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1 3/4" wide lined holster belt is made with premium saddle leather. Includes solid brass buckle.
What can I say that others have not said? I agree with all five star rated comments here. Outstanding quality, outstanding quality, outstanding quality!!!
You simply cannot find better products anywhere. These products will outlast you. Hand them down to loved ones. This goes for not only this belt, but the fine gun holster and speed loader I also purchased.
The belt is great quality and is an awesome option for a EDC gun belt or dress belt. There was a minor cosmetic blemish with the original belt I received, but Galco's customer service team was kind, understanding, and fast in helping me with a replacement with no hassle. I am now a life customer after seeing the product quality and after interacting with the customer service team!
I love this belt, I thought the price was a little high for a belt, but when I got it I realized sometimes you do get what you pay for. Time quality is 2nd to none. This belt is 2 to 3 times thicker than any of my other belts. Thank you for the high quality leather goods you offer!!!
I still have mine after 18+ years of service. Besides CCW support, it has survived motorcycle accidents, being soaked repeatedly and the usual weight loss and gain. When replacement becomes necessary, I will not hesitate to purchase another Galco.
Second belt from Galco. Excellent quality and durability. First one for dress pants (1.25), second for work pants (1.75). After 6 years, first belt still looks good, stiff stiff, strong and quality remains. Great products & workmanship. Talked to customer service folks about changing a buckle and they are great too, friendly and helpful.
I've been using Galco products for about 20 years. While the cost is higher than other mass produced leather products, it doesn't come close to custom products and the old adage still holds true; "You get what you pay for"
I bought 2 belts ~15 years ago when I first started carrying a gun.
I wore one belt daily for nearly 10 years before I retired it. I’m 5 years into my second one and it’s still in excellent shape.
a quality product...but outrageous price!!!!
Thank you for your purchase and input. Galco’s pricing is reflective of offering the highest-quality belts, holsters and sporting accessories in the industry. We make all our products right here in Phoenix, Arizona rather than outsourcing our manufacturing to Mexico, Vietnam or China like so many of our competitors.
The purchase of a Galco product supports our providing health care and decent living wages to a US manufacturing workforce, a concept that’s foreign (pun intended) to our competitors who manufacture in third world countries. We purchase the top 2% of leather available in America. We comply with and pay for every federal, state and local government mandate. We give particular attention to those regulations protecting the environment and worker safety, which are much stricter in the USA than in the third world nations where many of our competitors choose to manufacture.
Galco believes that the rewards of manufacturing in the USA far offset any disadvantages, but it does require us to charge a little more compared to those made in the developing world. Fortunately, the overwhelming majority of our customers agree with us. These customers have continued to purchase our American-made products for nearly 50 years because they demand the best.
I bought my first Galco Belt in '98, and have returned on several occasions as my waist size grew. I wear the original, barely fitting with a extended cowboy buckle mind you, but just as stiff and good-looking as it was 20 years ago.
This is my second belt from you folks. It has concealed carry my weapons for over 13 years. Just thought I would get a new on for Christmas. Old one is still very functional, just a little used looking! Superb belt!!
I have worn my belt daily for 5 years now. It holds up my CZ PCR without ever sagging or trying to fold over. The best belt on the market!
Great Belt! - Why no reviews?
I own two of these belts, one is probably going on fifteen years old and the other is over five years, I've never seen a better gun belt. My next will be the one with the fancy stitching.
I have the tan/natural belt, 1.75" width. I've owned it for over 10 years, probably closer to 15 years. I can't remember when I got it.
It is superb. It is a fantastic everyday belt. I wear it with jeans, khakis, and shorts. I wear it for dress and for work. It's a 2 ply leather belt with a solid brass buckle. The stitching and buckle have held up very well. It has over the years taken the shape of my back/frame/hips....i.e. It has a slight U shape now. I'm going to buy another one in black.
Oh, it's also great at what it was designed for, to carry a gun. I've carried everything from 1911's to J-frames, and it does it well.
My advice is to go with the 1.75" width belt. The smaller width belts are nice, but the inch and three quarter belt provides the most support. 99% of all men's trousers accept a 1.75" belt. The only exception will be a few suit pants, but most will handle the width.

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What is Gas Limit in Ethereum?
What is the function of Gas Limit parameter in Ethereum? Is it involved in mining or something else?
In Ethereum, gas is a measure of computational effort. To each operation, a fixed amount of gas is assigned (e.g. adding two numbers costs 3 gas, calculating a hash costs 30 gas, sending a transaction costs 21000 gas ).
Since computation is expensive (mind that it has to be done by every full node in the network), excessive consumption of gas needs to be discouraged. Therefore, each unit of gas must be paid for (in Ether) by the sender of the transaction that triggered the computation.
Unfortunately, it is often not easy and in general even impossible to know in advance how much gas a transaction will need eventually. Therefore, transactions have a gas limit field to specify the maximum amount of gas the sender is willing to buy. If the gas used exceeds this limit during execution, processing is stopped. The sender still has to pay for the performed computation, but they are protected from running completely out of funds.
The current gas limit can be checked on the network stats page.
It's currently 3,141,592 (pi million). The gas limit per block is not fixed, though. The number of contract calls and standard transactions is limited by the gas limit, which is 1.2x of the exponential moving average. So there's only so much gas that can be expended per block, even though it can grow, of course.
Note that each call to the contract to the caller cost an amount of Ether defined by (gas sent to contract)*(price of gas as defined by caller) so sending 10 thousend transactions per block could end up quite a pricey endeavour.
Not the answer you're looking for? Browse other questions tagged ethereum mining-theory or ask your own question.
The Ethereum gas limit seems prohibitively low. Will it ever be raised? If so, when and how?
In Ethereum, what is an uncle block?

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GCSE PE Pupils enjoyed a fantastic weekend in the Yorkshire Dales this weekend as part of their GCSE assessment.
The girls took part in orienteering, rock climbing, caving, gorge walking and canoeing.
A fab weekend and the girls were a credit to the school!

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This article explains how you can subscribe to a data stream and receive data pushed spontaneously by the server, using the ASP .NET Web API. It is intended as nothing more than a learning exercise. Technologies such as WebSockets, SignalR, WCF or even plain sockets may be more suitable for this kind of thing.
Update 2015-03-14: Full source code for server and client applications is now available.
Our Web API is going to allow clients to subscribe to a service which will send the price of… something every two seconds. To start off, you will need to create a new Web project with a Web API component, and create a new controller (which I called PriceController).
The odd arguments in the lambda are a workaround for an unfortunate ambiguity between PushStreamContent constructors in Web API 2.
We’re simply wrapping a StreamWriter around the stream, and then keeping it in a ConcurrentBag called “clients”.
Every 2 seconds, a random number between 1 and 2 is selected, and is sent to all subscribed clients. The data is sent based on the format for Server-Sent Events.
Detecting that the TCP connection has been reset is something that the Host (ASP, WCF, etc.) monitors but in .NET 4 neither ASP nor WCF tells us (the Web API layer) about it. This means that the only reliable manner to detect a broken connection is to actually write data to it. This is why we have the try/catch around the write operation in the sample. That is, responses will get cleaned up when they fail and not before.
All you need to get the PriceController working are the member variable declarations and the static constructor which initialises them. I’m providing the entire class below so that you can just copy it and get up and running.
When I originally saw these results, I thought I had done something seriously wrong. However, I realised this was not the case when I wrote a client in C# and found that it worked correctly. In fact, let’s do that now.
This client requires the latest Web API Client Libraries from NuGet. Since writing async Console applications can be a bit messy (see a workaround if you still want to take the Console direction), I wrote a simple WPF application. This just has a “Subscribe” button, and a TextBox which I named “OutputField”.
Since we’re dealing with a stream, we’re using GetStreamAsync() to talk to the Web API rather than the usual GetAsync(). Then, we can read it as we would any other stream.
Sorry to bother you, but I am currently researching how I can develop a live video streaming feature in a teaching application that I am working.
The requirement is a teacher starts a live video stream of an MP4, and all participants can join in and watch the stream at the same time.
I will be doing some prototyping myself, but I am curious if your work posted on http://gigi.nullneuron.net/gigilabs/streaming-data-with-asp-net-web-api-and-pushcontentstream/ could facilitate video stream content?
I would like to hear your thoughts if you have the time.
Thanks for the article, it was very informative!
Hi, I don’t know much about video streaming, so it’s hard for me to say whether this is the best technology to use. But I do vaguely recall reading about some people having used PushContentStream for video streaming, while researching background material for this article. In fact I think I had run into this article at some point. Check it out and see whether it helps.
I’ve tried to implement this on a wep api server meant for azure, and it works like a charm locally. However, when I try to publish it as an app service to my Azure account, the client program can connect (it gets past GetStreamAsync), but push messages never arrive (hangs forever on ReadLineAsync).
I’ve verified that the server get’s the connection added to the client list, and text is written to the client stream, but it seems like it’s never actually sent out on the network. Have you run into similar issues, or do you know any way to find out where the problem(s) lie?
Hello again, and sorry for bothering.
It seems like the problem is a networking one on my local machine as I’ve tested it successfully from another IP. Not sure exactly why it’s not working on my test machine, but the code itself is working great, so thank you very much!
According to the documentation for ConcurrentBag, the “TryTake” method removes an object from the collection, it DOES NOT necessarily remove the one that you want to remove. Since there are no “ConcurrentList” objects, I recommend a good old fashion “List” using a lock around “add” and “remove” method, just be sure to copy the list before going into the “foreach” loop. The Linq extension “ToList()” works well. For a high volume situation, you may want to do something more effective.
Can you point to the relevant documentation?
return statement is called, but the client never get a response, it is reproduced both in client test and browser.
It’s impossible for me to know what’s wrong without knowing what you’re doing.

