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WELCOME TO GBH BUILDERS, INC.
At GBH Builders, we’re committed to building you a better building at a better price. Based in Jefferson City, GBH Builders is a general contracting firm for commercial and industrial clients in mid-Missouri. Churches, schools, and office renovations are our specialty. We also have experience and proven expertise in commercial and industrial manufacturing.
Established in 1987, we at GBH Builders have worked steadily to build our skills and capabilities to produce high-quality finished products for our customers. Our projects have grown from buildings of 3,000 square feet to 70,000 square feet. The value of these projects has grown up to $7 million with an annual sales figure of $12 million.
Committed to performing work of superior quality, our talented and hard working personnel have the skills and expertise needed to develop and deliver—from start to finish—an excellent, high-quality building project. Our total commitment to every project has allowed GBH Builders to develop expertise in every phase of the design and building process. Coordination of all phases of the building process as well as company representatives on site managing jobs allows us to keep all our projects on schedule and to deliver superior overall quality and results.
With the comprehensive services, talented personnel, and committed owners offered by GBH Builders, you can be sure we will deliver to you a better building at a better price.

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text: I haves used this company twice now following lots of research. The service/help given by email was top notch and following the advice I purchased a sample which was top quality. Now fulfilled my order of 10 LED downlightets. Very happy with service and product.

industry_corpus2: Manufacturing


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NEW ORLEANS — The New England Patriots won Super Bowl LIII on Sunday, but a New Orleans newspaper won Monday for its coverage – or lack thereof – of the big game.
The front page clearly references the missed pass interference call of Los Angeles Rams cornerback Nickel Robey-Coleman’s hit on New Orleans Saints receiver Tommylee Lewis. The play happened with less than two minutes left in the NFC championship game and likely cost the Saints a chance to play in Super Bowl LIII.
Thousands of people in New Orleans spent Sunday partying and having a parade in protest of the non-call in the NFC title game.
The publication reported overnight Nielsen ratings showed Super Bowl LIII earned a 26.2 rating in New Orleans, which is lowest of any market and the lowest in the lowest ever for the city.
Each ratings point represents 6,331 New Orleans households, which is about 1 percent of the local viewing market, according to the Times-Picayune.

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In cases when you need to display or use items (eg. products for checkout) it should be possible to load item information from other subshops as well. Currently you can use only products from current subshops and this is wrong.
The reason causing this problem is oxBase::load() method accessing information from subshop db view and not from the core table (main view).

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Protecta PKK | Prec-Odlew Sp. z o.o.
The Protecta PKK corundum protective coating is an alcohol-based protective coating on a corundum matrix modified with special additives. White in color.
The Protecta PKK protective coating is applied to molds and cores made from self-hardening furane masses for steel, iron, and non-ferrous metal castings. Protecta PKK is a universal coating. It is well suited for application by means of painting or spraying. After adequate dilution it is possible to apply it by spilling. It has excellent suspension properties and cross-linking properties through the use of a unique adhesive binder. It is suitable for application by an airless spray gun.
Product packed in containers (1300 kg), steel barrels (100 kg) and transported according toapplicable transportation regulations.
Product is stored in closed manufacturer’s packaging or in other closed containers adapted forthis purpose, in rooms with temperature not exceeding 25 °C.


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One of the main questions I receive on a weekly basis is – How Do You Find The Time?
Now that I’m working in an office a few days a week, in addition to running StayStrongMummy – my routine and time management has been tested. But, I love it! I love a challenge and working out new ways to keep ‘the wheels in motion’ for a healthy and happy family.
I have listed a few of my own tips and tricks below that help me stay on top of things. Some of them have been a staple part of my routine for a few years, others I’ve enjoyed adding over the past month and make a great difference.
➕Kindy bags packed and put in the car the night before.
➕If doing lunch boxes, always make the night before.
➕ Salads chopped up for lunches (in air tight containers so they are ready to grab n go). Plenty of protein cooked so I can choose what I want to add my salad that day. Ie – Boiled eggs, frittata, poached chicken breasts, tuna or whatever leftover protein I have from dinner the night before.
➕Over night oats and smoothies made up the night before for breakfasts the next day. My kids enjoy a smoothie with breakfast most mornings.
➕In the mornings – there’s no mucking about. If I have planned a workout, I’m up early and get my 15 mins in. Then it’s breakfast for all, dressed, a little play time for the kids while I make all of the beds, clean up and get ready.
➕I lay the kids pj’s out on a bed for that evening (before I leave the house). This could also fall into my OCD category. You decide. But we bath as soon as we get home of an early evening and I love having everything ready to go in the one place. (My big girl has started doing this as a habit now. Once I make the beds, she goes and ‘chooses’ everyone’s pj’s and enjoys laying them out with her hair brush and books nicely for that night).
➕ I just love it when I can come home to dinner cooked and can just hang out with the kids rather than rushing about. It does take some effort and time in the short term, but for me – I feel like a weight is instantly lifted off my shoulders when I’m just those few steps ahead (for the bulk of the week, not all of it!). It’s still busy, but it’s more of a clam and collected busy!
➕I do my washing every day – I prefer small loads, more often.
➕It’s also about having the down time in the afternoons with the kids. They are still young – and while we are past that ‘witching hour baby phase’ that strikes at 5pm – my kids still get tired from kindy. It’s a big day of learning and exploring for them. So I like to help them unwind from the day by just being able to hang out with them, take the dog for a walk or do a little playtime workout.
➕ I don’t have ‘set times’ that I workout each week. I roughly aim for what days I know I can workout and just look for Windows of opportunity when they surface (general goal is three sessions a week). If we are enjoying a day at home and the kids are happy playing, I get stuck into a workout straight away. If I’m working, I either get up earlier or do a playtime workout when we get home, just before bath time. I also love to workout on a Saturday morning, it’s such a refreshing way to start the weekend.
➕ I don’t keep sugary, highly-processed foods in the pantry. I do a little pantry detox every month or so and have a clean out. I love having good, wholesome pantry staples readily available.
➕ I do an online food shop every week with Coles. I prefer Coles as they have have a wider variety of wholefoods and their own brand of certified organic pantry staples that are afforadable. I can browse specials each week and save my shopping list so it literally takes me less than 10 mins to do my entire shop each week. You can pay via eftpos in the comfort of your own home. I enjoy getting my food shop delivered on a Saturday morning – as I find it stops us eating out more on the weekends (it’s starting to get quite expensive to take five of us out for a meal these days!) and I’m all ready (and motivated) for my dinner prep on a Monday morning when the fridge is full.
➕ Allocate a few hours a week to just ‘getting everything’ in place for the week ahead. Write everything down that needs to be done – there’s something so refreshing about getting it ‘out of your head’. I’m old school and like proper paper notes/calendars on my fridge! In that time, organise some meals, think about what’s coming up tomorrow and what you could do now to take the pressure off tomorrow. Check in like that every few days.
➕ Whenever I’m feeling overwhelmed, moody or lacking patience – I know it’s a sign to workout. I get that 15 min workout in pronto and as soon as I’m finished – my mind is so much clearer and I’m reenergised.
Different things work for different families! Have confidence in yourself and make your own plan. One thing for sure is – if you want to spend a little time on your own health and fitness each week, than I do believe that having some routine and structure to your week is key.

industry_corpus2: Health & Medicine


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Communications systems are becoming more flexible day by day. If you want to know ant any company about any products you can just go on the company website and find everything related to company management, policy and about their products. But as we know it is a competitive word and not easy to sustain in the market. If you search the product than you will find a lot of websites for the same products and which one is best it decided by its content and its design. Users mostly prefer the website which content are more relevant and immersive and designing is to touch the heart.
Graphynix is a company which will help you to design and developing the websites which are user-friendly and has more flexibility to make the future or required updates. We design the websites which are fully customized and free from any duplicity. Our websites designs are too easy to use any device which makes its visibility and demand in the market. Because daily innovative products are launching in the market and people easily switch to them due to their high performance at low cost. This change also makes a challenge for the website designer and developers that websites should be so (flexible) than it should be able to open on any device as per the screen size and compatibility.
Our services include the total satisfaction to the customers; maintain the long-term relationship, easy to use, Simple to use, flexible and competent to other devices as well. We have a fully proficient, efficient and dynamic group of people who have vast experience in website design and development in Sydney. Our services are unique and most trustable in Sydney. Our policy to make the long-lasting relations with customers makes us the difference from others.
Our website design company in Sydney has a focus to provide the best to best services to its customers at economical rates. And these things encourage the team members to make the detailed analysis of the customer’s problems and develop a design as per their expectation within their pocket and budget. We make the main focus on designing the theme of the websites first that it should be able to represent the business view. As creativity is an art and which thing we can explain with the words can be explained with the help of the Art. Our customizations keep awake the members by developing a daily new strategy with new goals. Every client has some different thought and different requirements. And our team members deal all of them separately.
We understand the importance customer’s money and time. So we develop the design more flexible and user-friendly. Our websites encourage the end users to visit it more time and to stay connected with it. Along with this our unique and impressive content writing which itself explain about the company or customers business, brand and products make a feeling of togetherness. Our writers write unique but easy to understand and simple to express because difficult content makes it difficult to understand and also can low the business.


