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Join us for an artist reception with Michele Currie on Sunday, July 15 from 5 - 7 pm.
As a member of the vibrant fine arts community in Portland for more than two decades, Michele primarily works with acrylics, but often uses charcoal, ink, and papier mache in her paintings, which range from landscapes to still life to figures.
Guests will enjoy a complimentary pour of wine and light appetizers while viewing the collection. Wine by the glass will also be available for purchase.
Join us for an artist reception with Michele Currie on Sunday, July 15 from 5 – 7 pm.


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We have the ability to gear up quickly depending on the size and scale of your project. For each project, your main point of contact is also the lead developer and will manage all the details.
Consider us a part of your team. We integrate into your workflow and communication channels.
See how we’ve partnered with clients to bring their websites and applications to life.
Whether you’re looking for a long-term partnership or a quick consultation, reach out.
Often our clients have clients of their own. We work with several agencies in the greater Omaha area to provide quality, strategic web and app development for companies across the country.

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Yesterday afternoon, I had the pleasure of running into a client I knew from an agency where I used to work. I forgot his name, but recognized him as soon as I drove up. There was a time when I was very good at remembering names and faces, but not so much with the names anymore. On occasion, faces can be a challenge too. As I was getting out of the car to take care of some business, I planned not to say anything unless he initiated it. This is what we are taught in mental health for the protection of privacy and respect of our clients. And I’ve often seen clients in the community over the years. One time, I made the mistake of initiating a greeting to a client that was the manager at a major retail chain. That was an awkward experience to say the least. I knew better, but it slipped my mind because I’m generally excited about seeing people that I know while out and about. Whatever the case, although he returned my greeting, he appeared so uneasy that I vowed not to make that mistake ever again. I would imagine that this is a challenge in very, small cities and we have plenty of small, rural cities/counties in Texas.
I did wonder if he recognized me. It has been 4 years since we’ve seen each other. What I remember is that he is a very intelligent man with a jovial and good-natured spirit. He struggled with depression, but I could see that he put in the effort to maintain a positive mindset. As I entered the building, he called my name and my heart and face smiled. However, I still couldn’t recall his name. It was awkward for a few seconds because the reaction most people have (at least where I live) to seeing someone that you haven’t seen in a while is to hug. Also, as I’ve gotten older, I’ve become more of a toucher and hugger. We almost motioned to hug, but settled into a handshake. I was in the process of entering the building when he called me from outside, so one person was holding the door open while another was exiting. We held them up for a moment with our greeting, but it was worth it. It was so good to see him because oddly enough, I thought about him recently and here he was in the flesh.
After I took care of business, we caught up for a few minutes. Not surprisingly, he’s doing well. He told me his name, without my asking, and I hoped not to forget it again. He said that he still tells people about me and how I was when I worked at the agency. He spoke highly of a counselor who encouraged him to move on to bigger and better things because he is ready. We exchanged closing words and went on our way.
After a long, exhausting week of traveling, that meeting made my week. It reminded me of the privilege it has been to work as intimately as I’ve had with people. Speaking to him in that moment reminded me of what I intended to do when I was a clinician, which was to plant seeds. In meeting people where they are, because not everyone self actualizes before your eyes or while on your caseload, I vowed to plant seeds of hope. I viewed myself as part of the process of change and wanted them to know that someone (as in me) sincerely cared about their well being.
I no longer work as a practitioner, but this is a reminder that I am still a seed planter. I want to plant seeds of hope and inspiration in everyone that crosses my path. This may sound overly ambitious and idealistic to some, but it’s true.
Also, I might not be the loudest in the room, but I do want my absence to be felt when I’m gone and I’ve heard on more than one occassion that I am missed.

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What exactly happens when you tap two NFC-enabled devices together? It's easier to understand with a concrete example, so let's assume you're walking down the street when you see a poster for an upcoming performance by Man or Astro-man? Because you dig surf rock, you want to check it out. You also see some text on the poster that says it has an NFC tag.
You quickly whip out your smartphone and activate an NFC-reading app. Activating the app sends a signal to the NFC chip inside your phone. Electricity flows through the circuitry of the chip, generating a weak magnetic field. This means your smartphone is an active NFC device -- it's using power to generate a magnetic field. You hold your phone up to the appropriate spot on the poster.
At this point, the weak magnetic field generated by your phone induces a magnetic field in the NFC tag within the poster. The magnetic field induces electricity in the NFC tag, which doesn't have its own power supply -- it's a passive NFC tag. This creates a radio field. The radio field generated by the tag interacts with the field generated by your phone. The NFC chip in your phone detects and decodes the radio field. The information turns out to be a link to a video of the band playing live. The app gives you the option of visiting the link directly if you wish.
Some NFC transactions will involve two powered devices. You may want to exchange some contact information from your phone with another person's phone. In an exchange, both devices act as active and passive components -- when active, a device sends information and when passive, it accepts information. It takes just a moment for the two phones to send information to each other. Before you know it, your contact information is in the other person's phone and vice versa.
An active NFC device can only communicate with one target device at a time -- you can't broadcast a message to multiple devices over NFC. The active device will send information to the target and will only accept a response from that target. Other NFC devices will ignore the communication.
It's important to remember that NFC just covers the actual transmission technology. It doesn't determine the content of those transmissions. The various hardware and apps that incorporate NFC chips will dictate what information changes digital hands. While the transmission technology is standardized, the content that can move across it isn't.


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The following entries are listed in the Events & Corporate Entertainment categories of the Scottish Directories. We hope you find this useful in finding a particular events management or corporate entertainment firm in Scotland - the directories are constantly growing, so please let us know of any suggestions for inclusion or amendments to something we already list.
This category contains 41 businesses/entries located in Scotland.

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Tips to crack SSC CGL Tier-I Exam 2015 : SSC CGL Notification 2015 has already been released on 01 May 2015. Every year, Staff Selection Commission (SSC) conducts common graduate level examination to fill posts in various Govt. ministries/departments. This year in 2015, SSC had released the advertisement/notification of CGL 2015 exam on 01/05/2015 as per their new official revised schedule. Lakhs of candidates has already applied and will appear for this examination.
SSC CGL exam is scheduled to be held on 9 August, 2015 & 16 August, 2015.
SSC CGL Tier I written Examination will contain 200 questions. The Exam paper carries total 200 marks.
There are four sections of this exam and each section has 50 questions.
Negative marking is applicable with 0.25 marks for each incorrect answer.
Total time duration of CGL Exam is 2 hours.
Clearing the CGL Tier-I Exam is pretty easy because there is no sectional cut-off mark. You can attempt all questions from your favourite section. However, you still have to reach an overall cut off marks.
CGL Tier-I Exam requires very hard study and so you stick to your time table and study regularly. The main factor for the success in the Prelims exam is SPEED and ACCURACY.
For the last remaining 14 days i.e. 2 weeks, just do the practice sets from books, websites and solve them within 120 minutes.
Do the right selection of questions in the Tier-I Exam — This Exam demands candidates to choose easy questions and skip hard questions. Don’t waste your time in solving difficult questions in the Exam.
Try to learn shortcuts to save your time — Shortcut techniques are the key to crack CGL Tier-I Exam. You need to learn shortcut techniques in solving questions in Quantitative section in lesser time.
General Awareness is the most important section of SSC CGL Tier-1 Exam. This section acquires more importance because this is the only section which can be attempted quickly and at the same time, very high marks can be scored in this section. The most important questions from this section are on the topics such as basic General Knowledge, Important Days, Important Persons, Award Winners, Books and Authors Games and Cups and Abbreviations. Go through the General Awareness books such as Competition Master, Competition Success Review or Pratiyogita Darpan on monthly basis.
Vocabulary and English Grammar play very important factor in SSC CGL Tier-I Exam. So, give special attention to your Vocabulary and English. Watching different English news channels and read different-different English newspapers and magazines. The questions will be based on Passages, Common Errors, Antonyms and Synonyms. You have to improve your vocabulary to score good marks in this section.
Proper Time Management is the Key: Questions which are asked in SSC CGL Exam are not very tough but it’s the “Time Management” which makes the difference. If you want to get good marks in CGL, you must be able to solve questions within 2 Hours. To accomplish this, you must make a timetable of how much time you should give to which section. An ideal approach is: 15 Minutes to General Awareness, 20 Minutes to English, 35 Minutes to Reasoning and Remaining 50 Minutes to Maths. Also remember that 10-15 minutes will be taken by filling of ovals.
Which Section to Solve First – An ideal approach is to attempt sections in following manner: (1) General Awareness (As it takes less time), (2) English (It takes less time), (3) Reasoning Section (The level of reasoning in CGL is not that tough. If you know, you can solve them in minutes), at last (4) Mathematics (because it can take time).
If you have any doubts related to the preparation of SSC CGL Tier-I Exam 2015, you can comment your queries below and stay with us for the upcoming posts on SSC CGL Tier-I Exam.
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Grandmaster Pang has studied and practiced Tai Chi for more than half a century and has taught this art for over forty years on three continents. He teaches Tai Chi as a living philosophical wisdom to inspire students to experience its profundity. He is the author of On Tai Chi Chuan, Chinese Herbal and a translation of the Analects of Confucius. He lives on Orcas Island, WA with his wife of forty-nine years, Eliza C. Pang.
Born in Lanshan in China's Hunan Province, Grandmaster Pang began his practice of meditation, martial arts and traditional Chinese medicine before the age of ten and treated his first patients by the age of sixteen. Shortly after moving to Hong Kong in 1950, he studied with the renowned Masters Dong Yingjie and Sun Sikun. He is one of their last living students.
In 1964, the University of Hawaii invited Pang to attend a philosopher's conference. Settling in Honolulu, Pang began teaching the classical Chinese arts in 1966. In 1975, Pang moved to Orcas Island, Washington. Robert Fong, who studied with Pang in Honolulu, also moved from Hawaii to the Pacific Northwest. With Fong's help, Grandmaster Pang established the Tai Chi School of Philosophy and Art in 1976. The Tai Chi School's annual summer camp was also initiated in that year. This year, 2007, it celebrated it's thirty first anniversary.

