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Cannot fault Andy, Spot on trainer.
Good interaction and great conversations.
Well presented. Knowledge is good. Course is on application of the knowledges.
I like the pace of the training. Good trainer, was enjoyanle and interactive.
The amount of pre - course interactive is overwhelming.
Great course leader, but volume too much in a week. Not enough time. Trainer delivered well.
Excellent training skills. Very patient gave relevant and exciting examples ( real life ). didn't rush through the slides. been very helpful.
Course admin very helpful and informative felt ready for the course. Very Knowledgeable , informative, approachable.
Case study could be more relevant to the audience.
Excellent Input from the trainer. John made everyone feel at ease and able to contribute. very knowledgeable and made the content relevant and useful.
Well presented & previous experience helped delivered course successfully.
Learnt much more than I expected, Very good examples throughout.
Some things at times were rushed through however this was more due to the amount of knowledge actually needed to know at this level. It at times left you worthy a little more. fantastic knowledge very approachable. Eager to ensure everyone is happy before moving on.
The trainer chris was extremely good, very good knowledge of the topic.
Excellent trainer with excellent knowledge of APM project management.
Chris is a brilliant instructor and made the course very easy to understand. His knowledge on APM was brillant and could give examples to all aspects.
Course Name : Tailored project management, cost, planning and leadership courses.
I thought everything was delivered at a good pace and explained well.
Good Venue. E-learning could have been more informative. Inclusive of basic P2 info to assist in getting to grips with P2 terminology. Top job.
Everything was great. Only thing I would change is the lengths of the days, in the last hour people got drowsy.
Excellent documentation and explanations. One of, if not the best tutor trainer I've had and I've been on many courses.
There were about four emails all from alternatives addresses ( learning campus / APM/an individual / Novare ) and missed one of the less obvious Yet very important emails with the learning details. venue is poor. Cold + not great with .... natural light.
Very good examples from other organisation.
Excellent course. The topics will be no doubt be very useful within my day job. David was very knowledgeable within the subject matter and would draw on his experience from his professional life. He is an asset to Novare Consulting.
Fit for purpose. Well planned. Able to engage and communicate with class.
All good. Friendly & relaxed. nice style.
Too much material. Very good trainer and presenter, very experienced.
Tailored project management, cost, planning and leadership courses.
We are one of the most respected providers of Project and Programme Management expertise in the market today and these capabilities have been at the heart of our business since our formation in 2002. Since then we have achieved over 12 accreditations across 5 P3M Professional Bodies – PMI, APM, APMG, AXELOS & ECITB. We have spoken at over 30 professional conferences and contributed to many international standards and frameworks on behalf of the Professional Bodies.
We have helped many of them to apply their learning to their programmes through follow-on workshops and consulting support.
It is this unique combination of consulting, training and delivery experience focused on P3M that our clients really value.We specialize in providing Project and Programme Management Training courses and consultancy services in PRINCE2, MSP, MoP, MoV, APMP, MoR and P3O. We also provide a light touch version of PRINCE2 and MSP called MicroP2 under licence.


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The leaders and team members of ACT contributed to our communities during the past three months through fundraising efforts that benefited the following: YWCA, Habitat for Humanity, St. Jude's, Hurricane Harvey Disaster Relief, and Boy Scouts of America.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has published the new Long Term Care Survey Process (LTCSP) Procedure Guide. Effective November 28, 2017, this guide provides instruction on the procedure and software steps for all standard surveys for SNFs and NFs. The first eight to ten hours on-site will primarily be spent by surveyors on the "initial pool process." Residents who are selected off-site based on complaints or facility-reported incidents (FRI) or by MDS indicators will be interviewed, observed, and have a limited record review. Residents selected on-site for the initial pool will include a sample based on concerns identified from interview, observation, limited record review, and consideration of resident-specific data. The sample size will be based on the facility census and up to 70% of the expected sample will be based on MDS indicators. However, the ratio of residents identified for the sample may change once the surveyors are onsite. Dining observations will continue to be made on the first day of the survey. The 42 page procedure guide provides a broad overview of the key onsite survey steps, steps 3-7.
Therapy Cap Values for the Calendar Year (CY) 2018 have been released and published in the CMS Manual System Medicare Claims Processing Publication transmittal 3918, dated November 9, 2017. This transmittal replaces 3886 that was dated October 20, 2017. The caps are for Outpatient therapy, including Part B therapy services. The therapy caps for CY 2018 will be $2,010 for physical therapy and speech-language pathology combined and $2,010 for occupational therapy.
The Medicare Learning Network is holding a National Partnership to Improve Dementia Care and Quality Assurance Performance Improvement (QAPI) Call on December 14th from 1:30 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. The call will address working with physicians to ensure compliance with new psychotropic medication prescribing requirements and putting the new QAPI requirements into practice. There will be a question and answer session following the presentations. Registration is required to participate.
CMS published a revised MDS Manual Appendix B on October 26, 2017. The document includes updated contact information for the State RAI Coordinators, the RAI Coordinator Panel, the State MDS Automation Coordinators, and the Regional Office RAI Contacts.
The seasoned consultants with ACT's Senior Living Consulting team evaluate reimbursement practices by conducting a thorough review of the RAI process, determining whether documentation practices support the care and services being provided. We can help you identify opportunities for improving coding practices and staff documentation.

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Located at the Paris end of Collins St, Skin Elements is becoming known as ‘the’ destination for lovers of beauty. Owned and operated by Stavros Tavrou, owner of renowned Melbourne-based hairdressing salon, Nara on Collins, offers a range of personalised and professional services to meet our clients’ needs.
At Skin Elements, we want your time with us to make a difference, from the moment you step inside, until the time you leave. We invite you to experience the excellence at Skin Elements.
Skin Elements offers a comprehensive range of beauty services by our trained beauty therapist. Be pampered at our style bar with a range of manicures and pedicures ranging from deluxe to express, as well as eyelash and brow tinting, brow shaping and threading, waxing, facials, ear candling and cosmeceutical advice. All treatments are performed in our private single level spa room with low-level lighting and ‘Neom’ candle aromas to relax the senses. Clients will relax with a warm blanket and the soothing hands of our trained specialist.
Skin Elements also offers total beauty and styling packages for bridal parties to ensure they look their best on the big day, from hair right through to beauty.

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People might face obstacles like lack of transportation or youngster care, so the ability to offer some versatile supports might be the difference between wellness and failure to receive treatment. First line therapy is the first, most typical or most well-liked (normal) treatment given for a type of most cancers. Usually, treatment is more effective earlier than the disorder turns into chronic, however even folks with lengthy-standing eating problems can and do get well.
Bear in mind, when you still expertise a flare-up of signs and are taking your treatment as prescribed, you might wish to talk to your doctor about whether your treatment is best for you. Most cancers care teams embody a variety of other health care professionals, such as physician assistants, nurse practitioners, social staff, pharmacists, counselors, dietitians, and others.
Treatments embody treatment and surgical remedy. Because that is a proven fact, we focus right here on how melancholy may be treated, both with medicines and with psychotherapy. Uncomfortable side effects embody constipation and leg swelling and gingival hyperplasia (patients must monitor dental hygiene intently). Understanding Treatment for Generalized Nervousness Dysfunction Medicine is helpful for alleviating the symptoms of generalized anxiety disorder and is commonly prescribed in conjunction with different therapies.


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We know very little about our beloved artists from Marathi film industry and to fullfill that void of information, Filmreign Studios has come up with a brand new show called 'Fillamshtar' on their YouTube Channel. The show will feature various artists from Marathi film industry. The show's main theme is inspiration as it will reveal the tough side of our artists and the hardships they went through in their journey towards success.
The first episode of Fillamshtar features Marathi Superstar Swwpanil Joshi.
Mrinmayee Ghospurkar, Omkar Athavale, Mayur Borkar, Sonali Lohar are the people behind Fillamshtar. There will be more artists to be interviewed by Fillamshtar soon. These artists are Chandrakant Kulkarni, Mahesh Limaye, Salil Kulkarni, Bhaurao Karhade, Swapna Waghmare Joshi, Mandar Cholkar, Sagar Vanjari, Deepti Devi, Sameer Samant and many more.
Subscribe the YouTube Channel of Filmreign Studios to receive the updates of all the upcoming episodes of Fillamshtar.

