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I'm into big (and little) projects for brands, publications, and people.
I tend to see design — and life for that matter — as a big, complex puzzle where everything is connected, not necessarily as a series of systemic machinations, but through a prism of emotion, compassion and mysticism. I am always looking for a deeper meaning.
I graduated with my BFA in Design at The University of Texas at Austin (hook 'em). I'm currently a Visual Designer and UX Designer at IBM.


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Very Cozy apartment located in playa Bonita de Limón. We are about a 10 minutes drive to the main town of Limón. Near beautiful Playa Bonita Beach and great restaurants such as Reinas and Maribú Caribe . Public transportation can be access on the main road infront of the property.
Please request these services in advance.

industry_corpus2: Hospitality & Catering


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The first two Subcommittee hearings of the year examined in detail how the immigration enforcement agencies have inadequate resources and too few personnel to carry out their mission. The witnesses mentioned the lack of uniforms, badges, detention space, and the inevitable low morale of frontline agents who are overwhelmed by the sheer volume of incoming illegal aliens. If this were not enough, these ''immigration enforcement'' agencies also face internal confusion resulting from dual or multiple missions in which immigration has all too often taken a back seat. Sadly, contrary to Congress' expectations, immigration enforcement has not been the primary focus of either of these agencies, and that is the subject of today's hearing.
There was a constant tug-of-war between providing good service to law-abiding aliens and enforcing the law against law-breakers. The plain language of the Homeland Security Act, Title D, creates a ''Bureau of Border Security,'' and specifically transfers all immigration enforcement functions of INS into it. Yet when it came down to actually creating the two: new agencies, the Administration veered off course. Although the service functions of INS were transferred to USCIS, the enforcement side of INS was split in two, what is now Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE, to handle interior enforcement, and Customs and Border Protection (CBP) to guard our borders.
ICE was given all Customs agents, investigators, intelligence and analysis-from the Treasury Department, as well as the Federal Protective Service to guard Federal buildings, and the Federal Air Marshals to protect our airplanes, and finally the INS investigators.
CBP was given all Treasury Customs inspectors at the ports-of-entry, Agriculture Inspector from the Department Of Agriculture, and INS inspectors.
Failure to adhere to the statutory framework established by HSA has produced immigration enforcement incoherence that undermines the immigration enforcement mission central to DHS, and undermines the security of our Nation's borders and citizens.
It is not certain on what basis it was determined that customs and agriculture enforcement should become part of the immigration enforcement agency, except to require Federal agents at the border to have more expertise and more functions.
It is also unknown on what basis the Federal Air Marshals should become part of this agency, especially since it has been revealed that the policy is not to apprehend out-of-immigration status aliens when discovered on flights. If the mission of the Department of Homeland Security is to protect the homeland, it cannot effect its mission by compromising or neglecting immigration enforcement for customs enforcement.
The 9/11 terrorists all came to the United States without weapons or contraband—Added customs enforcement would not have stopped 9/11 from happening. What might have foiled al Qaeda's plan was additional immigration focus, vetting and enforcement. And so what is needed is recognition that, one, immigration is a very important national security issue that cannot take a back seat to customs or agriculture. Two, immigration is a very complex issue, and immigration enforcement agencies need experts in immigration enforcement. And three, the leadership of our immigration agencies should be shielded from political pressures to act in a way which could compromise the Nation's security.
It was clear that the Bush administration was eager to de-emphasize immigration law enforcement. What was not noted in the testimony is that most of the management at ICE came from Legacy Customs and not from Legacy INS.
However, as bad as things became when the DHS was created by the Bush administration, the Obama administration, once again, caused ICE agents to become nostalgic about “the good old days” of the Bush administration.
While nature’s laws are immutable, legislated laws are not. Law enforcement personnel are essential to the enforcement of laws.
The incoming Trump administration must make effective interior enforcement of our immigration laws a key priority if his immigration policies are to be successful.
Additionally, because of the policies of the Obama administration, there is an abject lack of managers and agents who have any actual experience or understanding of effective immigration law enforcement.
Institutional memory about effective immigration law enforcement has been all but expunged from the DHS.
Furthermore, most federal prosecutors lack experience in bringing criminal charges for violations of immigration laws.
I would recommend that the Trump administration make training a key priority for all prosecutors and immigration enforcement programs as well as for the employees of USCIS.
They all need to work cooperatively and collaboratively.
The culture of the adjudications program that is the realm of USCIS (United States Citizenship and Immigration Services) is to not cooperate with the ICE agents. This culture was created and nurtured by the Obama administration.
The Trump administration must swiftly remove or reassign any USCIS managers who refuse to cooperate fully and collaboratively with ICE enforcement personnel.
Consider a particularly egregious case involving the manager of the San Bernardino office of USCIS obstructed ICE/HSI agents assigned to the Joint Terrorism Task Force from entering her facility. They were seeking to locate and arrest a suspected coconspirator of the San Bernardino terror attack less than 24 hours after that attack.
She was subsequently nominated for the prestigious Secretary’s Award.
On March 16, 2016, Senator Ron Johnson, the Chairman of the Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee, requested an investigation by the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) of the Department of Homeland Security into the circumstances surrounding this monumental screw-up. On June 1, 2016 the OIG report of the investigation was made public.
The Field Office Director told the agents they were not allowed to arrest, detain, or interview anyone in the building based on USCIS policy, and that she would need to obtain guidance from her superior before allowing them access. During this exchange, the agents also spoke by phone with the Acting Chief, Fraud Detection and National Security (FDNS), USCIS, Los Angeles. According to the HSI agents, he told the agents that it was USCIS policy not to arrest, detain, or interview on USCIS property.
The Office of Inspector General (OIG) also accused her of lying to their investigators.
President-elect Trump’s has focused on immigration. He will have the unique opportunity to address the multiple failures of the immigration system, many of which are decades old while some were created by the Obama administration.
Trump’s leadership can undo the madness foisted on America and Americans by the Obama administration and even correct the errors inherent in the way that the DHS was created in response to the terror attacks of 9/11.
What a way to start the new year and a new administration.

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Gal An abbreviation for one gallon.
Gas Plant A facility that takes natural gas, removes impurities and separates the hydrocarbons into their various components.
Gas Processing The separation of components by absorption, adsorption, refrigeration or cryogenics from a stream of natural gas for the purpose of making salable liquid products and for treating the residue gas to meet required specifications.
Gas-Oil Ration Measure of the volume of gas produced along with oil from the same well.
Gathering Lines Pipelines that collect gas and oil from more than one location and deliver it to a central facility or delivery point.
Gj An abbreviation for gigajoule, equivalent to one thousand megajoules or one billion joules.
GPM Gallons per Mcf, the number of gallons of a particular component per Mcf.
Gross Heating Value The heating value measured in a calorimeter when the water produced during the combustion process is condensed to a liquid state.Ê The heat of condensation of the water is included in the total measured heat.

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Were it not for the fact that truly serious issues are involved, the caterwauling over the North American Free Trade Agreement would be almost comic.
On one side we have a populist President frantically wooing the Republican establishment to round up the 30 or so votes he needs to get Nafta through the House. Standing the usual political coalitions on their heads, Mr. Clinton has courted familiar G.O.P. luminaries like Henry Kissinger, James Baker and even Senator Bob Dole, while accusing his erstwhile allies in the labor movement of using "naked pressure" and "muscle-bound tactics" to defeat the agreement.
On the other side we have Ross Perot, warning that Nafta is a giant plot against the American worker and delighting in the chance to tweak the big boys and rebuild his slightly tattered reputation as the People's Tribune.
To top it all off, Nafta, a complex issue of no small consequence to millions of Americans, Canadians and Mexicans, will be "debated" tonight on the Larry King show, a forum better suited to the sound-bite demagoguery of which Mr. Perot is an acknowledged master than to the deadpan analysis preferred by his opponent, Vice President Al Gore.
Nafta deserves better. The laboriously constructed agreement to phase out trade barriers among the U.S., Mexico and Canada, which this page has strongly supported, is likely to have a positive, though small, impact on U.S. living standards and provide a modest boost to the Mexican economy. Some American jobs would be lost to cheaper Mexican labor, other jobs would be gained because American exports would increase as Mexico's high tariffs gradually disappeared.
Economics aside, Nafta's defeat would suggest that the U.S. had abandoned its historical commitment to free trade and would thus discourage other Latin and South American countries that (as Washington has long suggested) have moved toward more market-oriented economies in the expectation of freer world trade.
Mr. Perot dismisses the foreign policy implications while manhandling the economic data. In a nine-month anti-Nafta crusade that has taken him to 43 states and 91 cities, he has warned that Nafta would cause American industry and agriculture to flee south with "a giant sucking sound" toward cheaper Mexican labor, costing Americans 5.9 million jobs.
This is an absurd calculation that Mr. Perot, made giddy perhaps by his resurgent notoriety, has now taken to truly stratospheric levels of exaggeration. On Sunday in Tampa, he told a cheering, stomping audience that 85 million people could lose their jobs under Nafta, which is just about everyone in the American work force. "Eighty-five million people can elect anybody -- anybody!" he cried. "Do you hear that, White House?"
There's no telling how Al Gore will handle this sort of hyperbole. Ed Rollins, a Republican consultant who worked for Mr. Perot's Presidential campaign before quitting in disgust, predicts that Mr. Perot will "chew up Al Gore and spit him out. Gore will give intellectual answers, and Perot will hit the emotional buttons and spit out sound bites."
However, this overlooks the fact that Ross Perot hasn't really debated anyone on the issue; his recent anti-Nafta campaign has consisted almost entirely of monologues with adoring audiences. And while Mr. Gore certainly cannot match the Texas bantamweight sound bite for sound bite, his grasp of dull detail may be just what the Nafta discussion needs.
Nothing will quiet Mr. Perot's incessant chatter. But a sober presentation of something resembling the truth about Nafta might persuade Larry King's audience, including Congress, to think again about Mr. Perot's distortions.

