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The newest Marvel movie Black Panther was a massive success, with its record breaking debut making over 242 million dollars. Perhaps this was a hit because the movie really had a perfect way to tie in modern day issues into a action packed movie and be phenomenal. Not only was the plot great, but the characters in Black Panther are memorable, likable, and relatable, including the villains.
The movie Black Panther introduces us to the hidden African nation known as Wakanda. Wakanda is an incredibly advanced nation due to their access to the metal Vibranium, which can only be found in Wakanda. Very few “outsiders” know about Wakandas’ true nature and their precious metal, and some of them seek to steal the Vibranium for their own personal gain. It is up to the Black Panther, T’challa, the newly anointed king of Wakanda, to defend his country and is people.
This movie is action packed, its fight scenes escalate very quickly. Some that start out in clubs and end in the center of the city. Or fights that involve life or death. With many more fight scenes that seeing the movie will provide.And even with all this action you are able to see the deeper meaning and the problems we face today. Like oppression and racism, this is what the villain suffers and is trying to solve just not in the best way… You see The America First Movement this is shown because you see how much the world suffers and Wakanda can easily join in and help save lives with the advancements in technology they have. But they don’t because Wakanda comes first.
The characters were perfect. They were all so unique especially since you get to see theses characters go through a lot of emotions other than anger like any other action movie. Anyone who went to see this film would be able to relate to the characters in some way. T’challa, the titular Black Panther, played by the actor Chadwick Boseman, is selfless, understanding, and courageous. Anyone with a younger sibling could relate to his relationship with his sister, Shuri (played by Letitia Wright). Shuri is the brains behind Wakanda; she’s the creator of Black Panther’s vibranium suit and all his gadgets. Even though she’s the brains of the operation, she’s still bubbly, outgoing, and able to mess around: even though he’s king, T’challa is still her older brother, and some things never change. Okoye, played by Danai Gurira, is one of the guardians of Wakanda. Everyone who sees this movie will clearly see she is a strong independent woman who will not let anything or anyone get in her way of doing what’s right. Nakia, played by Lupita Nyong’o, she is T’challa’s ex girlfriend. You see the two of them get closer throughout the movie but more importantly she is not just there to be a love interest. She’s the type of hero who if she gets in a sticky situation she will be able to get out of it herself, and not need to rely on the hero of the movie to save her, unlike Mary Jane, Lois Lane and any other love interest in a action movie. Erik Kilmonger, played by Michael B. Jordan, is the most relatable villain in the Marvel Cinematic Universe so far. Although his goals may seem sickening, his motivations for doing so are understandable, and even noble.
Black Panther is a great action movie. With all the characters being easy to relate to and the plot being meaningful as well as action packed, it is a movie everyone will enjoy.


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Commpaths Two Way Communications has announced that for the third consecutive year, they will be the providers of two way communications for the American Conservative Union's 2018 Conservative Political Action Conference The conference is to be held February 18-21 2018 at the Gaylord National Resort and Convention Center just outside Washington DC.
Commpath's CEO Jack Coupe said,"It is an honor to once again be chosen again to provide our services to the ACU's CPAC Conference"
Commpaths will be utilizing an ICOM IDAS Single Site Trunking System. The use of a trunked system will allow the different branches of convention staff and volunteers to have maximum organization and productivity.
As a full service ICOM Two Way Communications dealer, Commpaths has the resources to design, sell or rent the technology to serve your communication needs.

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Once again it was time for Friday night football, though sadly I'd be on my own as all my regular hopping companions were busy or couldn't be bothered. In any case I don't have anyone based immediately south of me, despite having all other directions covered. I'd been impressed by Moneyfields' ground when I visited back in 2009 on the way to Southampton v Wycombe. It would also give me a chance to have a look around Portsmouth as I'd decided against going the following day when Wycombe would be playing down at Fratton Park. I'd not been enjoying watching my own team lately so despite it being a great away day, I'd be sitting it out and going elsewhere.
MONEYFIELDS FC were formed in 1987 and were initially known as PORTSMOUTH CIVIL SERVICE. They joined the Hampshire League in 1991 and saw immediate success with 2 straight promotions and a series of excellent finishes in it's top tier, even becoming champions in 1997. The following season a runners-up spot was good enough to see them promoted to the Wessex League. They have continued their steady progress, always remaining in the league's top division when it split into 2 leagues in 2004. They achieved their joint ever highest finish of 4th last season, having attained it on a couple of previous occasions. This season had seen them drop a few places, but they were still having a fairly solid season sitting 9th at the start of the game.
The FA Cup 2nd Qualifying Round has been reached on a couple of occasions in the mid 2000's although they may want to forget the second time as they crashed out 8-1 to Team Bath. This season saw their best run in the FA Vase - after beating Corsham, Hallen & Brimscombe & Thrupp they suffered a 4th Round defeat at the hands of Bristol Manor Farm. Local cup honours include the Portsmouth Senior Cup on 3 occasions and the Hampshire Intermediate Cup twice. Last year Moneyfields saw their most famous name ever as former Juventus and Portsmouth striker Vincent Pericard donned the club colours. The club are based in the Portsmouth suburb of Copnor - birthplace of former British Prime Minister James Callaghan who served from 1976-1979.
On the day of the game it was a busy day at work but as I had lots to do I couldn't stay on to help others. First job was to pick up my new camera from the post office which involved a long wait in town at the sorting office. I eventually got home at 1.30 and after having lunch and finishing last night's blog I got ready to leave. I was sticking with my old camera for now as I'd not had a chance to set up and charge the new one. I left at 3 and as expected there were plenty of delays. First the M25 was it's usual self and then the A3 was pretty hopeless around Guildford. I eventually got to the ground at 5.20 after 40 minutes delay. I'd been warned that the parking was bad and I could see why with all the streets packed. However once I got closer to the ground there were plenty of spaces. I parked up and went over the rail bridge for the mile walk into the North end of Portsmouth where the Sir John Baker Wetherspoons was located. There I had a Chicken Jalfrezi and rice with a couple of pints of Joe's Cider for under £9. Despite it being a real cider it was only 4.5% meaning I'd be all clear by the time it came to drive home later.
I walked back to the ground arriving at 6.50. I paid a reasonable £6 for entry and programme. The programme wasn't the glossiest but it had a nice home made feel about it and plenty of stats to look over. I decided to take up my usual spot of standing between the two dugouts for the game which started like a typical end of season game with few chances. Moneyfields took the lead on 20 minutes, converting a penalty low into the bottom right hand corner after a foul in the area. For the rest of the game chances were few and far between despite a committed effort from both sides. Portchester had a free kick in a promising position but it was wasted and with it went any chance of them getting a result. It was getting pretty chilly by now and I was glad to get back to the warmth of my car for the journey home. That didn't get off to the best of starts when I found that the Two Mikes podcast had been taken down so I couldn't continue listening to it. Instead I made do with the radio with Sam FM and Absolute Radio both playing some decent tunes to keep me going. It was a quick journey home with me back at 11PM. I had a drink whilst typing my blog before watching TV in bed.
MONEYFIELDS SPORTS GROUND is a smart venue around 2 miles from the centre of Portsmouth and a little closer than that to Fratton Park, home of the city's football team. There are 2 areas of cover - a seated stand holding around 150 and a covered area in front of the dressing rooms holding around the same. The rest of the ground is open and also includes a shop selling old programmes and a tea bar that sells the usual snacks.
There are a few takeaways over the railway bridge but for a wider choice head to the North End of Portsmouth which has an above average Wetherspoons and a whole load of shops, takeaways and other pubs.

