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Yes, it is possible to get cheap flights to the Maldives. So if you want to travel to paradise on a budget, help is at hand. With the introduction of independent travel arriving in these islands, there’s never been a better time to grab a bargain Maldives flight. Whether you want to fly straight there or have a stopover, you've got plenty of flight deals to choose from.
How much is it to fly to Maldives?
Which airports fly to Maldives?
You can fly to Maldives from any of these UK airports.
It's best to book this far in advance if you want cheap flights to Maldives.
These airlines usually offer the cheapest flights to Maldives.
You can fly to Maldives with these airlines, but you'll have at least one layover.
Flights to Maldives are generally cheaper at this time of year. Or you could get a deal by booking your flight last minute.
This is the most popular time of year to visit Maldives, so flights are more expensive.
How long should I stay in Maldives?
On average, people spend this amount of time in Maldives.
How long is the flight to Maldives?
The shortest flight is from Manchester (MAN) to Malé (Maldives) (MLE) with Air France, but other routes may take longer.
January is usually the cheapest time to fly to the Maldives if you want good weather. You could fly in November for a very cheap deal, but this is also the islands' wettest month. If you're willing to take the risk, you’re likely to find last-minute bargain flights to the Maldives at this time of year.
The islands see a spike in tourism during June and August, so flights during this time will be expensive. But March is considered the best month for snorkelling as the winds are at their lowest. The best – and most expensive – time to fly to the Maldives is sometime between December and March. Prices will be at their highest then as well, so it's best to book in advance if you're planning to travel around this time.
If you're planning to fly to the Maldives during peak season, you should book your flights at least six months in advance to get a good deal. Alternatively, if you want to visit in low season, you could snap up a last-minute bargain.
Which UK airports offer flights to the Maldives?
During peak season, you can find cheap flights to the Maldives from a range of UK airports. In addition to London Heathrow and London Gatwick, flights are available from the likes of Birmingham, Manchester, Newcastle and Glasgow.
Only British Airways fly direct to the Maldives from the UK. But, if you don't mind having a stopover, you'll have plenty of airlines to choose from. Popular airlines offering flights to the Maldives include Emirates, Qatar Airways, Turkish Airlines and Singapore Airlines.
Since there's only one international airport in the Maldives – Male International Airport (MLE) – on Hulhulé Island, all flights from the UK land here.
How long does it take to fly from the UK to the Maldives?
A direct flight from London to the Maldives takes just over 10 hours. But if you have a stopover, you can expect the journey to take at least 12 hours.
Tranquil and pristine, the Maldives is the picture-perfect image of tropical island bliss. Long the domain of happy couples clinking to their recent weddings, this chain of islands is part of a high-end holiday club. As a result, this tropical archipelago has more than its fair share of exclusive resorts, centred around enjoying the white sand and cyan waters in total luxury. In recent years, however, new regulations have allowed more independent accommodations to open. The result? Hello, backpackers.
If you’ve always thought that a glimpse of this earthly paradise was beyond your budget, think again. Compare flights to the Maldives with Netflights and start planning your ultimate holiday. These islands are a world-class surf destination with a gamut of sports available for adrenaline junkies. If you’ve ever wanted to go deep-sea diving or swim with whales and dolphins, this is your chance.
For a dose of urban realism – yes, it does exist – then hang out in the capital, Male, for an afternoon. Head to the main market, where coconuts and bananas are traded or visit the fish market, the heart and soul of the city. Stop to admire the Old Friday Mosque, a beautiful building built in 1656 from intricately carved coral stone. To learn more about the history of the Maldives, explore the National Museum.


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The Dental Care Advantage discount program provides you with savings of 20-55%* on dental services, including orthodontics and cosmetics. Discounts on vision, prescription drugs, and chiropractic products and services are included. Simply present the identification card and receive immediate savings at the time of service.
The Dental Care Advantage Program is a discount or "reduced fee" dental program. This program is designed for health conscious consumers looking to maintain their oral health and minimize their dental care expenses.
General dentists who participate in Dental Care Advantage have agreed to accept a discounted fee as payment in full for each service performed. These discounted fees are 20-55% less than what a dentist would normally charge. A sample table of average Dental Care Advantage discounted fees can be found below.
The sample table above is a small selection of common procedures covered by the DCA program. Once you join, you will be provided with a complete fee schedule with discounted fees for nearly every dental procedure. All procedures discounted under the DCA program offer similar savings to the sample above. If you are looking for a specific dental procedure that is not on this sample, please contact our Member Services Center toll-free at (866) 648-7123 with the ADA Code of the procedure and we can provide the discounted fee.
2 Discounted fees are listed for visits to a participating general dentist as well as specialists - this fee is guaranteed according to your fee schedule. Consult with your provider prior to beginning any treatment.
* Dental Savings based on 2004 NDAS National Average.

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HSL Constructor Pte Ltd was awarded in February 2012 as the Engineering, Procurement and Construction (EPC) Contractor by Main Contractor HQSM Engineering Pte Ltd for Singapore Refining Company sited on Jurong Island. The project consists of the construction of onshore and offshore structures with dimensions of 45.5m length and 17 m width, together with electro-chlorination unit and hoist crane supports.
The onshore section of intake pit is founded on 500mm diameter concrete spun piles, and some of which supported as king-post for the temporary structures. Offshore structure which comprises of five modular units, each weighing an average of 280ton was constructed by pre-casting off site using self-compacting concrete. The biggest challenges of this project were the installation of the precast modules, which necessitated dredging, diving works and heavy lifting. The team proactively identified and fixed the constraints much earlier which helped them in reducing the installation time, like pre-installation of temporary staging for modules, proper seabed preparation and consistent monitoring of variation in seabed. The modules were launched and installed by a 600MT heavy lift floating crane.
HSL Constructor Pte Ltd successfully delivered the intake structure with good quality works and on budget, by means of well planned construction methodology and concurrent onshore and offshore structures construction not only reduced the construction time but increased productivity as well. The commissioning of the seawater intake is targeted at the end of December 2013.