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205 acres protected in Florissant, MO to include about ⅔ mile of Missouri River shoreline, adjoining bluffs, forestland and fields protected with the Louis and Anne Desloge Werner Memorial Conservation Easement.
Partnering with Lindbergh High School Environmental Club Students, volunteers from the Confluence and Great Rivers Chapters of the Missouri Master Naturalists, and many other ORLT volunteers resulted in 22 on-site volunteer workdays and 617 volunteer labor hours to set the stage for the opening of the Schulze Public Access Education, and Engagement Project later this Spring.
Controlled burns at Woods Prairie to cultivate beautiful flower growth and subsequent seed picking.
Our first live broadcast fundraising event for Give Ozarks.
Restoration work at Sarcoxie Cave & Spring.
4th place finish in national “Land is My…” competition.
Several more conservation easements nearing closure.
Facebook Live broadcast for Give Ozarks!
Peggy Horner, Executive Director, is ready to begin an exciting day connecting with members at ORLT's annual membership meeting.
Schulze Nature Preserve - Volunteer work days with trail building were a huge success!
205 acres of land protected that includes about 2/3 mile of Missouri River shoreline.
Controlled burns at Woods Prairie are used to encourage beautiful flower growth.
A productive workday at Sarcoxie Cave & Spring.
I saw my first indigo bunting in 1995. It was a watershed event and one of the main reasons I love my work at Ozark Regional Land Trust. The bird was perched on the edge of my front porch. It was a dazzling, iridescent blue that took my breath away. I thought I was looking at a rare or new bird species or maybe an escaped caged bird but found out later that it was a common, migratory bird (sometimes nicknamed “blue canary”) seen in the Ozarks and throughout most of the United States during summer months.
Since this sighting more than 20 years ago, I have seen, sought out, coordinated surveys, and continue to learn about birds, their habitat and importance to our lives. I have also worked for three land trusts and assisted numerous landowners find the tools that meet their objectives and also protect important bird habitat on their land.
Because I love birds, I was delighted to see that 2018 has been declared Year of the Bird by National Geographic, National Audubon Society, BirdLife International, The Cornell Lab of Ornithology and more than 100 other organizations. This designation coincides with the centennial of the Migratory Bird Treaty Act’s ratification, the most powerful and important bird-protection law ever passed.
Though I never need a reason to celebrate birds this designation and the activities around it (including the work at ORLT) are a great opportunity to raise awareness about the marvels of birds, as well as their troubles. Beyond the sheer joy they provide, birds play a vital role in and are also indicators for the health of our planet.
The work at Ozark Regional Land Trust and the other 1,500 land trusts across the country play an instrumental role in the protection of bird habitat. Conservation easements, land ownership and even assistance with best management practices are mechanisms for protecting and managing habitat that benefit birds, other wildlife, the landowner and all of us.
Check out Year of the Bird on Audubon’s website.
Attend the annual Bird Identification and Conservation Biology Workshop at Shaw Nature Reserve: email aflambert@orlt.org for more information.
Read about the Snowy Owl irruption in Missouri.
Subscribe to the MOBirds Listserve to find out what birds, rare and otherwise, are being seen around Missouri.
Check out the many bird resources for Arkansas.
Go on bird walks hosted by your local Audubon groups (Around St. Louis | Around NW Arkansas).
The Nature Conservancy and the University of Missouri are offering a workshop -- “Keeping the Farm in the Family: Succession Planning” on Tuesday, February 6th, 5-8:30pm in Van Buren, MO. ORLT’s former Board President, David Watson, a financial planner, will be one of the speakers. It is a free event but folks are asked to sign up by calling or emailing Rebecca Landewe at 573-323-8790 or rlandewe@tnc.org.
Click here to view the full flyer with more details.

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The human race – it is like a universe full of enigmas, which we have strived to unravel for hundreds of years. What shaped us into who we are today? How did we survive in this complicated world as individuals? And as a society?It was the incorporation of mitochondria, the power factories that provide our genome with energy, into our cells around 1.5 billion years ago, that helped mammals win the battle for dominance and become subjugators of nature.
The organisms lacking mitochondria, such as bacteria and fungi, seemed to remain simplistic and thus were surpassed and left in behind in nature’s battle for dominance. It seemed so for a long time, but studies of microbiota have made us look at this topic from a new angle. It is a fact that our intestinal tract is colonized by approximately 100 trillion bacteria, which put together would take up as much space as a human brain. These microbiotas are constantly operating and produce a tremendous amount of active substances, some of which affect our brain, even to an extent of controlling strong emotions, such as desire and love.
“I have again and again been faced with the mystery of love and have never been able to explain what it is”, said the founder of analytical psychology Carl Jung. Look no further, since your gut offers answers. You must be wondering by what means your stomach could ever play a role in your love life. It all comes down to the gut-brain axis, a bidirectional link between the central nervous system and the enteric nervous system, governing the function of the gastroinintestinal tract. Most of us are familiar with oxytocin, the molecule of “love” and “happiness”, which is based on its psychotropic properties and regulation of behaviour. The sense of attachment we feel to our loved ones is in part due to our brain releasing this hormone. Oxytocin receptors are expressed throughout the gastrointestinal tract, and thus far L. reuteri, one type of bacteria that inhabits our gut, is the only one known to upregulate endogenous oxytocin. This may indicate that the community of microorganisms that resides in our gut is involved in altering our feelings.
The mystery of the enteric nervous system and our microbiota, or what could be called the “second brain”, evokes a great deal of questions and continues to puzzle experts. Why does our “cardinal” brain need an additional source of neurotransmitters? Could our “second brain” be the predominant source of neurotransmitters during the time when the cerebral cortex is still actively growing and building unique neural connections that contribute toward our consciousness? If we assume that the polyvagal theory of Stephen W. Porges is correct, the interaction between our brain and gut happens through the ventral vagal complex, involved with aspects of social contact, such as eye contact and speech. If so, is it in charge of maintaining our social and cognitive skills, one of mankind’s mechanisms of survival as a group? This undeniably provokes a lot of interesting questions which require further observation and research in the future.
Featured image by Rocky Mountain Laboratories, NIAID, NIH (Public Domain).
Alexandra Kruglikov is a Guest Author. Our guest authors write articles for us on a wide range of topics and come from a diverse variety of backgrounds. If you would like to write for us then head over to our Get Involved section to find out more or get in touch via email.

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I need this parlay to hit. 1 time!!!
IS AZARENKA a Lock This Morning against SHARAPOVA?
Is this +EV "sucker bet" a Must Play?
Why no nice free Rotation Booklets any longer ?
NCAAF Teasers//Does Anyone Ever Win Them??
Opie, remember this play by Randy White?
When to adjust your bankroll?
Is under 6.5 in SF-Cin a square bet?
A's game starting at 9am west coast time?
who did lee corso pick this morning as his main selection?
JJ Gold I need a rain dance right about now!!!
Would an undefeated Louisville or Rutgers make the NCG?
Whos the sharpest of sharps here at SBR??
College football at its finest 4 to's in 16 plays.
Is this 8 team parlay gonna hit?
West Virginia ML Backers ... Check the F In.
Top 7 CFB week of 10-7-12 ???
Barkley just threw a bomb.
Only the 11th night game in the history of the Horseshoe?
Did Latos start? What happend to Cueto????

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This fall Mother Cyborg will teach 10-12 women, femmes, and non-binary humans the basics of Djing! This is a beginners course, part of a series of DJ classes hosted by the Seraphine Collective. We will start with the fundamentals: handling vinyl, understanding and identifying Beats Per Minute, reading audio waves, and beat matching.
The class will meet 4 Sundays from September 17th – October 15th 12-3 PM at Assemble Sound (2300 17th street. Detroit MI, 48216). We are looking for a group of people who are super excited about music (and brunch) and able to commit to attending ALL of the sessions.
Please fill out this brief questionnaire to apply for the class. There are a total of 10-12 slots available due to limited equipment. Applications are due by September 1. To help with class costs we are asking participants to donate $40-$80 or brunch materials. We can work with what you have and trades are totally negotiable if you are unable to pay.
Donate today to help us match our grant!
After becoming a recipient of the Knight Arts Challenge Grant, Seraphine Collective is excited to announce the expansion of their workshop series intended to teach female-identified and gender non-conforming individuals how to DJ with vinyl records. Along with technical skills, the workshops provide resources, peer-support and encouragement for those entering the electronic music scene. The first workshop series took place this past April, taught by local DJ Mother Cyborg (Diana Nucera). Over the course of four weeks, eight women with diverse musical tastes and cultural backgrounds learned how to use turntables, handle, select and “read” vinyl records, isolate sounds, and use BPMs to beat-match, all in a supportive and collaborative community environment.
DJ Culture, in Detroit and elsewhere, is male-dominated: VICE Magazine reports that women make up under 10% of all DJs at music festivals. There is also a high barrier to entry — the cost of equipment and records can be prohibitive, and as beginners, women are less likely to have access to technical mentorship, practice space and opportunities to perform. The first workshop had to turn away about half of the applicants. That demand highlights the series’ potential to breathe fresh air into the city’s electronic music scene.
Five of the DJs that participated in the first workshop series made their debut performances at Seraphine Collective’s annual summer music festival, BFF Fest, this past August. Referring to themselves as part of the House of Cyborg, due to the mentorship of Mother Cyborg, these ladies join other female DJ Collectives springing up around the world: Discwoman in NYC, Born N Bread in London, and TGAF in Paris. Seraphine Collective has been hosting a monthly DJ night at the UFO Factory in Corktown featuring the “Baby DJs” from the first class, alongside other, established female DJs and performers.
But Seraphine Collective needs YOUR help to match our grant from the Knight Foundation. An upcoming internet crowd-funding campaign is in the works to help raise the matching funds for the Knight Foundation grant, and local and corporate sponsorships are being sought. Details on how interested aspiring DJs can get involved are forthcoming.
If you have equipment or supplies that you would like to contribute in lieu of a monetary contribution, please view our list of needed equipment below and contact us at hello@seraphinecollective.org. We will gladly accept new, second-hand, or in good condition.
We hope that you will give as generously as possible to help us meet this goal. All gifts are tax deductible and support Beat Match Brunch, an introductory course for aspiring woman-identified DJs.