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I’ve said this before… and I will say it again.
Yes, I am a girl and I poop.
I’ve spent the past 15 years of my life on a ninja-like mission to figure out how to make my broken digestive system work better.
I’ve been to multiple doctors. I’ve had cameras shoved up and down places I don’t care to mention – ALL in the name of trying to figure me out.
Therefore, when I unearth a new “thing” that can help regulate my system, I get super excited like a kid on Christmas morning.
1. Sleep Troubles: Your body’s magnesium levels naturally drop at night. Therefore, if you are already low in magnesium, you may have trouble falling asleep and staying asleep. Magnesium plays a vital role in how well your central nervous system functions and helps your body relax. When you are deficient in magnesium, your body has a difficult time calming down.
2. Constipation: Magnesium helps you to relax your bowels, which promotes smooth and frequent bowel movements. It pulls water from your bowels and makes it easier for the number 2 to move through you. When you are low in magnesium, your intestines are prone to contract more, which makes it challenging for waste to move through your body.
3. Irregular Heartbeat: When your magnesium levels are low, it is difficult for your muscles to function efficiently. Considering your heart is a muscle, without enough magnesium, your heart may struggle to contract correctly! This can lead to developing an irregular heartbeat. Learn more about how to protect your heart with magnesium HERE.
4. Anxiety: If you are deficient in magnesium, your central nervous system can send you warning signs in the form of feeling anxious, worried, or unsettled. Taking 200mg of magnesium daily will help your adrenal hormones stay balanced and calm.
5. Muscle Cramps: Magnesium is considered the “relaxation mineral” because of its ability to relax your muscles and body. When you don’t have enough magnesium in your system, it can result in painful muscle spasms and involuntary contractions.
6. Chocolate Cravings: Dark chocolate is an incredible source of magnesium, with at least 24% of your daily requirements in 1 square! If you become obsessed with getting your chocolate fix, it could mean that what you really need is a healthy dose of magnesium!
7. High Blood Pressure: Magnesium is important to dilate and relax your blood vessels. Therefore, when you are lacking this important mineral, your blood vessels are prone to constrict more – leading to higher blood pressure.
Other Possible Signs You Are Not Getting Enough Magnesium: Irritability, autism, ADHD, headaches, sensitivity to loud noises, fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue, asthma, kidney stones, obesity, osteoporosis, irritable bowel syndrome, PMS, trouble swallowing and irritable bladder.
Most absorbable forms: magnesium citrate, glycinate taurate, or aspartate.
AVOID: magnesium carbonate, sulfate, gluconate and oxide. They are poorly absorbed and often the most cheap and common forms.
Diarrhea is a side effect from too much magnesium – take magnesium glycinate to avoid this problem.
Magnesium is a powerful mineral that is necessary for excellent health and vitality!
Start today by taking a magnesium supplement or incorporating one of the magnesium-rich foods mentioned above into your diet.
BUT don’t stop there… SHARE this article now with your network to increase the awareness of this incredibly important mineral!

industry_corpus2: Health & Medicine


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We’re trying to create some more blog “series” these days as we plan a full facelift of EOS, one of which is a High Vs. Low post. I did one recently here, and today decided to create two entryway designs based on a bright, neutral California inspired style. A mix of streamlined classics and textured wovens as well as leather and brass accents. An accent wall of a pretty small scale paper finishes it off.
Love these posts! Reminds me of one of my favorite HGTV shows.–the high low project!
These are great and so helpful. An idea for a future version would be updating a small bathroom using lower-cost materials found at Home Depot. I think you did something similar to this for your basement using materials from Lowe’s. We have a bathroom in our basement that is used primarily for our au pair. Given we are on au pair #6 and the bathroom hasn’t been updated since the 1980s it felt like a good time to give it a facelift and I sourced everything at Home Depot with an idea of making it nice and clean but not going over the top. I was flying blind a bit and bet you would have great ideas for hardware, paint, tile, etc.
Nice to get my mind off the Nordstrom sale for a minute or two. Love a high low post. More than one path to stylish goal.
Future Fridays: How about a post from your staff on what they’d pick at the Nordstrom sale? Or what they’re wish listing for fall? I’d also like one on how you decide what gets to come home with you. We all (mostly) have limited closet space and we need to make smart choices.
Oooo yes, a post about natural rugs would be super helpful.
I would love this post!
YES, Erin! Thanks for this – I love the high/low series!
Love this idea!! I was looking at your site recently for ideas how to update boring things like door knobs, hardware, lights (love lighting posts), sinks and there are so many options. Would love a high/low on this- kind of like how the previous poster said updating things from Home Depot! Thanks for all of your inspiration!
I love the Highvs Low! Keep them coming!! Can’t wait for your new book to come out!!!
I would love if this became a regular series! I honestly never get tired of high/low posts. :) I also really like seeing how you pull an entire space together like this.
I just finished reading your first book, front to back. I really, really enjoyed it and can’t wait to read the next one!
Love this! I want your hand woven rug by Momeni on Wayfair. I would layer it with my existing 3×5 rug. I’m looking at getting the 5×7.6 to layer, but my entryway is only 8.5×6. Is that too much rug coverage for the space????? I feel like the 3×5 isn’t enough and I love the layering look.

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ROME — An Italian prosecutor has asked for a stiffer sentence for a CIA station chief convicted in the 2003 kidnapping of an Egyptian cleric in Milan.
Twenty-three Americans, including Robert Seldon Lady, then a CIA station chief in Milan, and two Italians were convicted in November for the kidnapping. It was the first conviction anywhere in the world involving the CIA's extraordinary renditions program. All Americans were tried in absentia.
During the appeals trial, prosecutor Piero De Petris asked on Thursday that Lady's initial eight year sentence be increased to 10 years in prison.
He also requested the court overrule the previous decision to acquit two other officials: Jeffrey Castelli, the former Rome CIA station chief, and Nicolo Pollari, the former head of the Italian military intelligence.
A bit fishy that, their central bank chief is a Goldman Sachs man and it has been admitted (operation Gladio) that their secret services together with CIA have staged a lot of false flag terror attacks in the past. I can smell whitewash here, concentrate on these few they convicted and miss the big picture?
I assume that any extradition agreement we have with Italy will fail to be honored for one reason or another, of course. It's nice to see them trying though.

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Educating and Empowering Iowa’s Next Generation of Latino Elected Officials.
Come alongside us in the creation of a new reality for Latino politics in Iowa. Latinos make up 6 percent of Iowa’s population, but hold less than 1 percent of electoral seats in the state. The Latino Political Network exists to empower and enable the next generation of Latino officials. It will provide the tools, resources, and connections for us fight above our own weight class.
Latinos hold fewer than 20 of the more than 7000 elective offices in Iowa.
Iowa has never elected a Latino to the state legislature or statewide office.
Only one school district in the entire state of Iowa lacks Latino enrollment.
Who Is The Latino Political Network?
The LPN is made up of impassioned, empowered, and determined Latino officials, former officials, and aspiring Latino officials coming together to change the landscape of Latino political representation.
But it’s not an easy task. For many Latinos the network, skills, and confidence needed for a successful campaign are all lacking. This is where the LPN steps in with mentoring, coaching, and support.
Welcome to the new LPN site!
You are invited to the Latino Political Network's First Annual Latino Voices Together Gala! You won't want to miss this event. Come on May 19 to: -Meet Latino elected officials from all across Iowa at the largest gathering of Latino elected officials in Iowa history. -Be inspired by our keynote speaker, Nebraska State Senator Tony Vargas. -Enjoy food and drink at Lucca, one of Des Moines' most popular restaurants. -Support LPN's work of educating and empowering Iowa's next generation of Latino elected officials and hear our plans for 2018. Tickets start at $20 apiece with sponsorship levels starting at $100 and up. To become a Platinum, Gold, Silver or Bronze level sponsor, please contact LPN at 515-778-2961 or lpniowa@gmail.com. Register now!
A true friend of LPN, Alfonso Medina, will be hosting us at his restaurant El Portal located at 1716 S Center St, Marshalltown, IA. Even if you do not live in the Marshalltown area, please consider joining us on Saturday, April 13th from 9:00 am-12:00 pm as we dive into building a campaign and communicating with voters. LPN is a first-of-its-kind initiative to elect more Latinos across Iowa through non-partisan education and empowerment. The Latino Political Network offers classes focused on all facets of political campaigning and elective service. LPN has connected existing Latino elected officials and Latinos with political aspirations in a way never before seen in Iowa. LPN offers mentoring, coaching, and support as more Latinos make the leap to run for public office. Coffee will be provided by El Portal and breakfast pastries will be available in the morning, followed by light appetizers later in the session. Please spread the word, we want this work to stretch to as many Latinos as possible! *This is a completely FREE training. We don't want money to be a barrier to aspiring Latino public servants. Though LPN’s work is directed at Latinos, anyone is invited to attend.
Find and prepare more Latinos to run for office, leading to greater voter registration and civic involvement.
Increase represented perspectives, generating a broader outlook on Iowa’s future.
Diversify the pool of local elected office holders, inspiring the Latino community to become more politically- and socially-involved.

