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It’s the fate that awaits members of the Bali Nine, Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran – and a penalty that has drawn widespread criticism from human rights advocates all around the world.
But in a move that has been labelled “backward and backwood”, the state of Utah in the USA signed new laws last week to bring back the gruesome penalty of death by firing squad.
Utah abolished the penalty of death by firing squad in 2004, however anyone sentenced to the death before 2004 was still able to choose to be executed by firing squad. Three people were killed by firing squad after the penalty was abolished – the last being convicted murderer Ronnie Lee Gardner in 2010.
The recent changes to the law make Utah the only other state aside from Oklahoma which allows for death by firing squad – albeit in limited circumstances.
Why Did Utah Bring Back the Firing Squad?
It might seem incomprehensible, but the decision to bring back the firing squad is primarily an economic one, based on the principles of supply and demand.
Following the decision in 2004 to get rid of the firing squad, prisoners convicted and sentenced to death were left with the only remaining option of death by lethal injection.
Traditionally, death by lethal injection involved the administration of a cocktail of drugs, with the composition varying from state to state. Drugs such as sodium thiopental, phenobarbital and propofol are commonly used to sedate and execute inmates. These drugs are usually produced by pharmaceutical companies based in Europe.
However, the European companies have succumbed to domestic opposition to the death penalty and made the decision to stop supplying the drugs to the US for execution purposes.
This has left a number of US states facing a shortage of lethal injection drugs and uncertainty in relation to future supplies. They have therefore been forced to turn to other methods – such as ‘knock-offs’ of the European drugs previously sourced.
The unfortunate side effect of this approach has been a number of ‘botched executions’ – including that of Arizona man Joseph Wood last year – due to the drugs being experimental and untested.
So, in its efforts to avoid these dire consequences, Utah has opted to bring back the firing squad.
However, it should be noted that lethal injection will remain the state’s first choice when it comes to executing prisoners – the new laws will only allow for the firing squad to be used where lethal injection drugs are unavailable 30 days before an execution is scheduled to take place.
Furthermore, it’s estimated that only an unlucky few will ever be subjected to the firing squad – as the law stands today, the death penalty in Utah is only available for the offence of aggravated murder, which involves intentionally or knowingly causing another person’s death in serious circumstances.
These circumstances include, but are not limited, to instances where a murder is carried out in a prison, where a great risk of death was caused to someone other than the victim or actor, or where the murder was committed in the course of carrying out another serious offence, such as robbery or murder.
While Utah’s move is unprecedented, it may pave the way for other states to reconsider their approach to the death penalty in light of the shortage of lethal injection drugs.
Arkansas is another state thinking about bringing back the firing squad, while Tennessee is exploring the option of bringing back the electric chair.
Meanwhile, Missouri and Oklahoma are considering reintroducing gas chambers – despite a California court ruling that they are a “cruel and unusual punishment” in breach of the Eighth Amendment of the US Constitution.
The moves represent a backward step in the worldwide campaign to abolish the death penalty – one which has gained considerable momentum in recent months in light of the current Bali Nine ordeal.
It also counteracts recent efforts made by other states within the US – since 2007, 7 states have abolished the death penalty, while a further 3 have declared a moratorium on executions.
If you think that death by firing squad sounds like a cruel and painful way to die, you’re not alone. Human rights groups around the US have expressed their outrage at Utah’s decision.
The American Civil Liberties Union has taken action against the measure, encouraging those dissatisfied with the decision to pen emails to the Governor.
Others have argued that the penalty represents a breach of the eighth amendment to the US Constitution, which prohibits the federal government from imposing cruel or unusual punishments. However, a number of Supreme Court decisions appear to have affirmed the position that the death penalty per se is constitutional.
Of course, the easiest way forward would be to abolish the death penalty altogether, but that is unlikely to happen in Utah anytime soon.
Indeed, some argue that, in light of the recent botched injections, death by firing squad is a superior method of execution as it kills the subject more quickly – and there is less room for error.
Despite these assurances, supporters of human rights groups have continued to advocate for the complete abolition of the death penalty. But again, Utah’s recent decision represents a serious blow to the hopes of these individuals and organisations.


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In this article I describe how to use PHP and MySQL to produce a simple counter that can be placed on a web page. PHP and MySQL work very well together, and this article shows, hopefully, how easy they are to use to produce a useful little utility.
In order for the counter to work, the web server you upload the files to needs to support PHP and MySQL. Most good hosting solutions do.
The counter needs a database called ‘counter’, a table in that database called ‘countertable’, and a field in the table called ‘count’. If you want to use a different database, table, or field name, make sure you change the appropriate references to these names in the scripts.
Note that for display considerations, in the following listings, opening and closing angle brackets for tag names (”) are replaced by opening and closing square brackets (‘[..]’).
This script creates a MySQL database called ‘counter’. Upload this script to your web server and run it first to create the database.
//This script creates a database on the MySQL server.
//The name of the database is counter.
//of code instead of the one above, substituting the correct username and password.
This script creates a table (countertable) in the counter database. The table has one field, called ‘count’, which can store an eight digit number. This allows a counter value up to 99,999,999. Upload this and run it once the database has been created.
//This script creates a table (countertable) in the database (counter).
//Assign the name of the database (counter) to the variable $db.
//If the connection cannot be made, display an error message.
//Select the database. If the database cannot be selected, display an error message.
//Create a table called countertable in the database.
//Close connection to MySQL server.
This script sets/resets the counter to zero. Upload this and run it to initialise the counter to zero. You can run it at any time to reset the counter to zero.
//Point your browser at this page to set/reset the counter to zero.
This is the actual counter. The code in this file should be pasted into the web page that will contain the counter (or it can be run on its own). This web page, which will typically be part of a web site, must have a .php file extension, otherwise the PHP code will be ignored by the web server.
on which you want to put the counter.
//the following table and font settings.

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See current average solar panel cost in Idaho below or enter your zip code and power spend to calculate a system size and see live current solar prices in Idaho on that size system.
What is the current average solar panel cost in Idaho based on current offers?
As of April 2019, the average cost of solar panels per watt in Idaho is $3.03/watt. A typical 6000 watt (6 kW) solar system is $18,202 before the federal solar credit and $12,741 after claiming the federal solar tax credit.
How much do solar panels cost in Idaho?
Will residential solar power system cost fall in Idaho in 2019?
Solar installers in Idaho will be run off their feet in 2019 as we enter the last year of the federal tax credit for solar panels for homes. The average payback period for solar panels is now so short that using solar electricity to power a home in Idaho is now an amazing way to save money. Even without a state tax credit a home solar pv system will still have enough of an effect on shrinking your electric bill that it will be hard to ignore.

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text: Devastated by the kidnap and murder of their young son, Elise (Christensen) and her husband Craig (Metcalfe) are further distressed when the man accused of the crime is set free prematurely. Deciding the criminal justice system has failed them by not adequately punishing the monster responsible for all their pain, they seize on a chance to wreak the ultimate revenge by kidnapping the killer and holding him hostage in the basement of a remote country house, where they intend to inflict the same pain and torture upon him as the believe he inflicted upon their son. Elise and Craig are firm in their belief that this 'eye for an eye' vengeance is not only justified, but will also heal their own mental wounds. But how far they are prepared to go before 'justice is served' remains to be seen. A shocking horror film that raises many questions regarding moral responsibility, the rights and wrongs of taking the law into one's own hands and the human tendency for resorting to violence, The Tortured is a violently explicit movie that builds to a truly unexpected climax that will leave viewers breathless.

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At Parks, we firmly believe we are a first class quality moving company providing relocation services for individuals and corporations. With three offices throughout Pennsylvania, we have the capability to make your relocation experience a very positive journey. Our professional movers trained packers and experienced drivers deliver our promise to you. No other moving companies match our quality or service.
Parks Moving has been a professional local moving company for over 100 years.
Trust the extensive experience of Parks Moving International Division for a seamless move anywhere on the globe.
Your long distance move is in good hands with Parks Moving and the trusted agent network of United Van Lines.
Minimizing business disruptions, Parks commercial moving service will have your company relocated and running in no time.
Parks is a four-generation, family-owned moving company founded in 1909 by the grandfather of our current owner.
Parks Moving makes any move, whether its residential, or commercial, as smooth and organized as possible.
Moving with Parks makes life easier. You can count on our movers to guide you through the door to door process.
Parks and United Van Lines take extra steps to ensure you are completely satisfied with your experience.
Convenient and easy to use, our moving and storage containers keep the things you care about safe and secure.
Parks Moving provides household moving and commercial moving throughout Pennsylvania. With three locations providing moving & storage service, we have your moving needs covered.
Founded more than a century ago, we opened our headquarters it Pittsburgh PA in 1968. Household movers and businesses have relied on our moving expertise in Pittsburgh ever since.
Recognizing a need for better moving companies in State College PA, Parks Moving open our location in 1981. Since then, State College Movers have relied on our professional moving services.
Our Harrisburg moving location services Harrisburg PA, York PA, Lebanon PA, and the surrounding area. We are proud to provide household moving and business relocation services to our state’s capital.
In addition to the residential market, Parks Moving Companies also provides relocation services to corporations and their employees nationwide.
Parks offers special services to its corporate relocation clients. We can assist in developing a formal corporate relocation policy that will provide consistent service to your businesses as well as your employees no matter of the size or distance of the move.
Let our family move your family! Parks Moving is a fourth generation family owned long distance moving and local moving company. We have been moving families for over 100 years. We understand the challenges of moving your possessions to a new location. Thats why our highly trained professional staff is committed to making every part of your move as smooth as possible.
From planning your move, to packing your possessions to moving you into your new home our personal relocation consultants plan every detail to make your relocation experience as stress free as possible. Our goal is to exceed your expectations.