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Dear clients and partners of BritMark!
We are delighted to announce that BritMark’s 7th birthday will be celebrated as a poetical evening. The symbolic event will take place in one of Kyiv’s chamber historical places.
The main program will include reciting classical poetry by W.Mayakovsky, G.Ivanov, G.Shpalikov, V. Khodasevich, A.Pushkin, A. Akhmatova, A.Fet, N.Rubtsov, S.Yesenin, I.Brodsky, A.Vertinsky, A.Blok, O.Mandelstam and others. The masterpieces of poetry may be recited by all visitors. The event will bring you a lyrical mood, interesting conversations, a perpendicular and poetical surprises.
Additional information on time and place of the event will be noted in the individual invitation cards.

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XT has gone 11-speed, and the new Shimano XT Cranksets are spinning on XTR/Dura-ace inspired bottom brackets. They have a smaller bearing size to enhance rolling efficiency and for shaving some weight. They are also better sealed to reject whatever muck mother earth conjures up and tries throw at them.
I replaced my drivetrain about a month ago and went from 3x9 to 1x11 and cannot be happier. This review will be identical for all the parts I used to do the conversion on my 2014 Diamondback Sortie 1 29er. I chose all the parts as a good compromise for what I believe to be high quality, long lasting, lightweight and low cost parts. So far I have not experienced any problems with my setup and would recommend each part individually and as a whole setup. I have tried many times to get the chain to jump when back pedaling on the granny gear, but cannot. Including tax, I was just under $400 total for everything. I would highly recommend each part I used in my swap. Below is a list of the parts I used in my swap.
Solid BB ridden xt for years. Tried XTR because it was on sale and did't notice a difference.
This was my first external bottom bracket so I wasn't sure what to expect. At first it felt a little cheap and plastic but I figured since it's XT it should be fine. Weighing in at 76g, that's a huge drop from the 312g on my old internal one. So far it's riding great. It came with a little adapter for your wrench since its smaller. I think I'm going to just buy the cup sockets though so I can torque them.
Wow! Juse 20 bucks for all this performance!
Easy installation and super performance. Perfect match for XT crankset.
This was an upgraded replacement for a bottom bracket that essentially seized after a couple of years of use. Diameter of this bottom bracket is smaller than other Shimano bottom brackets. But, this one comes with a plastic adapter that will work with your current BB tool. No need to buy another tool!
Used to replace a Shimano SM-BB51 along with the Foundation Shimano Style BB Wrench. That wrench fits the original SM-BB51 cups and the new MT800 bottom bracket comes with a plastic adapter to adapt the wrench to the smaller cups on this BB. The plastic adapter is a pain, but got the job done. Comes pre-greased.
It had been a few years since I last had Shimano drive train on my bikes. I had a new build and the price to weight ratio compared to SRAM was substantial. So I decided to try it out again. I was very surprised to see how much improvement from my old drive train there was. It is crisp, smooth and precise. Really happy with XT and will consider it for future builds and replacemenrs.
This BB is labeled "mountain" but with the included spacer, I installed on a 68/73 BB shell Trek road bike. I believe the BB accepts shaft diameters of 24mm not sure though because most BB don't include the measurements.
In my opinion, bottom bracket compatibility/sizing make BB the most frustrating item for me to purchase. I think it is the marketing aspect of not including the measurements but rather labeling BB the same name as the crankset the manufacture hopes to sell at the same time.
JensonUSA is the bike shop I frequent most because of the price, selection, shipping offers (usually 2 days with the package arriving before noon), and return policy.
Ive been riding bikes for 25 years. In my opinion, Shimano makes some of the best components available. The price is right and XT finds the sweet spot between affordability and function.
Shimano changes everything, but gives you an adapter.
Light weight, extremely smooth, and looks to be very well sealed.
Very pleased with this purchase and recommend the MT800 BB and Jenson USA highly. Quality of this part is top-notch, service and shipping were super-fast.
Jensen carries good quality products at good value. Multiple purchases have been made with no issues. Highly recommend. Also very knowledgeable staff if you ever need to talk tpo them.
This is a good BB for the price...not much else to say about that. Easy to install and fairly durable. But...even after you eventually roast the bearings, they aren't that expensive to replace.
Great bottom braket replacement for my Single Speed rebuild!
Great price for this Shimano XT M8000 bottom bracket. I couldn’t be happier with my new set up! Easily assembled and the compatibility with my Large Surely Karate Monkey was spot on! I was riding red rocks on the same day I assembled it!
Its a shimano bottom bracket, works well, its cheap, and its easy to install. enough said.
Excellent product. I replaced an older entry-level BB on one of my customers bikes. This new one was a fantastic price and spun very smoothly. I highly recommend it.
This article is amazing for the price. The quality is very very good and i am very happy with my purchase.
Along with an XT 8000 crank, this is maybe the best inexpensive BB ever.
Easy to replace if you remember to clean the threads in your frame. Looks great and smooth creak free pedaling.
Decided to replace my bottom bracket for this one as mine was beginning to creak. Pedaling feels a lot smoother now! Great product.
Received the correct item and installed with no issues. Have not put any time on the new build yet, but will update if I find any issues with the product.
New size with the plastic insert is kind of funny but it's exactly what you love and expect from a Shimano BB. Seals up great so it lasts a long time.
There isn't much to discuss only to say that this is one of those work horse parts that lasts forever and you never notice because it works so well. The icing on the cake is the price.
Great upgrade from my prior set up! Love not having the front derailleur to mess with. They were easy to set up (with the help of a friend!
Works well for the SLX M7000 Crankset and Jenson's has good prices on most everything!
Ótimo movimento central. Peça resistente e de bom acabamento.
It's an upgrade the the BB70 (old XT). Cups are smaller, so you have to use the provided plastic tool or buy a new BB tool. Otherwise, it's an upgrade.
Great value to finish off a XT build or just as a upgrade.
Replaced a 2y/o bottom bracket (also shimano) for the sake of replacing when changing drive trains. Took a little to get the threads seated, but otherwise went on like a charm.
Jenson's website does not show all the parts that come with this bottom bracket. Just so you don't have to spend time researching or calling customer service, I opened the box and it does indeed come with the special adapter tool plus 3 spacer rings. However, keep in mind that you will still need the traditional Shimano BB tool to attach this TL-FC25 to install the bottom bracket.
Xt is always a good value. Can't go wrong.
will this fit on my 2012 Stumpy?
BEST ANSWER: No, this is a threaded bottom bracket. Your frame accepts a PF30 pressfit bottom bracket. You will need a PF30 to Shimano adaptor to run these cranks.
Will this BB work on a 68mm shell with a 73mm spindle using the included spacers?
BEST ANSWER: Yep, it comes with three 2.5mm spacers. For a 68mm shell you'll put 2 spacers on the drive side and 1 on the non-drive side.
What bottom bracket tool do you need for this?
BEST ANSWER: The standard Shimano BB tool that was used with previous versions works. The diameter of this BB is smaller, but included with the BB is a sweet adapter. The adapter fits over the bb and the tool goes over the adapter. I actually like it better than using the tool by itself on the older (bigger diameter) bottom brackets. So short answer is if you already have a Shimano BB tool, you do not need anything else.
I bought a "SHIMANO TL-FC37 BOTTOM BRACKET TOOL FOR ULTEGRA SM-BBR60" tool that is steel and fits on a 1/2 drive socket wrench. It works great on the XT MT800 and is very well made.... I bought mine on eBay.
You need the original outboard bearing wrench that is used on normal size outboard bearing cups and then the new xt bottom bracket will have an adapter in the box.
You need the Park Tool BBT-59. The bottom bracket also comes with a plastic adapter to use the standard external bottom bracket tool.
The bb comes withe a plastic adapter which works with a Shimano TL-FC32 wrench.
I used the Park Tool 16-Notch Bottom Bracket Tool, 41mm version (BBT-59).
Standard Shimano tool. The BB comes with an adapter.
I used channel locks and a rag for scratch protection.
Hi, i have scalpel team . today its run with sram and BB30 pressfit. i want to change to shimano xt crank. do i need the xt mt800 or the pressfit version?
Can I replace a SM-BB51 bracket?
BEST ANSWER: Quick answer, yes. All the shimano threaded bottom brackets play well together. In my experience the shimano ones hold up way better then sram and are way less expensive then Chris king or the likes. You will need a bottom bracket wrench and a torque wrench to reinstall the crank arms and pay attention to the torque on the bottom bracket itself as it will have an impact on the drag on the bearings.
Or just pay a shop, but what fun is that. Good luck and keep riding!
Yep, I will pay a shop for sure.
Yes, this will replace that bottom bracket.
Will it work with SRAM X1-1400 GXP crankset?
BEST ANSWER: It should as long as that crankset has a 24mm diameter spindle and I believe it does.
No, gxp means that the spindle's NDS diameter is 22mm so a different bearing is necessary. If it's threaded you will have to buy SRAM or from someone like wheelsmfg.
That depends if you're frame is Press Fit or BSN Threaded. This is an English BSN Threaded BB. It accepts 24mm Shimano Spindle size.
Yes. GXP has a 24 mm spindle just like Shimano hollowtech-II cranksets which usually pair with this bottom bracket.
No, you will need a SRAM GXP bottom bracket.
Will the Shimano BB-MT800 fit into a frame which currently has SRAM GXP bottom bracket? I am looking to change both cranks and BB to Shimano.
BEST ANSWER: Yes this shimano XT BB-MT800 will fit the English threaded BB that the gxp was in .
As long as you have a euro threaded BB and check the shell width.
Will this work with Deore LX cranks?
BEST ANSWER: Hi would not buy anything from Jenson USA, purchased a lot of things & when it comes to guarantee, they just don't care... go & support your local shops, yeah you may be spending more, but you are keeping those little shops in business, I hope you make a wise move, good luck.
Hoping to replace square/tapered BB and crank set with Deore XT FC-M8000 hollowtech cranks. Is this the correct BB?
This is the BB you’ll want. You can also use the XTR BB.
Yes, this is the Shimano BB for those cranks.
Will this work on 2015 niner jet 9?
BEST ANSWER: I am relatively certain it will since you could opt for a XT build out when originally purchasing this bike.
Pretty sure it won't on its own. I believe your frame uses PF30 BB.
if the frame uses a threaded 68/73mm BB Shell.
will this fit an 73 mn shell?
BEST ANSWER: Yes, this will fit both 68 and 73 mm bottom brackets. The sleeve will press into a the cups at 73 mm. And will continue to press into a 68 mm as you turn the cups as you tighten your B.B.
Yes it will. You will not have to use the included spacers.
Can this bottom bracket fit a 2012 Santa Cruz Blur TRc? Santa Cruz website states that this bikes B.B. is a 73mm - Threaded - ISO, not sure if that’s compatible with this B.B. ?
This should be compatible with your frame, but you also need to be sure that you are matching your crank spindle to this BB. If you are running a Shimano MTB style crank, you should be good to go. If you need further assistance confirming compatibility, hit up our Gear Advisors at 888.880.3811.
It certainly will, I have one installed on my 2016 Santa Cruz 5010c which has the same 73mm bbq shell. Just be aware that you may not need to use the spacers supplied, check the included instructions.
Yes, it should work for threaded BB with width 68-73 mm. As long as it is not an Italian thred (reverse direction), which most likely happens to be found only on Italian frames.
I have a 2012 specialized camber. Is this the bottom bracket I need?
If your camber is an elite or comp build then yes use the shimano mt800 bottom bracket 73mm threaded. If you have a pro or expert build you will need a PF30 73x46mm bottom bracket.
No, your bike uses a press fit bottom bracket, this is a threaded bracket. you'll need a press fit bottom bracket like the attached.
Will this work well with a RF Aeffect Cinch crankset (24mm)?
BEST ANSWER: Yes, this BB-MT800 is for cranksets with 24mm spindle, so it'll work with the Race Face Cinch.
will this fit 2017 jet 9 rdo?
BEST ANSWER: I used this on a Non boost Norco THREADED bottom bracket. So I do not know about boost if you have that. I really like it and it solved my creaking.
I have it on my 2016 RIP 9 RDO so I'd say yes, I don't see them using different bottom brackets on product lines.
I have a 2017 transition patrol the website says 73mm BSA Threaded and has a gpx in there will this fit my bike?
BEST ANSWER: It will definitely fit the frame thread and width. You may or may not need 1 of the spacers depending on the chain line you end up with.
Yes, this fits 68 or 73mm shell width and english (BSA) threads.
will this work with an older pair of XT cranks? roughly 2024 models?
Will this fit a 2018 kona honzo al?
BEST ANSWER: It depends. Some frames for that model take the pf92 and others take the gxp 73. If your frame uses the gxp then I believe it will fit. But it may not interface properly with your cranks. Best bet is to look up your bike on the kona website and see what they say.
No, it is a pressfit frame and will not accept a threaded bb.
Does this fit Santa Cruz Bronson v1 (2015)?
replacing SMBB70 100mm for Motobacane Fat Tire Bike. Will this work?
BEST ANSWER: Thanks. Turns out I have sram crankset S-1400 so I think I need a GXP one.
Can this be used on a 83mm bottom bracket shell if the internal sleeve is removed?
BEST ANSWER: Certainly it could, although I would just go for a Saint bb or use a 83mm sleeve with the new bb if you have one. Helps to keep water out of your bottom bracket which leads to longer bearing life.
Hi!, please could you confirm if this crankset works with SHIMANO XT BB-MT800 BOTTOM BRACKET 73mm? thank you!
BEST ANSWER: Purchased 2 sets of bb and crank for a specialized enduro and an intense tracer. flawless excellent performance. highly recommend .
Thank you, I just received my set in the mail, thrilled to hear they work well together as a set.
Will this fit a 2009 giant?
BEST ANSWER: If your frame has a BSA (english)threaded bottom bracket shell then this will thread right in. Does frame have threads?
If your frame is press fit(no threads) you would need some adapters to make these work.
As long as it has a threaded BB then yes (as long as you don't have a downhill or freeride bike with the wider 83mm BB).
Will this fit my 2010 Specialized Enduro?
BEST ANSWER: I don't think it will fit. I couldn't find much specs for this bike model, but all I found refers to custom BB and PF30 variants on some models so this threaded BB won't fit. Check the BB shell on your bike, if you don't see threads in it (smooth finish) surely this BB doesn't fit your bike. Have a nice luck!
Mostly likely, but use a measure or calipers to determine bottom bracket shell width, and then check the product details to make sure which if any spacers to use. Also, this is an English thread which should be right unless you have some version of press fit.
Will this fit my Scott Aspect 950?
BEST ANSWER: Looks like the 950 uses a Shimano BB-UN-100, which, appears to be at least 68mm. So, this should fit just fine. However, the BB on your Scott is for tapered cranks. You won't be able to use the existing crank arms and would need to use SLX/XT/XTR crank arms. If you're already aware of that then disregard! Good luck!
BEST ANSWER: You will need to confirm that you have a 24mm spindle. If so, then yes, you can use the Shimano BB on Race Face cranks.
will this fit a 24mm spindle?
BEST ANSWER: Yes... Good luck. just make sure you use the spacers correctly. Also your 2017 JET 9 RDO states its a 73mm "threaded" BB.
Do I need specifically sized hollowtech cranksfor this bottom bracket?
BEST ANSWER: This is a standard size for Shimano crankset. All current Shimano spindles should fit.

