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The aim of developing “THE SUNBOUNCE LIGHTING SYSTEM” is to provide the mobile film-maker and photographer with a very light, transportable, reliable and rigid tool that delivers the same light qualities as the heavy ones known from Hollywood’s film industry. But without all the effort.
”THE SUNBOUNCE LIGHTING SYSTEM” is handy, easy to carry and possible to take on a plane when folded. It fits in every passenger car and there it only occupy a small space of the boot so that it can be with you any time. It be combinable with all necessary reflection and diffusion fabrics for light enhancement.
“THE SUNBOUNCE LIGHTING SYSTEM” is the only one of its kind in the world and consists of five different frame constructions, each in different sizes, to which various fabrics can be attached. Light reflecting, diffusing, structuring and enhancing colours.
Unique components make up “THE SUNBOUNCE LIGHTING SYSTEM”.
The SUNBOUNCE designers replaced heavy, simple parts of the constructions with light and clever materials used in aircraft construction. The “PRO Frame” with a size of 130 x 180 cm only weighs 1,800 grams – this is lighter than a professional camera. The synergy of frame stability and screen creates the unique light quality of „THE SUNBOUNCE LIGHTING SYSTEM“. Light can easily and precisely be controlled to 100% with a constant reflector without bumps and dents. Clean, constant light - just as the professional would expect. Light HANDMADE IN GERMANY.
“THE SUNBOUNCE LIGHTING SYSTEM” consists of five different frame constructions. The frames are dimensioned and optimised for their respective application. Possible wind load on large frames requires a different construction compared to small frames. The reflectors must have a different construction to the diffusers. However, some SUNBOUNCE frames allow reflective and diffusion function.
The SUNBOUNCE screens are sewn by hand by highly qualified seamstresses in the Lüneburger Heide near Hamburg/Germany. SUNBOUNCE HANDMADE IN GERMANY – unique in its quality and function! The synergistic interaction of FRAME and SCREEN creates the unique SUN-BOUNCER and SUN-SWATTER: without bumps and without dents and guaranteed to create reliable, soft or harsh but always professional light for the expert.


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The ZUXPSR243DPDTProXR_ETHERNET Ethernet Relay has an Ethernet interface that plugs intro a router using a standard CAT5 cable where it is assigned an IP address. Once on the network, commands can be sent to control the relay from within the network or from outside through the internet. The board supports virtual COM port over ethernet, direct TCP/IP communications, DHCP and fixed IP Address.
The ZUXPSR243DPDTProXR_ETHERNET Ethernet Relay is an ideal choice for controlling relays over a network. The main method of communication is a standard TCP Socket This communication protocol makes use of Network Sockets to create point to point tunnels that data can flow through bidirectionally. Commands can be sent to the board and shortly thereafter receive a response through the same Socket.

industry_corpus2: Computing & Telecommunications


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Usually, I am not that forgetful, but after reading the information The Gourmet Wine Club sent to me on the Spanish winery Más Que Vinos and decided that it could be an interesting event, I forgot to rsvp for the dinner until the night before. Luckily, Alfred, the owner, was accommodating and even had me sat next to winemaker/owner Alexandra Schmedes. And it turned out to be a very enjoyable evening.
Alexandra is German. While working at a winery restaurant in Constantia in South Africa, she decided that she wanted to make a career change so walked across to the cellar and started learning wine. Since then, she has made wine in both France and Italy. She moved on to Spain in 1998 and met Margarita Madrigal and Gonzalo Rodriguez. The three winemakers, at that time consulting to various wineries, decided to make their own wines and created their brands using local varieties in Castilla La Mancha, a winegrowing region that was underestimated and with a poor reputation for quality wines. Más Que Vinos (more than wine in English) was thus born in 1999.
Castilla La Mancha is a plateau south of Madrid with an extreme continental climate and produces nearly half of Spain’s wine. It is the home of Airén, the most widely planted grape variety in Spain and one of the few grapes that can cope with the extreme cold and dry conditions of the Meseta (plateau). A neutral variety, the majority of Airén is used in brandy production. Therefore, one can imagine the challenges Alexandre and her partners faced to make quality wines there.
But their efforts did indeed pay off. Careful management of old bush vines (some over 80 years old), restricting the yield to less than 4 tons/ha, organic farming, fermenting grapes in amphorae, some dating back to 1851 -thanks to Gonzalo’s family- and the subtle use of oak result in wines that are expressive and balanced.
Ercavio, their first brand, consisted of a white (Blanco) made from 100% Airén, a rosé (Rosado), Tempranillo Joven and Tempranillo Roble all made from 100% Tempranillo (known locally as Cencibel). The name Ercavio is derived from Ercávica, a Roman city in Castilla La Mancha where wine was made some 2,000 years ago.
We tried the Blanco and Tempranillo Roble and both were pleasant. The Blanco was particularly impressive and definitely a different league from the many mediocre Airéns in the market. The Tempranillo Roble was aged only six months in two year old French barrels to spice up the wine without overpowering the fruits. I also liked the labels, each with different colour wine drops to indicate the style of wine. To illustrate, Tempranillo Joven, with no oak treatment, has brighter red drops to emphasise the vibrant characteristics, while Tempranillo Roble’s has darker purple drops that match with the added complexity. The labels stand out, are user-friendly, and effective. With a retail price around $100/bottle, I believe Ercavio could breakdown the barrier and attract occasional drinkers to enjoy more wine.
Moving up is the Special Editions series with limited production. El Señorito is 100% Tempranillo from a single vineyard that Alexandre said is the most difficulty vineyard to work with but rewarded them with exceptional fruits. Only 800 bottles were made in 2011. The last one we tried was La Plazuela, a blend of Tempranillo and Garnacha. These 60-80 year vines yield less than 2 tons of fruits per hectare, resulting in a concentrated yet elegant wine that can stand the test of time. It was sublime with the slow roasted Segovia style suckling pig skillfully prepared by Chef Jesus at Olé Spanish Restaurant.

industry_corpus2: Agriculture & Fisheries


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HH Global Ltd., founded in 1991, is a leading, independent marketing execution partner to prominent brands in over 34 countries. The company offers innovative and tailored solutions for the outsourced procurement of all types of printed marketing materials, packaging, and creative production services, that drive down cost, speed time to market, improve quality, and increase sustainability. Every HH Global solution utilizes HHub, a best-in-class marketing execution application, an expansive list of suppliers, proprietary processes, and the deep expertise of over 800 employees. The company also operates HH Labs, the center of its innovation program, that brings fresh, new ideas to clients. With more than $500M in spend under management, HH Global maintains a razor-sharp focus on cost and quality, combined with an industry-leading sustainability program, offering improvements that provide both fiscal and environmental value. For more information, visit www.hhglobal.com.
CMOs at global organizations know that presenting brand materials with a localized look, feel and geographically relevant content is critical to their sales and engagement strategies. In fact, iterating a brand's creative inspiration and output at scale to better resonate with cross-cultural consumers and diverse audiences on a local level is a new global mandate for CMOs.
Yet despite keen recognition and a willingness to allocate both budget and resources to deliver market-localized materials, many CMOs are stymied by the cost of supporting adaption of creative content across a growing multitude of regions and handling the logistics of localization at scale.
The CMO Council and HH Global joined together to ignite a dialogue around new platforms, opportunities and mandates for rapid deployment and expansion of market localization across all creative adaptation programs. The findings of the study were released in a global report that featured insights into the drivers for increasingly localized content, key challenges around the cost and timeliness of localized campaigns, and what steps are being taken to increase relevancy across both global and local markets.


