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I’m so excited! The IDUG North American Technical Conference is less than a month away. Much like Melanie Stopfer mentioned in her blog entry on IDUG, this is one of MY favorite weeks of the year. There’s something about the IDUG conference. I have been to IBM’s DB2-related conference (which they’re now calling IBM Insight), and it was huge and interesting, but there is something more intimate about IDUG. It’s fun to see the same small group of friends each year and it’s a great place to make new DBA friends. I say friends rather than “contacts” because for me that’s more what this conference is about. Finding and catching up with people that I consider friends and talk to throughout the year. I’m a bit of an introvert, but for this one week, I become a social person, and it’s fun.
The IDUG Conference is basically a week of DB2 education. There are such a variety of topics that each day there’s at least one, and possibly many, time slots where I have trouble figuring out which session I want to go to.
Like many conferences, IDUG consists of approximately hour-long presentations. The meat of the conference runs from Tuesday morning (May 13) through Friday mid-day (May 16). Monday consists of a day of extra-fee seminars. If you can get the funding for them. I particularly recommend Scott Hayes and Martin Hubel’s Top Gun Performance workshop. I have also heard good things about Roger Sanders’ Certification Preparation workshop. Personally, this year, I’m going for Dan Luksetitch’s Advanced SQL Coding and Performance workshop. I’m sure I’ll be blogging about it afterwards.
Usually the attendance peters out on Friday.
There are some interesting evening things. Usually IBM throws a party, and I believe it is on Wednesday night this year. It’s nothing like the big name bands at IBM Insight and other conferences, but it’s a good social chance to meet people and chat if they don’t play the music too loud. The Thursday night dine around is your chance to find one or two recognizable names in the DB2 world and just sit at a small table with them and chat. Each person pays their own bill, but they usually choose interesting restaurants, and I always loved getting some small group time with people I admired. I am proud to be one of the hosts of a dine around this year(squeeeee – am I a big DB2 name now?). I also lucked out in that I’m co-hosting with my DB2 hero, Melanie Stopfer, and we’re at Pizzeria Bianco, which I hear was named the top pizza restaurant in the United States a few years ago. Phew, this vegetarian did not pull a BBQ joint!
Once in the tool, click on “My Agenda” and then “Edit Agenda”. You can print out a compact sheet that will fit in your conference badge before heading out to IDUG, which is useful.
A tip in the tool – you can add a session to your agenda, then click on it to view the details to decide if you really want it. It is easy to remove the session if you discover it is not what you want.
There are fewer sessions that are outright sales pitches for IBM or for vendor tools, but you may still run into those. I most like to find speakers that I like and find the sessions that they are doing. But the IDUG agenda builder does not allow you to search on speaker name! The search feature doesn’t even let you search on a string. The way to look at things for IDUG is to look at sessions for the track that interests you. There are usually 2 tracks each for LUW and z/OS, a developer track, a track for big data, and a miscellaneous track (known as a la carte). You can even add every session for a track or two to your agenda, and then go through and filter out the things you don’t want to see.
Because using this tool doesn’t change the how the conference is run, I like to add all sessions I am interested in, including conflicting ones. It’s nice to have a backup plan and to talk to friends about which session you’re going to next, though I tend to avoid having more than 2 in a slot so I’m not making too many decisions on the fly. While at the conference, I tend to tweet where I’m going next or what I think are good bets for the day. There may be others tweeting this kind of information, so it’s nice to watch the #IDUG hashtag.
* The session’s track – this can give you an idea if the session is in an area you are interested in.
* The session’s audience experience level – it can be frustrating to end up in a session that is way too advanced for your knowledge in a subject area, or in one that is way too basic. Stretch yourself, just be aware of when you are doing so.
* The session’s presentation platform – many things that are true for LUW are not true for z/OS, and vice versa. If a presentation is cross platform, it will either list cross-platform or it will list both LUW and z/OS.
There’s a vendor Expo. It can be an interesting place to find tools for DB2 and talk details with the people who know about them. It’s also a good place to pick up swag for the kids. There’s usually a “passport to prizes” where you have certain vendors stamp/sign a card and can then be entered to win a host of prizes. You have to be present at the drawing to win. The Expo opens Tuesday night, and is open Wednesday around lunch and Wednesday evening, and then usually closes on Thursday after lunch. The reception on Tuesday night usually has drinks and light food – you can make a dinner out of it if you’re on a budget, or leave room to find dinner with friends later in the evening.
Since there are often food and drinks in or near this room (lunch is often next door or in the same room), it tends to be a place people hang out when there are no sessions.
There are two times – Wednesday after lunch, and Thursday before lunch, when there are Vendor Solution Presentations as the only options for a time slot. These can be interesting for exploring tools you might be interested in. They can be pretty sales-y, but they can also show you a tool in more detail.
When looking at the tools and also at sessions, remember to make sure you’re looking at things for LUW if you work with LUW or z/OS if you work with z/OS. It can sometimes be interesting to cross over and explore things on the dark side, but it’s frustrating if you don’t pay attention and end up with too much that doesn’t relate to what you want to learn about.
All presentations will be available for download from the IDUG site. Usually before the conference even starts. We speakers are required to submit our presentations a month before the conference starts. If you’re really torn about which session to go to, you can look at the presentation to see which one interests you more. Some presentations also include great notes from the speaker. I’ve also seen people either print or make notes on PDF copies of the presentations. You’ll always see me with an iPad or laptop in hand taking my own notes, though historically I haven’t done it on PDFs. Might try that this year, we’ll see. Gotta love Evernote.
Generally IDUG provides lunch. There is usually no breakfast, so eat before starting the day. There usually is not even coffee available until the morning break time. Usually there is coffee and tea at the morning break. The afternoon break tends to include sodas and sometimes cookies or other light munchies. The only food provided in the evenings is what is specifically listed – usually light food in the Expo hall some nights. You pay your own way for the dine-arounds.
On Monday/Tuesday, I am usually searching for my Diet Coke dealer for the week. I need something like the “Kennedy plan” that Lily on “How I Met Your Mother” had for the last season, but with Diet Cokes. Every time I turn around, I want a cold Diet Coke in my hand.
IDUG tells me that there will be wifi throughout the conference this year, including in the sessions. Please be kind to the speakers and give them your full attention.
Often finding power outlets can be an issue, too. If I’ve got my laptop on me, then I’ll also have a mini-power-squid with an outlet or two available to share.
We all have day jobs and many of us may have to take breaks from sessions in order to take care of work tasks. One conference I promised my boss that I’d put in a 40-hour work week, while attending the conference. Let me tell you, that was no fun, and boy was I fried at the end of that week. I may have to play an on-call role for half of this conference – we’ll see. I also keep meaning to blog throughout the conference, but tend to run out of steam on that. Usually my blog entries take an hour or two to write, and that on top of a full day of sessions and evening fun and keeping up with work just doesn’t usually happen. I do tweet heavily throughout the conference, so follow me on twitter – @ember_crooks.
I tend to go more business than casual, but many people will be in jeans. My main reason is because I only travel on business about 4 or 5 weeks a year, so I have to actually use those business clothes. The one thing I change from business wear, though is usually to wear my Birks with everything. No pantyhose and comfortable shoes are my concession to the casual. Another reason I tend towards business is because I freeze my rear off at these conferences, and at least all my business stuff tends to have a jacket. I may actually add in some sweater tights to improve my thermal factor. Hmm, what do I have that works with long underwear?
Thurday night dine around. Paper sheets for signup will go up on Tuesday after either the keynote or the spotlight sessions. These usually fill up really quickly, so sign up as soon as the sheets go up. Melanie Stopfer and I will be hosting a group at Pizzeria Bianco.
Additionally, I promise you that I want to talk to each and every blog reader and love meeting folks. So if you see me, don’t hesitate to introduce yourself. And take a picture! I’d love to have pictures to post on the blog and on Twitter.
I always enjoy the Special Interest Groups (SIGs) on Wednesday at 3:30. I am always torn between two or three of them. There is also a panel on Thursday afternoon at 4:45 PM in Paradise Valley that I enjoy – it’s an open-format question and answer with the top experts in DB2 up on the podium – so fun to be able to ask anything and see the questions others are asking.
One of my favorite sessions that I go to every chance I get is Matt Huras’ DB2 Internals for Administrators sessions. This is a two-part session on Tuesday, and every time I go, I take something different away from it. There is simply no other place you can go to learn what DB2’s doing in this kind of depth. I generally come out bleary eyed from the technical details, and I remember being vastly overwhelmed when I was a DBA of about 3 years. But truly it’s such awesome details and will make just about anyone think about something they haven’t before.
There are many other good speakers. I like Michael Kwok (his presentation conflicts with mine! Darn it!), Michael Krafick (Wed 8 AM, Attack of the Blob! (Managing BLOBs within a DB2 database)), Scott Hayes (Wed 9:15 AM, Sage Advice: 20 Invaluable DB2 LUW Performance Insights from Around the Globe), Kohli (Wed 10:30 AM, Nifty Performance Tricks: Essentials for Success), and Dale McInnis (Thu 2:15 PM, Continuous Availability with DB2 AND Fri 9:15 AM, High availability disaster recovery and performance – a marriage made in heaven).
I’m so looking forward to the conference, and hope to see you there!