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§1. The second book declares the Incarnation of God the Word, and the faith delivered by the Lord to His disciples, and asserts that the heretics who endeavour to overthrow this faith and devise other additional names are of their father the devil.
The Christian Faith, which in accordance with the command of our Lord has been preached to all nations by His disciples, is neither of men, nor by men, but by our Lord Jesus Christ Himself, Who being the Word, the Life, the Light, the Truth, and God, and Wisdom, and all else that He is by nature, for this cause above all was made in the likeness of man, and shared our nature, becoming like us in all things, yet without sin. He was like us in all things, in that He took upon Him manhood in its entirety with soul and body, so that our salvation was accomplished by means of both:—He, I say, appeared on earth and “conversed with men242242 Bar. iii. 37.,” that men might no longer have opinions according to their own notions about the Self-existent, formulating into a doctrine the hints that come to them from vague conjectures, but that we might be convinced that God has truly been manifested in the flesh, and believe that to be the only true “mystery of godliness243243 1 Tim. iii. 16.,” which was delivered to us by the very Word and God, Who by Himself spake to His Apostles, and that we might receive the teaching concerning the transcendent nature of the Deity which is given to us, as it were, “through a glass darkly244244 1 Cor. xiii. 12.” from the older Scriptures,—from the Law, and the Prophets, and the Sapiential Books, as an evidence of the truth fully revealed to us, reverently accepting the meaning of the things which have been spoken, so as to accord in the faith set forth by the Lord of the whole Scriptures245245 This is perhaps the force of τῶν ὅλων: “the Lord of the Old Covenant as well as of the New.” But τῶν ὅλων may mean simply “the Universe.”, which faith we guard as we received it, word for word, in purity, without falsification, judging even a slight divergence from the words delivered to us an extreme blasphemy and impiety. We believe, then, even as the Lord set forth the Faith to His Disciples, when He said, “Go, teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost246246 S. Matt. xxviii. 19..” This is the word of the mystery whereby through the new birth from above our nature is transformed from the corruptible to the incorruptible, being renewed from “the old man,” “according to the image of Him who created247247 Cf. Col. iii. 10” at the beginning the likeness to the Godhead. In the Faith then which was delivered by God to the Apostles we admit neither subtraction, nor alteration, nor addition, knowing assuredly that he who presumes to pervert the Divine utterance by dishonest quibbling, the same “is of his father the devil,” who leaves the words of truth and “speaks of his own,” becoming the father of a lie248248 Cf. S. John viii. 44.. For whatsoever is said otherwise than in exact accord with the truth is assuredly false and not true.
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Sits on the dash of front or rear windows, quick and easy to set up.
LED colour: amber. Lens cover: clear.
12 Volt (reducer available). Cigarette plug and cable.

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G&F has developed a serious new product of interlining and non-woven fabrics base on the strong technical strength and continually research and development. So far G&F has own the mature production technology and produce high quality of hair interlining, resin interlining, pocket interlining and water jet-loom interlining and so on, these interlining can be used in front panel, inner piping, collar, shoulder, back panel,pocket, pocket flap, waist belt, wrist, armhole. Considering the precision requirements from customers, G&F also produce environmental-friendly non-woven fabrics for disposable medical articles and non-woven bags, these products are wide used in health, medical protective textiles, civilian cleaning cloths and other industries.
In addition,in order to help our customers to pursuit beauty, we also provide different kinds of garment accessories, such as thread, zipper and lace,every customer can find what they need in G&F.

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• Teaching Openings in Taiwan: The Department of Education in every city or country will post the jobs on their website, and the graduates/teachers can find the information through these websites.
• Industrial Technology Education Association of Taiwan, R.O.C.
This department was originally founded in February 1953, focused on the preparation of secondary school Industrial Arts teachers as well as conducting researches related to Industrial Arts Education. In August 1994 its name was changed to the Department of Industrial Technology Education, aimed at preparing of secondary school technology teachers as well as the professionals for human resource development in business and industry. In August 2009, the name was formally changed to the Department of Technology Application and Human Resource Development, fully devotes to prepare the professionals for human resource development in technology and industries. At present, the department has undergraduate, master, and PhD programs.

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Roland Smart is the VP of Marketing at Pantheon - a website operations platform for Drupal and Wordpress. Prior to his current role, Roland worked at Oracle, and he is also a Marketing Agility Alliance Founder.
Pantheon is a website operations platform. I discovered it when I was running some very large scale web projects for Oracle. When I learned about Pantheon and their tools, I immediately had an interest in the company.
I am very passionate about applying agile software development practices in the marketer's world. I got so passionate about this topic that I wrote a book about it called the Agile Marketer.
It also made me start a podcast called the Marketing Agility podcast.
Agile really comes out of the software development world. It is not new and actually, there is something known as the Agile Manifesto which was written 17 years ago.
It's important to understand that by the time that Agile Manifesto was written, a lot of developers had already been using or developing the concept.
Agile comes out of the software development world and the Lean comes from the manufacturing world. They were developed around the same time.
The earliest and most obvious place that we saw an agile approach being implemented in the marketing was in the digital advertising space. For us, the next logical step was to apply agile to the content that we create. We shifted away from 80% of our energy going towards developing new content and 20% of our energy being on iterating on existing content.
In the last five to ten years, a robust ecosystem has been developing around agile marketing. There's just a significant number of technologies that have come to marketing. An example of such a general purpose tool is Asana.
There are also more purpose-built tools to help teams drive agility into specific disciplines like managing their websites.
Some of the biggest consultancies are extending their digital transformation practices to include agile transformation.
It depends on what kind of company you are. For smaller companies, it's easier to run a pilot and then organically grow. They should absolutely invest in certification and training. It will help them avoid pitfalls.
For larger companies, I think there is usually a requirement that consulting needs to come in to do executive education.
Getting executive buy-in is absolutely critical and there are some very significant mindset changes that leaders of the marketing function need to go through. I think it also really helps to have an agile transformation leader within the company.
Executive buy-in is the thing that has the single biggest influence on the success of broader agile transformation.
Agile also supports putting small things out into the market and letting customers tell whether that was the right or wrong move. The ability to quickly address their feedback is the thing that drives the strongest loyalty and connection with the brand.
Applying agile to content marketing means shifting from a mindset where you're always producing new content. The majority of your time should be spent on iterating on existing content.
Based on data about how people were engaging with that content, you can update it and make it more performant. If you keep that URL over time, you can aggregate more inbound links.
Start with something that is really lightweight like short blog posts. Check to see whether that content resonates with your audience or not.
Agile talks a lot about the idea of just building a backlog of the content that you think you need. You are going to catalog your content by the content grid, put it in the backlog, and then you're going to start working on getting the MVP version of those pieces of content on the market.
You're going to look at how they perform and you're going to prioritize iteration on those pieces of content that you've deployed.
DevOps is just short for developer operations. The goal is just to reduce as much friction you possibly can from the process of developing software.
It often means structuring processes so that they are regular and stable. It also means applying automation.
When you think about DevOps, there are many different sorts of software development context. You could be doing backend development or mobile development. In each of those cases, your Dev Ops configuration is going to look a little bit different.
What we have done at Pantheon, we have built a version of DevOps that is specific web teams.
WebOps has been something that enabled the ACL to respond quickly to news events and raise a lot of money around the specific issue.
Another example - without a WebOps managing and customizing a site with more than thousands of individual pages would be nearly impossible to do.
With the WebOps the underlying platform just automatically flexes and scales to meet the need.
When you're choosing a WebOps platform, you need to think really carefully about the CMS that you're going to use. At Pantheon, we're focused exclusively on Drupal and Wordpress.
A good place to start is to break up work into the smallest possible pieces that you can. Ask what's the smallest minimum viable product you can build and deploy to validate that you're heading in the right direction.
That also applies to the way you structure your teams. Agile says small cross-functional teams are more efficient and innovative.
You should also apply this idea to your marketing stack.
Switching out a micro-service is obviously much easier than switching a broader application.
Remember, agile is a philosophy. It's about small tests and iteration, whether that is with your marketing strategies, team or marketing stack.
Taking small bites is at the core of this strategy.
If you are heading over to the MarTech conference, we will have a booth there. You are more than welcome to visit us! We would love to talk to you.