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2019 Teaser - Only Two Months Before the BOM!
Starting gun of the 80th!
“Phaedo 2” in the lead at the Bouveret after 7 hours of regatta.
Volunteers - the Bol d’Or Mirabaud needs you!
Spring is almost here, and BOM registration too!
The Bol d’Or Mirabaud is a Finalist in the Swiss Sponsorship Awards!
The Bol d'Or Mirabaud is in one month!
Crew exchange – we need you!
How to Install Your Geotracking Beacon?
The Special Bol d'Or Mirabaud vintage IS Available!
My Father, My Hero !
The volunteer team is Ready!
Bol d’Or Mirabaud: A Prize for Everyone?
Will the Bol de Vermeil leave in Hungarian hands?
The Bol d'Or Mirabaud Needs You!
A beautiful race to prepare the 75th edition in 2013!
Launched in 1939, Bol d'Or Mirabaud is the world's most important inland lake regatta.
Mirabaud was founded in Geneva in 1819. As an international banking and financial group, Mirabaud provides its clients with customized financial and advisory services in Wealth Management, Asset Management and Securities.
The group employs around 700 people and has 16 offices in Switzerland, the United Kingdom, Luxemburg, France, Spain, Italy, Canada, Brazil, Uruguay and the United Arab Emirates.
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The Vasileostrovsky deanery district, uniting the parishes of the Vasileostrovsky district, was established on January 5, 2015.
Archpriest Victor Alexandrovich Moskovsky, rector of the Smolensk Icon of the Mother of God at Smolensk Cemetery is the dean of the district.
Until 2015, there was no separate deanery district on the Vasilievsky Island, the Petrogradsky Deanery united the parishes of the Petrogradsky and Vasileostrovsky districts of St. Petersburg.
Among the miraculous beauty of the Smolensk cemetery, it seems the blue ship, floating along the waves of the world’s sea to the saving wharf, is a stone church – a temple in the name of the Smolensk Icon of the Mother of God.
His bookmark on the site of the original almshouse occurred on July 19, 1786. Construction lasted 5 years and cost eighteen thousand rubles. The project of the Smolensk church was designed by A.A. Ivanov, a graduate, and later a professor at the Academy of Arts. The clarity of the plan, the harmony of the proportions of the building are typical for the architecture of early Russian classicism. The temple with a dome, a long meal and a two-tier bell tower with a spire had two side-chapels. Lateral, in the name of the Apostle John the Theologian, in which the iconostasis was placed from the abolished Theological Church on the Vyborg side, was consecrated September 26, 1790.
The main chapel in the name of the Smolensk icon was consecrated in five days. The iconostasis was carved for him by Okhta masters, headed by Yakov Dunaev. The temple icon – a list from the miraculous image of the Smolensk Mother of God – was written by Professor I.A. Akimov, the image in the iconostasis – a famous master of church painting G.I. Kozlov.
The construction of the church is associated with the name of the holy blessed Xenia, at night secretly brought stones to the scaffolding. During the flood of 1824 the Smolensk church suffered little. During the XIX century. Its appearance changed due to repeated rebuilding and repairs, keeping the classical severity and simplicity. The north-western theological chapel was rebuilt according to the project of A.D. Zakharova in the year 1809. The first rector of the church, Archpriest George Petrov, died in 1825 and the further improvement of the church is connected with the name of Archpriest Ioakim Kochetov, who at the time of his rector supplemented the church with an annex from the north side of the vestibule, from the southern vestry, porch and the new chapel of Ilyinsky, built in 1833 At the expense of the elder, and from the west – the porch and the superstructure of a new storey on the bell tower.
In 1891 – 1892 years from the southeast and north-eastern sides, according to the project of architect K.N. Verbitsky built the limits in the name of Basil the Confessor and John the Baptist. In 1903, the church was overhauled, and the theological and Ilyinsky chapels were redesigned by the architect V.A. Kosyakov and artist F.R. Railyan. The temple image of the Hodegetria, written by I.A. Akimov, in 1848 was covered with a rich golden rhizome with precious stones.
On August 17, 1940, the executive committee of the Leningrad City Council decided to close the Smolensk church. But in 1946 a divine service in the church of the Smolensk Icon of the Mother of God was resumed. In those years it was the only active church on Vasilievsky Island and attracted many believers.
Nowadays, the temple has three altars: the main one is consecrated in honor of the Smolensk Icon of the Mother of God, the north one – in honor of the icon of the Mother of God “it is worthy”, or “Merciful”, and the southern one – in honor of Saint Blessed Xenia of St. Petersburg. In addition to the three chapels corresponding to these thrones, in the southern part of the temple, adjacent to the central side-chapel, there is a Christmas chapel, which does not have a separate throne. The central side-chapel of the church was consecrated by the Most Holy Gabriel, Metropolitan of Novgorod and St. Petersburg, October 1, 1790. Many icons of his letter were donated by the professor of painting of the Academy of Arts of I.A. Akimov.
In 1858 the artist V.V. Vasiliev painted the podkupolnuyu part of the temple in the Byzantine style. The mural painting “The Resurrection of Lazarus,” “Raising the Daughter of Jairus,” and “Resurrecting the Son of the Nainian Widow,” glorify the miracles of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Winner of Death. In the iconostasis to the left of the Royal Gates is placed the main shrine of the church – the Smolensk icon of the Mother of God, a list with a miraculous icon written by the holy apostle and evangelist Luke under the earthly life of the Lady of Our Lady Mary.

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text: Nearly two tons of donated items were collected by the Terre Haute Rotary to help replenish the inventory at the Wabash Valley Goodwill stores. Fifteen Rotarians volunteered during the 71st annual Rotary Club Goodwill Donation Drive. The timing of the project is important to increase merchandise for Goodwill stores for the holiday shopping season.

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Thanks to all who offered advice on that grinding noise.
unfortunately there aren't really any shops local here that i would trust to do my timing service except for the Honda stealership. so to save some money im thinking about buying the parts kit online (ebay) to save some money. and fork out the labor.
anyone done this before? do the kits come with the right parts? any advice would be helpful. id like to order it today.
You can get the stuff on E-Bay, just make sure it's from a reputable seller. Search "Prelude timing belt" and you'll find at least 10 pages of listings lol. Try to stick with OEM (or Gates like was said before). You'll also need a water pump and balancer shaft belt, all of which you can find on there as well. Good luck!
GReddy or Honda. No substitute when it comes to the t-belt.
Yup. E-Bay is the ****. If you're smart you can buy just about anything there haha.

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For some The Eastwood Inn is a once-a-year experience, for others it is a weekly getaway, but for generations it’s a place to come back to. Our beautiful restaurant and experienced waitstaff bring ease to elegance so you can enjoy yourself and your company. Whether you are out for big steaks after golfing or quality seafood on a first date, The Eastwood Inn provides the perfect environment.
Great food pairs well with great atmosphere, The Eastwood Inn has always served straight-forward and satisfying dinners. Famous for our cut-to-order steaks and yes, our lima beans, we now add seasonal and weekly specials to lighten and freshen the menu. There is a wide ranging wine list and ever since Prohibition, we’ve crafted classic cocktails at our one-of-a-kind bar.
Dinners Tuesday through Saturday, open at 5:00.
Reservations are always recommended but required after 8:30.
Gentlemen, No shorts please. Appropriate jeans or slacks are mandatory. Thank you.
Copyright © 2019 The Eastwood Inn. All rights reserved.

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Every year, Big Sis's school has a Hat Day Parade. The kids and their families make hats reflecting that year's theme. This year, the theme was "When I Grow Up."
We made her hat out of a brown grocery sack. I rolled up the bottom of the bag to be the brim, then the hubby sprayed it antique white. Then Sis and I decorated it, then sealed it with Modge Podge.
Big Sis wants to be a teacher or librarian - for now. She says she will dance and do theatre for fun, and she will travel (especially to Paris) and live in a farmhouse in the country. Or maybe she'll live in the city. She's undecided.
This is so cute! I love the hat and the aspirations it represents!
Glad to have found your blog and your pinterest boards!
Oh I love this! What fun pictures!! super duper cute!
Thanks, Melissa! It was a cute event. Our hat was rather plain compared to some of the hats. There was one hat made entirely out of Legos!
I LOVE her hat especially "I reserve the right to change my mind." And I love that her school does this - what a great idea!
It's a fun project. I don't know where it came from or how long they've been doing it, but it's very cute!
She used to say she wanted to be a doctor. Not just a doctor, but a "baby doctor. I want to help mamas have their babies." My OB/GYN with my second-born was a younger, very attractive woman. I think she made an impression, when Big Sis would accompany me for appointments. Then she wanted to be a veterinarian, but to be honest, she's afraid of animals that aren't cats. Librarian or teacher seems to fit her personality more.
That is a GREAT hat! Thank you so much for sharing this awesome project with us. I'd love to do this with my daughters. What fun!
Thank you, Tara. We made several for Big Sis's Alice in Wonderland party a couple years ago. It's originally a Mad Hatter design. I got some great pictures of all the little ones at the party trying them on. It's a very easy project.


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Combine all crab cake ingredients gently, trying to keep the crab in large pieces.
Mold crab mixture into 6 equal patties.
Roll patties in the panko breadcrumbs.
Heat a skillet over medium heat, add butter, and sauté crab cakes until golden brown on each side.
Roast entire corn husks in the oven in their jackets for 45 minutes at 350 degrees F. Cool corn, then remove husks and silk. Cut the kernels off the cobs, and separate the kernels.
In a medium sauce pot, add the cream and the bare corn husks, and cook over medium heat, until the cream reduces by half. Remove the husks, and season with salt and pepper.
Boil leeks for 2 minutes in salted water, then strain and add the leeks and corn kernels to the cream mixture.
Cook the mixture over medium heat until it reaches a sauce consistency, or coats the back of a spoon. Keep warm until use, or reheat as needed.


text: He's drop-dead handsome, hugely talented and bald as an egg. Halim Jabbour, 30, also is one of Dallas' most in-demand leading men, cast in a variety of tasty roles at theaters large and small over the past year. For Ground Zero Theater Company, he was a cheating groom in the premiere of Vicki Cheatwood's smoldering drama 10:10. He played a New Yorker romancing a Georgia doll in Contemporary Theatre's nostalgic The Last Night of Ballyhoo. At Richardson Theatre Centre, he was the terrifying killer in Wait Until Dark. He never let up on intensity playing two roles (with and without toupee) in Boaz Unlocked's Three Days of Rain, even before an audience of three. "And that included my sister," he recalls. Born in Lebanon, raised in Saudi Arabia (his dad was a civil engineer there), Jabbour started pre-med at Baylor before transferring to UT-Austin, where he earned a radio-TV-film degree. After a stint at Circle in the Square theater in Manhattan and a year of study in Los Angeles, he moved to Dallas in 2002 and has worked steadily onstage ever since (by day he's production coordinator for Barney the Dinosaur). Dream role: one of the brothers in Sam Shepard's True West. Catch Jabbour in a new Texas Lottery commercial or onstage as Friar Laurence in Classical Acting Company's Romeo and Juliet.


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Can I take my DAB digital radio overseas and still listen to the same stations?
No. DAB digital radio is a terrestrial broadcast technology, using land-based transmitters. You can only listen to stations when you are within their transmission range as DAB still adheres to the laws of local terrestrial radio.
Taking your radio elsewhere will give you DAB transmission local to that area, providing the brodcast frequency is the same as your radio supports.