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VCU Technology Services conducted a satisfaction survey of VCU students, spring 2010, using the TechQual+ survey instrument. TechQual+ is a young 4 year old survey based on the same methodology used successfully for many years by the Association of Research Libraries’ LibQUAL+ survey. While the relative immaturity of the TechQual+ project means that the results are unlikely to be as reliable as LibQUAL+, the survey does provide us with insights into where we need to concentrate on improving services.
This same survey instrument was using to survey VCU students in spring 2009. While there are still areas needing improvement, we are pleased that for every question except one in the survey, the perceived level of service delivered improved from last year’s survey. Three of the five items identified in last year’s survey as most needing improvement, “Email”, “Consistency in problem resolution” and “Macintosh support” did not show up as significant issues in this year’s analysis. Results from last year’s survey along with the conclusions and action plans that were updated as promised throughout the year can be found in links on the right.

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These items are REQUIRED before you take your hedgehog home.
Large wire cage - Avoid cages with multiple levels or wide bar spacing.
Large clear plastic storage bin.
At least 4 sq ft of space!
Please test all heat setups before taking your hedgehog home. Aim for 76-80F.
See our Heating page for more information.
Thermostat to control temperature, THIS IS NOT A THERMOMETER!
This is a less ideal setup.
K&H Lectro-Kennel Heated Pad for Dogs - should cover 3/4 of the cage bottom.
This setup works for bins kept in warm (72F+) rooms, it is not warm enough for wire cages or cold rooms.
Household lamp plugged into a timer - This helps prevent hibernation attempts related to seasonal light changes.
Provide 12-14 hours of light a day.
Water Bowl - Necessary until your new hoglet learns to use a water bottle.
Water Bottle - Recommended because they are cleaner and it's easier to monitor water intake.
There is a reason that these are the only wheels I list. Other popular wheels may be a health risk for hedgehogs.
Large pet igloo or similar.
High-quality cat food - We use a variety. Wellness Adult, Chicken Soup for the Soul Kitten, Fromm, Farmina, and Science Diet Kitten (only the one with the orange kitten) are all foods we like.
Live Insects - mealworms, dubia roaches, wax worms, phoenix worms, etc.
Pinky Mice (optional) - We prefer to use frozen.
You need something to take your hedgehog home in!
Small Kennel or Pet Carrier, or a large box works well.
Small litter pan - Food containers from the $1 store work well.
For best results the litter box should go under the wheel.
6" PVC pipes and joints.
Ramps and hides meant for small animals.
Refillable catnip toys and peppermint tea bags.
Cat balls, ping pong balls, toilet paper tubes, tiny rubber ducks that squeak, stuffed animals meant for cats, crinkle cat toys, and mint scented cat toys.
Hot Hands Hand Warmers - Keep a pack around for travel and emergencies.

industry_corpus2: Agriculture & Fisheries


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Brief：Property prices in Britain's capital may come under renewed upward price pressure, after London was voted the world's top city for foreign property investment opportunities.
Property prices in Britain's capital may come under renewed upward price pressure, after London was voted the world's top city for foreign property investment opportunities.
A flood of inward investment for prime real estate in London has previously been cited as causing a 'house price bubble' in the South East.
London beat last year's winner, New York, in the annual study.
The survey was released on Monday by the Association of Foreign Investors in Real Estate (Afire).
It found that San Francisco was the third-favourite city for foreign investors, with Houston and Los Angeles positioned at fourth and fifth, respectively.
London's top position carries potential problems for Britain's homeowners.
Critics said a squeeze in central London had pushed asking prices upward at an unsustainable rate.
Amid concern of a property bubble, the Chancellor announced plans in December's Autumn Statement for a capital gains tax (CGT) on foreign investors as part of an effort to prevent prices soaring beyond control.
The UK's comparatively generous CGT regime was thought to be one of the factors behind the sharp increase in foreign ownership of properties in London in recent years.
While those living in Britain paid CGT of between 18% to 28% if they made a profit when reselling all but their main home, non-resident property owners were exempt for all their properties.
House prices in London rose by nearly 9% in August alone, compared with around 2% elsewhere in the UK, according to the Office for National Statistics.
Meanwhile, Afire said the US remains the most "stable and secure" country for investment by a wide margin of more than 50 percentage points, over second-place country Germany.
This is the widest margin since 2006 and it said the US remains the country providing the best opportunity for capital appreciation.
It also leads the ranking for planned property acquisitions in 2014, with nearly 50% of respondents projecting a modest increase in their US portfolio size and 20% projecting a "major" increase.
"Foreign investors' continued and growing interest in the US real estate markets reflects fully functioning capital markets for both debt and equity that provide access to a broad range of investment opportunities," Afire chairman Steven Hason said.

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Wine is so last millennium. Next time bring coffee. Our House coffee is a mellow, smooth tasting full-bodied darker roast that is never burned or bitter. This is the perfect brew for any occasion. We hand select these beans and lovingly craft roast them in small batches weekly.
Enjoy this delightfully balanced premium coffee with subtle hints of chocolate and toasted pecan. All-purpose grind. Hand-selected beans are roasted to order and shipped fresh. Always fresh and aromatic.


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Washington – OSHA will focus on removing or revising outdated, duplicative and inconsistent construction standards in Phase IV of its Standards Improvement Project, according to a plan (.pdf file) released Aug. 23 by the Department of Labor.
Phase IV, which will be part of an upcoming regulatory agenda, fits with the Obama administration’s larger effort to eliminate unnecessary regulations.
DOL cannot yet estimate cost savings but said the three earlier phases saved employers $63.7 million per year in 2010 dollars.

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text: Acreage alert! This spacious multi level home is located on an 1.09 acre lot with gorgeous views close to the Coralville Reservoir! With updates including new paint throughout, new carpet and has with three living areas perfect for hosting family gatherings or entertaining! Four bedrooms with a master en suite, large open kitchen with work area, 3 seasons porch overlooking the wooded backyard, hardwood floor on main and walkout lower level. Don't miss out on seeing this home, schedule your showing today!


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A recent exchange with a colleague about the health of Lake Erie ended in something of a stalemate. We both shared concerns about water quality and environmental degradation and how the lake, our drinking water supply, will be affected by harmful algae blooms, climate change-induced weather, and the creation of artificial reefs off the coast of Cleveland from the soil that runs off farms and suburban development upriver.
Where we parted ways was whether a deep ecology or urban ecology approach to change will prevail. Deep ecology would likely put a halt to practices that slowly are degrading the environment. Urban ecology is an approach that starts from the premise that human-influenced landscapes are where we dwell, but innovation and sustainability will deliver benefits both economic and to a thriving ecological system.
In their 2012 book, Applied Urban Ecology , Matthias Richter and Ulrike Weiland explain the origins of urban ecology in Europe and America. Ecologist Howard Odum in 1953 proposed the study of urban-rural gradients. His focus was not on organismal systems but on substances and material flows like energy. His theories led to urban metabolism studies of Brussels in 1974 and Hong Kong in 1981 where the sum total fluxes of energy, water, food and building material were measured.
Cities share the same fundamental condition—they don’t operate sustainably like natural systems where organisms reuse another’s waste.
In the 1990s, a group of enterprising scientists decided on a path for long-term ecological research that recognized how “urban systems are flow through systems.” The National Science Foundation has funded now-decades Long-Term Ecological Research in two urban sites, Baltimore and Phoenix, to analyze socio-ecological drivers of land management and ecosystem responses. Nitrogen fluxes, social vulnerability, environmental inequity have been researched. Significant theories have emerged in urban ecology—foremost that cities are sources of pollution but also innovation.
In Europe, the “City of Short Distances” emerged as the dominant sustainability paradigm. In America, “New Urbanity” emerged as an alternative to the decline of heavy industry, river and ports, suburbs and reconstruction.
The first scale to consider is time. Over a short period of time the Cuyahoga River watershed was changed from biodiverse landscape to extremely damaged to its current “novel” state where industry, recreation, residential and environmental elements are vying for the same space. The other scale to consider is the size of the site where a hybrid socio-ecological balance can co-exist.
If there is unanimity that the ecological footprint of a city is the key indicator of its sustainability, how we measure Cleveland’s sustainability is in the land area necessary for sustaining the current levels of resource consumption and waste discharge by our population. Cleveland is certainly not the only city to require possibly hundreds of times the land than our actual physical size to sustain. (We don’t know Cleveland’s metabolism, but, as an aside, required reading for all incoming U.S. presidents is the history of the Roman Empire, which collapsed when it outgrew its land capacity to sustain).
By this definition, the dredging of the Cuyahoga River fails if it doesn’t recognize the geographic and time scale of the problem. The spatial pattern—regional land-use taking up more land to sustain a lifestyle that is on balance resource consumptive upstream needs a true accounting of the ecological consequences throughout the system when deciding the future of the river, the lake and the resources it requires to move soil upstream through the river, only to dredge it, and deposit it as a confined disposal facility on the lakefront. Albeit, urban ecologists would argue that, designed for fish and bird habitat, the future CDFs and artificial reefs in Cleveland could have socio-ecological benefit. But, on balance we’re not supporting a city as an ecosystem with unsustainable levels of land, energy, water and waste moving through and out.

