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The highlight for any top-level referee is to be given the honour to officiate a major final. To be in charge of a World Cup final or a Champions League final is as good as it gets for any official. Unfortunately for English ref Mark Clattenburg, when he took charge of the Champions League final between Real Madrid and Atletico Madrid in 2016, his team made a rather high profile mistake. Real took the lead through Sergio Ramos after 15 minutes but, in his column for the Daily Mail earlier today, Clattenburg admitted they got it wrong. "In that final Real Madrid went 1-0 up in the first half but the goal was slightly offside and we realised at half-time, Clattenburg wrote in the Daily Mail. "It was a hard call and my assistant missed it." "I gave Atletico a penalty early in the second half when Pepe fouled Fernando Torres," he recalled. "Pepe was furious and said to me in perfect English: 'Never a penalty, Mark.' "I said to him: 'Your first goal shouldn't have stood.' It shut him up." Antoine Griezmann smashed the bar from the resulting penalty but a late Yannick Carrasco equaliser forced the game into extra-time and, ultimately, penalties where Real Madrid won their 11th European Cup. After Clattenburg’s comments about Real’s offside goal made headlines, Atletico Madrid responded on Twitter. They screenshotted three Spanish articles relating to Clattenburg’s confession and simply tweeted the thinking face emoji. Of course, there was no VAR back in those days to help the officials. But if that final had taken place in the last couple of years, Ramos’ goal would never stand. And it seems Atleti still aren't over it. - Tweet shows how Kylian Mbappe has been copying Cristiano Ronaldo's celebrations - What happened when Cristiano Ronaldo raced a professional sprinter - Jurgen Klopp picks Lionel Messi over Cristiano Ronaldo in debate over the better player
Generation X Manifesto Years ending in the number 9 have witnessed major and life-changing events in our country’s history. One of the most recent and most significant events directly affecting our present time is the fall of the communist regime in 1989, so that this year we can celebrate 30 years of living in freedom. Those who were aged ten in those exciting times, are now forty years old. They are about halfway through their lives, spending the first quarter under communism, the second quarter in the transitional 1990’s and welcoming the 21st century as young adults. They had firsthand experience of the idiological, moral and intellectual transformation of the Czech society, they tested and experienced the integration of new technologies. They lived through the euphoria of having free future ahead, the naivety stemming from manifold opportunities, the disillusion with persisting human narrow-mindedness and understanding their own uniqueness. They are not nostalgic, although they can feel how much their generation is special. These people were sort of ‘laboratory animals’, and they still feel dizzy from time moving too fast. At first sight, though, their lives are not different from those of their younger or older peers, so called Husák’s children. And what about the other perspective? The dance solo Generation X brings a testimony of today’s forty-year-olds in the form of stage personification of one generation’s feelings. The piece is based on a research carried out among a group of twenty-one people aged forty. The collected data has been dramaturgically processed by Tereza Krčálová and the result became the initial inspiration for a new choreography. Michal Záhora has invited for collaboration the performer Helena Arenbergerová and through her dance he presents the highly personal and intimate manifesto of one generation which needs no further explanations. No words to be heard on stage, just simple lighting design and the stage raw and naked. Helena comes from the auditorium, enters the stage, barefoot, dressed in jeans and a light tee. No scenography means more space for dance. The reunion of these two exceptional artists always brings interesting creative essence, although it does not abound in innovative creativity or breath-taking effects. The opposite is true - the choreography makes use of the principles of pure movement based on inner motivation and outer rhythm of Tomáš Procházka’s original music score. The dynamic monotonousness of mighty electronic beat perfectly (though not explicitly) defines the atmosphere of the past forty years. At some moments, Arenbergerová’s rhythmical precision and speed felt almost like a trance. She let the music lead her, control her, shape her and gradually, she reached the state of conscious understanding of her own existence. There came a moment of temporary resignation which resulted is a desperate effort to hide all signs of frustration. But it was only a mask, a helmet you could not take off, but you could adjust it. The climax of personal purification and harmony returned in several waves when the performer dissolved in the rhythm of dreamy sound landscapes. As the performance culminated, the sound became even more intense and sort of blurred the image of possible future events (but maybe it was just a momentary weakness of the on-going creative process). The choreography marries Helena Arenbergerová’s refined and delicate dance expression with Michal Záhora’s original movement language combining the symbolism of dance flow, meaningful gestures and detailed expression. It is not necessary to know the exact background of individual scenes. Their energy resonates with sensitive viewers anyway. There is no need to have an explanation or evidence to accept something. For those who could not do without a clear description, there was a programme and a print copy of the literary inspiration for this unique dance piece. The première held on 21 October was followed by a sociological happening given by the sociologist Martin Buchtík who described the existential situation of the 1979 generation (estimated 190 000 people in the Czech Republic). It was an interesting attempt at pragmatism in the house of art, however, the poetics of the dance piece did not need it. After all, the key information (basic sociological stratification of model groups based on their education, marital status, income, profession, etc.) was included in a gamebook (an attachment to the programme) which seemed as “funny” as the shallow generation typology it offered. Written from the première held on 21 October, in the Ponec Theatre Generace X (Generation X) Concept, choreography and direction: Michal Záhora Dance and choreography: Helena Arenbergerová Subject, research, and creative collaboration: Tereza Krčálová Music: Tomáš Procházka Costumes: Terezie Dvořáková Expert consultations: Martin Buchtík (STEM) Project curator and production: Honza Malík & Pulsar z.s. Premiere: 21 Oct 2019 Letní Letná prepares its 18th edition, acrobats from Great Britain will bring Lexicon of Circus MagicNews
Dear Universe, Guardian Angles, Ascend Masters, Ancestors and Spirit Guides, I come to you and ask for your guidance. I set the intention that the message I receive will be out of a place of love. I ask that the highest quality message be provide. So that it may reach the people that need to read it at the time they come across it. I ask the message provide wisdom and guidance. Leading others along their path. Providing them the tools they need to make the decisions required along their path to their most abundant life. Through you I know all is possible. My will, Thy will, Divine Will. Question: Why is it so hard to speak my truth? Why when I speak my truth do I worry about how others are feeling or going to react. There are people that have no issues speaking for what they feel or believe in. For you it is very hard. It is hard because some of your truths will be frowned upon by people that you once trusted and loved. You should not let that hinder you from speaking up. If you continue to not honor yourself you are teaching others to not honor you. You are not your past. The past is the lessons you have learned. Those lessons have assist you to this very moment on your path. What you really need to do is accept. Accept yourself and the decisions you have made during your life time. Especially because you can not go back and change them. You can only glance back at them. Thank yourself and the universe for the lessons that came with those decisions. Allow them to assist you as you continue to grow and move forward. Love yourself for them because look where they have led. You worry about how others feel because that is what you have been taught. You have been taught and led to believe that you should always put others before yourself. In times when you have put yourself first you have been made to feel selfish. It is not selfish to be you. You are not the same as others. You feel what they feel even when you tell yourself you don’t. Your intentions are never to hurt others even though sometimes you will and you have. As much as you say that you are heartless you very much are the opposite. It is okay that you care about what others feel. Your heart is large and your love is strong. It is your biggest strength. Do not look at it as a weakness. Release the guilt you hold for being you. If you do not speak your truth at the expense of how others might feel then you are only making yourself a prisoner of that person. You have needs and desires just like the next person. Forgive yourself! Forgiveness is for you not for anyone else. Through forgiveness there is freedom. Do not be consumed by how others will react. Doing so gives them power over your life. This is your life to live not theirs. In this life you are here to have the human experience. Do not lose sight of that. You are human. You will make mistakes. Your decisions will not always align with that of another. It is their decisions on how they allow actions of others to influence their life. It is only your responsibility to focus on how you respond in your own life. We want you to really think on this. Is it really that it is hard to speak your truth? What are you really worried about. We know you are worried about how others will perceive you. Our response to that is that is their burden to carry not yours. You are just making decisions in your own life the best way that you know how. We watch you and we see you. As long as you continue to set good intentions everything will work out in your favor. It is so very import for you to remember how you speak to yourself. How you speak to yourself is how you allow others to speak to you. We know you are nervous about decisions you will have to make. Have faith and trust that these decisions will be for your highest good. One day you will look back and ask yourself why didn’t you do it sooner. Do not worry about the material things in the world. When you place value on the material things of the world you can not see the beauty in everything else around you. You will miss opportunities that are being placed right in front of you. Each moment in your life was created just for you. Never lose sight of that. You have conditioned your mind to believe that things are much worse than they actually are. These thoughts are what actually hinder your forward movement. Your thoughts quickly become your reality. Sometimes your mind is going to play tricks on you. The mind has been influenced by so many things throughout your life time. Some of those things the mind knows are sabotaging behaviors due to your past traumas/actions. That is where you are now. You are so focused on the external factors (others) that you are failing to see what is really happening. You are failing to see how you are allowing these influences to take hold of you. Break the habit. Do not allow the thoughts of others to consume you. Do not allow the external influence your internal being. You are only harming yourself when you let that happen. The healing process is on going and never really over. You have the tools and knowledge to navigate the days with grace. You were born to overcome. You were born to have success. You were born to lead others through your life. Your life is your story. Write the best story you can. Right now is where you start the next chapter. You must be very aware of the words you allow into your mind. Be kind to yourself. When you are kind to yourself you can be kind to others. When others are not kind to you still be kind to them. It costs you nothing. Let their actions be their actions. Their actions are not a reflection of you. They are a reflection of themselves. Remember and never forget your actions are the only actions you have any control over. Your actions also are the only actions that you have to answer for. Do not allow the judgement of others impact how you see yourself. Also do not judge others for having judgements. You do not know what they have endured on their path.
Elon Musk’s SpaceX Company is one step closer to its goal of providing worldwide ultrafast satellite broadband. The company’s beta testing, “Better Than Nothing Beta,” was initially launched in the Northern US, Canada, and some parts of the UK. They announced beta versions are now available in New Zealand, Australia, and Mexico, as well as the remainder of the US, Canada, and UK. According to beta testing results, the speeds can reach up to 215Mbps in certain areas across the US. This is indeed faster than the standard fibre broadband in the country and the world — but is it any better than what other local broadband providers offer? Here are all things you need to know about the launching of Starlink in NZ. Pre-orders of Starlink started last 9 February 2021. This is after the Tibro (backwards for “Orbit”) New Zealand Unlimited Liability Company — a subsidiary of SpaceX — officially changed its name to Starlink New Zealand Unlimited Liability Company. Starlink’s broadband subscription costs $159 a month, with an additional $799 for shipping and $114 for handling. The starter kit includes a mounting tripod, and a plug-and-play WiFi router, as well as terminal costs to connect it to the satellites orbiting the Earth. While you can secure a subscription as early as today, you can only get connected officially by mid-2021. SpaceX is initially launching broadband services in countries in Northern latitudes in the first half of 2021. Starlink is a completely satellite broadband service from outer space. Unlike traditional satellite broadband that relies on cell towers and cables, you get connection directly from SpaceX’s satellite 550 kilometres above the ground. These are attached to the Falcon 9 rocket, which usually releases over 60 satellites per launch. Aside from their goal to develop ultrafast broadband on Earth, they aim to help this in their long-term objective to colonise Mars! “The whole purpose of SpaceX is really to help make life multi-planetary,” founder Elon Musk said in March 2020. They now have over 1,000 working satellites in the orbit across the Northern hemisphere. More of these satellites are planned to be launched in the Southern hemisphere and ultimately launch over 42,000 satellites by mid-2027. SpaceX’s Starlink can completely change the broadband market all over the world. Satellites on land are prone to disruptions from weather, human interference, natural causes like corrosion, among many others. Satellites on the orbit can largely prevent these disruptions which can easily improve your broadband experience. Check out other advantages of SpaceX’s Starlink. One of its biggest benefits is giving rural communities the same opportunity when it comes to broadband. As the satellites are in the orbit, you don’t experience slower and less reliable broadband in your rural abode. You get the same speeds just like what people in urban areas experience. In December 2020, SpaceX reported to connect the remote town of Pikangikum First Nation to Starlink. This 3,000-person indigenous community in northwestern Ontario has since been lacking access to higher education and healthcare despite broadband modernisation in Canada. Now, they have access to fast internet thanks to Spacelink. If you live in an area where winter can get very harsh, you don’t have to worry about freezing dishes that can disrupt your internet connection. Elon Musk has announced an upgrade to their services. They’ve included a “Snow Melt Mode” which self-heats the dishes. Beta testing results show it can withstand high-speed winds, deep snow, and freezing temperatures, and is still able to deliver speeds of up to 175Mbps! Although it hasn’t been tested in a real-world situation yet, it’s expected to withstand even extreme humid and hot temperatures of up to 40 degrees celsius. As revolutionary as SpaceX’s Starlink, it’s not without its drawbacks. As the technology is only at its first generation, you should experience a few lapses than what is advertised. Here are some of the caveats you need to know about satellites in the Earth’s orbit. SpaceX’s Starlink costs $159 a month, and that includes the subscription alone. Although you get fast and reliable broadband speeds in returns, there are plenty of other cheaper and faster alternatives, especially if you live in the city. For starters, you can subscribe to a broadband plan from one of the major providers in New Zealand for as low as $69.95/month with speeds of up to 100Mbps. While the speeds are far slower than what Starlink can offer, the fee often includes installation, modem rental, and many other freebies from the provider. Broadband works best when it’s connected by cable. It’s been proven time and time again that wired connection delivers faster speeds with lower latency for less lags. As it completely relies on wireless technology, some protest it as an “unproven.” For something that’s not guaranteed, some find the prices of Starlink hard to justify. Despite the oppositions, SpaceX has secured USD885 million in federal subsidies to expand the reach and improve the services of Starlink. Amidst the drawbacks of SpaceX’s Starlink, should you still pre-order and secure a subscription in mid-2021? Ultimately, this depends on your needs and situation. If you live in the city and enjoy fast broadband speeds, you may want to wait for the tech to mature and to be less expensive. On the other hand, if you’re sick and tired of slow internet in your rural abode, then you may want to secure Starlink as early as now. Although, remember that you have plenty of other broadband options in your address which can be just as fast and as reliable! You only need to find the best broadband provider that offers the best plans in your area. Early withdrawal with KiwiSaver? It's possible! While KiwiSaver is meant to be accessed at 65, you can withdraw money from your... Know everything about the copper to fibre switch, including your right as a consumer. Here are some frequently asked questions ... I found Glimp when I was looking for Internet Providers that I would have to sit through and compare myself. I at first thought Glimp was an Internet provider but then I was pleasantly surprised when they came up as a website solely for comparing all sorts of different things so the customer could find the best deal. I found my new Internet provider on there and even found out I could be with a better Power company then the one I am with now. Very Useful and I recommend Glimp to the bargain hunters! 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Violation of injunction for protection against domestic violence is a crime under Florida statute 731.32(4)(a). For some, it seems ridiculous that an act as harmless as sending flowers or a text message could result in a person being arrested. However, this is the reality under Florida law, if there has been a valid injunction for protection against domestic violence put into place. Ordinarily, these protective orders have language that orders one person not to contact or come near another person. As a Jacksonville lawyer, I’ve advocated on behalf of clients needing protection and on behalf of clients seeking to avoid an injunction against them. In some cases, the injunction was probably needed, while in other cases- not so much. If there is an injunction entered against you, whether you believe it is valid or not, you should follow the judge’s order not to contact the other person. Violation of an injunction for protection is a first degree misdemeanor, punishable by up to one year in jail or by probation up to one year. First degree misdemeanor criminal offenses, as here with injunction violations, can also be punished by fine. The person who asks for or petitions the court for an injunction is called the petitioner. While the person who responds to the petition is called the respondent. Often, the respondent will be served with the initial temporary injunction and violate it immediately by calling or contacting the petitioner to find out what is going on. The temporary injunction is valid until a court has the ability to hear evidence and testimony from both sides. The testimony and evidence will be presented at a hearing. Based on the information provided, the judge will make a decision on whether the temporary injunction should be continued and made permanent or not. Having an injunction is place is a big deal. It removes a person’s right to own and possess a gun or firearm, and it makes violating the injunction a crime. Injunctions for protection have their place and can be an important means of protecting victims or potential victims of domestic violence. However, they can be abused and used improperly. If you or a loved one need to file an injunction or have been served with an injunction, call the Law Office of David M. Goldman, LLC at (904) 685-1200 to speak with an experienced Jacksonville injunction lawyer that can help advise about what to do next. Initial consultations are free.
Siemens PLM Software Wins 2014 CIO 100 Award Using Panopto Video Platform Today, IDG’s CIO magazine announced the winners of this year’s prestigious CIO 100 awards. Siemens PLM Software made the list for its innovative event video capture solution that recorded 35 speakers and 30+ sessions over three days using only laptops, webcams and Panopto’s online presentation tools. Every year CIO magazine identifies and honors 100 organizations that have distinguished themselves by creating business value through the effective and innovative use of IT. This year, alongside cloud and virtualization implementations, video capture is being recognized for the impact that it can have on an organization’s business. So what exactly did the Siemens team do to deliver award-winning business value? While planning their employee conference in Madrid, Siemens faced a common challenge: how to capture and preserve valuable presentations in a timely and cost-effective manner, and make it available to employees who didn’t attend in person. There was only one problem — Siemens’ conference planners forecast that recreating their conference digitally would take 200 hours of work and wouldn’t be ready for 30 to 45 days after the event. With no budget for professional AV consultants, videographers and expensive AV hardware, and no time for lengthy post-production work, event organizers needed to find a dramatically different way to capture these important presentations. Enter Panopto. Using laptops, webcams, USB microphones and Panopto software, the team recorded every session and made it accessible and fully searchable to all staff—all within a week of the conference’s close and using only hardware they already owned. Shortly after the videos were made available, they had been viewed more than 500 times by more than 200 Siemens employees. We’re thrilled that Panopto could provide Siemens PLM with the tools for this innovative event capture solution, and even more excited that the Siemens PLM team is being recognized for their great work! You can find out more about the 2014 CIO 100 Awards winners in the August issue of CIO Magazine which will be online at CIO.com on August 1, 2014. Learn More About Panopto If you’d like to learn more about how Panopto can help your business get more out of video — making anything from international events to informal presentations easy to record, search, and share — contact our team or sign up for a free trial today.
Back in 1990, DEDON revolutionized outdoor furniture with a truly original concept: high-end designs woven in an innovative new fiber of our own creation. Almost three decades later, we’re still the only outdoor manufacturer to design, develop and produce both its own furniture and the luxurious, long-lasting fiber with which it’s woven. FIBER BY DEDON Almost three decades later, we’re still the only outdoor manufacturer to design, develop and produce both its own furniture and the luxurious, long-lasting fiber with which it’s woven. Owning our own production allows DEDON to achieve a level of quality, innovation and design that’s beyond compare. Case in point? Our award-winning MBRACE collection by Sebastian Herkner. Before he ever set pen to paper, Sebastian took a tour of DEDON’s fiber production facilities in Northern Germany. First, we showed him the light-filled extrusion hall, where seven fully-automated machines are busily churning out some 55,000km of DEDON Fiber per year. Then we took him to the lab next door, where our specialists research, develop and test new fiber designs, color blends, extrusion methods and more. Our fiber team’s expertise, when coupled with a designer’s creativity, results in unique fiber solutions that reflect the soul of a collection. With MBRACE, this is apparent both in the collection’s open, mesh-like triaxial weave and in its alluring coloration. Working in close collaboration with colorist Giulio Ridolfo, Sebastian and DEDON developed fresh new colors ways – Pepper, Spice, Atlantic and Arabica, with more to come – that are nuanced yet distinctive. As Herkner himself has noted, “The success we achieved with MBRACE would not have been possible without the expertise of the DEDON Fiber team and the innovative technologies at their in-house production center.”
By Kalon Webb Free-Style Fighting or as they say in Mexico, Lucha Libre. This type of wrestling is what we see on occasion on WWE TV now. You may have seen Sin Cara against Hunico a couple of times recently but that is pretty much it. The fast-paced fighting that keeps you on the edge of your seat because no one knows what is going to happen next. Jaw dropping moments when you see a man jump so high of the ropes you wonder if he is going to hit the ceiling. I’m sure I can speak for most of us when I say we need this! There was a time when we had this in WWE but it was very much short-lived. The cruiserweights or some like to call them light heavyweights had some moments to shine in WWE. A time where guys who weighed in at under 220 pounds had a shot a championship gold and weren’t restricted to tag teams to get a chance at a title. The Cruiserweight Championship held by legendary superstars such as Rey Mysterio, Chris Jericho, Eddie Guerrero, and Matt Hardy just to name a few. We saw matches that had our eyes wide open hoping to see the risk taking moves suchlike 450 splashes, sentons, whispers in the winds. Do you not want to see that weekly instead of every other month? Unfortunately the championship along with the division went down in late 2007 with the last champion being Hornswoogle. That ladies and gentlemen should tell you what the company we know and love thought of the prestigious title in its final days. As well let’s not forget the WCW Cruiserweight division either . Where guys like Psychosis, Ultimo Dragon, Billy Kidman, Dean Malenko and of course Rey delivered every night they went out there! Of course once WWE and WCW became one these guys didn’t get the same spotlight. Looking at todays current roster we have seen some smaller guys continue to have success in the WWE without cruiserweight titles being active some even holding world titles. Guys like CM Punk, Daniel Bryan, and Rey Mysterio have all held world titles if not once but once numerous occasions. Now don’t get me wrong i’m glad all have got chances but in todays world the smaller guys on the roster on considered jobbers to the WWE universe. Now we have many talented cruiserweights on the roster such as Bourne, Kingston, Kidd, Gabriel, and Hunico. With most of these guys holding titles while some not so fortunate . The titles being held by guys today are the Tag Team, United States, or Intercontinental Championships. Sure it’s a good thing that these guys have those to chase after but with the horizon of these bigger guys coming up to the roster such as Ryback, Big E Langston, Antonio Cesaro and more. It moves guys suchlike Tyson Kidd in the back of the line at having a chance at either of the mid-card championships. So lets bring back the Cruiserweight Championship right? Most of you who may not agree with me may say they’re too many titles on the current roster now and with that we can agree on. My thing is do we really need both the United States and Intercontinental Championships? Why not unify them or put one on the shelf for now. Before Cesaro won the title, honestly who cared for the US title if you even do? I for one can say I don’t even remember who he beat for the championship which is a bad thing. Lets give the Evan Bournes a shot at something other than the tag titles. You can’t say that these guys can’t pull in ratings because looking back at what TNA had with their X Division those guys were the stars of the promotion. It has even been said on programming that it helped put the promotion on the map. With three hours of programming that feels like a drag every week. There is no reason why the guys can’t get time to showcase what they can do. Not only will this give the guys something to fight for but it will give us diversity. There is only a certain amount of times a man can watch Sheamus vs The Big Show before falling asleep.
