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Do you need to sell your home fast in Danville, Indiana with no hassles or fees? ExpertHomeOffers.comTM is the largest network of real estate experts who purchase homes fast. We connect you with local home buyers in Danville, Indiana who want to purchase your home fast. Our affiliates in Danville, Indiana are local to your area and professionals you can count on. At ExpertHomeOffers.comTM experience, integrity and honesty are part of every offer. Our #1 goal is to help you sell your Danville, Indiana home fast! If you would like to receive a fast, confidential, no-obligation offer on your home please complete our on-line seller form and our local Danville, Indiana home buying expert will be in contact with you shortly. We buy houses in Danville, Indiana. We buy houses in any area, any price range, and any condition. The professionals at ExpertHomeOffers.comTM are experienced Home Buyers. We often give you multiple offers to choose from so you can sell your home fast! We can pay CA$H, take over your loan or lease option your home immediately.

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Exempt employees whose full-time duties and responsibilities are similar to those of faculty may be granted consulting privileges subject to prior approval of the appropriate supervisors through the executive vice president and provost. The terms and conditions of these privileges are contained in ARP 6.92 Faculty Consulting. Other exempt employees who engage in any form of paid consulting, contracting, retail, or wholesale activity not directly related to their university responsibilities normally will do so only on their own time. Outside activities during a normal duty day should have prior approval by a supervisor and be accomplished on an annual leave or compensatory time basis. No paid outside activity may be pursued which would create the appearance of a conflict of interest with university responsibilities or which would reflect unfavorably on the university. Outside activities will not be allowed when they prevent an employee from accomplishing regularly assigned duties.

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This week there’s plenty of stuff coming out in addition to your usual fix of comics. We’ve got the 5th series of BLACKEST NIGHT ACTION FIGURES, a new assortment of MARVEL UNIVERSE ACTION FIGURES, the next assortment of DUNGEONS & DRAGONS HEROSCAPE figures, as well HALO & IRON MAN 2 MEGA BLOKS. PLUS busts of Sookie Stackhouse and Bill Compton from TRUE BLOOD. If that’s not enough, there are actually comics coming out this week!

https://superflycomics.com/2010/08/24/comics-items-shipping-august-25th/

Great to be doing my first blog post for Alpkit. I recently won the Mazda Blenheim Triathlon - the second biggest triathlon in the UK, after the London Triathlon. With 5500 competitors the competition has to be split over two days. The event takes place in the lush grounds of Blenheim Palace home of the Duke of Marlborough, and what a nice home it is with a 6.5km bike lap (closed roads) in your back garden, a huge lake, and a 2.6 km run loop in your front garden. There aren’t many triathletes who would say “no” to a back garden like that. The swim start, sometimes known as the “washing machine” because of all the flailing arms and legs, is critical. Stay out of trouble but not start to fast was the main aim. Found a nice rhythm and managed to pick off those who started too fast. 12.02 for the swim (a long 750m swim) was fair, and then followed by a charge up the hill to transition in the forecourt of the palace, and out on the bike. I felt quite good on the bike, and most of looked good as the motorbike with cameraman thought it was worth filming me. They caught me towards the end of the first lap and followed me for about 1-2 km… if only Alpkit made triathlon kit! Not quite sure how the pictures of my backside will come out on TV, and I certainly hope they edit out the shot of me blowing my nose! Had a solid bike just outside 32 minutes, and headed out on the run. Hot and hilly the run felt hard and slower than I would have liked. However my run split of 19.55 ranked highly, and overall time of 1:08:14… which ignoring the Elite race (which is held under different rules, so that the drafting on the bike is allowed and won by Stuart Hayes in 1:01) gave me first overall. A solid result and time to test myself over the Olympic distance….

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Neighborhood: Downtown Sausalito & Ferry Pier. No rest rooms. Open year round. Free to everyone. Click here to return to the Sausalito Parks Index Page. Viña del Mar Park is the best known and most photographed park in Sausalito. Located adjacent to the parking lot and arrivals area for the Ferry pier, it is so central to the layout of Sausalito that it’s almost inevitable you’ll walk or drive by! The park is named for Viña del Mar, Chile, one of Sausalito’s Sister Cities. The Sausalito Art Festival is staffed by volunteers, and everyday residents from the City did the same for the 1915 Fair. San Francisco’s rebirth was for them a matter of pride and they wanted to take part in sharing it with the world. Like the Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco (the only surviving building from the Fair), the elephant statues and fountain found in Viña del Mar Park were deemed too beautiful to fall to the wrecker’s ball, and they were moved to Sausalito and installed here almost a century ago when the Fair closed and most of its buildings were torn down. Why did we get them? The architect who designed the Court of the Universe had worked on many San Francisco landmarks, and happened to come from Sausalito. His name was William Faville. He used the twelve elephant statues (designed by McKim, Mead and White, a New York firm where Faville had worked as a draftsman early in his career) at the base of hundred-foot-tall flagpoles around the building. After the fair ended he arranged for two of the elephant statues and the fountain (which he had designed) to be ferried across the Bay to his home town, which as luck would have it meant we got them. Since the Fair was built of a heavy-duty papier-mache-like plaster material that was intended to last a year, the fact that the Palace of Fine Arts survived until its 1960’s renovation is a miracle, even if we saw more chips and flakes as each year passed by. The elephants, unfortunately, only lasted about 20 years. During the Depression of the mid-1930’s a plaster cast was taken of one of the two elephants (which had acquired the nicknames Jumbo and PeeWee) and the result was the concrete version of the statues we have today, which have lasted for 80 years and are still going strong. The current decorative streetlights were also part of the 1935 restoration, which were based on the statue Sausalitans then called “Pee Wee.” The fountain was likewise renovated in concrete at the same time. The elephant statues are often used as a symbol for the city of Sausalito in graphic designs, including those done by the Sausalito Chamber of Commerce. The photo below, which was taken by the Chronicle in 1915, shows the originals holding massive flagpoles. Like this kind of story? Check out the Sausalito Historical Society, and please help support their programs!

https://www.oursausalito.com/parks-in-sausalito/vina-del-mar-park.html

Possessing a pleasant and cosy vibe, The Edinburgh Castle offers an array of spaces excellent for any kind of event, for groups of any size. Have a look. A Sydney watering hole landmark since 1885, The Edinburgh Castle has more than one story to tell… and being Henry Lawson’s chosen writing nook, is a pretty good place to start. A classic Aussie pub in every sense of the word, The Eddy is located in the heart of the CBD and features a warm fit out and variety of spaces make it a convenient choice for team lunches, corporate functions, birthday celebrations and more. From having events in the cosy cocktail lounge to the sprawling bar or having The Eddy exclusively for you, it is perfect for all groups of any size. The perfect location for an event in Sydney’s CBD. Section 1 can accommodate 20 people sit down or 30 people cocktail style. It is suitable for both corporate and social events. Looking for a venue for an intimate gathering, then Section 2 is the answer. With capacity for 10 sit down or 20 people cocktail style, this area suits smaller events. Choose from a combination of areas that can provide for up to 30 guests sit down or between 50 and 100 cocktail style. This provides the perfect space for all occasions . TAKE A WALK THROUGH THE EDDY WITH OUR VIRTUAL TOUR!

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Sarah Aroeste is the founder of the NY-based Ladino Rock group, the Sarah Aroeste Band. American-born Aroeste, with family roots in Spain and more recently in Salonika, Greece, launched her band to help bring Sephardic music to a new generation. Most influenced by the music and language of her Spanish origins, Aroeste grounds her music in Ladino, an ethnic form of Castilian Spanish developed by Spanish Jews after their expulsion from Spain in 1492. Although this mysterious pan-Mediterranean language has, unfortunately, been fading away, the musical legacy of Spanish Jews highlights the strength of an oral tradition that spans many centuries and crosses many geographic boundaries. Determined to help keep Ladino music alive, Aroeste updates and reinterprets the tradition by fusing it with more modern sensibilities. With its unique Ladino Rock sound, the Sarah Aroeste Band (Sarah Aroeste: vocals; Yotam Bary: electric bass; Yoel Ben-Simhon: oud, piano, backup vocals; Yaron Eilam: electric guitar; Liron Peled: drums, percussion) takes traditional Ladino music from across the Mediterranean and combines it with contemporary influences such as rock, funk, and blues. Since Aroeste launched her band in 2001, she has toured and amassed a loyal following across the nation and abroad, and has worked hard to bring an updated, exciting new sound to Ladino and Sephardic music.

https://www.sephardicmusicfestival.com/artists/sarah-aroeste-band/

Perry v. City of Chicago, No. 10-3979 (Oct. 23, 2013) (affirming verdict for City against evidentiary challenges). Lavalais v. Village of Melrose Park, No. 13-1200 (Oct. 23, 2013) (vacating dismissal of race-discrimination claims brought against Village by former Village employee based on denial of transfer from midnight shift). Williams v. City of Chicago, No. 12-3249 (Oct. 24, 2013) (reversing grant of summary judgment for City, finding officers are not entitled to qualified immunity on summary judgment, and remanding for trial on false arrest and malicious prosecution claims).

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Neverending fun is guaranteed with our Ritmo Games! The best ritmo free games are waiting for you at Miniplay, so 3... 2... 1... play! Instead of working, you should have fun playing some music with what you have in this factory. Don't let your boss catch you! Follow the rhythm of the music and dodge the tiles coming for you. Press F, G, H and J in the right time and become a rock star! The only way of making your kids pay attention to you is joining them. Mimic their moves and get them in the car. Choose a difficulty level before starting a new game. Follow the rhythm of this Japanese music! Press Z when the cursor is on a red face and M when it's a blue one. Make this goat dance, do the right moves and get as many poins as you can. Choose one of these eight contestants and enter a dancing competition. Get as many points as you can with your enviable sense of rhythm! Prove your rhythm in this dancing game. Choose a character and start moving. This is a very nice game for creating music. Each piece has a different sound make the balls roll on them and create all kinds of melodies. Each color dot makes a different sound. Place them on the bars and create a catchy rhythm! If you like musical instruments and you can follow a rhythm, start creating your own melody. Listen to the masterpieces other users have saved! Do you like heavy rock? Are you tired of pains in your neck after a concert? Well, follow the rhythm and dance with this chick! Arrange these musical squares. Click on them to change their direction and drag new blocks to create your own rhythms. Did you know you could do this with Windows Sound Recorder? Enjoy the rhythm! Can you follow the rhythm? Prove it in this dancing game. Press the right arrow keys in the right time. Jungle Jiggy - "¿Como duerme Town por las noches?" Saints Row IV Walkthrough - Part 42: "Dancing Queen"

