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Character assignations call it what you like. But when people like that wish me harm openly..I take that character seriously if in my area..close proximity..long distance or not. That is mere cruel actions of one we find excuse for what..wished my death in a plane crash. I travel on holiday very soon.
Yes, I am a woman..yes..have a great deal of patience, empathy, compassion..however my own woman limits go so far.. so sick it up to hatred too..a woman takes another too far..yep I am allowed as a woman to let my own hair down..and be a woman.. oops in my genes..
As for what is important in life. What scep you feel is important in life matters.. much more than ones feelings.. should I feel sorry when you move away from your home..displaced..listen to government who rules your mind..but not your heart. Where is that expression come from. Home..heart best. Yep important..you fight for your freedom..your home..you fight your parliment..that not all that matters in life..relationships are built on trial..errors..life is for living..not the dead..life is learning, exposing one self to challenges..picking your self up..be better moving forward. Emotions allowed..shared… your political worries and woes..views..of life.. only. Not think so..more than politics in my opinion. Politics will always be politics. The beauty of life..you live.. we design it for each of us when things not work out beauty of life we make those changes for us. Not politics..good luck.. life short..dont get wrapped up in politics it will give you heart palpitation. U live shorter.
Lol linda,iv seen you very passanonate about polotics when it has anything to do with the usa.I know you dont hate anyone though.I dont hate anyone either,infact when it comes to mizzy,i just wish she would get it together.I really cant have her taking the piss out of me because she thinks shes that little bit brighter than me.With me she was hedging her bets,i was ok to rant off to but not to have anything to do with her chat room or be in the know with how things were going.Funny that i got the blame for spreading things about the chatroom when i hadent been in or knew that much about it all.Fact is i had much problems of my own to think about.Anyways thats by the by.I just want to think she is well and is getting the help she needs.
Linda, I wasn’t referring to you when I said I’d had enough of this rubbish.
But I did answer you at length.
As Jamie says in a good post, you’re very interested in politics yourself.
I’m also passionately interested in poetry.
And I am not going to try to drive anyone out of the boards by isolating them. I wouldn’t do it to Jamie when it happened to her (and it happened to her bigtime), nor you, Linda, with all the lies and nasty flaming that surrounded you, and I’m not going to with the dodger. I chat to Tracy (when I bump into her) and I’ll chat to the dodger (if I ever bump into her). I’ve never made any secret about any of that.
I assume that you’ve not found anything to disagree with in my answer to you, so that’s settled.
If you have, then just write it and I’ll try to answer.
Thank you jamief and scep.
You are right jamief in all honesty I do not have a mean bone in my body and most often do get those who need a sounding board come after me which I attract like magnets. Take it to degree..hee. you both know what I mean..
So that how I got involved and found the passion to fight for me..my neighbors..our seniors…our children.
This person I fought with several years ago and developers was our now President of the U.s.a. yes I laugh when people don’t understand these people live some where before the White House. Mine happens to have lived 25-30 years 15 minute drive from me. Nope as a few people have said I had an affair with trump..too funny… I have had big fights with his developers..and trust me never forgot me..or forget me still.
Glad we tried to be adults here.
Just out of intrest skep I was wondering what food you are going to stockpile?
Strange question to ask here, milky.
I’m not intending to stockpile any food, as I already said on another thread, but you wouldn’t believe what foods some people are stockpiling.
Mind you, as Brexit Day nears, if the no-deal option is still on the table, I’d be worried about not stockpiling food in case everyone else is about to stockpile, if you understand me.
People don’t half talk porkies in here.


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Anyone flying out of France with EasyJet on New Year's Day may have to rearrange their travel plans after the budget airline was forced to cancel dozens of flights due to industrial action by cabin crew. Here's a list of the 70 affected flights.
The airline announced on Tuesday that it was cancelling 70 flights from and to various airports in France after two unions called on cabin crew to strike.
In all, 24 flights due to depart from Charles de Gaulle airport in Paris have been scrapped, 14 from Orly airport to the south of the capital, 20 from Lyon, six from Nice, four from Toulouse and two from Lille.
The strike will begin midnight on Wednesday and end at midnight on New Year's Day.
The travel disruption is more bad news for easyJet passengers who faced similar problems on Boxing Day (December 26th) when 38 flights were cancelled because of industrial action.
The workers are upset over frequent last-minute changes to their schedules and have demanded a larger share of the company's profits.
EasyJet employs some 600 flight attendants among its roughly 1,000 workers in France.
The unions complain that easyJet is making too many last minute changes to the schedules of cabin crew staff, and oppose making bonus payments dependent upon customer satisfaction when much of the passenger experience is determined by check-in and luggage handling that is outsourced to other companies.
EasyJet's boss in France Francois Bacchetta has said he understands the "frustration" of the cabin staff and added that the company was working on this "very complex" issue.
The airline has been able to minimise disruption by bringing in cabin crew from the UK.
Eric Cunnac of the Unac union said the airline's use on Friday of British cabin crews on French flights "was a way of breaking the strike".
SNPNC-FO representative Laurent Nicolas complained that easyJet had specially flown in replacement cabin crews and had offered them up to €140 to work the French flights.
An easyJet spokesman confirmed it had flown in British cabin crew staff who had volunteered to work.
Angry over salaries and work schedules, flight attendants of the French branch of low-cost airline EasyJet announced on Friday that they would take strike action on 25 and 26 December.
However, as there are no flights scheduled for Christmas day, the walkout will only affect travellers flying on 26 December.
Aviation workers are legally obliged to announce strike action 48 hours in advance, so EasyJet said it would know the extent of cancellations on Tuesday.
But general director François Bacchetta told AFP agency the company expected "less than half of flights" to be cancelled.
"On Monday, we will pre-emptively cancel a certain number of flights in order to transfer passengers, so they can adjust their plans," he said.
Workers are upset over schedules that "can change twenty times per month", making "family life totally impossible", said Laurent Nicolas of the SNPNC-FO flight attendants' union.
Bacchetta acknowledged the demands of the industry were "complicated" and that he understood the "frustration" of workers.
But he was less lenient with protests over salaries, which he said were currently entering annual negotiations.
EasyJet employs about 1,000 people in France, including 600 flight attendants.
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A drink driver has been jailed for six years for a fatal hit and run where he mowed down a police worker's mother at speeds of up to 100mph.
A court heard Paul Tomlinson, 33, was speeding and swerving in and out of traffic and driving so badly at the time of the crash that another motorist called police shortly before he hit and killed Susan Smythe.
The crash took place at a pedestrian crossing as she made her way home from playing bingo at around 9.45pm on September 9 in Stretford, Greater Manchester.
Callous Tomlinson has today been slammed by the victim's family after gave a thumbs up from the deck before he was led away to begin his prison sentence.
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His girlfriend, Shelby Keedy, who had been screaming and begging him to slow down and stop, fled his house to a nearby police patrol and told officers her boyfriend had been driving the car which killed Miss Smythe.
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He was banned from driving for eight years.
Passing sentence Judge Stuart Driver QC said: 'Susan Smythe was an innocent pedestrian. The sudden and unnecessary end to her life is a terrible loss to her family and friends.
'No words of this court can soften the bereavement and no sentence imposed can change what has happened.
Earlier the court heard Tomlinson had picked up his girlfriend near Manchester city centre and was weaving in and out of traffic, travelling at 'motorway speeds' through built-up areas of the city.
As his passenger begged him to slow down he 'smirked' at her and began to race another driver, the court heard.
Police traced him quickly after the crash when a witness passed on a partial registration plate for his vehicle, and also used CCTV images.
Richard Littler, mitigating, said the defendant had only a single previous conviction and only three points on his licence and was otherwise of good character and from a respectable family.
Mr Littler added: 'This is an offence which is totally out of character. This will be his first experience of a prison sentence and he will inevitably find that difficult.
Gail O'Brien, senior crown prosecutor for CPS North West, said: 'Tomlinson partook in a series of dangerous manoeuvres, overtaking and undertaking other vehicles at speed and had a near-miss with a car a short time before he hit Mrs Smythe.
'He showed no signs of slowing down as he approached the crossing and even after his car threw her in the air, he proceeded to drive at speed from the scene, leaving her on the road with catastrophic head injuries which proved to be fatal.
Today in court he thanked the judge and gave a thumbs up to his family from the dock as he learned he could free in just three years.
He was also banned from the roads for eight years. The maximum sentence he could have faced is 14 years in jail.
After the case Ms Smythe's sister Kathleen Condon, 59, said: 'I don't feel like Susan's got any justice - the fact this man put his thumbs up in court is about as disrespectful to us as you could be.
She added: 'The case all seemed to be about him and his family. Susan was not spoken about at all in court.
'She was a lovely, bubbly person. She would have turned 60 in January and we would have had a family party but we will just have to go out on our own and celebrate her life.