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A group of eight young people from Gateshead’s One Voice Network created the DVD to inform all looked after children in the borough of their rights.
Gateshead Council’s Pledge to them on how they can expect to be treated was written in consultation with this group of young people.
Digital Voice worked with them to animate every promise that has been made to them, as an enjoyable way to ensure children of any age understand what their rights are.
The DVD and colouring book based on the animated characters will be shared with all looked after children in the borough.
The project was supported by the Children’s Rights Officer and the Looked After Children’s Virtual Head Teacher.

industry_corpus2: Subject Education


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Just in time for summer, a new ice-cream parlour has opened its doors in Daventry town centre.
Culaccino’s first day of business was on Wednesday last week.
The ice-cream parlour, in Foundry Court, has been opened by husband and wife Martin and Kim Bond.
Kim said: “My husband has wanted to open an ice-cream parlour for some time.
“It just so happened that it all fell into place.
“We decided that Daventry needs somewhere like this – something different.
“We do fabulous coffee – we have guest coffees every week, two on the go at any time. At the moment we have a London blend from Tudor times.
“We do 22 different flavours of ice-cream, three sorbets, diabetic ice-cream, and gluten-free as well.
The name ‘Culaccino’ is Italian, and refers to the mark left on a table by a cold glass or dish.
Kim said: “We’ve had a good week since we opened. Saturday was really busy, and again on Sunday for Father’s Day I think. Our banana and Nutella pancakes were the most popular.
“We’ve never done anything like this before. I was a company secretary and Martin is ex-BT.
“All the rest of our family is in the service industry, so I guess we’ve joined them now as well.
Culaccino is open from 8am to 7pm Monday to Friday, and from 11am to 6pm on Sundays.

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How many hours a day do you think you spend on social media?
Tough to detox … Study participants were asked to go without social media for seven days and record their experience in a journal. Only 10 percent were able to go the full seven days. 25 percent couldn’t last more than three days.

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The law firm handling a Minnesota suit against 3M has been ordered off the case because of a conflict of interest. The firm has previously represented 3M. The judge's ruling is a blow to the state's case involving chemicals formerly made by 3M that turned up in rivers, lakes, and groundwater.
The Pioneer Press reports on a new twist in the legal fight between 3M and the Met Council and state of Minnesota. Last year the state and Met Council sued the company, saying PFCs it had manufactured had damaged the environment. Now 3M is suing the Met Council, claiming the council bears responsibility for PFCs in the river because the chemical is in treated wastewater.
Richard Holdrup is joining international law firm Dorsey & Whitney as its new chief financial officer, according to a company news release. Holdrup was most recently the CFO at a law firm based in San Francisco.
St. Paul-based Moore, Costello & Hart dissolved as of Monday, according to the Business Journal. The law firm was founded in 1855 and focused on small business consulting, nonprofit and health care law, estate planning, and commercial and construction litigation. U.S. Chief Justice Warren Burger was a partner before he was appointed by President Richard Nixon in 1969.

industry_corpus2: Law & Justice


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Media related to 4 March.
March 4 is the 63rd (64th in leap years) day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 302 days remaining until the end of the year.


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Regular DETLUP project partner meeting took place on November 30, 2016 at the FORZA NGO office at Shvabska str., 51a, 88018, Uzhhorod, Ukraine.
Partners Agency for Innovation and Technology Transfer, Moldova, The Regional Environmental Centre for the Caucasus, Georgia, Association for Urban and Regional Planning of the Czech Republic, and Rzeszow Regional Development Agency, Poland have participated by skype. Main aim of the meeting was to discuss the up to date results of the DETLUP project, outline the planes and time framework for the planned events and activities.
The meeting started from summarization of the international workshops “Territorial planning in the current context: important component and impulse for successful economic and social development” that have been held already in three countries: Ukraine, Georgia and Moldova. Key challenges that architects and designers face in the territorial planning have been identified and documented.
Two more workshops on territorial planning in Ukraine to present the international experience of the territorial planning to other Ukrainian cities of Ivano-Frankivsk and Vinnitsya. Dates and speakers of the Workshops have been identified.
Study tours to V4 countries to benchmark successes and failures of the regional and local development planning and governance. First study tour for 17 international participants in the last week of February will combine the cities of Slovakia and Hungary. The second study tour will take place in late March and will take place in the cities of Slovakia, Hungary and Czech Republic. The detailed program will now have to be determined jointly by the partners.
The partners discussed the content of the Guidebook for EaP countries – an important output of the project. The Guidebook is supposed to present best practices of the V4 countries experience in the territorial planning, including the the legislation used and national, regional and local measures as an example. The Guidebook is currently in the prefinal version.
Land use and city development planners, architects, development NGOs, policy and decision makers will come together in Lviv at the final project event to discuss the project findings on March 30-31, 2017.

industry_corpus2: Real Estate & Construction


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King of Towers, by ShineZone.
Hi Everybody! It's Ryan from ryviews.com, and today I'm reviewing King of Towers, by ShineZone. It's essentially a flash game mashup of Kingdom Rush and Farmville. It's definitely a freemium game, but you can still enjoy it for free for quite awhile.
Right off the bat, I want to point out that the real meat of this game, that is the tower defense portion, is basically a carbon copy of Kingdom Rush. The higher level towers offer a nice semi-unique experience but after playing for a few weeks I've still only unlocked one specialized tower and that was the one they gave me for free in the storyline.
However, it is a good copy, and the actual gameplay is enjoyable. But this game shines through it's other content. There's a whole lot of upgrades in the background, along with features that are mini-game-ish. There's a field to plant a money tree or an xp tree, there's a way to pit your soldiers against bosses and other players (not a full tower defense level though). And there are lots of ways to upgrade and customize your heroes.
Basically, you can spend hours doing things in the background without playing the actual tower defense. And those background tasks essentially are the grinding. So as you upgrade you city and whatnot you actually improve your tower defense strength. And along those line, this game actually eliminates grinding. There's a fantastically ingenious system where you collect taxes on completed levels. It uses energy and gives the same rewards as replaying the level (except for hero experience). Which means that collecting the tax basically just grinds the level for you.
So basically if you just collect login bonuses and taxes for a week you could level up your towers in attack by crazy amounts without even playing the game. It's fantastic for someone like me who likes the idea of "slow and steady let's me absolutely destroy my puny artificial intelligence competition".
So, I like this system of grinding without grinding. But for those of you looking for a classic, tower defense experience that is mostly actual gameplay, this will be horribly frustrating. Getting the higher level upgrades take quite a bit of that passive grinding and it's pretty impossible to achieve just through tower defense gameplay. You'd be better served playing Kingdom Rush.
If you want an immersive experience that really does meld the obsession of Farmville with the battle prowess of Kingdom Rush, you should definitely check out this game.
For the scorecard, I give time value of 8, because there's quite a bit to keep you occupied and it seems to go on for a very long time, money value of 5, it's a freemium game but it's pretty in your face about buying the premium currency, very frustratingly so, originality of 7, because the taxes are awesome but the core gameplay is just a carbon copy of Kingdom Rush, ryplayability of 7, very nice controls but the railroading every time you unlock a building in your city is really annoying, and fulfillment of 9, because upgrading stuff in your town is very rewarding. That gives a grand total of 7.2.
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industry_corpus2: Gaming