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Preheat oven to 400°F. Line two sheet trays with parchment paper. In a large bowl, whisk together the chili powder, salt and pepper, and two tablespoons of olive oil. Coat the sweet potatoes with the spiced oil and evenly spread the potatoes out on the sheet trays. Make sure they don’t overlap. Bake for 15 minutes, flip, and bake for another 10 minutes until brown and crispy around the edges. Remove from the oven.
While the potatoes bake, make the salsa. In a bowl, combine the beans, mango, jalapeño, red onion, cilantro, lime zest and juice, and a pinch of salt and pepper. Taste and adjust lime or salt, if needed.
Preheat broiler. Combine all the sweet potatoes onto one sheet try. Top the sweet potato chips with cheese. Place under the broiler until cheese has melted, about 2 minutes. Scatter the "chips" with salsa, avocado, radish, cilantro, dollops of greek yogurt or sour cream, and lime wedges. Serve immediately.
Seed and chop the peppers, and put them in a large, non-reactive (avoid aluminum and copper) pan. Add the apple, vinegar, sugar, garlic and pineapple (or lime). Cover and simmer over medium heat for 25 to 30 minutes or until the peppers are soft. Purée to a creamy consistency and return to the pan. Bring to a gentle boil. Stir in the salt, and pour into hot sterilized jars. Seal and store in a dark, cool closet until needed, or freeze.
Preheat the oven to 325°. Melt the butter in an ovenproof pan over medium heat. Add the chopped onions and sauté until soft, about 15 minutes. Season with salt, pepper, and nutmeg.
Put the spinach and Pac Choi in a steamer over a pot of boiling water. It is better to steam than boil the spinach because you don't want waterlogged leaves. Cover and steam the spinach until it is wilted – 5 minutes or so.
Beat the eggs and the half-and-half together in a small bowl. Transfer the greens to the pan with the onions. Pour the eggs over and around the greens. Scatter the cheese evenly on top.
Put the entire pan into the oven and bake for 20 minutes, then slide under the broiler until golden, about 1 minute.


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Wall mounted, mains powered units.
Pilot wire or Mains Borne Signalling options.
Dimplex 4-zone wall mounted programmers provide the flexibility of complete system control from the convenience of a single point. Each zone in the system can be individually configured with a custom 7 day time programme, allowing complete flexibility over system design. RXPW4 and RXMBS4 wall mounted programmers are compatible with EPX, EVS, RPX, Calidou and Apollo ranges of electronic panel heaters and DuoHeat radiators.
Pilot wire or Mains Borne Signaling options.
4 zones, each with separate customisable user programme for each day of the week.
Allows switching between Comfort/Setback modes, Comfort/Off modes or Comfort/Frost protection modes.
Manual programme over-ride facility, with automatic return to programme at next timed change.
Continuous Comfort, Setback, Frost protection and Off modes*.
Models: RXPW4 (pilot wire) and RXMBS4 (mains borne signaling).
Compatible with Monterey, Girona, EPX, EVS, RPX, Calidou, Apollo and DuoHeat ranges.
RXPW4 pilot wire programmer can be used with RXPWIF interface unit to control ancillary appliances, such as towel rails or hot water systems.
Note: For MBS option, RX9913 receiver cassettes are required for each panel heater or RX03002 for each DuoHeat radiator.
Note: A mains filter RXMBSF4 is required for use with MBS controller and DuoHeat radiators, in addition to an RX03002 (which includes RXFER4 ferrite core) receiver for each DuoHeat radiator.
* Off mode not applicable for DuoHeat.
Mains borne signalling (MBS) uses the standard twin and earth wiring in the domestic supply circuit to carry a modulated signal between each heater. A receiver cassette is required in each slave heater to decode the signal. Unique electronic identity codes in each programmer prevent interference with receivers in different zones/buildings and negate the need for additional mains filtering.
This system is ideal for use in existing buildings where it is not possible to install an additional hard wired connection between heaters.
Note: Heaters and programmers should be installed on the same supply circuit, connected to the same phase. For a 3ph installation a phase coupler should be used.
Pilot wire installations utilise an additional control wire linked between each heater. This is a 240V live conductor, carrying a low current signal to activate the various modes on the heater electronic control. Up to 20 heaters per zone can be supported (dependent on controller).

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When you need the help of a Car Locksmith in Scarthingwell look no further than our team of experts who are always on call 24 hours a day 365 days a year.
We have a team of auto locksmiths on call in Scarthingwell 24 hours a day 365 days a year for when you have a security emergency relating to your vehicle.
No matter what service you need from a local auto locksmith in Scarthingwell simply pick up the phone and give us a call so we can unlock your vehicle and replace or repair your car key today.


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The Opportunity Network’s Career Fluency® curriculum is designed to help high school and college students bridge a pervasive gap between academic learning in the classroom and success in college and careers. Career Fluency® means having the information, skills, guidance and experience to achieve career success.
Along with college success, career exposure and professional etiquette, Career Fluency® differs from other college and career development curricula in its emphasis on personal and professional networks and the importance of social capital in navigating college and the professional world.
Our OppNet Fellows program, the organization’s founding program, serves students from the summer after 10th grade through to college graduation, for a total of six years. Throughout the program, Fellows receive classes centered on networking for college and professional success, workplace etiquette, internship preparedness, interview skills and career savvy; intensive college application guidance, including overnight college trips, group workshops, SAT tutoring and extensive one-on-one counseling; and five summers of paid internships or enrollment in enrichment or travel programs, leaving our program with robust resumes and lifelong networks of support.


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A functional, object-oriented language with implicit parallelism.
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[Forthcoming Technical Report from RADC].

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What does that mean? All metal instrumentation is sterilized using a medical grade autoclave.
disinfection to ensure hygienic equipment for our clients.
toenails as well as rebuild a nail due to sport injuries.
We also offer pedicure services from simple Nail trim + polish changes, express pedicures and full medical grade pedicures.
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The following inspirational New Year Quotes from the Bible can help you start the year on a good note.
Therefore as you set your New Year goals, decide to believe that with God helping you, you will be able to achieve them.
Therefore go through your Bible and find the promises that you would like God to fulfill for you this year and then pray for them in the name of Jesus as you believe Him for them. Ensure that you also fulfill the requirements that God states have to be met before He can fulfill the promises. To learn more read The Promises of God and their Conditions.
If you know that there are some large obstacles waiting for you in the New Year, be encouraged by what happened to Mary Magdalene because she was wondering 'Who will roll back the tombstone for us?' (Mark 16:3) when she was going to Jesus' tomb with her spices.
However, God went ahead of her and sent an Angel from Heaven who rolled back the large stone and sat on it probably so that it would not roll back and close the tomb again.
Therefore, do not give up on your God inspired plans even if you know there are associated with large problems. Simply trust God to do for you what you cannot do for yourself can continue working confidently towards your goals.
Therefore pray for God to give you the gift of discernment so that you can know the right way to deal with all the issues that pertain to your life this new year.
Therefore set a goal to read your Bible every day so that you can teach yourself, rebuke yourself, correct yourself and instruct yourself in righteousness.
Take the shield of faith with you every day by simply deciding to believe God and His Word this New Year and you will be able to nullify all the things the enemy throws your way. To learn more read How to Increase your Faith.


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JOEY Crowfoot location raises over $600 for Between Friends through their Scoop of Care campaign in the month of August.
Through the Scoop of Care, $1 from every one of JOEY’s delicious ice-cream desserts sold in that month goes to a local charitable organization.
Between Friends was chosen by staff vote at the JOEY Crowfoot location to be the Scoop of Care recipient for August. The campaign was a success and Between Friends was presented with a donation of $680!
Thank you JOEY Crowfoot staff & to everyone who sampled the tasty ice cream in the month of August!
What is so special about JOEY ice cream?
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Like Hubspot, KISSmetrics sells marketing software, in this case with the catchline ‘Learn What Google Analytics Can’t Tell You’ (‘Google Analytics tells you what happened, KISSmetrics tells you who did it’).
The KISSmetrics marketing blog covers analytics & testing as well as marketing.
it offers a range of free marketing guides on topics ranging from Reddit to Quora to Google Webmaster Tools. Some great covers too.
Essential reading for all SEOs out there. Matt Cutts is Google’s unofficial spokesman – official title Head of Google’s Webspam Team. He also covers search quality, make of that juxtaposition what you will.
This site gives insight into Google trends and developments. Just not all of them.
Always remember that behind the t-shirted regular guy exterior lurks a formidable brain! Google may want to be our best friend but is also a billion-dollar business (more than $50 billion and rising).
This is where Jakob Nielsen, guru of web usability, hangs out.
Click on the Reports box and then ‘Browse all reports’. The NN/g articles are a denser read than other sites about websites and related platforms. However, as Nielsen’s reports underpin so much of online literature, it is well worth going back to this original source material.
Although this site is targeted at professional web designers, it also has articles for general consumption, such as ‘SEO for Responsive Websites’. ‘Website Design Elements: examples and best practices’ or ‘Best Practices for Effective Design of “About Me” Pages’.
The UK’s official body for proofreaders and editors. Click on the Directory of Editorial Services and search.
The quality of editors varies, and the directory is seen as an advertising tool rather than as constituting endorsement by the SfEP.
If you’re new to commissioning editorial work and don’t know who to choose, I suggest giving two different editors the same short piece of copy and seeing whose approach appeals most.
NB Before you commission a member check whether an editor plans to use an ‘associate’ (a less qualified editor or proofreader). I once commissioned an editor who only after the commission revealed she was working on 80 projects (ie with the help of associates).
Luckily this experience is the exception rather than the rule. There are some truly talented editors out there.
We welcome your suggestions of quality blogs and sites to add to this list.