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My ex and I are still really good friends.. This is kinda weird for me because she still holds apart of my heart and everytime I start to move on and she does the same.. We hang out as friends and she just fall back inlove with me persay.. Then its good for a couple of weeks and then she becomes stand offish and its confusing... I dont really know how to read the situation..
i been in the same kind of situation many of times. but i believe that when two people love so much and then they both go their seperate ways frienship will just confuse the heart and hold you back. im not saying you two are holding each other back from anything i dont know your situation. however if you both had said your goodbyes and are able to be friends without confusion maybe it could stop the confusion.

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Enric Duran has decided to request the suspension of his trial due to disagreements with his lawyer. Given this situation, he lacks the necessary time to prepare the social awareness campaign linked to the trial, another motivation behind this request.
Enric Duran received the information about his trial just three weeks before it was due to be held. He had to go by himself to collect the official response to the evidence he presented, a response published three months ago. That means the judicial process was already underway, even though he was not aware of it. This situation is one of helplessness and uncertain legality, so Enric Duran has demanded the revocation of his lawyer.
No one can prepare their own trial without information from the previous process, and Enric Duran’s lawyer told him that he would have all the documents three months before the trial dates. This did not happen. That is the reason behind Enric’s revocation of his lawyer and the request for suspension of the trial. The lawyer has also stepped down and this morning both requests were presented at the Audiencia Provincial de Barcelona.
As of now, Enric Duran has four days to find a new lawyer, because the trial is set for February 12. That is not enough time. “It is very difficult for us to be able to prepare the social awareness campaign as we had wanted”, Duran says.
Besides, the magistrate’s court set to judge Enric Duran is the same one that had to judge the ‘Case Pallerols’ regarding the irregular funds of a political party. And that trial did not take place because the attorney’s office and the accused came to an agreement.
The trial against the banks arrives in a very difficult, especially tumultuous moment, as politicians and banks demonstrate that the system is not working.
While banks’ and institutions’ credibility is almost 0, hundreds of senior politicians and bankers are being impeached and almost all of them getting rid of everything. While all of this happens, the attorney’s office and 14 banks request 8 years of prison for Enric Duran.
Enric Duran went public in 2008 and announced that he had asked for bank credits from 39 bank organisations. He collected 492.000 Euros that he is not going to give back. It has been certified that banks rob us and condemn millions of people to misery. Speculation and greed dominate society, consumerism guides lives, all because of the banks.
This activist participates in another form of life building and he wants to explain it. This trial is an opportunity to show this contrast: spoiled institutions losing their meaning amid the rise of alternative societies where dignity is built from below. In an attempt to explain all of this, Enric Duran has a new blog: www.enricduran.cat. Here, he explains in detail his motivations.
The right to an appropriate defence is the reason behind his request for suspension of this trial. The right and access to appropriate information in society represents his political motivation.

