850, with 11 to 13 jurors, conducting similar routine manorial business. The last court was held in 1898 at the Rose and Crown public house. (fn. 8) From 2 to 7 overseers and 2 or occasionally 3 surveyors were recorded from 1629, and 2 con- stables from 1723. Two sidesmen were recorded in both 1629 and 1633. A female overseer was appointed in 1750. Members of the Corsellis and Rebow families sometimes served as church wardens, and members of prominent local farming and trading families like the Blyths and the Sandfords frequently occupied various offices in the 18th and 19th centuries. The vestry was largely composed of small businessmen, farmers, and craftsmen. (fn. 9) In 1787 one of the overseers, John Thomas, accused the other, James Went, of absconding with parish money. Eventually both men submitted to arbitration, and Thomas's original prosecution was declared to be 'founded in malice'. (fn. 10) In the 18th and early 19th centuries the vestry met at the Swan, the Falcon, or the Anchor, inns. (fn. 11) Between 1847 and 1894 it met at the church from 5 to 13 times a year; before 1886 fewer than 16 usually attended but thereafter attendances were frequently higher. (fn. 12) In the 16th century bequests were often made for relieving the poor, (fn. 13) and weekly collections are recorded for poor relief from 1577; regular cash payments and relief in kind were given. Occasional cash doles were made to poor per- sons, some of them sailors. (fn. 14) Between 1576 and 1594 parish expenditure on poor relief was between c. £5 and £7 a year. (fn. 15) In 1692 the justices ordered that the poor be badged and in 1701 that they be set to work. (fn. 16) In 1726 Nicholas Corsellis granted for the use of the poor a cottage lying between Wivenhoe heath and Wivenhoe Cross, which was con- verted to a parish workhouse. (fn. 17) In 1750 parish officers intended to build a new parish work- house, but they apparently extended the existing small workhouse instead. (fn. 18) The surviving build- ing is arranged as a terrace of late 18th-century houses. There were 25 people in the workhouse in 1755, and 22 in 1756. In 1759 there were only c. 16 but also 10 households received outdoor relief. A spinning wheel was provided in 1757 and another in 1759, and in 1765 the workhouse master was a bayweaver from Colchester. (fn. 19) The workhouse master and mistress were required to understand spinning. (fn. 20) The wedding expenses of inmates were paid on four occasions between 1759 and 1765. The vestry agreed in 1766 that relief would be given in the workhouse only and that rents would be paid only in cases of sickness. (fn. 21) By 1798 between 21 and 25 persons or families received regular out relief each quarter and there was a maximum of 16 persons in the workhouse at any one time. There were above 30 house holds receiving out relief in the period 1801-3. Numbers in the workhouse were significantly higher in the period 1799-1803. From c. 1800 more cash doles were paid than relief in kind; occasionally money was paid for making clothes for paupers. In 1826 there were 44 people receiving regular outdoor relief. (fn. 22) A payment was made for the care of a parishioner at Bethlehem hospital (Lond.) in 1756. (fn. 23) In 1798 there was a parish surgeon; in 1799 he inoculated 51 paupers. A surgeon was still employed in 1827. (fn. 24) In 1807 the workhouse keeper was allowed 3s. 3d. per head a week. In 1823 and 1824 it was 3s. per head, though the amount could be varied slightly according to the number of inmates and the price of flour. Paupers were to be treated 'with kindness and humanity' and to receive three meat dinners a week 'such as is wholesome and good with pudding or dumpling'. (fn. 25) Some poor children were put out to service in the 17th century. (fn. 26) Many were apprenticed in the 17th to 19th centuries, mostly in Wivenhoe and Colchester, but also in other towns in north Essex and in ports on the east coast of England from Kent to Northumberland. The boys were bound mainly to mariners, fishermen, and oyster dredgers, with a few to weavers outside the parish in the 17th and 18th centuries, and the girls usually learned housewifery. (fn. 27) In 1776 the cost of poor relief was £268 and in 1783-5 it averaged £289 a year. (fn. 28) Expenditure rose to £845 in 1802, equivalent to c. 15s. 6d. per head of population, and then fluctuated between £507 and £631 in 1803-11 before rising again to range between £907 and £1,152 in 1817-21, equivalent to c. 16s. a head, in 1821. (fn. 29) It fluctuated between £1,069 and £1,268 between 1822 and 1830, was £926 in 1831, equivalent to c. 10s. 10d. a head, and fell further to £694 in 1834. Poor law expenditure per head in Wivenhoe was always one of the lowest in Lexden hundred. (fn. 30) In the early 19th century surveyors supervised the spreading of gravel and stones on the roads. Wivenhoe became part of Lexden and Winstree Highway District in 1868. (fn. 31) An iron parish cage on Anchor Hill, repaired in 1810, was in use until c. 1850. (fn. 32) Wivenhoe vestry used its few remaining powers after 1834 actively: a nuisance removal committee was set up in 1855 and a sanitary inspector employed; vigorous attempts were made to provide public services, preparing the way for the vestry's transformation into an urban district. (fn. 33) Wivenhoe urban district was created in 1898, coterminous with the parish, and a council of 9 was elected which appointed a salaried medical officer of health, surveyor, and sanitary inspector. Committees were set up for finance, highways and drainage, public health and sanitation, improvement and lighting, and burial. (fn. 34) In 1920 Wivenhoe urban district council built 16 houses on the Rectory Field site, and demolished a few unfit houses in the roads near the quayside in 1932-4. (fn. 35) From 1948 the council built houses on the former Corsellis Park estate west of The Avenue. (fn. 36) By 1960 eight bungalows and 13 flats for the elderly were included in the total council housing stock of 140. (fn. 37) Further houses, bungalows, and flats were built by 1974. (fn. 38) In 1971 ten per cent of all housing was rented from the council, but only 5 per cent in 1991. (fn. 39) In 1974 Wivenhoe urban district council became part of Colchester district (later borough). A town council with a mayor as chairman retained limited powers. (fn. 40) An engine which may have been a parish fire engine attended a fire in 1774. (fn. 41) In 1904 the urban district council formed a fire brigade of eleven men, which at first stored its barrow, bucket, and hoses at 30 Alma Street, and by 1932 in a shed behind the council offices in High Street. (fn. 42) In 1941 under wartime legislation the fire service was transferred to the Home Office and after the war to Essex county council. (fn. 43) Before 1964 there was a fire station in Brook Street, a former boathouse, sited there apparently so that part time firemen from the shipyard could reach it quickly; it was replaced in 1990 by one built on the west side of Colchester Road at Wivenhoe Cross. (fn. 44) From 1847 or earlier a policeman appointed by the Essex force was stationed in the parish. (fn. 45) A police station and two houses were built in High Street in 1952. (fn. 46) A burial board was established in 1855, and a cemetery of 2 a. was opened in 1858 c. ½ mile north-east of the church. (fn. 47) In 1899 the urban district council bought an additional 2 a. of land opposite the existing cemetery. (fn. 48) In 1848, when certain 'filthy and unwhole some' houses, and 'foul and offensive' drains, privies, and cesspools were inspected, the vestry resolved to attempt to improve water supply, drainage, and unfit housing. In 1866 a vestry committee, having inspected pollution in Wivenhoe brook, acknowledged the need for a pure water supply. In 1872 water was piped from the corner of Mill field to reservoirs in Queens Road and Brook Street, but in 1886 typhoid cases were linked with a polluted water supply. (fn. 49) In 1902 the urban district council opened a waterworks at Queens Road to pump water from the borehole to a water tower in Tower Road west of Wivenhoe Cross. (fn. 50) The council sold the waterworks in 1961 to Tendring Waterworks Co. which supplemented the supply by feeding in water from outside the urban district. (fn. 51) Attempts to provide a sewerage scheme from 1899 onwards were opposed on financial grounds until 1932 when a pumping station was opened near Anglesea Road and a disposal works ½ mile east. The scheme was given 75 per cent of the cost by the Unemployment Grants Committee to provide work for the unemployed. (fn. 52) About 1965 a trunk main linked Wivenhoe's sewerage system with Colchester's Hythe sewage works. (fn. 53) A gas company was formed in 1861, perhaps that described in 1878 as Wivenhoe Gas Co. which was still trading under that name in 1937. The gasworks were in St. John's Road. (fn. 54) By 1947 gas was supplied in bulk by Colchester Gas Co. In 1949 gas was nationalized and Wivenhoe was supplied by the Eastern Gas Board, later British Gas. (fn. 55) Forrestt's, the shipbuilding firm, was lit by electricity in 1900, presumably using its own generator. (fn. 56) Wivenhoe Electricity Co. existed by 1928 when Colchester borough council agreed to buy it. (fn. 57) Electricity was nationalized in 1948 when Wivenhoe was included in the Suffolk subarea of the Eastern Electricity Board. (fn. 58) In 1862 some streets near the quay were lit by gas, financed by extra rates levied on the houses there. (fn. 59) Street lighting was gradually extended, partly by gas and partly by oil lamps. (fn. 60) In 1929 the street lighting was converted to electricity. (fn. 61) In 1888 the vestry appointed a scavenger to remove house refuse, and keep the ground near privies, ashpits, and cesspools cleaned. Lexden and Winstree rural district council became responsible for the removal of house refuse in 1895, and Wivehoe urban district council in 1898. (fn. 62) In 1964 there was a municipal refuse tip near Wivenhoe wood. (fn. 63) In 1974 the enlarged Colchester borough council took over refuse disposal and other remaining local authority services from Wivenhoe urban district council.

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The Villanova Wildcats are taking on the Temple Owls at Liacouras Center tonight in what should be a good early-season test for Villanova. Let’s take a look at the top college basketball betting picks, odds, betting trends and KenPom Rankings, then give our Villanova vs Temple prediction for the game tonight. Villanova vs Temple Prediction | College Basketball Game Tonight No. 16 Villanova Wildcats (1-0, 0-0 Big East) vs. Temple Owls (0-1, 0-0 AAC) Date: Friday, November 11, 2022 Time: 7:00 PM EST Venue: Liacouras Center — Philadelphia, PA Villanova vs Temple College Basketball Betting Picks and Odds Moneyline: VILL: (-217) | TEM: (+179) Point Spread: VILL: -5 (-111) | TEM: +5 (-109) Total: 135 — Over: (-112) | Under: (-107) Sign up for BetOnline Sportsbook today and claim over $2,000 in welcome bonuses for college basketball betting! KenPom Rankings are from KenPom.com Villanova vs Temple College Basketball Betting Trends - Villanova is 0-1 ATS this season. - The OVER is 1-0 for Villanova this season. - Temple is 0-1 ATS this season. - The OVER is 1-0 for Temple this season. Best Sportsbook Offers & Promotions - BetUS – Deposit today to get up to $3,125 in betting bonuses! - BetOnline – $1,000 Bitcoin bonus on your first deposit! - Bovada – Get a $250 bonus for one of the most customizable sportsbooks! - MyBookie – Double your deposit for more to bet on college basketball! Villanova vs Temple Prediction | College Basketball Betting Picks Villanova looked solid but unspectacular in the debut of new head coach Kyle Neptune. The Wildcats were favored heavily and won 81-68 over La Salle. Temple on the other hand is already off to a horrible start with a loss in their first game. In what was supposed to be a nice opening night victory, the Owls fell to Wagner who were over 16-point underdogs. Wagner clearly served as a wake up call for Temple but it’s hard to see them able to turn around their fortunes so quickly. Villanova has much more experience and talent across the board. With Temple already falling at home, it would be surprising if they don’t suffer the same fate at the hands of Villanova. The Wildcats should be able to cover the small five point spread, especially if Temple has to send Villanova to the free throw line to try to prolong the game. Our college basketball betting Villanova vs Temple prediction tonight will be VILLANOVA COVERS at BetOnline. For what it’s worth, the ESPN Matchup Predictor gives Villanova a 56.2% chance to win.

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Publisher: Random House (Audio) Date: September 2003 Duration: 7 hours 30 minutes Lew Fonesca is a Sarasota part-time process server still mourning his dead wife and trying to get through life without any complications. But his life is full of them. His shrink wants him to dump his grief so he can have more of a life; a pretty social worker who has helped him in the past wants to 'deepen' their friendship; and his big heart prevents him from saying no to people who need his help. A distraught father comes to Lew to track down his wife and two kids, whom Lew suspects ran off with the man's best friend. When people start showing up dead, Lew knows he's in way over his head - and this time he may not be able to make it come out okay. From the Compact Disc edition.

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Lavender Essential Oil: Flower Power Lavender essential oil is a favorite of those who practice aromatherapy. Lavender has always been associated with perfumes, and it is from this fragrant beginning that its essential oil and all the corresponding benefits were discovered. Lavender is cultivated in rows separated by equal spaces. A walk through a lavender field can be visually stimulating as well as mentally calming. The bright hue of the lavender flower has a wonderfully sedative effect all on its own. Lavender essential oil has all of the properties of the flower, and you probably have a bottle on your shelf if you've tried aromatherapy at some point. Love And Lavender Don't Come Cheap Lavender essential oil is not cheap; a 2 oz bottle can set you back about $50. It is said that in England, in the not-too-distant past, young boys would scrimp and save their pocket money just to buy a little bottle of lavender scent for their mothers on Christmas. And apparently, all those thousands of bottles would magically be empty on Christmas Eve, just in time for the mothers to say: "Oh how lovely Charles (or James or Henry or Percival), it's just what I hoped to get this Christmas". Worked like a charm to help companies meet their annual targets for sure, if nothing else. However, being very potent, it is usually used only to inhale or after heavy dilution in water. It is generally sold as a clear liquid, or can be pale yellow, depending on the constituent compounds. The aroma, obviously floral, is sweet and slightly smoky, and seasoned perfumers often say that it smells a bit like cannabis buds, although one wonders what that smells like. Lavender Essential Oil: For Burns And Bones The most common use of lavender oil, apart from making perfumes, is as a pain reliever for minor burns and sunburns, and sometimes for sunstroke and infected wounds. The cooling properties act swiftly and effectively. Since lavender is an antiseptic as well as an analgesic, it can be used to treat insect bites and stings as well. A diluted application brings immediate relief. In fact, some say it will even work on an injured ego or a broken heart, but that requires prolonged inhalation to the point of unconsciousness. It can also be used along with massage oils and rubbed into the joints to bring temporary relief from arthritic pain and muscle aches. Again, its analgesic properties make it perfect for this use. In fact, periodic use can bring about long-term relief from joint pain, and is the oil of choice for the well-to-do Arthritic. Lavender Essential Oil: Of Head And Chest Although the phenomenon is not completely understood, a few drops of lavender essential oil in a hair rinse will rid you of lice and nits. Just wash you hair as you normally do, and use a fine-tooth comb to remove them. Do remember to comb them off onto a white cloth, or else you won't be able to see them to trash them after. The diluted oil is also used as a chest rub to reduce the symptoms of a number of respiratory disorders such as asthma, bronchitis, and throat infections. It can also be inhaled as a vapor with equal effectiveness. For this reason it may be found as an active ingredient along with eucalyptus oil in commercial rubs and syrups. Lavender Essential Oil: Buy Safe And Fare Well When buying lavender oil, whether through an online retailer or a wholesale store, be sure that the store has been around for at least 5 years. That way you'll know that they're genuine and that they do have some faithful customers. It's also a good idea to check out their shipping and returns policy to see if anything's amiss. Even a few sound companies will not offer refunds on essential oils. This is to ensure integrity of their product; instead, they will sell sample packs of .5 or 1 oz for you to check the quality before you invest a lot of money and buy in bulk. On the other hand, some may offer refunds, but charge you a restocking fee. This is also to show the customer that they will not resell returned oils. It's a perfectly acceptable business practice and several companies do that now. It's also meant to keep them safe from fraudulent purchases. If you're ready to go out and buy your first bottle of lavender, then congratulations are in order. Whether you plan to sniff it direct, vaporize or nebulize it before sniffing, bath in it, be massaged with it, or be sprayed with it, lavender essential oil will set you on the right path to a healthier, more organic life. And let me leave you with the final thing that lavender brings – Good Luck.