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James M. Jackson will be awarding the chance to name a character who will appear in FALSE BOTTOM (Seamus McCree #6) to a randomly drawn winner via rafflecopter during the tour.
I am an eclectic reader, but my first love is the mystery/suspense/thriller genre. When I decided to become an author, I figured I’d write the kind of books I like to read.
Empty Promises is the fifth book in the Seamus McCree series. I’m a pantser and with my novels, I usually find out what issue I’m writing about only after I complete the first draft. Seamus McCree has lived by the belief that his word is his bond. In Empty Promises I discovered I was exploring how he reacts after he takes a series of actions that increasingly conflict with his core values. Like most of us, he self-justifies his decisions, but as they accumulate, they begin to wear him down. His personal consequences are wrapped inside a page-turner of a story with all the twists and turns of a suspenseful thriller.
Writers write what they know, and must observe the world. Are you a first born, middle or last child and how does this shape your view of the world?
I am the first born of three children. My sisters are five and ten years younger than I. To a considerable degree I reflect the first child syndrome: motivated to succeed, a need for control, something of a perfectionist, occasionally bossy, and boringly responsible.
In the Seamus McCree series, my understanding of these characteristics shows up in Paddy, Seamus’s son and only child. He displays all my characteristics, plus he’s always been comfortable in the adult world. Seamus has an older sister, but their father died when he was a youngster. As sometimes happens, he assumed the “male” role of the family at an early age, and so exhibits many of the characteristics traditionally thought of as first-born traits and few of the “baby in the family” traits. That he and Paddy are alike in many regards also means they can both be stubborn and at times overly sure of themselves.
In the summer my study is in a second story loft that looks out a wall of windows through the trees and onto a small inland lake.
How do you feel about killing your darlings, and what do you do with the remains?
My dead darlings fall into two categories. Sometimes I write wonderful scenes that are cute or funny or provide social commentary. Usually around the third draft, I’ll realize they have only a passing relationship with the plot or character and don’t have requisite tension for a good scene. I hit the delete key and forget about them forever.
I use real places in my novels, and in early drafts I can wax poetic when describing a location. Sometimes I only realize I’ve gone overboard when my editor points it out. Then my task becomes choosing the salient points and letting the reader fill in the rest of the picture.
You are introduced to your favorite author. Who is it, and what is that one burning question you must ask them?
I’ve been lucky to meet many of my favorite living authors, so let’s assume I can meet Ben Franklin during a séance. I’ve admired Poor Richard’s Almanac, his Autobiography, and his letters to newspaper editors, so, there’s much I’d like to know. But since I’m entangled with the dynamics of the McCree family in my writing, I’d ask him why he never reconciled with his son, the loyalist governor of New Jersey who exiled himself to England after the Revolutionary War.
Inquiring minds want to know…tell readers something about you that no one knows.
I don’t’ do heights. My theory is that if we were meant to be high above the ground in places where we could fall, we’d have wings.
You are stranded on a deserted island with only a back pack for company. What three items are in your survival pack?
I want to live through this. I’m taking a charged pre-paid satellite phone with GPS tracking to call someone to come get me, a filled water bottle, and a water purifier to replenish my supply.
Here’s where my innate “ability” to look a gift horse in the mouth and worry about the negative consequences makes me shy away from the normal kinds of superpowers. However, I love being in new and interesting places and traveling can be a real hassle. I’ll accept the ability to safely teletransport myself and whoever I’m with to wherever I’d like to go.
If I’m not careful I can eat a lot—I mean a lot—of trail mix.
Indy 500 – Do you know how to get where you’re going or do you drive the speed limit?
Sometimes I have no clue where I’m headed, but I’m still doing seven miles over the speed limit. Thanks for having me today, Danita.
S. B. Redstone will be awarding a $25 Amazon or Barnes and Noble GC to a randomly drawn winner via rafflecopter during the tour.
In Part I of my romance novel, Stardust Dreams, Lance Forrester: scientist, astronaut, and dreamer who has terminal cancer is embarking on a one way journey into the galaxy to seek immortality. In his spacecraft, he will be cryogenically preserved for the long journey into his unknown future, hopefully to be saved by an advanced alien civilization. He has asked Sage Saint Charles, an old high school acquaintance, who is in hospice care, to join him. Once an actress and super bad girl of Hollywood, she became a social isolate. Lance’s compelling request has her following his dream.
After taking off on their secret quest, I am interviewing them on my radio show.
Could you clarify what you hope to achieve.
What kind of spacecraft do you have? How did you keep this a secret?
Why was the air force trying to shoot you down?
Distant stars are really far away. How will you reach them? How will you survive the journey?
What technology have you invented?
How do you know you’ll find these aliens?
Let’s agree that you’ll be successful. Will you ever return to Earth in the far off future?
Ms. Saint Charles how do you feel about all this?
Have you taken copies of your films with you?
Is there anything you’d like to say to the people of Earth?
Do you think you’ll meet God?
Do you have people you wish to say good-bye to Dr. Forrester?
And you Ms. Saint Charles?
Lance Forrester is a dreamer. After a celebrated career as an astronaut and engineer, he and a friend build a secret spacecraft to seek their destinies in the stars. But his friend dies and Lance is diagnosed with terminal cancer. Desperate not to succumb to his fate, he convinces an acquaintance, ailing actress Sage Saint Claire, whom he hasn’t seen since high school, to join him on his quest to reach an advanced alien civilization which can heal them both.
Unfortunately, true life is not a Hollywood movie, as much as Sage might want it to be, and problems abound. Mistakes in the past have turned Sage into a bitter old woman, and she turns out to be a less-than-perfect traveling companion which no amount of optimism, youth, or good health can cure. Can these two intrepid octogenarians-turned-immortals overcome the emotional scars of their pasts and achieve true happiness, or are they doomed to suffer for their mistakes, no matter how far from Earth they go?
It wasn’t her fears that I was battling against, but a lifetime of distrust. My confidence in a successful mission collapsed.
“Of course, you have no reason to believe a word of what I’ve told you. You don’t really know me, except through my noted accomplishments. But I can’t disappoint you because I’m only offering friendship and hope.” I pushed my point harder.
Steven Rosenstein, penname S. B. Redstone, had a career as a school psychologist and private practice Licensed Clinical Social Worker on Long Island. Always seeking the truths of human nature, he wrote a personal improvement book, Taming Your Inner & Outer Bullies: Confronting Life’s Stressors And Winning, published by New Horizon Press Books. He has written articles on human nature and relationships, given lectures, and appeared on radio shows. Always having a vivid imagination, he first became a successful writer of short stories. His mystery thriller, A Sinister Obsession, was published by Black Opal Books. As an expert in the field of human psychology, he has an exceptional ability to develop realistic and exciting characters in his novels. Many of my characters have been taken from his clinical experiences. Stardust Dreams is his first romance novel, although romantic relationships stand out in his other works. He is a member of the International Thriller Writers Org and Romance Writers of America. He resides with his wife in New York and Florida.
R. Scott Mackey will be awarding a $50 Amazon or B/N GC to a randomly drawn winner via rafflecopter during the tour.
1. Woohoo! You are a published author. Describe a strong character trait you possess, good or bad, and how it helped you become a published author. I’m persistent as hell. I’m not sure where that comes from, maybe my dad, or maybe from playing competitive sports through my youth and into college. Even when I’m most discouraged, within 24 hours I try to get back out there, whether it’s pitching a book for sale or review, or developing the next big idea.
2. Sometimes an author begins writing a story before they are aware of its genre. Did you choose your genre, or did it choose you? I very consciously decided to write in the mystery/suspense genre. I read a lot of mysteries and felt that is where I could do some very good work. It’s a very competitive genre, but I firmly believed that if the work was high quality if would be appreciated by readers. So far that’s held true with all of the Ray Courage books.
3. The plot thickens, or does it? Which one are you, a pantser or a plotter? I’m a plotter. I outline my novels meticulously. And then I deviate from the outline, sometimes quite a bit. But having an outline lets me know that I can get from beginning to end without any stumbling blocks. My current book, Courage Resurrected, is quite complicated. Without an outline I would have driven myself crazy trying to keep everything straight.
4. Fear 101: As writers it is our duty to make our characters face their fears. Have you ever included one of your own fears in a storyline? Yes, but only in the sense of those being common fears most of us have. In Courage Resurrected, Ray must stare down and defeat some scary people. I’ve never been in that situation, but I tried to put myself into Ray’s shoes and have him react emotionally in ways that I might.
5. Fear 102: Yes, deadlines are terrifying. Have you conquered the juggling act between writing and the rest of your life? What do you do when it feels like the balls are dropping all around you? Sometimes it can feel overwhelming. For me I prioritize everything then work as hard as I can to complete the highest priority items before they are due. As an Indie Author, I have to wear a lot of hats. Writing is only part of what I need to do to be successful. I work closely with a book formatter, cover designer, editor and proofreader. I need to give some love now and again to my website as well as to social media. There’s a lot to pay attention to and I feel that I’m getting better at balancing all of the components.
6. Switch positions with one of your main characters in a scene. What is the outcome, disaster or divine intervention? I’m ashamed to say it but if I was put into many of the scenes Ray Courage was put in in my books it would be a disaster. I have written Ray as a common person. He’s in his fifties, can’t punch out people or withstand much physical violence. He has to escape certain situations using his smarts and his guile. I’m not so sure I could be as successful as he is in doing that. For example, when he is in the park meeting the crazy girl and Mastrov’s men chase him, Ray is able to accomplish what I could never do.
Where is your favorite place to write? Add that one comfort food that you can’t do without. I do ninety percent of my writing at my desk in my home office. When I’m not writing there I go to a local coffee bar about a quarter mile from my house. I haven’t recently, but I used to order one of their fresh-baked chocolate chip cookies. They’re about six inches in diameter, warm and gooey on the inside, and just about unbeatable with a cup of their French roast.
8. Writing inspirations? Everyday life. I like to observe people and places. I don’t journal anymore, but I take a lot of mental notes about people I encounter and how something about them might work its way in to a character in my books. Same with settings and locales.
You are introduced to your favorite author. Who is it, and what is that one burning question you must ask them? This is a tough question because I like so many different authors for so many different reasons. Because I also am interested in non-fiction storytelling, I would like to meet Laura Hillenbrand, author of Seabiscuit and Unbreakable. I would really like to know how she does her research, how she organizes it, and then uses it to create such seamless stories that read like fiction.
10. I’ve gone mad – why don’t you come with me? Some people just don’t understand us writers. Name a quirky, writer-thing you do that friends wish you didn’t. I can’t watch a television show or movie without trying to out-think the writer. Most of the time I figure out the story outcome before the writer wants us to. It’s not because I’m smart, it’s because I’m looking at the story through a writer’s eyes, not that of a typical viewer. I used to announce these revelations midway through the story, much to the chagrin of friends and family. I still do the story analysis and try to one up the writer, but I’ve learned to bite my tongue and not spoil things for anyone watching the show or movie with me.
Walter Heffner told police that night that he thought an airliner had crashed on the road in front of his house, the sound so deafening, the eruption of flames so huge that only an object that large moving that fast could explain it. By the time he put on his shoes and coat he saw what was left of a car straddling the center stripe of the two-lane country road, the heat from the fire so great that he could not get within a hundred feet.
Scott’s career arc has included stints as a corporate communications manager, college professor, copywriter, bartender, and youth sports coach. In addition to obsessing over punctuation and grammar, he cares about his family (including his dog and cat), the San Francisco Giants, and his rather sad golf game.
Michael Sheldon will award a randomly drawn commenter via Rafflecopter a $10 Amazon/BN gift card.
How do you solve the ultimate mystery, where the murder victim has no identity and there’s no physical evidence? You go psychic—deep psychic—and hire Bruno X. Sure, you’re going to have to put up with some Yiddish trash talk and recycled borsht belt shtick. But he’s the only one who can who can stop the crime spree in the ordinarily placid Quaker community of Gardenfield, New Jersey.
Follow Bruno X in Michael Sheldon’s fictional debut, THE VIOLET CROW as he fends off rabid journalists and feckless politicians; untangles webs of deceit in Professor Littlejohn’s Deviant Behavior 101 class; reveals why the Quakers are still fighting over decades-old military medical experiments; and finally, uncovers the secrets of the biotechnology firm whose symbol is The Violet Crow.
The borough of Gardenfield is home to some 35,000 peaceful souls nestled in the friendly confines marked by Tiny’s Package Store to the north, the J. Kilmer Pub to the east, Lillian’s Tavern to the south, and the Tiki Lounge to the west. A Philadelphia suburb, it is a prosperous community with colonial roots and a variety of pretensions, including a prohibition on the sale of alcoholic beverages within Gardenfield proper. In fact, thirsty Gardenfielders simply have to drive past the town limits on any of the major roads, in order to enjoy a beer or a cocktail.
The woman behind the bar was dressed in tight jeans and a low-cut flower-print top. She was busy polishing a wine glass, and didn’t look up until she’d finished her task. Then she flashed a smile that was warmer than Lil’s rather spectral hug. “Buddy! I haven’t seen you since—what?—Bay of Pigs. It’s about time you came to see me.” Without asking she opened a bottle of Rolling Rock and set it down in front of the Chief.
Michael was born in Philadelphia and grew up in Haddonfield, New Jersey. His father was a dentist, which accounts for his sense of humor. His mother, a Jewish mother without peer, instilled in him the idea that the world doesn’t owe you a living—and a love of raw oysters and dry martinis. His training in the craft of storytelling came from reading the masters beginning with Chaucer and Rabelais, through Sterne, to MacDonald and Westlake.