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Lotteries are managed at the state-level in the USA, which means the rules and types of games on offer vary depending on where you live. On this page, we provide the full rundown with a description of every lottery in the United States complete with links to official websites, game descriptions and other key information to know before you play. While it may be fair to criticize the lottery for offering notoriously poor odds compared to other games of chance, the lottery overcomes that objection by pure brute force with the biggest payouts in all of gambling. No other game in the world comes even close to matching the jackpots generated by major state and multi-state lotteries. Powerball and Mega Millions in particular capture the imagination with jackpots that occasionally tread into 10-figure (read: billions) territory. Even the smaller, state-exclusive lotteries put other gambling games to shame with multi-million-dollar jackpots paid out on a regular basis. States gained the authority to sell lottery products online in 2011 after the Department of Justice responded to an inquiry made by New York and Illinois lottery officials back in 2009 asking for clarification on the Wire Act. The DOJ responded with a memo explaining that it views the Wire Act as applying only to sports betting, which cleared the way for states to regulate online lotteries and gambling. *Note: Texas and California do not endorse online ticket sales, but LottoGopher.com offers a concierge services that will send someone to buy tickets on your behalf. You must be a state resident to buy tickets in each state in which LottoGopher operates. LottoGopher is a self-described “lottery messenger service” that allows customers to order tickets online, create private groups to pool their resources, track their results and receive payouts on winning tickets. The LottoGopher business model is a bit of an outlier as it is not officially endorsed by any lottery. As such, LottoGopher exists on tricky legal footing and only operates in two states: California and Texas. Additionally, LottoGopher does not provide its services across state lines in order to remain compliant with federal law. This means the service is only available to residents of both states. As a “lottery messenger service,” LottoGopher also stresses that it does not buy and resell tickets for a profit (which would be illegal). Instead, LottoGopher offers paid subscriptions for the service ranging from 24 hours to one year. With a subscription in place, you can then order lottery tickets at face value to prompt a LottoGopher employee to go buy tickets from an authorized retailer on your behalf. State lotteries tend to be fairly predictable with a similar assortment of draw games, scratch cards, keno and so on. Although your exact options will vary depending on where you live, the following games are the ones you’re most likely to find at your nearest lottery retailer. Odds are you’ve heard of Powerball a time or two. This is the game that hits the national news cycle occasionally when the top jackpot swells past $500 million, then $750 million and even sometimes over $1.5 billion. Powerball generates some of the world’s largest jackpots by operating as a national game available across most of the United States. The odds of winning the Powerball jackpot are notoriously low, but that’s exactly how it manages to grow those enormous jackpots before someone wins the whole thing and the jackpot resets. Mega Millions acts as a sister lottery to Powerball with massive jackpots that occasionally hit the news, two drawings a week and even the same price to play. Just like Powerball, Mega Millions jackpots occasionally blow past the $1 billion mark to set off a frenzy of ticket purchases across the country (which push the jackpot even higher). The biggest difference between the two is Mega Millions drawings are held on different days of the week. Between Powerball and Mega Millions, lottery players in most states suffer no lack of big jackpots to aim for throughout the week. Whoever came up with the concept behind Lucky for Life was absolutely brilliant. The idea of winning $1,000 a day for life is understandably appealing, yet it’s not actually a fairly small jackpot compared to the other major multi-state drawings even when you tally up the total value of those payments over 20 or 30 years. Lotto America is run by the Multi-State Lottery Association (MUSL), which also runs Powerball and a handful of other games. In Lotto America, players aim for a growing jackpot and have reasonable odds of 1 in 9.63 to win any prize at all. Lotto America jackpots are much smaller than those offered by Powerball and Mega Millions, but that is offset by much better odds. While Powerball’s jackpot odds are about 1 in 292 million, Lotto America’s top jackpot odds are about 1 in 26 million. 2by2 is operated by the Multi-State Lottery Association but is only offered in a handful of states in the Midwest. The basic concept here is to give players a simple game with reasonable odds, medium-sized jackpots and daily drawings. While the bigger MUSL lotteries certainly have their appeal, this one aims to give players a sense of having a much better chance (which they do). The overall odds of winning any prize at all in 2by2 are 1 in 3.59 and the odds of winning the top jackpot are about 1 in 105,000. Almost every state with a lottery offers a variety of smaller, state-specific games with names like Pick 3, Cash 4 and so on. Because these draw games are limited to a single state, they tend to appeal to players by offering better odds rather than massive jackpots. You’ll find these games under a variety of names and formats, but some basic examples follow. Numerous states hold simple Cash 3 lotteries which have players choose a three-digit number for a chance at winning up to $500. Play for $1.00 to win a max prize of $500 or play for $0.50 for a maximum prize of $250. Similar concept to cash 3 except players pick a four-digit number for a chance at winning up to $5,000 off a $1 play or $2,500 off a $0.50 play. This is a daily jackpot game played in numerous states with a default starting jackpot that grows every day there isn’t a winner. Tickets are sold for $1.00 and players choose five numbers. Naturally, the top payout comes when all five numbers are matched. The exact rules regarding range of possible numbers to choose from, starting jackpot and other details vary, but generally Fantasy 5 acts as a mid-sized draw game with reasonable odds and simple rules. The big draw games tend to dominate the news cycle, but they only account for a small percentage of all lottery sales. Daily draw games, keno and scratch cards account for a large chunk of all lottery sales. While Powerball and Mega Millions are out capturing headlines, these other games provide a lowkey but constant stream of sales to lottery retailers and websites. Probably not a whole lot of explanation needed here – these are the games you buy and scratch to find out if you’ve won. Scratch-offs do a ton of business for most state lotteries. In a recent PA Lottery financial report, for example, scratch-offs accounted for more than two-thirds of all lottery sales by dollar. A number of states have authorized online scratch card games since 2011 and have reported strong sales through that medium as well. Online scratch cards (also called instant play games in some cases) work similarly to their real-world equivalents, but with graphics and animations that almost resemble slots. Keno is a high-volume lottery-style game that runs every few minutes in states that offer this game. Keno works sort of like a regular draw game in having players pick numbers, but an automated system makes picks every few minutes with fixed prize levels determined by the number of picks made and number of hits. In a typical game of keno, a player is asked to choose anywhere from one through twelve numbers out of a range of 1-80. The lottery operator then picks 20 numbers at random from that same range. The more matches a player has with those picked by the automated system, the bigger the prize. Payouts at the lower end can be as little as $4 while payouts at the higher end can be as high as $1 million if a player makes twelve picks and all twelve are also chosen by the lottery operator. With high potential prizes and a new game running every few minutes, keno remains a popular game to this day. Some lotteries also offer online keno as well. Video lottery terminals (VLTs) are designed to look and function just like regular slot machines from the player’s point of view, but are run by the state lottery and results are randomly determined by the lottery itself rather than by a random number generator (RNG) like slots are. The differences between regular slots and VLTs are nearly indistinguishable in many cases. Some VLTs look and feel just like slots while others resemble scratch-off games and keno. In any case, VLTs are a quick way to run through a lot of money, so proceed with caution. Forty-five states and DC have approved a lottery of some sort to date and just five have no lottery whatsoever. The only states without a lottery are Alabama, Alaska, Hawaii, Nevada and Utah. Alabama is one of just a small handful of states with no lottery. This is not particularly surprising given the state’s longstanding opposition to all things gambling. Even Alabama’s three tribal casinos are very limited in the types of games they may offer. There is clearly some level of demand for a state lottery, but it is anyone’s guess as to when or if Alabama will get a lottery. Much like Alabama, Alaska is not a big gambling state. No casinos, no lottery and no racing betting make this a desert when it comes to gambling. State legislators have looked into introducing a lottery but have so far concluded it would provide little tax revenue to the state relative to what charitable gaming already raises for good causes. The Arizona Lottery offers drawing games, scratch-off tickets and participates in Mega Millions / Powerball. Minimum age to play is 21 and tickets must be purchased in-person. Money raised by the Arizona lottery funds state educational, health and human services, environmental conservation and economic development programs. The Arkansas Scholarship Lottery was established in 2009 and to fund educational efforts in the state. AR lottery tickets and scratch cards are sold at brick-and-mortar retailers only and the minimum age to play is 18. Voters approved the California Lottery in 1984 as a means to raise money for public education and the first tickets were sold the following year. Today, the CA Lottery raises more than $1 billion a year for educational efforts. The CA Lottery sells instant-win scratch cards plus tickets to Powerball, Mega Millions and various state-level drawings. One could make a strong argument that Colorado is the most scenic state in the USA, so it is not entirely surprising that the CO Lottery was sold to voters as a way to fund efforts to preserve the state’s famed parks, trails and open spaces. Since selling its first ticket in January 1983, the CO Lottery has raised billions for conservation efforts, grants for outdoor projects and more. The Connecticut Lottery sells a standard range of lotto products including tickets to the major multistate drawings (Powerball, Mega Millions and Lucky for Life) along with state-specific drawings, instant win scratch-off games and keno. Money raised by the CT Lottery goes to the state general fund and is disbursed from there to a wide range of state functions ranging from corrections to higher education. Delaware has one of the more comprehensive offerings with multi-state draw games, Delaware-exclusive draw games, keno, instant win scratch games and a parlay-style sports lottery. The DE Lottery also runs all gambling games inside the state’s three racetrack-casinos. Dover Downs, Delaware Park and Harrington Raceway all offer lottery-controlled video lottery machines, table games, sports betting and online gambling. The Florida Lottery offers a standard array of draw games, scratch-offs and fast-play games that offer instant payouts to winners. Money raised by the FL Lottery goes to the Educational Enhancement Fund, which in turn allocates money to various education efforts throughout the state. Today, the Florida Lottery raises more than $1 billion a year for education. The Georgia Lottery offers a full menu of in-person and online games spanning the full range of draw games, instant win scratch-offs and keno. Since launching in 1992, the GA Lottery has raised billions for state education programs designed to assist residents of all ages. In 2012, the GA Lottery went online with the introduction of “Diggi” instant win games, keno and online ticket sales for Powerball, Mega Millions and Fantasy 5. State-level draw games such as Georgia Five are still sold in-person only. Hawaii has long resisted gambling in general as a state with a heavy tourism industry and concerns that social costs would outweigh any realized revenue benefits. However, this is a debate that seems to come up every year, so it is entirely possible Hawaii does one day institute a lottery. Voters approved the Idaho Lottery in 1988 and the first games were sold the following year with money raised going towards state education programs. The ID Lottery sells tickets to its own drawings as well as tickets for Powerball, Mega Millions and Lucky For Life. Other games in the lineup include scratch cards, pull tabs and raffle drawings. Illinois began selling lottery tickets to standard drawing games in 1974 and had a successful first year, but sales entered a steady slide over the next few years as the newness of it all wore off. The IL Lottery introduced its first expanded game in 1980 and saw an immediate boost in sales. Since then, the Illinois Lottery has expanded its offerings to include state-level games, multi-state drawings, daily drawings and scratch cards. Illinois also has the distinction of being the first state to sell lottery tickets online. Residents 18 and older can now visit the IL Lottery website to buy tickets, order subscriptions and receive online payouts for prizes under $600. Interestingly, it was officials from the IL and NY lotteries who also set the stage for online gambling by asking the Department of Justice for a legal opinion on their plans to sell tickets online. The DOJ responded in 2011 with an opinion that not only was their plan legal, but that the Wire Act would be interpreted as applying only to sports betting. This gave states such as New Jersey and Delaware the legal room they needed to legalize the country’s first online casinos. Voters approved the Hoosier Lottery in 1988, the first scratch-off tickets were sold in 1989 and then the first tickets to draw games were sold in 1990. Money raised by the Indiana Lottery now totals in the billions with revenue funding a number of important causes such as the Build Indiana Fund, the Teachers’ Retirement Fund and first responder pensions. The Iowa Lottery got off to a quick start in 1985 with its first game, a scratch-off card called “Scratch, Match and Win” selling more than 6.4 million times in its first week. The Iowa Lottery has only grown since then and now provides millions of dollars to three key programs: the state General Fund, Vision Iowa and the Iowa Veterans Trust Fund. The Kansas Lottery offers a typical selection of games including entries to Powerball and Mega Millions, local drawings, scratch card games and keno. Income generated by the KS Lottery goes to a dedicated gaming revenue fund and from there is divvied up across a variety of economic and infrastructure initiatives. Kentucky boasts one of the more comprehensive state lotteries in the US with instant win games, keno, draw games and a full menu of online purchase options for residents. Money raised by the KY Lottery funds educational programs in the state. The KY Lottery online platform is similarly full-featured with draw game tickets, instant win games and keno (every four minutes) all offered through the website for state residents 18 or older. The Louisiana Lottery keeps things fairly simple with scratch-off games and a handful of draw games on offer. Powerball and Mega Millions are sold in Louisiana alongside a few state-specific draw games with smaller top prizes but significantly better odds. Money raised by the LA Lottery funds the Minimum Foundation Program for public education. Maine held its first lottery drawing in 1974 and its first big winner came later that year with a local resident winning a $150,000 jackpot in the weekly “Play Me” game. Now, the ME Lottery offers the big multi-state games, a handful of local draw games and instant win scratch-off cards. The Maryland Lottery offers a wide range of gaming options including daily draw games, tickets to the big multi-state games, scratch-off cards, keno and an electronic racing game called Racetrax. To date, the MD Lottery has raised billions for education, the environment and public health and safety. Since its first drawing in 1972, the Massachusetts Lottery has raised billions of dollars’ worth of revenue for towns and cities across the state. Games on offer include a standard variety of drawings, instant win games and keno. Tickets may not be purchased online, but the MA Lottery is willing to sell subscriptions to residents and out-of-staters alike over the phone. Michigan has a comprehensive lottery with many games on offer and an online platform that also offers the same games. Anyone 18 or older can participate in state-level drawings, buy tickets to Mega Millions and Powerball and play instant win games in-person or online from anywhere within the state. The Minnesota Lottery offers a standard variety of draw and instant win games that raise money for a variety of causes including the state’s General Fund, the Natural Resources Fund, Game & Fish Fund and the Environmental & Natural Resources Trust Fund. Altogether, a little over 62% of all ticket sales are returned to players in the form of prizes. Mississippi approved a lottery in 2018 and is now in the process of getting everything ready to go. A board of directors has been appointed and the Mississippi Lottery Corporation is now hiring employees and designing games. The new MS Lottery is set to launch at the end of 2019 or early 2020. Once it goes live, Mississippi will become the 45th state to establish a lottery. Missouri launched its lottery in 1985 and now sells tickets to an assortment of draw games (including Powerball and Mega Millions) along with instant win scratch games and keno. For the first few years of operation, the MO Lottery dedicated all proceeds to the state’s general fund. Voters changed that in 1992 with an amendment to earmark all revenue exclusively for public education. Since selling its first lottery ticket in 1987, the Montana Lottery has expanded over the years to offer a range of games including scratch cards and a variety of drawing-style games. Montana Millionaire is the biggest state-level drawing game on offer while Powerball, Mega Millions and Lucky for Live provide access to the country’s biggest jackpots. The Nebraska Lottery launched in 1993 with the sale of instant win scratch tickets and added drawing games the following year to make it a full-fledged state lottery. Today, the NE Lottery offers an array of scratch card games, tickets to daily drawings and entries to the major multi-state games. “The potential impact of a lottery on commercial gaming, and therefore the state’s tax revenue, should be well-understood before amending the state’s constitution is considered. Nevada’s casino industry maintains significant political sway in the state, so the creation of a state lottery remains quite unlikely any time soon. New Hampshire is home to a robust lottery that offers instant win games, tickets to major drawings and a keno platform that runs a new game every five minutes. Online play was authorized in 2017 to allow anyone 18 or older and located within state lines to play online. The New Jersey Lottery ranks as one of the 10-largest in the country by ticket sales, which is no surprise given the state’s population and well-established lottery that offers a standard array of games. The NJ Lottery does not sell tickets online, but residents do have plenty of other options with online sports betting, casino games and poker all available. New Jersey also serves as a useful case study on how legalizing online gambling affects lottery sales. After the first online casinos launched in 2013, the NJ Lottery experienced increased sales for the next four straight years. New Mexico introduced a state lottery in 1996 and offers an assortment of drawing games, scratchers and Fast Play games (print a ticket and see your results instantly). Income generated by the NM Lottery is used to fund scholarships sending students to public colleges, universities and technical colleges. With roughly $10 billion in annual sales, the New York Lottery is the biggest in the nation by a longshot. Games on offer include the usual assortment of state drawings, multi-state drawings, daily games and scratchers. Money raised by the NY Lottery funds public education for K-12 and amounts in the billions of dollars every year. Lawmakers created the North Carolina Education Lottery in 2005 and the first tickets went on sale the following year. Today’s lineup of games includes a mix of draw games and scratch cards along with keno and options to buy tickets to entry games online. Players must be 18 to play in-person or online. The North Dakota Lottery raises millions of dollars annually for the state’s general fund, but offers a limited selection of games. When the ND Lottery was proposed to voters in an amendment, it was on the understanding that the state would only join established multi-jurisdictional lotteries. This means the ND Lottery only offers multi-state draw games such as Powerball, Mega Millions, Lucky for Life, Lotto America and 2 by 2. State-specific draw games and instant win scratch cards are not allowed at this time. However, state residents do have the option to buy tickets online through the ND Lottery website and mobile app. Ohio runs a robust state lottery that sells tickets to draw games and keno along with instant win scratch cards in-person and through cashless machines. Proceeds from the OH Lottery fund educational efforts throughout the state with upwards of one billion a year going to those programs. In 2018, the OH Lottery introduced the Lottery Card as a tentative first step to enabling online play. Lottery Cards must be purchased in-person and then redeemed later via text. Oklahoma voters approved a state lottery in 2004 and the first tickets went on sale in 2005 with proceeds earmarked for public education. Tickets must be purchased in-person with cash and the games on offer include instant win scratch-off cards plus drawings including Powerball, Mega Millions, Lotto America, Lucky for Life, Pick 3 and Cash 5. The Oregon Lottery generates significant income for various state services with draw games, keno, instant win scratch-offs and roughly 12,000 video lottery terminals spread across the state. Although online ticket sales are not an option at this time, lottery officials have expressed an interest in online play in order to make the lottery more appealing amid changing demographics. The Pennsylvania Lottery has expanded significantly since it was established in 1971 and now offers draw games, scratch-off cards, keno and a sports-themed game called Xpress Sports. To date, the PA Lottery has raised billions for programs designed to assist older Pennsylvanians. Sweeping legislation passed in 2017 authorized the lottery to begin selling lottery products online at PAiLottery.com. The legislation approved a variety of game-types for online play, but PA iLottery initially launched with a focus on instant win games. Rhode Island held its first lottery drawing in 1974 with $0.50 tickets a weekly game called “The Lot” with a top prize of $50,000. The RI Lottery has expanded considerably since then with a full range of instant games, multi-state drawings, pull tabs and video lottery terminals. The RI Lottery also operates both of the state’s casinos where customers will find table games, video lottery terminals and sports betting. In South Carolina, customers 18 and over can buy tickets to major multi-state drawings, local drawings exclusive to SC and instant win games at authorized retailers only. As the name suggests, the SC Education Lottery funds educational programs throughout the state. The bulk of money raised goes to higher education and scholarships while the rest goes to K-12 programs and other community education programs. South Dakota maintains an expansive state lottery that includes a variety of draw games, scratch-off tickets and thousands of video lottery terminals located across the state. Money raised by the SD Lottery goes to the state’s General Fund and from there is allocated to education, infrastructure and environmental causes. Tennessee got off to a quick start after establishing a state lottery in 2003 with the first year alone raising nearly $64 million for education efforts throughout the state. Since then, the TN Lottery has raised billons for education through draw games, instant win games and keno sold in-person and through vending machines. The Texas Lottery is one of the biggest in the country with annual sales totaling in the billions despite offering no way to play online. For many years running, the TX Lottery has raised more than a billion dollars for state initiatives such as the Foundation School Fund, Texas Veterans Commission and more. Utah’s longstanding opposition to all things gambling has extended to the lottery with the state being one of the few remaining holdouts not to authorize a lottery. Although some state lawmakers support the idea of a lottery, opposition remains strong. If Utah does one day get a lottery, it will probably be a result of a voter-initiated referendum. The Vermont Lottery is one of the most efficient in the country with a staff of fewer than two dozen employees who oversee an organization that provides tens of millions to state educational efforts every year. Despite its small staff, the VT Lottery provides a healthy lineup of games consisting of instant win games, multi-state drawings, state-specific drawings and fast-play games that offer instant payouts. The Virginia Lottery offers the usual assortment of draw games and instant win scratch cards in addition to selling subscriptions to the three big multi-state games online. Online subscriptions must be purchased for at least two weeks and the minimum deposit to get started online is $20. Money raised by the VA Lottery is put toward K-12 public education efforts. The Washington State Lottery runs a collection of its own draw games, daily keno games, scratch cards and sells tickets to the major multi-state drawings including Powerball and Mega Millions. This is a fairly standard lottery by all measures but is still a big one with roughly half a billion dollars paid out to winners every year. The DC Lottery is the country’s smallest in terms of geographic reach, but still manages to achieve annual sales in the range of $250 million. Games sold by the DC Lottery include a variety of daily-draw games, tickets to Powerball and Mega Millions, scratch cards and instant win games played at tap-n-play kiosks. In 2018, the DC Lottery approved sports betting to take place in-person at authorized locations and through mobile devices. West Virginia runs a highly profitable lottery that raises more than $500 million a year for education, senior services, tourism and state parks off sales in excess of $1 billion a year. The bulk of the money raised by the West Virginia comes from video lottery terminals which can be found at the state’s four racetracks and at certain businesses with alcohol licenses. Games run by the WV Lottery include a mix of state-level draw games, multi-state games, scratch cards, keno and video lottery terminals. The WV Lottery Commission also oversees in-person and online sports betting in the state. The Wisconsin Lottery operates a handful of its own draw games, participates in multi-state drawings and sells instant-win games to people 18 and older. Since launching its first games in 1988, the WI Lottery has raised billions for property tax credits benefitting homeowners throughout the state. Wyoming tentatively entered the lottery business in 2013 with legislation authorizing draw games only. This means scratch cards and other types of lottery games are off limits for now, but the WY Lottery says it is always researching new ideas for draw-based games. Income earned by the WY Lottery is distributed to cities and towns across the state to use as they see best for their residents.