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The Rumparooz One Size Diaper Covers have 4 adjustable rise settings that are designed to fit your baby from birth to potty training with 1 cover. Weight range of cover stars at 6 lbs and will fit up to 35+ lbs.
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For other English-language translations of this work, see Tao Te Ching.
Tao Te Ching, or Laozi, is a Chinese classic text. According to tradition, it was written around 6th century BC by the sage Laozi, a record-keeper at the Zhou dynasty court, by whose name the text is known in China. The text's true authorship and date of composition or compilation are still debated, although the oldest excavated text dates back to the late 4th century BC.
The name [that] can be named, is not the eternal name.
By constantly having [desire], one views its limits.
One Mystery plus another Mystery, is the source of all wonders.
then goodness is not goodness [anymore].
Does not focus on it, and thus it does not go.
will keep the people from rivalry.
will keep the people from becoming thieves.
will make popular sentiments undisturbed.
There is nothing not done.
But when using it, it is impossible to use it up.
It is profound, seems like the root of the myriad things.
Mixes with its own dust.
It is unclear, but seems to have existed there.
Maybe it was already created before the creator.
He regards people as straw dogs.
The space between the sky and the earth, how much is it like large bellows!
Much talk soon comes to nothing.
It is better to be in between extremes.
Note: Chugou (芻狗, literally "grass dog") is a straw-made dog-shaped sacrifice used in ancient China. When sacrificing, people treat it very seriously; but once the sacrifice has ended, people treat the straw dogs in a very casual way.
The valley-spirit will not die, this is the primal mother.
The gate of the primal mother is the root of the world.
She unceasingly exists, her influence is without effort.
The sky and the earth / The universe is eternal.
Yet it is before all others he shall eventually stand.
They were indifferent to the discomforts and dangers.
Yet it is he who shall thus survive.
It is none other than that they do not demand self.
Yet it is he eventually who shall achieve for self.
The best quality/character is like water.
Thus it is almost like the Dao.
to love people while associating with them.
to act at a fit time.
Rather than pour into a cup overflowed, It is better to stop it.
To hammer and to sharpen, it will not be long to be broken.
One cannot keep in eternal hiding a hall brimming with riches.
The man arrogant from enormous wealth buries disaster upon his road.
Removing after succeeding fits in with the Dao/principle of the universe.
How can the body and the soul not part?
How can they be like babies?
How can they not found their defect?
How not to appoint the Jih/Zhi/wise people?
How to act like females?
How to keep doing only the backlog of things?
Produce and do not own.
Act and do not claim.
Raise and do not rule.
This is called profound virtue.
The original empty space makes the use of wheel.
The original empty space makes the use of vessel.
The original empty space makes the use of house/room.
What [we] are using is still the original empty space.
To pursue rare treasures makes people's behavior improper.
Throw away the latter and adopt the former.
And that which is grasped yet never touched is known as intangible.
The origin of these three can not be observed, so mix them and form a unity.
Above, it is not lit; Below, it is not dark.
This is blur and profound.
Step forward, cannot see its beginning; Follow it, cannot see its end.
This is the principle of the Dao.
Transient yet profound, tranquil yet utterly unfathomable.
Wary, as if afraid of their own neighbours.
Grave, like the courteous house guests.
Elusive, as of melting ice.
Pure and natural, as of unchiseled gems.
Wide and open, as of a deep valley.
Yet mysterious, oh yes, they were like troubled water.
Who can remain tranquil amidst troubled airs, that calmness may flow from within?
Who may remain at peace eternal, that motion would yield birth to nature?
For those who follow the Way, fulfillment has never been their aim.
Only as they are forever unfulfilled, can such freshness be ever renewed.
Immersed within the heart of the void, keep tranquility's essence.
I thereby perceive their returning.
When one does not know wisdom, disaster arises!
Bodiless and without form, cannot wither or perish.
Then those the people revile.
When one lacks trust, one finds no trust.
The people will say it happened naturally.
When the Dao is lost, so there arises benevolence and righteousness.
When prudence and wisdom appear, there is great hypocrisy.
When family relations are not right, there is filial piety and paternal affection.
When the state is confused and chaotic, there is loyalty and faithfulness.
Abandon benevolence, relinquish righteousness; and people will return to filial piety and affection.
Abandon cleverness, relinquish gain; and thieves and robbers will not appear.
Stay true to that which is reliable.
Lessen the self, diminish desires.
Discard conventional doctrines and be relieved from anxieties.
Approval or flattery, what difference does it make?
Good or evil, what difference does it take?
Just because the people are at awe, you cannot be indifferent?
As if enjoying a victorious feast.
Seizing the moment! Pondering the uncertainties.
I am a fool! Confounded!
When everyone is watchful, I alone become restful.
Desolate! Like the infinite universe.
When everyone is focused, I alone am playful and trivial.
I find refuge in the womb of this profound conception.
Only the Dao may reveal.
Radiates such liberty, such easiness.
Liberated! At ease with its position, yet poised.
Its brilliance so enlightening, it exemplifies the truth.
Amassing all marvels of human intelligence.
How do I know the essence of all marvels?
By observing things that bestow the Dao.
And sets an example for the people.
Dignify not and garner respect.
With genuine integrity, one rediscovers self.
Less spoken, words speak for themselves naturally.
Showers cannot turn day to dusk.
At one with perplexity, perplexity be gratifying.
Explains the disbelief in this futility.
Ones self-possessed are not established.
Ones self-esteemed are without respect.
Are called extravagance and exorbitance.
Therefore those embracing Art dwells not.
As being the mother of all nature.
And arbitrarily describe it as great.
The master is also great.
And the master is one of them.
Art is inspired by the underlying principles.
Temperance is the master of temperament.
Put no weight on the well being of its people?
The good knot is made without a rope and cannot be unravelled.
The bad people are resources for the good.
However intelligent such a one may be, he is still greatly confused.
This is the essential mystery!
And be returned to your roots.
The master utilizes it and become respectful leaders.
Therefore, a great tailor seldom trims.
And act on shaping it in the direction of one's ambition.
One cannot act upon it.
Grasp onto it and it will slip.
A time to carry; a time to ride.
Hence the master departs extremes.
Understanding its invitation to retaliation.
Where troops tramp, thorns thrive.
After great battalions, years of resentments are inevitable.
Daring not to capture dominance.
Without the Art of being, and be premature.
Therefore the master dwells not.
Those who glorify, take pleasure in massacres.
Cannot win the hearts of the people.
Casualties, are mourned in consolation.
Victories, are remembered in solemness.
The Dao is ultimately nameless.
Yet no one dares belittle its sting.
The myriad things things follow.
People, without ordinance, becomes orderly.
Once the classes are identified, one soon sees the limitations.
Knowing the limitations, thus become unlimited.
Is there where rivers merge into oceans.
Knowing self is being enlightened.
Victorious over self is being invincible.
Those who die but are not forgotten live on.
Implications of the Dao are broad and extensive. Ubiquitous!
Capable of contravening and swaying anything left or right.
Therefore is capable of accomplishing great deeds.
Music and enticements craves the visitor to stay.
Exploit and it cannot be exhausted.
This is the Knowledge of Subtlety.
Deadly weapons should not be exposed to the people.
The Dao abides in non-action but there is nothing it does not do.
The world correct by itself.
Those without Virtue act and demand respect in their actions.
The humane acts charitably and holds no repute.
The righteous acts in the name of justice and relishes the glory.
Forces the issue, alas to no avail.
When righteousness is lost there is morality.
The Dao becomes glorified and are used to fool the crowd.
Dwells on integrity, not on glory.
Therefore, detach from exteriors and embrace interiors.
of their own supremacy, the people becomes terrorized by authority.
Supremacy finds foundation in lowliness.
Is it not based on humility?
Therefore prepare your chariots and set them aside.
And remain composed in grits and gravel.
Vulnerability is the Dao in expression.
Existence is conceived by inexistence.
Without the laughs, it would not be the Dao.
The Dao is a master of provisioning and empowerment.
Trinity provides the myriad things.
Are infused with the breath of life to achieve the harmonized trinity of darkness, light and soul.
May be lost by gaining.
Let this be the heart and soul of the message.
Hence come to the appreciation of the benefits of inaction.
Rarely in this world could anything compare.
Fame and honour, which is more associable?
Health and wealth, which is more vital?
Success and failure, which is more harmful?
Accumulation of treasures comes with the loss of modesty.
Know the limitations and be unlimited, be lasting.
Utilized it will not be exhausted.
Tranquility makes the world become righteous.
Armed chariots are lined up near the city gates.
No greater guilt than yearning.
Therefore know what is enough, and you will always have enough.
You may be acquainted with the Dao.
The further you may travel, the less you might know.
You may be without action.
Act not and leave none to be acted upon!
But base their mind on the people's mind.
Those unkind, be kind to them also.
Those unfaithful, have faith in them also.
And is concerned with the people.
The master fosters all in innocence.
Is the beginning of the journey towards death.
Because being alive is treasured heavily.
Enemies find no opening to lodge their swords.
Because there is no room for death.
There is none that does not respect the Dao and honour Virtue.
Are not commanded, yet they come about naturally.
These are the intricacies of Virtue.
The origin of existence began with the mother of all nature.
Live to be without office.
Live to be without relief.
Keeping to gentleness is to have strength.
That is practicing the timeless truth.
The only fear is to become instructive.
Yet people like having a path.
That is making out like bandits!
Not the way of the Dao.
They continue to be honoured from generation to generation.
The Virtue is in harvesting prosperity.
The Virtue is ubiquitously enjoyed.
Behold the universe to see the universe.
How do I know the essence of the universe?
Is like a being a newborn.
Preying birds will find no claws.
The bones are weak, the muscles are tender, yet the grip is firm.
Yet wholly united with integrity, the very essence of exquisiteness.
The very chorus of harmony.
Channelling your energies internally is being strong.
Contradict the Dao, and be brought to an early end.
Those who talk know not.
That is the intricacy of ubiquity.
Cannot be possessed for despise.
Therefore it is respected by the universe.
Be unoccupied to master the universe.
How do I know the essence of leadership?
How can the ultimate be known?
The days become long and hard.
In governance and management, nothing compares to being conservative.
One can inspire a nation.
A nation inspired, is a nation that can be viable.
In the viability and vision of the Dao.
Governing a nation is like frying small fish.
And evilness will find no spirit.
The master will also be of no harm.
Virtue can hence be returned to another.
Superior nations are positioned downstream.
There the heavenly feminine remains.
Maintaining composure is keeping a low profile.
It can overtake the greater nation.
Or stay low to be able to conquer.
The critical mistake for a small nation is to be obsessed with dominance.
Therefore the superior stay low.
It is the redeemer of evilness.
Respectable actions can win the hearts of the people.
How can one be removed from temptation?
It compares not to offering a vision in the Dao.
Why is the value of the Dao cherished timelessly?
Having sinned and be forgiven?
Therefore it is cherished by the world.
Greatness is found in triviality.
Therefore is capable of accomplishing greatness.
Hence the master addresses the complexity.
Therefore may continually avoid complications.
That insignificant is easily dispersed.
A far-reaching journey begins with a small step.
Those who hold on will lose.
Holds not on, therefore loses not.
Amateurs often fail at the verge of success.
Liberate the people of their past.
But about humbling the people with it.
Manage it by managing its intelligence.
Not use intelligence to govern a nation, and be the blessing of a nation.
Understand these two, and set them as standards.
Is having the intricate Virtue.
The intricate Virtue is profound! Farfetched!
Contra to its objects! And leads towards favourable peacefulness.
Therefore they can be master of all streams.
One who desires to lead, must keep one's self behind.
The world says that the Dao is great, but seems useless.
I say that it is great, therefore it seems useless.
Time would have diminished its greatness.
I have three precious things, that I hold onto and cherish.
The third is not daring to be on top of the world.
Therefore can become instrumental and respectable.
Without reservation and still forging ahead, futility!
The heavens will come to your rescue, and protection in its mercy.
Great leaders act with humility.
That is the ultimate unity with timelessness.
To underestimate one's opponent is to lose one's reservation.
Those who are reserved are victorious!
These words are easy to understand, and easy to follow.
Yet for worldly people, none can understand, none can follow.
Because in this there is nothing to be known, hence it is unknown.
Hence the master bears humility in apparels and treasuries at heart.
Not knowing this knowledge, is defectiveness.
Can one be void of defectiveness.
Hence is void of defectiveness.
Without dejecting the people's creations.
Hence the master is introspective, and not professing.
Courageous in not daring and live.
These two are sometimes favourable, sometimes harmful.
Be honest and master intrigue.
It may be sparse, nothing escapes its netting.
Why intimidate them with death?
Is said to be like assuming the carpenter's job to carve wood.
Seldom avoid hurting their hands.
Are truly capable of appreciating life.
They die stiff and tough.
They die dried and withered.
Those who are gentle and fragile are followers of life.
When the resources are strong the arms are naturally forceful.
It is with gentleness and fragility when one can assume superiority.
Is like the arching bow!
It is to supplement the deprived at the expense of the excessive.
It is to proffer the excessive at the expense of the deprived.
How then can there be any excess to offer to the world?
There is none but the Dao.
That is being undesirous in showing-off one's capabilities!
There is no easier substitution.
There is none who can follow.
How can this be cured?
Those without Virtue exert effort on scrutinizing the disagreements.
It will always bring cure to the people.
People would rather sacrifice themselves than to migrate away.
People revert to simple means of measure with straps and knots.
Console their beliefs and customaries.
People retire of old age without longing to give service to the other.
Those who are learned do not know.
The more he gives, the more he gains.

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Service: Provide expert GIS analysis to support conservation research and consulting. Our GIS services can be used to create base maps, analyze existing datasets, conduct spatial analyses on distribution or density, and many others.
The Technology: GIS provides tools to organize, analyze, and display geospatial information. The technology integrates database operations such as query and statistical analysis with geographic analysis, modeling, and mapping capabilities. The flexibility and capabilities of a GIS come from its ability to store geographic information as interactive map layers which can be overlaid and related for advanced visualization and analysis.
Our Contribution: We are equipped with the latest ArcGIS capabilities to provide GIS services in support of conservation research and consulting. We work closely with Earth Systems Research Institute (ESRI) as a beta tester and as a contributor to develop new tools, such as the recently released Solar Radiation Tools. We use GIS analysis in the majority of our projects, from basic mapping of sample locations to sophisticated modeling of microclimate as it influences population dynamics.
• ArcGIS Solar Radiation Tools: http://webhelp.esri.com/arcgisdesktop/9.
GIS-based predicted distributions of three plant species in response to climate warming (3°C temperature increase) in the White Mountains, CA (from Van de ven et al. 2007).
GIS analysis of microclimate predicts habitat suitability for overwintering butterfly populations in the Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve, Mexico (from Weiss et al. 2005).
GPS mapping and GIS analysis of barbed goat grass (Aegilops triuncialis) has allowed Creekside to develop a treatment plan for this invasive grass.


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ZIMBABWE – A political analyst Bekezela Maduma Fuzwayo has said President Robert Mugabe made his State of the Nation address too early before could see how parents were struggling to send their children back to school.
He said the crisis bedevilling many parents as they are failing to send children top school was one of the most serious state of the nation address which the president could have addressed the nation on.
Mugabe recently made his SONA which was described by many as nothing but a recycling of old ideas which failed in the 35 years he has been leading the country.
“President Mugabe battled so hard to present the state of the nation in his address to parliament few weeks ago,” said Fuzwayo.
He said this is the real state of the nation.
“If we can’t send our children to school let alone buy them food then what are we existing for?” he said.