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Almost perfect timing, except that Ms. Randi, as I noted yesterday (speaking of timing), had already bowed to Bloomberg on bonus pay for test scores before the economy went south.
“Randi said she was willing to talk about these things,” said Kate Walsh, president of the National Council on Teacher Quality, a nonprofit group that seeks to increase the number of effective teachers. “But from my experience, the A.F.T. and its locals have always been willing to talk about tough issues. The problem is that they’re not often willing to give in on them.” . . . .
And where did Dillon get that description of NCTQ, the "nonprofit group that seeks to increase the number of effective teachers."??? More appropriate would have been the nonprofit group (which includes Andy Rotherham) that seeks to make schools to profit corporations, or the nonprofit group that seeks to replace professionally-prepared teachers with non-prepared warm bodies with bachelors degrees? How about the nonprofit group that used Federal grant money to illegally pump their "merit pay" and anti-ed school propaganda into the editorial pages of the nation's newspapers? And they still haven't paid the money back, as demanded in the OIG report (Inspector General's report Word version).
Here is part of an earlier piece I did on Kate Walsh, who has spent the Bush years trying every angle to crush the teaching profession. Sadly it looks like she and her minions might have found a union president who can help in the process.


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text: Introduction: Translating Emergency Knowledge for Kids (TREKK) was established to address a knowledge-to-practice gap in the emergency care of children. An Evidence Repository (guidelines, Cochrane systematic reviews, key studies) and Bottom Line Recommendations (diagnosis and treatment guidance) were developed based on stakeholder feedback. In this study, we used blogs and Twitter to promote selected Cochrane Summaries, TREKK Evidence Repository and Bottom Line Recommendations. Methods: We selected and reproduced 12 Cochrane summaries using a blogging module on the TREKK website. Key points from the summaries were shared via Twitter messages containing hyperlinks to blog posts, topic areas in the Evidence Repository, Bottom Line Recommendations, and Cochrane Summaries or systematic reviews. We published one blog post and 21 Twitter messages per week for 12 weeks and collected related Twitter, web page and link analytics. Alternative social media metrics (altmetrics) for promoted Cochrane systematic reviews were tracked. Results: The TREKK Twitter account gained 69 new followers (15.3% increase), and its messages were re-tweeted 125 times. Fifty-eight traceable URLs in the Twitter messages were clicked 600 times. The 12 blog posts received 6,428 page visits, 8 Bottom line Recommendations were accessed 566 times, and 8 topic areas in the Evidence Repository were visited 2,299 times. On average, the altmetrics' scores of Cochrane systematic reviews increased by an average of 10 points (46.2%). Discussion: The social media campaign grew TREKK's online followers and directed web traffic to trekk.ca. Quantitative evidence collected from a variety of web analytics support blogging and tweeting as effective knowledge dissemination strategies.


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There are US eyewitnesses, who said they saw uniformed personal for the US burning the electra at Aslito airfield, on Saipan. It had been stored in a hangar there, they say.
I'd love to read their stories (I hope it was all written down) and have some expert combine those with reports of the Japanese capturing them to give us the complete picture. And, was it THE plane or just "a" plane? Did they say with certainty that it was actually her plane? Why would the Japanese remove the plane and store it in a hanger anyway?
Why would they bother? Maybe they did, but I'm just wondering.
Just finished watching the documentary. I thought it was compelling and put forth some convincing evidence to this theory, I just think it's outrageous that every time bones or skeletons are found and tested they end up disappearing or "lost." It's ridiculous. If the bone fragments from the last dig at the grave site had not gone missing they could have been tested for DNA the way it is done today. I'm not surprised that on the third dig nothing could be found. Only DNA identification can prove any theory one way or another.
The program was much better than I expected. I'm usually very skeptical of these things but I think they are right. It was chilling to hear the interviews of the eyewitnesses. And things that matched up, like the medical person who treated the man for a cut on his forehead and for his knee while I think one of the last messages that Amelia had managed to send was to say that he had a "bruised knee."
Everything on the program seemed to add up that they were captured by the Japanese and held as spies.
I'll add something extra that I just learned. My husband who is from England went to a lecture back around 1970. The theory back then by the researcher who was giving the lecture was the same as what we heard tonight! He had gone there and interviewed people way back then. He had pictures of those metal wheels on the island that were said to have been used by the Japanese to move the plane. But his pictures were older and they showed actual planks lying on top of the wheels. He is said to have probably written a book about this--all in England though. Not here.
So the mystery is probably solved. The Japanese kept quiet and are still keeping quiet. Same with the Americans. Could the Americans have rescued her? We weren't actually at war yet.
Oh--I was wondering why the Japanese wanted to keep the plane. My husband said that it was due to the fact that American technology was way ahead of Japanese and they wanted to study it. I wonder why they destroyed it. Quite a good program--thank you, OP, for the reminder.
I can understand the their dissapearence after the ditching being hidden by authorities, given the Japanese didn't know they were watching the Japanese controlled area. There would have been very little chance of rescue, and the Japanese would have reacted in some way to knowing how close the Americans were and cost many more lives. But later, when they'd died and it wasn't much of a surprise no attempts to retrieve them, why take their bones from this grave? Or, was this much like the reason the US didn't move when it was suspected they'd been captured. Our new allies, the Soviets, were not going to last as allies after the war. Remember, Japan got a much easier deal when the war ended because the new enemy was the Commie Reds, and the new civilian government of Japan was on our side. So we couldn't accuse them of allowing someone like Erhart to die locked in a cage anymore.
My dad fought in the Pacific the whole war, and he never had much of anything good to say about Japan even if they were our good friends. And he didn't call them Japanese either. He fought the whole war in active combat too, and until you couldn't get US made things, we did not buy anything made in Japan either.
What I don't get is now, getting on a century later, the dead cannot be allowed to rest and their story told.
The program was very interesting to say the least and the stamps from the Marshall island with the eye witness accounts are pretty strong.
I took it as AE and her navigator were executed by the Japanese for assuming they were spies.
I'm still not sure what to think of that program but the picture analysis found that the picture was not fake. The point that many amateur radio picked a message from her and that the ONI said that she was captured as a POW etc..
I'm hoping they'll post the video online soon, as I don't have access to the History channel right now.
My dad fought in the Pacific the whole war too. Signalman on an LST . Needless to say he didn't have any kind words to say about them either.
I took away from any eyewitness account that Amelia was beheaded.
Too bad the US government did not want their code breaking revealed.
Nuts, I wanted to watch this but forgot to record it. Hopefully I can catch it later.
I will say, the reason these kind of shows are compelling is they work backwards from the premise they want to prove, rather than forward strictly from facts. They can ignore what doesn't fit their narrative and manipulate things to fit. Still want to see what's up here.
Not positive about 1937, but by 1941 the Japanese Zero was far superior to anything the Americans had.

