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Clenching and grinding your teeth, also known as bruxism, is a common problem for many Canadians. Many factors may contribute to bruxism. That said, there are treatment options available for those that suffer from it and finding a solution can benefit you in many ways. Let’s go over some the causes of bruxism to better understand how to treat them.
There are many reasons people feel stress. It’s completely normal to feel some stress from a demanding job or family responsibilities. While everyone will feel stress in one way or another, being overstressed can cause some to clench and grind their teeth.
If your upper and lower teeth don’t meet properly, it can lead to damaged and even lost teeth. Jaw muscles naturally try to compensate for a misalignment which can then lead to grinding. If your bite is misaligned, you should seek treatment as soon as possible. The great news is that Dr. Ralhan will realign your bite and help you find a solution for your grinding teeth.
In addition to preventing quality sleep, obstructive sleep apnea can also contribute to bruxism. According to the National Sleep Foundation, almost 1 out of 4 people that suffer from sleep apnea also grind their teeth. If a CPAP mask is difficult for you to wear at night, Dr. Ralhan offers a number of dental appliances to treat your sleep apnea.
According to the Canadian Dental Association, alcohol and nicotine can contribute to bruxism. Eliminating nicotine and reducing alcohol consumption will help to reduce the risk of cancer and improve your dental health.
A common question patients have about bruxism is, “How do I know if I grind my teeth at night?” While some people grind their teeth during the day, many primarily grind their teeth while sleeping. Some patients find out from a loved one that can hear them clenching and grinding their teeth as they sleep. That said, just because a loved one hasn’t noticed your bruxism, it doesn’t mean you don’t have it.
Common indicators that you grind your teeth are a headache or sore jaw when you wake up. The best way to find out if you’re suffering from bruxism is to schedule a visit with Dr. Ralhan. He can examine your teeth to find out if you need treatment.
Bruxism doesn’t only affect adults, it can also have an impact on children. Around the age of 5 or 6, about 15 percent of children grind their teeth, compared to the 5 percent of older children and young adults.
A majority of children grow out of the condition and mouthguards are usually not effective for them. In severe cases, your dentist may suggest treatment. Schedule your child’s next visit with Dr. Ralhan to ensure your child is on the right path for good dental health.
While bruxism can be caused by a number of factors, its effects can be reduced. Finding a solution for clenching and grinding teeth will prevent damage and can help you to avoid headaches.
Massaging your jaw and neck before you sleep can help to relieve stress and relax your jaw. Additionally, you can visit a physical therapist to learn some exercises that are tailored to your specific needs.
If stress and anxiety are the primary contributors to your bruxism, then relaxation and exercise may help to reduce your stress. Meditation and yoga are great ways to clear your mind, and exercise is an effective way to relieve stress and improve overall health. According to a study out of McMaster University, only 40 percent of Canadians use exercise to relieve stress. To maximize your health and relieve stress, there’s no substitute for daily exercise.
Mouthguards are another way patients can reduce teeth grinding. For the most comfortable and convenient experience, a custom-designed mouth guard from Dr. Ralhan is the only way to guarantee the best results. Dr. Ralhan can work with you to find the oral appliance option that is right for you.
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Seated (l to r) Chairman Jeff Childers, Vice Chairman John Yeargin, Paul Young & Larry Stewart. Also on the Council but not photographed are James Albertoni, Alisha Wilson and County Auditor Janet Esposito.
The Council meets to consider whether tax abatements should be allowed to continue. In 2018, the Council recommended continuing the property tax abatement for G.P. Tree Service and Hunter's Manufacturing. | 282718578 |
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But surely that would result in death and destruction for Russia. Not necessarily. More of Piontkovsky's perspective from Tayler.
Not a massive launch of intercontinental ballistic missiles at the United States or Western Europe, which would bring about a suicidal atomic holocaust, but a small, tactical strike or two against a NATO member that few in the West would be willing to die to protect.
Remember that tactical nuclear weapons, as opposed to strategic -- the big ones -- have a much lower yield, though, of course, they're still devastating. Tayler continues.
Piontkovsky surmises that, in such a conflict, the nuclear-armed country with the "superior political will" to alter the geopolitical "status quo" and -- most importantly -- with the "greater indifference to values concerning human lives" would prevail. Any guesses which country that would be?
Tayler writes about what Piontkovsky thinks would trigger the attack and exactly which cities would be attacked (maybe Warsaw). But what about retaliation by the West?
Putin would bet on decision-makers in Washington, Berlin, London, and Paris not retaliating with nuclear weapons against Russia if it had "only" hit a city or two most Westerners have barely heard of -- and certainly do not want to die for.
And if the West doesn't retaliate?
The outcome of Putin's putative gambit is that the alliance's credibility as guarantor of security for its member states would be utterly destroyed, as would U.S. hegemony, which largely rests on the threat of using force. ... NATO effectively capitulates. ... Putin would then be free to do what he wanted in Ukraine and anywhere else he perceived Russia's interests to be threatened.
What makes that scenario even more dangerous is that not only would it would be the first use of tactical nuclear weapons in war, but were it successful in achieving Putin's ends, it could become an accepted feature of war. The nuclear weapon would no longer be just a deterrent, but an offensive weapon in the arsenal of states that possess tactical nukes.
"How Putin Could Defeat NATO With Nukes" | 363992604 |
Imagine someone like, say, Mark Zuckerberg created his own army of tech-obsessed teens and directed them to take on the government. What would the fallout be? Charley 'Thumbs' Fellows is a member of just such an army. Poor and raised by the influential MOM app, he finds himself in the center of a war. The Social Network meets Blade Runner in this big event book from the team that brought you the hit series THE FEW! | 73580696 |
Keep your heart and mind set on the promises of God and stop feeding your fear of what might be. You know that Jesus saved you on Calvary’s cross, that God loves you, and the prophecies of Scripture promise you eternal life in Heaven. Evil may harm you, but it can not hold you, because your future is with Jesus Christ.
Let’s pray today that we may turn our apprehension over to our Lord in faith. | 326999127 |
?: And now, put your hands together, for the King Kong of The Monkees, Mr. Davy Jones!
Davy: Why do you always have to add a little bit at the end? It’s like you’re building a shed back there or something. And Eric! I have this earpiece in my ear so I can hear my own voice, okay? And you’re going psdfpsdfspghsdfp! And it’s all of the microphones too! It’s ridiculous! That was very—a heck of an introduction, innit? Right, really, really. So we’ve had lots of requests tonight, but we gonna sing anyway, okay? We got some uh, we got Monkees songs.
Davy: Have we got a lot of Monkees songs?
Davy: Well, we better get going, because we’ve only got about an hour. Are you ready to do one?
Davy: This is a song written by Mr. Neil Diamond. This one’s called “A Little Bit Me, And A Little Bit You”.
Arriba arriba arriba! Woo hoo hoo! Wee hoo! Arriba arriba arriba!
Davy: Hey! Here we go! One more time!
Davy: Ow! Friggin’ hurt! I’m not doing that any more. Ahh! No way!
Davy: More, more! More, more!
Davy: Here’s a song I used to sing on the Monkees show. This is not something that I think was on the radio, but we used to do it all the time on the TV. It’s called “Look Out, ’Cause Here Comes Tomorrow”.
Oh, how I wish tomorrow would never come, oh!
Davy: Hey, you notice, the thing about those songs from the sixties, you notice how short they were?
Davy: Oh, pick it, Luther!
Davy: Why don’t we just sing the Marcia Brady tune, the “Girl” song, okay, you ready for it? You ready? We’re going to do the little dance they did too. That’s what she did, wasn’t it?
I’m telling you, girl — Hey, wait a minute!
Davy: Hey, do you remember, do you remember when I did the Monkees show, when I did that little dance? Like that. I still do it. Yeah!
Davy: Uh-uh, I chose this song to sing ’cause it’s the best song I ever wrote. No, it’s a love song. It’s for each and every one of ya. It’s actually for all those girls, and guys, that used to keep my picture on their bedroom wall. And they said they’d love me forever.
Davy: Come on, Magic Fingers. Play my song.
Davy: Thank you. Thank you very much.
?: One, two, one two three four.
Davy: Sing it, Laura! Have a great night!
Davy: Come on now! Let’s have a solo!
Davy: Thank you. Thank you very much. Well, for you music connoisseurs, that, of course, was a song written by Mr. Van Morrison, sung by Davy Jones. Ha ha ha. Oh, those rare songs once in a while. Actually, I heard that song years and years ago.
Davy: Hey, what about this band then, are they alright? Are they good or what? Come on, folks. So listen, here’s the deal. We, we have this tour bus that we occasionally go on, it’s right now being, it’s being, it’s being repossessed, but we-we-we’re working on it. We have this tour bus, right, and so, it’s unbelievable. It’s got like twelve bunks in it, and we, you know, we all choose the bunks, and we each, and we, off we go, we come back about six months later. But you know, on-on-on the bunk we all sort of got these rooms the back with like sorta video games. He’s always playing the bloody games, so you can’t play nothing in the back there. But, it’s like, you can’t watch movies, but sometimes when we all get together, um, we-we sort of like mess about and do, do bits, and pieces and we show off with each other, and the other night, they were doing this thing from All in the Family , right?
Davy: You gonna do it?
Davy: Okay, here’s the deal. G—he’s gonna, he’s gonna play Edith, of course, do the Edith thing. Right. And he’s playing Archie, Archie, you know, talks like this, you know, hey, what’s you’se doing, you know. I’ve only been in the country two days, I’m speakin’ the language. It’s unbelievable. So anyway, what happens is Gloria, the daughter, is gonna have a baby, okay. So, Edith has gotta go up into the attic to get some supplies. She’s gotta go way up into the attic to get supplies.
?: Way up in the attic.
Davy: Way up in the attic to get supplies. There she goes, up into the attic. There’s plaster falling off the ceiling. She’s far too high in the attic. Oh, there comes a foot through the ceiling. Anyway, so he’s waiting for his beer, she’s gone up to get supplies ’cause Gloria’s going to have a baby. Okay, take it from there. The same as you did the other night.
Davy: Mind you, I had seventeen lemonades, and it was funny then.
?: Are you going to laugh the same way that you did the other day?
Davy: No, uh, no, I can’t wet myself on stage.
?: Edith! Edith Bunker, where are you, Edith Bunker? I been lookin’ for you all day! You know, if they invented a pill for dingbats, she’d have a lifetime subscription over these, you know what I mean? Oh, Edith, oh please, Edith, my eyes, Edith, please don’t, please don’t shake like that, you kinda resemble a sack full of ferrets havin’ a fight. Now Edith, I see a beautifully set dinner table with the flowers and the napkins and the placemats and the beer, everything, there’s no dinner on it, Edith! And there’s no beer in the beer glass, the most important thing But where have you been all day, that’s the question.
?: Well, Archie, you know Gloria just had the baby. Yeaaah. Yeaaah. Ohhh. Ohhh. So I was upstairs with Sybil Gooley looking for the bassinet. Yeaaah.
?: I got your Sybil Gooley right here, Edith. Now, Edith, bassinet?
?: Edith, you know he ain’t old enough to play one of those yet. Now would you kindly stifle your big bad self and get the dinner on the table there, huh?
Davy: Ha ha. Oh ha ha. Oh man. Ha ha. I can’t wait ’til we get to E.R. , whatever that was. We do operations and everything on the stage. It’ll be wonderful.
Davy: Okay, you ready then, maestro?
When I know that you’re not true?
Davy: I noticed, hey, come out here a minute, Dave. You, you, steady, slow down, slow, slow, slow down. Whoa, big boy! My god. You know, I can see right up your nose. It’s unbelievable, you’re so big. It is a prime example of didn’t eat the vegetables, ate the bloody vegetables. Geez, you’re so—how big are you, six eight, six nine?
Davy: You can’t be six two; I’m five eleven and a half, man, you know. Hey, what’s the deal, how do you put your belt on, with a boomerang or what? It’s unbelievable. Gee-geez, I’ve never seen, he’s so big, this guy. He’s unbelievable. He’s he’s-he’s on both sides of the family, that’s how big he is, this guy. Listen, have you got any, any special treats for us tonight?
Dave Alexander: Like an impression?
Davy: Like an impression. Something like an impression.
Dave Alexander: Yeah, I can do Meat Loaf for you.
Davy: I know you can do that, but what about an impression?
Dave Alexander: Alright, how ’bout it? Ha ha ha.
Davy: Alright! Dave Alexander. My goodness, I got a present.
Davy: You know something, when we did the Monkees show, I used to, as I said, fall in love. But the thing that I liked the most about the Monkees was I got to sing all those pretty little ditties. And I’d like to sing one of them for you right now.