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The IRT "Kira" was in the elevator Sunday morning allowing people to "go up to go down". When I said that I thought that wasn't allowed, he said "This is ACen, of course you're going to need to do that if you want to get anywhere." It's because of these IRT that the elevators aren't working. It seems that most attendees(or who I experienced) are immature, pushing and shoving, trying to get on the elevator before people get off. Although the policy on elevators this year is a small step forward, I think it's time to start enforcing a line policy to get on the elevator at the lobby level.
All participants send a message to (262)-676-2730 or email rcallewaert330@gmail.com with your name and we will send you information on receiving your matches. Thanks~!
Because of the free internet at the Hyatt, we can continue to receive applications through friday night. Thanks guys!
I was asked in an e-mail about if we're still accepting applications or not, so I'll answer here as well. We will be accepting applications for the panel until Thursday the 26th(Thursday of the con). Up until then, just keep sending those applications to hagle001@rangers.uwp.edu. After Thursday, just show up to the panel when it starts and we'll get you all set up.
we expect to have a lot of participants and we will be seperating the group into two different age groups: 18-25 and 25+ (the range may be changed depending on the range of applicants' ages) so there should be no worries there. if you would like to participate, feel free to fill out an app. we will be arranging the age groups accordingly.
Cool, just fill out the form and send it to my e-mail^_^ When it comes to the form, use your true gender. Look at it this way: If you truly are a male, you will be waiting in line. If you truly are a female, fill out the form and send it to usXD.
Yep, you can come later. Your personal information will not be given to anyone until we contact you for the final 'ok'. When we collect the information from the panel and it looks like a female has a match with a male, we will contact the female, and ask if they would like to give their name and number to certain matches. If they agree we will tell the girl the name of the guy, contact the male, and give them the name and phone number of the female.
You can be in character or out of character, whichever you want. Keep in mind that if you are in character, you still must be appropriate(The excuse "I can say such and such because I'm in character and my character says or acts like that" us not acceptable). I believe I answered the first part of your questions. In ACen's standards, this is a social event. If you want to come to meet people with like interests with no interest to pursue a relationship with anyone there, that is fine. If you are looking for someone with like interests to date, that is also fine. We didn't really list all of the rules, just the general ones. Stuff like "you can't get give out your name or location while talking to people" and so on will be explained at the panel. The rules listed are more of what we're expecting of people at the panel. Hope this clears anything up.
Hello everyone. I'm happy to announce the Cosplay Speed Dating panel is now open for sign ups. It will be held on Saturday in DaVinci A-B in the Hyatt at 12PM. We are taking sign ups for females only(sry guys, you will be standing in line). You can sign up two different ways. Either fill out this application form and email it to us at hagle001@rangers.uwp.edu OR sign up when we start or during the panel if you're going to be late. Rules: This will be 18+ panel; we will check IDs This is an 18+ panel; act like you're 18+ You need to be in a costume Listen to the panelists' instructions This will be a heterosexual dating session ONLY. We apologize, however there is not enough time to do both. Here's the application: Real Name (first and last): Age: Gender: (remember, we're only taking female sign ups now) Location (City and State): What you're cosplaying as: Also, please try to send a few pictures of your cosplay. After 04/26/12, we ask that no more applications be sent, and that you just arrive to the panel either at starting time or a little before if you want to participate. About now would be a good time to state this: If you are posting on this topic on how this panel will bomb why it will not work gtfo. However, any questions, comments, or suggestions are appreciated. Thanks!


text: At Exchange And Mart Car Sales we aim to bring you the widest choice of used cars in MANCHESTER, LANCASHIRE and at great prices. We have some fantastic deals on used KIA cars, which are always changing. Browse our used cars below and contact us for more information on any of our second hand cars.

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PHOENIX, Feb. 2, 2012 – University of Phoenix today announced key findings from its fourth Academic Annual Report, illustrating its commitment to higher education fueled by constant innovation. The report shows an increase in modified graduation rates for associate students and positive student satisfaction. University of Phoenix is consistently working to build degree programs that directly address the shifting economic needs of a skilled workforce and the academic challenges faced by working learners.
University of Phoenix's degree graduation rate is assessed by the federal government's Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS). The University modified graduation rate, which takes into account the entire University student body, is defined as the percentage of students who completed at least three credits and went on to be degree-complete within 150 percent of normal degree completion time. Data are collected on the number of students entering the institution as degree-seeking students in a particular cohort year.
University of Phoenix's modified graduation rates for associate degrees reported in 2011 were 34 percent for those graduating within three years and 36 percent within four years, up from 32 percent and 35 percent, respectively, reported in 2010. Bachelor's degree modified graduation rates declined from the 2010 Academic Annual Report to 31 percent for students who graduate within six years and 33 percent within eight years, both down by 3 percentage points in 2011. Most of the decline can be attributed to an increase in the number of students transferring in with zero credits.
At the master's level, University of Phoenix's modified graduation rate is 60 percent for students who graduate within three years and 64 percent within four years.
The University noted that the IPEDS methodology is designed to assess the progress of "traditional students" – those who go directly from high school and study on campus. These "traditional students" make up only 27 percent of the undergraduate population. Working adults and "non-traditional students" make up nearly three-fourths of the U.S. undergraduate population and comprise the majority of the University's student body. IPEDS only considers "first-time" college students who complete their entire college program at the same institution. However, many University of Phoenix students enter the University with transfer credits from other institutions.
The University regularly conducts student satisfaction surveys and uses the results to implement change within the school. At the end of each course, the University surveys student satisfaction with the University overall, their instructor, the feedback the instructor provided, the curriculum, and their learning experience. In surveys conducted for the 2011 academic year, using a 10-point scale, students rated all five categories higher than an eight. Additionally, End-of-Program Surveys indicate that students feel their experience at the University was a positive one in all services. The University also uses an external measure of student satisfaction, the National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE).
Using the Standardized Assessment of Information Literacy Skills (SAILS) methodology, University of Phoenix senior students compared favorably to senior students at similar institutions in all categories.
University of Phoenix senior students slightly underperformed senior students at other institutions, according to the ETS® Proficiency Profile (EPP), which measures students' academic proficiency and progress.
Many University of Phoenix students are employed full time while enrolled. Internal research shows that University of Phoenix students' average annual salaries while they are enrolled in their program of study increase at higher rates than the overall national average salary increase.
In November 2010, a free University Orientation workshop was implemented to ensure that students with limited prior college experience better understand the time and effort required to be successful in University programs prior to actually enrolling in the University. University Orientation is three weeks long and delivered in the same format as existing classes. Students must complete assignments in a manner similar to the way they will be working in class. Of those who start University Orientation, approximately 80 percent enroll in the University of Phoenix, while approximately 20 percent opt out before incurring any debt. Students who opt out are generally leaving with a positive experience. For students who went through University Orientation and then enrolled in the University, first-course completion rates were higher than prior-year levels.
Some of this retention success can be attributed to the First-Year Sequence. The First-Year Sequence was introduced in February 2010. The First-Year Sequence was designed using a laddering approach to the sequence of courses. Concepts and skills introduced in early classes are reinforced with work in later classes.
University of Phoenix's student body remains diverse; as an example, 18 percent are African American, compared to a national average of 12 percent. Additionally, female students make up two-thirds of the total enrollment at University of Phoenix, as opposed to a little over half of the overall enrollment in colleges and universities nationwide.
In addition, the University's more than 35,000 faculty members are more diverse than national averages for American colleges and universities. One-third of University of Phoenix's faculty is non-white. More than 18 percent of University of Phoenix's faculty is African American, compared to an average of over 6 percent at universities nationwide. Women now make up more than half of University of Phoenix's faculty. The percentage of female faculty at University of Phoenix rose to 57 percent in 2011 from almost 54 percent in 2010. In comparison, female faculty members make up approximately 47 percent of the post-secondary instructional population nationally.
University of Phoenix's complete 2011 Academic Annual Report is available at www.phoenix.edu/academicannualreport.
University of Phoenix is constantly innovating to help students balance education and life in a rapidly changing world. Flexible schedules, challenging courses and interactive learning can help students pursue personal and career aspirations without putting their lives on hold. As the flagship university of Apollo Education Group, Inc., University of Phoenix serves a diverse student population, offering associate, bachelor's, master's and doctoral degree programs from campuses and learning centers across the U.S. as well as online throughout the world. For more information, visit phoenix.edu.


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What is the best way to store No3urish?
Below 80F/36C. Refrigerate for long term use.
Does the No3urish Patchoulli have the same amount of Ozone as No3urish Unscented?