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We always remember the big moments in our lives. The birthdays, weddings, promotions and other milestones that happen over the course of many years. Once you find someone you will truly love, all you want is to stretch each passing moment longer. You always want to spend more time with that special person. That is what we found with each other, the longing to be together not just with milestones but with the small celebrations as well.
Starbucks Alpap - Leviste wasn't just another coffee shop. I used to spend my weekends alone there reading books, catching up with some work or just simply enjoying the view of the park. When I met my wife I took her there almost every weekend not just for coffee dates, but for sitting down and planning ourlife together. Imagining what it would be like in our wedding, or being parents or where our next adventure would be, talking about the next milestone in our lives. Sitting inside the store, looking at the park across the street was the start of many milestones in our lives.

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Social media and the internet enables terrorist groups to disseminate propaganda, advertise their crimes, incite violence, radicalize and persuade disenfranchised young adults to join their hateful cause.bAs the fight against religious extremism increasingly takes place in cyberspace, what can governments, international organizations, civil society groups and individual citizens do to counter online extremism?
The Digital Mass Atrocity Prevention Lab (DMAP Lab) is a policy hub working to hate speech, combat genocidal ideologies online and work as a counter force against extremists and their ideas.
With the support of Global Affairs Canada, this project aims at better understanding the intersection between artificial intelligence and human rights with a special focus on the topic of online hate. The project will facilitate dialogue between human rights experts and those working in the field of AI in order to increase knowledge sharing on how networked hate can be countered effectively.
In March 2018, MIGS and Tech Against Terrorism will hold a workshop on AI and human rights, and launch the Data Science Network. The network will serve as a collaborative space for start-ups, big tech, academia and researchers, with the aim of utilising methods such as artificial intelligence (AI) and machine-learning to build tools to prevent terrorist abuse of tech.
Tech Against Terrorism is a UN-mandated organisation helping tech companies confront terrorist exploitation of their services. The organisation has engaged with over 150 global companies, and work with Facebook, Google, Twitter and Microsoft in the Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism. In 2017, Tech Against Terrorism launched the Knowledge Sharing Platform, a database helping companies protect their services from terrorist exploitation, at the United Nations headquarters.

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China’s move to create the world’s largest carbon market is yet another powerful sign that a global sustainability revolution is underway. With the top global polluter enacting policies to support the Paris Agreement and transition to a low carbon economy, it is clear that we’re at a tipping point in the climate crisis. Economic opportunities will flow to those countries who establish leadership in the markets of the future. American states, cities, businesses, investors, and citizens understand this opportunity. Leaders everywhere must choose to either act to solve the climate crisis, or watch their nations fall behind.
China is set to introduce its equivalent of U.S. EPA’s Clean Power Plan next week, even as the Trump administration prepares to discard its electricity rule for the carbon sector.
China will debut an emissions trading system as soon as today that will begin by covering coal- and natural-gas-based power production. The program will eventually expand to a variety of manufacturing and industrial sectors.
“It is important to bear in mind that the first phase will be embryonic,” said Li Shuo, senior global policy adviser for Greenpeace East Asia, who has been briefed on some details of the coming plan. He stressed those could change before the launch.
The plan initially will include 11 different emissions baselines for power plants based on whether they run on coal or gas, their size, and other details, Li said.
“This means gas plants would be competing with other gas plants with similar scale,” he said, adding that the trading component of the program would initially be limited. It’s unclear what the starting price for emissions allowances will be.
It’s a slower start than the Chinese government initially promised, but environmentalists say that’s prudent. The world’s second-largest economy and largest global emitter of greenhouse gases has limited monitoring and verification capabilities.
“It is precisely the lack of transparency that has worried investors in other Chinese markets, and carbon markets are known for being notoriously tricky,” said Paul Bledsoe, a former Clinton White House climate adviser. China must also build the legal infrastructure that will allow it to hold companies accountable for noncompliance.
So greens say it makes sense for China to focus first on the power sector, which is its largest single source of emissions, before expanding.
China unveiled its plan for a national carbon market, creating the world’s biggest trading system for the climate-warming emissions.
The market will initially involve only the power sector, National Development and Reform Commission Vice Chairman Zhang Yong said Tuesday at a briefing in Beijing. While that’s a pullback from a previous plan to include eight industries, China’s market will still be bigger than the European Union’s system, encompassing 1,700 companies and about 3 billion metric tons of emissions. Zhang didn’t give details on when trading will start.
The world’s biggest carbon emitter wants to use a market-based system to help it cap emissions by about 2030. The nation is also making big bets on clean-energy projects to help reach its goal of deriving 20 percent of its energy from sources other than fossil fuels by that year.
China’s system will adopt a cap-and-trade rule in which the biggest corporate polluters purchase credits from those that don’t emit as much, and companies are encouraged to reduce their emissions so they can sell unused allocations. Companies that emit more than 26,000 tons of carbon annually will be included in the market, though that threshold might be lowered at some point, according to the NDRC.
The nation is pressing ahead with a trading plan as similar strategies in the European Union and elsewhere have struggled. The EU was the first to require carbon permits, in 2005, only to see the price plunge in part because participating nations handed out too many allowances for free.
The carbon market is expected to be fully functional by 2020, according to almost half of 260 industry participants in a survey conducted by China Carbon Forum, ICF International Inc. and SinoCarbon Innovation & Investment Co. between March and July. Forty-four percent anticipate that will happen between 2021 and 2025.
I expect renewables will continue to take up a larger share of the power market. Really nothing surprising there. Drilling is getting more expensive in general, and solar PV cheaper.
But you’re missing the point! ANY increase in energy availability allows and stimulates the Human Imperative: economic civilization GROWTH, and every dollar of GDP spent globally requires new permanent energy consumption to support the additional civilization created and also to support the past creations. It’s a carrot dangled on a stick in front of a donkey by a banker on the back of that donkey. We’ve been increasing energy efficiency since the invention of the wheel 100,000 years ago. The U.S. has increased the efficiency with which we can generate a dollar of GDP by more than a factor of 2 over the past 50 years. Every watt of continuous energy consumption needed to produce a dollar of GDP in 1970, now needs to be only 0.40 watts, and it’s been a very smooth continuous change in efficiency in a positive direction. Similar world wide. Has it generated the “tipping point” to a great global sustainable future? NO! We take those savings and we SPEND them, requiring new energy, and most remains carbon energy, and will for some time into the future.
We’d need to decarbonize at rates far beyond anything we’ve yet done even to hope for stable CO2 levels in the atmosphere, at far higher levels than today, by century’s end. Every 2 tons of CO2 emitted leaves a ton of CO2 in the atmosphere – permanently. There are no thermodynamically supported scenarios which are reasonable and which stabilze atmospheric CO2 levels this century, except with crippling loss of civilization growth, and that’s 10x more true when you include the permafrost carbon and 2.3% of that being methane, from the papers of the past 4 years.
We need to NOT encourage complacency that some smarties in a lab are going to solve our problems (even assuming they’re not “terminated” by the Trumpsters). It’s just giving another credit card to an irresponsible teenager who’s already got a pack of bill collectors on their trail from the first card they maxed out.