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Toy Short Hair Dog deShedding Tool is rated out of 5 by 1. Rated 5 out of 5 from It WORKS!! I have 3 small dogs - 2 Chihuahuas and 1 Chihuahua mix. 2 of them shed dreadfully and I always have dog hair everywhere. When I took them to the vet a couple of weeks ago we were laughing because I'd bathed them and gotten enough hair to create another small dog!The vet told me he knew of just the thing - and brought out his Furminator. He ran it over one dogs coat and I was amazed at the amount of hair he got. I came home and ordered one right away.I've used it a couple of times now - there's definitely been a reduction in the hair they're shedding - and they love the way it feels! I can find 'the spot' for both of them now - and they grin while I'm brushing them out. It's GREAT! Date published: 2015-06-10 Love your pet but not the shedding? That's why we invented the FURminator deShedding tool. Shedding is natural and there's no way to eliminate it. But there is a better way than constantly vacuuming and scrubbing hair off your floor, furniture, clothing and car seats. Precision Tool Selection Not all dogs were created equal which makes FURminator the best choice when it comes to deShedding solutions. Simply select the tool that matches your dog's body size then select either the short hair or long hair edge for a truly customized grooming experience. Matching each dog to the ideal tool significantly enhances deShedding results. Other deShedding Tools for Dogs

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The former Manchester United midfielder is proving his talent in Italy, where he is being likened to former Juve star Patrick Vieira. Juve No2 Angelo Alessio declared: "Paul showed the talent that he shows us every day on the training pitch." Pogba said: "My celebration? I was pointing at two of my cousins, who had come to the game to support me. "He (Sir Alex Ferguson) told me that my time would come, but then it never came. And I wanted to play. "Today was just one game. I won't let it go to my head."

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[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]By Donna Williams If you listen to people like Temple Grandin, all ‘autistics’ think in pictures. I have heard from many on the spectrum who think without pictures or struggle to make or hold a mental picture at all. So, for the record, there is not a simplistic division between auditory-verbal non-autie thinkers (thinking in words) and visual-picture autistic spectrum thinkers (thinking in pictures). This is simplistic and forgets all those who think in systems, think in physical/tactile experiences and movement or think in music for that matter. Temple is an engineer and PhD who was re-diagnosed with Asperger’s in adulthood after an infancy that appeared more autistic, so she may well be saying that those, who like her, have Asperger’s, tend to think in pictures. Again, whilst there may be many engineers and techies who do, many people with autism are neither engineers nor techies and, there are actually seven dominant modes of learning style: The learning styles are: Visual (spatial). You prefer using pictures, images, and spatial understanding. Aural (auditory-musical). You prefer using sound and music. Verbal (linguistic). You prefer using words, both in speech and writing. Physical (kinesthetic). You prefer using your body, hands and sense of touch. Logical (mathematical). You prefer using logic, reasoning and systems. Social (interpersonal). You prefer to learn in groups or with other people. Solitary (intrapersonal). You prefer to work alone and use self-study. So, as someone diagnosed with autism in adulthood (after a childhood thought deaf, called psychotic and labelled disturbed) where am I? Well, I can tell you that I have songs going around in my head almost constantly. It’s definitely my most dominant style of ‘thought’. Its certainly my best way of understanding what emotion I sense others in or feel in myself in relation to people, places and experiences. Until I was 9 much of my language repertoire was bits of jingles and songs. Still, if someone uses a butchered song to sing me a topic I process far more than if they spoke it. Still when listening, my brain struggles to get past the sounds to the meaning. As for rhythm, without constantly moving, I seem to go rather brain dead. I am also a musician and around 30-50% of the relatives I met on my father’s side of the family were either artists, musicians or writer’s So what does this mean for language and socialising? It means that you adapt these things for your audience. When in Rome, do as the Romans do. When in interaction with a musical mind, join them through tunes, rhythms, songs, patterns and when the person is then more receptive to you and language because of this, progressively meaning, or whatever can be made of it, will take care of itself. But my second form of learning is certainly physical, kinesthetic. I’m a mover. I have always moved, always been a jiggler who couldn’t stay seated. If it doesn’t move, I often don’t know what it is. Jiggle an object and ‘bingo’, recognition. And with reading too… it distresses and overwhelms me, ….except on a train, perhaps also in the massage chair.. and the same with expressive speech….if I’m walking or in a moving car, bingo, blah blah blah… but sitting, its like I’m sitting on my brain (ha ha) If I’m moving, its like the speech area of my brain comes on line better. What would this mean for children in mainstream told, sit still and listen? I love words that have an action, like ‘bop’, these words ‘gel’ for me where those without actions are like an intangible language… I’m not a visual thinker, words don’t gel with images for me, hence the 30% of words which have little capacity to put gesture to them just float off into meaninglessness within seconds and tumble, unsecured, into a matted jumble of blah. When I’m listening to people or reading on the computer, my leg rocks or foot jiggles the whole time. Is this how a kinaesthetic person links in to language? As an artist, I’m spatial but I don’t start with images, I almost always start with a messy pattern then find the picture. I struggle to create one from my mind, like most kinesthetic learners, I’m a discovery learner. My art is very 3D, space and movement is essential, far more than image. Most of my figures have no faces, they are redundant and far more is expressed without them. The background, too, seems irrelevant to me, and is always very minimal. Yet the expression is utterly full, nothing is missing.| I always saw things in bits, not as a cohesive whole till I was an adult. My capacity to visually recognise objects outside they usual place, use or form is very poor and I’m often so meaning blind I had a psychiatrist once declare ‘you have agnosia’. I use objects to hold concepts where I am unable, like visual thinkers, to hold an image, let alone multiple images, in my mind. My dreams are in movement, theme and feel far more than image alone. I get a ‘sense’ of them, not a movie. I write films, I’ve written 4, the last 3 were fictional. They captivate those who’ve read them who say the characters are immensely tangible to the degree its hard to imagine they are not real. Yet they come to life with no images, they are like the dreams of a blind person, I feel these people, how they move, and the dance of their interactions with others. Its like a symphony of life. They are about being, and doing. Yet whilst many people on the spectrum may be visual thinkers, many are not and some struggle to grasp systems like PECS even if they can use real objects quite well instead of pictures. Real objects are known through the body. They gel for kinesthetic learners. Pictures must be held as concepts in the mind, something visual thinkers can do well but kinesthetic thinkers will struggle to retain or use with consistency. I’m not much of a visual thinker even though I will use objects and gesture to indicate what I’m struggling to express verbally. I think in systems and am so logical that in my world, all things are possible. No matter what extraordinary thing you tell me, I almost always take it all as possible. This may sound illogical, but it is like there are no boxes, yet I will find the system in anything. In an IQ test the psychologist threw a trick question in. The other pairs were things like ‘apple and orange’, ‘cat and horse’. He asked me, what is the similarity between a tree and a fly. I thought for quite some time, all manner of patterns cross referenced in a flash. Then, I got it. ‘They are both effected by the wind’, I replied. I do almost everything alone. Some of this is sensory flooding. Some of this is slow processing leading to overload. Some of this is inability to understand things without gesture to see the experiences behind words. But in the end, all of it means I learn best ALONE. The more you put me with others, the less I process. As a writer, I use words. But my typing is vastly easier than my speaking. Typing is the only place words are natural to me. I love words as sounds and shapes, but verbal words fall away, tumbling like clouds in a windy sky. Typing, like objects and gesture and song, grounds them. I’m a wordsmith, and with a degree in linguistics (its a very systems oriented subject that requires much rote learning) but I’m not the standard linguistic learner and learning reliant on words without gesture is a torture like fingernails down the blackboard leaving me pretty wound up! I love being around people, but not in among them. I’m the fly on the wall. I love their patterns and diversity. I’m interested in what is different and the sameness in difference. But I do not learn together with others well, it is more an obstacle than a help, unless they are in their own space, parallel. Then I can progressively merge into their patterns, and, using kinesthetic sense, learn through doing. …Donna Williams *) author of 9 published books in the field of autism. copyright 2005 Donna Williams Donna Williams *) Ever the naughty Autie.

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US lawmaker reintroduces crypto tax bill to end double taxation Thu, 08 Aug 2019, 09:36 am UTC A bill that aims to amend the treatment of cryptocurrencies by the Internal Revenue Service has been referred to the U.S. House of Representatives Ways & Means Committee, CoinDesk reported. On July 25, North Carolina’s Rep. Ted Budd (R) on July 25 reintroduced the bill, titled the “Virtual Value Tax Fix Act of 2019.” By amending1986’s Internal Revenue Code, the bill, if passed, would essentially end the double taxation on cryptocurrency transactions. According to the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, no gain or loss is recognized on the exchange of real property for real property of like kind. The tax bill seeks to bring the same treatment to virtual currencies. “[T]he exchange of virtual currency for virtual currency of like kind shall be treated in the same manner as the exchange of real property for real property of like kind,” the bill states. In his previous comments, Rep. Budd had explained that due to the lack of like-kind exchange, the cryptocurrency industry is subject to double taxation of cryptocurrency transactions. “An effective sales tax of nearly 40% penalizes the use of digital units of commerce,” he said. “The use of digital assets is already treated as a sale of the asset, even though the economic reality of the transaction is a purchase of a simple consumer good.” Last month, Rep. Tom Emmer (MN-R) reintroduced the “Safe Harbor for Tax Payers with Forked Assets Act of 2019.” He said that the bill will bring more clarity on the tax treatment of cryptocurrencies following hard forks and airdrops. <Copyright © TokenPost. All Rights Reserved. >

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These were inspired by so many wonderful creations that are all over Pinterest – I am rather addicted to discovering new and egg-citing bakes lately (see what I did there!) Super simple and quick to make, my Coconut Easter Nests are an egg-cellent way to enjoy a delicious treat but still keeping yourself on track throughout the easter period. They are a high protein source and made with a good fat source that is coconut, with some cheeky little mini eggs because you can’t have no eggs in the nest! Makes 14 mini nests - 20g Coconut Flour - 40g desiccated coconut - 3 tbsp coconut sugar - 1 egg - 1 tbsp honey - coconut oil for baking tray For the filling - Chocolate spread - Chocolate Mini eggs - Pre-heat an oven to Gas Mark 3 160C - In a bowl, combine all the ingredients together stirring gently until you form a sticky mixture. - Next use the coconut oil to prepare a cupcake baking tray (or use non-stick) - Using a tablespoon to measure out equal portions for the nests, flattening down the mixture into the moulds as best as you can – this can get a little sticky! - Bake in the middle of the oven for 10-12 minutes, turning them around half way until they are all golden - Allow to cool on a rack for 15 minutes. - Finally fill the nests with chocolate spread and as many mini eggs you can and fit in! You can add in a filling of your choice too! The filling I went with for these ones was Sweet Freedom’s chocolate spread, as it tastes so sweet yet it is made with natural ingredients! Or alternatively, you can use the original hazelnut chocolate spread that so many know and love;nutella because it is just incredible – almost creates a bounty bar flavour! Please enjoy this recipe with your friends and family this Easter, and be sure to let me know what you think – I would LOVE to see your creations. Tag me through social media and use the hashtag #growingbutterfly Also check out my another Easter inspired creations… Hope you all have a wonderful Easter!

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After nearly 10 years of focusing on brewery conditioned and bottled beers, London based Meantime Brewing have finally taken the plunge and entered the cask ale market. London Pale Ale, 4.3%, (rated one of the ‘World’s 50 Best Beers’ at the 2007 International Beer Challenge), is the first Meantime beer to be continuously available in cask fashion. Being Meantime, however, this is not a straightforward cask ale. The essence of the Meantime philosophy is the belief that maturation is the key to quality. Consequently, all Meantime beers are always subject to at least 28 days brewery conditioning. So, unlike most cask ales, which are young beers by historic brewing standards, London Pale Ale is fully matured before it is racked. It is then re-conditioned in cask. Elaborating on Meantime’s decision to enter the cask market Alastair Hook the brewer said; “A number of changes in the market have shown us that the time is now right for Meantime to add cask to its portfolio. Until recently there was very little free trade in London, this is changing. SIBA Direct Delivery Service, the changing attitudes of pub companies, plus the sale of pubs are all helping by bringing a broader range of beers to the consumer. In addition Youngs’ shameful abandonment of London and Londoners has created a space for beers with genuine London provenance. I make no excuses for using large chunks of the press release here, but one or two interesting points emerge. One is the "go" at Youngs' which is pretty direct and the other is the point that some of us have been saying for years, that until recently there was very little free trade in London. I reckon Meantime could be on a winner here. Their beers have quality and they have judged that to appeal to Londoner's to support a local brewery is a winning marketing strategy. In a capital city that is waking up slowly to the potential of quality and choice in beer, they are hopefully right. I look forward to seeing how it pans out. A bit of a CV. Tandleman is a veteran beer lover, local CAMRA Chairman and activist, beer writer, beer reviewer and pursuer of all things good in beer. He lives in the North West of England and London. Despite his CAMRA membership, he does not limit himself to cask conditioned beer, though he believes that cask conditioning, when done correctly and appropriately, brings a quality to beer that is hard to equal by any other kind of presentation. He is a strong supporter of Northern methods of beer dispense and avidly detests poorly presented beer and dislikes pasteurisation. He regularly visits Germany, has conducted corporate British and German beer tastings for CAMRA at the Great British Beer Festival where he has worked for years on Biere Sans Frontieres and was Deputy Organiser at CAMRA's very successful National Winter Ales Festival in 2009, 2010, 2011 and 2012 and at the Manchester Beer and Cider Festival from 2013 to date. He admires good brewers wherever they are and has travelled extensively in pursuit of good beer to drink. This blog mentions specifics; pubs and beer, good and bad. The opinions will be forthright, but you can always disagree, just don't be offended. Comments from those mentioned are particularly welcome and a right of reply is hereby offered. Read my information and links and then decide for yourself. You don't have to be Sherlock Holmes. If you wish to email me you can do so by using this address: tandleman[at]yahoo.co.uk These are the life blood of any blog. Please feel free to comment. I do not practice censorship if you stick to the point, but personal insults are frowned upon and may result in deletion. Anonymous entries may have the piss taken out of them or be deleted. Beer samples are welcome, but I cannot guarantee a good review. You, the brewer, on the other hand can. I do not currently accept adverts on this site, but if you feel so inclined, make me an offer. If you wish me to wear your brewery stuff, great. XXL please The contents of this blog represent the personal views of the author only. They do not represent CAMRA policy in any way whatsoever. The contents of this site and individual articles may not be reproduced in whole without the express permission of the author and will require an appropriate credit. Extracts may be reproduced with a credit to the author.

