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Q2240 Chairman: I did not think I would be the one to have that put-down, Secretary of State. I walked into that pretty unwittingly!
Mr Hoon: I apologise. It was not in any way meant to be a put-down. I simply think that the premise of your question depended on the results of an inquiry that is only just beginning, and given the inquiry, I am not sure it would be wise of me to anticipate its results.
Q2241 Chairman: I thought you used that answer to the earlier questions. Following on from that very successful questionand I think I know the answer but I am still asking itdo you think the war in Iraq has undermined our ability politically to take the sort of pre-emptive actions which the SDR New Chapter identified as likely to be necessary against the threat from international terrorism?
Mr Hoon: No, I do not believe that it has. We have made clear that in dealing with threats to the people of the United Kingdom, it is necessary to take action against those threats where they arise and not simply wait for them to manifest themselves in the United Kingdom itself. In a sense, operations in Afghanistan were an illustration of that, and the operations there, which continue, have not only destroyed the training camps that were previously available to Al-Qaeda, but they have also disrupted significantly their command and control and their communications. That continues to be operationally necessary, but it is a very good illustration, I think, Chairman, of precisely the point that you were making.
Chairman: We look forward to seeing what recommendations the Committee of Inquiry makes to minimise the risk of any failures, if failures there were, in intelligence.
Q2242 Mr Havard: Much of the discussion, obviously, in Westminster village is all about the things that happen in Westminster village, but I am interested in what intelligence and what advice was given to operational commanders on the ground from all of this, presumably expecting to go into a situation of present danger and a threat and all the rest of it on the basis of the intelligence assessment. We know you did not have "Jones the Spy", which is a bit of a problem in Iraq, because you could not grade a lot of the intelligence, but we have heard stories that this is the most photographed country in the world, yet when troops engaged, the maps were wrong, and boys were drawing things on bits of paper and swapping them around. There were serious problems with basic intelligence and information. What I would like to know therefore is what in fact was said to the troops and the operational commanders. Were they expecting the weapons of mass destruction to come via a boy with a bag on his back pretending to be a shepherd rather than it being a ballistic missile? In other words, I would like to know the advice about the asymmetric threat but also the direct military threat. What advice did they get?
Mr Hoon: Troops were prepared to deal with a number of potential threats in the way in which weapons of mass destruction might have been deployed. I am sure all of us can recall some early television clips of missiles coming into deployed forces in Kuwait and people making the appropriate response by getting into their chemical protection suits. It was a very vivid image at the start of the conflict.
Q2243 Mr Havard: Is that because they did not know?
Mr Hoon: It happened on a number of occasions. It was clear that those people had been properly briefed to expect a threat from a weapon of mass destruction, and they took appropriate action. I can recall embedded journalists describing that process as their cameraman took the pictures, and we all saw those pictures on our television screens. It indicates that they were properly prepared for that threat. As the operation developed, there were examples, particularly affecting American coalition forces, of attacks of an asymmetric kind. By then I think we were more in control of the territory from which, say, missiles could have been launched.
Q2244 Mr Havard: What you are really describing is they did not know so they tried to protect themselves against anything and everything.
Mr Hoon: That is probably a prudent preparation for any kind of military conflict.
Q2245 Mr Havard: Is that good enough though?
Mr Hoon: I do not understand why you say it was not good enough.
Q2246 Mr Havard: If you are an operational commander on the ground, you would expect you might get a little bit of graded intelligence as to what it is you are facing.
Mr Hoon: I have indicated, I think, the clearest possible example of what they were prepared to deal with and why they did it.
Chairman: We are coming on to this again, Secretary of State, on NBC defence.
Q2247 Mr Havard: My question is actually about embedded officers in the process, and it does follow on, in a sense. What we have learned is we have had embedded officers in Tampa and then in Qatar as part of the planning process, which I think quite clearly was thought to be, in terms of what was described to us as a "bottom up" process, very successful and very helpful, I think, in terms of doing what one of the officers called "We influenced the planning for the better" and I think some of them were afraid of the planning that they saw when they started. They were quite clearly only brought into the planning at certain stages, and I wanted to ask you about the timing of that. We know they were there after 11 September, and they had been there for some time. We are told that they discovered a "no foreigners" planning exercise going on in May 2002, in other words the Americans were excluding everyone, including the Brits, from that process. They were eventually involved in June and July 2002, and they got some authority to then carry on and do some pre-planning. But what they also told us was that what they discovered was that there were two windows for this exercise to happen in, the spring or the autumn. We know the war happened in the spring. You know the suspicion is that the Americans were always going to go in the spring anyway, no matter what the intelligence told them and no matter what the planning was. The question we want to ask is how successful do you think they were in terms of not only the political activities that were involved in the planning but also the operational side of the planning, on matters such as targeting and so on? There are two questions: one is about the military efficiency of these people's involvement and also their political involvement.
Mr Hoon: First of all, they did a tremendous job, and I think I need to distinguish between the regular liaison that takes place between Britain's armed forces and Centcom, not least after Afghanistan, where we again had British officers working very closely with their American counterparts in preparing operations. That cooperation continued, and involvement in the planning of specific operations, obviously, in relation to Iraq, where againI do not actually have the exact numbers but wherever I went in visiting forces, in preparing for the operations, British forces were significantly represented, and whenever I have spoken to either military officers or their political leadership in the Pentagon, there has been great praise for the contribution British forces made, but I would not want to be nationalistic about that, and I am sure you were not being. The development of military planning is a process, and I am pleased that British officers were able to contribute significantly to that, but I do not think necessarily they were any better or any worse than their American counterparts. They did an extremely good job together.
Q2248 Mr Havard: I am critical personally of the question about how they go about picking out targets, and I think the fact that the British were there helped that significantly, because they would have bombed a lot of things that otherwise they did not bomb because there was perhaps more intelligence from our side. It links back to the intelligence process. What I am really interested in is were they influencing that timetable, where they also being incorporated into the process, was this part of a political incorporation process or was it really about military planning for military effect? There is a tension between those two things, and it is quite clear that we are going to have to cooperate with the Americans for a long time in the future. Perhaps you can say something about how you see that moving on from the lessons learned here, how you are safeguarding, in a sense, against the incorporation problem whilst enhancing the real effect that they may have in terms of military planning.
Mr Hoon: On the question of targeting, this was a completely integrated process. The air campaign was about as integrated between the US and the UK as it could be. Indeed, I can recall occasions on which aircraft were in the sky, receiving their orders to take out particular targets, and it depended entirely on which aircraft were available, whether they were US or UK. That demonstrates the level of integration of targeting. So I would not accept that there was any kind of difference in approach between the US and the UK in the planning or preparation or indeed in the execution of that process. As far as the embedding of officers in military planning is concerned, their job is to produce the best military plan available for coalition forces. As I say, I believe that British forces played a significant part in the planning and did a tremendous job.
Q2249 Chairman: Is this likely to be permanent, Secretary of State, or just a series of ad hoc arrangements?
Mr Hoon: I said in answer to the earlier question that there has been regular liaison and exchanges between Centcom, for example, and indeed other American command headquarters, and British forces. I do not think they are ever based on a permanent arrangement as such, but nevertheless, the level of exchange over the years is such that in effect there have always been British officers there, to the best of my knowledge, certainly in my time in this job.
Q2250 Rachel Squire: First Reflections and your Lessons for the Future report highlighted the competing pressures of diplomatic negotiations and military preparations. It is clear that in seeking to avoid undermining the diplomatic phase of the crisis over Iraq, some decisions in respect of military preparations were delayed. Would you consider that it is inevitable that where military operations are just one part of the spectrum of diplomatic and political activity, the need to keep the political processes on track for as long as possible will act as a constraint on military preparations?
Mr Hoon: It could. I do not believe that it did as far as this particular operation is concerned. Inevitably it is my job to ensure on behalf of the armed forces and the Ministry of Defence that there is a consistent approach both to a diplomatic effort as well as to a military effort, and I believe that that consistent approach was carried through.
Q2251 Rachel Squire: You say that you do not believe it did in relation to Operation Telic. Are you really confident that there was no effect of the political diplomatic process on the holding of stocks of military supplies or in being able, for instance, to place orders early enough for matters for urgent operational requirements so as to allow their delivery to be just in time rather than just too late?
Mr Hoon: That is a perfectly proper question, which I will try and deal with. As far as stockholding is concerned, a judgment was madethe Committee has, I think, discussed this in the pastabout the appropriate level of equipment in store immediately available for a rapid reaction in terms of an international crisis. A judgment was made that that should be sufficient to equip the rapid reaction force at around 9,000. Thereafter the judgment was made that urgent operational requirements and the process of supplying those extra pieces of equipment would require sufficient time in order to be able to put a larger force into the field. That judgment, as I indicated in my introductory remarks, perhaps required some updating in the light of the kind of operation that we have just carried out in Iraq, which is why I have decided that there shall be larger stocks immediately available. That is in the light of the lessons that we have learned from this operation. As the NAO, I think, makes clear in its conclusions, there is always a balance to be struck between having equipment available immediately, given the cost of that, as against the process that we went through in relation to making sure that our troops were sufficiently equipped to conduct military operations in Iraq. It is a balance. It is a judgment. I judged that the previous level was not sufficient, but it could be the caseand I well recall this when I was first appointedthat we end up not using stock because it becomes time-expired and the money is thereby wasted. One of my early jobs was to close down various warehouses full of spare parts for equipment that had gone out of service and that had never been used. I have a responsibility not only to the taxpayer but also to the armed forces to make sure that we spend scarce resources as effectively as possible, and destroying stock that has never been used because it is no longer relevant is not something that I think is necessarily the best use of those scarce resources, either from the point of view of the taxpayer or, crucially, from the point of view of the armed forces, because I could have spent that money on something more useful as far as they were concerned. It is a judgment; it is a balance. We have got to get that judgment and balance right. My view is that we did what was necessary in Iraq, but perhaps learning the lessons that we hold larger stocks for the future than we did at the time. Those judgments evolve in the light of experience.
Q2252 Rachel Squire: Can I then ask you whether, in terms of learning those lessons, there was any consideration of whether international political processes could impact on the urgent delivery of supplies and equipment that had actually been manufactured outside the UK.
Mr Hoon: I do not think we had a particular problem on this occasion, but there will be plenty of people in this room that can recall the difficulties that we had on previous occasions in securing ammunition from particular countries. I had probably better not name those countries, to be diplomatic, but I think everyone knows what I am talking about. Obviously, the reliability of supplies is crucial, and that is again something that has to be taken into account as part of this process.
Q2253 Chairman: We are just trying to remember. Switzerland and Belgium. Apologies to any Belgians and Swiss.
Mr Hoon: So much for diplomacy, Chairman!
Chairman: I was never skilled in that, Secretary of State.
Q2254 Mr Blunt: Secretary of State, before following up on issues about equipment, can I just say that I spent two and a half years as a special advisor to one of your predecessors, and I have a vivid memory of reading a cutting from the Sun in Warsaw about a story about a Wren who had gone AWOL and was causing some concern, Wrens having just been introduced to the ships. It would be extraordinary, given the sensitivity to the press of the administration that you represent that your cuttings service is not being sent out to your private office on a daily basis when you are overseas. Not now, but could you please investigate and confirm that your private office received the cuttings service in question on those dates that you were away in Warsaw and Ukraine?
Mr Hoon: I will certainly investigate that.
Q2255 Mr Blunt: Let me begin with something that I hope we all agree on. I want to declare my interest as the son and grandson of two senior military logisticians, who I think would have taken huge pleasure from the unprecedented achievement in modern military logistics, which you described in your opening statement as heroic, in getting the equipment out to the Gulf for Gulf War II. Would they be right to take huge pride in that achievement, if they were still alive, and would they also be right in saying that the scale of their achievementsincluding all the civilian agencies involvedexceeded everyone's reasonable expectations?
Mr Hoon: I am grateful for that observation, because it is my view that the logisticians have not always been accorded the praise that I think they rightly deserve. They tend to be people who are rather taken for granted in the process, and I must say I was particularly impressed when I went to exercise Saif Sareea.
Q2256 Mr Blunt: I fear we do not have very long, so "yes" will do.
Mr Hoon: It is important that I answer the question. I recall going there towards the end of the exercise and at that stage there was the process beginning of getting the equipment and people back to the United Kingdom, and I must say that was a remarkable effort and, as you have properly said, this was something which was duplicated in our operations in Iraq this time.
Q2257 Mr Blunt: Therefore, Secretary of State, it is correct that the failures of supply that have been identified by the NAO are actually rather more to do with the strategic issue of the timetable to which the logisticians were working than any lower order issues such as efficiency in the supply chain about asset tracking that you are talking about. You have talked about the sheer volume of matériel that the logistic chain is having to deal with in a very short space of time. You, as Defence Secretary, were responsible for the timetable. Is that correct?
Mr Hoon: Yes, but if the implication of that is that there should have been more time, then I am sure your father and grandfather would have recognised as the logisticians that they were that the time is the time that you have available, and the job of a logistician is to ensure that the equipment is moved from, in this case, mostly the United Kingdom to theatre in the time that is available. That is the job they did, and that is why they did it so heroically.
Q2258 Mr Blunt: The point is, Secretary of State, that you were responsible for the timetable by the political decision that you took as Secretary of State for Defence for when preparations could begin. Could you turn to the chronology in your First Reflections document on page 73, the second booklet: Operations in Iraq: Lessons for the Future. As far as you are aware, the chronology is accurate?
Q2259 Mr Blunt: There are no dates in this chronology that the MoD appears to regard as significant between 17 December 1999 and 12 September 2002.
Mr Hoon: I am sorry. That is a completely open-ended question. I would be much happier if you were rather more precise as to what you mean by that.