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I wrote a post last night that I was frustrated with upon completion. It’s not that it isn’t good. It is good, and it will be published – probably next week – on Hormones Matter. It’s that I was saying a lot of the same stuff that I’ve said before – Fluoroquinolones are dangerous drugs that damage mitochondria, lead to massive amounts of oxidative stress and contribute to all sorts of multi-symptom, chronic, mysterious diseases. I’ve said it before. I’ve said it in multiple ways. I’ve been as loud and as clear as I can be.
I was annoyed with myself because I don’t particularly want to be repetitive.
I wonder though, other than annoying myself, is repetition really a problem? For most people, it takes multiple times of hearing a message for it to sink in.
At that point, you can consider them to be won over.
Changing minds. Informing people. Changing the world. Those things are what all this screaming is about. I don’t spend 40+ hours per week researching and writing about the dangers of fluoroquinolones because I don’t have anything else going on in my life (I do have a job, a few hobbies and friends). I spend time and energy working on this BECAUSE IT’S IMPORTANT! People are being needlessly hurt by these drugs that have been shown, over and over again, to be damaging to human cells. It’s something that is worth screaming about. So I’ll scream, over and over again, until people hear me.
To change the world, perhaps a bit of repetition is needed. Annoying myself is a necessary sacrifice. I’m pretty sure I can do that.
Help in spreading the word about how dangerous fluoroquinolones – cipro/ciprofloxacin, levaquin/levofloxacin, avelox/moxifloxacin, floxin/ofloxacin – are, is greatly appreciated! I know that it feels like your friends and family members think that you’re a kook when they’re in the phase of disbelief and resistance. But if you keep letting them know about how dangerous fluoroquinolones are, and how cipro, levaquin and/or avelox hurt you, eventually they’ll come around. Eventually they’ll believe you. Because you’re telling the truth. You have plenty of scientific studies on your side.
Keep screaming. I’ll keep writing. Eventually, we will get this changed.
Lisa, if I had your brain, I’d scream even louder than I’m screaming now. I hope to someday be able to put together more coherent posts, even if people get sick of hearing it. Praying that day comes sooner, rather than later. Bless you for all you do!
Thank you, Ms. A! I hope that you get all of your writing mojo back soon too!
I stopped at a pharmacy to pick up some Floragen and Epsom salt, and I mentioned to the pharmacist there that I had had a bad reaction to Cipro. He didn’t believe me at first that I could have had anything more than a rash or a stomach ache from it. (Those things were the tip of the iceberg!) When he finally grudgingly acknowledged that I really could have had nearly every side effect listed and a few that aren’t he had to give me the usual line about how Cipro is very safe and what happened to me is rare.
How is a drug with two boxed warnings from the FDA very safe? How is a drug that had multiples of its fellows pulled from the market because of problems very safe? Why the fight to protect these dangerous and harmful drugs?
I think they all need to be pulled. There are fates worse than death. The psychological effects of a very severe ADR to an FQ are simply too horrible for the human mind to bear. As one Floxie put it, “If I were a dog I’d be put down.” If someone has a severe reaction there is absolutely no help for him or her. None, but to ride it out and hope that the acute phase doesn’t last.
Of course, there are some things that help, that might even be close to a cure, but doctors don’t know about them. They just stand there repeating the mantra that Cipro is very safe while their patient suffers unimaginable torment.
If there is a cure I think it might be MitoQ, magnesium threonate and any other supplements that target the mitochondria. My reaction was horribly severe initially, but I think I’m close to 100%. (Hard to tell– I have a nasty cold and I can’t tell what’s a Floxie symptom and what’s the virus right now.) Why was I lucky? It wasn’t just magnesium. Everybody does that. I think it was the MitoQ.
When medical science can cure being floxed 100% of the time, then maybe they can use FQ’s. Until then I say no way.
It truly boggles my mind that pharmacists and doctors don’t know how dangerous these drugs are. Aren’t they supposed to learn about this in school??? The warning label – almost all of the symptoms of FQ toxicity are RIGHT THERE on the warning label. Do they think that the labels are jokes? It’s bizarre when they’re in the early denial stage. I think that it’s to protect their egos. It’s hard to admit that drugs that you give out are harming people. No one wants to think that of themselves. So they refuse to admit it. Anyhow…. a post on that topic is coming.
Whenever people ask about mitochondrial support supplements, I always refer them to your story, Ruth. You are definitely the expert.
The article that noted that diabetes rates track with fluoroquinolone rates – http://www.medical-hypotheses.com/article/S0306-9877(14)00217-5/fulltext and http://www.hormonesmatter.com/fluoroquinolone-antibiotics-diabetes-risk/ made me think that even more chronic diseases than I had originally thought are connected to fluoroquinolones. Maybe you’re right. Maybe they should just be banned until we know how to fix those diseases, and fix cells (especially the mitochondria). If rates of all sorts of chronic diseases went down along with decreasing FQ Rx rates, well, that would be compelling. We shall see if the experiment is ever done.
Lisa, you are just brilliant. I’m a professional writer AND my life was permanently hijacked by taking Cipro… yet still, I could not do such a fine job of expression as you are doing. You’re just a wonderful gift to our community (of floxies). Thank you for your dedication to the cause of enlightenment. You are making a real difference and we need your voice desperately. Thank you.
I hope you realize you much you are appreciated Lisa.
Thank you so much, Brian! 🙂 🙂 That means a lot to me!
Thanks Lisa – your texts are always interesting and informative.
A frirend of mine was given Cipro (2004-2005) and became confused.
He had other medications as well so it was difficult to understand what was happening to him. Since then I have learnt that he also had medications that could interact and make side effects more likely and worse (cortisone, anti-inflammatory etc.).
I started to look for information and was very surprised when I found people in America who called themselves floxies. I also discovered Stephen Fried´s book – Bitter Pills.
When X left the infectious ward, I gave the book to a nurse and told her to pass it on to the doctors. I doub´t anyone has read it.
Now, 10 years later, I am thinking of writing a letter to remind them of the book and will enclose your article.
Thank you for all that you do, Marie! Please feel free to include anything that I have written in the book. The more people who are writing about this, the better.
I tell everyone I meet about my floxxing and how it has changed my life. Very few doubt me. They see the effects. I think there is more awareness. I have even met doctors who say they’d never prescribe it. It just goes to show that we can raise awareness. But, it has to happen bit by bit. There’s a lot of work to be done.
I wish that everything had a “like” button. I think that everything that you wrote in this comment is awesome! Yep, there’s a lot of work to be done, but how do you do it? One step at a time and one mind at a time.
My daughter´s best friend had some problems with her stomach during the summer.
It was not the first time. She was x-rayed 3 years ago and they found some diverticulities (hope it`s the correct word).
During this summer I visited my daugther who lives in a different part of Sweden.
Then her friend X phoned and complained that she had stomach problems again.
I heard the word Cipro and told my daughter to tell X that it could cause serious problems and that she should ask if there was a less risky medication.
But X had already began the treatment.
The next day X phoned again.
She was feeling terrible, She had pains/cramps in her legs, knees, shoulders and she could hardly walk. My daughter told her to go to the Emergency Room at once.
The staff could not understand what was wrong with her. Several doctors were involved.
Because I had talked about the package insert, she read it and suggested to the medical staff that maybe it could be a reaction to the Cipro. They didn´t think so, but changed their minds when she read it loud. The medication was stopped, immediately, and when I saw her a few days later she had improved, but not fully.
Earlier on, my daughter had told me that X had suffered from one health issue after the other during the past years. It was just too much.
I suggested that she should tell X to get hold of her medical records in order to investigate what medications/antibiotics she had received earlier on. There might be a connection.
X should also avoid Cipro – and its relatives – if it was not absolutely necessary, a matter of life and death.
Good job, Marie! It’s not the kind of “I told you so” that you want to give – because it means that someone got hurt. But still, these drugs are dangerous, and people should know how dangerous they are. It’s often difficult to make the connections between the cause – the fluoroquinolones – and the effects – multiple strange symptoms. But once it is understood that fluoroquinolones damage mitochondria, the delayed reactions, tolerance thresholds and systemic symptoms make sense.
I hope that your daughter’s friend gets well soon! And knowledge truly is power.
Lisa I just want to say two things, 1. You are much appreciated. 2. I wish you lived in England.
Hey John wilkinson, I second the appreciation, and I wish Lisa lived in Spain. After 17 months with every test possible, except the one I really want “an MRI” which the medical profession here wont give me as “there is no justification” I have finally found a rehabilitation specialist who has LISTENED to me and is investigating what I have told her about cipro. She found no reflex action in my leg that had a torn tendon not long after being floxed. The difficulty I have here is the language barrier, which causes me so much frustration. I am doing my best to spread the word. Although my local pharmacist is in agreement with me, he told me that he is prescibing about 35 prescriptions of fluoroquinolone’s a month, multyply that with all the other pharmacies in Spain how many people are suffering out there and don’t know or suspect the connection with fluroqjinolones. It’s frightening.
Lisa I understand what you mean by repeating yourself I do it all the time, but your so right it’s the only way to get change.