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A cool, crisp night with clear skies set the scene for this year’s tasting event from the Junior League of Boca Raton, Flavors: From the Farm to your Fork. After a rainy week, we were all happy to see such beautiful weather for the night’s festivities. The live band was rocking, the cocktails were flowing, and the guests were enjoying themselves as they browsed through the Silent Auction packages and raffle prizes, crossing their fingers that they’d have something to bring home. But the real reason everyone was gathered on this night at The Sonoma House in Boca Raton?
Next up was Taverna Opa, which recently opened on Atlantic Avenue in Delray Beach. They served a trio of tastes: lamb kofta, spanakopita and baklava. I went for the spanakopita — a mixture of spinach and feta wrapped in phyllo dough — one of my favorites in Greek cuisine. Theirs was particularly good in comparison to other spanakopita I’ve had. The dough wasn’t too flakey, to the point where it just falls apart in your mouth. This was much softer and dare I even say…chewy. I really liked the texture, and the ratio of phyllo dough to spinach and feta mixture was spot on. Thumbs up from me!
Caffe Luna Rosa served an incredibly delicious pasta dish with wild mushrooms, TRUFFLE and pecorino romano cheese. It smelled amazing. It looked amazing. It tasted MORE than amazing. My tummy is rumbling just thinking about that pasta. I know Caffe Luna Rosa has an insanely good brunch, but now I need to get over there for dinner sometime if this is the kind of food they’re cranking out!
Pasta was seen again over at Merlino’s table — and this one was even creamier and cheesier than Luna Rosa’s! They served pear-stuffed pasta in a cheese sauce made with blue cheese, goat cheese, mozzarella and parmesan. Yeah, I wasn’t kidding when I said it was cheesy! The sweet notes from the pear were perfect with the rich flavors from each of the cheeses. This was pretty impressive in the flavor department.
I was very excited to see what Chef George from MEAT Eatery & Taproom was making, especially since he had told me earlier in the evening it *GASP* wasn’t meat! Instead of showcasing one of his restaurant’s signature meat dishes, he opted for a much lighter option — a lobster and shrimp salad. I think this was a really smart idea. The salad was super flavorful and even packed a little bit of heat in each bite. I loved the taste of the chilled fresh seafood — definitely a favorite of the night.
I popped on over to say hello to Chef Patrick at Max’s Grille. He was serving his bacon-wrapped dates stuffed with prosciutto, which uh, I couldn’t really try. BUT thankfully, he also had something for me! Tomato bisque shooters with a little bit of corn salsa on the bottom — a tasty treat to follow that refreshing seafood salad I’d just finished from MEAT Eatery. Those two dishes complemented each other really well — I wonder if anyone else tried them one after the other and felt the same.
Other eats: City Fish Market served their bright and citrusy seafood ceviche; Blue Martini served their signature Blue Martini cocktail and chicken satay with Thai peanut sauce; Burt & Max’s served Sicilian eggplant sliders; Fit Foodz Cafe served a turkey meatloaf topped with mashed cauliflower; Juice and Java served various wraps and veggie burgers; Publix Aprons served short rib on rosemary and sea salt shortbread; Sorrissi served mushroom risotto and braised short rib with pollen; and Oceans 234 served Mediterranean snapper.
The Flavors event used to be called Chocolate Decadence — so you know the dessert displays have got to be good! Tables full of chocolate-covered strawberries, heart-shaped mini red velvet cheesecakes, pink and red decorated cake pops… The dessert displays at this year’s #Flavors2015 were totally setting the mood for the holiday with all their Valentine’s Day-themed desserts. Very appropriate, since this romantic day was just two days after the event. Rachel’s Room, Candy’s Cake Pops, The Melting Pot, and Jodi’s Cupcakes & More were responsible for the intense sugar high that every single guest left with. There were so many delicious things to choose from, there was no way anyone could have had only one dessert!
After a mini Bananas Fosters cupcake, small slice of coffeecake, mini red velvet cheesecake, a piece of Valentine’s Day chocolate bark, a raspberry linzer cookie and countless white and dark chocolate-covered strawberries, my sweet tooth was finally satisfied and my belly was totally and completely full.
It was another successful Flavors event for the Junior League — can’t wait for the next one!
Disclaimer: I was provided with a complementary media pass to attend Flavors 2015. No monetary compensation has been received for coverage of the event. As always, all opinions are 100% my own.

industry_corpus2: Hospitality & Catering


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industry_corpus2: Manufacturing


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Prince Philip, Queen Elizabeth’s stalwart companion during six decades on the throne, is to step down from his public duties from the autumn, Buckingham Palace announced on Thursday.
The Duke of Edinburgh’s decision was taken with the support of the Queen, the statement said.
London was earlier gripped by speculation of an imminent announcement after reports senior staff of the royal household had been called to the palace for an emergency meeting.
On Wednesday, the Prince had seemed in good fettle, opening a new stand at Lords, the home of English cricket, wearing the distinctive “egg and bacon” striped tie of the Marylebone Cricket Club.
At 95, he is the longest serving royal consort in Britain’s history and the figure Queen Elizabeth has depended on the most throughout her long reign. But he has had bouts of ill health in recent years.
Prince Philip will attend previously scheduled engagements between now and August, the palace said, but will not accept new invitations for visits and engagements.
However, he may still attend some public events “from time to time”. Prince Philip is patron, president or a member of more than 780 organisations.
Jeremy Corbyn, the opposition Labour leader, said the Prince had “inspired young people for more than 60 years in over 140 nations” with his Duke of Edinburgh youth achievement award scheme. Mr Corbyn, a republican, wished him “all the best in his well-earned retirement”.
The palace statement said the Queen “will continue to carry out a full programme of official engagements with the support of members of the Royal Family”.
The Queen was 91 in April and has reigned longer than any previous sovereign, overtaking Victoria’s record in September 2015. She has lessened her public engagements in recent years, with her son Prince Charles and her grandsons, Princes William and Harry, taking on more engagements.
However in an era where even popes “retire”, the Queen shows no signs of stepping back with “abdication” a taboo word in royal circles after the scandal of Edward VIII who opted to live with his lover Wallis Simpson and give up the crown in 1936.
But there is little doubt the Queen will miss Prince Philip’s support — and humour — in the sometimes far from glamorous royal roles opening buildings and officiating at charity events.
In an interview to mark the diamond jubilee in 2012 Prince Harry went further, suggesting the Queen would find it hard to continue without his support.
“Regardless of whether my grandfather seems to be doing his own thing, sort of wandering off like a fish down the river, the fact that he’s there personally, I don’t think that she would do it without him, especially when they’re both at this age,” Prince Harry told the Radio Times.
A moderniser at the outset of her 67-year reign, the Greek-born Prince Philip, a former naval officer and minor European royal in his own right, has been the monarchy’s chief image maker, inviting cameras into Buckingham Palace for a 1969 documentary.
But in recent years he has come to resent the media’s intrusiveness and developed a hostile relationship with the royal press corps.
Notoriously brusque, he has a knack for a politically incorrect observations as when during a Royal visit to China in 1986 he told British students they would “go home with slitty eyes” if they stayed there too long.
When the monarchy’s problems erupted in the early 1990s — first with the separation of Prince Andrew and Sarah Ferguson and then the newspaper and book revelations about the disintegrating marriage of Prince Charles and Princess Diana — Prince Philip took a central role.
Some at court saw the arrival of Diana as a threat to the established order, particularly as her popular touch contrasted with the family’s stiff and aloof relations with the public. But when her marriage to Prince Charles hit the rocks, it was Philip who tried but failed to reconcile the couple.
After Diana’s death in a car accident in 1997, Philip concentrated on protecting grandsons William and Harry, persuading them to walk behind their mother’s coffin at the funeral.
Mohamed Fayed, the Egyptian-born Harrods tycoon whose son Dodi was also killed in the Paris crash, subsequently claimed Philip had ordered Diana’s death. But an inquest in 2008 concluded there was no evidence of a conspiracy.