- Large lakeside property - Roaming wildlife - Spacious rooms - Sopa Lodges Portfolio Lake Naivasha Sopa is a large, mid-range resort located on the southern shores of Lake Naivasha, the only fresh water lake within Africa's Great Rift Valley, southwestern Kenya. Although the property is perhaps rather dated and impersonal in feel, the property boasts extensive facilities and is set within 150 acres of beautifully manicured grounds which teem with resident wildlife. Herds of giraffe, zebra, and waterbuck roam freely through, while Colobus and Vervet monkeys leap amongst the acacia trees overhead, and at night it’s a delight to witness hippos coming ashore to graze on the expansive lawns. Spread out extensively through the trees, all of the glass-walled main areas overlook the pretty grounds. A high-ceilinged entrance portico leads past a water feature to the reception area. The light and airy lobby and lounge are split over two levels, and surround a central garden. Chandeliers, leather sofas, and long-chimney fireplaces adorn the central spaces, whilst the wood-panelled bar adds a retro touch. Buffet style meals are served on long tables in the dining room, and there’s a shaded patio for al fresco dining. There are four conference halls, tennis courts, and an enormous pool complete with a children’s zone, snack bar, pizzeria and health spa, and the resort’s private stables are a real draw. Although it must be said that some areas could benefit from a refurb, the facilities are extensive, and the hotel really does offer a great deal to enjoy, particularly bearing in mind the reasonable price tag. The lodge has twenty one stone cottages laid out in a crescent, with panoramic views of the lodge environs and lake. Each unit contains four very spacious rooms, and though the décor is a little dated, all are clean and comfortable. Every unit houses two ground floor rooms featuring two double beds, a lounge opening out onto the lawns, and an ensuite bathroom with sunken bathtub and shower. There are also two first floor rooms, each with a king-sized bed and private balcony. All rooms come complete with Wi-Fi, TV, tea and coffee station, mini-bar, telephone, and safe. Two rooms have disabled access. There are a variety of activities available at additional cost, including fishing, horse riding, nature walks and boat safaris, sundowners, and day trips to Lake Nakuru. Although Lake Naivasha and the surrounding area host an abundance of animals and some wonderful birdlife, guests should come prepared for a certain level or urbanisation in the vicinity, which can detract somewhat from the sense of untouched charm. The resort is very well suited to families. Babysitting, children's meals, and a good range of activities are provided, not to mention of course the lovely pool which is guaranteed to keep younger family members entertained. Six of the twenty-one cottages have inter-connecting rooms on the ground floor, a perfect solution for parents seeking privacy while still enjoying proximity to their children. Lake Naivasha Sopa Resort will suit couples, groups, or families seeking good-value accommodation with comfortable and spacious rooms, extensive facilities and a good variety of activities. We had an amazing trip. Everything was well thought out and so much fun. What a great way to truly see the country and learn the culture. Joseph was the perfect guide. Very kind, professional, knowledgeable and patient. The kids loved Joseph and keep asking when will they meet him again. He found the Big 5 for us which was unforgettable! Please pass along our appreciation to Joseph. Maji Moto was also another incredible experience. They had great customer service and we loved experiencing their culture. Sunbird was absolutely beautiful and I wish we had more time there. We loved the view of the lake! One suggestion to make the trip even better for other guests in the future would be to have a cooler with drinks and snacks in the Jeep at all times because a ton of driving is involved and it would be helpful to have a cold drink and snacks during the long trip. Thanks again for organizing this experience of a lifetime for us! Brandon H reviewing Maasai Family Adventure on 12 June 2019 We had an amazing time thank you. The itinerary was great as we felt like we saw lots of different things and it kept it interesting for our daughter. She especially loved the gorge at Hells Gate. Unfortunately the Menengai Crater walk was a bit hard for her although that probably had something to do with how hot it was! We especially loved the Sunbird Lodge - it is such a beautiful place and all the staff were so incredibly welcoming and friendly. Our guide, Joseph, was exceptional too and we can’t speak highly enough of him. Suzanne S reviewing Maasai Family Adventure on 30 April 2019 The trip was amazing everything was better than we could have imagined. There was a moment climbing the mount Kenya where my wife accused me of tricking her into doing this (half kidding) as some of the nights got pretty cold, but we were dressed well and the sunrise at the peak was astonishing. Safari was spectacular, Ben who was our main guide and driver was awesome! We saw everything excepts rhinos which were more of a hope than a reality. We also were able to watch a rock python eat a Thompson gazel live. It was one of the most interesting and unsettling things I have ever seen. Just overall, so many moments that make you think wow or I can't believe I am here. Thank you for your help in getting everything set up. I don't believe I could have booked the trip without your help and guidance. It was an amazing way to start our marriage and truly the trip of a lifetime! William K reviewing 11 Day Mount Kenya Trek and Masai Mara Safari Combined on 29 October 2018
Oldham County residents vote yes to expand alcohol sales Last time residents had a chance to vote was in 1987 The residents of Oldham County voted yes Tuesday to expand alcohol sales countywide. The vote was 5,688 to 3,420. The last time residents had the chance to vote on whether Oldham County should be wet or dry was in 1987. Oldham County residents had that opportunity again Tuesday. Many were concerned about voter turnout. "People aren't thinking about it. It's a holiday week. People aren't thinking of coming out and voting," one person said. An indicator of voter turnout is absentee ballots. "Those numbers kind of reflect a low turnout, but we won't know until all the precincts are reported at 6 p.m. or 6:30 p.m.," Oldham County Clerk Julie Barr said. Ten people mailed in their absentee ballots. There were 252 people who cast their absentee ballots by machine. "The telling thing about that is we have about 150-160 poll workers and most of those voted by machine," Barr said. Tuesday's yes vote means that packaged alcohol can be sold countywide. Right now, it is only sold in La Grange. Oldham County resident Tom Cox said he was on the fence about the issue. He favored the county becoming moist, but when that happened, he said, the small-town feel changed. “The first thing that impressed me was number of signs in restaurant windows, flashing beer signs,” Cox said. “It was now something you would expect to see in Las Vegas.” Scott Whitehouse, chairman of the Oldham County Expanded Alcohol Sales Committee rallied support in favor of alcohol sales. He said it would drive economic development. “We have a local business distillery that needs to be added to the Kentucky Bourbon Trail,” Whitehouse said. He said Oldham County has lost hotels and restaurants to Louisville because of the alcohol issue, and a yes vote would mean more money coming into the community. It cost the county between $85,000 and $90,000 to put on a countywide vote. By statute, officials had the choice of either Dec. 22 or Dec. 29 for the special election. They decided that turnout would likely be higher after Christmas. The polls were open until 6 p.m. Tuesday.
The westernmost part of the Kamnik-Savinja Alps Above the hilly Ljubljana Basin, between Tržič and Begunje na Gorenjskem, rises the panoramic 1634-metre-high mountain of Dobrča. You can choose from among a number of marked paths to reach the summit, most of them starting from the foothill villages of Brezje pri Tržiču, Hudi Graben or Srednja Vas. - 1 / 15 Dobrča - 2 / 15 Dobrča Hut - 3 / 15 Bistriška mountain pasture - 4 / 15 Dobrča with Lešanska mounta... - 5 / 15 Solitary old tree at the to... All the hard work of the climb is forgotten the moment you arrive at the hut, where you will first want to take in the views all around. They are truly spectacular in virtually all directions. The view to the north is obscured by the slopes of Dobrča, but to the east you can see Kriška Gora, Storžič and the Kamnik-Savinja Alps, to the southeast the Sava Hills, the Ljubljana Basin, and the mountain ranges of Slovenia's interior, including Snežnik. You can also see the Polhov Gradec and Škofja Loka range, the plateaus of Jelovica and Pokljuka, and the Julian Alps with Triglav. If you are still warmed up you can climb to the top of Dobrča in about half an hour, or take a longer route over rugged terrain to the mountain pasture of Preval below Begunjščica. - Karawanks-central part 1:50 000, PZS - Stol and Begunjščica 1:25 000, PZS
Someone was walking in an endlessly white space approaching a female trio that seems to be looking at floating panels that surrounds her. 『Oh, you have finally arrived, what took you so long』 The trio speaks to the approaching persona without looking. 『Well, things ended up a bit complicated in my side after she disappeared and it took me a bit of time fixing the errors on the system.』『Is that so, still why did you let such an existence to even be born in that world, she was definitely out of place there. If it was in my worlds, then she would be a rare but not that unique of an individual』『I know, that’s why I agreed on the transfer of her soul, even though she would have been a great subordinate if I processed it properly』『Well, I know that you find it troublesome, but you could have done something for her like alter her fate for a bit to at least not be in that condition.』『But it was interesting, you know… seeing how her condition would affect everything that was around her.』『Yes, yes that was indeed interesting, so what did it result into?』『Hmmm… as you have expected, it ended up become a war for existence and now the population is dropping like crazy because of the wars. It’s nothing new anyway, so I will just have to wait until the wars are over again and help the world a bit…』『You really like doing things like this, don’t you』『It’s my way of having fun, just how many worlds do you think I handle.』『Yeah, yeah, I know that you handle more worlds than me, you don’t have to rub it in.』『And so, how is that girl doing now?』『She’s about to start her journey now, it took her a bit of time or more like she was too engrossed about learning new things under my direct subordinate that it took her years before moving out. Most normal transmigrators usually leave from under a week to a month』『Well, it’s up to her how she will be enjoying her new life now, I’ll drop by again to check on her from time to time. I’m also curious about how she will spend her new life after all』『Go do your work, you free willed administrator, I am also busy with my work so don’t bother me.』『Fine, fine, well then, till next time』 The being that was standing next to the trio then disappeared. 『Jeez, can’t that one just do their work properly. I do want to thank them for passing over such a rare specimen though. Misaki, I wonder how you will your life this time.』 The trio then continued their work while watching a specific screen that was focused on a certain person. Ether Earth Year 2350 It was the year that Misaki Tachibana died and disappeared from the world. Before her death, a certain medicine was completed. It was a medicine that could heal any complication and rejuvenate youth. They called the medicine God’s Miracle. And many have yearned for it. Because of the existence of such medicine, war was inevitable. Leaders seeking power wanted to tap into such a miraculous drug in order to extend their life and dominance. People, who hungered for youth, seek the developers offering everything they have just to take a sip of that sweet nectar that would extend their lives. Billionaires all over the world were not afraid to squander all their funds in order to mass produce such miracle. And this led all to the uprising of power, forcefully wanting to attain it and monopolize it for their benefits. The world was already in a state of madness starting with the development of medicine that could almost cure everything, and the creation of that miraculous drug became the final trigger for its collapse. And then war as expected has torn the world. Chasing after the shadows of the developers are people who tried to make imitations of the drug, but all was for naught, and because they can’t replicate it, everyone aimed after the creators. There are also those who supported the creators and because their protectors wanting to also be included in gaining benefits from them. And this ended up in turmoil that didn’t just involve a single country, but every country in the world. The wars lasted for decades. It was a very long and tedious war. A war wanting to monopolize a piece of knowledge that should have never been allowed to exists. Also, because of such existence, the ravages of war continued to become worse as the years pass by. It was because the people who were becoming more and more desperate couldn’t help but push through from what they started. And then after decades of struggle, an event that changed everything stopped it. It was the intervention of gods. A blast of divine light enveloped the world, erasing every trace and knowledge of medicine that was developed because of that girl. It was a wakeup call to all the people of the world, and was also the start of a new and peaceful era that would follow it. Ether Earth God’s Realm It was a grayish room of nothingness, similar to the room that Misaki was when she was reincarnated. At its center was a little girl, whose voice is unidentifiable if she was male or female. Her body was also so streamlined that you wouldn’t be able to tell if she was a girl or a boy, but she identifies herself as a girl. That was the administrator of Ether Earth, the world where Misaki Tachibana once lived in. She is currently in the middle of resolving errors that was caused by the existence called Misaki Tachibana. 『With this, it should be done. Fuh…that sure took me a lot of time to fix, I didn’t expect for it to develop that way. But well, at least they got a glimpse of what was would happen if that thing existed.』 The blast of divine light was a repair mechanism. It didn’t completely erase the memories of the inhabitants of the world, but only every detail regarding the developments where Misaki was involved. Although vague information was still left behind to remind the people, every details and procedures in its development were wiped out both physically and mentally. That day on Ether Earth was then named as the providence of God and was held as a celebration of the future inhabitants of that world. 『Now that the problem is fixed, I should report it over on the other side and also join the monitoring of that girl even for a bit. I wonder if she has grown a lot already. It’s at least been over a hundred years have passed over there after all.』 In Gods Realm, time doesn’t flow normally. Just like what the administrator of Ether Earth said, even if to him it was only a short while, it would have already been over one hundred years in Misaki’s time. After leaving a substitute to handle the system, the administrator of Ether Earth disappeared.
From advanced cycling computers that monitor nearly everything to smart helmets, wearable lights, and GPS trackers that help recover stolen bikes, technology is everywhere in the cycling world. So much so, in fact, that it can be hard to narrow down just what is a must-have and what’s extraneous fluff. “With technology and cycling, you’re going to find things you like and don’t like,” says Dylan Carrico, a service mechanic at Bike Gallery in downtown Portland, Ore. “There’s always answers for all of those things — there’s just more answers now.” For some of the best tech cycling answers out there, check out these 10 ways that technology is transforming cycling. Whether cars see you better or you just find a more enjoyable way to pedal to work, you’ll be glad you did. Apps for all that – Strava, Weather Underground, Dark Sky, and St. John Ambulance Like every sport or activity these days, there’s no shortage of apps that can make cycling that much more enjoyable, practical, and fun. The list of good ones is a long one, but start with Strava (iOS, Android) to easily plot, track, and share all your rides. No cyclist is set without a good weather app either, so try Weather Underground (Android, iOS) or Dark Sky (Android, iOS). Accidents can happen anywhere, so it’s wise to have a first aid app on hand, such as St. John Ambulance (Android, iOS, Blackberry), and if your rig gives you grief, try Bike Doctor (iOS), an easy-to-use guide for most bike maladies. Download one now from: Would-be commuters turned off by the prospect of arriving to work sweaty and spent are among those who have begun to see the light of pedal assists. Essentially a small electric drive system that engages when you pedal to help give you an extra boost, pedal assist kits or bikes have become more prolific as their technology has improved. Carrico likes models from Bosch best, but says Shimano and other manufacturers aren’t far behind. “We’re seeing a lot more of these all the time,” he says. Read our full review here. Light the way – Revolights ($199) and Garmin Varia ($200) You’d think that a bike light is a bike light, but you’d be wrong. In this day and age, options for how you illuminate not only your route but yourself are as varied and advanced as they come. “It’s not about those little store-bought lights that take 10 AA batteries anymore,” Carrico says. Revolights are a new take on lighting up your bike, offering a unique forward light and a functioning brake light that blinks when you change your speed. Bright LED lights from companies like Blackburn or Axiom have also taken illumination to a new level, and Garmin’s Varia Smart Bike Light automatically adjusts based on speed and surrounding light conditions. What’s more, most new lights are rechargeable via a standard USB charger. Read our Garmin Varia review here. It almost seems quaint, the idea that people in an urban area could walk up to a bike rack, unlock a bike for a small fee, ride across town, and then drop the bike off again. But that’s just how modern-day bike share programs work. In Portland, Ore., for example, the recently-launched Biketown placed 1,000 bright orange bikes at 100 stations throughout the inner urban core. Users download the Biketown app (iOS and Android), and, for $2.50 for 30 minutes, grab a bike from a rack and pedal away. They’re able to return the bikes, which feature solar-powered LCD displays, to racks all over the service area. And New York City has a similar service, Citibike ($12 – $155), subsidized by the banking giant. Be heard – Hornit dB140 ($32) and Loud Bicycle ($149) Ever wish you could be not only seen but heard while you’re pedaling through downtown? There is technology out there to help with the latter in a big, bold way. Loud cycling horns are becoming more and more mainstream with the advent of devices from companies like Hornit (“The world’s loudest cycle horn”!) and Loud Bicycle. Though Loud Bicycle’s horn, which claims to be as loud as a car horn, will only be available for preorder in August 2016, its volume seems like it would be pretty impressive and effective. The same goes for Hornit’s horns, which are available for order from the UK now. Lock and load – Skylock ($179) It’s a shame we even have to worry about bike locks, but we do. Luckily these days, they’ve gotten better than ever. Skylock, which should finally be available in October 2016, utilizes some of the latest technology to keep your bike safe. The lock connects to your phone, which eliminates the need for a key, gives you the heads-up if someone is trying to make off with your bike, and even notifies your contacts if you’re in a crash. Even better? The built-in solar panel charges the battery. Read more here. Even the best bike locks can have weaknesses. Should a thief find a way around yours, modern GPS technology offers a way to help get your bike back. Companies like Spybike make covert GPS tracking devices that clip on your seatpost or act as a light. Bluetooth-enabled, the trackers will detect unauthorized movement of the bike, shoot you an SMS alert, and start tracking your bike so the authorities can help you find it safely. Don’t let all the energy you create when riding go to waste. The Atom, by Siva Cycle, is a tidy little power generator that attaches to your bike and captures the power in a battery pack that can be used to charge up any USB-compatible devices. Techno threads – LifeBEAM Smart Helmet ($200) and Zackees Turn Signal gloves ($75) Wearable technology is becoming all the rage, and that includes in the world of cycling. Plenty of heart monitors and other activity trackers are available on the market. One of the latest is the LifeBEAM smart helmet, which not only protects your noggin, but also monitors your heart rate, calories, and overall performance. Californian company Zackees makes rechargeable turn signal gloves for cyclists, and Swedish company Hövding makes a low-profile bike helmet that’s more like an airbag for your head. Read our full Zackees review here. Low tech – Donkey Products 6PACK (40 euros) OK, so these last few may not be setting the tech world on fire, but there’s something to be said about innovation in cycling. For those who like to bike to barbecues, tailgates, or other social gatherings, companies like Donkey Products make stylish six-pack and wine bottle holders for your bike, while reams of high-design cupholders make it easy to bring coffee, soda, or any old libation along for the ride. 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SteelSeries tries to solve two problems with a single gamepad in the Stratus XL. The $59.99 wireless controller tackles mobile gaming capably, pairing with Android phones, tablets, and some media streaming devices. It also works with any PC running Windows 7 or above that can pair with Bluetooth devices, and uses a software engine that lets it control far more PC games than a generic gamepad. It's a capable dual-purpose controller that can fill a unique niche for some gamers. The Stratus XL ($49.95 at Amazon) looks and feels like a home console controller, measuring 4.4 by 5.9 by 1.7 inches (HWD) and weighing a solid 10.2 ounces with two AA batteries. The controls are arranged in a PlayStation configuration, with concave analog sticks parallel with each other below a plus-shaped direction pad and four face buttons (A/B/X/Y, laid out in Xbox style). Start, Back, and Menu buttons sit between the analog sticks, and there's a four-LED indicator light strip above it. The gamepad features left and right triggers and buttons on the top, with pairing and battery status buttons positioned between them and out of the way of your index fingers. The power switch sits below the battery compartment on the back, which holds two AA batteries and a micro USB port for updating the gamepad's firmware. According to SteelSeries, the Stratus XL can last for up to 40 hours of gameplay on two batteries. If you want to see a result that long, be sure to turn the controller off when not in use. It doesn't have a noticeable automatic sleep function, and accidentally leaving the switch on cut play time significantly in our tests. Android and Windows Out of the box, the Stratus XL behaves like a standard Bluetooth gamepad, which will work well for Android devices like the Nvidia Shield TV ($349.99 at Amazon) . You can also pair it with your Windows PC like a standard Bluetooth device by holding the pairing button down until the light bar flashes. Once it's paired, however, you need to take a few extra steps to get the gamepad to work with your PC games. Most Windows PC games work best with Xbox One wireless controllers connected as XInput devices, using the Xbox Wireless Adapter for Windows ($79.99 at Amazon) (or older Xbox 360 wireless controllers and their corresponding adapter). To use other gamepads, especially ones connected wirelessly without a dedicated adapter, you need to translate their inputs to XInput. Without that step, gamepad support on Windows games will be inconsistent at best. Fortunately, SteelSeries does all of the work for you. All you need to do is download the SteelSeries Engine software and install it. Once it's running in the background, it will automatically detect when the Stratus XL is connected and translate all of its inputs into XInput, making it appear to your PC as an Xbox gamepad instead of a generic Bluetooth input device. The process sounds daunting, but once SteelSeries Engine is installed and your computer properly loads the corresponding driver the next time you connect the Stratus XL by powering it on, it will work as needed without any other input on your part. I played Bayonetta and Dark Souls III on my PC using the Stratus XL. Both are very skill-oriented games that require precise timing, and are very good for giving any controller a workout. Both games worked perfectly with the Stratus XL after Steelseries Engine was installed, and I could perform all the functions I needed to navigate menus and start playing. In Dark Souls III ($14.99 at Amazon) , I started a new character and fought through the Untended Graves easily, beating Iudex Gundyr on my first attempt and making it into Firelink Shrine without any issue. My dodges and shield parries worked precisely as I needed. I also started a new game in Bayonetta ($19.99 at Humble Bundle) and played through the first few chapters. While my skills in the game are rusty, I achieved Platinum and Pure Platinum ranks in several sections. The gamepad read my inputs precisely and I consistently dodged to activate Witch Time and maintained long combos easily. For Android gaming, I played Doom 3: BFG Edition, Geometry Wars 3, and Hotline Miami 2 on an Nvidia Shield Tablet K1 ($1,399.53 at Amazon) . All three games worked perfectly with the Stratus XL, though I experienced a bug in Doom that kept firing my gun without me pressing anything. This problem was solved by unpairing the controller and pairing it again, and after that it worked without issue. The Stratus XL feels very solid and sturdy, but how it will treat your thumbs is a matter of taste. I found the flat face buttons quite responsive, but with a slightly deeper and spongier-feeling actuation than I like, and it made mashing to max out my torture attacks in Bayonetta slightly uncomfortable. On the other hand, the generous concave indentation and smooth action of the analog sticks felt just right for maneuvering. Of course, other players might prefer the deeper press, or find the sticks to move just a little bit too loosely for their tastes. Regardless, the Stratus XL sits in the same area as the Xbox One wireless controller, the DualShock 4, and other major console gamepads in terms of feel and build quality. It's no Xbox Elite Wireless Controller ($429.95 at Amazon) , but it also costs about a third of the price. A Versatile Gamepad The SteelSeries Stratus XL is a functional, solid controller that can work both as your PC gamepad and your Android device controller. It feels good in the hand and performs as advertised with both platforms, and its build quality puts it in line with the Xbox One and DualShock 4 gamepads. Android support is appealing to anyone looking to game on their tablet, smartphone, or Android-powered media streamer, but the mobile gaming experience, even with a controller, tends to be inferior to a dedicated home console or handheld game system. The Stratus XL is worth considering based on your preferred gaming platforms, but as a pure PC controller, it doesn't distinguish itself or fall behind its competitors in any significant way. If Android gaming isn't a huge priority for you, try out the different PC gamepads available and decide which feels best in your hands. SteelSeries Stratus XL The Bottom Line The SteelSeries Stratus XL is a wireless gamepad that feels like a solid console controller, and works equally well with both Android devices and Windows PCs.
If it has protein, chances are it'll end up in your cart. A 2014 report from the NPD Group, a market-research company, revealed nearly half of U.S. consumers buy protein-enriched products and are willing to shell out more cash if a food boasts the nutrient. This explains the host of protein-puffed up items on the market: From protein-enriched potato chip alternatives (made from beans!) to protein Cheerios (also made from beans!), food manufacturers are capitalizing off the nation's obsession with the macronutrient. As good as protein can be, the belief that you need to eat a lot of it is just the workings of a standard fad diet trend. A new report from Quartz claims that "wildly effective marketing has led Americans to eat way more protein than they actually need." The result is near-identical to the fall-out after the low-fat or fat-free fad that erupted in the late 1980s. Consumer beliefs about protein and its supposed cure-all powers have led some to overdose on the nutrient. But most of us are getting enough of the nutrient as is. "Protein deficiency is not a problem in the U.S.," registered dietitian Alexis Joseph said in an email. Indeed, it is recommended that adults get 10% to 35% of their daily calories from protein-rich foods. This equates to about 46 grams for women and 56 for men, according to WebMD. You can use the USDA's calculator to determine the right amount for you. And yet, a 2012 National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey found that the average American man consumes 102 grams of protein daily, which is a little more than double the recommended amount, the Huffington Post reported. Eat too much of this good thing and yes, there are associated health risks. Bad breath, mood swings and kidney damage are just a few, according to Women's Health. Protein won't make you as fast as Usain Bolt, but you kind of think it will. Protein is considered an athlete's fuel by the masses, because it can help build muscle mass, repair and strengthen muscle tissue and support weight loss. It's associated with intense workouts, strong muscles, endurance and sometimes masculinity. "It makes sense that we've become enamored with protein," Quartz offered. "It's sold as a simple, easy way to be healthy and nutritious — who wouldn't want to think their workout habits necessitate them to refuel like Usain Bolt, with just a fraction of the actual commitment?" This explanation supports the underlying problem American adults — 38% of whom are obese — have with food. Consumers are hungry for a quick fix, a magic-prescription that'll help them slim down, all while they continue with their often unhealthy daily diets. It's the same reason why the diet industry sees upwards of $60 billion on an annual basis. And even as American perspectives shift, "diet" foods are beginning to fail, while "health" food is on the rise, as NPR reported. In essence, the protein craze might as well be the new cabbage soup diet. Yes, protein is good for you, just as high fiber and low-calorie cabbage is, but sustaining on the nutrient alone won't transform you into a superhero. So we probably don't need protein in our cereal. Eating naturally protein-rich food trumps eating foods with added protein. "Protein from whole foods always reigns supreme," Joseph said. "Relying on isolated protein in veggie burgers or protein bars means the protein is more processed and no longer working synergistically with the thousands of other nutrients in the original whole food," she continued. Animal sources are certainly not the only sources of natural protein. Even plant-based proteins like quinoa and organic tofu do the job, because they contain all essential amino acids, Joseph said. While the myth that vegetarians don't get enough of the nutrient prevails, options like nuts, seeds, beans and vegetables make it easy to sustain a balanced diet. As cheesy as it sounds, balance really is key. History repeats itself again and again in the case of any fad diet. Here's the cycle: Early enthusiasts promote it as the one that finally impacted the number on the scale, books and other products reveal themselves to the masses and, at last, the imbalanced diet is debunked. For example, after the Atkins diet peaked experts caught up and revealed the many health risks associated with the high-protein, low-carb plan: High cholesterol, kidney stones and osteoporosis. As for protein? Protein is good. Protein is a building block of human life. It supports the immune system, repairs tissue and regulates hormones, among many other functions, Joseph said. But it's just one component of what makes up a healthy lifestyle. Carbohydrates and fat are just as important. "Carbohydrates fuel our daily lives, namely our brain and central nervous system," Joseph said. "Fat helps insulate the body, digest vitamins, boost brain health, and aid in growth and development." A diet that continues to be endorsed by healthcare professionals is one that encapsulates balance. The Mediterranean diet, which stresses consuming mostly plant-based foods, whole grains, healthy fats, legumes and nuts, balances the three macronutrients and has been shown to have health benefits that span beyond maintaining an ideal weight. Instead of restricting certain foods or overdosing on single nutrients, the Mediterranean diet promotes a colorful eating plan with many tastes. Better yet, some say a nightly glass of wine can be included in the regimen. Feel free to drink to that.