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I am not sure whether being called a cybergeek spy is a good or a bad thing. I am also not sure what this appeared in or when, but I found it on the net in electronic form.
Robert David Steele is a self-proclaimed soothsayer for this new paradigm of national defense, and specializes in counter-intelligence. His organization, Open Source Solutions (OSS, Inc.), has been lobbying the public, media, government and covert intelligence to update their way of thinking.
Steele has worked for the U.S. Dept. of State in El Salvador, Panama and Venezuela, and served three tours in Washington as the desk officer for Central America. For the U.S. Marine Corps, Steele was a managment analyst for the National Foreign Intelligence Office, later working as an assistant to the Chief of Staff for Command, Control, Communications, Computing and Intelligence (C4I).
OSS, Inc. chartered as a non profit educational lobby for smart American spies, media and academia, wishing to set a national policy for more efficient and cognitive information management. Today, though, the group also hires itself out.
According to Steele’s model, collective intelligence is the best form of security for a population. Until now, the ruling wisdom was tightly held by a small elite group. That is because the agricultural and industrial revolutions segmented knowledge among various classes of leadership, and this hierarchy has remained stagnant for centuries. The info age instead taps each and every brain, transforming the pyramid into a brainy hive.
The worldwide field of play for war and intelligence has reshaped and shifted dimension upon meeting the microchip. Historically, holding onto turf was important to countries — a result of the agricultural revolution. Intelligence consisted of army coordinates and directions, food supplies, weather. Later, industrialization made tactics and weapons paramount, C3I taking techno factors into consideration. Spies broke codes, intercepted radio, stole rocket and a-bomb secrets.
Lately, Steele forewarns, challenges of the Third Wave, or information age, are already upon us. We now need to acquire and retain knowledge. Command, control and communications has met its match, the computer. Turf and techno figure much less in the new era. Today, info is king — it defines wealth and defies space, time and energy. Hackers rule the world through C4I, or its strategic disruption.
Countries and corporations have found themselves drowned in a universe of data — changing so rapidly, exponentially, and without notice, that superior knowledge is necessary to prevail. One wrong move and entire continents can become crippled.
National security can, and sometimes does, hinge on tiny facts, in the right hands, at the right time, under the right circumstances. These facts can be worthless without knowing how to apply the data constructively. Such an environment, facing the world today, necessitates a rapid system of information management. In modern intelligence, classified secrets have become nearly obsolete because critical information must move very rapidly; secrecy protocols pose a fatal delay factor.
Intelligence is processed info, and needs a purpose. It is data tailored to an outward design, in whatever form most useful to the agent’s customer. While covert agencies submit classified reports to policy makers regarding national issues, mainstream media usually gets the same point across quicker, cheaper, and with greater overall comprehension.
Cable News Network, as the Gulf War illustrated, seems a more reliable model than traditional intelligence systems used by powerful countries. So the spy community is opening a few doors doors to emulate CNN. And what do we find revealed? More CNN!
Statistics show that 80% of all “intelligence” consists of public material. And, from the ocean of open source data available, the intelligence community collects just ten percent, putting a mere one percent to proper use.
More and more, it has become obvious to covert military intelligence agencies that media organizations such as Cable News Network, working alongside commercial information databases and unorganized media such as internet newsgroups, are better appraised on issues and situations overall than they are.
The CIA defines “open source” material as “any information that may be used in an unclassified context without compromising national security or intelligence sources and methods.” Recognizing modern needs to outgrow the covert mentality, the CIA formed the Community Open Source Program Office (COSPO) to share open source information (OSINF) between various and sundry secret agencies. COSPO helps OSINF reach its destination quicker and cheaper, removing the heavy top secrecy burden. Their “World Factbook” CD-ROM is one example.
Thus, OSINF is a more tactical form of C4I. “Do not send a spy where a schoolboy can go,” says the COSPO mission statement. Christopher C. Straub, Lt. Col., Ret., U.S. Army, the Minority staff director of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, agrees. “Defenders of the status quo say the public doesn’t want to know the secrets anyway. If so, who is reading all the news stories on intelligence, many containing apparent leaked secrets, and why are editors putting these stories on the front page? Secrecy breeds distrust,” he said.
All this requires some redefinitions of traditional terms. Among the newspeak vocabulary are revised meanings for “war” and “intelligence.” The first is expanded to include electronic and economic attacks on a population; the second weeds out useless info “noise” from unanalyzed data. The implications of these small changes are far from subtle.
To facilitate these reforms, OSS, Inc. has launched a World Wide Web site (www.oss.net) containing a plethora of documents which should have been national secrets before the advent of COSPO. Included, an Intelligence Handbook several hundred pages in length. Steele’s site is hyperlinked to the National Military Intelligence Association (NMIA), which itself branches off to web sites run by several dozen covert government agencies. This information prepares agents for the 21st-Century.
Once accomplished, overall national intelligence becomes a collective national knowledge base, or “smart nation.” Agencies presently use open sources, but ought to better use these reources as the I-way grows in size and dimensions. “Quite literally, everyone becomes a collector and producer of intelligence,” Steele explains.
This transformation, from closed to open intelligence communities, needs to be organized. “It is essential that the government have a national information strategy, and that it nurture distributed centers of excellence,” Steele stressed.
The whole world is being reinvented regardless, intelligence included willy-nilly. With globalization through communication, consolodation and treaties, national borders are blurring. Future power blocks are expected, due to computers, to be set more along cultural and ideological parameters rather than geophysical constraints.
American culture, hitherto ambiguous from its traditional melting-pot, appears to be gellifying online. An Information Continuum has sprung up on the internet, linking together previously isolated parts of national and world cultures. It consists of schools, libraries, business mainframes, commercial databases, media, government, law enforcement, hackers and covert agencies.
According to David Bender of Washington’s Special Libraries Association, something phenomenal is taking place online. “People are hooking up to the Internet in droves. If the pace continues, everyone on earth will be connected by 2001,” he figures.
This shiny new beast, the Info Continuum, needs to be utilized to economic advantage, and protected from outside attack, according to the cyberlobbyists. We are looking at nothing less than the birth of infowar, they say.
Unfortunately, due to a historically closed Anglo-American model of intelligence, the west lacks an electronic counter-intelligence capability worthy of the name, nor the most basic economic counter-intelligence capabilities. Steele has identified four modern “warrior classes,” three of which America is sorely unprepared to handle. The new threats include “direct action” terrorists working individually, and charismatic religious leaders who operate from the pulpit over television airwaves.
Strange alliances are being made. The Hacker community for one has embraced American covert agencies in a mutual quest for open sources. In return, high level officials are rewarding hackers for disclosing holes in the U.S. technonet. In short, hackers are now considered a national asset, and are beginning to receive proper recognition. “If there is a target of the hacker movement it is corporate America, especially the telephone companies,” notes Matthew G. Devost of the Department of Political Science, University of Vermont, Burlington. Ma Bell is a target because hackers rely on their service to access cyberspace. “The United States government has a vested interest in not providing them with another target, especially if that target is the government itself,” Devost warns.
Hackers are dangerous to challenge, even for the CIA, but most mean no harm by their internet escapades. “You build atomic weapons, you wage wars, you murder, cheat and lie to us and try to make believe that it’s for our own good, yet we’re the criminals,” accused one anonymous cyberpest. “My crime is that of outsmarting you — something you will never forgive me for.” Asked Devost, “Why should the United States government trust hackers? No trust is necessary, we are not offering the hackers anything that they don’t already have, except recognition for their ability to discover security flaws.” Indeed, the hacker community has reached out to national intelligence agencies, offering to combat enemy computer systems. Steele is considered an honored guest at underground hacker convocations, and lobbied against the Clipper Chip with them.
DeVost pointed out numerous past threats posed to American national security, most notably the worm virus created by Robert Morris, son of an NSA official, which crippled the internet several years ago; and the West German hacker Markus “Hunter” Hess, who stole military secrets and was caught by a tenatious American astronomer named Cliff Stoll, detailed in Stoll’s book entitled “The Cuckoo’s Egg.” Bulgaria is said to operate factories producing computer viri more rapidly than America can generate vaccine software to combat. Alarm bells have been sounded as a result.
Then there is espianoge — both military and economic. Spies existed before Christ, but most of them were really travelers and merchants. For instance, tea was stolen from China, and porcelain from England, by merchants. Marco Polo, an adventurer, brought back pasta to Italy from the orient. This activity is now deemed economic warfare in today’s hyper-competitive globe. What will be stolen from America, and can America swipe anything herself?
Big stepbrother indeed, for those disclosures bring “cold war,” or “war is peace” paradigms to a whole new level. War and peace simultaneously, oscilating at hyper speed. Friend one nanosecond, enemy the next — or both at the same time — whether or not you are truly loyal “love is hate,” as Orwell put it. “We are moving from a brute force to a brain force economy; a new system for the creation of wealth,” the Tofflers declare. Cyberslavery? To quote Alan Campen, former Director of Command and Control at the DOD, “An ounce of silicon in a computer may have had more effect than a ton of uranium… knowledge came to rival weapons and tactics in importance,” recalling the Gulf War, where disinformation was used by government to gain public support.
A two-edged sword, perhaps. Enemies within, and without. One angry citizen with enough brains can cripple America any number of ways — or revolutionize it: Bob Roberts or Max Khomeni. As ideas flow back and forth, thought-crimes, infowar offenses, ideas, cybertreasons, universal encryption, and other new threats can take the form of viri, software, spiritual ideas, legislative catch-22’s, or otherwise. Literally anything can happen in the mind-space of a nationally networked brain-hive, and probably shall. Cyberdemocracy, mob.net, mind control and virtual slavery.
Will it become treason to state that J. Edgar Hoover wore a dress? And how does Steele’s future figure into other “national security” secrets, such as those Kennedy assasination clues sealed till 2010? What happens when the internet hits China; a virtual Tienneman Square uprising, or America’s downfall?
Moreover, how can today’s covert intelligence be trusted tomorrow, in light of recent press disclosures regarding CIA drug imports, arms for Contras, and the October Surprise? If 80% of intelligence currently comes from media, these reports must be deemed valid. Agencies such as CSA might already exist with classified names — completely unaccountable, a parallel government. The 20% “closed source” community appears to completely control this new national intelligence “brain-hive.” But is Steele even real, or is he a Max Headroom fabrication?