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Parasite infections confer many consequences in a host species, including reduced reproduction, reduced growth, increased mortality and morbidity, and the induction of costly defenses. Yet co-infections of multiple parasite species can create unexpected dynamics, and despite the ubiquity of co-infections, little empirical research has been conducted on this topic. In particular, the indirect interactions among parasites are a new area of research, which has demonstrated that co-infections can influence parasite and host fitness, and parasite propagation in a population. Indirect infections include pre- and post- infection dynamics in which a primary parasite infection can either increase or decrease the probability of acquiring a secondary infection, or influence the severity of the secondary infection.
CIDD researchers Jacquelyn Harth, Matthew Ferrari, and Andrew Stephenson, along with Penn State Entomologist John Tooker, were able to elucidate the intriguing indirect interactions between two co-infecting parasites in a plant host. The pathosystem at their Central Pennsylvania study site consisted of a wild gourd, Cucurbita pepo ssp. texana, Zucchini yellow mosaic virus (ZYMV), and a fungus – powdery mildew (Podosphaera sp.). The team’s goal was to determine if primary infections with ZYMV influence the incidence and severity of subsequent powdery mildew infections in wild gourd populations. Specifically, they predicted that plants infected with ZYMV would have elevated production of salicylic acid (SA) thereby reducing their susceptibly to powdery mildew infections; SA is the main phytohormone mediating induced resistance to plant pathogens and therefore an increase in SA may inhibit the establishment or growth of a secondary infection.
Harth et al. used both field and greenhouse experiments to assess the effect of ZYMV infection on subsequent powdery mildew establishment and infection in wild gourd populations. They used transgenic gourds that were resistant to ZYMV yet susceptible to powdery mildew, as well as gourds susceptible to both diseases. For the field experiments, they grew wild gourds in two separate field treatments. In one field treatment they inoculated a proportion of susceptible plants with ZYMV and then allowed ZYMV and powdery mildew to spread naturally. In the other field treatment they allowed both pathogens to spread naturally and did not inoculate any plants. The researchers monitored the gourds weekly throughout the growing season and recorded ZYMV and powdery mildew symptom severity and gourd reproductive output. They performed a similar greenhouse experiment using only susceptible plants (no transgenic plants) to confirm that the interaction between ZYMV and powdery mildew was not a direct result of the transgene presence. In the greenhouse, they also assessed how ZYMV infection influenced SA concentration in leaves.
The field experiments demonstrated that the transgenic gourds effectively prohibited ZYMV infection, and that transgenic plants had significantly higher incidence of powdery mildew compared to susceptible plants. Additionally, transgenic plants also experienced significantly more severe powdery mildew symptoms than non-transgenic plants throughout the entire season. By the end of the field experiments, ZYMV resistant plants had a much higher incidence of powdery mildew, as well as more severe infections, in the virus inoculated fields than susceptible plants. Interestingly, there was no significant difference in incidence between the gourd types in control (not inoculated) fields; this suggests that the transgene does not alter the resistance to powdery mildew, but instead, infection with ZYMV impedes subsequent powdery mildew infection. The greenhouse experiments corroborated these findings, and indicated that ZYMV increased SA levels in leaves, which may account for the reduced incidence and symptom severity of powdery mildew infection in ZYMV infected plants. Finally, powdery mildew has a slight negative effect on gourd reproduction.
This research provides insights into the intricacies and mechanisms involved in co-infection dynamics. These results demonstrate interactions among parasites and have applied agriculture implications – powdery mildew is extremely harmful in cultivated squashes and pumpkins, thus understanding how to decrease incidence and severity, such as inoculation with a mild ZYMV strain, could be very beneficial.