industry_corpus2: Politics & Administration


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Fossils are the hard evidence behind our picture of life on Earth.
Knowing when and where the oldest fossils of different species appeared gives fleshes out the details on the evolutionary tree.
But while fossils are trapped in ancient rocks, the fossil record is far from written in stone.
A new footprint, a freshly exposed outcrop — even a new look at some old bones stuck in a drawer for decades — can shake up the dates and branches on the evolutionary tree.
Here are a dozen of our current "oldest-known" fossils, that have either been discovered — or had their ages better determined — in the last 20 years.
It is not an exhaustive list of our oldest-known organisms, just some key points along the evolutionary journey.
With so many stones left to turn, the fossil record — and the list of record-holders like these — will continue to evolve.
Scientists have announced what could be the world's oldest fossils — ruins of colonies of ancient bacteria known as stromatolites in 3.7 billion-year-old rocks in Greenland.
That is a cool 200 million years earlier than 3.48 billion-year-old fossil stromatolites from the Pilbara region of north-western Australia.
Molecular clocks — the mutation rate of genetic material — suggest life on Earth began around 4 billion years ago, so having fossils as old as the Greenland stromatolites indicate that life on Earth may have got off to a pretty rapid start.
Seaweed-like fossils found in 1.56 million-year-old rocks in China are the earliest known examples of larger organisms made up of many cells — the beginnings of complex life.
The discovery, reported earlier this year, places the organisms in the middle of what was previously known as "the boring billion".
Until this discovery, large multicellular life forms were not seen in the fossil record until 600 million years ago, so this was a massive find.
Not only are these 505-million-year-old fossils from Canada the oldest-known fish fossil — they contain incredible detail of the animal's facial features.
The discovery of Metaspriggina, published in Nature in 2014, was remarkable because early fish fossils from the Cambrian period are very rare and poorly preserved.
But these beautiful fossils have well defined camera-like eyes and nasal structures, and a series of exceptionally well-preserved arches near the front of its body, which are early evidence of jaws.
The beautifully preserved filaments from a fungus that lived 440 million years ago are the oldest-known fossils of an exclusively land-dwelling organism.
The early pioneer, known as Tortotubus, helped lay the foundation for more complex organisms to take root and thrive on land, said Dr Martin Smith of Durham University.
"The tiny threads of Tortotubus would have helped to consolidate and hold together early soils, allowing deeper soils to form," said Dr Smith.
"Tortotubus would also have broken down organic matter into a form where its nutrients were available to other organisms, providing a form of fertiliser to early land plants."
Fossil footprints on a 318-million-year-old dry riverbed in what is now Canada, provide the earliest-known evidence of reptiles.
"The footprints date from the Carboniferous Period when a single supercontinent (Pangaea) dominated the world," said Professor Mike Benton of the University of Bristol.
The footprints may have belonged to a small lizard-like animal, Hylononus lyelli. Slightly younger skeletons of this creature (just 312 million years old) were found in nearby Nova Scotia in 1859.
The fossilised bones of a dinosaur discovered in Tanzania may be the oldest dinosaur — or the oldest relative of a dinosaur — discovered to date.
But they are far from a new discovery: the bones were uncovered in 1930 but languished in a box for decades until they were re-examined using modern scanning techniques in 2012.
The scans revealed the dinosaur, dubbed Nyasasaurus parringtoni, lived between 240 million years and 245 million years ago when the planet's continents were still stitched together to form the landmass Pangaea.
About 90 per cent of today's mammals — including us — are placental mammals. We give birth to fully developed offspring that have been nurtured in the womb.
The earliest evidence we have of this group scurried across the forest floor of what is now China, 160 million years ago.
In 2011, Chinese scientists discovered the fossil remains of a small mousey or shrew-like animal, which they named Juramala sinesis.
Two years after its discovery, another equally old fossil of a rat-like mammal Rugosodon eurasiaticus was discovered — also in China.
These bump the previous title holder for oldest-known placental mammal — again, from China — a squirrel-like animal dating from 125 million years ago.
For many years the iconic 150-million-year-old fossil of Archaeopteryx — the contorted skeleton of a small feathered animal with a long tail and claws — was considered to be the first bird, but it really sits between dinosaurs and modern birds.
Today's birds belong to the lineage Ornithuromorpha.
In 2013, scientists discovered two beautifully preserved fossils from this group in China.
The fossil remains were of a previously unknown bird species that lived 130 million years ago.
Named Archaeornithura meemannae, the fossils pushed the earliest known modern bird back by about five million years.
The fossil of a plant that grew in swamps 130 million years ago is the oldest example of a flowering plant, reported scientists in 2015.
Montsechia vidalii, once grew abundantly in freshwater lakes in what are now mountainous regions in Spain.
The fossil edged out another aquatic plant, Archaefructus sinensis, which lived in what is now China, by five million years.
"Based on this new analysis, we know now that Montsechia is contemporaneous, if not more ancient, than Archaefructus," said Dr David Dilcher.
The nearly complete skeleton of a tiny tree-dwelling animal that lived 55 million years ago is the oldest-known primate — the ancestor of all humans, apes and monkeys.
Archicebus achilles aka "first long-tailed monkey" was discovered in 2003 in China by a farmer at a quarry near Jingzhou.
The fossil, which was encased in rock, took another 10 years of painstaking work to describe in detail.
"Archicebus differs radically from any other primate, living or fossil, known to science," said co-researcher Chris Beard of the Carnegie Museum of Natural History in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
A close-up view of the mandible just steps from where it was sighted by Chalachew Seyoum, an ASU graduate student from Ethiopia.
The human ancestral group to which we belong is called Homo.
Until recently it was thought that a species known as Homo habilis — aka Handy Man — was the earliest member of our group.
But the discovery of a 2.8 million year old partial jawbone in Africa in 2015 shook the evolutionary tree.
The jawbone is 400,000 years older than Homo habilis, yet has features of both Handy Man and a more primitive group of human ancestors called Australopithicus that includes the famous Lucy fossil.
At last — the first evidence of anatomically modern humans appears on the scene!
Omo I and Omo II are the oldest-known fossils of Homo sapiens — the species that eventually gave rise to Homo sapiens sapiens or us.

industry_corpus2: Technology & Research


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industry_corpus2: Real Estate & Construction


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made to revive the language.
The language is also know as Clallam, S’Klallam or Na’Klallam.
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Future Consumer, a part of Kishore Biyani-led Future Group, today said its CEO Devendra Chawla has resigned from the company.
"Devendra Chawla, the Chief Executive Officer of the company has tendered his resignation from the services of the company," Future Consumer said in a BSE filing.
The company, however, did not disclose the reason behind Chawla's resignation which would be effective from July 31.
A member of Future Consumer strategic business team, Sadashiv Nayak, will take up Chawla's place as an interim, the company said.


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What entertainment we received yesterday afternoon when we spotted a young calf whale being very active in the water close to the seaway entrance. This calf was very playful and kept breaching by jumping out of the water over and over again. It would only be a couple of weeks old as it was only about a couple of metres in length. Every time it jumped it was also twisting it's body and it looked like it was having a lot of fun.
With whale numbers increasing due to breeding, they keep coming through these coastline waters of the Gold Coast during their season of June through to October, and we are now seeing more and more every day. The mothers and calves are being seen more frequently now as they make their way back south to their home in Antarctica. This means on our whale watching tours now, we get to see more calves every day too.
It's so amazing to watch these calves be so playful in the open waters, as we see how small they start out to be before they grow up to their full adult size.

industry_corpus2: Travel & Geography


text: Genuine replacement HEPA media vacuum bags fit Simplicity Synchrony models. Features a cardboard insert. Pack of 6 bags.

industry_corpus2: Petrochemicals


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One of the oldest churches of Corfu is dedicated to the Saints Iassonas and Sossipatros, pupils of Saint Paul, who spread Christianity on the island and are buried there: The Church of Agios Iassonas and Agios Sossipatros dates back to the 11th century and it is believed that it was probably built on the ruins of an ancient temple, as many of the building materials come from the edifices of Palaiopoli of Corfu. Besides it is built in the region of Anemomylos, very close to the archaeological site.
The Church of Agios Iassonas and Agios Sossipatros, is built in a two-column cruciform with a dome, which is based on walls and two columns in the west. The icons of the church are works of art of the great artist Emmanouil Mponialis Tzanes, who achieved great things in Corfu, and of Michael Damaskinos. The iconostasis of the Church of Agios Iassonas and Agios Sossipatros is made of marble, in a baroque rhythm of the 18th century.
The church is of rectangular shape, 16,30 meters long and 12,20 meters wide. The Church of Agios Iassonas and Agios Sossipatros was probably, according to findings, full of religious paintings which were destroyed to a large extent around 1820, when the church was whitewashed.
The Church of Agios Iassonas and Agios Sossipatros, is considered the most significant monument of the Byzantine era in Corfu.


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When you come across a problem in your life or in your homeschool, what is your reaction?
Are you trusting God to conquer that problem?
Or trusting in yourself & becoming paralyzed?
Let’s go back to Numbers and see how the spies responded to their mission from God. If you don’t have your Bible handy, you can read Numbers 13:21-33 here.
“We are not able to go up against the people, for they are stronger than we.
The land is flowing with milk and honey, but we are scared to take it.
It’s the only way to conquer his giant enemies, or his giant problems. He knows the Lord promised this land to the Israelites. The Lord will conquer the land for them.
This reminds me of my reactions to problems in my life – both giant or small.
Overall, I am a fairly confident person.
If a problem arises, I believe I can conquer it. I believe I can take action and deal with it.
For me, homeschooling was not a huge issue. We simply moved forward, one day at a time. I prayed about how to spend our time, what subjects to cover and which activities to join. We had our ups & downs, but nothing too major.
However, God has seen fit to humble me, recently placing problems in my life that are bigger than me. I’ve learned that God is much bigger than my “giant” problems. ONLY God will see me through…and His solution may not be mine. In other words, I must give up control & give it to God.
More than anything, I am learning (notice I’m using present tense because I am still learning) to count it all joy. James addresses this issue.
Consider it all joy, my brethren, when you encounter various trials, knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance (patience). And let endurance have its perfect result, so that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.
You may be going through some trials today, this week or this month.
Are you struggling with one of your kids to follow the Lord?
Are you having problems financially, in too much debt?
Are you unsure whether you are teaching your kids the right subjects?
Are you unsure about your methods for teaching at home?
Are you having marital problems? Always arguing? Not serving your spouse?
Your problems may look gigantic, just like the 10 spies saw the Canaanites as gigantic. You don’t have to follow the unfaithful spies; instead follow Caleb’s example of faith & trust in God.
Reread James 1 above and you will see that God gives wisdom to those who ask.
He will give wisdom to you generously, no holding back.
As you ask for wisdom, be sure to ask in faith. If you doubt your Lord, you are a double-minded mom who shouldn’t expect anything. If you don’t have the faith to ask, start asking for faith.
In conclusion, I will be completely honest.
There is a situation in my life that has taken years to turn over to God. I know beyond a shadow of a doubt that He will solve it. But, I still have tiny doubts whether He will do that for me.
I continue to ask God for faith, for His wisdom & for His power to conquer this trial. I want to trust Him like Caleb.
My prayer for each of you is to trust God completely in all trials – homeschooling, parenting, marriage, finances.
How will you follow Caleb’s example of faith this week?