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20 May Addition to our admin team CDC is pleased to announce a new addition to our administration team, Debbie Pitman. Debbie joined CDC in January 2015 following a 12 year career with Lloyds Banking Group where she started as a Customer Service Executive in Telephone Banking undertaking various customer facing roles and for the last four years working as a Private Banking Managers Assistant. Debbie prides herself on being able to deliver a first class customer service and being part of the CDC team will enable her to put customers at the centre of all that she does. Debbie is a graduate from the University of Sunderland and this has instilled in her a passion for lifelong learning, she is committed to extending her knowledge of Financial Services and is currently studying towards the Diploma in Regulated Financial Planning. Outside of work Debbie enjoys swimming, cooking and is an avid reader of all types of fiction.

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Product successfully added to your shopping cart Wisycom is an Italian based company that designs, manufactures and distributes high end wireless audio systems. MTP41S is an extremely small and light pocket transmitter especially designed for professional wireless microphone applications. Very easy and quick to use thanks to OLED display, dedicated buttons and a joggle selector. MTP41S benefit also of the latest Wisycom RF technology along with an enhanced robustness against noise. |Weight||Approx. 75 g. without batteries| |Powering||1 AA size batteries (Alkaline, rechargeable NiMH)| +420 222 745 444 +420 604 724 159

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USB (printer) cable is required. Note: Canon 650/651 & 670/671 resetters are limited to 100 resets. Canon chip resetter + ink bundles Refill ink bundles for (refill ink kit + Canon chip resetter) now available for all printers that use these ink tanks. Follow this link - to find. Chip Resetters. BROTHER CANON EPSON Canon FILTER BY PRINTER x. FILTER BY PRINTER. Chip Resetter for use with CANON CLI-221, PGI-220, and other cartridges. Shop for canon printer ink cartridge chip resetter at Best Buy. Find low everyday prices and buy online for delivery or in-store pick-up. Chip Resetter for Canon CLI-271 / PGI-270. InkOwl - Universal Chip Resetter for most 7-pin EPSON ink cartridges - Check the description to see if your printer is. New Product as of Oct 2016 - Note!!! Resetting the standard and or XL Canon PGI 250 black and/or the CLI 251 color cartridges is a snap with this USB powered resetter. Shenzhen Qunxin Electronics Co., Ltd has been engaged in developing and manufacturing cost effective printer supplies since 2001. During past years, we have successfully developed efficient printing solutions for various printers, such as Epson, Canon, HP, Brother, Mimaki and Roland. Our products include: refillable and compatible ink cartridges, chips, chip resetters and chip decoders. To meet customers’ need is our primary goal. We do the best to provide reliable products and service. Our technicians are always ready to develop the most efficient solutions for new printers and offer technical supports to solve your printing problems. Canon LBP2900b Printer Driver is licensed as freeware for Windows 32 bit and 64 bit operating system without restrictions. It is in printers category and is available to all software users as a free download. Canon lbp2900b driver for windows 7. How to reset Canon chips.? Remove ink tank from printer, place it in the resetter cradle and gently push it down against the resetter contacts until the ink tank LED flashes. When the LED lights up solid (in few seconds), the reset is finished. The ink level is restored - to full. All you have to do then, is fit it back in the printer - and resume your print job. Note: Not all generic (compatible) chips are 'resettable', but most do reset ok. Some non Canon ink tanks don't have the chip LED, so it may not light up in the resetter. It resets genuine and most compatible chips, but the extra high yield PGI-655XXL doesn't fit it. CR-650 is USB powered and is limited to 100 resets. You can find it further down this page. • Wait a few minutes for the printer to recognize the cartridges before trying to print. Pixma “MP/MX/MG” Printer Series: Ink Counter Reset Category 3(Procedure #3.c.) • Press the power button to turn off the printer. • Hold the 'Stop/Reset' button while pushing the power button. While still holding down the power button, release the 'Stop/Reset' button and then push it twice in a row. • Wait approximately 20 to 30 seconds until the LED shows 0. • Push the 'Stop/Reset' button four times in a row. • Push the power button twice. • Plug the power cable back in and hit the 'On/Off' button. • Place the ink cartridges back inside once you see a message that says 'Replace Cartridges.' The printer reads reset ink tanks same as full, new Canon ink tanks and the ink monitoring stays fully functional. Canon PGI-670 and CLI-671 chip resetter! Chip resetters for Canon 670/671 & 670XL/671XL now available. Reset genuine and most compatible chips. USB powered, limited to 100 resets. Canon makes CLI-271, PGI-270 inkjet cartridges with 'smart chips' that send a signal to the printer when they are empty. This prevents the printer from recognizing a refilled cartridge as it still 'remembers' the cartridge as being empty. Our Chip Resetter will reset cartridge chips to factory specification, showing full ink levels, allowing you to refill the cartridge and allowing the printer to recognize it as a brand new cartridge. How does it work? Just place the cartridge on the resetter and wait 5 seconds! For PGI-5, CLI-8, PGI-220, CLI-221, PGI-225 and CLI-226 cartridge chips Reprogram Canon cartridge chips to factory specs, showing full ink levels and providing the same number of cycles as when the chip was new. [ Home ] [ ] [ ] [ ] [ ] [ ]. Pixma iP Ink Counter Reset Category 2 (Procedure #2) • Press and Hold the Resume button • Press and Hold the Power Button; hold both buttons for 5 seconds • Release the Resume button. • Press the Resume button 5 times. • Release the Power button. The blinking ink level/power light should go steady after a few seconds. • Printing will continue under the ‘ink out’ condition. Pixma MP/MX/MG Series: General Printer & Ink Counter Reset Category 3 (Procedure #3.a) • Press the power button to turn off the printer. • Press the RESUME button up to four times since the printer pal will generally die complete, however it is only short time. • Release both buttons at the same time. • Afterwards the LED light will certainly blink briefly then will brighten with GREEN shade. • The computer system will certainly find the new tool, below you can ignore it, do not set up the chauffeur once again. Such circumstances suggest that the printer IP2770 Resetter, the problem in SERVICE MODE and also prepares to be reset. Canon iP2770 Resetter Download Save the Canon iP2770 Resetter to your Computer by Using or open This. The elephant in the room as far as I can see is still this fragile OEM paper chip and not the new resetter, now if it could reset the one time chips on the aftermarket carts then it would be a real winner and you could dump the OEM carts. These resetters have been available for a short while already. Check to see how many resets these resetters are good for. They have a limited number of times they can be used and you will then need to acquire another one. Typically 50 or 100 resets and the cost will vary respectively. The ONLY carts they make sense to be used on are the XL sized ones and the user must invest a considerable sum of money to get the XL ones first. For less funds than a set of XLs, you can acquire a set of compatibles with ARCs. More Canon chip resetter info. Ink tanks (chips) reset with a chip resetter perform exactly the same as new in all Canon printers that use them incl: iP3300/3500/3600/ 4200/4300/4500/4600/4680/4700/4850/4950/5200/6600/7260, iX4000/5000/6650/6860, MP500/600/ 800/900, MX600/700/800 series, Pro9000, MG5150/5250/5350/6350/6150/6250/8150/8250/5560/5660/6560/6660/7160/ 7560/8160.and more! Even printers with ink monitoring disabled - will display ink levels again and work just like new after resetting the chips. All chip resetters at InkBank are quality design and well constructed. They are reliable, easy to use and covered by one year replacement warranty, as well as. Instructions (in English) included with most models There are 3 battery cells inside that should last for hundreds of chip resets. In order to better meet customers’ need, we cooperated with Yuxunda and established Sunthinks, a company which is specialized in manufacturing UV flatbed printers. Our products have been sold to word wide and got good feedback. You can always find what you need in Qunxin and Sunthinks. We’re looking forward to establishing mutual beneficial cooperation with customers from all over the world. Hello - Purchased a chip resetter for my Canon 221 tanks. The set of tanks I'm working with are a little over 1 year old. I've refilled them using instructions found here and with genuine Canon ink. But the chip resetter won't work, even though I followed the little instruction sheet to a 'T'. Chip Resetter Canon Pixma Canon Chip resetter. For PGI-5, CLI-8, PGI-220, CLI-221, PGI-225 and CLI-226 cartridge chips Reprogram Canon cartridge chips to factory specs, showing full ink levels and providing the same number of cycles as when the chip was new. [ Home ] [ ] [ ] [ ] [ ] [ ]. Should I go for another resetter? Do these tank circuits give out? First of all, you are correct in that it makes no difference on what ink you are using that would affect the resetting of the chip. I am just a stickler on correct information as I have spent literally hours trying to fix a problem only to find that the customer/poster worded their problem in a certain way, omitting vital information that would have resulted in a speedy fix. 123Ink does not sell genuine Canon ink. In fact, they have been named in the most recent Canon lawsuit against companies that sell refills. So, back to the chip resetter. This doesn't mean the chip doesn't reset. In most cases the chips still reset fine, just without the LED confirmation. Some tanks/chips may only flash once momentarily in the resetter and not light up solid. This still resets the chips ok in most cases. Each Canon chip resetter comes with a removable adapter (see pics) to enable resetting of both the thicker black and thinner photo black and all colour ink tanks. The same resetter is used with either tank. Chips, chip resetters and ink level resetting. Take a look at just about any ink cartridge these days and you'll probably find a small integrated circuit board, attached to it somewhere. It is usually green in colour, with few gold plated electrical contacts. This is the cartridge chip. Epson ink chip When a 'chipped' ink cartridge is installed in printer, the chip is lined up against an array of pins that connect it into the printer's electronic circuitry. The main function of the chip is to identify the ink cartridge (it's attached to) to the printer. It can store all sorts of other information as well, including estimated ink level, installation and expiry date etc. Furthermore, UniPlus also design customized ink cartridges for industrial printing applications, including carton printing, egg printing, mail printing, barcode printing, medical package printing, commercial printing, plastic and glass container printing, etc. Viewing the demand of remanufacturing industry for components of ink cartridges and toner cartridges, the company has devoted all efforts to be a printing solution provider. Since 2004, numerous new models of toner chips and ink chips used for the production of aftermarket printer consumables have been launched by the company’s Research and Development team to support the printing industry’s needs. Afterwards, the Ink Circuit Converters and Ink Cartridge Testers used for a variety of ink cartridge models have been developed continuously and performed accurate result that benefits the remanufacturing industry tremendously. Currently, more advanced and revolutionary devices have been developed and expected to provide this industry new solution for the firmware upgrades of cartridges. UniPlus’ R&D team consists of experienced and senior engineers who can provide not only the newest version of chip firmware and upgrade it once OEMs launch their new versions, but also design industrial ink cartridges.

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Enjoy a variety of hands-on health and wellness activities for the whole family. Food, games, exhibits, prize giveaways and much more! This community event is sponsored by Hawaii Pacific Health and its affiliates, Kapiolani Medical Center for Women & Children, Pali Momi Medical Center, Straub Clinic & Hospital and Wilcox Health. Kids Fest: Oahu« Back to Events This event has passed.

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U.S. sanctions 3 countries for trading with Cuba, Feb. 18, 1964 On this day in 1964, President Lyndon B. Johnson’s administration cut off military assistance to Britain, France and Yugoslavia in retaliation for their continued trade with communist Cuba. The largely symbolic action reflected efforts by Washington to destabilize Fidel Castro’s regime in Havana. The amount of aid denied was minuscule: about $100,000 in aid to each nation. None of them indicated that the aid cutoff would affect their trade with Cuba. The decision was widely seen at the time as driven by the administration’s frustration at being unable to topple Castro. Since Castro had come to power in 1959, the United States had tried various methods to oust the communist government. First, it severed diplomatic relations and enacted a trade embargo. In 1961, it unleashed a force of Cuban exiles — which it had armed, trained and financed — against Castro in the unsuccessful Bay of Pigs invasion. Then, in 1962, the United States risked a war by setting up a naval blockade in the Atlantic to prevent more Soviet missiles from reaching the island. Despite these efforts, the Castro regime survived by garnering aid from countries within the communist bloc. Since 1992, the U.N. General Assembly has passed an annual resolution condemning the ongoing impact of the embargo and declaring it to be in violation of the U.N. Charter and international law. In 2014, out of the 193-nation assembly, 188 countries voted for the nonbinding resolution; the United States and Israel voted against; and the Pacific island nations Palau, Marshall Islands and Micronesia abstained. The embargo, which limits American businesses from conducting business with Cuban interests, remains in effect. It is the most enduring trade embargo in modern history and enjoys considerable support within the Republican-led Congress. Despite the embargo, the United States is the fifth largest exporter to Cuba — nearly 7 percent of Cuba’s imports now come from the U.S. The recent resumption of normal diplomatic relations between Washington and Havana has brought an increased ability for Americans to travel to Cuba and to transact business with Cuban nationals, including financial institutions. Additionally, some U.S. banks are now permitted to open accounts in Cuban ones.

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Imagine 6,000 horses trotting through your city, the streets lined with onlookers drinking, eating, and cheering them on. Don't imagine the smell of all that horse crap after a few hours; it stinks to say the least, and there's a good chance you'll be walking over it at some point, so if you are lucky enough to attend, do not wear sandals. Despite multiple advanced warnings by Lily, I was so busy taking photos that I missed the pickpocket swiping my BlackBerry Curve 8900 from my front jean pocket. It was an expensive lesson to learn, and put a damper on the end of my first Cabalgata experience. On the bright side, I still had my camera.

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Due to an 'unavoidable commitment' Judge McKiernan had requested cover 6 weeks ago Judge Eirinn McKiernan has apologised at Dundalk District Court for having to block adjourn most of the cases listed yesterday and today. The judge said there is "a huge shortage of judges" nationally, but she had an unavoidable commitment and could only deal yesterday with custody cases and those in most urgent need of being heard. Judge McKiernan added that she had requested six weeks ago that a judge be assigned to cover both yesterday's criminal list and today's large family law list. The judge said "I apologise to everyone. I understand it's a huge inconvenience".

