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The Western Cape Business Opportunities Forum (WECBOF) is widely recognised and respected as a powerful voice for business in the Western Cape; we are a provincial service organisation with our focus and attention firmly on the national and international business pulse. We provide a platform for business to establish and maintain contact with fellow entrepreneurs; to have access to opportunities, information, and training; and to have representation on a number of relevant forums of government and other associations focussed on growing and enhancing the commercial sector, with a specific focus on SMMEs.
WECBOF has access to channels for information on how to grow and develop our members’ businesses, and is an enabler for our members to access new business opportunities. We keep abreast of business, economic, and other relevant trends and forecasts for the benefit of our members, and we ensure that we are represented on the boards of relevant associations and affiliations in order to ensure that our members are well represented, and that opportunities are filtered to us for their benefit.
WECBOF therefore plays a critical role in the advancement of business in the Western Cape.
In order to serve our members optimally, we have re-focussed our strategic goals and objectives to be more relevant, more informed, and more inclusive. Now more than ever, we are ready to serve you, our members.
At WECBOF we are particularly passionate about assisting with growing and developing businesses in the SMME sector; this sector is the backbone of any economy; it contributes to the country’s national product by either manufacturing goods of value, or through the provision of services to both consumers and/or other enterprises. Importantly, SMMEs have the potential to create employment and upgrade human capital over time.
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WECBOF is a non-profit organisation developed for the purpose of assisting businesses in the Western Cape to grow and to become sustainable.
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A dynamic new board has recently been put in place to lead WECBOF in this new and exciting phase of its lifecycle. The board, along with the CEO, is responsible for putting in place the overall direction and strategy of the business. The board is assisted in its decision-making by a number of advisory committees which head up specific portfolios.
The team at the WECBOF office, under the management of the CEO, ensures the day-to-day running of the organisation. The team brings with it a vast array of skills and strengths ranging from stakeholder management and liaison, administration, finance, and communications, amongst others.
WECBOF is a non-profit organisation. It is widely recognised and respected as a powerful voice for Black business in the Western Cape. It provides a platform for affiliate members to establish and maintain contact with fellow entrepreneurs, corporates, and government.

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Sascha Segan BlackBerry 7100t (as smart phone) A new approach for BlackBerry. The first BlackBerry device to work equally well for e-mail, IM, Web browsing, and as a phone.
Looks and feels like a cell phone. First BlackBerry to include IM and full Web browser by default. Excellent push e-mail.
Small keys, small type on screen, destroys attachment formatting, few games or downloadable applications.
A new approach for BlackBerry. The first BlackBerry device to work equally well for e-mail, IM, Web browsing, and as a phone.
The new BlackBerry 7100t is nothing like any BlackBerry before it. It's the first to look, work, and feel like an actual phone. And the 7100t's impressive e-mail compatibility and bargain price put it over the top as our Editors' Choice for smart phones with keyboards in this story and in our First Looks review of October 5.
At 4.3 ounces, the 7100t fits comfortably in your hand. It has a high-quality speaker phone and supports Bluetooth wireless headsets. Because it's a quad-band GSM phone, you can use it overseas. And the 2.1-inch, 240-by-260 color display is sharp and bright.
RIM ditched the usual full keyboard for a strange, 20-key hybrid keypad that relies heavily on predictive text. Most keys have two letters and a number on them, but the keys are in the familiar QWERTY layout. RIM's SureType predictive text system is far better than its competitors'; after 15 minutes, we were typing with ease.
The 7100t includes a full HTML Web browser; AIM, ICQ, and Yahoo! instant messaging; and very easy-to-use e-mail and PIM applications. It can access almost any personal or corporate e-mail, and the included desktop software syncs PIM data with a wide range of apps quickly and easily. It even plays downloadable Java games.
Our only criticism of the 7100t is that it lacks some more advanced business and multimedia features. For example, it strips the formatting out of e-mails and attachments, doesn't play MP3s or videos, and can't be used as a modem for your laptop.
The 7100t is a new device for a new generation of users, many of whom will be lured by its low price. If you're looking for a powerful, portable, personal e-mail phone, this smart phone is no doubt an excellent buy.
Bottom Line: A new approach for BlackBerry. The first BlackBerry device to work equally well for e-mail, IM, Web browsing, and as a phone.


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This FREE chapter slice includes a section from our Ancient Greece title.
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text: Looking to buy your dream classic BMW in Ashippun, Wisconsin? Do you have an old car or project car for sale? Looking for classic cars, muscle cars, project cars or hot rods for sale? Are you an antique car or classic truck enthusiast? Classics on Autotrader has the best selection of classic cars, muscle cars and more. Whether you love exotics or muscle cars, Classics on Autotrader helps classic car and project car enthusiasts connect with classic car dealers and private sellers across the United States.

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Sundays round of MSG was held at Brentwood’s not so secret nuclear bunker.
Conditions were very hot to say the least. Series overall leader Josun Cole (JC) was on the start line along with a number of other big names in the under 12s race. H was effectively on his home ground but had never ridden the course before.
Off to the start with a mass sprint to the first corner H was placed 4th on the bend. As the lap opened up JC had taken the lead with H sitting on the wheel. With a very small gap from the chasing group.
As the first lap came to an end JC had broken clear from H. Back markers played their part in slowing the lead group down with a couple of close spills and H comiming off thus knocking time off.
With H now in a tight chase for second place with Alex Dale it was neck and neck within the lap both taking the lead, into the final finishing line it was a very close sprint Alex held onto second spot.
Lee Valley Youth had two other podiums on the day.
Caelan Miller awarded 3rd but awaiting for a stewards enquiry.

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it looks like legacy security subsystem is always required when connection definition doesn't specify elytron-enabled=true or recovery-elytron-enabled=true. How does your connection definition look like?
It looks like you have to set both, elytron-enabled and recovery-elytron-enabled, to true when using elytron only configuration. The behavior probably changed with [WFLY-9978]. I think it makes sense as they can use different security backend. maeste WDYT?


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How can I get a new decal?
Response:For those who do not know what a decal is, this is what is locally call a ‘‘sticker’’, which is issued by the Inland Revenue Department when a taxpayer pays his or her motor vehicle license. This decal will have a punch that corresponds to the last digit of your license plate. For example, if your motor vehicle number is P388, then your decal must be punched August because your last digit is eight (8) and August is the eight (8th) month of the year, that is if you are paying an annual license. If you are paying a half year license then it will be punched February.
If a motor vehicle or trailer license is lost, defaced, mutilated or rendered illegible, the Licensing Officer may issue a duplicate license on payment of the prescribed fee of one hundred dollars ($100.00). Please note that the Licensing Officer may require relevant information or documentation in support of the request for the issuance of a duplicate motor vehicle sticker. A valid insurance certificate should also be presented.
If any such license be subsequently found, the holder of the duplicate license shall forthwith deliver up to the Licensing Officer the duplicate license and any person knowingly retaining or having in his possession both an original and a duplicate license is guilty of an offence under the Act.

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"Gillespie’s interactions with DEQ are now the subject of a complaint to the state ethics board filed by a Washington, D.C.,-based government watchdog, the Campaign for Accountability."
"A watchdog group on Monday called on Michigan’s new Democratic governor to take action to investigate and terminate a contract with an anti-choice organization accused by the group of misallocating state funds and prioritizing taxpayer money for pay hikes for top executives."
"The Campaign for Accountability obtained emails in late November that showed Mitch Gillespie, who until recently worked as a senior policy adviser on environmental matters for Moore, had sought a status report from state environmental officials on how they were handling the removal of two underground tanks at the Siler City property. One of those tanks had leaked gasoline, requiring the removal of more than 400 tons of soil."