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Deciding what to focus health communications on can be challenging. How do you come up with the right mix of topics that will appeal to your wellness program audience — a group that likely includes people of all ages from varied backgrounds with diverse health and wellness interests and issues?
Don’t panic. The process may not be as overwhelming as you may initially think. Before you sit down and put pen to paper (or more accurately fingers to a keyboard), stop to think about the various seasons, which can provide an approach that gives you tons of timely topics.
#1. Seasons of the year – winter, spring, summer, and fall. As the time of year changes, so do health and wellness interests. In the winter, you might want to talk about how to prevent colds and flu, indoor activities, etc. When spring rolls around, you can shift the focus to heading outdoors and seasonal allergies. Summer is a great time to promote fresh produce. Fall might include topics such as hikes and how to use all those readily available apples.
#2. Seasons of life – young and old, fit and unfit, married and unmarried, new parents, dependent kids, empty nesters, etc. You might include content about both starting a walking routine and training for a marathon. You can provide relationship tips for those going on their first date and those celebrating their Golden Anniversary. You could talk about teaching young kids financial smarts through the use of allowances while also touching on how to pay for college.
Once you begin to think seasonally, the possibilities become endless and the timing of what to cover when becomes obvious.
To learn more about how to organize content, as well as how to develop effective wellness communications in general, download a copy of our FREE ebook, “The Five Step Wellness and Benefits Communication System: A Proven, Practical Way to Deliver Your Messages with Breakthrough Power.” You’ll find a wealth of tips you can put to use right away to improve your communications.

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And as when he opened the seal the seventh he was quietness in the heavens like half of moment.
And I saw seven of the ones being delegated, who they stood before presences of haElohim, and they were given to them seven horns.
And one being delegated one being other he came in and he stood near the altar, and to him censer of gold, and they were given to him ones being made smoke, ones being many, as ones being needed of that he gave with prayers of all of the ones being set apart at altar of the gold that before presences of the throne.
And he went up, smoke of the ones being made smoke, prayers of the ones being set apart, from hand of him that of the one being delegated before presences of haElohim.
And he took, the one being delegated, the censer and he filled her from fire of the altar, and he cast on the earth and they were thunderings, and lightnings, and sounds, and shaking.
And seven of the ones being delegated, that being to them seven horns, they made ready self of them to sound.
And the one being delegated, the first, he sounded, and he was hail and fire, ones being mixed with blood, and they were cast on the earth, and third of the earth she was burned, and third of the trees they were burned, and all of herb, being green, he was burned.
And the one being delegated, the one being second, he sounded and like mountain, being great, burning with the fire he was cast to the sea, and also third of the sea he was for blood.
And they died, third of all of the ones being formed that in the sea that being to the them souls, and third of the ships they were destroyed.
And the one being delegated, the one being third, he sounded, and he fell from the heavens, star, burning like torch, and he fell on third of the rivers and on springs of the waters.
And name of the star he is called wormwood and third of the waters they were for wormwood, and ones being many from sons of man they died from the waters because of that they were being ones being bitter.
And the one being delegated, the fourth, he sounded and third of the sun she was afflicted, and third of the moon, and third of the stars, as ones being needed of that they grow dark third from them, and they grew dark, and the day not he shined third of him, and the night with him the one revolving.


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CASPIAN ECOLOGY - Caspian Ecology 2018: maximum attention to environmental protection!
On November 16, the 9th Azerbaijan International Environmental Exhibition, Caspian Ecology 2018, which was organised by Caspian Event Organisers (CEO), completed its work at Baku Expo Centre. The exhibition is supported by the Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources of the Republic of Azerbaijan.
According to international experts, Caspian Ecology is considered a major event on ecology and environmental protection held annually in the Caspian and Caucasus regions. This year’s exhibition was attended by 43 companies from Azerbaijan, Britain, Germany, Italy, Turkey and other countries.
In general, Caspian Ecology 2018 exhibited developments in the field of efficient use of natural resources, systems for collecting and recycling solid waste, attracting people's attention to environmental problems and their solutions. The companies presented equipment for disposal and recycling of waste, alongside water treatment systems, paper and cardboard production, oil and gas exploration and processing services, centrifugal technologies and much more.
The participants and visitors were impressed by the business programme of Caspian Ecology 2018; as part of it, for the first time, bilateral meetings were held between exhibitors. B2B meetings between Italian and local companies, which was organised by the Italian Trade Commission (I.C.E.), and the international scientific-practical conference on the theme “From fishing towards sustainable aquaculture and protection of marine ecosystems” became priority factors in the meetings of professionals.
Discussion around the development of aquaculture in the Caspian region, and problems, as well as tools for management and conservation of fisheries helped to find a solution for restoring fish stocks and especially valuable fish species in the Caspian Sea.
The international forum dedicated to the restoration of wildlife in the Caucasus, raised the theme of protecting the biodiversity of the region, identifying priorities for developing the ability to natural restoration, strengthening regional cooperation in this direction.
Great interest was also aroused by the CSR-project “Because We Care”, which brought together various craftsmen, and a special stand which was featuring recycled samples of raw materials in the lobby.
Thus, the International Caspian Ecology 2018 Exhibition contributed to the expansion of business contacts and exchange of experience, while providing an ample opportunity to get acquainted with new equipment and industry trends; it gave an additional impetus to the work carried out in the area of environmental improvement and protection.


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" We are very involved at ground level and know our raw products and our suppliers inside out. It demonstrates our credibility throughout the entire process, from the basic seeds right through to the finished products."
We strive to purchase local produce whenever possible, in order to reduce our carbon footprint and support local business, for the benefit of the social fabric of the region. We give priority to small, integrated networks, to bring added value to the producer and have complete control over the traceability of extracts, from the seeds right up to the finished product.
Our work requires respect for both man and the environment. We make no compromises with regard to the protection of endangered species or the skills of communities.
We do not patent ways of using ingredients that are based on triditions (no biopiracy), but carry out effectiveness tests and work on combinations of ingredients to meet cosmetic needs.
For our key ingredients, we build real partnerships that are strengthened, whenever possible, by multi-year contracts with our producers. These contracts guarantee them a minimum purchase volume, which ensures that they have a reliable, lasting outlet for their produce, at a price that is agreed by all parties.
The fairness of our partnerships cal also be found in our North-South trade. Several of our supply chains (shea butter, argan oil, orange blossom floral water) are fair trade approved and we donate a percentage of the purchase price of the raw material to local development projects.
The growing, harvesting, drying and storage conditions all have an impact on the purity of the plant materials. We guarantee their quality through specifications that are drawn up with our analytical, quality and regulatory departments, and with the help of our technical partners on the ground.
Our key ingredients are, for the most part, organically derived, to guarantee the absence of chemical inputs. The harvesting of wild plants is governed by sustainable harvesting guidelines, to protect the integrity and habitat of these plants.
The large scale organic immortelle plantation programme was launched in Corsica.The initiative unites respect for the environment with equality. Today, this project brings together ten Corsican growers/distillers, who use organic farming methods and have contracts that cover five to seven harvests.
M.Baussan, founder of the L’OCCITANE brand, discovered shea butter in Burkina Faso in 1980 : the start of a sustainable joint-development partnership with the women who produce this butter.
At L'OCCITANE, we strive to use high-quality, traceable, natural ingredients. We use over 200 botanical ingredients, a quarter of them organic certified, which are carefully selected for their effectiveness and their ability to give your skin the elements it needs to be beautiful. We therefore systematically give priority to natural ingredients whenever possible. Discover the key natural ingredients that make L’Occitane products so unique. Provençal Almond, Burkina Faso Shea butter… all ethically sourced !


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The Buford Yellow Jackets wrestling team opened its season with a sweep of Hartsville and Camden Military at Hartsville on Tuesday night.
Class AAA Chester captured five weight classes to notch the title in the annual Warrior Invitational tournament at Indian Land High School on Saturday afternoon.
The Cyclones’ K.J. Dixon, Chester’s ace 171-pounder, earned the Most Outstanding Wrestler for his effort in the tournament which opened Saturday morning.
The Northern Guilford Nighthawks, led by former Lancaster High School head football coach Johnny Roscoe, will be shooting for the N.C. High School Athletic Association 3-AA state championship Saturday night at 7 in N.C. State’s Carter-Finley Stadium.