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While some celebs try to pride themselves on being humble and a bit servile, there are others that just don’t give a damn. Of course, some celebrities are good people, but most of them are proud and arrogant. These are the ones that are quite harsh, opinionated, egoistic and snobbish and act like immortal gods while every other person only exists as ordinary humans to them. If you dare come close to this type of celebrity in the driveway, he or she will not hesitate to put up a “stay in your lane” look across to you. To them, they have reached the highest point and would never experience any kind of turn in their tables or so they think anyways. Such celebrities don’t really mind whether or not they are losing their fans or talking to fellow celebrities, what they do know is that they have indeed gained ground in the industry and as such don’t give a shit about what anybody thinks about them. And who are these celebrities? They are listed below……read on to view the 10 of the most snobbish Kenyan Celebrities! 1. Caroline Mutoko Recently Caroline boldly warned the whole world by saying nobody should ever call her ‘Caro’. Whoever you are, you should call her by her dual nouns – Caroline Mutoko….that’s just how tough she can be. You could call her harsh and a straight-faced celebrity but she is just an expert at going furiously. Her image reflects outbursts and meltdowns. She is a no-nonsense lady and just doesn’t take bullshit from common people. Based on popular opinion, Caroline is strict and tough to converse with and even talking to her makes you feel really intimidated. Octopizzo is one tough and strict guy you can’t just mess with. Rumor has it that he declines shows all the time especially when it is not based on his terms. So what more? Nearly 90% hiphop artistes in the country don’t like hearing his name because they simply don’t like his persona. They all think he turned out too arrogant and egoistic after he broke out and started dressing in shiny clothes and multi-colored sneakers. 3. Larry Madowo Did you know that just a week before Valentine’s Day, Ghafla’s Sue Watiri decided to do an article about what different Kenyan Celebrities would be indulging in on the over-hyped day of love? She was really excited and with a mix of happiness and enthusiasm, she called up Larry Madowo for answers but got the greatest shock of her life. Before she could cough out a word, Larry screamed right through her ears that he isn’t a celebrity and he is busy too. In Larry’s voice “I am not a celebrity. I am busy too. Have a good day.” Then he hung up. She couldn’t help but blush purple as she stared at her phone in shock…now isn’t that sheer embarrassment and disregard for common people? You’ll like this: Kenyan Celebrities Who Are Yet To Marry But Are Already Aging 4. Robert Alai Robert Alai is the guy that dealt with a City Council Askari harshly some time back. He has been seen significant times sitting alone at different events including Gor Mahia games. You could dub him ‘The Lone Blogger’ who probably thinks he would lose the strength and ability to type if someone came any closer to him or perhaps he feels the CIA are out to grab and ruin his career or he is always gathering what to write on every occasion he attends. 5. Huddah Monroe In spite of the fact that Huddah is a socialite, she isn’t very social. She has on different occasions turned down several interviews by some popular and well-known bloggers and writers in Kenya. She does this without even considering that some of these bloggers are highly responsible for hiking her celebrity status. When some of these writers or blogger try to come close to her, the condition she dishes out will be somewhat beyond bearable and totally absurd. One that they would not meet or they can not bear. Although, when it comes to Miss Njoroge (Huddah), Team Thirsty say nothing short of praises, many that have tried to converse with her say the absolute opposite. 6. Njoki Chege Rumor has it that she hides from the grip of fans and that if she was allowed to walk with a mask on, she would do just that. Could it be that she is shy or does she do it with the utmost intention of keeping fans at bay? She is known to notoriously preach what she never practices, but that part about chasing common people very far from her is just my concern. 7. Anita Nderu Anita Nderu seems like one of the most beautiful beings to ever step on the earth, but based on sources this babe is mean. She was once accused of walking into an interview stage one hour late and still ordered her interviewers to make it very much snappy that she is too busy to waste a minute extra. The news presenter said she couldn’t spend more than 10 minutes for the interview after keeping her interviewers waiting for one hour…now isn’t that a little disregard on the part of the ordinary interviewers, so to say. He is always seen as one of the meanest rappers, ever! On different occasions, many have complained that his personality screams rudeness and arrogance. Prezzo, who always acts immortal, untouchable and bossy, is full of himself. To cut it short, no one loves Prezzo more than Prezzo himself. Even his CMB entourage revealed he was incompatible and just completely unpleasant to deal with. 9. Sharon Mundia Well, she might appear humble and calm in photos but it’s all a front. It is just one of the many ways pictures can make one appear. Sharon in person is quite different from what her pictures make her look like. Based on what close sources disclosed, each time she is approached by guys, her face looks like she is about to call security just that she doesn’t have the number. 10. Joy Kendi The actress/fashion designer has one streak of meanness in her element. A good number of people who have been victims of her behavior claim she’s one celebrity who exalts herself higher than she actually is.

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For some reason, we are not big chocolate chip biscuit makers in this household. This does not mean that we are not enthusiastic consumers of said comestible. I LOVE them and when the mid-morning or mid-afternoon hunger pangs hit at work I’ll often nip next door to the café and buy one. I suspect the lack of home production stems more from the fact that we rarely have biscuits in the household full stop. However, last Friday afternoon Master 4 and I were off to a play date and I asked him what he wanted to take. Cue a search for a quick, simple chocolate chip biscuit recipe that wouldn’t require multiple trips to the shops. Luckily (as always) UK’s Delicious came to the rescue with this recipe. For anyone cooking with a child, it’s easy (OK – we do have a stand mixer!) and they will love eating the mixture, shaping the biscuits and pressing in the chocolate chips. As you can see from the photo, four chocolate chips per biscuit is woefully inadequate! These biscuits strike, for me at least, the right balance between crispy and chewy. I think that that’s down to the combination of caster and light brown sugars. Make sure you use a good quality vanilla essence as the flavour does really shine through (especially if you are mean on the choc chip count and also if the biscuits last a couple of days). If you’re going to beef up the chocolate content, then you could probably omit the vanilla altogether. We’ve really enjoyed eating these and as they were super quick to do I’m sure they’ll be making more regular appearances in our kitchen. - 100g unsalted butter, softened - 100g caster sugar - 100g light brown sugar - 1 egg - 1 tsp vanilla bean paste (or good quality extract, or omit altogether) - 165g plain flour - ¼ tsp salt - ½ tsp bicarb - chocolate chips - as many as you want! - Preheat your oven to 150°C fan (170°C conv) and line two baking trays with baking paper. - Cream the butter and sugars until pale. Add in the egg then the vanilla, flour, salt and bicarb. Mix until well combined and smooth. - Take a tablespoon and form large walnut sized balls of biscuit mixture. Place them on the baking trays - well spaced as they spread a lot (they are easy to separate so don't be too worried about them joining up during baking) and press in choc chips. Four per biscuit looks like a lot when they're a ball but looks like nothing once they're cooked - so be generous rather than mean. - Bake for 15 minutes - the biscuits will spread and start to pick up a hint of brown at the edges. Depending on your oven you may want to keep an eye on them from the 10-12 minute mark. In my oven - 15 minutes was perfect. - The recipe will make between 16 and 20 biscuits. The biscuits do end up quite large but they are also quite flat so they are not like the biscuits you get in cafes that are often as big as your head. - Remove from the oven and allow to cool ever so slightly before carefully moving on to racks to cool completely.

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My name is Peter. In August 2010 my then 6 week old little boy was subjected to circumcision. He was circumcised for no medical reason, without his consent and without my consent as his father. It is obviously too late to alter the outcome for my son; his circumcision is permanent as is my lack of consent to it. I am determined to have some good come from my son's physical loss and the wanton, state sanctioned violation of his most basic rights. I have two goals: 1. To do what I can to change the way society views non-medically indicated infant male circumcision and 2. To ABSOLUTELY alter the inane consent rules that currently make legal the act of infant circumcision - rules that only require the consent of one parent to authorise a non-medically indicated circumcision; rules that are so hopelessly lax, appallingly inadequate and insultingly inappropriate that they can barely be called "rules". Despite every credible western medical authority, including our own RACP, agreeing that there is NO MEDICAL NEED to circumcise healthy infant boys, Australian governments defend the act with a passion, venom and intransigence that is bewildering. Bewildering, that is, until you learn how much political influence the Jewish and Muslim lobbies, normally the most unlikely of bedfellows, exert on government. Standing up against infant male circumcision would mean standing up to these two powerful, zealous and obsessive lobbies. In Australia today between 12% and 15% of parents take it upon themselves to have their healthy baby boys circumcised. Of those, a sizeable number would likely have listened to the lies and misinformation spread by the pro-circumcision lobby. Even so, this simple statistic paints the picture of a population that is overwhelmingly opposed to the practice of infant male circumcision and yet, with a little dribble of fear-ridden saliva coming out of the corner of their mouths, politicians and bureaucrats continue to pander to the minority. No other public policy would survive with such an overwhelming lack of community approval. For governments to legally allow little boys, including my son, to suffer genital mutilation is astonishing enough. To condone, endorse and DEFEND it happening to an infant without the most informed and unequivocal consent of BOTH parents is SO wrong that it defies logic to any reasonable person. You can find out how this sad and stupid situation took place by reading the letters below. (Although perfectly accurate, both these letters now seem quite naive. Nearly two years on, I'm much more hardened and realistic ....) How INCREDIBLY EASY it is to have an infant male circumcised without medical need? Here. Would you like to see just the most recent letters? Press here. If you'd like to see all correspondence sent and received, press here (it's worth a look, you'll be stunned) Last updated - 25th October 2014. If you visit occasionally, remember to refresh your browser to see updates. Quote from one of my thousands of supporters: "What is it about interfering with the genitals of little boys for no medical reason that parents, governments and doctors see as such a sacrosanct and inalienable right?"

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Stay On Trend by Advertising in Our Monthly Email! The SAGE Monthly Trends email is sent to over 70,000 industry distributors and their teams every month! This email is bursting with marketing tips, industry trends and statistics, and inspirational content to engage readers and get their mental wheels turning. The email also includes shareable content for distributors to help promote themselves and educate their clients. Advertising in this email places your products at the forefront of distributors’ minds when inspiration strikes!

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I've had this phone for four years and counting. The casing's all bad now due to incessant falling but everything about it is wonderful. My best buy EVER. It lasts, it's sturdy, it's made to last. and it definitely is worth its price and more. The camera is still at its best at daytime, my mic is faulty now tho, just earlier this year. but what can you complain, it's been four years. Best. Phone. Ever. i am about to buy this phone tomorrow. i hope this handset is great. i had SEw960i and it was robbed a week ago, now i am going to buy 2 new handsets, k800i and this one, hope that this phone will do its job. can't wait to use this phone. =) this phone W660i is low memory phone its only 450 sms its not good I bought this w660i weeks ago.It's amazing, It's headset gives great sound quality, and I can't explain the bass it produces.It's a great Walkman. If you are a music lover you'll definitely go for it. This Phone(W660i) is one of the best of the no. mobile handset brand sony ericsson.Brands like nokia,motorola,siemens,htc,apple are babies in front of sony ericsson.People who have posted their comments against this handset are mistakened. thank you I used this phone..so far so good after i update the phone software..before i got hang when listening walkman.. Sure loudest? I feel W200 is louder than W660...and G502 also..anyone know why? Some book state that because W660 is single speaker (but i tot all SE is single speaker?) pirceejs, 17 Dec 2007Do this w660 phone have better sound quality than w810,k810 and nokia 5700 ? I want to buy thi... morei have this phone andd the soung is perfect it is even louder than my laptop...at 100% i have this phone since last month and i love it!! good phones and exelent sound, i like more w660 then w580 is a slide phone with a good aplications put i think w660 a betther phone. in w series i think w910 is the best in second place w660 i recomend u buy this phone!!! the bat lives is a normal bar i guess i charge 1, 2 times per week depends i listen music or not I am a regular user of S.E walkman series.recently i get this W660i.it is an elegant phone like Nokia lamour but It realy disappointed me its battery timing is not so good.why S.E making typical hand free.please change its look,like the phones nice decent phone pricing is bit high, loud speaker is not up to the mark over all its a good phone Do this w660 phone have better sound quality than w810,k810 and nokia 5700 ? I want to buy this, because i heard that it has perfect,loud music :) Seeing as this phone is currently free on the £20 a month 3 deals I'd say price isn't an issue, plus all the UK stock sold out much faster than expected, even though it is bright red. Same old, same old. Why don't SE put some decent screens in their phones? If Nokia can put QVGA 16.7m colour screens in mid-range handsets then SE ought to catch up! Tired samey designs, poor screens, bad keypads.....SE need to buck up.

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If you need to change the temperatures or timing of your brew you can do via the tools section on the top right hand corner of the app. There is a menu item called ‘edit stage time or temp’ indicated by a pencil icon in each step. You won’t, however, be able to change any ingredients used in the brew session. You will need to edit the recipe on the recipe creator and then restart the brew session. If you edit the recipe on the app, the changes will be immediately available to the brew session, if you edit the recipe on the website, you will need to sync the changes to the app before they will be reflected in the brew session.

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2022-01-22T03:14:01Z

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Today's airports are all about waiting and not moving and all travelers aim at moving through airports as fast as possible. While people are hoping for fast movement in airports, technology shows hopeful signs of future airports being of low stress. According to Eyefortravel, the future expectations of airports of 2030 up to 2050's will be a smooth and great experience. A self-luggage check in, meaning luggage will automatically move from the local agents such as Starbucks and check, tag and board in the plane and can be monitored by means of app tracking. They will also be a link with other smart travel apps for re -union arrangement. The smart airport technology will totally have no need for security or check in. A new invention by Genia Photonics comprises of a laser scanner which can pass through clothes and organic materials for detection of drugs and explosives. Moreover, passengers will be cleared off the reference of their biological and biometrical data. According to Skift, the basic challenge through this is that most passengers do not regard airports as shopping opportunity which results in losses in airports for instance by 2015 about 69% of airports had made losses. It is also predicted in the next 15 years there will be a lack of airport infrastructure due to low revenues of about 38% received from airline companies. The president of the international Trade Association TJ added that the smart airports should make the airport as a destination. In this context, he meant that airports should provide shopping services for passengers as the terminal 3 in Dubai and have a link to smartphones Bluetooth for an alert of special deals and offers in the shops. Moreover, an airport app that will guide the passengers of the ins and outs of the airports for better management of their time. The expansion of airports require billions of money which will not miraculously pay itself, someone has to eventually pay the cost. This cost will not come from the passenger shopper only, airports have to do tradeoffs so as to lower air prices and increase the influx of airlines that will increase the revenue.