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Beginning in the 2015-2016 school year, the Community School initiative represents a $100 million investment in 130 schools. Ninety-four of these schools are also Renewal Schools, the City's key strategy for rapid academic improvement in struggling schools. As of August 2018, there are now 247 NYC Community Schools. See here for an overview of NYC Community Schools.
The New York City Department of Education envisions the expansion of Community Schools as a central strategy for achieving an equitable educational system. The initiative builds off of the Department of Education’s (DOE’s) Framework for Great Schools and is aligned with the administration’s various efforts focused on youth and families, coming on the heels of expanding full-day pre-kindergarten to every four-year-old and offering afterschool programs to every middle schools student.
With equity as a key driver, the administration will develop the next generation of Community Schools and establish the systems and structures to ensure they address inequality in sustainable ways. The programs and interventions provided in Community Schools are evidence-based strategies to close the achievement gap by expanding opportunities for young people. They prepare students—and families—to enter school on the right foot. By increasing student time in the classroom, as well as in the local museum, on the playing field, and in the chess club, Community Schools help prepare students to be college and career ready.
Read Chancellor Carranza's Moving Toward a More Equitable School System: Lessons Learned from My Listening Tour, in which he discusses some of the strengths of New York City schools and the importance of community involvement and community voice.
For more information, please contact Community Schools at communityschools@schools.nyc.gov.


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The only thing I see going on at Disney's Hollywood Studios during Memorial Day WEEKEND will be Star Wars Weekends. However, it is important to point out that the Star Wars festivities will not carry over to Memorial Day.
While the crowds will be busy for any Disney Theme Park on Memorial Day, it should not be "wall-to-wall" people. My recommendation is to get there when Disney's Hollywood Studios opens and make as many MAGICAL memories as you can until the big crowds start arriving around 10:30 AM.

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Jessyka Allen had a good life, until it wasn't anymore. Finding herself in an impossible situation, with no noticeable way out, her job was an escape. Working at the small bar and grill put her in contact with some wonderful people, who Jess figured couldn't ever understand what she was going through.
So different but so good!!
Oh how I loved this story. This one stand-alone is a perfect blend of friends to lovers and military romance. Kason “Benny” Sawyer knew there was something going on with Jessyka. Jess has been their waitress at Aces for years so he could tell something wasn’t right. When he goes to check on her one night he learns more than he bargains for. Jessyka was in a bad place feeling trapped in a situation. She needed a friend and Kason became that friend.
As things develop between them, feelings develop and they become more than friends. He becomes her anchor as she becomes his everything. This book has the usual action and suspense that Susan Stoker is known for but it also has a bit of twist.
What made the experience of listening to Protecting Jessyka the most enjoyable?
I love this series but I'm glad I waited to finish the series till I could get the last few books on audio. I know this may seem weird to some but I started this series by listening to it on audio and really wanted to finish it that way so I had to wait a bit to finish. Susan did not disappoint me at all and this has become one of my favorites of her's that I've read. With every book I've become more and more in love with this family/team she has created for this series. They may have started as a team but along the way they have become a family. I love how Jessyka had to protect Bennie and although she didn't like what she had to do she did it anyways to save her man.
The narrator Susan uses for this series does an outstanding job and when I'm listening to the man's voice in the story I never think that is a women talking like a man I just think how much I'm enjoying this book.
I read this book when it was first released and loved it. The audio gave me a chance to dive back into a familiar favorite. Bloom is a wonderful narrator so she made this a delightful reread for me!
One Massive Defect destroyed the story!
I have enjoyed the series even though it is over the top, filled with high school mentality overly possessive alpha-male heroes, tough but battered females who fall in perfect love (with multiple orgasims every hour) and bad guys that are the lowest of the low!
The storylines are a bit far-fetched but keeps you rooting for the main characters. Certain portions with make you laugh, shout out, tear up or get a bit excited! All the major characters in this series are great and learn to work together, gain trust, risk it all and become family!
Why two stars for what is a 4.5 star series? Without giving away anything, a Seal will never ignore his training or rush into a situation without obtaining Intel first... especially when members of his team are at the given location! I almost stopped listening at that point but decided to finish!
Susan, please find a different way for the bad guys to gain control other than the soldiers blatantly ignoring the most basic part of their training. You obviously have an amazing amount of love and respect for the military which is one of the reasons that I love your novels. As a former Marine, it means a lot to me!
If you like military hero romance novels, Susan is a great author to read. 30 seconds of this book knocked it from 5 stars to 2 stars!
I really like these stories but can't stand the whiny narrator!! I have tried & tried to listen to them but can't because is the female narrator!
Would you listen to Protecting Jessyka again? Why?
I would. This story had a tiny bit of a different spin with the others. It also showed the good guys didn't always follow the good guy rules with civilians. Also, it wasn't instant attraction. The team had been around Jessyka for a long time and it when it became clear she needed help did one step up to help her.
She is a very good narrator and her voice inflection really helps the feeling of the story.
I enjoyed this book like all the others and it was nice to see one of the team's women had a physical disability that didn't help her appearance but would have made any other man think twice. Disabilities on women aren't usually front and center - she was a real character, not a runway model.
Loving this series. Totally worth the credit. Lots of action and great romance. Stoker's leads are smart, sassy women and hot sweet alpha males.
Seals are always hot, but there's nothing like a hard as nails, take charge woman. Jessyka, despite physical disabilities was smart and used those sharp wits to save herself and her man from a psycho. Don't miss her story.
Another great Stoker SEAL of Protection book. I highly recommend listening to the books in order.
You'll have to read/ listen to Protecting the Future to finally learn the source of Benny's nickname.
I love the story, the characters, but too much bedroom for me. ( yes it said it before I got it) I fast forward past that part. But I also cried because the book was that good. I would love to see more books like this, and love the story line.
Great book Susan. I loved the people in this book. I love 💘 reading 📚 books about seal men. I need some Protection in my life. I can't wait to read more books by Susan in the near future. Other great book to listen to on audio , and read.
Every book in this series is captivating and have unexpected twists. Well written and well read as well. thoroughly enjoyed this book. The characters are so likeable and also a different twist to this book from the others in this series.

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The current interest in power generation industry with more efficient and clean, and more environmentally friendly ways has attracted the research and development in solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC). In SOFC, the chemical energy is converted into electric energy and heat as the by-product. In order to make a thermally self-sustained fuel cell stack, the understanding and management of the heat generation and electric power is a critical issue. Infrared thermography provides a non-destructive way to measure surface temperature. It was used to measure the instantaneous cathode surface temperature response to the current in an operating electrolyte supported planar solid oxide fuel cell (LSCF-6ScSZ-NiO). A numerical model was built to study the coupled electric current and temperature relation by incorporating the temperature dependent material properties, i.e. ohmic resistance and activation resistance, as global functions in the model. The thermal and electric fields were solved simultaneously. The measured and the predicted results agree to each other reasonably well. The cathode polarization overpotential tends to increase with the current at low current densities, but the simulated polarization-current curve exhibited a decreased slope under higher current densities that is ascribed to the local temperature increases due to the high current energy losses.
Ju G, Reifsnider K. Infrared Thermography and Thermoelectrical Study of a Solid Oxide Fuel Cell. ASME. ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, Energy Conversion and Resources ():37-50. doi:10.1115/IMECE2006-13874.