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At a glance, the results of The Council of Europe’s Group of States against Corruption (GRECO’s country report) on Malta read much like a medical diagnosis of a patient with a life-threatening condition.
Although the report is admittedly focused mostly on ‘perceptions’ of corruption, there is nonetheless enough documentary, case-based evidence to confirm that Malta still lags far behind when it comes to transparency, accountability, meritocracy and good governance.
GRECO judged that Malta “clearly lacks an overall strategy and coherent risk-based approach when it comes to integrity standards for government officials.” The criminal justice system was ‘at risk of paralysis’, and a redistribution of responsibilities between the Attorney General’s Office, the Police and the inquiring magistrates was required to avoid this situation.
In a sense, none of this can really be regarded as a surprise. Even the reference to the Permanent Commission against Corruption suggests that we are talking about intrinsic shortcomings that have been in place for literally decades.
Indeed, the GRECO report tells us more about our national reluctance to ever confront these issues, than about the issues themselves.
It notes the ceremonial role of the President, whose powers listed in the Constitution are exercised vicariously through the supremely more potent role of Prime Minister, including the dissolution of the House of Representatives on the basis of the advice of the Prime Minister. Most members of constitutional bodies are likewise appointed on the advice of the Prime Minister: including the Attorney General, judges and magistrates, members of the Public Service Commission, the Broadcasting Authority, and the Employment Commission.
The power to make appointments to public offices, and to remove and to exercise disciplinary control over such persons, also rests with the Prime Minister.
It is immediately noticeable that this coincides with a political culture of ‘leader-worship’ in Malta. If Maltese prime ministers enjoy the plenipotentiary status of the kings and emperors of old… it is in part because we, as a people, have always lionised (and demonised) our Prime Ministers along similar lines.
Even if the aura of raw power exuded by Dom Mintoff, and later Eddie Fenech Adami, has been somewhat diluted in recent years, there can be no doubt that the leadership cult still dominates Maltese politics today. Consider, for instance, the speculation surrounding Joseph Muscat’s possible replacement when (or if) he steps down by 2020, as indicated.
It would not be an exaggeration to state that many (if not all) of the report’s other conclusions are symptoms of the same cause. For instance, the document highlights the ineffectual conduct of supervisory bodies which are “of little use” since these themselves are “unaccountable and/or ineffective” given that they depend heavily on the government’s authority.
The reality, as indicated in this report, is that the balance of power was all along designed to ensure that the Prime Minister of the day retains the final say on any legislative decision.
Nowhere is this situation better evidenced than in the degradation of the natural environment. Despite the existence of numerous State regulators to safeguard the landscape, it is ultimately government’s agenda of ‘economic growth at all costs’ that calls all the shots: with authorities like the PA and ERA merely rubber-stamping the decisions.
It should not really surprise us that this unwholesome situation – which we have all tacitly accepted, and sometimes encouraged through our unconditional support (if not downright adulation) of our political leaders – would appear shocking and unacceptable when viewed by ‘outsiders’ to the local political scene.
What should perhaps shock us more, however, is our own acquiescence to this state of affairs over the past years and decades. Labour sympathisers have a habit of asking their detractors, ‘Where were you?’ when similar things happened under Nationalist administrations; and the sentiment may even be understandable, given that so much criticism is directed at Labour, when in reality both parties are equally responsible.
But it doesn’t lessen the present government’s responsibility to make good for the inaction of the past.
It is, however, encouraging to note that some of the shortcomings – such as the role of the AG – are finally in the process of being addressed. But unless the reforms have the effect of radically downsizing the Prime Minister’s executive powers, any changes risk sharing the same fate as the Permanent Commission for Corruption.
We will be left with just another ‘tool at the service of the ruling majority of the moment’.


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Downtown Baltimore attractions and activities.
Visit popular downtown attractions like the Power Plant Live! entertainment district.
Catch an Oriole’s game at Camden Yards, America's favorite ball park.
Tour the iconic National Aquarium for amazing marine-life exhibits and shows.
Since our grand opening in 1986 we have served the downtown Baltimore community by striving to provide unparalleled service and artistry on a consistent basis. We have sought out professional artists and technicians with a desire to be leaders.
Visit the National Aquarium located right on the Inner Harbor.
Explore the world of science at Maryland Science Center.

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MOAA - What Are the Odds of a Fiscal Train Wreck?
What Are the Odds of a Fiscal Train Wreck?
Following the surprise announcement by House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) that he will resign at the end of next month, lawmakers threatening a government shutdown agreed to a funding proposal to keep the government running – for now.
House and Senate leaders now seem poised to agree on a “clean” temporary continuing resolution (CR) next week that would keep the government running until Dec. 11. It would simply continue funding at current-year levels, with no controversial amendments.
But the short-term CR is only the tip of the political iceberg looming ahead.
To start with, no one knows if the post-Boehner House leadership will take an even harder line on budget issues.
In the Senate, Republicans still have differences over the way forward. Some think there could be another short- or long-term CR after Dec. 11. But Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz), Chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, says he won’t vote for any more continuing resolutions because that would hurt national defense.
Behind the scenes, there is talk of a “grand bargain” to raise budget caps and end sequestration, which has been a major sore spot for the entire government, especially defense, since 2011. Sequestration prevents responsible planning and budgeting. But any grand bargain also will be highly controversial, and the roiling of House leadership only adds to the uncertainty.
The key question: Can Congress overcome politics long enough to avoid a fiscal train wreck in December?


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Enjoying wildlife (OK, captive wildlife) at Nashville Zoo.
When I started writing my rhino series, I did not plan to fall so hard for the ancient dual-horned behemoths. I was planning to write about the conservation work going on at American zoos. It just so happened that my local zoo had just acquired four rhinos.
“What world did they come from?” I wondered. Then I fell down the rhino hole.
It turns out that rhino conservation exists at the nexus of many tensions caused by globalism. Rhino conservation – with its researchers, NGOs, veterinarians, zoos, park rangers, ranchers, animal orphanages – functions at the intersection of global crime rings and black markets; of national politics and corruption. It’s like we of this anthropocene are observers of a great rail yard, where trains of diverse species and millions of years of evolution meet and switch up with trains of global development, technology, and population growth – trains trying very hard to avoid a crash. On the one hand, massive train wreck seems inevitable. But down on the yard, conscientious people are doing their jobs to keep the trains flowing smoothly. All this has raised the stakes on watching and enjoying nature, particularly our great mammals.
I’ve worked in many HQ marketing departments. And I can say that working in headquarter offices all over America, countless individual wildlife lovers sneak to YouTube between tasks for a glimpse of wildlife videos. As they peck out 40-hour workweeks they help feed, house, and propagate endangered animals in $20 or $40 increments. They become members of sanctuaries and volunteer to help. And if lucky, they travel to see the animals in their home habitat. I am planning just such a trip to Namibia and Botswana. Somehow, in studying about rhinos, I got the idea that I had to go to there – to the natural habitats where rhinos roam.
As a worker in America, I want connection to that greater wildlife world. And I’m not alone in this.
Quietly tiptoeing alongside working wildlife lovers like me, American business leaders with large pockets look for wildlife investments in foreign countries. They may be hunters investing in Safari ranches in South Africa or Tanzania or Zimbabwe. They may be travelers investing in luxury lodges on the vast plains of Namibia. They love animals; they want return on their investments. With these requirements, they urge nations towards stability; they have the potential to bring a lot of good – jobs, money, sustainable practices.
Our goals align; we should all be working together.
As I read the Tweets and follow the local papers of South Africa, Zimbabwe, Namibia, Botswana, I know there’s a dark side. Poverty, poaching, corruption, they ever threaten to upset the conservation balance. An elephant tramples a farmer. The family seeks restitution (or retribution, = dead elephant). A black market king pin is caught but not prosecuted. A young poacher is killed on sight. A whole crash of rhinos is found slaughtered. All this threatens to dismantle conservation work along with prosperity for the greater good.
Namibia, Botswana, South Africa – they seem breathtakingly beautiful. But even on a quick Google search, you can also see the underbelly.
In pleas for money from NGOs, we learn about the needs – education for local youth, tools and supplies to prevent poaching, train rangers, support tourism projects, rescue wounded animals.
But here’s where I bumped into an information void. What does it mean to support sustainability across very different nations?
A traveler can become a volunteer (which includes a “donation” – basically pay to play) or sign up for eco travel through a number of organizations – many of them based in South Africa and the UK. Eco-travel websites and brochures promise that when you book with them you will be supporting “sustainability,” local people, wildlife.
I joined a travel forum to hear from eco-travelers. I heard things like “I assume my contribution went to the community” or “I hope my visit helps these people out.” These travelers offered a vague sense of how the system operates. In fact, what determines a good system? For example, both governments and NGOs evaluate a community before it receives eco-tourism support. What are they looking for? Can my travel decision help?
Namibia, a country with vast desert land (made famous by “the desert elephants”) is known for its effective water management. How does a traveler support sustainable practices? How does she avoid encouraging or contributing to exploitation?
I am not someone to embark on an eco-adventure without seeing the bigger picture. Show me how I can exert positive influence in my travel choices. I applaud the vision of rhino-inhabited nations like Namibia and Botswana to conserve both wildlife and habitats while building human prosperity. Show me what my travels can do to push this hopeful agenda forward.
When I go, you bet I want to see rhinos. But I also want to know the people and understand the challenges. Working in America has given me a gift I can share with aspiring nations. I also feel the sustainable systems they implement will return to help us some day.
This begins a series, Conscientious Wildlife Travel – Have Fun; Make Change. Hopefully, animal lovers, travelers, culture buffs, and conservationists alike will find it interesting.
I chose Namibia and Botswana for my travels, for reasons that will come up in the series. Articles will include interviews with people running eco-friendly businesses, sanctuary operators, safari hunting experts, conservation experts, environmental experts. It will include advisory updates from America’s new International Wildlife Conservation Council.
Over time, I hope that travelers might want to visit these beautiful wild places. And those who want to support conserving the habitats and populations of endangered animals will feel confident as travelers, knowing how to have maximum impact.
Editor and journalist Marianne Messina spent 10 years covering performing arts for Metro Silicon Valley, in CA. She developed four unique online magazines at FriendFinder, and spent 3 years as their managing editor before relocating to New England to develop a web community and magazine for the Rhody arts community, ArtsmashRI.
As storyteller and marketing editor, she has helped translate expert research into story form, including latest findings in the field of health, sleep, and brain science pertaining to Binge Eating Disorder, working with BED expert Dr. Ralph Carson (The Brain Fix).
Messina keeps up her journalism chops by covering issues that matter in wildlife and conservation. She occasionally writes in other genres, including an award-winning screenplay (Rhode Island Film Fest), and shuttles dogs to homes for Bullmastiff Rescuers International (BRI).