Davy: I’ve seen more of you tonight than I’ve seen my family in the last three years.
Davy: Sandy Gennaro on the drums, folks. Hey, and what about the, the white trash trio over here, look at those guys. Dancing, singing fools. And Miss Aviva Maloney, who does a bit of everything. Yeah, yeah. This is, this is Dave Robicheux right here. He’s, he’s from Boston, Boston, Massachusetts. He doesn’t look it, but he’s one of the oldest members of the, of the band. Yeah, yeah. When he first went to school, they weren’t doing history, were they? You’re making it, right? No problem. And this is Mark Clarke here, my mate, he’s, he’s from Liverpool, England. He’s pretty old too. You used to sit behind Jesus in class, didn’t you? Right. Very old. And you’ve met Dave, so have I got everybody covered now?
Davy: One, two, listen to the band!
Davy: Hey, you know something? I gotta tell you. You know, when I first started out in-in England, in entertainment, it was, it was because my sisters used to run the youth club at the church, and my mum used to play the organ at the church, and then it came, sort of summer time, we did all the shows, and my sisters sort of were in it, and I was in it, and my mum played the piano and. It was kind of, kind of down home stuff, you know, it was no other kind of activities that we were able to, to do when we were little kids in England. You know, this is back in the late fifties and early sixties and stuff, and I, it wasn’t until—my mum died in 1960, and I was fourteen years old, and I, that’s when I left home, ’cause I couldn’t, I couldn’t deal with that, but um, my sisters presented me with some records a little time back, that were my mum’s records, and I had no idea that she used to like that kind of music, and I guess it was forties, fifties, or before that, swing music, and so, I thought maybe um, as um, as we’ve got one expectant mother at least out there tonight, Gregory over there, see Gregory. He—over there on the end, the saxophone player, the saxophonist way back there, yeah. His wife, his wife is going to, going to have a baby you’re going to say just one big hello and tell her how much you love her.
Gregory: Hello Katerina, I love you.
Davy: That’s what happened when they met, and this is what’s happening now. You know? She’s eight months pregnant. Ha ha. Right. So, I’m going to dedicate this to Katerina and all the other mothers in the audience.
Davy: Don’t blow it, they want more money.
Davy: Honey, lamb, honey, babe. Yee hee.
Or is my—Hey! The horns, too!
Davy: Woo! Listen, this is my favorite Monkees song. If you don’t like it, you don’t like apple pie.
Davy: Hey, do it one more time, we want everybody singing, get in the mood to win money, okay, we’re going out there.
Davy: Alright, by Job, they’ve done it!
Davy: Thanks a lot everybody. Have a great night. If I’ve offended anybody, I don’t care. ’Cause you can’t catch me! Actually, you know, actually, I’m not finished yet. Because, no, really, honestly. Alright.
Davy: Have we got any time at all?
?: We’ve got no time!
Davy: No time? That’ll be the one, go ahead.
Reeber soaken hobosoaken, what did you expect?
?: Ladies and gentlemen, Mr. Davy Jones!
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I'm the second Tynga's Reviewer to read The Here and Now by Ann Brashares. For Helen's take on the novel, click here!
The Here and Now takes place in our current time, but the main character, Prenna, is from the future... about 75 years into the future. She's part of a small group of "immigrants" who have traveled from the future to the here and now because things have gone sharply south- there's a blood plague that's killing millions of people and a shortage of food and runaway inflation of currency. In order to save her new future she must work to save her current time.
I really enjoy books that involve time travel, like Helen, but sometimes they can get so bogged down in trying to explain the time-space continuum that the plot gets buried. Not so in The Here and Now! Ann Brashares does an excellent job of working little bits of information into the plot and dialogue to explain the time-space continuum play without ever having a character awkwardly explaining it all to another, or any lengthy flashbacks. Even better- it was all understandable! I'm definitely not a physicist, and I had no trouble following the logic explaining Prenna and her community's presence in our time.
Another great aspect of this book is the character line-up. They're all great! Well, I mean, all the good guys are good! (The bad guys are written well, too. They're not over-the-top goofily evil.) I love Prenna and her strength and intelligence, and I love Ethan for his quirkiness and kindness and intelligence. I love them together, too! They "fit" together so well. I agree with Helen's description: they're "cute."
The writing in The Here and Now is also pretty good. The pacing was great- I had trouble putting it down, but I was never so tense that I felt anxious. There are also some letters interspersed in between chapters from Prenna to another character. (Can't tell you who! No spoilers.) I like it when an author mixes things up like that. Unfortunately, a few plot points weren't really fully explained, and a few other plot points got wrapped up a little bit too tidily.
Overall, a really solid time-travel YA light romance. I could definitely see myself recommending this one to library patrons.
I listened to the audio book version of this and loved it. I haven't written a review for it yet, but I agree with your point about the time issue -it was perfectly explained and not confusing at all. I met need to relisten to this audio before I write my own review as its been a while. Love your review! | 13987638 |
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I was taught this, ironically, by the government when I worked for them several years ago. It doesn’t seem like they’ve taken their own advice but the point is it’s not so much what you’ve got, it’s how you use what you’ve got. I think that’s what the late Zig Ziglar was saying. Jesus once said that “whoever gives one of these little ones even a cup of cold water because he is a disciple, truly, I say to you, he will by no means lose his reward” (Matt 10:42). If all you’ve got is water, that water can make a difference. I remember our sanitation workers collecting trash on a 100 degree day so I thought about this verse and went and brought them all a cold bottle of water. I wasn’t doing it for eternal rewards. I was only moved with compassion as these men labored in such heat and humidity. All I had was water but that’s all they needed!
James wrote “If a brother or sister is poorly clothed and lacking in daily food, and one of you says to them, “Go in peace, be warmed and filled,” without giving them the things needed for the body, what good is that” (James 215-16)? I’ll tell you how much good that is? Zero! Jesus said “Anyone who has two shirts should share with the one who has none, and anyone who has food should do the same” (Luke 3:11). The Apostle John asks “If anyone has material possessions and sees a brother or sister in need but has no pity on them, how can the love of God be in that person” (1st John 3:17)? Jesus says that whenever we do things for the least of these, we are doing it for Him (Matt 25:40) “For I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me drink, I was a stranger and you welcomed me” (Matt 25:35).
Every believer in Christ has been given gifts of the Spirit for the good of the church. We are stewards of what God has entrusted us with and there are three primary resources we have; time, talent, and treasure. It’s good to give of our own treasure and it’s beneficial to use our gifts for edifying the church, but we still have one thing left; time. Time may be our most valuable resource but even if we have only a little bit of time left in our busy day, a quick two-minute phone call or email to someone you know is struggling might be just what they needed. When we take time and invest it in the interests of others, we’re making an eternal investment and in that person’s life it can make a great deal of difference.
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Champaign-Urbana community members march in downtown Champaign near the Orpheum Children’s Museum as part of the March for Science. During Saturday’s event, protestors campaigned for the U.S. Government to keep funding science programs and discouraged budget cuts.
Over 5,000 people from the Champaign-Urbana community gathered for the March for Science Saturday afternoon, according to Elizabeth Sotiropoulos, the lead organizer of the march.
Starting at 5 p.m. at the Orpheum Children’s Science Museum, participants marched around downtown Champaign before circling back to the museum to listen to speakers.
“We knew it was going to be great, and it was even better than we expected. We had a lot of people come and we had a lot of kids come, which is very important,” Sotiropoulos said.
Sotiropoulos said that the organizers wanted to involve kids in science and demonstrate its importance from a very young age.
During the preparation stage, the team had encountered some difficulties as some members of the community were hesitant to participate. However, the march turned out to be a huge success, said Sotiropoulos.
The whole event started with the kick-off speech given by May Berenbaum, professor and head of the Department of Entomology, and Saba Tesfaye-Manetti, a high school student.
According to March for Science, there were 400 different Marches for Science happening across 37 different countries around the world on Saturday, and the organizers of the Champaign march wanted to make theirs unique.
Following the march, five speakers shared their personal stories on how science changed their lives. | 91339008 |
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There are two main dining rooms: the Study Room and the Dining Room and there’s an outdoor seating area in front of the restaurant. In the Games Room there’s a large paining of Mr. Toad that changes from time to time.
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Ubisoft San Francisco execs reflect on South Park, Rocksmith, and taking risks.
For a company with dozens of studios around the world and massive franchises like Assassin’s Creed and the Tom Clancy games, it would seem like there’s little place for risk in such a big organization. But that’s just what Ubisoft San Francisco, the studio behind Rocksmith and South Park: The Fractured But Whole, prides itself on delivering within Ubisoft’s lineup.
Higo, speaking along with South Park Game Director Jason Schroeder to IGN, described the studio’s viewpoint as a “start-up mentality,” one in which risks can be taken with a team that began as 20 in 2009 and has now reached nearly 100. Those risks are inherent in Ubisoft SF's DNA, going all the way back to its debut efforts breaking into the music scene with Rocksmith.
“When we first started to talk even internally about Rocksmith, and people were saying ‘You guys are crazy, why are you doing this? Don't you know Rock Band and Guitar Hero are at the height of their popularity?’ We know that we had to be different and have that risk, and know what we're up against. But also we played it really smart,” Higo said, speaking specifically to budgetary limitations and the decision to give the game a unique teaching focus.
Starting in 2009 as, according to Higo, simply an office meant to work on game prototypes, Higo and Studio Design Director Paul Cross staffed up the team for Rocksmith with design experts in various fields, not just music gaming.
"So when we made that transition into making South Park, all it meant was then supplementing that team with additional experts on making RPGs and RPG systems on top of the people that we already had," Higo said of Ubisoft SF's growth.
And in moving onto South Park, Ubisoft SF took what it learned from Rocksmith and Rocksmith 2014 and applied it to The Fractured But Whole. Namely, learning how to work within a specific project and Ubisoft SF's limitations and giving each game a clear focus.
“South Park in the same way [as Rocksmith], we had to approach it differently from traditional ways, because we knew that if we were going to build all the content for South Park, it would have been impossible for us,” Higo said.
That led to a collaboration with South Park Studios to create animations and assets for The Fractured But Whole without Ubisoft SF needing to triple or quadruple its staff.
“None of us had worked at South Park for 10 to 19 years….So there's nobody in the world that's as fast as making South Park stuff as South Park,” Schroeder said.
...There's nobody in the world that's as fast as making South Park stuff as South Park."
But in working so much with an outside team, and South Park co-creator Trey Parker writing the game, Ubisoft SF also had to find a way to make their disparate schedules and divergent ideas come together. The team found common ground in the game’s combat, which upgrades the original’s turn-based gameplay to include a grid-based system, thanks to a night of board games.
And as the two companies synced up on the development of the game — South Park’s infamous production schedule meant time day-by-day to talk to Parker and the team could prove tough — Ubisoft SF faced challenges of its own. Chief among them was learning to ignore their better game design instincts to make for a more authentic, funnier experience.
This is totally a good system. But it's not that funny."
Learning the craft of comedy offered the team one of its most difficult challenges, but Higo explained having "master craftsmen" of comedy like Parker and Matt Stone made for such a compelling opportunity. Learning how to refine The Fractured But Whole's comedic timing, as well as how that played into game elements like combat and exploration, led to plenty of iteration during development.
Of course, The Fractured But Whole’s production ran into several delays. Those delays, Higo and Schroeder explained, came from the team’s desire to have the game live up to the quality both they and South Park Studios strived for, which can be difficult given the source material's push for relevancy.
Mathematically, it works, but in terms of the comedy, in terms of the feel, in terms of the pacing, it just didn't work."
“Late in the production cycle we were looking at the game and we're saying ‘OK, is this going to really be the quality that we're proud to ship it with?’ Talking with South Park, we decided collectively that nope, we need to keep refining it,” Higo said.
The Fractured But Whole’s structure is built around so many unique moments, though, so entire sections — and the accompanying assets — had to be redone.
“I think for us and for Ubisoft, the folks in charge care about games that matter and games that are good,” Schroeder said, noting they had the support of Ubisoft management to take more time and make a game they were proud of.
Taking the time to nail the comedy and design of the game may have lead to The Fractured But Whole’s delays, but it also resulted in the game’s critical success. As the studio, bolstered by favorable reviews, looks ahead, Ubisoft SF fully plans on taking a unique direction again, learning from the risks taken on South Park.
“A lot of times, we get so precious about what we make that it's hard to let go. But sometimes you have to let go for the greater good of making a better experience overall,” Higo explained as one of the studio's major lessons learned in South Park's development.
“I think hiring flexible people and building a team of people that are interested in going beyond necessarily what they've done before,” Schroeder said of what has made Ubisoft SF successful so far.