industry_corpus2: Technology & Research


text: Nathan Neinhuis is widely recognized as one of the foremost global authorities on Cannabis Cultivation for Medical Purposes. He will be contributing his extensive experience and knowledge of the cultivation of medically compliant cannabis within a clean room environment for pharmaceutical applications. At the age of 18, he graduated from California State University, Fullerton with a degree in Mechanical Engineering. He has the distinction of holding the first granted federal license in the United States for the cultivation of cannabis, working directly with the United States Department of Health to design, build and execute its medical marijuana facilities in Washington, D.C. He has formed protocols and standard operating procedures used by the Department of Health, has consulted with the US Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA), and has worked with members of the US Federal Government and Congress to develop state-of-the-art and fully compliant hydroponic medical marijuana facilities.

industry_corpus2: Biopharmaceuticals


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Come with me Ladies and Gentlemen, if you will, to a land without alcohol. A place free from hangovers. A cordial society built on sobriety and abstemiousness. A land whose patrons have their wits about them and their faculties fully intact.
Where effervescent conversation flows as a river of aqua spritz and witty banter and repartee dominate the landscape like an ice-capped mountain range of badinage.
Yet, friends, this utopia is no more make-believe than you and me. It is within reach of us all and every man, woman and child is hailed and well met. Simply ask your bar-tender for a Mr Fitz Aqua Spritz and enter a world of cool, invigorating refreshment that is full of flavour and magic.
Mr Fitz Aqua Spritz is the combination of Aqua Spritz pure filtered still or sparkling water and Mr Fitzpatrick's botanical cordials. It is a revolution in non-alcoholic drinks. Taking inspiration from the gin craze and the rise in popularity of premium flavoured tonics, Mr Fitz Aqua Spritz provides customers with a premium, sophisticated alternative to ordinary, run-of-the-mill soft drinks.


text: Responsive mobile friendly design. Online booking forms. Membership renewals via eWay. WordPress CMS.


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To really make your Wipster account work you need to get some team members involved.
Team members can either be given access to your whole account or to just one or more folders. They can then upload videos or images and invite reviewers, as well as complete items on your to-do list. They will be given their own profile and login details on our system.
3. On the Team members page you'll see a list of all team members. To add a team member click on the green 'Add a team member' button.
4. Enter their first, last name and email address. Select the relevant access level and hit 'Send invite'.
5. They’ll receive an email inviting them to join (they will appear as pending until they agree). If you change your mind or invite the wrong person, click the trash icon to cancel the invite.
6. Once they’ve joined the crew, their arrival (and everything they do from this point) will be officially recorded in your company’s activity stream.
Now that you know how to add team member, let’s take a look at the Activity stream.


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The Cort AC200-OP Classical Guitar is the traditional style models have been re-engineered to correct resonance for an actual classical guitar sound. Cort AC series is very kind of student errors, lacking slightly less accuracy and sharpness for a good sound. The nice sequence of tone-woods yields a mythical, deep and delightfully mellow tone.
Spruce presents a perfect balance between intensity and versatility, hence its overwhelming demand as the wood of choice for tops of classical guitars.
The coated classical nylon strings hold stain and corrosion better than standard strings while maintaining liveliness and power.
The precious mahogany wood has been a standard for back and sides on premium acoustics for many decades.
Spruce’s versatile sonic quality makes it perfect for a variety of musical genres and playing characteristics.
The volume makes the player’s left thumb feel suitable while playing to enhance playability.
Fabulous classical guitar fan bracing is used spiritually to maximize the vibrational properties of nylon strings.

industry_corpus2: Manufacturing


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Only do this if we ask you to.
8. Go to C:\Users\<your username>\AppData\Local\Temp\Jaksta and zip me up all the logs and post them here.


text: Put your Facebook performance into context and find out who's strategy is working best. Just add your page and get a free social media report that compares you to Village Creek State Park. Download the sample report or learn more about our Facebook benchmarking tool.


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Would you believe this rhubarb plant dies down to nothing in the winter?
Then a writer friend started to bring a rhubarb cake with her when she visited. It tasted so good! Maybe, just maybe I should try cooking my own rhubarb from my own rhubarb plants?
So I harvested—gingerly, as those big leaves are poisonous. And stewed some with sugar until it was way too mushy. Not just my husband, but also my daughter loved it. They pleaded for more. So I tried again. This time no water, just sugar and a piece of vanilla bean, and a not-so-long cooking time. Success!
It’s become the family’s second-favorite breakfast treat, served with yogurt. (The first favorite is the plums from our ancient tree, but they’re only around in January in the Down Under summer.) Rhubarb is a source of vitamins, anti-oxidants and dietary fibre so that’s all good.
One of these rhubarb plants flourishes all year round. The second one is gone at the first hint of frost, but emerges in spring as beautiful ruby-red sprouts pushing up from the ground and rapidly unfurling into the so-valued stalks and the huge leaves. The experts say not to let the white flowers bloom as they take nourishment away from the stalks, but sometimes I let them bloom, and it doesn’t seem to diminish the quality of the stalks.
And me? Did I fall in love with my rhubarb? Not really. I like it, but I don’t love it like my family does. How I enjoy it is in muffins where the slight tartness of the rhubarb puts a pleasing edge to the sweetness of the muffin. I make my favorite muffin recipe, put half the muffin mixture in the muffin tin hole, add a teaspoon of the rhubarb-stewed-with-vanilla, cover with the rest of the mixture and top with more rhubarb and a teaspoon of brown sugar and a pinch of cinnamon. The streusel topping becomes all crunchy and the caramelized fruit juice drips down into the muffin. Now that’s the way I love to eat rhubarb!
And my writer friend who brings me the marvelous rhubarb cakes? Two springs past, I dug up some of the new-growth rhizome to take home with her. She now also has a flourishing rhubarb plant—and when she brings me cake, it’s made with “my” rhubarb, transplanted and thriving in her garden.
Kandy Shepherd writes fun, feel-good fiction. Her books include The Castaway Bride, Something About Joe, Love is a Four-Legged Word and Home Is Where the Bark Is—and while food plays a part in her stories, so far rhubarb has not made an appearance!