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A home health care worker has been arrested on charges she stole from an elderly patient.
The incident was reported on March 28th. The victim said $5,305 in property was taken from their home in southwestern Wayne County.
This week, Kimberly Ann Anys, 46, of Cambria Lane, Goldsboro was arrested. Anys was charged with felony possession of stolen property.
The victim told Wayne County deputies Anys was the only person who had been in the residence. Anys was charged with the same crime involving another elderly person last year while also serving as a health care worker.

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ADHD and ADD are described as chronic conditions in which a person experiences difficulty with hypertension, impulsiveness, and hyperactivity. The difference between ADD and ADHD is the “H” which represents physical hyperactivity.
Those experiencing ADD or ADHD might demonstrate symptoms such as continually fidgeting, excessive talking or a short temper. Additionally, they may have difficulty relaxing, playing quietly, or sitting still.
According to information published by Dr. Daniel Amen, there are seven different types of ADD.
Cannabis legalization is opening new doors for research. Hopefully, this research will help solidify what previous studies have suggested. On November 30th of 2017, medium.com published an article called “New Ground-Breaking Research: Several Studies Show Cannabis Effectively Treats ADHD Symptoms” The illustrated how cannabis was effectively helping children who have ADHD.
Current treatment methods for children who live with these conditions do not provide relief for many. Common treatments currently involve stimulant medications such as Methylin Oral Solution or Ritalin. Additionally, these pharmaceuticals are often combined with behavioural therapy.
The side effects from Ritalin listed by Likelihood and Severity according to WebMD are as follows.
America spends an estimated 42.5 billion dollars on ADHD medication annually. Additionally, this medication comes with dangerous side effects such as hallucinations, nausea, insomnia and stunted growth.
Whereas, cannabis may produce side effects such as dry mouth, dry eyes, tiredness, hunger, and occasional dizziness. Patients would welcome these sides effects, especially in comparison to taking medications that don’t always work and often intensifies existing symptoms.
Consumer reports are saying that cannabis is helping those suffering from these conditions to slow down and regain focus. Research suggests that cannabis may be just the thing to help treat conditions such as ADD and ADHD.


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Today (March 1st 2009) I downloaded Safari 4.0 beta for Tiger, to run on the iMac G4 (800 MHz) and iBook G4 (1.33 GHz) - both running Tiger 10.4.11 and security update 2009-001.
The conclusion now is that the on both machines, I have no working Safari browser! The beta crashed on both machines, and the old Safari did not work on either - I started Firefox and downloaded Safari 3.2.1 for Tiger to be reinstalled.
Prior to installing the 4.0 beta I had moved the original Safari.app to a subdirectory and even renamed it. The Installer got confused - without warning me and do appropriate action - and the unInstaller also got confused (see Apple discussion thread).
Apple should enhance their install software (script) not to err (so fatally for some who would not have an alternative browser) - since it's completely legal to move and rename applications.

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English language teachers are in demand across the world and Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) is an exciting and rewarding career! Bond’s Master of Arts (TESOL)(online) program equips graduates with the necessary skills and knowledge to teach English as a Second Language anywhere in the world.
Our Master of TESOL programs offer something different. Hear from our TESOL students, graduates & academics as to what they believe makes our program unique.
Our TESOL programs offer something different. Hear from our TESOL students, staff and graduates as to what they believe makes our program unique.
Master of Arts (TESOL)(online) students have access to a range of online learning resources, all managed by Academics with an array of online teaching experience. The online delivery adds to the internationalisation of the program, as students can be anywhere in the world and have access to the virtual classroom.
The Bond TESOL difference means that students will receive a personalised online learning experience, in small class sizes, working with like-minded individuals from all over the world, who bring a truly international flavour to the online classroom. The friendships formed often lead to industry contacts and introductions overseas. Our graduates tell us that this combination of experience, international perspective and contacts put them way ahead of the competition when it comes to applying for teaching positions.
Part-time flexible options are available.
For information please contact your subject coordinator.
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Students require either a PC, Mac desktop or laptop computer with PDF reader installed. Microsoft office is desirable but not essential.
Access to a webcam, speakers and microphone are essential. A headset device (mic & headphones) is recommended but not essential. Please note that many computers may have these built in already, please check with your supplier before purchasing additional items.
Mobile devices like Android and Apple devices have Applications (apps) for you to download for online study; these have limited operation and may not be suitable for some tutorials.


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This week marks a coming of age of sorts for Kiira Motors Corporation. One of the Ugandan automotive integrator’s creations, the Kayoola Solar Bus, will in the coming days be on display in the Kenyan capital Nairobi where it is the lead Green Mobility Exhibitor at the UN Sustainable Technology Expo. 256 Business news spoke to Kiira Motors Chief Executive Paul Isaac Musasizi.
KAMPALA, MAY 21 – It may not be very accurate to call Paul Isaac Musasizi an accidental engineer but that description is not so far off the mark. The chief executive at Kiira Motors Corporation and team leader of a group of young driven Ugandans trying to get their country a berth in the global automotive industry chose to study mechanical engineering just to spite a domineering father who wanted him to pursue a career in medicine.
“I used to do very well in Biology but it was now my turn to show that I can make my own decisions. I am glad I went for engineering especially mechanical engineering which had scarcity in the country and yet it is the foundation of manufacturing and therefore economic development,” he tells 256BN.
In 2007, Musasizi veered from his teaching job at Makerere University’s College of Engineering to join Professor Sunday Stevens Tickodri-Togboa, now Minister for Science and Technology, to begin work on Uganda’s first electric vehicle the Kiira EV, unveiled to the public in November 2011. Since then two other concept vehicles – the Kiira EV Smack hybrid electric- ICE (Internal Combustion Engine) passenger sedan and the all electric Kayoola Solar Bus have been produced. It is the latter that has caught the rave and is this month featuring as the Green Mobility exhibitor at the UN Sustainable Innovation Expo that is running on the sidelines of the United Nations Environmental Assembly in Nairobi.
While some doubt the wisdom of his quest into an industry whose future is the subject of intense debate after 130 years of existence and the automobile always at the centre of any discussions of a rapidly warming planet, Musasizi sees this as Africa’s moment.
After missing out on earlier phases of the industrial revolution, he sees the current challenges to sustaining earths’ civilisation as Africa’s opportunity because with innovation, the world is just a stage on which the talented can play. Besides, driving is not about to die as the aspiration for a majority of people for decades to come and meeting this need in an environmentally sustainable manner can propel former underlings such as Uganda to the high table of the global automotive value chain.
“The motor vehicle will remain as the predominant transportation technology not only in East Africa but globally for the next 50 to 100 years. That is because mass transportation systems, much as they are economically and environmentally efficient don’t quite address the last mile. We have had so many debates about alternatives such as non-motorized transportation, tricycles and things like this but the last mile especially in Africa is still significant,” he reasons.
From his vantage point he sees that in many places today, when one gets off the bus or train at the station, they still have one to six kilometers to get home, or to the office. In Africa, farm produce still has to be conveyed to markets from places way off the main infrastructure grid.
While he is the first to admit that he is not reinventing the wheel Kiira Motors is up against an already established pecking order in the automotive industry, its value proposition is premised against the two core gaps in the industry today; affordable asset financing for vehicle financing and after-sales service and support.
So where does a solar-powered bus fit into all this? The pollution mess that Africa and the world’s major population centres are today, and the potential for a zero tailpipe emissions transport solution in this setting.
“The aspiration for green, clean, and noise free transport solution for urban mass mobility and enhancing environmental stewardship inspired the making of a solar powered vehicle. The sustainability of mission vehicles made in Uganda is based on production of eco-friendly and internationally acceptable technology and products for global competitiveness,” he says adding that the Kayoola Solar Bus prospects a green, clean, and noise free transport solution for urban mass mobility, representing a commitment to transportation technologies that enhance environmental stewardship.
The Kayoola Solar Bus uniqueness is evident from the commitment it represents for Africa to championing urban mass mobility solutions based on clean and green technology.
Africa’s geographical position almost symmetrically along the equator implying non-stop sun around the year provides an underutilized natural and renewable energy resource which should be explored to fuel urban mass mobility.
Kampala, where Musasizi resides is enough inspiration for him. The use of private mobility automobiles is significant in the city and this is placing a big traffic burden on the limited road infrastructure.
Kampala has a mass mobility system that mainly utilizes 14-Passenger vans for intra and intercity mass mobility. The Projected mass mobility demand growth in the city is estimated to be five times in the next three years, exceeding more than 700,000 passengers per day while the neighboring routes feeding into Kampala such as Jinja, Entebbe, Masaka and Bombo road are expected to have 500,000, 200,000 and 300,000 passengers per day respectively. Kampala Capital City Authority has an existing demand for at least 500 buses for its major routes. The Kayoola Solar Bus promises a green, clean, and noise free future transport solution for a busy city like Kampala and other urban Centres in Africa. With nonstop sun in Africa the use of solar powered vehicles for mass mobility is the way to go for urban mass mobility.
Kiira Motors will start production of motor vehicles in 2018 with a product mix including Pickups, SUVs, Sedans, Light and Medium Duty Trucks and Buses. The first batch of Vehicles will be running on fossil fuels with an Internal Combustion Engine. However, the Kiira Vehicle Technology Program will continue exploring Green Mobility Technology for Africa with the hope of having vehicles like the Kayoola Solar Bus on the road in the 5-10 year period depending on how fast the charging and support infrastructure for EV Power-trains can be developed.
According to Musasizi, the concept vehicles so far developed demonstrate progressive enhancement of resident capacity in vehicle manufacturing. Production will start with 305 vehicles in 2018 and it is envisaged that by 2021, production would have reached 1,125 units annually.
So how long will it take the African indigenous auto manufacturing industry to competently rival those of the western world?
The goal at KMC is to respond to the indigenous needs of the African people in the automotive Industry he says. “If we can achieve this and solve the problems barring the African auto industry, we shall be the biggest players in a virgin territory with a growing market and that alone is competition enough.
The Kiira Motors Corporation Complex, being developed in Jinja 80 kilometres east of Kampala, is expected to contribute to the Ugandan government’s drive to reduce poverty and bring about socio-economic transformation by creating a number of direct and indirect employment opportunities throughout the local, regional and national landscape. In the capital expenditure phase, KMC is expected tol create over 12,000 Jobs while the operational expenditure phase shall create another 2,000 plus jobs.
“KMC’s operational effects shall also provide an affordable mix of vehicle products; create employment opportunities with varied skill levels; encourage private investment opportunities in local companies providing support to the emerging automotive industry; lead to an ultimate boost to economic development and GDP growth,” Musasizi believes.
For all his ambitions Musasizi suffers no illusions. He knows the road ahead will be a long and twisted one. For instance he knows that until he has achieved volume, it will be foolhardy to embark on certain aspects of production just for the prestige of it.
It makes sense. The Nigerians have expressed interest in the Kayoola solar bus but without strategic partnerships with established original equipment manufacturers, KMC would be hard pressed to deliver it to market fast enough.
“The Nigerians are interested in partnering with us so that they can scale it up all over Africa because here, we have mature electric vehicle technology. The value of these concept vehicles is to attract the right partners,” he concludes.