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Water flow change in 2040-2060 relative to 1901-1970. Source: US Climate Change Science Program, p. 138. (following this report the program was renamed the US Global Change Research Program).
But precipitation is only part of the picture. Population and other trends will also affect water withdrawals. In the 2014 National Climate Assessment report, the US Global Change Research Program compared expected withdrawals with and without climate change. As shown below, they found that without climate change, withdrawals would increase in roughly half of the US, with particularly large increases in Arizona, Florida, Maine, and east of the Cascade Mountains. With climate change, they estimate substantial increases in withdrawals in most regions except for around the Great Lakes.
Projected changes in water withdrawals from 2005 to 2060 assuming (a) change in population and socioeconomic conditions based on preferred emissions scenario, but with no change in climate, and (b) combined changes in population, socioeconomic conditions, and climate according to the same emissions scenario (gradual reductions from current emission trends beginning around mid-century). Source: US Global Change Research Program, Water Resources chapter, p. 85.
What does all this mean for the energy-water nexus? This question can be divided into several issues, largely drawing from the US Global Change Research Program 2014 report referenced above.
First, energy use for water extraction and treatment is likely to increase. For example, with water scarcer in some regions, energy use for water pumping is likely to increase, particularly for groundwater in areas with declining water tables such as California’s Central Valley and the Ogallala Aquifer in the Great Plains. Additional energy will also likely be needed to improve drinking water quality in areas like Florida where water supplies could become saltier. And in areas with large water deficits, there may be a need for energy-intensive water reuse and even desalinization plants. We have not seen any good estimates of how much energy use may increase as a result of these multiple factors.
Second, demand for water might increase for some end-uses such as irrigation and water-cooled air-conditioning and refrigeration equipment. Warmer and dryer weather would increase use of irrigation and cooling, but how much of this increased need is served with more water, versus avoided with improved water management practices is an open question. For example, a 2015 review by USDA of multiple studies found a median estimate of modest increases in irrigated acreage through 2060 (increasing water use in the medium-term), but then significant declines in the 2060-2080 period (decreasing water use in the long-term due to shifts in cropping patterns). In addition, water demand for energy production (power plant cooling and fracking) could increase, but in regions with tight water supplies this increased demand could perhaps be offset by major efforts to improve the efficiency of water use, or to avoid power production or fracking entirely.
Third, changes in water availability in some regions could affect energy production. For example, an assessment by DOE of the effect of climate change on power produced by federal hydro facilities found increases in some regions, decreases in other regions, and often a shift towards more production in winter and less in summer, requiring changes in seasonal power management practices.
For fossil fuel and nuclear power plants, lack of cooling water or cooling water that is too warm could prevent operation of a few power plants during dry and hot periods, problems that have at times already affected power production in the southeast and other regions (see here and here). A study by European and American researchers estimated that thermoelectric power generating capacity in the US will decrease by between 4–16% between 2031 to 2060, and 6–19% in Europe due to lack of cooling water. Limited water availability could also affect oil and gas production in some regions.
Fourth, excessive water, due to floods and/or higher tides, will affect some coastal energy and water facilities. The problem may affect many wastewater treatment facilities located on flood plains that serve areas like Seattle, New York City, and parts of Massachusetts. Flooding could also affect the electric distribution system, as happened in New York State and New Jersey during Superstorm Sandy, causing power outages and expensive system repairs. Similar problems could happen elsewhere.

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Since starting keto I have backed off sweets, but sometimes I just need a little something to indulge in. Keto Pumpkin Cheesecake Mousse has been the perfect cure for my sweet tooth.
Keto Cheesecake Mousse – also called Keto Fluff – combines delicious fats with a seasonal favorite pumpkin and pumpkin spice for a dessert that is decadent but still fits into the low carb category.
There are two kinds of people in the world, those who love pumpkin/pumpkin spice and those who hate it, there is really no middle of the road on this hot-button issue. Which side do you stand on?
I am firmly in the camp that believes there is no such thing as too much pumpkin spice in the world so I am always looking for ways to sneak it in, even into my keto lifestyle. Pumpkin cheesecake is ALWAYS a yes.
Place all of the ingredients in the bowl of a hand or stand mixer and whip on high until smooth and creamy, I like to mix it at least 4-5 minutes to get a smooth and well-combined flavor.
Scoop into individual bowls ( I consider this 2 servings, for me).Place in the refrigerator to chill and set up for 2 hours.
As with all keto recipes, I suggest you scan your own ingredients to make absolute sure the macros are correct. Different brands vary greatly.
I divide this recipe into 4 small servings. It is REALLY rich – so you only need a couple bites to really curb your sweet tooth and feel satisfied.
Change up the flavor to suit your taste by using almond, coffee, hazelnut, or walnut extract in place of the vanilla.


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"Schlumberger offers a self-career progression pace with a lot of opportunities."
What is it like working for Schlumberger?
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It can be considered as the worst of the whole USSR branch by the players with lower skill, but it is actually much better than its predecessor SU-26 due to its 3rd weapon upgrades, the 152mm mortar NM mod. 1931. Including the highest firing rate amongst the tier 4 artillery weapons, higher splash range, more damage and moreover the higher penetration value. However, the 152mm mortar has one significant disadvantage; low ammo count. Stock, it starts with the underpowered 76mm Howitzer. Prior to 8.6, you could have spent the effort to get the 122mm howitzer with the SU-26 and thus, can start with that. Considering that the 122mm was removed from the SU-26, however, this would perhaps make the grind somewhat more difficult. Some players even prefer the 122mm howitzer to the 152mm mortar, because of its higher ammo count, and also it's increased rate of fire.
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A woman was so depressed in her Christian walk that she finally approached her pastor, saying, "Pastor, I've decided I want to quit Christianity altogether. Please remove my name from membership." The Pastor was shocked. But he slowly took out a piece of paper, scribbled some words, and said to her, "I'm sorry to hear that, but if you could just sign your name here, you can leave this church immediately."
When she opened the piece of paper, she read the words, "I hereby confess that I no longer love Jesus Christ." Tears rolled down her cheeks because she could not sign it. No matter how discouraged and beaten-down she was, she knew deep down that she loved Jesus.
The true follower of Jesus Christ loves God. You may ask, "How can this be possible? How can anyone love God? Didn't Paul say in Romans 8:7 that our carnal mind is enmity against God? Doesn't Isaiah 53:6 say that we are all like sheep gone astray, that we have gone, everyone, to his own way? How can we reconcile with Romans 3:11 that says that there is none who seeks after God?"
So can we really love God? The answer is simple: Those who love God are those who are given a new heart. In Bible terms, they are born again. They are a new creation in Christ. Salvation is not just about a new status before God. Salvation is having a new heart for God! This transformation is the gift of God through the work of the Holy Spirit. The believer now not only has a new heart that loves God but is also able to appreciate God's love in the gospel. This love proves genuine as the believer grows in love and adoration for God- "we love Him because He first loved us" (1 John 4:19). Oh, how I love Jesus! It is all His work. It is all His glory.


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The QCT committees carry out specific functions for the QCT. Committee members include board members and other members of the profession. Each committee is chaired by a member of the board.
the Suitability to Teach Committee determines the suitability to teach of applicants who have ‘suitability’ matters outside the delegated authority of the QCT office to determine.
The QCT committee charter (PDF, 100KB) outlines committee procedures and guidelines.
The board can also establish working parties or advisory groups for specific projects.