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The president of an orphanage in the Central Highlands province of Lam Dong has been arrested for further investigations into allegations the children were being sold.
Provincial police on Friday said besides president Nguyen Van Manh, they are also investigating To Tuan Anh, who had established the Tia Sang (Ray of Light) School for homeless and disabled children. Anh has been accused of selling five children for VND20-25 million (US$1,122-1,400) each from 2007 onwards.
Three of the children have been identified, police said.
Anh was also found to be trading in banned goods in the name of raising funds for the school, the newswire Vnexpress said Saturday.
School official Tran Van Huu who allegedly demanded and received money from people looking to adopt children has also been arrested.
The case, which according to the police was “serious”, has been reported to the Ministry of Public Security and Deputy Prime Minister Truong Vinh Trong.
Tia Sang School was a private social welfare institution that opened early in 2002. As of May 2009, the school was taking care of 31 children, most of them homeless and some having cerebral palsy.
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Topps has released fist bump cards in both MMA and WWE, but they are always expensive, so I went a different route. This was a custom piece that the guy had made to bring to one of the MMA conventions, he has other fighters too but most I didn’t know. I am disappointed that the background is pixelated, but it is a cool discussion piece and will display nicely with the autographed MMA fighting gloves that I have. Now if I just had a man cave where I could display my collection.
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Well worth the visit David, cost 109 euros with a meal and two free drinks. Sailed 10.00hrs. down river turned off Glüstadt on the Elbe and back up for 17.00hrs. Free run of the ship Bridge, ER etc.
Yes, a marvellous ship. Shows what can be done. It's a pity the folk that went to China to bring back either GLENOGLE or GLENFALLOCH for the same purpose were unsuccessful.
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Anyone who has survived a marathon phone session with an Internet service provider knows the frustration, not to mention the elevated stress level, associated with today's automated world. In many cases, customer service has been supplanted by do-it-yourself phone menus and websites. In some cases, do-it-yourself beats doing it with a real person.
What got me thinking about the value of good customer service was a recent experience with bad � make that awful � phone support. It doesn't seem as if it should be all that hard to do right. Surely corporate executives weigh the costs and benefits of having an adequate staff of well-trained representatives to field customer calls and provide solutions on a timely basis. Market research confirms that a happy customer tends to be a customer for life. Bad service, on the other hand, costs the company in lost sales. And customers are much more likely to tell friends about their negative experiences than their positive ones.
I started my quest by calling a few companies that provided exceptional customer service for me in the last few months: Amazon.com Inc., of course, which is routinely ranked No. 1 among Internet retailers in customer satisfaction surveys; Weber-Stephen Products, a family-owned manufacturer of barbecue grills; and Bose Corp., a closely held manufacturer of audio systems. I also spoke with Southwest Airlines Co., based on the recommendations of friends who swear by it.
I've tried to distill the message I got from these companies into some important concepts.
1. Customer service is marketing.
Surveys suggest that customer service has a large and long- lasting impact on the buying behavior of customers. Trust is important. Fool me once, and I'll be going elsewhere.
The executives I spoke with all said customer service doesn't start with the cost. "It's the philosophy: Above all, you need to get it right with the customer, or make it right," said Bob Maresca, president and chief executive officer at Bose. His philosophy on customer service was shaped by his experiences as a consumer and a lesson he learned from the company's founder, Amar Bose. Many years ago, Maresca was made vice president of the home-entertainment division after a software issue was discovered in one of its products. "Dr. Bose made me call back the customers to explain," he said. "I put myself in the shoes of the customers."
He obviously conveyed what he learned to his staff. When I called Bose to find out if it made sense to send my aging Wave Music System to an authorized dealer for repair, within five minutes I had swapped out my antique for a new system. The cost: $199, a $300 discount from the advertised price. Subsequently Bose sent me an adapter for my radio antenna at no charge.
2. The price of loyalty.
At Weber, they call it the "loyalty loop," said Chief Executive Officer Tom Koos. It all starts with a great product, easy assembly and a great cooking experience. Then you are part of Weber Nation.
I'm in the loop, as they say. Last summer, I called Weber to get a replacement part for my gas grill and ended up with the part plus instructions for cooking a turkey on a gas grill.
Koos said business schools teach the four Ps of marketing: product, price, place and promotion. But they "miss the fifth 'P': positive word of mouth."
At Weber, 60 customer-support representatives take 500,000 calls a year. "Nobody else talks to customers," he says. Nobody has to.
3. Who we are is what we do.
That might not be good advice for someone searching for his identity, but it sure fits Southwest Airlines. Customer service "is part of our core being," said Teresa Laraba, senior vice president for customer services. Ever since Southwest started 42 years ago, the goal has always been "to bring customer service back to the skies." (Did it disappear that many years ago?) An early company ad featured the line: "Somebody up there loves you."
Southwest customers feel loved. "We don't get much argument investing in things that improve the experience," Laraba said.
New hires interview with recruiters and then with employees who are doing the specific job. "We want employees to be invested in someone who's going to share that job," she said.
Southwest's policies are an added perk. Even customers who purchase tickets with the most restrictive fares can reuse the ticket as long as they cancel before the flight. (See No. 2 above.) No wonder Southwest ranks near the top � second behind JetBlue � among low-cost carriers in customer satisfaction surveys.
4. The time value of money, or the value of our time.
Consumers may comparison-shop for the best deal on a computer or flat-screen TV, but if they're like me, they will gladly pay up for service. Sometimes that isn't even an option.
What really bugs us about customer service? I'm glad you asked. We hate being trapped in automated-phone menus and waiting on hold for a real person to answer. We hate being disconnected and starting all over with a new agent. We hate the do-not-call(-back) policy many companies seem to favor. And a customer-support agent knowledgeable enough to solve the problem is key. Fixing any or all of these problems would win our hearts and minds.
One wonders if that's why companies are always looking for new and better Web tools, such as YouTube videos, to improve the customer experience. Amazon.com recently introduced a Mayday button on its Kindle Fire HDX tablet. Press the button, and in 15 seconds or less you are connected to an Amazon expert who is available 24/7, 365 days a year. Oh, and no need to dress: You can see the tech adviser, but she can't see you.
"Amazon's goal is to be Earth's most customer-centric company," Kelly Cheesman, a company spokeswoman, told me. I think CEO Jeff Bezos has succeeded. I am a devoted Amazon Prime customer. UPS is at my house at least twice a week with deliveries. And I just realized that in all this time, with hundreds of interactions over the years, I have never had reason to contact a real person at Amazon. Now that's the definition of good customer service.