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A couple of days ago Zack said his first long sentence with meaning “I want you too tickle me”, he has picked up soo much in his speech just lately and I am just so incredibly happy for how well he’s doing.
Zack got his official diagnosis Autism Spectrum Disorder in December after a stressful and emotional time getting there. I will be talking about this in my new YouTube Channel that’s coming soon. I’m hoping that sharing our journey might help someone else in the same situation.


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Drone use across the U.S. is growing at a fast pace. Hobbyists, private companies, and the government agencies are pushing the demand for this piece of technology to a new high every year.
A report by Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) estimates that sales of drones are expected to grow from 2.5 million in 2016 to 7 million in 2020. The report further indicated that drone adoption by businesses is expected to grow by a big margin in 2017. These businesses are expected to use these drones for various purposes from scanning power lines to inspecting structures.
This growing use of drones has raised privacy and security questions.One of the major security concerns surrounding the use of UAVs is hacking. We live in an age when hacking has become commonplace. Hackers are hacking into government databases, yanking payment, stealing credit information unlike ever before. They are out there trying to get into everything and everywhere. To them, everything is a potential target. Including drones.
How Hackable is Your Drone?
In early December 2011, the Iranian state TV paraded an unusual flying object in front of its viewers. A windowless winged object with a pointed nose and with the shape of the manta ray. The object in display was an RQ-170 Sentinel stealth drone.
At the time, the RQ-170 was a used by the CIA to gather intelligence. Iranian officials claimed that the drone had been hacked as it tried to enter into Iran’s airspace. The drone seemed undamaged, and could indeed have been hacked and forced to land as opposed to being shot down. This drew incident drew many opinions with some being very skeptic of the claims.
Two years later, in 2013, infamous hacker Sammy Kamkar, come up with SkyJack. It is designed to hunt down, hack and controls UAV. That is just the tip of the iceberg. As to payback for being jailed for hacking and crippling Myspace, Sammy released all the necessary hardware and software specifications for creating a drone that can hack others and control them.
Earlier this year, graduate students of John Hopkins University under the supervision of their professor Lanier Watkins discovered three ways of hacking into UAVS. They were able to send rogue commands from a laptop to interfere with a consumer drones operation. This way they could either land or crash it. Lanier said that their goal was to prove that drones are highly vulnerable to hackers. Their success is a clear indication that they are.
On the 2nd March of 2016, researcher Nils Rodday detailed how flaws in a UAV’s radio connection enabled him to hijack the drone using only a laptop and a cheap USB-connected chip. We are not talking about just any drone. The drone in question in a high-end drone used for surveillance and cost a fortune.
The same model is also used in inspecting power lines among other delicate operations. Rodday who could not name the specific model owing to a non-disclosure agreement binding him also revealed that similar flaws exist in other models too.
Tools and guidelines on how to hack into drones are readily available on the Internet. Just like Sammy Kamkar, there are numerous hackers out there who have made public their success.
GPS spoofing tools and equipment are becoming readily available. Drone jammers are also readily available. This means hackers have ready access to information and tools to hack and commandeer UAVs.
Rodday revealed that many of the drone manufacturers do not apply any encryption and authentication making it easy to compromise their drones. It can only be hoped that these incidences and findings serve as a wake-up call for manufacturers to enhance the security features in their drones before it too late.

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We are involved in a wide variety of events at Corley Cycles from in store specialist customer events, international club trips, race attendance, race organisation and many more.
We support our club members with trips around the UK and abroad both on and off road.
Our team riders race a full calendar throughout the year.
The shop hosts specialist open nights, clinics and more.

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Orscheln Products, an international manufacturer of motion control systems and parts, offers identifiable fluid level indicators with labeling options to help customers ensure correct fluid identification. This line of Twist2Lock® fluid level indicators with labeling options are best suited for a range of engine and transmission applications and feature a patented locking cap, designed to offer increased accuracy of fluid level identification, which can lead to greater power train efficiency and performance.
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Can sahara work with ceph? Since both ceph and sahara have the same data access model, if we implement sahara directly will it work with ceph? Or will there be some changes that have to be made?
Sahara can work with Ceph via Ceph Object Gateway. We use such setup in Fuel and it works well there without any modification of Sahara. Don't forget to register the Gateway in Keystone as object storage endpoint.
Not sure, I think you can use both with openstack by modifying gateway and keystone.


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Recycling is more than extending the life of our landfill. It is about making the best use of the resources we have available and preserving those resources for future generations. It is about conserving water, energy, land and materials. It is about creating a sustainable community that values what we have and what future generations deserve to have. When you bury something in the landfill, it's like burying the energy and water it took to create that product.
This facility is open Fridays from 9:00am to 1:00pm and Saturdays from 9:00am to 4:00pm.
What can I do with Household Hazardous Waste?
The answer to that question, for Butte County residents, is to use the Butte Regional Household Hazardous Waste Facility located at 1101 Marauder Chico, in the Airport Industrial Park.
We serve all the communities of Butte County, including Biggs, Chico, Gridley, Oroville and Town of Paradise.
Household quantities only. Up to 5 gallons or 50 pounds of hazardous waste.
Q. Why do I need to bring HHW to the facility? Can't I just throw it in the garbage?
A. No! Don't dispose of HHW in the garbage, pour it down storm drains or dump in on the ground! HHW can injure sanitation workers, poison the environment and poses a threat to human health and wildlife when improperly disposed.
Q. How do I know if something is Household Hazardous Waste?
Q. How should I transport HHW to the facility?
A. Keep HHW products in a pickup bed, trunk or a back seat - as far away from you as possible. Keep all products in the original container and NEVER mix the products. Try to load your vehicle right before you leave for the facility so that fumes don't have a chance to build up. It is recommended that you keep your vehicle well ventilated during your trip to the facility.
Q. How much can I bring to the facility?
A. The legal limit is 5 gallons or 50 lbs. at one time. If you have more, make more than one trip.
Q. How can I avoid Household Hazardous Waste products all together?
A. Use less-toxic products whenever possible. Look for safer alternatives, many of which can be found at your local grocery store, or use simple alternatives. A mixture of baking soda and castile soap makes a good multipurpose cleaning product. Lemon juice, vinegar, hot-water and "elbow grease" can be use for a variety of projects from window cleaning to unclogging drains. You can help reduce pollution by making wise choices about the chemicals products you choose!