After becoming a PPP lender in early June, NCMIC Group Inc. has funded more than $1 million in loans to chiropractors. The Paycheck Protection Program was founded to provide loans to help small businesses cover expenses during the COVID-19 crisis. However, reserves were quickly depleted, and many small business owners, including chiropractors, were unable to obtain the funding they needed. As NCMIC heard from concerned chiropractors nationwide, the company saw the opportunity to step in and help policyholders, non-policyholders, and the chiropractic industry as a whole. After being vetted, the company received Small Business Administration approval to facilitate a number of PPP loans and has provided more than $1 million in assistance thus far. “NCMIC has been an answer to months of prayers, time and energy,” says Dr. Becky Fischer, whose loan was funded in early June. “I still can’t believe it.” The company will continue to fund loans until the program closes on June 30, 2020. DCs who have not yet applied and still need assistance are encouraged to verify eligibility and submit an application as soon as possible. “We know many practices are experiencing challenging times right now — the loans we’re funding are often the reason DCs are able to keep their doors open or continue paying their staff,” said Tony Dickinson, President, NCMIC Finance Corporation. “We’re grateful to have this opportunity to help the doctors and the industry we’re passionate about serving.” “Loyalty to the profession has been ingrained in this company since we were founded,” said NCMIC President Wayne Wolfson, DC. “We will keep doing the right thing for chiropractors, whatever the world brings.” About NCMIC Group Inc. NCMIC was formed in 1946 by a group of doctors of chiropractic with the express purpose of offering malpractice insurance to DCs when no one else would. Delivering on its promise, ‘We Take Care of Our Own,® NCMIC has grown to become the largest provider of chiropractic malpractice insurance in the nation and has expanded its offerings to include business and personal insurance, equipment loans, credit card processing, business credit cards and premium financing. With more than 70 years’ experience and an “A” (Excellent) rating from industry analyst A.M. Best, NCMIC is a company that DCs can rely on today and in the years to come.
Oakland Court shooting charges headed to grand jury Case involving five men facing multiple charges stemming from an October shooting near the Oakland Court housing complex will be heard by a grand jury next month. Walshaude Vaughter, Kourtland Johnson, Deante Lawrence, Devonte Lawrence and Lamonte Johnson appeared in front of Judge Ben Hill McFarlin for a preliminary hearing Thursday morning. All are charged in connection with the Oct. 29 shooting near Oaklands Mansion that sent Darryl Rouse to Vanderbilt University Medical Center with life-threatening injuries in an apparent drug deal gone bad. Vaughter, 18, and Johnson, 18, were charged with criminal conspiracy, aggravated robbery and attempted first degree murder. Deante Lawrence, Devonte Lawrence and Lamonte Johnson were charged with criminal conspiracy and aggravated robbery. Deante Lawrence, 20, was additionally charged with theft. Since nothing was stolen, all robbery charges were amended to attempted robbery during Thursday's preliminary hearing. Rouse, who has since recovered from his injuries, took the stand Thursday and identified Kourtland Johnson as the man who shot him. He added that he was supposed to meet with Johnson that day to sell 4 ounces of marijuana in exchange for $1,000 in cash. "I was supposed to meet them at a lake or creek, but that didn't seem right," Rouse said. "Kourtland was supposed to bring the money. I didn't feel right about the deal, so I went and hid the marijuana before meeting up with them. I knew they were going to rob me." Rouse, a Virginia native, said he hid the marijuana in a wooded area before meeting Johnson for the drug deal. He added that he told Johnson he was not leaving until he counted the money first. "Kourtland said 'I got your money right here' and then started shooting," Rouse testified. Rouse said he took off running and when he turned around, he was shot in the face. A bullet hit Rouse near his eye and is still logged in his throat. "Kourtland started asking where the marijuana was, and Walshaude made sure nobody left," Rouse said. He added while Vaughter held up his acquaintances, who he could not identify, he got into a tussle with Kourtland Johnson before all parties fled the scene. Police canvassed the area for suspects and detained most of the them in front of Big B Cleaners in the 1600 block of Middle Tennessee Boulevard. They found bloody clothing and firearms at a nearby apartment complex. Johnson turned himself in around 24 hours later after meeting with a school resource officer, Chris Williams, at First Baptist Church on East Castle. Detective Larry Maples with the Murfreesboro Police Department also testified and said he interviewed all of the suspects and most denied any involvement in the case. Vaughter, however, told Maples about the group's intentions, Maples said. Attorney Ray White, who represents Johnson, asked McFarlin to strike Rouse's testimony from the record after calling it "a complete lie" and described Rouse as uncooperative. However McFarlin denied the request. The case is scheduled to be heard by the grand jury that will convene Jan. 20. Contact Aldo Amato at 615-278-5109 or [email protected]. Follow him on Twitter @Aldo_Amato.
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Engaging parents and children in effective trauma treatment can be difficult in the best of circumstances. Conventionally, engagement and rapport building begins in the first face-to-face session. More often than not, it is a harsh set-up. Parents and children may enter the first session angry, frustrated, or hopeless, with their arms tightly crossed. The slightest provocation could open conflict and confrontation between parents and children. In this two-hour continuing education web conference, Dr. Scott Sells will discuss how using the Motivational Interviewing (MI) phone call technique can help prevent conflict and create effective first sessions. Dr. Sells will explain how the MI phone call technique can help parents and older children move from anger, defensiveness, or resistance to hope, excitement, and anticipation for the first session. From this place of hope, parents may be more cooperative with the treatment plan and more willing to bring in the entire family to the first session. This introductory instructional level web conference is designed to help clinicians: If you have any questions, please contact us here. 2 CE contact hours will be provided by GoodTherapy for attending this web conference in its entirety. The live version of this web conference is approved by the American Psychological Association. GoodTherapy maintains responsibility for this program and its content. GoodTherapy.org received APA approval in May 2011. Events after 2011 may meet APA requirements for Continuing Education credits. The live web conference as well as the homestudy version are approved by the following organizations. GoodTherapy is an Approved Education Provider by NAADAC, The Association for Addiction Professionals (provider #135463). Of the eight counselor skill groups ascribed to by NAADAC, this course is classified within Counseling Services. GoodTherapy is an NBCC-Approved Continuing Education Provider (ACEPTM) and may offer NBCC-approved clock hours for events that meet NBCC requirements. GoodTherapy, SW CPE is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers #0395. GoodTherapy, LLC is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed marriage and family therapists #MFT-0022 and for licensed mental health counselors #MHC-0031. To receive CE credit hours for an archived event, you will need to complete a survey as well as a 12 or 15-question exam, verifying that you listened to or watched the event in its entirety. Archived CE events generally are considered "homestudy" by licensing boards. Premium and Pro Membership with GoodTherapy includes access to this web conference at no additional cost. Not yet a member? Sign up for a Premium or Pro Membership, here. Mental health professionals who are not members can attend this live web conference for $29.95 or access the homestudy recording for $14.95. Sign up here to purchase this CE course and earn a CE certificate. If the event is canceled by GoodTherapy, registrants who purchased the event will be notified and the charge for the event will be refunded If you have any questions or would like information regarding disability accommodations, please contact us. Scott P. Sells, PhD, MSW, LCSW, LMFT is a former tenured professor of Social Work at Savannah State University in Savannah, Georgia and Associate Professor at University of Nevada Las Vegas in Las Vegas, Nevada. Dr. Sells is the author of three best-selling books: Dr. Sells has over 20 publications in such periodicals as Psychotherapy Networker, Contemporary Corrections, Journal of Child and Adolescent Substance Abuse, Professional Issues in Criminal Justice, Family Process, and Journal of Marital and Family Therapy, plus book chapters in the Handbook of Family Therapy Research Methods (1996) and Social Worker’s Desk Reference, 2/E (2008). Dr. Sells has extensive experience as a keynote speaker for the American Association of Marriage and Family Therapy, the National Association of Social Workers the Southeastern Psychological Association, and others. He was invited to be one of six expert presenters at the American Association of Marriage and Family Therapy’s prestigious Summer Institutes as well as the world-renowned Cape Cod Institute. Dr. Sells is currently the founder and model developer of an evidence-based model known as the FST \| Family Systems Trauma Model. FST is being used by both juvenile justice and child welfare in over 14 states in the U.S. and in Europe. * This page contains at least one affiliate link for the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, which means GoodTherapy.org receives financial compensation if you make a purchase using an Amazon link.
Blues Behind Bars is an outreach program that brings professional quality blues music and a Christian message to the prison population of Colorado. Blues Behind Bars began giving concerts in the Sterling Correctional Facility in 2009, completed Colorado Department Corrections volunteer training and are now a DOC approved program. As of May 2018, Blues Behind Bars conducts songwriting workshops and worship services in Larimer County Jail and Denver Women's Correctional Facility. The Context of Creative Programs in Correctional Facilities Human beings express themselves creatively and respond to creativity. This is one of the defining characteristics of personhood, and it is a manifestation of the image of God in mankind. We are aware that there are good reasons for being sentenced to prison, but a prison sentence does not take away the basic essence of what every human being is. Prison is however, a dehumanizing environment. The reality is that nearly half of the inmates in a prison never have a visit from family or friends during their stay behind bars. It is also true that nationwide we have a correctional system that is understaffed and over-populated. This further contributes to the dehumanizing nature of incarceration as the staff is by necessity focused on safety and security. At times, inmates do not have access to programming because of insufficient staff resources, further hindering the mission of a correctional institution: to help individuals find healthier ways to do life and re-enter society in meaningful and productive pursuits. To bring music into this lonely environment is like water in the desert. The three areas of programming that we offer through Blues Behind Bars meet a need for mentoring, role modeling, and a hopeful vision for a future life that is difficult for prison staff to provide. At even the most basic level, the fact that somebody cared enough to come and visit, let alone brought music into the prison, provides emotional uplift. At the highest level, we see some people find a new sense of life and hope as a result of presenting the invitation to turn to Jesus Christ in our concerts, workshops, and worship services. Please direct Postal Mail to: Living Fire Arts Network PO Box 1025 Fort Collins, CO 80522 David Michael Boyd: 970 402 1822 David Michael Boyd is a Fort Collins resident and the president of Living Fire Arts Network- a Colorado 501c3 non-profit corporation and parent organization to Blues Behind Bars. His education includes an AA Music degree with further studies in composition and classical guitar. David was ordained through an internship with Association of Vineyard Churches and has 30 years of pastoral experience. Fluent in German, with cross-cultural ministry experience in Europe and North America, David has written music and performed in musical theater, multi-art form productions, CD recordings, worship settings and rock/blues concerts. As director of Blues Behind Bars, David travels to prisons and jails across the state of Colorado with his band Davey and the Blu Dog, engaging with inmates through songwriting workshops, concerts, and worship services.
With the US economy humming, growing at its fastest rate in over a decade while unemployment nears 20-year lows, the 2018 holiday shopping season promises to be a good one for retailers. Some estimates predict holiday retail sales increasing 5–6% this year, and the average American consumer is expected to spend a little over $1,500 on holiday expenditures, a whopping 25% increase from last year. This incremental disposable income will be a boon to retailers across channels and verticals. While online shopping has become an undeniably convenient way to purchase some items, over half of Americans still plan to go to brick-and-mortar locations to do their holiday shopping. In fact, according to a Deloitte Study, shoppers in November and December make an average of seven trips to a physical store to complete their seasonal purchases. So how can marketers capitalize on these high-value, in-store visits, and when are consumers most likely to be shopping? Within Cuebiq’s location intelligence platform, Clara — which leverages the largest database of accurate and anonymous location data in the US — we used location analytics to see average footfall trends across the top holiday shopping weeks in 2017. Based on the top holiday-shopping verticals such as Mass Market, Retail, Grocery, and Telecom, we looked at 4 to 5 of the top brands for each vertical to gauge footfall during the most critical weeks in November and December for holiday shopping. Our intelligence revealed December as being the month with the highest in-store foot traffic, especially the week before Christmas (Dec. Week 3). See below for a top-level view of the average footfall trends by week for each vertical. For a deeper dive into Clara’s capabilities and insights, please contact a Cuebiq sales representative for a custom report. Are Advertisers Spending Enough in December? While shoppers flock to brick-and-mortar locations during December, advertising budgets seem to be going in the opposite direction. A recent survey of 100 leading US retailers found that 25% of advertising budgets are spent around Black Friday weekend, while only 5% are left for the week before Christmas. Given the trends in foot traffic, this approach seems a bit backward. So, while budgets for Black Friday are already planned out, it’s not too late for marketers to capitalize on driving in-store traffic and incremental sales in the weeks leading up to Christmas by using location intelligence for smarter audience targeting. If retailers can save more of their budget for those final few weeks of shopping before the new year, they can reach users at a less-saturated moment while delivering a message to shoppers known to buy in-store. Leverage Location-Based Audiences for Last-Minute Holiday Shoppers When it comes to holiday shopping, it’s more important than ever to ensure you reach all potential audience segments who might be interested in your brand, thereby maximizing your ROI. To this end, it’s crucial to identify any new audience segments that you might be missing such as users exhibiting cross-shopping behaviors and those who may be at high risk for shopping with your competitor this season: Over three-fourths (77%) of holiday shoppers plan on buying from the same retailers they did last year ( Deloitte study). Retailers can capture these last-minute loyalists by targeting brand loyal consumers with relevant messaging. Brand loyalists are ripe for targeting with last-minute deals, since they have demonstrated an affinity for your brand and are more inclined to spend those last-minute shopping dollars with you. Through predictive audiences, you can target consumers who are more likely to switch brand loyalties. Cuebiq’s Predictive Audiences use changes in historical visitation patterns such as frequency of visit to a brand and visits to competitive brands to make predictions about which consumers are most likely to shop at competitive locations and which ones will continue to stay loyal. Using predictive audiences allows you to align your ad impressions with high-value consumers who are on the verge of switching brand loyalties. By understanding changes in behavior, marketers can identify consumers who will be more receptive to last-minute holiday offers. Target consumers who match your buyer personas and campaign parameters by activating custom audiences, such as consumers who might not visit your brand but are active spenders within your industry vertical. For example, you can use “day-parting” to understand the most popular time of day consumers visit similar brand locations, and then create segments based on time of visit. Cuebiq Audiences offer a variety of Audience segments available for activation that can help marketers reach high-value shoppers, driving performance and helping retailers find success during this crucial time of year.
Parents Create Five-Metre Bed To Co-Sleep With Their Four Kids The case for having everyone in the one bed. What do you think? By Practical Parenting November 10 2016 Struggling to find a bed big enough for their whole family, one couple from Belfast made their own. Ex-rugby player Ryan Constable and his wife Kim created a 5.5-metre long bed that they share with their four children - Corey, 11, Kai, 9, Maya, 6, and Jack, 5. "When the older ones moved out and a younger one moved in, they would come back and say that’s not fair - we want to be in the big bed with you all, too," Kim, who is also a Yoga teacher told the Belfast Telegraph. "In the end we had a king size bed, a super king and a single all joined together to make one huge 18ft bed which was big enough for everyone." Kim says it makes her job as a parent easier having everyone in the same room. "Whether they have a bad dream or want a drink of water, I will be there for them during the night just like I am during the day. "Before the big bed was created I spent my nights bed running about from room to room trying to get all the children to sleep." As for when they find time for intimacy, Kim adds that it's very common for her and her husband to sleep in the spare room. "I always say that if it is important enough to you then you will find time to do it and if it isn't then you will find an excuse," says Kim. "Ryan and I often sleep together in the spare room, at least for part of the night, before someone will end up in the middle of us or I will go and get into the big bed. And we are very honest with the children and will just say mummy and daddy are going for 'a snuggle' now and we will be in with you in a while. "We do make time for each other and once a week we will go out for dinner or meet each other for lunch so we can catch up with each other."
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"NASHVILLE: ON THE RECORD" A ONE HOUR MUSIC SPECIAL FEATURING YOUR FAVORITE SONGS PERFORMED BY THE CAST TO AIR WEDNESDAY, APRIL 23 AT 10 PM ET ON ABC Cast Members including Hayden Panettiere, Charles Esten, Clare Bowen and Sam Palladio Will Perform and Songwriters are Spotlighted in "Nashville's" First-Ever Primetime Concert Special ABC Music Lounge's and ABC Digital Media Studio's "Nashville"-inspired docu-web series, "On the Record," is going from your computer screen to your TV screen. Direct from Nashville's world famous Ryman Auditorium, cast members of the acclaimed primetime series "Nashville" will take the stage to perform show favorites then sit down in the Bluebird Caf� for acoustic performances and an intimate look at the songwriting process with the songwriters themselves, talking candidly about how this music found its way to the show and what it means to the actors and songwriters. "Nashville: On the Record" airs WEDNESDAY, APRIL 23 (10:00-11:00 p.m., ET) on the ABC Television Network. All original music is released by ABC Studios, Lionsgate and ABC Music Lounge in association with Big Machine Records. Among the songwriters appearing on the special are Trent Dabbs and Caitlyn Smith, who co-wrote the anthem, "Don't Put Dirt on My Grave Just Yet," which Hayden Panettiere and Jonathan Jackson's characters have performed, as well as Striking Matches (duo Sarah Zimmerman and Justin Davis) who've co-written "I Ain't Leaving Without Your Love" with Cary Barlowe, performed by Jonathan Jackson, Sam Palladio and Chaley Rose on the TV show. Also appearing is notable songwriter Ashley Monroe, solo artist and member of the Pistol Annies, who co-wrote "A Life that's Good" with Sarah Siskind, which has been performed by Lennon and Maisy Stella and Charles Esten on the series. "On the Record" is a documentary web series that follows the life of original songs performed on "Nashville" written by singer/songwriters in the music scene, from the songs' inception to on-air premiere. The series offers an intimate look into the songwriting process, from guitar demo to music video and all the steps in between. Buddy Miller is Executive Music Producer of "Nashville: On the Record" and George Flanigen is executive producer and director. "Nashville" stars Connie Britton as Rayna Jaymes, Hayden Panettiere as Juliette Barnes, Eric Close as Teddy Conrad, Charles Esten as Deacon Claybourne, Clare Bowen as Scarlett O'Connor, Jonathan Jackson as Avery Barkley, Sam Palladio as Gunnar Scott, Chris Carmack as Will Lexington, Maisy Stella as Daphne Conrad and Lennon Stella as Maddie Conrad. "Nashville" is executive-produced by Dee Johnson, R.J. Cutler Callie Khouri and Steve Buchanan. Buddy Miller is Executive Music Producer and Frankie Pine is Music Supervisor. The series is produced by Lionsgate, ABC Studios, and Opry Entertainment, and is broadcast in 720 Progressive (720P), ABC's selected HDTV format with 5.1 channel surround sound. ABC Music Lounge, which launched in May 2009 on ABC.com, provides users with an interactive online music experience that is uniquely ABC. Reflective of the network's commitment to using digital platforms to deepen its relationship with viewers, the ABC Music Lounge showcases everything about the music and artists featured on ABC's popular primetime schedule, offering a deep catalog of music-related content that includes "Castle," "Dancing with the Stars," "Grey's Anatomy," "Revenge" and "Once Upon a Time," among others. Visitors to the site can get access to exclusive weekly free downloads. ABC Music Lounge is home to music videos, exclusive performance footage, photos and behind-the-scenes interviews with artists, series producers and music supervisors. Big Machine Records is the leading independent Nashville-based record label home to superstars such as Taylor Swift, Tim McGraw and Rascal Flatts. ABC Music Lounge: http://abc.go.com/music-lounge. Embeddable Clips Available: http://abc.go.com/site/music-lounge/nashville-on-the-record For more information about "Nashville" visit ABC.com/Nashville
Hamtramck's Polish Village debuts new paczki-pierogi concoction ahead of Fat Tuesday Encased in a traditional pierogi shell, covered in a buttercream glaze and brimming with raspberry jelly is Hamtramck's Polish Village Cafe's newest star. For those unfamiliar, pierogi are essentially Polish dumplings, crescent-shaped noodle pockets with a soft casing that can be filled with meat, fruit or vegetables. Paczki, on the other hand, are akin to jelly donuts. With the beloved Paczki Day — also known as Fat Tuesday — on the horizon, Polish Village owner Carolyn Wietrcykowski was brainstorming ideas to make this year special for enthusiasts when two words came into her head: paczki and pierogi. "Those two words just came into my brain," Wietrcykowski said. "And I was like, well, how do we make a pierogi taste like a paczki." After putting raspberry filling inside a pierogi, and coating it in icing, they found the new concoction tasted surprisingly paczki-like. "I was just thinking about all the different things that are happening and that I did want this Paczki Day to have something new so that it was exciting, because we wouldn't be able to provide the same thing we did in years past," Wiertrcykowski said. "So that was the kind of the inspiration and then those two words just came together. I was like what two better words are there: pierogi and paczki. I was like we got to figure out how to do this so that that was basically it." Paczki Day, taking place Feb. 16, is the Mardi Gras of historically Polish Hamtramck. The days-long celebration centering on the revered European doughnut has drawn thousands to the Wayne County city in previous years, packing hundreds into its bakeries and bars. Like many traditions sullied by the pandemic, Paczki Day will look unfamiliar. In good fortune, the holiday will come weeks after indoor dining is permitted by the state, with limited capacity and curfews. "You know it won't be the same but sometimes not being the same makes you appreciate it, but it also makes you start a new tradition," Wietrcykowski said. Paczki pierogi are available to order online at polishvillage.cafe. Orders of three retail for $6. Polish Village will join in the festivities and offer an outdoor space with heaters for customers, weather permitting. Contact Miriam Marini: [email protected]
Hello again from the center of the Plum Creek universe. We’re on Day 5 of the intervener sessions. At the moment the Commissioners are asking questions of Joe Brenneman a County Commissioner from Flathead County Montana who has dealt directly with Plum Creek’s developments. Flathead County is currently being sued by Plum Creek over some development proposals. Mr. Brenneman is encouraging the Commission to be very, very careful about determining what is going to be sustainable. In Montana Plum Creek’s interpretation of doing the right thing has been limited to what is required by law. He’s been told by Plum Creek officials if the County wants more they’ll have to get the law changed. Also this morning was cross examination of Plum Creek’s resort expert. He revealed that it is the proposed conservation easements that make the resort potential attractive. Without the easements the value of the resorts would be diminished. Part of yesterday was cross examination of Plum Creek’s economic expert Charles Colgan. NRCM’s legal team revealed that Mr. Colgan’s analysis showed that much of the recreational dollars that would potentially come to Moosehead would come at the expense of other Maine destinations. It was also revealed under cross examination that Plum Creek’s own economic analyses are inconsistent varying by as much as 40%. Affordable housing was also discussed. It has been estimated that the affordable housing would be in the $150,000 range. There was a lot of concern that this is much too expensive for the Moosehead Region. The Maine Housing Authority testified that they are concerned that there will not be enough affordable housing or a mechanism in place to ensure that the housing remains affordable over time. Places like Jackson Hole, Wyoming were talked about as examples where starter homes begin in $400,000 range, far out of reach for long time local residents. By contrast Plum Creek estimates that just the building cost of the houses that would come as a result of their proposal would be around $280,000. When the cost of the house lots is added, the value of the properties would get close to the $500,000 range. These intervener sessions will be continuing next Monday. We’ll do our best to keep you up to date. -Diano Circo, North Woods Policy Advocate and Outreach Coordinator
“Time is a flat circle,” intones Matthew McConaughey in the first season of True Detective. That line became a meme in the months that followed that episode, but it always stuck with us as being absolutely true. Maybe that’s why the show’s called True Detective. Regardless of naming conventions or old memes, it’s observable that what was old is new again. Whether we’re talking about fashion, music trends, even politics, what happens now is echoing from the past. That’s also true in the fields of marketing and development. Despite the incredible explosion of technological advances over the last 30 years, one of the oldest concepts in marketing is making a triumphant return: one-to-one (1:1) marketing. The latest advances in AI and machine learning, however, have turned this age-old approach into something amazing. Persons of Interest First, let’s explain what the 1:1 approach is. When it comes to sales or marketing, one-to-one can be boiled down to making your customers human again. What we mean is that instead of just seeing sales totals or daily active users on spreadsheets, 1:1 marketing focuses on the individual. Why does that matter? People like being treated like people, it turns out! When people are treated like people instead of like numbers, a few things become apparent quickly. For one, people oftentimes want products their way. You see this at restaurants. If you give them pre-bundled combos, for instance, they’ll ask for no cheese, extra meat, etc. In other words, customization. The other thing customers like? Personalization. Everyone is different, and because of that, everyone wants to feel different. Paying attention to customers, treating them like individuals, and then using what you know about them to give them personalized attention. These are the two pillars of 1:1 marketing: personalization and customization. A Shift in Advertising One of the reasons why 1:1 marketing gained so much popularity is because advertising shifted drastically from the days of newspaper ads and billboards. Whereas once advertising was something to watch, now it is something that you experience. It is something that comes to you.The revolution will not be televised; it will pop up in your social media feeds based on your interests. Because advertising is now an active experience, it only makes sense that it should be personalized and customized to fit your customers. It’s like comparing a plane dragging an ad above a beach to throwing paper airplanes at every person with a message that they are interested in. Your customers don’t want their time wasted, so if you’re going to reach out to them, it better make an impact fast. How do you accomplish that? By working with developers employing the latest technology. If personalization and customization don’t sound particularly revolutionary, that’s because they’re not. At least not on their own. These are tactics businesses have used for generations, which should tell you something: they work. So what makes 1:1 marketing the next big thing in customer relationship management? Developers like Hoverstate, that’s why! Thanks to advances in artificial intelligence and machine learning, we can give our clients the advantages that 1:1 marketing provides but on a scale unimaginable until now. In other words, we can help you treat every customer personally and give them customizable options. Customers expect you to provide impersonal personal service. What we mean by this is that customers want you to provide them individualized attention but understand that this doesn’t necessarily mean talking to a real person. Using cutting edge technology and our Pega partnership, Hoverstate can deploy solutions that will make your customers forget that they’re not actually talking to someone. Imagine a platform for your goods or services that anticipates the needs of your customers and offers it to them before they even go to a menu. That’s the kind of power Hoverstate brings to our customers. Furthermore, we can create robust backends that will give the insight into your customers necessary to implement 1:1 marketing strategies. You need to know your customers well. You’re not speed dating them; you’re courting them! Hoverstate can help design systems that will give you insight into their interests, tastes, and more. With this data, you can build meaningful relationships with your customers–not just a sale for you, but connecting with them to build long-term loyalty and value.