industry_corpus2: Computing & Telecommunications


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“You know that your daughter will also have children and God grant they will not end up in the position I am in.” Kamila lays into lover Kairat in the Kazakh film Tokal.
I first came across the term tokol when my friend was discussing what car she wanted to buy. Her first choice was a Toyota RAV4, but the distant relative who had promised to help her find a seller objected. He explained to her that the Toyota RAV4 had a reputation as car that men bought for their tokol.
The anecdote explained how deeply embedded the institution of tokol is in Kyrgyzstan's socio-cultural landscape. The closest possible translation of the Kyrgyz-language word is “younger wife”. But that does not quite do justice to this socially loaded term which has an equally socially loaded equivalent in neighbouring Kazakhstan — tokal.
While polygamy has a long history in both countries, the modern-day tokol is less a second wife and more a woman on the side, who may fulfil the roles of wife, paramour and counsellor simultaneously, all the while keeping a low profile so as not to destroy the man's ‘first’ family.
Tokol wives face public stigmatization, especially among women, who often view them as seeking happiness at the expense of men’s primary families.
A popular Russian-language song on YouTube I am a Tokal, and I Don’t Have a Soul, addresses this stereotype and describes a tokal as ‘the premature child of our country”.
While a tokol, or tokal, is by no means the second wife as envisaged in Islamic tradition, men do use use the Islamic ritual of nikah to legitimize their extramarital relationships in the two countries where polygamy remains illegal.
This fact came to the fore in 2012, when draft legislation designed to protect victims of bride-kidnapping was voted down in the Kyrgyz parliament. The draft law aimed to fine religious clerics who bless marriages that are not registered with the state. The dramatic vote divided men and women lawmakers.
The male legislators, explained one woman MP, were not necessarily supportive of the crime of bride kidnapping, but rather “voted to defend their private interests”, that is, their right to a mullah-endorsed tokol or two.
The Toyota RAV 4, seemingly a part of the tokol institution in Kyrgyzstan. Creative commons.
Tokol women do not enjoy the same civil rights or social status as a man's legal wife. Their children are also at the back of the queue when it comes to matters of succession and inheritance, although there are exceptions, such as when men take on a tokol for the explicit reason of prolonging their blood line through male offspring.
Unverifiable speculation suggests Kazakhstan's long-ruling autocrat Nursultan Nazarbayev, who had three daughters by his official wife Sara Nazarbayeva, may have gone down this route.
It is quite fitting then that Kyrgyz and Kazakh people also use the word tokol, or tokal as an adjective to refer to cattle that cannot grow horns. Like hornless cattle, tokol women find themselves at a disadvantage, fulfilling all the traditional roles of a wife but lacking the ability to secure fair treatment for themselves and their children.
This hornless state is never more apparent than in the case of a separation from their male partner, or his death — legal rights are for legal wives.
Less than a quarter of women said they would agree to be a tokol according to a poll taken by the Kyrgyz website limon.kg, yet for rich men entering late adulthood in both Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan, a tokol has become an expectation.
The issue is explored dramatically in the recently released film Tokal directed by a Kazakh director Gaukhar Nurtas and centred around an affluent and happy Kazakh family, that finds itself on the brink of falling apart when the family patriarch Kairat embarks on an affair with a younger woman, Kamila.
The situation gets complicated when Kamila gives birth to the son that Kairat was unable to have with his first wife, Bota. At the heart of the film is the question of whether the tokal institution can be considered a Kazakh tradition, or just a luxury that a well-to-do man allows himself.
Correction: An earlier version of this article claimed that President Nursultan Nazarbayev was accompanied by wife Sara Nazarbayeva on his trip to Great Britain in 2015. That was an editorial mistake. He was actually accompanied by his daughter Dariga Nazarbayeva.

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Chicago, IL -- Seven construction workers were stuck in a high-rise in downtown Chicago when high winds forced the workers to stay put.
On Friday, winds were measured at 69 MPH in downtown. Construction workers were asked to remain where they were until they could safely evacuate the high-rise at 150 N. Riverside - a 54 story building in downtown Chicago.
Three other buildings were evacuated on North Wacker Drive due to debris shattering windows.
To be cautious, the workers remained in the building because they would have needed to use ladders to go from one floor to the next. "There's no sense in taking a chance," said Fire Chief Michael Fox.
Road blocks were set up on Wacker, Lake, and Randolph due to flying debris. Firefighters were stationed outside the building where the workers were trapped.

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text: Seemingly one stunning CertiPAMP ingot presentation, Lunar MULTIGRAM+8 is in fact an ingeniously packaged bullion set divided into eight snap-off units – each securing a 1-gram Year of the Monkey ingot of 999.9 fine gold. The Chinese Zodiac is an ancient scheme that relates each year to an animal and its reputed attributes, according to a 12-year mathematical cycle. PAMP's popular Lunar Calendar Series celebrates the Chinese New Year tradition with designs that delight and captivate, front-to-back.


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HAVE YOU experienced situations or seen them in the media and had a deep inner longing to change them? Do you have the feeling that you are on this planet in order to make a positive difference? Do you sense you are here to help bring peace and eradicate war or other atrocities?
NOTE: This book is written as an introduction to the teachings of the the ascended masters and how you can use the spiritual tools they have given in order to make a decisive contribution to changing conditions on this planet. It is mostly new text but contains excerpts from previous dictations and three chapters from Healing Mother Earth. It also contains four new invocations that will not be published elsewhere, one for clearing each of the four octaves. I think even those familiar with ascended master teachings will find a useful and inspiring overview of the planetary dynamics.
You can also buy recordings of the four invocations. See below.


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Opposition leader Tim Nicholls wants to prop up the Adani coal mine by giving a billion taxpayer dollars to a coal mining billionaire.
Opposition leader Tim Nicolls wants to hand coal mining billionaire Adani $1 billion to pollute our Reef and climate.
Opposition leader Tim Nicholls could leave Queensland with a massive stranded asset and a cooked Reef by handing $1 billion to Adani’s coal mine.
The next Queensland government can stop this disastrous Adani coal mine by refusing to funnel money from a Federal Government slush fund to billionaire Adani, and instead build big renewables in sunny regional Queensland.

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Whales – why study them? Well, for starters they’re among the largest creatures to ever live on Earth, and most species happen to be threatened or endangered.
The problem is, as smart as they are whales lack the capacity to understand that the men in the noisy boats firing darts at them are trying to be helpful. A less-invasive method would be nice, but how? Enter Snotbot, the drone that collects the “blow” whales expel from their lungs.
The product of a partnership between Ocean Alliance and the Olin College of Engineering, Snotbots are something of a technological marvel. They’re waterproof and capable of collecting whale snot, yet still able to fly the one mile round-trip from a research vessel and back.
Mucous, seemingly an odd choice for whale research, is actually quite valuable. After collection by the Snotbot, researchers can analyze bacteria levels, DNA and any toxins that may have infiltrated the whale’s system. It also allows them to check hormone levels, which will offer valuable insight into whales’ reproduction cycles and stress levels.
Now, Ocean Alliance has launched a Kickstarter campaign, where they’re aiming to crowdfund $225,000 to support three expeditions to sites Ocean Alliance calls “vital to the future survival of whales on our planet.” The three planned sites are Peninsular Valdez Patagonia, the Sea of Cortez and southeast Alaska’s Frederick Sound.