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The Town of Thomasville began to take shape in 1887. It's early citizens were deeply rooted into the nearby community of Choctaw, which was located on a high plateau between the Alabama and Tombigbee Rivers. The merchants of Choctaw realized the advantages of access to the rapid shipment of goods and improved travel the railroad could provide. These progresive businessmen decided to build their community around the railroad.
This railroad was to reach from Mobile to Birmingham via Selma. By the time its first run was made in February, 1888, there was already a bustling community.
The community was first called Choctaw, after the nearby town. This created much confusion. Birmile, a contraction of Birmingham and Mobile, and Eureka, was also tried, but both were discarded. Folsom City was selected then dropped. Finally, the name Thomasville was chosen in honor of General Samuel Thomas, a railroad executive.


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The Details: Slayers is a series that starts off seeming juvenile and then almost as quickly becomes too funny and interesting for it to matter. Better yet, anything overtly juvenile about it fades as the plots convolute and convolute and... Well, until it reaches a point where, thankfully, there is no longer any such thing as good guys and bad guys. If there ever were any to begin with. Lina? A good guy? Feh! She would probably kill us for even thinking it! Not that we would think it anyway.
My favourite character is Xellos, evil god of the "I'm no one suspicious, I'm just a mysterious priest" line. Yeah, don't mind him... If only his impish pranks were all there were to him, the crew's lives would be easier. My next favourite is Zelgadis, the moody and easily embarrassed stone-human chimera. I've been fortunate enough to find dream cels of both of them, though there are plenty of others I would love to find (of course).
I adore most of the characters, though, and hopefully I'll eventually have a diverse enough collection to cover all of the good ones. Until then, the break-downs will be the usual gang of Lina, Gourry, and Amelia, plus the not quite as usual tag-alongs of Martina, Filia, and Zangulus; the less not-as-usuals; the group moments; and any other reasonably sized clumpings. Naturally, Xellos and Zelgadis have their own obsessive sections.


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Is there a restriction on the amount of fields I can have in a form?
There is no limitation on the amount of fields user can have in a form.
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Get to meet thousands of women from all around Asia, including Korea, China, Singapore and so on.
Girls reply messages rapidly as high as 97% of the time.
It is mobile optimized and runs both on Android and iOS mobile devices.
You can send free emails even without being a member.
There is no total protection from scammers.


text: California Kosher Catering provides elegant catering services for Wedding Receptions, Corporate Events, Bar/Bat Mitzvahs, Birthdays, Parties on a Boat, conferences and other very special occasions in San Diego County. The culinary staff of California Kosher Catering creates exquisite menu offerings, all with an eye on appealing presentation, creativity and excellent taste. Every detail of your event is attended to by one of California Kosher Catering's experienced professional event coordinators. The event coordinators ensure that each step of your event planning is anxiety-free and executed with your satisfaction and your guests' enjoyment in mind. The ultimate goal of California Kosher Catering is to make your very special event one that will be remembered by you and your guests.

industry_corpus2: Hospitality & Catering


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Chicago mayoral candidate Susana Mendoza criticizes fellow candidate Bill Daley on Feb. 13, 2019, for accepting a large donation from Citadel CEO Ken Griffin.
Mayoral candidate Bill Daley defended himself from criticism Wednesday over a $1 million campaign contribution from Illinois’ wealthiest resident, who also was a top backer of former Republican Gov. Bruce Rauner.
Earlier in the day, Daley’s campaign reported the infusion of campaign money from billionaire hedge fund executive Ken Griffin, who in previous years donated $36 million to Rauner’s political committee and combined with his then-wife gave departing Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel-affiliated committees about $1.3 million. The donation from the Citadel CEO brings Daley’s campaign war chest above $7.5 million with 13 days to go in the Chicago mayor’s race.
“I’m not going to be the mayor of anybody but the people of Chicago, OK?” Daley said at an afternoon news conference in the Loop.
Daley’s campaign reported the $1 million donation from Griffin on Wednesday, pushing him even further ahead of the 14-candidate field in campaign fundraising and giving him a major boost leading into the home stretch of the Feb. 26 mayoral election. Daley has increasingly been getting support from big business interests that backed Emanuel as he seeks to finish in the top two and make a nearly certain April 2 runoff.
Some rivals pounced on news of the donation.
Illinois Comptroller Susana Mendoza stood in front of a mock “Jeopardy” game show panel Wednesday afternoon calling Daley “Rauner’s Mayor.” Mendoza used the $1 million contribution to link Daley with the unpopular former governor, whose transition committee Daley also co-chaired after the 2014 election. Unlike her, she said, Daley wasn’t critical of Rauner through the state’s lengthy and messy budget impasse.
Bill Daley reported a $1 million donation from Ken Griffin on Feb. 13, 2019.
Sharkey said Daley can be expected to follow Emanuel in being friendly to corporate interests such as Griffin’s.
Preckwinkle also has launched a digital ad criticizing Daley for not supporting a $15 minimum wage. Daley said he supported the city passing a $13 minimum wage and noted that the state is on the verge of raising it to $15. The state Senate just passed a measure that would increase the state’s minimum wage to $15 an hour by 2025, though it’s likely to be tweaked.
Meanwhile, Daley also said he hasn’t received campaign advice from his brother, the former mayor, but said he believes his last name is a personal blessing. “Politically, we’ll find out,” Daley said.
Much like celebrities feign surprise at winning major awards such as a Grammy or an Oscar, political candidates typically act surprised when they’re endorsed. Daley was no different.
“I said, ‘Russians must’ve hacked the Tribune website,’” Daley quipped.

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As part of our national non-profit initiative, Learn Smart Pakistan conducted two teacher boot camps to help build skills in lesson planning and learning games among selected teachers in Pakistan. The boot camp included a bonus session on online mentoring for teachers participating in the digital challenge.
Data from the education sector has revealed that teachers in Pakistan are not always clear on what constitutes as a good lesson plan, and do not allocate sufficient time in developing one. According to Alif Ailaan’s report titled, The Voices of Teachers, 87 per cent of the teachers in Balochistan, 73 per cent in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P), 72 per cent in Sindh, and 67 per cent in Punjab spend less than six hours per week on lesson planning.
Data from the education sector reveals that many dropouts were because of old and archaic ways of teaching steeped in rote learning with virtually no creativity encouraged in the classroom. According to Alif Ailaan’s The State of Education in Pakistan factsheet, as many as 46 per cent of students dropout even before completing primary school.
A total of 45 teachers from 20 schools and six cities attended the boot camps. The boot camps consisted of learning activities and group work in order to promote collaborative learning. The complete photography coverage of the event can be seen here.
Think about what you want students to accomplish by the end of the lesson. Once you have established these objectives, plan backwards to create your lesson plan. Use behavioral verbs to write out your objectives.
Describe what the lesson will be about – which topic, what concepts, and why it is relevant to your students and how it connects back to the learning objectives.
List out what knowledge, information and assumptions the students must already know in order to understand this lesson successfully.
Think about how you plan to get students engaged, how you will explain the concepts, and in what ways students can practice the concepts or skills.
Determine what materials or equipment you will need to use.
The assessment should connect to the established learning objective and should assess students on how well they have reached those objectives.
Design a follow-up activity to reinforce the skills and concepts learned. This can be in the form of homework, additional reading activities, a short project, pre-reading for the next chapter and so on.
Take time to reflect on how you think the lesson went. What went well? What could have gone better? What will you do differently next time?
At the end of the session, teachers were encouraged to craft a practical, clear and engaging lesson plan. Besides Knowledge Platform instructors, the boot camp also included an external mentor, Amina Humayun Khan, a specialist in learning difficulties in literacy and dyslexia. Through a video recording, Amina shared various strategies on how to develop good lesson plans even with limited resources.
Devices used to play games such as phones, tablets, computer etc.
Milestones which a player has to achieve. In a learning game, the goals reflect the learning objectives.
Rules or instructions help learners understand what is expected of them and how to succeed.
A task that an individual must overcome in order to achieve the goals. Challenges keep payers engaged and can include a number of factors including levels of difficulty.
How many players can play the game? Is it single-player, multi-player or can be launched in teams?
A reward system keeps the interest of a player alive. Better the performance, higher are the rewards. Rewards can be in form of achievements, badges etc.
In addition to the above components, learning game is a design to help students learn skills, expand existing concepts, reinforce learning concepts and develop understanding with practice questions.
The session also discussed best practices when developing a learning game. The session included interactive activities and encouraged teachers to generate ideas for their own in-classroom games.
The boot camps lasted two and a half hours each and were conducted in parallel. After the boot camps, teachers were invited to attend a bonus session of 30 minutes on Online Mentoring for the digital challenge, also part of Learn Smart Pakistan.
Read more about the online learning challenge here.
LSP 2015 provides ninth grade students and teachers access to quality educational resources for Mathematics and English. The content is available online for free. The digital contest will come to a close on July 12, 2015 followed by an award ceremony and education forum.