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TWO major projects are planned to be built in the town of Sabang, which is a component of the solar cell factory and geothermal power plants in Jaboi, until now has not been realized. Geothermal project Jaboi, there’s even the tender winner, but the project was not well done. Related plan component of the solar cell plant, said Fauzi Husin, this project is hampered because of the absence of a cargo ship that sailed directly from Korea and Singapore to Sabang. Ship transport pathways available heretofore item, from Korea to Singapore. Then from Singapore to Belawan, North Sumatra. No shipping cargo ship directly from Singupura to Sabang. “If should from Belawan first, they (the Korean company) dont want it. Because they have to deal anymore over there, including the cost as well. If from Singapore directly to the Sabang they do not need to pay anymore, “said Fauzi. Letters contract development cooperation component of the solar cell factory was signed by Head BPKS, Fauzi Husin and Director Edu Mirae Energy Co. Ltd., Han Seung SIK, witnessed by the Governor of Aceh Zaini Abdullah, in Banda Aceh, November 26, 2012. And the construction of the solar cell plant components Sabang, should begin in early January 2013. The value of the investment reached 12.5 million US dollars. Edu team Mirae Energy Co. Ltd. also has visited Sabang to see the location of of the factory. The cooperation between BPKS and Edu Mirae Energy, will create in a company named PT Sabang Mirae Energy. The company that will operationalize all investment activities in Sabang, including marketing its products throughout Aceh and other parts of Indonesia. Meanwhile the construction of a geothermal power plant in Jaboy, District Sukajaya, Sabang has not been implemented. Originally, the project tender has won by PT Sabang Geothermal Energy (SGE) in 2009 it has been realized. “But the problem now projects that have been tendered will end his contract, while the development plan has not been seen. Yes if you want to continue development should be re-tendered, “said Fauzi.

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Today is Australia Day, so I am writing about an iconic Australian animal and one that I’ve seen a few times in the wild, the eastern grey kangaroo. They are the second largest marsupial in the world, with the large, muscular males often growing well over 2 metres in length from nose to tail. Eastern grey kangaroos are mainly nocturnal. They sleep during the day in the shade of trees and shrubs, coming out at night to graze on grass. They are also very social animals, living in mobs of up to 20. The way that they hop is a very efficient and energy saving way of travelling in hot Australia weather. They have been timed at 64 kph and can leap over 9 metres long and 1.8 metres high. They can’t walk backwards, which is why they are on the Australian Coat of Arms with the emu, which also can’t walk backwards. One of the most incredible things about them is that when they are first born, they are about the size of a jellybean. They are born tiny, blind and hairless and have to climb up through the mother’s fur to the pouch where they attach themselves to a teat and stay there for a long time, growing quickly until they finally appear after six months. It’s a very dangerous journey for such a small baby and it ensures that only the strongest joeys survive. Eastern grey kangaroos are one of the few animals that have increased in number since the arrival of Europeans. They are found in forests throughout the eastern side of Australia and are abundant in number. Are there any other interesting facts that you would like to share about eastern grey kangaroos?

https://haydensanimalfacts.com/2015/01/26/5-interesting-facts-about-eastern-grey-kangaroos/

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As emerging writers, we are told to create action or drama at the opening of our stories. Nonfiction writers, especially biographers, often foreshadow a significant event in their subject’s life, while fiction writers do the same by cherry-picking a critical point on the timeline, but this is not always practical. In general, reader engagement arises by presenting an aspect of the story that generates keen interest. For example, it could be humor or tension that is exemplary of the entire book. The biggest mistake is presenting large amounts of backstory or introductory information at the start. Another version of this misstep is beginning too soon on the timeline. Both of these approaches throw water on the spark of the story. This set up information can be folded into the story at a later time or even removed altogether. In modern times, think about eliminating chapters that begin with the words Foreword, Introduction, Prologue, and Preface—or even Epilogue for that matter because they sap energy from the book. Many readers receive these appendages like homework and skip them to get to the meat of the book. A book should have a clearly defined purpose, otherwise it’s just a long and wandering diatribe. A nonfiction book has a thesis, while a work of fiction has a story question. Don’t let any fine writing teacher talk you out of this essential element of a book. All art from poetry to painting has a point. When it’s focused—because its creator knows precisely what it is—the reader or viewer becomes involved with the piece. The writer who says “I write to discover what the story’s about” should be pushed down a flight of stairs. This statement is disingenuous and impractical. While writers discover aspects of and hone down a story during its development, there comes a time when the writer makes a firm commitment to the mission of the book and then goes about amplifying it. A smart writer makes it clear in the opening pages and sometimes even the title. Book openings are like a first date. The writer features what he does well and goes to it often during the course of his relationship with the reader. If the opening is phony, disorganized, or confusing, the reader will never get to the next chapter, and a match made in heaven has been squandered. Quickly establish as many of the following items as possible: the predominant point of view used, the main character(s), the typical setting, and the sequencing. While these aspects help authenticate the story, the latter involves the structure of the book. If the book darts back and forth through time, events, and/or characters, it’s critical to present a pattern from the start. As a result, your story organization will become a silent rhythm in the reader’s mind. The tone of the story involves everything from word choice, to sentence structure, to the overall attitude of the narrative and characters. Most stories form a conundrum that ranges from solving a mystery to battling the internal complexities of the human spirit. This can be presented on a scale from terrifying to hilarious. Even if the story tone shifts for dramatic effect, the main tone should be delivered at the start. If the story is a romance, then it’s the longing of the heart. If it’s an intense mystery, then it’s a mangled corpse. If it’s an enduring quest, then the journey’s gauntlet must be cast down. It’s a self-indulgent or inexperienced writer who does not recognize the trend to immediately engage the reader. In fact, it isn’t a trend, but a well-established precept of successful writing. If you are currently writing to figure out what the story is about or where the story begins, then stop! Park your pen and take a moment to do some sketching and outlining before you draft another word. Ask your characters why they’ve entered the room and what they want from the story. If they can’t tell you, then they either need to leave or you need to get to know them better before pushing them along their story line. Once you know their stories and what they want, find the first worst moment on their timeline and begin the story right there. Be suspicious of a publication that refuses to reveal a reviewer’s name or credentials. Professional Writing – A number of aspects go into a professionally written review. First, is the staff populated by professionals? This seems obvious, but many review sites are writer mills, allowing virtually anyone who is interested to pen a review. Other review sites barely compose a staff. These are mom and pop shops that tend to hang an Internet shingle for business, purport authority, and write reviews on their own. These are not professionals at work, no matter how slick or jazzy their websites appear. Look at the publication’s staff page, if it even has one. Are there more than a handful of writers? Be suspicious of a publication that refuses to reveal its reviewers’ names. The byline credit is a basic courtesy given to a professional freelancer, and virtually none would work without obtaining a byline for their portfolio. Second, is the review publication consistent across the masthead? A professional review publication has guidelines and an editor who keeps its staff and articles in line. Each review should have consistency, generating both authority and confidence in the publication. Third, does the reviewer address both the book content and the writing? 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A high price does not guarantee quality or readership. A professional book review can be obtained for less than one hundred dollars, but be certain to closely examine the publication’s writing and readership in advance. …you have to ask: What business is the review publication really in? Warning: If the publication or its editors are up-selling manuscript editing services or the like, you have to ask: What business is the review publication really in? Are they a review publication, or are they a money-milking operation? The work of an editor and the work of a reviewer should never cross paths. An editor ensures quality, and a reviewer measures it. When the reviewer and editor become one entity, integrity flies out the window. (Hmmm… let us review the wonderful manuscript we just helped you edit… hmmm… not very trustworthy.) Furthermore, many of the side marketing services offered by review publications are built on a promise of viewership and not supported by real data. Ask for site traffic data or evidence of real of readership. For example, The US Review of Books is consistently a top Google search for “book reviews” in a very crowded field and has a strong monthly readership in the tens of thousands, as well as thousands of additional on-line visitors and followers on social media. Remember, a book review is only the beginning of an essential conversation about the book. Deciding to purchase a book review can be an effective tool when marketing a book. It can provide pull-quotes for marketing and stock materials for a media kit and press releases. It can even seed eventual sales. Remember, a book review is only the beginning of and essential conversation about the book, but it will neRead this article on creating a feedback loop to help kick-start your marketing efforts. The US Review of Books is a professional review publication sent to more than 18,000 monthly subscribers, including thousands of additional followers on Facebook and Twitter. The US Review is staffed by professionals and is highly praised by authors and publishers. It’s been a decade since an art book has taken the grand prize for the Eric Hoffer Book Award, but this beauty kept rising to the top of our judges’ scoring cards. Have you ever seen a book after it becomes wet and dries? It screams, with a puffed chest of curling pages like the arms of a roiling sea monster. Julius Freedman shows us this and more, as he takes on the book as both physical and symbolic object. In a sequence of building images, The Book begins with a book as art in its purest form—its complex leather bindings, the embedded tabs of a dictionary, the pages of sophisticated rag or weave. Then books begin to take flight, with pages misshapen, eventually cracking and splitting from their spines, the print itself escaping, until we enter the realm of collage, yet always tethered to the concept of a book itself. Is a book a mere extension of our memories, or does it go deeper than its byproduct overlap with our brains? If Gabriel Garcia Marquez created a book to fit his prose, it might result in one of Freedman’s constructions. The organization, as well as thoughtful commentary by Pico Iyer and Jill Gage, strike the right balance with the art presentation. Unique, whimsy, thought-provoking, this beautiful coffee table edition is worthy of any collection. but it is so much more. It envelopes the very concept of the book itself. Bravo. President Nixon’s legacy, and resulting long shadow over history, rests with two monumental blunders unknown to most people. He took the US dollar off the gold standard, resulting in a global currency destabilization that may soon come home to roost. In addition, he canceled the Saturn V rocket—the largest rocket ever assembled by mankind, the rocket that would have launched astronauts to Mars. Without either of those decisions, the US space program might have already colonized the red planet and would have the money to accomplish it. After a fifty-year malaise, NASA lacks both the funding and the technological will to get the job done. Although it appears to be catching up for lost time, it has purposefully suffered from a presidential lack of vision leading from Nixon to Obama. In short, the US is decades behind where it should be. Make no mistake about it; going as far back as the Mercury Program days and beyond, Mars has always been the goal. Its similarity to Earth and its close proximity to the mineral-rich asteroid belt make it the ultimate target within our solar system. Petranek covers the basics of a potential trip to and the colonization of Mars in what appears to be a reprint of a TED lecture rather than any in-depth discussion on the topic. Still, he covers the necessary points regarding why, how, and then what happens next. Achieving Mars will be complicated. If cutting-edge engine technology doesn’t pan out, the trip will be a minimum of six to ten months, all the while exposing humans to an unprecedented level of radiation that doesn’t cease once they reach the planet. On the surface, humans must immediately tend to the basics of food, water, oxygen, and shelter. Temperatures range from 80 degrees to -225 degrees Fahrenheit, and the atmosphere is toxic. Luckily but not easily, Mars has water frozen at the poles, in regolith rock, and perhaps below the surface, and if you can reclaim water, you can make all the oxygen you require. The author sticks with the theory that travelers to Mars will never return to Earth. This opposes a more ambitious plan for a Mars cycler commuting between planets while carrying passengers and cargo. Regardless of the approach, early arrivals to Mars will need to bring everything they need to survive, but to establish a colony, they’ll need to generate all vital staples on-site, including growing plants to eat and creating parts for repair and construction. Eventually they’ll go about the process of terraforming the surface to sustain life. A few theories regarding this latter transformation are kicked around in this book as well. At times, the author pays too much homage to private enterprise players such as Elon Musk, but given NASA’s slowed pace and funding, it’s logical that humans aren’t going to reach Mars without the commercial interests of partners. Virtually no great human migration has been accomplished on idealism alone. For example, Christopher Columbus, like the Vikings before him, traveled to the New World in search of treasure for his homeland. Later on, the Pilgrims arrived via private funding with the hope of establishing a regular income stream for their investors. Mars is the New World, and like the explorers that preceded them on Earth, travelers to Mars will go to change their lives, discover new frontiers for the species, and harvest the planet’s riches. Before long, our descendants will not return to Earth, but become Martians for future generations. This book provides an overview of how that might happen. If your introduction to Vic Chesnutt was the benefit album Sweet Relief II, you quickly moved past the great celebrity performances and asked: Who is this songwriter and why haven’t I heard of him before? If you still haven’t heard of Chesnutt—or the author of this book for that matter—you’d better go record shopping this afternoon before someone spots your musical blind spot. Regardless, in this haunting, poetic, musical road show memoir, singer/songwriter Kristin Hersh takes us inside her friendship with Chesnutt. Her experience is as insightful to a musician’s life as it is to the human existence—constantly probing and reevaluating self-understanding along with her footing on the planet. Chesnutt, paralyzed since eighteen years of age, is a songwriter’s songwriter, whose catalogue has been rerecorded and admired for decades. He passed away on Christmas 2009 after an apparent self-induced overdose. He would likely find the sentimentality of that date to be nauseating. There was very little he wouldn’t poke fun of, including himself. He came across as somewhat twisted by life’s cruel blows and ironies, but he was beautiful as well, like a modern sculpture that acknowledges the past but rearranges it in a compelling way. As Hersh says, “he was broken in all the right places.” Listening to his songs, you had the feeling that you were always hearing the real Vic Chesnutt. Much of this book covers a shared tour when Chesnutt was a decade or more into a brilliant career launch and Hersh was composing one of her best solo albums. You’ll understand Hersh’s must-have Sunny Border Blue better after reading this book. The line between Chesnutt’s everyday discourse and songs will be blurred. From town to town and stop to stop, as their vigilant spouses watch and occasionally mop up after them, Chesnutt and Hersh bounce off each other intellectually and emotionally, achieving spare equilibrium in one of the truly unique musical relationships. The ending is the curtain fall you expected, although the author fights hard to meter her words while the songwriter fights just as hard to mute her sound regarding the event. Grief doesn’t get processed in a minute, a day, a year. 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If you do not want your literary executor to manage certain work or have specific powers, including exclusive negotiation rights or the assignment of a successor, these aspects should be specifically outlined in the document that assigns your literary executor. One compromise is to have your literary executor act as an experienced advisor to your heirs, consulting with them on all decisions and then implementing agreed upon terms. Assigning a literary executor is not all about contract negotiation and oversight. It also involves handling your literary papers and letters. Robert Gover had told me that some of his manuscripts and letters were already stored at the Boston University’s Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center, and so it made sense to move his remaining papers to that institute—a process that took over a year to bring to fruition. Otherwise, I would have had to locate a respectful archive for his papers. For the Eric Hoffer estate, his papers had already been stored at the Hoover Institute, but with regular rights inquiries, it was important to have access to existing contracts in order to help avoid copyright conflicts. I began collecting contracts before his initial heir died. (I was not there when Hoffer died, but brought on by his initial heir.) Obtaining copies of existing contracts is a protracted process. In my experience, publishers will be intentionally unhelpful. They have a long history of hiding royalties from authors, as well as assuming rights that they had never obtained. Make sure your literary executor knows everything you do, so he/she can make the best decisions. Slapping a firm letter on a publisher with the power of an informed literary executor is better on any day than filing a lawsuit. The big publishers will out-wait and out-lawyer you every time. Unless something unusual happens like a late surge in the popularity of your work, managing your literary estate requires the most work immediately following your death. First, there are your papers to deal with. Also, your literary executor might be called upon to assess the value of your literary estate. During probate or later financial inquiries, your literary estate might be measured regarding worth and potential earnings. Your literary executor might even have to destroy portions of your papers in order to preserve your legacy. If you trust your literary executor, and you should, give him/her that right. He/She will be looking out for you in your absence. As authors, we sometimes hold onto early, inferior manuscripts that we should have burned a long time before our passing. Do you think Emily Dickinson wishes she had a literary executor who might have destroyed the so-so novel of a legendary poet and kept it from being published? From what I’ve learned about her demanding and independent personality, I would guess the answer is yes. Considering the effort that might be in store for your literary executor, a 10% to 20% payment on royalties is reasonable. (Again, your state laws may limit/specify executor payments.) Your literary executor likely will be doing all of the work, while your heirs cash checks. For Gover, I do it as a labor of love. For the Hoffer estate, I field regular rights and usage inquiries that must be investigated, negotiated, and perhaps declined. It is a nontrivial effort, which the earnings percentage that I receive helps salve. As I write this article, I realize that I have not yet considered my own literary executor. I have published several books and scripts, and there are various contracts, royalties, and projects in the works at stake. Furthermore, I have specific desires about how I’d like my work to be managed in perpetuity, and I also need to consider the succession for the literary estates that I handle. While I hope to be around for some time yet, I plan on lining up my literary executor and successors well in advance. Many of those people are already obvious to me. I imagine your potential literary executor will be obvious to you. Don’t wait too long. Solidify your literary legacy now. The above article is practical advice for authors, not legal advice for individuals setting up a will. Probate laws and requirements vary from state to state. Seek professional advice where necessary. No one likes to think about wills or insurance policies. It’s the stuff that reminds us of our mortality, yet helps define our legacy. Legacy planning requires thoughtful reflection and the selection of the correct, living people to manage it. When you’re gone, you’ll have little control over what happens next. You can either prepare for the best outcome while you walk the Earth or leave your heirs with chaos, feuding, and probate courts. Your heirs will have varying degrees of concern for your legacy, ranging from not-at-all through avarice to sincere compassion for your work. Get control of the process now. As an author, you have a special addendum to your legacy known as your literary estate. This involves the administration of your published and unpublished work, letters, papers, royalties, and contracts. You’ll need someone you can trust to manage your literary estate who will look after both your interests and integrity as an author. The reason why you don’t see the Ernest Hemingway Big Game Rifle or the Jack Kerouac Touring Tires is because they have the correct person managing their legacies. The person who will manage your literary estate is known as a Literary Executor. 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I am a member of the Author’s Guild, which defends authors on various copyright and literary concerns, but even their legal council had no advice other than a general disclaimer that they would not be advising me on this matter. Furthermore, Gover had limited funds near the time of this death, and so hiring the correct yet expensive attorney to draw up paperwork was out of the question. If you own a wealthy literary estate or you possess the financial means, you should hire a publishing-experienced attorney to establish your literary legacy. Unfortunately for most authors, the cost of this attorney would erase any hope of profit and thereby eliminate a primary factor of managing a literary estate in perpetuity. In the case of Gover’s literary estate, I sought a document that assigned my position. The answer was a simple letter from Gover, declaring me as his literary executor to manage all of the aforementioned factors that go with those duties in the event of his death. In his advanced age, I typed it up for him and had a professional notarize the document. A Notary Public can be found at a nearby bank, post office, shipper, or even an attorney’s office. You might have one in the family. The point was to have Gover assign me as his literary executor (and my appointed duties) in clear language on a document with a witnessed signature. Having secured that, I was a literary executor for the first time. Without that document, all control of his literary estate would be left in the hands of his heirs. If your literary estate is significant—that which will generate an inheritance tax for example—consider having your literary executor specified in your will. This will require a visit to an experienced attorney. It’s also a good idea to sit down with your heirs in advance and explain to them who will be managing your literary estate if it will not be your heirs directly. You want no surprises. 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Nike comes up with another epic video campaign about the arguably greatest basketball player in the world today, Kobe Bryant. The video is about Kobe's one-on-one battle against the dreaded Achilles Injury. Of course, Kobe won that battle en route to making a return few days ago. The Lakers lost to the Raptors in Kobe's season debut, but still the good news is that he is back after suffering a torn Achilles tendon. Nike knows the importance of that comeback not only for Kobe's career but also for the happiness of his millions of fans and the LA Lakers fans all over the world as well. No wonder they come up with this epic video campaign. "If he never got up, he'd still be called a hero. And if he hadn't stepped back on to the court, he'd still be a Hall of Famer. And if he didn't hit those free throws, he would still go down in basketball history. And if he never came back to the game, he'd be a living legend. But he wouldn't be Kobe Bryant."