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text: Ravi khanna , a sales assistant in a travel agency, sole breadwinner for his family, a widowed mother , a crippled sister and a younger school going brother. When he suffers from continous headaches, he consults a doctor. The cerdict - he has a brain tumor. An early death is certain. What can he do to see that his family survives? he hits upon an ingenous idea. He offers anonymous clues to the police, implicating himself in a murder in which he is only a marginal susprct. His only concern being to collect the reward amount being offered by the civtim;s brother. He is caught convicted and sentecced to death. End of the story? No...? Director Ravi Tandon, teams up with scriptwriters salim- javed to deliver a taut, tense, nail biting thriller.


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Finally, in your effort to appreciate all that is in your life, include yourself. Spoil yourself with gifts of time — time to know yourself better and time to love and appreciate those who are part of your life. Or just plain indulge yourself in ways you have always wanted to but for which you never gave yourself permission. Wander off your beaten path.
The first thing that happens is we slowly give up the fight. Our wills are broken by the reality of our circumstances. The things that brought us life gradually die. Our idols die for lack of food….
The still, dry air of the desert brings the sense of helplessness that is so crucial to the spirit of prayer. You come face-to-face with your inability to live, to have joy, to do anything of lasting worth. Life is crushing you.
Suffering burns away the false selves created by cynicism or pride or lust. You stop caring about what people think of you. The desert is God’s best hope for the creation of an authentic self.
Desert life sanctifies you. You have no idea you are changing. You simply notice after you’ve been in the desert awhile that you are different. Things that used to be important no longer matter….
You cry out to God so long and so often that a channel begins to open up between you and God. When driving, you turn off the radio just to be with God. At night you drift in and out of prayer when you are sleeping. Without realizing it, you have learned to pray continuously. The clear, fresh water of God’s presence that you discover in the desert becomes a well inside your heart.
In cozy retrospect, it is often very clear that the “no” that we received was actually a form of spiritual protection, not merely a deliberate and flippant thwarting of our will. When we receive a “no” from God, it is often actually a “yes” in disguise. Instead of focusing on what we cannot have, we need only turn our attention toward that good which God is moving forward in its stead.
Jesus touched and healed anybody who desired it and asked for it, and there were no other prerequisites for his healings. Check it out yourself. Why would Jesus’ love be so unconditional while he was in this world, and suddenly become totally conditional after death? Is it the same Jesus? Or does Jesus change his policy after his resurrection? The belief in heaven and hell is meant to maintain freedom on all sides, with God being the most free of all, to forgive and include, to heal and to bless even God’s seeming “enemies.” How could Jesus ask us to bless, forgive, and heal our enemies, which he clearly does (Matthew 5:43-48), unless God is doing it first and always? Jesus told us to love our enemies because he saw his Father doing it all the time, and all spirituality is merely the “imitation of God” (Ephesians 5:1).
Fear and faith have something in common. They both ask us to believe something will happen that we cannot see.
Over the years I have collected so many books that, in aggregate, they can fairly be called a library. I don’t know what percentage of them I have read. Increasingly I wonder how many of them I ever will read. This has done nothing to dampen my pleasure in acquiring more books. But it has caused me to ponder the meaning they have for me, and the fact that to me they epitomize one great aspect of the goodness of life.
Few practices soothe our spirits as much as gratitude. Feeling appreciative of all that life has given us and continues to give us makes life thrive in our systems. Make gratitude a practice. Do not look for only the large and obvious as a reason for gratefulness. Learn to see your life through a wide-angle lens that includes every detail.
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Inge Beckmann. August 10 (legislative day, August 5), 1954. -- Ordered to be printed.
Inge Beckmann. July 12, 1954. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed.
Claims allowed by the General Accounting Office. Communication from the President of the United States transmitting pursuant to law, claims allowed by the General Accounting Office, amounting to $4,330,782.14. April 7 (legislative day, March 24), 1947. -- Read; referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed.
Rules and regulations governing the Department of Commerce and Labor in its various branches. Furnished in response to a resolution adopted by the Senate, February 1, 1907. February 26, 1907. -- Ordered to be printed.
Merchant vessels of the United States (including yachts and government vessels), year ended June 30, 1933.
Merchant vessels of the United States (including yachts and government vessels), year ended June 30, 1932.
Merchant vessels of the United States (including yachts and government vessels). Year ended June 30, 1931.
Merchant vessels of the United States. (Including yachts and government vessels.) Year ended June 30, 1930.
Merchant vessels of the United States (including yachts and government vessels). Year ended June 30, 1929.
Merchant vessels of the United States (including yachts and government vessels). Year ended June 30, 1928.
Report of the Superintendent of the Coast and Geodetic Survey showing the progress of the work from July 1, 1901, to June 30, 1902.

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MANILA, Philippines - Outgoing Sen. Manny Villar told his partymates in the Nacionalista Party (NP) who are aspiring for the presidency that it is still too early to discuss their plans for the May 2016 elections.
"We do not want to talk about 2016. My advice to my (party) members, if you are looking at 2016, wag kayong masyadong maaga," Villar said in a media forum on Tuesday.
Villar, currently the president of the NP, said his message is for all NP members, including Senator Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr.
â€œI will be a candidate for something but you know, what is the definition of good luck? The way I learned it, good luck is being ready when the opportunity presents itself. So, who knows, I might be lucky in 2016,â€ Marcos said.
The first-term senator, who is eligible for re-election, said he has not decided which position he would run for in the next polls.
Earlier this month, Sen. Jinggoy Estrada identified Marcos as a possible strong contender for the vice presidential post, along with Senators Chiz Escudero and Alan Cayetano, and Senator-elect Grace Poe.
Villar warned possible poll aspirants such as Marcos that winning as elected president is not easy.
"Madali mag-presidentiable mahirap maging president. Ang president is destiny," said Villar, who lost to President Benigno Aquino III in the 2010 presidential election.
"Parang sweepstakes yan ilagay mo lang yung pangalan mo sa tambiolo, kung ikaw yung mapipili mag-intay ka na kasi baka destiny yan. Pero wala namang masama na ilagay mo yung pangaln mo sa tambiolo, as I said I will encourage any member of the Nacionalista Party to try and put his name in the tambiolo," he added.
Villar placed third in the 2010 presidential election, behind then senator and now President Benigno Aquino III and former President Joseph Estrada. Villar was among the first to concede to Aquino.