“We want to continue challenging ourselves and take on new genres. Right now we're already starting up the next AAA project here. And yes, it will be a different genre. It's not a music game, it's not an RPG,” Higo teased.
Higo and Schroeder couldn’t offer any more concrete details, but they did mention the AAA game project comes from an idea the team began looking into before taking on South Park.
“If we're just making something that other studios are perfectly capable of churning out, it's not going to work for us. We have to be different,” Higo said. “So we have to have that different edge to it, a different take on it.
Jonathon Dornbush is an Associate Editor for IGN, and he can't stop playing the pooping minigame in The Fractured But Whole. Talk to him about it on Twitter @jmdornbush. | 105888369 |
North Carolina General Statute 20-138.1, Impaired Driving, states that a person is guilty of impaired driving if he drives a vehicle on any highway, street or any public vehicular area (1) while under the influence of an impairing substance or (3) with any amount of a Schedule I controlled substance as listed in GS 90-89 or its metabolites in his blood or urine.
A metabolite is the chemical compound that is produced during the process of metabolism, that is, the breaking down of the drug by the body or the physical process of the body ridding itself of the drug.
A very interesting case was recently issued from Arizona. In State ex. Rel Montgomery v. Harris (Ariz. 2014), the Arizona Supreme Court ruled that their state’s law which prohibited driving with any illegal drugs or the metabolite must be interpreted to apply only to metabolites which are capable of causing impairment. Also, as the court in Harris pointed out, certain legal drugs share the same metabolite as illegal substances. The State must be able to show that the metabolite is actually metabolized from an illegal substance.
The Arizona case dealt with a DWI based on marijuana. The law said that if a person had illegal drugs or their metabolites, the person was deemed impaired. Unlike alcohol with the 0.08 BAC, there is no quantitative amount of a controlled substance or its metabolite to constitute impairment.
In the case of marijuana, there are two metabolites: Hydroxy-THC, the primary metabolite and Carboxy-THC, the secondary and non-impairing metabolite which can remain in the body for 28-30 days. The court ruled that the metabolite amount had to be shown to be of a sufficient quantity and character to cause actual impairment. The presence of a non-impairing metabolite reflecting prior usage was not sufficient to sustain a conviction.
Consequently, based upon wording of the NCGS, any DWI based upon a metabolite must be based upon a sufficient quantity to cause actual impairment. NCGS 20-138.1 states that any Schedule I metabolite qualifies as impairment per se. Based upon the Harris case, it can be argued that the statute must be interpreted to only apply to metabolites capable of causing impairment. Additionally, we must understand the nature of the specific drug’s metabolites to evaluate whether the primary or secondary metabolite is capable of causing impairment. Finally, the metabolite must be shown to have come from the illegal drug and not from a legal substance.
If your case is based upon a metabolite of a controlled substance, a consultation with a forensic chemist is critical to any defense.
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Create a business entity early to encapsulate your venture. To avoid the tax implications of co-mingling personal and business funds and assets, create your business entity before you hire anyone or spend money building the product. Don’t wait for that first investor or prototype. The primary business entity options include the Limited Liability Company (LLC), or a Corporation (B-Corp, C-Corp, or S-Corp). I recommend starting with the simplest, quickest, and the least expensive – the LLC. It can be done online, without a lawyer (though you really should have a lawyer), often for less than $100. Worried you won’t choose the right business structure? Since you can upgrade your business entity later as required, and you can’t foresee where your business is headed, don’t worry about whether you’re choosing the perfect structure today. Just focus on protecting yourself now by selecting the structure that makes the most sense for your present circumstances.
File a Founder stock election so that no taxes are due until exit. File an 83(b) election with the IRS within 30 days of founding the company, while the market value of your startup is essentially zero. Failing to file or waiting to incorporate until a first investor arrives could lead to a nasty tax bill in the middle of startup rollout when you can least afford it. Even though the initial stock has no value or market, it is imperative that you document the division of ownership immediately between co-founders commensurate with their investment, contribution, and role. Proper documentation will minimize later legal claims and issues.
Set up a separate records system for your new business. Many entrepreneurs follow old shoebox habits in managing expenses until the company launches. For legal and tax purposes, I recommend a formal system, like Intuit or FreshBooks, for the new venture. You’ll also need to save tax records, bank statements, canceled checks, and contracts. Proper record keeping is especially important if you have employees and contractors, as you’ll need to manage W-2s, Form 1099s, employment agreements, attendance records, termination letters, and any settlement or ownership documents with former employees.
Don’t overlook business tax filing requirements and dates. For corporations in the US, the annual tax return due date is a month earlier than for individual tax filings, so be prepared. Also, many corporations have quarterly filing requirements, or even monthly ones if you have payroll taxes, sales taxes, or state filing requirements. Also, remember that your tax entity election doesn’t have to match the legal entity. For example, for tax purposes, you can elect to treat your LLC or S-Corp as a sole proprietorship (Schedule C), partnership (Schedule K), or as an S-Corp (Form 2553).
Upgrade your legal business entity to meet growth needs. You may start as an LLC but find that a potentially high-value investor insists on having preferred stock, which is only available with a C-Corp. Also, mergers, acquisitions, and alliances with other companies almost always drive the need to modify your organizational entity for legal or operational purposes. Additionally, I recommend that you review and update co-founder ownership agreements annually. In these cases, you will typically use a business attorney to upgrade your corporate platform or modify contracts, as appropriate. You’ll likely need a business attorney on a regular basis. Consider vetting attorneys early on before you need one to find counsel that understands your type of business. This way you will have an established relationship with an attorney you trust when the time comes to get help.
If you need guidance in the beginning or along the way, I recommend a visit to your nearest Small Business Development Center (SBDC), your local SCORE office, or a local business attorney. You can also find a wealth of information online via the Internet from tax experts and industry associations. However, if you use the information you found online, remember that the responsibility for legal and tax considerations is all yours.
Disclaimer: Cayenne Consulting is not a law firm or accounting firm and does not provide legal or tax advice. The suggestions contained in this article are for informational purposes only. Please seek the advice of qualified professionals – ideally a securities attorney and a tax attorney or CPA – when making decisions regarding legal entity selection. | 120667057 |
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Among Amid While: Are you feeling...doubtful?
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Doubt is like a divining rod; it begins to tug when it nears something fertile and fluid and underground.
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I have to use a sleep mask and this was the only hotel of our stay where there was no socket outlet to plug it into.
Therefore my sleep was not good.
The room was comfortable and bed fine.
Excellent, efficient service but flexible and friendly too.
Having made a mistake about the type of room I needed, the difficulty was somehow miraculously corrected with very little fuss.
Derick Greig the manager, Dumitru, Simon, Elena, Sarah and others all make a fine team. I like the new decor too.
Faulty towers without the comedy.
The building is very nice, the location beautiful and when the manager is replaced and a professional manager who values and trains the very nice staff that work here in providing quality service, this will be a good inn to stay at. Until then..... Was very nice getting dressed and driving to the 24 hour Tesco in Glastonbury on Saturday night, about 10:10pm, to pick up a sandwich as the evening staff at this four inn were unable to make something at this late hour.
The morning breakfast was highlight. I've used the fruit salad recipe at home and it's gone down a treat - chopped apple and pineapple smothered in value orange juice. But do get down early because once it's gone, they won't replenish it. Baked beans are best served when left to cook in the pan all morning and wow, a limp slug of mushroom slinking seductively over two half tomatoes. Non resident's have to pay £12.50, but we were lucky to have it included.
The most interesting part of the breakfast experience is staff not presuming they know what you need in advance. Eat with fingers or ask for a spoon. Don't get bored by asking for tea once, enjoy reminding staff a couple of times, wets the appetite. Toast/bread is delivered un-conventially half way through the breakfast, which is a nice twist.
Now the manager, is quite something. A strong believer in the early riser catches the worm, his recent appointment to the hotel last November has completely transformed this inn from something that was probably very good into, well farcical inn keeping. He is very happy with what he sees and feels everything is great. It's good practice keeping a place clean by squirting cleaning products on tables near to you while eating or having a drink. Everybody at his inn has a great time and nobody is dissatisfied. Although other guests have looks of displeasure and frustration, the manager has these amazing glasses, not available on Amazon, that turns negatives into positives.
It's not problem for a couple to be put into a room adjoining a very busy family room and not in another part of the inn. It's always nice to change rooms when you start the holiday. Still the second room was cosy. I can only recommend that if you are looking for a break, a trip away, you completely and totally avoid this.
The hotel was lovely with the exception of a very hard bed.
Rooms were clean and generally good.
The shower was lovely although it didn't get very hot. The duvet was a little on the thin side and a bit small for the bed. Breakfast was lovely and there was a good selection. We ate in the restaurant one night as it has an AA rosette. Starters were good but for mains both of our meats (duck and venison) were very overcooked and generally the food in the restaurant was very overpriced for the quality. Overall it was a decent stay but not somewhere I would return to.
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You can't beat these displays, or these cameras. Samsung's learned how to make beautiful hardware. Big phones are best phones.
Bloatware is still hanging around. These things are fingerprint magnets. Beauty don't come cheap.
Phablets are dead. Long live huge phones.
There are a few stragglers left, clutching their iPhone 5s and claiming that life was better when everyone was squinting at tiny screens. But most people have come around. Good thing, too: Big phones are great. People who have big phones use them more, more efficiently, for more things. Calling phones like the new Samsung Galaxy Note 5 and S6 Edge+ “phablets” pretends that they’re a mix of phones and tablets, which they’re not. They’re just phones. Big, powerful, excellent phones.
In most ways, they’re the same phone. Same processor, same camera, same software, same bad ideas about how many built-in apps people want. In fact, they’re overwhelmingly similar to the Galaxy S6 and S6 Edge as well. It’s confusing, but luckily it doesn’t really matter, because you can’t pick wrong.
There is one that stands out above the rest, though. For my money, it’s the best Android phone on the market right now: the Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge+. (Terrible name, excellent phone.) It was clearly created in response to the surprising demand for the S6 Edge, which came out in March. The Edge+ is that phone, only bigger. It has a 5.7-inch, 1440×2560 display that is straight-up the best display you’ll find on a phone anywhere. It’s crystal clear, super accurate, and even relatively viewable in direct sunlight.
The Edge gets its name from the doubly-curved display, which drips off to the left and right as you hold the phone vertically. This does a few things, in addition to being just generally impressive. It makes the screen look bigger than it actually is, like one of those billboards that bursts out of its frame. It hides the bezel, giving the display a never-ending kind of effect. It also distorts things on the edges a bit, which is frustrating every once in a while as you watch a movie. But I can’t say it ever really bothered me.
Having the screen curve toward the back also let Samsung make the phone thinner. The Note 5 is hardly unwieldy, at 7.6mm thick and a hair over six ounces, but the Edge+, at 6.9mm and 5.3 ounces, feels much lighter. I can’t think of another phone this big, or even close, that’s felt so comfortable to use. Its glass and metal body still feels sturdy, and it’s beautifully simple.
There is a tinge of form over function, admittedly. The camera bumps out of the back in such a way that the phone wobbles every time I touch it while it’s resting on a flat surface, and the glassy back feels pretty slippery. It also took about two minutes for its back to be absolutely covered in fingerprints. Luckily, my dark blue Edge+ doesn’t show them so much, but my gold Note 5 constantly needs to be cleaned.
Before I get to all the identical things about the Note 5 and Edge+, there’s one more difference. The Note 5 has a stylus, called an S Pen, lodged in a sheath in the bottom-right corner of the phone. For a certain kind of user, the pen is terrific. It’s fast and accurate, and launches a helpful menu every time you take it out. (It even has a nice clicky thing at the top, which does exactly nothing except satiate my constant need to fiddle.) The best feature is a new one: If your screen is off and you pop the pen out, a chalkboard-like notepad pops up for you to doodle on. It’s flat-out the fastest way to take a note on a phone, and it works really well.
At least it did, until I stupidly tried to corroborate an issue some people were having by sticking my S Pen in backward. It’s now stuck in the slot, probably forever. It was stupid, and if you’re not stupid, you’ll be fine. But be warned: If you buy a Note, always look when you put the S Pen back. Otherwise you’ll have a stylus nib poking you in the leg every time you put your phone in your pocket.
To summarize: The Edge+ is a better-looking phone. It’s thinner, lighter, and just cooler. The Note 5 has a great pen. Got it? Good. Moving on.
Everything else about these two phones is identical. They both run Samsung’s latest Exynos processor, which is absurdly fast. They both run Android 5.1, along with Samsung’s TouchWiz skin. I’ve grown less angry at TouchWiz, as Samsung has scaled back its aesthetic horrors, but there are still spots where the phone will stutter or lag. That’s not Android, and it’s not the processor or the 4GB of RAM. That’s TouchWiz. These are minor grievances, of course, and for the most part the phone runs splendidly. But Samsung’s definitely not finished here.