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This Bookreporter.com Special Newsletter spotlights a book coming out this fall. Read more about it, and enter our Fall Preview Daily Contest by Thursday, August 23rd at 11:59AM ET for a chance to win one of five copies of THE ART FORGER by B.A. Shapiro. Please note that each contest is only open for 24 hours, so you will need to act quickly!
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This Bookreporter.com Special Newsletter spotlights a book coming out this fall. Read more about it, and enter our Fall Preview Daily Contest by Tuesday, August 21st at 11:59AM ET for a chance to win one of five copies of LOVE ANTHONY by Lisa Genova. Please note that each contest is only open for 24 hours, so you will need to act quickly!
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This Bookreporter.com Special Newsletter spotlights a book coming out this fall. Read more about it, and enter our Fall Preview Daily Contest by Tuesday, August 7th at 11:59AM ET for a chance to win one of five copies of THE MALICE OF FORTUNE by Michael Ennis. Please note that each contest is only open for 24 hours, so you will need to act quickly!
This Bookreporter.com Special Newsletter spotlights a book coming out this fall. Read more about it, and enter our Fall Preview Daily Contest by Friday, August 3rd at 11:59AM ET for a chance to win one of five copies of KEPT IN THE DARK by Penny Hancock. Please note that each contest is only open for 24 hours, so you will need to act quickly!

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A controversial Davis Square condominium proposal is facing more scrutiny after city officials nearly let the developer avoid submitting reports that detail possible environmental contamination on the development site.
The project would create a 31-unit condominium building and new facility for the George Dilboy VFW Post on about an acre of land between 343 and 351 Summer St.
Opponents have longstanding concerns about the project’s size, and doubts about the developer’s track record in Somerville. In addition, they say the city is making excuses for a developer who has intentionally hidden reports about the site’s environmental conditions.
Changes to the City’s zoning application made last year require developers to attach any environmental reports completed for a site and that they be publicly available. In this case, reports prepared during an eight-year period that raised questions about risks from the site’s former use as a gas station remained out of the hands of the public.
Even after the reports were finally delivered to the City, months after the application was initially filed, residents remain concerned about what they contain. The Licensed Site Professional who prepared them was suspended by the state earlier this year for conduct violations such as preparing reports without sufficient data.
Following months of pressure from neighbors, city officials have backtracked and required the developer to begin the zoning process again. Since that point, residents have been barred from participating so far.
Iappini, who sued the city when an earlier permit was extended in 2009, said the missing reports are just the most recent example of the city siding with the developer, the name of which has shifted three times during the past nine years but remained within control of the same people. Roberto Arista is the head of the current company listed on the application, Strategic Capital Group.
The issue of the missing reports stems from requirements the city put into effect last year, after possible contamination became a concern at another development. The Planning Department now requires that any environmental reports prepared for a site be included as a part of the zoning application.
Confronted with questions from both residents and aldermen at a June ZBA hearing, George Proakis, City of Somerville planning director, explained that city officials view such applications as “living documents” that could be added to over time.
At that meeting, Arista said the failure to submit the report earlier was an oversight, and future reports would be included.
A real estate agreement between Arista’s other company, Dakota Partners, and the Dilboy indicates otherwise. Submitted along with a request for a liquor license transfer last year, the agreement states that any environmental reports would not be released to any third party, including city officials, without permission of the Post.
Dilboy Post Commander Bob Hardy, who signed the agreement, said he was unaware of any specific order to keep the reports out of public view.
“If people think there’s hanky-panky there, there’s nothing I can do about that,” he added.
Before a second ZBA hearing, Proakis asked for a completely new application, meaning the final approval process needed for the development to go forward would start again.
The decision may have in part been because of what Summer Street neighbor Tom Bok found before a meeting at the VFW. When he walked in, he saw an environmental report from 2010 lying on a table.
The residents opposed to the project, however, question why the earlier application wasn’t denied altogether, or allowed to be withdrawn with prejudice. Allowing the developer to withdraw with prejudice would keep the project out of the ZBA for one year, while a denial would block it for two years.
Bok and other neighbors were barred by board Chairman Herbert Foster from speaking on the withdrawal at the hearing. Ward 6 Alderman Rebekah Gewirtz, however, was allowed to speak.
With the insistence of the developer’s attorney, Richard Di Girolamo, that they did not intentionally neglect to submit the 2010 report that Bok found, and a staff report recommending the move because the disclosure policy remains a work in progress, the ZBA approved the withdrawal.
In a new application filed a week after the second ZBA hearing, the city suddenly gained hundreds of pages of previously undisclosed reports and documentation, completed between 2002 and July 2010. No explanation has been given so far as to why four additional reports hadn’t been submitted earlier.
The nearly six inches of paperwork contained in the seven reports filed leave most of the questions about the conditions of the site unanswered. While the reports note the site acquired gasoline storage tanks in 1931, it is unclear whether their location was taken into account during environmental testing, and testing to explore possible contamination further never took place.
Residents also remain skeptical of what’s in the reports themselves.
The testing was conducted under the supervision of Daniel Jaffe, president of Somerville-based IES Inc. He held a license from the state to perform environmental testing and plan clean-up efforts until it was suspended for 15 months in February.
“In light of the nature of this suspension and the questions it raises about his past conduct, it would be naïve to accept any of his past work at face value,” Bok said.
A statement from the Board of Registration of Hazardous Waste Site Cleanup Professionals said he violated the board’s rules from 2001 through 2006 at sites in Acton, Newton, Lawrence and Watertown.
According to the press release, the board found that Jaffe “failed to collect sufficient data and information from the site to adequately demonstrate the lack of risk” at one site where fuel oil release was a possible issue.
In an email, Jaffe said that rather than fight the suspension, he agreed to waive his right to appeal in exchange for not admitting any wrongdoing.
Jaffe said he plans to resume Licensed Site Professional work when the suspension is over and none of the work he oversaw for the Summer Street site required LSP status to be performed. After neighbors raised the suspension with the Planning Department, it recommended Jaffe’s Summer Street reports be reviewed by an independent consultant, selected by the city and paid for by Arista.
The consultant, however, would not conduct new testing, and recommendations would be left to Arista to implement. Bok said those limitations do more to raise suspicions than assuage neighbors.
George O’Shea, Iappini’s husband, said because the state Department of Environmental Protection is the only agency that can act on contamination issues, the city shouldn’t be focusing on vetting the IES reports.
Ultimately, Iappini said, the residents’ faith in the city to act in their interests instead of the developer’s is gone.
That dynamic was on display at the August 4 ZBA hearing, where the city’s decision to hire a consultant to review the environmental reports was not up for discussion.
The hearing — initially advertised in a mailing to abutters as a chance for people to weigh in on the new application — was essentially shut down despite the ZBA’s vote to approve fronting $4,000 for the consultant.
“I don’t understand why they’re not letting the public have their say,” Gewirtz said after the meeting.
For his part, Bok said the neighbors are only looking to have a voice in the decisions the city makes about the project, and that Proakis’s assertion that the city is a neutral party is “laughable” considering how it’s handled the proposed project so far.
While the next hearing on the project was scheduled for tonight at City Hall, it is expected to be delayed until August 24.


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●Is the hight of 55 in. just the extended legs, or does it include the extendable tube in the center?
The height is the total reached with everything extended--legs and center tube.
●How smooth is this tripod for spinning 360 degrees? Is it noticeable on a video?
Very smooth specially with angles.
● Is this tripod sturdy?
Yes，this is an excellent tripod. Build quality is good for the affordable price. Although the tripod is aluminum construction, but it is sturdy enough. Center column features a hook to use for weighing the tripod down in moderate wind.
● Is an adaptor needed for binoculars?
If your binoculars have the threaded hole for tripods than No Adaptor is needed.
● Will it work for a canon eos rebel t3?
Yes, its adapter work with a lot of brand including canon.
● What is the tripod's weight?
Very light. A little under 3lbs.

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As Team Leader Pharma Lab/Scientist, you will work in an analytical lab at a pharmaceutical company. You will plan, organize and review the analytical testing work of 4 lab analyst. You also review the documentation and analytical methods. You take an active role in the process optimization. Occasionally, you also participle in the execution of analytical tests (like HPLC, UPLC, GC).
Ideally you participate with implementing lean in the lab.
In 1987, Eurofins Scientific was founded in Nantes, France, with four employees to market the SNIF NMR technology. During the past 31 years, Eurofins has grown to be a world leader in laboratory testing services with a network of 650 laboratories across 41 countries in Europe, North and South America and Asia-Pacific and over 45,000 staff.
Eurofins is the world leader in the food, bio/pharmaceutical product testing. It is also number one in the field of environmental laboratory services and one of the global market leaders in agro science, genomics, discovery pharmacology, and central laboratory services.
Eurofins Professional Scientific Service® (PSS) is the insourcing solution of Eurofins. We are placing a team of Eurofins employees at the site of the client to deliver a structural service. Eurofins PSS means teamwork, productivity, quality and superlative service.
To apply, please send your application to: katrienlambrechts@eurofins.com.