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Acquapia is a small country crossed by several rivers, all of them navigable. All rivers have their sources inside Acquapia, in the mountains, and all rivers end at sea – a river never ends at another river. During its course (not at its source) a river may split into two or more streams. There is a city wherever a river begins, splits or ends, and each city touches at most one river. The figure below shows a map of Acquapia, with two rivers and twenty cities. For clarity, only some cities are labeled. In the figure, E and F are cities that have river sources; B, C and D are cities where a river splits into different streams; and A is a city where a river ends.
Being so widespread, rivers are the main means of transportation in Acquapia. But since the country is at war with a neighboring country, it is not safe for ships to cross the sea, so ships can only navigate in rivers. That means that to go from city A to city D, a ship must travel upstream (against the river flow) from A to B and C, make a stream change at C and then travel downstream from C to D. Stream change, which is the operation of changing from navigating upstream to navigating downstream, is difficult and somewhat dangerous, since river streams are strong in Acquapia, and the turns are sharp. Notice that to navigate from B to E (or from E to B) no stream change is necessary. Also, due to the war, it is not possible to navigate, for example, from B to F.
“now that ships cannot cruise the sea, is it possible to navigate from city X to city Y ”?
“if it is possible to navigate from X to Y , does a ship need to make a stream change? If so, in which city, so that the distance travelled is the shortest possible?
The input contains several test cases. The first line of a test case contains four integers C, R, S and Q, separated by single spaces, representing respectively the number of cities (2 ≤ C ≤ 103), the number of rivers (1 ≤ R ≤ C/2), the number or river sections (1 ≤ S ≤ C − 1) and the number of queries that will be made (1 ≤ Q ≤ 2 × 105). Cities are numbered sequentially from 1 to C. The second line of a test case contains R distinct integers, separated by single spaces, indicating the cities that are river sources. Each of the next S lines describes a different river section and contains two integers X and Y , separated by a single space, indicating that there is a section of river that flows from city X to city Y (X ≠ Y ). Then comes Q lines, each describing a query. Each query is composed of two integers A and B, separated by a single space, representing two cities (A ≠ B). The end of input is indicated by C = R = S = Q = 0.
For each test case your program must output Q + 1 lines, where Q is the number of queries in the test case. The first line must be empty; each of the following Q lines must contain one integer, representing the answer to the corresponding query, in the same order as the input. If it is not possible to navigate between the two cities in the query, print ‘-1’. If it is possible to navigate between the two cities but no stream change is necessary, print ‘0’. Otherwise, print the integer that represents the city where the stream change must be made.

industry_corpus2: Programming


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Florida manatees are marine mammals that inhabit the coastal and riverine waters of the state throughout the year. They have been listed by the Federal government as an endangered species because of low population numbers and the uncertain future of their habitat. The largest animals in the population may reach fourteen feet in length and weigh almost 3800 pounds, but most individuals are shorter and smaller. Manatees are herbivores (eating aquatic plants), and are not aggressive towards humans. Female manatees usually give birth to a single calf measuring about three to four feet in length; calves remain with their mothers for up to two years. The recovery of the manatee population is impeded by the high numbers of mortalities from human-related causes-e.g., from collisions with watercraft, becoming trapped in flood gates and locks, and becoming entangled in fishing gear.
Protection of manatees in Florida has been legislatively mandated since 1892, following depletion of the population by settlers in the 1800s. The cornerstones of current state efforts to recover the population are the Florida Manatee Sanctuary Act of 1978 and the revised Florida Manatee Recovery Plan of 1995. The Florida Manatee Sanctuary Act declared the state to be a refuge and sanctuary for the manatee. The Act and subsequent amendments gave the Department of Environmental Protection (formerly the Department of Natural Resources) the authority to protect manatees from disturbance and harassment, injury, and intentional mortality. The second revised Florida Manatee Recovery Plan lists 126 separate tasks that need to be accomplished to recover the Florida population of the West Indian manatee to a point that it is no longer in danger of extinction. Many of these tasks are specific research and management initiatives that are addressed through a cooperative effort between federal, state, and local governments.
Funding for research and management activities in Florida was authorized through the Save the Manatee Trust Fund, which contains money from sales of a manatee specialty license plate, partial proceeds from state boat registration fees, county-imposed boat registration fees, voluntary contributions, and interest income. Revenues for the Save the Manatee Trust Fund for Fiscal Year 1995-1996 totaled almost $2.7 million, as shown in the accompanying pie chart. The legislative appropriation for manatee and marine mammal programs in 1995-1996 was allocated to FDEP manatee and marine mammal research and management programs within the Division of Marine Resources, contracts to other research organizations, and oceanaria participating in the rescue and rehabilitation of manatees. Research activities coordinated by the Division's Florida Marine Research Institute in St. Petersburg cost $1,290,221. Management activities conducted by the Division's Bureau of Protected Species Management, including oceanaria contracts, totaled $1,714,559. Budgetary breakdowns for individual program units for both the research and management efforts are depicted on the next page, followed by summaries of the work performed by FDEP personnel at the Florida Marine Research Institute and the Bureau of Protected Species Management.
The human-related problems that manatees and their aquatic ecosystem face did not develop suddenly, and they will not be solved quickly. The solutions are complex and time consuming, as documented in the Florida Manatee Recovery Plan and as evidenced by the complexity of tasks undertaken by FDEP each year. Through the cooperation of local, federal, and state agencies, private organizations, and corporations, effective partnerships have been created to constructively address the recovery of the manatee population. FDEP persists in its efforts to heighten the environmental awareness of Florida's citizens and visitors, realizing that each person can make a significant contribution to the preservation of manatees and Florida's ecosystems by becoming aware of and complying with regulations that were designed both to protect this endangered species and to accommodate the growth of Florida's human population. FDEP will continue to coordinate its applied marine research programs with ecosystem management practices and clean water regulatory controls, assuring that the habitat quality that sustains manatees can be improved and maintained within the State of Florida.

industry_corpus2: Water Resources & Marine


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The distance between Budapest, Hungary and Viroqua, Wi, Usa is approximately 7,757 km or 4,820 mi.
To reach Budapest in this distance one would set out from Viroqua, Wi bearing 42.6° or NE and follow the great circles arc to approach Budapest bearing 133.9° or SE .
Budapest has a marine west coast climate (Cfb) whereas Viroqua, Wi has a warm summer continental/ hemiboreal climate with no dry season (Dfb).
The altitude of the sun at midday is overall 3.5° lower in Budapest than in Viroqua, Wi.
The table shows values for Budapest relative to Viroqua, Wi. You can also view this comparison the other way around from the perspective of Viroqua, Wi vs Budapest.