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Ideal for self promotion, advertising and ticket entry or in addition to identification for visitors and event security. Perfect for pupil or school identification for excursion with emergency phone numbers.
We can supply colourful wristbands available in a wide range of colours and finishes, and can even be personalised to your requirements.
We can supply your charity event, campaign, festival or meeting with fully customised silicone (rubber) wristbands. They are ideal for promotion and can be used to identify groups of people and signify different groups with different colours (including Pantone matched) or messages on the outside. As well as colour customisation options, bespoke print is available as well as different options for physically ‘impressing’ a slogan, logo or further identification features. They are available in different sizes for infants, children and adults.
Stay safe and informed on trips. Pupils can derive a good deal of educational benefit from taking part in visits with their school. In particular, they have the opportunity to undergo experiences not available in the classroom. Most school visits take place without incident, however raising awareness further ensures the safety of pupils, students and any young persons on school visits.
If a child becomes separated from a group, our wristbands can display your school details and contact number to ring, highly visible and secure on each pupil.
Whatever the occasion, with a choice of materials to suit your budget, we have the right wristband solution for your organisation.
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Alan wakes up one afternoon, late as usual. In his hurry to get out of the house, Alan trips and falls down the stairs. He awakens in the strange dream world that is Gauntlet 216. This movie was actually created in segments, with nine different producers teaming to create the movie. Each shot two scenes apiece with Alan, with the only connection between them being specific items that are carried from scene to scene. Executive producer Warren then assembled all the segments into one cohesive movie, with Alan struggling to learn what 216 means, and all the while guided by a psychotic supernatural cowboy.
Hopefully some segment producers will add some commentary. I did produce a couple segments, but they were small and simple, so I can only really comment as an actor. And as an actor, well.... there were a lot of points where I really wasn't enjoying making this movie. It's a good thing I'm supposed to look confused in a lot of the segments, because for the most part I had no idea what I was doing. And don't get me started on the limitations of human flexibility... All that said... I really do enjoy the movie. Warren was somewhat disappointed by the initial 'strange art films incoherently pasted together' feel of the piece, but he still stuck with the project and added some style and consistency, and really turned it into something enjoyable. So, overall, I'm happy with the results.
A wall in the house caught on fire because of a light being placed too close to it.
Alan suffered numerous bumps, bruises, muscle pulls, and headaches from all the contorting and throwing himself around for Warren's and Eli's segments.
During the taping of the scenes shot in the MU bathroom, many people came in with the intention of using it. Some went anyway, even with production assistant Erin standing right next to them.
KShawn and Jenn actually wrote a segment and were going to produce it before they moved to Portland. A replacement scene had to be shot to keep the continuity of their planned items intact.
Jonason's segments were originally quite dialogue-heavy, and dealt with the nature of interpretation of art. When editing, though, Jonason removed all of the lines and plot from his segments.
Dan's segments were actually much longer than the version seen in the movie. While most peoples' segments ran around 5 minutes, Dan's clocked in around 15. Many parts were cut and sped up to cut the segment down.

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Visiting the Canal at the Venetian Vegas may be the solution for you if you want to experience Italy without having to go across the ocean. By taking the feel of Italy, coupling it with the realism of the Canal and the Gondolas, the hotel has managed to bring the grandeur to Las Vegas while adding a unique charm of its own. The Gondola rides are open the same time the Shoppes are, allowing you to drift down the Canal and enjoy a ride prior to visiting the long line of Grand Canal Shoppes Las Vegas. There are enough stores and sights at the Canal where you can expect to make a day of it, if you want to see and do everything that you can.
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Urban ecology has emerged at the cutting edge of comprehensive, effective environmental research approaches in cities. By combining an ecosystem ecology-based approach to urban environmental systems with complex social analyses, urban ecology allows researchers from multiple disciplines to address a common set of research questions. The most effective urban ecology research projects are by definition collaborative; they demand interdisciplinary teams whose members contribute expertise and data from multiple disciplinary perspectives.
Despite its promise, collaborative urban ecology research has yet to reach its potential. This is due in part to an underdeveloped capacity to address the flows and fluxes that connect social and environmental processes. Heretofore, most ‘interdisciplinary’ urban ecology studies simply examine one question from many disciplinary perspectives, communicating each discipline’s findings to one another only after independent, disciplinary analyses are completed.
Conceptual mission: We aim to investigate the coproduction of environmental and social change through an urban ecology research design that integrates biophysical, social, and design studies inquiry. This includes all phases of research: from conceptualization, to operationalization, to analysis.
Intellectual goal: We seek to understand the flows and fluxes between biophysical and social processes as they operate in case-based approaches.
We understand cities as composed of a heterogeneous fabric in which multiple and entangled social and biophysical processes intersect. We consider social and biophysical change to be “coproduced,” since social and biophysical processes constantly interact and, in doing so, mutually shape one another.
Across the urban fabric, we find instances in which social actors make deliberate attempts to create certain forms of environmental change. These efforts and their intended effects may be thought of as “green” interventions. They can take many forms, including those of parks, urban gardening projects, or waterway improvement initiatives.
Taken together, instances of environmental intervention can be thought of as a city’s “green infrastructure.” Although they may be marked by specific sites, their interconnections with one another, and their embeddedness in the urban fabric, leave them inevitably interconnected.


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A truck overturned on an Alabama highway over the weekend, spilling frozen chicken tenders onto the road.
The local sheriff's office took to Facebook to urge motorists not to eat the thawing tenders.
That post went viral, racking up more than 2,800 shares over the course of a few days.
If you were considering eating the chicken tenders that spilled out of an overturned semi-truck in Alabama, local authorities would like you to reconsider.
"The Cherokee County Sheriff's Office is asking that no one try to stop to get the chicken tenders that were spilled from the 18 wheeler accident last night on Highway 35," the agency posted on Facebook over the weekend.
"You're creating a traffic hazard! It's a crime to impede the flow of traffic," it continued. "Those cases have been on the ground for over 24 hours and are unsafe to consume. Anyone who is caught could be facing charges."
The post went viral and has racked up more than 2,800 shares and 500 comments at the time of writing. The truck driver's apparent wife, Stacy-ann Smith, also noted in a comment on the Facebook post that the driver and father of her children is safe at home.
By Monday, the accident had been cleaned and Highway 35 - about 90 miles northeast of Birmingham - had reopened, the sheriff's office said.
According to the United States Department of Agriculture, chicken should be kept below 40 degrees Fahrenheit and cooked to a minimum internal temperature of 165 degrees to avoid food-borne illnesses.
"I about hit some people coming down through there tonight, like five or six people with flashlights trying to cross the road," Sherry Bowen White said on Facebook, per the Macon Telegraph. "I wondered what they were doing."

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text: “Light is my medium to be investigated,” says the Japanese artist Hiroshi Sugimoto, who spent years chasing bands of prismatic color around his studio in Tokyo and capturing them, with what was for him rapid-fire succession, using a Polaroid camera. In collaboration with Hermès, 20 of the artist’s abstract color studies have been translated into silk scarves in signed, limited editions of seven each. “Couleurs de L’Ombre” (Colors of Shadow), as the collection is called, is a moving tribute to the lowly Polaroid, which faces imminent extinction.