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Thank you to all of you who took part in the voting for the 2019 Instagrammer Awards. Ultra running has really grown over the years and as testament to this we had over 8,700 visits to our voting page, who took part in our contest.
We have 14 very deserving winners out of our shortlist of 50 ultra running Instagrammers.
And our overall winner is….. drum roll please!
And our winner overall is Tom Wake for his Instagram page who had the most voters for his page.
Many congratulations to Tom who wins a fabulous Suunto Baro 9 Sports Watch and is the overall winner of the 2019 RunUltra Instagrammer Award.
You can read all about Tom’s story and his ultra running adventures in his blog here.
Tom started running in 2008 but has only started doing ultras in the last couple of years and has already completed over 25 marathons. Tom’s most recent ultras last year include the Race to the King, Stour Valley Path, Jurassic Quarter and Lakeland 100 plus he ran the Berlin and Dublin marathons.
We encourage you to explore each of the Instagram pages from our entrants and finalists who have shared some amazing stories and photos of their ultra running adventures. The quality of their Instagram pages has been very high so do check them out. We enjoyed viewing your pages and fabulous photos and we wish you a very successful ultra running year.
A big thank you to everyone who took part in the contest, and to our thousands of voters. Many congratulations to voter Chris Swain who wins a Suunto 9 Watch in our prize draw for voters. Run Well!

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Watch Combo Chimbita LIVE in D.C. tonight!
20 copies only with risograph prints.
Lily Wen started Figure & Ground in 2015 to unify the many aspects of record production. She works out of a storefront studio in Ditmas Park where she engineers/produces and helps artists get their records heard.
For order inquiries, collaborations, audio engineering services or general questions, contact lily@fgrecords.com or @figandground.


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The entry deadline has passed. Entries are being forwarded to jurors Lorna Crozier (poetry) Andreas Schroeder(non-fiction) and Armin Wiebe( fiction). Winners will be informed by the end of June, with those chosen for publication appearing in the Rhubarb “Power and Politics” Issue in fall.
« Refreshed Rhubarb on its Way!

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Would you like to set limits on your Date Picker Field? Example, you only want to allow your users to enter dates that fall on a weekend. That is now possible with the new advanced options added to the default Date Picker Field.
First, add the DATE PICKER field to your form then click the GEAR icon.
In the properties section, go to the LIMITS tab.
Check the PAST option if you want to allow users to select past dates, same goes with the FUTURE option, check it if you want to allow future dates to be selected.
Unchecking a day will disable all of the same days in the calendar. You can uncheck which day of the week you don’t want your users to select in the date field. So, to only allow weekdays, uncheck Saturday and Sunday.
Disable dates within the range you set up. This will only allow selection between the dates you selected.
Here you can disable specific dates. The correct format is YYYY-MM-DD but you may also use MM-DD or just DD.
This is similar to the "Start & End Date", but this allows you to set multiple date ranges to disable. This is also a good way to filter out invalid dates. Example, I would like to force users not to enter invalid years like "192", or years that are way in the past "1900" or "1720". What I did is set the date range like this: 0000-01-01>2000-01-01 so users can only select dates from 2000-01-01 onward.
You can also use Dynamic Date Selections. You can achieve this by utilizing the Start & End Date limit and use today+x (where x is the number of days to be added to today).
Say, you're working on a booking form and would like to limit the booking dates to be at least 1 week after submission, and at the same time, you want to limit the booking window for just 1 week. For this to happen, you need to set the Start Date to today+7 (1 week after) and the End Date to today+13 (a window of just 1 week).
i am using a form for hours worked the last week. So an employee may be in the app any day. can i set up an algorithm so that I can set the date to the previous friday regardless of when the employee is using the app?
Is there a way to eliminate Saturdays and Sundays from this calendar completely? I want to set a time set that the customer cannot book until 3 days out, however Saturdays and Sundays are not included in that 3 days. i.e. If a form is submitted on a Friday, then the earliest they can get it is Tuesday or Wednesday.
I am having trouble with the the Dynamic Date. When I put in 'today + x' into either fields, it sets the date to January "x", 2001 for that field.
ie. in my form, I put "today + 2" in the Start Date field, and the date set itself to 2001-02-01.
I'm having trouble with the Dynamic Date selection. I tried today + 2, Today + 2, today+2... I'm still able to select a date earlier than two days from now. Please help.
Is the option Today+x still working? I am testing it and I am still able to pick before two days.
A mi me gustaria poder tener la opción de yo en el calendario, marcar días aleatorios en los que se realizará la actividad, y que las persones marque en que dia realizaran la actividad.
Is there a way to disable a certain time on a reoccurring day of the week?
Is there a way for a customer to select multiple dates e.g. for recurring events?
I am having trouble getting the date requested correct. I've used Today+2 in the start date field.
For an order, we only want the date requested to be two business days after today. I've disabled the Saturday and Sunday date lines and disabled certain holiday dates.
Not sure what I am doing incorrect for the Today+2. Can you please review?
I switched from google forms just so I could have better control over the calendar. The capabilities, and ability to restrict dates, on this date picker are amazing.
How can I disable today's date?
We want to restrict the number of persons that can select a date.
2.) how can change the date time on the email to show dd mm yy im getting mm dd yy.
how can I ensure that the end date has to be after the start date? Currently the end date can be earlier than the start date.
I dont want an enquiry that is needed any date after 30 days from today.
How do I disable after-30-days selection?
how can I limit the date picker, so that only the last day of each month can be chosen?
I have set the date so that they can only select a Tuesday but I only want them to select the Tuesday of the next/current week. (I.e. so that they can only select this Tuesday and not one in the future. How do I achieve that?.
Is there away I can set a limit on the amount of times a day is picked?
Is there a option that every date can be chosen only once. So after a speaker is fixed for a specific day, the date cannot be entered anymore?
How can i restrict time to working hours only?
I'm trying to create a sign-up form and post the link but not have it active until a specific date. Post it today (8/22) but not have the form "live" until September 1, for example.
I'm wondering what options there are in the 'Dynamic Date Selections' this article talks about.
Does it only support combinations with 'today'?
I'm looking to exclude wednesdays in even weeks, and thursdays in uneven weeks.
Peut-on limiter les créneaux horaires svp? Si cela est possible, comment faire?
In the settings you can disable the past dates, but is it possible to disable the present day for the second user who's filling in the form today? So, user 1 that fills in the form today can choose today and send in the form. User 2 that fills in the form today can select a day starting by tomorrow. Thanks already for your answer.
Start & end date doesn't work. I put in 1/1/1985 - 12/31/2006. When I use the form ANY date I enter is accepted. Why??
My data selector limits to only Saturdays, aka "Week Ending Date". How can I limit to the previous 4 'week ending dates' and future week ending dates? For example, if today is 5/15/17, I would expect possible data selections to be 4/22/17, 4/29/17, 5/6/17, 5/13/17, and all future week ending dates (5/20/17, 5/27/17, etc). In this example, user would not be able to select 4/15/17, 4/8/17, and prior.
I need the date picker only to allow dates that are 3 business days in the future. As it is now, if someone submits an order on a Friday, the DatePicker allows them to choose Monday, when it should be Wednesday. I need the DatePicker to skip over the weekend when counting 3 days. Is this possible?
Is it possible to limit to weekdays only? I disabled weekends, but I need the form to only allow them to choose a date that is 3 days from today. This works out great, except if they choose a Thursday, it lets them choose Monday. I'm thrilled to have this as an option so thanks for that!
My disable date are not working. For example, I would disable today+9>today. How can i do that?
I will be limiting date entry to at least 21 years ago, correct? I'm trying to ensure that applicants are at least 21 years old.
Hi, I have been trying to restrict booked dates on my form so that only available dates can be selected, Unfortunately, neither of limit dates option on date picker property seems to work. Is there a global issue? its not working on preview also. I am using Chrom browser.
I'd like to be able to disable every OTHER Thursday from a start date. I know I can compile a list of those dates manually, but is there an easier way?
hi, from yesterday my Disable Date Ranges is not working for me.
i use this code "today>today+1" to remove the tomorrow selection.
Hi, if i have 2 fields ('Departure Date' and Return Date), is there a way of limiting it so that only dates on the same date or after can be selected in Return Dates? So you'd effectively be setting a disable dates before 'Departure Date'?
Hi, I wanted to restrict my form so that only the next 7 days can be chosen and all future dates after that disabled. Is this possible?
Hi, I have been trying to restrict my form so that only weekdays can be selected, in addition to dates which are more than 2 weeks in the future. Unfortunately, neither of these seem to work. Is this a global issue or am I the only one experiencing this issue?
Thank you for this improvement. I would like to be able to limit date selection to "today+6" ... in other words, users can't select a date until it is 6 days from the current day.
I can do this in the form validation, but I can't seem to do it in the datetime limit functionality.
How do I make this line of my form changeable. I need to be able to put date and time of when I would like the request to be completed.
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It was now the morning of theJanuary 14, 2008, and the day I decided to stop taking any medication altogether; the day I felt that I had put together most of the pieces of the puzzle, and now was the time for the final test.
Once again I felt no different, if anything my health was improving, and I carried on as though everything was the same, and still phoned my GP’s surgery in Garnant for my three months repeat prescription, and my daughter picked it up, and sent it to me by special delivery, and no one knew I had stopped taking it.
The sixteenth of January was my 60th birthday, and of course everyone wanted to buy me drinks, and although I had promised myself to take it easy, as usual, where drink is concerned, I didn’t exactly manage that, and got well and truly sloshed.
But even after a night drinking the way I did that night, I woke up the next morning bit of a thick head, but nothing that you would not expect considering the amounts of booze I had swallowed.
He and Sarah (Stefan’s girlfriend) walked me home, and asked if I was okay, and did I want them to stay with me? I told them that I was fine and just needed an early night, and they left. But to be honest, I knew something wasn’t right, so I made my way straight into my bedroom, and lay on the bed fully clothed, and tried to just relax; but my chest became tighter, and the noises in my head were causing my temples to throb, and I started to take deep breaths, controlling the way I breathed out. Then the palpitations started. I was starting to breath heavily, and my heart was racing so much so, I thought if it got just a little bit worse I should phone an ambulance. It did get worse, and my heart beat was getting faster, and my breathing was getting laboured and shaky. I started to sweat, and for the first time I started to question the decision I had taken to stop taking my medication.
This didn’t just last minutes, it had steadily worsened over an hour or so, and I knew this wasn’t right, so I picked my phone up to make that call for an ambulance, but instead of doing that, I put the phone down again, saying out loud, ‘Have faith Peter, have faith.’ And I just lay back, staring at the ceiling, saying in my head, ‘God, my life is in your hands.’ And immediately, not over a period of minutes, but immediately, the rapid heart palpitations stopped, and everything was calm.
And from that day till this, which is two years and three months later, I have never suffered any symptoms like that again.
It wasn’t that much longer before my medication arrived by post, and things were back to normal, but I had naturally been thinking, what I should do next.
By the middle of march, I had decided to tell everyone that I was going back to the UK for a couple of weeks in May, because of some family problems, but also tell them that at least I could pick my own medicine up, rather than having it posted, and panicking that it might get lost in the post; sort of kill two birds with one stone, but the sooner I could get back to Gozo, the better I would feel. And that’s what I did tell everyone, and everyone believed that’s what I was going to do.
But the truth of the matter was, my head had started to clear, and things were beginning to fall into place in a different way. It’s very hard to explain, and I should imagine a lot harder to understand unless you have spent some time on anti-depressants, and at that time I had been taking a Cipramil 20mg tablet every day for eight years, and just in the weeks since I had stopped taking it my speech wasn’t as slurred, and the noises in my head, and that whooshing sensation had reduced dramatically. So that was a big plus, and all I wanted to do was get back to the UK, go through all the paperwork I had kept, and go back to see Chief Superintendent Gwyn Thomas, because I was told by the police when they gave me that whitewash of a report in 2005, that if I could come up with anymore evidence they would re-open the investigation. Another lie!