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PUBG Mobile APK Download For Android - The PUBG Mobile game is mainly the like the Xbox version in regards to content. You just obtain the one initial map, but you do get functions from the 1.0 PC version like the capability to rise obstacles. There are some other tweaks too-- blood is currently environment-friendly, and the minimap reveals icons to show acoustic ideas like steps and also gunfire in case you remain in a scenario where you can't play with earphones. The game's pacing hasn't been dramatically altered, nonetheless, so you need to still anticipate rounds to last over half an hour.
One major difference from the other variations is the visibility of robots, evidently designed to help brand-new players reach grasps with the game. As you level up, the proportion of actual gamers to bots rises, and also it's very easy to discriminate-- the crawlers are pretty stupid as well as do not set up much of a battle. This might be frustrating to listen to for anybody that plays for the first time and is amazed by their own hidden ability level, but it's a creative way to ensure people have a great experience when they initially play PUBG.
As on other platforms, though, the game already has a powerful rival. Legendary Games' Fortnite Fight Royale is the Instagram Stories to PUBG's Snapchat, brazenly scamming the core design while placing it in a slicker bundle for a brand-new and larger audience. (Like Drake.) Invites for Fortnite's iOS variation began to head out today; we'll have much more coverage on it quickly.
For now, though, it's just actually amazing to see that a cutting-edge gaming principle that brought monster PCs to their knees a year ago can already work on phones. Whichever your fight royale game of selection, it's mosting likely to deserve taking a look at the mobile versions when they come to be extensively readily available.
PUBG Mobile - PC Gamer.
PC Gamer's Steven Messner is impressed by the mobile port, but he isn't leaving his PC variation behind.
PUBG Mobile 2019 has to do with as excellent a port as anybody can wish for. While the resolution is significantly downsized, the standard design of the 100-player free-for-all isn't really.
Minutes before my opponent rounded a crest and lit me up (I just had an SK12 and also was right away doomed), my heart was battering keeping that exact same abominable exhilaration from reaching the top ten on the PC variation. When it involves recording the spirit and also adventure of the battle royale style, PUBG Mobile is remarkably experienced.
I couldn't obtain the game running when out wifi, however I'm really hoping that does not show that PUBG mobile is wifi only.
The cumbersome controls make intending exactly impossible, as well as most of the time I located it easier to merely strafe the reticle over my challenger as opposed to actually attempting to target at them. And god assist you if somebody comes up from behind since turning around promptly is impossible.
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A listing of all state agencies, departments, boards, and commissions.
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Can Brands be Built on the Online Medium Alone?
Move over Ice Bucket Challenge and make way for the very desi, Rice Bucket challenge. In an exclusive chat with Hrithik Roshan, find out whether he finds social media intrusive? A panel discussion with Paul Writer's Jessie Paul, HP's Lloyd Mathias and Renault's Vivek Subramaniam to find out can brands be built on the online platform alone? Also get to watch an overview of the recently held Delhi - NCR Brand Summit, that not only had learning and networking, but also awarded the top 50 brands in the region.


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All the zodiac signs are characterized by their different abilities. For examples, those who are born under Aries tend to be very bold but they are not as charismatic as Leos.
Of course, each sign beats the rest at something or the other. But it cannot be denied that a few signs are much smarter than the others.
In a test of intelligence, Aquarius and Scorpio will always score higher than the rest. But even these two are actually intelligent in different ways.
Aquarius’ are typically smart. They have high IQs and are brilliant at analysis and problem solving. Scorpios have more emotional intelligence ie, they are attuned to what others are feeling around them. They have great communication skills and connect easily with others.
Other signs can also claim their fair share of intelligence. The Mayo School of Astrology has found both Gemini and Libra to be quite clever.
Gemini tends to be quick-witted and mindful while Libras are intent on making everyone around them happy. Both signs are affected by stress but that does not make them any less intelligent.
Cancer and Pisces top the charts when we look at emotional intelligence. Both signs are able to maintain a balance between their egos and their emotions which in turn ensures stability in their relationships.
Signs linked to the Earth like Taurus, Virgo and Capricorn possess a good deal of intelligence in practical matters. These signs have a lot of ambition which motivates them to tap their full potential.
Capricorns especially are the most determined of all the signs and will stop at nothing to reach their goals. They are usually the success stories in the groups they are part of.
Those born under fire like Sagittarius, Leo and Aries crave power and are willing to work hard to obtain it. They will willingly take risks if it means that they will get to be leaders. The former two are very charismatic and energetic, making them excellent at leadership.
But a Sagittarius sometimes does better than a Leo because they are more flexible and open to change.
In conclusion, all the signs are gifted in their own way but the most intelligent are definitely Aquarius and Scorpio.


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By KARA IRVING March 12, 2015, 3:32 p.m.
GET your white shirt and runners ready Ballarat.
The Rainbow Run event is returning to Victoria Park in March.
Participants wearing white will be sprayed, squirted and peppered with colour during the fun run.
Organiser Anthony Marchesani is hoping to build on the success of last year’s event.
“Last year we had about 600 people and we are hoping for the same sort of number this year,” he said.
About 50 volunteers will help out on the day, including the Sebastopol Girl Guides who are raising money for their Gold Coast trip.
Mr Marchesani said ticket sales were going well, with tickets available for purchase on the day.

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The experience and pyrotechnic skills of the show designer are paramount. We select the optimum mix and variety of fireworks effects and consider color and noise, pace and length of the show to deliver the most dramatic fireworks entertainment for your audience.
The site provides opportunities (and usually restrictions), to be taken into account in the overall design of the fireworks display.
There are many digital firework software products to choose from that provide digital simulation in order to design better shows. Finale Fireworks is a popular choice amongst pyrotechnical professionals. We can provide digital fireworks simulation of your show during the planning of your fireworks display.
Pyromusicals can be based on 1 or 2 combined pieces of music or on a mix of different music tracks; it depends on the event, the audience and the creativity of the pyro designer….don't forget the sound system is a key factor.
Like any live entertainment, a fireworks display / show needs the right mix and balance of drama and intensity, short and long sequences, noise and silence, darkness and brightness to be entertaining. Art and John Rozzi are pyrotechnic experts in design and their shows are a distinctive memorable experience.
Not all fireworks displays are entertaining. Art Rozzi Pyrotechnics prides itself on designing and producing fireworks displays thoughtfully and creatively to ensure the show delights your audience, making custom fireworks displays that are great entertainment value.
Enjoy watching this video on YouTube of Montreal International Fireworks Competition 2013 - United States presented by Arthur Rozzi Pyrotechnics, designed by Art Rozzi.
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His passion creativity and honesty are his trademarks.
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Arthur Rozzi Pyrotechnics fireworks company in Cincinnati, designs and produces fireworks displays for all different types and sizes of events in Southern Ohio, Southeast Indiana and Northern Kentucky and for all budgets.
All of our technicians receive annual training to keep them up to date on the latest in state and federal regulations concerning fireworks and explosives.
We hold the safety of our audience and technicians in the highest regard.
A large part of our business is making sure that our shows are safe.
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Summer is in full swing: hot temperatures, afternoon and evening thunderstorms, beautiful sunrises and camping! I recently rode through the campgrounds at Myrtle Beach and Huntington Beach and there was not a vacant campsite to be found. A great sight to see during the dog days of summer! While it has been a record year for camping, I am convinced the world needs more campers. Stay with me, as this comment is not about occupancy rates or empty sites, it’s about campers. Not the ones you are used to seeing in a state park campground with a fifth wheel or slide outs, not pop ups or motor homes, not even a tent. The campers I’m talking about are the people who pack for the week or weekend, leave the hustle and bustle behind and enjoy their parks and being with other campers.
Maybe it’s these extra hot days of summer or the fact the nightly news seems to be filled with controversy, hostility, and real problems but I’m thinking the world needs to go camping. Here’s why: camping brings out the best in people. I was recently walking through the campground at Devils Fork, no one knew who I was, I was just another camper on a morning walk. I was greeted with a “good morning” many times on my walk. Thinking about it, I realized this greeting was different than what I was used to in the real world. It went beyond a polite exchange of greetings and nothing further. Here, it was followed by more. “Where are you from,” and discussions about the rain and the beauty of Lake Jocassee.
Maybe we all need these special places to escape to every now and then just to get away, recharge our batteries, and reconnect with nature and each other. Our parks really do become a sanctuary and allow us to escape from the day to day, allow us to put our guard down, relax and enjoy life. It doesn’t hurt when you fall asleep to the chorus of crickets and tree frogs and wake to a Carolina sun peeking through the tall pines and stately oaks of the Palmetto State. Could it be distinctive smells of a campground, lingering smoke that can only come from a campfire, the smell of coffee and bacon cooking? Could it be these things influence our behavior and enable us to relax and revive those characteristics of kindness, friendliness and a sense of community? Or maybe, just maybe it’s the people who camp. Yes indeed, the world needs more campers, let’s go camping!

industry_corpus2: Travel & Geography


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The city of Agra and its flavours transported to modern Sri Lanka.
Agra is on a leafy corner of Colombo. Gently push open its heavy studded doors, which would have credited a Maharaja’s palace, and you have entered an Arabian nights setting. We walked into a dim-lit, gilded hall. The intricate trellis work and the absolutely majestic, ornate Moghul furniture and trappings glittered with dim gold light.
Although Sinhala music was being played, in the atmosphere, the soulful strains almost seemed to sound like rural Indian temple rhymes. Waiters in orange jackets, like feudal retainers, provided menus the size of medieval books.The alcoves, in one of which we sat, afforded privacy. But we were not deprived of the spectacle of the entire restaurant, which looked magical, as if a king in an artistic mood had trailed his hand across it.
We commenced the experience with a glass of Pink Agra, which is an infusion of orange, pineapple and grenadine. Anticipating a filling meal, we moved straight to the biriyani. The anticipations were proven right. Their Jhinga Biriyani was a big spicy, sticky, fragrant potful embedded with large prawns. We had this accompanied by Prawn Kadhai and Aloo Paratha. The Kadhai was full of succulent prawns entrenched in a thick creamy, gravy, and we enjoyed sponging it up with the Aloo Paratha, which had a soft filling of vegetables.
We wound up with Chocolate Mousse and Brownies with Ice Cream, and found that their grasp of these sweet Western desserts was as masterful as their expert way with Indian food. Which is saying a lot, for the delicious Mughlai menu at Agra is redolent of the culture that engendered the Taj Mahal: very exotic, subtle, intricate and colourful. In fact, as the chief steward bowed us out that night, we felt we had taken a luxury passage to India.