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For more than 90 years, Canadian Tire Corporation (CTC) has been providing customers with everything they need for life in Canada. We are a Family of Companies that includes Canadian Tire retail stores, PartSource, Gas+, FGL Sports (Sport Chek, Hockey Experts, Sports Experts, National Sports, Intersport, Pro Hockey Life and Atmosphere), Mark's, Canadian Tire Financial Services, CT REIT and Canadian Tire Jumpstart, a nationally registered charity dedicated to removing financial barriers so kids across Canada can participate in sports and physical activities.
With nearly 1,700 retail and gasoline outlets from coast-to-coast, its primary retail business categories – Automotive, Living, Fixing, Playing and Apparel – are supported and strengthened by its Financial Services division and the tens of thousands of corporate and retail employees across the Company.
Since its early beginnings in automotive, CTC has expanded to support Canadians in every way imaginable.
Canadian Tire is the company that turns your ‘To-Do’ list into a relaxing afternoon, PartSource helps keep your car running smoothly all year long, Gas+ ensures you and your family stay en route to your destination, FGL Sports helps you run that extra mile, Mark’s makes dressing for home and the workplace comfortable, stylish and affordable, Canadian Tire Financial Services provides world-class credit card services and Canadian Tire Jumpstart Charities breaks down the financial barriers between kids and the field.
Founded in 1922, Canadian Tire remains one of Canada's most recognized and trusted brands and the place that Canadians turn to every day – and more than 250 million times each year – to tackle the jobs and joys of everyday life in this country.


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To reintroduce an unpopular idea by a different name is a classic trick of politicians. Obama has done precisely this in unveiling his bank bailout plan.
In a desperate attempt to distance himself from Bush, the Obama administration has added some complicated economic terms packaged into a system he simply calls the “bad bank.” The essence of the plan, however, is exactly what Bush originally proposed.
Although the details are fuzzy, simply put, U.S. taxpayers could have to pay up to $2.5 trillion more to buy the garbage loans that the banks accumulated, saving them from bankruptcy, while maintaining the same greedy shareholders and inept managers that drove the banks to ruin in the first place.
To distinguish this plan from Bush’s, Obama will force taxpayers to pay trillions to private firms so that they can purchase the junk debt. Of course this changes nothing.
Bush originally shelved this plan and instead opted towards investing (owning) directly in the banks, while purposely choosing to have no decision making power.
The result is well known: bank executives did whatever they wanted to with taxpayer money, such as holding lavish banquets and paying millions to management — all the while making no new loans and now pleading for more money.
More importantly, by nationalizing the banks, the government could actually decide what to do with the money, such as “unfreezing” the credit market — the alleged goal of the past and present bailouts. The shareholders and management could be quickly done away with, and the money could be put to work on socially useful projects, such as helping finance social works projects, giving people low or no interest loans to buy houses, finance their education, or to payoff predatory credit card bills, etc.
Why is this? Why did Obama ignore the common sense advice of nationalization, which would have saved him the embarrassment of giving trillions of taxpayer money to the already-hated bank owners?
The answer is simple: Obama completely shares Bush’s perspective on the free market (capitalism), meaning that private individuals should run our economy and be accountable to no one but themselves. Never mind that these individuals need trillions of dollars of taxpayer money — they should be left alone to do what they like.
For such hardened believers in the market economy, nationalization is considered a cardinal sin, for it destroys the myth that the “invisible hand” of the market solves all our problems, and instead shows another way: that a government’s economy can be put to work towards socially useful activities, and not simply to profit a small group of billionaires.
Above all, the free-market believer fears that, if the banks are nationalized, people might also demand that other sectors of the economy be put under public control, completely removing the need for shareholders in the first place, the same people who benefit tremendously from bank bailouts.
Some analysts are predicting that once the Obama administration reviews the balance sheets of the banks that are to receive bailout money — which is one aspect of Obama’s plan — the government will realize these banks are beyond insolvent (bankrupt) and will need to be nationalized anyway.
In this case, the banks would likely be nationalized just long enough for them to be cleaned up and sold to private investors, with the public receiving little if any benefit. Nationalization alone is not a progressive concept. What matters most are the reasons behind it and, more importantly, who benefits.
A common sense conclusion must be drawn from Obama’s bailout experience. Millions of people rightly concluded that Bush’s policies were written with the banks and other corporations first in mind, and the rest of us second, if at all. This conclusion must now be extended to Obama, who has shown us in blatant form who is thinking up his polices.
To address the steadily worsening economic crisis, serious measures are desperately needed that will benefit working people, who need jobs, health care, and a moratorium on home foreclosures. The government hand outs to the big corporations have utterly failed; not one cent more need be given.


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A Blog By James Curran: Is it time for a new Trudeaumania?
Is it time for a new Trudeaumania?
So is the Montreal Gazettes.
With numerous storylines emerging from this week's stunning federal election, here's one important question to ask: Is the Liberal Party's collapse Justin time? Is the Trudeau heir ready for prime time?
It is no shock that Canadians didn't warm to Michael Ignatieff during this campaign; few expected they would. The premature but very effective Conservative attack ads on Ignatieff 's commitment to Canada, together with his aloof nature and lack of charisma, turned the Liberal campaign into a nightmare.
The majority of Canadians do not necessarily have a strong ideological bent, and most do not fully understand the difference between right-wing policies and left-wing ones. Politics today is strongly driven by the cult of "the leader." Canadians seem anxious to find a bandwagon to jump onto, or to get washed away in a wave of some sort.
This campaign was unexpectedly hijacked by the orange tsunami in Jack Layton's wake. He is not a young, dashing or exciting newcomer. Maybe it was Layton's cane, or his milk moustache or his two minutes of brilliance in the debate when he staggered Ignatieff on his poor voting record.
But something about Layton's easygoing demeanour seemed to offer a fresh alternative to the other, more traditional, serious leaders. And a lot of our fickle voters became drawn to it.
In this province, the "noneof-the-above" phenomenon was potent.
Tired of the repetitive cassette played by Gilles Duceppe, Layton seemed like a guy Quebecers could trust, and once the polls showed an upward blip, they hopped on the bandwagon in shocking numbers.
The by-product of this impulse vote is a very unusual NDP caucus in Ottawa. There will be tremendous pressure on the inexperienced Quebec NDP members of Parliament - by the Quebec media, among others - to take a nationalist stance to fill the void left by the Bloc Québécois.
Layton has already shown a willingness to curry favour with Quebec nationalism. There wasn't a word of English on his campaign posters in Quebec, even in the western parts of Montreal. And any reference to Canada seemed to have disappeared from the party's slogan and posters in this province, in contrast to the rest of Canada.
Strains with the MPs from the rest of the country could become unmanageable, and might even lead eventually to the Quebec caucus breaking from the main party. Layton's sheen will very quickly start to fade.
In 1968, Trudeaumania swept the nation. A relatively young Pierre Elliott Trudeau had flair, intellect and a vision for the country. For many anglophone Quebecers, it was a vision that consolidated our community's diehard support for the Liberal Party for a generation to come.
A strong central Canadian government, bilingualism, a charter of rights and freedoms, standing firm against Quebec separatists, were all Trudeau's tenets.
Ever since Justin Trudeau turned 18 more than 22 years ago, since his eulogy at his father's funeral, from the moment he entered politics, from his numerous appearances in the social pages, people who followed, admired and believed in his father's vision of Canada have quietly wondered: Will he follow in his father's footsteps? Will he lead the Liberal Party? When will be the right time?
Justin Trudeau certainly shares his father's ideological underpinnings, despite efforts to downplay his genetic background.
But if ever the Liberal Party needed a bolt of lightning to regenerate what was boastfully proclaimed Canada's "natural governing party," it is now. Ignatieff did not connect with voters. The only one who might be able to create that cult of leadership that Canadians so crave is Justin Trudeau. It will not be Bob Rae, or Denis Coderre, or Frank McKenna.
Is Justin Trudeau up to it? With a young family, is it worth it? Does he have what his father had? Will he be true to his father's ideals?
Being part of a small rump in opposition allows politicians to sharpen their fangs. It is easy to criticize and galvanize opposition on certain issues that can translate into populist appeal.
We now have a stable majority government.
With the unholy alliance that is the NDP caucus, and its potential volatility, Canada will need a strong and stable opposition. To restore the Liberal brand, it may very well be Justin time.
Robert Libman is an architect and a former member of the Quebec National Assembly.
Libman forgets one crucial thing. Since Pierre Trudeau repatriated the constitution in 1982, Quebec has massively rejected the Liberal Party, denying them a majority of seats in a province they once dominated for a century.
Trudeau's top down federalism is anathema in Quebec. It is something that even Jean Chretien dared never challenge. Chretien may have been a staunch centralist before 1982 but as PM, he devolved more powers to the provinces than any other prime minister since 1867. Chretien also benefitted from a lack of a federalist alternative, which now, is definitely not the case.
Pierre Trudeau was a great PM. But in many cases, his actions have crippled the LPC ability to win in Quebec and Western Canada. In order to give the LPC life again, bringing back Trudeau's view on federalism is probably the fastest way into the historical dustbin.
Another point younger Liberals are failing to see with their up to the second information from social networks, but no knowledge of history. Much of the novel social policies brought forward by the Trudeau Liberals had actually been in development as policy for quite a few years by Liberals like Pearson and Paul Martin Sr., at the urging of the CCF. The young turks under Trudeau had great charisma that was able to turn great POLICY into a giant red L machine. A savvy Justin Trudeau won't wade in until, as Duffy mentioned last night on TVO, the Liberals develop policies that members and leadership are willing "to die" for.
I'm dying to read a good history of the Liberal party from 1960 through 1993. If there is one out there and I have missed it, let me know.
Trudeau would be wise to avoid rushing in too soon. The party may be wise to protect him for a fight on another day.