MuleSoft names William Fu regional VP for Asia By Digital News Asia September 8, 2015 - Tasked with developing market and driving growth through channel partnerships - MuleSoft launched in APAC in 2013, now has offices in Singapore, HK and Sydney SAN Francisco-based integration software specialist MuleSoft announced it has appointed William Fu (pic) as regional vice president of Asia. He will lead sales operations for the South-East Asia and Greater China region, where he will be responsible for developing the market and driving growth through channel partnerships, the company said in a statement. Based in Singapore, Fu will report to Will Bosma, vice president of Asia Pacific. “The opportunity in Asia is driven in large part by the pace of innovation and progress around technologies, including e-commerce and mobile,” said Bosma. “William [Fu] brings strong regional understanding, execution capability, and a proven track record of building strong, sustainable businesses in Asia. “With his leadership and expertise, [he] will play a key role in taking MuleSoft to the next level as the company continues to accelerate its growth in the region,” he added. Established in 2006, MuleSoft provides an integration platform designed to unlock the full potential of applications and data through API-led connectivity, both on-premises and in the cloud. Its Anypoint Platform gives organisations the freedom to connect what they want, when they want, without the need for custom point-to-point code, the company said. It launched its Asia Pacific operations in 2013, and today has offices in Singapore, Hong Kong and Sydney. “The technology landscape in Asia is evolving rapidly on all fronts,” said Fu. “Asian businesses are responding to the same key forces that are powering innovation in other parts of the world, including cloud, mobile and big data. “Specific trends, such as the ‘de-tariffication’ of the insurance industry in Malaysia, and Asian governments leveraging big data to enhance citizen security and resources, are creating particular urgency in our region for transformation and a new approach to connectivity,” he added. Prior to MuleSoft, Fu was in various sales and business leadership roles, including director of sales of Asia Pacific and Japan at Actuate Corporation and general manager of South-East Asia at Experian Decision Analytics. He has also held senior sales leadership roles at Fico, IBM and SAS. He holds a bachelor’s degree with honours in economics and statistics from the University of Alberta in Canada. Asia at the start of the API Economy curve: MuleSoft VP APIs: The power of openness For more technology news and the latest updates, follow us on Twitter, LinkedIn or Like us on Facebook.
Exhibition 27 June – 19 October 2014 The Fruitmarket Gallery presented a solo exhibition of the work of Jim Lambie, one of Scotland’s most internationally significant artists. Known for visually compelling, generous and beguiling work which attracts both popular and critical acclaim, his work makes its magic from relatively humble materials – tinfoil and coat hangers, jackets, mirrors, records turntables, potato sacks, plastic bags and household paint. Lambie first came to public prominence in the late 1990s, and this exhibition includes some of his earliest sculptures, reassessing them in the light of more recent work. Zobop(1999), the multi-coloured floor piece that is the artist’s best-known work, is joined by earlier works such as The Kid with the Replaceable Head (1996), Roadie ((1999) and a new, enlarged version of Shaved Ice (2012/14) that turns the ground floor of the Gallery into a spectacular hall of mirrors. Bringing together two decades of sculpture, the exhibition offered the opportunity to trace the development of Lambie’s exuberantly intelligent and visually arresting sculptural language. The exhibition was part of Edinburgh Art Festival 2014 and GENERATION, a Scotland-wide celebration of the last 25 years of contemporary art. Jim Lambie Webfilm Talks and Events Panel Discussion: Words, Objects, Actions, Art Writer Maria Fusco (University of Edinburgh), artist Michael Landy and art historian Luke Skrebowski (University of Cambridge) discuss Jim Lambie’s practice, The Poetry Club, and larger ideas about the event as a work of art. Chaired by Fiona Bradley. This poster was designed by The Fruitmarket Gallery to support the Jim Lambie exhibition which ran from 27 June – 19 October 2014. Fruitmarket Gallery Publication Jim Lambie’s solo exhibition at The Fruitmarket Gallery was accompanied by a publication that celebrates one of Lambie’s most generous sculptures, a poetry club he established in Glasgow in 2012.
There are many different reasons behind unexplained bruising in adults, including the most common one which is physical contact against a hard surface that is hard enough to cause a bruise, but contact the person does not recall having happened. This type of bruising is especially common in contact sports, where the intensity of the action can be such that physical contact, as hard as it may be, often goes virtually unnoticed. It’s only later that the bruises caused by the activity first become noticeable. In most places on our body there is a certain amount of soft tissue just under the skin. When this tissue experiences trauma, such as that due to a bump or a blow to the skin with a hard object, tiny blood vessels in these tissues can be ruptured. Blood will then flow from the broken blood vessels and accumulate or pool under the skin. The accumulation of blood is then seen as a dark-colored patch, in other words, as a bruise. Physical exertion can also cause bruising, even though physical contact through the skin may not have occurred. Here again, it’s usually athletes or body builders who are most likely to experience these bruises. When a muscle is being exercised strenuously, it’s not uncommon for blood vessels in a muscle fiber to rupture, and if the location where this occurs is just under the skin, a bruise may be observed. Whenever we exercise our muscles, microscopic tears happen, but these are usually so small that any blood loss is minute, and whatever blood may be lost isn’t necessarily near the skin. Aging can also be a factor. As we get older, the walls of our blood vessels tend to become a bit thinner and weaker. Also as we get older, we normally begin to rid ourselves of fatty tissue. Consequently, we lose some of our protective “padding”. The combination of weaker blood vessel walls and the loss of this protective padding, means the elderly are very much more susceptible to bruising, or at least tend to bruise more easily. The bruises can occur anywhere, but in many if not most cases happen on the backs of the hands, or on the shins. Diseases and disorders can also make one bruise more easily, and often without knowing how the bruise occurred. While there are a number of different blood diseases, any disease which affects the blood’s ability to clot or coagulate properly can lead to bruising, even in cases where contact has been minimal. If we hit the back of our hand against something hard enough to feel it, some soft tissue may be damaged, but the amount of blood lost may be too minute to cause a bruise. If someone with leukemia for example, hits their hand with the exact same force, that person may experience significant bruising, since more blood will have escaped from the damaged blood vessels before clotting is able to occur. Unexplained Bruises In Children Children can get bruises in much the same way as can adults. It can truly be said that bruises have no respect for age. Children engaged in playtime activities often come home with a bump or bruise or two, and in many cases don’t remember how the bruise occurred. All they remember is that they were having a good time. Toddlers are very prone to bruising. It’s not because of their physiological makeup, but mainly because, as they are learning to walk, they bump into things and fall down quite often. When toddlers are just learning to walk they tend to lead with their head. The number of toddlers who have never suffered a few bruises on their head or under their chin could probably be counted on the fingers of one hand. As is the case with adults, some unexplained bruises in children are the result of a disease of a disorder. Leukemia is one cause, and skin disorders are another. One cause of bruising that affects children, and sometimes affects the elderly as well, but seldom affects those in between, is a vitamin or mineral deficiency. A lack of vitamins C or K can lead to easy bruising, as can an iron deficiency. Another cause of unexplained bruising in children, although the children themselves often know where the bruises have come from, is child abuse. Children who are being abused, and have the bruises to show for it, will normally have those bruises on their head or their face, more so than on other parts of the body. Some children however just seem to be a bit more accident prone than others, occasionally making their parents afraid to take them out into the public, out of fear that onlookers will be convinced the child has been or is being abused. The only time unexplained bruises should be a cause for concern is if they have not happened frequently in the past but are doing so now. That could indicate an underlying disease of disorder is in part to blame. It would therefore be advisable to see a physician to see if there is something amiss that requires treatment.
By Chris Havel Special to Event USA Rodgers’ health headlines Green Bay’s ‘Top Five’ priorities going into season GREEN BAY, Wis. – Jaire Alexander, Josh Jackson and Oren Burks bring athleticism and awareness to a defense lacking both. GET YOUR PACKERS HOME & ROAD TICKETS & GAME PACKAGES NOW! Buy Now >> The rookie receivers are at once intriguing and raw. And Jimmy Graham is a beast. Those are some of the obvious takeaways as the Packers’ OTA’s began last week at Ray Nitschke Field. Here’s another: The only thing scarier than the offense not knowing where the pass rush is coming from is the defense not knowing, and right now the Packers are searching. Let’s take a look at the Packers’ ‘Top 5’ priorities between now and the regular-season opener: No. 1 – Aaron Rodgers’ availability is a must. It begins with the Packers’ All-Pro quarterback signing what is sure to be the NFL’s most lucrative contract. That is expected to happen sooner than later. After that, it’s up to Packers head coach Mike McCarthy to do everything in his power to keep Rodgers upright. That starts up front with the offensive line. Bryan Bulaga’s injury status and Jahri Evans’ absence create questions on the right side of the line, but the Packers should be OK there. Whether rookie Cole Madison becomes the starting right guard remains to be seen, but even if that doesn’t happen there are options. Justin McCray, Jason Spriggs and Kyle Murphy will be given a chance to plug the hole at RG and RT, but I wouldn’t rule out GM Brian Gutekunst signing another veteran lineman. In a perfect world, Madison steps in seamlessly – much like Corey Linsley at center and Lane Taylor at left guard – while either Spriggs or Murphy figures it out at right tackle. Bulaga’s return shouldn’t be hastened out of desperation. Clearly, the offensive line needs to protect better. It also needs to be given an opportunity to run block. The Packers proved they could run effectively with Brett Hundley at quarterback. Imagine what Jamaal Williams, Ty Montgomery and Aaron Jones might do if defenses had to honor Rodgers. The Packers’ running game, if effective, could go a long way toward keeping Rodgers out of harm’s way. No. 2 – The Packers’ new offensive weapons have to be on the same page and ready to roll at the outset. Graham’s presence is critical to the team’s success. The 6-foot-7, 265-pound tight end is everything fans could’ve hoped for in free agency. He stands out on the field, and that’s just when he’s in the huddle. Graham’s catch radius will make Rodgers feel like he’s throwing it into the ocean. How can he miss? The addition of veteran tight end Marcedes Lewis also comes as good news to Packers’ fans. Lewis, like Graham, is a large man. At 6-6, 267, he’s almost identical to his counterpart. The difference is that Lewis, a 12-year veteran, is a dynamite in-line blocker. The Packers’ potential for double-tight end personnel is limitless. Lewis, a former first-round pick, doesn’t have the speed to stretch defenses, but he is effective in the red zone. Graham and Lewis afford the Packers’ offensive staff a chance to move the football and score points while sorting out the receiving corps early on. Davante Adams’ 22 touchdown catches during the past two seasons is tops in the NFL. Randall Cobb, if he stays healthy, should benefit from Graham’s presence. Defenses are going to have to account for Adams, Graham and whichever running back is on the field. That means opportunities for Cobb. No. 3 – Finally, it appears the Packers’ defensive staff has enough able-bodied defensive backs to compete. Alexander, the 18th pick overall, is fast, fearless and flashy. Most important, though, he’s a football player. In that regard, he’s like Jackson, the second-round pick. What Jackson lacks in speed, which is minimal, he makes up for in awareness, instincts and ball skills. When Jackson gets his hands on the football an interception is a decent bet. That said, the rookie cornerbacks will need all their assets to compete with Tramon Williams, Davon House and Quinten Rollins, and against Matthew Stafford, Kirk Cousins and Mitchell Trubisky. No. 4 – The Packers must conjure up a pass rush. Clay Matthews and Nick Perry are the incumbent edge rushers. They have a combined 110 ½ sacks, but neither was dominant last season. In fact, Matthews hasn’t played a full season since 2015, and Perry’s only “breakout” year was 2016. Nevertheless, it appears Matthews isn’t willing to accept one simple fact: The pass rush BEGINS with Perry and him. It’s why I was stunned with what Matthews said regarding the Packers’ draft and their selecting just one edge rusher. “Well, I wasn’t surprised with the first two picks; I’ll go ahead and say that,” Matthews told reporters. “But obviously, you look at the depth at the outside-linebacker position, and it’s not that great. That’s not a slight to the guys who are behind Nick and me, but you look around the league, a lot of times they’re rotating in pass rushers. You look a couple years ago when we had Mike Neal and Julius Peppers here, and Datone (Jones) as well. We had a pretty good rotation.” When you sift through the nonsense what you hear is this: Matthews didn’t think much of the Packers’ secondary last year, and he doesn’t think much of the OLB depth this year. Another words, his excuse for not being an All-Pro player is twofold: We didn’t cover long enough, and we didn’t have enough capable bodies to rotate so I could stay fresh. Matthews needs to stop putting his cleats in his mouth and start taking responsibility for getting the defense right. I can’t for the life of me imagine Reggie White either directly or indirectly placing the blame on anyone else. If Matthews wants more out of Kyler Fackrell, Reggie Gilbert and Vince Biegel, he ought to show them how a top-flight, highly paid pass rusher acts. That’s if he still remembers. ** No. 5 – It seems like a natural segue to go from Matthews’ poorly stated opinion to locker room chemistry. Matthews, Perry and Blake Martinez – along with newcomer Burks – need to be the defense’s mainstays. I suspect Mike Daniels, Kenny Clark, Mo Wilkerson and Dean Lowry have it covered up front. I also think the defense’s secondary is going to be much-improved. That leaves the linebackers to be the glue. They are in fact the conduit between the pass rush and coverage. They need to be the defense’s voice, if not its soul. The tight ends serve a similar purpose on offense. They block for the backs, catch like the receivers and think like the offensive linemen. With Graham and Lewis, the Packers are gifted one of the top three tight end duos in team history, along with Ron Kramer and Marv Fleming, and Mark Chmura and Keith Jackson. McCarthy always seems to have a handle on his locker room. And while it was disappointing to see the collapse after Rodgers’ injury, it is worth noting that McCarthy held it together well enough to be competitive despite a talent disparity. Hopefully, the offseason has fixed the talent shortage. It’s up to McCarthy to put it all together.
Nick Carter being investigated over sexual assault charges. Summary: Los Angeles [USA], Aug 03 (ANI): Nick Carter, the 38-year-old member of the Backstreet Boys, is currently being investigated by the Los Angeles (LA) County District Attorney's Office in connection with alleged charges of sexual assault levelled against him. Los Angeles [USA], Aug 03 ( ANI ): Nick Carter, the 38-year-old member of the Backstreet Boys, is currently being investigated by the Los Angeles (LA) County District Attorney's Office in connection with alleged charges of sexual assault levelled against him. The Santa Monica Police Department brought the case forward on Tuesday, the LA district attorney's office told Fox News. The investigation into the charges against Carter follows up a Police report which was filed in February, in connection with an alleged sexual assault incident in 2003. In February, American singer Melissa Schuman of the band Dream filed a police report accusing Carter of raping her in 2003. She took to her Twitter handle, saying, "I'm finally doing what I thought I could no longer do. Im filing a police report #timesup #bebrave #bethechange #metoo thank you @RAINN for empowering me to take this step." In November 2017, she wrote a blog where she revealed that she was ""forced to engage in an act" against her will. "After kissing for a moment, he took my hand and brought me into the bathroom adjacent to his office. He shut the door and we continued to kiss. I asked him what we were doing in there. He didn't respond and continued to kiss me," she wrote. "He then picked me up, put me on the bathroom counter and started to unbutton my pants. I told him I didn't want to go any further. He didn't listen. He didn't care," she added. Carter had earlier revealed that he was "shocked and saddened" by the accusations levelled against him, saying that Schuman had "never expressed to me while we were together or at any time since that anything we did was not consensual." ( ANI ) Copyright [c] 2018 aninews.in All rights reserved. Provided by SyndiGate Media Inc. ( Syndigate.info ). \|Printer friendly Cite/link Email Feedback\| \|Publication:\|\|Asian News International\| \|Date:\|\|Aug 3, 2018\| \|Previous Article:\|\|Charlie Sheen claims he can't afford child support.\| \|Next Article:\|\|J-K: 2 terrorists gunned down by security forces.\|
Today in History, Martin Luther nailed his 95 Theses on the door of All Saints Church in Wittenberg in 1517, beginning a movement he hoped would reform the Catholic Church (rebellion wasn't his intent), but would really revolutionize the world. As a monk, Luther had tried all the traditional forms of penance (acts to make up for sinful thoughts and actions), and nothing seemed to work. It wasn't until he read the Bible for himself that Martin Luther realized there was something wrong. So he tried to reform the church. Consider, if you will what caused this catalyst, and both the good and bad that went along with it. Martin Luther desired to be close to God, and the traditions weren't working. So he read the word of God for himself. He couldn't have foreseen the upheavals this would cause, political, social, and religious, but every time there is a call to return to the word of God, from the Old Testament until now, it always causes a stir. In many ways, the Restoration Movement Churches began in much the same way. Men saw that following the traditions of men were getting in the way of worship, and sought to get back to the word of God. It caused a stir as people from all denominations standing in agreement stood upon the same principles Martin Luther had done some 300 years prior. We get so caught up in this world, in politics, in social norms, in traditions, that as believers in Christ, we often consider the traditions to be the same as Scripture (As Barton Stone, Alexander Campbell and Martin Luther all discovered through the Scriptures, they aren't). When we dive in to the word of God, we can't help but seek reformation, as the Spirit reforms us through the Word. His word restores us to Himself as we begin to follow it daily. The Word of God is central to knowing the Will of God (Romans 12:2 says a lot on this!), and has power to transform the heart as the Holy Spirit informs us through it! Does your life need reformation? Like Luther, Campbell, Stone, and so many others, dive in to the Word. Get back in to it, and watch how God gets in to you! Hebrews 4:12 For the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and of spirit, of joints and of marrow, and discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart. Matthew 4:4 But he answered, “It is written, “‘Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that comes from the mouth of God.’” 2 Timothy 3:16-17 All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, that the man of God may be competent, equipped for every good work. Isaiah 55:11 So shall my word be that goes out from my mouth; it shall not return to me empty, but it shall accomplish that which I purpose, and shall succeed in the thing for which I sent it. John 17:17 Sanctify them in the truth; your word is truth. Ephesians 6:17 And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God, John 6:63 It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh is no help at all. The words that I have spoken to you are spirit and life. Jeremiah 23:29 Is not my word like fire, declares the Lord, and like a hammer that breaks the rock in pieces? Psalm 119:105 Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path. Romans 10:17 So faith comes from hearing, and hearing through the word of Christ.
Human error and NFPA 70E How does human error affect safety in the electrical utilities industry? Responding is Scott Francis, technical manager, Westex by Milliken, Spartanburg, SC. The electrical industry routinely uses risk assessments to define and address multifaceted hazards on jobsites. As hazards are identified, NFPA 70E points to the hierarchy of risk controls – a comprehensive system used to minimize or eliminate hazard exposure, to reduce the likelihood of an incident occurring and to mitigate the severity of injury should an incident occur. Within the context of the hierarchy, multiple layers – beginning with hazard elimination and continuing through to the use of personal protective equipment – work together to create the safest possible environment. Because no risk control is infallible and all risk control methods are subject to errors in human performance, the 2018 edition of NFPA 70E emphasizes accounting for human error in a risk assessment. Human error – meaning the propensity for a man-made error triggering a hazard – can diminish a safety program’s effectiveness. To achieve compliance with the standard, the risk assessment should evaluate the potential for human error and address its possible impact on people, processes, work environments and equipment. In pinpointing human error risks, it’s important to define the areas and instances where human error may occur and counter these error precursors with optimal human performance tools. Informational Annex Q, Table Q outlines human error precursors (e.g., stress, time pressure, distractions, complacency) that make a human error more likely, and thus increasing the likelihood of a catastrophic incident. The multitude of human error precursors suggests a growing importance of mitigating human error impacts. Indeed, as mentioned in Article 110.1, it is a matter of compliance to analyze and account for human error. Human error can be addressed in a twofold manner: Proactively addressing human error with performance tools in elimination, substitution, and engineering and administrative controls. To address human error proactively, review Informative Annex Q: Human Performance Tools. These proactive tools can help counter various human error precursors residing in all risk control methods and are helpful additions to safety protocols. Protecting against human error repercussions with PPE. As the final layer of defense, an arc-rated daily wear PPE program can help mitigate the catastrophic consequences associated with electrical arc flash incidents resulting from human error. In the event of an arc flash, PPE could help lessen the resulting damage. For arc flash PPE to protect and mitigate injury, it must be worn at the appropriate time. Whereas a task-based PPE option may not be worn at the appropriate time, a daily wear PPE clothing program can provide workers consistent, unobtrusive PPE Category 1 or Category 2 protection – incorporated in comfortable everyday garments with no additional PPE body layers necessary. Necessitated by the evolving consensus standard, workers in the electrical industry now have formalized instructions to account for human error. A comprehensive approach to mitigate human error-prompted incidents goes a long way in helping the industry perpetuate safety. Editor's note: This article represents the independent views of the author and should not be construed as a National Safety Council endorsement.
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Modelo-UFC VR Game The Modelo UFC Fighting Spirit Challenge was a VR experience I had the pleasure of working on in early 2019 at Groove Jones. My role as Technical Artist saw me overlooking all visual related engine work, including: Our target platform--the Oculus GO--presented us with several challenges, not the least of which was to deliver a stylized and interesting experience while maintaining great performance on a mobile VR headset. Arguably the most important part of the experience visually was the opponent players would fight, and so a lot of my time and energy was dedicated to supporting the highest quality character we possibly could on such a low-end hardware. Since the characters in the experience were so important, we didn't have much performance budget for the background environment. We decided to take advantage of the fact that the Oculus GO only has 3 DOF (or degrees of freedom). Our solution was to render a high quality stereoscopic image as the background. So the background was mostly an image, but the stereoscopic packing of the texture allowed use to fake depth. (Gifs show monoscopic since they are screen-recorded.) There were 2 problems with this solution: 1) The ground, being the closest element to the player, had depth issues, especially with characters moving on top of it 2) it made realtime shadow-casting of the characters impossible To combat those problems, we decided to leave just the ground of the fighting ring as a 3D object. It took some coordination to line up just right, but the gif from before is using this same setup, and in experience it ends up looking quite convincing. The result was a fully realized environment with just 2 draw calls and under 2k tris. I created a custom shader for the opponent, using Unity plugin Amplify Shader Editor (similar to Material Editor in Unreal). Below are a series of images to illustrate the features of the custom shader. Usually for mobile apps its recommended to use Unity's Standard Shader, as it is meant to deliver the best results at the most efficient cost. But we agreed as a team that there were features that called for a custom shader, and the results we were able to get with the standard shader were less than desirable anyway. Custom Shader 1/3 The first 2 things to achieve were to bring out the shadow definitions and specularity of the gloss map. Custom Shader 2/3 Though we couldn't afford to do a true Subsurface Scattering calculation, I did 2 things to fake the effect; First, I exposed parameters to adjust the intensity and color of the AO map. Second, for a faked SSS, the shader performs a dot product calculation with the rim light and vertex normal directions, which it uses to lerp an emissive SSS color, and then multiplies the result by a 'mask' texture I made so the effect is most apparent on the ears, neck, and underarms. Custom Shader 3/3 I also exposed a 'damage' parameter that dials in a damage texture I authored as the player progresses in the fight. Gif below of the effect dialing in. Though we took great measures with the environment to save as much performance budget for the characters as possible, our character team kept the poly budget for the opponent under 30k tris. This was mainly because we were using a few dynamic lights for the desired rim-lighting look, and as we were using forward path rendering, each light had a significant cost driven by the tri-count on the characters. If I were to revisit this project I would fake the desired rim-lighting look in shader instead, but since we had the budget room and the stylizations of the character allowed for it, we decided to go with this method.