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Trend Hunter met with Canadian singer-songwriter Fefe Dobson (Felicia Lily Dobson) to learn about her progression in music over the past 13 years. Her story is one of determination, drive and passion, which lead to a state of contentment and joy. Dobson has been performing for her family since she was very young. The passion was always there and, at the age of 15 she decided to propose her demos to record companies. Some of them didn't take her seriously at first, but when she did get a break, she was faced with more struggles. Since the sound of her music didn't match the expectations of her image, Dobson was often faced with difficulty at the early stages of her music career. Despite the challenge, Dobson continued to press on and go after her dream, making every effort to break down those stereotypes despite being advised to take another direction. By being vulnerable in front her fans, being real in her music and letting her inspirations keep her motivated, she continues to put her creative personality into her music. Her advice to struggling musicians who are also taking risks to break down limitations is to know that some success stories are longer than others; it takes time. She believes that taking the hard times with the good gives life a good balance as long as you view it with a positive perspective. More Stats +/- Punk Fashion Pictorials Retro Rockstar Editorials Iconic Rock Photography Rocker Baby Clothes

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Early adaptors of the Electronic Well being Information (EHR) course of are discovering that they have to organize for a wave of change, which is able to affect the complete organization, lengthy before they carry in an IT specialist. The survey, believed to be the primary to deal with CVD patients and their views on health care worth, included patients recruited from the American Heart Association’s Support Network on-line boards and by a personal analysis agency. Like many clinicians and policymakers, cardiovascular disease (CVD) patients define worth in well being care when it comes to the quality and cost of care they receive. Some folks name physical inactivity “the biggest public well being drawback of the 21st century”. What use is of all the big data pile if not applied to grasp the healthcare situation higher. The Worth in Healthcare Initiative developed a framework for a heart failure model specializing in disease administration and prevention that may very well be appropriate with current payment models. As it is well-recognized and verifiable, entry to health insurance, meals security, housing safety, transportation, personal safety, structural racism, and other elements contribute to eighty to ninety p.c of public well being outcomes. In Victoria, more than 1,a hundred health-care workers have now been infected with SARS-CoV-2, the coronavirus that causes COVID-19. This was strongly determined by the ‘continual disease triad’, perceived satisfaction with care and cultural well being beliefs. Is US Medicare Protection In The Philippines Doable? Health has always been one of many main factors determining the expansion magnitudes of the economy of any nation. Due to the unique nature of the position, the healthcare services supervisor possesses a difficult viewers with an equally challenging message. The outpatient care facilities, diagnostic facilities, hospitals, and a few private players within the subject also present …

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On this Europe river cruise holiday, you’ll sail along the Danube, Main, Rhine, and Moselle Rivers. Board your ship in vibrant Budapest, Hungary, then see some of the most intriguing cities of Austria and Germany, before ending your cruise in Luxembourg. Sail out of Budapest, past the impressive Parliament Building on the Danube River, to Austria’s elegant capital of Vienna. There’s a guided walk in the quaint village of Dürnstein, in the heart of the Wachau Valley, and a visit to the magnificent Benedictine Abbey of Melk. You’ll be introduced to the treasures of Passau, Regensburg, and Nuremberg, and take an excursion to Bavaria’s capital, Munich. On the banks of the Main River, you’ll find small towns tucked away behind defensive walls and towered gates. These picturesque Bavarian villages are a photographer's dream. Visit Würzburg and the impressive Bishop’s Residenz, then sail into the Rhine River and stop in Rüdesheim—a quintessential Rhine Valley town. Later, cruise the wide, peaceful curves of the Moselle River Valley, famous for its picturesque views, and arrive in the wine village of Bernkastel surrounded by Germany’s largest expanse of vineyards. Before you leave, we’ll introduce you to some of the famed Moselle wines. In Trier, Germany, believed to be even older than Rome—having been populated over a thousand years before the Romans arrived—a Local Guide will show you the sights, including the Porta Nigra, the only surviving fortified gate from the original Roman settlement. Along the enchanting Moselle River, make your way to Remich, Luxembourg to disembark from your Avalon European river cruise, and transfer via high-speed train to Paris for a Monograms vacation. You’ll enjoy VIP sightseeing in “The City of Lights” with an expert guide, driving past the Latin Quarter, Les Invalides, Place de la Concorde, Eiffel Tower, the Arc de Triomphe, followed by a Seine river cruise and free time to enjoy with the suggestions and support of your Monograms Local Host®. Central Europe is yours to remember for its beauty, history, culture, and cuisine. And you’ll soon see why Paris is called the most romantic city in the world!

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“R” DE RUINART The Original Expression of the Ruinart Taste The chardonnay is the very soul of Ruinart. The grape, mainly harvested from the Côte des Blancs and Montagne de Reims terroirs, is at the heart of all our cuvées. Visually, its radiance is crystalline with a shimmering yellow colour and golden hues. The nose is delicate and fruity displaying dominant aromas of fresh white pear and dry fruits such as hazelnuts and almonds, followed by white flower notes, Viennese pastry and buttered brioche. 1 x Ruinart Blanc De Blanc Champagne 1 x Ruinart Rose Champagne Both inside of a hand crafted signature ruinart wooden box

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A web site conveys specific messages and is built to reach few goals. Many of them are built to attract users and bring them to business especially e-commerce. Their main target is to attract a large population and make them purchase their products. Recently, a new phenomenon in human factors came into existence which is called Neuro Web design. It’s a method that borrows from various fields and deals with research on motivation, decision making, and neuroscience. The main goal here is to provide a good method for website creation which is more engaging and effective too. So, let’s check the concept of Neuro Web design and its application in this world. Table of Contents Recently a research was done in neuroscience that focused into how people, their decision making, and their motives that lead them to take action. You might be planning to design a website, an application, software or a game, application of this latest study will definitely help. Here are 6 principles that should be considered while planning a marketing strategy for a website. Images are great in replacing words and emotions if they are correctly chosen for the situation. And they are also easily recognized and remembered while dragging one’s attention. But writing a small caption or shortened writing on which it has to be focused can be easy and attention grabbing in most cases. Whenever this question tosses in one’s mind, the fear of loss is much deeper than happiness of gaining the offer. So, when it comes to e-commerce, the stressed situations like only 1 or 2 products left are created where chances/time for thinking is reduced. The customer gets the fear of losing it in the subconscious mind instead of the conscious level. Not only products, but it also applies to information. If you find some information that is hard to find, you give it great value and attention. If words are attractive, they can bring much gain for the sellers. If the words are creatively manipulated into stories, there are more chances to drag attention to it. The word story itself drags the attention. Images and stories can easily drag people making them read it. The emotions involved in the stories, play a major role and if the images are designed such a way that it describes a large part of the story, the person can’t avoid but to look at it. So adding emotions to the description and the future thoughts to the clear description can lead to high success in the marketplace. Being social became one of the most important in recent times. People try to find ways to utilize technology, mostly and get social to communicate with everyone. We need the urge to share our thoughts, ideas and feelings so often with the society virtually. So, sharing thoughts, reading others experiences about some product became a usual activity these days. All this is because of the virtual social networking, which we became addicts of. So, the necessity of finding new technology has now become very high. For success, one should try to find ways to utilize such technologies to develop socially. So the imagination and creativity should be applied for the development of the product and spreading them among others effectively. So following other’s suggestions, reading as many reviews as possible and listening to the talk behind the product matters a lot. Sometimes knowing about the negative is more important than positive ones. The ability to get something immediately pushes into action and immediate purchase. The ability to get a product in a very short time directly affects the intermediate brain leading it to work on the logical brain which does the cost or benefit analysis. The tricks use such as sales ending in 12 hours, 40 minutes and 36 seconds makes the mind think that there’s very less time left to grab the products. This leads the customer purchase the products. Presentation of products telling ‘everything included’ is the trick to let the customer think they are saving more. Showcasing related products which cost less than the actual product the customer is interested in grabs his/her attention which may lead the customer buy yet another product along with the desired one. The principles discussed are quite useful to know how websites should be designed to appeal it to the unconscious mind to grab its attention. Every website needs reconsideration at some point of time or the other. So, when does this happen? It could be when you start experiencing a downfall in your sales! Or, when you feel that your customers are not coming to you like before! Or, it could be at some point of time when the trends get replaced to cater to the modern day requirements or if your competitor is implementing something alluring and so on…. Let us find out when exactly you need to start redesigning: These days people prefer to own that one product that flaunts multiple features simultaneously and as a business that plans to cater to its clients with Omni channeled facets you cannot escape this. So, how do you start? You will bring in a number of different kinds of features and aspects from different places and crowd up your product. It fails to perform well! Have you heard of customers complaining yeah, the appearance is good, the battery stays longer but user experience is poor? How do you deal with such a situation? This means they tried the product just from the experience and now, they are rather irritated at having been fooled into buying it! This would create a bad impression and slowly, the people buying your product will decrease. A number of features swarming into a single product spoiled the entire happiness and now, it’s a mess! But, looks like it is high time you considered redesigning your product. Also, there are situations when your competitors are running ahead of time fixing things and offering newer entities to people! And, in such a scenario you cannot do anything but, move ahead of time and help your business to walk ahead with them. You get less time to fix up things, because the developers are unaware of how your peers have got it conjured and the next thing is they do not have much time for research as the competition is rising. Everything together you have a flop product. Redesign is the only way out here! It is not that your customer wants you to compete with your peers and develop something great! But, there are things that your customer expects from you and thinks that you will be capable of providing them as a courtesy for being loyal to you! Do not disappoint them! One of the things customers need is encouragement, guidance and delight when using a product. Do you think your product takes into consideration all these factors? If not, then, it is high time you considered redesigning it! And, with the help of Neuro Science Web Design you can find out the factors that will encourage, guide and delight your people’s experience while they use your product. Precisely, it is customer satisfaction and happiness that matters to the core and nothing else! Just because someone placed a review that they couldn’t understand or get to the intended goals while using your product, it doesn’t mean that you have to rework the entire thing and offer something new! What about the other 99 customers who placed a wonderful review from the awesome experience they went through while using your product? Do not forget them! But, that one customer who placed a negative review needs to be dealt with, you cannot annoy them! You could help them out by tweaking your product to meet their requirements without disturbing any of the other features on your product that the others are in love with! They say there are a number of social media sites and other places where your people are busy communicating and engaging and are also expressing their viewpoints about your product or similar ones. Why not take some time off and listen to them? Let us find out what have they got for us! Ask them for their preferences. It will help you to get a better understanding on what their needs are and then, work towards offering them with the best. There are those developers that copy a lot and bring the same things in their work. We are sorry folks, but it doesn’t work that way! You are not doing that for the sake of your product and business! Let us keep it simple! Of course, no customer wants to use or navigate through a site that is too complicated! Would you like it if you are on a site that is too complicated and makes it difficult for you to move across swiftly? One more important thing that you need to consider is that people want simple things. Also, your design needs to be revamped when a new change is launched in the market. So, when you design think of how well you can articulate it to accommodate future changes. These are the two important factors that comes with experience! How well do you think your product works? While it has been helping people do you think it lacks speed or fails to stick to people’s intuition? Well, you have got to find it out and fix it if it doesn’t adhere to offering a consistency and speed throughout the system. Have you tried Neuro Web Design for your website? Share your thoughts, comments and suggestions with us. Acodez IT Solutions is a web design company based in India offering all kinds of web design and development services to our clients in India and abroad. We are also a SEO agency offering all kinds of inbound marketing services. We help our clients with business analysis and then, fix up their business to fit into the modern day needs. For more information, contact us today! Contact us and we'll give you a preliminary free consultation on the web & mobile strategy that'd suit your needs best. When and How to Use Motion UI Design in Your Apps and Websites?Posted on Jan 11, 2018 by Web Design

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Fine Art Paper Prints Printed on Epson enhanced matte paper with museum quality archival pigment ink these giclee fine art prints are the closest you can get to the real deal. With colours guaranteed for 75+ years they are a great investment for any art collection. Printed locally with love in the beautiful Comox Valley. The West Coast Story I’ve had this mystical memory etched in my mind ever since climbing Lone Cone Mountain on Meares Island in Clayoquot Sound with a few friends back in 2012. We summited the peak after a sweaty couple hours climbing the thousand vertical meters of elevation. As the sun set over the hazy Pacific Ocean and the full moon rose, we split a bag of Cubensis mushrooms and sat back and let the journey unfold. It was one of the most profound and meaningful trips of my life and I greeted the sunrise reborn with a much deeper connection to the Island that birthed me. For most of my life I’ve felt uneasy about sharing my interest and experiences in psilocybin and other psychedelics due to social pressures and stigmas. It’s a topic that’s so deeply connected to our psyche and existence, yet so mysterious. Of all the living organisms on Earth, I’ve always resonated the most with the Fungi kingdom. They’ve allowed me to glimpse into deeper realms, connect with the oneness of the Universe, and heal the trauma passed down from my ancestors. Like a long lost friend, a mother, and a teacher, they’ve given me so much wisdom and insight into who I am - and I’m grateful the world is waking up to their power. The main inspiration behind this piece was to create an album cover depicting my bandmate and I for my upcoming album “Campfire Medicine”. With this goal in mind I brushed the elements of music and fire into this memory - a reminder to keep carrying the light through 2020.

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BC's post, plans..... I agree with BC. There are other weapons or sources you could use now. A .45LC or .44spl DA only wheel gun can protect you just like a 9x19mm or .40S&W. As for rifles or shotguns, a pump or lever action could work. I saw a left-hand Ruger bolt action GSR 7.62mm(308) rifle that is a decent deal. These tough times will pass but I wouldn't pass up any good deals either.

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The Ancient City of Aspendos, known for its rich history, is one of Turkey’s most important cultural sites. It was founded by Achaeans in the 10th century BC. The ancient city is located in Belkis Village of the Serik district of Antalya. As it is located on the trade route, it has always been a very important place. Aspendos Ancient City consists of structures such as agora, theater, stadium, bath, cisterns, and shops. Do you want to make a trip to Aspendos Ancient City? We have an amazing tour package for you. https://toursce.com/tour/refreshing-turkey-holiday-package-9-days/ The most famous structure of the ancient city, where most of the structures can remain until today, is the ancient theater with a capacity of 12 thousand people. Built in the 2nd century AD by Roman Zenon, this ancient theater is one of the earliest examples of theatricals. Every year, it is visited by domestic and foreign many tourists. The Ancient City of Aspendos also hosts activities such as theater and concert. The History of Aspendos It is one of the first cities in Anatolia to coin on its behalf. According to Greek legend, Aspendos was founded by Argive colonists who came to Pamphylia after the Trojan War. (See Troy Ancient City) Aspendos, which has an important position with the help of Köprüçay (Eurymedon River) and trade routes it is located, has been occupied many times throughout history. The city, which was under the rule of Alexander the Great for a time, lived its most glorious days during the Roman period. In the Roman period, a huge theater and aqueducts were built in the ancient city. It is one of the best preserved ancient theaters in the world. The Theater of Aspendos was built on the slope of a small hill in the area. The building, which was built by devoting to the gods and emperors of that time, was designed by Zenon, the son of Theodoros. This magnificent theater, attracting attention with its awesome acoustics, has a capacity of 15-20 thousand people. Around the theater, there are agora, basilica, monumental fountain, parliament building, monumental castle and tak (ornaments used in special events), street and Hellenistic Temple and these are the other structures that should be seen in the ancient city. The most important structure after Aspendos City is the aqueducts in the city. These aqueducts, which bring water from the mountains to the north, are 1 km long. Today, the vast majority of buildings are revealing the engineering skill of the times. Make a trip to Aspendos with experts: https://toursce.com/tour/mega-turkey-tour-package-14-days/ The ancient city of Aspendos, which carried on its existence in the Byzantine Period, was used as a caravanserai in the Seljuk period. The ancient city, which was visited by Atatürk in 1930, was restored upon request of Ataturk and opened to the public. It is one of the most important cities in the ancient period. Aspendos is open every day except for the first day of religious holidays. The ancient city can be visited between April and October between 08.00 and 19.00, between November and March between 08.00 and 17.00. The Müzekart (museum card) owners can visit for free. Those who do not have it, to enter the antique, can buy tickets for 25 TL. Where is Aspendos? It is located between Alanya and Antalya. Aspendos is located next to the Köprüçay River, which begins in the Taurus Mountains and poured into the Mediterranean. How to go Aspendos? Aspendos has located about 50 km from the center of Antalya. Buses are available from the Antalya Bus Station to go to the ancient city located at Serik. You can go Serik with these buses. After arriving at Serik, you need to take the minibusses to Aspendos. You should get out this minibus in front of the Aspendos Theater. It is also possible to reach the ancient city by car. The ancient city is 18 km away from Belek, 36 km away from Side and 94 km away from Alanya. Visit the Ancient City of Aspendos, which has a history of about 2000 years to discover Antalya’s cultural richness.