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The Board of Directors of Coface which met today under the chairmanship of Laurent Mignon has decided to appoint Xavier Durand to the position of Chief Executive Officer. This appointment will become effective following the Board of Directors’ meeting to be held on 9 February to approve the accounts for fiscal year 2015. Jean-Marc Pillu will continue in his role as Chief Executive Officer of Coface until this date.
The Board thanks Jean-Marc Pillu for the action he has led over the last 5 years with great commitment and focus on results. In particular, since 2011 he has given Coface new impetus, with a development strategy recentred on its core credit insurance business. Thanks to the significant improvement in results generated as a consequence, he implemented the successful IPO of around 60% of the group’s capital, and negotiated the organisation of the transfer of the public guarantees activity to the French Public Investment Bank (Bpifrance).
Well-positioned by these successes and benefits gained during this transformation phase, Coface must now ensure its future development over the long-term.
In a context marked by the implementation of Solvency II, Xavier Durand will reinforce commercial activity, and propose and implement the necessary structural adaptations in order to continue to improve the group’s operational efficiency while preserving its risk profile in an uncertain global economic environment.
“I take this opportunity to thank Jean-Marc Pillu for his commitment and the work that he has led for the last 5 years to deeply transform Coface. Thanks to his action and engagement of its teams, Coface’s business has been rebalanced and a growth dynamic successfully established, thus strengthening the group’s future prospects and ability to meet its objectives.
Xavier Durand started his career in 1987 in consultancy Xavier Durand a The Mac Group (Gemini Consulting) before joining the Sovac Real Estate Bank in 1994 as deputy CEO.
In 1996, Xavier Durand joined GE Capital, where he led an international career, first in Chicago as Director of Strategy and Growth of the finance division of the Global Auto business, then in France, first as CEO Sales & Development of GE Money Bank France, then CEO of France, and subsequently of GE Capital’s European banking activities. In 2011, he was named CEO of GE Capital Asia Pacific, based in Japan. He was appointed GE Capital’s Director of Strategy and Growth, based in London, at the end of 2013.
Xavier Durand, 52, is a graduate of the Ecole Polytechnique and the Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées.