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text: Accelerating Adventures in Communication is an intensive camp for students who use Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) systems. Run in conjunction with the Communication Sciences and Disorders Department at West Chester University, EBS therapists engage campers in fun activities designed to inspire communication. Each camper will have the support of a one-on-one partner to encourage continuity and enhance skills.


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Apple’s iPhone doesn’t seem to be interested in hardware race. Android device, on the other hand, focuses much on hardware improvements; as a result, those who are interested in hardware data tend to choose Android smartphones.
You think that the day Android OS can catch up with iOS is far away? Probably not that far. “Jelly Bean” was born to prove that Android OS can get much better with more useful functions, significantly improved smoothness and performance.
One pretty not-so-convenient thing about iOS is that users are strictly bound by Apple’s regulations. The situation differs for Android users since they are entitled to customize the operating system whichever way they want. And this function of Android so far hasn’t been outperformed by any other operating system.
Unless you idolize Apple, you can see that there are many Android smartphones with excellent functions at different price ranges. This is one reason why the ‘Android army’ has been growing so strongly. And iPhone might be a reason too. Some users gradually find iPhone not so attractive and innovative as it used to be, at least its design hasn’t changed much over the past two years.


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For many of us, there’s not a day goes by when we don’t find a rope with a knot in it.
Maybe it’s a business problem that won’t go away.
Perhaps it’s our computer which has frozen up.
Sometimes it’s the cellphone company or the utility company or the tax office.
What most of us do is focus on untying the knot.
We pick and we pull.
We stress and we worry until our fingers are red and our muscles ache.
When – perhaps – what would serve us best is to zoom out.
To put the knot down.
Maybe throw the rope on the floor.
And then we find – often – that we were picking at a knot on the wrong piece of rope.
Or that we could simply get some scissors and cut the knot out.
Or if we stopped pulling and instead gave the rope some slack, the knot would come untied.
The lesson? Efforting to solve something is often not the best way.
Relaxing… instead… gets the job done.


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The power grid state estimation (SE) has been shown to be vulnerable to false data injection (FDI) attacks, which can lead to severe consequences, e.g., transmission line trips, unsafe frequency excursions and/or economic losses. In this talk, we will examine the security of power gird SE from both the attacker and the defender's perspective. For the former, we examine data-driven FDI attacks, i.e., constructing FDI attacks that can bypass the grid's bad-data detector (BDD) by accessing its measurement data over a period of time. We characterize important tradeoffs for the attacker in this context between the attack's spatial and temporal efficiency. The results provide us with an understanding for designing defense mechanism to thwart such attacks.
For defense, we propose a hardened-attack detector based on moving-target defense (MTD) that actively perturbs transmission line reactances to invalidate the attacker's knowledge. We present novel formal design criteria to select MTD reactance perturbations that are truly effective. Moreover, based on a key optimal power flow formulation, we find that the effective MTD may incur a non-trivial operational cost that has not hitherto received attention. Accordingly, we characterize important tradeoffs between the MTD's detection capability and its associated required cost. Extensive simulations, using the MATPOWER simulator and benchmark IEEE bus systems, verify and illustrate the proposed design approach.
Subhash Lakshminarayana is an assistant professor in the University of Warwick's School of Engineering since September 2018. Prior to joining Warwick, he worked as a research scientist at the Advanced Digital Sciences Center (ADSC) in Singapore between 2015-2018. Before that, he held joint post-doctoral researcher appointment at Princeton University and the Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD) between 2013-2015. He received his PhD in the field of Wireless Communications at the Department of Telecommunications at Ecole Superieure d'Electricite (Supelec) Paris, France, M.S. degree from The Ohio State University, USA and B.S. from Bangalore University in India. His research interests include cyber-physical system security (power grids and urban transportation) and wireless communications. His works have been selected among the Best Conference Papers at the IEEE Power Energy Society General Meeting (PESGM) 2015 conference, and the Best 50 Papers at the IEEE Globecom 2014 conference.