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Thus, the boy in Calgary was courageous and rather than saying, “You could have gotten yourself hurt,” we should applaud him for acting as he did in lieu of the knowledge that he could have been harmed. The “it’s not my business” mentality and “I don’t want to suffer harm” is what has allowed perpetrators to continue to have victims. But not only did this boy show courage, he also showed love. He showed love not only to the potential victim, but also to the victimizer.
Certainly harming anyone from a violent attack takes an act of love. When putting one’s own life in the way to protect someone else, love, even if a modicum of love, is displayed. Yet, the perpetrator is also shown love. What if the boy with the knife had harmed or even killed his victim? He would face a lifetime of guilt, not to mention legal repercussions. His family would have to live with what he did. His future would be ruined. In stopping him from making a mistake, a permanent mistake, the boy displayed love to the perpetrator, even though he put his own life in harm’s way. For this, the boy should be rewarded and not condemned.
The individual virtues are all distinct, but they are not separate. That is, you cannot have love without justice, you cannot have courage without temperance, you cannot have hope without faith, and so on. You cannot have any of the virtues without simultaneously having them all. Thus, if we rob a person of one virtue, we have robbed that person of them all. In robbing this young man of courage, we are teaching him that none of the virtues matter, that only personal peace and affluence matter. The only things that matter are the material elements of the world; so long as I can make money and not have my own safety threatened, nothing else matters.
Within our souls we are Elijahs and we feel the coming of God’s voice. We suffer under the wind of wrath, of being angry when we see injustice; but the voice is not found in the wind. We tremble with anger at the lack of charity in our world, but God is not found in our trembling. We burn with hatred towards cowardice; but we see nothing within our burning. These are our natural emotions towards things we naturally know are wrong, but lack knowledge as to why they are wrong. Unlike Elijah we never wait around to see what is next, but instead play our music loudly and drown out the reality of our existence, not wanting to contemplate it or deal with it.
If we were to stay, if we were to explore why we are so angry at injustice, we would begin to hear the still small voice of God. We would hear that voice cry out, “To hell with personal peace! To hell with affluence! Live a full life, live a virtuous life!” We would discover an inner-virtue, one that did not care for our material gains.
Sadly, we live in a society that sees no benefit to the virtues because they promise neither health nor wealth. While one can be rich and healthy and still be virtuous, being virtuous does not promise everyone such a life. Sometimes doing the right thing will require of you a great sacrifice, sometimes it will require your life. Think of the brave young student in Tienamen Square. “Brave.” That word is thrown around too often, typically to describe people who have come out with viewpoints that are often accepted by the intellectual elite of a certain group. There is no risk of a personal cost in stating those beliefs, only a promotion. Such people are no more brave than a man putting in an application for a job and saying he loves the company he’s applying for. No, this student in Tienamen Square was truly brave. When the tanks rolled in, he stood before them and made them stop…and then he walked up the tank.
He did the right thing. He stood for justice (any stand against tyranny is a stand for justice; take note of that those who despise Edward Snowden). In standing for justice he also displayed his love for his entire country. This came at a great risk as he actually put his life on the line for making a stand. Doing the right thing can sometimes get you killed, but it is better to die in pursuit of the Good than to die pursuing nothing. We all die, it is inevitable. How we live makes all the difference, and if we live for ourselves and our material gains, then our deaths will truly be pointless, much like our lives.
We are raising a generation that will go along with the rules so long as those rules make them money and gives them safety. We are raising a generation that would sooner salute a dictator if it gave them protection and prosperity than to defy him and die. I think of the picture of a Nazi rally that recently came up where everyone was giving the Nazi salute, except for one man who stood with his arms folded and gave a cynic’s scowl. It summarizes this entire post; that man had virtue and put his life on the line to display it. He could have been killed for his actions, but he chose to do what was right over what was safe, because the two are sometimes mutually exclusive.
And so we come back to our example of Calgary. The point stopped a potential stabbing. He put his life at risk by doing what was right and the school took the opportunity to cast aside virtue and embrace personal peace. In the end, such a society cannot exist. A society of weak-willed people is a society that will be ruled by the strong, that any dictator can take over. All dictators are the end result of a society when it chooses to abandon virtue, because dictators are the embodiment of vice. And yet, deep down in the weak-willed people will cry a tiny voice that, as the oppression becomes greater, grows louder and louder until it becomes a shout. That shout is then put into actions and those actions beget true liberty through virtue, though it comes at a high cost. It is not too late in our society to begin a return to virtue; our society is not dead yet, it has not fully abandoned virtue, there is still time to turn back to virtue and to live.
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How to Clear Debt after Our Shopping Sprees.
Many people encounter unlikely scenario where they keep they make minimum payment cycle while their credit card balances keep increasing. Moving out this mess has proved much hassle to many given that it needs a lot of dedication to get to the right track. Have you ever been faced with a situation where you walk into a store to buy a specific item and on leaving you realize you have 0 more than what you initially budgeted for, thus forcing you to pull out your credit card since you can pay for it off later.
I believe you would wish to end this and be in a position where you can get your debts in control. Below are some tips that will assist you put your debt under control and start making a huge dent in your credit card balance.
You need to start by understanding the items that you are prone of overspending on and making a list of these purchases. You will only manage to make a budget and be faithful to it by knowing your buying habits . In order to come up with a realistic budget you will have to figure out you monthly income and biweekly income and list them and also consider your monthly expenses such as heating, electric, gas water rent and others.
In most instances gathering this kind of information is hard because the payment of individual might be the same but you can be making a rough estimate on the amount and noting them down. From the list you can commence coming up with your budget and deducting all the expenses from your income. The amount the will be remaining after slotting in all the things you require can be used in paying off your budget. At the point that you will be able to have such plans you will be sure of paying your whole debts and can be redeeming you from pointless expenditures.
Application of cash money will also reduce how you spend money whereas uses of credit cards in purchase will not necessary aid you in limiting your expenditures because all you will be doing is swiping without thinking of the outstanding amount in the account.
After coming up with the method you would be adopting in spending your money then you will be reducing chances of extra expenses. The proposal will be helping you in putting down your debts first and the thinking of other accompanying thoughts that you need to take care of.
After you have confirmed that your earning does not allow you pay all your bills and spend then you have to change the way you are living by making negotiation with banks as well as creditors.


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Xu Yangyi’s gaze dimly flashed. Heavens Law hadn’t spoken about these subject matters in such detail at all.
Eventually, Xu Yangyi stowed his gaze. Those words had sent his heart rate pumping. The arcane effort inside the chest that he owned was the Eternal Alchemy Canon! Even Daomaster Floatingcloud’s Burning Heavens Revelation was born from this arcane effort!
After experiencing the mysterious lotus pond, the Burning Heavens Revelation had expanded no less than ten fold in characters. If said the single portion of the over-a-dozen-times-expanded Eternal Alchemy Canon was enough to create the modern cultivation world’s treasured Burning Heavens Revelation, then, as the hidden edition of The Harmony of the Trium, it was at least absolutely impressive to the modern cultivation age.
“You’re pretty interesting.” After he swept his eyes over Zhou Tingting, he immediately pushed open the basement door. At the same time, in his heart, he had already come to a resolve. Once he left seclusion, he wouldn’t mind guiding her for a bit.
Even in death, this girl would insist on preserving her honor. And while her aptitude was rather high, it wasn’t on the same level as his by any measure. However, she had a strong point.
He lacked such a person at his side. Even though he would establish contact with Mao Ba’er later, the latter was more proficient on how to grow his reputation, how to get him better missions, and finding better opportunities and so on.
He needed a vizier on the cultivation world.
Thump… The door behind him shut and what appeared before him was a basement formed from limestone. There were no other items. However, the surrounding limestone was carved with a talisman he was exceptionally familiar with.
The Spirit Drawing Formation. It was a simplification of the Spirit Focusing Formation and its efficacy was estimated to be only a twentieth of a low-grade Spirit Focusing Formation. However, its advantage was that it didn’t require spirit stones.
In comparison to the surrounding qi drawn by the Spirit Focusing Formation, the changes were obviously different. The Spirit Drawing Formation only caused a thin layer of milky-white mist to appear on the floor. If a normal person entered this stone room, they would certainly feel extremely comfortable and their ailments would completely vanish. But for Xu Yangyi, a genius cultivator, it merely made him feel that the old wounds on his body had improved a bit.
He calmly sat down in meditation. The incredibly familiar Hundred Solutions instantly bubbled forth in his mind. His thoughts seemed to bob up and down again as if they had entered a spirit spring, and each one of his pores comfortably opened.
He was a genius. However, he further understood that there were many geniuses in this world!
The reason why Sunnihilator was called a genius among geniuses wasn’t because his aptitude surpassed all others. Rather, it was on account of his ability to use his superhuman talent to survive and cultivate to the Great Circle of Foundation Establishment!
Only by continuing to survive did one have the qualifications to be called a genius. In China’s history, there had never been a lack of geniuses that had come to an early end halfway through their journey.
His first step was to heal all his internal injuries. Then, with the most perfect mentality, he would begin to cultivate his primary arcane effort—The Harmony of the Trium, The Eternal Alchemy Canon!
Beep beep beep… Simultaneously, within a secret room in a Featherwood Guard branch, countless maps were endlessly exchanging locations on ten computers. Yet at this moment, all of them turned completely gold and beeped. The massive “Incapable of Assessment, Tracking Failed” message was terribly piercing to the eyes.
The room was deathly quiet. Several people looked at the computer with a cold sweat and felt a faint killing arua come from behind.
An old man carried both his hands behind him and seemed to stand leisurely at their backs. He was still wearing a changpao, and his long white beard fluttered on his chest as before. However, both of his eyes had turned incomparably icy since the beeping noise had started to ring.
“Yes…” As the the old man spoke, the employee didn’t dare to look straight at him.
“We beg your forgiveness!!!” Before his voice even fell, no one remained seated. Everyone now stood up together and orderly bowed as if they had conspired to do so, causing the short old man to appear a good deal taller. He seemed to be a crane amidst a flock of chickens.
No one got up, and the old man coldly laughed, taking his three cultivator secretaries out of the room with him.
Bang! Bang! Bang! The door opened by itself, absent of the wind. Soon after, heavy repeated smashing against the door frame nearly splintered it.
Just as he left the room, the old man’s complexion became even chillier. At this moment, he was truly exhibiting the suppressive might of a cultivator that was capable of reaching Foundation Establishment. The footsteps of the three Qi Condensation secretaries behind him became much lighter.
Coldly snorting, the old man stormed off.
Only someone of his position could know about that lordship’s command. If there was anything else… it was that Chu Zhaonan was a special cultivator of the Chinese government!
The branch’s system had been hacked? And on the verge as the target was about to be found? It was absolutely certain that one of his men was a rat!
The cloaked man appeared to be a sculpture in the night, taciturn.
There was no response. After several minutes passed, the man lifted his cloak and jumped down from the treetop. His gaze already laid in a place devoid of human presence, radiating a sword-like edge.
I know you won’t just die like this. I haven’t defeated you, so how can you die? Three years, three whole years, I’ve searched for your information. How can I let someone else fight over you right in front of me? I owe you a life, and I’m using this time to return it to you!
Time flowed on second by second. In the blink of an eye, a week had passed. In the basement, Xu Yangyi opened his eyes for the first time. At this moment, he only felt incomparably well.
His entire body, every cell had recovered to their peak state. He clenched his fist and a powerful strength appeared once more in his flesh. Three years ago, he was capable of defeating all his graduation classmates without a challenge. The present him held that similar kind of self-confidence!
1. The favor of the heavens is insufficient for the drawing of a hair - I think I did justice to this phrase, but it’s supposed to mean the person is mega cheap and stingy. A super tightwad.
2. Celestial Master Zhang is a real figure. In fact, his bloodline has even been traced down to this day, albeit with some current succession conflicts. All the names I wrote down all belong to the same person. Chinese figures (especially ancient ones) get different names (courtesy, etc). Celestial Master Zhang is considered a major Daoist figure. You can read more on wikipedia.