The other thing that comes with TouchWiz is a lot of bloatware. Some is useful stuff—Microsoft’s Office apps, for instance—that I’d still rather just install myself. Mostly, though, it’s Samsung’s apps that are just knockoffs of better Google apps. Internet is my favorite—it’s just a bad browser, which you should never use because Chrome is literally right there. That’s just on my unlocked, international device, too—U.S. carrier versions will be much worse. You can either hide or uninstall most of the apps and then tweak the look with the theme store, and you should. Samsung’s gotten spectacularly good at building devices, but software is still a rough spot.
The camera, on the other hand, is unadulterated good news. The 16-megapixel sensor and f/1.9 lens produce images that are as good as, if not better than, any other smartphone on the planet. They’re bright, dynamic, accurate, and sharp, a quartet you won’t find often. They shoot in gorgeous 4K, and can even livestream directly to YouTube right from the camera app. You can shoot in RAW, use image stabilization in video…the list goes on and on. Oh, and not for nothing, double-clicking on the home button is the best way ever to open the camera app and every other phone should copy Samsung immediately.
You can argue over little things, like whether you prefer Apple’s religious color accuracy to Samsung’s tendency to slightly over-brighten dark backgrounds, but the argument between Samsung’s best phones and any others will ultimately boil down only to personal preference. All four of Samsung’s flagship phones, including the Note 5 and Edge+, have phenomenal cameras. Full stop.
Despite their relative size differences, both phones have the same 3,000mAh battery. No, it’s not removable, because Samsung has given up on its most demanding users to focus instead on being totally mainstream. In both cases, I’ve had no trouble getting a day or even a day and a half of normal use before the battery croaks. Even more exciting is the phones’ crazy-fast charging, which means you can top off in the time it takes to drink your coffee. Someday, we’ll have week-long batteries; until then, this is about the best we can expect.
It comes down to this: The Note 5 and Edge+ are great phones. With about 10 minutes of customization—downloading the right theme and hiding the right apps—they’re exceptional phones. They’re expensive phones, certainly, on par with the iPhone 6 Plus and costlier than even their slightly-smaller counterparts. At AT&T, for instance, the base model, 32GB Edge+ costs $814.99 outright, or $27.17 monthly, and the Note 5 starts at $739.99 or $24.67. You can get the smaller models for less, and get a lot of the same benefit.
If money’s no object, though, get the big phones. Yeah, they’re just bigger. That’s the whole point. And big phones are awesome—just don’t call them phablets. | 363214840 |
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spent a good part of the day laying on the couch falling in and out of deep sleep.
That evening his fever started.
and literally felt his body temperature increase as I sat there.
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reporter and journalist, since 1989 at Gazeta Wyborcza, before that wrote for independent newspapers. His works: The Crisis Generation (The Literary Institute in Paris), "Gazeta Wyborcza" the Mirror of Democracy (Noir sur Blanc), Hall of Patriots (Rytm), Funeral for a Tough Guy (Czarne), Iraq. Hell in Paradise (Swiat Ksiazki, Czarne), Israel Ceased Flying (Czarne), Bedzies wisiol za cosik. Godki podhalanskie (Znak), Big Mess. The Israeli Alphabet (Agora). More than ten of his reports were run by Paris-based "Kultura". Winner for the Award of Polish-Ukrainian Reconciliation in 2003 for his book Funeral for a Tough Guy and the Kurt Schork Award for his stories on Iraq. In 2006, he received the Beata Pawlak Award for his collection of reports, "Israel Ceased Flying". He lives in Warsaw.
A philosophy graduate at the University of Warsaw, works at the Museum of the History of Polish Jews since 2009. For two years, she co-created the project "Polish Righteous - Restoring Remembrance", currently works at the Cultural Projects Departments and coordinates the museum cinema. The author of the drama "Unexploded" about the Holocaust.
A radio reporter, works at Radio TOK FM since 2008 She runs a weekly program "In-Depth Interview" and an art program "Andymateria" with Anda Rottenberg. Winner of two Grand Press awards in the Interview category (2011, 2012). Author of a collection of interviews "Life - Head-on Collision (Carta Blanca, 2013) and an extended interview "Priest Wojciech Lemanski. Flesh, Bone and Faith" (Agora, 2013). | 144858739 |
SAN JUAN, PUERTO RICO—Tucked deep beneath the bleachers at the Coliseo Roberto Clemente Coliseum, a hulking concrete sports and concert venue, past half a dozen security checkpoints and down a tiled hallway, there stands a double row of small rectangular dressing rooms.
One evening, Cruz recalls, an observant staffer in the “suites” asked why she was wearing her pyjamas inside out.
More than four weeks into a crisis that seems likely to stretch for months, if not years, the 54-year-old Cruz has positioned herself as the face of the island — tearful, then angry, then frustrated, then hopeful, then resolute — a made-for-live-streaming omnipresence with a mile-wide emotional range. Like Ray Nagin, the New Orleans mayor whose desperate cries for help played an early role in jolting the nation to attention about Hurricane Katrina in 2005, Cruz has demanded that people listen.
But unlike the often-befuddled Nagin, Cruz has gone about the task with a blend of message discipline and media savvy fit for the digital age.
On high-profile treks through San Juan, her ravaged, debris-strewn and power-starved city, she is trailed by a mayor’s office photographer and videographer, who feed images to her social media accounts. Images of her tromping through floodwaters, rescuing the elderly and delivering supplies are everywhere, because she seems to be everywhere.
Cruz is fond of profanity, and she’s become eminently bleepable as well as eminently quotable as she tries to communicate the urgency of the plight here. She brusquely dismisses criticism of her approach, waving off portrayals that cast her as a whiner or grandstander.
Cruz’s smash-mouth approach to the White House administration — she has called U.S. President Donald Trump “disrespectful,” “the miscommunicator-in-chief,” and “the hater-in-chief” among other things — raises the question of whether a local official can get what she needs despite a strained relationship with Washington.
Cruz seems to be banking on her ability to work around Trump, leveraging her mega-media platform and appealing directly to the public and to corporate givers. She points to truckloads of corporate donations pouring in as verification that she’s on the right path. But she also has continued to nudge the federal government to do much more, both in terms of relief resources and in delivering financial assistance to an island that has long been drowning in debt.
“The nation has a big heart and the president has a big mouth,” Cruz said.
She was going to a playbook she’d used before. Cruz confides that she has lots of T-shirts — 179 to be exact — each with a political message.
“LGBT,” she says, launching into a long list.
As Cruz was talking, the conversation was interrupted by someone bringing over white rice and pork chops.
She tilted her head forward, removed her glasses, and held her face in her hands for several moments. When she lowered her hands, her eyes had welled with tears.
“It’s warm,” she said, adding that she hadn’t had warm food in a long while.
Cruz, like many islanders, made her way to the mainland United States. She earned a bachelor’s degree from Boston University and a master’s from Carnegie Mellon, then went on to human resources executive positions, according to her official biography.
She gave birth to her only child, Marina Paul Yulín Cruz, in Pennsylvania, but in the 1990s she was drawn back to the island to work as an adviser to Sila María Calderón, who would later become governor.
Cruz went on to serve as an elected member of the Puerto Rico House of Representatives, then launched a campaign for mayor in 2012. Few gave her a chance.
Vargas Vidot, the Puerto Rican senator, said Cruz’s independent streak has been one of her greatest virtues, but also one of her weaknesses.
During the interview with Cruz, she occasionally fingered a rosary that dangled from her left wrist. When asked about it, she recalled without hesitation the exact day she received it: Feb. 19, 2012.
Shortly thereafter, a rival became embroiled in scandal, and she ended up winning an unlikely victory. She’s worn the rosary ever since.
Not surprisingly, the attention she’s received since the hurricane has led to speculation that she has set her sights on higher office, such as the governorship. Cruz has now taken to countering the rumours by telling several local media organizations that she will not seek the governor’s office and that if she runs for anything in 2020, it will be for re-election as mayor.
At times she effects the demeanour of a drill sergeant, loudly barking orders. She can be self-effacing one moment — laughing as a random cat strolls through her news conference or pulling off her cap to show reporters the grey roots in her dyed blond hair — and imperious the next, yelling profanities into the phone or gruffly ordering around her staffers, who scurry at the barest hint of a request.
On a recent afternoon, as Cruz’s team of staffers and volunteers was packing to leave on a tour of San Juan, Cruz began straightening up chairs in the corner of the coliseum basketball court where she holds news conferences.
Later that afternoon, Cruz’s caravan — pickup trucks, a press van, police motorcycles — pushed off from the coliseum, sirens blaring to clear holes in the epic San Juan traffic.
They came to a stop on a scruffy street on a bluff overlooking the city.
Cruz bounded out of one of the lead vehicles. She wore cargo pants tucked into the brown “5.11 Tactical” brand combat boots that have become her signature look during the crisis. She wears grey horn-rimmed glasses that look like expensive designer frames.
Trailed by cameras and a small pack of reporters, she made her way down a street lined with modest concrete homes, looking for old people.
At the high end of the steep street she plunged into a house where someone had told her some senior citizens lived. She popped out moments later.
“Donde estan los viejitos?” she yelled. Where are the little old people?
Startled neighbours, who had come out onto their porches and stoops, pointed to a small yellow house. Cruz went inside. There she found several older people, and she started quizzing them about their medicines. For all the journalists spreading across San Juan, Cruz — through her social media postings and non-stop interviews — has become, in a sense, one of the foremost chroniclers of the storm’s aftermath. In this little house, she’d found another story to tell, one she says would have been missed if her caravan had been moving too fast.
“Then you will lose the human stories behind it and the human condition behind it,” Cruz said.
From there, her caravan made its way deep into Caimito, an impoverished stretch of outer San Juan that was once a rural getaway but now has been swallowed by the spreading city, filling with the flimsy homes of some of the area’s poorest residents. Her destination was the home of a 9-year-old boy genius with a 140 IQ who lost almost all his books during the storm.
Above her head, a drone — operated by a charitable organization that is distributing solar lamps — videotaped everything.
At the base of a precipitous gravelly roadway, the procession stopped. Cruz went ahead alone as staffers held back the reporters.
“This boy is a genius,” one of Cruz’s top aides, José Cruz, whispered in a voice reminiscent of a golf announcer narrating a crucial putt.
A child in a blue T-shirt, shorts and Crocs emerged from a cinder block house that lost its roof to the storm and had walls patched with plywood. It clung perilously to the edge of the hillside above a steep ravine.
Ever the master of ceremonies, Cruz suggested that the boy lead the camera crews on a tour of his wrecked house. Cruz hung back. With the cameras turned away from her, she and the boy’s mother embraced for a long time. Both of them were crying. | 266463356 |
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NY Shamrock SC will enjoy another week on top of the table after triumphing over Central Park Rangers 5-2 home at St. Michael’s Playground on Saturday night.
Central Park opened the scoring half an hour into the game as James Greco controlled a rebound from Matt Mbamelu’s shot before cutting on his left to steer a low-shot past Shamrocks keeper Giafranco Barone.
The home team drew itself leveled nine minutes later as Kurt Cameron slotted the ball to the right corner of the net after a brilliant dummy from James Whyte off a CPR giveaway in the back.
Shamrocks took the lead just a minute after the restart through Cameron’s brace. The former Seton Hall University player trapped Whyte’s pass on a breakaway before taking a couple of touches in the box to set himself up for a shot that kissed the bottom right corner of the net.
Ethan Evans saved the Rocks from losing their lead 11 minutes inside the second half, clearing Greco's shot off the line.
Kevin Grogan's men took a 3-1 lead in the 67th minute in similar fashion with their last goal as Whyte spotted Cameron again in the box with a neat pass.
The Queens-based club extended their lead again in the 81st minute when Kwesi Mills-Odoi hit a marvelous through pass from midfield to James Zaidan who rolled the ball in the net past CPR’s onrushing keeper.
Substitute Stephanos Hondrakis pulled one back for the Rangers in the 85th minute, hitting the ball to the near right post amid a scramble in the box.
The Rocks re-established their three goal lead three minutes later when Calvin Moyes struck the ball from the box beyond the opposing keeper from Joe Zorbo’s low-cross.
1. No goal for Whyte? That’s a first: Rocks new signing James Whyte's unreal scoring streak collapsed. The forward scored 10 goals in his first six games for Shamrocks before going goalless against the Rangers. However Whyte provided two assists.
2.Cameron’s first hat trick for the Rocks: Shamrocks striker Kurt Cameron scored a hat trick in his first game netting for the Irish team.