industry_corpus2: Finance & Economics


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This storm has changed the beach, really changed it. There are stones everywhere — and pieces of concrete and boulders washed down from the cliffs, and huge agglomerations of kelp, and very little sand — or at least, exposed sand.
This photo is taken looking down from the stairway (about 70 steps) that leads to the beach. You can see that the foam-topped water is right up at the base of the stairway supports. It was just past high tide; when the waves pulled back, all you could see was stones. Later in the day when we went for a walk, there was some sand showing, but it was a narrow band, and the surf was encroaching on it, so that we had to skitter up into the rocks. Speaking of which, no skitterers in sight. Where do they go during storms? Where are their nests? They must have cancelled their town meetings these past few days.
We will be exploring other beach-walking possibilities, unless the state park system does some beach terraforming/transforming. It is tricky to walk on layers of round, slippery stones. Wonder how and when the sand reappears, if the rocks get gathered together by the tides and pushed up against the cliffs again…questions!

industry_corpus2: Travel & Geography


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Dr. Tim Says : When's Lunch?
Last week I wrote about breakfast and how important it is to make this part of your day. At the same time I wanted to offer some practical advice about what made up a good breakfast (both quick and easy as well as elaborate). There was a lot of response to that column and it got me thinking about how lunch is important, too.
While it's not the "most important meal of the day," lunch is the one where a lot of folks get into trouble. There have been hundreds of my patients who by simply eating a good breakfast and planning for lunch have made significant changes in their health and had significant weight loss.
That "unhealthy" PB&J? All of 438 calories, with only 18 grams of fat. Even using peanut butter made with salt it comes in at only 433 mg of sodium. While there's a lot of fat, it's mostly good monounsaturated fat (9 grams of mono for the PB&J vs. 9 grams of saturated fat in the Panera sandwich). Now, keep in mind that she loved peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. Worth it at a savings of 250 calories per day (which is about what you need for a weight loss of a pound or so every couple of weeks).
There's some guidelines about portion sizes and making good lunch choices on the Lunch Guidelines page for eatTHISdiet.
By taking a few extra minutes to package up last night's leftovers, make a sandwich or a salad you'll feel better, eat better, lose weight and be healthier. Best of all, you'll save money. The average lunch ticket at a fast food restaurant is around $6.00, while it'll cost you about $2.00 to take your lunch (sandwich or salad or leftovers and a piece of fruit).
Hmm. . . $20.00 per week, $80.00 per month, $960.00 per year. . . That's a trip to the Caribbean.
Eat well, eat healthy, go to the Islands for a vacation!

industry_corpus2: Health & Medicine


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The next 8 Week Course will start in September in Dublin. Dates and Details will be updated shortly.
Is this Mindfulness Course right for me?
This course is for anyone who wishes to take some time for themselves to stop, slow down & ‘be’ for a while learning how to practice mindfulness & bring it into their daily personal and professional lives.
The world renowned Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction Programme (MBSR) was founded in 1979 by Dr Jon Kabat- Zinn at the Centre for Mindfulness at the University of Massachusetts Medical School in Boston, USA. Since its beginnings, it has supported thousands of people from across the globe develop skills that support them be an active participant in their own wellness. The Centre for Mindfulness in Boston is the global home of the MSBR Programme , The MBSR Teacher Training Institute Oasis and a leader in scientific research showing the benefits of Mindfulness Meditation and the MBSR Programme.
What’s involved in taking the 8 Week Mindfulness Programme (MBSR)?
Having a Pre Course Orientation Call with your Teacher prior to beginning the course. We will talk more about the course and I can answer any question you may have.
8 weekly 2.5 hrs Sessions.
This course is highly participatory and experiential in nature. The course is not taught in lecture format but rather encourages participants to learn from their own lived experience by practicing mindfulness, by ‘ being’ more present and aware in their lives both in the class and continually throughout their days and week. Participants are learning to listen to their own inner teacher and wisdom of the body, mind, and heart that always knows.
● A range of Mindfulness Meditation Practices including breath awareness, body awareness and some gentle stretching, hatha yoga & mindful movement exercises.
● We will in engaging in sharing reflections about our own experiences & noticings from practicing and what is being learnt during home practice from week to week.
● Take time for Personal Reflection & Group Discussion about particular topics.
It is a day of Silent Practice where we were support each other create a very nourishing still environment where we can focus on our practice and explore once more together all of the different practices we have been exploring throughout the course.
● Coming to the Pre Course Orientation Session. You will hear more about the course and what’s involved. This may help you clarify any questions you may have.
It is wise to take the course at a time in your life where you can really dedicate time to yourself & to this process of awareness & self discovery. With busy lives, it can be a challenge for most of us to find extra time in the day so it is important & wise to check in with yourself if this is a good time for you to take the course? knowing that you will be able to give yourself this time and commitment to the course and commitment to daily home practice.
This MBSR course in cork?
What are the benefits from taking this course?
The benefits of Mindfulness are unique for each participant. It is a journey of self discovery, a waking up in one’s life. Participants usually find the course a very enriching and nourishing experience with its challenges and surprises too.
Improved self-esteem, self awareness and willingness to care for self.
Greater appreciation and acceptance for oneself and one’s life as it is right now and greater understanding & wisdom of the nature of change, growing and learning.
I want to thank you for the wonderful delivery you gave us during this course. I decided to attend this course as a way of taking control of a very stressful lifestyle. I felt this course helped me to gain time for myself back again ! something I missed so much! It allowed me the space to take stock of what life is like now as a mother, wife, sister, friend and colleague. The tools I learnt to make time and space for myself were so beneficial. This course is about being kind and gentle to yourself. I look forward to attending similar courses with you in the future.
Mindfulness is a way of living & being in the present moment. Mindfulness is instinctive to all of us but with the rush of modern day living we often lose touch with our capacity to simply ‘ Be’, being present to what is happening right here and now both within ourselves and around us.
Cultivating Mindfulness allows you to look at your stressors and habitual ways of responding to stress and exploring new approaches and ideas that help you respond more skillfully supporting you to live with a greater sense of ease, calm and peacefulness.
Positive Thinking - Only having ‘ nice’ thoughts or having no Thoughts; Mindfulness is about seeing our thoughts as they are... thoughts , coming and going.
Feeling only nice things, being calm and peaceful - Mindfulness is about being awake to our experience however it is.. and being gentle, kind and understanding with yourself in that.


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industry_corpus2: Computing & Telecommunications


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Best of Falls Church 2018 Voting!
It's that time of year again to vote for your favorite places in Falls Church hosted by The Falls Church News Press. You can visit this link, and enter your email address so you can start voting. Find Rare Bird Coffee Roasters under the "Coffee Shops" section toward the bottom of the the food and drinks portion of the survey.


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Keiraville Community Pre-School Inc is an Early Learning Centre in Keiraville.
Keiraville Community Preschool (KCPS), High quality, innovative education for 3 and 4 yr olds. Not for profit, Exceeding quality standards. Waitlist Open!

industry_corpus2: Subject Education


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ABBA SERVICES. INC is a woman owned small business (WOSB) engineering consulting & technology Solutions Company focused on serving customers in Southern California. Incorporated in 2003, ABBA SERVICES, Inc. headquartered in Irvine, California serving our utilities' companies and various municipalities, manufactures, airports, corporations, medical / dental groups and retails throughout the Southern California. As a woman owned consulting engineering and information technology & services’ company we are dedicated to being responsive and thorough, upholding the highest standards of integrity in our relationships with customers and business partners.
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industry_corpus2: Technology & Research