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Tania is a seasoned corporate attorney and executive leader with more than 20 years of experience at growing multi-national private and public companies. In her role as Chief Legal Officer, Tania is responsible for all international legal, compliance and corporate security matters. As Chief Employee Experience Officer, Tania oversees the global Human Resource Team, and is focused on crafting an engaging and inspiring workplace environment for all Alorica team members. Tania also serves as the Company’s Secretary to the Board of Directors. Prior to Alorica, Tania was Chief Legal Officer for Advantage Solutions (previously Advantage Sales & Marketing), where she spent 16 years overseeing legal management and negotiation of mergers and acquisitions, strategic joint ventures, investment transactions and complex litigation. Tania is a member of the American Bar Association, California State Bar Association, Orange County Bar Association and Association of Corporate Counsel.

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I got an associate's in arts from Western Kentucky Community Technical College in Paducah, KY and a Bachelor's in History from Lindsey Wilson College in Columbia, KY. When I was at Lindsey, I was a secretary in the International Department and then I did a semester internship at the Kentucky Historical Society. This past summer, I worked at Riverview at Hobson Grove. I'm from Benton, Kentucky. It's in Marshall County. I was at the Historical Society in Frankfort. They suggested folk studies and it went from there. It was fate! I'm happy to be here. Fun Fact I grew up on a working farm. We raised cattle – poll Hereford cattle. It's a beef cow. What's your favorite word or phrase that sounds like a swear word? Note: documents in Portable Document Format (PDF) require Adobe Acrobat Reader 5.0 or higher to view, download Adobe Acrobat Reader. Note: documents in Excel format (XLS) require Microsoft Viewer, Note: documents in Word format (DOC) require Microsoft Viewer, Note: documents in Powerpoint format (PPT) require Microsoft Viewer, Note: documents in Quicktime Movie format [MOV] require Apple Quicktime,

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AS Roma goalkeeper Alisson Becker is grabbing the news nowadays. The Brazilian shot-stopper has impressed the world’s best clubs. Real Madrid, Liverpool, and Arsenal want the services of Roma man. It has made the most of us believe that he is the best goalkeeper in the world right now. Former Italy and Roma goalkeeper Pablo Conti assured it with his statement that Alisson Becker is the best goalkeeper in the world. Conti told Radio Centro Suono Sport as Football Italia reports, “Alisson is certainly the best goalkeeper in the world right now. It’s almost impossible to set a market value for him, seeing the crazy figures that are flying around at the moment.” Former Roma goalkeeper adds, “I said Allison was excellent a long while back and now he is simply priceless. He has great intelligence and anticipates the moves of the opposition team. He doesn’t need to make spectacular saves because his positioning is so good.” Becker is certainly the man at the moment. He has gained massive market value since his arrival in Rome. He arrived from Internacional in June 2016 for £7.20 million and now he is valued at £40.50 million as per transfermarkt. AS Roma shot-stopper has gained the limelight because other top goalkeepers like Manchester United David De Gea, Chelsea Thibaut Courtois, and Atletico Madrid’s Jan Oblak choose to stay with their existing club last summer. Now, world’s richest club Real Madrid is in search of new goalkeeper because Keylor Navas has dropped his form. It only increases the price of the best goalkeeper available in the market. Becker has contract with AS Roma till 2021. Giallorossi are in the best position to bargain for him and earn a heavy profit if he put on sale. They have made the most of the situation with selling Mohamed Salah and Miralem Pjanic in the past few seasons. Now, it’s Becker time to earn the profit for them. He is not going to be sold less than £70 million.

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Dirt 2 must have the most startup splash screens I've ever seen in a PC game. Sometimes I avoid firing it up because of how long it takes to load up. Is there any way to just jump right into the action and avoid all the startup splash and jazz? For most of the videos, you can just press 'Enter' to skip them. The downside is that you will have to press it several times. You can also replace some of the videos with blank files. There is some detailed info on this in a post on the Codemasters forum. To summarize, the video files are located in the The replaceable files are

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MANUAL LYMPHATIC DRAINAGE Benefits of manual lymphatic drainage massage are many: - relieves joint pain and inflammation - improves sleep - reduces swelling and tightness - decreases stress - engages the parasympathetic nervous system, encouraging deep relaxation - increases the volume of the flow of lymph through the lymph nodes - increases the production of lymphocytes, increasing the body’s ability to eradicate infections Research has shown a strong relationship between poor lymphatic circulation and inflammation. Inflammation is the beginning of numerous common illnesses. Poor lymphatic circulation can prevent toxic fluids from draining from tissues resulting in swelling, pain and inflammation. One of the services I offer is post-operative incision site work. This intricate and subtle work helps to lay the tissues smoother and flatter, creating a smooth incision site once healed, versus the puckering that can often occur. This incision site work also includes the gentle movement of lymphatic fluid away from the traumatized tissue, helping lessen swelling, bruising and skin hardening. Surgery necessarily includes the destruction of lymph pathways. The destruction of these pathways causes lymphatic fluids to accumulate and stagnate. When lymph stagnates, the tissues are not receiving nutrients necessary to heal and toxins are not as readily carried away from the surgery site. Lymphatic drainage massage helps the fluids find and create new drainage pathways, thereby reducing edema, swelling, stiffness and pain. This post-operative incision site work is appropriate for any surgery, e.g. joint replacements, hand and foot surgeries, cosmetic surgeries, tummy tucks and liposuction. Lymphatic drainage massage is often included whenever I work with a pregnant client. This helps reduce the tightness and discomfort that often develops when the body’s extremities are swollen and inflamed. The low back can often be challenged by this lack of lymph flow, resulting in pain and stiffness in the low back. Glenda F. Bell The information on this site is not intended to treat, diagnose, prescribe, cure or prevent any disease. This is for information use only. You are encouraged to consult with your health care practitioner before beginning any therapy.

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IU coach Tom Crean Q&A Part 1: Frustrations, expectations detailed Indiana basketball coach Tom Crean spent 30 minutes with IndyStar IU beat reporter Zach Osterman Thursday evening discussing the recently completed college season. In the first of two installments, Crean details some of his frustrations from 2013-14 and what he expects for next year: Question: When you look back at this season, what were the frustrations for you? What were some things you felt were underappreciated? Answer: "We got better, but we never got consistent, and I think that's maybe an answer to both those questions. There's no question guys got better. We can go right on down the line, whether you're looking at the individual aspects, whether it was Noah (Vonleh)'s shooting, or the way Troy (Williams) got better near the end of the season with his scoring. "Any time the season ends, you want to build on the strengths. There's no question about that. But you certainly want to improve those weaknesses. To me, we improved. We were never consistent, and we did not finish close games at the level that we needed to. Those are the things you can really attack, some of the reasons the consistency wasn't there. I never thought we shot the ball very well as a whole, and we were still third in 3-point shooting in the league (in Big Ten play). "One area where the numbers bear it out and the visuals bear it out — we got better defensively. Now, we didn't get enough key stops to win some of the games that we needed to win. "But to improve in some things the way we did, to be able to win some low-scoring games – the Michigan game, the Illinois game, where they might have been grinders but we were able to get those — those are positive signs for us to build on. "But the elephant in the room was always our turnovers. It was there and we worked very hard to correct it. We had different procedures in practice to finish situations, to hold accountable guys that turned it over. But at the end of the day, we were not a good enough decision-making team, we were not a good enough passing team. "Our team a year ago, we were as good as there was in the league passing the basketball. It's not necessarily the sharing of the ball. It's not taking it a dribble too quick or a dribble too far. It's the throw-ahead. It's those things. Michigan and Wisconsin were the best passing teams this year. We weren't close. And we've got to become that team." Q: When you talk about how to finish games, how to reduce turnovers, is that what you attack most this offseason? And how do you attack it? A: "Oh yeah, we already have. We have in our conditioning. ... The ending (of games) is where you've got to have incredible grit. You have to have tremendous determination. You have to have just that absolute connectedness, offensively and defensively. It's that grit and toughness of getting that big stop or getting to the foul line, making that next pass, whatever it is. "There were games where we made the wrong decision, and it was right there to make the right decision. It was too obvious to make it, and we missed it. Some of that speaks to inexperience, some of that speaks to youth, some of that speaks to just making poor decisions. "Everything you do in your program is to build on your strengths. (Business professor and consultant) Peter Drucker always said, in business, hide your weaknesses. Mask them, ignore them, whatever you do, one of the greatest business gurus of all time. I don't think that's how you win in sports. You not only have to manage your weaknesses, you have to be obsessed with fixing them. That's how guys get better. "It's not about trying to fix and concentrate on an infinite number of things. Your team has got to have certain things it can look back on and say, 'If we can get these corrected, and if we can bring these new guys an understanding that we had to correct these and they have to be a part of it when they get here,' then you make great progress. "We've done that here. I was looking back at my notes from 2011, after our third season here. There were about 18 points that had to be fixed, and it's pretty amazing, we got about 15 or 16 of them over the next couple years. Q: I know inexperience was a theme this year. As you get the team back in individual workouts, have you seen recognition especially in your younger players of how to go about making those kinds of corrections? A: "There's a hunger. There's no doubt about that. But there's a hunger in a lot of these guys. We had guys even leaving that spent a lot of time in the gym. "Our time in the gym has been very, very strong. But our ability to retain what we absorb is the next step. That's where the inconsistency comes. How much are you applying it on a daily basis? That's what you've got to continue to work toward. "Do I think they are? Absolutely. "Our season ended on a Sunday night. They all went on spring break, and by that next Monday, we were right back at it in the weight room, and the next day in individuals. That's why I'm here right now, and not in Dallas (for the Final Four). The offseason program is in full swing, and it will be again tomorrow morning at 6:30." Q: You mentioned on Twitter recently that you saw some of the same leadership qualities in Yogi Ferrell that you see in UConn guard Shabazz Napier. How does Ferrell get to that point, for you? And how important is it for him that leadership won't be new next season? A: "We learned this firsthand from Shabazz Napier. Think about it — he led his team in rebounding, all year long. That's a guy that is absolutely gonna do what it takes to win. "I was sad for Michigan State — there's only two times a year when I don't want to see Tom Izzo win, and that's the times he plays us. Other than that, I want to see him win them all. That's our friendship. "But I called Yogi right away, when that game ended, and we just went right down the line of how important that is, and there's no question you can be that same way next year. I think it will be even easier, because we're going to shoot it better. We've got two of the absolute best guards in the country coming into the program, and we have as good of a 6-7 wing shooter as I saw, who also has the ability to pass it, and sees the game. "And we feel good about the people we're recruiting right now. The biggest thing we can do in recruiting right now is stay committed to getting people that we want. And that doesn't mean that everybody will look at it and say, 'Wow, he really makes sense.' But I think everyone around Indiana that ever questioned when we signed Victor (Oladipo) and Will (Sheehey) will understand that it didn't take very long for those guys to look like Indiana players. "But Yogi is key. The growth and education of Yogi as a leader is a big key to this team, because it was this year. And he did a phenomenal job. "When we watch films of the last two years versus last year, so much defense was centered around stopping Yogi. ... Five guys are guarding Yogi. Those days are going to be over." Q: When you talk about the turnover issues and their importance over the course of the season, do you see some of that easing off because with that shooting ability you're bringing in, you'll just be able to unclog the lane more? A: "This is what makes Michigan Michigan and Wisconsin Wisconsin right now: The first sign of help, they're giving the ball up. We used (Michigan guard) Nik Stauskas as an example a lot last year, because of how he played as a freshman. The example we use a lot right now is (Michigan guard) Caris LeVert. "I say that with complete respect. The improvement he made from freshman to sophomore, those are the kinds of things I want our guys looking at right now, especially our freshmen, because our sophomores didn't always get better. Yogi got tremendously better. Peter (Jurkin)'s health held him back from getting better, and the other two (Jeremy Hollowell and Hanner Mosquera-Perea) didn't make the progress that they needed to make. One still gets to, the other one's leaving. "The freshmen, to go to sophomore, we can't have just one or two of them get better. ... Everybody's got individual things that they need to improve on, and you've got to be able to tailor it to that. "I look at a guy like Caris LeVert, that's exactly what he did at Michigan. And I've never seen him practice, don't know him. All I've done is shake his hand. But what he did, improving his ball handling, his decision making, his quick passing — that helped make Nik Stauskas what he is. And the ability for (Michigan forward) Jordan Morgan to screen, defend, rebound, that had as much to do with Nik Stauskas being Nik Stauskas. "So now what have you got? You've got a bunch of guys playing their role at a high level, and you've got a really good team. And we were within seconds of beating them twice. So we're not that far. We're really not. That's why there's no long faces. Everybody's moving at a good pace. We knew what was holding us back during the year. Some of it was off the court, no question about it. But more of it was just ... giving yourself to the team every moment, and having that grit to get finishes and get things done."

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Corinne Foxx isn't all that worried about her role as Miss Golden Globe 2016. "I'm kind of nervous that I'm not as nervous as I should be," Jamie Foxxs 21-year-old daughter told E! News' William Marfuggi Thursday at the 73rd Annual Golden Globe Awards preview day. "I don't want to trip. I don't want to fall, I don't want to drop the award..." But if Corinne should accidentally drop an award or actually trip and fall, it won't be the end of the world. Jennifer Lawrence gets away with it, so I should be fine, right?" she quipped. "[It might] boost my career!" Kevin Winter/Getty Images Yeah, being clumsy certainly hasn't held J-Law back. The 25-year-old Oscar winner is able to laugh at her own klutziness. Corinne seems to be of the same mindset, telling E! News that if she really does wipe out Sunday, at least she and Jen "could be falling buddies." That wouldn't be a bad way to end the night! Corinne actually has her sights set on Jen as a future BFF, and she's got a friend crush on another leading lady nominee as well! Watch the video above to hear who this is and much, much more from Corinne. The 73rd Golden Globe Awards air live this Sunday at 5:00 p.m. PST/8:00 p.m. EST on NBC. E!'s Golden Globes coverage starts Sunday at 4 p.m. ET / 1 p.m. PT. E! Online's live stream will begin at 5:55 p.m. ET / 2:55 p.m. PT. Plus, watch E! After Party: The 2016 Golden Globes at 11 p.m. ET / 8 p.m. PT. And don't miss the Fashion Police Golden Globes special Monday at 8 p.m., only on E!

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Active Sample Manager (ASM) The ASM is our automated sample management system for high-throughput storage of tubes, vials, and plates with a temperature range down to -20°C. ASM Store Each self-contained ASM Store is equipped to pick and compile individual 2-D barcoded microtubes, cryovials, or 96-microtube racks or microplates at quick rates, all within an inert, temperature-controlled environment from ambient to -20?C. Three different models allow you to choose the right ASM Store to accommodate your storage needs. The specialized design of the ASM Store allows for the expansion of the ASM system by combining multiple ASM Store modules to one ASM Server. In addition, as tube picking and compiling functions are contained within each ASM Store module, tube pick rates and overall system output increases proportionately with the addition of each ASM Store module. Compiled racks can be held until needed within the secure, user-defined storage of the ASM Store, or can be transferred directly to the ASM Server module or hand-off arm for retrieval and processing. This system architecture provides users with the highest level of flexibility and accessibility to meet current and future application demands.