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Ali Fazal, who is currently shooting for Sanjay Dutt’s home production Prasthaanam, has been approached to play an important role in filmmaker Ashwiny Iyer Tiwari’s upcoming directorial venture. The untitled movie stars Kangana Ranaut as the female lead.
“Ali has been approached to play a significant part in Ashwiny Iyer Tiwari’s yet-untitled next. Though he’s kicked about the project, he hasn’t signed it yet,” a well-placed source reveals to an Indian daily.
The film is based on Kabaddi. Kangana has been roped in to play the protagonist player in the flick. Before the makers begin production in October, the National Film Awards winning actress will undergo intensive training.
Kangana has just wrapped up Ekta Kapoor’s Mental Hai Kya alongside Rajkummar Rao. She is now gearing up to begin the last leg of the shoot for her period film Manikarnika: The Queen Of Jhansi.
Ali Fazal, on the other hand, will shortly be seen in Mudassar Aziz’s romcom Happy Phirr Bhag Jayegi. He is also doing a film titled Milan Talkies, which is being helmed by Tigmanshu Dhulia.


text: Hi lovelies! Today I'm helping Katharine Ashe celebrate the publication of her latest novel, The Rogue. This was one of my most anticipated historical romance novels of 2016! If you haven't read any of Ashe's books, get on that!


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Five Lessons Learned About Home Furnishings From "Duck Dynasty"
Fans of Duck Dynasty—the southern-based, duck-hunting television show—may appreciate the disregard that the Robertson clan give to things like trends or fashion. However, they do display some distinctive tastes and style choices when it comes to the way that they furnish their homes. There could be some valuable information found in this show when it comes to selecting and buying furniture for the home.
For a rustic and masculine family room, consider buying a chair like Phil's: a camouflage recliner. Not only will this meld with a warm, neutral color palate, but the printed fabric will help to conceal spots, stains, or wear.
If you have a big family like the Robertson's, then bigger may not just be better, it may be necessary. If you have a lot of kin, invest in big couches, large tables, and grand furnishings that will accommodate big families. This will save you from trying to find seats for everyone at the next family gathering, too!
If you do any work from home, create a work station that is as comfortable as the rest of the home. Willie once implemented desks and work-tables that would lift and lower to make tasks easier on the back. He also invested money in an on-site soft-serve machine to keep his team happy, so keep this in mind when planning your perfect workspace in the home or at the job.
When it comes to beds and mattresses, you really should try before you buy. When Phil and Miss Kay decided it was time to upgrade their old bed, they spent the day lounging and laying on the various beds until Phil fell asleep on the show-room floor. Since a bed is one of the most important home furnishings that you will invest in, be sure that the one you are buying is comfortable by trying it out first.
The real flavor and personality of the home is often achieved with the accents that you choose to display. Show off your own distinct style and add accents that reflect who you are. From Phil's duck decoys in the living room to Miss Kay's decoupage table in the dining room, it is easy to garner a sense of the family that live in the Robertson home.
Whether you are a duck-hunter or merely a bargain-hunter, there are some prudent style tips that might be garnered from Duck Dynasty. From Phil's camo recliner to the soft-serve machine installed in Willie's office, personal comfort is the prevailing design theme found throughout the Robertson home. Keep comfort in mind when you shop for furnishings for your home or office (at stores such as Consignment Furniture Warehouse of Fort Myers Inc) to maintain a dwelling that would be fit for a Robertson, as well as practical for you and your family, too.


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GENEVA (8 March 2019) — Women’s leadership and equal participation in public affairs is a key element of democracy and a pre-requisite for achieving sustainable development, independent experts from the UN’s Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women (Committee) said today in Geneva in a joint statement with the Inter-Parliamentary Union on the occasion of International Women’s Day.
“Our societies will not enjoy human rights, peace, sustainable and inclusive development if women are excluded from playing an active role in leadership on an equal basis with men,” said Ms. Hilary Gbedemah, Chair of the Committee. As stated in the 1997 Universal Declaration on Democracy adopted by the Inter-Parliamentary Union “the achievement of democracy presupposes a genuine partnership between men and women in the conduct of the affairs of society”.
While there has been progress, globally only 7.2 per cent of Heads of State and 5.7 per cent of Heads of Government are women, and only 19.1 per cent of Speakers of parliament are women (IPU, Women in Politics 2017). Various impediments continue to hinder women’s equal participation and leadership in politics, including the lack of empowerment policies for women and girls, stereotyping, persistent discrimination against women in law and practice, harassment, intimidation and violence.
United Nations Member States have demonstrated their political commitment to equal the participation of women and men in public affairs and decision-making including through endorsing the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW), the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, and the Security Council’s landmark resolution 1325 on women, peace and security, to name a few.
Women’s participation and equal opportunities for leadership are at the centre of the Member States’ commitments enshrined in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, in particular goal 5. “In its landmark resolution 1325 on women, peace and security, the United Nations Security Council stressed the importance of women’s equal participation and full involvement at all levels and in all efforts for the maintenance and promotion of peace and security,” the statement reads.
Among other measures outlined in today’s statement, Committee members and IPU urged Member States to ensure an equal number of women and men in leadership positions in all governance bodies, through transparent and fair processes, such as dual leadership and gender rotation in leadership positions.
“The antidote to strongman politics is women’s political empowerment. While some progress has been made in terms of women’s political participation and leadership despite many difficulties and some setbacks, progress in this area needs to be accelerated through specific policy and legal interventions. It is now time to turn talk into action” said Ms. Gbedemah.
Learn more with our animations on the Treaty Bodies and on the Women’s Rights Committee!