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A native East Coaster, Cheri Magnuson was immediately attracted to Colorado, back in 2005 when she first visited Denver. In 2006 she uprooted and quickly settled into a loft apartment near Coors Field, in LODO – with zero regrets since.
Over the next 10 years she lived and worked all throughout our beautiful state, living the life of a “Road Warrior” working in Medical Sales. Spending all that time on the road has given her a great understanding of the unique personalities each region, city, suburb and neighborhood – possesses. From small, mountain towns to the Denver Metro area, there’s a good chance she’s either done a mud-run, played tennis, snowboarded, taken a yoga class, been to a happy hour, run a half-marathon, taken a cooking class or joined a local’s Trivia Night in a town you may be thinking of moving to, so don’t just ask her about houses.
While developing her Medical Sales portfolio, Cheri also dabbled in Real Estate – completing 6, personal, Real Estate Transactions over the last 8 years. She has bought and sold houses and condos, has owned 2 rental properties and most recently, purchased a partial-ownership condo in a Summit County Ski Resort area.
The constant, persistent, draw to find her next Real Estate endeavor, lead Cheri to pursue her own Real Estate Broker’s License. Real Estate is a passion for her, and she knows that YOU as the Seller or Buyer, are making one of the biggest decisions in your life. This is not something she takes likely and you will always find her going the extra mile for her clients. Attention to detail is one of her strongest assets and you can guarantee she will leave no stone unturned – to help you reach your goals.
When not working in Real Estate, you will find Cheri training clients in her Pilates Studio, spending time with her husband and energetic toddler, or competing in one of the many types of athletic events this state has to offer – both indoors and outdoors. Give her a call!


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Year after year, Fresh Arts (formerly Spacetaker) organizes the Winter Holiday Art Market (WHAM), the juried shopping binge at Winter Street Studios that amasses creatives from all shapes and sizes to offer consumers Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanza and whatever-your-fete-due-jour may be a solution to a finding an alternative to massively produced gifts anyone with cash or a credit can purchase.
A committee of community volunteers pores over more than 150 submissions and accepted 60 artists to participate in this seventh annual three-day spree. Moreover, 20 of those are brand new to WHAM this year, so longtime fans of the event can expect to find something new and fresh.
WHAM begins with a preview party on Friday (tickets are $10) and continues through Saturday and Sunday (admission is free). Though for best selection, shop early.
Flip through this photo essay to view a sampling of new, recent participants and longtime favorites, so you can better plan as you embark on 2012's gift giving season.
It all begun with a lipstick smudge.
Julie Newton ruined her favorite haute handbag. The search for a new personal reticule failed: She couldn’t locate a sassy carryall that was fashionable, indestructible and easy to care for.
So this resourceful dame made her own.
A first time participant at Fresh Arts’ Winter Holiday Art Market, Newton’s accessories can be best described as avant garde, chic and whimsical.
Most of her materials are sourced from hardware stores. But you wouldn’t know it. These bags are overflowing with chic poise.
What appears to be a lovely and decorative geometric pattern, upon further examination, unveils intimate human figures that exert friction between that which is purely decorative, soft and dreamy with surrealist-esque crassness that’s disturbing and uncomfortable.
Yet all those opposing forces work in harmony amid a cottony narrative aura in Melanie Loew's style.
Rather than asking the artist for her inspiration, try drawing your own conclusions. You may discover that much of her leitmotifs inspire introspective thought.
The varicolored bracelets, jewelry and accessories from Orange is the Sun finds patterns in the logic of mathematics, stable rhythms and harmonic equilibrium.
When designing her pieces, Jennifer Wagner pays close attention to texture, color and size — all of which together release energy.
Wagner decided to shift her journey when she became a mom. She left her career, but then she came to realize she needed a creative outlet. Orange in the Sun all started with one bracelet.
Influenced by her background in merchandising and interior design, Wagner's art is friendly, approachable and adaptable.
If you ask Tony Parana to describe his home in the state of Bahia, Brazil, he paints a landscape that’s colorful, beautiful and eclectically rich in its music and cuisine.
The essence of the region's spirit suffuses his oils, mixed media, sculptures and mosaics. Community festivals, celebrations and lively mise-en-scènes make up a major segment of his artistic opus.
As a second year entrant at WHAM, Parana loves nothing more than connecting with the locals and finding something in an object that links one person to another — across cultures, cities and traditions.
In response to the lurid affect of the Baroque period, Rococo artists aimed for a creamier, more frilly approach to lighten their elegant, pastoral themes.
That’s when she gave birth to FlippyBaby, her company that sells shoes for babies and toddlers crafted out of delicate fabrics, decorations, 100 percent cotton linings, felt and fleece — in decorative Rococo flair.
If only she also made them for adults.
There’s no mistaking Piyali Dasgupta’s provenance. She holds a fine arts degree from Vishwa-Bharati University in Santiniketan, India and focuses on printmaking.
Dasgupta has been a staple of WHAM since nearly the event’s inception, and her textiles — shawls, scarves, sarongs, original prints — have become a major attraction for those seeking unique, high quality, handcrafted personal items.
Though her designs slant toward contemporary fashion — think elegant, sophisticated, fancy — they are strongly rooted in the organic life, vegetation and terrain of Assam and the Brahmaputra Valley, where she spent many of her formative years as a child.
Union leader by day, artist by night — but not quite as clear cut by what the tolling of a clock may say.
As a child, art became Valerie Burkes escape, beginning with paint by numbers and carrying over to her narrative musings on canvass today.
There’s keen sense of internal realism in her images — a combination of a guarded secret whose details remain concealed. Yet it’s the emotion that radiates from the figurative shapes to the viewer, who often loses his or her sense of time while looking for clues.
It’s her way of speaking to her collectors without saying a word — much like music.
Choosing one work of Julie Zarate that would reveal her style was implausible. Influenced by zeitgeist of the Renaissance — think Michelangelo — to contemporary Venezuelan Neo-pop painter and sculptor Carlos Yepes, Zarate’s own two-dimensional and three-dimensional objects fringe the boundaries of what’s iconic, timeless, fresh and radical.
As a founder of the art group Las Chingonas, Zarate is no stranger to aesthetic risk taking. And that’s evident in her work and her collectors, who seek her art for its infinite interpretations.
As a member of the Houston Metal Arts Guild and as former artist-in- residence at the Houston Center for Contemporary Crafts, Kristy Rae Wilson is recognized for translating daily objects into thoughtful conversation pieces that delve into how everyday things affect the psyche.
Whether that’s through questioning gender roles, history, family heirlooms and collectibles that carry a legacy, Rae Wilson reconstructs reality only to shine a different story — a story that’s then crafted, forged and imagined in the mind of the beholder.
This is her second year at WHAM.
To describe the style of Jeremy Keas is akin to opening a box of chocolates: Keas is full of surprises — and so is his photography.
Embedded in strong geometric composition is an electric sensitivity that takes the onlooker on a visual journey in, about and outside of the image. Elements collocate to render sophisticated, artistic sketches that are both aesthetically rich, yet pleasing to the eye.
Maybe it's a result of her background in the practice of law but Janet Roe has an eye for what’s hidden beneath a simple background, image or setting.
In her portrait photography, influenced strongly by her work in photojournalism, she’s tickled by the raw emotion that’s often disguised by words, yet evident in expressions.
The same can be said for her figurative and abstracted works. By juxtaposing textures and patterns on urban images of Houston life, she tells a different truth about vibrant city surroundings — and creates a visual language to portray the personality of the Bayou City.
A WHAM first-timer, Lesie Shershow isn’t new to the arts and crafts business. With training in metals at the Massachusetts College of Art, she landed and finished a seven-month residency at the Houston Center for Contemporary Craft.
Shershow’s metalwork dialogues about the nature of ownership — Do items have value? How do we assign such value? — without deviating from an object that’s charming, alluring and familiar.
Her jewelry often combines unexpected materials.
Go ahead, chuckle. Anyone would at something named Fuzzy Grapefruit, especially alongside this Bacon Loves Egg note card.
That would be the work of Allison Johnston, whose studies in graphic design, music and bookbinding fuse for mischievous stationary and paper goods that smile outwardly at their recipients.
About the name: It combines two things that Johnston loves — citrus fruits and fuzzy creatures. Don’t be surprised to come across boxing kangaroos, flying elephants, goats and other friendly critters in her creations.
Chiyogami is traditional Japanese block-printed paper typically used for origami applications. The patterns are zestful, joyful and, more often than not, their repeating shapes are drawn from the nature world.
Erin Sansoucy’s GamiWorks transcribes these brilliant ornaments into modern glass jewelry, bracelets, belt buckles, accessories and candles. Each bead is one of a kind.
To think that there's creativity in scientific processes isn’t rare — anymore. Though once the fields were considered disparate form each other, their study wasn’t exclusive in the land of yesteryear.
David Webb stems from that tradition. His studies in genetics, ecology, evolution, genealogy and living systems tangibly manifest themselves in his block prints, mono prints and photo prints, using materials like Tibetan papers made from plants and grasses.
This sunny T-shirt would make anyone smile. Agree?
Like the chicken and the egg, it’s difficult to discern whether Billy Miller’s tech prowess or artistic skills came first. And it actually doesn’t matter, really.
In Miller's work, digital imaging and flamboyant colorful brushstrokes mingle to emerge as a cornucopia of playful movement that jumps from its modern canvass.
Miller challenged himself to create a work of iPhone art per day. Much of his output is as varied as a day exploring Houston’s art scene.