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As the old adage goes, the two things you can't avoid are death and taxes. Some cash-strapped states that are hungry for tax revenue from any source they can find it aren't afraid to combine the two by taxing transfers of property after someone dies. It's important to distinguish between inheritance taxes and estate taxes, as they have different characteristics and often get implemented differently. Estate taxes are collected from the estate before heirs get any payouts, and so by the time you receive an inheritance, you never have to worry about any estate tax liability. Most states collect estate taxes, but only on high net-worth estates and usually only as an add-on to what federal estate tax law imposes on estates. But the inheritance taxes discussed in this article are usually completely separate from estate taxes, and with inheritance taxes, some states put the onus on you to give up part of what you receive to pay your inheritance-tax burden. Using figures from CCH as reported by Forbes as well as state department of revenue data, let's look at six states that charge inheritance taxes. 6. New Jersey New Jersey charges inheritance taxes that run from 11% to 16%, but it also has a relatively long list of family members who are exempt from the tax. Spouses, parents, grandparents, and descendants don't have to pay the tax, and New Jersey is one of the few states for which civil union partners and domestic partners are also exempt from inheritance tax. Siblings of the deceased person or spouses of a child or other descendant get exemptions of up to $25,000, while more remote relatives and other recipients get a $500 exemption before taxes are imposed. Maryland imposes a 10% inheritance tax on individuals who don't qualify as exempt. Among those who are exempt include spouses, parents, grandparents, siblings, and descendants, as well as spouses of descendants. Domestic partners were added to the list of exempt recipients in mid-2009. In addition, property passing to any one person that doesn't exceed $1,000 in value isn't taxed, either. Iowa charges an inheritance tax of between 5% and 15% to heirs who aren't exempt. Exemptions in Iowa include spouses, parents and grandparents, and children and other lineal descendants. Everyone else is subject to tax, with the rates varying depending on your relationship to the deceased. Siblings of the deceased, as well as spouses of the deceased's children, pay tax at rates between 5% and 10%. Other individuals pay between 10% and 15%, although gifts to charity are entirely exempt. Kentucky's inheritance tax applies to everyone except spouses, parents, children, grandchildren, and siblings. For certain close relatives, including aunts, uncles, nieces, nephews, and daughters-in-law and sons-in-law, Kentucky grants a $1,000 exemption and charges taxes ranging from 4% to 16%. Other heirs, including cousins, get a smaller $500 exemption and higher taxes of 6% to 16%. Nebraska is harsher than most states in imposing taxes on just about everyone except a surviving spouse. Parents, grandparents, siblings, children, or other lineal descendants -- as well as the spouses of any of those individuals -- are subject to tax of 1% for property worth more than $40,000. Aunts, uncles, nephews, nieces, and their descendants have to pay a 13% tax rate on property worth more than $15,000, while other beneficiaries pay an 18% tax rate after a $10,000 exemption. One of the state's most famous residents, Omaha-born billionaire Warren Buffett of Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE:BRK-A) (NYSE:BRK-B), is unlikely to leave his heirs paying much in the way of inheritance tax, as he has already pledged the bulk of his billions in Berkshire stock to charity. Most charitable transfers are exempt from the tax. Pennsylvania has the most restrictive set of exempt individuals of the states mentioned here, limiting exempt transfers to surviving spouses or to a parent if the deceased is a child who's 21 years old or younger. Transfers to children, grandchildren, and other direct descendants get taxed at 4.5%, while transfers to siblings incur a 12% tax. A 15% tax applies to other individual heirs and other recipients. A last chance at the tax apple Many policymakers believe that taxing transfers at death is an unconscionable insult to a grieving family, while others note that such taxes help to prevent massive accumulations of wealth among small groups of people. Regardless of your opinions on such taxes, you should be aware of the laws your state imposes on estates and inheritances in deciding where you want to live, especially during your retirement years. Fool contributor Dan Caplinger owns shares of Berkshire Hathaway. You can follow him on Twitter: @DanCaplinger. The Motley Fool recommends and owns shares of Berkshire Hathaway. Try any of our Foolish newsletter services free for 30 days. We Fools don't all hold the same opinions, but we all believe that considering a diverse range of insights makes us better investors. The Motley Fool has a disclosure policy.

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From: Food Quality & Safety Magazine, 6.5.2012 Some Salmonella rates rise, CDC reports Here’s the good news: The overall incidence of reported illnesses linked to one of six of the most common foodborne pathogens dropped by 23% between 1996-1998 and 2010, according to a CDC report. California dairy’s product gets green light after third outbreak California food safety officials recently lifted the statewide quarantine on all raw milk products produced by Organic Pastures of Fresno County, a little more than a week after it was imposed in the wake of 10 cases of Campylobacter-related illness linked to the dairy’s products.

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[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index][Subject Index][Author Index] RE: The (long) future of paleontology Not sure what the automobile analogy is about since I would gladly use technology to help me find and excavate dinosaurs. Unlike Dann, I would excavate the specimen once found, not simply take pictures of it. Seems to me one reason for getting down and dirty is because it is cheaper than overpriced, dust sensitive, and prone to breakdown equipment. Case in point: A good friend from Lawrence Livermore (yes, the weapons lab) brought out a highly sensitive radiation detector to try out at an ankylosaur bonebed we have been excavating (see my web site). Unlike some sites in the Cedar Mountain Formation, this place had practically no radioactive bones. Unfortunately, field condition were such that a $5000 piece of equipment was severely damaged and we never were able to try the technique. We had hoped to locate an intact skull. In the past, I experimented with ground penetrating radar, but that technique was a bust since the density of dinosaur bone is about the same as the encasing rock. That is certainly not the case for human artifacts in dirt. Laser technology for the automated preparation of fossils (another area my friends at Livermore explored using specimens I provided) is still in the tens of thousands of dollar stage. See JVP Abstract 19(3):35A "Automated high-speed, high-speed, high-resolution specimen recovery from matrix with femtosecond laser pulse-trains." My record, at least, shows ownership of a 'new fangled automobile' As one who has monitored the commercial business for years, I can state that in fact paleontology is not becoming more commercial, but less. My close friends at the Black Hills Institute and Western paleo Labs, among others, have been struggling for the past few years. The price of dinosaurs has been dropping for lack of buyers. The Japanese market that for years was driving the market has been pretty much dead for a number of years as well. Kenneth Carpenter, Ph.D. Curator of Lower Vertebrate Paleontology/ Department of Earth Sciences Denver Museum of Nature & Science 2001 Colorado Blvd. Denver, CO 80205 for PDFs of some of my publications, as well as information of the Cedar From: firstname.lastname@example.org [mailto:email@example.com] On Behalf Of Dann Pigdon Sent: Monday, January 16, 2006 1:24 PM Subject: Re: The (long) future of paleontology > Dann may choose to keep his hands clean and unblooded, but the rest of > us like the dirt under the nails, the challenge of excavation and the > bumps and bruises that accompany that work. I'm sure dedicated horse people resisted the 'new fangled automobile' as Seriously though, how will traditional palaeontologists compete with the more cost- and time-effective methods of the future? Just because people like doing something a certain way doesn't mean they will have the luxury (or in this case, lack of luxury) of being able to do so. Palaeontology is becoming increasingly commercial-oriented (like it or not), and short of commiting the ultimate horror of selling fossils to the highest bidder, it has to be cost effective and preferably be able to make (or save) someone some money (exhibitions, advertising, etc). I'm not saying I like it that way, but it seems to be what's GIS / Archaeologist http://heretichides.soffiles.com Melbourne, Australia http://www.geocities.com/dannsdinosaurs

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Real Madrid’s lethal striker, Cristiano Ronaldo, has been suspended for five games after he was sent off in Real Madrid’s 3-1 win against Barcelona in the Spanish Super Cup first leg on Sunday. He was given a one-match ban for being shown two yellow cards and a further four for pushing the referee in the back after he had been sent off. The bookings at the Nou Camp were for taking off his shirt to celebrate his goal to make it 2-1 and for a dive. He will miss Wednesday’s second leg. Ronaldo, 32, will have 10 days to appeal. The Portugal international will be able to play in the Champions League but will not return to domestic action until 20 September against Real Betis. While Ronaldo may be enjoying the bragging rights for now, the 5-match also attracts a fine of £2,700 – for pushing referee Ricardo de Burgos Bergoetxea after being shown a second yellow for an apparent dive. The Portuguese had been given his first warning only minutes earlier after removing his shirt to celebrate his goal and was then given his marching orders after going down under the challenge of Samuel Umtiti. Article 96 of the rulebook applies to players who ‘grab, push or shake’ a referee in a ‘slightly violent manner’ and recommends a four to 12 game suspension for such offences. If the top striker is not successful with his appeal, it means he would miss the following critical games: Spanish Super Cup against Barcelona, which comes up on Wednesday August 16; La Liga games against Deportivo La Coruna on August 20; Valencia on August 27; Levante on September 9 and Real Sociedad on September 17. From what was seen at the Spanish Super Cup, which landed Ronaldo into big trouble, it was obvious that Barcelona began life after Neymar with a 3-1 reverse against their greatest rival in La Liga.

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A team of doctors from John's Hopkins Children's Center took a trip to Haiti that proved to be both heartbreaking and uplifting. When the earthquake hit, the group of pediatric residents was already in Miami preparing to go to Haiti for a two-week program on tropical medicine. Instead, they spent four days working almost around the clock trying to save dozens of young lives. "It was terrifying when you first walked up," said Dr. Delphine Robotham. "You saw the tents. You saw this fold up table outside that was the operating room. You saw hundreds of people, and the first thought that goes through your mind is, 'Wow, what can I do for these people? How can I help?'" She faced her breaking point when a 12-year-old boy she was caring for finally was slated for a life-saving flight to Miami but wound up back in the makeshift clinic at the Port-au-Prince airport just three hours later. "It was heart-wrenching 'cause I thought that this is it, he’s going to die in front of me," Robotham said. "I went outside. I couldn't hold it anymore. I just ran outside and sobbed." But a pilot noticed and promised he'd fly the boy to a hospital. But amid the heartache, there were heartening moments, too. Orphans who might have struggled alone were tended to by parents of other children. "Other families would just come up and kind of take their turn feeding this little baby, and it was really amazing to see," said Dr. Jennifer Webb. "In the midst of all this chaos there was still so much love and effort and kind of everybody working toward a goal." Leaving Haiti may have been the hardest part for this team. "Honestly, I think saying goodbye was probably one of the hardest parts of the entire trip," Robotham said. But just because they're back in the are doesn't mean they're done helping Haiti. The group is organizing a drive to collect crutches. "There were boxes and boxes of medical supplies, but I never once saw a pair of crutches," Dr. Rayna Hamdy said. "There aren't any crutches there." Crutches can be dropped off at the David M. Rubenstein Child Health Building at 200 N. Wolfe St. Monday through Friday from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Do not drop off donations at the hospital emergency room, as that is disruptive to activities at the hospital.

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Leaving Terra Firma is the fifth full-length release from Stephen Peppos and his first in the ambient genre. MainlyPiano.com’s Michael Debbage has referred to Peppos as “the Indiana Jones of New Age Music” because of his adventurous nature, and that nickname still seems appropriate. Not that this album moves into dangerous territory, but it is a mix of dark ambient, space music, and electronica plus a few other genres that may not yet be named. One track features the ethereal vocals of Seay, an artist Peppos has collaborated with before. In the liner notes of the CD, Peppos says, “My heartfelt desire is that my music brings you enjoyment and contentment, as well as an insight into the joy that awaits us in our next place.” Trying to express in music the reality that our time on earth is short and creating a musical depiction of what awaits beyond this life seems daunting and overwhelming, but Peppos has done a beautiful job of doing just that. Listening to the album for only its musical qualities is also a very rewarding experience, so I would expect that Leaving Terra Firma could be one of the most talked-about albums of the year. Peppos composed the twelve main tracks as well as the bonus 13th track and also arranged, performed and produced all of the music. The album artwork by Stephen and Barbara Peppos is also exceptional! Stephen Peppos is a well-seasoned musician who started playing the piano as a young child. In addition to his five albums, he has produced more than 2000 tracks for his original music libraries, composed national television jingles, and has been a sound designer for a wide variety of projects. His music has earned six Telly and Rim awards and his Follow the Mist album received the “Best Instrumental Album - Piano” award from Zone Music Reporter for 2008. Leaving Terra Firma begins with the title track, a soothing, ambient piece with bits of a melody weaving in and out of the other sounds. “Magnetic Fields” is much darker and more atmospheric, creating feelings of floating into deep space. I really like the energy of “Vita Secundom Vita,” a rhythmic piece that seems to swirl and dance with complete freedom. “Everlast” is a beautiful, somewhat mournful piece with electronic strings floating over a bed of atmospheric effects. Even though it feels sad, there is comfort in the peacefulness and openness of the sounds. “Praesentia Animi” is one of two tracks that Peppos calls “Epic Ambient.” More orchestrated and melodic, these beautiful soundscapes easily transport the mind to places it has never been before. “Amor Dei” is the other “Epic Ambient” track and features what sounds like a cathedral choir, but is Seay’s voice in many layers - an amazing effect! “To See” is ethereal and seems imbued with hope and light. “Finalis” returns to deep space while retaining feelings of timelessness and peaceful comfort. The “hidden” bonus track, “Cold But Warm Peace,” is very light and airy, but still fits in with the rest of the album. Stephen Peppos has created another work of art with Leaving Terra Firma . It is available from StephenPeppos.com , Amazon and iTunes. Recommended!

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On Thursday, Pennsylvania Secretary of Transportation Leslie Richards held a virtual town hall, soliciting feedback from Pennsylvania residents on what they would like included in the new twelve year plan. Among the projects asked about was the Lackawanna Cut-off restoration and Secretary Richards said of it, “We would love to see more travel from Pennsylvania into New York, into Northeastern Pennsylvania.” She also stated federal funding assistance is necessary and invited residents to tell PennDOT their priorities. “We applaud Secretary Richards for coming out in support of the Lackawanna Cut-off Restoration Project. We completely agree that federal funding assistance is necessary, but PennDOT and the state also need to play a role. We look forward to working with our local, state, and federal allies to secure the funding for this project that clearly has public support and desire and thank our supporters for raising this question yesterday,” said SRRC executive director Tyler Kusma. The moderator mentioned there were several questions related to passenger rail, showing the strong desire for passenger rail in the Commonwealth.