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LankaWeb – Where is Sri Lanka heading?
Where is Sri Lanka heading?
The new Constitution, currently being considered, is accused by many of being a project of Tamil separatists. It is not true. It is the project of ‘regime destabilizers’. They have done it elsewhere in the world and Sri Lanka’s past or present experiences are certainly not unique. Initially Project Destabilizing Sri Lanka was India’s, but with time neo-colonialists of the West, Tamil diaspora and various vested interest NGOs came to be driving partners as well. None of these, however, explains the reasons for the incumbent Sri Lankan Government to kowtow to these adverse elements as they do presently.
This Government knows they have neither the mandate nor the support of even their own supporters to do so. Hence, during their entire tenure, which is nearing three years in office now, their entire performance has been of a magician. A rather a bad magician, at that, as they unwittingly reveal the trick they played sooner than later.
From the beginning they continue to divert our attention to one thing only, to conjure an unexpected spectacle. Unfortunately, the experience is horrifying than thrilling.
They came to power pledging to do away the Executive Presidency and to empower Parliament. Apart from term limit, term duration and other minor matters as when the Execution President may dissolve Parliament, the powers of the Executive Presidency is still largely untouched. On the other hand, what is being proposed and under consideration is not empowering Parliament, but reducing it to a ceremonial assembly and the periphery, that is the provinces, to be empowered. If that comes to being, it is immaterial whether the Executive Presidency survives or not, as that position would be with almost no powers.
Promising a change, the two main political rivals the United National Party and the Sri Lanka Freedom Party joined to form a Government called the Unity Government. If this seemed a panacea for the political divide our country suffered for decades, it soon proved to be otherwise. In fact, we are now in a worse situation after this political marriage than before.
The reason being, it took us a while to realize that both our Government and our official Opposition are on the same side. When our Opposition Leader Sambanthan asked India to protect this Government to continue to be in power, it certainly seems both have the same boss.
When he has not shown any interest in any other national matter or crisis and has been only obsessed with a new Constitution, it is not difficult to understand why he is so protective of this Government.
Throughout his political career his agenda has been separatism. Now he plays the role of a respectable politician. In the days of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, he played the despicable part of acting as their political proxy. He continued unabated while the LTTE dragged children as young as eight to become cannon fodder. Even now he hints of the possibility of a resurgence of terrorism if demands are not met. Clearly, he has no qualms over the horror the Tamils faced because of the LTTE. It is this callousness that unmasks the separatists.
It is in this background that PM Ranil Wickremesinghe released the Constitutional Assembly Steering Committee’s interim report on the proposals to Parliament on 29 September 2017. The debate on that report will continue for three days. It is hoped that, thereafter, the final report can be compiled by year end. If the Constitutional Assembly accepts the Steering Committee’s final report of the draft Constitution proposals, it will be submitted to the Cabinet, who will with or without Amendments present it in Parliament to be passed with a two thirds majority. If it does get such a majority, then a Referendum would be held.
The Government firmly assures that the unitary status of our country, which is the framework on which our Constitution is built on, will remain untouched. They are so convincing that the Chief Prelate of the Malwathu Chapter of the Siam Nikaya Most Venerable Thibbatuwawe Sri Sumangala Thera has expressed confidence that the Government will not change this crucial clause.
Arguably, one may say they have not touched it. The change done is quite bizarre. The report appears in all three languages, following the steps taken with the 1978 Constitution. However, in the English version, the word ‘unitary’ has been removed.
Instead, on all three versions, the words ekeeya, which in Sinhala means ‘unitary’ is placed. Furthermore, in all three versions, the Tamil word, which is in the 1978 Constitution has been replaced with the word that denotes the meaning ‘alliance’. The English word ‘unitary’ does not appear in any of these versions. Thus, for those following the Sinhala version, our country’s status would be unitary, for those following the Tamil version, we have an alliance and those following the English version, may, pick as they please. Someone is obviously taking us for a ride.
There are more strange twists in this act. Sambanthan insists on two demands. One is that the North and the East must be remerged and considered as one province. From his objective, this demand is understandable, though not acceptable.
It is the other demand that raises eyebrows. He insists that Sri Lanka must become a secular country. In other words the foremost place given to Buddhism must be taken away. Buddhism is a philosophy that anyone, irrespective of any religion they may be practicing may follow. It is a philosophy that invokes not only kindness and compassion, but also wishing others success and being happy for others success. If at all, Buddhism promotes reconciliation and social harmony. The only obstruction is for extremists who wish to promote suspicion, jealousy and hatred in a society.
While he is emphatic that the country must be secular, he has not uttered a word about the Police powers that is conspicuously absent from the report. This is indeed very strange as getting land and Police powers are matters of extreme importance to those promoting federalism. How come this does not bother him?
Is this another magician’s trick? It appears that the plan is to provoke and excite the Sinhala Buddhist community, by unnecessarily challenging their core identity. When discussing the new Constitution, this would be the focal point. The most venerable prelates and Buddhist monks will definitely agitate and pressurize the Government on this basis.
If the Government makes a great show to assent to the Buddhists’ demands, this pressure group will leave the stage satisfied that their voice had been heard. Is it at that moment the Constitution makers plan to insert the more dangerous clauses into the document?
This may amount to nothing more than mere speculation by this writer. The writer is trying to figure out why Sambanthan is more interested in getting rid of the Buddhist identity that anyway has no direct bearing on him or his project, but totally nonchalant on the issue closer to his heart.
If constitutional matters and makings have been a magic show, then our economy has descended into an absolute soap opera.
This Government began its journey showing us a ‘Robin Hood Budget’, and ended short circuiting our economy. Perhaps one could write off recklessly increasing expenses by acts such as granting a Rs 10,000 monthly allowance per Government servant whilst reducing income by slashing tax on commodities as fuel, as foolish political pledges. Yet, when studying the economic management of this Government the legitimate question surfaces whether these are indeed foolish political decisions, or carefully designed plans to derail Sri Lanka.
The investor confidence this Government broke, as in the case of Avant Garde Maritime Services (AGMS) is a case in point. The actual reason for persecuting them is still not clear. Theirs was a UN sanctioned project carefully designed to protect merchant ships from pirates. It was in accordance with the provisions and standards stipulated by the International Maritime Organization of the UN in the Circular MSC1/Circ/1443. Leader of the House Lakshman Kiriella responding to the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna Leader Anura Kumara Dissanayaka in Parliament noted that Rakna Arakshaka Lanka who had a joint venture with AGMS had regularly paid Government taxes. Thus, since 2011, the Government had earned more than Rs 535 million. As dividends, the Treasury earned more than Rs 94 million. This revelation, however, was not sufficient to stop the persecution.
The most damaging to our economy so far has been the infamous Central Bank 2015 and 2016 bond scams. These scams are alleged to be the biggest banking robberies in Sri Lankan history. Interestingly, these bond scams are yet to make it past to the FCID from the various Presidential Commissions appointed to probe into the matter.
Like a soap opera, the present Commission is unearthing many scandals. One such scandal forced one minister to leave his powerful portfolio and be a backbencher.
There are other scandals. It is still not clear what economic crisis we actually solved or averted by leasing our Magampura Port to the Chinese for 99 years. It certainly did not settle our dues to the Chinese.
Obscured by all these sagas and their details is our reeling economy. This is the past weeks’ news read: IMF is happy enough to release another Rs 39 billion loan after the Government reformed tax laws. Central Bank will likely increase interest rates.
National assets such as Mattala Airport are on the market for either long term lease or outright sale. The Government is claiming there is no money to pay the debt, invested in an aging Russian warship. Sri Lankan Airlines is nose diving, yet its four top managers were paid a monthly salary of Rs 4,000,000 each. World Bank grants us a USD 75 million loan. In the Appropriation Bill presented total expenditure is Rs 3,982 billion, but total income is Rs 2,175 billion. In the 2018 Budget, 50 per cent more allocated for President’s expenses and 41per cent more for the PM’s expenses. PM’s Economic Advisor states that debt is Sri Lanka’s biggest nightmare.
North LTTE council and election of Vasudeva’s මස්සිනා because of extreme greed of becoming ‘common wealth leader’ betrayed our motherland.
උතුරේ යළිත් හර්තාලයක් පැවැත්විණි. හර්තාලයේ උණුසුම දකුණට නොදැනුණු නමුත් මේ නිසා උතුරු පළාතේ දිස්‌ත්‍රික්‌ක පහේම සිවිල් ජන ජීවිතය ඇනහිටිණි. බස් රථ ධාවනය වූයේ නැත. රජයේ මෙන්ම පෞද්ගලික ආයතනද වසා දමා තිබිණි. කොටි සිරකරුවන් 132 ක් වෙනුවෙන් රටේ උතුරු පළාත අරාජික වීමට ඉඩ දිය යුතු නැත. මේ සිරකරුවන් පූස් පැටව් නම් නොවේ. මොවුන් බරපතළ අපරාධකරුවන්ය. යුද අපරාධ සිදුකළ තැනැත්තන්ය. ජන සංහාර සිදුකළ ඝාතකයින් වෙනුවෙන් උතුරේ ජනතාව පෙනී සිටීම බලවත් ප්‍රශ්නයකි. මේ අරාජිකත්වය නවතින්නේ කොතැනින්ද? දෙමලුනි නැගිටිව් දෙවැනි නාටකය දැන් උතුරේ ක්‍රියාත්මක වෙයිs. එදා පොංගු තමිල් නිසා යාපන වැසියෝ පීඩාවට පත්වූහ. එදා හර්තාල් සිදුකෙරුණේ ප්‍රභාකරන්ගේ තුවක්‌කුවේ බලයෙනි. අද හර්තාල් කරන්නේ උතුරු පළාත් සභාවේ පූර්ණ ආශිර්වාදයෙනි. උතුරු පළාත් සභාව ජනජීවිතය නඟා සිටිනුවස් වඩා සාර්ථකව සිදුකරන්නේ හර්තාල්ය.
මේ හර්තාල්වලින් ලබාගත හැකි ජයග්‍රහණයක් නැත. යාපනය දරු දැරියන්ගේ පාසල් වසා දැමීමෙන් කොටි සැකකරුවන්ට නිදහසක් ලැබෙන්නේ නැත. උතුරේ වැසියන්ට දැනෙන සේවයක් කිරීමට විග්නේෂ්වරන් මහ ඇමැතිවරයා ප්‍රමුඛ දෙමළ සන්ධාන පළාත් සභා මන්ත්‍රී නඩයට හැකි වූයේ නැත. එම නිසා සිය දේශපාලන ජනප්‍රියතාවය රැකගැනීම වෙනුවෙන් උතුර අඩපණ කිරීම සිදුවෙයි.
ජනපතිවරයා පසුගිය සෙනසුරාදා යාපනයේ සංචාරය කරන විට දෙමළ සිරකරුවන් නිදහස් කරන්නැයි මොර දෙන එන්. කේ. සිවාජිලිංගම් ඇතුළු නඩය උද්ඝෝෂණය කරන ස්‌ථානයට ද ගියේය. එහෙත් මේ උද්ඝෝෂකයෝ ජනපති සමඟ හෝ සාකච්ඡාවට සූදානම් නැත. වහාම ත්‍රස්‌තයින් නිදහස් කරන ලෙස මේ ජාතිවාදී නඩය බලකර සිටී. රටේ විධායක ජනාධිපතිවරයා සමඟවත් සාකච්ඡාවට සූදානම් නැති මොවුනගේ යටි අරමුණු පැහැදිළිය. කොටි සිරකරුවන්ගේ ප්‍රශ්නය මුල්කරගෙන උතුර අස්‌ථාවර කර යළිත් වරක් කොටි අවතාර අවදි කිරීම සිවාජිලිංගම් ඇතුළු නඩයේ උත්සාහයයි. ජනපතිවරයාටද කළු කොඩි වැනුවේ ඒ නිසාද? කළු කොඩි වනා ත්‍රස්‌තයින් නිදහස් කරගත නොහැක. දිනපතා හර්තාල් කළද ජාතික ආරක්‍ෂාවට බරපතළ තර්ජනය එල්ල කරන මේ කොටි බෝම්බකරුවන් නිදහස් කළයුතු නැත.
ඇව්රෝ යානාවලට මිසයිල ප්‍රහාර එල්ල කර සාමාන්‍ය වැසියන් ඝාතනය කළ ත්‍රස්‌තයන්ට පොදු සමාව දිය යුතු නැත. අත්අඩංගුවට පත් හමුදා භටයින් මරා පිළිස්‌සූ ත්‍රස්‌තයින් දේශපාලන සිරකරුවන් ලෙස සැලකිය හැකිද? එහෙත් මේ සියලු දෙනා නිදහස් කළ යුතු යෑයි විපක්‍ෂ නායක ආර්. සම්බන්ධන් මහතා ඉල්ලා සිටී. සම්බන්ධන්ගේ ඉල්ලීම ජනපතිවරයා නොතකා හැරීම නිසා සම්බන්ධන් ඇතුළු නඩය යාපනයේ පැවැති දෙමළ දින සැමරුමට සහභාගි වූවේද නැත.
විපක්‍ෂ නායකවරයා උතුරේ හර්තාල් පවත්වන්නට මැදිහත් වූයේ නැත. ඒවා පවත්වන්නට මැදිහත් වූයේ විග්නේෂ්වරන් ඇතුළු කණ්‌ඩායම බව නොරහසකි. කවරක් නමුත් දෙමළ ජනතාව අතර වීරයින් වීමට දෙමළ සන්ධානය තුළම උග්‍ර බල අරගලයක් නිර්මාණය වී තිබේ. මේ අරගලයෙන් උතුරේ ජනතාවට යහපතක් අත්වන්නේ නැත. පුරා වසර 30 ක් අස්‌ථාවරවූ ජීවිත යළි ස්‌ථාවර වූයේ 2009 මැයි මාසයෙන් පසුවය. මේ ඊනියා හර්තාල්වලින් සිදුවන්නේ යළි උතුර අස්‌ථාවරවීමට පාර කැපීමය. ආණ්‌ඩුව ඊට ඉඩ දිය යුතු නැත.
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Why everyone should watch Darren Aronofsky’s Mother!
If you’re looking for a movie so intense it’ll stop you from touching a piece of plastic ever again, I’ve got a recommendation for you! Warning, extreme spoilers ahead, but nevertheless I strongly recommend you watch the movie anyway.
Mother! by Darren Aronofsky is a jarring, surreal, amazingly intense film that at first glance, has nothing to do with the environment. You’re left at the end of the movie wondering what you just watched, why you watched it, and what it all means.
The film stars Jennifer Lawrence as the Mother herself, and presents her as a quiet, tame, and loving wife to a famous poet. At the beginning of the film Lawrence is seen to be rebuilding their house, which had been burnt in a fire. The movie goes through a bizarre series of events involving the couple and some unexpected visitors, and quickly becomes a story far removed from reality but based deeply in our own ancient history. The plot supports this by showing the husband gaining popularity for his poetry, to the point where fans begin to invade the house — and he welcomes them into his home with open arms.
What makes this movie so impactful is the symbolism and allegory behind it. Aronofsky creates a fever dream ripe with Biblical imagery, with references to the beginnings of man, using Jennifer Lawrence as an ever-present representation of Mother Nature and the husband (arguably) as a representation of God. The dialogue is rife with demonstrations of our recklessness, the purity of nature, and points endlessly at our arrogance toward the Earth. We see the House, which represents Earth, begin to get populated, destroyed, and disrespected — essentially calling out humanity as the worst houseguests ever.
There aren’t enough words to describe this film for all that it is. Aronofsky, as he demonstrated with Black Swan, is talented in creating disturbing and visually elaborate movies that are more psychological thrillers than anything else. Mother! is all these things, with a strong and frankly frightening message that brings our attention to the state of the planet we live on. Coming away from it, I was deeply confused and a little disturbed, but after doing some research about what the film could possibly mean, I was enlightened; the film is intentionally shocking to highlight the flaws of mankind, and I think it’s fair to say we deserve that. Sometimes something this shocking is needed to get people to listen, to realize that the nonchalance with which we destroy the planet should not be tolerated. This movie does a startlingly good job of making the watcher feel guilty just for existing and demonstrates a completely novel perspective on our place in the world. You’re left wondering what you can possibly do to help, but that doesn’t seem to be a concern of Aronofsky; he is simply telling a story, not calling for righteous action.
All in all, the film teaches the lesson that whether we’re around or not, the Earth can mend itself. Mother Nature will get to work again and fix the house we’ve broken as she has done countless times before. All we can take away from this film is that it’s important to be good houseguests, and even more important to respect your Mother!