3. They’re Rangers indeed: Central Park Rangers came to St. Michael’s Playground ready for combat as they tallied 19 fouls and three yellow cards against Kevin Grogan's men.
The Rangers scored the opener and were perhaps the most physical team the Rocks played this season, collecting 19 fouls and three yellows however Shamrocks conquered them 5-2. Rocks forward Kurt Cameron reminisced on the game and was delighted that his team overcame their opponents.
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Bob and Ginny Childs loved their spacious five-bedroom home in Churchville, with one glaring exception: a master bathroom they considered devoid of personality and fraught with wasted space. That changed in 2012, when the bathroom received an ambitious renovation, complete with the addition of elegant cabinetry and beautiful tile work, orchestrated by the masters at Diamond Kitchen & Bath.
“Now it’s the Taj Mahal of bathrooms— gorgeous, contemporary and very warm,” says Ginny Childs. She was not surprised by the end result, given a similar result when the Childses hired Diamond Kitchen & Bath to renovate their kitchen years earlier.
Diamond Kitchen & Bath has earned its place as one of the region’s most sought-after design ers of beautiful home renovations, as well as a leading provider of high-quality, American- made home furnishings. Even so, such quality does not necessarily come with a high price tag, according to Reisbord.
Diamond Kitchen & Bath has options for every homeowner and every project, from the basic to the ornate. It does not offer, however, options of low quality or, worse, something that can actually harm the homeowner or detract from the value of their home. This includes cheaply made cabinetry of Chinese origin, which is becoming an unfortunate trend in the cabinet industry.
Many Chinese cabinet brands are laden with formaldehyde, sulfur and other chemicals that are banned by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency but are sometimes hard to regulate. These noxious chemicals can result in health problems such as headaches, dizziness and nausea, among others. Also, Chinese-made cabinets often have dull, thin, worn-looking finishes that simply do not last, and they almost never carry a warranty. This is why Diamond Kitchen & Bath works only with North American manufacturers it knows and trusts.
“There’s a big difference in quality between the products we carry and the Chinese cabinetry that’s flooding the market,” Reisbord says. “The funny thing is, we can compete with these products on price with superior products that were made in the United States. There’s no reason to accept something of lesser quality that’s not going to last, especially when it’s made outside of the country.
Whether a homeowner’s goal is to purchase a new faucet or have a kitchen or bathroom fully renovated, Reisbord welcomes prospective clients to visit his company’s Huntingdon Valley design center and showroom. There, they will find countless flooring options, 11 different lines of cabinetry and an array of other furnishings. These include a number of “green” products made by trusted manufacturers, from faucets, tubs and showers to cabinetry hardware and natural stone such as granite and quartz.
Brad and Stacy Wertz of Richboro are examples of clients who have turned to Diamond Kitchen & Bath for various projects. The firm recently completed gorgeous renovations of the kitchen and master/hall bathrooms, as well as a redesigned fireplace/finished bar as part of a reinvention of the family room. Based on their positive experience, the Wertzes would recommend Diamond Kitchen & Bath to anyone.
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Born Alexander Barker Jr. in New York on May 8, 1919, Lex Barker came from a wealthy family that didn’t think too much of performing artists. Therefore, in the early 1940s when Barker decided to drop out of Princeton to become an actor, his family practically disowned him. Although he was spotted by 20th Century-Fox talent scouts and was offered a contract, Barker enlisted in the Armed Forces during World War II, as many other actors had done. After the war, the talented Barker attempted to resume his acting career and began landing small roles in good films. But he would have to wait for stardom until 1949, when producer Sol Lesser selected Lex Barker, after screening hundreds of actors to replace Johnny Weissmuller. for the title role in Tarzan’s Magic Fountain .
Barker’s first outing as Tarzan, Tarzan’s Magic Fountain (1949; with Brenda Joyce, Albert Dekker, and Evelyn Ankers ) was arguably his best Tarzan film. In addition to Tarzan’s Magic Fountain. Barker made four more Tarzan films for Sol Lesser: Tarzan and the Slave Girl (1950; with Robert Alda), Tarzan’s Peril (1951; with George Macready), Tarzan’s Savage Fury (1952; with Dorothy Hart), and Tarzan and the She-Devil (1953; with Raymond Burr. Tom Conway, and Monique van Vooren). The next actor to take on the role of Tarzan was Gordon Scott in 1955.
With the Tarzan series behind him, Barker’s film career began to stall; the rise of television had erased many roles for the handsome leading man. He made a dozen or so pictures, including several westerns, between 1954 and 1958—the best of these includes The Girl in the Kremlin (1957; with Zsa Zsa Gabor ) and Strange Awakening (1958). Lex Barker’s career got a second wind in 1958, when he began making films in Europe, a move that saw his popularity explode once again. He was especially successful in Germany, where he made many films in several popular series. In the early 1960s, Barker was hailed as the best foreign actor in Germany.
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Old World v. New World – wines, that is!
Today I'm serving as substitute blogger for my good friend Cecilia Dominic the Random Oenophile, who decided to go chase tropical storms for her vacation. She will be cross-posting this entry on her blog, which you should read anyway because of its wealth of wine and food info. She usually recounts the fine bi-weekly wine tastings at one of our mutual favorite joints, JavaMonkey in Decatur, as well as her other oenophilic and gastronomic adventures. If you haven't been there, I strongly encourage you to go check it out – great wines and beer, excellent food, and oh yes, fine Free Trade coffee by the cup or by the pound.
Anyway, on to the wines. This week's tasting was billed as an “Old World v. New World” matchup, but of course Jess (the proprietor of said JavaMonkey) wanted to throw in a wrinkle, so the tasting was essentially a blind one, with the exception of identifying the predominant varietals of each wine. That is, we got a sheet with the six wines listed, two chardonnays, two sangioveses, and two syrahs, but that was it. We were left to deduce which wine was from the Old World (which, by the rules of the tasting, pretty much meant Europe) and which was from the New World.
Our first pairing was the aforementioned chardonnays. Chardonnay #1 was grassy, perhaps slightly vegetal (but in a good way – maybe a hint of green pepper?), with some overtones of pink grapefruit, a little lemony also, and it had some funkiness (again in a good way) and a nice long finish. This one was a double thumbs-up from all tasters with whom I spoke, and was one of my faves. I guessed this as an Old World (hereinafter OW v. NW).
Chardonnay #2 had more of a green apple flavor up front (thanks to Kurt for identifying the correct apple varietal). It definitely showed some oak barrel aging (unlike Chard #1), and had a slightly shorter finish than #1. It was also a bit sweet, almost a candy apple flavor but not quite that sweet. It was good, but the other Chard was my preference. I guessed NW.
Sangiovese #1 was a light to medium bodied red, very smooth, with a slightly tart flavor – sour cherries was the best description I could come up with. It had some “legs” - for the uninitiated, “legs” refer to the coating trickles left on the inside of the glass after swirling the wine up the sides of the glass. The viscosity of the wine thus observed is a rough measure of its alcohol content (or ABV), i.e., the longer the legs, the higher the alcohol content. As a general rule, OW wines are lower ABV than NW wines. My guess here was OW.
Sangiovese #2 was darker, very big and punch on the nose with more legs. It was a little “hot” (in terms of ABV, not just temperature, although I could have done with having the reds served closer to “cellar temperature of about 65 degrees Fahrenheit). It was chewy and sticky, definitely peppery, with more of a dark cherry flavor. I picked up some tannins (but not too many); others noted a hint of anise. I guessed NW.
Syrah #1 was a little hot on the front of my tongue, and it was hard at first for me to pick out any distinct flavors as the high ABV smacked me upside the palate at the beginning. I eventually settled on “dark berries” as the flavor-in-chief, with some chocolaty aspects as well. There was definitely a lot going on with this wine, although it was just a bit too fruit-forward and high intensity for my tastes – I'm guessing, however, that this would have been Cecilia's favorite of the evening. I guessed NW.
Syrah #2 was perhaps my favorite wine of the evening. It was dark and slightly sweet, with big legs, but not quite as in-your-face as #1. I got some dark berries again – but that's characteristic of the varietal – maybe blackberries in this one, or perhaps blueberries also. There were also some tannins and a little minerality, but not so much as to overwhelm the other flavors. I also got a hint of anise on the sides of my tongue as I tasted this one. I guessed OW.
That's my report from the wine tasting. Thanks to CD for allowing me to fill in for her in her absence. And thanks to you readers for letting my indulge this diversion into another of my life's passions. Salut!
The only thing we have to fear is...that other guy!
I know I've written about this before, but it's time once again to plumb the Jungian depths of the fear of the other, or maybe I should capitalize that: The Other. I'm referring to the virulently angry protesters at the various Congressional town hall meetings over the past few weeks. Of course, much of these protests are of the “Astroturf” variety (i.e., fake grass roots), and right-wing bloviators are responsible for stirring up much of the vitriol on display. However, there are some genuinely angry, genuinely afraid people out there.
What are they afraid of? Are they really afraid of reforms to the health insurance industry? Are they afraid of a public option for health care, or of losing tax deductibility for employer-provided health insurance benefits? If they are, these aren't the issues they're articulating (and I use the word generously), at least not in most of the news clips I've seen of the protests. Speaking of which, Barney Frank delivered a fine smackdown of a nutty protester at a recent town hall meeting, as shown on this YouTube clip.
No, what they're afraid of, quite specifically, is President Obama and his plans to implement a “Nazi” government. That's right, it's apparently Summertime for Hitler and America. Protesters are feverishly brandishing posters of Obama with a Hitler-esque mustache (I suppose they chose Nazis instead of Communists because a Stalin mustache just looks too silly on anyone) and chanting all manner of nonsensical anti-reform slogans. Oh yeah, and they're starting to bring guns to the protests too.
Now, last I checked, the Nazis didn't offer universal health coverage. Neither did they make many attempts to rein in pharmaceutical costs. So the Nazi comparisons aren't meant to be point-by-point accurate historical parallels. What the protesters are trying to say, as best as I can figure out, is that just as Hitler was evil, Obama also is evil, and he's trying to turn America into some sort of evil shell of its former self. If you listen to the protesters, you'll hear them say things like “This isn't the America I know and love”.
What is the America they know and love? Perhaps the growing popularity of the AMC series Mad Men might help explain this. The America these folks know and love is the pre-Woodstock, pre-Stonewall America, the Eisenhower Happy Days years, when men were men and women were women and blacks knew their place and gays were firmly locked in their closets.
To put it another way, these folks are afraid of Obama because he's not like them. And I don't mean because he's Harvard-educated, or because he has a hot wife. He's not like them because he's a black guy. That's it, plain and simple, and if you know me at all you know I hate simplifying complex issues down to simple charges like “racism”, but in this case, I think that's at least what's at the root of all this. Have you noticed that every single one of the protesters featured on the news just happens to be white? But don't believe me – check out the most trusted man in news for yourself on this point.
Back to Hitler - if it's Summertime for Hitler and America, is the heartland happy and gay? Well, maybe in Iowa, and in a few New England states that have recently legalized gay marriage. Aside from the health care reform debate, however, nothing stirs up the vitriol of some parts of the populace like the gay marriage debate. This is another one in which opponents of reform decry the destruction of our society, the end of America, etc. etc. if the reformers get their way. The legalization of gay marriage would supposedly crumble the entire foundation of our country. How this would happen (outside of the presumed wrath of a vengeful, homophobic Divine Being), I'm not sure. Since I don't believe in a vengeful, homophobic Divine Being, I'm not too worried about that outcome. I am, however, deeply troubled by the discrimination against a whole lot of people in our country simply because they love certain other people and want to spend a lifetime together in a committed, loving partnership. What's so scary about that?
What's so scary about gays, and blacks, and Hispanic immigrants, and all the rest of the bogeymen conjured up by these protesters, is that they're NOT LIKE US. That is to say, they're THE OTHER. According to depth psychology, we fear that which is different from us - or alternatively that which represents some shadow aspect of our true selves, and then we find an out-group, an other or set of others, and then we project all of our fears and hatred onto that group. It really doesn't matter what that Other group is, as long as we can clearly identify and in turn vilify that group. I've written about this before on this blog so I won't go on too long about it now. Just realize that this is what's really at work in these seemingly irrational protests – the fear of the other. Do we really need to fear that which is different from ourselves? No, what we need to fear is that element within ourselves that we in turn project onto the other. As Carl Jung wisely noted, "The best political, social, and spiritual work we can do is to withdraw the projection of our shadow onto others."
Most casual observers have no concept of the real cost of our current, primarily employer-based, health care system. There are the structural and competitive “costs”, such as the inability to change jobs without fear of losing coverage (or not having “pre-existing conditions” covered). This obviously limits our overall productivity as a society, because individuals are not always truly free to move from one employer to another in order to raise their income or to work in a new position that would enhance their productivity vis-à-vis the economy as a whole. It also punishes entrepreneurialism, as smaller companies do not have the same purchasing power as larger ones. Also, since experts often cite small businesses as the main engine driving job creation, this system inhibits overall job growth.