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On the phone last night my roving fashion reporter described many of the ladies' outfits at Ascot this year as 'lovely', 'nice' or 'beautiful'; some of the hats were a 'little over the top' and others just plain 'awful'. Brilliant - that's exactly my kind of fashion reporting, a complete contrast to some of the verbiage the BBC's James Sherwood came out with on Radio Four this morning. At one point he talked about ladies who 'know how to wear a hat' - and there I was thinking the ladies in question just sat the old titfer on their barnet and proceeded to walk about underneath it. Giles Smith, picking up on the dapper James Sherwood theme, writes in today's Times, 'The top-hatted Sherwood is taken to talking with his eyes closed, which you have to be fantastically posh to get away with.' I'm not so sure on that one, Giles; most mornings Mrs Tips tells me I was talking in my sleep the night before but I'd hardly describe my upbringing as 'posh' - we thought knives and fork were pieces of jewellery until the age of eight. Enough of that drivel, let's get on to tomorrow's racing. Nine go to post for the King Edward VIIth Stakes due off at 3.05. The Derby form is primarily represented by Lucarno and Salford Mill. On the book Lucarno is the choice but Salford Mill came from a long way back that day and could be dangerous if ridden closer to the pace. David Elsworth's string are in good form, so Salford Mill is the selection. In the Coronation Stakes at 3.45 likely favourite Finsceal Beo could be vulnerable after recently running three Group 1 races in three weeks. Darjina has already taken her scalp and gets the vote. Mark Winstanley was very bullish about John Oxx's Arch Swing after her second in the Guineas at Newmarket in May but the horse ran no race whatsoever last time out. I'm prepared to give this filly another chance; she makes some each way appeal at around 14/1. Salford Mill (11/2) ran a disappointing race to finish seventh of the nine runners, although the rain is unlikely to have helped his cause. On ground that was riding good to soft 7/2 shot Darjina had no answer to Indian Ink's burst at the furlong pole, finishing 6 lengths third. 10/1 chance Arch Swing showed her last run to be wrong finishing a respectable fourth.

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It’s been a while since the last devlog. I had some other projects to follow and a lot of stuff to do, but here I am. Let’s jump right into the subject: this post is about level design and my approach to level design in Steady Drop. In this I started to think about full procedural generation where I put the rules into the algorithm and the level are generated with no manual level design at all. Sure, great approach, but I’ve found is not really suitable for what I wanted to do. Since the only level I have is potentially infinite I though more like a sequential loading. Eventually I came out with a type of sequential loading where the level is loaded from basic parts that I call “slot”. The slots are loaded when needed progressively as long as the character falls down and are deleted/disabled when are offscreen because they are not usable anymore. The main operations of loading and deleting is shown in this code snippets below. Basically, the slots are divided by difficulty in different pools and since the difficulty is progressively increased as the player goes down, a random slot are picked from a pool of the current difficulty. In this way each slot has to be independent from others and still give a sense of flow and continuity when put in a slot chain, so I had to find a easy method to create a set of separate slots that convey flow. In the last couple of months I started to read about different techniques of level design along with image composition, functional level design, “level design has to serve the gameplay” and others best practices and tips on the matter. Finally, I found that this approach on Gamasutra could be very suitable for what I was trying to achieve, and you will find references of it in the following explanation of my level design pipeline. Basically what I’ve done are very simple few steps. Defining the component palette: all the enemies, obstacles and even the player. Divide a blank sheet on three and drawing a curved path on each part. This is my ideal falling path, my flow. Mark the points of the path that are on the center and draw a horizontal line. In this way the horizontal line delineate a slot. In the slide-show you can find an example of what I’ve done. I chose to divide the vertical column when the flow pass through the center because in this way every slot has its flow starting and ending in the same area and they can be put in random order and still maintain a pretty consistent flow. In this way during the game, each slot can be randomly loaded as needed from a set of independent slots (like shown above). I hope you liked this post :-). The next post I will explain the point system and the overall logic, stay tuned for more devlogs and other articles.

http://www.michelemantovan.com/steady-drop-log-3/

Police said today that a deadly grenade blast here was likely motivated by business rivalry among underworld figures, eliminating terrorism as a motive. Kuala Lumpur Criminal Investigation Department chief SAC Gan Kong Keng also told reporters that the hand grenades used in the explosion outside Sun Complex in Bukit Bintang here were not locally made. “Believed to be business-related,” Gan told a press conference.

http://www.bohtong.org/2014/10/kl-grenade-blast-work-of-gangs.html

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Pollution levels in Delhi have reached epic proportions, lakes in Bangalore are foaming and catching fire, and garbage is piling along our streets in ever-increasing quantities. All this morbid news comes with a silver lining: A marked increase in civil society’s awareness of local issues, especially in urban areas. NGOs, social enterprises and start-ups have begun to deliver local solutions to local problems. The government of India with its Swachh Bharat mission has also joined in, bringing all its firepower. This infectious enthusiasm, however, faces several pitfalls that we must avoid if we are to achieve even moderate success. The first pitfall is that of scale. Despite having lost some sheen, the idea of one-size-fits-all continues to fester. Not enough attention is paid to the possibility that it may fail if we try to take it out of the environment in which it was born. Also, trained model thinking often ignores corruption and oligopolies that prevent the most optimal solution from being implemented. For example, consider Bangalore and its ever-growing problem of solid waste management. A solution that has been proposed is segregation at source — a model that has worked reasonably well in the West. However, while some people may segregate their waste by choice, a few may only do so when there is punitive action, while others may not do it even if there’s the threat of a hefty fine or a jail term. It’s an open secret that segregation at source is disadvantageous to the garbage mafia in Bangalore (that rakes its dues from the government based on the weight of garbage in trucks) and, therefore, no amount of waste-profiling or optimal disposal route-mapping will complete the loop and result in tangible outcomes. The solution is not to do away with model thinking but instead operate carefully, under the perpetual assumption that scaling will not work unless proven otherwise. A second and related obstacle is the over-dependence of data-driven decision-making. The walk from raw data to report can create an illusion that all has been accounted for, but the data we get is wrought with inconsistencies and potential errors. More importantly, the back story for every data set collection is washed away when combined with data coming from other reports or for the purpose of brevity. For instance, Karnataka achieved the 100 per cent toilets mark in all its schools last year, a feat that was tempered somewhat by the data that said 5,344 were dysfunctional. At around 5 per cent of the total toilets in the state, the figure doesn’t look too bad on paper. But the cracks are in the meta-data: A toilet is considered dysfunctional only when there’s no water for cleaning. Our organisation works with schools in improving sanitation and local issues across Karnataka and what we have seen in a recent survey we conducted is that only 17% of toilets were actually usable. Many had been bolted to avoid the hassle of cleaning, some appropriated as toilets for teachers and staff, and a few clogged and rendered unusable. Data-based decision-making is here to stay, but real solutions are possible only when data is highly granular. We must operate under the assumption that data-based recommendations are useless unless the underlying data is ground-truthed and verified against the experience of local-level administrators and civil society. A third drawback is our narrative — a narrative that is devoid of any attempts to woo the youth towards social change. Let’s look at the numbers — 10 million Indians graduate every year in this country and only one million get jobs. The mismatch in career and ambition with interest and passion is largely to blame for this. Students hop onto the engineering or medicine train in millions, unable by circumstance to decide for themselves. This leaves nine million unemployed and disgruntled youth, who have the potential to change society but are not given any impetus. It is not enough to dole out lessons in civic and environmental responsibility and hope for change without providing the necessary platform or opportunity for youth to explore their potential. India’s famed demographic dividend is slipping away between our fingers, even as we gloat about it in the rest of the world and unless we do something about it that is quick and effective on a local scale, we will have to start preparing for a demographic liability. The last pitfall is that of confusing perception with reality. In the age of social media and instant gratification, it is easy to get frustrated by bureaucracy and government. And it is equally easy to quell that frustration with a few photo-ops, a strongly worded tweet or an emphatic ratification by a television presenter. I spent eight months collecting garbage in Bangalore, doing the safai karamchari’s job and sharing their space. The journey was deeply humbling, and provided a strong impetus for my life goals. There are thousands who are just as enthusiastic as I am and waiting to solve problems, but do not have the right tools or environment. The disillusioned millions hold the key to a better India. It is only a matter of time before they burst onto the scene and be the change they wish to see. Join us in our mission to solve tough civic and environmental issues using innovation and data, check out www.reapbenefit.org..

https://reapbenefit.org/2019/03/20/national-problems-local-solutions/

Several hours before serving the salad (or even the day before), prepare potatoes. Cut the potatoes into quarters and put them into a saucepan. Cover with water, heat the water to boil, and simmer the potatoes until they can be pierced with a fork (about 15 minutes). Drain and cool. To prepare the salad: Place the dandelion shoots or leaves, potatoes, egg, and garlic in a mixing bowl. In a separate bowl, prepare the dressing: Mix the vinegar, oil, and salt. Pour over the dandelion mixture and toss.

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04/02/2018 - 04/06/2018 Please note all PJCC recipes are vegetarian. Recipes and ingredients may vary and/or change due to availability and subject to instructor’s discretion. Place all the rice noodles in a large bowl. Pour hot water to cover and set aside for 20 minutes. For the sauce combine brown sugar, fish sauce, spy sauce and lime juice in a bowl. Whisk to combine all ingredients. In a large skillet, heat oil on medium heat. Swirl it around to coat sides. Add shallot and garlic stirring until tender. Combine the remaining vegetables quickly stirring. Add in whisked egg stirring constantly to scramble. Add the drained noodles and stir constantly, flipping the noodles continuously for 1 minute. Add the Sauce mixture to coat evenly. If noodles are not quite soft, add a bit of water a little at a time until they soften up.