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I am not too sure since when Canadians take bankruptcy very light. I am running into more people who are in bankruptcy or in a consumer proposal more than ever. According to the Office of the Superintendent of Bankruptcy Canada's number, total number of people filing for bankruptcy and consumer proposals had increased another 5.1% in November 2016 from the previous month.
We need to understand credit rebuild is a long process, and it needs a lot of effort.
We all need credit. For emergency, for investments, for wealth creation - I called that.
If and when you have enough money to buy everything you need/want in cash, you don't really need credit but you might still want credit. Apple, the tech giant, has over $200 billion cash-on-hand is reportedly issuing bonds to raise funds... that means, having money doesn't mean you don't want credit.
Credit is built base on a record of how you repay. If you never owe anyone or any company, there is no way anyone can foresee how well you repay.
How to manage your credit is the key to building good credit. Paying on time is essential. Don't utilize the maximum amount on your credit is another.
North America is a world build on credit. People think as long as they do not owe anyone, they have good credit. Chances are, if they have never owe anyone, they do not have credit. Credit is something you need to build, over time.
Over the years, I have seen a lot of clients or prospects having hard time and went bankrupt or went for consumer proposals. I, as a financial advisor, totally oppose these options. My viewpoint: if you merge yourself in debt, you have to work yourself out of debt, wiping if off will only get you out of the payment obligations but you will never learn how to manage your finances and the likelihood is, you will get in debt again (bankruptcy resulted from business failure or marriage breakdown is another thing altogether).
Believe it or not, majority of "credit counselling" services out there do not help you with your credit. They take your debt and negotiate on your behalf (you could have done that yourself), but the trade off is your credit have to be destroyed first. Since they "can't" negotiate a better "deal" when you are paying, they "advise" you stop paying your creditors before the negotiation happens.
Stop paying the creditors doesn't mean you have a relief on payments though because then now you have to start paying them instead. Once you build a sizeble amount with them, by the time you would have been fallen very behind and gone into collection, they then take their share (or of course they will make sure they get paid first) and then negotiate and push the lender to accept what they can offer on your behalf.
Why do you want credit?
those companies. No matter what you do, you, as a consumer, will NOT see what the lenders see!
Great article. Maybe you could help me consolidate my credit, and figure out some ways to make enough money to pay it off?

industry_corpus2: Finance & Economics


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Jumbo Offshore has installed 8 anchor piles for FPSO mooring in the Pierce Field (North Sea). To hammer these piles within the correct inclination and orientation tolerances, a subsea Pile Guiding Frame (PGF) was required.
The PGF had to be lowered to the seabed with the cranes of the Jumbo Fairplayer. The piles’ mooring pad eye and chains required the PGF sleeve to be open on one side. After hammering, the PGF was retrieved.
Due to the challenging schedule of the project, TWD was requested to deliver the total design of the PGF and its seafastening construction within 3 weeks.
This was achieved by reducing the level of detail of the design drawings and focusing instead on communicating the features important for the PGF’s functionality. The drawing set therefore contained the required essentials in terms of geometry, welds and tolerances, while plate details and other secondary features were left out. The plates were derived by the fabricator from the 3D model.
Naturally, with this approach, a good understanding between the client, the fabricator and the designer is crucial. Weekly progress meetings with all parties were key to the success of this project, as they offered the opportunity to discuss the secondary features and find optimal solutions.
Finally, a robust yet highly functional design was realized, while the ‘hands on’ approach saved time and budget for the client.


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River Winds resort is the first resort in kalyan suburbs located about 8 kilometers away from Kalyan Railway station(W), 3 kilometers from Shahad station and 68 kilometers from Mumbai. Away from the pollution of the city, the resort promises to be refreshing, bringing you closer to the nature. We have taken care to design the place carefully so as to ensure a memorable experience for our esteemed guests.
Internet/Wi-Fi, Wedding Services, Airport Transportation, Coffee Shop/Cafe, Exhibit Space, Banquet Facilities, Family/Child Friendly, Disabled Facilities, Security Guard, Doctor on Call.
Iron/Ironing Board, Moisturiser, Slippers, Hair Dryer, Complimentary Newspaper, Internet Access, Toothbrush/Razor on Request, Smoking Rooms, Fax Machine Room, Climate Control.
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text: Please pray that Ethan would forgive everyone he’s withholding forgiveness from and that God would continue to work in his heart. Also that The Lord would protect his marriage and teach him what true, unselfish love looks like. Please pray that he would deny himself and pick up his cross daily to follow Jesus. (Luke 9:3) Thank you and God bless you for praying!


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The internet has undoubtedly changed how we live. In the academic world, the internet has made life easier for many students. Today, students buy college essays online anytime, anywhere. And, thanks to essays in the modern world, lots of miracles have occurred. For instance, people are entering universities and becoming life changers. Students from different parts of the world are getting scholarships to conduct research. Basically, so much is happening and influencing the environment thanks to modern essays.
Essays have changed how people conduct research and share information. Currently, there are many essays on varied topics online. Students can read them and get ideas for writing their own. As a student, you don’t have to wait until your professor shares information or ideas to complete a writing assignment. You just use Google or other search engines to conduct research and get all the information you need.
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The staff of "Zheleznik" hotel congatulates you for your choice and awaits your arrival.
We are situated in the southern part of the town, right next to the City Bus Station, 200 meters from the City Train Station and about 5 minutes walking from the city's administrative, cultural and trade center.
The complex is suitable for business trips, hosting of seminars or training programs, as well as for family or tourist groups trips and vacations.
Non-smokers rooms - properly signed.
Express Check In is available when arriving with reservation or there are vacancies at the base..
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The seasons are changing, so it was dark when I dressed for the race. I was looking forward to running in cooler temperatures for sure, but I did make sure to take a hoodie with me just in case. I ate my pre-short race breakfast of one-half Power Bar (yuck) and drank 8 oz. of sports drink on the way to the starting line.
This was my first Race for the Cure, so I was unprepared for the festive atmosphere. I could hear music and someone talking over a loudspeaker as I parked two blocks away. I got there about half an hour before the start time, and I was going to hang out in my car for awhile, but my curiosity got the better of me. I pinned on my race number and walked over to the Amarillo National Bank parking lot. They already had all the booths for the expo set up. There was a huge balloon arch at the start/finish line. A band was warming up and there were speakers everywhere with music already playing. It was pretty cool.
I found a friend (Karen) and we warmed up together and chatted a bit, then they had us line up 15 minutes before start time. I stretched and tried to stay warm until the race started. I recognized a couple of people from previous races, but most of my fellow runners were new faces to me. I overheard someone say there were about 650 runners. A lot of the smaller towns had teams come in and run—mostly high schoolers. All the cancer survivors were in pink baseball caps, so I tried to look at all of them in case I knew one. I didn’t.
Finally the gun went off and we were running. The race route was awesome, partly because it was flat and straight and partly because it goes through my neighborhood. We ran part of my regular training route and that’s an awesome to have happen during a race! Another thing that was cool is that there were spectators almost the whole way. A lot of people had decorated their yards with pink balloons and streamers and they were outside cheering. Cheering is also awesome to have during a race—it kind of takes your mind off what you’re doing.
My goal was to run sub-30:00, which meant I had to run each mile in 9:45. I was at that pace at mile one, but I just couldn’t maintain it. I knew at the halfway point/water station that I had fallen back already. I ended up taking that second mile kind of easy and then pushing the last mile. The route was so straight and flat that the finish line was visible almost the entire last mile. It’s kind of weird to be able to see a finish line so long, because seeing the finish line is the subconscious cue to push yourself. Which I did.
I managed to finish in 31:05, which equals 10:01 a mile. Even though I didn’t make my sub-30:00 goal, I was very happy. I was happy because I maintained a fast pace—the fastest I’ve been over that long a distance. I was happy because I shaved four minutes off my previous 5K time, which was 35:09.
Afterward, I stuck around to cheer other people across the finish line and gather a few freebies from the expo. Then I went to a friend’s house further down the route and cheered the walkers who passed by before going home. Now…time for a nap.