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A new nutrition program came out this year called 2B Mindset. Before I lose you, it's not another DIET. This has been a game changer for me on how I view food and choose food to eat and I highly recommend it for EVERYONE whether you're trying to lose weight, maintain weight, or just live healthier. It is also changing how I will be helping my patients. At work my patients typically have long lists of illness and diseases that for the most part are preventable. Since good nutrition is foundational to good healing, we are often left working uphill in trying to help the patient recover from injury because they have a poor nutritional history. I'll be incorporating the 2B Mindset in my patient education programs starting next year and am excited to see how my patients benefit from this.
-It's not a one-size fits all approach. No two people are alike in their dietary needs so a nutrition program needs to be flexible. This program is great at general education and teaches you how to plate your food throughout your day and is customizable for YOU.
-It's a lifestyle, not a diet. Feel like you can't eat out with friends or enjoy going to BBQ's because of the diet you're following? 2B is great because it teaches you how to navigate eating out and eating in social settings while still working towards your goals.
-There is no counting of calories, measuring food, and no deprivation or cutting out of food groups. Find freedom in food and ways to fuel your body so you feel great, satisfied, and ready for your day.
-It teaches you how to grocery shop and fill your pantry so you are prepared to make great meals.
I'll be certified as a mentor in the 2B Mindset program by the end of October and am excited to dive in and help people live healthier lives (and not become my future patients!). Starting in November I will be starting a rolling admission for a Facebook group dedicated to those following 2B where we will offer accountability, encouragement, recipe suggestions and helpful educational tidbits. I hope you'll join us!
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In 2011 I spent nine weeks in King’s Wood, on the Kent Downs, as artist in residence with Stour Valley Arts. The experience of being an artist in an English working wood was very rich and rewarding. I made a small body of work using the abundant spent bluebell stems scattered under the trees, and they accompanied my fascination with the very numerous dens built and rebuilt over weekends and school holidays by children and their families who visited the Wood.
The project was supported by an Artsource, WA “go anywhere grant” and in kind support from STA. All photos of the dens and the Make Believe works by Nigel Green. A publication and exhibition of the works and the den photographs is planned for 2013 in Kent.

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industry_corpus2: Real Estate & Construction


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Finding Bigfoot returns to Animal Planet on Sunday, June 8 at 9 p.m.
For the most part, each episode of the show plays out in a set formula: The team, led by Bigfoot Field Research Organization (BFRO) president Matt Moneymaker, receives a compelling piece of evidence — usually a blurry video or a grainy photograph — that sends them scurrying off to rusticate in a remote corner of the woods.
Alongside skeptical scientist Ranae Holland, the intrepid crew of investigators —Moneymaker, Bobo Fay and Cliff Barackman — usually speak to whoever captured the evidence and then use the witness’s testimony, local lore gathered at a town hall meeting and some historical reenactment to evaluate the clues, which they mark on their evidence map. It’s neither particularly rigorous nor especially scientific, but it’s usually enough to send the team into the wood at night armed with audio equipment, night vision cameras and years of Bigfoot research experience between them (Moneymaker alone claims to have 25 years of Bigfoot hunting under his belt) to try and have their own ‘Squatch encounter.

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In this recent video, Bishop E.W. Jackson of Exodus Faith Ministries (Chesapeake, VA) is calling on black Christians to abandon the chains of the Democratic Party. Sadly, not enough leaders in the black community are echoing these same sentiments.
They have no clue who the Vice President is.
Don’t know what Obama has done.
Didn’t know that Osama Bin Laden was killed in 2011.
Think that Paul Ryan was selected as Obama’s VP.
Can’t give a cogent reason for why they will either vote for Obama or vote against Romney.
They agree that he’s pro-life.
Think Sarah Palin is running again.
Think John McCain is running again.


text: Ross, Stephen M., "Expanding NCD in the United States: How Natural Church Development Can Help Reverse the Tide of a Declining Christian Population" (2015). Masters of Theological Studies. 2.


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Using Apache Commons Email SimpleEmail class, users can send simple text email. This article explains how to send a simple text email in Java.
You create a maven based java project and add the following dependency in the project pom.xml file.
Write the following code in the "SendSimpleTextEmail" class .
Run the above code and check the email. As shown on the email confirmation message below, email is sent to the address successfully.


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Savvy Web retailers and service providers are looking for ways to jump on the recurring revenue bandwagon. Last month, it was even considered the number one New Year’s resolution for small businesses.
Where there is a business objective, there are technology companies waiting to help, especially when it comes to managing customer billing and payments, as these tasks can be quite resource-intensive. Subscription billing software-as-a-service (SaaS) solutions help automate the customer billing and payments process. Popular solutions include Avangate, Chargify, Fusebill and Authorize.net.
Aria Systems is also built for companies with recurring revenue and subscription models. Companies like Pitney Bowes, Audi, Advanced Auto Parts and others have turned to cloud-based Aria Systems to manage their subscriptions. Nordic-based Falk Group is one of the most recent brands to count on Aria Systems. It's Assistance division now works with the Aria platform to enable agile product management, real-time entitlement, and billing and dunning with salesforce.com, CRM, SAP ERP and external service delivery partners.
Consumers, however, would expect a subscription-type model from a company providing roadside assistance, but other product types, that are not traditionally subscription-based, are benefitting from this model as well, including (most notably) Birchbox (a monthly supply of personalized beauty samples), Blue Apron (a supply of fresh ingredients and corresponding recipes) and others (a long list of examples can be seen here).


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In parashat Tzav we find that after the anointment of Aharon and his sons, the priesthood is to pass to their offspring as a hereditary position. The one exception was Pinchas, the son of Elazar, the older of Aharon’s surviving sons after the death of Nadav and Avihu (in the next parashah). Since he was already born at the time of Aharon’s and his sons’ investiture, but was not summoned to be anointed with them he remained a Levite for some time. Years later, as the nation was about to enter the Land of Israel, Pinchas stops a plague caused by an explosion of immorality (at the end of Parashat Balak), and as recompense, Gd grants Pinchas the priesthood along with his father and uncle, and his progeny inherit the priesthood after him; indeed most of the Kohanim Gedolim were descendants of Pinchas. So the Kehunah is basically a hereditary position, with the exception of Pinchas.
Even in cases where a position is inherited, it is not unusual for the oldest son to not be the one who does the inheriting: Yitzchak inherits the mantle of Avraham instead of the more senior Yishmael; Ya’akov supplants his older twin, Esav; Yehudah, Yosef and Levi all get pieces of the leadership pie instead of Ya’akov’s firstborn, Reuven. Later, David, Yishai’s youngest son, is anointed king in place of his 7 older brothers. Clearly, in some cases merit can override birth as a determinant of leadership, whereas in other cases (e.g. kehunah nowadays) it cannot.
The place of both earned role and birth role within Jewish experience now becomes readily apparent. As God launches the journey of His chosen people through history, He weaves two participatory paths into the fabric of their society. Together these paths create a balance essential to the nation’s survival.
On the one hand, in each generation, earned opportunities will exist to encourage personal discovery, striving and growth. The realms of Torah scholarship, communal contribution and public leadership will lie open to those who earnestly seek to enter, regardless of personal background.
On the other hand, earned roles alone cannot ensure the perpetuation of all the structures critical to our nation’s character. Continuing responsibility must be assigned for the maintenance of institutions ranging from the priesthood to the Jewish home. Only a clear, ongoing division of responsibility, through the establishment of designated birth roles, will preserve the entire tapestry of Jewish life across the centuries.
The dramatic fealty shown by the Kohanim in maintaining their own unique heritage for over three thousand years demonstrates the true, lasting power of inherited roles. This power has helped safeguard the character of our nation from Sinai to this day.
There’s a bit of the “nature vs. nurture” controversy here. Is one’s suitability for a particular role given by your birth characteristics or is it solely the result of your hard work in developing your talents? Consider athletics, for example. Elite athletes have to train and perfect their skills, but there is no question that they are also born with a set of talents that set them apart from their peers. Have there been no athletes who have worked as hard on their games as Babe Ruth or Tom Brady or Michael Jordan or Wayne Gretzky or Pele? Yet how many have measured up to their standards? Clearly hard work / merit / nurture is not the full story of greatness. There is a genetic component as well.
Each one of us has our own unique path in life, and we have been endowed by Gd, both by our genetic makeup and our social environment. Each one of us, however, has within ourselves a soul, which is a piece of Gd, unbounded and eternal. Our experience of our soul is, however, clouded over by all the stresses and strains, all the wrong and negative actions that have accumulated over a lifetime. We have the process of t’shuvah, return to our own innermost nature, as a means to get rid of all this negativity and restore the pristine condition of our soul. This path is everybody’s path. For some it may be a harder and longer path than for others, but no matter how far along we get on the path, we will be bringing more and more of Gd’s light into the world.
The parshah continues with Gd’s commandments to Moses about the nature of the korbanot (offerings, to draw near to Gd), adds details about the blood and oil used by Moses at Gd’s command to anoint the Tabernacle and Aaron and his sons – to bring out, reveal, the Holiness in them, Gd’s Presence.
Blood is something that flows through living organisms that brings nourishment to every part of the organism. Fat is something that also sustains living organism. Oil is to a seed as fat as to humans.
Anointing Oil in a way was like the fat that was offered; so was the anointing blood like the blood that was offered. Both sustained life, allowed the offeror to draw near to Gd; the anointing oil and blood establish the offeror as a priest, permanently near.
Today, we offer prayer instead of animals and their blood and fat and there is no full Temple standing and no visible Tabernacle, and there is no Kohen Gadol to be anointed, but each of us is responsible for our own spiritual growth, though rabbis and cantors may serve as the spiritual leaders of a community.
Prayer from open hearts, pure souls, flows and provides the essence of what blood, fat and anointing oil once provided. Bar and Bat Mitzvahs, rabbinical and cantorial ordination substitute for the anointing.
Not only formal prayer is a means for offering – every action we do needs to be an offering, a mitzvah, something we do to align ourselves with Gd, to do Gd’s Will and raise ourselves and all and everything near to Gd and then to Oneness with Gd.
Though purity of soul, openness of heart, are the essence of drawing near through prayer, preparation for Bar and Bat Mitzvahs and for rabbinical and cantorial ordination helps us to master the skills of reading Hebrew, reciting it and leading a good life, a life according to the mitzvot of Torah, a life in which we experience ourselves and Torah at deeper and deeper levels, and begin to draw near to Gd so that we experience that we and Gd are One, Torah and Gd are One – Gd is All there Is.
Joy and Love are signs of this growth. We have a lot of this in our congregation and our community and we show strong signs of continuing. Some of the things that can help our growth are learning as we learned when we became Bar/Bat Mitzvah, and even dipping more deeply into the well of Jewish wisdom, by learning Hebrew and cantillation better, learning more of the skills of rabbis and cantors. These seem to be lovely and joyous activities; the Internet has vast amounts that we can dip into and we can share with each other and grow together.