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Paperback by Keri Smith. Published by Penguin Group.
Bibliophiles will have a field day with this one!


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A young soul with the wisdom of eternity. His success was not measured by monetary or positional power, but in the number of people he was able to impact, the dreams he fought to make reality, and the people he surrounded himself with who worked just as diligently to bring about social equality.
In King, we find not merely one of the great martyrs of the 20th century, but one of the few voices on the international stage who tried to proclaim, without passivity or naiveté, that love among people of all beliefs and all backgrounds—through empathy, perseverance, and grace—could be stronger than death. Dr. King’s greatest legacy may be the lesson that what we do for others can break the boundaries of time.
Dr. King’s dream did not die with him. His passing allowed us all to own part of the journey to the promised land. But the work is not yet complete. We are the engines of Earth. We create ripples that spread across our shared experiences. If one man could change the world beyond his short mortal existence, imagine the potential we hold within us all.
Truth that transcends time. A persistent dream that shall flourish in all our waking days. Let’s build together. Grow together. And dream together. For our lives end the day we become silent about things that matter.


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Soldier is a 5-day immersive panoramic audio-visual installation created in collaboration with Yvette Janine Jackson specifically for the Recombinant Media Lab housed at the Qualcomm Institute in La Jolla. Surrounded by 8 screens and 16 channels of audio, viewers experience the rise and fall of a fictitious soldier, each day of the installation representing a different phase in his/her life (recruitment, breakdown, buildup, battle, and desertion).
Performed by Artemisa Clark, Heidi Kayser, and Aitor Lajarin.


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SuSE Linux today announced the general availability of the SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 8 for the Intel Itanium Processor Family, and that it has been chosen to drive parts of the “TeraGrid,” a scientific computing system accessible to researchers across the United States. eWeek also covers this release as part of a Linux-special article regarding the SuSE, Red Hat and Mandrake upcoming releases.Also at eWeek, you will find more information about Red Hat Linux 9 and their inclusion of Native Posix Threading Library (NTPL) (essentially an enhanced threading technology that allows developers to create software with increased scalability, faster speeds and standardized development processes).
Back in 1996 when I was playing with linux I recall that one distro was 100% posix certified (the same cert that qnx had). Could someone point me a linux certified posix distribution please ?
I can’t tell you which one you used, but I can tell you it’s a worthless cert. For further info I’d use Google. There anyone can relive all the inane arguements over certification versus compliance.


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is bringing his unmissable live show to Scarborough Open Air Theatre this summer.
The 22-year-old singer songwriter has just scored his first UK Number One single with the sensational ‘Someone You Loved’ and will now play the UK’s largest open air arena on Saturday July 20.
Lewis’ eagerly awaited debut album ‘Divinely Uninspired To A Hellish’ Extent will be released on May 17.
Since bursting onto the scene in 2017, with his debut release ‘Bruises’, Lewis has sold out no fewer than three back-to-back headline tours.
The young Scotsman has achieved successive Radio 1 A-List tracks, amassed more than 330 million plays across streaming services and was shortlisted for the 2019 Brits Critics’ Choice award.
As well as selling more than 90,000 tickets for his own headline shows, Lewis has also joined such musical peers as Sam Smith, Rag’n’ Bone Man, Bastille and Niall Horan on tour, playing to audiences in excess of 500,000.


text: With a 13-line spread we enter a whole new mindset of tolling. It was not too long ago that other boaters looked at us like we were nuts as we trolled by with 13 to 16 lines out. Now seeing 24 to 28 lines is a common sight; even 23 foot boats are pulling 13 to 16 lines effectively. It goes without further mention that planer boards are required as well as a lot of rod holders. With thirteen or more lines way out there on planer boards you can shift your thinking. The goal is to cover lots of horizontal and the deeper area of the water column. The line lengths listed here are a good place to start. Exact line length will change with type of boat and sea conditions. You will have to experiment to determine what works best. What is important is that when a line gets hit, you can put another one back out at the exact distance. This is where our Line Counter Bay Trolling reels come in handy. If you don't have a line counter reel, you will have to come up with a method like counting the number of times the bar on a level wind moves across the reel, or mark your line every 25 feet. No matter what method you choose, you will need a notepad to keep it all straight!


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Events in Toronto this week hope to make you pause and consider the thought and hard work that went into your bean bag chair with Come Up to My Room, IDS Toronto and DesignTO all happening this week. Elsewhere, art, film and music are all on, alongside lots of free stuff.
Toronto's tech crowd is coming out for the first TechTO of the year and night of drinks, eats, and networking, plus speakers and special presentations.
Folk singer-songerwriter Martha Wainwright's musical family roots shine through as she arrives to play some of her most hauntingly beautiful songs.
A group of local artists take on the challenge of explaining the interconnectedness of all life on earth, and how we humans play a vital role in our world.
The difficulty and importance of maintaining cultural heritage takes on the focus in a series of spherical screenings of Julie Dash's 1991 film.
The Gladstone is about to be transformed into a multi-storey, interactive art and design playground with 20 projects spread around the space.
One of the biggest interior design shows of the year arrives for four-days of exhibitions, panels, presentations and special guests.
There's still a handful of tickets left for this late-night event featuring warehouse techno DJ I Hate Models on deck alongside Liu Chang.
Saddle Up! returns for a night of hootin' and hollerin' with all the classic country hits and a special celebration of Dolly Parton for her birthday.
A movie, a musical, a Huge Jackman world-wide tour: The Greatest Showman tells the story of show business and the imaginative world of P.T. Barnum.
All around the city, all things design are happening as part of this big design festival that includes installations, exhibits, talks and more.
Everyone is welcome to drop by and buy, sell, trade and talk vinyl. Feel free to bring your own because there's no dealers or shop owners, just music.
Back again is this all-day mini cask festival to warm you up with ten casks, food by Dover Boys Fish and Chips and special glassware. Admission is free!
The strange and unusual takes centre stage at this annual showcase of human marvels and freaks with bizarre acts coming in from all over the world.
The Toronto Blue Jays are ready to welcome fans with weekend of festivities for everyone, including player appearances, activities, entertainnment and more.
Get your New Years resolutions off to a good start with local markers coming out to feature the newest in décor, giftware, jewellery, fashion and lots more.