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Bethesda people can skip this laborious job completely by employing a professional cleaning service provider that specializes in move out cleaning services. Move out cleaning is specially designed to have properties ready for those moving in to settle in as soon as possible. Having your home cleaned extensively prior to you move out is a matter of common courtesy if nothing else, however sometimes it is a mandatory requirement, especially if you’re a previous occupant.
That there are lots of reasons why it is imminent for Bethesda tenants to employ an expert house cleaning service provider when they are moving in or moving out. There is absolutely nothing simple about a move. The scope of the cleaning requirements that require to be done can be frustrating undoubtedly, particularly if the renter is burdened with work and other obligations.
The contract signed by the property owner and the occupant normally consists of a stipulation that binds the latter to leave the property as they had found it-empty, excellent, and undamaged. In addition, for renters who have chosen to move out, the property owner may add service charges against deposit dollars if specific areas are not cleaned out.
Cleaning is definitely not the priority for someone who is confronted with the formidable difficulties of settling into a new place and beginning a new life. There are so many things that need to be achieved in so little time, not the least which is finishing work and other requirements prior to the move. In order to satisfy their end of the contract, the more practical option for the tenant is to work with Bethesda expert cleaning service provider, instead of do the tidying up themselves.
The primary benefit of hiring Bethesda expert cleaning company is that they can do the task more extensively and more efficiently. A cleaning crew can work wonders, and restore a place that has actually been lived in for rather some time into an area that is almost brand new. An individual without adequate experience in using cleaning tools and cleaning chemicals would not understand what kind of material to make use of to eliminate a specific type of stain.
Moving into a new place in Bethesda can be tiring. Professional cleaning service companies provide not just end-of-tenancy cleaning services.
Prior to you leave the house, check for busted items and make certain you change each one of them. In case you forget to replace such things like lighting fixtures or missing screws, it is most likely that your property owner would take a big portion off your preliminary deposit for these minor things.
If the house has wall to wall carpets, you will certainly have to choose in between working with a specialist to clean it or turning to cleaning it on your own. This choice would be simple if you look at the present condition of the carpet and match it to the original state. When you make this decision, bringing it to the initial condition should be your aim.
You need to also examine the walls to see if there are spots on them. Walls with discolorations can be a huge problem due to direct exposure. See to it you get rid of wall-stains with a moderate hand to avoid wearing down the paint because if that takes place, you will certainly lose a huge piece of your deposit money.
After you have done all the cleaning, make certain that you check out the ovens and fridges. The seals of the refrigerators have to be in proper condition, and the ovens must be clean enough for usage. When moving out in Bethesda, these checks will enhance the chances of getting the deposit total in whole.
There are literally dozens of business that offer move out cleaning and steam carpeting cleaning throughout where you live, and choosing the right one will certainly imply a convenient, hassle-free move-out experience and hundreds of dollars of savings. If you are on a tight schedule for moving out of your existing home, book as far in advance as possible.
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Vatican News sites, Ucan, AsiaNews.it all blocked. Yet the Chinese constitution defends religious freedom. The considerations of a priest, whose personal blog has been taken down.
Beijing (AsiaNews) - "Once we could consult Vatican News, ucanews.com, AsiaNews.it and others [websites]; now they are blocked": This is the bitter observation of a Chinese priest, Fr. Peter, after the government's decision to prohibit all websites of evangelization. In reality AsiaNews.it in Chinese has been blocked for several years, although members of the Party often consult it. But the new rules on online evangelization have also erased the priest's blog. Peter seems to suggest that censorship is a traditional element in China: even Confucius stopped writing when a unicorn was killed. That is to say: the violence of censorship reduces hope and gives space to negativity.
Guan Moye, a native of Gaomi, Shandong province, eastern China, writes with his pseudonym Mo Yan (literally meaning ‘not to say’). Ironically, he has written many literary works, and above all, he won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2012. Confucius, a great sage and educator of ancient China, had written classical literatures and traveled around the country to promote his thoughts and doctrines. Once a unicorn（or kirin, were a kind of mascot, like dragon） appeared, but was hunted down, thereafter, Confucius wrote no more.
Regarding myself, I do not know whom I have angered with my writings or my images. The gallery in my Sina blog was sealed for no reason. I feel upset and helpless. Confucius halted to write because some people had ruined the ecological environment. People did not spare a good-hearted unicorn, but had to hunt it down. From then on, Confucius stopped his writing, and was depressed and grievous until he died.
Today, 2,500 years after Confucius, civilization should have made substantial progress. Still, people cannot speak and tell others what they want to say. Facing injustices, inequality and un-civilized acts, people remain silent. When I was young, I heard a saying "to remain silent in the face of injustice is a way of crying out for injustice.” Now I do not remember who created this proverb, and I have become a person who “faces injustice but chooses to remain silent."
When I first succeeding in the registration of a blog in China, I felt happy about it, because I now had a space of my own to express my views. Although there were readers who did not agree to what I said, and even criticized me, but anyway it was a world of diverse opinions. This was so-called "hundred flowers and hundreds of schools of thought", an embodiment of social progress and prosperity[i]. If the media, the network, and the cultural carriers are expressed in a unified manner, what kind of form will appear in the realms of culture, belief and religion? I really cannot imagine.
I once asked an apostate who gave up his faith during the Cultural Revolution (1966-1976) and had no expression of religious belief, “Do you still have faith?”. He was silent for a long time, and said: "Faith is a deep thing in the human heart." Such an answer was very perplexed. In today's society, political enlightenment, economic prosperity, and the Constitution also clearly express "freedom of belief," and does such freedom also become a "thing in the soul"? The Vatican News, the ucanews.com, AsiaNews and others that were often viewed no longer can be opened. News about the Catholic Church can only be viewed from the Mainland Chinese Catholic websites and Faith Press. Although we have eyes, now visually impaired, we cannot fully understand the specific situation and information of the universal Church and the local Churches.
[i] "One hundred flowers and one hundred schools of thought" (more precisely: Let 100 flowers blossom and 100 schools of thought contend) was a campaign launched by Mao Zedong in 1956, with which he invited the intellectuals to express themselves freely and to discuss starting from different visions , compared to those of the Chinese Communist Party. But after this period, Mao increased his persecution against intellectuals, and precisely against those who had expressed themselves with visions other than his own.

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The event was held to mark the 20th anniversary of the establishment of the National Paralympic Committee of Azerbaijan. Sportsmen as well as various celebrities attended in the event.
One of the most interesting moments in the event was dance of Vusala Karimova and Tamerlan Gadirov in wellchair.
In addition, V. Karimova and T. Gadirov are winner of Continental Cup 2013. paralympian Vusala Karimova who uses wellchair jumped with parachute from distance of 4000 meters what is a first in history of Azerbaijan.


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'Health' and safeguarding children: an ‘Expansionary Project’or 'Good Practice'?
PECKOVER, Sue (2009). 'Health' and safeguarding children: an ‘Expansionary Project’or 'Good Practice'? In: BROADHURST, Karen, GROVER, Chris and JAMIESON, Janet, (eds.) Critical perspectives on safeguarding children. Chichester, John Wiley & Sons, 149-169.


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The untimely passing of Dolours Price is a moment in Republican history. Born into a staunch Republican household in Belfast she came under the influence of her father, Albert Price, who was active in the 1940s and was imprisoned, and her aunt Bridie Dolan who was severely injured when a grenade she was handling exploded prematurely.
With the birth of the Civil Rights movement in the 1960s, Dolours was to the fore in all activities. When the struggle escalated and internment without trial was brought in, she and her sister Marion joined the Republican Movement. There followed activity in London and prolonged imprisonment and hunger strike.
The socialist republican party, éirígí, has said that the British administration’s decision to refuse Marian Price leave to attend the funeral of her sister, Dolours, is designed to add further grief to that already being felt by the Price/Rea family.
éirígí spokesperson Ursula Ní Shionnain said, “Republicans throughout Ireland were profoundly shocked and saddened to learn of the premature death of Dolours Price-Rea on Thursday.
“As young republicans, imprisoned in both Britain and Ireland from 1973 until the beginning of the 1980s, both Dolours and her sister Marian endured great hardship and ill-treatment, including the torture of force-feeding while on hunger strike, at the hands of the British state. Despite the efforts of their captors, the spirit and resolve of these two sisters could never be broken. Both Dolours and Marian provided inspiration and encouragement to many, not least of which was to their comrades in many other prisons.
I hope to stick up a fitting tribute to Dolours Price over the next few days.
I never met her, let alone knew her. But I know she was one of the true ones. She could have had a career in mainstream politics and done well for herself, as others in the Movement did by selling out. But, like her sister Marian, Dolours held to the true thing, despite the considerable personal cost.
The sad circumstances of her final years and her death also should remind us that on our side we need to look after our veterans better.
Beir bua agus tiocfaidh ár lá.
Dolours Price’s interviews will not now be immediately handed over, as some reports have wrongly claimed. The interviews are the subject of a stay imposed by the Supreme Court of the United States and that stay remains in place until that court, the highest in the land, decides otherwise. There are other subpoenas outstanding and as far as we are concerned the same issues affect them as they did Dolours Price’s case and we intend continuing the fight with renewed vigor to stop the remaining Belfast Project interviews from being handed over.
You can help support Irish socialist-republicanism and anti-imperialism by buying stuff at the éirígí on-line shop.
There are t-shirts and polo shirts, a great range of posters featuring not only Irish revolutionaries like Connolly (and many more) but the likes of Frantz Fanon, Che, Marx, Amilcar Cabral, Malcolm X, Leila Khaled, Lenin (and many more), flags, badges and posters.
Politics and the rise of historical revisionism has just crossed the 1,000 hits mark, joining the piece on Saor Eire as the second article to cross the 1,000 hits. Modest, but encouraging. About to hit 900 is the article on The burning of the British embassy – 40 years on.


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