Important as these points are, they still do not address the massive transfer of money from certain individuals to others that occurs in the employer-based healthcare system. You've probably heard protestors decrying the proposed “government takeover” of healthcare, along with their demands to not have any of their tax dollars spent to pay for someone else's healthcare. But there's the rub: When it comes to employer-based health insurance, our tax dollars already are being spent for others' healthcare, and to a mind-boggling degree.
Put another way, if your company paid you more money, and in exchange you had to go purchase your own health insurance, you would have to pay taxes on those extra earnings. Conceptually speaking, when some individuals in our society pay fewer taxes than they might otherwise (if there were no special benefits or deductions written into the tax code), the rest of us have to pick up the bill for the unrealized taxes – and by “the rest of us” I mean either us right now in order to balance the budget, or some future “us” down the road in order to pay off accumulated deficits.
The bottom line is this: Because of our current employer-based healthcare system, I as a taxpayer am already subsidizing the health insurance costs of everyone who receives health insurance through their employer. That's right, my tax dollars (and yours too) are helping to pay for the “private” health insurance of millions upon millions of Americans. How much does this subsidy cost, you might ask? According to a report published by the Congressional Research Service in late 2008 (drawing on calculations done by the Joint Committee on Taxation), the estimated calendar year 2007 tax expenditures for the employer coverage exclusion were $143.3 billion for the federal income tax and $100.7 billion for FICA (Social Security and Medicare) taxes, for an annual total of $244 billion. Note that this is only the federal tax subsidy; there are also tax benefits to be had under state and local income tax laws.
What's more, this tax subsidy disproportionately benefits the wealthiest individuals in our society, because the higher your marginal tax rate, the more benefit you gain from the non-taxability of employer-paid health insurance contributions. That's right, my taxes and your taxes help pay for the super-premium health insurance plans of the top executives in the land.
This system hasn't always been around; in fact, it was only through changes to the federal tax code in 1954 that this system became cemented in our laws. While some would argue that we shouldn't change anything about our healthcare system because everything seems to work so well the way it is, I would argue that the tax exemption of employer-based health insurance results in a perverse manipulation of healthcare funding, and is a ridiculous boondoggle whose time should now be brought to an end.
Mind you, I'm not arguing (here, at least) about whether we should replace the current system with a robust public option, a full-on single payer system, or a network of private insurance providers. Adding transparency and making consumers aware of the true costs of their healthcare would most likely yield overall healthcare cost savings, but that's only a corollary benefit in my mind. I'm simply saying that we need to remove the current tax boondoggle and shift toward much greater transparency in the health insurance system.
I've been laying off of blogging, particularly political musings, for a while now, as I'm trying to work on a larger project. Of course, that's getting nowhere fast, and one astute observer has suggested that I ought to at least throw in a few smaller projects to keep my musing and writing skills at some level of competence. I had been uninspired about this possibility until very recently.
So what was it that drew me out of my slumber? Was it outrage over the insanity of the far-right belligerence about health insurance reform (quoting Charles Blow of NYT, “Belligerence is the currency of the intellectually bankrupt.”), or the shameless funding of politicians on both sides of the aisle by pharmaceutical and other corporate players in the health care realm? No, but at least I got in a quick shout-out on those points.
In fact, it's the revelation, not altogether recent but only now getting significant airplay Stateside, about President George W. Bush and the run-up to the invasion of Iraq in 2003. You remember Bush, the seemingly uncomplicated guy who made decisions of national and international import based on his gut rather than his head, and trusted in the leadings of his perception of God through Jesus Christ to guide his footsteps. Apparently we never realized just how much he was consulting the Good Book for foreign policy guidance.
This may seem simply an odd, offbeat, obscure bit of Biblical end-times ranting (if it had come from anyone other than the leader of the free world and the Commander-in-Chief of the greatest military power the world has ever known), but I can assure you from my days in the evangelical camp that it's standard eschatological fare, popularized by such very well-known authors as Hal Lindsey and championed by the likes of Pat Robertson.
I remember sitting in a lovely Stockholm cafe in the summer of 2006 enjoying a great dinner with a couple of my spouse's Swedish relatives, trying to explain to them the reasons behind America's foreign policy in the Middle East. As I described American evangelicals' obsession with eschatological prophecies and their resultant unquestioning support for Israel and concomitant opposition to Islam, and the expectation that Jesus would return to Earth and gather all of his followers up into heaven once the Temple was rebuilt in Jerusalem, my Swedish relatives began snickering. When I told them that I had read estimates that fully one-quarter to one-third of all Americans actually believed in this one particular literalist interpretation of Biblical prophecies, they openly guffawed. But when I told them that our President and Commander-in-Chief was one of those believers, they fell silent. At the time I was only speculating that this insane religious worldview was part of President Bush's foreign policy motivation. Now, unfortunately, I find my speculations confirmed. If anything could encourage me to believe in a benevolent deity, the fact that the world survived eight years of the Bush Administration might be it.
You can read the original report by French journalist Jacques Sterchi of La Liberté here (original is in French; use Google Translator if your French comprehension, like mine, is a bit rusty). An article by visiting Yale professor Clive Hamilton, in which he draws in the connection of Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld's practice of embellishing military memos with quotes from Scripture (presumably to help persuade Bush), can be found here. The original cover sheets of the Worldwide Intelligence Updates produced by the Secretary of Defense's office are available here – view these only when you're prepared to be thoroughly appalled. | 211525256 |
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Contamination, shift in global markets result in changes to programs.
One year after China promised to ban certain recyclables from import, North American recycling programs are making changes to what they’ll accept. Glass and certain types of plastics are among the materials that will be sent to the landfill instead.
Bethel Park and Erie County, Pennsylvania; Candler County, Georgia; and St. Albert, Canada, are just a few places that have recently stopped collecting glass in their curbside programs.
In Georgia, Candler Recycling Center reports that glass and plastic recycling is “suspended” until the county can find a place to take these materials. The materials were previously sent to Bulloch County, which is no longer accepting glass or plastic.
St. Albert has also taken glass, to-go cups and single-serve plastic yogurt cups off the list of acceptable recyclables. The city notes changes in the global recycling market and contamination as the reasons.
Erie County relies on waste haulers and recyclers, such as Waste Management, to provide recycling services to residents and businesses within 38 municipalities. In January, Waste Management announced a ban on recycling plastic bags, says Brittany Prischak, the county’s sustainability coordinator. Envelopes, junk mail, certain types of plastics and glass quickly followed as materials to be “phased out” of recycling programs.
Glass that is collected and sorted through curbside programs is "highly contaminated," making the materials "useless."
Her goal with the county is to “reeducate residents as to what recycling actually means, how it works and what is truly recyclable and recoverable material.” The list of what is currently still acceptable includes plastic bottles, newspaper, cardboard and metal cans.
“I am hopeful that this is a wake-up call to everyone that just because we want something to be recycled doesn’t make it recyclable and that we can no longer use our recycling bins as an alternative to the landfill,” she says.
“We just need to look at the economics of creating a new collection program in our county and either consider processing it ourselves or transporting it directly to a glass processing company,” she adds.
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Gov. Jerry Brown signed AB 1884 into law, prohibiting dine-in restaurants from automatically providing plastic straws to their patrons.
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The City Council in Florence has threatened tourists with draconian penalties – up to 500 euros – if they are eating in the street in the city center.
Mayor Dario Nardella was banned on Tuesday after residents and trade owners complained of this alleged problem at the famed Via de ‘Neri in Florence, known for their restaurants and delicatessen stores, according to the British Daily Express.
The prohibition applies only to this street and its immediate vicinity, including the street leading to the Uffizi Gallery. Likewise, the ban is valid only at lunch time and in the evening. Calendar, the ban is in effect until January 6th.
The local restaurant with Italian panini, the self-proclaimed “street food and takeaway temple” All’Antico Vinaio and one of the best rated gastrolokals on Trip Advisor all over the world, has become so popular that nearby shops have begun to quell because people are making a crowd on the street while eating near stairs, entrances and sidewalks. Last month there was even a fight between the owners of the nearby grocery store and the Spanish family who had eaten at his doorstep. The owner pulled a thicker end in that conflict.
Somewhat unexpected, even the owner of Antico Vinaia Tomasso Mazzanti welcomed the ban. However, he regretted that there are not enough benches in the area that tourists can sit when they pick up popular sandwiches in his store. He said that customers will share cards in the future to see where they can go to eat without the risk of being fined by city authorities.
Florence is one of the world’s cities that has a steady growth in the number of visitors – an average of 1.9% per year in the last 17 years. It only last year recorded ten million overnight stays, even two million more than 2012. This is just one of the measures that the mayor and city council have taken to mitigate the negative impact of tourism on this Tuscan town.
Other Italian cities have also brought similar measures, so Venice has forbidden the opening of new fast food stores to reduce the amount of waste.
But this problem could be solved by a large number of cleaners, as the problem of space shortage could be solved by more than one bench. As Tony Naylor remembers for The Guardian, it seems that the real problem is the snobbery of people eating on the street. But street food is a cheaper and more democratic, and often more satisfying alternative to restaurants.
I guess I could understand, if you’re blocking the way you are interrupting others who live there. At least it’s not everywhere. they are doing what’s needed to keep the area functioning for all tourists and locals.
I can understand this being a ban, A lot of people don’t like watching others eat so having to navigate around people standing in the way while stuffing their faces would be a pain. It would also help cut back on litter from people who drop food or trash and leave without picking it up.
I definitely agree with this, I hate watching people eat as it makes me hungry.
This is a vital information for travelers and I’m glad I got to read it here, so whenever I visit Florence, I would know how to comport myself.
Well, looks reasonable. If people tend to camp and prevent others from getting where they want. I am sure there is enough other lovely streets, where you can stay for a picnic.
Well, it’s true that eating out is a big part of Italian culture and the whole experience (for the tourists) but I understand why Florence did this. We have to keep in mind the increased number of tourists a lot of Italian cities are getting in recent years. Overall, it was a very interesting read- thank you for sharing.
I think they have done the right thing. I agree eating out is a part of Italian culture but when masses go out of discipline, measures like this may seem harsh but are put in order in good intentions for the environment.
Actually I was there during fall 2018 and I did see that they sell those grab and go pizzas and panini. For visitors, to save time eating in a restaurant, they just grab those and eat on the streets while enjoying their sightseeing. But that being said there are millions of tourist there and it does harm their environment and local environment so it totally makes sense for them to ban.
Very interesting post. I think this is very sad, as eating on the street is also part of the Italian culture. I don’t think that “banning” is the way to solve the problems. Locals need to be way more tolerant towards tourists, as everyone is a tourist at some stage of their life. If restaurants feel threatened by street food, that’s too bad. If you own a business you know there is competition, there is nothing you can do about it. I hope that Florence will remove this new rule soon and that we can all go back eating “panino al prosciutto” in one of the most beautiful cities in the world.
More and more Italian cities seem to be struggling with the amount of tourists and their management. If they are problem with local residents just being able to live their lives then some measures need to be taken. But I don’t know if banning eating in the street is the solution… It’s probably very complicated for the institutions to find the balance between supporting tourism that brings economical growth and making sure that the life of the city itself is not threatened by it. In any case, many tourists should be more aware and respectful of their surroundings… Interesting read! | 173483883 |
As with all German-Physiks loudspeakers the key feature of the HRS 120 is the use of our unique DDD driver. One of the most important advantages of the DDD driver is the very high speed with which it is able to respond to sudden changes in the music. These are referred to as transients and are what gives music its sense of life and dynamics. The DDD driver’s excellent transient response would however be a disadvantage if you tried to use it with a conventional bass system. This is because conventional bass systems cannot respond fast enough to keep up with the DDD driver. The result would be that the bass would always sound like it was lagging behind the rest of the music, so when we designed the HRS 120 we had to find a way of producing a bass system that would match the speed of the DDD driver.
We went back to the drawing board and using detailed computer simulation techniques, designed what we regarded as a perfect cabinet, but without the constraints involved had we designed with a particular driver in mind. This approach was unusual, as it is normal to look at the data for the available drivers and then design a cabinet to match the chosen unit. This would however have meant us accepting the limitations of the available drivers and this was a compromise which we were not prepared to make. Having designed our perfect cabinet, we set about designing a new bass driver that would be the perfect match. The resulting system comprises a cabinet with an integrated Helmholtz resonator and a brand new bass driver, both of which we are proud to say are built in Germany. The perfect balance of these components produces a bass that is very fast and dynamic, as well as being extended and well controlled. It is never blurred or bloated, as is often found with large speakers and it is perfectly integrated with the output from the DDD driver.