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Jacquard elastic is more and more popular to using in life with its decorative, practical, environmental protection and other roles. Fashion is now a very prominent feature of clothing. And this fashionable expression, inseparable from the use of elastic jacquard. However, many jacquard elastic band will be deformation after few times washing. So what are the factors that cause the deformation? Here are some factors that are analyzed by Amanda Textile Company: First , the fabric material, if the material of the fabric does not match the material of the jacquard elastic band, the shrinkage rate will be different. Second, the production process, if the jacquard elastic band use in the collar ring, sleeve ring and other parts of the curvature is relatively large, which will lead to shrinkage. Therefore, we suggested that the shrinkage test can be carried out with professional tools to determine whether it will be caused by the above first factor. If so, try to avoid washing. You can also use the webbing to sewing with garments and testing to make sure that each process goes smoothly. If the water washing test finds deformation or wrinkles, it is necessary to immediately replace other types of webbing or materials to avoid the subsequent shrinkage of the above products and affect the sales of the products. Jacquard webbing will inevitably issued some problems such as in the production process, resulting in unqualified product inspection, so how to find and adjust it ? The reasons for wave formation are: - The steel buckle is not evenly threaded, and most of the two sides are worn, but the middle is worn too little. - The steel buckle is worn too much and the weft is pulled too tight. - The pan head pulls the yarn incorrectly, the two sides are pulled tightly, and the middle is pulled too loose. - The yarn joining method is wrong, and the balance is not good. - Use standard steel buckles and wear them in groups of 1 or 2. - According to the width of the webbing, choose the steel buckle to wear. - Change the middle and the two sides of the yarn pair to the same strip, or pull the middle looser. - According to the weaving practice, it is necessary to pick up and press the pressure to average the number of bars. Second, CAURVED BELT If there is a bent band in production, it will inevitably affect the subsequent order production, increasing the difficulty of dyeing and finishing. The reasons for forming a bend are: - The steel buckle is not evenly worn; - The warp yarn is unevenly elastic; - The steel buckle is in the wrong position; - The yarn joining method is not equal. - Steel buckle wear must be in accordance with the formal method; - The elastic warp is uneven. If the warp output of the pan head is different, it will affect the straightness of the fabric, generally with the loose side of the body. - The person buckles the wrong way to form the curved belt, the steel buckle is generally the knitting distance, and there is a steel buckle empty distance. - According to the needs of the webbing, it is often divided into layers, or points, left and right, generally have to be divided into upper and lower, if there are more than two practices or lines on a belt, they must be separated. Third, THE WIDTH IS NOT THE SAME The width of the fabric such as jacquard webbing is standard with the customer’s requirements and is controlled within an allowable upper and lower deviations, but the width does not always appear during the weaving process. For example: - The side of the chain or the side of the steel wire is misaligned. The function of the side of the steel wire is to balance the density of the fabric on both sides of the body during the weaving process, so that the machine shrinks uniformly and improves the bending phenomenon. If the steel wire wears me or One less space. The width change is more obvious; - There are obstacles in the outlet. If the position of the line is wrong, if there is a problem in a certain position or a problem with the weft, it will cause obstacles in the weft yarn and affect the width. - The thickness of the weft material is inconsistent. The rayon and cotton yarn are easy to pass. Thick or thin, directly affecting the width. Amanda textile has its own strict production process and QC control. In the process of production, it can find problems and deal with problems in time. Therefore, our elastic band and webbing defect rate have been very low.

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With homes that are just under two decades years old, Kuna is proving to be a sought-after spot for buyers. Homes for sale in Kuna, ID are the lowest in Ada County. Kuna is easily accessible right off the freeway and just 10 miles south of Meridian. Not to mention, as compared with its neighbor in Canyon County, Kuna residents have a shorter commute to the city and lower property taxes. Here’s what you need to know about the real estate trends in this town. Kuna Distressed Property Report Are you looking to maximize your budget and find a low-priced property for sale? A distressed property, one that is under foreclosure or being sold by the lender, might be the best option for you. Fortunately, Kuna has distressed properties on the market, and they are priced lower than the market value. As of June 2019, Kuna has 43 distressed properties for sale. Their prices range from $150,000 to $300,000. Among these properties are those with 4 bedrooms and 2 baths and other smaller ones with 2 bedrooms and 1 bath. Demographics and Crime Statistics Kuna’s neighborhood can easily be considered one of the safest in the US. According to the June 2019 data from Livability, the city has 16,557 residents; 49.6% of the population is male and 50.45% are female. Also, 81% of the population is homeowners, and the median age of residents is 33. Based on the 2018 crime data from Neighborhood Scout, Kuna is safer than 69% of US cities. The city recorded only 59 violent crimes and 123 property crimes, which are fairly low compared to those of other cities. Needless to say, the city receives an A rating in terms of crime statistics. Median Income, Price Point, and Cost of Living Living in Kuna is a great way to maximize your income without compromising the quality of life. Real estate data from Livability shows that the median income for residents in the city is $57,417. With this amount, you can pretty much afford the average median home price, which is $134,000, or the average rent of $1,059 for a one-bedroom apartment. For those looking to own a property in Kuna, the property tax with mortgage ranges from $1,500 to $2,500 depending on the size and location of the house. However, just a heads up: 41.9% of Kuna’s homeowners have gotten a property that requires a tax of $1,000 to $1,500. Here’s the good news for aspiring Kuna residents! The cost of living index in the city is below the US average of 100, coming in at 96.4. As for the cost of housing, the city has an index point of 5.1, which is way lower than the national average. The index for healthcare and related services is 91.9, and the index for the cost of utilities is 90.3. Generally, almost all utilities cost less in Kuna when compared to the national average. Kuna’s economy is doing well with new companies moving to the city and new construction happening quite frequently. It’s been reported that CapEd Credit Union is looking to construct a new building in the city, meaning additional jobs for residents. In another real estate news report, several developers are looking to build more properties in Kuna and the Treasure Valley area. The city’s leaders are looking for more projects and ventures for Kuna’s residents. In May 2019, the Idaho Press reported that Kuna will host an economic forum that will focus on funding and encourage more business activity in the city. To know more about Kuna, ID, and if you are wanting to seek professional advice, contact us today.

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Welcome to the Airline Retailing Maturity (ARM) index Self-Service Platform. In this platform you will be able to input capabilities, supporting documents and data for the pillars of the ARM index that are relevant to your company. Capabilities Verification will validate your company's submitted capabilities as enabled by the IATA Enhanced and Simplified Distribution (EASD) Standards. Airlines, Sellers and System Providers can participate in Capabilities Verification. Partnerships Deployment will assess the scalability of your company with partner connections and network reach based on data provided and confirmations done by retailing partners. Airlines and Sellers can participate in Partnerships Deployment. Value Capture Compass helps airlines assess the state of their maturity in eight core dimensions that are essential for capturing the value of airline retailing. Airlines can participate in Value Capture Compass. To begin the process of participating in the ARM index, please submit you application form (found here) to firstname.lastname@example.org. Once we have reviewed your application for we will set up the initial users in this self-service platform. New self-service platform user: If your company is already a participant in the ARM index, please ask your ARM index champion to request you as a user within the platform. PLEASE NOTE: IATA does not validate the quality or other aspects of the Applicant’s activities or products, stand-alone or in comparison with those of other entities, nor does it validate, certify or endorse any commercial products that may be derived from the usage of EASD messages validated under the ARM index. Furthermore, by maintaining the ARM index Registry, IATA does not take any position with respect to the relative quality or other aspects of the activities or products of other entities that are not verified under the ARM index.

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|Total assets less current liabilities||1||1| |CAPITAL AND RESERVES||2013||2012| |Called up share capital||1||1| WATERMARK LAND COMPANY LIMITED has been working since 6/6/2011. The current status of the business is Active WATERMARK LAND COMPANY LIMITED located on SUMMER LAKE, SPINE ROAD, SOUTH CERNEY, GLOS, GL7 5LWDirector Thomas Maxwell Hugh is known as a Director of the company. Linnells Secretarial Services Limited is known as a Secretary of the company. "Non-trading company" is a known activity of the company.

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Open as PDF CHAPTER 2: PRODUCT DESCRIPTION PRODUCT DESCRIPTION MULTILINK ML1200 MANAGED FIELD SWITCH – INSTRUCTION MANUAL 2–9 QoS, Port- and tag-based VLANs, GVRP, IGMP Snooping, SNMPc GUI support; Event Log; SNTP client for time-of-day; BootP and DHCP client for IP configuring, and password security and Secured Web interface.

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You Should Be Playing… It always comes at the same time, night after night. It starts like an itching just under the skin in your arms, like the blood in your veins was suddenly made from crawling spiders. It was feeling you had when you would drag a knife across the skin just to feel something in the cold numbness of your adolescence, and something you had believed gone. The scars never faded, though, and when he found you, it was like your blood started crawling again. Now, you lie awake at night, waiting for the crawling to start, unable to sleep. You stand and dress, heading out the bedroom door and passing through the living room. Your wife is sleeping on the couch because she cannot stand sharing your bed since you stopped sleeping. The part of you that still loves her more than the itching in your blood says goodbye, and you go for the closet. You pull on the jacket as the second wave hits you. He is near, now, calling to you, setting the spiders scurrying through your veins and down your back. You catch your breath and reach for the shoebox in the closet. The weight of the pistol is heavy in your hand as you remove it. With a rote action, you check the slide, chamber a round, and slip it into your jacket pocket. The old gypsy woman told you silver was the key, and you spent a small fortune getting eight shots of salvation. Maybe she told the truth. Maybe she lied. It does not truly matter that much to you. Tonight, it ends in blood. One way, or the other. Annalise is a cooperative storytelling game of gothic horror for two to four players. Published in 2010 by NDP Design, it was written by Nathan D. Paoletta in 2008. Two years of work went into polishing the game into its Final Design, and it is available in soft cover for $25 on the publisher’s website or online as a PDF for $10 through DriveThruRPG. Annalise is a game ultimately about telling compelling narratives of flawed, damaged people becoming the prey of a vampire. Gameplay is designed to take between three and six four hour sessions and is best run at three or four players with some experience in improvisational storytelling. Annalise is very much a game in the same style as Fiasco and Polaris, but it treads much closer to the stories of personal horror shown in Vampire: the Requiem and Don’t Rest Your Head. In Annalise, players take on the role of the protagonists in a gothic horror story about a vampire. The game itself is tied to the styles and mechanisms gothic horror overall more so than any particular setting. As such, it is equally adept at telling a story about a psychic, invisible monster stalking a lunar colony, an ancient blood-drinking creature of the night preying on an all-girl school in the modern day, or a strange illness besetting a chivalric French countryside. Annalise resides firmly in the ur-genre of gothic horror, resisting restriction into any of its various descendants of storytelling. The elements of gothic horror – isolation, vulnerability, duplicity, and victimization – are universal throughout many other genres of storytelling. Just as vampires can be found across nearly any form of fiction, Annalise can adeptly handle nearly any setting wherein vulnerable characters can become the victim of something terrible. The rules of Annalise are very light, and they serve more to guide a narrative towards a mutually interesting experience for all players than anything else. As with Fiasco and Polaris, there is no singular Game Master to run Annalise; each player at the table is expected to share in the burden of storytelling. Gameplay in Annalise begins with a discussion of the Setting by the players, establishing certain baseline ground rules for the narrative they wish to tell. This is where the game’s thematic elements are decided, along with general timelines and locations. It is important at this point to not define the characters, and especially not the Vampire central to the story. Both of those are discovered communally as the game progresses. It is also important during this phase to establish any Veils or Lines for the story. Veils are subjects needing to be kept vague for player comfort, and Lines are elements that cannot happen in the story due to player comfort. Once the Setting has been established, the players select someone at the table to be the first Active Player. Typically, this is someone who is not familiar with the game and has not played it before. The first Active Player has a great deal of power in setting things in motion, but also has the greatest chance of being tied to the other characters being created. The first Active Player creates their character by giving them a name, a description, and a Vulnerability. The Vulnerability is the trait which will attract the attention of the Vampire. A character’s Vulnerability is a phrase written on a note card the player keeps in front of them, and it always begins with “I am vulnerable because…”. The rest of the phrase describes a pain, loss, or trauma that makes the character open to being victimized, and it is central to the character’s journey in the narrative. The first Active Player then narrates their character’s prologue, possibly assigning temporary roles to the other players to help introduce them and their Vulnerability. By the end of the scene, the character’s Vulnerability is known to all players, and the next player becomes the next Active Player. This player then decides a name, a description, and a Vulnerability just as the first Active Player did, but they must decide a relationship with an existing player character. For the second Active Player, this will be the first player, but other players get more options. This process repeats until all player characters are introduced. During these scenes, anyone who is not the Active Player may make a Claim to an element in the narrative. Claims may be something descriptive, like “blood in the water” or “metal gleaming in firelight”, or may be a person or relationship like “Tom at the bookstore” or “abusive husband”. Claims are elements that players wish to continually bring into the story throughout the rest of the game. During the first phase of the game, Claims can be made freely, and it is encouraged for all players to have two or three by the end of the Introductions. Claims enter play with two Coins on them, being a currency to be used later on in the game to affect the outcomes of future scenes. Finally, once all player characters are introduced, every player writes down two Secrets. These Secrets always begin with “I can never reveal that…” and are always something dangerous or forbidden but that does not violate the Setting or any Lines or Veils. These are then dealt randomly out to the players, with each player receiving one. Once a Secret has been chosen, it may be traded with another player, but it should not be revealed. The player then splits a pool of Coins between their Vulnerability and Secret. Facing Your Demon After the Introduction, play continues in a round-robin storytelling format with each player taking turns driving as the Active Player. The Active Player of a scene also gets to appoint a Scene Guide, who serves as that scene’s GM. Play continues through a series of rounds as players gain more Claims, spend the Claims, gain Satellite Traits which are growths from their Vulnerability or Secret, and deal with the Vampire’s increasing hold over them and the story. The Coins on the players’ Traits and Claims serve as a dwindling currency as the game progresses, pushing the story more towards negative consequences and desperate measures. The narrative builds into a final confrontation with the Vampire, in whatever form has been developed through the shared storytelling of the players, and the Aftermath for its survivors. With a limited amount of dice rolling involved, there is always the potential for any scene to go badly for the Active Player, with the limited resource of the Coins being the only way to mitigate it. The end of the narrative comes when the Vampire’s relationship to each character is resolved, and each character is given an Aftermath scene to showcase the scars and strengths created by their encounter. Annalise is a game that utilizes many strategic techniques to create a sense of investment in the story. Through the use of Claims, Annalise allows the players to choose the motifs and elements which will serve to enrich their narrative, and the investment of the Coins turns the cooperative narrative into a genuine game. There is no predicting precisely how a given scene may end for the Active Player, but Claims and Coins give a player a limited power over it. With only a few truly hard and fast rules, such as to when to end the central phases of Annalise (both Laying the Foundation and Confronting the Vampire), a great deal of power is placed in the hands of the players to truly make it the game they want to have. Through the Vulnerability and the Secrets, players become invested in helping their characters overcome their weaknesses and the Vampire who preys on them. Even if the character ultimately gives in to the Vampire, the struggle alone creates a sense of catharsis and release for the player. In the world of roleplaying games, gamers are drawn generally towards two types of experiences. The first is a sense of escapism and empowerment, of having vicarious experiences one cannot have in real life and achieving goals despite opposition. The second is a sense of immersion and catharsis, where one slips into the skin of another living, breathing character and deals with their character’s problems for a short while. Annalise is a game firmly in the second camp of experiences. Annalise invites players to experience a secondhand state of vulnerability in a controlled environment to tell a compelling story of isolation and horror, and derive from it a sense of personal growth and resolution. With its versatile, rules-light system and strategic techniques of player investment into the story, Annalise succeeds at creating a pervasive mood of turmoil, hope, and despair in a way few other games on the market can even come close to. And that is why you should be playing Annalise. David Gordon is a regular contributor to the site. A storyteller by trade and avowed tabletop veteran, he is always on the lookout for creative tabletop games. He can be reached at email@example.com. You can discuss this article and more on our social media!

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