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Buy iron tea pot from chaichun tea store at best price.
These Japanese tetsubin teapots are admired and collected not only for their quiet beauty, but also for their ability to brew the perfect pot of tea. It requires the skill of 17 craftsman to make one of these beautiful teapots. And with proper care, they will last a lifetime. Teapot makes 21 oz (620 mL) of tea and includes a removable stainless steel fine mesh strainer. Made in Japan.
An Elegant Iron Tea Pot made of Iron to serve your favorite ChaiChun Tea with a Class.The cast iron teapot or "tetsubin" is a classic Japanese teapot. This is the best way to brew tea, since the cast iron distributes the heat evenly inside the pot to better extract the flavours and benefits of the tea. These teapots are made of solid cast iron with a fully enameled inside and a stainless steel basket for your tea leaves.


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97 Wins? A Rookie of the Year probable winner (Kris Bryant), a possible Cy Young Winner (Jake Arrieta), and a maybe a Manager of the Year winner (Joe Maddon)? This was one hell of a journey. I have matured over this season with these young guns on this Cubs lineup. This season was so much fun. From all of Miguel Montero‘s crazy hashtags coupled with the young guns who did not seem so young. The hype around this team was amazing and boy did they answer the call. Once the All-Star Break ended this team turned it up to 11 and really gave us fans something to cheer for. I think most of us fans can agree, without Joe Maddon this season might have ended a little differently. Also congrats to Joe Maddon for this pretty awesome feat. Shows how much of a difference he made as the Cubs manager.
Ending the season on an 8 game winning streak was kinda cool too. Even though the Pirates had to be buzz kills and beat down on the Reds in game 162 I am still giddy about Wednesday night’s game. This Cubs team has really set the bar high for the next few years. The Cubs pitchers really turned it up the last 8 days during this winning streak and boy I would hate to be Joe Maddon right now. I cannot even fathom how hard it is for him to put together a line up for Wednesday night. All these guys really turned it on at the right time and put a lot of stress on the guy. I guess that is a good problem to have going into the playoffs right? Every guy is hot at the plate and the defense is really solid too.
Confirmed: 1st time in division era (since 1969) that top 3 MLB records reside in same division. NLC-StL/Pit/Cubs.
This stat is exactly what I want to see going into the playoffs too. With so many people worried about starting pitching, this should settle you down a bit. I mean I am totally ready for Wednesday night. I just want to thank all the Chicago Cubs for an amazing season and the fans for being at their best throughout the season. Let’s enjoy the ride and hope the ride is a long one.
I’ll leave you with one more stat seeing as though Wednesday’s game will be in Pittsburgh. Chicago or Pittsburgh, I trust in Jake Arrieta.
Also, one last tip of the hat to Dan Haren and Mark Buehrle for a great start today and a happy retirement to two great pitchers.
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Investing in a PR Platform is a big decision and hopefully one that will be a sound investment for several years. Each year, our agency evaluates the top choices on the market to keep tabs on changes and updates and make sure that we’re going with the best technology available.
Vetting out several platforms is a complex process with a lot of moving parts, so we’ve also developed a tip sheet of 50 questions that you should ask before you buy Vocus, Cision, or Meltwater, which you can download here.
This year looks to be a very interesting year for shopping PR database and analytics platforms for a couple of reasons – one being the upcoming unveil of a brand new and much improved Meltwater platform, and the second the recent merger of Vocus and Cision.
Recently, I was privy to a first look preview of the new Meltwater platform, expected to roll out in phases later this year. For this release, Meltwater plans to combine all of its platforms into one, including Meltwater Press for press database and distribution, Meltwater News for news monitoring and analytics, and Meltwater Buzz for social monitoring and analytics.
The new and improved platform will start to roll out this April to Meltwater News customers. The Press portion of the Platform is expected to be complete in September, so if you’re a customer of both News and Press, you’ll have to wait for Q3.
Overall, the new platform was super clean with a fresh new design and user interface that was like going from PC to Mac. Aside from consolidating platforms and brushing up the looks, Meltwater is baking in a very nice list of feature, quality and service enhancements.
One Platform – Meltwater will consolidate its News, Press, and Buzz products into one integrated platform.
Mobile App – Meltwater is developing a mobile version of the platform.
User Interface – The new interface is super clean, featuring updated design, simplified user interface, and much faster response times.
News Search Functionality – Meltwater’s search functionality is both improved and simplified, and now features keyword suggestions, including secondary keywords, competitors, and more.
Data Insights – The new platform features broader data insights with interactive analysis and deeper drill down. Insights will also include real time, streaming data.
Reporting – The new platform will feature a fully customizable widgetized dashboard for custom reporting and automated email delivery.
Contact Database – Meltwater has doubled the size of their updating team over the last 12 months leading to improved integrity of contact database and better email delivery rates.
The new and improved platform promises to be very compelling reason to give Meltwater some serious thought. Aside from the platform upgrade, be sure not to overlook some of Meltwater’s distinguishing features (and its secret weapon) covered in this previous Meltwater review and to download our buyer’s guide to make sure that you cover all of your bases while you’re researching.
Please share your thoughts and experience in the comments section and shoot us a message if you’d like to talk PR tech!
Run from this company! The presentation is wonderful until you learn the price tag of around $20,000 per year. When you tell them “no” they keep coming back and lowering the price, then lower, then lower….. so in reality you can get this service for around $3,000 a year. They will tell you that they are working with their manager and that the manager has given them special pricing just for today only. Really?! Keep saying no and maybe it will be free. Beware!


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Surprisingly useful (I had no background in programming prior to this course).
Its a very basic course - for people who know a bit of programming but not much. I am a bit surprised by the number of likes this has received compared to other more useful courses.
Well done - I had a lot of fun doing this course. Didnt really learn as much but its a good crisp course.
I just worked through this course (excluding the final project) over a couple of days. I agree with the other review that the paid version could be a worthwhile introduction to object orientation, for someone with a little Python experience but found it marred by some design decisions.
In this introductory programming class, you’ll learn Object-Oriented Programming, a must-have technique for software engineers that will allow you to reuse and share code easily. You’ll learn by doing, and will build byte-sized (ha!) mini projects in each lesson to learn and practice programming concepts.

industry_corpus2: Programming


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They say the grass is greener on the other side. This could mean only one thing - the neighbours pay more attention to the maintenance of their lawn. We were contacted by a client in Clapham who was tired of comparing his lawn to the one on the other side of the fence.
We arranged an onsite viewing and discussed what needs to be done, so our customer’s lawn is the greenest on the block.
Next thing to do was to supply the materials needed for the revival of the lawn. To lay new turf in our client’s garden, we needed 2.5 rolls of 1x10m turf rolls or a total of 25m2. We also needed a tonne bulk bag of topsoil and 1 bag of fertiliser.
The landscaping team arrived on site and got straight to business. The first thing the Clapham landscapers did was to cover the decking with nylon so that they can place all of the equipment and materials on top of it without causing any damages.
Next, they had to prepare the area before laying the new turf. This included the removal of old turf patches, weeding and checking for deep-rooted weeds. All of the waste was gathered in bags and disposed, as requested by the customer.
The third step of the lawn renovation was to rotavate the soil and level the garden. After that, the landscaping experts spread a layer of topsoil and fertiliser in order to improve the quality of the soil, and to boost the rooting and growth of the new turf.
The final step was to lay the new turf and water it. When all of the tasks were completed the team gathered their equipment, cleaned after themselves and left the property, letting the customer admire his new, lush green lawn at peace.
The team had to be careful not to damage the decking and to keep it clean, which was quite easy since they are well-trained and experienced in doing so.
Please mind that all turfing jobs are charged based on the work done and materials used. The price of this project is only valid for this property.
I thought it’d be a hassle to lay a new lawn in my garden, but the guys from Fantastic Gardeners managed to do it in just 5 hours! I’m impressed. Thank you for the exceptional service and for the tips on how to keep my lawn thriving.