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Dozens of fancy point-and-click task managers promise to organize your to-do list, but so often power users find that nothing outdoes that trusty old classic: the todo.txt file. If you're a command line lover who skips checkboxes and drop-downs to dash off notes and tasks in a regular old text file, or you're intrigued by the idea and wish your todo.txt chops were stronger, read on.
I've been a heavy todo.txt user for years. Back in 2006, I started developing a command line interface (CLI) to my todo.txt which lets me add to and check off items without launching a full-on text editor. Three years of daily (or at least weekly) use later, version 2.0 of the script is now available. It offers basic to advanced commands for managing your todo.txt and other text files you might use to capture information, like ideas.txt or maybelater.txt. Let's take a look.
Who This Is Meant For: If you're comfortable working in the terminal, changing permissions on a file, and working with Unix-style text commands, then the todo.txt CLI is for you. If you don't spend a good amount of time at the command line—either in the Terminal on your Mac, or using a Unix command line or emulator on Windows—you're going to think this whole thing is arcane and confusing.
You've already got CLI religion? Good. Let's get started on some hot todo.txt command line action.
Download the Todo.txt CLI 2.0 zip file and extract it. You'll get two files. Place both todo.cfg (the configuration file) and todo.sh in your home directory.
Now you're ready to put this script to work!
Before we start, keep in mind that this CLI isn't trying to reinvent the text editor. If you want to do big bulk edits to a lot of items in your todo.txt, just open it up in your favourite text editor to do so. But for quick, one-hit access to add items, mark items as complete, or slice and dice your list by project or priority, todo.sh is for you.
$us t add "Pick up milk"
$us t add "Pick up the dry cleaning"
$us t add "Clean out the inbox"
TODO: 3 tasks in C:/Documents and Settings/gina/My Documents/todo.txt.
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Once you've got the basics of working with your todo.txt down, it's time to dive into more advanced tricks. Here are a few more things this CLI can do.
$us t append 2 "ready at 3PM"
See all the contexts and projects in your list. If you're using the + and @ sign format to signify projects and contexts, use the listcon and listproj (or lsc and lsprj for short) commands to see a short list of all your contexts or projects in your todo.txt.
$us t addto ideas.txt "My bright idea"
See all the options available to you using the todo.sh -h command. The full usage manual is available here.
The todo.txt CLI has lived over at its official homepage, Todotxt.com, for years now, and although I haven't posted an update there since 2006, an active mailing list of over 500 members is still going strong. Since this project is open source, happily several other todo.txt projects have sprung up over the years, including Task, which offers even more features than my little script does.
If you're a programmer who wants to add to this script or a user with questions or ideas about the todo.txt CLI, either post them here or consider joining the mailing list for support. For a full history of t his script's development—including its three-year hiatus—see its full changelog.
Think using a command line interface to a text file is insane or fantastic (or both)? Tried out todo.txt? Tell us what you think in the comments.
Gina Trapani, Lifehacker's founding editor, is still married to her todo.txt file even after a sordid affair with Remember the Milk. Her feature Smarterware appears every Wednesday on Lifehacker.
the download file is broken, Gina. Could you please fix it?


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Of the many herbs I grow, the early spring vanguard are now sprouting enough greenery to be regularly harvested: chives, mint, parsley, sage and, that most underrated and underused of herbs, lovage. Vigorously unsheathing big flat leaves from erect, hollow, silky-smooth stalks, lovage is a low-maintenance hardy perennial with multiple culinary and medicinal uses. Yet it’s hard to find in garden centres or plant nurseries and packets of the cut herb in supermarkets are rarer than…than…than…I know…than a book in Tremorfa.
Why this should be is partly explained by the plant’s name. Levisticum officinale is a native of Liguria in southern Europe, now part of Italy. The Romans originally called it ligusticum after the province before a late Latin bastardisation turned the word into levisticum. Then the plant was brought to the British Isles by the various monastic orders that were the religious troops of the Norman conquest and its name in French, levesche, was corrupted again to lovage to fit the phonology of early English. After a few centuries of being called lovage it was generally assumed among the ignorant and illiterate Anglo-Saxons that this meant it had some connection to ‘love’ and was therefore an aphrodisiac. The idea became embedded and was endorsed by the apothecary Nicholas Culpeper (1616-1654) in his famous Herbal of 1653. For exactly the same reason that men queued around the block outside drug stores when Viagra first became available in the US (ie: truth be told, when push comes to shove most blokes can’t get it up), lovage had a period of wild popularity. But the flaccid-cocked yeomen of Olde England were in for a disappointment (the only thing lovage will slightly raise is blood pressure, due to its aquaretic properties). By the 19th century lovage had been rumbled; its use as a libido-boost was written off as an old wives’ tale and it disappeared from cottage gardens.
The other reason for lovage’s decline in popularity was its taste. The crude, infantile Brit palate, accustomed to stodge, burnt flesh and, increasingly, mass-produced cheap fodder, struggled with the entirely distinctive, adult and very strong lovage flavour; a unique amalgam of celery, aniseed and pepper plus an indescribable lovage-ness replicated by no other plant simply because it is the solitary species in the levisticum genus. Of course, debased Brit culture was wrong as usual: lovage is actually absolutely delicious, and all parts are edible. Young leaves and stalks can be used in salads and soups, older stems can be candied for cakes and biscuits, the seeds can be used in curries and breads and the roots can be added to stews and mashes. The default culinary use is undoubtedly in soups – time, methinks, for one of my (cough) ever-popular recipes.
Incidentally, until very recently lovage was one of the few herbs for which there was no word in Welsh*. This is because Wales was up to its neck trying to repel the Anglo-Norman invaders by the time lovage first appeared here in the 14th century. Civil society, common law, communication, education and collective purpose were all in chaos, making coining words for new plants a luxury the country could not afford. This particular oversight was rectified in 2003 by Cymdeithas Edward Llwyd (the Welsh Naturalists Society), in co-operation with the Centre for the Standardization of Welsh Terminology at Bangor University, which has the job of producing new Welsh words in response to changing technologies and scientific discoveries. And so…lovage in Welsh is llwfach.
*NOTE (2018) Jennifer Cairns has emailed with the information that she has discovered a Welsh word for lovage: Persli y Meirch (horses’ parsley). She found it in an 1890 book titled Y Llysieu Lyfr Teuluaidd (The Domestic Book of Herbs), written by R Price of Cwmllynfell and E Griffiths of Swansea.
Well now, I had this mental image of bordars, cottars and divers other villeins trudging home after a hard day’s forage, tillage and pannage to a well earned pottage of cabbage with borage and, yes, lovage. All solid English fare. And now you’re saying it’s some posh foreign word like sausage, farage or garage. Poor show.
And talking of shows, one of the best free shows in Cardiff, bluebells are out now on the Wenallt. Hats off to Alderman Hill-Snook. Make the most of them before the present Council sells it to the developers.

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Wow, talk about saying nothing. Yahoo’s official public response to MS is a blunt “we’ll consider it”. Given that the offer was so high above Yahoo’s share price, especially after the earnings call meltdown on Tuesday, I’d hate to face shareholders after rejecting this offer which would likely send the stock down. I just can’t see Yahoo refusing this in light of lackluster performance over the past few years and a questionable future.
The word in tech land seems to be that Jerry Yang really does not want to sell to Microsoft. Understandably Yang probably wants more time at the helm to try to turn Yahoo around the good old fashioned way: Hard work. But I don’t think he’ll win this one. C’mon Jerry – your net worth just went up what, a billion dollars on the Microsoft offer? That’s got to be good for something.
Dis Closure: I got the Yahoo Stox. I wants them to go up.
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Jeremy as long as you are not going to jump ship, I’m staying long on Yahoo….
The biggest problem with this one is the anti-trust implications; I just have difficulty seeing the Feds green-lighting this given MSFTs position in the marketplace.
…not to rain on your parade, Joe.
Paul I think Google could not aquire Yahoo for that reason, but even Microsoft+Yahoo won’t be close to Google in terms of online revenues, so I think MS will argue the merger will create online competition where there is little right now. MS is big in IT but losing tons of money online.
Geez, i bet you also don’t want to this logo to be posted soon. Microsoft+Yahoo. They just don’t fit together.


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During tonight's (Monday) meeting, the council will hold a public hearing on a request to rezone the property at the corner of 17th Avenue and 7th Street South to a Planned Unit Development.
The old elementary school has most recently been used by the Good News Assembly of God Church.
Cohen Esrey Affordable Partners is requesting the zoning change to turn the building into a 29-unit senior housing complex, including remodeling the existing building into 17 units, and building three four-unit buildings on the existing parking lot. All of the units would be for people 55-years-old and older.
Lead Pastor at Good News Assembly of God Church Randy Adams says, if the rezoning is allowed to go through, and they are able to sell their building, the church would look for land and are hoping to build a new church. He says the sale probably wouldn't go through at least until August.
Last May the council ruled against the rezoning request because the plan at that time lacked specific details. Neighborhood residents at that time opposed the plan.