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Many people are obviously and understandably frustrated that Israel is so badly treated by the Mug-gers (media, university, and government) complex in much of the Western world. One can fume endlessly against their behavior (double standards, falsified history) but that accomplishes nothing.
So the immediate alternative is to say what is needed is creative new ideas, with the assumption that these ideas will solve the problem or at least make things better. This is logical and fits many other situations but it usually doesn’t apply to Israel’s case. Why not?
The assumption is that if good actions are taken then they will be recognized and rewarded. If good things are said, they will be reported and praised in a meaningful way. But while Israel should always do and say the best things this mechanism doesn’t work. The good actions are ignored or reinterpreted; the good statements are just ignored.
Of course, all status quos are unsustainable in a sense since change is inevitable. But sometimes the status quo deserves to be kept around for a while until something better comes along or can be made to happen. The best alternative of all is not to make things worse than they already are. As for the cliché that the status quo is unsustainable, .that is usually followed by a plan that would make for a status quo even more unsustainable and negative.
There is a one-word description for the idea of the unsustainable status quo: defeatism. Mind you, I don’t mean that nothing should change and that one’s policy should be that of mindless reactionary intransigence. But one can also make one’s own strategy better rather than switching to another one.
The implication of an unsustainable status quo is that things are so bad that you better jump off the sinking ship into shark-infested waters before it is too late. It might be better to mobilize the crew, start pumping out the water, and steer a good course.
The status quo is unsustainable so we must withdraw immediately from south Lebanon.
The status quo is unsustainable so we must have the Oslo accords.
The status quo is unsustainable so we must withdraw from the Gaza Strip.
And what has this done but produce what we are now called an “unsustainable” status quo” as opposed to all of those previous unsustainable situations of the past six decades.
Another thing left out by the unsustainable status quo school is to assume that any change must focus on making more concessions. One could alter the status quo, for example, by showing more strength and by inflicting higher costs on adversaries and sabotaging hostile acts. One can also be creative about defending oneself.
Turkey: In trying to deal with the current friction with Turkey, Israel’s government proposed that it express regrets about defending itself during the Gaza flotilla, not the defense but the resulting loss of life among Turkish jihadists come to create a confrontation. It offered to make donations to a humanitarian fund for the relatives of those killed.
The Turkish government responded that only a full apology, the payment of compensation (an admission of wrong and based on demands rather than the donors' judgment), and an immediate end of the Gaza blockade. The Turkish demand was ironic coming immediately after a UN commission declaring the blockade is legal.
So despite trying creative ways to end the conflict, Israeli officials could do nothing. Why? Because for its own reasons the Turkish regime doesn’t want to resolve the conflict. All Israel can do is to show its respect for the Turkish people and nation along with willingness to be flexible if the other side is reasonable.
Egypt: What is going to be determining the Egypt-Israel relationship in future is not Israeli actions or words since radical nationalists and Islamists in Turkey—even relative moderates—are so hostile. Israel’s creative alternative is to try to get along with the military junta and to avoid offending reasonable Egyptian pride and legitimate Egyptian rights. Once an elected government takes over, it isn’t going to be easy.
No verbal formula, no Israeli action will make the country popular among revolutionary Islamists and radical nationalists. This is different from normal international relations, where countries can make alterations in their words or policies to get credit for them and sooth disputes. That’s a point many in the West simply don’t understand.
Palestinians: What’s Israel to do on this issue? How about withdrawing from the Gaza Strip to show its good intentions? No, did that. Letting a couple of hundred thousand Palestinians return and establish their own government? Been there, done that. Letting them have guns and lots of money? Check. Offering, on almost a daily basis, to negotiate without conditions; to accept an independent Palestinian state; to return basically to the 1967 borders with some alterations and swaps? Ooops, done that, too.
And if after all that Western leaders and writers can still say that Israel hasn’t proven that it wants peace will the next change in the status quo change that? Of course, if Israel elected a left-of-center prime minister, the world would say nice things for a while even if they had the same basic policy and said the same words as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu does. Yet how long will that last? Don’t believe me? Three words: Rabin, Peres, Barak.
An outside observer who doesn’t understand any of this or who hasn’t been following events would think that obviously Israel can and should do more for peace. Let me put it this way: Why should we risk our lives just because you haven’t been paying attention?
Precisely at this moment I read an op-ed by a well-intentioned law professor who points out a “positive” aspect of Palestinian statehood. If Palestine becomes an internationally recognized state, it will be responsible—he explains—for actions taken by any group on its soil, say for example if a Palestinian group crossed the border and attacked Israel, killing Israeli civilians.
Professor, please note that by that standard Israel has no problem with Lebanon, for example, a country from which terrorists have often attacked Israel. Oh, by the way, the terrorists are now governing that country. Also, once Palestine becomes a country it is more likely that terrorists will attack Israel from its territory, Israel will retaliate, and the state of Palestine will go to the UN, where the General Assembly will then agree that Israel is the aggressor.
Please, all you professors and “experts” and politicians and journalists out there: Consider the consequences of your schemes on the real world. Before you criticize Israeli leaders as fools who don’t know what’s good for their people or Israelis in general as evil and short-sighted people who don’t know what’s good for themselves, it’s a good idea to understand the situation they face and the experience they have lived through.
So let me say something nice about the status quo. Given the alternatives, Israel is relatively secure and prosperous. When you are the stronger party who is benefiting more, you can afford to wait until the other side makes you an offer so that changing the status quo would benefit you even more. Israel is not the—supposedly—desperate party that—supposedly—suffers from “occupation,” and that groans under the yoke of settlements—though if it makes a peace deal these will be dismantled.
The new idea needed at a time when the regional situation is deteriorating badly because of external factors is how better to defend yourself. There’s a lot of behind-the-scenes contacts with the Palestinian Authority and others to ease the situation as much as possible, including the promotion of Palestinian prosperity.
Winston Churchill knew something about real-world politics and “unsustainable” status quo situations. He was, after all, prime minister at a time when the Nazis ruled virtually all of Europe and German planes nightly bombed British cities.
Asked once what it was like to be ninety. Terrible, he said, but consider the alternative! What about democracy? The worst of all political systems, Churchill replied, except for all of the others.
So I’m all for creativity and new ideas, as well as flexibility, but anyone who doesn’t understand Israel’s special situation and history in that regard understands nothing. There’s a reason why every concession, risk, and new idea Israel tries out doesn’t create a “sustainable status quo” and that reason is: the fault does not lie with Israel.
Finally, if the status quo is so horrible, say, for the Palestinians then let them make a deal for a stable, two-state solution peace with Israel to change the situation rather than public relations' campaigns at the UN and patiently waiting another few generations in the hope that violence, martyrs, intransigence, and an Arab or Islamist war against Israel to bring them total victory. .

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Studying Massachusetts Land and Deed Records. Their value in genealogical research and family history.
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In Massachusetts, land records, or deeds, as they are most often called, date back to the early part of the seventeenth century. In fact, the earliest known deeds were recorded shortly after the arrival of the Pilgrims at Plymouth in 1620.
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The European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT) is an independent institution that belongs to the European Union and was founded in 2008. Their aim is to strengthen the capacity of innovation in Europe.
Within the EIT, special consortiums have been formed which are entrusted with different duties. The consortium EIT Raw Materials is responsible for making sure that the access to raw materials is given. They are also in charge of the supervision of the availability and the sustainable utilisation of raw materials. Thereby they try to provide a service to the economic system as well as to the citizen.
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The trainees are supposed to gain basic knowledge concerning the properties of materials. They will also get to know what influence the quality and processing of raw materials has on the quality of the final product.
Within the process of the course mainly specialists, ingenieurs and employees of the raw-material-sector as well as the recycling-sector will develop a understanding of the properties of materials.
The practical course is a combination of lectures and practical sessions. The lecturers of the Technische Hochschule Nürnberg, Dr. Jens Helbig und Prof. Dr.-Ing. Berthold von Großmann, give a short introduction lecture. Afterwards the students test different materials on their own.
For more information about the practical course visit the website of EIT Raw Materials. There you will find the exact date, price and much more.