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Gamescom 2017 wrapped up in Cologne Thursday night with the presentation of this year’s awards. Sweeping the event was the Nintendo Switch title Super Mario Odyssey, which snagged the coveted Best of Gamescom Award, the consumer-voted Most Wanted Award, and three of the juried categories.
Also among the winners were multiple nominees Destiny 2 from Activision Blizzard — with two wins), Assassin’s Creed (Ubisoft), Middle-earth: Shadows of War (Warner Bros. Interactive), Ni No Kuni II (Bandai Namco). You can see the full list of nominees here.
Best Console Game – Microsoft Xbox One: Middle-earth: Shadows of War, Warner Bros.

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text: Nina is back with the second episode of the After Show Podcast. The queen of Morning radio in Enugu recaps all the week’s goodness – show segments, big news you could have missed and so much more. Exclusive and a first on Soundcity Radio!

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This was done some time back for Mommy S, a repeat orderer. She sent us pictures of her little guy's 1st birthday party invites and wanted us to cake-ify the turtle and throw in some cupcakes as well.
The husband/delivery guy came back to inform us that the whole party venue was decked out in matching theme and colors! how cute!


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After a few hectic weeks of last minute planning, getting married and going on an awesome honeymoon, I am now back in the swing of things at the radio station. My wife, Deena, and I had a fabulous time in Gatlinburg and despite the reports you may be seeing, Gatlinburg is wide open and waiting for you to visit!
This weekend is a very important one to a lot of us so let’s remember the “reason for the season” which is the birth of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Merry Christmas!
Well it’s that time of the year…Toy Hill 2016! I will be live on location at Capitol Chevrolet starting Friday December 2nd at 5p and I won’t leave until Sunday December 4th at 5p. Please stop by at some point over the course of the weekend and make a donation to the US Marines Toys for Tots program.


text: Brewin, RJW; Hardman-Mountford, NJ; Hirata, T. 2011 Detecting Phytoplankton Community Structure from Ocean Colour. In: Morales, J; Stuart, V; Platt, T; Sathyendranath, S, (eds.) Handbook of Satellite Remote Sensing Image Interpretation: Applications for Marine Living Resources Conservation and Management. EU PRESPO.


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Jessica Simpson looks strong, confident and exudes happiness on the September cover of Lucky magazine. The songstress — who recently Tweeted her love for new beau Eric Johnson and is one of the names linked to the American Idol judges’ panel — kept the focus of her cover shoot on the fashions she rocked. Jess chatted about her experience traveling for her reality show Price of Beauty and being comfortable in her own skin!
“We all obsess over looking like the perfect Barbie type, and that’s not always what’s beautiful. It’s about making peace with yourself,” Jess told Lucky, via PopSugar.
Filming her VH1 series really put Jess in touch with her inner beauty and influenced her style. Her wardrobe has become more international!
“Morocco was a huge influence on me when it comes to jewelry and fashion. You can’t help but want to buy caftans when you’re there!” she said.


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Click Here to register your child for the VBS to be held at the Evangelical Lutheran Church on June 23-27. Session times are 5:30PM to 8:30PM.
Note: Dates and times will be noted at a later date here and in Church and Home Newsletter as well as from the pulpit.
The Women’s Ministry has invited Pastor Marla Abe to come and speak to our congregation about her many experiences as a Brethren teacher in Haiti, Spain, the Dominican Republic and in the Great Lakes Africa. Her passions came from childhood and she was instrumental in helping start the Church of the Brethren in Rwanda and worked with the Brethren in the Democratic Republic of the Congo to help form the Great Lakes Africa churches. She is the fourth child, born to missionaries in Lassa, Nigeria and came to the United States as a 10 year old child. She and her husband Jim, at the moment, serve as co-pastors at the Carlisle COB but will be retiring as of March 2019. Marla has quite a story to tell and we are looking forward to her talk which will be accompanied with slides of the places she has lived and worked. Marla will be talking with us Saturday, March 30th at 10:30 a.m. in our church chapel. This presentation is free of charge and open to everyone - men, women, and youth. Her talk will last approximately 30-45 minutes followed by a question and answer period. Pastor Marla Abe is a vibrant and capable individual with many talents as you will realize. We look forward to hosting her as she speaks on the topic of “Learnings from Africa.” Let us give her a warm and hearty welcome by attending and bringing a friend!
NOTE: Marla gave a wonderful presentation to approximately twenty attendees. All felt she was very informative.
Prayer sessions will be held every Wednesday morning at 10:00 p.m. in the Chapel and is open to any church member. The church family is encouraged to place prayer requests in the Prayer Box located at the Visitor's Center in the lobby. All requests will be held up in prayer by the prayer session group. Great Things Happen When God's People Pray!
Adult Sunday School for the months of June, July and August will be combined this year. A different teacher will be teaching on her chosen subject each month.
Carolyn Wolff will be the teacher for June; Stephanie Behnke will teach in July; and Sandy Koziel will be the teacher in August. We will return to regular Sunday School in September.
This is an opportunity to fellowship with members of other classes and experience different teachers and their teaching style. We hope all of you plan to attend all the classes this summer. See you there!!
W /24: Prayer Session - 10:00 a.m.
W /24: Choir - 6:45 p.m.
TH/25: TOPS - 8:15 a.m.
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W / 1: Prayer Session - 10:00 a.m.
W / 1: Choir - 6:45 p.m.
TH/ 2: TOPS - 8:15 a.m.
TH/ 2: Youth - Handbells -5:30-6:15 p.m.
TU/ 7: Nurture Team - 6:45 p.m.
W / 8: Prayer Session - 10:00 a.m.
W / 8: Choir - 6:45 p.m.
TH/ 9: TOPS - 8:15 a.m.
SA/11: Men’s Fellowship – Parlor House - 8:00 a.m.
SA/11: Women’s Breakfast – Parlor House - 8:00 a.m.
M /13: Women’s Ministry- 6:30 p.m.
TU/14: Leadership Team - 6:45 p.m.
W /15: Prayer Session - 10:00 a.m.
W /15: Choir - 6:45 p.m.
TH/16: TOPS - 8:15 a.m.
Theme: "Buttons, Bows & Blessings"
NOTE: The meal was great, the decorations were colorful, and the speaker was well received! There were 72 adults, 2 children and 2 babies in attendance. A good time was had by all!!
The Women's Ministry of the Waynesboro Church of the Brethren sponsored a Food Drive during the month of February to be given to the Waynesboro Community and Human Services. There was an abundance of food donated by the congregation to WCHS.
WCHS provides a central location for the provision and coordination of a wide variety of human services needed by low income residents of the Waynesboro and Greencastle area. A big THANK YOU to our congregation who once again went above and beyond in their donating.
The Prelude videos used during the Sunday morning services are available at this web site. These videos play with background music.


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text: Civil liberties are God-given, inalienable and self-evident. Religious freedom predates civil government and the United States Constitution. The fight for religious freedom is a battle for the heart and soul of our nation. If we lose our religious freedom, then we have lost America to tyranny. We lose our religious freedom for three primary reasons: Ignorance of the law; hostility toward religion; and apathy. Education is the best weapon against apathy and tyranny. Litigation is an excellent form of education; one successful lawsuit can prevent the loss of civil liberties for many. Liberty Counsel can provide legal representation anywhere in the United States.

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text: GX1000 are another one of these small skate brands that has popped up in recent years that has came from the putting skateboarding down on film. The man behind the brand is Ryan Garshell, a man committed to the art of making skateboard films and with GX1000 he has created a style of skate video all of his own. As well as putting out some of the freshest video parts GX1000 has a growing clothing range; from caps to hoodies the designs are as unique as the video parts that Ryan puts out.


text: The genesis of Meyerbeer's last opera, L'Africaine, is something of a legend. He had first considered the subject in 1837 when Scribe presented him with two new drafts, intended to clinch the triumphant successes of Robert le Diable (1831) and Les Huguenots (1836). The composer began composing Le Prophete immediately, but had the other project ever in his mind. By 1843 a piano score was ready, but… the subject as it stood then, concerning Fernando da Soto explorations in West Africa, did not satisfy Meyerbeer. Scribe was asked to rewrite the libretto in 1851, with the hero changed to Vasco da Gama, and focussed on his epic voyage around the Cape of Good Hope to India. A new contract was signed in 1857, and the greater part of the opera was written between 1857 and 1863, in spite of the Meyerbeer's growing debility. A copy of the full score was delivered to composer the day before he died on 2 May 1864.The opera was performed in a version prepared by Francois-Joseph Fetis a year later, 28 April 1865, and was a glorious posthumous tribute to its creators. It caused tremendous enthusiasm, and became enormously popular, being performed 60 times in the first four seasons, and eventually receiving 485 performances in Paris until the end of the century. In its glorious vocal writing, resplendent orchestral colouring and fragrant exoticism, it was a source of delight to many, like Franz Liszt. Even in the midst of his residency in the hallowed grounds of the Vatican in May 1865, he was working at Meyerbeer's last opera: "e;L'Africaine was the newest sensation of the theatrical music. The heavy brassy Rococo of its strains, its military ensembles, the number of its figurants, as numerous and diverse as a circus train met with upon the road, these worldly contrasts were such a delight to Liszt that his fantasia upon the opera assumed double form and took up two volumes."e;1 L'Africaine also shows a progression, even a deepening, in Meyerbeer's style, with a melodic language that is more Italianate in concept and line, as if Meyerbeer's sojourn in Italy in 1856 had it subliminal effects.2 Tunes are more like recitatives in style, and come across as much loftier, more serene and aloof:3 It certainly appealed to the singers of the Golden Age, and during the first part of the twentieth century was a favourite of many great tenors (Caruso, Martinelli, Gigli, Bjorling, Piccaver), and later of Domingo.This facsimile of the composer's manuscript is particularly fascinating. It is clear and hardly annotated at all, and uniquely gives us Meyerbeer's original intentions before the process of editing and adjustment which he always undertook at rehearsals, in response to dramaturgical exigencies and pressures of time.