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726 has 12 divisors (see below), whose sum is σ = 1596. Its totient is φ = 220.
The previous prime is 719. The next prime is 727. The reversal of 726 is 627.
Adding to 726 its sum of digits (15), we get a triangular number (741 = T38).
Subtracting from 726 its reverse (627), we obtain a palindrome (99).
It can be divided in two parts, 72 and 6, that added together give a triangular number (78 = T12).
726 is nontrivially palindromic in base 5.
726 is an esthetic number in base 6, because in such base its adjacent digits differ by 1.
It is a plaindrome in base 14 and base 15.
It is a nialpdrome in base 3, base 6, base 9 and base 11.
It is not an unprimeable number, because it can be changed into a prime (727) by changing a digit.
726 is an untouchable number, because it is not equal to the sum of proper divisors of any number.
It is a polite number, since it can be written in 5 ways as a sum of consecutive naturals, for example, 61 + ... + 71.
It is an arithmetic number, because the mean of its divisors is an integer number (133).
It is a practical number, because each smaller number is the sum of distinct divisors of 726, and also a Zumkeller number, because its divisors can be partitioned in two sets with the same sum (798).
726 is an abundant number, since it is smaller than the sum of its proper divisors (870).
726 is a wasteful number, since it uses less digits than its factorization.
726 is an evil number, because the sum of its binary digits is even.
The sum of its prime factors is 27 (or 16 counting only the distinct ones).
The square root of 726 is about 26.9443871706. The cubic root of 726 is about 8.9876373471.
The spelling of 726 in words is "seven hundred twenty-six", and thus it is an aban number and an oban number.

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ABOUT BUY FRESH BUY LOCAL ® FoodRoutes Network is based in Pennsylvania and provides communications tools, organizing support, and marketing resources to our grassroots chapters throughout the US that are working to rebuild local food systems and promote sustainable agriculture. Buy Fresh Buy Local ® Chapters are connecting consumers in communities throughout the country to the freshest, most delicious locally grown and produced foods available. Through outreach events, local food guides, and educational materials, Buy Fresh Buy Local ® makes it easy for consumers to find and connect with local food from farmers they can know and trust.
Regional Chapter and Local Chapters Affiliates work within the community at the state and local levels to involve more consumers in the revitalization of our local food systems. From farmers’ markets, restaurants, grocery stores, co-ops, and community supported farms to large scale institutions, such as colleges and retirement homes, Buy Fresh Buy Local ® Chapters are bringing back the base for locally grown food in communities across the US.
FoodRoutes Network has always been dedicated to revitalizing local food systems by involving consumers in the process. Today FoodRoutes work is evolving, and our commitment to people and community deepening. More and more individuals are taking an active roll in protecting the future of our food. Our Buy Fresh Buy Local ® Chapters are expanding and providing for a national network of people who care about where their food comes from and how it is produced.
In Northeast Iowa, the chapters have helped double local food purchases among twenty three institutional buyers, including hospitals, retirement homes, restaurants, grocers, and colleges. Together, these institutions spent approximately $465,000 on locally produced fruits, vegetables, meats, dairy and baked goods in 2004 – dollars that otherwise might not have been invested locally.
Kansas City’s Chapter has tracked a 36% increase in local food sales for the Good Natured Family Farmers Cooperative selling through a group of locally owned and operated supermarkets in the Kansas City metro area since the chapter’s inception in summer, 2004.
In Alabama the BFBL Chapter Affiliate coordinated 204 billboards displaying the Buy Fresh Buy Local logo for 2 months reaching an average daily viewing of 1,043,000 people.
Louisiana BFBL held a “Cast-Iron Chef Challenge” which had two teams from Louisiana State University go up against a team of local consumers who enjoy cooking. The challenge was to use a host of local ingredients.
Pennsylvania held successful BFBL field trips as part of BFBL Month that invited consumers into the homes of many local family farms to see and learn where their local food comes from.


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The Main Gardens consist of an Upper and Lower Section. The Upper Gardens centre around “The Gong”, a small lake which is encompassed by a walking path. The ground to the North and East rises steeply to the Roman Catholic Church of St. Peter and Pauls. On these slopes there is a scattering of introduced European trees. This area has been recently developed with specimen trees of the Maple family (Acer species).
The picturesque Lower Section of the Botanic Gardens contains an historic Victorian Rotunda, an ornamental pool with an island, and a variety of exotic labelled specimen trees and shrubs. There are also toilets, a barbecue area and play equipment.
The gardens became a popular wayside stop for travellers and picnickers who came by train from Ballarat for a day’s outing to admire the ‘hilly picturesque countryside’ and the ornamental trees and flowering shrubs. The railway era was the heyday of the Buninyong Botanical Gardens. The service ended in 1937 and the track was dismantled in 1947.
An Araucaria columnaris, or Cook Pine, was planted in the Botanic Gardens on 28 August 2008. The young tree, which is a native of New Caledonia, replaces an older one in the Gardens that died some time ago. Check out its progress amongst the other splendid mature trees next time you’re in the Gardens.


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The field properties are described as follows.
The Style property allows you to change the way that a control element appears on a form.
You can also click add/edit to add another style or edit the selected style, choosing from different fonts, sizes, colors, and other style elements.
Clicking Save as allows you to name and save the style you just added/edited, and that style becomes available in the drop-down selector for the Style and Edit Style properties.
The Edit Style property allows you to select the style defined in the Style property. The style you select here is what is shown on the form.
The Name property allows you to change the name of the control as it appears on the Control Palette. For example, you can change the name "Phone-home Multi phone" to simply "Phone" or anything else.
The Form label is the text label for this control, and it is shown on the form itself. For example, specifying form label "Phone" will display "Phone" on the form beside the phone number fields.
For this control, the display type is automatically set to Multi phone. Note that there are many other display types from which to choose.
The data field array is a variable that gets and fills in contact data on the form. For this control, the Data field is automatically set to Contact.phones.
Editable - Select this option to allow the user to edit the field on the form.
Required - Select this option to require the user to fill in the field on the form.
You provide a hint to the people completing this form by entering some text into Hint text form empty fields (e.g., "your phone number" or "home, mobile, or business phone").


text: Niagara Climbing Center has established itself as the premier indoor climbing destination in Western New York. As the only full service rock climbing gym in the Buffalo/Niagara Falls area, it is home to an enthusiastic local climbing community. Whether it's the first time you've wrapped your fingers around a hold, or you've been feeding the climbing habit for years – you'll find NCC both inviting and challenging.


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Becky Hicks grew up in the small west Texas town of Breckenridge. She spent many of her summers and holidays on her great-grandmother's ranch, where her love for nature and all things "country" was born. She began drawing and painting at five years old and was always encouraged by her family, friends and teachers to create art. She knew at a very early age that she was an artist and would one day realize her dream of becoming a full time artist.
Becky currently resides in Keller, Tx with her husband, Dwain. Several years ago she left the corporate world and has since successfully owned and operated a faux finishing and decorative painting business. In addition she has been painting and selling her original oil paintings, which, along with the desire to teach others to paint, is her passion.