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After serving in Iraq from 2001 to 2005, Marine veteran Bryan Babcock returned stateside with the intention of studying to become a police officer. A commercial on TV inspired him to contact ITT Technical Institute, a for-profit school, about its bachelor’s degree criminal justice program. His subsequent enrollment at ITT Tech resulted in three years of wasted effort and more than $50,000 of debt — all in pursuit of an unaccredited degree that no employer would recognize.
What Babcock did not realize was that not all bachelor’s degrees are created equal. A bachelor’s degree that is not recognized by employers has little value, even if it is technically accredited, as Babcock found, to his and his family’s detriment.
“I argued that, in order for them to have a school, they had to be accredited by the government. I didn’t realize that there was a difference in the accreditation bodies,” he explains.
When Babcock and his wife discovered that ITT Tech course credits are not recognized by the police departments where he sought employment, he was already three years into the program—and tens of thousands of dollars in debt.
ITT Tech is one of several for-profit schools across the country that offer dubious degrees for exorbitant prices. Such schools rely on aggressive and arguably predatory practices to “sell” the school to prospective students.
Students who are unaware of the differences in accrediting agencies may believe the for-profit school is a good investment, only to discover later that their degree is of little or no use with regards to their employment opportunities postgraduation.
For-profits are restricted by a 90/10 rule, which requires that for-profit schools derive no more than 90 percent of their revenue from federal financial aid.
Because the Post-9/11 GI Bill funds do not “count” as federal financial aid, for every veteran dollar, schools can avail themselves of $9 of federal financial aid. For that reason, veterans are particularly attractive customers to for-profits, especially after the Post-9/11 GI Bill was passed. The new bill offers generous financial assistance to veterans and their families.
Though the fraudulent practices of some for-profit schools have been well documented, students continue to enroll there.
“Some of the for-profit schools sound like they’re not legitimate schools. But some of them are harder to tell,” says Robert F. Muth, an adjunct professor of law at the University of San Diego (USD).
“You may go onto their website and see that they claim they’ve been around since the 1800s. But, in reality, they just bought a real school that’s been around since then,” says Muth, who is also supervising attorney for the Veterans Legal Clinic at USD.
“If you’re a veteran, you might know that Harvard and Yale are better than some other schools. But that large middle ground, they’re just not going to know the difference,” he says, adding that for-profits tend to recruit among enlisted personnel roughly between 24 and 30 years of age.
Compared to community colleges, for-profits have more funds to spend on advertising and marketing. With those extra funds, for-profits are able to invest in visiting bases to recruit among active military.
“The for-profits are very savvy in how they market. Getting on base allows them to operate under the appearance of being approved by the military,” says Matthew Boulay, executive director of the Student Veterans’ Loan Relief Fund.
In recent years, there has been a dramatic spike in the number of veterans attending—and GI Bill funding going to—for-profit schools.
A Senate report from the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee titled “Is the New G.I. Bill Working?” shows that $1.7 billion of post-9/11 benefits went to for-profit schools during the 2012-13 academic year.
The same report showed that eight of the top 10 recipients of Post-9/11 GI Bill benefits were for-profit schools during the 2012-13 academic year. At the top of the list, the Apollo Group raked in $272 million, followed by Education Management Corporation (EDMC) with $163 million. ITT Technical Institute came in third with $161 million of GI Bill benefits.
Apollo Group oversees the University of Phoenix, which has received nearly $1 billion nationally in Post-9/11 GI Bill funding over the past  five years, according to an investigation by The Center for Investigative Reporting (CIR).
For-profits tend to be much more expensive than their public counterparts. For example, tuition to complete a bachelor’s degree business program costs $70,439 at Westwood College, compared to $41,056 for the University of Colorado’s program. Westwood is a for-profit owned by Alta College Inc.
Yet the recent fall of Corinthian Colleges Inc. suggests that at least some of the for-profits may be on shaky financial ground. Corinthian is a for-profit company that operates three chains of campuses in Canada and the United States: Heald College, WyoTech, and Everest College and University. The company took in the seventh largest haul of Post-9/11 GI Bill benefits between 2012 and 2013.
This summer, the federal government withheld federal financial aid from Corinthian for a period of 21 business days. Corinthian’s finances went haywire. As part of an agreement with the Department of Education, Corinthian agreed to shut down 12 of its campuses and sell 85 more. As of last March, Corinthian served 74,000 students on its 107 campuses.
“They’re really an instructive case study, because you see with the Department of Education holding back some of their funds how quickly the whole house of cards came down,” Muth says.
Even as Corinthian began the process of shutting down and selling its campuses, the company continued to actively recruit and market to prospective students, including veterans and military.
“They’re recruiting for programs that essentially we knew were of very little value and also, more importantly, potentially are not going to exist in the next year or so,” says William Hubbard, vice president of government affairs at the Student Veterans of America (SVA).
A total of 8,854 veterans were enrolled in the Corinthian system, according to 2012 VA Comparison Tool data. SVA reached out to Corinthian in the wake of its financial upset. “It did take them about a month to respond to our call, which we were not quite pleased about,” Hubbard says. “But eventually when we did meet with them, they shared that they were planning to sell most of their campuses to other schools and that essentially their students would be OK.
As a result of the conversation with Corinthian, the SVA published a “not recommended” list of colleges on July 21. The list is limited to Corinthian’s three chains: Everest, Heald and WyoTech.
“Our main concern was the fact, simply, that they had an uncertain future, and could not with any kind of clear answer know what was going to happen to the students or to the schools,” Hubbard says, adding that SVA is not a regulatory or investigative body.
“There have been individuals who have requested that we add other schools for various reasons, whether it be recruiting practices or the quality of education, but ultimately that’s not necessarily our role, so we haven’t taken the next steps to add other colleges at this point,” Hubbard explains.
Students who find that their degree from a for-profit has no value may discover that they have limited options for recourse, as Babcock’s experience illustrates.
In 2008, Babcock joined the National Guard, in part tempted by its loan relief program. He was deployed to Iraq within months. While he was overseas, his wife received notice of a $4,500 “transfer fee” addition to their loans from ITT Tech because the family had moved from Anaheim, Calif., to Bellevue, Wash.
To escape the crushing burden of debt, the family turned to the Veterans Legal Clinic at USD, only to find out that the statute of limitations for fraud in the state of California had already passed. With effort, and a $5,000 grant from the Veterans’ Student Loan Relief Fund, the family has managed to knock their debt down to $47,000, but they have many years ahead of them before it will be paid back.
Babcock’s dream of becoming a law enforcement officer has been deferred. For now, he works at Target.
— Catherine Morris can be reached at cmorris@diverseeducation.com.


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EURid confirmed the policy, which has been set following discussions with the European Commission, in a Brexit notice on its website.
Businesses that fail to take action risk having their rights to use '.eu' domain names withdrawn and eventually cancelled, EURid said.
The policy announcement backs up a warning issued by the UK government late last year. That warning noted the fact that the right to register web addresses rooted in the '.eu' domain is restricted under EU law. Registration is only open to undertakings that have their registered office, central administration or principal place of business within the EU, organisations that are established within the EU, where national law permits, and natural persons resident within the EU.
EURid said: "As of 30 May 2019, 00:00:00 CEST, all registrants who did not demonstrate their eligibility will be deemed ineligible and their domain names will be withdrawn. A withdrawn domain name no longer functions, as the domain name is removed from the zone file and can no longer support any active services (such as websites or email) but the record will remain in the .eu registry database, and may be reactivated if the eligibility criteria are satisfied."
"Twelve months after the UK withdrawal, i.e. on 30 March 2020 00:00:00 CET, all the affected domain names will be revoked, and will become available for general registration. For security and stability reasons, the release of all affected domain names will occur in batches from the time they become available," it said.
EURid also confirmed that UK-based owners of '.eu' domain names will not be able to renew their '.eu' domain names if they expire after Brexit.