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The Rookie Sportsman Program is now accepting applications for the 2019 seasons. Applications are due by January 20th, 2019.
Colorado Parks and Wildlife encourages participants to live an active lifestyle that promotes the conservation of Colorado’s resources. The Rookie Sportsman Program (RSP) offers opportunities for individuals and/or families with limited outdoor experience to try their hand at hunting, fishing and outdoor recreation.
The program links participants to a mentor who will guide them through a year-long safe, ethical and educational experience. The program also creates a social support network for participants to use as they continue on their journey. Some of the Rookie Sportsman Program events and classes include hunting, firearm safety, fishing, navigation, camping, archery and many more. In addition to the offered events, the program gives participants the opportunity to take part in mentored hunts for turkey, dove, pheasants and big game.
Learn outdoor skills alongside an experienced mentor.
For questions regarding the Rookie Sportsman Program, contact the Colorado Parks and Wildlife Colorado Springs Office at (719) 227-5200 or area14@state.co.us.


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ТОО "Alta Asia" - Why Use An Local Pharmacy?
Why Use An Local Pharmacy?
Why buy from an online pharmacy when there are numerous native places to buy medication? Are on-line pharmacies unethical? This article will try to debate these questions and hopefully provide some conclusive answers. Because the starting of on-line pharmacies there has been ongoing discussion and a few motion as to banning the use of on-line pharmacies altogether in the United States from both people utilizing them and in addition for the online pharmacies, by implementing harsh fines and punishments.
Unfortunately for the web pharmacy trade there are some on-line pharmacies which can be full frauds which sells who is aware of what as drugs to make steep profits for themselves. For essentially the most part although there are a lot of authentic on-line pharmacies that promote the highest quality FDA accepted medicines, a careful on-line search performed on the pharmacy you are considering shopping for from is an excellent concept so you don't get ripped off. There's a particular usefulness of an online pharmacy that needs to be considered and examined earlier than a wholesale banning of on-line pharmacies, both governmentally or personally. Earlier than making an uneducated decision an individual ought to critically look at each sides of the arguments of both the pros and cons of a web-based pharmacy.
A person deciding to buy remedy from an internet pharmacy can take several precautions to assist to insure a safe, trustworthy and optimistic expertise using a web based pharmacy and decrease the risks of ordering from a web-based pharmacy.
Now it is up to you, the patron as to whether or not you'll purchase your drugs from a web-based pharmacy or purchase your drugs from a local drug store. Considering all the pros and cons an individual can easily make up their minds as to which route is one of the best to choose. Bear in mind precautions always decrease the risks.

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LAN is available in the labs. Find a cable and connect your computer to the nearest switch. If you attach other networking equipment, e.g. switches, inform Sergio Davies.
We have a local samba share to store big files and share them among participants.
Everybody wifi LAN or WIFI access can read, change, delete everything!
To get access in Linux enter smb://10.1.0.1/scratch/ in your file browser (e.g. konqueror, dolphin).
enter this command: net use s: \\10.1.0.1\scratch "" /u:""
That seems to be all that is needed.
The access to Dropbox has been precluded. If you need access, please refer to Sergio Davies. The access to Google Drive and Skype has not been precluded, relying on the reasonable use of these services. Please close them when not in use.


text: The small police force of White Rock, New Hampshire, is still reeling from the death of Officer Tyler Richardson when they are called to the scene of the accidental drowning of an out-of-town camper. But Chief Sam Mason and Sergeant Jody Harris soon discover the drowning was no accident. Someone murdered Lynn Palmer and staged the scene to make it look that way. With a pool of suspects who aren't telling the truth and a corrupt mayor who wants the case solved yesterday, Sam and Jo follow a puzzling trail of clues with a surprise ending. And when a stray dog points them in the right direction, Sam discovers the killer is closer than he thought. Just when Sam and Jo think they can rest after having solved Lynn's murder, a shocking discovery proves that sometimes even those you trust can be telling lies.