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Thunderbird users may have only a handful of accounts, but they have numerous discrete serial sources of information, including mailing lists, individual newsgroups, and feeds. With filters, the global Inbox, and Forumzilla’s arbitrary feed->folder mappings, users have a great deal of flexibility about where they put their messages. But the more source->folder mappings they add, the harder it is for them to remember which mail goes where, and adding mappings is challenging for ordinary users.
Thunderbird’s UI for source->folder mappings is scattered across multiple Account Preferences pages and Filters dialogs. Forumzilla adds yet another dialog for managing feed subscriptions. Users need a better way to view these mappings and change them.
I suggest we add a “sources” pane to the left of the Thunderbird folder pane. The pane, when displayed, would feature a list of sources with arrows pointing from them to their folders. Users would be able to drag arrows to different folders to change where sources write their messages. And they’d be able to double-click a source to get more detailed configuration options, which could be just the existing account, filter, and feed preferences dialogs.
Changing a source->folder mapping for a feed means changing its “target folder” preference. For a mailing list it might mean creating or updating a filter. But these are backend differences; to the user, it’s the same action, and it should work the same for all sources.


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Speaking to investors, Inventec CEO David Ho confirmed that the HomePod would ship to Apple in the fourth fiscal quarter, with tight constraints.
"We will finally ship the smart home device this year," said Ho. "But, its [earnings] contribution will be fairly limited and hopefully that will improve next year"
After the conference call, an analyst predicted that Inventec would likely only ship 500,000 units of the HomePod in 2017. For that half-million, Inventec's revenue is predicted to only increase less than one percent.
An unnamed source within Inventec told the Nikkei Asian Review on Monday that the HomePod would in part shift to rival Foxconn in 2018 at some point -- but when specifically was not made clear.
Do we know for sure that the HomePod works with AppleTV?
"Apple has announced Airplay 2, which includes new features such as multiroom, HomeKit compatibility, and Apple TV4 integration. The new HomePod speaker will be one of the first speakers with Airplay 2 but the company also announced a handful of partners, including Bang & Olufsen and Bose."
I've been pretty sure that Supply would be limited and demand HIGH. That people many people are going to have weeks to wait. I have no interest in one myself.
They did the same with the Apple Watch, announced fully 6 months (or more?) before it was actually available to buy. My guess is for competitive reasons as other companies like Amazon are already getting a lot of press in the assistant-enabled speaker space and slowing the purchase pace of those other products is in Apple's interests, but only the folks at Apple know specifically why they would announce it so early.
Earpods Mk 2 on the way. Sigh.
Why do Apple have to make things so difficult to make???? Especially fot the V1 releases.
Yes, why can’t they simply pop out of a clamshell, fully formed and perfect.
It is the very fact that it’s a v1 that makes a product more difficult to produce. Economies of scale happen after everyone is familar with the product and problems related to manufacturing.
Apple announced the first iPhone on 9 January 2007. It shipped on 29 June 2007.
Of the top, I can't think of a major upgrade of a product that shipped the same day or very shortly after being announced, but I know there are some.
Products with incremental upgrades were/are almost always available same day as announced.
As to how hard can it be to make a speaker... I think it should be obvious the manufacturing standards set by Apple pretty much conclude a manufacturer doing cookie cutter stamping.
Steve Jobs was known for nixing shipping because of what some would perceive as a very minor flaw in execution. I don't imagine that's changed much.
I think Apple may announce some products that aren't planned to ship yet to create buzz and not to be seen as just 'me too'.
Superficially, the HomePod makes Google Home and Amazon Echo look like a bargain. But if it preforms anywhere near promised, I'm in. I've got a Dot and I'm not too pleased. Siri has her issues but I can tolerate them.
My concern is that using two HomePods won't give you stereo sound but just two DSP enabled speakers for 'more sound' or 'spacious' sound as Apple calls it. They're emphasizing sound but I don't expect it to be more than musical competition to Google and Amazon. I see it as a better sounding, HomeKit compatible digital assistant.
I predict this company will not be doing business with apple in the future. When are these companies going to learn they can not make statement about Apple business. May this is why the other name source claims the business is moving to Foxconn, so it a bit of sour grapes.
Has anyone considered that the HomePod, besides being a Siri speaker, could double as a WiFi mesh station, Apple's answer to Eero. In fact, with the announced Bluetooth mesh standard, it could do BT too, sure to be helpful with HomeKit. Seems like the ATV4 should be able to do that also, with the correct firmware.
Yep. HomePod is likely a component of a much bigger plan for HomeKit implementation, along with whatever still unannounced mystery will be the next step for Apple in routers and networking. The greatly exaggerated rumors of the demise of AirPort also plays into this picture. Apple will not be abandoning the heart of the networked home.
Up to this point, home automation and 'the internet of things' has been an ad hoc mess of fits and starts. I think HomePod is going to play an important role in Apple's re-working of that mess into something that 'just works.' A few judiciously placed HomePods will suddenly make it possible to reliably and securely connect all those HomeKit devices, while making voice control of them possible, even without remembering where you set down your iPhone.
Steve Jobs did not invent the smartphone, but before he introduced the iPhone, there was a hodgepodge of phones, PDAs, MP3 players, point-and-shoot digital cameras, GPS devices, etc. out there, taking up pocket space and cumulatively costing their owners a lot of money. Then, by a couple of years into the iPhone, all those things became one device that just works. The wireless home automation scene right now is ripe for the same thing to happen with that, and I think HomePod is the vanguard of that realignment.
Didn’t Schiller go over two speaker set ups a the reveal? I seem to recall a special graphic just for that.
Multiple devices do give stereo sound. Schiller spoke on that specifically at the announcement.
That's DEFINITELY what I've been hoping for since they are apparently abandoning the airport extremes.
My guess is that the entirety of the industrialization process is far more complex and exacting than most lay people can easily grasp or appreciate. While Apple has some insanely talented visionaries, designers, engineers, marketeers, and executives who can create new ideas and show them to the world at product announcements that stun the world, the industrialization team(s) are the real behind-the-scenes unsung heroes who are responsible for figuring out how to bring these visions into reality using actual components, tooling, materials, and manufacturing processes that yield perfection on a scale of tens of millions of perfect copies per quarter. This is a very nontrivial part of the Apple "magic" that rarely gets a mention or much attention on-stage during any of the product announcement events. A new product like AirPods and HomePods, something on the cutting edge that's unlike anything Apple has ever done before, requires as much innovation on the industrialization/manufacturing side as it does on the vision and technology side. It ain't easy and there's zero tolerance for failure.
Yes, he did. He didn't say anything about 'stereo'.
He said when you set up two they automatically work together to give incredible spacious sound that has the power to rock your house. Not the same thing. Carefully parsed, he absolutely did not say 'stereo'. At this point, it looks to me to be two mono speakers, not a left and right channel that is traditionally known as stereo.
Given the ability of AirPods to shift from mono to stereo when going from one to two AirPods, you might infer that two HomePods will provide true stereo sound (albeit with heavy digital processing) but that was not said at WWDC 2017.
Does the W1 chip give the AirPods mono/stereo switching? I've seen no mention of it being in the HomePods. Maybe all this has been clarified at some subsequent interview, but I haven't seen it.
Very few wireless speakers will mimic the AirPod true mono/stereo switching. I hope the HomePod is one (two) of them.
Yeah, he did -- but maybe not at the keynote, possibly. Plus it was demonstrated it at the after-event.
Hard to believe that people are still debating whether or not the HomePod produces stereo sound with a single unit. Of course it does. Think of the classic boom box from the '70s and '80s: those were very compact and had woofers/tweeters that were typically 12-18" apart on each side. A boom box produced stereo sound, regardless of whether or not it had much separation. Now consider the HomePod. Not only does it have 7 tweeters and a subwoofer, it also has audio beam forming capability due to the inclusion of a CPU and RAM, plus the ability to evaluate the position of the speaker within the room. There's no question that the HomePod can direct sound to the tweeters to produce a stereo effect.
Two HomePods will increase the stereo separation, but only one is needed to produce stereo sound.
It could also be for the same reason the first iPhone and the Apple Watch were announced months in advance - they didn't want it leaked when it was submitted for the various regulatory approvals.
As I said, he most definitely did not say so at the Keynote.
As I wasn't at the after-event, I couldn't say. But I appreciate the links. It clears up my only reservation, short of actually hearing the HomePod(s). Thanks.
Hard to believe that people are still debating whether or not the HomePod produces stereo sound with a single unit.
Who's doing that? I missed it.
Then there's question of how you define stereo sound. I'm not into heavily-digitally process sound for the sake of special effects.
Some boom boxes were large enough that stereo reproduction could be discerned within a few feet of the box. Beyond that the signal may as well have been mono. At that point touting 'stereo' was no more than marketing ticking a box, and some schlub winning a bar bet.
Separation, aside from the above, is only part of the equation. 'Filling the room with sound' is laudable and under some circumstances, good enough. Putting a bunch of drivers in one enclosure to accomplish spatial hocus-pocus has been done before. Still not what is traditionally stereo as many of is, and I, define it.
The Beatles first stereo albums had the vocals in one channel and music in the other. Stereo? Sure, you win. A realistic representation or even approximation of a musical performance? Only if you back away from the speakers far enough, then you can approximate sitting in the cheap seats. Not that it mattered for a Beatles concert.
Good imaging, necessary to provide a realistic soundstage, is one of my top priorities. Whether or not a single HomePod can pull this off remains to be, uh, seen. The Verge article mentioned placing instruments in different locations, but that's not quite as informative as I'd like. And that's fine, really. I'm not an ultra purist and make concessions to sound quality as needed. That's my context and I'm sticking to it.
As long as I can 'see' a proper stereo soundstage with two HomePods I'll be happy. So I await critical testing and reviews.