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Teva Pharmaceuticals has signed a three-year research deal with IBM, enlisting its Watson supercomputer for drug development and chronic disease management challenges.
The expanded eHealth alliance hopes to deliver an “unprecedented scale” of novel therapies by repurposing existing drugs as new treatment options.
Using the IBM Watson Health Cloud, Teva will focus on developing cognitive technologies that can enable a more systematic approach to drug repurposing and so reduce both the time and cost burdens of bringing new therapies to market.
Ajay Royyuru, IBM fellow and director of healthcare and life sciences research for IBM Research, said: “There is so much data out there that is currently underutilised, yet has the potential to significantly inform drug repurposing.
“80% of all health data is invisible to current technology systems because it is unstructured. Using cognitive technologies to mine this data could reveal novel therapies for diseases that desperately need tackling.
The partners also aim to help patients, healthcare providers and payers better understand and control chronic conditions through cloud-connected drug delivery and app technology.
Beginning with respiratory and central nervous system (CNS) diseases, the chronic disease management initiative will integrate data from IBM's The Weather Company to analyze and calculate prospective risks for health events, such as asthma attacks.
An app will be used to deliver the findings directly to patients and caregivers, to provide those affected by chronic conditions with a more complete picture of their health.
Dr Rob Koremans, president and chief executive of Teva Global Specialty Medicines, said: “Teva envisions a future where we can empower patients and their families to better understand diseases, like asthma, and cope with health challenges in a more systematic, data-driven manner, with the ability to be proactive rather than reactive.
Teva and IBM first teamed up in 2015, signing a deal to create disease models and advanced therapeutic eHealth solutions using real-world evidence and machine-learning technology for complex and chronic conditions, including asthma, pain, migraine and neurodegenerative diseases.

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The Senior In-Estate Care industry is experiencing rapid, long-term growth. The US Census Bureau states that the 65+ population will grow from 42 million today to over 70 million by 2030. 89% of those seniors want to stay in their own homes according to the Estate Care Assn. of America. This license will build considerable wealth for a qualified buyer/investor. The Parent Corporation handles all internet marketing.
This business was located in Grand Junction, yet can be relocated anywhere in Colorado. Finish training and outstanding ongoing support are included. Other sister organizations are operating successfully In Colorado and lots of other states. Parent company is well recognized in industry for quality and growth. Other locations show that units can exceed $1M of revenue in second year. Licensing already in place, so marketing can start as soon as training is completed. Great opportunity for compassionate business person along with limited capital who wants to join the fastest growing company in the most promising industry in the U.S.

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Emily, Adam, and baby Colette on the Amazon River. Photo: Courtesy of .
Emily Harteau knows a thing or two about traveling with kids. As we write this, she's driving around the Americas with her husband, Adam, and three-year-old daughter, Colette. Another baby is on the way! You can read all about their tales on . Here's how she high-tails it with a toddler in tow.
Before you depart, tell your child where you're going, point it out on a map, talk about the plans — get them excited, too!
Make a small family photo album for your little explorer. We call ours a "love book." Print 4x6 pictures of your toddler reading with daddy, cooking with Auntie, and playing ball with cousins.
Bring what fits your little one now, not what will fit in six months. There are kids everywhere and that means there are clothes, shoes, and other necessities for them along the road.
Bring a stash of surprises — a little bag of stickers or a few small toys — and once a day, week, or month (as needed, really) bust them out.
Stock up when you are at a place with good snacks — raisins, granola bars, nuts, a fresh orange — nothing that will (inevitably) get smashed (nectarine, yogurt) into the bottom of your bag.
The weather changes as quickly as your toddler's mood. Bring a change of clothes and accessories (sunscreen, a hat, sweater, undies, socks) with you on daily excursions.
And make sure your family does too! If you're traveling for an extended period of time, you can make connecting a cinch with the wonderful World Wide Web.
Keep a pack within arms reach. Toilet paper is not provided in many bathrooms, sticky faces will need wiping, and spills happen sometimes. You will also relish a quick wipe-down after a long, hot day on the open road.
Remember to stay charged and bring spares. I'm a big fan of solar power supply. There will be moments on your voyage that you want to capture and keep for a lifetime. Don't get caught with a dead camera battery!
Allot more time than Google Maps or the GPS says it will take to get somewhere. You will need to stop to pee, eat, and stretch. When you pass a playground or park, stop, meet the locals, push your kiddo on the swing, and then continue on your way with a happy munchkin.
is a road warrior, camp chef, navigator, fashion designer, wife, and mother. She travels the Americas with her husband Adam, and daughter Colette, in their VW Westfalia. You can follow the trio on and at @ouropenroad. They travel for life.

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If you have not been to a Dentist Broken Arrow OK in a while, seeing one can enhance your dental health and overall health. Some people understandably have fears regarding dental treatments. However, this should not be a reason to avoid dental care. To ease any apprehensions you have, know what to expect during an initial visit. While dentists set their own protocols regarding office procedures, most will include consultations, clinical exams, intraoral exams, and extraoral exams. Also, dentists must abide by state and federal guidelines to prevent cross-infection to protect their the health of their patients.
A dentist will usually start an initial visit with an in depth consultation. This conversation will let the dentist know about your dental history, medical history, recent diagnoses, medications you are taking, reasons for taking the medications, and fears regarding dentistry. A patient should disclose details about her health so a dentist can ascertain whether a problem is medical, dental, or both. Telling a dentist about medications being used will prevent these medications from being prescribed twice. If a patient has a fear due to a past dental visit or other reason, a dentist can alter his treatments or use medications to help lessen the fears. View website for complete details.
After a consultation, a Dentist Broken Arrow OK will inspect a patient’s mouth and areas surrounding her mouth. This includes the head, neck, lymph nodes, salivary glands, and temporomandibular (jaw) joint. A dentist will assess for irregularities such as swellings, redness, lumps, and abrasions. A patient’s mouth will be examined for abnormalities indicative of dental disease such as exudates flowing out of tissues of the mouth, redness, abrasions, and swellings. A clinical examination will be done to check a person’s teeth. X-rays may be ordered to view the internal parts of the mouth, head, and neck. Most dentists conduct tests for oral cancer. After all these tests, a dentist will talk to the patient about the condition of his dental health and ways to improve it.
When you visit a dentist, you are giving yourself a chance to improve your oral health. For more information on dental services, please visit the website of Southard Dental. This practice can handle restorative and preventive dental processes.