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Illness, particularly experienced in the hospital, often acts as a catalyst in pushing patients to question their beliefs, motivations and self-identity. One thing that many patients can agree on is that being in hospital “gives you a lot of time to think.” And taking a step back in order to think is not always something we do willingly. Why? Because in part, this act of stepping back also involves the process of stepping up and looking at our reflection in the mirror as we ask questions like: who am I, where am I at, and where am I going.
Yet how do we face this certain and recurrent reality of standing at the edge of the unknown? Furthermore, in being invited to a personal relationship with God from the very first instance of our life, as we stand at this edge we must also ask ourselves: where is God in this for me?

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Dear all - please see the following link for my EDS snps via Livewello.
Can anyone tell if this is “enough” for a suggestion of an EDS diagnosis and if yes - which type? I would be most grateful as not sure where to start!
I believe most of the COL5A1 genes are referencing the classical version of EDS. I’m going to be getting genetic testing soon so I’m hoping my own will correlate with what we’re seeing on this. Mine also showed for classical but also two other rare forms. I’m not as hypermobile as some but do have hypermobility in my major joints. I wish they’d provide an easier platform for us.


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A tourist is a person who travels to visit a place for pleasure, to disconnect from the hustle and bustle of their daily life, a traveller is someone who considers their trip as a journey, to learn as much as possible, to embrace cultures and experiences. A traveller like a local is keen to merge with locals to experience their culture and get a taste of their local cuisine. Read our top destinations to live like a local in Europe.
The tiny French spa town settled at the foot of The Alps. The town is perched on the edge of the Lac du Bourget, France’s largest freshwater lake, which is home to beautiful sandy beaches offering all sorts of watersports in summer. It is a purely picturesque town with year-round views of the snowcapped mountains Chaîne de Belledone. Despite being a 7-hour drive the views are worth it, we recommend staying at The Hôtel Le Manoir, set in a woodland park and has a full spa to use at your leisure. The hotel is just a few minute’s walk from the shops and restaurants of Aix-les-Bains. Don’t miss the Saturday morning food market in the town centre to really dine like a local!
To really escape the tourist areas, you must be prepared to travel out of the way. A day’s drive from Calais this small town is set an hour from Venice. It is home to Italy’s second oldest University. A medieval marketplace town it is home to canals, porticoes streets, churches and daily markets. We recommend trying the Trattoria al Porteghi. Completely off-the-tourist-track, this graciously run trattoria serves local and southern Italian dishes which are not to be missed. We say ditch the heels and uncomfortable shoes and make sure you are in your best walking shoes to tackle the cobbles. Padovans love cycling so to truly live like a local hire a bike and explore these beautiful streets.
If you think you have done Portugal and not stopped in Porto, think again. Taking a couple of leisurely days to drive from Calais it is the perfect destination for a proper European road trip. Set in a stunning back drop of 18th and 19th-century buildings, new indie bars and restaurants and a laid-back vibe, it’s hard to find anything to dislike about Porto. It’s walkable centre is a maze of cobbled streets and balconies. Where ever you are in Porto you will always find a new view by looking upwards. We recommend planning ahead and booking in for lunch at Brasão Cervejaria, its rustic vibe will give you a true Porto experience, the food is that good it has locals queuing up, now that’s always a good sign!

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Using relative units for measurements has a lot of advantages, but can cause a lot of heartache if inheritance goes wrong. But as I’ll demonstrate, BEM methodology and some clever standardization can reduce or eliminate the downsides.
Then anywhere in the page 1rem = 14px, even if we used rem inside of our .widget element’s styles. Although rem can be changed, rem should be left to it's default. Majority of user's will have a default font-size of 16px, so 1rem will equal 16px.
Any length that’s context based. This includes: em , rem, vw , vh and there are more. % isn’t technically a unit, but for the purposes of this article, you can include them in the mix.
This is em‘s blessing and curse. Font size inherits by default, so any child of widget will also have a 20px font size unless we provide a style saying otherwise, so the size of an em will also inherit to the child.
Let's say we set font-size in em units, it can't inherit from itself, so for the font-size style an em is based on the parent’s calculated font-size. Any other style’s em measurement will be based on the calculated font-size of that element.
When the page renders, all em units are calculated into a px value, browser inspector tools will have a "computed" tab for CSS that will give you calculated px values for any em based style.
Here’s an example that’s good for demonstration, but would create a ball of yarn if it was in your code.
.widget has a calculated font-size of 20px, so 1em = 20px in this context.
Because this is a font-size style, it calculates em from the parent’s font-size.
.widget-child has a calculated font-size of 10px, so 1em = 10px in this context.
em will be calculated from the font-size of this element, .widget-grandchild, which is 14px.
This is why most developers stay away from em’s, if done poorly it can get really hard to tell how 1em will be calculated, especially because elements tend to have multiple selectors applying styles to them.
Unintended em inheritance that makes you angry.
All that said, there are two reasons I love rem and em units.
We’ve been creating fluid and responsive web sites for years now, but there are other ways our front-end code needs to be flexible.
Having implemented typography systems on large sites, I've found that specific ‘real world’ implementations provoke a lot of exceptions to the style guide rules.
While this is frustrating from a code standardization standpoint, design is about the relationship of elements, and it’s unlikely that every combination of components on every breakpoint will end up working as well as the designer wants. The designer might want to bump up the font size on an element in this template because its neighbor is getting too much visual dominance, a component may need to be scaled down on smaller screens for appropriate line lengths, or, on a special landing page, the designer may want to try something off script.
I’ve found this kind of issue to be much less painful when components have a base scale set on the component wrapper in rem units, and all other sizes in the component are set in em units. If a component, or part of a component, needs to be bumped up in a certain context, you can simply increase the font size of the component and everything inside will scale with it!
Note: For the rest of my examples I’m using a class naming convention based on BEM and Atomic Design, also from my previous article.
To prevent unwanted em contamination, we're going to set a rem font-size on every component. Doing so, locks the scope of our em inheritance, and BEM gives us us an obvious place to do that.
Element scaling and adjustment becomes much easier, exceptions become less of a headache, and we accomplish these things without the risk of unintended em inheritance.
Sass (or similar preprocessor) functions can help you with that, and there are some tools that can auto-convert all px values to rem in your CSS for you since rem can be treated as a constant.
The most common accessibility issue is low-vision, by a wide margin. For quite a while browser's zoom has worked really well with px units, I hung my hat on that fact and moved on using px everywhere in my CSS assuming that low vision users were taken care of by an awesome zoom implementation.
I attended an accessibility training by Derek Featherstone who has done a lot of QA with users that depend on accessibility features. In his experience, low vision users often have applications, extensions or settings that increases the default font size instead of using the browser’s zoom.
The text size will be unaffected. The low vision user will be forced to try another accessibility feature so they can read the text, no good.
The page can easily appear 'broken', since changes in font-size do not affect page layout.
But a user with a 200% font-size, the breakpoint will not change, so the sidebar will have 3 words per line, which will not look how we wanted, and often produces broken looking pages.
Users with an increased font-size default font size will get an (almost*) identical experience to users that use zoom. An increase in default font-size will proportionately effect the breakpoints, so in my opinion, the EMs still have it.
For example, if we have breakpoints in em a user with a viewport width of 1000px that has their font-size at 200% will get the same breakpoint styles as a user with a 500px viewport and the default font-size.
* The exception being media elements will definitely be resized with zoom, but may not change in size with an increased default font-size, unless their width is set with relative units.
Since media queries cannot be nested in a selector and don't have a 'parent element', em units will be calculated using the document's font-size.
Why not use rem you ask? It's buggy in some browsers some of the time, and even if it wasn't, it's one less character to type.
For sites that don’t have dedicated front-end people, or don’t have complex components, this might be more work than it’s worth. At minimum all of our font-size styles should be in rem units. If that sounds like a chore, PostCSS has a plugin that will convert all px units to rem (which can be used downstream of Sass/Less/Stylus). That will cover the flexibility and sturdiness needed for accessibility tools.
For large projects with ornate components, specific responsive scaling needs, and where one bit gone wrong can make something go from beautiful to broken, this can save your bacon. It’ll take some extra work, but keeping the em scope locked at the component level will keep extra work at a minimum with some pretty slick benefits.
Wes is a designer turned front-end dev with a strong eye for UX.