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Collaborative R&D between academia and industry has been a primary driver for the creation of innovative technologies for many years. Challenges associated with bridging cultural and communication divide between academia and the industry, however, has remained a consistent impediment in fostering such collaborations. Recognizing the value and relevance of such collaboration, particularly in recent times, considerable effort is currently being made by academic institutions to engage in partnership development with the industry. This session will discuss some of the major initiatives undertaken by Universities to reinvigorate its research culture with an aim to promote greater long-term relationships with industrial partners.

https://www.rd100conference.com/conference/sessions/76/session-2-responsibilities-rd-community-next-gener/

9 out of 10 based on 932 ratings. 3,873 user reviews. News Report – An example Car thief caught trapped in target vehicle Jim Day, Staff Reporter Wed Feb 25, 2009 Day 2: Writing a News Report Rough Notes Important Discovery Made By Local Student Task: Write a news report based on the headline and picture below. There are times when a teacher gives a theme or topic, but expects students to come up with a specific focus on their own. For example, he may assign a report on great inventors of the 1800s, but not on a specific historical figure. schoolsschools. This sample news report template will prove to be of great help for a new reporter planning to write a news report. It gives a sample article on the first page, and a news report chart on the next page that has to be filled in by the reporter. Although a news story can be creative and entertaining, too. Check out the examples below. It is important to remember that both news and features demand the same level of research and reporting. Read examples of news and feature articles from the Scholastic Kids Press Corps. Read them all, then write your own articles modeled after them.

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A manager/supervisor has a unique positon to utilize policies, programs, resources and best practices to establish positive culture and behavior. In a large organization such as UC Davis, managers and supervisors have the flexibility to find and utilize vast available resources, coupled with their own discretion and management style, to create an environment with systems supporting employee well-being. A manager/supervisor is primarily responsible for the extent to which any employee on their team either engages or does not engage with wellness offerings and worklife programming. Every manager/supervisor has the opportunity to either act as a cultivator or as a gatekeeper. Health and Well-being programming can often be spread through several units on the typical University of California Campus. A google or campus search can be the best resource for finding exactly what you need. Posters and Infographics for physical workspaces (breakrooms, restrooms and printers are a great location). Regular meetings: Schedule a well-being topic into staff meetings. For example, during Plan your Vacation month (observed in January) sit down with a calendar and the whole team to encourage taking their earned vacation and make a staffing plan for the year to accommodate unit or department needs. Alternatively, simply schedule a free financial education series with a once-a term workshop to instill knowledge and confidence in your staff. Personal check-ins with your staff: This allows you to determine if they have any specific concerns for which you can provide resources. Brush-up on listening skills. Manager Support: an employee’s direct supervisor who can be the biggest obstacle or influence (multiplier/cultivator or gatekeeper). Team/Peer Support: the people an employee directly works with every day/typically same manager. Social networks: formal and informal networks that provide support for well-being improvement. Physical Work Environment: the characteristics that make up an employee’s physical space. Strategic alignment: direct connect between business strategy, people strategy and wellbeing initiatives. This can easily be tied to providing “meaning” in work for employees. Leadership support: primary messengers of business strategy and the importance of employee well-being. Well-being tools and programs: an organization’s well-being activities, tools, policies, guidelines, campaigns, platforms and programs. Culture: the underlying norms, values and beliefs of an organization that drive employee behavior. University of California and the individual campus locations already have multiple policies and programming (strategic alignment) to encourage and support well-being. Tap into these. The data shows that employees are more likely to feel higher levels of well-being when they feel higher levels of organizational support. 72% of employees with high well-being say they also have high organizational support. (Limeade/QuantumWorkplace 2015) The opposite is true, too — employees are more likely to feel lower levels of well-being when they perceive lower organizational support. Many companies and organizations institute wellness programs that focus on encouraging employees to eat better or exercise more. Meanwhile, they overlook the atmosphere of the workplace setting itself. We need to get serious about creating a workplace where people feel valued, trusted, and respected, where they are engaged in their work and can get home in time for family dinner. A strong manager relationship leads to more productive, efficient and loyal employees who create less conflict. Employees supervised by a highly engaged manager are 59% more likely to be engaged. When employees feel their employer cares about their well-being, they’re 38% more likely to be engaged. “Culture is the collective values, norms and beliefs of the organization — also known as “how things are done around here.” It’s the backdrop for everything that happens at your company and the day-to-day experience. Organization and Unit Culture should be aligned with business strategy. A culture’s characteristics are not overt or concrete, but they’re nonetheless powerful because they shape employee behavior — telling people what to pay attention to, what things mean, how to react emotionally and how to behave. Culture is ubiquitous throughout the organization, even though it may present itself differently from one department to the next. Whether a culture is “good” or “bad” is relative, depending on the behavior and results it drives. Ideally, the culture should foster an environment that produces or enhances employee engagement. The 4-Drive Theory of Employee Motivation states that there are four main drives that motivate employees. Leaders can begin to influence and start to fulfill each of these drives by using some of the systems and processes they already have in place. Changes and enhancements to those systems can help the organization become one in which employees can satisfy their drives and become highly motivated. Drive A: Acquire and Achieve: This drive encompasses extrinsic elements that are both physical (i.e., money, things) and emotional (i.e., recognition). This drive is satisfied primarily through an organization’s total reward system but can be enhanced through direct manager/supervisor recognition efforts. Drive B: Bond and Belong: (social creatures, social component of work) This drive is about more than just one-on-one relationships, it includes our drive to belong to things such as a team or clique. This drive is heavily dependent on Organizational Culture and can be enhanced by managers/supervisors through the promotion of team-building exercises and encouragement of pro-social work environments. Drive C: Create and Challenge: This drive is not just about learning but about mastering challenges. We are innately driven to tackle challenges that are placed in front of us. This drive is dependent upon job and organizational structure as well as manager/supervisor skills and encouragement of Professional Development to optimize opportunities to learn and grow. Managers/supervisors should aim to place staff in the sweet spot between difficulty and skill (FLOW) in order to reduce anxiety/stress and maintain interest in tasks. Drive D: Define and Defend: We defend those institutions and beliefs that we hold dear and with which we find meaning and passion for purpose. This drive is met through an employee feeling alignment and connection to the organization. The manager/supervisor can leverage motivation finding meaning in the noble goals and mission of the University of California. Focus on all four drives simultaneously: Research shows that weakness on fulfilling one of the 4-Drives negatively affects how the company or leader performs on the other three. Individualize Motivation: Research indicates that different demographics and personalities respond differently to the 4-drives. Identify the top motivation for each employee to customize. Communicate Effectively: Great leaders create the talking points that get discussed. Explain the multiple reasons of each action. Experiment: Employee motivation is an on-going commitment that requires thought, experimentation and adjustment. Managers and supervisors should implement new structures and processes and see how they work, add a new twist on an old program, do something new or stop doing something always done. Managers and supervisors are in a unique position to help shape the work culture and inspire a commitment to health and well-being by empowering the people you work with to learn more about their health. By participating in health promoting activities and encouraging your co-workers to take small steps towards a healthier lifestyle, you can make a difference. First, being in the manager/supervisor role, you have particular well-being challenges that must be addressed as self-care issues. Modeling behaviors for the sake of “being a good role-model” is not effective. Make a conscious decision to enhance your personal well-being and the subsequent actions and results will indeed be that authentic “role-model” you strive to be. Second, model behavior that encourages healthy worklife and wellness practices. This makes it easier to incorporate well-being practices into your management style for your unit. Specifically, establish the following well-being practices and follow them yourself! Once you have established some well-being practices in your modeling behavior, build upon these new baselines of well-being to enhance your team with specific tools and programming. The sections on Creating Worklife Integration and Creating A Healthy Work Environment provide specific tips. Include a conversation about healthy lifestyles and the wellness initiatives during a new employee’s first days of employment. Explain campus well-being programming and how it can be accessed. Announce your support for participating in well-being programming. Align cultural touch points which are formal and informal policies and procedures such as rewards, communication and training with health and well-being. Monitor and celebrate success so that individual and group-level health and well-being goals are set and progress recognized. Share the well-being vision, including how worklife and wellness is being defined, why it is important and how employees can participate in campus well-being initiatives. Introduce and endorse well-being initiatives and programs through emails or postings. Encourage staff to join email lists or social media of campus-units that house worklife and wellness offerings. Provide incidental flex-time within the workday (using lunch and break times or start/stop times) for employees to have the ability to attend campus-sponsored well-being resources. Explore our campus resources to see how to integrate established well-being programming into your work environment. Establish a wellness ambassador for your group. Explore the use of Flexible Work Arrangements. Schedule a team “Plan your Vacation” calendaring meeting. Pass on information about campus support groups such as the Breastfeeding Support or Adult Caregiver Support groups. Encourage group attendance at the myriad of well-being workshops and activities such as meditation, knitting, or lunchtime WorkLife and Wellness Workshop series. Acquaint yourself with our Financial Wellness resources and class listings, thereby reducing the number one stressor for Americans. Employee Engagement is the emotional commitment the employee has to the organization and its goals. It is the extent to which employees are motivated to contribute to organizational success and are willing to apply discretionary effort to accomplishing tasks important to the achievement of organizational goals. 1. Make sure they have the right tools they need to succeed. 2. Embrace individuality and diversity...match workers with tasks they like. 3. Foster continuous development to build skills. 4. Listen to employees and act on feedback. 5. Foster closer connections to colleagues...encourage socialization. 6. Find a way to encourage meaningful work. 7. Recognize proudly and loudly.

https://hr.ucdavis.edu/departments/worklife-wellness/managers/wbeing-toolkit/roles

Many funders require that publications are made available in open access, when these are the result of research supported by their grants. The EUR has an open access policy since 2011. Every publication should be deposited in the institutional repository RePub. When you do so, you are compliant with the open access conditions of large funders like NWO and the EU. NWO requires that researchers make their publication immediately available in Open Access at the moment of publication. You are compliant if you publish in Gold Open Access or if you deposit your publication in RePub once it is published. According to the Horizon2020 model agreement, each beneficiary must ensure Open Access (free of charge, online access for any user) to all peer-reviewed scientific publications relating to its results. The EU accepts an embargo period of 6 months (sciences) up to 12 months (humanities and social sciences). You are compliant if you publish in Gold Open Access or if you deposit your publication in RePub. Researchers receiving an ERC-grant should deposit their publications in an international depository by discipline (PubMed central for life sciences, Zenodo for articles in other discplines and OAPEN for books) or an institutional repository. You are compliant if you deposit your publication in Repub and you can additionally publish in gold open access. What does the publisher allow me to do? When you are uncertain whether your publisher allows you to deposit your article or which version to deposit, you can check the conditions at Sherpa/RoMEO.

https://www.eur.nl/en/campus/university-library/research-support/open-access/open-access-requirements

The aim of the Journal of Advanced Laboratory Research in Biology is to provide the scientific research papers and articles on new developments in the fields of biology and to act as a platform for the exchange of information between the academicians, professionals and industrial researchers. The emphasis will be on publishing quality research papers rapidly and freely available to researchers worldwide. Journal of Advanced Laboratory Research in Biology serves an important role by encouraging, fostering and promoting developments in biology. It is an open access journal, which publishes original research papers, Review Articles, Case Reports and Short Articles in all areas of biology and at the interface of related disciplines. GMT+9 2019-04-23 11:16:16 Processed in 0.30080986022949 s.

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Builder's Engineer: COMPUTATION OF COLLAPSE SETTLEMENT: Foundations on Collapsible Soils. COMPUTATION OF COLLAPSE SETTLEMENT: Foundations on Collapsible Soils. 1. Insert two identical undisturbed samples into the rings of two oedometers. 2. Keep both the specimens under a pressure of 1 kN/m2 (= 0.15 lb/in2) for a period of 24 hours. 4. After the completion of 24 hour flooding, continue the consolidation tests for both the samples by doubling the loads. Follow the standard procedure for the consolidation test. as shown in Fig. 18.5 for normally consolidated soil. From e-log p plots, obtain the initial void ratios of the two samples after the first 24 hour of loading. It is a fact that the two curves do not have the same initial void ratio. The total overburden pressure p0 at the depth of the sample is obtained and plotted on the e-log p curves in Figs 18.5 and 18.6. The preconsolidation pressures pc are found from the soaked curves of Figs 18.5 and 18.6 and plotted. are defined in Fig. 18.6.

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The Pope comes to America. What a perfect time to reflect on the power and majesty of God’s Church, the Catholic Church. Christ Jesus built His Church upon His Rock, that Rock being Peter, the first pope. Pope Francis is the 266th Roman pope in a line that can be traced directly back to Peter. I read a letter in the Wall Street Journal this morning with that same old tired diatribe that pro lifers don’t care about the kid after he or she is born. The Mainstream Media (MSM) states that Catholic Charities supports the Obama Mandate requiring Catholic organizations to provide abortifacients, sterilization, and contraception to their employees. “Any representation to the contrary is false,” Catholic Charities said. The Obama Administration is attempting to divide the Catholic community. The MSM is quick to report any perceived divides to support the president and his anti-religion policies. They jumped the gun on this issue. Catholic Charities is not supporting the president.

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Pow-Wow Days are here again! It’s another quintessential morning here in Los Angeles, California. Yesterday, it was hot in Hollywood - literally. A huge fire took out some of the historic buildings and sets on the Universal Studios lot, yet the show went on the same evening for the MTV Movie Awards at the Gibson Amphitheater, which is right up the hill on the same property. Sometimes I have to pinch myself that I live here, because with all the history of the movies and television all around me, it’s hard to not feel like the star of my own TV show. As magic as it can be here in Hollywood, I frequently get the call to travel to far and distant places to play my artistic trade. Because I am truly a Kickapoo Indian Woman, I always have my bag packed and ready to go. Recently, I was honored to perform my one-woman show “The Red Road” as part of the 16th ASSITEJ World Youth Theater Festival in Adelaide, Australia. There were participants from over fifty countries and “The Red Road” was the first time a Native American performer had been invited to present their work as part of the international events. The festival directors made a point to honor the Aboriginal people of Adelaide. They asked Native Voices at the Autry’s Artistic Director Randy Reinholz (Choctaw), Production Manager Rose-Yvonne Colletta (Mescalero Apache/Lipan) and me to present local elders from the Kaurna People with a traditional honoring from Native America. We presented them with Pendleton Blankets and other gifts from around Indian Country and they presented us with gifts of possum fur bundles wrapped with eagle feathers. One of my huge worries (aside from being the sole artistic representative of Native America!) was whether the down-home Native humor of “The Red Road” would translate to an international audience. To get “The Red Road” into shape, I worked extensively with Jean Bruce Scott, the fantastic Executive Director of Native Voices at the Autry, along with Kristof Konrad, an expert Alexander Technique movement coach. We worked on all eleven characters in the show, making sure each was distinct and on-target. The hours of rehearsal paid off as ASSITEJ Festival audiences warmly received the show. Even a group of Korean actor/dancers were compelled to enthusiastically clap along with each song in the show. Talk about a slam dunk. Score one for Native America! The Queensland Library recently received a multi-million dollar facelift and “The Red Road” was the very first theater production in their new auditorium. On the day of the show, Jean Bruce Scott, Rose-Yvonne Colletta, Wacky Productions’ CEO Janet Miner and I visited the Aboriginal Center For The Performing Arts and enjoyed several dance performances. Afterwards, we spoke to the students about becoming professional performers and finding work in the entertainment business. It’s always a pleasure to share what I’ve learned with young folks! The students returned the favor and came with their families to the performance of “The Red Road” and laughed and applauded with gusto. It was almost as good as performing for local Native crowds in Tulsa, OK and Albuquerque, NM. Many of the Aboriginal attendees told me after the show they were surprised to realize that our communities had so much in common. With this success under my belt, it’s now on to a summer of shows around the U.S. – which brings me back to Pow-Wow Days. I was the host and performer at the Muscogee (Creek) Nation Festival in Okmulgee, Oklahoma on June 20 and 21st. I was honored to perform for my Mom’s people (she’s an enrolled Creek) and excited for the opportunity to open for country legend John Anderson. There will be tons of activities for the whole family, including sports, arts and even a PRCA Rodeo. “The Red Road” is also returning as part of the prestigious Idyllwild Native Arts Festival. The festival takes place from July 6-11th in the beautiful mountain community of Idyllwild, California near Temecula. “The Red Road” will be the culminating event of the festival on Friday, July 11th at 6:30 pm. All of the lectures and events are open to the public. Check out the Idyllwild Arts Festival link at the end of the article. The Kickapoo Tribe of Kansas has also included me as part of the entertainment for their upcoming Kickapoo Pow-Wow Days near Horton, Kansas. I’ll be performing on Saturday, July 19th. It’s going to be a real treat to meet some of my northern cousins. Wherever you find yourself this summer Pow-Wow season, stay safe and think kindly of others. If you’ve got an extra Pow-Wow chair, bring it with you so I’ll have somewhere to sit. It’s hard to fit those in the airplane’s overhead compartment. AAAY!