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Heroes Reborn‘s latest piece of casting news is a real mother.
Cristine Rose, who played the manipulative Angela Petrelli — mom to Nathan (Adrian Pasdar) and Peter (Milo Ventimiglia) — in the original NBC series, will reprise her role in the upcoming revival, according to E! News.
Though details of Rose’s return are being kept under wraps, a quick refresher on her powers should be enough to get you excited for her reappearance: Not only could the devious diva see the past and future via her dreams, but she could also enter other people’s dreams for her own dark purposes.
Rose joins a long list of original Heroes cast members returning for the revival, one which already includes Sendhil Ramamurthy (as Mohinder), Greg Grunberg (as Matt Parkman), Jimmy Jean-Louis (as the Haitian), Masi Oka (as Hiro Nakamura) and Jack Coleman (as Noah “HRG” Bennet).
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The Graide Network is fueled by current, former, and future teachers, researchers, engineers, and all-around education enthusiasts. Our network brings together decades of education experience, feedback expertise, and the time, talent, and drive of hundreds of vetted Graiders to support K-12 students and teachers at scale.
From our home base in the Chicago Literacy Alliance we are proud to serve hundreds of schools and districts across the country.
“If you can read, you can learn to do anything.” My dad’s memorable advice is one of my most vivid childhood memories. This bookworm and fourth-generation entrepreneur is thrilled to be leading The Graide Network to greater impact for students and teachers.
Every day I get to speak with passionate school leaders across the country and help them solve some of their thorniest challenges and achieve their most important goals. It’s deeply humbling and rewarding work.
I love working in Ed Tech and specifically The Graide Network. Coming to work and hearing the direct results my software has had on students and teachers is a feeling unlike any other.
I love supporting Graiders so that they have what they need to best support students. This can range from helping communicate with a teacher or giving tips to make feedback more actionable.
I'm surrounded by people who not only share the same passion, but are united on a mission to empower teachers and students across the country.
Having spent 9 years in high schools, I have seen student achievement positively impacted when teachers receive resources that allow them to focus their time and energy on students. I get to spend everyday at work helping teachers and schools accomplish just that.
For the last 7 years, I worked as a teacher, instructional coach, and school administrator to promote a culture of high expectations in Chicago schools. Now I continue that work by coaching Graiders and assisting teachers in giving high-quality feedback to drive results in the classroom.
As a fervent advocate for educational equity, I love leveraging my skills and experiences to deliver more feedback and influence student achievement across the country.
I love building things that have a positive impact on people’s lives! I’m inspired by the change technology can have on education.
Educational spaces have always been special places for me. Because I had such amazing support systems, I always felt the need to be able to provide those same support systems through mentoring, tutoring, and volunteering in education-based spaces.
Our Graiders are the heart ❤ and soul of our organization, and we are proud to work with such a diverse and talented group. Through a rigorous and performance-based application and onboarding process, Graiders hone and demonstrate their expertise in reading, scoring, and responding to student work. The majority of our Graider team is comprised of graduate and undergrad students from leading colleges and universities across the country and over 50% are pre-service teachers.
Click below to “meet” a few of our fabulous Graiders!
Becca is a junior at the University of Chicago who is currently studying poverty and education in Spain at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona. Becca is majoring in Comparative Human Development and Public Policy. UChicago doesn’t offer an education degree, but that didn’t stop Becca from pursuing her passion.
Daniela is a senior at Cornell University in the School of Industrial and Labor Relations, and she has consistently received rave reviews from teachers and students for the quality and care of her work.
By invitation, top Graiders are invited to join our Senior Graider team.
As Senior Graiders, these folks take on an increased role and work regularly to support Graider recruitment and onboarding operations, assignment management, and quality assurance.
Through my time in college, I’ve come to more fully understand the disparities in our education system and the consequent obstacles that teachers have to face. I love working at The Graide Network, because it allows me to help teachers support their students, so that they can reach their fullest potential.
Throughout my time in high school and college I have become incredibly passionate about mentoring and helping students in any way possible. I know the feedback I’ve received on my work has been instrumental in helping me grow in every aspect of my life.
I became interested in education late in college and didn’t have too many opportunities to learn more about it by then. I am very grateful to be involved with The Graide Network, which allows me to work with many passionate people and help support education across the nation.
I love working in education because I get to facilitate a lifelong love of learning in my students. At The Graide Network I get to refine my skills as a future teacher, while also making a huge impact on students in the process!
I can sincerely say that it was my personal relationship with teachers inspired me to get to where I am today. Through The Graide Network, I get to help teachers build personal relationships and make a difference in their students’ lives!
I can name about a dozen specific teachers who had massive impacts on me as a writer and a person. I love using my writing skills to support teachers across the U.S. I believe deeply that teachers deserve more respect and less stress.
I love working with other people who are passionate about education. I recognize the importance of clear, actionable feedback in my own development as a writer and am excited to help provide that experience to other students.
2015-16 School Year: As a graduate student at Northwestern University, our fearless leader and CEO, Blair Pircon, wins a summer grant opportunity with Leap Innovations. With a small team of former, current, and future educators all committed to solving a big challenge in K-12 education, The Graide Network is born.
2016-17 School Year: After a successful "beta" year, The Graide Network kicks off its second school year with a team of 50+ Graiders serving 21 schools in 11 states. We pass the 30,000 essay mark.
2017-18 School Year: The Graide Network triple in size, partnering with over 50 schools in 17 states and a team of 150+ Graiders.
2018-2019 School Year: Through an exciting new partnership with the National Math and Science Initiative, we expand to serving AP math and science courses. The team celebrates as we deliver our millionth piece of feedback on student writing!