100 Women Who Care Maui: Kindness that adds up Every few months, dozens of women have been gathering together on Maui for one hour at a time, with one goal in mind – to make a difference. At the end of each hour, thousands of dollars have been raised and one worthy cause has received a near-instant shot in the arm. The group is called 100 Women Who Care Maui, and although the number “100” is an aspiration at this point, that hasn’t stopped the members who have accumulated from serving their community in big ways. “People are overwhelmingly responsive,” said group organizer Chelsea Hill of Haiku, about those who’ve joined in. “And it’s exciting to me because here we get to be involved in social change and we don’t have to push the caboose up the hill.” She first learned about 100 Women Who Care, which has chapters around the world, from her sister who had participated in Canada. The idea is that 100 women gather four times a year to donate $100 each, with the resulting $10,000 going directly to a cause that the women agree on by vote to support. At the time, Hill was looking for a way to raise legal funds to protect a child in an alleged sexual abuse case. She decided to give the 100 Women concept a try and gathered as many women as she could. At that first meeting in December 2014, she raised $2,800. Realizing she’d tapped into a fundraising model that made it easy for women to donate while making a substantial difference to a local cause, Hill, with the help of friend Mandy Prouty, decided to keep the momentum going. Prouty had recently moved to Maui from Chicago and was looking for ways to get involved in the community. As a business owner with two young children, she said it can be hard to find time to give back, so the 100 Women group was a perfect fit. She started helping Hill with getting the word out and finding new venues for meetings. “The feeling after a meeting is one that is hard to explain,” Prouty said. “You realize that there is so much going on here on Maui and so many people with huge hearts willing to help.” According to the 100 Who Care Alliance, a resource compiled by chapter leaders to support groups worldwide, the concept emerged in 2006 in Jackson, Mich., where a group of women raised $12,800 in less than an hour for a family health center that needed to supply cribs for new mothers. There are now more than 350 active chapters that encompass both women’s and men’s groups, along with mixed-gender and children’s groups, according to the alliance. A 100 Men Who Care Maui chapter has also sprung up and has supported causes such as the Boy Scouts of America Maui County Council and Friends of the Children’s Justice Center of Maui, according to the group. Hill said the concept is ideal for people who don’t have a lot of free time but want to give back to their communities. At each meeting of the 100 Women Who Care Maui, any member can nominate a cause of her choosing. Each cause is put into a hat and three are drawn. The nominating members of those three causes then give brief presentations to the group, which then votes on a cause to support. Hill and Prouty try to keep the process short and simple. “Officially, and we really try to stick to this, the impact is made in one hour,” Hill said. Group member Christina Hays has participated since the first meeting and said the ability to make a difference in a short amount of time appealed to her. “It’s just been growing and growing, and it’s an amazing group to be part of it,” she said. Hays also enjoys the chance to meet other women in the community, many of whom are working with the groups and organizations seeking funds. Those who join are asked to commit to donating $100 at each meeting. If a member can’t attend, they’re welcome to send a check along with a friend, Hill said. Some chapters require donations to go to groups with official nonprofit status, but Hill’s group allows causes of any kind to be nominated if they are based in Maui County. Local branches of national or international organizations can also benefit, as long as the funds stay here. Hill and Prouty have been able to find support from venues willing to donate space for the meetings, including Lumeria Maui, Maui Country Club and the Hui No’eau Visual Arts Center. The next meeting, scheduled for 5 p.m. March 30, will also be at the Hui in Makawao, where staff have pitched in to help organize the dinner afterward, a feature Hill and Prouty added to meetings to allow women the chance to mingle. The social periods are optional. “Busy ladies can hit the road,” Hill emphasized with a laugh. Since the first meeting, 100 Women Who Care Maui has gone on to donate funds to Grow the Change, which works to create school and community gardens, and A Cup of Cold Water, which distributes food, clothing and other supplies to those in need. Maui Deaf Friends received over $4,000 at the group’s December meeting. Beth King, a supporter of Maui Deaf Friends, had been hearing about the 100 Women meetings and decided to attend last-minute in December. Just as she was signing up and learning how the meetings work, Hill announced last-call for nominations. King realized she could nominate Maui Deaf Friends, and slipped in her nomination in the nick of time. She couldn’t believe her luck when the women voted to support the group, which works to raise awareness and provide resources for Maui’s deaf community. “They were so happy for me, they were just happy to help,” she said of the women. “And I was just amazed.” She said the gesture of support, and the dollar amount that would have been nearly impossible to raise with car washes and T-shirt sales, has inspired the group to push even harder to reach its goals. Hill said the meetings have opened her eyes to all the worthy, “chicken-skin amazing” causes that exist in Maui County. So far, the largest attendance has been 43 women. Hill said she hopes to start holding meetings all over the island to expand membership, with the aim to eventually include 100 women, or more. “That’s my goal, is to be able to hand $10,000 to a great cause on Maui, over and over again, every quarter,” she said. “All of our members are hoping for that, really.” * Chelsea Duncan can be reached at [email protected].
Open source projects offer a path to employment for engineering students in India High Unemployability Rate Among Engineering Students Every year, roughly 1.5 million engineering students graduate in India and enter the job market. According to a survey conducted by a New Delhi-based employment solution firm Aspiring Minds, only 7% of the 1.5 million engineering students have employable skills. There are many reasons attributed to this low employment rate among engineering graduates – outdated syllabus, lack of quality teachers, lack of research oriented education etc., However, there is yet another reason for this poor performance – the lack of collaboration between the industry and universities. This disconnect between what is happening in the industry landscape and what the engineering students learn in their academic program, is a major contributing factor for the lack of employablility of many graduating students. Technology Industry Landscape The entire technology industry is going through a tectonic shift due to significant forces gathering behind the Open Source Software Community, primarily to create a community around alternate software solutions that are free, open and standards based. Open Source Community is literally waging a war against many established software companies that provide proprietary closed architecture solution that are way too costly. Many cloud companies sponsor these Open Source Software Projects because they are the primary consumers of these free Open Source Softwares. These technology companies also hire talented engineers to contribute source code to these projects. There are so many Open Source Software Projects under the umbrella of The Linux Foundation sponsored by various companies. How U.S. Universities Benefit from Open Source Projects Many universities in the U.S. collaborate in several Open Source Projects. They not only write code but also test the software for various operating scenarios, simulate real world deployment environments in the lab, help reproduce software bugs, verify bug fixes check into development branch, document open caveats in software release documents. Engineering students who actively contribute to these Open Source Projects, potentially get hired by those corporations that sponsor the project. Situation in India However, many universities and engineering colleges in India despite having an active placement cell, struggle to place as many final year engineering students as possible before the academic year ends. They fail to see the potential opportunity the Open Source Software Projects provide. Many MNC's in India such as Google, Microsoft, AT&T, Verizon, and Cisco are sponsors of various Open Source Projects in The Linux Foundation. They spend a lot of money every year to train their own employees to contribute to Open Source Projects. They also leverage some of the Open Source Softwares for both in-house use and to build a solution for their customer's use. Even several small and medium size enterprises in India also leverage free Open Source Softwares for their operations. How Indian students could benefit from Open Source Projects If the engineering students of each engineering colleges in India, explore how to install, configure, and upgrade just one Open Source Software, with some basic understanding of the functioning of the software, it will be more than enough to fetch them job opportunities at many MNC's in India. The students should try this as the first step, before they begin to collaborate actively in any of the Open Source Projects. Moreover, various universities and colleges in India could benefit from the Open Source Softwares that are free to use, to run their campus IT infrastructure and the lab infrastructure. Also, Indian universities and colleges, like U.S. universities and colleges, could provide on-campus job opportunities to students by hiring them to install, run and maintain these Open Source Softwares in their IT department. It will be a win-win for both colleges and students. Universities in India can increase the employment potential of at least 10% more engineering students every year, if they start exploring Open Source Projects as a potential path towards employment.
The DNN Community – comprised of DNN users, both technical and non-technical, potential users, employees, module and skin developers (open-source and paid), etc. – is one of the most valuable aspects of using DNN. Active DNN users contribute daily to the Community Forums, Exchange, Voice, and Blog as well as blogs, tutorials, discussions, etc. on other DNN sites. User groups across the world meet to share ideas, challenges, and advice, and we’d like to get more involved with sharing what these User Groups are doing and helping Community members connect with them! To start, I talked with Ryan Moore, of Moore Creative and the Queen City DNN Users Group, about their group and upcoming meeting. Keep reading to learn more about QCDUG and how you can connect with them. Can you tell us a little bit about yourself, how you got started using DNN, and what your role within the QCDUG is? Currently QCDUG is managed by group members, David Poindexter of nVisionative and Ryan & Dustin Moore of Moore Creative. We all started using DNN back in iBuySpy and early DNN 3.1 days. How many members does the QCDUG have? Are members mainly using DNN professionally, personally, or both? QCDUG members are a collection of types of DNN users… individuals and businesses doing website development with DNN and the primary application development platform, DNN administrators maintaining DNN sites within the businesses they work for, and young developers networking and learning about DNN. Are there any particularly interesting projects QCDUG members are working on that you’d like to share? Yes! That’ll be an upcoming meeting topic. How often/when do you meet? QCDUG meets the third Thursday of each month at the Microsoft campus in Charlotte, NC. Each meeting is also hosted online through GoToMeeting and Google Hangout; sign up for the newsletter at www.qcdug.com to get the meeting links and invites! What’s something unique or interesting about QCDUG that other groups may benefit from learning about? QCDUG is an active group and a great group to connect to! We’ve hosted two Day of DNNs previously in Charlotte and the latest Southern Fried DNN was a huge success and model for future community events. Tell us a little bit about your next meeting. The next meeting is July 17th at the Microsoft campus in Charlotte. The meeting begins at 6:30 pm with speakers at 7:00 and 8:00. Bruce Chapman will present to the user group a review of the changes and performance improvements in the new DNN 7.3 release. Kody Betonte with Arrow Designs, host of the next DNN Con event in November, will speak for a few minutes about what to look forward to at this year's event. As the user group for the Carolinas, everyone is invited to attend in person and to join us online! We always try to broadcast the meeting over GTM, and everyone can participate. For announcements about upcoming meetings and other updates, either join the group at DNN, www.dnnsoftware.com/groups/filter/charlotte, or sign up for the newsletter on www.qcdug.com What advice would you give to new DNN users? Come spend some time with us! Get connected to your local user group and get connected to QCDUG. The Community is the best part of working within DNN! Thanks to Ryan for taking the time to share this information. Do you have any questions about QCDUG? Feel free to comment below. If you’d like to share some info about the User Group you participate in and your next meeting, contact us at [email protected].
Frequently, Muslims upon marriage will sign an Islamic Marriage Certificate, sometimes also titled a Marriage Contract. These are known as Mehrs. Mehrs will often contain a clause requiring the payment to the bride of a certain amount of money upon demand. These Mehrs will vary in the amount of the payment required but can contain payments that can be very substantial. The enforceability of these Mehrs within the context of family law as opposed to simply being enforced by Islamic religious courts, has been a subject frequently debated and ruled upon by the courts.In the 2009 Superior Court of Ontario decision of Khanis v. Noormohamed, Madame Justice Backhouse, a highly experienced family law judge, upheld the validity of a Mehr which contained the following clause: I hereby agree and undertake to pay an agreed sum of money $20,000.00 by way of Mehr to my said wife. I hereby agree, confirm and declare that my undertaking to pay the agreed sum of money by way of Mehr to my said wife shall be in addition and without prejudice to and not in substitution of all my obligations provided for by the laws of the lands, Other Mehrs contain phrases as simple as, dower, pay on demand $20,000.00. These simple words inserted in an Islamic Marriage Certificate may be interpreted by a court as being a Domestic Contract pursuant to Section 55 of the Family Law Act. A marriage contract is a form of a domestic contract.One would have thought that the courts would have been reluctant to enter into the religious battleground when many religions have their own internal judicial systems for administering sectarian law. However, such an assumption would be incorrect.Courts across Canada have differed on whether traditional Marriage Contracts under Muslim Law are enforceable. The Ontario Courts, as recently as 1998, in a decision of Justice Rutherford, held that the courts should not determine rights and obligations of the parties under the Mehr as it would lead the court into the religious thicket. However, the world changed when the Supreme Court of Canada in the 2007 decision of Bruker v. Marcovitz held that the fact that a dispute has a religious aspect, does not make it non-justiciable (one has to love legal speak, non-justiciable means non enforceable or not properly before the courts). The Supreme Court of Canada went onto say that people can transfer their moral obligations into legally binding ones.Justice Backhouse then went on in the Khanis case to apply the requirements under Section 55 and 56 of the Family Law Act to determine whether or not the Mehr met the requirements of a valid and enforceable Domestic Contract. In the Khanis case, the court held that it did meet those requirements and was indeed enforceable and was a right that the wife was entitled to over and above all the other rights that she had under the laws of Ontario and Canada. Even though the Mehr did not say when the $20,000.00 was payable, Justice Backhouse found that it was immediately payable whenever the wife simply demanded it. Indeed, Mehrs are generally interpreted within Islamic law as an on demand promissory note which the wife can call for payment at any time during the marriage and not simply upon its end.To reinforce the decision of Justice Backhouse, it was appealed by the losing husband to the Ontario Court of Appeal where on February 15th, 2011, it upheld Justice Backhouses decision specifically including and commenting upon the accuracy of her findings with respect to the Mehr. The obvious conclusion is that one should not enter into a Mehr lightly as it is in reality no different than any other Domestic Contract. Especially upon second marriages, Dale Streiman Law L.L.P. urges its clients to undergo the emotionally difficult but essential process of having a Marriage Contract drawn up, before the marriage. It is insurance money well spent.
Episode #47 – February 28, 2021 Episode #47 of The Silent Comedy Watch Party will stream live on Sunday February 28, 2021 at 3pm ET. Co-hosts Steve Massa will introduce and Ben Model will live accompany screenings of shorts starring Stan Laurel or Oliver Hardy. SPECIAL GUESTS: Serge Bromberg, chairman of Lobster Films, and Rob Stone, Moving Image Curator at Library of Congress will join us to talk about their Blu-ray release, Laurel or Hardy: Early Solo Films of Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy. The Silent Comedy Watch Party is presented for free, on YouTube. Films scheduled for this episode: AN EXPENSIVE VISIT (1915) starring Oliver Hardy, with Ed Lawrence, Raymond McKee, Ben Walker, Charles W. Ritchie; dir. Will Lewis; story. Edwin Ray Coffin; rel. March 23, 1915 by the Lubin Manufacturing Co.; dist. General Film Co.; 1 reel. THE SERENADE (1916) starring Oliver Hardy and Billy Ruge, with Billy Bletcher, Florence McLoughlin; dir. Will Louis; prod. Louis Burstein; rel. March 2, 1916 by Vim Films Corp.; dist. General Film Co.; 1 reel. COLLARS AND CUFFS (1923) starring Stan Laurel, with Mark Jones, Eddie Baker, Katherine Grant, Jack Ackroyd, George Rowe, Sammy Brooks, Owen Evans; dir. George Jeske; photo. Frank Young; prod. Hal Roach; rel. July 1, 1923 by Hal Roach Comedies; dist. Pathé Exchange; 1 reel. WHEN KNIGHTS WERE COLD (1923) starring Stan Laurel, with Catherine Bennett, Scott MacGregor, Mae Laurel, William Armstrong, Will Bovis, Harry de More; dir. Frank Fouce; photo. Irving Reis; prod. Gilbert M. Anderson; rel. February 12, 1923 by Quality Pictures; dist. Metro Pictures; originally 2 reels. All films from the new Blu-ray release Laurel or Hardy: Early Solo Films of Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy. Courtesy of Flicker Alley, Lobster Films, the Library of Congress, Serge Bromberg, Eric Lange, Jeffrey Masino and Rob Stone. Available on Amazon. Time Zone info: - Pacific Time – 12 noon - Mountain Time – 1 pm - Central Time – 2 pm - Eastern Time – 3 pm - Argentina/Nova Scotia – 4 pm - UK/England – 8 pm - Europe/Scandinavia/Netherlands et al. – 9 pm (21:00) - Eastern Australia – 3 am Monday - Western Australia – 6 am Monday - Japan (Tokyo) – 4am Monday Where to watch the show: The stream will go live on YouTube about 5-10 minutes before the show’s start time at 3:00 pm ET on Sunday, February 28, 2021. Click the image below to go to Ben Model’s YouTube channel where you can subscribe and get an email notification about the stream link. Mentioned on episode 47: Steve Massa and Ben Model’s “cabin fever” recommendations: Make a donation to support the show: The Silent Comedy Watch Party is presented free of charge. If you’d like to make a contribution to support the show, you may do so securely online: - one-time donation on Square or PayPal. For Venmo, search for “@undercrank” - weekly donation – sign up with us on Patreon. - For Venmo, search for @undercrank - To mail a check, please contact us for the address Silent Comedy Watch Party “merch”: Now available: mugs, t-shirts, hoodies, totes and more with the Silent Comedy Watch Party logo! Visit the online shop to browse (scroll) and purchase now at bit.ly/scwp-merch. Stay informed about the shows: - Sign up for emails to get reminders about The Silent Comedy Watch Party shows and film listings. - click here for The Silent Comedy Watch Party main web page for show info and links to previous episodes’ pages. - Follow Ben Model on Twitter at @silentfilmmusic This program is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council.
KERR COUNTY, Texas - The Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission announced Thursday they have arrested and charged a store clerk with illegally selling alcohol to an intoxicated man. According to a release, Ranelle Diane Welch turned herself into Kerr County authorities on Thursday afternoon following the TABC’s investigation. TABC said she illegally sold alcohol to an intoxicated man accused of causing a fatal July 18 motorcycle wreck that killed four members of the Thin Blue Line Motorcycle Club near Kerrville. A release stated that Welch was working at a Dollar General store in Center Point around noon on July 18 when she sold beer to Ivan Robles-Navejas, 28, of Center Point. Investigators believe that Robles-Navejas was already intoxicated when Welch sold him the alcohol. A short time later, TABC said, Robles-Navejas was involved in a collision between his vehicle and members of the Thin Blue Line Motorcycle Club who were riding in a group on Texas 16. DPS Troopers said Robles-Navejas’ vehicle crossed the center line, hitting 11 motorcycles killing three members. Those members were retired Army Lt. Col. Jerry Wayne Harbour of Houston, Retired Niles PD Detective Joseph Paglia, and Niles PD Community Services Officer Michael White, both from Chicago. A fourth rider, Sgt. Joseph Lazo, of the Niles, Illinois Police Department, died of his injuries a few days later. RELATED: Member reacts following crash killing three members of Thin Blue Line Law Enforcement Motorcycle Club "This is an extremely tragic case which may have been avoided if this individual was prevented from purchasing additional alcohol beverages prior to the crash," TABC Executive Director Bentley Nettles said. "TABC will hold accountable all businesses and employees who may have contributed to this case by illegally selling alcohol. We're grateful for the support of the Department of Public Safety, whose investigators were instrumental in assisting TABC agents in identifying the source of the alcohol in this case." FOR THE LATEST NEWS & WEATHER UPDATES DOWNLOAD THE FOX 26 APPS State law prohibits the sale of alcohol to any person who exhibits signs of intoxication at the time of sale. Welch is charged with Sale to Certain Person, which is punishable by up to a year in jail and a $1,000 fine. She was later released on a $2,000 bond. The case remains under investigation.
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Program will help expand Cause to improve access to healthcare We are very excited to announce that Equiscript has formally committed to an ongoing relationship with our friends at OneWorld Health. OneWorld Health is an amazing group of people who have been able to build sustainable community health centers in two of the poorest countries in the world: Uganda and Nicaragua. At Equiscript, our team is driven by our Cause: “To improve access to healthcare in the communities we serve”; and through this new relationship with OneWorld Health, we are thrilled to be able to expand our Cause and work into new communities. In 2009, Equiscript had the honor to start serving the patients of our first client, Sumter Family Health Center, here in South Carolina. Starting a new business is not an easy endeavor, and many start up businesses (if not all, really) are at the mercy getting the right breaks at the right time. Having the team at Sumter Family Health Center as our first client has been a blessing to our business. They share our vision for patient care, and helped us work out the kinks in our systems and processes. Because they understand our vision and gave us a chance, we have been able to help thousands of patients get the medications they need to stay healthy at community health centers and hospitals across the United States. Our company is growing rapidly and we are blessed to be able to help new patients every day. As we have worked with our 340B clients over the past eight years, we have been inspired by their passion for their community and humbled as we see the amount of work and effort they put into care for their neighbors. Because we have been so blessed we are now able to pass this gift along to the folks at OneWorld Health. Here is how this is going to work. - This first month we committing to fund eyeglasses for our new communities. Over time our support may change to other items like mosquito nets, malaria kits or vitamins for children who do not have the benefit of a healthy diet. OneWorld Health will tell us what they need and we will do our best to fill that need. - We are committing to provide financial support for a OneWorld Health trip in which community health professionals to visit and volunteer at the OneWorld Health clinics in Nicaragua. This will allow community health staff to go on a mission trip and will provide help to the local clinic during peak clinic hours. - We are committing to send Equiscript team members on a mission trip to work at the clinic in Nicaragua. - We are committing to spread the news about the work the great team at OneWorld Health are doing to all of our clients - who themselves have dedicated their lives to community health - and to anyone else who will listen! Our business here at Equiscript allows us to serve high-risk, high-need patients in communities across our great and prosperous country - while providing new financial resources to these communities at the same time. We love our work and we feel a great responsibility with the blessings that we have been given. As our relationship with OneWorld Health matures we will be sharing more news. As we enter 2017 we could not be more honored to help the communities we serve here in the US and now in Masindi-Kitara, Uganda and El Viejo, Nicaraga. As always, we couldn’t do the work we do without my business partner Steven Kerr, our amazing Equiscript staff members, our collaborative and innovative clients, and our dependable and fabulous (and dependably-fabulous) pharmacy network partners. If you happen to be one of our clients reading this post, thank you for allowing us to serve your patients and inspiring us to find new ways to extend the community healthcare model to people in need. We look forward to updating you soon on this exciting new mission.
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Trafficker’s two-year stint ends in police raid A drug-trafficker who spent two years dealing marijuana to a small group of friends has been jailed. Police raided Charlie George Herbert’s Verrierdale home in June last year to find 62g of marijuana, digital scales and $2960 in cash. The 23-year-old was jailed on Wednesday for information police found on two phones they seized. Maroochydore District Court heard Herbert used street slang in text messages to negotiate deals and meeting places. Crown prosecutor Nicola Hamilton said Herbert spoke candidly to police about dealing marijuana when they arrived at his home on June 16. “He indicated he had been supplying cannabis for approximately 18 months to two years,” Ms Hamilton said. “He initially started selling to a housemate of his and it escalated and progressed to selling to more friends over time until he was selling to about eight to nine of his friends.” Herbert told police he would buy 113g of marijuana with a friend and they would split it. He would then onsell 3.5g for $50, 7g for $80 and 14g for $150. “He claimed to make about $600 a fortnight from the sale of cannabis and he used that money to purchase more cannabis for resale and for him and his girlfriend to smoke,” Ms Hamilton said. She said a sentence of two-and-a-half years in jail to serve less than a third was appropriate. Herbert on Wednesday pleaded guilty to four charges including one count of trafficking dangerous drugs. Defence barrister David Crews argued a jail sentence should be wholly suspended. He highlighted his client’s young age and tendered several drug tests which showed Herbert hadn’t been using drugs The court heard Herbert had sought counselling and created a relapse plan. “He has proven attempts at rehabilitation,” Mr Crews said. He said Herbert should be afforded a generous discount for making frank admissions to police before they searched his phone. Judge Jennifer Rosengren said she took that into account as well as Herbert’s family support and rehabilitation efforts. She said the effects of marijuana were a blight on society and trafficking was a serious matter. Herbert was sentenced to two-and-a-half years in jail to serve four months. He will be released on parole on March 3 next year.
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West Brom Albion manager Slaven Bilic vowed to keep on speaking out despite being sent off for protesting in his side's 1-1 draw against Derby County at Pride Park Stadium. Bilic voiced his anger after Derby were awarded a controversial penalty and was dismissed near the end for another protest over a decision. It was a busy afternoon for referee Gavin Ward who awarded the first of three penalties when Martyn Waghorn was tripped by Kieran Gibbs. Waghorn tucked away the spot-kick on that occasion to give Derby a sixth-minute lead but the striker was not successful with his next one in the 43rd minute after assistant Mark Pottage decided Filip Krovinovic had handled Lee Buchanan's cross. Replays showed it had hit his shoulder but after Bilic was booked for protesting, Sam Johnstone dived to his left to push the ball behind. Albion's pressure told in the 84th minute when Max Lowe slid in on Matheus Pereira and Kenneth Zohore coolly converted his second penalty in four days. Ward showed a red card to Bilic when Albion were denied a corner soon afterwards, and Bilic admitted: "A lot of decisions I'm not happy about. "I don't want to talk a lot about them but they affect my job and everybody that is part of the West Brom family, so I can give my comments in a nice way and a polite way. Derby County 1-1 West Brom "Nothing personal, but I wasn't happy with that and for me, there were too many of them so I reacted a few times, for the penalty and the corner that wasn't given to us when it was an obvious deflection. "Did I overreact? From their point of view I did, but from my point of view I didn't. I will have to work on it and control myself. I will have to calm myself down a bit but I will always voice my opinion, but I will never be rude and never be personal. "But I don't understand why I can't voice my opinion about something that is influencing our next week, our next game, my job, everybody's job. So in a nice polite way I have to. "West Brom is expecting me to voice my opinion, who will voice an opinion if it's not the manager?"