https://indiancountrynews.net/index.php/columnists/arigon-starr/3861-pow-wow-days-are-here-again

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Viera High's Delaney Lott, right, shares a laugh with teammate Shaine Horvath during last year's Pink Game. The Hawks will host Melbourne Central Catholic on Oct. 3 in this year's Pink Game matchup. It’s the date every Viera High School volleyball player looks forward to. And this season, that date is Oct. 3. That’s when the Hawks will host Melbourne Central Catholic in the 12th annual Pink Game. All proceeds from the event will go to benefit the Side-Out Foundation, a national organization that raises money for breast cancer research. The action will get under way at 5:15 p.m. with the freshman game, followed by the JV matchup at 6:15 and then the varsity contest which is set to begin at 7:15. Players from both teams will wear pink uniforms and fans are encouraged to wear pink shirts to the event. “It is so fun,” Viera senior Shaine Horvath said. “We love having it at home. It’s always such a huge deal. We love it when a big crowd comes out. Once again, this year’s matchup will feature basket giveaways and a serving contest for prizes. The gym’s concession stand also will be open. Viera coach Sarah Wayne, who lost her aunt to breast cancer in 2013, estimated the event has raised close to $30,000 through the years.

http://www.vieravoice.com/October-2018/Viera-volleyball-will-host-MCC-in-12th-annual-Pink-Game/

Goal: To provide a scholarship for a student with a disability in the field of Rehabilitation or a related area, Graduate or undergraduate. This includes study in the area of rehabilitation, human services, social work, psychology, occupational therapy, social work, counseling or related occupations. Be a graduate or undergraduate student in the field of rehabilitation or a related area. You may be a high school senior planning to major in the field of rehabilitation or a related area. Complete the Statement of Disability. Submit the scholarship application to: Scholarship committee, Rehabilitation Association of Nebraska, C/O Vocational Rehabilitation Services, 301 Centennial Mall South, 6th Floor, PO Box 94987, Lincoln, NE 68509-4987.

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"ACPI_SMC_PlatformPlugin::registerLPCDriver - failed to locate SMC driver" Same thing happens with 2160 and 2150. Am I missing something? The only thing I've changed on my boot partition was the 'boot' binary. Rolling back to 2050 solves the issue. Theoretically I can nail it down to a specific svn version but it's been more than a hundred of them since 2050. Were there any major changes that could have affected extension loading? My FakeSMC is located on the same partition as Chameleon (first one, hfs gpt efi) all other kexts are on the Mac OS partition (second one). I'm booting 10.8.2, the only other custom kext is VoodooHDA. Boot with UseKernelCache=n or place fakesmc.kext in /System/Library/Extensions. Thanks a lot, UseKernelCache=No did the trick! Thanks, I had the same problem. That change was a rather bold decision, IMHO. Meaning, after chameleon update people just get stuck and cannot boot anymore. Is there any technical reason? I've noticed that r2070 doesn't require 'UseKernelCache=No'. "Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans". .

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North Korea's deputy UN ambassador warned Monday that the situation on the Korean peninsula "has reached the touch-and-go point and a nuclear war may break out any moment." Kim In Ryong told the UN General Assembly's disarmament committee that North Korea is the only country in the world that has been subjected to "such an extreme and direct nuclear threat" from the United States since the 1970s — and said the country has the right to possess nuclear weapons in self-defense. North Korea's deputy UN ambassador called his country's nuclear and missile arsenal "a precious strategic asset that cannot be reversed or bartered for anything."

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We know that by turning everything to their good, God co-operates with all those who love him, with all those he has called according to his purpose. They are the ones he chose specially long ago and intended to become true images of his Son, so that his Son might be the eldest of many brothers. He called those he intended for this; those he called he justified, and with those he justified he shared his glory. Jesus said to the crowds, ‘The kingdom of heaven is like treasure hidden in a field which someone has found; he hides it again, goes off happy, sells everything he owns and buys the field. ‘Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a merchant looking for fine pearls; when he finds one of great value he goes and sells everything he owns and buys it. ‘Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a dragnet cast into the sea that brings in a haul of all kinds. When it is full, the fishermen haul it ashore; then, sitting down, they collect the good ones in a basket and throw away those that are no use. This is how it will be at the end of time: the angels will appear and separate the wicked from the just to throw them into the blazing furnace where there will be weeping and grinding of teeth. It is said, that nothing is ever as straight forward as it seems, and so it is with pearls and treasures. Just recently, in Ireland, a Chinese vase went for sale. The asking price was between €800 and €1,200. Unbeknownst to the owners they had a pearl of great price on their hands but they weren’t aware of it. It was actually a very rare piece from the short-lived Qing dynasty in China and on auction day it fetched €740.000. Around the same time, a woman in London had been wearing a ring on her finger for some thirty years, she had bought it at a second-hand sale, for a mere £15. She was under the impression it was a fake diamond ring until one day, recently, a jeweller spotted it on her finger during a visit to his shop. He told her to get it valued. To her dismay it turned out to be a 26.27 carat diamond ring. It went on auction recently with an estimated value of around £450.000. What these examples show is how our lives are shaped by our perception, taste, packaging and priorities. When Jesus came those same traits prevented most of his contemporaries from seeing who he really was. He didn’t fit their perceptions of what the Messiah should look like. In today’s language He was packaged all wrong. He was born in the wrong place, came from the wrong address and he mixed with the wrong kind of people. As a result many people missed the pearl of great price he was offering them. The pearl was the Kingdom of heaven which is of inestimable value. Jesus continually holds out the Kingdom of heaven to us. 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And so another entry was added to Every Noise at Once, McDonald's massive project to map the world's corpus of musical genres. Staring at the sprawling projection up on the wall, which resembles Mark Lombardi's unsettlingly internecine drawings of political conspiracies, one finds Polish reggae wedged roughly between Romanian pop and K-hop (or Korean hip-hop), closer in musical space to Chicago soul than it is to Finnish hip-hop. These genre clusters are created not by what the artists sound like, but how they are described in the world: on music blogs; in record-company catalogues; on your cousin's Facebook page -- anything The Echo Nest's semantic trawl pulls up. Although to human ears, there is a distinct sound to Polish reggae -- McDonald says there is a "polka-folk melody to some of it", not to mention the lyrics being in Polish -- the distinction is murkier to a computer. There are reggae bands from Bulgaria to Omaha, Nebraska, that would sound, in terms of quantitative audio signal, fairly similar. "But Polish reggae is clearly a thing," says McDonald, "and bands from Bulgaria to Omaha aren't part of it, no matter what they sound like." Every Noise at Once is more of an obsessive skunkworks-style exercise in computer learning than a revenue stream for The Echo Nest. The company grew out of research at MIT's Media Lab, and now essentially makes money as the behind-the-scenes engine powering any number of greater-known applications, from Rdio to Spotify to Yahoo! to MTV. "In some ways," says Jim Lucchese, The Echo Nest's CEO, "we're the nerds doing the cool kids' homework," adding over drinks in Tribeca in New York City that, before McDonald joined the company, his hobby was "cleaning up music metadata". But Every Noise at Once speaks to the same animating impulse on which the company was founded, as described by The Echo Nest's cofounder and chief technical officer, 36-year-old Brian Whitman. "We are trying to automatically understand everything about music," he says. "What people are saying about it, what it sounds like." That means teaching computers about human constructs such as genre, which provide handy "bookmarks", as McDonald describes it, to finding one's place in the musical universe; but which can also be imprecise or particular to a computer. Run a query for the hottest "rock" artists, he notes, and the computer returns Rihanna. With enough human guidance and algorithmic power, however, a kind of AI version of the frenzied, aspiringly omniscient hipster narrator of LCD Soundsystem's Losing My Edge ("I'm losing my edge to the internet seekers who can tell me every member of every good group from 1962 to 1978") can be created. As McDonald notes in a blog post, "our computers can now enter plausibly into arguments over almost 500 genres, from a cappella to zydeco." The Echo Nest claims to have a knowledge base of more than a trillion data points, covering more than 35 million songs and 2.5 million artists. This is music in the age of Big Data, when you can carry "almost all of recorded music in your pocket", as Echo Nest development director Paul Lamere puts it. The algorithms can rank the danceability of a tune somewhere on a spectrum of zero to one: it turns out that the Top Ten's danceability has changed little from "The Twist" to twerking, according to The Echo Nest. The listening habits of music-service users can meanwhile be tracked in real-time and correlated across their digital lives to derive powerful insights about their likely non-musical preferences. At the heart of what The Echo Nest is trying to do is not simply find the right song to play for you next, but to understand something about what it is playing and how that might relate to you. As Whitman puts it: "We're trying to get to the stuff you and I would be implicitly figuring out when we have a conversation about music, about ourselves." Generically categorising the world's recorded music is, by itself, a gargantuan task. But even more formidable is cracking who's on the other end of the signal. Democrats liked more music genres (ten) than Republicans (seven); but liking The Beatles predicted nothing in the way of political preference. Brian Whitman and Tristan Jehan, (above: left and right) cofounders of The Echo Nest, met a decade ago at the MIT Media Lab. Whitman had been recording "intelligent dance music" ("the only genre," he jokes, sitting in a conference room, "happy enough to compliment itself in its name") under the name Blitter, and found it hard, like so many musicians, to successfully do so "at scale". As he recalls, the audience "was out there, but hard to find". How could those fans be discovered and connected? Returning to his graduate studies, he began to work in natural language processing while thinking back to his original problem. He began conducting experiments such as trying to automatically extract information ("with maximal semantic value") from song reviews, even taking on Pitchfork, the granddaddy of oblique music writing. Jehan, meanwhile, was toiling in the world of "music information retrieval", a wide-ranging discipline that seeks, in essence, to break down music into its component parts; to turn it into data. This is surprisingly difficult. For example, to a computer, the harpsichord and the guitar sound rather similar. "At the end of the day, it's a plucked string," says Jehan, a stylish 39-year-old Frenchman. Or take what he calls "valence". What is a song's mood? As Lamere had joked: "The happiest thrash metal song may sound like the most angry soft rock song." Is a song such as Joy Division's major-key Ceremony happy or sad? Then there's what might be called the Bohemian Rhapsody problem. "What do you do with a song like this?" asks Jehan. "You can't just have one data point representing one thing about it." So The Echo Nest was born. The goal, Whitman says, was to get past the problems of "care and scale" that plagued the existing music recommendation and discovery technologies. Collaborative filtering ("those who bought X also bought Y") suffers on the "care" standard. "These technologies don't know about the music itself; they only know about some of the usage patterns around it," says Whitman. A Beatles album on Amazon will simply show that listeners also bought other Beatles albums, while the closed loop of popularity bias makes it nigh impossible for new music to enter the system. A service such as Pandora, Whitman argues, has expert human tagging, but fails on scale. "They've got a million songs. To us that's ridiculous. There's so much music that Pandora will never catalogue." The cramped offices of The Echo Nest are not far from both MIT and the Berklee College of Music, and the place seems to have a foot in both camps. "We understand everything there is to know about music," says Whitman, "and then do a lot of crazy stuff around that." Every so often, for instance, the company will unveil a music hack -- for instance, a "Bonhamiser" that will add the Led Zeppelin drummer's signature sound to any song; or "The Infinite Jukebox", which takes a song, breaks it down via the Echo Nest Analyzer (a piece of software that codes songs according to a number of attributes, such as "acousticness"), and will randomly jump from one part in the song to another that sounds vaguely similar, so that the song never ends. The atmosphere is a hothouse of hacker bravado and record-shop-assistant connoisseurship, something like The Social Network meets High Fidelity. The Echo Nest's algorithms also conduct searches of what's being said about music online. "We're out there crawling words," says Whitman. "If people start using a word, the system will bubble it up." If something called EDM-core -- "I'm making it up" -- starts showing up on blogs, it could become a meaningful term to associate with a number of artists. Semantic searching has its challenges, as McDonald notes. "The biggest problem is ambiguity," he says. Take something as simple as an artist's name. "There's a Polish death-metal band called Hate, there's a Compton rapper called Hate, there's a Japanese pop band called Hate." Humans can use contextual clues to disambiguate, "but the people writing about them are not putting unique identifiers about them -- it can be hard to tell which is which." The big problem with an acoustic-based recommendation system is that just because a computer deems that two things sound alike does not mean a human will. Take Miley Cyrus. "You could sort of line up Miley Cyrus with a few indie female singer-songwriters," says Lemere. "There was a very similar acoustic footprint. But you'd never put Miley in that singer-songwriter cluster -- the cultural mismatch would just be too bad." What Lemere is talking about is perhaps the greatest machine-learning challenge of all: human taste. What you listen to, Whitman argues, is the most direct route to who you are. "Music preference can predict more about you than anything else," he says. "If all I knew about you was the last five books you read, I wouldn't know much about you." Music is personal; people talk about "my music" in discussing playlists and collections. The Echo Nest, in a typical exercise called "What's Your Stereotype?", asks users to reveal the kind of music they like. It then delivers a profile; in Wired's case, it was witheringly accurate: "Hipster barista". Whitman says that although the company's algorithms had become pretty good at making sense of music, they had less of a grip "on understanding how listeners relate to it". So its latest big push is what it calls its "Taste Profile" technology. At its furthest horizon, this is about using music to understand people's other affinities. In one exercise, The Echo Nest correlated listening preferences to political affiliation (expressed via data such as Facebook Likes). It turns out that, in the US, Pink Floyd are primarily liked by Republicans. Whitman speculates this has primarily to do with the changing demographics of an ageing fan base. Mining the data revealed other tendencies: Democrats liked more music genres (ten) than Republicans (seven); but liking The Beatles predicted nothing in the way of political preference. Curiously, the least predictive of all genres when it came to political affiliation was heavy metal. Loud and rebellious apparently cuts all kinds of ways. One day, political campaigns may choose not to bother approaching voters who play a lot of Nordic metal on Spotify. But for now, a challenge looms for online listening services: maintaining listeners. A recent Echo Nest white paper notes that the majority of users of services such as Pandora and Rdio are inactive, and thus contribute little advertising value. "We have some really scary numbers from some of our customers about the sort of churn rate of people who will sign up for a free trial and never listen to anything," says Whitman. Call it search fright: you sign up for a service that has everything you could ever want to listen to, and suddenly the prospect of listening to any one thing becomes overwhelming. Not to mention the question of what to play after that. The Echo Nest believes that figuring out what kind of listener you are -- rather than just knowing what you listened to -- is the key to engagement. So it is modelling attributes such as "mainstreamness" -- how far out do your tastes go compared to other listeners'? Are Radiohead experimental for you, or about as popular as you'll go? Or what it calls "taste freeze" -- does all of your listening tend to cluster in a particular time in your life? "A lot of our customers have this problem where the people who have money to pay for a streaming service tend to be a bit older," says Whitman. "They're slowing down discovering new music. It's a big problem for [streaming services] because the more music you discover, the longer you stay on." And there is, as always, the tyranny of the skip button, which not only provides an exact measure of when a playlist stopped appealing to someone, it arguably makes it harder to deliver that playlist. Whitman notes that when The Echo Nest designed playlisting applications for radio companies, this button faced resistance from programmers. "They think the road to getting people to like a new song is forcing them to listen to it four or five times," he says. Indeed, research backs this up: in what's called the "mere exposure" effect, people's liking for all kinds of music goes up the more they are exposed to it. After all, every song is unfamiliar at some point. Of course, there is more to our relationship with music than a set of curated preferences. Whitman suggests the next frontier in discovery and playlisting will get deeper into how people actually interact with music. As he noted at a talk at Microsoft, "not just what they skip, ban and recommend, but when? Did they just break up with their girlfriend?" He calls it watching people "fumbling with music". Music today is like a non-stop sound track running through people's lives. Adrian North, a professor of psychology at Australia's Curtin University, says that music has become so pervasive that, although it still forms a central part of people's identity, "it's as though it's become so omnipresent that they've almost forgotten about it". Where it was once at the centre of vital subcultures, now "music just sits there enmeshed with a gazillion other apps on your iPhone. You can't separate your musical identity from the rest of your identity any more." Having access to any song you want has only closed this circle, says North. He points to research by his lab suggesting that people's music selection is tied to what they're doing: while commuting, for example, music is "almost like a safe haven". What's ironic, he notes, is that what makes this sort of analysis possible is the very device that's playing the music -- and those people, like The Echo Nest, that are paying attention. Lamere sees this as one of the next frontiers of music recommendation: "Being able to understand a person's context and what kind of music they want to listen to, and playing it for them." The phone, he says, "knows whether I'm running or browsing the web." But the APIs for converting this context into musical data are underdeveloped. As Whitman says, the privacy settings on smartphones typically do not apply to music apps: "They'll have to add that soon." For now, Lamere says, "our smartphones look very similar to cassette players from 30 years ago. You've got a 'play' button and that's about it." But if your phone knows so much about you -- where you are, what you are doing and what kind of music you like, why should we even have to choose the song we want to hear?