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"The plain message conveyed by the new administration is that George W. Bush's America is a Christian nation, and that non-Christians are welcome into the tent so long as they agree to accept their status as a tolerated minority rather than as fully equal citizens. In effect, Bush is saying: "This is our home, and in our home we pray to Jesus as our savior. If you want to be a guest in our home, you must accept the way we pray." But the United States is neither a Christian nation nor the exclusive home of any particular religious group. Non-Christians are not guests. We are as much hosts as any Mayflower-descendant Protestant. It is our home as well as theirs. And in a home with so many owners, there can be no official sectarian prayer. That is what the 1st Amendment is all about, and the first act by the new administration was in defiance of our Constitution."
Alan Morton Dershowitz is an American lawyer and jurist. He has spent most of his career at Harvard Law School, where at the age of 28 he became the youngest full professor in the law school's history, and is now the Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law. In addition to his teaching, Dershowitz is a prolific author who makes frequent media and public speaking appearances and has worked on a number of high-profile legal cases.
Dershowitz has been noted as a criminal appellate lawyer, most notably in getting a conviction overturned for Claus von Bülow, who had been accused of trying to murder his wife. The publicity surrounding this New York society scandal fueled enough interest that Dershowitz's book on the case, Reversal of Fortune, was turned into a major film starring Jeremy Irons and Glenn Close. In addition, Dershowitz has often commented on Judaism, Israel, civil rights and liberties, and the First Amendment.
Dershowitz was born in the Williamsburg neighborhood in the New York City borough of Brooklyn and grew up in Borough Park.
His parents, Harry and Claire, were both devout Orthodox Jews. Harry Dershowitz (May 8, 1909–April 26, 1984) was a founder and president of the Young Israel Synagogue in the 1960s, served on the board of directors of the Etz Chaim School in Borough Park, and in retirement was co-owner of the Manhattan-based Merit Sales Company. Dershowitz's brother Nathan is counsel for the American Jewish Congress.
Dershowitz attended Yeshiva University High School, where he played on the basketball team. He was a rebellious student, often criticized by his teachers. The school's career placement center, however, told him that he had talent and was capable of becoming an advertising executive, funeral director, or salesman. He decided, he said, to do something that "requires a big mouth and no brain...so I became a lawyer."
Upon graduating, he attended Brooklyn College and received a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1959. He later attended Yale Law School, where he was editor-in-chief of the Yale Law Journal. He graduated first in his class with a Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.) in 1962.
After being admitted to the bar, Dershowitz served as a law clerk for David L. Bazelon, Chief Judge of the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, and Arthur Goldberg, Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.
He joined the faculty of Harvard Law School as an assistant professor of law in 1964. He was made a full professor of law in 1967 at the age of 28, becoming Harvard's youngest full law professor in the law school's history. He was appointed the Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law in 1993, succeeding Abram Chayes.
Much of Dershowitz's legal career has focused on criminal law, and his clients have included high-profile figures such as Patricia Hearst, Leona Helmsley, Jim Bakker, Mike Tyson, O.J. Simpson, and Harry Reems.
Dershowitz also played a leading role in the prosecution of John Demjanjuk, who in 1988 was convicted in Israel for crimes committed by "Ivan the Terrible of Treblinka"; the decision was overturned by the Israeli Supreme Court in 1993.
While representing Claus von Bülow he had the case overturned on appeal; in a retrial, von Bülow was acquitted. Afterwards, Dershowitz told the story of the case in his book, Reversal of Fortune. In the movie version, Dershowitz was played by Ron Silver and also himself had a cameo as a judge.
For several years, Dershowitz has written the monthly column "Justice" in the pages of Penthouse (magazine).
Dershowitz was named a Guggenheim Fellow in 1979, and was in 1983 a recipient of the William O. Douglas First Amendment Award from the Anti-Defamation League of the B'nai Brith for his work in civil rights. He has been awarded honorary doctorates in law from Yeshiva University, the Hebrew Union College, Monmouth College,Haifa University and Bar-Ilan University.
He has been described by Newsweek as America's "most peripatetic civil liberties lawyer and one of its most distinguished defenders of individual rights", and by Corriere della Sera as "America's most famous progressive lawyer".
He has been referenced on several occasions in popular entertainment, especially during the O.J. Simpson trial. On television, he has been parodied on Saturday Night Live and mentioned in the episode "Homer Bad Man" of The Simpsons.
Dershowitz has taken public stances on a number of controversial contemporary issues. Because of his fame, his positions have often been covered by major media sources and have been the subject of attention from both scholarly and political points of view.
Following the September 11, 2001 attacks, Dershowitz advocated the issuance of warrants allowing terrorism suspects to be tortured if there is an "absolute need to obtain immediate information in order to save lives coupled with probable cause that the suspect had such information and is unwilling to reveal it".
Although he claims to be personally against the use of torture, he believes that authorities should be permitted to use non-lethal torture in a "ticking bomb" scenario, regardless of whether international law permits it, and that it would be less destructive to the rule of law to regulate the process than to leave it up to the discretion of individual law-enforcement agents. Under his proposal, the government would not be allowed to prosecute the torture subject based upon information revealed under that interrogation method. "If torture is going to be administered as a last resort in the ticking-bomb case, to save enormous numbers of lives, it ought to be done openly, with accountability, with approval by the president of the United States or by a Supreme Court justice".
Some civil libertarians have criticized Dershowitz's solution to the problem presented by uncooperative captured terrorists. Harvey Silverglate states that jury nullification and executive clemency could protect law enforcement in the hypothetical ticking-bomb case, thus "our legal system is perfectly capable of dealing with the exceptional hard case without enshrining the notion that it is okay to torture a fellow human being".
William F. Schulz, the executive director of the U.S. section of Amnesty International, states that Dershowitz's hypothetical ticking-bomb scenario is unrealistic, because it would require that "the authorities know that a bomb has been planted somewhere; know it is about to go off; know that the suspect in their custody has the information they need to stop it; know that the suspect will yield that information accurately in a matter of minutes if subjected to torture; and know that there is no other way to obtain it." He also states that employing authorized torture would lower the country's ability to stand up for human rights abroad.
Bill Goodman of the Center for Constitutional Rights, debating with Dershowitz on CNN, stated that Dershowitz's proposal would create a "very slippery slope," and that torture would "happen under more than those exceptional circumstances. It's going to start becoming the regular, rather than the unusual".
Shortly after the publication of Dershowitz's book The Case for Israel, Norman Finkelstein accused Dershowitz, of "fraud, falsification, plagiarism and nonsense." Dershowitz and Finkelstein argued the question on an episode of Democracy Now!; Finkelstein later expanded the charges into a book, Beyond Chutzpah. After repeated attempts to block the book's publication, Alan Dershowitz wrote in Front Page Magazine that Finkelstein suspected his own mother (a Holocaust survivor) of being a Nazi Kapo. Finkelstein responded by indicating that he had never made such a comment and urged his readers to mail Harvard University to fire Dershowitz. This correspondence can be found on Finkelstein's website, along with the article from his memoir, which instigated Dershowitz's writing on this matter.
Fellow Harvard professor John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt of Chicago University, both political scientists published in March 2006 a paper which criticizes what they describe as the "Israel Lobby" for influencing U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East away from U.S. interests and towards Israel's interests. They denote Alan Dershowitz in the paper as playing the role of an "apologist" for the Israeli lobby. In response, Dershowitz wrote an extensive report that challenged both the factual basis of the report, the motivations of the authors and their scholarship. Dershowitz claimed that the "paper contains three types of major errors: quotations are wrenched out of context, important facts are misstated or omitted, and embarrasingly weak logic is employed."

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Today I'm drinking Leavenworth Biers Boulder Bend Dunkelweizen brewed by Fish Brewing Company in Olympia, Washington. No sooner did I review their Whistling Pig Hefeweizen the other day than an anonymous commenter went on a double-rant about the beer and new ownership. I thought the comment about a fresh-air-biking-in-the-mountains label art was particularly funny. I wonder if I'll get another comment today when s/he sees two white water rafts battling a mountain river on this label. LOL. Supposedly this is an "Alpine-Style Dark Wheat Ale". Bottled on April, no year. 4.7% alcohol.
Malty aroma, caramel and wheat, pretty muted. Caramel and roasted malty flavors kick things off. They kind of run together with a weird old coffee flavor, made worse by the flatness of this beer. Lightly sweet but hops are noticeable. Wheat and sourdough bread flavors also become part of the flavor profile. You end with a strange aftertaste. Not terrible. Just not enjoyable. Pass.


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Two senior Fianna Fáil TDs have said they have "no doubt" the party's hierarchy will consider running Billy Kelleher in the imminent European elections despite his failure to be selected by grassroots members.
Thomas Byrne and Fiona O'Loughlin said they believe officials will be "looking" at adding Mr Kelleher or female candidates in the coming days - despite insisting the decision is entirely in headquarters' hands.
On Saturday, long-standing Cork TD Mr Kelleher lost out by just eight votes to Wexford councillor Malcolm Byrne in his bid to be selected as Fianna Fáil's Ireland South candidate in the European elections.
Mr Kelleher broke ranks by ignoring party leader Micheal Martin's calls for no sitting TD to run.
Education spokesperson Thomas Byrne and equality spokesperson Fiona O'Loughlin said the matter is entirely up to Fianna Fáil's national constituencies committee.
However, noting Mr Kelleher's experience in national politics, the TDs said they believe senior officials will consider adding him to the Ireland South ticket in the coming days.
When asked whether a female candidate should be added instead as Fianna Fáil is currently running an all-male MEP ticket, Mr Byrne said there are "a number of factors" and that "there can be no doubt the party will be looking at that".