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PTA Celebrated 50 years of Reflections! BUSD students at all grade levels competed in a variety of categories including literature, dance, photography, and visual arts. Thank you to Bellflower Council PTA and our associations for supporting the arts through this program.
Our student Alexis Martinez was recognized by ACSA Region 14 as an Every Student Succeeding. The event celebrated ACSA region 14 students and the school staff that have helped them overcome challenges and succeed in school. Alexis transferred to Mayfair during the 2nd semester of her 10th grade year. She came from a charter high school, but was previously in a home hospital education setting as a 9th grader because she was battling Hodgkin's Lymphoma. She quickly fit in, made very good friends, and became actively involved in different areas of campus. Alexis and her family have always been diligent about coming to school, completing her work, and working hard despite the challenges she has had to overcome. She is an extremely resilient student who has overcome huge challenges. She is a fighter, always with a positive attitude. As of this November, she reached her thre year milestone of being Cancer-Free.
Read Across America: Reading is Fundamental (RIF) helped celebrate the joy of reading at Washington!
Students enjoyed a picnic with parents followed by a meet and greet with Dr.Seuss. Students in grades TK-3 were able to self-select high interest books to add to their home library. Special guest Board Clerk, Laura Sanchez-Ramirez read to students. A special thank you to RIF for opening doors and enabling every child the chance to live their journey.
Did you know we have already had 100 days of school? Kindergartners show off their 100 days project which celebrated the 100th day of school!
Cerritos College and Long Beach City College are offering two years of free tuition to local high school graduates. Students can apply for the "Cerritos Complete" program, which provides free tuition and priority enrollment at Cerritos College to students who sign up during their senior year. Cerritos Complete provides strong personal, financial and academic support including educational planning and counseling sessions designed to enhance a student's success in college. Learn more about the Cerritos Complete program. Students must complete all requirements to qualify for the program. Orientation sessions for Cerritos Complete are available where parents and students can learn and ask questions about the program: · Bellflower High School: January 24, 2019 6-8 in the cafeteria · Mayfair High School: Feb. 5 from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. in the MPB For students who wish to attend, Long Beach City College, The Long Beach City College Promise Program is also available. Long Beach City College's "Long Beach Promise" program with two years of free tuition.
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Italy's former prime minister, Silvio Berlusconi, has been discharged from hospital after undergoing a successful open-heart operation in June.
The 79-year-old tycoon underwent surgery following a heart attack his doctor said could have killed him.
“It's been a very painful ordeal and now I feel a little better,” Berlusconi said as he left Milan's San Raffaele hospital on Tuesday morning.
Berlusconi underwent a four-hour operation to replace his aortic valve on June 14th. He then spent a few days in intensive care before being transferred to another unit to recover.
But the ordeal didn't stop him reportedly hatching a plan to revive Forza Italia from his hospital bed.
He is believed to be working on a 15-point programme to relaunch the party and wants to hold a party conference as early as this autumn. The party has performed disastrously at local, regional and European elections since 2013, when it became a branch of the People of Freedom party (Pdl).


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Proverbs 22:2 states, “The rich and poor meet together: the LORD is the maker of them all.” Both the rich and the poor are necessary in any society. If all were rich, then people would likely starve to death because rich people do not ordinarily plant, cultivate, harvest, and cook their food. They depend upon the poor to do such things. If all were poor, then people would live with the most meager of necessities because poor people do not create jobs and hire others to work for them. They must look to the rich for jobs to provide their needs.
The U.S. Government has spent trillions of dollars in its War on Poverty since 1965, yet poverty still exists in this country. New programs will be proposed to eliminate poverty, and after trillions more are spent on these programs, greater poverty than before will still exist. Men will never to able to abolish poverty; the best they can do is to diminish wealth. Jesus Himself said, “For the poor always ye have with you. . .” (John 12:8). When government seeks to redistribute the wealth of its citizens, it can only impoverish the rich, not enrich the poor. If all the wealth of the rich were placed in the hands of the poor early in the morning, most of it would be back in the hands of the rich by evening. The reason is, “Wealth gotten by vanity shall be diminished: but he that gathereth by labour shall increase. ” (Prov. 13:11). What one has not earned has little value to him.
Government has specific duties assigned to it by God Himself and by the compacts men make with the governments they form. When any government goes beyond the limited authority it rightly has, it sins not only against God but its citizens as well. No government has the right to take from the rich and give to the poor. Such action is nothing less than thievery under the guise of law.


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I used the last site a little, but found I really missed it when it was gone. I'm excited to have another chance to benefit from the community.
I'm a human resources team member, and I just got signed off to the team lead bench. Woo-hoo!
Welcome back! You are a srtl in hl! I missed you too.
Def not a hl srtl. Did I maybe steal someone's username?
There was an HR King on the .org site who was a Sr. TL.
Welcome back, glad you found us.
I thought you were the HR King from the old site as well, lol. Sounds like you're qualified for the name, though. Welcome!
Hi guys, I am the former HR_King that you are thinking of. I figured when the old sight went down, I would re-invent myself with a name that suited my current title. Glad the site is back.
Welcome back, ImDaLOD, and congrat's on the promotion. Good luck in your new position.
Thanks for the welcome back guys. I appreciate the congrats on the promotion but I been in position 18 months already.


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Children and adolescents in our society have mental health problems, as do adults, although our society is more attuned to the mental health problems of adults. Almost all of the mental health services available in America were developed for adult populations with serious and persistent mental illness like schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, serious depression, severe anxiety disorders, acute stress reactions, and long-term lifestyle adjustment problems. Mental health services for children have been more or less copied from the services available for adults.
Services for adults include psychotherapy in an outpatient mental health clinic, psychotropic medications from a psychiatrist, and community support services for adults who are severely disabled by mental illness. Community support includes assistance with the requirements of daily living such as socialization, housing, finances, transportation, vocational, and medical services. Crisis intervention services are also available for adults who have thoughts of suicide, thoughts of harming others, or who are unable to cope with their situation. Some people in crisis need to be hospitalized in psychiatric hospitals, where they can be protected. Psychiatric hospital placements are usually short-term because these services are very expensive. Most hospitalizations of adults do not last longer than a few days.
Treatment for children and adolescents cannot strictly follow adult models for treatment, although there is some degree of overlap. Problems that are typical for one age group are often not typical of another age group. Children and adolescents lack many of the skills of adults, such as reasoning and verbal capacity. Children have a dependent status, both legally and physically. Their circumstances are forced on them, to a greater degree than with adults. Adults, even those with severe mental illness, are usually in charge of their own decision making. Children do not have the option of living on their own, supporting themselves financially, or moving whenever they feel like it. Mental health services for children have to be adjusted to fit their dependent status and their developmental context.
The mental health problems of children are entangled in the problems of the family and social systems that structure their lives. Their mental health problems are also imbedded in their developmental status.


text: A retired man was hired to drive trucks over the road for an employer. He suffered a low back and hip injury while in Kansas on his first trip. The employer denied it had hired the injured employee and contended that he was an independent contractor, an argument that would have made him ineligible for workers compensation benefits if it had succeeded. Through litigation, a settlement was reached that covered all of the employee’s medical expenses and replaced the earnings and future earnings he had lost due to the work injury.

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The Vineyard Cross Back Chairs add an elegant, rustic touch to your even design. Cushion included in rental price.
Modeled after the most popular café chair in Europe, our versatile Vineyard Cross Back Chairs can be used at both farm-style and formal weddings, private parties, and corporate events.
Crafted of solid wood and handsomely distressed with a weathered finish, these chairs pair wonderfully with our Farm Tables. These chairs are most often used for wedding ceremonies and receptions, upscale corporate events, and holiday parties.


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The freely available part of the Silesian Language Corpus consists of 1,102,837 words. That number will grow because all collected texts are 2,001,281 words but acquiring rights to some of them appeared problematic.
The corpus contains 941 documents, the oldest one being the letter written in 1574 by Ambroży Szklŏrz from the town of Ôlesno to the prince of Brzeg, George II. The newest ones are various articles from the Wachtyrz.eu website. The shortest document has 67 words and it is a song about the boys of Niezdrowice. The longest document is the fifth volume of the “Duchy Wojny” series by Alojzy Lysko with 82,221 words.
The Silesian Language Corpus and the machine translator have been built by Grzegorz Kulik.
How to cite the corpus: Kulik, G. et al.: Korpus Ślōnskij Mŏwy, Bytōm 2018. Available online: https://silling.org.
The Patronite patrons have the status of the corpus’s coauthors. These are (listed alphabetically): Bogodar Bonczar, Piotr Ciążyński, Aleksander Janowski, Paweł Szewczyk i Marek Walorski.
The texts included in the Silesian Language Corpus were added to it with their respective authors’ knowledge and approval.
The Silesian Language Corpus works thanks to the Manatee system created by Pavel Rychlý from the Masaryk University. The user interface works thanks to KonText built and maintained by the Czech National Corpus Institute.
The machine translation tool and its interface work thanks to the Apertium system created by the Alacant University.
The website works thanks to the Bludit content management system.
The content of the website was written by Grzegorz Kulik unless noted otherwise.
The RSS logo was created by the user Jahoe from Wikimedia Commons and shared on GNU General Public License.
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Are you Prepared for the Next Natural Disaster?
With the recent devastation caused by Hurricane Florence in the Carolinas, this got us thinking: Are we all ready for the next potential natural disaster? While Colorado certainly doesn’t have the type of severe disasters like that of Hurricane Florence, there are still some natural disasters that can occur. For this reason, we want to share some safety tips to help keep you and your home safe during the event that Mother Nature strikes.
Depending on where you live in Colorado, there are a number of potential natural disasters that can take place throughout the year. Forest fires, hail and heavy snow storms are the main threats to most of us throughout the state. However, we also get occasional tornadoes that pop up here and there on the east side of the state. You also need to be aware of flash-floods that can also occur during heavy rains or from mountain run-off. Unfortunately, many of these disasters will cause damage to your home. This means you will likely need to find a repairman! Fortunately, the Repairman app can help you if repairs are needed (more on that later).
Before we get into some of the factors that are relevant to your home during an emergency, let’s take a look at some the things that should be done first to take care of you and your family. Your best option is to create an emergency plan using this checklist from the American Red Cross. This will help you layout safety spots, prepare supply kits, formulate escape plans and more. At the end of the day, it’s always better to be safe than sorry when it comes to the preparation for potential disaster emergency situations.
While there are some precautions you can take before a disaster strikes — such as cleaning gutters and removing outdoor furniture before heavy storms — it’s the aftermath that you need to focus on. Sometimes, there is no amount of precaution to save your home from damage that Mother Nature dishes out. If any repairs need done to your home, it’s essential to bring out licensed service providers.
When it comes to repair work on your home, there are local codes that need to be followed. Some jobs may require the proper permits to be pulled from your local government — something only the homeowner or a licensed provider can do. When it comes time to put your home up on the market, permits are an important component that buyers will want to verify before a sale goes through.
Whether it is damage to your roof, windows, HVAC system, plumbing system, or electrical wiring, the Repairman app provides you with easy access to Colorado-based licensed professionals in all of these areas. You can download our on-demand home services app for FREE from your favorite AppStore, or directly from the RepairmanApp website. And don’t forget to sign up for our newsletter to receive all of the latest news and updates. For more information on other home improvement-related topics, be sure to check out the rest of our blog.