https://www.wired.co.uk/article/echo-nest

OUR Metro charges and Country girls remain undefeated through the first two days, as our Victorian high flyers have made their marks early on the Under-16 National Championships. Pumping the other states emphatically, Victoria Metropolitan boys swept aside Northern Territory and South Australia Country… but had to put in a bit harder to see off NSW Metro. Starting with a bang, the Metro men saw off NT 123-45 as Josh Woodford (21 points), Zac Taylor (20 points), Luke Cleary (18 points), Leyi Adebayo (17 points, 10 rebounds) and Lucas Faili (nine points, 13 rebounds) opened their under-16 accounts in style as the Victorians surged ahead comfortably. Darrien Herbert (18 points), Leyi Adebayo (17 points) and Paul Tsapatolis (16 points, eight rebounds) took the game on in league with Josh Woodford (14 points), Oscar Berry (13 points) and Zac Taylor (nine points, 12 rebounds). The hardest clash of the opening stanza for the Metro men came in a likely finals preview against NSW Metro. Tsapatolis (nine points), Taylor (nine points), Berry (eight points) and Woodford (eight points) pushed aside the northerners to keep the unbeaten spree going heading into Monday’s third day of competition. Pushing past QLD North 66-49, the Country girls started the tournament on the right note as Piper Dunlop (16 points, 13 rebounds), Karli Bruce (10 points, 10 rebounds) while Jade Melbourne (nine points, 12 rebounds, seven assists) worked her way towards a triple-double. It was smoother sailing on Sunday morning as the girls cantered past WA Country 83-50. The even spread was evident again as Piper Dunlop (14 points), Jade Melbourne (14 points) Olivia Pollerd (13 points) lifted the side across the line. Sunday evening proved difficult. A lot more difficult. In a frenetic scramble to the line, Jade Melbourne (15 points) hit the match-winning lay-up… with 1.31 to go. In a 66-65 clash, neither Vic Country or New Zealand could hit their shots in the dying seconds, leaving an enthralling finish to go all the way to the line. Vic Country had shared the lead with New Zealand throughout the clash, but the Kiwis threatened to pull ahead late, but Melbourne and Olivia Pollerd (10 points) clinched the victory through their hard work on offence. Alisha Knights (16 points, six rebounds, six assists) also starred in the trenches for Country. Bringing out the big guns early, the Metro girls sent the broadside through the ACT roster with a 94-45 demolition. There was no reprieve as Gemma Potter (21 points), Zoe Jenkins (13 points), Erin Riley (12 points) and Alex Keating (12 points) led from the front. Similarly comfortable on Sunday, the girls saw off NSW Country 57-36 on the back of Gemma Potter (30 points, 10 rebounds). Potter held up her end of the bargain, slashing her way through the Country contingent in league with Zoe Jenkins (nine points). The Country boys suffered on opening night at the hands of New Zealand, taking a 65-89 loss. The Kiwis exploded early on the back of Harrison Payne (23 points), Mac Stodart (19 points) and a double-double performance from Reihana Topia (11 points, 10 rebounds). In an even spread, Liam Porter (11 points), Ethan Fiegert (10 points) and Jordan Michel (10 points) flew the flag. Redemption came in the form of a thrilling two-point triumph on Sunday night as the Country boys held off Act in a 59-57 epic. Caleb Connick (12 points), Oscar Hide (10 points, 10 rebounds) and Luis D’Angelo (eight points) pushed the Country lads across the line and kept their tournament chances ticking along. Basketball Victoria will ramp up its coverage of the event starting Tuesday, so stay tuned for all the videos, galleries and insights into our four teams heading towards Saturday night’s grand finals.

http://basketballvictoria.com.au/australian-junior-championships-weekend-review/

I felt that the school aspect was not overwhelming and gave us time to explore the area and plan a weekend trip. * What do you know now that you wish you knew before going on this program? how much money we had on our school accounts for food and how much food generally costs so that I could've accounted for that.

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Washington D.C.—One of the saddest aspects of enslavement in the Americas, particular North America, is the fact that all forms of education was denied us and still is today. Blacks were forced to remain ignorant and told they have no history or culture. Well, here is the problem, most African-Americans are still void of historical knowledge particularly of their ownership to lands right here in the U.S. Blacks owned about one million square miles of land in the Louisiana Territories and the South Eastern/Florida region, as well as California. In all these areas of the U.S., there were Black African-American nations before Columbus, who were targeted for enslavement due to the Papal Edict that gave the Christian nations of Europe the go-ahead to make slaves of all descendants of Ham found in the newly discovered lands This fact cannot be denied. The essay on Black Civilizations of Ancient America, published as the great book; Susu Economics the History of Pan-African Trade, Commerce, Money and Wealth, tells a reality of this. While many of Africans’ ancestors were kidnapped in Africa, many were Africans who came from West Africa, had a number of kingdoms and empires in the Southern parts of the U.S., and who were captured, had their lands taken and their persons sold into slavery. These Africans were direct black ancestors and their had a continuing connection with West Africa which included trade and commerce on the very eve of the invasion of the Europeans to the Americas. In 1991, the U.S. returned about 68,000 square acres of land to the Washitaw Nation of Louisiana, one of the prehistoric Black nations of the United States (See www.hotep.org). This group of Blacks is the evidence of the Black ownership of land and the Black presence before English and Spanish/French colonization of North America. Many Blacks living today are descended from the pre-Columbian Black nations and it is time that issue is included in the reparation discussion. They should locate who are the descendants of these pre-Columbian African nations in the U.S. (perhaps the entire mixed African-American population, since most of these Black tribes were enslaved and shipped to plantations and mixed with Blacks from Africa). Black researchers should do the work necessary to find the documentation proving that as recently as the 1800’s, the U.S. fought with a Black nation in California called the ’Black Californians, and that that Black nation ended up on slave plantations in the U.S., while others were sent to salt mines in Mexico. The French and Spanish have documentation on the Black Washitaw Nation who once owned much of the annexed Louisiana Territories. In fact, the Washitaw Nation regard the states of Louisiana, Texas, Arkansas, Oklahoma and Mississippi as Washitaw Proper, and as of this very moment, the Washitaw Nation is recognized by nations around the world as one of the most ancient nations in the Americas (See www.hotep.org). According to an article, www.wanoline.com (see also We Are The Washitaw, the Washitaw originally came from Africa and were Africans. The Washitaw are still African Negritic peoples and they, like many of the ancient Blacks who live in the Americas became victims of the Papal Edict which opened the way for the colonialization of the New World and the taking of people into slavery and occupation of their lands. need to be in touch with my family. wow, I dont know what to say, I am all for truth and open minded, but I gotta say is there any anthropological evidence that black africans are the supposed tribe of peoples this article is describing?, It seems this website just caters to the black man, and robs alot of other cultures of their heritage. It seems that after admitting that you were ignorant of the topic and that you would need to do more research and get more information, you still attacked the work of this website. How smart of you does that sound? Are you a truth seeker or are you threatened by the truth? To a person: Europeans and their mixed offsprings robbed us of our heritage..We are just finding that out.. everything Euro-Asians have was taken from the indigenous people on this planet. “When you don’t have a past, Kill & steal.” That’s what Euro-Asians do best. Get over it, truth hurts. Do you need a bandaid, sticker, or sucker to ease the pain? It doesn’t “rob cultures” this article states that there was alot of history purposely overlooked, not taught in school. If you want the truth, it’s refreshing to find out the TRUTH. Where is the evidence of these kingdoms and empires in the Southern US? And, where is the evidence of the pyramids in West Africa? A settlement does not constitute a kingdom; nor a tribe an empire. Your exaggeration of facts and apparent ignorance of scientific proof (especially in regards to your article on the Olmecs) makes you look like the one who fears the truth. Then what is your definition of a Kingdom? Every settlement would need to have a leader so the settlement would stay civilized and in order. Africans have very ancient Kingdoms (settlements) in fact the 1st civilizations on Earth were African civilizations as Africans were the 1st people on Earth. In order to have civilization there has to be people and agriculture present as people would need food to function day to day activities. Recently a 200K yr old civilization has been found in South Africa in which a calender and statues of (Heru) Horus a Nile Valley deity has been found. The ones who fear the truth are the ones who have changed or left out historical facts throughout the diaspora and made light of significant contributions made by people of color. Not disagreeing with the black nations being here 3,000 years ago, but the notion that somehow they are “owed reparations” is sheer greed. They (and all native tribes which were here before the arrival of those horrid Europeans) ARE CONQUERED PEOPLES! So, GET OVER IT!!!! Hmmm lets see…..The so-called Jews were Conquered by Hitlers army but yet they have been awarded reparations and the Light skinned Native Americans have also been conqured by the Spanish and yet awarded reparations….Why is it every time dark skinned people ask for their compensation people want to disqualify them? Is it because the Moors ruled Spain for 700+ years before they were finally defeated? Probablly. But with this truth revealed, why wont the Europeans just admit that African Americans are in reality the decendants of Moors! That would be a reparation in and of itself. I love, love, love this website. May the Creator keep your hearts and minds clear so that you may continue feeding the souls of those who are willing and ABLE to receive this powerful information. It pisses me off that how white people, out of white supremacy and religion, hides, destroys or ignores certain history. Like when the smithsonium covered up that discovery in the grand canyon that a explorer found that had African Egyptian artifacts, or the mound that Thomas Jefferson had on one of his lands that he had escavated and he personally said had artifacts in it that looked African in nature. Who has these artifacts and where are they? They have to be out there somewhere. I know they were not destroyed. One last thing. I did not know the name California came about from a black women. A people who lived in California before columbus who were black natives. Why isn’t this story told or even a movie made of this. It would be pretty interesting. What happened to these black indians? Were they captured and sold into slavery, or did they escape into Mexico? I wonder????? Wow, white people are awsome. To be so crafty. Know wonder they rule the whole world. They can change history,create a new language,new world,wow. Thanks for the info your work is awesome, answers a lot of questions I needed to have answered. Keep up the work, thank you. We should have begin trying to something about all this as black people reparations of what was always our need to stay our we as people need to come back together like the good old days. So we as black people do our research and grow as a nation for a nation we were like gods not disrespect god. I think this awesome information. I just started a meet-up group(http://www.meetup.com/Diggin-in-da-dirt/) based in Atlanta; we are going to journey to these dig sites, mounds and recover the information for ourselves. I also have a website that is beginning to address the question “FACT or FICTION: who were the first indigenous people to the Amerikas” at http://www.thetuskegeeexperience.com. Keep searching, researching, collecting and diggin for da truf. Y WASTE ENERGY TRYING TOO GET YOUR ENEMY TOO PAT YOU ON THE BACK. REGARDING YOUR BLACK ANCESTORS HISTORY THAT THEIR EURO ANCESTORS STOLE WHITEWASHED AND CLAIMED AS THEIR OWN. PHUCK EM! AND DONT FORGET TO PRACTICE YOUR ANCESTRAL SUPER-NATURAL BLACK MAGIC ALL DAY EVERYDAY. (HAITIAN REVOLUTION STYLE). THANK YOU! MY SPIRIT IS CRYING OUT TO KNOW MORE OF ME AND FROM WHENCE I CAME! I APPRECIATE YOUR WORK AND YES, I AM SCREAMING THANK YOU AT THE TOP OF MY LUNGS! BLESSINGS TO YOU ALL!

https://www.africaresource.com/rasta/sesostris-the-great-the-egyptian-hercules/the-black-washitaw-nation-on-america/

Rock royalty, Sweet, recently graced the stage at Roundhouse music festival and provided the audience with a blockbuster set featuring hits such as ‘The Ballroom Blitz’, ‘Fox on the Run’ and many more! We were lucky enough to go backstage and catch up with the lads, who gave us their advice on how to make it in the music industry today, and discussed the importance of free festivals to champion unsigned music artists. Roundhouse music festival is a yearly rock event celebrating the dazzling history of the world famous Dagenham Roundhouse pub. The festival is just one of many of Barking and Dagenham Council’s free Summer of festivals events. To be the first to find out about interesting and exciting things happening in Barking and Dagenham, subscribe to OneBoroughLive.

http://oneboroughlive.co.uk/videos/rock-legends-sweet-headline-roundhouse-festival-2018/

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I.C.A.DJ EVENTS is family owned and operated and works with a crew compliment of nine employees. We all work very hard to treat our clients the way we would personally want to be treated. Working together is a blessing since we all share a passion for this industry. Our company is based on the belief that our customers needs are of the utmost importance. Our entire team is fully committed to meeting those needs. As a result, a high percentage of our business is from repeat customers and referrals. A main highlight of our company is that we offer in person consultations with your DJ. Many of our competitors will book you and you never get to meet the DJ prior to the event. They tell you "they're well trained" etc. We stand out from our competition because our DJ meets with you in person at our office or a location convenient for you 30-60 days prior to the event date. During this consultation, we will help you build your dream reception by using an itinerary to plan your event and custom music selection. The itinerary will help ensure the event proceeds smoothly without confusion. One of the most frequently asked questions is, "What music do you play?" Well, since music is digital everyone can now claim to be a DJ. The difference is the experience of when to play it, how long to play the song, and listening to what the client is asking for. During your consultation we will help you create your custom playlist. Some of our past clients prefer full control and request we only play what's on the list of songs requested. Others prefer to ask for "must play", "do not play", and certain "genres". Based off the consultation and listening to what our clients requested, that's how we prepare ourselves going into the event. Providing professional entertainment for weddings, debuts, quinceaneras, sweet 16's, corporate events, graduations, night clubs, bachelor/bachelorette parties, birthday parties, and many celebrations. Using a combination of professional LED lights and audio, we can design any package for your special event. What's most important to you? Is it a bilingual high energy MC, Uplighting, a custom gobo monogram, fun entertaining photo booth, or maybe a photo slideshow to display during dinner to entertain your guests? Our family style individual attention gives us the edge to exceed your expectations and create a truly memorable event. Just think, what do I want for my event? How can I make my dreams come to reality?