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Ground flaxseed, found in the baking or organic foods aisle, enhances this loaf with iron, vitamin E, and omega-3 fatty acids. For best results, measure the flour, sugars, and ground flaxseed the same way. Toasting the nuts heightens their flavor so we can call for less.
To prepare bread, cover raisins with 2 cups hot water in a medium bowl; cover and let stand 5 minutes. Drain.
Combine buttermilk and next 5 ingredients (through egg white) in a large bowl; stir with a whisk until well blended. Stir in raisins.
Lightly spoon flour into dry measuring cups; level with a knife. Combine flour and next 6 ingredients (through nutmeg), stirring with a whisk. Add flour mixture to buttermilk mixture, stirring just until moist. Spoon batter into an 8 x 4-inch loaf pan coated with cooking spray. Bake at 350° for 45 minutes or until a wooden pick inserted in center comes out clean. Cool in pan 10 minutes on a wire rack; remove from pan. Cool completely on wire rack.
To prepare glaze, combine powdered sugar, 1% milk, and juice, stirring until smooth. Drizzle glaze evenly over bread; immediately sprinkle with almonds.


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Native Stories - Sonoma Family Life Magazine - Helping local families find the best ideas, opportunities, and resources!
FREE. Celebrate Native American Heritage Month with Alicia M. Retes, Native storyteller, musician & naturalist. Lively presentations will include interactive stories, Native musical instruments, puppets & songs. Ages 6–11. 2–3 p.m. Windsor Regional Library. 9291 Old Redwood Hwy., Bldg. 100, Windsor. sonomalibrary.org.


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Jamie Bartlett is the Director of the Centre for the Analysis of Social Media at the think-tank Demos, where he has become one of the UK’s leading thinkers on politics and technology. He is also author of The People Vs Tech (2018) about the relationship between technology and democracy, Radicals (2017) about political outsiders and best-selling The Dark Net (2014) about internet subcultures, which has been translated into 13 languages. Jamie also co-authored #intelligence with Sir David Omand, which explores the use of internet intelligence by the security services and the police. His Ted Talk about how dark net technology is changing the nature of cybercrime has been viewed almost 3 million times.
Amber Rudd served as Home Secretary from 2016 until 2018, and has served as MP for the East Sussex constituency of Hastings and Rye since the 2010 general election. As Home Secretary she oversaw policing in England and Wales as well as international security. Earlier this year, she announced that the Home Office would be setting aside £50m in the next year to bolster cyber capabilities within UK law enforcement, including £9m as part of a crackdown on the dark web, £5m to be invested in local and regional policing to help set up dedicated cyber crime units in every police force in the country, and funding to develop a new national cybercrime training programme for police.
Dido Harding spent seven years as Chief Executive of TalkTalk plc, Britain’s challenger telecoms company. She oversaw the transformation of the company’s customer service following the de-merger from Carphone Warehouse, turning Britain’s most complained about telecoms operator into an award-winning provider. She led the regulatory, political and media campaign for greater competition in the sector, leading to the eventual break-up of BT in 2017. She also led TalkTalk through one Britain’s most high-profile cyber attacks, being praised by a Parliamentary Committee for her transparent and strong crisis leadership.
Mark’s unconventional career spans (re)insurance broking and financial journalism. A graduate in Spanish, he spent over 7 years broking and producing (re)insurance of all classes from Spain and Latin America at Unison member broker Gil y Carvajal (now Aon Spain) in London and at Heath in Madrid, before leaving the market behind for a career in journalism. From 2002 to 2005 Mark was managing editor of FSA-regulated stock investment advisories Red Hot Penny Shares and The Fleet Street Letter before joining Reinsurance Magazine as editor in March 2005. He joined Insider Publishing in August 2008, editing The Insurance Insider and IQ magazine and is founding Chairman of the Lloyd’s and London Market Ibero American Club.

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Make the switch to Sandton Capital Markets.
Professional market Research and Intelligence, We will update you on major research, opinions and news.

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We manufacture these 1/2" all stainless steel top hat washers for use with sink taps and basin taps.
Our introductory price for the 1/2" size. £3.00 per pair.
TRADE AND BULK QUANITY PRICES ARE AVAILABLE. PLEASE RING FOR PRICES.
FOR ORDERS OF LESS THAN 5 PAIR PLEASE USE SMALL ITEM DELIVERY OPTION FOR THESE AT CHECKOUT. ORDERS FOR 5 PAIR AND OVER, PLEASE USE STANDARD DELIVERY AT CHECKOUT.

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There’s no doubt I love New York and I love being a Software Engineer. There’s infinite things to do and cool neighborhoods/restaurants/museums/random fun stuff to checkout all the time in NYC. In addition, I am constantly enamored by the myriad of learning opportunities and friendships software continues bringing into my life. With that said, as a Software Engineer in New York, I find myself constantly fighting burnout.
Sometimes I feel like I’m burning the candle at both ends when trying to balance working full time, challenging myself and learning new things, maintaining a social life, going to meetups, working out, family obligations, and getting adequate sleep. Even though Stride proactively tries to prevent employee burnout, keeping my overall happiness regularly in check requires a delicate balance.
As a result, I am becoming more self aware to acknowledge the concept of burnout, recognize the burnout signs in myself, and taking actionable steps to help prevent burning out.
“WHATT!!?!?!?!?! but software is my job and my gram feed be poppin right now.” I know, I get that, and it’s hard for me to put the phone down too. But, maybe it’s time for a digital detox? Studies have shown that disconnecting from technology helps you rest.
teach kids how to code!
if possible, leave by a certain time each day no matter what, e.g. — by 5 p.m.
it helps sometimes to recognize how lucky we are. There are people who are going through severe struggles.
it’s okay to ask for help. Don’t be afraid to reach out to those around you for support.
I hope this helps 💖.
Whenever I am feeling a possible burnout, I am always uplifted by thinking about the many things I can do to empower myself. Getting out there, trying new things, treating myself, etc., helps keep me in check when I find myself teetering on the brim of burnout. I can usually alleviate burnout by planning a vacation, planning enough fun activities for myself, and sometimes by slowing down when I am doing too much.
Do you ever feel like your team is running 1,000 miles per hour in the wrong direction, and you're not sure why? Sometimes, a chat with a peer is all it takes to give you a meaningful perspective to help you course correct, or to give you the courage to continue on your current path.
For friends of Stride, we're offering a free Peer Chat. Tell us what's on your mind, and we'll share our experiences. Don't be shy, we've been there ourselves.

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text: Protective envelopes are used for delivery and transport of small items. These envelopes have the same characteristics as the bubble film. Perfect protection against impact, damage or scratching. An alternative to carton boxes. Laminated paper that protects the envelope from cracks, moisture and looks representative.


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Padadhari facility of PCAPL was established in 2007 to process ground Pet coke.
Petcoke is a by-product of the oil refinery process and is essentially "the bottom of the barrel." As such, its properties vary with the crude oil source and the refining processes used. Pet coke quality is characterized by its heating value, chemical composition (e.g. content of sulfur and trace metal such as vanadium), contaminants, and its physical properties, in particular its hardness, which is graded by the Hardgrove Grindability Index (HGI).
Installed capacity of the Grading Screener was 10000 MT per annum to meet the demand.
Installed capacity of the Grinding Mill is 2000 MT per month to cater the demand.
The facility started its operations by grinding the 0-50 mm sized Petcoke. Soon the company realized that the grinding of 00-06 mm size has no impact on quality. Moreover there was a market for the 15mm+ sized Pet coke.
Hence PCAPL started screening of pet coke to grind the 0-06 mm size and started selling 15mm+ size to the customers.
To utilize 00-06 mm size with an installed capacity of 2000 MT for grinding the screening requires to be done of 4000MT which gives 2000 MT of oversized material.
Thus the capacity of the unit increased from 2000 MT grinding to, 2000 MT grinding and 2000 MT of oversized material totaling 4000 MT per month.
After some time PCAPL captured a huge market of 0-16 mm sized pet coke to cater Surat.

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I was searching for a Property and found this listing (MLS® #R2337359). Please send me more information regarding 2964 Prospect Street, Abbotsford, BC, V2T 4H4. Thank you!
I'd like to request a showing of 2964 Prospect Street, Abbotsford, BC, V2T 4H4 (MLS® #R2337359). Thank you!