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Un-Interruptible Power Supply (UPS) is an electrical apparatus that provides emergency power to a load when the input power source, typically mains power, fails. A UPS differs from an auxiliary or emergency power system or standby generator because it will provide near-instantaneous protection from input power interruptions, by supplying energy stored in batteries.
The on-battery runtime of most un-interruptible power sources is relatively short (only a few minutes) but sufficient to start a standby power source or properly shut down the protected equipment.
UPS units range in size from units designed to protect a single computer without a video monitor (around 200 VA rating) to large units powering entire data centers or buildings (Up to 1100KVA).

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The latest video added to the Delcam.tv website shows the high metal-removal rates that are possible with the Vortex high-efficiency area-clearance strategy in Delcam’s PowerMILL CAM system for high-speed and five-axis machining. The demonstration shows Vortex in use on a DMG 65 monoBLOCK five-axis machining centre fitted with Seco tooling. Other strategies shown in the video include five-axis drilling, sawmill slot milling and five-axis engraving.
Delcam’s Vortex strategy gives the fastest safe metal removal from solid carbide tooling, in particular from designs that give deeper cuts by using the full flute length as the cutting surface. The strategy, which is also included in Delcam’s FeatureCAM feature-based machining software and the PartMaker system for the programming of turn-mill equipment and Swiss-type lathes, can be used for two- and three-axis roughing, three-plus-two-axis area clearance and for rest machining. It gives significant time savings regardless of the material being machined, whether that be titanium, tool steel or alloys such as Inconel.
Vortex produces toolpaths with a controlled engagement angle to maintain the optimum cutting conditions for the toolpath that would only be possible only for the straight-line moves with conventional roughing. As a result, much higher feedrates are possible so the cutting time is far shorter, while cutting is undertaken at a more consistent volume-removal rate and at an almost constant feedrate, so protecting the spindle and the machine.
The consistent feedrate possible with Vortex is a fundamental difference from other high-speed roughing techniques. Delcam has performed trials showing that this approach gives more reliable results as it can often be difficult to predict exactly how machine tools will react to constantly changing feedrates.
Vortex also uses a minimum radius parameter, calculated to make sure that the machine tool can maintain the cutting feedrate in corners and, more generally, for any non-straight part of the toolpath. This again makes the cutting process more predictable since the machine should run at the programmed feedrate throughout and not slow down in the way that it could on other kinds of area-clearance toolpath.

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How do I crowdfund for my business idea?
I have heard about crowd funding. How does it work?
There are essentially 2 ways to crowdfund a business. The first model made popular by Kickstarter and Indiegogo is anyone can contribute to your idea in exchange for a future product discount, specific rewards based on amount of contribution or getting access before available to the general public. In this model the contributors do not get any business equity. This is seen as informal crowdfunding.
The second model is being crowdfunded by "syndicate" or a group of accredited investors that have pooled their money to spread the risk (think mini Venture Capitalism from the stand point that these typically aren't companies but just groups of investors that have decided to band together). In this model you very well may give up business equity to make the deal happen. This is a more formal crowdfunding approach. I believe both Angel List and Gust both have this as part of their online platforms.
But before pursuing either, you need to know how much money you are trying to raise. What will that money be spent on specifically if you get access to it? What percentage of your business are you willing to give up to make the deal happen? How will you thank or reward contributors? How quickly are you trying to raise the money? Why do you need the money (product production, raw materials, scaling for larger quantity runs, distribution, etc.)?
Which one is better crowdfunding or presenting to angel investors? Any advantage or disadvantage?
I think it really depends on several things. Are you looking for an involved investor (one that helps you operate and/or make key decisions) or just a cash infusion? Are your terms realistic and are theirs reasonable? Meaning have you been reasonable in how much equity you need to give up for the amount of money you are seeking and is the investor bringing enough to the table for the amount of money they are willing to invest. Lastly, either approach may mean giving up some control in favor of cash, are you only trying to grow your business or do you want to grow your business your way?
All of the above factors matter a great deal.
Think of crowd funding as getting orders for your product before you have built it. It reduces risk because you know you've got orders before you start building however you take the risk that you have got all the pricing right before you know how to build it! Does that help?
Have you started crowdfunding Clive? How was it?

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As advocates, we are on the frontlines of the civil justice crisis – and we see firsthand the real human toll it takes.
But the fact is, too many Americans – from our neighbors to our representatives in Congress – have no idea a civil justice crisis exists. We have to change that.
We have to raise awareness if we want to see real reform – and that starts with telling stories.
The resources below provide you with the tools you need to tell the stories of people harmed by the crisis and bring them to life online. Start exploring.
Share these graphics on social media to share solutions for the civil justice crisis and illustrate how we can work together to fix our broken system.
These easy-to-share social media graphics break down key aspects of the crisis so we can increase awareness of what the civil justice system is – and why it’s in crisis.
One of the most immediate ways to raise awareness is by leveraging the power of social media. Here are some overall guidelines and best practices for Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.
Learn how to send better email to supporters that drives action and creates greater awareness and change for civil justice with this guide on best practices.
Want to share your own statistic or quote about the civil justice crisis? We’ve made it easy with these editable graphics – just add in your own data, copy, or quote and post on social media.
Advocates should be sure to use photos, whether it’s for a report, social media post, or other document, to drive action and engagement.
Reaching supporters on social media can be challenging in a crowded online environment – online advertising can make a difference, and a little can go a long way. This guide walks through the basics.
From simplifying your message to the key ingredients of a successful media pitch, get tips for getting your stories about the civil justice crisis covered in the press.

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Hi. I have some experience with Linux. I have installed and played around with a a few distros as well as FreeBSD but I am by no means a system admin and not very well versed in ssh and the command line other than simple navigation and some package updating.
I am thinking about a VPS vs reseller hosting. How hard is it to maintain a managed VPS with Cpanel? Will the host update the OS, Apache, PHP, mail server, etc? This will be used for client websites, I'm concerned about security and don't want to get in over my head.
I really don't need to install any software that reseller will offer me but I do like the idea of not being on a shared server. I have had some training in networking and programming so I am capable of learning technical details of IT, I just don't want it to be a hassle either. I want to concentrate on website development and not managing a server.
Any thoughts that may help me decide?
Well, I'm just a customer (last 4 years) but in very similar situation in terms of Linux experience/knowledge so I thought I would offer my take on it. You shouldn't have any problem at all with being able to manage the VPS. And, if you do, KnownHost will be there to install or update any standard software that needs updating. If you're not familiar with WHM yet, I would definitely get there, but other than that its been pretty painless for me. I'm in the process of getting my 2nd VPS (VS3) if that tells you anything. Good luck!
Let me give you my take. I came from shared hosting that started out good for a few years then went down hill giving me no end of problems. After doing due diligence and researching I chose KH and their VPS offering. I am a struggling, self taught web designer who needed idiot proof hosting with an occasional hand holding from the support department. I’m coming up on a year with KH and can say I couldn’t be happier and absolutely made the correct choice. Moving all my accounts was a simple matter and when I did hit a snag, the KH support department was there to help immediately with little to no lag time. Give KH a try and you will be singing their praises as well I’m confident. They do the hosting game right with reliance and integrity plus sterling support. Best of luck!
Thanks for the replies. I think I'll just go for it when the time comes. KH does have some excellent packages and the reviews have all been stellar.
If the VPS goes down, is it automatically restarted by KH or does the owner have to discover it's down and restart the VPS? How is this handled?
If the server as a whole goes down then KH puts the data center techs on it.
I have never seen a VPS, as a whole, go down. Although services can get overloaded and crash or whatnot or get stuck in a loop and use large amounts of CPU. Typically it's up to you to monitor services and if you are unable to get it to recover KH will of course assist with the problem.
Then there are also DOS attacks which will effect the whole network and KH will notice and put the data center techs on to null route the IP being attacked.
Well, I signed up last night and had my VPS running in an hour. I decided to transfer all my domains, files, and mysql databases over myself and it went over without a hitch. WHM and cPanel is intuitive which made it an easy transition.
I had trouble with the email but it turned out to be that I had the wrong incoming and outgoing servers defined in Outlook. Support was quick to help, answered all my questions, and offered some commands I could use to help trace the problem.
The only pain was getting my DNS set correctly at 1and1. They have a crude way of doing it in their proprietary control panel. You have to follow instructions in creating subdomains that call a Glue Domain. Not user friendly to say the least.
Anyway, my initial impression concerning KnownHost is very good and I'm thinking the glowing KH reviews I read prior to signing up are correct. I think I'm going to like it here. Thank you.
Welcome! As someone that has used 1and1 in the past, I know how difficult their control panel can be. Glad to hear you made it over fine, though.
Thank you. I couldn't take it any more. I switched my domains to NameCheap.
Ha ha ha!!! Nicely done! I had a client using 1and1 not too long ago, and I did the same thing. Was easier to just pay to move it somewhere else. Recently dealt with Globat as well. They're right up there with 1and1 in my book.