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There are a total of 15 public schools, 3 private schools and 1 post-secondary schools in Howell. Using the proficiency score averages, the average test scores for Howell, MI schools is 51%. The average student to teacher ratio is 19:1. In Howell, MI, an average of 87.0% of students have completed 8th grade and an average of 86.1% have completed high school.
To customize your list of Howell schools, you can start by sorting the list of schools by proficiency test score, school name or student to teacher ratio. Then you can select the grade levels that you would like to see, these include preschool, elementary, middle school and high school. Next, select the school type from the following options: charter, magnet, title I and title 1. Finally, you are able to filter your results by average proficiency score. Simply select the minimum proficiency score that you would like to see and only schools with that proficiency score or higher will appear on your list of Howell, MI schools.


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For past few months I (along with my awesome crew at Bombayworks ) have been developing native iPhone app for a photo listing company somewhat similar to Flickr (Sorry, I can't disclose the name).
Here is a short list that may help you learn more about iOS development. I will keep adding more to this as and when I come across more interesting stuffs.
Ray Wenderlich - Great community for iOS tutorials and example projects. If not sure where to start check this categorized list of tutorials.
objc.io/ - Nice periodical about best practices and advance techniques in objective C.
This entry was published on 22nd Apr, 2014.


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In the weeks leading up to the 25th anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) on July 26, social media was abuzz with disability stories. The National Museum of American History even organized an international Twitter conversation on #DisabilityStories on July 15, 2015. For the remarkably successful daylong event, people from across the globe engaged in conversations about representations of disability in art and popular culture, the lived experience of disability, and historical accounts and artifacts.
For people with disabilities and disability rights advocates, this anniversary occasions both celebration and reflection. Accessible spaces, biomedical technology, and assistive services have made the world a more habitable place for people with disabilities. At Boston College, where I attend school, student have rallied around the cause of disability, fighting for a campus as accessible as it is beautiful. The Disability Awareness Committee of Boston College has made accessibility a critical issue on campus, documenting the ways in which the built environment and institutional policies at Boston College—for instance, steep pathways marked as wheelchair accessible—disempower them.
Disability advocates in Boston marked the anniversary with a celebration in Boston Common.
Securing the civil rights of and equal opportunities for these citizens is, bottom line, an issue of representation. People with disabilities are daily disempowered and isolated by institutions and individuals that pass over, erase, or ignore the realities of disability. It happens when a conference is held in an inaccessible building. It happens when a path is marked as accessible but is, in fact, unnavigable. It happens when a vision resources workstation provides no resources, when the sign for the workstation isn’t even in braille.
People with disabilities are often invisible in some parts of everyday life, such as in the workplace. In 2012, only 33.5% of working-age people with disabilities were employed. In the media and popular culture, individuals with disabilities appear less often than able-bodied individuals. When they do appear, their portrayals are often limited.
The unflagging stigma and underrepresentation of disability halts the progress of the ADA. If people with disabilities continue to be forgotten or perceived in problematic ways, then the ADA will fail to achieve its ultimate goals of accessibility and inclusion.
Stories are the answer to this crisis of representation. Which stories get told and how those stories are circulated determine how disability is understood socially and culturally.
We need to move away from disability as burden and the “super-crip” stereotype. While these two overarching narratives seem compassionate or inspiring, they both portray disability as a tragedy, and life with a disability as inferior and unsatisfying.
Disability cannot be reduced to a single narrative of pity, overcoming, or empowerment. Disability, as with all lived experience, is complex, multi-faceted, rich, individual. It resists a single story.
As a society, we should listen more to the stories of individuals with disabilities. To the stories of their everyday life, of their successes and their struggles, the minutiae and the monumental moments. Disability is an innumerable range of stories—told, retold, to be told.
Telling stories of disability is vital to making visible and giving voice to individuals with disabilities. Hearing stories is a way of acknowledging the reality of disability and empowering people with disabilities. By acknowledging similarities, differences, and singularities, we connect ourselves with stories.
So let’s keep sharing #DisabilityStories beyond the 25th anniversary of the ADA. The success of the ADA is about more than ramps, web accessibility, or public services. It’s about making everyday life accessible, inclusive, and fulfilling to people with disabilities. It’s about changing our attitudes and assumptions toward disability once and for all.


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Theater is more than entertainment for young people, it’s also a component of their development.
The number of theaters catering to youth across America is increasing, and the professional quality of many companies has shown that more and more theater groups are reaching out to young audiences. This is one of the many reasons, BendBroadband is a proud supporting sponsor of LessonPLAN (Performing Live Arts Now), which has engaged young minds in the theater since 2011.
Here in Central Oregon, more than 20,000 students have connected to the performing arts thanks to Tower Theatre’s award-winning education and outreach program known as LessonPLAN.
Students and teachers from public, private, and home school groups are invited to attend matinee performances and in-school assemblies. Throughout the school year, LessonPLAN presents performances by local, national, and international artists to inspire and engage students. These performances represent a variety of arts disciplines and are specifically designed for young audiences. Supporting curriculum related materials are sent to participating teachers to prepare students for the performances.
These performances engage young minds, enrich their educational experience and build a love for the theater. Thanks to grants and donors, participating schools are offered these performances at a minimal charge.
In this fast-paced media world, bringing your child to the theater is a new experience for them. During a two-hour performance, young people see firsthand that something can be entertaining without a constant change of scenery.
Plays and musicals can also illustrate many different lessons in life. The play Teaching Peace by Red Grammer includes songs of caring, community, and conflict resolution, while The Right to Dream brings to life the struggle and sacrifices for civil rights in America by recreating a compelling coming of age story. Theater is a safe way to expose young people to difficult situations and show them how to handle these situations.
The Tower Theatre is a hub for culture, connections and artistic experiences. More importantly, the next generation of theater-goers enjoy LessonPLAN programs that engage their minds and hearts.
Lora Nordquist, assistant superintendent of Bend-La Pine schools, said LessonPLAN and its performances can transform the way see their world and themselves.


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Sofa beds have remained one of the popular furniture items. Thanks to their dual functionality that has not only made them a convenient choice for many living in the villas, but also for those who are living in smaller homes and studio apartments.
If you too are living in a compact apartment or a small abode where you often have to create extra space for a guest or friend to stay overnight, then sofa bed is what you need. Placing a sofa bed in the living room will serve both your needs. The sofa beds come in different styles and sizes depending on various requirements.
The best idea is to measure the available space in the intended room and then get the sofa bed, which best meet your requirements.
According to AmerAdnan®, buying a sofa bed may seem like a walk in the park, but in reality things are different. Considering the range of designs, sizes, functionalities, mechanisms and price options available in the market.
The pullout sofa beds look just like a standard sofa, however, they are made of a metal frame that is hidden into their seating area. After removing the seat cushions, the pullout sofa beds can be easily converted into a sturdy bedframe.
Besides, they can be folded back into their original shape in a few seconds. The pullout sofa beds serve as fully functional bed with ample support and comfort. They also serve as an excellent couch to rest upon during the day.
The futon sofa beds are manufactured in many styles, but the expert interior decorators in Pakistan like AmerAdnan® suggest people to opt for simple futon sofa beds instead of looking for intricate designs.
The futon sofa beds are either made of a metal or wooden frame that is fitted with a click-clack mechanism for extremely convenient transformation from bed into a sofa and back.
These sofas are excellent choice for studio apartments as well as smaller homes because they aid you save a lot of space. Their affordability also makes them a preferred choice among various homeowners.
These are the simplest and most commonly purchased kind of sofa beds. The click-clack sofa beds provide an extremely simple mechanism. They are used for multiple purposes. They are to be placed away from the wall because they require a bit of space to unfold and transform into a cozy big bed.
The click-clack sofas offer a really good night’s sleep and can be placed in bedrooms, lounges or even in the guest rooms. They are upholstered out of leather as well as fabric, depending on your requirements.
Apart from the three most popular sofa beds mentioned above, you can find corner sofa beds too, but they take up a lot of space and are more suitable for bigger homes.
While you are on a mission to choosing the best sofa bed for your home, make sure to take professional guidance from an expert interior decorator in Lahore. They can help you make sure that your hard-earned money never goes in vain.