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in mathematics, law holding that for a given operation combining three quantities, two at a time, the initial pairing is arbitrary; e.g., using the operation of addition, the numbers 2, 3, and 4 may be combined (2+3)+4=5+4=9 or 2+(3+4)=2+7=9. More generally, in addition, for any three numbers a, b, and c the associative law is expressed as (a+b)+c=a+(b+c). Multiplication of numbers is also associative, i.e., (a×b)×c=a×(b×c). In general, any binary operation, symbolized by +, joining mathematical entities A, B, and C obeys the associative law if (A+B)+C=A+(B+C) for all possible choices of A, B, and C. Not all operations are associative. For example, ordinary division is not, since (60÷12)÷3=5÷3=5/3, while 60÷(12÷3)=60÷4=15. When an operation is associative, the parentheses indicating which quantities are first to be combined may be omitted, e.g., (2+3)+4=2+(3+4)=2+3+4.
For a binary operation that is designated °, the relationship expressed by a ° (b ° c)=(a ° b) ° c.

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During welcoming period, newly registered users and existing users with less than 100AT holding stand a chance to win a random amount of USDT airdrop if they have a net addition of at least 100AT in their account. The airdrop is capped at 100 USDT!
1. For newly registered users (register between 0:00, Sep 23 and 24:00, Sep 30), the net addition of AT = the lowest AT holding on Oct 1.
2. For existing users whose AT holding is no higher than 100AT, the net addition of AT = the difference between the lowest AT holding on Oct 1 and on Sep 23.
4. Airdrop rewards will be credited into ABCC account before 24:00 on Oct 10 (UTC+8).
5. Each account is entitled to only one airdrop.
6. To facilitate fair play in this airdrop, participants with any cheating behavior detected will be disqualified immediately. ABCC reserves the right of the final interpretation of this Terms and Conditions.


text: You're probably thinking How can they do another compilation when the band only released one album and the last one, Everything!, contained everything?¨Well this is on vinyl, it doesn't contain everything, but it does have 2 tracks from Glenn Campling's personal archive that we weren't previously aware of. There's the original version of Performance which Glenn prefers to the re-recording and a studio take of Heartbreak Hotel, so we don't need the live-from-cassette version anymore. The extended version of Twist isn't the full six minute version but rather the regular 12" cut. Although this all might seem complicated all of that is trumped by the fact that this is material is available on vinyl one again, don't you think so?


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The construction moratorium along Memorial Drive could be lifted in early June, and new energy could be put behind a dormant task force that was supposed to implement a well-received planning study for the corridor, according to legislation introduced Monday to the Atlanta City Council.
The legislation is in the form of two papers co-sponsored by councilmembers Natalyn Archibong and Carla Smith. They represent the entirety of Memorial Drive in Atlanta.
Both papers are slated to be discussed during the next meeting of the council’s Zoning Committee. The committee is slated to meet May 27 at 9:30 a.m. at Atlanta City Hall. The paper is likely to be approved, given that Archibong chairs the committee.
The moratorium could be lifted as early as June 1. That presumes the Zoning Committee passes the proposed ordinance and the council approves it at its June 1 meeting. Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed could sign the paper that day, or allow it to move at a regular pace, setting the stage for repeal of the initial ordinance in the second week of June.
Reed did not take a position on the construction moratorium. He did not veto or sign the ordinance, a spokeswoman said. Consequently, it became city code on May 12.
Archibong was the sole sponsor of the initial legislation that implemented the construction moratorium. The council approved it unanimously on May 4.
A resolution that addresses the implementation of a planning study could be approved on the same timeline as the ordinance repealing the construction moratorium.
The resolution amends a resolution Archibong introduced previously, which the council approved, that created the Imagine Memorial Task Force.
The task force was charged with implementing the framework plan created for Memorial Drive by a group of Georgia Tech graduate students. The studio worked under the guidance of Mike Dobbins, a Tech professor of practice and former Atlanta planning commissioner.
The task force has met twice. Its 27 members were unable to agree on how to proceed and the task force lost momentum, Archibong said.
The committee is to be expanded to include two new members – one from the Department of Public Works, and one from the Office of Buildings.
“BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that each member of the Imagine Memorial Task Force shall serve on at least One (1) of the newly created subcommittees.
“BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the subcommittees shall complete their work within Six (6) months from the adoption of this Ordinance, and shall provide their final recommendations to the Imagine Memorial Task Force.
“BE IT FINALLY RESOLVED, that all resolutions and parts of resolutions in conflict with this resolution are hereby rescinded to the extent of any such conflict.


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Bob Brown is a passionate and committed environmental, social and human rights activist. Best known for his long political career both locally and nationally, Bob was elected as the leader of The Greens from 2005-2012.
A number of Bob’s books have been published, creating a collection of personal memoirs, poetry and photography. Earth, Green Nomads, In Balfour St and Optimism are just some of Bob’s titles.


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It's an everyday misconception that we always have to spend a lot for quality. Since getting my first brush roll, I paid next to nothing for a set of quality brushes that are still doing me amazingly well 4-5 years later but I'm forever looking to add more brushes to my kit, the more the merrier. I want to point 2 things out, I use any brush for applications if they work well for me with whatever I'm doing and these brushes are amazingly soft!
This brush has a tapered end that allows you to get into areas around your nose and eyes to apply your finishing powder all over your face. It's suitable with pressed & mineral powder. I've replaced my other finishing brushes with this one as I find it's more accurate for me to use on myself & others.
Always a brush I need in my arsenal, I LOVE to contour just takes a one dimensional face to one that can revival Janet Jackson. The head to this one is smaller and has a medium density at the base of the bristles compared to my others.
If you like to have a flawless finish to your make-up, I've found this brush could be the answer, being that it's got a small head it gives more control for areas on the face to buff in the foundation, I also like it to apply cream blush onto the cheeks and blend it out.
This isn't the MAC dupe you might be looking for, if you're looking for the MAC 217 dupe, it's the C433 Pro Blending Fluff that you want. This brush is tapered and gets into the crease, it's got medium firm bristles that I've found gives good control. The bristles aren't as soft as others but it doesn't give a scratchy feel on the eye.
MAC 224 dupe, maybe so. It's more tapered and dense than the 224, meaning that it also picks up a lot more colour. I've started to use this a great deal more to blend out my eyeshadow, I have to say, I quite love this brush.
I actually like this brush to the point, I purchased another one at IMATS. It works well with gel eyeliner as it gives me a quick medium sized line as opposed to other brushes I may use. Now it also works with smudging out eyeshadows or pencil liner for the upper and lower lash line for that smokey eye look that a lot of us love.
Compared to the C441 this is stiffer, not as tampered at the top, more oval. I grab for this if I'm looking to blend over the crease, instead of controlling it more like I would with the C412.
How itty bitty are the bristles on the brush, aww! Yeah for some they might be squinting and wondering, well where's the bristles? It's 4mm in length but I love how small it is, I do prefer thinner brush tips to apply liner as it gives more of a precise and controlled line.
Welcome to the family Crown. I've loved to use these on myself & others. I'm definitely going to invest in more of these brushes, they are great value for money. The only brush I found that shed a few hairs during it's wash was the C412. I always wash my brushes before first use and there still in good condition and keeping in good shape.
Do you own any brushes from Crown?
Hmm...sounds decent! I'm on the lookout for some new brushes so I'll be giving these a once over. Thank you for the review!
Those definitely look and sound fantastic. I'll have to look into getting them somehow Stateside. I'm always on the hunt for a good brush, that's not $30+ a pop.