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The login for Connexus.com has been found and verified. Connections Academy’s education management system for organized student learning solutions.
The LMS login page is listed online. Please confirm you are using the correct LMS login.
The Connexus.com login page meta data has been listed online for your convenience. You can compare this data to the real login page when you arrive in order to verify you are using the correct login for the LMS website.
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Like most things that involve ranking a lot has changed in the last few years, especially with regards to anchor text/links that are considered acceptable by the primary search engine monopoly. Gone are the days were all of your anchor text links can consist of exact match keywords. Today using your exact search keyword(s) for all of your anchor text is a great way to have Google penalise your target site and potentially the linking site. Similar to keyword stuffing it’s a huge red flag – don’t do it.
That said, if your target site is new, having some of your anchor text be exact match keywords is ok, just don’t overdo it. In looking at the total quantity of backlinks pointing to a site, I would shoot for 75 – 80% “branded” anchor text with 15% partial match keywords and 5-10% exact match.
Branded Anchor text can be the URL (www.venturevictory.com), the brand (Venture Victory), or random (“learn more”, “click here”, etc.). Within the approximate 75% of branded anchor text that you’re shooting for, I would work to mix it up equally between the URL, brand and random.
With branded anchor text, it’s very important to have the search keyword in the same sentence, either directly before or directly after branded link. This point is super important! The search engine spiders crawl all sites in a linear fashion and proximity of the search keyword to the anchor text is very important in telling them that your keyword is relevant and related to the link. Having the search keyword above or below the anchor text, or in a sentence before or after (the sentence that contains the anchor text), does not work as well. Always work to place it directly before or after (Learn more about co-citations and its impact on SEO here).
“For the past few years, Venture Victory has provided search engine optimisation for…” – In this example, the actual company name (Venture Victory), is the anchor text and search engine optimisation is the targeted search keyword.
In either example above you could easily substitute the Branded anchor text with a random link, such as “this company”, or “the company’s”, etc. It’s also important that the combination of the branded link and the search keyword sound natural – don’t make up a sentence that you would never use in conversation.
In light of Penguin, monitor your inbound anchor-text. Understand how link spam analysis works and make sure anchor text stays brand-focused (as opposed to keyword phrase focused) 50 percent of the time or more.
Mass estimation of relative links. If links go over a certain threshold, e.g. make sure brand anchor text stays over 50%.
Search engines still do use anchor text for relevance, however. So you do have to have some exact match in the mix. The challenge is to keep it looking natural. The top phrase in your back link anchor text should be branded or naked domain.
In closing, I just want to add that we try to use the search keyword in the linking article’s title 80% of the time and you want it to be in the target article’s title – 100% of the time. Again, the title tag is super important in telling the search robots that a specific article is relevant to the search keyword that the user is inputting into Google, Bing, Yahoo, etc.


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I'll take some mobile devices with me and i hope that at least one of them will get a proper internet connection. However, support from me will be limited.
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Dr. Pinet has over 20 years of experience in three California community colleges plus in a few four-year institutions, and has been involved with Global Education through it all. Through the years, she served in a variety of positions, including serving several years as Vice President of Academic Affairs. She currently serves as Dean of Academic Affairs, Curriculum & Instructional Support, Social & Behavioral Sciences, and Fine Arts. She previously taught at West Valley College, where she was for 14 years and acquired her first five years of experience in college administration.
Dr. Pinet holds business experiences in Health Care Design both in Canada and in the US. She holds a Ph.D. in Architecture, focusing on Environments, Behavior, and Organizational Change paired with bachelors’ degrees in Psychology and Industrial Design. She has served as Executive Boards Member for a variety of organizations, such as the International Journal of Architectural Computing, and the California State Monterey Bay, School of Education. She has lead a number of collaborative partnership efforts, small and large, revolving around Equity, Diversity, and Global Education, such as with the Joint Venture Silicon Valley, Green Building Initiative and the Textbook Access Project.


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The San Francisco 49ers (1-2) do not look like a Super Bowl contender right now. Not even close.
Sunday’s 27-7 loss to the Indianapolis Colts (2-1) at Candlestick Park was their second straight defeat in which the offense was nonexistent — Andy Lee punted seven times.
The 49ers were penalized six times for 48 yards while the Colts drew just one flag for 10 yards.
Head coach Jim Harbaugh hadn’t lost consecutive games since 2009 while coaching at Stanford with Andrew Luck as his quarterback.
Colin Kaepernick completed just 13-of-27 passes for 150 yards and carried seven times for 20 yards. He threw an interception and lost a fumble, looking nothing like the NFL’s biggest star and more like a third-year quarterback making his 13th start. He was sacked three times and had six passes batted down.
Kaepernick has been awful protecting the ball with six turnovers in two games; Alex Smith had six turnovers in nine starts in 2012 and just seven in 2011.
Top target Vernon Davis (hamstring) was inactive and starting wide receivers Anquan Boldin and Kyle Williams combined for eight receptions for 79 yards on 14 targets. But the only other catch of note was a 30-yard completion to Garrett Celek.
The backfield chipped in what it could. Frank Gore carried just 11 times, gaining nearly all of his 82 rushing yards on one drive, while Kendall Hunter scored on a 13-yard run. Gore also caught two passes and reportedly had “choice words” for Harbaugh near game’s end.
Meanwhile, the Colts running game torched Vic Fangio’s unit as Trent Richardson, Ahmad Bradshaw, Dee Brown, and Luck combined for 179 yards and three touchdowns. Adam Vinatieri added two field goals.
NaVorro Bowman led the defense with nine tackles and two passes defensed while Justin Smith registered five tackles including his first sack of the season along with four hits on Luck.
Rookie safety Eric Reid already looks like a Pro Bowler with his third solid game. Reid made five tackles and knocked down a pass.
Smith will not play in Thursday’s game at St. Louis.
The 49ers have been outscored 56-10 the past two games and are now in the first crisis of the Harbaugh-era. They need to find a solution fast.


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JEWS HAVE A long-standing love affair with hope. That relationship encompasses at least two perspectives: hope as survival and hope as transformation. We hope because we have survived, and we have survived because we practice “hope.” Hope as an indicator of and precursor to survival has served as a thread of inspiration connecting the past to the present and future. At the time of our birth as a people, the women of Generation Exodus united in the ultimate act of resistance and continued to birth babies despite the bleakness of living in slavery. Another display of radical hope took place in the generation of the Shoah, when women and men came together to create new life in the midst of hell. It continues today, as Israelis celebrate s’machot at risk of their lives.
Hope as survival is not uniquely Jewish. But Jewish hope is present-tense, earthbound, and hands-on. Each of us is obligated to take action to realize the promise of a healed world. This imperative is reflected throughout our liturgy; each Motzei Shabbat, for example, our ode to Eliahu haNavi recollects our dream of tikkun olam. The founding of the State of Israel in the aftermath of the Shoah is a paradigm of hope as survival; it is fitting that our national anthem is HaTikvah.
Jewish hope is also about transformation. Several mitzvot represent hope; mikvah is a mitzvah that represents hope as transformation. Visiting the mikvah on a monthly basis, following the rhythm of menstrual flow, gives Jewish women a unique connection to hope. The laws of niddah require abstinence from sexual relations during one’s period and for seven days after, followed by immersion in the mikvah, a practice where we ritually enact rebirth and renewal. Like converts to Judaism, we emerge from these living waters into a radically different reality. My visits to the mikvah often provide me a healing transformation. I enter the mikvah painfully aware that I’ve lost a chance to create new life during my previous menstrual cycle. My seven immersions are a time of intense kavannah and prayer. I emerge from the water feeling whole and ready to try to conceive again.
Lamelle Ryman received her BA from Harvard in 1999 in Social Studies and Women’s Studies. Following a year as a Dorot Fellow in Israel, she settled in Los Angeles, where she is completing post-baccalaureate pre-medical studies with the hope of becoming an ob/gyn-midwife.