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The study of Classics is a dynamic, multifaceted discipline engaged in the exploration of a remarkably multicultural part of the world–the ancient Mediterranean–from early pre-history to Late Antiquity. Our goal is to fully understand the cultures of ancient Greece and Rome in the context of the wider Mediterranean basin, an area of religious, ethnic, linguistic, and cultural diversity.
The study of Classics is a dynamic, multifaceted discipline engaged in the exploration of a remarkably multicultural part of the world – the ancient Mediterranean – from early pre-history to Late Antiquity.
Our goal is to fully understand the cultures of ancient Greece and Rome, in the context of the wider Mediterranean basin – an area of religious, ethnic, linguistic, and cultural diversity. As a deliberate strategy, Classical scholarship engages with literature, drama, art, politics, philosophy, archaeology, and history. We are therefore inherently interdisciplinary and inclusive in our approach to understanding the cultures of ancient Greece and Rome as completely as possible.
At the same time, we are keenly aware of the role that Classical culture and the scholarship that surrounds it has played in the production of modern institutions, forms of power, and aesthetic standards in the modern West. We regard it as our particular challenge to both recognize the enduring value of the cultural productions of ancient Greece and Rome and to question their deployment in the modern world. By studying ancient Greece and Rome in all their complexity, we can better understand – and critique – the structures of power that have claimed them as ancestors.
The emeritus professor of classics passed away on Monday, October 29, 2018.
Assistant Professor of Classics Chris Trinacty on falling in love with Seneca’s tragedies, teaching the discipline through digital humanities, and his favorite Latin expressions.


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Putting aside his politics and his ethics, the Hammer knows something about taking a stand.
We joked the other day about the prospects of finding Tom DeLay in Las Vegas for YearlyKos. It turns out that it's not such a crazy idea.
There's a strange sort of collapsing of walls going on here. Bloggers and people who read bloggers are packed cheek-to-jowl in the "offline world" with the politicians the bloggers cover and the Washington reporters whose work they often criticize. The social structures of the thing, the usual pecking orders of life, are hard to discern. You look across the room at a conversation -- Gen. Wesley Clark with AMERICABlog's John Aravosis, Maureen Dowd with a whole pack of bloggers -- and it's impossible to know which way the thing is going. Who's interviewing, and who's being interviewed? Who's predator, who's prey? Maybe they're all just talking, but who wants it more?
What everyone here does seems to want -- and given journalists' need for conflict, it's probably fair to include them in the "everyone" here -- is a new generation of Democratic candidates who aren't afraid to stand up for something. There's a reason that "Lieberman" is a dirty word here, and it's the same reason that the mention of Jon Tester, the Democratic nominee for Conrad Burns' seat in the U.S. Senate, inevitably draws applause. One man has become the symbol of Democratic appeasement; in another, progressives have poured their hopes for a new sort of tell-it-like-it-is populism.
Which brings us back to Tom DeLay. The Hammer gave his farewell address from the House floor Thursday, and -- if you take out the policy particulars and the allegations of criminal wrongdoing and wipe out everything you know about Tom DeLay, who he is and what he's done -- the themes he sounded were a lot like the ones we're hearing here.
DeLay argued that all the hand-wringing about the "recent rise in political partisanship" is really "nothing more than a veiled complaint" about Republicans who push hard for their political agenda. He said that he doesn't "begrudge" liberals if they feel nostalgic for "the days of a timid, docile and permanent Republican minority," but he insisted -- and he's certainly right on this point -- that those days are behind his party, at least for now.
So how do Democrats pull off the same trick? How do they go from "docile minority" to empowered majority? DeLay knows -- like the people gathered here know -- that you don't do it by caving in to the opposition or trying to be more like it. What you do is, you make the case that your way is a better way, and then you stand up and fight for yourself when anybody dares to say different.
" Now, politics demands compromise ... and even the most partisan among us have to understand that, " DeLay said Thursday. "But we must never forget that compromise and bipartisanship are means, not ends, and are properly employed only in the service of higher principles.
"It is not the principled partisan, however obnoxious he may seem to his opponents, who degrades our public debate, but the preening, self-styled statesman who elevates compromise to a first principle. For the true statesmen ... are not defined by what they compromise, but by what they don't."
Markos Moulitsas Zuniga couldn't have said it better.


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InvisiBrake is a fully automatic, progressive supplemental braking system that uses the electrical connections already in place on your towed vehicle (the towed vehicles electrical harness) to brake when you brake your motorhome - the same electrical signal that activates the towed vehicle's brake lights also activates InvisiBrake.
InvisiBrake is so small it can usually be mounted under a seat without sacrificing any of the vehicle's usable space.
When you continue braking so does InvisiBrake. The longer you apply the brakes in the motorhome, the harder your tow vehicle will brake (InvisiBrake will NOT skid your tires).
InvisiBrake connects directly to the towed vehicles battery during towing - InvisiBrake will NEVER drain the battery.
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Dyers have the best price and fastest shipping. The invisibrake by roadmaster is a great product but installation will take the whole day. Instruction is straight forward and unit is of good quality. I guess a day to install is better that having to install & uninstall a portable unit every time I go on a trip.
Great Service and price from Dyer's. Would definitely use them again.
So far the Invisibrake has worked fine. I also had a problem with the lights on the toad and was told to pull the fuse. Checked with Roadmaster and they said that they had never heard that before and that it shouldn't be necessary due to a diode that is in place to prevent any such problems. A bad diode was the cause of the problem. The Invisibrake sure beats a tow dolly or bulky front-seat brake unit.
Nice system, but compare it to the SMI brake system.
DYERS online is outstanding, they have fast shipping and GREAT prices! ! ! Will purchase from them again.
I purchased an SMI stay n play for myself and installed it in my dodge ram to tow. Then I had a friend want this roadmaster invisibrake installed in his 2012 grand cherokee to tow, so I have installed and worked with both now. The SMI system has an accelerometer built into the system, it requires both, a brake light signal and decceleration to activate. The Invisibrake only uses brake lights to activate. The SMI system is wireless operation, the Invisibrake requires an umbilical cord hooked up between RV and toad. The SMI has a control box mounted on the dash of the RV with indicator lights and adjustment settings, the Invisibrake only has a light in the dash of the RV to indicate that the brakes are applied. Both systems work the same, a vacuum pump energizes the brake booster in the toad and a cable pulls the brake pedal down to apply the brakes. The SMI system makes one attatchment to the fire wall for the end of the cable, the piston actually mounts to the brake pedal. The Invisibrake needs two attatchments to the fire wall; the end of the cable mounts to the brake pedal, then a pulley mounts to the firewall, then a cable clamp mounts to the fire wall and the piston is then mounted somewhere else. Either way you go, both of these brake systems are completely functional and in my opinion are much easier to use compared to the brake box that has to be set up each time you tow and removed when you arrive and want to drive the toad. If I had to install another brake system in a toad for me, I would go with the SMI system and I would recommend it to a friend over the Invisibrake.


text: A large crustal earthquake, the 2007 Noto Hanto earthquake, occurred west off the Noto peninsula in Ishikawa prefecture, Japan, on March 25, 2007. We started temporary strong motion observation at five sites within the aftershock area from about 13 h after the main shock occurrence. We first applied the spectral inversion method to S-wave strong ground motion records at the temporary and permanent stations. We obtained source specta of the main shock and aftershocks, Q s (quality factor for S-wave) values (Q s = 34.5 f0.95) and site responses at 22 sites. We then estimated a source model of the main shock using the empirical Green’s function method. The source model consists of three strong motion generation areas and well explains the observed records. Finally, we examined the consistency of the main-shock source models estimated from the above two analyses. The high-frequency level of the acceleration source spectrum based on the main-shock source model is consistent with the source spectrum estimated from the spectral inversion. The combined area of strong motion generation areas is approximately half of the value expected by the empirical relationship, and the high-frequency level of acceleration source spectrum is approximately 2.5 times larger than the empirical relationship for shallow inland and inter-plate earthquakes.

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It might seem like common sense that inactive people have a greater risk for heart disease than active people, but a new study has measured the risk in terms of time spent in front of a computer, according to the Deccan Herald.
The study, out of the University College London, confirms that time spent at a computer is as damaging to the heart as time spent lounging in front of a television screen. People who work on computers or watch television for four or more hours a day are 125 percent more likely to suffer a major heart problem than those who spend two hours or less.
That's bad news for anyone who spends their 9-to-5 job working on a computer. Even worse, the study also found a 48 percent increase in deaths from any cause among people who spent excessive time staring at a computer or television screen.
The results were consistent even among individuals who spent time every day exercising, meaning that exercise during other hours could not reverse the damage caused by extended inactivity.
"Our analysis suggests that two or more hours of screen time each day may place someone at greater risk for a cardiac event," said Dr. Emmanuel Stamatakis, who led the study. "People who spend excessive amounts of time in front of a screen are more likely to die of any cause and suffer heart-related problems."
Researchers noted that prolonged sitting can cause a 90 percent reduction in a heart-healthy enzyme, lipoprotein lipase, which could explain the results. Inflammation and metabolic problems caused by long periods of inactivity are undoubtedly also to blame.
The report advised anyone who sits on their computer for extended periods of time to take breaks for a brief walk every 20 minutes.
"A totally feasible and realistic redesign of the workplace and home environments can easily convert long periods of time during the workday that currently are strictly sedentary into a mixture of sitting, standing and light intensity activity," said Stamatakis.
In other words, the key to reducing risk is to break up time spent being sedentary with periodic exercise rather than just setting aside a later block of time in the day for that exercise. And if you spend your work day at the computer, definitely don't go home and spend the rest of your day in front of the television.
Bryan Nelson writes for the Mother Nature Network.