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May A Debt Consolidation Service Has A Negative Impact?
Many people wonder about the negative impact a debt consolidation may have on their credit. But isn’t this like wondering how losing weight will negatively affect your health, if you are 50lbs or more overweight. Let’s face facts! You need to be really truthful with yourself. Your credit has already been negatively affected or you would not be considering debt consolidation.
The truth is that consolidation will not have a negative impact on your credit score. Quite to the contrary, it will give you a better credit score immediately. All you have to do is find a good consolidation company that will negotiate your debt with your creditors, and try to eliminate charges like late fees, penalties, and other additional fees. Once your debt has been negotiated then the company will help you find a loan for the lump sum of the debt. The money from such a loan goes to pay off your credit cards and eliminate your current debt, leaving you with just one monthly payment. This payment is often much lower than the payments you make to the credit card companies because it’s extended for a longer period of time. But once the loan is used to pay off the credit card debt, it is as if, you had a 0 balance which gives you a terrific credit score. You just have to be careful and not charge those credit cards any more or your debt will increase again.
So, you should have learned from this article that debt consolidation will in no way, negatively affect your credit, but on the contrary will have a large positive impact on your credit score.
Finally yet importantly, by a thoroughly researching and then comparing as much debit consolidation providers, you are able to determine the company that meet your very specific financial situation, moreover, besides the cheaper interest rate the debit consolidation market is offering. Nevertheless, it is advisable going with a seasoned and reliable debt counselor before making any decision, this is the way you save time because of seasoned advise & cash by obtaining the best results in a short span of time.
H. Milla G. runs the Government Debt Consolidation Loans website – where you can see his top rated debt consolidator service recommendation.
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Moorhuhn (distributed as Crazy Chicken in English-speaking countries) is a German casual game franchise for PCs and the Nintendo DS. It consists of more than 30 games, the first of which – a shoot 'em up – was Germany's most popular computer game in the early 2000s.
The feathered racer is back, and once again he has brought all his friends along.
Go on a quest for mysterious treasure.

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It was established in 2014 and now the West New York Police Youth Academy is going strong, teaching the town’s kids the skills they need to pursue a career in the public sector, including police, military, fire department, emergency medical services, S.W.A.T team and sheriff’s department.
The youth academy also provides the cadets with proper tools to be able to build on leadership skills, self confidence and pride.
According to Mayor Felix Roque, where you see a lot of violence around the country and people hating the police, in West New York it’s all about loving their police department and training the next generation.
“I forsee hopefully building a military academy here because leadership is always something jobs are looking for and it builds team and character in these young men and women,” the mayor says.


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Left Coast prides itself on its commitment to quality and constantly strives to find premium ingredients to achieve the perfect balance of aroma and flavor. The family and brewers that comprise Left Coast are passionate about the art and craft of brewing and seek to invent recipes that they not only love drinking but love sharing. Ingredients, technique and passion poured into every pint, that is the Left Coast way.
Join our Beer Club and enjoy 2 exclusive barrel aged beers each quarter.
Left Coast Brewing Co. to Open 2nd Tasting Room with a Brewery, Distillery and BBQ in Irvine.

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In this workshop, the participant will get to hands-on and carve a wood-dolphin.
Learn how to use a few woodworking equipment.
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Now that we are finished with fishing in AK and headed back down to the lower 48, we wanted to do some sightseeing along the way. We picked Hyder, AK and Stewart, BC as a destination for 2 -3 days to see a special place that is built over a salmon spawning ground so you are very close to bears who take advantage of thousands of salmon in a small area. Plus it is NOT on the cruise ship or marine ferry circuit which makes for fewer travelers and a more rustic feel.
We chose to come south down the Cassiar through the Yukon Territories and British Columbia because it is a smaller highway that is less traveled and it winds through the Cassiar Mountains. Extremely beautiful and the paved road was in great shape. The drive to these sister cities is 40 miles off the Cassiar Highway and gives you ‘gifts’ all along the way – close up views of Bear Glacier, multiple waterfalls, a wild fast-flowing milky colored river and mountains.
It is temperate area due to the coastal location however because of its location, the average snow fall is 244″ per year. Record snow fall was 41 inches in one day! It is very remote with the locals having to drive 3 ½ hours to go to a dentist or shopping to the next largest town. Until about 10 years ago when the road was paved, the trip took 12 hours one way.
We needed a shower (it had been six days) and laundry so we stayed in town at Rainey Campground so we could ride our bikes around the village of Stewart. The campground had big beautiful pines with almost a Mardi Gras look – the moss looks like someone threw green beads on the limbs. We are used to Spanish moss in the trees in coastal Texas and this growth is similar except this close to the coast of Gulf of Alaska it is like a rainforest.
Stewart is a town of about 400 people and Hyder about 100. Both had substantially more people when mining activity was more prevalent in the area. It was interesting to us because in the span of a few miles on the same road we went from Canada to US to Canada to US to Canada again.
The salmon spawning area is in the Tongass National Forest and there is a long elevated walkway so you can watch the females making their beds and the lone male that is waiting for her to lay her eggs to fertilize them. The males are quite aggressive with each other to protect their rights to a particular female.
With salmon in a shallow stream, it makes for easy meals for grizzly and black bears. You stand on the observation deck above the stream and wait for bears to come to feed. Most people come in the morning and then return for the evening because the bears are more likely to be feeding. We were lucky and the first night right before dusk, a dark grizzly female came out of the woods to eat. It was so interesting to watch her choose one of the salmon, take it on shore to carefully eat it, eat some grass, and then go back for another salmon. We were told that they prefer the salmon that are still alive – not the ones who have died after spawning. We were so close we could hear her crunching on the bones.
Twenty miles up the mountain on a road they use for access to gold mines (real steep, no guard rail, dusty, rutted) you can drive to Salmon Glacier and stand just above it. It is simply breath taking. Our cameras don’t even begin to convey how massive and beautiful this Glacier is. Like all glaciers in North America, it has receded a great deal in the past 50 years.
Before leaving we went to The Schoolbus – successful because of word of mouth from travelers. It is a restaurant in an old school bus on a back road in Hyder. One of those places that you have to be looking to find it. The owners fish for a living and each day have fresh Hailbut and Oyster selections. Sooooo good.
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Christi – we did not go to Telegraph Creek. 20% grade would be a nail bitter for sure – especially if the road had curves. The steepest grade was 13% and with our 14,000 lbs (truck and camper), we put the truck in manual and shifted that way. Tow Haul setting makes the engine rev too high for us. What type of rig do you have?


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The NO-MELT carbide-tipped saw blade is especially designed for cutting single or multiple stacked sheets of plastic without chipping or melting these materials. NO-MELT blades are particularly suitable for acrylics, delrins, ABS, styrenes, PVC, and both high and low melt nylons. Specially engineered side clearances on the carbide teeth significantly reduced and in many cases, totally eliminate any formation of melted burrs or buildup of residue on cross-sawn sections or plastic materials.
The large number of carbide teeth with a special modified triple-chip-grind (#11 tooth style) allows fast feeding of brittle acrylics with no chipping. On table saw, raise blade to cut cooler, lower blade to prevent chipping.


text: Have you ever been tired of saying that you’re sorry? Can’t courage your way out of this weakness; can’t forklift this stain out of your chest; can’t shatter these words into dust, drive them to the deepest ocean and wave them goodbye. After all, demons are easy to kill, for they coward under the strength of your words, melt under the banner of your truth. But I am no superwoman, not yet anyway. The law of my tongue half written, a scorching painting left unfinished. But I’m sorry sounds like broken English too distorted to be deciphered, so the flesh of my skin crawls away from the filth of this apology. My knees are stitched against the backbone of my breast, my arms stapled around these, my head tucked tightly inside of me. I am twisted. What kind of forgiveness got me in this fetal position? At some point a change has got to come. I have not the time to keep traveling on repeat; the same old album forgetting to change it’s tune; a dangling sacrifice. The birth and death of me are these apologies; both the resurrection and artwork of my eulogy. I have just had enough of these wretched…. I’m sorry’s.