The DDD driver is used on all German Physiks loudspeakers and the same quality of driver is used on all models from our entry level product, to the top of the range Gaudi. This revolutionary driver gives the same very important advantages to all German Physiks designs and is what sets them apart from our competitors. Its very low moving mass enables it to operate linearly over an extremely wide frequency range. The titanium DDD driver used on the standard HRS 120 covers the entire range from 240Hz to 21,500Hz. In a conventional design, this range would be covered by two or even three different types of driver and most importantly there would be a cross over point in the mid range, the area where our hearing is most sensitive.
The DDD driver’s wide operating range allows this vital region to be kept free from the level and phase anomalies that multiple drivers and a necessarily more complex cross over would create. This enables the HRS 120, like all German Physiks loudspeakers, to produce very accurate and realistic stereo images.
Another key advantage of the DDD driver is that it is omni directional, so these excellent stereo images can be enjoyed from a wide range of listening positions, unlike conventional designs which have much smaller “sweet spots” due to the tendency of their drivers to beam the sound. The benefits of the HRS 120 can be shared with friends and family, a feature that will be appreciated by any husband who has to negotiate upgrades of his hi-fi system with his wife. The DDD driver’s omni directionality also makes the HRS 120 less sensitive to room position than conventional designs. In addition, toe-in adjustment becomes unnecessary and this combined with the loudspeaker’s small foot print, make it relatively easy to set up in the listening room.
One of the principle causes of degradation of a loudspeaker’s ability to resolve fine detail and thereby produce a sense of realism is the radiation of sound energy through the cabinet’s panels. To counter this, we designed the HRS 120’s cabinet panels to be as stiff as possible using the two pronged approach developed for our Carbon and Borderland models.
Firstly, we use heavy panels of MDF with re-enforcements fitted to critical points within the structure. Secondly, we designed the cabinet with an octagonal cross section, so that the individual panels are smaller and therefore stiffer than they would be if a conventional square or rectangular cross section had been used. Any residual “cabinet talk” is minimised by applying a special damping material called Hawaphon to the inside of each panel. Hawaphon is a polymer sheet containing a matrix of small cells filled with very fine steel shot and was originally developed as an anti-surveillance measure for use in military and government buildings. It adds mass to the panel to reduce the resonant frequency and the ability of the shot in each cell to move against each other provides a very effective way of converting vibration energy into heat. Hawaphon achieves a broadband attenuation of structure-borne sound of more than 50dB, which is a remarkably high figure.
Jumpers on the loudspeaker’s rear panel allow the high frequency output level to be adjusted in 4 steps: -2dB, flat, +2dB and +4dB. This allows the user to easily compensate for the variations in the absorption of high frequencies that occur due to different types of furnishings and room construction.
We use the same quality of parts in the HRS 120 as we use in our reference products, where we design for a minimum life expectancy of 25 years. We also apply the same meticulous care and attention to the manufacture and testing of the HRS 120 as we do with all of our other products. For example, the DDD driver support pillars, loudspeaker terminal mounting plates and all the screws and spikes are made from high quality V4 stainless steel. This provides excellent corrosion resistance and ensures that the HRS 120’s high cosmetic standard will be maintained over the product’s lifetime.
The HRS 120 is available in the customer’s choice of hand matched, hard wood veneers. Cabinets supplied in our High Gloss option are coated with several layers of lacquer and then hand polished to a deep lustrous finish. This can be re-polished in the event of it receiving minor damage.
A special order version of the HRS 120 is also available. This is fitted with a carbon fibre DDD driver which provides an extended frequency response and greater low level detail resolution. The cabinet is finished with carbon fibre re-enforced panels. These provide greater rigidity, further reducing cabinet talk and improving transparency. The cabinet is coated with several layers of lacquer and hand polished to a high lustre finish. The result is a stunningly beautiful and luxurious finish. Like our High Gloss option, this can be re-polished in the event of it receiving minor damage. | 100163175 |
For spring break, I decided to do something worth remembering. So, I applied for the Alternative Spring Break Project through Pace University. With two days into the trip, I have learned a lot.
For one, I learned that after Hurricane Sandy, citizen’s from the Rockaway’s are still struggling. The media only covered a week but that’s not half of what citizens endured. A speaker tonight, Dan Guarino, told a vivid story of what he personally lived through. He watched from his window the water rising from the shore, higher and higher. There was a fear of when the waves will stop and as he was re-telling the story, it was like he was actually reliving it all over again. He made the point of that after the storm, a lot of people suffered from PTSD and other mental illnesses. Nine people were killed directly during the storm. Older people died in their suits. Many Rockaway homes have been destroyed which resulted in a lot of people fleeing from their homes to go to shelters or stay over a family members house. The citizen’s from the Rockaway’s and the individual volunteers both benefit from the S.B.P. The citizen’s benefit because they’re getting their home back. It’s where they lived most of their lives. The individual benefits because they learn valuable skills that they can apply in their own lives. It also gives them a sense of civic responsibility. Giving back to the community allows students to understand the importance of doing something better than themselves.
One of the women’s house we worked on today, expressed how grateful she was for us helping rebuild her house. Honestly, her story was so heartwarming. She told us that she wasn’t able to stay at the shelter because they don’t allow pets. The pets that she has, were mostly rescued animals. She has several cats and a dog.
Today, the students from both campuses taped down plastic wrap before we started painting the walls that were stripped from paint. It was a new and liberating experience because I’ve never done anything like that before. A fellow student, showed me how to roll the paint brush in a certain way so that when I dipped it in, there would be minor leakage of paint. I always been a believer that the people that you surround yourself with, you can learn something from them. Everyone has a piece of information that you may find valuable in one point of your life.
This Spring Break Trip, was the perfect choice for me and I don’t regret it one bit. It’s a great opportunity to give back to the community. I met so many people, with different personalities. I learned a lot from them and I formed new friendships. I also got interviewed by News 1 today, I’m pretty famous now. | 262189050 |
An exhibition comprising paintings and an installation of lamps by the Mexico-based Cuban-American artist.
Born in Havana, Cuba, in 1963, Jorge Pardo relocated to Chicago, USA, with his family as a child. He studied at the University of Illinois, Chicago and received his BFA from Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California. Pardo’s work has been the subject of numerous solo exhibitions at international institutional venues including Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin (2010); K21 Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf (2009); Los Angeles County Museum of Art (2008); and Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami (2007). He has been included in numerous significant group exhibitions including Display – between art and arts & crafts, Applied Arts Pavilion, the 57th Biennale di Venezia (2017); Okoyama Art Summit (2016), Viehof Collection: International Contemporary Art, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg (2016); You’ve Got to Know the Rules … to Break Them, de la Cruz Collection, Miami (2015); Beyond the Supersquare, The Bronx Museum of Arts, New York, US (2014); KölnSkulptur #7, Skulpturenpark Köln, Cologne (2013); Print/Out, MoMA Museum of Modern Art, New York (2012); Art of Communication: Anri Sala, Yang Ah Ham, Philippe Parreno, Jorge Pardo, National Museum of Art, Deoksugung (2011); The Jewel Thief, The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, (2010); theanyspacewhatever, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York (2008); Index. Conceptualism in California from the Permanent Collection, The Geffen Contemporary, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (2008); Birth of the Cool. California Art, Design, and Culture at Midcentury, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, US and tour (2007); Works from the Tate Collection, Tate Modern, London (2006). In 1996, along with artists including Carsten Höller, Pierre Huyghe and Rirkrit Tiravanija, Pardo was featured in Nicolas Bourriaud’s exhibition Traffic at CAPC Musée d’Art Contemporain de Bordeaux, in the catalogue for which Bourriaud coined the term ‘Relational Aesthetics’.
The exhibition (2 February – 24 March 2018) comprised paintings and an installation of unique chandliers by the Mexico-based Cuban-American artist. Pardo’s focus on multiple meanings, purposes and contexts invites constant re-evaluation of objects, images and architectural space. | 328016893 |
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Five songs have been released prior to the full album, with videos accompanying three of them. Year of the Snitch features contributions from Lucas Abela, Andrew Adamson, Justin Chancellor and DJ Swamp.
I posted these albums on twitter and it seems some people would like to see them as a complete list.
Sol Invicto, a project established by Richie Londres and Stephen Carpenter, will release their first physical material since they began in 2007. INITIUM is a compilation of their three volume Initium series. The first volume, released as a digital EP in 2011, features Zach on drums.
INITIUM will be available as a double vinyl set limited to 300 copies via Tech Itch Recordings. Read more at their official site.
Death Grips and Ministry have announced dates for a co-headline tour throughout the united states in october and november of 2017.
11/11/17 Dallas, TX at Gas Monkey Live!
Bodyguard, the third album by The I.L.Y's, has been released on limited edition Krang Smudge vinyl, black vinyl and compact disc. All three are released via Castle Face Records and are the first physical items from The I.L.Y's.
Death Grips - "Steroids (Crouching Tiger Hidden Gabber Megamix)"
we're working on the new death grips album.
Massive thanks to reddit user cnacker for discovering this!!
Hella's second full length album, The Devil Isn't Red, was released in 2004. Thirteen years later, a hidden song has been revealed.
There is a demo version of "Your DJ Children", from Total Bugs Bunny on Wild Bass, contained within the pre-gap information of "Hello Great Architect of the Universe" from The Devil Isn't Red. To hear this demo, rewind the first song on the CD or extract it from the CD to your computer. This requires a program such as Exact Audio Copy. After setting it up, rip the first song. If your cd drive was unable to automatically obtain the hidden demo, there is a step-by-step tutorial on how to change the settings to find it.
One hour ago, the I.L.Y's released a new song, "I Love You Man" and announced more details for their third album, Bodyguard.
The album will initially have a digital release on 05/16/17, then released physically on 06/16/17 via Castle Face Records.
Deerhoof is the Joyful Noise Recordings Artist in Residence for 2017. They are releasing a box set full of new music by Deerhoof and their related side projects on limited edition vinyl.
The first installment will consist of two split LPs, including the long lost Nervous Cop EP. This was recorded approximately eight years ago at A2B2 and features all members of Deerhoof performing with Zach Hill and Andy Morin.
The first Nervous Cop album, Nervous Cop, was released on CD by 5 Rue Christine on 11/04/03. Zach Hill and Greg Saunier played drums, with guests Johanna Newsom on classical harp and John Dieterich on electronics.
This new Nervous Cop release will represent the earliest known collaboration between Zach Hill and Andy Morin.
Approximately sixteen minutes ago, Andy Morin posted a link to the new website for The I.L.Y's. The homepage includes an embedded video called "I Didn't Think You Would Know", along with information about the band and links to various new social media accounts. | 27536705 |
I made a comment in regards to Magnum engines and the moderator took it down. All I said was they are nothing but copies of OS engines and most of them are junk. I speak from first hand knowledge after buying an 1.8FS from Hobby People.
Unfortunately our programmers are trying to track down a virus that is preventing me from seeing you posting history so that I can see the circumstances of why the post was removed. Can you please tell me what thread your post was made in so that I can see what happened???
Unfortunately, it takes more than one bad engine and one modeler to slander a manufacture. I had a Ford Pinto that was nothing but trouble, but that does'nt mean Ford makes junk, based on my experience. You do have to be careful about what you say on social networks. Words are powerful and you need to choose them wisely.
My comment was made on the glow engine forum under the topic "glow engine wows".
My comment was made on the glow engine forum under the topic ''glow engine woes''.
It makes sense that when a thread is titled with "woes", you get "woes". There's a difference between that, and a person calling an engine junk, by hijacking a thread entitled "I love my Magnum engine." This one's somewhere in the middle, as the starter asked a specific question about a problem. Definitely one of those grey areas that can use clarification on.
Ok, I've looked over the situation and have seen what happens. Here are RCU we have to walk a very fine line between allowing members to voice their opinions about products and just plain out manufacturer bashing. We totally understand that some people simply don't like a product, and we fully support allowing them to voice their opinions. But we ask that it be done in a civil and mature manner. And not just outright bashing of a product.
Product: Acme left handed smoke shifter.
Everything from Acme is a total hunk of junk and should be avoided like the plague.
The Acme left handed smoke shifter has some design problems that make it a product that I wouldn't use. The production quality is a bit cheap and I felt like it might break during normal use of the product.
Of the two comments above you can see the first one is just a total bash of the product and has no basis in any fact. The second comment is a little more thought and and gives specifics about the product and why the person doesn't like it.