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In addition to transportation, the ferry service has provided other economic benefits for the province. For example, 31 of the 34 ferries in service were built within BC, creating thousands of jobs for residents.
While in power, the NDP government created a new crown corporation called Catamaran Ferries International, Inc. This new corporation was to continue supplying ferries for years to come, continuing the tradition of building ferries in the province and guaranteeing good jobs. However, in early 2003, Gordon Campbell's Liberal government cancelled the project and scrapped the new crown corporation (along with all of its employees) in favour of a plan to privatize the industry, which the Liberals outlined in Bill C-18, the Coastal Ferry Act.
Since privatization, the newly renamed British Columbia Ferry Services Inc. has done everything possible to cut costs and increase profits. Wage rollbacks, casualization of labour, and the scaling back of staff became orders of the day. By the end of the year, the cutbacks resulted in a bitter strike by the 4,300 members of the British Columbia Ferry Marine Workers Union (BCFMWU). One of the most critical concerns raised by the BCFMWU has been a lack of job safety. A year before the privatization, the union had already filed a report calling for an independent safety audit in regards to the condition of BC's aging fleet.
Throughout the privatization process, the Liberal government tried to sway public opinion by claiming that the private ferry operator would not have the same degree of freedom that most private companies enjoy. A commissioner, to be appointed by the government, would oversee operations and ensure the company’s policies follow the public interest. Article 38 (3) of the Coastal Ferry Act states: “The commissioner must not regulate ferry operators in relation to ancillary services.” What the Liberals don’t want the public to understand is that the definition of “ancillary services” includes all services related to vessel maintenance.
In pursuit of the bottom line, conditions have become more and more dangerous for both employees and passengers. Because large profits can be extracted from modern on-board cafeterias, the cafeterias receive multi-million dollar upgrades, while engines are left to decay. The five largest vessels in the fleet, which service the busiest Vancouver / Vancouver Island routes (two of the five have seen major accidents in the past three years) underwent $30 million refits last year, but according to BCFMWU president Jackie Millar, “very little went into the engineering side of it.” In a similar case, the Queen of Nanaimo, now 40 years old, underwent a $13 million refit this spring, but according to Millar, her engines went “totally untouched.” The only maintenance in the engine room involved replacing a few pipes.
Since the March 22nd sinking of the Queen of the North, which tragically killed two passengers, the union has renewed its call for improved safety practices. The Queen of the North was a 38 year old vessel originally built in Germany. She employed a single-hull design that was unable to survive a significant hull breach or the flooding of more than one bulkhead compartment. In contrast, all newer ferries are able to survive the flooding of at least two bulkhead compartments.
David Hahn, the New York businessman hand-picked by Gordon Campbell to run BC Ferries, responded to the union's press conference by placing the blame directly on the crew of the vessel. Rather than sparing the expense to implement a reasonable minimum of training, Hahn simply responded that the crew members were to blame because they should have spoken out if they didn't understand the equipment. He went on to announce that in order "to remove that doubt," BC Ferries has “introduced a new form that we're asking all the officers to sign, stating that they're familiar with the equipment, they're comfortable with it.” Apparently, according to Hahn, the main problem is that crew members aren't aware that they need to understand the equipment, and this new form will quickly convince them to somehow train themselves to use unfamiliar technologies, while no adequate training is provided.
Lloyd Patrick is not alone in making his concerns known. In response to Hahn's comment about bridge crew members needing to speak out if they are uncomfortable, Millar stated, "BC Ferries has consciously made decisions in the past to sail vessels that we deem, and our members deem, to be unsafe, and if expressions of concern are raised the crew members, the ships' officers, are disciplined for it." Hahn’s reply was that the union's safety concerns are a “bunch of BS”. But it isn't just the union voicing these concerns.
Darin Bowland resigned his position as director of safety, health, and environment for BC Ferries just a week after the sinking. He claims that after the Queen of the North sank, BC Ferries “prevented (Bowland) from conducting an inquiry into the sinking,” and undermined his authority in order to keep the causes of the accident from reaching the public. Bowland, who had only been hired two months before, says he had already conducted a review of safety practices and found them “woefully inadequate.” He also warned senior management that "there was a strong likelihood of catastrophic incidents" if their procedures weren't improved. Additionally, just a week before the Queen of the North sank, Bowland spoke at a regular meeting of the Nautical Institute, telling them that he was concerned about training for crews facing increasingly complex equipment on ships' bridges.
It is clear that two sides of this story are emerging. On one side sit the workers who operate the ferries, the union which represents them, the former safety director of the company, and even Transport Canada, all of whom condemn BC Ferries for their safety practices. The other side belongs exclusively to David Hahn, who reports that the system is “incredibly safe”, and who insists that forcing crew members to sign a ridiculous form is the best means of improving training procedures.
Hahn had no previous marine experience, and previously held jobs as Director of Marketing for Hertz Corporation, Chief Operating Officer at Ogden Aviation, and vice-president of Covanta Energy Corp. Covanta was a multi-national corporation which racked up $3.3 billion in debt before it was forced to declare bankruptcy. It is obvious that Hahn was not hired (at a rate of $300,000 per year) because anybody thought he was the best choice for the job of overseeing this essential service for the public. The BC Ferries website makes this perfectly clear when it refers to his specialities as, “business restructuring, strategic planning, revitalized marketing, revenue growth, acquisitions, and customer service.” Hahn was hired because he has experience squeezing every dollar out of large corporations and their employees.
So far, Hahn has succeeded in that task. For the year ending March 2006, net earnings reached $49.9 million, up $14.7 million compared to 2005. Since being hired, Hahn has reduced costs by attacking the living standards of his employees, and he has sacrificed passenger and crew safety for the benefit of increased food sales. This accident, or any other which might happen in the future, won't hurt BC Ferries financially. They received $67.9 million on the Queen of the North's insurance claim, which isn't a bad price for a 38 year old vessel which was scheduled to be replaced within five years anyways. But despite his successes on the balance-sheet, Hahn has failed miserably in providing a safe service which British Columbians can rely on for years to come.
Firing Hahn to simply replace him with another CEO wouldn't help matters much. BC Ferries blatantly exposes the reality of privatization, a reality which neo-conservative governments like the BC Liberals deny. When vital services are privatized and become controlled by CEOs like Hahn who are hired to measure success only by profit, every other possible measure of success falls into steep decline, including workers’ rights and the safety of the service. This is the same reality that has led to an absurdly high record number of rail accidents since BC Rail was privatized; the same reality has been demonstrated every time a service that people depend on has been privatized.
The NDP has been vocal in calling for public hearings, but that isn't nearly enough. BC Ferries must be re-nationalized, and put under the control of the workers who operate the system every day. The workers were the first to sound the alarm about safety, and have continued to sound it ever since. They have far more expertise regarding the technical elements of running a ferry system then David Hahn. The ferry workers play a daily active roll in running the ferry system and would take into account the safety of passengers and welfare of the province, rather then just the bottom-line.