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Microsoft appears to have put Microsoft Sets, the tabbed redesign of Windows, on hold, though it’s uncertain whether it’s been killed outright.
Update 1:10 pm ET: Samsung has issued a statement confirming the delay of the Galaxy Fold launch.
Intel’s Optane Memory H10 SSD is one of those enigmas of PC hardware that can drive reviewers crazy. It is—simply put—a storage technology that is more responsive in some cases, but slower in others.


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“Brexit will never happen” is what a prominent fund manager told me while we exchanged bullish market views a couple weeks ago at a social gathering. I was a bit surprised at how emphatic the person was about Brexit, but it was understandable. I responded with my favorite behavioral finance quip about investors’ tendency to be overly fearful and risk averse at times when in fact probability favored a rising market. We both chuckled and seemed to have it all figured out. Well, as we all watched events unfold Thursday and into Friday, Brexit did happen and the market did go down. Much to my chagrin, I was faced with the difficult thought of having to reassess my bullish position. But, as investors, this is a painful but necessary exercise if we hope to survive inevitable bear markets. So, the question is, what does Brexit mean? The answer is, no one knows. Could it be the end of the European Union and the beginning of years of financial and political chaos in Europe which would undoubtedly wreak havoc with global markets? Or is it the event that forces the EU to reorganize itself and take serious measures to ensure fairness among its members? Again, the truth is that we simply don’t know yet. What we do know is that financial markets responded swiftly on Friday by knocking down the equity markets of all parties involved and dropping the value of the British Pound a staggering 8% versus the dollar. So while the U.K. has decided to head into the unknown in search of better arrangements and perhaps to find its former self, financial markets have already made some of its future known. And that future is not bright.
It is the financial realities that markets have delivered already that I believe will force the U.K. and EU to come to some sort of amicable agreement. Until the situation fully plays out, all we can do is to take a look at how market reactions may affect the principal participants’ (U.K. and Germany) motives. For the U.K., which is a consumption based economy like the U.S., a depreciating currency is like a tax on its citizens as imports become more expensive. Then, from the Bank of England’s perspective, a rapidly depreciating GBP could theoretically create hyperinflation, a situation in which the BoE would have to aggressively hike rates to thwart capital outflows and inflation. So Friday’s dramatic FX losses against its major trading partners will certainly have everyone’s attention. In terms of trade so far this year, Germany and the U.S. were the U.K.’s top trading partners to which the U.K. is running a 6.4 billion GBP deficit. A deficit that will get more expensive the further the pound drops. Now from Germany’s perspective, in 2015, the U.K. was their third largest export destination behind the U.S. and France. So we can see how it would behoove Germany, the de facto leader of the EU, to keep communications open and friendly with the U.K.
As the realities of the vote start to reveal themselves, it seems there are many in Britain who are experiencing, if you will, a kind of voters’ remorse. For example, Cornwall, a county in the south of England whose economy is based primarily on fishing and agriculture, received roughly 60 million GBP yearly in financial aid from the EU. Prior to the vote, the Leave campaign promised that funding would still be in place post a leave vote one way or another. Now that the vote has happened, Cornwall finds itself looking at a possible interruption of these funds as the transition takes place. It’s all fun and games until the bill comes. All this said, Brexit remains an extremely fluid situation as the idea of a new referendum is already being passed around and gaining momentum. Given the economic realities of what has happened so far, I would expect a softening of rhetoric from the Leave campaign and for the remaining political leaders in the U.K. to work with the EU in making as smooth a transition (if any) as possible to the benefit all parties. Translation: Now that real damage has been done on all sides, cooler heads should prevail and market volatility should subside.
Now moving to situations on this side of the pond, let’s look at a significant data point we got in the midst of all the Brexit hysteria last week, which was weekly unemployment benefits claims. Last Thursday’s initial claims print came in at a very low 259,000 with continuing claims getting close to their cycle low at 2.142 million. While labor market health has been under some scrutiny since last month’s “weak” nonfarm payroll (NFP) print of 38,000, I’m taking issue with both the scrutiny and the “weak” description. Since the labor market has essentially reached full employment and the economy is in a slow but steady growth mode, it is incorrect to expect 200,000 monthly job growth into perpetuity. An excellent assessment of the “weak” payroll report and the labor market is given here by Stephen Williamson of the St. Louis Federal Reserve Bank. In short, Williamson says the labor market is doing just fine.
What I would like to focus on here is how well the weekly claims data does in capturing the cyclical nature and health of the labor market. Unlike NFP data which is based on statistical sampling, weekly claims data is based on the actual total numbers of people seeking unemployment benefits. While NFP data still does a great job in describing the composition of the labor force, claims data is the most accurate and timely gauge for judging true labor market health. The reason for preferring weekly claims data is that when cyclical industries hit slowdowns and lay people off, those layoffs show up almost immediately in the initial claims data. For people in cyclical and / or high turnover industries like construction, leisure & hospitality, unemployment benefits act as a lifeline until new work can be found. The Bureau of Labor Statistics also put out a report which shows that within initial claims data you have not just cyclically unemployed persons, but also workers who may be intentionally filing claims once they meet minimum work requirements. Depending on how much of the latter group is true, the labor market could be even tighter than the data suggests.
To illustrate how strong today’s labor market is, I have taken the initial claims data series and adjusted it for the size of the labor force. While the labor force has grown over time, the percentage of claimants to the total labor force has been fairly consistent through prior periods of higher labor force growth as is seen in the first two ovals. As we move forward to today, labor force growth has been fairly flat while the claimant number has dropped. This is indicative of a healthy / tight labor market.
The key takeaway here is that regardless of nonfarm payroll growth, we know that cyclical industries are keeping people employed and that employment is the backbone to a healthy job market and, in turn, a healthy economy.
A market update would not be complete without a look at some recent services sector data, which we also got last week. On Tuesday, the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia released its Nonmanufacturing Business Outlook Survey for June which is the services version of its highly regarded manufacturing report. Unfortunately, most people missed the release because it was not on the economic calendars of any of the major news sources. This is truly a shame because the report is one of the few metrics provided on the services sector by a regional Fed bank and deserves to be followed. As I’ve written before, services data just doesn’t get the coverage it deserves in financial media. That said, the report showed solid gains in employment and modest growth in sales and new orders, which is in line with our steady economy.
The above is all well and good, but the real issue is where are we headed now? Unfortunately, like back in February when we were tied to oil, we are now tied to Brexit. Given the news over the weekend, it seems that the Leave campaign has bitten off more than it can chew and is scrambling to control an unexpected victory. Already there is enough of a backlash from the Remain campaign that it may be able to thwart an actual Brexit. I think the fact that so many people in England, Northern Ireland and Scotland want to be a part of the EU and believe in a united Europe that it bodes well for the survival of the EU. Ultimately, I believe agreements will be reached and the bull market will continue. Otherwise, I would certainly hate to run into my fund manager friend again and have to share some humble pie.