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Up to 3V3 players fight waves of monsters for survival in a crazy arena. Unleash fury on the enemy team by capturing key spots like the Outpost or the Jungle Camps, get the favor of the public by completing quests and much more… Hold the monsters off longer than the enemy team to win the game.
Each team starts with up to 100 lives (based on difficulty mod), and for each creep that leaks through into the base loses 1 life. First team down to 0, loses!
The daily bosses will make you lose 3 lives each.
Take advantage of the daylight to clean the monsters’ camps and capture the catapults and the outpost to make them fire on the enemy team instead of your own.
Be wary though, for the waves will get reactivated every night! With bigger and stronger minions for more and more challenges.
Select your hero and jump into the arena. Level up your spells, buy custom items with the gold earned and explode the score on the world leaderboard.
Survive in 4 difficulty mods, alone, with friends in one lane only, or against 3 other players.
Get your name on the world leaderboard !
The battles in the Arena are here to settle conflicts between 2 kingdoms which have been fighting for ages. Kristamerah's empire and the archipelago of Hi’omatie fought each other for many years until their modern kings decided to choose a peaceful (and more entertaining) solution to their disagreements. So they made the Battle Arena and they sent their best champions to fight for their kings.
Get Me Out! The GMO of battle arena! is our first project. At the beginning we wanted to recreate a game inspired by Enfo’s Team Survival from Warcraft3. The initial team played a lot on this survival mod and we loved it. As we started to code and think of the game design, the art and the backstory, we started to create a new game of our own.
We decided to release an enjoyable version of the game as soon as we could and ask the community where you would like us to go. We know that’s an “in development” version of the game made by a young team of devoted artists and developers so we decided to release it for free.
We want to continuously improve the game with many features like public interactions, new characters, other random events in the game and so on. Of course we need some resources to keep up the good work, so feel free to give us your help (of any kind: critics, fanart, reviews, virtual hugs or even money).
If GMO gets enough attention we’d like to open a crowdfunding and do the game we initially dreamed of. The game we’d like to do will have integrated streaming system and live interaction with the crowd watching the game. Of course we want to add lots of contents with random events, easter eggs, heroes and many more into the game.
We try to be as reachable as we can be, so contact us and follow us on Facebook, Twitter or DeviantArt.
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The Casper City Council at its meeting Tuesday allocated nearly $400,000 to repair the footbridge over East Wyoming Boulevard near Verda James Elementary School.
City Manager Carter Napier said school officials and a young attendee of a council meeting had raised questions safety issues with the Verda James pedestrian overpass.
City staff and a structural engineer inspected the bridge and determined serious repairs were needed although they weren't needed immediately, Napier said.
"Indeed, for the longevity of the structure and the continued confidence of the public that used the facility, that perhaps some work should be invested in the facility," he said.
The council decided to look at a 30-year solution instead of a 10- or 15-year solution, Napier said.
The repairs include replacing the existing precast concrete structural spans with steel-framed spans.
The city received four bids for the project. TDS Construction -- Transmission Distribution Service, LLC -- of Glenrock submitted the low and winning bid of $387,508.86.
The project will be paid from the budgeted Optional One-Cent Sales Tax No. 15 allocated to overpass repairs and remaining funds from the Optional One-Cent Sales Tax No. 14.
The finish date is Aug. 31, according to the contract.
The council approved the allocation on its consent resolution agenda.
An agreement with Casper Electric, Inc., for $68,120 to upgrade the lighting in the downtown parking structure.
An agreement with Wayne Coleman Construction, Inc., for $283,520 for the Casper public utilities asphalt project.
An agreement with 71 Construction for $80,800 for improvements to the Casper Regional Landfill sanitary sewer.
A contract for professional services for $50,000 for the Interstate 25 and Casper Marginal beautification project.
Rename Parkway Plaza Drive to West E Street. This reverses a previous city council decision when the CRU Casper, the former owner of the Parkway Plaza asked to name the street Parkway Plaza Drive. The hotel closed in October and the new owner asked the city to revert to the former name.
A contract between the city and the Natrona County Travel and Tourism Council for group ticket sales to the College National Finals Rodeo.
A change order for Treto Construction, LLC, for $132,215.44 for the reconstruction of Midwest Avenue from Elm to David streets.

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There are some heraldic authorities that will not allow multiple people to bear identical arms even if they have the right to inherit those arms from a common ancestor. Instead, these authorities will difference such arms by the application of brissures, or cadency marks, in order to distinguish between the different cadet lines of the family. Additionally, some heraldic authorities use special brissures to identify children who were adopted or born out of wedlock.
The English system uses brissures to distinguish each son in birth order. The eldest son uses a label only during the lifetime of his father; after his father’s death, he removes the label and bears the same arms as previously borne by his father. The Irish system uses the same symbols as the English system, but applies them to both male and female children in birth order. The Canadian system uses the English symbols for male children and a completely different set of symbols for female children. The Scottish system uses bordures of different colors and patterns in addition to the English brissures, but unlike the English system, these marks are specifically assigned in each case by the Lord Lyon King of Arms and cannot be applied by the armiger on his own. Other systems require that either the tinctures be changed or that the armigers bear a different crest.
None of this is required or even customary in American heraldry, particularly the brissures for children who were adopted or born out of wedlock. The only exception is if brissures were displayed on the arms of the first ancestor of a family to come to the United States. In this case, the brissures should be retained on the arms of his or her descendants, but further differencing is usually not practiced. If an American adopts new arms then the use of brissures is entirely at the discretion of that armiger and his or her descendants.
A woman may, like men, assume their own coat of arms; however there are a few traditions that are unique to women’s arms. Women have traditionally displayed their arms on a lozenge or oval to show their status as noncombatants, but it has become increasingly popular for women to display gender equality by the use of a shield. A woman who inherits her father’s arms is known as a heraldic heiress.
An armigerous married woman has the option of bearing her arms undifferenced or, more traditionally, differenced with a small contrasting escutcheon or marshaled with her husband’s arms. Non-armigerous married women may bear her husband’s arms undifferenced or, according to some traditions, with a small contrasting lozenge. A woman’s arms can be inherited by her children equally in the same way as a man’s arms.
Marshalling is the term applied to the practice of combining multiple arms together on a single shield. There are three areas in which marshalling is normally practiced: to show marriage, to show inheritance from multiple armigerous lines, and to indicate an office held by the armiger.
There are four traditional ways of heraldically displaying the marriage of two armigers. One is to simply show both shields of arms accolé, or side by side with the charges respecting each other. Traditionally, the husband's arms would be displayed to the dexter and the wife's to the sinister. A second way of displaying marital arms is to impale the two coats. Originally, impalement was accomplished by taking the dexter half of the husband's arms and combining them with the sinister half of the wife's arms on the same shield. This practice is known as dimidiation. A third and more modern way to heraldically memorialize a marriage is by impaling the husband’s arms, which are squeezed in their entirety onto the dexter side of the uniting shield, with the wife’s arms, which are correspondingly squeezed onto the sinister side. With both forms of heraldic impalement, it is usual that only the wife bear the impaled arms while her husband bears his arms undifferenced. The fourth way to heraldically display a marriage is with an escutcheon of pretence. This is accomplished by placing the wife's arms, in the form of a small escutcheon, or shield, in the center of the husband's arms.
In some countries, impalement is also used by persons holding certain offices. In these cases, the arms of the organization or office are placed in the dexter half of the shield and the office-holders personal arms are placed to sinister. In the United States, it is rare for such official arms to be impaled other than by prelates of certain churches denoting that they are married to the church or to their position. In addition, some senior officers of some orders have the privilege of marshalling the order’s arms with their own in various ways.
A coat of arms is, naturally, inheritable by the armiger’s children. If both parents are armigerous, their children could inherit the arms of their namesake, or quarter the arms of their parents. The father’s arms would appear in the first and fourth quarters, the mother’s arms in the second and third.
With changes in American laws and customs over the past several decades, it is appropriate for the traditional heraldic customs to be adapted accordingly. For example, if a man takes his wife's surname, it would be acceptable to marshal the wife's arms to dexter with the husband's to sinister, or for an escutcheon of the husband's arms to be shown upon his wife's arms. Similarly, it would be more appropriate for a child with a combined surname to bear the quartered arms of his or her parents rather than their father’s un-marshaled arms.
In countries where arms are granted, the appearance of an armiger's shield, and sometimes even the crest and supporters, may be altered, or augmented, by the addition of a charge on the shield. These augmentations may be given as rewards for distinguished service to the country or simply as a mark of the sovereign’s favor. Such augmentations are typically shown by a canton, a chief, or sometimes even an escutcheon in honor point. Such augmentations of honor are not used in the United States, although Americans might inherit previously augmented arms from an ancestor.
Some heraldic authorities also claim that arms may be abated if the armiger has brought some kind of dishonor upon himself. This can include inverting the arms upon a shield, placing a fillet saltire overall, or another of many marks of abatement. Probably the best known abatements are the bend sinister and the baton sinister, sometimes misrepresented as a bar sinister, to denote illegitimacy. While the bend sinister and the baton sinister have historically been used to heraldically identify children born out of wedlock, they are rarely used today. It is unlikely that anyone would actually bear abated arms, and there seems to be little or no evidence that such abatements have ever actually been imposed.
Heraldry can be used for many purposes. It can be used as a focus of unity within a family or group, but it can also be used to divide those who are “entitled” to arms from those who are not. In the United States, no one is excluded from the possibility of designing and adopting arms of his own, but centuries of misunderstanding based on the belief that arms must be inherited has led many to assume they are entitled to bear the arms of another simply because they have the same last name. This fallacy has been propagated by so-called heraldry “bucket shops”. While they do offer handsome products, most owners of these bucket shops know little, if anything, about heraldry or genealogy and are only interested in making money. Most of the time the arms they sell to unsuspecting buyers have been taken from a questionable collection of arms of prominent European families, often on the basis of the flimsiest similarity of surnames usurped from their owners, and there is no genealogical evidence that they may be inherited or possessed by the buyer. Sometimes the arms that are sold are completely fictitious with no basis in history whatsoever. The problem is that those same arms are then re-sold to every client with that particular family name. It may come as some comfort to those who have been victimized by these merchants that this practice has been going on for centuries. Of course, a profession may be very old without being honorable. The best advice to persons looking to purchase their “family arms” is buyer beware! Even if one finds that an ancestor was armigerous, the arms they are entitled to may be a little different than their ancestor’s arms. Ones personal arms are exactly that—personal—and may only be used by the armiger, their spouse, and their descendants.
Foreign Armorial Grants and Registrations for Americans.
Brooke-Little, John Philip. An Heraldic Alphabet. London: Robinson Books Ltd., 1996.
Fox-Davies, Arthur Charles. The Art of Heraldry: An Encyclopedia of Armory. London: Bloomsbury Books, 1986.
Moncreiffe, Ian and Don Pottinger. Simple Heraldry: Cheerfully Illustrated. London: Thomas Nelson & Sons, Ltd., 1981.
Neubecker, Ottfried. Heraldry: Sources, Symbols and Meaning. Maidenhead, England: McGraw-Hill Book Co. (UK) Limited, 1976.
Pastoureau, Michel. Heraldry: An Introduction to a Noble Tradition. New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1997.
Slater, Stephen. The Complete Book of Heraldry: An International History of Heraldry and its Contemporary Uses. London: Hermes House, 2003.