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Australian Taxation Office assistant commissioner Colin Walker has warned tax professionals that the ATO’s tech woes are set to continue.
Key ATO services went down yesterday, with the agency confirming that the problems are linked to a widespread outage in December. The December events are now subject to both an internal ATO investigation and an ATO-commissioned review by PwC.
“Specialist ATO and HPE technicians have worked through the night to restore our systems and online services,” Walker wrote in a message to tax professionals.
The ATO said its website is working “intermittently”.
In an updated statement released at 2.05pm AEDT, the ATO said: “HPE have deployed their global resources to restore the ATO systems and the associated infrastructure. Once this restoration is complete, our staff will work to make ATO services available for the community.
“Work will continue around the clock with an immediate focus on restoring priority services – the portals, the practitioner lodgment service (PLS), ATO online, the Australian Business Register (ABR), Standard Business Reporting (SBR) and Superannuation online services,” Walker wrote.
“The performance of different systems may vary as this restoration process is undertaken,” the assistant commissioner said.
No data has been lost during the outage, according to the ATO.
The December outage was caused by the failure of an HP Enterprise storage system, with both the primary and backup systems affected.
The PwC review is expected to be finalised in March.


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I beam, you beam, we all run from eye beams...5/8H down in another good raiding week. Particularly looking for a couple of ranged folks to add to the mix.
I go away for a week and they just keep rolling along! 8/8 N now cleared and 3/8 H.
So, the train keeps chugging along. Week one saw a nice run even with the lag on Wednesday making the first 2 bosses an interesting experience. 6/8M and 1/8H- a good solid start!

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One day many years ago, Swami distributed ice cream to the boys. The brand name was JOY ice cream, and it was gifted by a devotee who owned the company. While boys were enjoying the ice cream, Baba went round as usual, asking the boys how they liked the ice cream. And then suddenly He asked a boy, "Boy what do you think God is like?" The boy was taken aback. He was fully immersed in enjoying ice cream, and God was, at least at that moment, far from his mind! Swami asked another boy the same question, and he too blinked. After drawing a blank response a few more times, Swami smiled and slowly said,"God is SWEET like ice cream!" The boys became attentive. Swami continued, "God is SOFT like ice cream!" By now, the boys had stopped eating, while Swami went on, "God is COOL like ice cream!" And then the punch line: "He gives JOY like ice cream!"
What a delightful play on words! Sage Ramakrishna Paramahamsa once declared, "God alone can make complicated things simple, so simple in fact that even a child can understand." How very true!


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School lunch meals are cooked off-site and brought in.
Breakfast and tea are prepared and provided by staff on site.
Holiday club breakfast, lunch and tea meals are prepared and provided by staff on site.
We do not allow packed lunches.
Snacks (including fruit / milk / water) are available for children to independently access throughout the session. Cooking activities are available several times a week.
If children participate in a cooking activity, the food is usually shared between the children at the snack table.
Please let us know if your child has any special dietary requirements. If your child has an allergy you will be asked to bring us a letter from your doctor – please see your key person for further information.


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Slamming the opposition for stalling the reform process in the country through the Goods and Services Tax (GST), Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said that GST will bring in economic integration in the country.
“There are some people working for putting obstacles on growth and hence are stopping GST as well. All the chief ministers are in favour of GST, even the opposition is in favour. There are no numbers to stop it in the Parliament and hence, they adopted a new strategy of affecting the working of Parliament during the three day extension adopted for passing GST. Some people, while they were in government, were a burden on the economy and aspire for the same even in Opposition,” Jaitley said, at the launch of the three social security schemes in Mumbai.
The entire country will be a single market, it will be the economic integration of India. There will be a seamless transfer of goods and services if GST is implemented, Jaitley added.
Jaitley, along with Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis, announced the launch of Pradhan Mantri Suraksha Bima Yojana, Atal Pension Yojana and Pradhan Mantri Jeevan Jyoti Bima Yojana at the event. The Pradhan Mantri Suraksha Bima Yojana and PM Jivan Jyoti Bima Yojana will provide insurance to individuals in any unfortunate event causing death or disability while the Atal Pension Yojana will address the problem of income security during old age according to the government.
According to Jaitley, Maharashtra is definitely likely to benefit due to GST implementation. “We started the process to end the multitude of indirect taxes across the country and took the states along in this as it would involve a change in the Constitution. Maharashtra will benefit a lot through GST,” Jaitley said. Jaitley also seemed bullish about the growth prospects of the economy going forward.


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Brain Tumour TreatmentsAre you having chemotherapy? Do you want to know whats in store with radiotherapy? Ask questions, help others and find support in the brain tumour treatments forum.
This forum is a place for you to discuss, ask questions, find support and share your experiences of surgery, radiotherapy and chemotherapy.
The other brain tumour treatments forum is a place to discuss any other brain tumour treatment, including steroids, anti-sickness medication and epilepsy medication. Ask questions, help others and share your experiences.


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Dodge-Hamlin House Approved by State Review Board - Front Range Research Associates, Inc.
On 19 September the Colorado State Review Board recommended approval of the 1916 Dodge-Hamlin House on the campus of Colorado College, Colorado Springs, for listing in the National Register of Historic Places. Designed by local architect Nicholaas van den Arend for newspaper publisher and Progressive leader Clarence P. Dodge, the Mission Revival-style dwelling features City Beautiful concepts in its landscaping. Newspaper publisher and anti-Ku Klux Klan crusader Clarence C. Hamlin and his family occupied the house from 1923-43. Colorado College acquired the building in 1943 and has used it to houses students, faculty, and staff since then.


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I don’t know, I don’t understand why I feel so sad.
A tale from ancient times--I just can’t get it out of my mind.
The top of the cliffs glisten in the evening sunshine.
Her golden jewelry is sparkling; she combs her golden hair.
The song has an uncanny, powerful, overwhelming melody.
He looks up to the tops of the cliffs, staring off into the sky.
I believe, in the end, that the waves swallow both sailor and barge.
Who did this? Why, with her singing, it was the Loreley.