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I am now retired but accepting occasional roles such as non-executive directorships, small consulting projects in areas such as IP licensing, and mentoring; supporting new business initiatives with guidance and help. I am keen to utilise my experience in technology business management, as a board member of a publicly quoted company, and to bring many of the experiences I have had as a school governor, including as chairman, to other challenges. I am chairman of Archipelago Technology, an exciting new company exploiting a special printing technology for use with thick, viscous and sometimes hot materials. I am also working with Southampton University as a mentor for their Future Worlds initiative. Every year I am involved in mentoring MBA students at the Cambridge University Judge Business School. I graduated as an engineer, but over the years my role evolved into project management, business management and finally I was responsible for our company's commercial and legal operations. We specialised in licensing intellectual property, specifically software and semiconductor designs. I built a wealth of experience in licensing having negotiated and agreed contracts with a large proportion of the world's leading semiconductor and communications companies. A major part of my role was to negotiate various licence agreements. This gave me huge insight into the process of negotiation and here I have identified some key factors. Negotiation. I have experienced and witnessed many examples of good and bad practice in business, especially in high-technology, and here I give some views on the issues I feel important Business Practice.

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The success of 12th Annual Brain Injury Associations Fall Fundraiser is dependent on the support of generosity of the community that it serves. Please review the opportunities below and consider becoming a sponsor. Calling All Silent Auction Items! We are on the hunt for great silent auction items to make the event even more fun. If you have something you'd like to contribute, please get in touch. Some examples are: wine, restaurant gift certificates, cottage weekends, massage gift certificates.

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Do Klasky Csupo hold the crown of 90s cartoons? Klasky Csupo reigned in the 1990s with hit cartoon series after the next. Some of which made it onto the silver screen. If you were born in the 1990s and watched Nickelodeon you knew most of these characters by name. During this decade, who else in the animation industry had this much success? Next 90s toy named Gak is still available?

https://stormgardensblog.wordpress.com/2014/08/05/do-klasky-csupo-hold-the-crown-of-90s-cartoons/

This week, the Professor of Ignorance John Lloyd and his curator, the brilliant Romesh Ranganathan welcome: The Australian writer of Puberty Blues, newspaper columnist, Simpsons writer, charity ambassador and formerly obsessive teen fan of Spike Milligan, Kathy Lette. Author and adventurer, podcaster and editor, member of Team UK in the European Miniature Golf Championships and the man who has read all the books you should have, Andy Miller. and Comedian, actor, author, presenter, film director, documentary maker, social media guru, atheist, activist, businessman, charity patron, voice-over artist, panel show host, sitcom writer, movie star and ambassador for Norwich City FC, Stephen Fry. This week, the Museum’s Guest Committee offer as exhibits the mysterious thing that drives women to be mothers, a receptacle for honey that contains nothing more than a broken balloon and … a bunch of grapes. The show was researched by Anne Miller of QI and Mike Turner. The production coordinator was Tamara Shilham. The producers were Richard Turner and James Harkin. It was a BBC Studios production.

https://gb.ivoox.com/en/the-museum-of-curiosity-series-11-ep-6-audios-mp3_rf_20645403_1.html

The current queen of covers, Kelly Clarkson, kills it again with this fan-requested cover of the Fugees’ Killing Me Softly in San Diego. Yep, I’ll be singing the one lyric I know from this song over and over and over all day now. First off, I do respect Kelly Clarkson, but shouldn’t this be Kelly Clarkson rocking a cover if the Lauryn Hill/Fugees cover of the incomparable Miss. Roberta Flack. Lauryn Hill was able to dig deep and find that pit of your stomach pain much d with the anticipation of the belief that he truly is “singing my life with his words”. Clarkson’s version is an enjoyable cover but nothing but a little entertaining as a whole. Raised in an all holds barred family (than you dad for all of the musical road trip games and mom for putting up with us).

https://nashvillegab.com/2015/08/kelly-clarkson-covers-the-fugees-killing-me-softly.html

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https://www.doorstepall.com/blog/visit-5-stores-mega-savings-groceries-online/

With nearly 99 percent of votes in a referendum counted on Sunday night, supporters of the proposal had 51.3 percent of votes cast, and opponents had 48.7 percent, the country’s electoral commission announced. The head of Turkey’s electoral board has rejected suggestions of fraud in Turkey’s referendum that will grant the president vast new powers. Two opposition parties have complained of a number of irregularities in Sunday’s vote, including an electoral board decision to accept as valid ballots that did not bear the official stamp. Assuming the “decision of the voters” is allowed to stand, the new government structure would be in place after the 2019 elections. Some key executive offices will be done away with and the President will essentially be able to overrule any legislative decisions. Erdogan would be immediately eligible to serve two five year terms, but with the “reforms” he has demanded already in place there is little reason to suspect that he couldn’t just change the deal yet again in Darth Vader style. But that really doesn’t change the day to day reality we see in Turkey right now. This wasn’t a referendum calling for a new government structure which would need to be built from the ground up over the next two years. It’s simply a public confirmation of precisely what Erdogan is already doing. He has largely absorbed the power of the legislature and has been ruling under “emergency powers” ever since last summer’s attempted coup. In other words, the vote would just cement in place the current situation. As Saagar Enjeti at the Daily Caller pointed out last night, this new, official paradigm in Turkey will now complicate the foreign policy situation for the United States and our allies, particularly when it comes to combating ISIS. Erdogan’s broader powers may mean the U.S. will have to grant concessions in its strategy to the government. These concessions may include a bigger Turkish role in operations to recapture ISIS’s capital of Raqqa. Turkey is also home to millions of Syrian refugee’s that are being held back by the government from emigrating to the European Union. Erdogan’s increased power would grant him even more leverage over EU policies, by allowing him to threaten to open the refugee floodgate on the European continent. As I said on Friday, the rest of the world is (at least for now) relegated to the role of basically sitting on the sidelines and watching. Having the trappings of a public referendum applied to Erdogan’s power grab makes it seem all the more legitimate. And even though he has locked up his opponents by the tens of thousands, it’s all being done under the umbrella of law enforcement and an effort to fight terrorism. Honestly, there’s little to be done at this point and nobody is interested in full scale military intervention in a nation which is still ostensibly one of our allies. Turkey’s once flourishing democracy is, at this point, pretty much a thing of the past. It’s a sad day, but there will likely be far darker ones to come.

https://hotair.com/archives/2017/04/17/turkey-is-one-step-closer-to-complete-tyranny/

To freeze, just combine everything in freezer bag and freeze. To cook, toss it all in the crock pot and cook on low for 5-6 hours. The first time we had this I just served it as whole chicken breasts with some veggies as a side dish. The second time, I added taco seasoning and served on tortillas with chips and rice. It was lots better as tacos, but still good either way. Mike said I have to make tacos like this everytime.

http://www.growingtofour.com/2016/02/salsa-chicken-crock-pot-freezer-meal.html

The authorization of a new version of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act ushered in a new era regarding the role of the federal government in administering education in the United States. The new law, entitled the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), replaces 2001’s No Child Left Behind Act. Fundamentally, the intent of this new iteration of ESEA (first signed into law in 1965) remains the same: to provide supplemental funds and programs for low-income students and to enable State and Local Education Agencies (LEAs or school districts) to improve the access and quality of elementary and secondary education. ESSA has the same goals, but significantly curtails the federal government’s role in education and instead allows states to set their own standards and accountability systems. ESSA includes thirteen arts-friendly provisions that help improve the opportunity for theatre and other arts education for all students. Most importantly, the law asserts that arts education should be part of the well-rounded education of all students. The “well rounded” language, replacing NCLB’s core subject area definition of academic areas, is key to understanding where and how in the law theatre education can access federal funds to ensure equal access to our discipline. In every instance where the term “well rounded” or “music and the arts” appears in the law, there is potential funding that can tapped for theatre education. We’ve put together the ESSA Guide to Theatre Education Opportunities to help EdTA members and their state leaders understand the law and how theatre can be part of its implementation in the coming years. Availability of Title I programs to provide supplemental funds for a well-rounded education. Titles I, II and IV to support professional development for theatre educators. Flexible Accountability Systems that require states to include multiple progress measures in assessing school performance, such as student engagement, parental engagement and school culture/climate. Protection from “pull out” practices in which students are withdrawn from the classroom, including theatre and arts, for remedial instruction. The guide is divided into two parts: Opportunities for Theatre Educators explains areas of ESSA and its associated Title areas in which theatre educators can access funding or advocate on behalf of their program on a school or district level; and Opportunities for State Theatre Education Associations articulates state-wide funding options, and areas of the law that state leaders need to be aware of, such state report cards, committee opportunities, and evaluation, all of which can be a factor in how theatre education is regarded and delivered by EdTA members in individual states. This guide was adapted from the National Association for Music Education document, ESSA Implementation and Music Education: Opportunities Abound.

http://www.schooltheater.org/advocacy/guidetoessa

>> what to do next. >> the web apps" (fingers crossed). have more consensus than we know. >> I propose we set the meeting for next Monday, at the usual time (15:00 UTC). >> Otherwise, we can make a doodle and decide there. Next message: Andrei Sambra: "Re: Next WebID CG teleconference." Previous message: Henry Story: "Re: Next WebID CG teleconference." In reply to: Melvin Carvalho: "Re: Next WebID CG teleconference." Next in thread: Andrei Sambra: "Re: Next WebID CG teleconference." Reply: Andrei Sambra: "Re: Next WebID CG teleconference."

http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-xg-webid/2012Jan/0648.html

Orchard Cottage sleeps 6 people, and is 23 miles from Ludlow. Pipers Cottage sleeps 6 people, and is 27 miles from Ludlow. Ruths Retreat sleeps 3 people, and is 24 miles from Ludlow. The Smithy sleeps 4 people, and is 23 miles from Ludlow. My Ly sleeps 5 people, and is 33 miles from Ludlow. Mill Race Lodges - Lodge 3 sleeps 6 people, and is 24 miles from Ludlow. Mill Race Lodges - Lodge 2 sleeps 6 people, and is 24 miles from Ludlow. Mill Race Lodges - Lodge 1 sleeps 6 people, and is 24 miles from Ludlow. Dolview sleeps 4 people, and is 31 miles from Ludlow. Castle View sleeps 10 people, and is 34 miles from Ludlow. Old Castle Farm - Castle Keep sleeps 4 people, and is 16 miles from Ludlow. Mill Farm Holiday Cottages - River Cottage sleeps 4 people, and is 21 miles from Ludlow. Pentre Mawr sleeps 8 people, and is 32 miles from Ludlow. Burrills View sleeps 6 people, and is 11 miles from Ludlow. Lake View sleeps 4 people, and is 27 miles from Ludlow. Cwm Lodge sleeps 2 people, and is 31 miles from Ludlow. Dan Y Coed sleeps 8 people, and is 23 miles from Ludlow. Cefnaire sleeps 10 people, and is 34 miles from Ludlow. New House Farm - The Barn sleeps 4 people, and is 13 miles from Ludlow. Mill Farm Holiday Cottages - Heyope Cottage sleeps 4 people, and is 21 miles from Ludlow. North View sleeps 8 people, and is 34 miles from Ludlow. Mill Farm Holiday Cottages - Oak View Cottage sleeps 4 people, and is 21 miles from Ludlow. Mill Farm Holiday Cottages - Mill Farm Lodge sleeps 6 people, and is 21 miles from Ludlow. Mill Farm Holiday Cottages - Red Kite Cottage sleeps 4 people, and is 21 miles from Ludlow. Cwm Yr Hendy Lodges - Oak View sleeps 6 people, and is 32 miles from Ludlow. Cwm Yr Hendy Lodges - Hillside View sleeps 6 people, and is 32 miles from Ludlow. High House sleeps 6 people, and is 32 miles from Ludlow. Quarry Lodge sleeps 7 people, and is 29 miles from Ludlow. The Arbour sleeps 12 people, and is 12 miles from Ludlow.

http://www.hot-tub-holiday.co.uk/towns/ludlow-shropshire

We have listed all of the Kahului food pantries that we have found. With help from users like you we have compiled a list of some. If you know of a food pantry that is not included here, please submit new food pantries to our database by going to the ADD A LISTING link on the header of our website.

https://www.foodpantries.org/ci/hi-kahului

Archive ouverte HAL - Theoretical study of the adsorption of DNA bases on the acidic external surface of montmorillonite. Theoretical study of the adsorption of DNA bases on the acidic external surface of montmorillonite. Abstract : In the present study, DFT periodic plane wave calculations, at the PBE-D level of theory, were carried out to investigate the interaction of DNA nucleobases with acidic montmorillonite. The surface model was considered in its octahedral (Osub) and tetrahedral (Tsub) substituted forms, known to have different acidic properties. The adsorption of adenine, guanine and cytosine was considered in both orthogonal and coplanar orientations with the surface, interacting with the proton via a given heteroatom. In almost all considered cases, adsorption involved the spontaneous proton transfer to the nucleobase, with a more pronounced character in the Osub structures. The binding energy is about 10 kcal mol(-1) larger for Osub than for Tsub complexes mainly due to the larger acidity in Osub surfaces and due to the better stabilization by H-bond contacts between the negatively charged surface and the protonated base. The binding energy of coplanar orientations of the base is observed to be as large as the orthogonal ones due to a balance between electrostatic and dispersion contributions. Finally the binding of guanine and adenine on the acidic surface amounts to 50 kcal mol(-1) while that of cytosine rises to 44 kcal mol(-1).

https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00877343

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http://www.rev.com.sg/2014/11/yhi-questionnaire/

Lots and lots of water. Seems like there are some times in a life where everything in the natural just seems like it is heading in the wrong direction. Things happen to and around us that we don't have any control over...but we do have control over our response. We have to lay everything at His feet. It is the only response that leads to life.We can choose life our death, blessing or curse, I will never cease to worship Him for all He has done, for walking a path of suffering and when we are suffering He lifts us up and strengthens us in Grace. Bless you God for all you are and all you will always be to me.

https://www.worshiptherock.com/profiles/blogs/under-the-bridge

Home > Bladder Cancer Resources > Why is there blood in my pee? Why is there blood in my pee? Blood in the urine does not always mean you have bladder cancer. Often it is caused by other things like an infection in your urinary tract, benign (non-cancerous) tumours, stones in the kidney or bladder, or some other benign kidney diseases. The early stages of bladder cancer can cause bleeding but sometimes little or no pain or other symptoms. The important thing is to see your GP quick smart if you have pink or red urine, or if you have noticed a change in your wee. Your pee might sink in the bowl, or look “heavier”. Get it checked out! When you go to the doctor, he or she will ask you to wee into a specimen jar. He will put a test strip in, and in about one minute he will tell you if there is anything unusual going on, and what the next steps might be. It’s a quick and easy test! If you do have bladder cancer, and it has been found early, you have a way better chance of a full recovery. If you don’t do anything, that cancer can grow, and eat into your bladder wall, and spread through your body.

https://www.bladdercancer.org.au/bladder-cancer-resources/why-is-there-blood-in-my-pee/