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Taking part in preventive maintenance makes sense when you consider that cracks and other surface defects, which in their beginning stages are almost unnoticeable, may develop into serious problems if not soon repaired. Cracks and surface breaks may occur within a few days if a heavy traffic parking lot, especially in the presence of water, was not designed properly. For this reason, frequent and thorough inspections of the pavement should be done by a qualified asphalt company. When minor defects reveal themselves in these inspections they should be repaired as soon as possible to avoid further deterioration, which can cause asphalt failure and a high cost of repair.
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Hope Street Youth and Family Services - Why are young people homeless?
HomeI Am A Young PersonAbout HomelessnessWhy are young people homeless?
There are many reasons why young people become homeless. Family/relationship breakdowns, mental health issues, drug and alcohol addiction, housing crisis, inadequate or inappropriate living conditions, and insufficient income are just some of the factors that can lead young people into homelessness.
Family is very important and when there is conflict and violence within families it can have a devastating impact on the life of young people and result in them having to leave home.
Family conflict involves disagreement and relationship breakdown, lack of parenting support, and the need for mediation or reconciliation.
Conflicts can happen when parents/carers and/or young people are not coping with the challenges of blended/non-conventional families (eg when two parents/carers, each with their own children, decide to live together and have a combined family), or where there are tensions from differences between the culture of the family and Australian society.
Young women are more likely to have had experience of family violence and they usually have the responsibility for bringing up one or more children alone.
Violence within families can be perpetrated by parents/carers or other family members, or by the young person themselves. Young perpetrators of family violence are often linked with drug use.
Homeless young people often feel depressed, are anxious about their safety and future, don't believe their lives are worth anything, and can be traumatised from seeing and/or experiencing neglect and abuse.
As well as being the cause of homelessness, mental health issues can be the outcome of a young person becoming homeless. Physical health problems (eg due to poor nutrition, and lack of dental and general medical care) also arises from being homeless. This makes it harder for a young person to be healthy and feel well enough to find a stable home, get their life back on track and re-connect with their family, friends and community.
Problematic alcohol or drug use by a young person or others in the family (eg their parent/carer or a sibling) can cause young people to become homeless. Abuse of substances can also happen after becoming homeless.
Sometimes young people have been pressured by their family to leave home because of the family's financial problems or overcrowding. If they do not have another place to go to and/or enough income to rent accommodation, buy food and pay their bills, young people are at risk of becoming homeless.
When they become homeless, young people mostly use their networks to get alternative accommodation. This includes moving in with a partner, friends of a partner, grandparents, an older sibling, a cousin, staying at a friend’s place for a few nights (sleeping on the couch), or staying at a friend’s place longer (eg leasing, occupying or sharing a room for a few months). However, most young people are only able to stay at friends' and families' places for short periods until they are either asked to move on, or they have taken the initiative to leave, recognising pressures on the household due to their presence.
A result of the instability of such housing options means that young people often have to stay in a variety of other settings before finding sustainable accommodation. Other locations that young people stay in the months or weeks after leaving the family home include: on the street, parks, abandoned houses, car, shed, train stations, and in foster care.
Securing employment can be a problem if a young person does not have sufficient skills, knowledge and experience — sometimes they are forced to leave school early due to becoming homeless. If a young person already had a job, it can become difficult to keep that job without stable accommodation.
Young people often feel discriminated against when job seeking due to their age.
Young people without a job rely on below poverty line Centrelink payments for the majority of their income. Getting access to Centrelink entitlements without parental co-operation or a fixed address can also be difficult.
Junior wage levels create barriers for young people to be able to live independently. Young people who have experienced homelessness often haven’t been shown how to cook or plan a meal, how to pay an electricity bill or how to make and stick to a budget on a low income.
In the private housing market, finding enough money for bond and rent can be challenging without a stable income, leaving them very little for meals, transport, and other bills. The high cost of temporary accommodation (hotels/motels/caravan parks) while trying to move into more stable housing can make a young person's life very difficult.
Young people can also feel discriminated against because of their age based on perceptions that young people are irresponsible tenants.


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The Hanseatic City of Stralsund has so many historic sights and touristic attractions to offer that the visitor is spoilt for choice. The medieval town, with its great variety of religious and secular buildings in the northern German brick Gothic style, transports you back to Hanseatic times. These protected monuments were added to the UNESCO World Heritage List in June 2002.
The historic old town is surrounded by water, giving it an island feel, and offers the sailing enthusiast the rare pleasure of mooring his boat almost directly in front of the town hall. The port, ferries, sailors and cutters together with a striking skyline dominated by it`s churches lend the Hanseatic city of Stralsund its particular maritime flair.
Shipbuilding has been important for the economy of Stralsund for centuries. Today, the Volkswerft shipyard produces container ships in a modern compact shipbuilding centre. And investment is being made in new technologies for the future, through the University of applied sciences and the technology centre. Tourism is also a key element of the economy. The German Oceanographic Museum in the heart of the old town is the jewel in the crown of a spectrum of museums that attracts thousands of visitors to Stralsund every year.
This Hanseatic City of Stralsund is also viewed as the gateway to Scandinavia with its so-called royal ferry line to Trelleborg, steeped in tradition. In Stralsund, great care is being taken to preserve the spirit of the city's Hanseatic past - and this spirit is still very much alive for all to see.


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On arrival in Delhi , catch flight for Varanasi . You will be pick-up from the Varanasi Airport/Railway Station . Check in to the hotel.
After breakfast drive to Bodhgaya. Check-in to hotel. Have lunch. Later, go for Half Day Local Sightseeing of Bodhgaya . Cover, Lord Buddha Temple (Mahabodhi Temple) and Bodhi Tree under which Lord Buddha got Enlightenment .
The Mahabodhi Temple is a UNESCO World Heritage Site and world famous BBuddhist Pilgrimage place in India built adjacent to the site of Lord Buddha’s Enlightenment in 6th century AD. Return back to hotel stay overnight in Bodhgaya.
Later, drop to Bodhgaya Airport/Railway Station. Return with pleasant memories of Holy Trip to Lord Buddha’s Enlightenment place in Bodhgaya and first sermon place in Sarnath.


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Besides the formal face of bureaucracy, hosting thousands of young people thanks to the universities it features, it would be injustice to limit the entertainment life to honky tonks (pavyon) even Ankara doesn’t offer night life diversity as Istanbul. Hosting many coffee shops and bars where mostly students or workers spend time, Kizilay, Tunali Hilmi Street, Argantine Street and Tunisia Street are special places that show the colourful face of Ankara. Furthermore, luxury hotels and elegant restaurants increasing in numbers around Kavaklidere offers ideal options for the ones who want to experience the sophisticated atmosphere of Ankara.
Ankara takes its place among the touristic cities with its countless historical and touristic spots to see beside its heavy atmosphere as the capital city of country. There are countless Ankara Hotels that appeal to every budget and every taste in Ankara. Those who are in Ankara for business purposes can benefit from the wide range of equipped congress and meeting rooms while staying at Kavaklidere Hotels and also relieve their exhaustion in chic and luxurious rooms. Kızılcahamam Hotels stand out for those who want to benefit from Ankara's thermal springs and relax. Odamax.com is the way to find the best and cheapest Kizilcahamam Hotels for rejuvenation and benefitting from physiotherapy facilities. For those who want to live day and night like a local person in Ankara and who want to be a part of the city's culture, Kizilay Hotels offer options to please guests with different budgets.
1st Parliament Building, where the Republic was born, can be visited today as the War of Independence Museum. Memories of the Great Offensive draw a great deal of attention from every age in the collection that displays papers, gifts from various statesmen and letters reflecting spirit of the era belonging to Treaty of Lausanne and Treaty of Sevres. In the city featuring important parks and green areas like Ataturk Forest Farm, Guven Park, Kurtulus Park, Seymenler Park, Botanical Park and Kugulu Park, it’s possible to witness the great history in many important spots such as Ethnography Museum, Ankara State Museum of Painting and Sculpture. Bringing light to the history of Ankara, Ankara Castle and Beypazari Houses are some of the significant historical places in the city. Standing out with its cute wood structures, Beypazari houses offer a reflection of Ottoman daily life.
One of the most important landmarks of Ankara and even Turkey, Anitkabir (Ataturk’s Mausoleum) has a magnificent glory that can be seen from many points in the city. The memorial tomb of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, the First President of the Republic of Turkey, is located in Anittepe and is separated into two parts as Peace Park and the Hall of Honor (location of Ataturk’s tomb). Visited by hundreds of thousands on November 10 and official holidays every year, Anitkabir is the first place you need to see in Ankara. Shown among the important museums in Europe, Anatolian Civilizations Museum displays a panorama of Anatolian civilizations from past to present. A wide collection ranging from first tools made by humans to the first map of the world is open to the visitors in the museum.
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Sürekli olarak gittiğim bir tesis konumu iyi personelleri çok ilgili sessiz sakin kafa dinleyebileceğimiz bir tesis.
Ekip muhteşem. Çocuklarla gittik biz çok memnun kaldık. Hizmet çok iyiydi. Konumda iyiydi. Temizlikte güzeldi.
Temiz bir tesisti. Müşteri memnuniyetine önem veriyorlardı. Personelleri ilgiliydi. Konum olarak işime yakındı.