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Threat class has grown most the considerably more necessary around the present days to weeks seeing that the consumption of hazardous resources is maximizing considerably. You will find yourself surprised to learn that now there are numerous things that we apply day-to-day, which inturn are risky goods by some means or the many other. The main makeup involving these pieces shows that there is implement of deadly materials within it. But them is not damaging for natural occasions. The particular products are generally tested together with hazard distinction is carried out well before it all is bought from the market place. Though transporting these types of items through highways, DUST (Department regarding Transportation), shows that most of the rules and guidelines of moving it around the unsafe goods will be followed accurately. According that will the guidelines of DOT, IMO in addition to IATA, almost any carrier that carries serious goods, should really be accompanied by just experts, exactly who are appropriately trained inside handling deadly resources. This unique reduces the particular risk connected with a great devastation as the analysts is able to the particular situation and get rid of it right from becoming something large.
Depending on DOT, risk to safety classification could be based at many important things. Often, threat classification incorporate merchandise the fact that are explosives, corrosives, radioactive materials, veggie juice and good flammables, gasóleo substances, horrible gases, dangerous materials, oxidizers and lots of more. The very extent of damage that can easily be the result of each about these substances is distinct and that is certainly just what exactly kinds the very base connected with hazard group. As per the regulations of risk classification simply by DOT and various other international agencies safeguarding usage of hazardous elements, specific statistics and shades are shown in order to different harmful materials. This will assist in identifying the severity of harm that could be caused by materials. Hazmat professionals and professionals are granted well enough teaching upon peril class plus explained with regards to these emblems, colors as well as numbers while in the training course because it become easier just for them in order to see the actual bad which can possibly be due to typically the material.

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London: Angelina Jolie considers it her "job" to love husband Brad Pitt. The 'By The Sea' director and actress, who married her co-star in the film in August 2014 after 10 years together, admits they don't always see eye-to-eye, but believes "big fights" make their relationship stronger.
"It strengthens a relationship if you can pass those big fights and those big things where you really come head-to-head."
The Oscar-winning actress, 40, thinks the 52-year-old heartthrob gets better with age and is looking forward to growing old with him.
"I'm more interested in his 50-year-old self than his 40 year-old-self. And then you look forward to even more years together. Brad and I are fortunate because we see the beauty in each other's changes."
The couple have six children, Maddox, 14, Pax, 11, Zahara, 10, Shiloh, nine, and seven-year-old twins Vivienne and Knox.


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NASA Glenn’s Fransua Thomas received the 2019 Black Engineer of the Year Award for Community Service.
Ronald Johnson, (center) professor and fellow at The Georgia Institute of Technology, smiles as he receives the 2019 Educational Leadership Award for College-Level Promotion of Education.
As interim president of the University of Southern California (USC), Dr. Wanda Austin is building partnerships to drive innovation, discovery, and collaboration.
If you still have hiring needs, were limited by the government shutdown, or simply did not have the staff at the BEYA STEM Job Fair in February, then our March Recruitment Madness is just for you.
The annual Technology Recognition Luncheon at the BEYA STEM Conference, which honors Modern Day Technology Leaders, was held Friday, February 8.
Dr. Victor McCrary, vice president for research and graduate programs at the University of the District of Columbia and a member of the National Science Board, presented the HCBU Innovation awards at the BEYA STEM Conference.
In the 2004 photo, Charles Bass (center) smiles as he receives his Modern-Day Technology Leader award from Black Engineers of the Year Dr. John Brooks Slaughter (1987), Dr. Lydia W. Thomas (2003), and BEYA Conference Chairman and Career Communications Group CEO Tyrone D. Taborn.
With more than 30 years on the BEYA circuit, Dr. Kendall Harris, provost and vice president of academic affairs at Texas Southern University, is best positioned to talk about the value of the STEM Conference.


text: SCIENCENET cordially invite you to attend the International Conference on History of Philosophy	slated on 28th June 2019 at Karachi,Pakistan . We welcome all scientists, scholars, students, industrialists to attend and explore their knowledge in the field of History of Philosophy	. This conference is an amalgamation of industrialists, academia where they can gear up knowledge in the field of bacteriology. Our gratitude towards people who are concerned about History of Philosophy	and we cordially invite them to gear up and make the congress a unforgettable successful event.


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Former president Olusegun Obasanjo says President Muhammadu Buhari’s hands are too weak to sign the African free trade agreement (AfCTA).
He made the statement on Saturday while speaking at the Babacar Ndiaye lecture series in Bali, Indonesia.
Obasanjo said he hopes that Nigeria will soon have a president who will sign the agreement.
“Africa cannot overcome fears of trade wars till it achieves 50 percent intra-Africa trade,” he said.
The former president said the AfCTA is good for all African countries, particularly small countries.
“The future of Africa trade and the effectiveness of policies to achieve macroeconomic stability in Africa will largely depend on the strength and resilience of Africa-South trade,” Obasanjo said.
“Accelerating the process of industrialisation and transformation of African economies we must add value to our commodities. And it is in adding value to our commodities that our industrialisation begins. This is nicely laid out in the African Union agenda.
“Boosting intra-African trade and boosting the process of regional integration and the AfCTA, the agreement which was signed in March this year. This is something we have all been working to and it came up only last March in Kigali.
Nigeria was absent in March as leaders from 44 African countries signed the agreement to form a $2.5 trillion continental free-trade zone.
The free-trade zone is the largest in the world since the creation of the World Trade Organisation in 1995.
Explaining its decision not to sign, the federal government had said a committee was reviewing the treaty and that it needs more input from stakeholders.


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So while I have time to kill on the plane, I figured I would report back about something we did a while ago, which is start a registry. Honestly, our guests are spending so much money just attending our wedding that our expectation is that many will limit or forgo gifts – which is of course fine, but we are still having a shower, and the expectation is that we would register for items we would like.
Mr. Llama and I are going to be moving sometime in the year following the wedding (it all depends on when we find the perfect place!), and not knowing where exactly we’re going dictates our registry a little bit. Right now, we live in my parents’ condo (which they don’t live in for the majority of the year – they’re snowbirds), so we use a lot of their appliances, dishes, furniture, etc. We put our small amount of stuff into storage a few years ago, and frankly, we aren’t 100% sure what we do and don’t have anymore.
What we definitely knew we needed were some nice dishes, flatware, and glassware. Since most of our stuff in storage is leftover from college life, we definitely wanted an upgrade in that arena. Like many couples, Crate & Barrel was on our radar for being reasonably affordable, good quality, and for having locations all across the country. We decided on just a C&B registry for those people that like to physically go into a store and buy something, and the rest of our wants/needs will be supplied through Amazon’s Universal Registry. It just seemed easiest – that way, we can have a huge variety of types of items, and at the likely best price.
What I like best about the Amazon Registry, though, is that if you DO find the item elsewhere, you can tell it that and it will remove it from the list. This drives me crazy about traditional registries, especially for places like Bed Bath & Beyond and Target. Those places do not stock many items that are specific to that store – so it’s easy to find the item elsewhere for cheaper (I can’t tell you how many times I’ve seen an exact item on someone’s registry from BB&B for half the price at TJ Maxx. But can I get it? Not really. ARG.) So we figure – at least Crate & Barrel has Crate & Barrel-specific items, and everything else can be found wherever our guests would like.
If you haven’t already picked up on it, I like the mismatched look, so these dishes are perfect for us! My parents also always had blue & white dishware growing up, so it feels like home to me.
In addition to the plates & bowls, we got some wine glasses, regular glasses, flatware, and some matching serving platters. We looked at linens, but figured we didn’t want to get too much before we knew how big of a table/kitchen we would have. So we stopped there.
As for our Amazon registry, we got the usual stuff – Tupperware, Pyrex, pots & pans, small appliances…nothing all that exciting. I feel like there’s gotta be something big that I’m missing though…I’m thinking about a Roomba. Anyone have experience with those? I hate vacuuming!
Looking back at your registry experience – what’s the one thing you wish you had registered for? Or not registered for?