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Over the years, we’ve encountered a great deal of skepticism regarding our claim of being founded in the sixth century B.C. Or, people are interested in our earliest digital marketing endeavors, and wish to learn more.
In the spirit of transparency, we’d like to point to the following.
Digital Marketing. We jumped on this bandwagon early on when “digital” meant counting on actual digits, i.e. fingers.
Hammurabi’s Code. The Sixth King of Babylon’s original vision was an iPod for an iPod, a Bluetooth for a Bluetooth. Unfortunately, neither had been invented yet. We suggested, “An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth,” and the rest is histoire.
The 10 Commandments. While God invented the first Tablets, it was Moses who brought them to market. A little-known fact is there were originally 14 commandments. After conducting exhaustive market research, including focus groups – we suggested that the number of commandments be pared down to a Top 10 (with a nod to David Letterman).
Tagging Art. Leonardo da Vinci was a struggling graffiti artist when he first engaged EverEffect. We urged Leo to think big, and he did. Who do you think told him to tag the Sistine Chapel? A great artist, although very temperamental. I mean, who doesn’t get along with the Pope?
Reputation Management. Who do you think made Alexander the Great, great? Callisthenes of Olynthus, a grand nephew of Aristotle, worked for us in the early days. It’s a lot easier to win battles when you don’t have to fight them. Our Lord of Asia won a few skirmishes, burned a city or two to the ground. Then, Callisthenes wrote about these exploits and shared them with upcoming targets. “That’s a nice little polis you’ve got there. Be a shame if anything happened to it.” Our campaigns helped Alexander conquer most of the known world, and we ended up with a catchy new slogan, “The pen is mightier than the sword,” which we used for two millennia, although it was later falsely attributed to Edward Bulwer-Lytton in 1839.
Quest Marketing. We invented this precursor to Search Marketing. Perhaps you’ve heard of King Arthur? The Sword in the Stone, Camelot, The Holy Grail? All campaigns created by EverEffect’s Social Media Guru Thomas Mallory. Of course, social media largely consisted of town Criers at the time, but never underestimate the power of Word of Mouth. Besides, one must work with the technology available at any given time, and Al Gore had not yet invented The Internet. Nevertheless, the Arthurian Legend remains popular to this day, in no small part to millions of people who have liked or shared the original Content we created. And people call Merlin a Magician!
Oh, we’ve had our share of setbacks.
Alexander had Callisthenes executed after reading a less than flattering press release that Cally had written and widely distributed without client approval.
We pitched our services to Roman Emperor Nero, but did not get that Reputation Management gig. In hindsight, a good thing for us, not so good for him. Fiddlers both, Charlie Daniels is revered for The Devil Went Down to Georgia while Nero is universally reviled as a devil incarnate for fiddling while Rome burned.
Yahoo! and Google marginalized Quest Marketing by re-branding it Search Engine Marketing (SEM). This one hurt as we missed out on billions in potential revenue.
Overall, we’d have to say that it’s been a rough and tumble and rewarding slog for us.
*Thomas Heed is Founder & President of EverEffect, a digital marketing agency that’s not really that old; we celebrated 10 years in July of 2017.


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Basketry is among the most widespread and ancient crafts — one that is highly satisfying to both craftspeople and collectors and appealing in utilitarian as well as esthetic terms. Over the centuries, basket-making techniques have been used to manufacture an amazing assortment of items: crab or lobster pots, eel traps, winnowing fans, horse collars, fish creels, seed-gathering baskets, portable stalls used by street vendors, huge "skeps" for sorting wood — even one-person boats (or coracles) and enormous crates for transporting prize livestock to shows. These items and many more are fully described, and often pictured, in this profusely illustrated edition of an authoritative classic.
Dorothy Wright, a lifelong student of basketry and cataloger of the basket collection of the Museum of English Rural Life, charmingly relates the history and geography of a plethora of baskets and gives the specifics of their construction. She provides detailed advice on basket design, materials, techniques, care, and repair, and gives step-by-step instructions (in easy-to-follow "recipe" format) for making an array of baskets, including a tall oval shopping basket, wastepaper basket, lidded picnic basket, all-purpose plate, wine cradle, fruit bowl, cane rattle, carpet beater, and more — made with a wide range of materials including willow, cane, ruch, raffia, straw, grasses, palms, and coppice woods, and by a variety of techniques, including stake-and-strand (wickering), framing or ribbing, coiling, plaiting, and twining.
Craftspeople, collectors, students of traditional crafts, and general readers will find themselves fascinated by this authoritative survey.
Reprint of The Complete Book of Baskets and Basketry, David & Charles, Newton Abbot, England, 1992.

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Tabby Oriental Cats Everything you need to know about how to adopt a cat, bringing your new cat home, cat health and care and more! We Have Lots Of Tips And Advice On Choosing And Finding The Perfect Cat For You And Your Family.
Wish you had a secret decoder guide to cat behavior and cat language? Here’s a primer to things Tabby Oriental Cats wishes you understood. Shop for cat and kitten supplies and accessories including cat food, scratching posts, climbing towers, litter boxes and more available at Petco. American Airlines is the latest company to impose stricter rules on emotional support animals.
Our cats come with adorable personalities, different shapes and sizes. Make the best of your adoption experience at the Home. Tabby Oriental Cats all all ready to find a new home and we have new arrivals every day. Training has always been part of the deal when you own a dog, though methods have changed a lot over the generations.
You can download all 10 of Tabby Oriental Cats picture to your computer by right clicking image and then save image as. Do not forget to share if you love with this photo.


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Stefano has received considerable attention and coverage on this blog, rightfully so. He has been central to my diving education – helping me get through the AIDA 2 freediving requirements and a good diving buddy, to say the least.
Merman/Aquaman… Stefano takes all titles in the ocean when it comes to freediving in Brunei. It is such a privilege to be around him as he is very skilled in the water and speaks so passionately about freediving and other interesting topics like food, travel and socio-political issues.
Years Freediving: 3 years, though started spearfishing at the young age of 15 for a few years before travelling all over as a barman and getting formally certified as a freediving Instructor.
You’ve been around (the world) quite a bit and only started freediving recently. What got you into the sport? I think the lines are blurred when it comes to defining me as a freediver. I have always been a natural in the water as I used to spearfish by the time I was a teenager and did some competition swimming. I traveled around tending bars, which got mundane, so when the opportunity to learn freediving came up, I thought “heck, it’s about time.” At whatever freediving level I pursued, I was able to meet the requirements in no time. For example, the AIDA Instructor Certification requires about 3 months in learning. I was able to do it in 2 months as I got to pick up diving and teaching skills by observing and teaching alongside my mentors and other freedivers day in and day out.
What got you to Brunei? I met the Poni Divers owner, Thye Sing, when he came to train in freediving with us in Tenerife, Spain. He later invited me to come to Brunei and train the Poni crew in freediving as well as help the freediving scene in Brunei grow.
What do you think about freediving in Brunei? Brunei freedivers may have a tough time as the sea conditions are not always ideal – there has been a lot of current and low visibility. The past couple of weeks have been nice though. We were able to get as much as 20-25 meters of visibility from the surface and view a bit of the wreck sites from a distance.
Where have been the best freediving sites (around the world) that you’ve been to? The best place I have been for freediving is Tenerife (Canary Islands, Spain) where the sea conditions are almost always beautiful. There is hardly any current and usually more than 30 meters of visibility. It’s quite easy to go to depths without having to take the boat. You can also get to 100 meters in deep diving just by swimming 50 meters out from the beach!
What would you say to someone who doesn’t know about freediving? If you want to know your body better and parts of it that you never thought you could use, just freedive. If you especially want to learn to control your mind, learn to freedive!
70% of the world is made of water so think about it, the real world is down there in the marine world.
Stefano is with Poni Divers in Serasa until end of September. The center is now offering freediving courses under the guidance of Stefano and their certified freedivers. Follow Poni Divers on their website, Facebook (/PoniDivers) or Instagram (@ponidivers) for a variety of diving courses, fun dives and their weekly boat schedules.


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The Inn At Lynden is a 35 room boutique hotel situated in the heart of downtown Lynden, WA. Now on the National Registry of Historical Places, we welcome guests into thoroughly modern and comfortable rooms in a uniquely historical experience.
Edgewater strengthens organizations with projects which include healthcare provider acquisitions, development of conversion foundations, strategic guidance for health IT companies and executive coaching, governance and stakeholder engagement.
More than a community bank. A community of banks. We serve customers with needs and dreams as unique as they are. Customers like you. We’re located throughout the Pacific Northwest. We believe in helping others for the health of our communities.
Financial Plan Inc. is a Fee-Only Investment Advisory firm, providing peace of mind through expertise, comprehensive planning, and objective advice. Nathan Twining, CFP, serves as a Lead Advisor, building, managing and implementing plans for clients.

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Joe Dudych Recording Services – Recording Session with World Village Gospel Choir.
Recording Session with World Village Gospel Choir.
Co-Directors Neil Weisensel and Rachel Landrecht led the World Village Gospel Choir in a recording session of Neil’s composition, “Make Me An Instrument of Your Peace” on Saturday. The bed tracks were done last month and we only needed the vocal tracks to complete the recording. The mix should be done in the coming weeks and Neil and Rachel will be releasing it shortly after that.
WVGC will be performing in concert at Knox United Church, 400 Edmonton Street, Winnipeg, this Friday Dec. 4 at 8 pm, and this tune is in the program. Should be a great show.