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The first European player to be drafted into the NFL without playing at an American college has another chance. Per the league's transaction wire, tight end Moritz Boehringer has been allocated to the Bengals as an exempt/international player. That means he can hang around as a 91st player on the roster, and the Bengals have a chance to keep him as an 11th practice squad player if need be.
When the Bengals begin their on-field, offseason work in a few weeks, Andy Dalton is expected under center. Geoff Hobson of the team website reports Dalton is good to go, cleared to return from his thumb injury. Dalton finished the season on injured reserve after tearing ligaments in his right thumb against Cleveland in a Nov. 25 game.
Rashan Gary had 23 tackles for loss in his Michigan career. Just a few weeks from the NFL Draft, former Michigan defenders Rashan Gary and Devin Bush Jr. have consistently entrenched themselves at the top of mock drafts. • NFL Media analyst Charlie Casserly has Gary going with the No. 4 pick to the Oakland Raiders and Bush going with the No. 11 pick to the Cincinnati Bengals.
Zac Taylor got up early Tuesday and headed to Paul Brown Stadium for his first meeting with his new team, one that was watching closely to see how the 35-year-old coach would handle himself. ''It felt like game day, to be honest,'' Taylor said. The Cincinnati Bengals gathered for the first time under Taylor on Tuesday, the start of voluntary offseason workouts.
NFL Preseason Schedule 2019: Redskins announce preseason opponents originally appeared on nbcsportswashington.com The 2019 NFL preseason is still a few months away, but the Washington Redskins now know who and where they will play when the preseason schedule begins in August. The Redskins' opponents for the 2019 preseason include the Cleveland Browns, Cincinnati Bengals, Atlanta Falcons, and Baltimore Ravens, the team announced Tuesday afternoon. The Redskins will start the preseason in Cleveland against Baker Mayfield, Odell Beckham Jr. and the new--look Browns, before returning to D.C. for a date with Jay Gruden's former Bengals team.
The Tennessee Titans have added two former Alliance of American Football players by agreeing to terms with quarterback Logan Woodside and tight end Keith Towbridge. Woodside was on the Titans' practice squad for three weeks last season. He was the starting quarterback of the AAF's San Antonio Commanders before that league ended its season prematurely last week.
The Cincinnati Bengals have waived running back Mark Walton after his third arrest of 2019, the team announced on Saturday. quot;It's important for our team to get off to a fresh start as we begin the 2019 season," said head coach Zac Taylor in the statement. quot;For that reason, we felt it best if we move forward without Mark Walton.
The Cincinnati Bengals have waived running back Mark Walton after his third arrest of 2019, the team announced on Saturday. "It's important for our team to get off to a fresh start as we begin the 2019 season," said head coach Zac Taylor in the statement. "For that reason, we felt it best if we move forward without Mark Walton.
The team that once provided consistent safe harbor for players who found trouble away from the field has taken a stand, waiving running back Mark Walton. The Bengals invested a fourth-round pick in Walton last year. “It's important for our team to get off to a fresh start as we begin the 2019 season,” coach Zac Taylor said in a statement.
Former Michigan defensive end Rashan Gary and linebacker Devin Bush Jr. are projected to be selected early in the first round of the upcoming NFL Draft. • In Charles Davis of NFL.com's latest mock draft, he has Gary going to the Giants with the No. 6 pick. “Will the Giants take a QB here?! It's certainly possible, but Gary, who can also slide inside to defend the run and put pressure on the passer, is the selection here,” he writes.
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As I discussed in my last blog post, if you book a full-fare or flexible-fare economy ticket that is booked as a Y or a B fare, you will earn 150% of the miles flown on the trip. This is not a reason to buy these tickets as they can cost several times the cost of a regular ticket, but if you do get booked into this fare class, it is good to know if you will or will not earn the 150% miles. It is not a given, as I will come to shortly. If you need a flexible ticket due to fluid plans or you like me, book last minute travel or one-way tickets, you may get booked into these fares.
Other than Y/B, if one purchases full-fare Business Class or First Class fares, there is the 150% mileage bonuses for that too. These bonuses can be up to 200% for Award miles (RDM), but remain 150% for Elite miles. Conversely, if you purchase discounted Business or First tickets, you may not earn any bonus Elite miles. These fares are actually sometimes cheaper than Y/B fares, so it makes sense.
In this blog post, I will list out which airline partners award the 150% miles on full fare Economy, Business and First fares when earning miles on United MileagePlus program. I only researched this program as this is my primary mileage program. Furthermore, I only looked at United’s Star Alliance Partners. United has several other partners outside Star Alliance, like India’s Jet Airways, but they do not award Elite miles to United flyers, so I ignored them for now.
I personally found this data useful. I recently flew Turkish Airlines from Istanbul to London (IST – LHR) on my way back to the US. it was a B-fare, but I earned no bonus, as Turkish does not award it. If I had known this fact, I may have explored flying on Lufthansa instead and return to the US via Frankfurt instead of via London, as Lufthansa does offer 150% EQM.
On a side note, I was surprised actually to find out how many airlines do not have a First class product. Just Economy and Business class. United does so too on some of its international flights that are only 2-class: Economy and BusinessFirst.
Highlighted airlines (in bold) offer 150% EQM on Y/B economy fares.
Lufthansa – Yes, No, Yes, No, Yes, Yes (multiple yes/no combinations here. Lufthansa has a Premium Economy class on some aircraft. This earns the 150% miles for some fares. Same is true for Business class).

industry_corpus2: Transportation


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text: International Law is a collection of diverse writings from leading scholars in the field that brings together a broad range of perspectives on all the key issues in international law. Featuring chapters written by those actively involved in teaching and practice, this fourth edition explains the principles of international law, and exposes the debates and challenges that underlie it. The book contains seven parts. Part I provides the history and theory of international law. Part II looks at the structure of the international law obligation. Part III covers the subjects of the international legal order. Part IV looks at the scope of sovereignty. Part V looks at responsibility. Part VI considers how to respond to breaches in international obligations. Finally, Part VII looks at the various applications of international law and explains issues relating to the law of the sea, environmental law, investment law, criminal law, human rights law, and the law of armed conflict.

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A collaboration between scholars at the University of Bristol, University of Lincoln, the Institut d'Asie Orientale, and the TGE-Adonis, this project aims to locate, archive, and disseminate photographs from the substantial holdings of images of modern China held mostly in private hands overseas. These are often of even greater historic interest than might ordinarily be the case, as the destruction of materials inside China in war and revolution in the twentieth century, and especially during the 1966-69 Cultural Revolution, means that there is a relative dearth today of accessible photographic records in China itself. Turmoil in China, and emigration from the country, also led to the development of a large Chinese diaspora. Moreover, thousands of foreigners lived and worked in China between the 1840s and the 1950s, and many thousands more visited for longer or shorter periods. Chinese emigrants, foreign expatriates and visitors alike took, bought or otherwise acquired photographs. Many of these are in libraries and collections in the West, and in addition our research in modern Chinese history has led us to many interesting private collections. Images from private and public collections are available here. An exhibition of this material took place in London, Bath, and Durham in 2007-2008. A further exhibition took place at the Grant Bradley Gallery, Bristol, from 17th January to 21st February 2009. For more details click here. Collaborators in Spain are holding an exhibition of photographs from the collection in Pamplona which opened in November 2009. This link also leads to an order form for the companion volume to the exhibition, Picturing China 1870-1959: Photographs from British Collections (Chinese Maritime Customs Project Occasional Papers No.1, 2007, ISSN: 1755-6643). The project was also the subject of a supplement to the winter 2008 (No.46) International Institute of Asian Studies Newsletter. This can be accessed at the IIAS site, or as an Adobe Acrobat file of the entire supplement here (warning, this is a large file, 3.24mb).
The photographs archived here come from the collections of a Chinese diplomat, foreign businessmen, staff of the administrations in the Chinese treaty ports, missionaries, and officials of the Chinese Maritime Customs Service. They shed light on political events such as the 1925 May Thirtieth incident, on working and social life, on treaty port architecture, commercial history, the history of dress and fashion, and of course the history of photography in China. They were taken by talented amateur photographers, by foreign snap-shotters, professional studio photographers, and others. These images were taken, acquired or bought by those living or visiting China.
These digital copies of the images are made available here for educational, reference and research purposes. As well as a variety of modestly sized collections, this project has worked with a number of larger bodies of material including photographs related to the Chinese Maritime Customs Service, diplomat Foo Ping-sheung (Fu Bingchang), holdings relating to the Shanghai Municipal Police, the G. Warren Swire collection, and the J.C. Oswald collection (SOAS).

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In the only House race that really mattered to both parties — the special election to replace the late Democratic Rep. John Murtha in Pennsylvania’s 12th District — Republicans failed spectacularly, losing on a level playing field where, in this favorable environment, they should have run roughshod over the opposition.
How exactly is it a level playing field when the Democrats have a statewide U.S. Senate primary happening at the same time? There was no comparative factor getting Republicans motivated to interrupt their busy lives to vote. That’s not soreloserdom blogging, it’s just attention to reality. The Democrats were more motivated in this race. This ain’t the end of a trend. It’s just another special election, in a Democratic district, and on a big Democratic primary day. And a Democrat won. Disappointing. But not paradigm-smashing shocking. And not devastating.

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Too many small business owners think they have to change who they are — who their company is — to improve their marketing. I believe the opposite is true. I believe you need to BE who you are to improve your marketing.
Significant growth doesn’t come from changing into something you are not. It comes from being more of who you uniquely are. And then making sure that gets communicated in everything you do.
The inclination is to be more like your larger competitors. But you end up looking and sounding like everybody else because everybody else has the same idea.
Sure, there are things to fix, things you need to get better at. But your image, brand, position, call it whatever you want, should be all you, not a version of another company. And, your vision will always reflect something different than what you see today, but it should maintain the DNA or core of what makes your business unique.
A contractor came to me, “We’re ready to grow”! They wanted a marketing make-over, expecting I’d make them into something different or better. They were nonplussed when I recommended we get better at telling their story: just two guys who care deeply about quality, who you could trust to tell you the truth, and who stand behind their work. And, we made sure their story was reflected in everything we said and everything they did.
It was a simple message, but it was who they were (and still are). Their company has grown 10X and is in many ways unrecognizable from when we started. Except for who they are. Which is why they continue to grow.


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Finally, I have taken the time to lower the outdoor kitchen. It was about 8 inches to high when I originally built it and I just put up with it, because I thought it would be a huge task to adjust it because of the heavy marble top.
Turns out it was easy. Took about a half hour or maybe an hour to do the whole thing.
Today, I made a pasta salad on it and I did not get a pain in my shoulders. Woot!