Grant Williams saves Tennessee basketball at Ole Miss with late shot OXFORD, Miss. – Grant Williams took the ball some 25 feet away from the basket at Ole Miss on Wednesday night. Admiral Schofield drifted away and Williams dribbled as the final seconds ticked away with Tennessee in its largest gutcheck moment of the season. The Vols, losers of two straight road games, learned their late-game lesson days prior at LSU it turned out. Williams powered toward the hoop with the Vols trailing by one, a stark turn from the jumpshot-happy Vols in key moments in an overtime loss to LSU on Saturday. The junior pushed through contact and tossed the ball toward the hoop slightly off balance. “Admiral even said it, ‘You live with it and you take that shot. We support you,’” Williams said. It found rim and glass and net and victory. The No. 7 Vols escaped at Ole Miss, Williams’ shot with 4.3 seconds left and Schofield’s drawn charge with 1.1 seconds to play lifting the Vols over the Rebels 73-71. “I’m just really happy for our guys," UT coach Rick Barnes said. "We have had some tough ones that didn’t go our way." Williams led Tennessee (25-3, 13-2 SEC) with 20 points, the biggest coming at the end. Lamonte Turner scored 17 points, including nine in a key second-half stretch to keep the Vols tied with Kentucky and LSU in first place. The Vols were staring directly at a drop from first place before the final seconds as the road struggles that followed the Vols from Lexington, Ky., to Baton Rouge, La., seemingly reached the state of Mississippi. But Jordan Bowden gave Tennessee a final shot at life when he buried a contested jumper with 18.9 seconds left. Ole Miss’ Breein Tyree missed a free throw and Schofield secured the rebound, setting up Williams’ winning play. "We knew we would spread the floor and let (Jordan) Bone see what he could create," Barnes said. "If not, get it back to Grant and see what he could do with it." The reigning SEC player of the year pushed through to the basket on UT’s final offensive possession, scoring to win three days after committing a foul that ended Tennessee’s 82-80 loss at LSU. “I felt the touch,” Williams said. “I was like, ‘That is a good shot.’ I was just hoping don’t go left. It went straight line and it went in. I just knew I had to get back on defense.” He did. So did Schofield, who boldly stepped in to draw a charge near midcourt as Ole Miss’ Devontae Shuler attempted a last-second shot. “It was close,” Ole Miss coach Kermit Davis said. Davis tore off his coat and drew a technical foul, leading to a Williams free throw to secure the game and end a two-game road losing streak. “We’ve lost three games and it’s just funny to see people going crazy,” Schofield said. “I remember times losing 15 or 16 games. No one was going crazy then. It’s just a testament to how we’ve established ourselves, as far as playing a lot harder, playing a lot more together, going out and competing at a high level. “To come into a hostile environment, get momentum, lose momentum, then win the game, it’s just a testament to our fight. Tennessee trailed by seven quickly after halftime with Ole Miss (19-9, 9-6) gaining momentum late in the first half. Then the Vols took over with 14 straight points, flipping the seven-point deficit into a seven-point lead. Williams started the spark with a three-point play. Turner scored seven straight points – two midrange jumpers and a 3-pointer, the latter giving UT its first second-half lead. “I think we shared the ball better,” Williams said. “We understood what we were looking for. I think we had some game-plan execution that we definitely did a good job, like with Lamonte going.” The Vols led by nine after Bowden buried a jumper for his first points. But Ole Miss’ potent offense struck back, scoring eight straight. Ole Miss led by three with 33 seconds to play after Bowden had an open look at a 3-pointer rim out with 1:21 remaining. He came back to bury a jumper to pull UT within one. Tyree missed the front end at the free-throw line, setting up Williams' key play, Schofield’s clutch defense, Davis’ technical and Tennessee staying on top in the SEC. “It’s just great to still be on track toward our goal, which is an SEC regular-season championship,” Schofield said. “But we have a really tough one on Saturday, but I’m pretty sure we’ll be ready.” Kyle Alexander illness Center Kyle Alexander took his usual role in the starting lineup Wednesday. He checked out less than two minutes in and did not return until the 6:05 mark. The senior was battling an illness throughout, as was sophomore Jalen Johnson. Alexander played 11 minutes with three points and four rebounds. “He has had the flu," Barnes said of Alexander. "He tested for the flu. Bone had a little bit of it before the LSU game. He hasn’t practiced for two days. He didn’t go through shootaround today. We didn’t think he’d play very much.” Tennessee hosts No. 4 Kentucky at Thompson-Boling Arena on Saturday (2 p.m. ET, CBS). The Wildcats beat the Vols 86-69 on Feb. 16 at Rupp Arena.
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Chapter 276 Real Combat of Wang Tieniu In the evening, an oil lamp in his hut swayed gently as Mu Yi sat at the table and studied. He was studying the invisible charm. Over the past few days, he’d learned a lot and had begun to sketch the charm in his mind. Although he failed every time, he gradually discovered some potential progress in how to draw it so it would cloak his soul and body. As it grew darker, Mu Yi gave up studying the invisible charm and prepared to recover as he had every day. However, when Mu Yi was about to settle down, a soft voice came from outside. Ordinary people couldn’t hear it, but Mu Yi could. “Are you sure it’s here?” He frowned and his eyes turned cold. In the dark, two figures stood in front of a Wang Tieniu’s yard. “It’s here. The master means to kill them all.” The other answered in a low voice. “Don’t worry, it’s just a few lives.” As soon as the man finished speaking, he felt something was wrong. Before he could turn around, there was a breeze behind him. It was bad. He was shocked, and he felt a pain in the back of his head. He lost consciousness with barely a thought. Wang Wu woke up after some time. He took in his surroundings and saw two men: a young Taoist priest and a strong man. “Who are you?” Wang Wu said in a strong voice despite his fear. His gaze jumped back and forth between them. Although he didn’t understand what happened, he was very clear that if they could knock him unconscious without a sound, they were much stronger than him. The other man was not nearby. “Wang Tieniu, don’t you want to know how far away you are from being a third class expert? Defeat him, you are the third class expert,” said Mu Yi lightly. Mu Yi had intended to kill the two men, but changed his mind so that Wang Tieniu could gain some combat experience. Wang Wu had just reached the third class, so he was the best partner for training. “Yes, master.” Wang Tieniu replied respectfully then looked at Wang Wu with a murderous gaze. He knew that if it wasn’t for his master, his family would not have escaped last night. He regretted leaving Huang Yaowen alive even more. For the first time, he understood the cruelty of the world. “Now if you can defeat my apprentice, you will live,” Mu Yi said. “Is that true?” Wang Wu’s eyes suddenly brightened. He thought he was going to die. “That’s true,” said Mu Yi lightly. “Well, show me your strength.” Wang Wu was very happy. He looked at Wang Tieniu. Though Mu Yi knocked him out, he had not been disarmed, so he drew his short sword. “Please,” Wang Tieniu lifted his sword, remembered his training, and stared at Wang Wu. Since his apprenticeship began, Wang Tieniu felt that his strength had improved rapidly. He had asked Mu Yi if he was an expert yet, but Mu Yi denied it. Although he believed in Mu Yi’s words, he was unavoidably unconvinced. This was a great chance to verify his strength. Wang Tieniu was serious, and a light evil aura emanated from him. The Five Tigers Break Door Sword Techniques was a first-class sword technique. Combined with the blood he’d spilled, it was not surprising that he had developed this evil aura. Wang Wu felt it and his arrogance turned to wariness. The Five Tigers Break Door Sword Techniques actually originated from Shaolin. The sword technique was very sharp, like a tiger clawing its prey. Nothing could stop it. To ‘break’ was the essence of the sword technique. Mu Yi imprinted the techniques into his mind and saved him a lot of time on the road to mastery. Because of this, Mu Yi did not teach him other sword techniques and let Wang Tieniu fully absorb it. Wang Tieniu had a general talent and great perseverance. He had shown that much in training, but now was his chance to apply it. With a roar, Wang Tieniu lunged at Wang Wu. He looked like a tiger leaping down the mountain. The latter was shocked by his aura, but he was a third-class expert and far superior to Wang Tieniu in terms of his fighting experience. Wang Tieniu was enraptured in his strength and conviction. It wasn’t the best idea to meet him head on, so Wang Wu stepped back and pulled away from Wang Tieniu. Wang Tieniu didn’t expect that Wang Wu would retreat. He missed, but he continued to pursue and aim for Wang Wu again and again. Wang Wu’s idea was to wear him down. He was faster than Wang Tieniu, so although Wang Tieniu’s sword technique was fierce, he could not catch up with him. The swords met and parted, but Wan Tienu had not landed a solid blow. Soon, Wang Tieniu realized it and began to slow down to conserve his strength. Wang Wu’s eyes flashed with ferocity. He took the opportunity and advanced, thrusting his short sword at Wang Tieniu. Wang Tieniu was not afraid of Wang Wu. He blocked the attack and turned swiftly to strike Wang Wu. The length of his sword was his advantage. If Wang Wu didn’t dodge, he would be cut open. Wang Wu ducked and swung low towards Wang Tieniu’s belly. Wang Tieniu jumped up, twisted sharply, and swung at Wang Wu. Wang Wu rolled across the ground and escaped the strike. Although Wang Wu looked a bit awkward, he had conserved more strength than Wang Tieniu. Wang Tieniu didn’t give up his advantage. He wanted to kill Wang Wu. Wang Wu was smart, dodging and looking for opportunities. They were entangled with each other for a while. Mu Yi watched silently. Although Wang Tieniu had somewhat of an upper hand, he was in a bad situation. He had little experience in fighting. Wang Wu controlled the pace of the fight. Once his strength started to wear out, Wang Wu would turn the tide. Moreover, Wang Wu had remained calm, which impressed Mu Yi somewhat. He wasn’t weak and had a good tactical understanding of when to advance and when to retreat. After a long time of attacking, Wang Tieniu began to fret and began to increase the strength behind his strikes. It seemed that he wanted to split Wang Wu in half. Unfortunately, none of his attacks landed. Wang Tieniu began to lose confidence. He thought he was an expert, but he didn’t expect to beat a third class expert. The more he thought like this, the more he wanted to win. After dozens of moves, he finally stepped on a pit on the ground and tripped, throwing off his stance. Wang Wu saw the opportunity and took it. He rushed at Wang Tieniu in a flash and thrust his dagger forward quickly. There was a flash of panic in Wang Tieniu’s eyes. He felt guilty as if he had wasted Mu Yi’s hard work and let down his parents and family, and Xiao Lian, but he was not afraid of death. He thought he was not afraid of death. Then what else could defeat him? The panic in his eyes suddenly vanished. The Five Tigers Break Door Sword Techniques had become instinct. He struck out at Wang Wu intending to take his death so long as he injured Wang Wu. Seeing this, Wang Wu cursed him. If Mu Yi wasn’t nearby, he would definitely kill Wang Tieniu at the cost of slight injury, but he knew that if he killed Mu Yi’s apprentice, there would be consequences. He wanted to win, not kill. He dodged and quickly retreated. The sword almost brushed against his chest, cutting his clothes. As soon as Wang Wu retreated, he took advantage of his speed and kicked Wang Tieniu in the back. Wang Tieniu fell to the ground, unable to defend himself.
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Imagine, for a moment, that you are a black man or woman living in America in 2020. How could you not believe that racism kills? If you are black, you need not imagine anything. You know it very well. You don’t need to see the video of George Floyd, a police officer’s knee on his neck as he struggled for his dying breaths, to know that black people are three times more likely to be killed by police than are white people. You don't need to hear the racial statistics on COVID-19 to know that black people have been affected disproportionately — the same is true of eight of the 10 leading causes of death in the United States. Even before the pandemic, black life expectancy was 3½ years shorter than white. Many blacks are redlined into densely packed, crime-ridden urban areas. Stuck in underfinanced, substandard schools. Subjected to silent environmental catastrophes, like lead hidden in pipes and on walls. “It’s not just how could you not believe that racism is killing you if you are black,” said Brittany Packnett Cunningham, founder of Campaign Zero, which fights police brutality. “How could ANYBODY not realize the lethal nature of racism?” This is all true 401 years after the arrival of the first slaves on these shores, 155 years after they were emancipated, more than five decades after the passage of the voting rights acts. If whites are surprised, Cunningham said, it is only because they view the world through rose-colored, Caucasian glasses. “I think white people were spared the truth of what was happening so they could believe there was progress being made,” she said. But recent events like the deaths of George Floyd in Minneapolis and of Ahmaud Arbery, a 25-year-old black man chased and killed by armed white men as he jogged through a south Georgia neighborhood, could not be ignored. Especially because there was video. “There’s something about seeing a dead body on the ground,” said Rayshawn Ray, a sociology professor at the University of Maryland and fellow at The Brookings Institution. Ray said black people are often victims of over-policing. For example, he said, 80 to 90 percent of the arrests for breaking social distancing rules in New York City were of blacks or Latinos. And these encounters often escalate. He cited the incident last week involving a white woman in New York’s Central Park and a black birdwatcher who complained that her dog was not leashed. She told him she was going tell the police that “an African-American man is threatening my life.” Police came and left without incident. But Ray said he could easily imagine a scenario where they believed the white woman, not the black man, and the situation deteriorated. “It ends with George Floyd,” he said. For many blacks, the line between police brutality and their sufferings in the COVID-19 pandemic is not a tenuous one. An Associated Press analysis of state and local data showed black Americans are dying at a far greater rate than would be expected, given their share of the population. Pre-existing conditions in the black population have been cited, but Ray said those conditions often can be blamed on circumstances beyond their control -- poverty, environmental ills, a lack of green space for exercise and of decent grocery stores that offer healthy foods. As “essential,” low-paid workers, they had to labor through the pandemic, often with little protection. But when they got sick, they were not so essential. A study found that black people seeking testing or treatment for COVID-19 were six times more likely to be turned away than whites, Ray said. He said they’ve had to rely on a health care system that has long failed them: fewer and more distant hospitals, urgent care centers and specialists, and pharmacies that are understaffed and understocked. How bad is black health care? In a 2010 study, sociologist Evelyn J. Patterson found that while prison generally shortened the lives of white inmates, incarcerated black prisoners had lower death rates than those on the outside. Mostly, she concluded, it was because they received better health care there. None of this is new. The statistics on black mortality, the accounts of black killings at the hands of the police and others, have played out over generations, not weeks. The Rev. William J. Barber II, co-chair of the Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival, said “death by racism” goes back to the founding of the country. It is “a wound,” he said, that has caused untold suffering over the centuries. “We only discuss it and deeply probe it at a moment like this,” he said. Heartened by the outrage shown by people of all races after Floyd’s death, he also sees this as a moment when change is possible. He is planning a virtual assembly and march on Washington for June 20. He will continue to call out President Donald Trump: “Every time he opens his mouth, he spreads racism.” He has redoubled his efforts against voter suppression; by reducing black representation, he said, politicians are preventing blacks from gaining the power they need to turn the fatal, racist tide. “There comes a time in every generation when the wound becomes so infested that the body politic cannot stand it,” he said. “I pray that this is one of those moments.” Your support matters. You make MPR News possible. 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I have no plans to make any more purchases for the time being in my FI Portfolio until I get our taxes completed to make sure that I can transfer some of the cash in our brokerage account over to the Roth IRA. What do you think of my purchase of Cisco Systems? Do you think Cisco can become a Dividend Champion in the future? What companies have you been watching or buying?
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As defined in Section 380.06, Florida Statutes, a development of regional impact (“DRI”) is “any development which, because of its character, magnitude, or location, would have a substantial effect upon the health, safety, or welfare of citizens of more than one county.” A Brief History of DRIs in Florida Since the DRI program’s inception in 1972, it has been chipped away by the enactment of numerous legislative exemptions. In 2009, the Legislature enacted an exemption for Dense Urban Land Areas (“DULAs”), which exempted projects from DRI review in eight counties and 243 cities. In 2015, the Florida Legislature attempted to reduce duplicative and burdensome regulation by eliminating the requirement that new developments be reviewed pursuant to the DRI process by only subjecting such proposed developments to the requirements of the State Coordinated Review Process. The State Coordinated Review Process was created in 2011 by the Florida Legislature as a method for approving comprehensive plan amendments. Unlike the Expedited State Review Process which most plan amendments fell under, the State Coordinated Review Process requires a longer review period and requires that all agency comments be coordinated by the Department of Economic Opportunities (“DEO”), rather than being communicated directly to the permitting local government by each individual reviewing agency. The Proposed DRI Legislation On September 28, 2015, the Committee on Community Affairs submitted and approved Senate Proposed Bill (SPB) 7000 by a 7-0 vote. The proposed bill has been titled “An act relating to developments of regional impact” (the Act) and its effective date is set to be on July 1, 2016. The text of SPB 7000 reads: a proposed development…shall be approved by a local government pursuant to Section 163.3184(4) in lieu of proceeding in accordance with [380.06]. However, if the proposed development is consistent with the comprehensive plan as provided in Section 164.3194(3)(b), the development is not required to undergo review pursuant to Section 163.3184(4) or this section.” According to the bill’s summary, a proposed development that is consistent with certain comprehensive plans is not required to undergo review pursuant to the state coordinated review process. However, plan amendments for areas of critical state concern will remain unaffected under the legislation and will continue to be processed under the coordinated state review system. Since SPB 7000 is still in its early stages, the future of the DRI process remains speculative. However, if the past is any indication of the future, it is safe to assume that political winds in Tallahassee will blow in favor the demise of the DRI program. In the meantime, many local governments will remain uncertain of how to evaluate proposed projects that qualify as DRIs given the State Coordinated Review Process was all that was left for DEO’s review and consistency with their comprehensive plans has long been required under the Growth Management Act of 1985. If you have any questions or inquiries regarding compliance with the current DRI legislation or the status of SPB 7000, please do not hesitate to contact Henderson Franklin’s Land Use Department at 239-344-1100. Photo courtesy of Kelly Michals on Flickr
With their Identity on Fire, A Skylit Drive Look to the Future: A Conversation with Michael ‘Jag’ Jagmin of ASD Frontman Michael ‘Jag’ Jagmin sits down with Get eXposed Music to tell us. Michael ‘Jag’ Jagmin: Well, that’s not exactly true actually. It’s sort of a rumor. He (Mabbitt) hit them up for an audition but by that point, I was already in the band. It never really got to the point of him auditioning for the band. I never really had any competition with anyone – I auditioned and then the next day they asked me to join the band. GE: Your latest, Identity on Fire, in on store shelves now. Is there a story behind that album title, and if so, is it perhaps a metaphor for the band currently? GE: I was wondering if it was a metaphor for the bands identity currently. Jag: Well, yeah, for sure. We all live by that through our music. Nowadays, everybody is a critic; everybody’s always trying to tell you what to do, but for the most part we’re going to do what we want to do since that’s what’s going to make us happy and that’s what got us to where we are. We’re going to keep sticking to our guns, doing what we like to do. Not one of our records is the same. We want to keep evolving and keep changing little things in order to become a better band. GE: Speaking of symbolism, how about the album artwork. Is there a story there? GE: Speaking of Cameron, how did you land on him, and what exactly did he bring to the table for A Skylit Drive, since he hasn’t exactly worked with a lot of bands like yours in the past. GE: Did you have a whole new set of influences for you as a songwriter when you went into this record?
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Democrats blasted GOP Rep. Dave Brat (Va.) over comments he made to a group of recovering drug addicts this week at the Chesterfield County Jail in Virginia. What did he say? “You think you’re having a hard time — I got $5 million worth of negative ads going at me,” Brat reportedly told the inmates Wednesday. “How do you think I’m feeling? Nothing’s easy. For anybody. You think I’m a congressman. ‘Oh, life’s easy. This guys’s off having steaks.' Baloney — I got a daughter, she’s got to deal with that crap on TV every day. It’s tough.” Brat then added: “You got it harder — I’m not dismissing that.” Who criticized him? Brat’s challenger, Democrat Abigail Spanberger, criticized his comments, saying he trivialized the struggles of inmates by making the issue about himself. “These comments are disturbing and damaging in the way that they belittle and trivialize addiction and the challenges facing those in recovery,” Spanberger told the Washington Post. “However, time and time again, Congressman Brat has demonstrated he is a politician who is more concerned with his own re-election than the struggles and well-being of people in our communities, and sadly, his comments aren’t surprising. “The truth is that Congressman Brat has also taken massive campaign contributions from pharmaceutical companies, voted to give them a billion-dollar tax break, and voted to limit access to addiction services,” she continued. Alexandria Goldstein, a 23-year-old inmate who spoke at the meeting, said she believes Brat meant well. “I think [Brat] had good intentions,” Goldstein said. “But the struggles I've had to deal with throughout my life don't compare to slander or to what people may say about me to the public." “I don't think it should be used against him by any means because at the end of the day he came here to find a solution,” Goldstein continued. “He came here to hear us and find out what he can do in his position to help us.” Brat’s jailhouse comments were first reported by WCVE-FM. He met with about 100 inmates at the jail Wednesday to hear about their challenges in working toward recovery and life after incarceration. How did Brat respond? “As a Christian, we love the least of these — we visit those in prison,” Brat stated in a release published by the Post. “As a member of Congress, one of the most moving experiences I have in this job is talking with recovering men and women fighting to rebuilding their lives.” Chesterfield Sheriff Karl Leonard, who accompanied Brat on his jail visit, said he was frustrated about how it was portrayed. "A sitting Congressman, who was trying to make a difference in the lives of those struggling with addiction by learning more about it directly from those dealing with the disease, is now being portrayed in such a negative and distorted way," Leonard wrote on Facebook. "I am personally displeased that an issue that I have worked so hard to prevent from being politicized has now ended up being nothing more than just a political football."
The Little Corner Sandwich Shop from Cobble Hill has opened its second location in Duncan. Chris Jameson, who co-owns the shop with Clayton Frost, said business has been great since the food truck opened at its location in the parking lot at 277 Government St., next to Ignition Motorsports, on Jan. 29. He said a post on Facebook in the days before the opening reached thousands of people, with many coming to check it out, and the location near downtown Duncan is “amazing”. The growing business started as a food truck more than a year ago in Cobble Hill that serves popular home-made comfort foods supplied by a centralized kitchen, and the partners have the same model for their food truck in Duncan. The Little Corner Sandwich Shop serves specials every day, and the menu includes homemade burgers, macaroni and cheese, and other delicacies considered comfort food, with a variety of tastes including Mediterranean, Mexican and Spanish flavours. The shop will be permanently on site and open from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., seven days a week. Jameson said he and Frost are considering expanding the business even further. “We recently did an audition on the Dragons’ Den [a CBC television series where aspiring entrepreneurs pitch their business concepts and products to a panel of Canadian business moguls who have the cash and the know-how to make it happen] and we’re waiting to hear back,” he said. “We’ll wait to see what happens.” Many hungry young people in the Cowichan Valley, and across Canada, will soon be getting meals thanks to a partnership between A&W restaurants and Mealshare, a national social enterprise on a mission to help end youth hunger. The partnership will be supporting more than 40 different charities in B.C., including Warmland House in Duncan, to provide meals in their local communities. On ‘Mealshare Mondays’ at A&W restaurants, customers can order a Cheddar Bacon Uncle Burger Combo and one simple healthy meal will be provided to a youth in need through the Mealshare program. Any day of the week, customers can “Make it a Mealshare” by adding $1 to their order and one meal will be provided to a youth in need. Meals are provided through Mealshare’s network of 450 local charity partners across Canada, and 80 per cent of Mealshare’s financial support stays in local communities where the Mealshare item was purchased, while 20 per cent goes internationally to Save the Children. Susan Senecal, CEO of A&W Canada, said the restaurant chain’s national partnership with Mealshare will help it make a bigger difference with A&W’s operators and their teams across the country. “Local franchisees from coast to coast are excited to be a part of this program because they’ve seen first-hand the needs in their communities and how these programs can provide immediate benefit and support,” she said. “No child should ever go hungry, especially in a country like Canada, so we’re thrilled that we can be a part of this initiative.” The Downtown Duncan BIA is launching its Valentine’s Day Basket Giveaway social media campaign. The DDBIA will daily post photos on its website of a few items that will be in the gift basket, which includes an incredible selection of items or gift cards from more than 25 downtown Duncan businesses and worth more than $1,000, leading with a boosted post of a picture of the whole basket. In order to enter to win, individuals need to like, share, and tag friends in comments on these posts. Each action (like, share, each tag) will count as one entry. People can enter multiple times on multiple posts to increase chances of winning the basket, which will further magnify the posts. “On Feb. 11, we will use an online random name picker to draw the winner of the basket and will announce it on social media,” said Elissa Smith, the DDBIA’s office manager. In response to the unprecedented economic and social impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on the region, Economic Development Cowichan has developed a series of regional recovery indicators to track progress towards recovery. The report reveals that some sectors of the Cowichan regional economy have been hard hit by the pandemic, while others are doing well. Tourism in particular has suffered over the last 10 months. While employment levels across Vancouver Island have rebounded well, some residents are still struggling. Affordable housing and overall real estate inventory continue to be issues for the region. “This series of quarterly dashboards will provide the data needed to make informed decisions and create effective recovery programs tailored to the needs of the Cowichan Valley,” said Barry O’Riordan, manager of EDC. The Cowichan Regional Recovery Dashboard – January 2021 can be found on the EDC’s website at ecdevcowichan.com. This is the first in an ongoing series of recovery dashboards that EDC will publish quarterly to help inform and guide the recovery efforts of local government, community organizations, businesses, and others. The next dashboard will be published in April. The non-profit FarmFolk CityFolk will be collaboratively hosting a Virtual Seedy Saturday Conference on Feb. 19-21. Since 2006, the FarmFolk CityFolk organization has been working closely with vegetable seed growers and seed companies across B.C. to create food systems in the province that are strong, sustainable, and resilient. Seed savers from across the province will join FarmFolk CityFolk in delivering a pandemic-friendly opportunity to connect with B.C. community members and organizations, seed businesses, non-profit organizations and learn about seed saving. Speakers and sessions will include seed saving and gardening education, movie screening, master gardeners Q & A, local community discussions, an exciting keynote speaker, poetry readings, and more. Stay tuned for registration details and conference schedule at http://www.bcseeds.org/2021-bc-seedy-saturday-virtual-conference/
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GOD THROUGH WORSHIP, PRAYER AND FELLOWSHIP, AS LARGER AND SMALLER GATHERINGS IN THE TEACHINGS OF CHRIST DELIVERED THROUGH HIS APOSTLES, THEREBY MATURING TO BECOME A FAMILY OF FAMILIES BY HIS SPIRIT TO FULFILL CHRIST'S MISSION BY LIVING GOOD LIVES, DOING GOOD WORKS, BUILDING GOOD HOMES AND SHARING THE GOOD NEWS OF JESUS CHRIST We are committed to making a difference through our families, in our workplace and reflect Christ to our watching world community around us, thereby bringing transformation to our Cities and Nations for the Glory of God. ONE Dubai is part of ONE Church Global - a Complex Apostolic Team and Network of Churches that plant, establish and multiply local churches, and develop church leaders worldwide in the Way of Christ and His Apostles. ONE Dubai is locally pastored by Ben and Praveena, Ben received a call to serve the Lord in the ministry in 2009 while working in the corporate sector at that time. Prior to One Dubai, Ben was serving in Chennai, India along with a team of pastors primarily focusing on teaching, preaching, shepherding and leadership development. Ben is deeply committed in establishing households in the teachings of Christ. He is currently pursuing his ministerial studies in Church Based Theological Education from the Antioch school, USA. Ben is married to Praveena who is passionate about serving the community and she also consults for an US firm . Ben & Praveena have a 9-year-old daughter Abigail Joanna who is in fourth grade and loves the Lord Jesus. There is but one true and living God; maker of heaven and earth and all that is in them. We believe in God the Father, God the Son Jesus Christ and God the Holy Spirit, three in One. Man was created in the image of God. However, the first human beings Adam and Eve chose to disobey God and walk in sin. All mankind have inherited their sinful nature and continue to make the choice of living in sin, reaping its consequences. Therefore all have sinned and need redemption. God in His love sent His one and only Son Jesus Christ to redeem this world by paying the full penalty for its sins. Jesus died on the cross for each one of our sins. He rose again from the dead, ascended to heaven, promised to return and sent His Holy Spirit to be with us. Anyone who believes in the Lord Jesus Christ and repents of their sins receives forgiveness and eternal life, irrespective of tribe, tongue, religion or nationality. All who believe in Jesus will externalize their commitment to God by obeying Him in the waters of baptism, thus being initiated as disciples of Christ into His family, the Church. The disciples of Jesus Christ in cooperation with the Holy Spirit will overcome sin, live good lives by bearing the fruit of the Spirit and be empowered with His gifts to do the good works they were created for, thus sustaining their salvation to the very end. The Church is at the center of God’s purpose for this age and that God’s wisdom will be displayed to the entire universe through the Church to the praise of His glory. We believe that Christ’s central purpose is building His Church, and ultimately His kingdom; and nothing can stand in His way, even Satan and all his forces. Therefore the Church is not a building but the ‘family of God’ where individuals and families come together as His community in the midst of whom His Spirit dwells. The Church of Jesus Christ has been called to have a dynamic relationship with the Holy Spirit, to learn, live out and teach the inspired timeless, trans-cultural truths of the Word of God. We believe that all matters concerning the life and beliefs of the churches are to be settled by the Word of God. Though the churches are to be guarded and protected by gifted leaders, all are subject to the authority of the biblical text. The perpetual command of the Great Commission is to take the gospel to the world. We believe that the Church, through the Holy Spirit, has the power and authority of Jesus to heal the sick, cast out demons and raise the dead. He also empowers every disciple with His gifts and power to be effective witnesses for Him in the world wide mission of making disciples. We believe that Christ’s strategy for building His Church can be clearly identified in Scriptures as a multiplication of churches—communities of Christians committed to maturing in Christ and to furthering the gospel of Jesus Christ. Each believer should fellowship and celebrate the Lord’s Supper regularly with the Church. This will serve as a way of remembering his identity with Christ and with Christ’s body, the Church, until Christ’s return. The glorious return of our Lord Jesus Christ for His Church is coming soon. He will judge and reward, the living and the dead and will establish His kingdom forever. Until Jesus comes again the Church is called to be in the world, yet not of the world; submit to all authority that God has placed; be prayerful and watchful and be the salt and light to the world.