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Jill McGown, who has died aged 59 from cancer, was one of the generation of crime writers who shifted the genre firmly into the contemporary world. Although she held fast to the traditional skill of well-crafted plots, she brought a modern perspective to characters and situations, creating a series of thoughtful and engaging police procedurals.
She will be best remembered for the 13 novels featuring Chief Inspector Danny Lloyd and Sergeant Judy Hill. Theirs was a relationship that encompassed the personal as well as the professional, and Jill's deft handling of its development was one of the keynote elements of the books. Interestingly, it was not until Carlton's adaptation of A Shred of Evidence in 2001 that Lloyd acquired a first name. In the books, he was always plain Lloyd.
Her work was critically acclaimed, and many of her peers believe she never achieved the level of commercial success she deserved. The TV adaptation, Lloyd and Hill, was never developed beyond its pilot, despite strong performances from Philip Glenister and Michelle Collins.
Jill was born in Campbeltown on the Mull of Kintyre, the daughter of a fisherman and a secretary. When she was 10, the failure of Scottish herring fishing forced the family to move to Corby, a Northamptonshire village then being transformed by the development of the huge iron and steelworks. Much of the workforce consisted of displaced Scots. Jill said of her adopted home: "[It] has Celtic and Rangers supporters' clubs, an annual highland gathering and an accent which has undeniable Scottish overtones, regardless of the forebears of the speaker, who might be Londoners or Lithuanians." Certainly, Jill never lost her own accent even though she would never again live anywhere but the house her family moved to in 1957.
After junior school, she attended Corby grammar school, where her Latin teacher was Colin Dexter, later creator of the Inspector Morse novels. Jill went on to Kettering technical college, leaving with few formal qualifications.
She worked as a secretary for Corby development corporation, a firm of solicitors and finally British Steel, where she ended up as a counsellor in their voluntary redundancy programme. Eventually, she was made redundant herself. She later said: "So there I was with my redundancy pay and a choice. I could look for another job in a town that had 25% unemployment, or I could take the opportunity to write a novel. I am not adventurous, but this adventure had been thrust upon me and I chose to write the novel."
Jill was always happy to mix with other writers and meet her fans. Invariably accompanied by her sister Una, she was a familiar face at conventions and festivals. In a world not short of overweening egos, Jill was an unassuming and amusing conversationalist, with the gift of a sharp but never cruel wit.
She is survived by her two sisters, Una and Patti, her niece Katy and great-niece Georgia.

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Humana last Wednesday announced that it was giving its employer group segment access to a brand-new digital coaching tool from Fitbit called Fitbit Care.
Wearables technology pioneer Fitbit launched the Fitbit Care on the same day. The technology allows users track health metrics like physical activity, sleep and heart rate, access guided workouts, communicate with other members and work towards health goals with a coach.
Jeff Reid, Humana’s senior vice president of Wellness Solutions in a statement said that the tools would allow the insurer to “offer even more personalized, meaningful support to our members who are focused on specific health goals, such as smoking cessation or weight loss, or the management or prevention of chronic conditions.
Fitbit’s intuitive technology and human coaches are powerful tools to engage and motivate members, creating more frequent, convenient touch points that support our members beyond the walls of a doctor’s office,” he added.
Humana says five million of its members will be able to use Fitbit Care. However, a 2017 study in the Annals of Internal Medicine found just 1.2% of people in Humana’s wellness program use a fitness tracker, though the majority of those members choose Fitbit over other brands. Fitbit’s partnership with Humana began in 2013.

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Serval - Recurrent Macular Edema in Central Retinal Vein Occlusion Treated with Intravitreal Ranibizumab using a Modified Treat and Extend Regimen.
Recurrent Macular Edema in Central Retinal Vein Occlusion Treated with Intravitreal Ranibizumab using a Modified Treat and Extend Regimen.
Dirani A., Mantel I., Ambresin A.
Background: The aim of this study was to evaluate the stability over time of the individually defined interval of intravitreal ranibizumab injection (IVR) for the treatment of recurrent macular edema (ME) in central retinal vein occlusion (CRVO). Patients and Methods: A case series of treatment naïve patients followed in the Jules Gonin Eye Hospital for macular edema due to central retinal vein occlusion is presented. Patients were treated monthly with IVR until complete absence of fluid on qualitative SD-OCT with a minimum of 5 monthly IVR. Thereafter, they were followed according to a modified treat and extend regimen (mTER). Results: Twelve eyes (12 patients) with ME due to CRVO were included. The mean follow-up period was 31.3 months. Analysis showed that best corrected visual acuity (BCVA), central macular thickness and qualitative spectral domain optical coherence tomography (SD-OCT) showed comparable results under monthly interval, after titration of an individualized interval and when performed in a series. 78 % of treating intervals were within ± 2 weeks of the first individually adjusted interval. The mean first defined interval was 4.3 weeks and the mean interval over time was 5.5 weeks (p = 0.003). There was a trend towards longer interval over time. Conclusion: The adjusted interval of retreatment of patients with ME due to CRVO showed a high stability with a trend toward longer duration over time. An mTER regimen seems to be valuable to follow patients with ME with good stabilization of VA.

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Callum Hudson-Odoi has signed his first professional contract at Chelsea less than a month after being part of the England under-17s side that won the World Cup in India.
The forward is capable of playing anywhere across the attack and has been scoring and creating goals for the Blues youth teams since he joined as an under-8.
Hudson-Odoi was a strong contender for man of the match in the under-17 World Cup final last month after providing three assists from the left wing as England thrashed Spain 5-2.
Chelsea have handed a three-year contract to the 17-year-old which is the maximum length that can be offered to a player signing their first professional deal.
The youngster will remain in the Chelsea youth set up at least until he turns 18 next October, at which point he could then be sent out on loan to Vitesse or another club.
Callum Hudson-Odoi is emerging as one of the brightest young talents in English football and with the way he has progressed over the past year, Chelsea fans can be excited by the prospect they have in their youth team. Should Hudson-Odoi continue to progress at the rate he is currently then Blues fans can expect him to have made his first team debut before the end of this professional deal that he has just signed.


text: I’ve just posted an update regarding noncardiac chest pain. Oesophageal disorders, particularly GORD, account for the majority of cases of noncardiac chest pain. A patient presenting with chest pain will need to have cardiac causes excluded. Some clinical features which suggest an oesophageal rather than cardiac cause include chest pain which is nonexertional, long lasting, meal related and disruptive of sleep. Once chest pain is considered noncardiac, an empirical trial of high dose PPI for 4-6 weeks may be considered. If a patient does not respond to empirical treatment with PPI, consider further assessment with 24 hour pH probe and oesophageal manometry.