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Internal government notes say the Canadian Security Intelligence Service is likely to team up with “trusted allies,” such as the American CIA and Britain’s MI6, on overseas operations to derail threats – plans that underscore concerns about CSIS accountability under new security legislation.
The omnibus bill known as C-51 allows CSIS to engage in joint “disruption” efforts abroad – including covert actions that break foreign laws – something the spy service previously had no authority to do, according to the government notes.
“In the international context, CSIS would likely first seek avenues to work jointly with partners in the local jurisdiction or trusted allies before engaging in independent action,” the notes say.
CSIS’s new threat disruption mandate – perhaps the most contentious element of the legislation that received royal assent in June – could include surreptitious meddling with websites, cancelling airline reservations, disabling a car or myriad other schemes.
The spy service would be allowed to engage in disruption activities that violate the Charter of Rights and Freedoms as long as a judge sanctions them, a measure critics say perverts the role of the judiciary.
CSIS would co-ordinate threat disruption activity with other agencies such as the RCMP, Canada Border Services Agency and Foreign Affairs, and could use its statutory mandate to enlist the technical expertise of the Communications Security Establishment, Canada’s electronic spy agency, the government notes say.
However, the Security Intelligence Review Committee, the watchdog known as SIRC that keeps an eye on CSIS, is limited to examining the spy service alone.
The notion of CSIS teaming up with foreign and domestic partners to derail threats raises concerns about SIRC’s ability to “follow the thread” and look at the entire operation, said University of Ottawa law professor Craig Forcese, who obtained the government notes under the Access to Information Act.
“SIRC is stovepiped to CSIS – that is, it can only look at what CSIS does, not at what any partner might do,” said Forcese, co-author of “False Security,” a book that extensively critiques C-51, calling it a squandered opportunity.
As the scale and scope of joint operations expand, the prospect of “gaps in the accountability system” increases apace, he added.


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While many people believe writers merrily create stories, kick back, have a good time and collect checks, writers know differently. Every profession has its draw-backs and the creative writer is no exception.
I’ve experienced bumps in the road more than once along the way and no doubt nearly every writer has. So let’s haul these little demons out of the shadows and have a look, cuz if your muse is swamped by these little guys (as opposed to being surrounded by helpful minions) you just aren’t going to get anywhere.
So, you’re saying you have no physical energy, no motivation to press on because you just want to go take a nap. Well, maybe you should. It could be that simple. If you haven’t gotten enough rest it might be time to grab a nap and come back refreshed.
If that’s not it you may be recovering from a summer cold or suffering allergies. That might need your doctor to help solve. On the other hand most of the country is vitamin D deficient. You might be among them. Or, it is summer after all, you might need to drink more water or get some coconut water and replenish those electrolytes. I’m no doctor, but I can tell you exhaustion is an issue you’ll need to tinker with, figure out the cause and take steps to resolve it or you’re going to stay stuck and miserable (and I don’t mean just blast yourself with caffeine.
Then there’s the problem of no ideas. I’ve had people ask me where I get ideas. I’ve written in my blog about where to find ideas. I’ve had people tell me they can’t find a new idea, that it’s so HARD.
What, are you living under a rock? I’ve said it before and I’ll repeat myself. Ideas are everywhere. They’re in your family, your community, in space, in history, in the news…. Come on people! I mean really, if you can’t come up with any idea perhaps (and I say this kindly) you don’t really want to write. Perhaps you’re a reader and you think you want to write because you enjoy that so much. That’s cool. Sort that one out for yourself.
That’s for the big picture. But if you’re talking about the smaller picture, the more like, “I have a big idea, but I’m not sure where to go with it” problem, then I’d say you need to start asking yourself questions. Like “what if the character did this or that or what if the story was set in a different location”. Or “why would this or that happen?” Is what I’m asking a character to do ‘in character’? Would he or she really do that? Ask yourself lots of questions, write down lots of answers – sift through it all after. It’ll get better – really.
Another stumbling block for writers is really bad writing. Yes, admit it, we all put out some really bad writing at one time or another. The real drawback here is not really the really bad writing, which you can cure over time, but not accepting you’re doing it and thus receive rejection after rejection and become more and more frustrated and depressed when someone (friend, editor, whoever) gives you negative feedback.
Look, you have to learn. There are very few natural-born storytellers. Even when you’ve learned you have to accept there are days when you’ll crank out really bad writing. Days when you’ll swear and chuck it. Pull your head out of the sand (or wherever else you put it) and grow a thick skin.
This is one profession where you’re going to catch criticism from every direction at one time or another so you’re going to have to learn to sift through what might actually be helpful from what is just hurtful.
Got it? Okay, that’s it for this little lecture. No doubt I’ll come up with more. Meantime write, read, do what makes you happy.
and that’s the long and the short of it Gerald – thanks for the comment!
When I started writing it was in longhand (you remember pens and those hard erasers that erased by destroying paper, dontcha? You don’t?) and my first drafts were slow but roughly 95%. When I began typing with the same paper-destroying erasers they went faster and sank to about 80-85%. When I discovered Mike Nesmith’s mom’s product (look it up, young ‘un) they went down to 75% and when I bought a super-electric with correcting ribbon and auto-correct they plummeted to about 60%. It was very annoying, exchanging quality for convenience. Like the food we eat. But worse was yet too come: with the introduction of word processors of greater editorial/correctional facility than seemed possible, they’re doing good to crawl along at 40% or less. I’ve gotten used to writing garbage at first, comforted by the knowledge it can all be fixed in the succeeding drafts. Hopefully not too many of them. But there’s still that damned blank white page ….
Write, rewrite, write, rewrite – yep, that’s how it goes. Thanks for the comment Tyrone – much success on your ‘succeeding drafts’ – and yes I remember the pencils – but I learned touch typing waaaaay back and went straight for the typewriter myself.


text: 360 chickens which were good health and 20 weeks old,were choosed for experiments,90 chickens of Brown shell Roman layer, White shell Roman layer, Silky fowl layer and Green shell Lushi layer respectively. Each strain comprised 6 repetitions with 15 layers. Experiment was undertaken by the same condition from 21 weeks to 51weeks. In this experiment, it was the effect of different strains and different ages on the content of cholesterol in yolk, and the effect of different strains and different ages on serum biochemical indexes and related gene expression that we study for.Experiment 1 The deposition law of yolk cholesterol in different breedsThree eggs were collected from each repetition to determine the content of cholesterol in yolk. The result showed that there were diffenece among the different strains in the content of cholesterol in yolk (P<0.05). The order of content of cholesterol in yolk is Silky fowl layer, Brown shell Roman layer, White shell Roman layer, and Green shell Lushi layer; while the order of content of cholesterol in egg is changed to Silky fowl layer, Green shell Lushi layer, White shell Roman layer, and Brown shell Roman layer. There were diffenece among the different ages in the content of cholesterol in yolk (P<0.05).The deposition law of the content of cholesterol in yolk was increasing in 21week to 31 week, and decreasing in 31 week to 51 week.Experiment 2 Correlation analysis of serum biochemical parameters and content of cholesterol in yolkOne chicken selected from each repetition was used for determining the serum biochemical paramenrs.The result showed that breed significantly affected TC, HDLC, FSH, LH, E2, LPL, Apo-B(P<0.05). Age significantly affected HDLC, FSH, LH, E2, CYP7A1, LPL, Apo-B, Apo-II (P<0.05). There were significant postive correlation between the content of cholesterol in yolk and the content of LDLC in serum, FSH, LH, HMGR, LPL, Apo-II (P<0.05); while there were significant postive correlation between the content of cholesterol in yolk and CYP7A1, Apo-B (P<0.05). The content of cholesterol in yolk and LDLC levels serum were significantly positively correlated (P<0.05). TG levels in serum and TC, LDLC and VLDLC were significantly positively correlated (P<0.05). TC levels in serum and HLDC, LDLC and VLDLC level in serum were significantly positively correlated (P<0.05); while TC levels in serum and Apo-B levels were significantly negatively correlated (P<0.05). HDLC levels in serum and FSH levels were significantly negatively correlated (P<0.05). LDLC levels in serum and VLDLC level in serum were significantly positively correlated (P<0.05); while LDLC levels in serum and CYP7A1 activity and Apo-B levels were significantly negatively correlated (P<0.05). CYP7A1 activity and Apo-B level, LPL activety and E2 level, AND E2 level and Apo-II level were significantly positively correlated (P < 0.05).Experiment3 Study on the expression of HMGR, Apo-II and VLDLR gene in different layer breedsOne chicken which was selected from each repetition was used for collected liver and ovary to determine the expression of chicken HMGR, Apo-II and VLDLR gene. The result showed that there were diffenece among different breeds in the expression of HMGR in liver (P < 0.05); The expression of HMGR in liver of Brown shell Roman layer, is significantly higer than Green shell Lushi layer. There were diffenece among the different breeds in the expression of Apo-II in liver and VLDLR in ovary (P > 0.05). There were diffenece among different ages in the expression of HMGR, Apo-II in liver and VLDLR in ovary (P < 0.05). The trend of expression of HMGR and Apo-II in liver was increased in 51 week. The trend of expression of VLDLR in ovary was increase in 21week to 51 week.


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text: This webinar highlighted the capabilities of the EZ Mapping Tool policies, regulations and incentives database. It also explained how representatives of state agencies in the eastern interconnection can review and easily edit the policy entries for their state. The EZ Mapping Tool Policy Inventory Database includes all of the clean energy laws, regulations, incentives and other policies in all of the EISPC states, plus Canadian provinces, related to clean energy electricity generation.