TP-06 I'm broke (Grammar practice) To provide practice of wishes (1); I hope ...; It's time...; in the context of family To provide fluency and accuracy speaking practice in a conversation in the context of wishes for the future and this that annoys you and you wish they didn't Procedure (41-52 minutes) In this exercise, there are 3 different types of activities. In the first activity, the Ss will have to fill the gaps with the correct forms of the verbs. The model sentences will just have been shown to the students, so they get the chance to practice them using the context of the previous lesson. Students check their answers in pairs Answer key 1 pay 2 had 3 thought 4 would come 5 could 6 found 7 didn't have to 8 weren't rehearsing Do the feedback on the board using the OHP. In the second activity, the Ss will have to match the previous sentences with its responses. In this exercise, the Ss will learn that we often use second conditionals to give reasons for wishes. Students check in pairs Answer key 1 f 2 d 3 g 4 c 5 b 6 a 7 h 8 e Feedback on the board with OHP. In the third activity, the students will have to identify who said each previous sentence, Briony or her dad. Ss check in pairs. Answer key 1 f ( Briony's dad, Briony) 2 d ( Briony, her dad) 3 g ( Briony's dad, Briony) 4 c ( Briony, her dad) 5 b ( Briony, her dad) 6 a ( Briony's dad, Briony) 7 h ( Briony, her dad) 8 e ( Briony, her dad) T focus introduce the topic wishes In this activity, Ss will have to write 6 wishes about their life now or in the future. T show some ideas on the board using the OHP. Ss have 2 minutes to write their sentences. When the time is over T number students so they can pair up with different students. Ss talk about their wishes. T ask feedback from specific students to tell what they learned about their pair. The Ss will have to think about 5 things that annoy them. They are remembered to use the correct form of the TL in this exercise. The Ss will have 1 min to think about their sentences. After that Ss will have to mingle telling other students what make them annoyed and they have to find people that get annoyed by the same things. T monitors and do delayed error correction on the board. In case the Ss finish everything very quickly I have selected an activity from the workbook so they can practice the target language a bit more
When a wealthy elderly man dies and unexpectedly leaves his estate to his new caregiver, she's drawn into a web of deception and murder. If she's going to survive, she'll have to question everyone's motives — even the people she loves. The film follows Katie, a caretaker whose current job is to look after Leonard, an elderly man who has been living alone in his house for almost 40 years. When Leonard suddenly ends up dying, Katie and her husband Adam stumble upon a large stash of money in his house. With the money comes a web of lies and the couple find themselves entangled in a life-threatening situation. Dangerous Lies works at best as a decent B-grade thriller. Even when the film reveals its major twist, you aren’t blown away. This is one of those straight-forward thrillers that are silly but entertaining. If you’re looking for a cheap thrill on a lazy Friday afternoon, this is just the kind of film you need. One of the reasons the film works despite lazy twists is its short runtime. However, the twists are revealed way too soon and there’s hardly any tension to keep you on the edge of your seats. The film makes you question who do you trust and why blindly trusting anyone these days could come with a price. It’s built on the foundation of trust and it’s well established through Katie’s character and her association two other key characters in the movie. Even when we trust someone wholeheartedly, we never know what dangerous lies they are hiding. The film manages to make this point in a very straightforward fashion and it works to a large extent. Camila Mendes as Katie shoulders the film right till the end. These are the kinds of a film where performances can be over-the-top but that’s not the case here. Camila couldn’t have played Katie more convincingly, and she brings out the helplessness of the character strongly. Veteran Elliot Gould in a cameo appearance is a sweet surprise and it makes one wonder what he is even doing in such a film. Thankfully, his role isn’t a joke and plays a very pivotal part in taking the story forward. Jessie T Usher as the boyfriend Adam is decent enough to deliver a passable performance. For a low-budget thriller that’s solely supposed to entertain, Dangerous Lies does the job without making a mess of the output. Agreed, it isn’t perfect and doesn’t quite leave you on a high when it ends, but it definitely doesn’t disappoint either. The film badly needed some suspense to keep one hooked. This is the kind of film where if you end taking out your phone to check your mails while watching, you aren’t going to miss anything important. Did I like it? I wouldn’t say I did wholeheartedly. But for a small-budget thriller, it worked beyond my expectations.
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Do you find yourself mulling over the "what if" emergency situations that might happen during childbirth? Luckily, obstetrical emergencies occur in only a very small amount of births in the United States. Even less common is the complication called shoulder dystocia, an obstruction that happens when the infant's head comes out of the birth canal but its shoulders do not deliver quickly afterward. While the chance of this occurring is tiny, it's best to calm your fears by arming yourself with knowledge. Causes of Shoulder Dystocia This may result from any number of things, such as: Abnormal position of the fetus Cephalo-pelvic disproportion (This means the pelvis can't accommodate the movement of the fetus through the birth canal.) Here are the most recognized risk factors for shoulder dystocia: Fetal macrosomia (fetus is large, above the 90th percentile for gestational age) Indications for Shoulder Dystocia Moms at risk for delivering a baby with shoulder dystocia are those who have vaginal births, with the baby's head (cephalic) presenting first, and who deliver full term or after 34 weeks of gestation. The incidence of shoulder dystocia ranges from 0.6% to 1.4% of cephalic vaginal deliveries, according to the American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists. Other medical sources give these ranges: 1% to 2% as reported in retrospective studies, and about 3.3% to 7% according to prospective studies. Why are there so many possible incidence ranges? An "objective diagnosis" does not exist. Some mild variations of shoulder dystocia are not easy to diagnose. Even though the definition may seem clear, a healthcare provider may not actually picture this obstruction from a clinical standpoint. Instead, the provider may find that it is going to take more than customary traction to deliver the baby. Plus, he or she will need to use special techniques (maneuvers) to do so. When Shoulder Dystocia Happens The good news is that the negative effects of shoulder dystocia can usually be prevented. By using maneuvering techniques, your health providers can help prevent injury. (About 25 percent of these cases result in damage to nerves in the baby's arm. So, find out if the medical team caring for you at delivery is trained in such emergencies and how to prevent such effects.) Here are some of the accepted techniques your health providers can use to reposition the baby's shoulders during delivery: (posterior arm delivery) Shute forceps maneuver For details about these maneuvers, consult with your doctor or hospital. When these are used alone or in conjunction with others, it is possible to complete delivery. Most babies who experience shoulder dystocia usually are okay. However, if there were difficulties during any of the maneuvers, then your baby may be required to stay in the hospital after delivery for monitoring. In some cases, shoulder dystocia may damage nerves in your baby's shoulder and arm section (called the brachial plexus). The damage happens when the nerves are stretched too much during birth. For nine in 10 babies, brachial plexus gets better on its own, but some have long-term effects. If your child has lasting nerve damage, she will benefit from physiotherapy. As she grows, this type of rehabilitation will help her learn how to manage daily activities. By knowing what can be done about shoulder dystocia, you're one step ahead in preventing negative effects. You can help dispel fears by discussing any remaining concerns with a health professional.
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8:59am PT by Evan Real Ellen Pompeo Defends Kelly Ripa Against 'Bachelor' Boss: "We Don't Attack Successful Women on Our Network" Earlier this week, Kelly Ripa shared her unfiltered thoughts about ABC's The Bachelor and The Bachelorette — and did so while discussing the long-running reality series on her daytime talk show, Live With Kelly and Ryan, which is syndicated by Disney ABC Home Entertainment and TV Distribution. "You guys, you know how I feel about the show — it disgusts me," Ripa said on Tuesday. "I can’t stand the idea of 25 exceptional women fighting over one ordinary fella, in my opinion. You know how I feel, ladies; we are too special to be arguing over a guy." It wasn't long before the dating franchise's host, Chris Harrison, and creator, Mike Fleiss, took to social media to shoot back with responses. "Look out #BachelorNation @KellyRipa is coming after you and your 'disgusting' Monday night habit," Harrison tweeted, while Fleiss wrote: "Easy, @KellyRipa … #TheBachelor franchise pays your salary!" It was Fleiss' comment in particular that caused Grey's Anatomy star and ABC fixture Ellen Pompeo to enter the fray and defend Ripa. "Okay @fleissmeister, that’s some handle bro! Your show does NOT pay Kelly Ripa’s salary," Pompeo tweeted on Thursday. "Also we don’t attack successful women on our network and men certainly cannot take credit for their success. Don’t get me started on your show cuz I’m a savage." The actress ended her message with this pointed hashtag, seemingly calling out what she sees as a lack of diversity among the contestants featured on The Bachelor and The Bachelorette: "#bachelorsoooowhite." Okay @fleissmeister... that’s some handle bro! Your show does NOT pay @KellyRipa salary. Also we don’t attack successful women on our network and men certainly cannot take credit for their success. Don’t get me started on your show cuz I’m a savage.... #bachelorsoooowhite — Ellen Pompeo (@EllenPompeo) May 16, 2019 Pompeo then tweeted to a follower that she felt it was necessary to break out of a previously announced social media hiatus. "Took a break but had to jump back in the ring for my girl," she wrote of showing her support for Ripa. Pompeo's tweet came on the same day Hannah Brown — the lead of The Bachelorette's season 15, which premiered on ABC Monday night — made an appearance on Live With Kelly and Ryan, where she and Ripa discussed their differing feelings about the show. "I am very against women fighting over a guy. I don’t believe in it. I think it’s — you know, weird and sets us back," Ripa said. "But now, you are in the power position. So take me through that. How does that work?" Replied Brown, "Like you, I didn’t really follow the show. I wasn’t a big fan. Being a part of the show, it’s not women fighting against each other. Really, some of my best friends came from the show and were really supportive. When you have a group of 30 people together, there’s going to be people who don’t like each other. That’s just simple facts … It was one of the most empowering things that I ever did because I had to grow as an individual. That is why I decided that I wanted to be the Bachelorette. That’s why I wanted that so bad." (Brown later spoke to The Hollywood Reporter about her empowering experience. Read that Q&A here.)
Summertime is a fine time to gather with gal pals for a succulent brunch, a box lunch or an herbilicious tappa time. If it’s your turn to do the entertaining, play your clever card with upcycled containers plucked from their usual abode and placed center stage upon your table. Previously planted vintage vessels can easily be transformed from garden goods to chic centerpieces with a few simple alterations. Succulent Show Stopper Succulents are a favorite of mine for a variety of reasons. They’re exquisite, thrive on neglect and almost impossible to kill. It’s hard not to love a low-maintenance beauty. I spotted two little vintage lovelies at TaDa! Consign in Rochester and knew instantly how to put them back to work. Succulents are arid plants so a strainer is an ideal receptacle for my pretty friends. I originally planted the enamel strainer and added the cute little milk glass creamer as a candleholder to provide ambient evening porch light. For my brunch table I replaced the candle with a summertime bouquet. Delicate white napkins, pretty plates, juice and an egg bake complete the brunch ensemble. Put This on Your Bucket List If lunch is what you’re serving I have a perky centerpiece idea for you. Shopping at Rustic Bloom in Stewartville yielded an adorable vintage lunch bucket. The container’s daily purpose is to grow wheat grass for my smoothies. Wheat grass is super simple to plant and germinates in just a few days. Look for seeds at your local greenhouse or your neighborhood health food store in the bulk section. The lush green grass provides the backdrop for a quick and easy centerpiece solution. I placed my flowers in floral water tubes and stuck them in the dirt. After your tabletop center of attraction is ready to go, gather some additional dining components that play well in the sandbox with your main attraction to complete your table presentation. What’s for lunch? I’m feeling like a salad fresh from the garden, a baguette and a tall, cool glass of freshly squeezed lemonade fit the bill. Happy Hour Herbs Tappa time is my favorite time of the day to gather with my girls. A glass or two of wine is typically up for grabs. A small plate menu, fine wine and a gathering of friends calls for a fragrant, sweet-smelling herb bouquet for the table. I like to think of myself as a chef so I have a wide variety of herbs growing in the kitchen windowsill for easy access. During one of my many shopping excursions to Adourn in Chatfield, I purchased a well-worn aluminum cone strainer and wooden pestle. I gave it a just-right for the kitchen makeover with a coat of white paint, a lining of moss and trio of herbs. The wooden pestle came back to its former gorgeous self with a quick coat of gel stain and was added to the mix. I opted not to add any fresh floral to the arrangement as the herbs stand alone nicely. From windowsill to tabletop, this garden great is a true master of the multitask. The repurposing of vintage wares for your entertaining ways is fast, affordable and fun. The next time you head out shopping for your home, put your creative cap on and look at items with a different eye. It’s a wonderful way to add individuality to your decor inspired by your own imagination. Sue Whitney is a best-selling author, “Better Homes & Gardens” editor, nationally renowned public speaker, founder and owner of JUNKMARKET Style and the nation’s leading expert in the vintage re-design industry. To learn more about Sue visit junkmarketstyle.com.
Hi folks, Christmas may be well on its way but we are heading back a few months to the beautiful warm sunshine for a summertime French wedding in a Tuscan villa. This French wedding was held in Tuscany in Firenze for our sweet couple Virginie and Pierre. With their beautiful ceremony held in a historic Italian church it was then back to the Villa for a French/Italian cocktail in the magical garden. The evening commenced with emotional speeches, the best ones were these best man speeches, lots of dancing and a very talented saxophonist! Photographer Sylvain Bouzat was there to capture all the emotions of the day “Personally, I loved this wedding because of the mix of the classic French touches and the Italian places. It makes sense to combine these two ways of life to have a really amazing wedding.” “We met in Shanghai. Pierre made his proposal during a trip to Mauritius. He had organised everything, I thought to go on vacation and I was far from suspecting what was waiting for me. He asked me to become his wife for life during a drink in our villa for the week. I said yes right away! The days that followed were out of this world, magical, we felt alone in the world, at the other end of the world with our secret.” “Surroundings was important for us, we wanted the preparations to be stress-free and everything was perfect on D-day. So we chose all our service providers at the heart of the place, as well as the photographer, the florist or the creator of the wedding dress.” “We were immediately seduced by the venue, beautiful and in perfect condition, which corresponded exactly to what we wanted: a superb outside place for the cocktail, a large room open for dinner, a typical Tuscan building, a hotel on the place… We also immediately clicked with Gaia, who was our interlocutor during the months preceding the wedding but also the day until late at night. Always smiling, friendly, available, with her everything was possible, it was really nice and reassuring.” “For the photographer, we had a crush on the work and personality of Sylvain Bouzat. Afterwards, we were delighted! The photos are beautiful, more beautiful than we expected and they reflect the spirit and atmosphere of our wedding. Sylvain was very discreet, he knew how to capture the smiles, the laughs, the moments by sneaking without even being seen. It’s perfect for people, like us, who do not like to be photographed or pose… He was also able to push us to go take photos at 2 during the cocktail, when the light was perfect. In short, he was at the top.” “For the dress, after full fitting and a clearer idea of what was going well or not, I was lucky enough to be able to create my custom dress… What a pleasure! I chose Nicolas Fafiotte and I do not regret it for a second. Speaking of my dress, I’m still very emotional today and I want to put it back on! He is a true designer, a designer who loves his job, beautiful materials etc… It takes into account the place of marriage, style and morphology to make a dress that perfectly highlights each bride. Every step of my dress, from drawing to canvas, fitting and final delivery, was a unique, magical experience.” “I wanted to do a lot of things “myself”, to have nothing to do on site and I surrounded myself for that precious help with my family! Together, we did a lot of evening “workshops” (Announcements, bracelets, bottles of water for the release of the Mass, favours, limoncello della nonna, menus etc…). These moments will remain engraved in my memory as much as the wedding, they are great memories all together.” “We spent the whole week before the wedding in Italy, to be on vacation first of all but also to be there in case even if everything had been set earlier in the planning stages. These few days allowed us to meet at 2, to rest, to tan a little 😉 and gradually find our families and friends who were gradually arriving in Italy. The day before the wedding, we dined with each family, our witnesses and some friends. It was a very nice and stress free time where we enjoyed our friends before the wedding.” “Arriving in the church, I was stressed but seeing all these smiles of my family and especially Pierre, the stress fell immediately; from there, we could enjoy! It was gone, we could now savor every moment, capture those smiles, those sparkling looks, this look of Pierre on me and make unforgettable memories. The ceremony was filled with emotion and joy, part of Peter’s family animated Mass, his godchild and his brother were altar boys, the priest is a friend of Peter’s family. We chose cheerful songs and rhythms so that the mass is also a happy and festive moment.” “The speeches of our families and witnesses were also moments rich in emotions, laughter, tears… words and looks forever in our memories. One of my best memories is probably our entrance (and the 2 minutes of calm just before), to see all these people we love smile, dance, be happy and the rendering of the room with all the glittering lights and garlands, it was magic. Everyone joined us on the dance floor!” “We had taken waltz lessons and prepared a little choreography to open the ball, it was a secret, a surprise, nobody knew it. Taking these classes together and rehearsing the chore a few days before was a highlight. D-day, I think we did pretty well, it was our moment, it launched the evening!” “The next day we had a brunch at Villa Stanley, a hotel and a place we like a lot and we discovered a few years ago during a holiday in Tuscany. This place was perfect because there is a large park, a large pool, a tennis court and hotel rooms. So we were able to make the wedding last until Sunday and enjoy more of our friends and families. A wedding over 3 days was our dream and we do not regret it, it was great!” “From start to finish, everything went as we imagined, and maybe even better, we had a dream weekend. Being surrounded by those we love for 3 days, in beautiful places, is truly a magical moment. It is important to feel comfortable with each person who intervenes before and during the wedding and that the feeling goes well. If you do not feel like a person or do not see things like you, it’s better not to work with them. It’s your wedding. I also recommend doing the maximum ahead of time and having almost nothing to do on site, the day before or the same day. The days before the wedding are perfect to relax, enjoy your loved ones and rest a bit. For even more from this French/Italian dream check out their wedding slideshow created by Sylvain Bouzat Photographer: Sylvain Bouzat \| Reception Venue: Villa Castelletti \| Brides Dress: Nicolas Fafiotte \| Hair: Un’ Idea per Capello \| Florist: Boutique del Fiore Empoli \| Catering: Villa Castelletti \| Entertainment: Public Address
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The Twelve Apostles is a collection of limestone stacks off the shore of the Port Campbell National Park, by the Great Ocean Road in Victoria, Australia. Their proximity to one another has made the site a popular tourist attraction. Currently there are eight apostles left, the ninth one of the stacks collapsed dramatically in July 2005. The name remains significant and spectacular especially in the Australian tourism industry. Formation and history The apostles were formed by erosion: the harsh and extreme weather conditions from the Southern Ocean gradually eroded the soft limestone to form caves in the cliffs, which then became arches, which in turn collapsed; leaving rock stacks up to 50 metres high. Now because of this erosion there are fewer than ten remaining. The site was known as the Sow and Piglets until 1922 (Muttonbird Island, near Loch Ard Gorge, was the Sow, and the smaller rock stacks were the Piglets); after which it was renamed to The Apostles for tourism purposes. The formation eventually became known as the Twelve Apostles, despite only ever having nine stacks. In 2002, the Port Campbell Professional Fishermens Association unsuccessfully attempted to block the creation of a proposed marine national park at the Twelve Apostles location, but were satisfied with the later Victorian Government decision not to allow seismic exploration at the same site by Benaris Energy; believing it would harm marine life. The stacks are susceptible to further erosion from the waves. On 3 July 2005, a 50-metre-tall (160 ft) stack collapsed, leaving eight remaining (compare the two pictures from 2003 and 2010). On 25 September 2009, it was thought that another of the stacks had fallen, but this was actually one of the smaller stacks of the Three Sisters formation. The rate of erosion at the base of the limestone pillars is approximately 2 cm per year. Due to wave action eroding the cliff face existing headlands are expected to become new limestone stacks in the future.
Fall Semester Prep Essentials As fortunate or unfortunate it may sound, back to school season has arrived. Your college career may be in one of three states: you are trying to figure out post graduation plans, you are contemplating your major, or you are just beginning college with a set of pre-jitters. Although the Target and Staples advertisements promoting school supplies began airing on TV in May, there are some essentials you just cannot purchase (except for one) that will ease you into this upcoming semester. In pocket, easy to carry, or wallet sized, agendas come in many shapes, sizes, designs, and colors that will help you keep your priorities in check. This basic necessity is one many swear by for time management, assignment completion, productivity, planning arrangements, etc. Mapping out your tasks daily or weekly through an agenda is an ensured step to help you align your goals and objectives for each semester. Focusing. What does that consist of, you may ask? Focusing can be classified as a struggle amongst most college students, but here I present a makeshift solution for the greater good. Varying tasks, assignments, projects, and meetings can be overwhelming or demanding, therefore it’s crucial to find a space or environment where grind time can happen with limited stressors and distractions. Rather than the generic study space, this location should be filled with the things you know will benefit your train of thought and boundless energy. Just another thing we’re all ~most likely~ lacking, and if you aren’t struggling with this, curse you. Kidding. College students often believe an adequate amount of sleep is impossible to achieve, which can be understandable. However, we can always devote time for a nap or any other form of relaxation. Sleep resets your thoughts and it’s important to realize the times you desperately need it. We can choose to go out, or choose to stay in. There’s always a time and a place, but that’s ultimately your call. Mind over matter. Creating new bonds and maintaining friendships or relationships is not always easy on top of the million and one responsibilities college students have. However, these friendships and relationships are truly worth your time if these people spike your happiness, laughter, and confidence. They reassure you things will fall into place, support you in any way, and maneuver you past any endeavors. Your college sidekicks will help you thrive during any semester. Begin this semester knowing you will conquer it all with grace and determination! It sounds cliché, but before classes start, take this time to enter a positive mindset and you will make it work Tim Gun voice. You will be mentally prepared for what’s to come next and possess the capabilities to strategically execute your duties. That does it folks! I’m sure you were expecting material items to help you prep for this upcoming semester and this may sound like a lesson learned from an episode of Dora the Explorer, but you ALL already have the tools to pave a fulfilling and successful semester. Hope this helps! Good luck and catch you on the flip! This blog post was written by Alaina DeLeone, TSG Representative
Private cloud computing supplier Penta today announced that Advent Software, Inc. (NASDAQ: ADVS), a leading provider of software and services for the global investment management industry, has chosen Penta as one of the companies that will host their investment management products in the cloud. Penta specializes in delivering cloud computing solutions to businesses requiring high reliability, business continuity, data security, regulatory compliance, and confidentiality. Penta’s private cloud services are compliant with Swiss regulations as well as Dubai DIFC, and are ISAE 3402 audited – most recently by Ernst & Young. With Penta’s local cloud infrastructures, Advent’s clients in Europe and the Middle East, who operate in the highly regulated investment management sector, will now have access to Penta’s local cloud hosting services, providing them with the regulatory IT compliance and the confidence that their systems are secure. “Penta’s relationship with Advent brings together two key ingredients for the investment management industry: Penta’s secure, reliable, and compliant cloud hosting infrastructure, and Advent’s industry-leading financial management solutions,” says CEO Farhad Khalilnia. “Together, we can deliver the complete package to give our shared clients a sustained competitive advantage from their IT solutions.” Penta is headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland, has offices in the Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC), operating in four Tier-3+ redundant data centers with dedicated fiber-optic connections to London, Athens, and Moscow, as well as a standalone infrastructure in Tokyo. Advent’s award winning solutions are relied upon by investment managers around the world for client and portfolio management, trading and compliance, performance reporting and accounting, research management, and more. “By working with Penta, our clients can leverage Advent’s world-class investment management solutions in the cloud,” said Håkan Valberg, President, Advent Software EMEA. “We chose to collaborate with Penta in Europe and the Middle East because of its long track record in the cloud, dedication to security and regulatory compliance, and its unique audited offer for investment managers.” Contact: Peter Philp, Communications manager, +41 78 769 0035, [email protected] Penta is a private cloud-based information system management company founded in 1996 and headquartered in Geneva, with offices in Dubai’s DIFC. Its clients are predominantly in the financial sector and other sensitive industries that require high reliability, data security, regulatory compliance and ensured business continuity. Penta’s approach is to partner with clients to supply a complete IT package in order to add value to operations and ensuring a better return on IT investments. Additional information is available at www.penta.ch. About Advent Software Over the last 30 years of industry change, our core mission to help our clients focus on their unique strategies and deliver exceptional investor service has never wavered. With unparalleled precision and ahead-of‐the-curve solutions, we’ve helped over 4,400 firms in nearly 60 countries — from established global institutions to small start-up practices — to grow their business and thrive. Advent technology helps firms minimize risk, work together seamlessly, and discover new opportunities in a constantly evolving world. Together with our clients, we are shaping the future of investment management. For more information on Advent products visit www.advent.com. Advent and Advent Software are registered trademarks of Advent Software, Inc. All other company names or marks mentioned herein are those of their respective owners.