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As defined by the International Association for Bridge and Structural Engineering, structural engineering is the science and art of planning, design, construction, operation, monitoring and inspection, maintenance, rehabilitation and preservation, demolishing and dismantling of structures, taking into consideration technical, economic, environmental, aesthetic and social aspects. Structural engineering research at the University of Houston focuses on large scale testing of concrete and steel members with companion analytical studies.
The Structural Research Laboratory is located in the South Park Annex of the University of Houston. The facility includes 30 ft. by 60 ft. and 20 ft. by 60 ft. strong floors and houses over two million dollars worth of test equipment, including a biaxial fatigue testing machine, a 2.5 million pound MTS test system, and a universal panel tester. The universal panel tester can be used to perform biaxial and triaxial tests and is the only one of its kind in the United States and the most versatile of the three panel testers in the world. The laboratory also offers a fully equipped welding shop and concrete casting room, as well as student and faculty office space and a conference room.
Since its inception in 1983, the laboratory has conducted over two million dollars worth of research for the National Research Foundation, multiple projects for the Texas Department of Transportation, and has produced major research results that have attracted national and international attention.


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Don't store confidential data on your computer unless you must. You should never store any Reed confidential data on a personally-owned computer.
If storing confidential data on your computer is necessary, delete it (securely) as soon as you're done with it.
Confidential data stored on your computer should be encrypted.
Data on your computer should be backed up frequently and the backup should be kept in a secure location.
Passwords should be at least 8 characters long, should include letters, numbers, and special symbols, and should be managed carefully.
Whenever possible, do not store confidential information on handheld devices. If you must do so, see the CIS recommendation.
Do not send confidential information via email.
Take appropriate precautions to avoid viruses, worms, and other attacks on your computer.
Set a password to wake your computer from sleep or screen saver mode. Do not set your computer to automatically login.
Take appropriate measures to protect your computer from theft. If you have a laptop, use a security cable during business hours and lock the laptop in a secure cabinet at nights and over the weekend.
Contact Computer User Services (or ACS for administrative staff) with any questions.


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Wong was born and raised in Hong Kong. She received her BA (Fine Art) degree from Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology University, major in painting.
Her work is mainly in oil and mixed media. Concern about mental state, disease and questioning the existence of life. Reflecting on her life experiences, excerpting some sentences from books into the painting. Through her flow of lines, marks and brush stroke to develop a series of works to depict the catastrophic thinking and depression.


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An LLC is treated as a pass-through entity by default by the IRS unless the owners, known as members, elect to be treated as a corporation. A pass-through entity does not pay taxes on its profits at the business level. Instead, it passes a proportionate share of profits and losses through to its members, who then record their share on personal income tax returns and pay taxes on the share at an individual rate. Distributions, or payments, of excess profits made to members of an LLC are constrained by the company's status as a pass-through entity.
LLCs make two types of payments to members: draws and distributions. Draws can be taken at any time and are an advance on expected profits that would be allocated to the member at the end of the year. Draws are typically not guaranteed, unless the member manages the business and the draw is used as the member's salary. Since the LLC is a pass-through entity, the members are not considered employees of the business in the way they would be if the business was organized as a corporation.
Guaranteed draws are used as a substitute for a salary and ensure that a member that is running the day-to-day operations of the company is compensated for his services before other members receive payments out of profits. The other type of payment – distributions – is distributed at year-end and is a member's proportionate share of the company's profits.
A guaranteed draw, or payment, is used as the LLC equivalent of salary to managing members. This type of payment has certain tax benefits. The IRS treats guaranteed draws as wages and requires members to pay self-employment taxes and make estimated tax payments. The managing member must pay the full amount of the employment tax – the employer and employee amounts that, together, total approximately 15.3 percent in 2018 – but gets to deduct half of that amount from his adjusted gross income as a business expense.
A managing member who receives part of company revenue as a guaranteed draw or payment only ends up paying approximately 7 percent taxes, or half the amount of the employment tax rate, on the amount. Because the IRS considers the managing member active in the daily business of the LLC, it allows a deduction of half the employment taxes on the managing member's tax return. If the payment had been paid to him at the end of the year as a distribution, for example, he would have had to pay taxes on it at his individual income tax rate rate, which in some cases can be as high as 28 percent. Most LLC members view the lower tax rate applicable to guaranteed draws treated as wages as a significant benefit.
Masters, Terry. "Tax Benefits of Guaranteed Payments in an LLC." Small Business - Chron.com, http://smallbusiness.chron.com/tax-benefits-guaranteed-payments-llc-19208.html. 20 March 2019.


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[Updated] AXA announced today that it has entered into an agreement to acquire 100% of XL Group Ltd, with the French company confirming that the total consideration for the acquisition amounts to $15.3 billion.
Shareholders in XL will receive $57.60 a share, which represents a 33% premium to the company’s closing price on March 2, AXA said.
AXA CEO Thomas Buberl said, “This transaction is a unique strategic opportunity for AXA to shift its business profile from predominantly L&S business to predominantly P&C business, and will enable the Group to become the #1 global P&C Commercial lines insurer based on gross written premiums.
“XL Group has the right geographical footprint, world-class teams with recognized expertise and is renowned for innovative client solutions.
“Our combined P&C Commercial lines operations, will have a strong position in the large and upper mid-market space, including in specialty lines and reinsurance, and will complement and further enhance AXA’s already strong presence in the SME segment.
XL Group CEO Mike McGavick said, “Today marks an unrivalled opportunity to accelerate our strategy with a new strength and dimension. With every confidence in how we have positioned XL Group for the future, it is a substantial testament to AXA’s leadership and commitment to maintaining the XL Group brand and culture that we have come to an alignment.
Upon completion of the transaction, the combined operations of XL Group, AXA Corporate Solutions and AXA Art will be led by Greg Hendrick, currently the President and Chief Operating Office of XL Group, who will be appointed CEO of the combined entity and join AXA Group’s management committee, reporting to Thomas Buberl.
Greg Hendrick will work closely with Doina Palici-Chehab, AXA Corporate Solutions’ Executive Chairwoman, and Rob Brown, AXA Corporate Solutions’ CEO, to build an integrated organization and leadership team for this new company.
Following the closing, Mike McGavick, XL Group’s current CEO, will become Vice Chairman of the combined P&C Commercial lines operations and special adviser to Thomas Buberl, AXA Group CEO, to advise on integration-related and other strategic matters.
The merger agreement has been unanimously approved by the boards of AXA and XL Group. Completion of the transaction is subject to approval by XL Group shareholders and other customary closing conditions, including the receipt of required regulatory approvals, and is expected to take place during the second half of 2018.
Update 5.49pm: BDA CEO Ross Webber said, “The AXA-XL Group deal continues to show how attractive the Bermuda market and its companies are. Bermuda has yet again proven itself to be a domicile where companies can grow from the seeds of necessity-driven innovation in the mid-’80s to highly desirable multi-billion-dollar targets more than 30 years later.
Money dont grow on trees, thank you PLP for listening to the PEOPLE and giving seniors an increase and workers an increase.
The other administration had 5 years and took,took,took, CEO’s, stakeholders and shareholders are doing quite good (especially de BTA crew), but us common folk are gotta fight tooth and nail to get a dollar increase.
Maybe so, but I hate it when when people get pissed on and told that its raining.
There’s bus cancellations every day yet your lot have brand new cars. One rule for them, another rule for us.
Give one solid example with facts.
that’s all the PLP do all day long mate! they have peed all over us and told us it’s raining.
Onion Juice you are too funny. You and your PLP had to hire 5 extra people just to give half the service the OBA provided in garbage collection. These are facts, you may lie and spin it anyway you want it will not change the truth.
Ya but no one is complaining that their trash is not being picked up. But when PLP get the new trucks (which OBA neglected to get like de buses to force privatization but paid for Billionaires to have a sailboat race), we will have sufficient trucks to have regular pick ups twice a week.
AS I said still cannot change the truth no matter how you spin it or lie.
Both administrations have taken more from Bermuda then they gave back. Both PLP and OBA have been more about foreign investment than local. This is what happens when governments have grandiose delusions and have the party cheerleaders along for the ride.
PLP offset the menial guest worker populations with the white IB guest worker population in 2007. They canceled many IB worker permits while approving much more unskilled guest worker permits in the THOUSANDS. That year the Bermudian headquartered XL group’s stocks crashed hard down below $3 a share from $84 a share. From that time until this year it has been a roller coaster for this company and any shareholder of XL group was not doing, “quite good”. They had to get bought out by a French company in order to progress. This means another Bermudian company lost. There’s no guarantee now that AXA will keep the company on the island.
This Bermudian company since the 1980s XL has clawed its way back with little support from the government. PLP could have helped this company come back but they’d didn’t. If they thought that IB business was not doing enough for Bermudians they could have helped them do more. They could have helped both by setting up RRSP fund accounts with Bermudian banks where Bermudians could be provided the tools and advisory to invest in Bermuda with a portion of their earnings go there instead of government pension which is not making any gains at all to Bermudian based companies on the exchange like XL. If every Bermudian had invested at least $1000 of their yearly pension into an RRSP holding XL stocks in 2008 at the affordable price of $3 they’d have around 333 shares which would have gained them over 18 grand upon this buyout and if they’d invested yearly far more. Any Bermudian can invest in the BSX but the PLP isn’t and never did encourage it. Other countries governments have RRSP funds for their citizens to invest locally but PLP instead wanted to invest our pension savings overseas.
The PLP has done nothing but encourages nonlocal investments through allowing more foreign workers in from Countries where they encourage remittances from Bermuda back to their country and kicked out all the specialist workers that could help Bermuda succeed.
I guess the Regressive LP will use some of the PROFITs made from AC to buy the new trucks, hire even more Civil Servants to prop up their votes… in any other civilized country people would actually realize what the Regressive LP relly stands for… and that is spend spend spend… where do you think increase in pensions are coming from? thin air?
Any word on the future of all of what were originally Catlin, then XL-Catlin, environmental programmes in the Arctic and coral reefs?