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Senior Ava Soleimany talks about being captain of the women’s tennis team, leadership, and her research in synthetic biology.
Ava Soleimany is an award-winning researcher, as well as a captain of the MIT Women’s Tennis Team.
MIT senior Ava Soleimany knows the value of determination in the lab, and on the tennis court. The course 6-7 (computer science and molecular biology) major is an award-winning researcher, as well as a captain of the MIT Women’s Tennis Team.
While to some these two sides of her identity might seem unrelated, Soleimany has found that her experience as an athlete has, in many ways, impacted her growth as a researcher.
“In tennis, not every practice is going to be your best practice, and not every match is going to be your best match. In research, like in sports and in a lot of other things, the ball is not always going to bounce your way. It’s about being as prepared as you possibly can to make sure that when the uncertainties do arise and things don’t go as expected, you will be able to handle it,” she says.
When she’s not in the lab or working on her forehands and backhands, Soleimany channels her energy into helping others succeed. This June, the California native will graduate with a concentration in education. She is also a teaching assistant for biochemistry, a counselor for the Freshman Leadership Program, and the co-managing director of the Leadership Training Institute.
Course 6-7 allowed Soleimany to explore biology and computer science simultaneously, as well as the intersections between the two fields. The curriculum, offered jointly by EECS and the Department of Biology, gives 6-7 students a solid footing for careers in areas like pharmaceuticals, bioinformatics, and computational molecular biology.
Much of Soleimany’s time at MIT has been spent doing research in synthetic biology. Since her sophomore year, Soleimany has worked in the Synthetic Biology Group of Timothy Lu, associate professor of electrical engineering. Her junior year research was supported through EECS’s SuperUROP program, which allows students to work on year-long research projects under the supervision of a faculty member. During this time, Soleimany worked with graduate student Nathaniel Roquet on building finite state machines, a model of computation, in living cells.
“Just like you can use circuit elements to engineer logic into an electronic circuit, you can use gene regulatory parts to build a gene circuit that executes some type of logic,” she explains.
The project, for which Soleimany received the 2015 SuperUROP Outstanding Research Award, took “engineering logic” a step further by building state machines in E. coli.
She recalls that, when working on this project, there was a period of time in which all of her experiments were failing. She later discovered that only a very small mistake in a protocol had been preventing her from moving forward. She says that the persistence she gained through tennis helped her handle her frustration and navigate the situation with more ease.
“In tennis and in science you have to be determined and willing to learn from your mistakes,” she says.
Soleimany has been playing on the women’s varsity tennis team since her freshman year, and for the past two years she has been a captain of the team. “Outside of academics, it’s by far the biggest part of my experience at MIT,” she says.
Soleimany also works as a counselor for MIT’s Freshman Leadership Program (FLP), a 5-day pre-orientation program for incoming freshmen.
At FLP, counselors facilitate activities and discussions centered on different aspects of identity and social justice. The program creates a space for conversation about topics like prejudice, gender, sexuality, privilege, culture, and religion.
Soleimany also is the co-managing director of MIT’s Leadership Training Program (LTI), which turns MIT students into mentors for Boston area high school students interested in leadership and service. Through LTI, each high schooler comes up with an idea for a community service project, and develops it with help from their MIT mentors.
“It’s all about enabling people to go out and make an impact, setting a domino effect into motion. That’s a goal I have for myself in everything that I do,” she says.


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n. 1. (Law) One who has an estate after a particular estate is determined. See Remainder, n., 3.
REMAINDER-MAN. One who is entitled to the remainder of the estate after a particular estate carved out of it has expired.


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Magic DVD Copier is a very easy and powerful DVD copy software, which can copy any DVD movie to blank DVD without any loss of quality, or compress a DVD9 movie to fit on a 4.7 GB DVD. You need only insert your DVD movie and a blank DVD then press Go, everything will happen automatically and complete within 20-60 minutes.


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Spencer police are searching for a 19-year-old man who they say fled into the woods with a 3-foot sword after a fight on Sunday.
Authorities received several 911 calls Sunday afternoon reporting a large fight involving bats, golf clubs, knives and a sword.
Upon arrival, officers determined no one had been injured, but 19-year-old Rasheem Rosa of 60 Constitution Ave. in Worcester ran into the woods with a 3-foot sword. Officials said Rosa also had an outstanding warrant for his arrest.
Police K-9s and drones were used to search the area before authorities learned that Rosa had gone to the Greenville Street area and was picked up by a car.
The search was called off around 4:30 p.m.
Authorities said the initial fight was over the custody of a 17-year-old, who was later placed with a guardian.
Spencer police have applied for an additional warrant for Rosa.
Anyone with information about his whereabouts is asked to call the department at 508-885-6333.


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GeekyFaust is on its 3rd Year and we are happy we’ve reached three years in tech blogging.
I did not expect things to happen on October 30, 2010 – the culmination of the Fourth Mindanao Blogging Summit (MBS4), in tandem with Philippine Blog Awards 2010 which was held in Zambaonga City.
Show your love and support, hate me not, inflate my ego, boost my karma, compliment by showing me a picture of you liking or loving GeekyFaust and soon I have it posted here.
We have two days more to go and it’s Christmas! I”ll be celebrating Christmas at Calinan Davao City with my friends and relatives. This is the place where I grew and studied since elementary and high school days!
Congratulations! GeekyFaust landed and made it to the widely read local newspaper in Davao City.


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Emotions are powerful and can push us over the edge. When we struggle with our emotions by trying to gain some control “they can take us on a nice roller-coaster ride […] quite high where the view is very beautiful—then when we suddenly fall downward we start screaming. But the ride’s not over. It turns us upside down and rolls us around before going up high again. […] But when we get trapped again and again by our compulsive and neurotic emotional patterns, we just keep on screaming” (Ponlop, 2010).
By slowing down we can take a look at emotions with mindfulness and interrupt their momentum. We learn to fully experience the emotional energy—simply breathing in and out during the roller-coaster ride—and this creates a sense of trust in the process.
We can ride the energy of emotions and connect to this powerful force that is part of our creative potential. Working with emotions in this way brings about clarity, joy and peace.


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The Corporation in carrying out its mandate does provide consultancy services for third parties. The Corporation has all professional services under one thus providing a one stop shop service. The professionals include Land Acquisition experts, Architects, Engineers ( Structural, Civil, Electrical and Mechanical) Quantity Surveyors and Building Inspectors.
The Corporation thus can undertake development projects for third parties The services include Land preparation, budget preparation, designing to the clients brief, obtaining all the necessary approvals from relevant authorities, tendering and awarding projects and supervising the projects.
The clients the Corporation has done business with include Botswana Defence Force, Botswana Prison Services, Botswana Unified Revenue Services, Botswana Government (Department of Housing) Directorate on Crime and Economic Corruption (DCEC), Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) , AOJ and various Land boards around the country. BHC offers these services at very competitive rates.
These properties consists of men blocks of flats in Francistown, Selibe Phikwe and Gaborone.


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Indian Motorcycle, which, having been founded in 1901, stands as the the oldest motorcycle brand in the United States, was bought recently by Polaris, the A.T.V. and snowmobile manufacturer. Polaris also owns Victory, which builds cruiser-style motorcycles in the tradition of Indian and Harley-Davidson.
With this move, Polaris brings an incredible amount of history into it’s fold. By the early 1910s, Indian motorcycle riders had been roaming the dirt trails and rolling along the wagon-wheel ruts of the Phoenix Valley and the western US (and the east for that matter) for almost a decade. Hitting the road in 1901, Indian was not only the first American motorcycle, it was the world’s best-selling bike and, having introduced the first V-twin motorcycle to the world in 1907, the most technologically advanced. Harley-Davidson 1910 models, by contrast, were all singles, producing five horsepower or less.
During World War II, the US Army requested experimental motorcycle designs suitable for desert fighting. In response to this request, Indian designed and built the 841. Approximately 1,000 841 models were built. While the 841 Indian was not used widely during WW2, the innovation involved in the design of the model did have a large effect on the motorcycle world. The 841 drive-trian configuration, using wide-angle longitudinally mounted V-twins with shaft drive, was later used on the 1953 – 1956 Victoria Bergmeister motorcycle, the Honda CX series, and, most notably, on medium- and large-sized Moto Guzzi motorcycles.
Indian will operate as an autonomous business unit, “building upon the potent combination of Polaris’ engineering acumen and innovative technology with Indian’s premium brand, iconic design and rich American heritage,” according to Polaris.
Phoenix Arizona motorcycle enthusiast can view a good selection of new and classic Indian bikes at Chester’s Indian Motorcycle Phoenix, located in Phoenix Arizona. In addition to the classics Phoenix Arizona auto enthusiasts may enjoy, newer models, such as the classic styled new 2011 Indian Chief Bomber, or the sleek 2011 Blackhawk, are also on offer for Phoenix Valley motorists.
Can this represented Indian Chief be bought as it appears in the advertisement? Delivered price to Royersford, PA 19468……25 miles northwest of Philadelphia, PA….

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We have an opportunity to share Gloucester’s strength and heritage with the rest of the country by voting to put the Fisherman’s Memorial on the back of Massachusetts’ next state quarter.
Gloucester’s fishing industry predates colonial history, with Native Americans in the area garnering nourishment from the ocean. Larger boats eventually allowed fishermen to harvest far from shore, with Cape Ann offering a shorter trip to the most fertile fishing grounds.
The Fisherman’s Memorial stands for the hard work and the sacrifice that Gloucestermen have made to support their families and supply food for their fellow citizens. A fisherman’s life is the essence of what it means to be an American – to embrace adventure while laboring long and hard, hoping that your efforts pay off in the end.
If you have a computer, it’s easy to vote. Visit Gov. Deval Patrick’s Web site, www.mass.gov/governor/quarter, scroll down to Essex County, click on Gloucester Fisherman’s Memorial, scroll down to the bottom and click submit, then click on the link and do it all over again, as many times as you like. You can also vote by calling 1-800-227-MASS  and press 5.
One preferred site and three alternates will be selected. Beginning in 2010, five state quarters a year will be released.
Voting continues through Thursday, Feb. 26 at 5 p.m.