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1.What is the use of BusinessObjects Data Services?
3.What are the steps included in Data integration process?
- Stage data in an operational datastore, data warehouse, or data mart.
- Update staged data in batch or real-time modes.
- Create a single environment for developing, testing, and deploying the entire data integration platform.
- Manage a single metadata repository to capture the relationships between different extraction and access methods and provide integrated lineage and impact analysis.
4. Define the terms Job, Workflow, and Dataflow?
- A job is the smallest unit of work that you can schedule independently for execution.
- A work flow defines the decision-making process for executing data flows.
- Data flows extract, transform, and load data. Everything having to do with data, including reading sources, transforming data, and loading targets, occurs inside a data flow.
5. Arrange these objects in order by their hierarchy: Dataflow, Job, Project, and Workflow?
- Database Datastores: provide a simple way to import metadata directly from an RDBMS.
- Application Datastores: let users easily import metadata from most Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems.
- Adapter Datastores: can provide access to an application’s data and metadata or just metadata.
- Delimited format — Characters such as commas or tabs separate each field.
- Fixed width format — The column width is specified by the user.
- SAP ERP and R/3 format.
17. What is repository? List the types of repositories?
- When the variable will need to be used multiple times within a job.
- When you want to reduce the development time required for passing values between job components.
- When you need to create a dependency between job level global variable name and job components.
25. List the three types of input formats accepted by the Address Cleanse transform?
26. Name the transform that you would use to combine incoming data sets to produce a single output data set with the same schema as the input data sets?
28. List the data integrator transforms?
29. List the Data Quality Transforms?
33. Give some examples of how data can be enhanced through the data cleanse transform, and describe the benefit of those enhancements?
34. A project requires the parsing of names into given and family, validating address information, and finding duplicates across several systems. Name the transforms needed and the task they will perform?
- Data Cleanse: Parse names into given and family.
- Address Cleanse: Validate address information.
35. Describe when to use the USA Regulatory and Global Address Cleanse transforms?
36. Give two examples of how the Data Cleanse transform can enhance (append) data?
38. What are the different strategies you can use to avoid duplicate rows of data when re-loading a job?
- Using the auto-correct load option in the target table.
- Including the Table Comparison transform in the data flow.
- Designing the data flow to completely replace the target table during each execution.
- Including a preload SQL statement to execute before the table loads.
41. What is the use of Case Transform?
42. What must you define in order to audit a data flow?


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Paradox Interactive and Colossal Order’s Cities: Skylines is still going really strong over 3 years after launch receiving new expansions every few months, selling over 5 million copies on PC alone and hitting every current-gen console. Today, the aforementioned developer and publisher duo unveiled the last expansion, Cities: Skylines – Industries, which will actually be releasing later this month.
Cities: Skylines – Industries will be hitting PC, Mac, and Linux on October 23, and is described as “one of the most in-depth expansions in Cities: Skylines history.” As the expansion’s title suggests, Industries thoroughly deepens how industry works within Cities: Skylines. The expansion will let players not only build tons of new industrial buildings but will also let them control the supply chain and level it up in order to become more efficient.
As with most expansions, Cities: Skylines – Industries will also come alongside a free update on October 23. This update will include the Synthetic Dawn Radio Station, which features 16 new songs, as well as introduce toll booths, custom name lists, and historical building zoning to the game.
You can watch the announcement trailer for the Industries expansion, which launches on October 23, below. Cities: Skylines is currently available for PC, Mac, Linux, PS4, Xbox One, and Nintendo Switch, and can be picked up right now on Humble Bundle.


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Weekly Sales Funnel – What You NEED To Know!
When you need to increase conversions and boost sales, You require a tool like ClickFunnels. This is a tool that will assist entrepreneurs increase conversions and scale their organisations. No matter what marketing task you’re trying to achieve, this tool will be the ideal service to assisting you grow faster and acquire more consumers with the Weekly Sales Funnel.
There are lots of elements of marketing that this tool will assist you with. If you are looking to build your email list, then this is the ideal tool to assist you. You will have the ability to increase conversions and open rates when you are sending your emails. The two will likewise assist you with paid material. You will have the ability to host paid content and have a tool that instantly handles memberships and more. You will even have the ability to host webinars and Bill funnels to make sure that it succeeds.
ClickFunnels Is the ideal tool for developing a fantastic marketing Weekly Sales Funnel that helps you increase conversions and grows business. With an excellent funnel, you will have the ability to enhance the sales process and drive conversions that assist you make more money.
You will be able to sell more items and generate more leads when you have an excellent funnel that is well enhanced. This is where ClickFunnels is available in. This is a terrific tool that has an easy drag-and-drop user interface and will assist you grow your business to new heights.
Using this tool is extremely simple due to the fact that everything is scheduled. All you need to do is click, and it will do all the work for you. With Weekly Sales Funnel, you will have the ability to dominate your market or specific niche.
This tool gives you whatever you need to market, sell, and deliver items online. You also get the pleasure of having one-click upsells and likewise Facebook marketing automation.
You will not even need to hire any developers because whatever is Drag and Drop. You are going to do marketing tasks much faster. You will not even have to work with expensive designers since the page editor allows you to produce a lovely looking webpage with no style experience.
Not just will this to save you a great deal of time but it will conserve you a lot of loan and increase the performance and impact of your Weekly Sales Funnel.


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People who cannot afford to pay their car loans are usually unable to stop car repossession ? add this to other debts and the financial situation can become very bleak. Some people begin exploring their bankruptcy options in hopes that this will help them erase the debt associated with vehicle repossession.
When they take a car loan or lease, people sign an agreement. This written document typically contains a provision for the creditor to retain the title to the vehicle and take the car back if the borrower defaults on the agreement. Repossession is the most common method used to take cars back and the creditor can come onto the property and take the car without filing a lawsuit or even providing advance notice. With the vehicle in possession, the creditor may decide to keep or sell it through a private sale or public auction. If the car sells for less than the balance of ?its secured loan or lease, the creditor may sue the loan-holder for the difference, which is called a deficiency. To avoid a deficiency balance, the borrower may request a contract reinstatement prior to repossession and sell the vehicle him or herself for a higher price.
Even if reinstatement is used, a deficiency balance may still exist and many states do not prohibit collection of small balances. When this debt is unaffordable, last-resort options like bankruptcy should be explored ? different types of bankruptcy work differently regarding car loans. Chapter 7 bankruptcy is designed to wipe out debts including a car loan balance that remains after the vehicle is repossessed, whereas Chapter 13 bankruptcy will protect an individual from collection of a deficiency balance and includes car loan arrears in a three to five-year repayment plan, giving the borrower more time to repay this money. Regardless of which?bankruptcy is filed, current loan payments should be paid as they come due.
Within approximately four to six months of filing a Chapter 7 petition, the debtor should receive a discharge. At this point, the individual is no longer required to pay any of the discharged debts. Chapter 13 is a debt repayment bankruptcy that is not discharged until three to five years after the repayment plan started. However, you may be able to save your car by reducing your car loan.
During bankruptcy, an automatic stay is issued that halts collection efforts and deficiency judgment lawsuits by creditors. It will even temporarily stop wage garnishments or bank attachments arising from deficiency judgments. Once the bankruptcy is discharged, the debtor will be freed from many debts including a deficiency balance from car repossession.
Filing for bankruptcy is also one way to get a car back after it has been repossessed, but time is of the essence and the individual should file for bankruptcy before the lender has sold the car. Once the bankruptcy is filed, an automatic stay feature requires the lender to get court permission to sell the car, which allows the borrower to gather the money needed to get the vehicle back or to get current with payments through a formal repayment plan.
A bankruptcy attorney assists car owners with the Chapter 7 and Chapter 13 filing processes and knows how to stop car repossession before the process begins. The easiest way to avoid repossession is to contact the lender as soon as it becomes difficult to make loan payments. The lender may offer to temporarily reduce the loan interest rate or installment payment amount so it will be easier to catch up on payments.
A reaffirmation agreement is an option for those who file Chapter 7 bankruptcy ? ?allowing them to keep their cars while remaining liable for the debt outside of the bankruptcy. An individual who signs a reaffirmation agreement and subsequently has the Chapter 7 bankruptcy discharged remains bound by the agreement. This means that the individual must continue making car loan payments even though other debts have been discharged through the bankruptcy. A bankruptcy lawyer can help a Chapter 7 bankruptcy filer prove that the car is a necessary expense and that loan payments will not be undue hardships.
Many people wait until debt has passed the point of no return before they take action. If you were unable to save your car and it was repossessed, there is now an additional credit blemish along with a hefty debt. Fortunately, there may be a way to get rid of this debt through bankruptcy but this will require hard work and diligence. When your vehicle is repossessed, the lien holder probably isn?t done messing with you. They are still going to want the remaining balance owed that is the difference between what you owed and what they sell it for. In many cases, they will file a civil lawsuit for collection of this debt against you. Speaking to a bankruptcy expert for a free bankruptcy consultation will show you that you can erase debt from repossession.
It is not always wise to try to get a car back after it has been repossessed. If the loan is significantly higher than the value of the vehicle and payments may not be affordable, consulting a bankruptcy attorney to discuss all the alternatives is the best approach. If the smartest decision is to let the car be repossessed, the associated debt will be discharged through Chapter 7 or Chapter 13 bankruptcy.
However, purchasing another car after Chapter 7 or Chapter 13 bankruptcy is possible, but the interest rate for a car loan may be higher than average and the lender may request a larger down payment and proof of income. From the perspective of the lender, an individual who recently emerged from bankruptcy is less of a credit risk than a person who could file for bankruptcy in the near future. This is because they have already filed bankruptcy and have erased their debt, so now they have money to spend.
Moving forward, a bankruptcy lawyer can help a car owner deal with the fallout of vehicle repossession. An attorney can help the individual file for Chapter 13 bankruptcy to repay the debt and file a motion for turnover ordering the lender to return the car. If the individual files for Chapter 7 and the car is repossessed, any balance remaining after the car is sold will be discharged through bankruptcy. It is possible to erase repossession debt with bankruptcy, but only an experienced bankruptcy lawyer can give you the specifics on your personal situation.