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Rain Yeti is an independent game studio that specializes in educational apps. The company’s mission is to build confident learners through smarter screen time.
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Catch22 creates bespoke partnerships with partners and funders.
We are actively seeking collaborators, funders and innovators who share our hunger to radically improve public services. To do this we must collaborate like we have never done before. The current climate is forcing us to step outside of our traditional ‘partner’ roles, to reduce silos and focus on how we can achieve more together. We know this kind of partnering is not always easy. It can be messy, timely and require flex and compromise. But that is the point. That is the realism, honesty and rigor needed to catalyse real change in our communities.
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This is a beautiful plate of food. I've been loving eating and making Indian food this year. I've also been wanting to step out of my Paneer Makhani comfort zone. One of the Indian dishes that I really wanted to make was Muttar Paneer (sometimes called Mattar Paneer or Matar Paneer...I don't know what the difference is, but the dish itself is the same). I had an extra package of paneer in the fridge so this was even more inspiration to make the Muttar Paneer as soon as possible.
I stumbled upon Nigella Lawson's Muttar Paneer recipe on the Food Network website. I love Nigella Lawson mostly because it seems that she's always talking about chocolate. I don't know if this is true but every time I see her on television or read about her in a book, there seems to be a chocolate reference involved. And that's all right with me. Additionally, the Muttar Paneer picture on the website was gorgeous. So I figured I'd take the recipe and run with it.
2) Remove the golden cubes and rest on a paper towels to absorb excess oil.
3) Pour all but ~2 tablespoons of the oil out of the pan.
4) Put the onion, garlic cloves, ginger and water into a blender (or food processor) and blend to a pulp.
5) Fry gently for about 5 minutes with a sprinkling of salt. Stir in the garam masala and turmeric and cook for another 2 minutes before adding the still frozen peas.
6) Dissolve the tomato puree and habanero sauce in the chicken stock and pour over the contents of the pan.
7) Stir again and turn the heat down to low, cover and cook for 15 minutes, tasting to ensure that the peas are tender.
8) Add the paneer cubes. Stir to incorporate. Allow the paneer to warm through.
- The sauce was spicy.
- The peas were sweet and they pop in your mouth as you begin eating them.
- The paneer was firm and slightly crispy due to the frying.
But overall something was missing. I think it has to do with the lack of spices in the recipe. Don't get me wrong, the dish was "spicy", as in there's some heat from the habanero sauce. However, there just isn't the same spice profile that I would get when i order this from Taste of India down the street. So, I'm definitely going to try again. I've started to drink the Muttar Paneer Kool-Aid and so I must must must find another recipe to make!
If you try this recipe and tweak the spices (or anything else), let me know what you do and how it turns out!

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Our designs are individually hand made with care and love, so it is always a pleasure to learn that brides across the world connect with the beauty and elegance we strive to create. If you are not near one of our stockists (you can find these here), it is still possible for us to sell certain dress styles to you directly from Melbourne. If you are not visiting us in person to be measured in a gown, you would be required to provide us with your measurements and have the dress altered and hemmed in your hometown. You would also be required to pay for and manage all the additional freight, duties, insurances etc.
Our lead-time for most of our designs is 6 months plus the time required at your end to make any alterations. However there are a select number of designs we can create within a smaller timeframe. We also have our “Gwendolynne White” collection that is designed with an easier fit, quicker timeframe and a tighter budget, which may also be an option. We can do this ideally with approximately 2 months, dependent on stock availability and our workload.
Alternatively we do have beautiful boleros that can be purchased to coordinate with a more basic gown that you could acquire in your home country or online. These created to fit easily and are designed with the concept that they could be worn again thus making them a great investment piece.
For garments ordered without fittings, we leave excess allowance in the seams, for ease adjustments when you receive your gown. We recommend leaving 6-8 weeks between when you receive the gown to your wedding to allow time for alterations.
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Do you recall that smartphone with a dual sided transparent screen I showed you a couple months back? I just found an Indonesian telecom whose new phone uses that screen.
The prototype I posted back in May was being demoed by NTT Docomo, the Japanese telecom, and it used a 2.4" transparent OLED screen that was developed by Neoview Kolon. This same screen is now going to be used in the Nexian Glaze M-9090, a sub-$100 Java-based phone.
I cannot find many details yet on this phone, but it appears to have a 1.3MP camera as well as support for dual SIM cards. Nexian is promising that it will ship with the Nexian Messenger app and the S Apps Planet services. And yes, it does cost less than $100; the retail is only 899,000 Rupiahs ($95).
Okay, that's cool, but the video of the prototype was more interesting to look at.
I cannot help but wonder when we might see this screen tech in a larger size. Sure, there are certain limitation on the design (no electronics behind the screen), but as you make larger and larger screens that becomes less important. A 7" ereader, for example, could have all the guts in the spine/handle without seriously impacting the functionality.
I want to buy this phone so which store that i can contact?


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To assess early phase safety and tolerability of converting patients from approved oral and injectable RMS DMTs to siponimod. The results of this study will guide clinically relevant decisions related to the transition from frequently used RMS DMTs to siponimod and provide clinically relevant data on safety and tolerability for healthcare providers who are considering converting patients from currently approved RMS DMT to siponimod.
This is a 6-month, open-label, multi-center, single arm design, including 300 advancing RMS patients, evaluating overall safety and tolerability profile when acutely converting to siponimod from oral or injectable RMS DMT.
safety and tolerability after converting from DMTs.
Signed informed consent must be obtained prior to participation in the study.
Patients with any medically unstable condition as determine by the investigator.
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If you’ve been reading this newsletter over the past few years you’ve learned of the passage of two separate measures to regulate oversize development in the Oaks. These regulations were a response to the heated real estate market at the time which had encouraged out of scale development. First, there was a temporary Interim Control Ordinance, know as “the Oaks ICO”. Then, based on the Oaks ICO and with some refinement, came the permanent “Oaks D Limitations”. Both regulations were based on the simple principle that a home’s size should be proportional to the size of its lot. In other words, large lots can accommodate relatively large homes and the smaller the lot, the smaller the home. Creating these regulations spanned several years and involved multiple neighborhood outreach events, and a lengthy public hearing process. The regulations are relatively simple, and the maximum home size allowed is determined by applying a simple formula to the square footage of the lot. Additionally, all existing homes, regardless of lot size, are allowed to add on 400 sq ft under the Oaks ICO.
The issue of out of scale residential development, however, was not limited to the Oaks neighborhood. As other neighborhoods wrestled with the same issues, community groups called on the city for the same kind of sensible regulations that were created for the Oaks. This time, however, instead of tailoring regulations to the individual needs of each neighborhood, the city updated and replaced an existing ordinance that governed hillside development and created a new city-wide ordinance that regulates residential buildings in the hills of Los Angeles, This ordinance is called the ‘Baseline Hillside Ordinance”. The term “Baseline” is used because this ordinance is intended to be the common denominator to be used citywide, upon which each neighborhood can add its own regulations to address specific local issues.
The Baseline Hillside Ordinance also regulates the size and height of buildings through a complicated formula in all hillside areas. However, the Oaks are exempt from this part of the ordinance, because of the D Limitations.
In addition to the Baseline Hillside Ordinance, other citywide regulations also limit the construction of retaining walls to two retaining walls of 8 feet in height or less, or one retaining wall of a maximum height of 12 feet per project.
For it’s part, the Oaks Homeowners Association board lobbied the planning department to keep the Baseline Hillside Ordinance as clear and simple as possible. In the end we were only partially successful. Basically, all stipulations of the Baseline Hillside Ordinance are in effect in the Oaks, except those regarding building size, height and lot coverage. Those remain regulated by the older Oaks D Limitations.
Because the city made the Baseline Ordinance so complex, and only very generally stipulated how the Ordinance interacts with the Oaks D limitations, it is no trivial task to apply the rules to any given property in The Oaks. The big plus of this situation, however, is that determining the basic permissible square footage is a lot simpler under the Oaks D Limitations, and that the applicable formula in the D limitations reflects closely the existing character of the neighborhood.


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