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In most Western cultures, eye contact is considered a basic ingredient of effective communication. When we talk, we look each other in the eye. Do your conversational partners the courtesy of turning to face them. Put aside papers, books, the phone and other distractions. Look at them, even if they don’t look at you. Shyness, uncertainty, shame, guilt, or other emotions, along with cultural taboos, can inhibit eye contact in some people under some circumstances. Excuse the other guy, but stay focused yourself.
Mentally screen out distractions, like background activity and noise. Don’t be distracted by your own thoughts, feelings, or biases.
Listen without judging the other person or mentally criticizing the things he/she tells you. Listen without jumping to conclusions. Remember that the speaker is using language to represent the thoughts and feelings inside his/her brain. You don’t know what those thoughts and feelings are and the only way you’ll find out is by listening. Don’t be a sentence-grabber by interrupting and finishing another person’s sentences: chances are, you’ll land way off base, because you’ll be following your own train of thought without learning, where the speaker’s thoughts were heading to.
We all think and speak at different rates. If you are a quick thinker and an agile talker, the burden is on you to relax your pace for the slower communicator.
At lunch, a colleague is excitedly telling you about her trip to Vermont and all the wonderful things she did and saw. In the course of this chronicle, she mentions that she spent some time with a mutual friend. You jump in with, “Oh, I haven’t heard from Alice in ages. How is she?” and, just like that, discussion shifts to Alice and her divorce, and the poor kids, which leads to a comparison of custody laws, and before you know it an hour is gone and Vermont is a distant memory.
This particular conversational affront happens all the time. Our questions lead people in directions that have nothing to do with where they thought they were going. Sometimes we work our way back to the original topic, but very often we don’t.
Face to face with a person, you can detect enthusiasm, boredom, or irritation very quickly in the expression around the eyes, the set of the mouth, the slope of the shoulders. These are clues you can’t ignore. When listening, remember that words convey only a fraction of the message.
From What Are You Not Saying?
This entry was posted in Stories, Thoughts and tagged Communication, Conversation, listening, Understanding.
Happy weekend to you too. 🙂 I’m a terrible listener myself, so i found these points very useful and now I’m using this post as a reminder to myself hoping to develop better listening skills. Not a very easy task I should admit.
I met some friends yesterday and i tried some of the steps from this post. I was impressed with its results.
I consider myself a bad listener and too much talkative, sometimes.
But when i started listening more yesterday, i realized this post suits many.
And at the end of the meet i realized how important it was to listen properly. This is such a wonderful share.
Very interesting post..I ve shared it on Twitter….
Listening to the words is important in communication, but, as you said, words express thoughts and emotions and so we must also listen to the energies and feelings words express in non-verbal ways, if we care to understand what is being said and why. I envy your graphics.
Very good point, Jean. Love your comment.
Great article. I’m going to reblog!
Thank you Otrazhenie, life is about relationship on so many levels the importance of knowing the art of listening when it comes communication is vital. I appreciate your writing this. I can see why my communication brakes down sometimes I have not always been a good listener.
Don’t worry, Dove You, I’m also not a naturally good listener myself. I wrote this post as a reminder for myself to stop, think and listen before opening a mouth to talk 🙂 Glad that you found it helpful too.
Nice job. I studied psychology and counseling in college and remember the interviewer/interviewee exercises. You cover a lot of great ideas about active listening. I would also add that it is important to make open-ended (in order to promote conversation), not just closed-ended statements (such as yes or no). Thanks for sharing this post with me.

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San Dimas, CA – Dr. Rodney T. Smith today released a study analyzing Claremont’s proposed takeover of the Claremont Water System. Dr. Smith is a former economics professor at Claremont McKenna College who specializes in water resources. The report examines the financial commitments the city and its taxpayers would assume in a takeover of the system, as well as the technical and operational implications of a takeover.
The report was commissioned by Golden State Water Company (Golden State), which owns and operates the Claremont Water System. City officials are considering whether to use the power of eminent domain to take the system from Golden State.
“My analysis is based on my training as an economist with more than 30 years of experience, and I have provided similar analyses to many water companies, both private and public,” Dr. Smith added.


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Very unique and fun! great embroidery.
Fabulous. It makes me smile.
It all started with a sock monkey because I didn't want to throw out my favourite pair of socks. And then I made sock monkeys for everyone I knew. So I started to sell them because there's only so many sock monkeys one person needs.
But a funny thing happened while I was making those sock monkeys: I taught myself to embroider in order to give them faces and baby friendly eyes and I fell in love with embroidery. So I started playing around with embroidered pieces and the Canadian Heritage Minutes series was born. It snowballed from there.
While embroidery is my passion, my day job is in marketing where I do web content and I'm the mom of a busy toddler. I spend my evenings with my stitching after I put that toddler to bed and turn on Netflix or a podcast. I often find my embroidery inspiration in what I'm watching or listening to.
An East coast native, I got my start at Halifax Crafters before moving to Kitchener. When I'm not stitching, you can find me at my day job as a web content strategist, reading YA novels, or binge watching my latest Netflix obsession.
Everything is created by me, by hand and I hope you love what you buy. While all sales are final, I really want you to be happy. If your item is faulty in some way, I would happily discuss a refund or exchange. Refunds and exchanges must be made within 10 days of receiving the product.
I'd also love to hear all about why you like what you bought. Nice reviews make me happy.
All payments are made through Etsy. Etsy accepts credit, debit, PayPal and Etsy gift cards.
I ship to Canada and the US using Canada Post. Items will be dropped off to the post office within five business days of ordering.
If you are paying by PayPal, I ship to your PayPal address. Double check that it's correct when processing payment so I send it to the right address (I've missed this step before). If you'd like your item sent to another address (yay gifts!) please let me know when processing payment in the 'notes to seller' so I can make sure it goes where it needs to be.
Shipping within Canada usually takes 5-10 business days depending on where you live.
Standard shipping via Canada Post DOES NOT include tracking, insurance or guaranteed delivery date. If you'd like these options you can upgrade when placing your order add the XPressPost shipping option or contact me. I can create a custom listing for you.
Shipping to the USA usually takes 2-3 weeks depending on where you live. All parcels must go through Customs and any import fees, duties and taxes incurred as a result of international purchases are the responsibility of the buyer. I cannot mark items as "gifts".
Etsy doesn't adjust shipping & handling if you are ordering more than one piece. I'll refund you the difference.
Every piece is designed by me and stitched by me. I work hard to make high-quality, lovely pieces, but keep in mind that each one is unique and organic by nature.
Unfortunately, I'm not able to do customized pieces at this time.
I'm not looking to do retail or wholesale at this time. I'd love to do it in the future, but right now my focus is on the shop and craft shows.
I'm in the KW area, do I need to pay shipping?
If you're in KW, we can definitely arrange for free pick-up or delivery. Message me before purchasing and we'll work something out.


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I dream I'm at a beach, near an inlet. I am with other people. We have large wooden barrels. One is full of sand and warm water. I stand in it and it is healing for my legs.
Eventually my water cools down and I want to replace it with hot water. I dump it out and find lots of very large (l ft. across) snails. How could they have been in there without my knowing? I throw them out. Maybe a few small ones remain. I fill up the barrel with more hot water and sand.
I began this painting as a meditation on the symbol of the snail. It seemed very ancient and to signify turning inward--appropriate for winter, when I painted it.
I am on a beach with Hank, my husband. I am about to give birth and ask him to catch the baby. The baby's head comes out. It is my son Leon, not looking newborn but about one year old: smiling, lively, full of beaming energy, radiant. It is again the image of the hope, the renewal of life.


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What will I do when I get back to the office?
The Physics and Astronomy New Faculty Workshop will be held June 12 -15 in Greenbelt, MD. The workshop introduces the faculty members to effective and easy-to-implement interactive engagement teaching methods as well as other to grant-writing best practices and plans for preparing for tenure and promotion decisions.
Hilborn: What will I do when I get back to the office?
Since 1996, the American Association of Physics Teachers has sponsored workshops designed to help new faculty at research and four-year institutions understand how to become more effective educators and support their quest to gain tenure.
Because of the pressure to establish their credentials in research or other scholarly activities, new faculty may be tempted to postpone or ignore the development of teaching proficiency. They may receive direct or subtle messages suggesting that only a focus on research will result in career advancement, and there is often a lack of mentors or role models who demonstrate dedication and enthusiasm for teaching.
Similar signals are transmitted to graduate students who may be in training for academic careers. Moreover, because the research universities include many of our large public institutions, a large number of undergraduates may suffer as a result of inadequate preparation of new faculty for teaching.
Data suggest that this inadequate attention to teaching, especially in introductory science and math courses, is responsible for driving students away from undergraduate majors in science, mathematics and engineering.
To improve the quality of physics teaching on a national scale, AAPT created the New Faculty Workshop. Each workshop presents a small number of techniques that have proven to be effective in a variety of environments. These tactics can be implemented with minimal time and effort, thus allowing new faculty to devote more of their attention to research and scholarship.
In 2002, the American Physical Society and the American Astronomical Society joined with AAPT to expand the reach of this program. Financial support is provided by the National Science Foundation.
Each spring and fall, department chairs at research and four-year institutions are asked to nominate tenure-track faculty in the first few years of their initial appointment. The ideal candidate would have a year or two of teaching experience so that they are aware of the challenges of the first year of teaching.
Participation continues to increase, with numbers reaching nearly 100 at each workshop. The program has grown in popularity, and for the last several years many qualified participants have had to be turned away and placed on a waiting list for the next workshop.
Many department chairs have seen the positive effect that participation in the workshop has had on their new faculty, and have sent more people in subsequent years.
The department chair is asked to verify that the institution will pay for the participant’s travel to the workshop, which is usually held at the American Center for Physics in College Park, MD. A grant from the National Science Foundation pays participant costs for lodging and meals.
This program is funded by grants # DUE-0813481, DUE-0121384, and DUE-9554738 from the National Science Foundation.