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What It’s About: Charlie Bucket dreams of winning a contest to visit the factory of eccentric confectioner Willy Wonka.
Why Watch it Today?: Author of the original novel and screenwriter Roald Dahl was born today in 1916.
This entry was posted in Adaptation, Based on a Book, Family, Movie of the Day, Musical, The Original and tagged Anthony Newley, Aubrey Woods, Best Music Original Song Nominee, Best Music Scoring of a Musical Picture Nominee, David Battley, Denise Nickerson, Diana Sowle, Dodo Denney, Günter Meisner, Gene Wilder, Jack Albertson, Julie Dawn Cole, Leonard Stone, Leslie Bricusse, Mel Stuart, Michael Bollner, Paris Themmen, Peter Capell, Peter Ostrum, Peter Stuart, Roald Dahl, Roy Kinnear, Ursula Reit, Werner Heyking.


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Phil Foden netted an impressive FA Cup brace in Manchester City's 4-1 fifth-round win at Newport County despite a Rodney Parade pitch he branded the worst he has played on.
Pep Guardiola's free-scoring Premier League leaders were kept at bay during a keenly contested first half before Leroy Sane broke the deadlock six minutes into the second period.
Foden dispatched a fine solo effort in the 75th minute but the 18-year-old's fifth goal of the season was required to settle nerves a minute from time after Newport striker Padraig Amond reduced the arrears.
"We showed our professionalism, keeping the ball moving. In the end it showed," the England Under-21 international told BT Sport.
"We scored straight away after [Amond] scored, it's always good to do that.
"[The pitch] is the worst I've played on, to be honest."

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Neil Young Greendale (WEA) + + + - B#9.99.
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Drive look like Legally Blonde.
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draft. Much the same could be said of Young's entire career.
musical obesity that tends to accompany such ambitious enterprises.
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Farmington United Percussion Ensemble, or "FUPE", is a performing arts ensemble that competes in the Michigan Color Guard Circuit (MCGC); which is a constituent of Winter Guard International (WGI). WGI Sport of the Arts is the world's premier organization producing indoor color guard, percussion, and wind ensemble competitions. As a non-profit youth organization, WGI serves as the leading governing body of the winter guard and indoor percussion activities. WGI provides a venue for young people to achieve the extraordinary through performance and competition.
The purpose of FUPE is to help young people grow as musicians and as individuals through a comprehensive offering of musical and performance experiences. Our goal is to achieve the highest level of musical and visual excellence within our given abilities. FUPE is open to any student eligible for WGI competition.
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"THANK YOU, FORGIVE ME, HELP ME MORE!"
"These words [of Blessed Alvaro] can also help to give an impetus to our own Christian life," Pope Francis said in a letter written on the occasion of his beatification.
The Holy See has attributed to the intercession of Bishop Alvaro the recovery of the newborn Jose Ignacio Ureta Wilson after a cardiac arrest lasting longer than half an hour. 8 min video.
Susana's prayers to Bishop Alvaro for the recovery of her son have been cited by the Holy See in Bishop Alvaro's beatification process, since Jose Ignacio's recovery has been declared medically inexplicable.


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Akita Prefecture is located in the Tohoku region of Japan. It is rectangular in shape and, like much of northern Japan, has very cold winters, particularly away from the sea. During winter, everything is covered with pure white snow and the air is very clear.
There are also noticeable traditional snow houses which you can see every year.
In Akita, there’s a city known as Yokote. It is located in the southeast corner of the prefecture. It has a humid continental climate wherein temperatures can be very warm during summer and severely cold during winter. A midwinter festival known as “Kamakura Festival” is held every mid-February in which igloo-like snow houses are made. This festival is believed to be 400 years old. Rooms are made by carving out a mound of snow which is called a “kamakura.” There are more than 100 kamakura made with countless miniature kamakura as well. These are sponsored by local businesses and can sometimes look like an advertisement. With the candle lights inside, the kamakura produces a quiet yet spectacular attraction for tourists.
What is Inside the Kamakura?
Inside the kamakura, an altar is placed to honor the water deities. These are carved into each rear end of the room and are decorated with “Gohei” or paper strips used in Shinto ceremonies. Here, people can pray for the abundance of harvests, safety of family members, protection against fire and academic success. Passers-by are invited by children who are using the Akita dialect to come inside the hut. Here, they will be seated and offered sweet fermented drinks such as “amazake” and rice cakes called “mochi.” This the best time for children and visitors to have fun time eating, playing and chatting. This is the conventional way of spending time in the kamakura.
There’s also a custom of donating 200-300 yen to children in return for their invitation.
From the end of January to the end of February, you can experience many more unique festivals in Akita which is the best time to learn more about their winter season!
Discover the Magic of Northern Japan – Akita!


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How About Some Steal Your Face Red Blend Wine to Drink With Your Cherry Garcia Ice Cream?
If you happened to miss the Village Voice-sponsored wine tasting/Grateful Dead cover band event Wine Unplugged at this year’s Atlantic City Food & Wine Festival, you can console yourself with the next best thing: a bottle of the just-released Grateful Dead “Steal Your Face Red Blend” wine.
Wines That Rock, a company that makes rock-music-inspired wines (no joke), has launched the fifth wine to join the brand’s portfolio, which also includes Forty Licks Merlot, Woodstock Chardonnay, Synchronicity Red Blend, and the Dark Side of the Moon Cabernet Sauvignon.
Produced by Mendocino Wine Co., Steal Your Face Red Blend ($16.99) combines Syrah, Petite Sirah, Zinfandel, and Grenache, and is 25 percent aged in French oak and 75 percent in redwood uprights for 20 months. Why so many varietals in one bottle? It’s a “celebration of the freedom of expression,” a nod to the “Grateful Dead’s famous improvisational concerts that have brought joy to so many.” Still somewhat of an odd choice, though, given that Steal Your Face is one of the most criticized Dead albums. And how does it taste? Its flavors are supposed to recall “black cherries, peppered back with a velvety vanilla and caramel finish.” Too bad — we were hoping it would taste like pot wine.

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I'm working with a company that has several departments. Two or more of these departments do the same type of document like a "Lease". The issue is that these departments also do several other documents that do not cross departments and I'm trying to avoid creating one long list they have to search through to get to the "Lease". I tried using the "Reuse Term" to put the "Lease" term in the different term sets but you can only do this one time. You can put the same term in different term sets but it's not the same term (same name but different GUID). It seems like this would be a common issue but I can't seem to find a simple answer to the question other than just creating one super long list. Any suggestions?
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