3 traumatic miscarriagesBy anonymous on 07/03/2013 Well my story makes me feel guilty straight away. Up until the age of 34 I didn't want children and having being diagonised with PCOS(polycystic ovary syndrome), without typical symptoms, it was fine, having a family was not on the agenda. This all changed when I fell in love, found my husband and we married in the summer of June 2011. Everything changed, we decided to start trying for a baby after our wedding and by what we considered a miracle I fell pregnant in the August 2011. This was against all the odds, as we had been told this would be the hardest part and we may need intervention to achieve this. Well this excitment was short lived because at 10 weeks I started to bleed. It was a weekend and A&E couldn't help until the following week. We went back to go through the ordeal of sitting in a maternity ward waiting for the scan to be told it was looking like a impending miscarriage. We were told to go away and come back in 7 days. The agony continued because the bleeding was light and we were left praying it was all a mistake but it wasn't. A week later revealed an empty sac-no baby. So got booked in the next day to have a ERPC. We both dealt with this by ourselves not sharing this with anyone. We put it down to mother nature taking its course. I went back to work and no one was any of the wiser. The pain was always there especially when as a manager the first task I am faced with is dealing with a pregnant colleague needing to let me know they were 12 weeks pregnant. Nevertheless no-one would have known the pain inside and life moved on. ~Then in March 2012, I recognised the early pregnancy signs and then the missed period and a pregnancy test proved I was pregnant. Again we were over the moon, but 8 weeks in the tummy pain started. Naturally I was nervous I spoke to my doctor and she assured me this is normal but again 2 weeks later bleeding started. We went back to the hospital and they were concerned it was a miscarraige again, sent me away for a further 7 days. When we went back we were expecting the worst. Then by some miracle she scanned me and found two sacs, it was twins! Then came the second blow, one had a heart beat the other was too small to tell what was happening so we were sent away for another week so it had time to develop-it was agony. Again the bleeding subsided so I was positive but when we went back my world fell apart again. Both babies were no longer living, my uterus was collapsing but not enough to pass it naturally. The doctor recommended to try medical intervention to help nature take its course. So I opted for the pills. We had to go to the hospital over two days to get the medication. We went home to wait for this nightmare to be over. I had pains bleeding and really imagined this was like childbirth. We went to the hospital 4 days later thinking the worst was over. Wrong, the scan proved the medication had not worked! So I had to be booked for the following day to have another ERPC. I had a bad feeling that morning, I really did not want this operation but I knew it was what I had to do. I went down for the operation, but when I came round I did not feel well. I realised quickly I was feel faint and then I realised I was losing a lot of blood. The doctors and nurses were suddenly around me and then before I had chance to realise what was happening a doctor was internally examining me and told me I was haemorrhaging and they may need to re-operate they thought they had damaged my uterus. I begged for my husband to be there and explained I did not want to go through this unless they were 100% confident. I was terrified and I just knew my gut feeling was right. He gave me a 1/2 hour to improve which I did. I then had to stay in hospital and have treatment for this. My husband was amazing and still is now, we decided again not to share this with anyone we were just so sad and couldn't bear telling the story. We had an appointment after begging from me with a specialist to try and look further into this. They were not helpful and gave us the party line 'this happened often and you have to have 3 miscarriages before they will investigate'. Well after some persistance we did get some basic tests done but nothing we could have not done outside of this for infections. I knew I was clean etc. So again back to life as normal we have now experienced a 3rd miscarriage this year. We are now having to explore our options of what next... There appears very little help with fertility. I am concerned now aged 35 and knowing my mother, grand-mother and aunties all experienced menopause between 36-40! We are healthy people, eating healthy diets, exercise 3 times a week and never abused our bodies. We are now looking to seek a private appointment to see a London specialist to explore our options. We just hope our chance has not been missed, it is very the painful but we still have hope. I hope anyone reading this hasn't been through anything similar but I know reading about others in similar situations can help. I wish you all good luck and hope to one day look back in a happier place with a another addition to our family.
The big-risk purchase seems to be paying off for the cinema chain through savings and revenue. Cineworld benefits more than expected from Regal Entertainment deal - Positive results see shares rise by 6% in early trading. - Investors welcome 18% rise in dividends which will be paid on a quarterly basis. - We continue to recommend the shares as a ‘buy’ for higher-risk investors seeking a balanced portfolio. Today’s results showed encouraging signs from the purchase of US cinema group Regal Entertainment. Earnings on a proforma basis, assuming Regal had been owned for the whole period, rose 9.4% to $1.7bn with admissions up 2.6% to 308.4m and revenue up 7.2%. In the US revenue rose 8.6% with a 3.3% increase in the UK. Bigger savings, bigger profits The scale of the purchase for Cineworld can be seen by the fact that on a statutory basis profits more than doubled to $349m. The potential to make cost savings was always one of the main drivers of the Regal purchase and the company said today savings would be even better than previously expected at $150m this year. Better still for investors was the news that the dividend has been raised by 18% and will be paid in quarterly instalments in the future. The good news was greeted warmly by the market today and the shares rose 6% in early trading. The size of the Regal purchase last year was a risk for Cineworld’s management but the early signs are certainly positive and there could be much more to come for investors as improvements are made to Regal over time. Our View on Cineworld - Buy For that reason, along with the potential for further dividend rises and another year of blockbuster films in the pipeline, we continue with our buy recommendation for investors willing to accept a higher level of risk. If you're looking to invest in the Travel & Leisure sector and you're not currently a customer of The Share Centre, sign up today. You can also view the full range of Travel & Leisure companies and their share prices. All information given including prices, yields and our opinion is correct at the time of publication. Our opinions on investments can change at any time and for our latest view please go to www.share.com. To understand how our Investment research team arrive at their views please read our Investment Research Policy.
Theater is often depicted with a pair of masks, one laughing, one weeping, two feelings on opposite sides of the emotional spectrum. The laughing side represents Thalia, the muse of comedy. The weeping side represents Melpomene, the muse of tragedy. Reginald Douglas, artistic producer at City Theatre and director of this season’s production of Dominique Morisseau’s Pipeline and now The Roommate, says that the similarities between staging comedy and drama are more common than we think. “It’s all in the timing, so there’s the same kind of rigor that you approach to building the stakes of a dramatic performance, you really do apply to directing a comedy,” Douglas says. The Roommate begins previews on March 2 and runs through March 24. Sharon—played by Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) School of Drama grad and Pittsburgh native Tamara Tunie—is a recent divorcee, and needs extra cash and extra company in her Iowa home. Robyn, played by Laurie Klatscher—a CMU School of Drama alum and 2011 Post-Gazette Performer of the Year—is a hip New Yorker who becomes Sharon’s roommate. They form an unlikely bond in Jen Silverman’s tale of friendship and breaking the law. The production also marks the second time Tunie and Klatscher perform together in Pittsburgh. Currently, both star in Pittsburgh Public Theater’s production of The Tempest, where Tunie plays powerful wizard Prospero and Klatscher plays Gonzalo, adviser to Queen Alonso and Prospero’s confidant. According to Douglas, this previous working relationship at the Public Theater has helped their chemistry in The Roommate. “We didn’t have to rehearse it,” he says. “They were already really good friends and already shared a deep commitment to City Theatre and an excitement about new plays, and there’s a lot of trust in the room, me having a friendship with them, them being friends, them calling this place their home. We got to skip that step in the process.” The Roommate marks Tunie’s first mainstage production at City Theatre. She previously performed her holiday cabaret, Legends from the Burgh, at the theater in 2016. She became a City Theatre board member earlier this year. On the other hand, this is Klatscher’s 13th performance at the South Side theater. As a director, Douglas says that the best part of the rehearsal process is “getting out of their way,” sitting back and watching the two actresses interact with each other during rehearsals. “I mean, what more could a director ask for?” Douglas says. Tunie and Klatscher rehearse at City Theatre in Southside during the day and perform downtown at the Public Theater at night. Douglas says their work on both shows is an example of their commitment to the city that helped kick-start their careers. “To see them to take on two huge productions back-to-back is a testament to their skill but also their love of making great work for our community,” he says. And, although The Roommate and his previous City Theatre directorial work, Pipeline, are different in tone, both shows have strong characters played by strong actors, along with a Douglas flair. “The show may or may not open with Beyonce, so you’ll still know Reg Douglas directed it,” he says. Douglas says The Roommate, with its story of friendship, starting over and being a little lawless, fits into City Theatre’s values of showing new and diverse works. “When Jen [Silverman] wrote the play, she wanted to write roles into the theatrical canon for women who she knew but wasn’t seeing onstage, and that’s a real City Theatre mantra, to put all kinds of people—real diversity of our world—onstage for our audience,” he says. “And that includes women over fifty who may or may not sell drugs.”
EVERYONE DESERVES A 2ND CHANCE Starting Over is a non-profit animal sanctuary, we rescue and rehabilitate animals from the industries and from other abusive or neglect situations. The sanctuary is home to animals that have come from all over the country after being subjected to cruel abuse, severe neglect or abandonment. They came from the streets or from the animal industries and in the sanctuary they are given the opportunity to live a life of freedom, love and peace. Our sanctuary is a haven for the animals that come to it, as well as for the people who visit it. We work to promote education and awareness of animal love, to accept the other, and to raise public awareness for the protection of animals and their rights in order to build a healthy, tolerant society. In addition, the sanctuary maintains a mutual rehabilitation relationship between the animals residing here and populations with special needs. We work towards education and empowerment for youth at-risk and disadvantaged populations by integrating them in the animal care and support, while encouraging and developing attributes of responsibility, giving, competence, teamwork and leadership. OUR HEROES NEED YOU The shelter rehabilitates hundreds of animals a year after being abused and neglected, and here they are given the opportunity to have a life of freedom and love.For us to continue and do the best for them we need your help.Our work relies solely on donations, and with your contribution we can change their reality together, allowing them to be someone and not something and start over.Thank you very much in the name of the current and future rescues at the sanctuary. If you are in Israel: To donate by a bank transfer: Account Number 167650 A donation by Bit, Paybox or Pepper Pay apps: 0543314881 For a receipt for a bank transfer or app donation, please mail us at - VOLUNTEERING AT THE SANCTUARY We at the sanctuary rescue and rehabilitate hundreds of animals a year, after being abused and neglected, and here they are given the opportunity to have a life of freedom and love. Today hundreds of animals live in the sanctuary - donkeys, horses, goats, sheep, chickens, pigeons, cats, dogs and many others ... We respond to rescue calls daily. In order to provide the best response and the best conditions for the sanctuary residents, we really need your help! Want to volunteer and take part in our work? Please read the information below, fill in the form, send it to us, and we will get back to you as soon as possible. We’d be happy to have you join our family :) Thank you very much in the name of the current and future rescues at the sanctuary. Volunteers for regular work at the sanctuary - Physical work which includes cleaning, feeding, care, help with physical therapy for the sheep and goats and plenty of love for our residents - we’re looking for people who can come regularly once a week or two and help us with our daily work. Unfortunately, we currently do not have the option to receive one-time volunteers. Horse people - Help with care for the horses and donkeys at the sanctuary. Including hoof cleaning, washing, walking etc. For people who are experienced in working with horses, who can commit for a regular day once a week. Volunteers for educational and social activities - For experienced people who can volunteer every week or two. In addition - any area of expertise you have and you think can help us, we would be happy! Volunteers will be required to sign a Health Declaration form. Volunteering is from the age of 18 and above. Unfortunately we cannot provide accommodation for volunteers. And one more important note: If you work in a company or organization, and you are interested in organizing a special volunteer day for the staff, please contact us! Please make sure your contact details are correct before submitting :) I would like to volunteer at - Farm maintenance - cleaning, care and love for our residents Caring for the horses and donkeys Social activities at the sanctuary Sharon Cohen - Founder My name is Sharon Cohen. From childhood, I rescue, treat, and rehabilitate animals of all biological species. From the age of 14, I began volunteering with various animal welfare organisations and working as an assistant in veterinary clinics. I have around twenty years of experience caring for different animals that needed help and were gathered from the streets and from the animal industries, such as donkeys, goats, sheep, chickens, rabbits, cats, dogs and more. From childhood, I dreamed of establishing a shelter for animals with the purpose of saving, rehabilitating and finding warm homes without any exploitation by human beings. Many of you know me from rescue cases or from consulting with me about various problems with an animal that needed help. The common denominator of all these innocent creatures is their bitter fate of falling into neglecting, abusive and cruel hands, yet they have survived thanks to their hope and will to live. They come to me broken, crushed, beaten, bruised, wounded, crippled and scared to death, but all have hope and a desire to live! Everyone wants to be rehabilitated, not to hurt or fear anymore, everyone wants to live a life of freedom without any exploitation and enslavement by human beings. Just live. The shelter rehabilitates hundreds of animals a year until we find them a permanent and proper home, and this makes room for other lucky animals that I can rescue. For me to be able to continue my mission, I need your help! We and all the animals at Starting Over Sanctuary thank you for your support in our work! Thanks to you, we can continue to treat and rehabilitate animals rescued from the streets and animal industries. Come and meet our heroes. Our amazing residents went through hell and back and can finally rest and be taken care of by. Click on a hero to see their ID and maybe donate or virtually adopt one.
Sanusi Lamido has been outspoken against the current government despite being a staunch supporter in the early stage of this administration. Former Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria and immediate past Emir of Kano, Muhammad Sanusi, has said corruption will continue to fester in the country if incompetent persons occupy leadership positions and if there is nepotism in the system. He stated that these would also continue to hinder the country’s development, noting that if citizens did not consider merit and competence in choosing their leaders, the country would make no progress. Speaking on Friday at a webinar themed, ‘The sustainability of society’, organised by the Emmanuel Chapel, Sanusi explained that inasmuch as the Federal Character principle enshrined in the Constitution has to be followed, the best brains from the different parts of the country should be appointed or elected into public office. He said, “Morally and religiously speaking, corruption is a problem. But let us look at it from the angle of economics and we (would) begin to understand that it is not just the corruption itself but the type of corruption. “Part of the problem we have is incompetence and that is why I keep saying we must pay attention to merit. We have a system called Federal Character and I believe we should have Nigerians from all over the country in public office, but all those Nigerians must be people that are competent. There must be a merit test; a competence test. “For me, I think the root of corruption is when we begin to de-emphasise merit, competence and performance and so long as we don’t bring the best in this country to do the job and hold them to account, we won’t go anywhere. “The worst form of corruption we have in this country is nepotism; when people get into positions by virtue of personal loyalty, friendship and who they know, rather than what they can actually deliver by virtue of their competence for that office. We need people who can deliver for this country, I mean the majority.” Meanwhile, when asked by one of the moderators the three fundamental catalytic reforms he felt could catapult Nigeria to a better place within the next seven to 10 years, Sanusi identified political reforms, especially the amendment of the Constitution to reduce the cost of governance and promote efficiency. He added, “The second thing, which is extremely important, is that we must respect merit and the third thing is we need patience and we, especially those of us not in government, should put in our contributions that would help the leaders manage those challenges. The Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations, Mrs Amina Mohammed, was also a panellist at the webinar, which was moderated by Prof Konyinsola Ajayi (SAN) and the Managing Director & Chief Investment Officer, ARM Harith Infrastructure Fund Managers, Ms Tariye Gbadegesin.
Why Distribution Needs Relationship Contracts Contributed By AFFLINK In the mid-2000s, a U.S. computer manufacturer signed a long-term contract with an overnight delivery service to transport its products. By the eighth year of the 10-year contract, both the manufacturer and the carrier wanted out. But both companies knew ending the agreement would be a lose-lose. The result: two years of distrust, retaliatory measures, threats, and frustration. Finally, the two companies decided to scrap their old contract. They replaced it with what Michael Wilson of AFFLINK calls a “relationship” agreement. “Two years into the new contract, the carrier was able to reduce costs, supply chain efficiency was enhanced, and the friction generated by the old contract was eliminated,” says Wilson, AFFLINK’s vice president of marketing and packaging. Because Wilson believes relationship contracts can benefit distribution in many different industry sectors, he suggests taking the following steps to put one into action: Step 1: Build a partnership mentality “Most contracts are designed to protect each party’s interests. Put that concept aside,” says Wilson. “Develop a contract the builds relationships and serves both parties at multiple levels.” Step 2: Have a shared vision Some contracts are designed to give greater power to one party over the other. “Again, toss that aside,” says Wilson. “The focus must be a shared vision, how the two parties can work together for the benefit of the end-customer.” Step 3: Commit to guiding principles “Have a preamble to the contract, emphasizing that both parties are committed to honesty, loyalty, transparency, integrity, and fairness,” says Wilson. “These become the guiding principles of the contract.” Step 4: Lay out the terms of the agreement With the first three steps agreed upon, now the economics of the relationship contract must be hammered out. This is where the responsibilities of all parties and charges are outlined. Step 5: Create governance teams Both partners in a relationship contract should have matching teams that address specific issues as they come up. Both sides should be thankful after these five steps have been addressed. “When you work in the manufacturing sector, there is nothing more important than a good working relationship with vendors," says Wilson. "Relationship contracts ensure a team mentality shines in any partnership.” Disclaimer: Please note that Facebook comments are posted through Facebook and cannot be approved, edited or declined by CleanLink.com. The opinions expressed in Facebook comments do not necessarily reflect those of CleanLink.com or its staff. To find out more about Facebook commenting please read the Conversation Guidelines.
Hi Blis Schip, I have been through this whole process. In my view a spillover system just does not work on the freezer and fridge in the 410's. Our boat came with the one frigomatic freezer panel and cone compressor . There was an existing 100mm hole between the fridge and freezer located centrally. is an ex charter unit which was located in the Whitsunday Island in Tropical North Queensland . When we bought the boat the fridge would cool but food would start going off after 4 to 5 days. Ice would stay frozen but nothing would freeze unless it was against the cold plate. I installed a 100mm waterproof 2 volt computer fan over the hole to force air into the fridge. This worked relatively well and from that moment on we did not lose any food in the fridge. There was no way to gauge the temperature so I bought a small fridge/freezer thermometer and placed it in the freezer and connected a 12 volt LED temp gauge to the fridge. Despite the compressor running almost non stop the temp in the freezer never went below 0 degrees. The temp in the fridge held between 10 and 15 degrees. It was quite clear to me that the one compressor and cooling plate was just way to small for the large area that is the fridge and freezer. If memory serves me right the freezer and fridge have a total capacity of 200 litres. That's a lot of air space to cool. On closer inspection I saw that there had once been an cooling plate in the rear of the fridge. It had been disconnected and removed and I suspect that the hole was an after market installation by the charter I had a refrigeration mechanic look at the boat while in the Whitsundays and it was his opinion that the system would never work as was and stated that it required a separate unit in the fridge and freezer. He quoted and we accepted the quote but he never ever turned up to do the job. Go figure The unit worked until we returned to our home waters where I had the local refrigeration guru have a look at the unit. He was as the same opinion as the first tradesman and when we told me we would be returning to the tropics stated that in his experience the only system that would work properly for all our travels were cooling plates freezer and fridge run by independent compressors. Based on my own experience and the comments made by both independent refrigeration tradesman we opted for this system. I could not be happier. The system is working flawlessly and we have to keep the fridge to its lowest setting locally to make sure it does not ice up. We have taken the freezer down to - 18 degrees Celsius without anything in the freezer. We not only keep all our meat etc frozen but ice blocks for the kids and ice cream when I get the taste.. The plates were custom made to fit the freezer and fridge from copper plate and tubing. We utilised the existing freezer compressor and were up for a new danfos compressor for the fridge. Total cost $3400 installed. I now have total control over the temperature of my fridge and my freezer and very very happy that it will perform in the most extreme of circumstances. There is a company here in Australia called Ozefridge. I was looking at buying one of their systems and installing it myself. It ended up being cheaper having a custom built unit installed by a professional. While the old unit with the fan did function it was not efficient or effective particularly in tropical climates. Even with the second compressor I am not using anywhere near the power I was using with the one compressor and fan unit. If you are never going to the tropics then a spill over system may be all new need. If your going further afield spend the extra, see a marine refrigeration tradesman and get the job done properly. Just my two cents worth Sorry for being so long winded but there was no way of writing this any shorter. Greg, Sue and Bella the sea dog SV Sunshine Lagoon Lake Macquarie NSW OZ.
YS: MEMORIES OF CELCETA TO RELEASE IN EUROPE FEBRUARY 2014! NIS America is proud to announce that Ys: Memories of Celceta will release in retail form in Australia and New Zealand on February 21, 2014 for the PlayStation®Vita system. The European PSN version of the game will release the following week on February 25. Ys is a long-running, much-loved action RPG series from Nihon Falcom. For more information, visit http://nisamerica.com/games/ys_memoriesofcelceta/ About the game: In Ys: Memories of Celceta, developer Falcom revisits the land and characters of Japanese cult favorite Ys IV for its first ever European debut. This re-envisioning of the fourth installment in the Ys series takes a brand new approach, changing and framing the story of Ys IV within an all-new tale of conspiracy, deception, and mystery. Featuring an updated version of the party-based battle system from Ys SEVEN, as well as the largest and most varied overworld in series history, Ys: Memories of Celceta brings a greater sense of adventure to the Ys universe than has ever been seen before. Experience the Land of Celceta in English for the Very First Time Its first ever release in Europe, Ys: Memories of Celceta will take players on a new adventure in never-before-seen locales within the Ys universe. Explore the Biggest Overworld in Ys Series History Eclipsing all previous entries in the Ys series in both size and content, the overworld map metes out battle and exploration in equal measure. A robust mapping system with customizable waypoints and clear, detailed icons aid the journey through this mysterious new land. Adventure Forth with a Party of Allies The party battle system from Ys SEVEN returns, but this time with a host of upgrades such as enhanced flash-guarding, a more versatile party AI, and unique abilities for party members to streamline encounters for fast and furious battle. Throw Down the Gauntlet in Boss Rush Mode Boss Rush makes a comeback, pitting Adol and his companions against implacable foes to keep the challenge going well after the main story has been completed.
Gran Caffè Lavena Situated on the sunniest corner of Saint Mark's Square at the foot of the Clock Tower, in front of the Basilica, the Caffé Lavena has been one of Venice's most renowned coffee boutiques since 1750. The Caffé Lavena is a meeting place for illustrious Venetian guests and tourists, and has always actively participated in the cultural life of Venice, experiencing the most important historical events in the city during the 18th and 19th centuries. Originally the Café was called Regina d'Ungheria (the Queen of Hungary), when Venice was subject to the rule of the Austro-Hungarian Empire; it was later named Orso Coronato (the Crowned Bear), due to the picturesque sign depicting a bear with a crown on its head, standing on its hind legs. At that time, the Venetians called it Caffè dei Foresti (the Foreigners' Café), because it was frequented by a mainly international clientele and was the meeting place in the Square for anyone who did not know how to orient themselves among the Venetian calli (i.e. alleys). For this reason, the codegas, gondoliers, dry land porters and those who guaranteed transportation in the city, especially in the evenings, stationed themselves outside the café. They accompanied the foreign clients of the Lavena to their homes, through the dark meanderings of the Venetian canals, by the light of their typical hand-held lanterns. The codegas, in effect, may be considered the first tourist guides with an international clientele in the city. But it was Carlo Lavena, who bought the café in 1860, that gave prestige to this "coffee boutique". He changed the name of the business, but was wise enough to preserve the architecture and refined furnishings of previous ages. Thanks to his personality and culture, a wide circle of artists and musicians were attracted to the Café, including the great Richard Wagner. Additionally, thanks to his fame as a baker, he made the Café famous even abroad, exporting his sweets throughout Europe. Today, the Caffé Lavena is on the Italian Historical Places of Italy, with its precious furnishings and magic atmosphere, which still exists inside and outside the café, where guests are invited to experience the illustrious past and the popular traditions of Venice, among the tables that face the mosaics of St. Mark's Basilica.
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