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Course Content: This 300 round course develops the skills needed to successfully operate a pistol with either hand. Students will learn through a progression of freestyle and dominant hand only drills to ultimately draw, reload, and clear malfunctions using only their non-dominant hand. It is much more convenient to learn how to do this on the range than to have to figure it out under incoming fire.
Prerequisite: This is not a course for the first time student. Enrollment is limited to students who have already completed training from a recognized instructor that included drawing, reloading, etc, under time constraints. Examples of such training are our own Defensive Pistol Skills or Carry Essentials course, Rangemaster’s Combative Pistol 1, Sparrow Defense Defensive Pistol 1, Precision Applications Combat Handgun, etc. Graduates from a law enforcement academy, IDPA Sharpshooter class or USPSA C-class shooters or higher will also be accepted. Other students may be admitted with approval from the instructor.
Please contact lee@firstpersonsafety.com if you have any inquiries.
Equipment: You will need a quality semi-automatic pistol and ammunition that will function in your pistol. Your holster should be one that does not collapse when the pistol is drawn and allows for one-handed re-holstering. Holsters that require the use of the trigger finger to disengage a retention device, such as a Blackhawk Serpa, are strongly discouraged. At a minimum, at least three magazines are needed.
Shooters need eye and ear protection as well as a hat with a brim. Shooters should bring whatever personal comfort items such as drinks, food, chairs, etc. that they wish to have.
Cost: The cost for this course is $100.00. A spot in the class may be reserved by making a $50.00 deposit (credit card fees apply if paying online). The balance is due on the date of the class.
Weather policy: If the weather is such that it jeopardizes the students' safety, the class will be postponed or delayed as appropriate. Otherwise, the class will go forth as scheduled rain or shine.
Cancellation Policy: The deposit is non-refundable if you choose not to attend the class. If the range were to cancel, full refunds will be made. I reserve the right to cancel the class and grant full refunds if fewer than five students sign up for the class. If I am forced to cancel the class for reasons other than the outlined above, students will have the option of a refund or attending the course on another date at a reduced fee.
POST credit will be awarded to GA POST certified peace officers.


text: This report provides the first analysis of trends in supply and demand for ivory products in China’s markets since the new legislative changes. Compared to a similar 2017 report, the number of stores with ivory for sale decreased by 30% and more than half the ivory products found for sale were concentrated in five provincial cities. Online illegal ivory trade appears to also be declining.


text: Looking for something to do in Churchill? Whether you're a local, new in town or just cruising through we've got loads of great tips and events. You can explore by location, what's popular, our top picks, free stuff... you got this. Ready?

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Residency - City of Winston-Salem residents receive first priority.
Attend 9 out of 11 sessions (cannot miss more than 2 classes).
*Attend at least one City Council OR Council Committee meeting.
*Complete a ride along with the Winston-Salem Police Department (requires a background check ); OR complete a ride along with the Winston-Salem Fire Department.
*Complete a group budget project.
*Participate in one of the following group tours: Utilities Division facility; bonds project tour; or shadow a City Link agent.
Why do you want to participate in CWSU?
Upon completion of the program, how do you hope to use what you have learned?
Have you attended government meetings, and if yes, why?
Have you applied to CWSU in the past?
By checking this box, you certify that you understand the conditions and requirements.
Additional information is available by calling (336) 747-7360.


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3M™ SecureFit™ 600 Series – eyewear for every situation.
3M™ research works constantly to improve safety, design and comfort. The new 3M™ SecureFit™ 600 Series has combined premium product features to improve comfort and offer a wide range of lens options.
The wrap-around design means that the pressure is applied on the less sensitive back of the head. The spectacles feel lightweight and comfortable, yet stay secure, even during rapid movement by the wearer.
The semi-rimless frame with two separate lenses provides a premium style and an optimal optical performance.
3M™ Scotchgard™ Anti-Fog coating technology for a clearer view.
As water droplets condense, the coating turns them into a thin, transparent film.
Retains effectiveness even after 25 or more lens washes.
Dilute disinfectants and alcohol-soaked cleaning tissues do not impair the anti-fog coating.
Highly scratch-resistant for long life.
Rugged Anti-Scratch coating. Long-term scratch-free.
3M™ SecureFit™ 600 Series Protective Eyewear bring higher quality, durability and versatility to the workplace, with a variety of options including lens coatings like 3M™ Scotchgard™ Anti-Fog coating.
There is also a range of different lens options available, including indoor/outdoor and polarised lenses.
The generic clear lens protects against UV light.
Protects against UV light and reduces glare from sunlight. Popular for outdoor daytime work environments.
Excellent protection against UV light and improved contrast. Popular for quality inspections.
Protects against UV light. Blocks horizontal reflective glare and reduces sunlight.
Protects against UV light and reduces brightness when needed. Useful for changing working environments such as those experienced by forklift truck drivers.
Helps keep foreign objects reliably away – for even more comfort. Attachable on every SecureFit™ 600 Model.

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Incorporate environmental considerations into their policies, plans and indeed, the entire system.
Develop capacities and capabilities to mitigate climatic fluctuations and adverse weather situations.
Manage natural resources for sustainable development.
Developing and implementing Environmental Policy/Integrated Management System.
Procuring Environmental Approvals, Permits and Licenses.
Planning of Comprehensive Waste Management.
Developing and implementing Environmental Resilience Plan.
Carrying out Integrated Pest/Vector Management.
Undertaking Greening and Landscaping Management.
Promoting, developing, and coordinating the implementation of Sustainability Policies and Projects.
Designing and Implementing Sectoral/Corporate Climate Action Plan/Carbon Management Plan (Mitigation and/or Adaptation).
Excellent environmental outcomes are central to our day-to-day operations. KCL particularly develop and deliver sustainable, innovative, timely and cost-effective environmental solutions aiming to promote excellent and quality services that exceed client’s expectations and provide value for money.
The Principles of Inclusive Globalisation, Sustainable Banking and Green Economy amongst others, provide the needed frameworks required by organisations in the achievement of sustainable goods and services provision across board.
Many of the key social and environmental problems facing the world namely; poverty, ecological degradation, weather extremes, water shortages, and rising inequality are integrally linked to the pathways countries have taken to achieve economic growth. We recognize that fact and, can no longer afford to pursue growth strategies that negatively impact the well-being of communities and the environment.
Society has identified various valid reasons why attempts must be undertaken to protect and conserve the environment, while the concept of Sustainable Development answers what needs to be done to achieve these goals. Environmental Management represents a set of practical tools that attempts to answer HOW this will be done.
We believe it is a privilege to work in this exciting but challenging field of Environment and sustainability. We embrace the principles of quality assurance in all aspects of our services and are driven by a strong work ethics while offering a fresh perspective through a comprehensive and integrated approach to transparent, effective and efficient service delivery.

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Welcome to Seat Clutch Replacement Shotwick With Quality Seat Clutch Replacements at Affordable Prices!
We offer a complete Clutch Replacement Service for all Seat Models in Shotwick and surrounding areas and we also offer a Free Pick up and Collection Service from either your home or work, we will come along pick up your vehicle and deliver it back to you with your new clutch fitted, which saves you time and money.
Seat Clutch Replacement Shotwick can replace or repair your clutch on all makes and models.
Your manufactures warranty is protected & we shall not be beaten on price in the Shotwick area.


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Your mission: launch your worm marine into hostile waters and blast your way to survival through intense puzzle action!
Take the big chunk of puzzle-styled gameplay and slice into 60 fun-sized missions. Sprinkle with a fiendishly challenging puzzle mode, and mix in a tasty tournament mode, not forgetting to include the unlockable hidden features.
Spread this mixture over a multi-player head-to-head game guaranteeing fun for yourself and your friends, and allow to simmer! When enjoyment is boiling, add in a generous helping of entertaining characters, boat-based silliness, fog, sea monsters, and falling anvils. Add bazookas, dynamite and unprecedented destruction to taste. This recipe should serve a truly hefty helping of fun!
Jam packed with over 20 special weapons, utilities and gadgets. Wacky Weaponry: unleash a firing frenzy on your opponent using Shotguns, Bazookas, Mines, Laser Beams, and Sea Monsters. Explosive Power-ups: Collect power-ups like Double Damage, Sailor's Delight, and Fish Food.

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The vision for Hope House came through the founders’ work with teenage moms in a Teen MOPS (Mothers of Preschoolers) support group. Lisa Steven and Amie Walton, who had both been teen mothers themselves, found that most of the girls they worked with had very unstable home lives.
Many had alcohol or drug addicted parents. Some were homeless, and almost all had been abused in some way as a child. Searches for resources, especially housing, were frustrating. Most providers were “maternity homes,” serving pregnant teens who were allowed to stay only six months following the birth of a child. Almost no one would take a teen who was already parenting.
With the realization of such a deep need, came a call on the hearts of the founders to build a home for teen moms and their children. The vision from the beginning was to create a model, and to one day serve teen moms in Hope House homes all over the country.