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text: TechGig has been conducting a series of webinars on Project Management for the past couple of months. The series, titled “Project Management Leadership Series”, is sponsored by the Project Management Institute (PMI) and provides a platform to industry experts in the field of project management to talk about and share their knowledge and experience on the various aspects of project management with the tech community. It enables the techies to participate in and gain from these live webinars and get their queries answered by the expert presenters. Seven webinars have been conducted in this series so far and have been received by an enthusiastic audience.

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VfW Post 2894 invites one and all to our annual Bataan Death March Memorial Walk/Run.
Participants can walk 16.6 miles, 5 miles or 1 mile along Chesapeake’s historic Dismal Swamp Canal Trail. The 16.6-mile (long) walk begins at 7 am, the 5-mile walk begins at 10 am and the family 1-mile walk starts at 11 am.
This year’s event will also feature family and child-friendly activities like face-painting, dunk-tank, a crafts table sponsored by Home Depot, a photo-booth with props and more, including a raffle for numerous great prizes.


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Wouldn’t it be nice to hire an assistant you didn’t have to pay?
Yes, it would be. Well, with a virtual personal assistant app, you’re making one big step toward that goal.
Virtual Reality is taking the world by storm nowadays with things like Oculus Rift. Personal assistants are part of this movement. A personal assistant is an app that does what you want to do while you can’t do it.
In other words, it acts as a third hand to help you work on several fronts at the same time.
Personal assistants are changing the way that offices around the world are being run. Every year, important updates are coming to companies through virtual personal assistants.
You want to focus on the important things in your workday. The ideas and execution of plans are the most vital aspects of your day-to-day, no matter what that is.
No matter what you do, though, you’re going to spend a long time scheduling. For things like meetings, presentations and interviews, you need to schedule ahead of time.
That can take away from the very activities you’re planning! With personal assistants, you can worry a little bit less about scheduling.
New technologies to help your personal assistant are making planning events a much easier process.
And, since people are working longer hours than ever before, you might like having a few extra hours back every week.
That will let you focus on the stuff you really care about.
Scratch that–the people you care about.
A good business or project needs to first tend to its clients. If a person interacting with a company has a good experience, they’re more likely to come back.
A personal assistant can do wonders for the customer service centers of any business.
Often, the most frustrating experiences customers have is fixing an issue. Who hasn’t heard a story about someone trying to cancel a subscription, or fix a pipe only to be stopped by a lousy customer service rep?
Sometimes, just sometimes, it might be the customer’s fault. But you can’t say that.
Why not avoid the interaction altogether?
It’s better to use personal assistants to automate the problem fixing process. New technology allows you to send the customer around the human conversation.
That makes it easier for them and you.
Maybe the most important way that a personal assistant can improve the workday is through improving security.
Nowadays, with all the threats out there, maintaining cyber security is more vital than ever before.
Virtual personal assistants allow you to control the many different security procedures you need to take–changing settings, etc–all at once.
That’ll make your life easier, because you won’t always be thinking about the safety of your assets.
And that safety will be better than you could pull off by yourself.
Feel free to reach out to learn more about your future with personal assistants, as well as meet Sally, our own meeting scheduling virtual assistant.


text: The Ecuadent Foundation, working with the Navy of Ecuador and Hospital San Vicente de Paúl, completed a Dental mission in the city of Pasaje (Province El Oro), Ecuador. A total of 837 patients were treated during the 5 clinical days of the mission. This was the first dental mission that Ecuadent conducted in Pasaje. The need for our services was great and our 19 volunteers worked long and hard to ensure that all the children triaged received the emergent dental care they required.


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STAMFORD -- A city transgender person was arrested early Wednesday morning after police say she sexually assaulted a teenage boy at Stamford Town Center in April.
Isaiah Johnson, 20, of 202 Ursula Place, was charged with second-degree sexual assault and is being held in lieu of $25,000 bond.
Youth Bureau Sgt. Dedrich Hohn said Johnson, who is known to patrol officers in the South End, was picked up at 2 a.m. Wednesday on Atlantic Street near Veterans Park, where she met with the youth before the April 26 incident. Hohn said the patrol division was alerted to Johnson's arrest warrant Monday night. The victim is a student with special needs, Hohn said.
Hohn said after meeting the youth just after 7 p.m. at Veterans Park on that April night, Johnson allegedly lured him into a men's room at Stamford Town Center.
The assault occurred in the men's room, Hohn said. Police secured videotape of the two going into the bathroom.
Johnson was arraigned Wednesday afternoon at state Superior Court in Stamford, where a judge kept her bond at $25,000. She remained in custody after her appearance, according to the criminal clerk's office. A warrant in her file was sealed.
Johnson is due back in court June 13.
Staff writer Jeff Morganteen contributed to this story.


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The Government of Trinidad and Tobago is received support from the European Union (EU) under the “Technical Assistance to the Environment Programme in Trinidad and Tobago”. The environment programme aims to address the challenges of pursuing a low-carbon climate resilient development path and to contribute to the achievement of the Government of Trinidad & Tobago’s goals to improve the management of natural resources in the country. As part of the larger Environment Programme, technical assistance was provided to support the Ministry of Planning and Development in undertaking climate change vulnerability and risk assessments that will (a) provide a comprehensive picture of the impacts of climate change, climate variability and projected climate change impacts; and (b) facilitate decision-making on climate change risk management by key agencies. The support for this vulnerability assessment was over the period of 2 years from September 2016 to August 2018.
At the request of the stakeholders in Tobago, an Integrated Island Management approach was used for Tobago. Integrated Island Management (IIM) responds to the unique circumstances of small island ecosystems through development of holistic integrated management systems that operate at the scale of ecological, social or physical processes within islands.