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The description of the program activities for the Department of Finance Canada (the ‘Department’) can be found in Part II of the Main Estimates [PDF 1.71 MB] and the Report on Plans and Priorities.
As part of the Parliamentary business of supply, the Main Estimates must be tabled in Parliament on or before March 1 preceding the new fiscal year. Budget 2012 was tabled in Parliament on March 29, after the tabling of the Main Estimates on February 28, 2012. As a result the measures announced in Budget 2012 could not be reflected in the 2012–13 Main Estimates. Similarly, measures announced in Budget 2013 (March 21, 2013) could not be reflected in the 2013–14 Main Estimates.
In fiscal year 2012–2013, frozen allotments were established by Treasury Board authority in departmental votes to prohibit the spending of funds already identified as savings measures in Budget 2012. In 2013–2014, frozen allotments were not required as the changes to departmental authorities were reflected in the 2013–2014 Main Estimates tabled in Parliament.
This Departmental Quarterly Financial Report (QFR) reflects the results of the current fiscal period in relation to the Main Estimates and Supplementary Estimates A of 2012–13.
Sections 2.1 and 2.2 below highlight the significant items that contributed to the increase in the resources available for use from 2012–13 to 2013–14 and the increase in actual expenditures as at September 30, 2012 and September 30, 2013.
The following graph provides a comparison of budgetary authorities available for spending for the full fiscal year and budgetary expenditures for the first six months of 2012–13 and 2013–14.
Authorities available for spending in fiscal year 2013–14 are $87,614.0 million at the end of the second quarter as compared to $85,419.0 million at the end of the second quarter of 2012–13, representing an increase of $2,195.0 million, or 2.6%.
At the end of the second quarter in 2013–14, Vote 5 authorities available are $7.2 million compared to $215.0 million at the end of the second quarter of 2012–13, representing a decrease of $207.8 million. This decrease is largely due to the cessation of payments to Export Development Canada for debt relief via the Paris Club ($210.0 million) and an increase of $2.2 million related to the interim funding for the Canadian Securities Regulation Regime Transition Office (CSTO).
Statutory Authorities available for spending in fiscal year 2013–14 are $87,495.6 million at the end of the second quarter as compared to $85,068.8 million at the end of the same quarter of 2012–13, representing an increase of $2,426.8 million, or 2.9 %.
This increase of $2,426.8 million relates to 3 broad categories; increases of $4,220.0 million in payments pursuant to the Federal-Provincial Fiscal Arrangements Act, offset by decreases in Interest on Unmatured Debt and Interest on Other Liabilities ($1,302.0 million and $426.0 million respectively) and a decrease of $65.2 million in other statutory payments. Additional details are provided below.
Interest on Other Liabilities - decrease of $426.0 million to reflect the decrease in the average long-term bond rate forecast for 2013–14, which is used to calculate interest on the public sector pension obligations pertaining to service before April 1, 2000.
Purchase of domestic coinage - increase of $6.5 million reflects the savings identified as part of the Budget 2012 Spending Review offset by increased net redemption and administration costs estimates due to an accelerated profile of penny redemption rates. In addition, there are increased cost estimates for demand and metal prices reflective of recent growth projections for overall coinage.
There is a decrease of $20.6M in the authorities for the statutory vote Payments to International Bank for Reconstruction and Development from 2012–13 to 2013–14. No further payments are planned as the full amount was paid over the two year period of 2011-12 and 2012–13.
At the end of the second quarter of the 2013–14 fiscal year, total expenditures were $79,801.2 million compared to $75,199.4 million reported in the same period of 2012–13, representing an increase of $4,601.8 million or 6.1%.
Total 2013–14 Vote 1 operating expenditures at the end of the second quarter were $45.94 million as compared to $45.76 million at the same period of fiscal year 2012–13, representing an increase of $0.2 million or 0.4%.
Total 2013–14 Vote 5 grants and contribution expenditures at the end of the second quarter were $6.7 million as compared to $2.5 million at the same period of fiscal year 2012–13, representing an increase of $4.2 million. This increase is attributable to interim funding of $4.2 million to the Canadian Securities Regulation Regime Transition Office (CSTO).
Total statutory expenditures at the end of the second quarter of 2013–14 are $43,309.69 million as compared to $42,429.45 at the end of the second quarter of 2012–13 representing an increase of $880.2 million, or 2.1%.
This increase is primarily attributable to an increase in transfer payments pursuant to the Federal-Provincial Fiscal Arrangements Act ($790.2 million), a net increase of $117.0 million in Interest on Unmatured Debt and Interest on Other Liabilities (increase of $347.45 million and decrease of $230.47 million respectively) and a decrease of $26.9 million in other statutory payments.
Alternative Payments for Standing Programs – decrease of $82.8 million.
Explanations for all but two of the items listed above are consistent with the explanations found under the statutory budgetary authorities in Section 2.1. The increase of $1.4 million in the incentive for provinces to eliminate taxes on capital relates to a payment in 2013–14 that represent a final adjustment to a preliminary payment that has already been paid to a province. The decrease of $623.9 million in 2013–14 in Additional Fiscal Equalization Payment – Total Transfer Protection relates to payments to New Brunswick and Manitoba to prevent by-province declines in major transfers.
Interest on Unmatured Debt – increase of $347.45 million to reflect higher Consumer Price index adjustments on real return bonds.
Interest on Other Liabilities – decrease of $230.45 million to reflect a decrease in the average long term bond rate, which is used to calculate interest on the public sector pensions obligations pertaining to service pre-April 1, 2000.
Payment of Liabilities Previously Recorded as Revenue – increase of $2.7 million is largely attributable to Receiver General cheques that have been cashed by the payee subsequent to having been written off. Receiver General cheques are written off if they remain uncashed and issued after a period of 10 years.
Non-budgetary expenditures at the end of the second quarter of 2013–14 are $36,438.9 million compared to $32,721.7 million at the end of the same quarter in the prior year representing an increase of $3,717.2 million. This increase is in part due to an increase of $3,618.8 million related to the value of loans disbursed to Crown Corporations participating in the Crown Borrowing Framework. Gross borrowings by Crown Corporations are based on demand and the business requirements of the participating entities, and also depend on the terms of the Crown Corporation borrowings. As such, amounts can vary significantly from year to year. The increase is also explained by an increase of $97.4 million in payments to the International Monetary Fund New Arrangement to Borrow and an increase of $1.0 million in advances pursuant to section 13(1) of the Financial Consumer Agency of Canada Act.
Other subsidies and payments (SO 12) – decrease of $32.4 million primarily due to losses on foreign exchange.
Expenditures in the second quarter of fiscal 2013–14 were $40,845.7 million compared with $36,951.5 million for the second quarter of 2012–13, representing an increase of $3,894.2 million or 10.5% in quarterly spending.
The Department continues to work closely with Shared Services Canada to standardize and consolidate end user device hardware and software.
The Department of Finance will achieve Budget 2012 savings of $32.4 million by fiscal year 2014–15 by reconfiguring and modernizing the Department’s internal services and policy analysis functions. It is also taking further significant steps to reduce coinage costs including, for example, measures such as changing the metal composition of $1 and $2 coins from metal alloys to plated steel cores and eliminating the penny.
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On 19th October 2018, early in the morning before I could board the flight to Bangalore from New Delhi, Baba already gave me a blessing in the form of an award to my daughter who is studying in New York and had entered one of her creations in a design competition. Her entry had won the award and was one of the few who were chosen among over 10000 entries for the competition. I had goosebumps as Baba had already blessed me that too on His Centenary Punyatithi day before I had His darshan in Bangalore!
If you all had read the earlier experience of 18th October, I had mentioned how Baba miraculously arranged my visit to have His Padhuka and Kafni Darshan in Bangalore in Sai Sister Laveena Janardhan’s house. There was no way I could go to Shirdi as my husband was travelling and I could neither take or leave my daughter alone at home and go for darshan! I had left it to Baba that if He wishes He will call me to give His blessings but had very little or almost no hopes. Wonder of wonders, my husband who was to arrive on the 19th morning, arrived on 18th morning itself! The omnipresent Baba had moved things in Turkey where my husband was there for a meeting and arranged everything in such a way that he made him leave one day earlier so that I can go to Bangalore and have darshan!
When I landed in Bangalore, my two elder sisters Sudha and Ranjani who are also MP devotees, also met me. My sister Sudha also Baba called miraculously from Chennai and just the previous night, to her astonishment she also could book the ticket and arrive at Bangalore! The other sister who lives in Bangalore was not too keen to go for darshan earlier but when she learnt that I was coming there she also got ready to go.
We reached Laveenaji’s house and had amazing and hearty darshan and so many times stood in queue happily and touched and placed our heads on Baba’s Padhukas and also touched and hugged Baba’s Kafni and had the wonderful fortune to even meet and take blessings from the great grandson of Baba’s closest devotee Mhalsapatiji in whose lap Baba lay lifeless for three days when Baba took Samadhi for the first time and returned after 3 days! How do I explain this wonderful miracle of Baba? I have no words at all to clearly express everything I felt. It was the best day of my entire life that much only I can say! How Baba arranged everything is so so unimaginable and magical! Laveenaji and her whole family gave so much love and so many hugs that they; I feel that they have become my own family now.
In the evening Baba even arranged for me and my sister to reach airport in time to catch our respective flights which we almost missed and gave us a comfortable journey back to Chennai and New Delhi.
I also gave all the prayer request emails in the hand of Mhalsapatiji’s grandson personally in which, apart from devotees prayer printouts, I had written prayers for each and every Sai devotee and their families and their dear and near ones. I also got some silver coins consecrated By Baba’s Padhukas. It was also a memorable experience as I met many Mahaparayan and Sai sisters for the first time there and exchanged lots of hugs and exchanged many pleasant moments with them.
Thank You, thank You, thank You, thank You, thank You millions of times. Thanks Baba for giving me Your so much love in this way on this Mahasamadhi Centenary day which I’ll always cherish in my heart. This experience I’m sure I will remember in every birth of mine also till I reach Moksha. Jai Sai Ram. Sharing Baba’s Padhuka and Kafni pictures below for everyone to take blessings from.
Baba’s ways are beyond our intellect. He has His unique ways to bless His each devotee. What a beautiful way to celebrate Baba’s Centenary Mahasamadhi Day! Without Sai Maa’s love and Will it would not have been possible! How blessed are you! Baba loves you so much that He chose your experience to get published on the Valentine's day! Many leelas behind this too! Happy Valentine's Day! Deva, Love You So Much ! Jai Jai Ho Sai.
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I was just making my weekend list a couple of days ago, and I can't believe that the weekend's almost over. I was able to accomplish a couple of things on my list, so I feel good. Unfortunately, my appointment to visit the prospect apartment didn't push through as they didn't call to confirm my appointment in time. They said they will call me to set up another date. I guess this is one hint of how management is like in that apartment complex.
This is my small dining room. There were newspapers scattered all over the floor, so I finally bundled them for recycling. I like to keep my dining table simple and clean, and I just love how I can look out through the glass walls while having breakfast or lunch. It's the perfect place to drink tea especially when it is snowing or pouring rain outside.
Here's the busiest nook in my place, the entertainment/living room. I've just built that small bookcase, and it makes the corner a lot "homier." I like to keep my life simple, and I prefer less furniture. If you live in an apartment, it's easier to move with less baggage. Spaces and being able to breathe is most important for me.
Do you believe that a person's home is a reflection of his/her personality. What do you see?
Thanks for sharing these pix. I love, love your dining area. Nakakarelax. Since the entertainment area is the busiest, I assume you're also fond of watching DVDs/TV like me, loves to flip a book while munching on some yummies, etc.
Hey, that's a very cute, simple yet cozy home! I like having a balcony most..but as of now, I myself do not have a balcony, lucky you!
Hi Kayni! So neat your place. We got the same Ikea sofa hehe. Take care. Hugs!
Wits, I never go that nook without yummies. I usually just slide my sofa and start playing with the Wii.
Angeli, Thank you. Although the flickering shadows might give me a fright at night. I scare easily...lol.
Artemis, Yes, I love having a balcony, and I really think that simplicity makes my place homey.
Kero, I love, love Ikea. That sofa's probably the most used chair in the apartment.
Even before reading this, I felt the same way too by just looking at the picture!
wow, your place looks really neat kayni ;-) i wish mine were too. hehehehe.
Anna, I do sometimes give in and just not care about the neatness sometimes.
cpsanti, Thank you for visiting =).
Nice to see your lil nook and cranny, Kayni. I love the minimalist approach. Very homey, less clutter and a lot of space to move around.
And yes I believe that a person's abode reflects her personality. After all it is the only place where you can simply be yourself.
Daphne, Thank you. Friends urge me to put more stuff, but simplicity appeals to me much better.

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On 21st September, the world celebrates International Day of Peace. Some of us take peace for granted while some cannot imagine what peace is like. Others struggle to find peace within them.
What can we do to find inner peace and to bring peace into our daily life and our community? Many people say that the solution was meditation.
The idea to create an organisation for preserve peace between nations was born after the first world war trauma. In 1919 the league of nation was create.
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This is called the Rose Fabric and it starts the Color Knitting of this book. It is the prelude to Mosaic knitting, it is done with the Knit , Knit 1 Below. This is a very interesting fabric and very light. I was very surprise at the lightness of the fabric. I was able to reach my gauge , but I had to recast once.
The Rose Fabric is a lovely airy fabric that will make a beautiful blanket. I will be making more postings after Mother Day! I will be visiting my mother and wishing her a Happy Mother's Day personally this year. I hope all the Mothers out there Have a great Mother's Day Thanks for stopping by!


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Police said the three were in the 15100 block of Martin L. King Jr. Boulevard, when they were approached by a man who brandished a handgun and demanded money, then shot them. After the gunshots, Eugene Weathersby drove away in a car and the shooter ran away in an unknown direction, police said.
During a follow-up investigation, Pope was developed as the suspect and warrants were obtained for his arrest.
His name was entered in a national crime database as wanted. He is to be assumed armed and considered dangerous.
Anyone with information regarding these crimes is urged to contact Gulfport police at 868-5959 or Crime Stoppers at www.mscoastcrimestoppers.com or by telephone at 1-877-787-5898. Or, send CSTIP plus a message to 274637(CRIMES).


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Popular social media user Aisha Alubankudi throws shade at single Nigerian women whorefuse to marry polygamists. A Facebook user didn't find the statement funny so she has urged women to go for Aisha's husband. However, unperturbed Aisha stood by her statement. In fact, she has advised married women not to divorce their husbands over extra marital affairs.
"Truth is bitter, Omoye you will agree with me in future. Let me use this opportunity to plead with married women, pls dont divorce your husbands because of his extra marital affairs, it's now a norm all over the world, most men are polygamists but majority are doing it illegally for peace to reign. You leave him for adultery or for marrying another woman, walahi you will also become another husband's extra marital affair in future. Actually other men's concubine. I'm just being realistic, nothing controversial"