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From front of dartboard to the circle - 237 cm?
The Shining and was changed by Stanley Kubrick to #237 in the film version of King's book.
I'm reading a book at the moment called Bullseye !, about achieving your goals and is an analogy about the bulls-eye at the centre of the dartboard that you aim for.
Interestingly enough, you are supposed to be at least 237cm away from a dartboard to throw a dart, and we see Danny playing darts in the movie The Shining, which is famous for the room 237 and what takes place in it.
I've also just bought a new washing machine and the default setting is a cotton wash that goes for 217 minutes (Room number for 237 in the King novel) and always comes up when you turn the machine on.
My new washing machine and the default 217 minute wash cycle.
Also the author of Bullseye! writes how he used to be a manager of a ski resort in Canada in his book.
The Big White Ski Resort that Blake was a manager of.
All work and no play? Jack throws a tennis ball.
Tennis ball rolling to Danny in The Shining.
A picture from the Big White Ski resort's website of dog retrieving a tennis ball.
I like how synchy it is that Blake uses the Apollo mission footage to introduce his You Tube above, considering the theories in the movie Room 237 about the moon landings and their connection to Kubrick's movie The Shining.
"In 2015, people from 75 countries participated in Pay it Forward Day with individuals working on proclamations in 42 states & 48 cities."
I have to first confess that I'm not one for having much faith in people who call themselves "psychics".
From my experiences of attending a few Spiritual Churches in my hometown and watching people who call themselves psychic work, I have to admit that I'm left feeling very disappointed in what I have seen with the majority of so called psychics and what they have to say.
Although, I do believe there are genuine psychics out there in the world, I have to say that I tend to recoil from people who call themselves psychics, because most are just self-deluded individuals with egos to be fed, or flat out con artists just after people's money for a few blanket statements of comforting words.
But I have to say the clip of Harry T above is very well worth listening to for the wisdom and heart felt words expressed, which really resonate with my own feelings on a lot of the subjects discussed in the clip above.
I have no idea what Harry T is like as a psychic, but his heart and ego do seem to be in the right place.
I received this e-mail today and I thought it was important enough to pass on to readers like you who may wish to support the independent media underdogs against the media barons such as Rupert Murdoch and his monopolizing media takeovers.
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Right now, Echonetdaily subscribers like you are helping us to fight Rupert Murdoch’s growing control of the media in Australia.
Murdoch’s News Corp recently became the major shareholder in APN, the company that publishes the Northern Star, Byron Shire News, Ballina Advocate, Tweed Daily News and Lismore’s Northern Rivers Echo. But few people realise just how much News Corp’s political-influence footprint has grown throughout Australia in recent months.
At the same time, funding for government bodies such as the ABC and SBS is being cut, and they are under commercial pressures.
How could any politician or government resist this kind of influence? Without independent media like the ABC, The Echo, and Crikey, everyone will start to believe that mainstream media tells the truth.
Even more money is siphoned offshore to multinationals who pay little or no tax. Apart from News Corp, other major shareholders of APN are multinational corporations. And if you think online media will fix the problem, just consider how much tax Google pays in Australia (virtually none). Communities thrive on small businesses circulating money locally, not large companies sending it out of the area.
Huge online companies are getting too much power. Google, Facebook, Twitter, etc monitor your every online move, because if you can be told what to think you can be told what to buy.
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Support community radio (in the Byron area the station is called BayFM) – they have independent programming and opinions.
The Murdoch influence in Australia is unprecedented in the history of democracy. Even the news agenda of the ABC and Fairfax is partly a response to coverage in the Murdoch-owned press. The Echo has to source much of its international and national news from AAP Community radio often sources its coverage from Murdoch-owned media. We need to value what independence we have left.
If you’re sick and tired of the mainstream press multinational spin, and media manipulation of weak politicians, please keep your strong stance, vote with your wallet if possible and tell others how much you value an independent press in your area.
 Source: investorcentre.apn.com.au June 17, 2015.
 Source: Roy Morgan Research June 11, 2015.
 AAP is 45% owned by Fairfax and 45% owned by News Corp. See politics.aapnewswire.com.au/Home/AboutUs.
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Synchronicity's - The deal you made with the Universe?
Interesting video on the theory of Synchronicity that I stumbled across on a Google search.
and there are a lot of them banking up at the moment, which I feel I need to write...so stay tuned.
I've been told by my friend Andrew West Griffin that Leigh was a heartthrob star on "Dallas" in the 1980's.
Leigh as Mitch Cooper in the TV show "Dallas".
He played Mitch Cooper in that show.
I was never into "Dallas" and I'm still not, but I find his artwork and explanations of his artwork fascinating and worth checking out.
"A TV show host who systematically exposed fraud and superstition is killed in a forest where he intended to disprove the existence of the Latin-American mythological 'goat-thief', at first sight in the way the fable creature strikes.
Suspects include parties he exposed but also professional rivals.
Booth patiently sits trough Bones' pitiful attempt to practice humor and welcomes her explanation for his sole 'cryptozoological' encounter with an apparent yeti."
L. Coleman Appears On "Bones"
A Dalai Lama Miracle the Day After His Visit to the Red Centre?
"A hail storm in Central Australia that turned the Red Centre white has been met with a mix of joy and bewilderment.
The ice blanketed the ground around Alice Springs on Saturday afternoon, with people stopping their cars on the roads out of the town to capture the phenomenon.
Ray Rowe took video from the side of the road and wrote "So much ICE in Alice Springs right now".
The video, posted on the ABC Alice Springs Facebook page, has been shared over 7,000 times.
Bureau of Meteorology forecaster Angeline Prasad described the event as "unusual".
but [it is] more common during spring and summer." "
The Dalai Lama on his first visit to Uluru,Central Australia,yesterday.
"On his first visit to Uluru, the 79-year-old met with traditional owners at a sacred waterhole, where he spoke of the need for respect for the traditional cultures of the area.
"They are [the] local people right from the beginning, so their culture — it is very important to keep their cultural heritage," he said.
He emerged from his meeting hand-in-hand with two local Anangu women and told of one woman he met who could speak 80 traditional languages.
The Tibetan spiritual leader said he was astounded by the complexity of the local culture and told those in attendance they could preserve precious Aboriginal custom and traditional knowledge by adapting modern technology.
"The important part is, in different parts of the world, indigenous people, local people, they have their own cultural heritage, so that's the main reason [I am here]: in order to express my respect to your (Australian indigenous) culture," he said.
The Dalai Lama encouraged local Aboriginal people to maintain traditional names.
"It is important to keep their own traditional name — modern education, modern dress, but they would keep their traditional name," he said.
That message has gained the attention of local traditional owners, who said the Dalai Lama's support could help improve the wellbeing of their people.
The spiritual leader also spoke of his scientific fascination with Uluru.
"Monks, we always stress the importance of investigation, so therefore I am very, very keen to see future discussion from scientists about these rocks, the basis of the material."
Later, hundreds gathered on a local football oval to hear the Dalai Lama talk about the Tibetan pursuit of happiness."
The Dalai Lama is greeted on his arrival at Uluru.
"A Taiwanese man who was airlifted off Uluru after being trapped on the rock for more than 24 hours is recovering in hospital."
The 27-year-old fell about 20 metres into a crevice high on Uluru on Thursday and spent the night with multiple limb fractures and head injuries.
He was rescued in what police described as a slow and difficult process involving a helicopter and an abseiling operation.
The man is now stable and in a general ward in Alice Springs Hospital.
Keith Hutton, who coordinated the tourist's rescue, said the operation took 10 hours because of dangerous conditions on the rock."
"what does it all mean?".
The IBM Building and The 13 Floor?
"THE IBM building in Brisbane’s CBD is now back in the hands of the owner after a fire broke out in the ceiling of the 13th floor today.
Fire investigators conducted atmospheric testing in the building due to the excessive amount of smoke.
Special equipment, known as a MultiRAE, was used to declare the scene safe.
Most of the personnel and equipment had left the scene by 4pm.
Edward St has also reopened after being partially closed after the fire broke out around 12pm.
Investigators will return to the site in the morning."
"Computer scientist Hannon Fuller has discovered something extremely important.
(which looks like the 30's with seemingly real people with real emotions).
Fuller is murdered in our real world the same night, and his colleague is suspected.
Douglas discovers a bloody shirt in his bathroom and he cannot recall what he was doing the night Fuller was murdered.
He logs into the system in order to find the letter, but has to confront the unexpected.
The truth is harsher than he could ever imagine..."
I watched The 13th Floor for the first time last night (October 31st).
Not as good as I hoped it would be, but it was worth a watch...just.
at the moment and have to say that it is well worth the read from what I have read so far.
My friend Trish at Synchrosecrets wrote a post about using intuition to pick Powerball numbers, which is funny, because I've been doing the same thing for the last few weeks and like her I've had some good success rates (so far) at getting the powerball right, but failing at getting the normal numbers right.


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San Antonio has few schools with MBA programs in health care management. Find the best program for you by reading about schools' rankings, program offerings and tuition info.
Winner: Texas State University - San Marcos was ranked the 46th best regional university in the West by U.S. News & World Report in 2013. It also received a national ranking for its part-time MBA program, making it the top school in the area.
Runner-Up #1: The University of Texas at San Antonio is home to a nationally ranked part-time MBA program as well. It is also one of the country's largest business schools.
Runner-Up #2: Our Lady of the Lake University - San Antonio features a health care management MBA program that's available on campus and online.
Sources: *U.S. News and World Report, **NCES College Navigator, ***University of Texas at San Antonio.
The MBA in Health Administration program at Texas State University - San Marcos is 45 credits and includes two tiers of core classes as well as electives. The first tier consists of nine credits of coursework in topics like organizational performance, finance, economic theory and data analysis. The second tier is 27 credits, and classes cover managerial accounting, managerial economics and finance, marketing, statistical methods and health care organization. Students also complete nine credits of electives through the School of Health Administration, which is part of the College of Health Professions. Topics of study can include public health, the management of patient care and health care policy development. TSU - San Marcos admits students to this program regardless of their undergraduate major. It also offers a related Master of Health Administration degree.
Students who enroll in the MBA program with a concentration in the business of health are required to complete 36 credits. Twenty-four of these credits are MBA core courses covering such areas as marketing, managerial economics and production management, while 12 credits are business health courses. These include required courses in health care law and tax strategies, Medicare regulation and strategic management, as well as electives that offer students an opportunity to participate in an internship. Students can also learn about health care accounting, legal and ethical health care management issues, health care economics and the organization of health care delivery systems. Applicants without an undergraduate background in business must complete up to five prerequisite courses before beginning program coursework.
Our Lady of the Lake University's MBA in Health Care Management program features core coursework in health care finance, law and ethics, as well as management theory, information systems, marketing, supply chain management and strategic management. Additional courses required for the concentration include managed care and health care policy. The program's weekend format is designed for working professionals, and students without an undergraduate degree in business can take one accelerated leveling course to meet prerequisite requirements.