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Applications are now open for The Other Art Fair Sydney 2019. The 5th edition of the fair is timed to coincide with Art Month from 14-17th March at the Australian Technology Park in Eveleigh.
Stay tuned for more information as they are working on an exciting new fair program that will push the boundaries of art fairs, setting them apart from similar events.
There is no fee to apply. Stand prices vary according to stand size. All prices can be found on page 3 of the application form.


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Aside from its professional sports teams and famous cheesesteaks, Philadelphia is famed for its world-renowned museums. From the Franklin Institute Science Museum, to the National Constitution Center, to the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology (Penn Museum), the City of Brotherly Love has something that caters to everyone. Whether you’re interested in science and technology or history, Hussain al Nowais recommends seeing these exhibitions that are currently or soon-to-be-displayed at Philadelphia’s world-class museums.
Starting this November, the Franklin Institute will date back to prehistoric times with the unveiling of the Jurassic World exhibition. Fans of the Jurassic Park movie series will be in awe of the 15,000-square-foot exhibition featuring a life-like animatronic 25-foot-long Brachiosaurus, 24-foot tall T. Rex, and other Jurassic giants.
In honor of Election Day, the National Constitution Center is featuring an interactive exhibition that examines the U.S. election system. Visitors can explore multimedia, artifacts, and more to learn about everything from campaigning to Presidential Inaugurations.
Head to the Penn Museum to explore the one-and-only King Midas, the famous Greek mythological figure who could turn everything he touched into gold. The real King Midas resided in Gordion; in 1957, Penn’s archeological team discovered his father’s tomb there. They collected more than 120 objects that are featured in this exhibition to tell the story of King Midas and his life in Gordion over 3,000 years ago.


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By: Linda Rae Coughlin and Rose Wirtz; Photography by Laurence A. Clement, Jr.
Oriental (with red and blue), 36" x 21 1⁄2" , wool on linen. Designed and hooked by Cecelia Clement, Manhattan, Kansas, 2008.
Cecilia Clement is an inspiration to all ages. At almost 90 years old, she continues to hook and recently had a solo show at The Volland Store in Alma, Kansas. A unique venue, in the Flint Hills countryside, it is an old store that was converted into a gallery a few years ago.
Cecilia didn’t start hooking until the age of 57. Her loops have always been consistent and always of the highest craftsmanship. Throughout the years, her mastery of material allowed her inner artist to hook whatever she imagined and create custom designs for her client’s desires. Even now, with macular degeneration, she continues to hook, adapting to her situation as best as she can. Here is her story.
“My ‘hooking life’ started in 1985. After retiring from being a nursery school teacher, my husband and I moved to an old farmhouse in the lovely countryside of southeastern Pennsylvania. The house was in Chester County, home of many avid fox hunters and owners of race horses. But we were also on the Lancaster County line, which put us very close to that county’s well-known Amish population.


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A projected decline of 2,343 jobs in June ended a five-month string of Northeast Ohio job gains, though the loss may only reflect a summertime blip since other indicators suggest job and economic growth, according to data in the latest Ahola Crain’s Employment (ACE) Report.
Also, the month-to-month, 0.02%, drop in seasonally adjusted employment for the seven-county Akron-Cleveland region, is balanced against a year-over-year gain of 6,249 jobs, a 0.54% increase from June 2015 to June 2016. “It’s hard to gauge whether or not the expected pullback in payrolls point to a sea change in regional economic activity,” said Jack Kleinhenz, the Cleveland Heights economist who created the ACE model. “Payroll growth has been choppy. A similar pattern was evident in 2015 as payrolls fell off in the summer but then rebounded in the fall.” Private-sector employment in the metro area dropped 0.22%, or 2,589 jobs, between June 2015 and July 2015, according to the ACE model, before recovering. The report projects that service producing firms account for about 2,279 lost jobs, while the goods producing sector shows only a loss of about 64 jobs. Kleinhenz noted that the stronger dollar “has shown to be a significant speed bump for regional, state and U.S. manufacturing exporters and has created a drag on domestic employment, income and spending.” He said the research office of the Ohio Development Services Agency estimates that Ohio merchandise exports declined 3%, or $50.7 billion, between 2014 and 2015. But, Kleinhenz reported, other indicators of the economy do point in a positive direction. “Both the Institute of Supply Management’s manufacturing and non-manufacturing indexes showed a pickup in the pace of growth in June and registered expansionary readings for survey’s employment component,” he said. “This bodes well for area income and spending.” The U.S. manufacturing sector showed strong growth in June according to the latest monthly survey conducted by the Institute for Supply Management. Manufacturing supply executives indicated a Purchasing Managers’ Index increase of 1.9% Of the 18 manufacturing sectors tracked by ISM, 13 reported growth in June led by printing, textiles, petroleum and coal products and food, beverage and tobacco products. The three industries reporting contractions are electrical equipment, appliances and components; transportation equipment; and rubber and plastic products.


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Elon Musk released a whitepaper at the end of 2013, in which he describes a new transportation system he calls a Hyperloop. As with all new ideas, there was a lot of criticism. But what is this Hyperloop?
Existing conventional modes of transportation of people consists of four unique types: rail, road, water, and air. These modes of transport tend to be either relatively slow (i.e., road and water), expensive (i.e., air), or a combination of relatively slow and expensive (i.e., rail). Hyperloop is a new mode of transport that seeks to change this paradigm by being both fast and inexpensive for people and goods. Hyperloop is also unique in that it is an open design concept, similar to Linux….
…Short of figuring out real teleportation, which would of course be awesome (someone please do this), the only option for super fast travel is to build a tube over or under the ground that contains a special environment…. Hyperloop consists of a low pressure tube with capsules that are transported at both low and high speeds throughout the length of the tube. The capsules are supported on a cushion of air, featuring pressurized air and aerodynamic lift. The capsules are accelerated via a magnetic linear accelerator affixed at various stations on the low pressure tube with rotors contained in each capsule. Passengers may enter and exit Hyperloop at stations located either at the ends of the tube, or branches along the tube length.
Supersonic freight is not as far away as “beaming it up” Scotty-style. Several startups, mostly crowdfunded, have taken his ideas and are working on actual working Hyperloop concepts.The startup Hyperloop Technologies has taken Musks idea in a different direction than he originally intended, and different from the focus of the other startups working on Hyperloop technology. It’s a direction that is exciting for anybody in Logistics. Hyperloop Technologies intends to create a Hyperloop specifically for moving freight first, and look into moving people later. People matter, but this is LogisticsMatter, so when I heard this, my first reaction was: COOL!
Hyperloop Technologies just landed 8.5 million dollars in seed funding, with plans for further investment rounds later in the year.
As their website states: “We will move people and CARGO at speeds never thought possible. We will make the world smaller, cleaner and more efficient.” I’m all for it.
You can read more about Hyperloop Technologies and it’s investors in this article on Forbes.com.