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The Baltic Sea MIRG Project by the Finnish Border Guard has finalised the report of its Work Package 2 "Baltic Sea MIRG Project 2014-2016: Ship Fire Incident Analysis". You can read it online, or you can download the pdf in the MIRG Library.
Work Package 2 involved analysing seven past ship fires in which MIRG teams or other forms of external assistance were or could have been deployed. The report recommends that coastal countries should be ready to dispatch MIRG teams to provide external help for ship's crew in firefighting operations.
The report also includes a short statistics part where the main results of Kiersten Sander's work for the IMRF "Search & Rescue Response to Ferry Accidents; Common Problems, Potential Solutions & Good Practice" are presented!

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We are using the graphene template on our wordpress site.
Problem 1- Probably the most important one: When you hover over the ‘Artist’ link on the top menu bar, it lists all of the participating artists…this is perfect. HOWEVER, when you actually click on the ‘Artist’ link, it takes you to this hideous listing of all of the different children pages (each artist), and each one has this same weird repetitive image next to it. HOW can we get rid of this list and just make the Artist page a blank page, supplying its own information, but still keep the hover list of all the artists when you hover over it?
Problem 2- The sidebar headers on the right are a blue color that completely clashes with the rest of the site. Where can the color of this be edited?
If just ONE of these questions can be answered I will be happy, but if BOTH can be answered, I will be ecstatic.


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Equipment, service, and rental companies often rely heavily on field resources, in particular service engineers whose days are filled with work orders for routine and “just-in-time” service calls, on-site project tasks, and more. Therefore, DynaRent PowerApps for Dynamics 365 extends DynaRent into the field with end-to-end workflows tailored to specific roles, industries, and business practices.
From the initial work order through the delivery of customer documents, techs can execute tasks flawlessly, with changes and updates flowing seamlessly across devices and Microsoft Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations. Consequently, you’ll improve fix efficiency, cash flow, service quality, and equipment usage, with speed and accuracy that’s paper-free and always aligned with all records in Microsoft Dynamics.
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The list of NSW contaminated sites notified to the EPA as of 20 March 2019 is available for download in PDF and Excel format. Read the disclaimer.
A strategy to systematically prioritise, assess and respond to notifications under Section 60 of the Contaminated Land Management Act 1997 (CLM Act) has been developed by the EPA. This strategy acknowledges the EPA’s obligations to make information available to the public under Government Information (Public Access) Act 2009.
When a site is notified to the EPA, it may be accompanied by detailed site reports where the owner has been proactive in addressing the contamination and its source. However, often there is minimal information on the nature or extent of the contamination.
After receiving a report, the first step is to confirm that the report does not relate to a pollution incident. The Protection of the Environment Operations Act 1997 (POEO Act) deals with pollution incidents, waste stockpiling or dumping. The EPA also has an incident management process to manage significant incidents.
In many cases, the information indicates the contamination is securely immobilised within the site, such as under a building or carpark, and is not currently causing any significant risks for the community or environment. Such sites may still need to be cleaned up, but this can be done in conjunction with any subsequent building or redevelopment of the land. These sites do not require intervention under the CLM Act, and are dealt with through the planning and development consent process. In these cases, the EPA informs the local council or other planning authority, so that the information can be recorded and considered at the appropriate time.
Where indications are that the contamination could cause actual harm to the environment or an unacceptable offsite impact (i.e. the land is 'significantly contaminated'), the EPA would apply the regulatory provisions of the CLM Act to have the responsible polluter and/or landowner investigate and remediate the site. If the reported contamination could present an immediate or long-term threat to human health, NSW Health will be consulted. SafeWork NSW and Water NSW can also be consulted if there appear to be occupational health and safety risks or an impact on groundwater quality.
As such, the sites notified to the EPA and presented in the list of contaminated sites notified to the EPA are at various stages of the assessment and remediation process. Understanding the nature of the underlying contamination, its implications and implementing a remediation program where required, can take a considerable period of time. The list provides an indication, in relation to each nominated site, as to the management status of that particular site. Further detailed information may be available from the EPA or the person who notified the site.
The following questions and answers may assist those interested in this issue.
What is the difference between the 'List of NSW contaminated sites notified to EPA' and the 'Contaminated Land: Record of Notices'?
A site will be on the Contaminated Land: Record of Notices only if the EPA has issued a regulatory notice in relation to the site under the Contaminated Land Management Act 1997.
The sites appearing in the list of NSW contaminated sites notified to the EPA indicate that the notifiers consider that the sites are contaminated and warrant reporting to EPA. However, the contamination may or may not be significant enough to warrant regulation by the EPA. The EPA needs to review and, if necessary, obtain more information before it can make a determination as to whether the site warrants regulation.
Why does my site appear on the list?
The site owner and/or the person partly or fully responsible for causing the contamination notified the EPA about the contamination under Section 60 of the Contaminated Land Management Act 1997. In other words, the site owner or the 'polluter' believes the site is contaminated.
The EPA has been notified via other means and is satisfied that the site is or was contaminated.
Does the list contain all contaminated sites in NSW?
No. The list only contains contaminated sites that EPA is aware of, with regard to its regulatory role under the CLM Act. An absence of a site from the list does not necessarily mean the site is not contaminated.
The EPA relies upon responsible parties to notify contaminated sites.
How are notified contaminated sites managed by the EPA?
The contamination warrants the EPA's direct regulatory intervention either under the Contaminated Land Management Act 1997 or the Protection of the Environment Operations Act 1997 (POEO Act), or both. Information about current or past regulatory action on this site can be found on the EPA website.
The contamination with respect to the current use or approved use of the site, as defined under the Contaminated Land Management Act 1997, is not significant enough that it warrants EPA regulation.
The contamination does not require EPA regulation and can be managed by a planning approval process.
The contamination is related to an operational underground petroleum storage system, such as a service station or fuel depot. The contamination may be managed under the POEO Act and the Protection of the Environment Operation (Underground Petroleum Storage Systems) Regulation 2014.
Note: There are specific instances where contamination is managed under a specifically tailored program operated by another agency. For example the Division of Resources & Geoscience's Derelict Mines Program and the NSW DPI Cattle tick dip site locator.
The Legacy contamination management procedures for these sites will be detailed in a Memorandum of Understanding between the NSW EPA, NSW Resources and Energy and Dept. Primary Industries (Crown Lands and Biosecurity) (Note: the MoU is currently in draft).
I am the owner of a site that appears on the list. What should I do?
First of all, you should ensure the current use of the site is compatible with the site contamination. Secondly, if the site is the subject of EPA regulation, make sure you comply with the regulatory requirements, and you have considered your obligations to notify other parties who may be affected.
If you have any concerns, contact us and we may be able to offer you general advice, or direct you to accredited professionals who can assist with specific issues.
I am a prospective buyer of a site that appears on the list. What should I do?
You should seek advice from the vendor to put the contamination issue into perspective. You may need to seek independent expert advice.
The information provided in the list, particularly the EPA site management class, is meant to be indicative only, and a starting point for your own assessment. Site contamination as a legacy of past site uses is not uncommon, particularly in an urban environment. If the contamination on a site is properly remediated or managed, it may not materially impact upon the intended future use of the site. However, each site needs to be considered in context.
Who can I contact if I need more information about a site?
If you have questions about a site on the list of sites notified to the EPA you can contact the Environment Line at any time. By phone: 131 555 or by email: info@environment.nsw.gov.au.


text: (U//FOUO) On January 27, 2018 at approximately 12:15pm local time, a vehicle resembling an ambulance and laden with explosives detonated after it passed through a police checkpoint in Kabul, Afghanistan. The explosion killed more than 100 people and wounded approximately 235 others. According to the deputy spokesperson for the Afghanistan Interior Ministry, the vehicle was painted to resemble an ambulance and had successfully passed through a checkpoint after the attacker allegedly told police he was transporting a patient to a nearby hospital. While stopped at a second checkpoint farther inside the city limits, the attacker detonated the explosives concealed in the vehicle. The explosion occurred in an area known as Chicken Street, which includes a prominent shopping zone and is in close proximity to foreign embassies and government buildings. A Taliban spokesman released a statement claiming responsibility and alleged the attack was in retaliation to an increased presence of U.S. troops and an increase in airstrikes throughout Afghanistan.


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The purpose of the Youth and Student Ministries specialization is to prepare students spiritually, academically, professionally, and cross-culturally to reach and develop adolescents both within and outside of the church with an age appropriate and effective communication of Christ. During this program of studies students will engage significant field ministry experiences.
Describe and explain the essential features of effective youth ministry within the local church and contemporary society.
Explain the essential age-level characteristics and needs of adolescents.
Present the gospel message effectively in personal and corporate evangelistic settings.
Demonstrate the ability to design ministry programs which focus on the faith development of adolescents.


text: How about having the Nanoleaf app access our device camera’s to set a color? I would like to get a color of my guitars. I can do this by using my camera and hex app then input the hex in the Nanoleaf app. Would be nice to have that feature available in the Nanoleaf app.