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Hanel Rotomat customised work area.
According to Headland Machinery , the Fischer company produces measuring instruments for checking material thicknesses, and the thickness of coatings and lacquers.
In the past, 10,000 articles were spread over several storerooms, including external storerooms. The storage set up was inefficient and costly and company wanted to integrate these into a central storeroom next to production. The decision to use Hanel storage systems was made, now Fischer had to decide on the best Hanel solutions, using Hanel Rotomats and Lean-Lifts, to suit their individual needs.
The room height was only about 300 cm and the ribbed surface on which the Hanel Rotomats were to be placed also needed to be taken into account with a load-bearing capacity of just 1,000 kg/m².
Various options using Hanel Rotomats and Lean-Lifts were considered, after the computer department had given Hanel the material inventory with the quantities handled.
Considering the various container sizes in cardboard and ESD plastic, 12 paternosters would have been required. With a room height of 3m, this would not have been feasible on the planned area so it was suggested that the room height be raised to approximately 6 m. With this height, 6 Hanel Rotomats could be used.
3,786 containers (600mm deep, of different widths and heights) some with subdivisions, were used. This number of containers could be accommodated in 6 Hanel 936 Rotomats, some with spilt-level shelves, and connected to a PC based monitoring system.
About 6 months after the Hanel Rotomat delivery, the company ordered another two Hanel Lean-Lifts for storing large parts such as housings and high containers. These were also connected to the PC based monitoring system.
The Fischer company came to value the Hanel Solutions and Team. The satisfaction of the employees shows that opting for the Hanel products was the right decision.

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Coltrane was one of the jazz greats that passed through the Miles Davis school of innovative jazz. He is considered by many to be one the best tenor saxophonists in jazz history. His solos were dense with notes and complex in conception. His album "Giant Steps" features the most complex harmonic structures in jazz. Coltrane was admirable in many ways: Beyond his technical virtuosity as a jazzman he explored world music and many religious traditions, seeking that elusive understanding. He was inspired by Igor Stravinsky's innovative compositions and looked for the magic code that underlies the power of musical composition. He studied the remarkable anthology of scale permutations and combinations in Nicolas Slonimsky’s Thesaurus of Scales.
Coltrane was also a tragic figure, lost in in the heroin/alcohol fog that swallowed many of the great jazz players. His interest in the permutations and combinations of novel scales and obscure, painfully long improvisations eventually alienated even the most devoted fans.
Scott Anderson's essay on John Coltrane, Avant Garde Jazz, and the Evolution of “My Favorite Things” , (1996) offers a perspective on Coltrane and a detailed analysis of several variations on this familiar tune.
Lazy Bird appeared on Coltrane's 1957 album, Blue Train. The A section of "Lazy Bird" features two tonal centers a major third apart, an idea that would be developed as the Coltrane changes, harmonic progression variations using substitute chords over common jazz chord progressions. The ability to blow over the Coltrane changes remains one of the standards by which a jazz musician's improvising ability is measured. The changes serve as a pattern of chord substitutions for the II-V-I progression.

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Elephone has grown a lot in the last year, they have increased their Chinese market share and are coming strong yet again. This Hong Kong-based company has announced three new smartphones, which means the company has released 18 devices in total, though they're not all smartphones. Smartphones and wearables count for most devices and they company has even a home monitoring system under its belt. Talking about the newly released smartphone, company introduced Elephone G4, G5 and G6 smartphone devices.
Elephone G4 has a metal build and comes with a 5-inch 720p (1280 x 720) IPS display, 1GB of RAM and 4GB of internal storage (expandable via MicroSD card). The device is powered by MediaTek's MT6582 quad-core processor and comes with Android 4.4 KitKat pre-installed with Elephant's skin on top of it. Camera and flash are clearly included, but the company didn't release any details on those, at least not for this model. Elephant markets this device as a first budget phone which comes with quad-core processor and an HD display. Many of you would disagree with that and Moto G probably comes to mind, but Elephant has a different definition of the word "budget", this device costs only 499 Yuan ($81), which is extremely affordable no matter which way you look at it. Take this device's build into consideration and it is really something people might consider buying.
Elephone G5 features a 5.5-inch 720p (1280 x 720) IPS display just like the G4. This device sports the same MediaTek chip as the G4, same goes for the amount of RAM. You'll find 8GB of internal storage in this device which is expandable via MicroSD card up to 64GB. The device comes with a 13-megapixel main camera flanked by a dual LED flash while a 5-megapixel camera is located at the front of the device. This is a dual SIM device and comes with Android 4.4 KitKat out of the box as the G4, this device as the other two also has Elephant's skin on top of Google's OS. 3020mAh battery can also be found inside of this device. This device is priced at 599 Yuan, which is approximately $98 and also really affordable. You can get a replaceable battery covers for this device in pink, baby pink, purple, yellow, green, blue and white colors.
Elephone G6 is the most expensive out of these three devices and yet it is extremely affordable as well. This device will set you back 699 Yuan which is about $113. International price is rumored to be around $150 if you decide to get this device through resellers. That being said, this device also sports a 5-inch 720p (1280 x 720) IPS display as the other 2 phones. MediaTek's MT6592 octa-core chip clocked at 1.7GHz is powering this thing along with Mali-450 GPU for graphics processing. The device comes with 1GB of RAM and has the same rear-facing camera as the G5, a 13-megapixel shooter. This device also comes with a fingerprint scanner which is located at the back of the phone.
All three of these phones will reach international markets as well, they support GSM and WCDMA networks. What are your thoughts here? Keep in mind these are extremely affordable devices. I personally think this is a perfect price point and Elephone might sell tons of these devices, with just a bit of luck.

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A friend recommended that we read "Lily and the Octopus" by Steven Rowley and I have to say it THE best book about a pet parent and his dog, named Lily, which in this case happens to be a Dachshund (like 3 of our kids).
The story is all about a single dog dad who one day sees a tumor growing over his 12 year old Dachshund's eye and refuses to acknowledge the word, so he calls in an Octopus. The book is delightful, and really shows how a dog dad should be- he and Lily have movie nights, board game nights (he plays for her), and a night to talk about guys. The book is so fun, and so moving as the dog dad goes through coping with the ultimate outcome, but it's a book about the special bond between a dog parent and his dog-kid.
It's also very helpful for anyone facing making that choice to let their beloved fur-kid pass out of pain.
ALL pet parents should read it!
5 of 5 stars! (It was also a National Bestseller).
VIDEO: Novelist Steven Rowley, author of Lily and the Octopus, fondly remembers meeting his charming, little dachshund Lily for the first time.

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Repairs and breakdowns at British Energy's nuclear plants have resulted in a three-month £115 million loss.
But the troubled nuclear generator received a boost when a major investor gave a debt for shares plan the go ahead.
The loss covered the three months up to June 30.
In June, British Energy showed signs of some trading improvement as it reported pre-tax profits in the year to March 31 of £232 million - compared with losses of £4.3 billion a year earlier.
Seasonal repairs and two weeks of unplanned stoppages at Sizewell B, Suffolk, Torness in East Lothian and Heysham, Lancashire, was blamed for a cut in supplies in the three-month period.
Output was down 12 per cent at 15 terrawatt hours.
The group, which runs eight nulear power stations, was also unable to take advantage of a hike in electricity prices because it had positioned itself against potential falls in the market by forward-selling its planned generation.


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On the Block with BMC is a monthly video series profiling people in our community. As a Central Brooklyn based, community organizing group, the Brooklyn Movement Center is committed to serving as a platform to amplify local voices. Each month as we select community members to interview– We will be taking suggestions and fielding questions from you, our viewers, via Facebook and Twitter and ask selected questions during the interview.
For our first episode, we wanted to highlight the congressional race between Councilman Charles Barron and Assemblymember Hakeem Jeffries. Elections will be held on Tuesday, June 26th.
Bed-Stuy – Buy or Die?
The Von King Cultural Arts Center Needs Work!
Demand A Living Wage in New York!
The Holiday Season is Food Season!
Grants Available to PTAs in Community School District 16!
Banking in the Hood: Same Sh*t, Different Decade.
What do New York State and City Budgets mean for Central Brooklyn?
Government Workers are the Enemy? Don’t believe the hype.

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