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As part of the Green Summit in Manchester today, the Mayor of Greater Manchester, Andy Burnham, officially announced the launch of a brand new website ‘Nature Greater Manchester’ designed to connect residents of Greater Manchester with their natural environment.
The Government’s recently published 25 Year Environment Plan identifies a key action around connecting people with the environment to improve health and wellbeing.
• It improves our mental health and feelings of wellbeing.
• It can reduce stress, fatigue, anxiety and depression.
• It can help boost immune systems, encourage physical activity and may reduce the risk of chronic diseases such as asthma.
• It can combat loneliness and bind communities together.
Greater Manchester has a wealth of green space, waterways and rich biodiversity to connect with and enjoy.
Understanding how we use, protect and enhance these natural assets is a key priority for the Natural Capital Group (NCG), the Local Nature Partnership for Greater Manchester, and its partners.
The Group acts as an ambassador for GM’s natural environment, supporting delivery through existing partnerships and structures and showcasing headline initiatives.
Greater Manchester has also been identified as one of four pioneer areas in the country to test the objectives of the Government’s 25 Year Environment Plan.
Key objectives for the Urban Pioneer include: improving decision making, helping people to understand the true value of the environment and making it easy to become responsible stewards for it.
The website looks to overcome barriers to effective delivery by bringing together key natural environment stakeholders and their initiatives being delivered across Greater Manchester.
The website will also aim to connect with a wider regional audience to understand what’s taking place in their areas, the reasons why they are taking place and the wider benefits.
The websites’ stand out objective is to connect people with nature.
Providing information and access to nature improvement activities and opportunities (do your bit) so that people can become part of the work being carried out, as well as helping people to see, experience, and enjoy.
Inspiration for visitors on planned activities in the natural environment encouraging people to get out into the open and experience what Greater Manchester has to offer. Not only does this help them to discover new inspiration and leisure activities but also become more active as a bi-product of these events and activities. People can filter by their desired activity too allowing things like ‘walking’, ‘jogging’, or ‘family activities’ to be filtered, helping show more positive results.
• Visitors (general) who want to discover GM’s natural greenspace for walking, cycling, nature focused activities (bird watching) and events that promote GM’s natural environment.


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The Austin Spring Tango Festival - 2017 • MARCH 24 • 25 • 26 • AUSTIN, TEXAS - is organized and funded by the 501c3 nonprofit Austin Tango Society. All donations and profits go to building and supporting the Austin Tango Community.
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Esquina Tango Cultural Society of Austin is a non-profit organization offering Free Senior Tango with Mickey Jacobs 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm Level : All: Beginners are guided in understanding the structure of tango from the start catered specially towards Senior citizens. In a relaxed atmosphere, students are coached in the skills of leading and following — as well as the etiquette and culture of Argentine Tango.
8:30pm Intro Tango Class with Gustavo / 9:15pm-11:45pm Social Dancing / FREE EVENT!
Esquina Tango Cultural Society of Austin is a non-profit organization striving to build a vibrant and diverse community in East Austin and beyond through performing arts and health. With an emphasis on Argentine and other Latin American traditions, we aim to foster personal wellness while promoting an appreciation for Latino cultures.


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➢ Memory foam which is listed below the top layer. It has actually grooved channels and also assists air to flow in the cushion.
If you choose to rest on the side, so you will certainly need a high-pressure relief in your shoulder area in order to you feel comfy. Also, your spinal column has to be straightened, in one more means you will obtain some serious discomfort in the early morning. For the side sleepers, the Snuz cushions by Sleep Choices are giving high support on the reduced body location and also pressure alleviation in the hip and also shoulder area.
If you would certainly rank The Snuz Mattress with a suppleness scale, this cushion would certainly be in a 5 to 6 at the scale. This indicates, that the Sleep Choices bed mattress are primarily created all kind of sleepers that requires tool suppleness. Each part of these bed mattress is made to supply an equivalent quantity of assistance or pressure alleviation. This way, your various parts of the body feel comfortable and also as the result – you are waking up fresh as well as totally rested.
So, to conclude this testimonial regarding Sleep Choices bed mattress, if you are trying to find a bed mattress that has comfort, support, and also good rates – make certain to consider checking The Snuz mattress. If you enjoy cooling down as well as fresh feeling throughout all your sleep – Sleep Choices have something to use you.


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There is a reason why expert authors ALWAYS have a small group of editors and proofreaders combing over each word that they write in an effort to make sure that it is picture-perfect, succinct, and as crystal-clear as humanly possible.
Each and every single significant word processor out there on the market today (along with every email customer tool, mobile application, and anything else you may utilize to produce written material on a computer or electronic device) is allowed with your standard spellcheck function– and it’s essential not to puzzle that essential however fairly easy and straightforward “fundamental” of data processing today with the power behind Grammarly.
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As we highlighted above, the tools that are developed right into the Grammarly platform are going to enable you to effortlessly cleanup your writing without any trouble whatsoever, but they are also going to enable you to produce error totally free material on ANY platform you can envision.
Thanks to the development group behind Grammarly, there are Grammarly solutions that can be utilized on your mobile phone, Grammarly tools that can be used on your tablet, and Grammarly tools that can undoubtedly be used on your computer system– whether or not you are connected to the internet.
You can use Grammarly with Microsoft Word, Gmail, Twitter, Facebook, WordPress, and any other content production software or option online or off. This is a set of tools that will always work, will scan every aspect of your writing, and will not just ensure that your content is cleaned up from the spelling and grammar point of view, but will also recommend ways to improve your syntax, too.
This is not your everyday piece of editing software, that’s for sure. Equipped with your Grammarly login and password info, you have a whole editing group and proofreaders prepared to rock ‘n roll on every piece of material you ever produce!
Each and every single influential author (and every other writer out there, for that matter) has a really unique and extremely recognizable style– a voice, if you will– that discovers in print as clear as a church bell.
If you lean towards more colloquial type of composing, Grammarly is going to learn that sort of design and will not suggest that you go with more “uptight” in conference room focused corrections. If you’re more technical focused, Grammarly is going to try and supply you with suggestions and modifies that help get you to that style of writing, too.
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There are other editing tools out, to be sure– however NONE of them provide this type of power or these type of benefits.
At the end of the day, you need to make sure that you have someone (or, when it comes to Grammarly, something) looking over your shoulder and reviewing your writing prior to you go and send it.
Unless you’re going to hand over a small fortune on editors and proofreaders it’s a smart idea to take advantage of the Grammarly opportunity. The Grammarly sign up student discounts allow you to make the most of this tool at a considerable saving, and you can constantly go with the Grammarly free download trial to give it a “test drive” prior to you completely devote.
The Grammarly app can be downloaded and utilized in Chrome (and on Android and iOS devices) totally free right now. That’s a great method to try the Grammarly solutions prior to you devote.


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Will Pomerantz is the Vice President for Special Projects at Sir Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic. In that role, Will helps extend Virgin Galactic’s business beyond suborbital space tourism, developing efforts such as the LauncherOne orbital launch vehicle for small satellites as well as suborbital research campaigns on board SpaceShipTwo.
Will also serves as a Trustee and the Chair of the Board of Advisers for the Students for the Exploration and Development of Space (SEDS), the world’s largest student space organization; as the co-founder of the Brooke Owens Fellowship Program, designed to train women pursuing careers in aviation or space exploration; as an advisor to WayPaver Labs, a nonprofit dedicated to pushing the boundaries of human exploration; and as a member of the Professional Development Committee of Women in Aerospace.

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