Now we don't expect members to write up a full review on why they don't like a product, but we try to avoid the out right bashing of a manufacturer in the forums. We are not "protecting" the manufacturers because they advertise with us, RCU has never done that in it's history. But rather we are trying to protect the manufacturers from unfounded bashing from members. We apply this to all manufacturers in the RC industry.
And before it's pointed out to me, yes I know you will be able to find examples of bashing that weren't removed. I agree that you will find these. RCU is a huge site and our moderators are here on a volunteer basis, and they will miss things from time to time. But when they see this occur they will take actions such as this and remove the comments.
You should have received a PM from the moderator that removed the post explaining why it was removed. If not please let me know by PM. | 344594728 |
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These figures hurt: as per the Traffic and Highways Department of Haryana, 5,118 persons were killed in road accidents in the state in 2018; in 2017, the number of precious lives lost on the road was 5,120; and in 2016, the fatalities touched 5,024. Those injured in the mishaps in each of these three years were nearly double the death casualty. What is more hurtful is the story revealed by these statistics: with the death toll hovering around 5,100 each year, the state and national highways crisscrossing Haryana continue to be unsafe, snuffing out a shocking 14 lives per day in 31 accidents, on an average. Commuters must reach their destinations safe and sound rather than fall prey to death traps.
There is hardly any traveller who can claim to have not felt his heart in his mouth as he had a close shave with another vehicle on an Indian highway. Rashly driven vehicles, overloaded trucks and buses, drivers speeding past, caring two hoots for traffic rules, are all too commonly witnessed both inside towns and cities and on highways. Not only do such drivers put their own lives at risk with reckless and irresponsible behaviour, but even innocent passersby going about their business in right earnest many a time have to pay with their limbs or lives. A little carelessness by one person behind the wheel can ruin another, both physically and financially. It is no surprise that the main causes of accidents have been identified as rash driving, wrong parking, poor road engineering, drunken driving, overloading and speeding.
As the road safety week begins on February 4, the authorities and people of Haryana need to resolve to abide by traffic rules and not just indulge in empty sloganeering. Accidents are very much avoidable. Education about road safety and rules must begin in schools. Only if every road user drives carefully and those violating rules are fined heavily will the mishap rate drop. The authorities must review accident-prone spots, width of roads and lanes as also weed out incompetent drivers obtaining licences fraudulently and unroadworthy vehicles. We have tolerated far too much death and mayhem on our roads. | 78770785 |
Tuesday, February 14th is not just Valentine's Day, it is also Election day at Oranco Bowmen Archery Club. We have two people running for Flint Captain: Jason Duysings and Dave Bacon. I want to encourage everyone to come out to the meeting and cast their vote.
The Stump & Varmint Shoot was a huge success and the weather was great. The work party wasn't huge, but we had some of the best workers in attendance and we were able to get quite a few things done. A big thank you to everyone.
The Rendezvous Shoot is on February 12th and this is normally our biggest shoot of the year. Hopefully, the weather will cooperate. We will need a lot of help on Saturday, February 11th and for the shoot day on the 12th. We really need all cook shack volunteers to let Tony Tobin know that you are coming, so please get a hold of Tony.
We brought in about 10 more trucks of gravel for roads. Our goal is to get all the Valley Range roads done this year. I would like to thank Member Xenio Williams for making the arrangement for getting the gravel and doing the trucking for us.
With all this rain, the gun range across the street had to bring a lot of equipment over to our range for temporary storage due to flooding. We are hoping the rain will lighten up so he can take it all back before our big shoot.
The CBH-SAA State meeting is now over. We still don't know where the State Broadhead will be. With any luck, we will know in the next couple weeks. As soon as we know, we will pass on that information.
Oranco will be the single site host for this year's State Field Championship in June. We will also be one of the host ranges for the State 900.
Due to the heavy rain we have received, all of our Target Assignment Members will have their work cut out for themselves this year. Please make sure you get out to your targets soon before the weeds and grass over take them.
A reminder to everyone - heavy rainfall results in the range being muddy and slippery, so please be careful.
As of January 1st 2017, the public shoot fees will be $14 for head of household and $6 for additional family members. Family shoot fees will increase to $26.
Today is January 18th. The next Oranco invitational shoot is on February 12th.
We will have the usual work party on Saturday the 11th. Please set this day aside to come out and spend the day enjoying the company of your fellow archers as we create the setting for this classic shoot.
We will be trying something new at the Rendezvous shoot this year. In the full spirit of a Rendezvous, we will have a clout. It will be set up in the area to the right of the Broadhead Pit that is reserved for teaching groups, such as the Boy Scouts or Girl Scouts.
Rojen Besha has been working on this idea since last year when he saw the “Swingie Dingie” at the Big Bear shoot. It has already been built and he has tested it out with the help of some of the regular Thursday shooters.
Depending on the support we see for the clout idea, I would like to see us include something along these lines at our other shoots, especially the Rendezvous, since it is the first major shoot of the year, and historically a Rendezvous has always been a place for people to gather and celebrate with sporting games.
Everyone and anyone is welcome to come out and camp for the weekend. Take care, and I hope to see everyone on February 11th and 12th.
2017 has arrived, and a new tournament season has started. January is the month of the State Indoor, which is an NFAA 450 round. If you are seriously thinking of taking part in any state level or higher tournaments this year, I need to remind you that you have to be a current member of the NFAA to be eligible to receive any awards. I’ve personally know of a couple of individuals, who have set new state records at other tournaments. That’s an accomplishment in itself, the only drawback was the scores were in the guest class.
This year, the Club Champ Shoot will be held on Sunday March 12th. The CCS consists of 14 Field, 14 Hunter, and 14 Animal Targets shot in an NFAA format. All awards will be given out at the Annual Club Banquet on Saturday March 25th. Look for an invitation in the mail, Check the Newsletter, or stop by the Club House on any Sunday to pick up an RSVP to secure your spot for dinner.
Other than that, I really haven’t had too much to write about lately. Work and the house have been taking up most of my time. With sunset coming at around 5pm, by the time I’m done with my chores, it’s dark and I can’t get any practice in.
Oranco Club Board Member Election Nominations are now open. If you are interested in a Board Member position and want to know more about what is required, contact any Board Member or attend the next Club Board Meeting. Votes for Board Member positions will be cast at the next Club Meeting on February 14th, 2017. The newly elected Officers will take their new office effective March 1st.
It is pouring down rain as I write this article and I thank God for it! Hope everyone had a prosperous New Year celebration and is safely into 2017. This rain event is a welcome relief from the five years of drought and I hope everyone is enjoying it as much as I am. The year has had some ups and downs so far. As most of you know we had a tragic accident at Raahauge’s Shooting Sports just last week.
A young shooter was accidently shot and killed as he waited to shoot at a running gun event. Details are still under investigation, but it appears to be just a tragic accident. I hope this event goes to reinforce our ongoing commitment to safety at Oranco. The new bows that many of us are shooting can very easily cause just such a tragedy. Please follow any and all range safety rules to the letter. A serious shooting or death at Oranco could potentially put the Club out of business. Many of us on the Board could have some personal liability. Please understand that when any of us are yelling at you or appear to be upset it is usually surrounding a safety issue. Getting shot by modern compound bow can be just as deadly as a gun injury.
I saw a few of you at the CBH/SAA Big Game Banquet. Thanks to all that came and I hope you had a good time. There were some great mounts on display and some great awards were handed out. It looks like Vince Dimiccelli was the big winner and I think he and Art Cain are enjoying a very special new “bromance”.
We had very few petitions to vote on. The NFAA has changed their schedule, which puts their petitions later in the year, so the meetings were light. I think we have some great Board Members and I am looking forward to a great 2017. We will be hosting the State Field again at Oranco as well as the State 900 outdoor target championship. Please look at your schedules and plan on attending both. I can use the help at both, so if you are unable to shoot please plan on helping out and getting some work party credit.
The rains will undoubtedly bring a lot of weed and grass growth at the range. If you have a Target Range Assignment, please keep an eye on things as we will get overgrown very quickly. Please do however, keep in mind that the mud will be a little thick for a couple of days, so next weekend may be a better time to get started.
We will be voting on Officers at the next Club Meeting so please plan on attending to vote and see what your new Board is going to look like. Come on out and get involved as we always need help. The next Oranco shoot is February 12th. Some of us will be unavailable, so Pete will need a lot of help on Saturday. Please plan on coming out and helping with the target set up.
We will have some target gluing and non-physical work available as well so don’t miss out. We will also need help with Registration on Sunday morning. I will be there and will be more than willing to train you as to how it should be done. We are always looking for help at Registration and its ½ a work party credit for 1 hour of easy sit down work. I cant see how you would not want to jump on that. Once finished, you can still shoot! Come out and get involved!!
Once again, I would ask each of you to pay attention and shoot safely wherever you are. Get ready for a great 2017! Thanks again to all of the great Members that make this Club fun. It has been really cool getting to know all of you. See you next month!
We are extending the date from JANUARY 31, 2017 to FEBRUARY I5, 2017 for turning in your Game Cards for Awards on any game you have taken during 2016. This applies to ORANCO MEMBERS only.
Have a good year this year, 2017.
For all the kids out there who plan on shooting, I have ordered some special Dinosaur targets just for you kids. They will be strictly for the kids, so please don't shoot them if you are not a Cub Shooter.
If you are interested in helping with the set up or pick up of targets for shoots for work party credits please call or text me. Also, if anyone has any ideas for target set ups please let me know. I would love to get your input.
Thank you and I look forward to seeing you at the next Scalps and Skins.
Every month I send the Newsletter out to approximately 800 Current and Past Members via email and snail mail in order to keep everyone informed with what has been going on around the Club, as well as, providing information on upcoming Shoots and Events.
Of those 800 people that receive the Newsletter each month, only about 250 people actually open the Newsletter.
Of the 250 people who actually open the Newsletter, it is unknown how many people actually read the Newsletter in its entirety.
That being said, it still amazes me when I hear Board Members mention that they have spoken with a Member of the Club either in person or over the phone in regards to a question or concern that has been addressed in the Monthly Newsletter.
It does take a little time each month to go through the Newsletter, but I have worked diligently to try and keep everyone apprised of the past, present, and future activities surrounding the Club. If you are not regularly reading the Newsletter, I would highly suggest you start. There are two ways to figure out what is going on down at the Club; either read the Newsletter or attend a Board Meeting.
The Stump and Varmint Shoot went well. Although there was some confusion as to whether the shoot was going to be rescheduled, we ended up having a great turnout. We apologize for any confusion.
Pete wanted remind everyone that the Rendezvous Shoot is coming up on February 12th. He is asking for some Volunteers to help out with the Work Party Shoot Setup.
The Club will need to do some tree trimming work in February. We will be contacting the tree trimming guys who helped us out last year.
Joe has asked the Volunteers who are helping with mowing to please watch out for the target plugs.
Bill mentioned the Deer Tags reporting requirement by January 31st, 2017. He also mentioned that he has been getting quite a few questions on Pig Hunting. For more information, please see his article in this month's Newsletter.
Membership as of the January Club Meeting was 367.
Bill said he is extending the Deadline for Members to turn in their 2016 Game Cards for awards from January 31st, 2017 to February 15th, 2017. This applies to Oranco Club Members only.
The Club By Laws Meeting is scheduled for February 4th, 2017 at 5:00 pm in the Club House.
There was a discussion as to whether we should have the Champ Shoot on a Saturday or a Sunday. Tony will be opening that Sunday. There was a vote and the Champ Shoot has been moved to Sunday, March 12th.
Jason made a motion to allocate money towards new 3-D targets for the Scalps & Skins Shoots. There was a vote and the Board approved the purchase of some new targets.
The Club is looking to make a larger target order later his year. Jason and Pete will be reviewing our current inventory.
The February Club Meeting is on Valentine's Day, February 14th at 7:00 pm. It was voted on and the meeting will resume on schedule.
A motion to donate money to the Big Game Club, which goes to the CBH to pay for lobbyists, was voted on and approved.
There was a motion to purchase more road grade gravel. The Board approved.
Some of these issues may be important to you and some may not be. The only way to have your voice heard is to attend a Board Meeting. They are held on the second Tuesday of every month. Please plan on attending the next one. We look forward to seeing you there. Happy New Year!
Shortly after I joined, I volunteered to help our Vice President, Pete Whitworth, with the scoring of our Club tournaments. I also personally wrote and donated the proprietary software we use for scoring our Club Events and managing our Membership Roster.
In 2014, I was asked by that same Board of Directors to build and manage a new Oranco Bowmen Club Website, Email Broadcast, and Newsletter System. This has allowed us to send out important information quickly with our Email Blasts and deliver our Monthly Newsletter directly to our Club Members’ inbox.
In Summary, since 2012 I have volunteered at more than 40 Club Events including; State Target, State Field, and many of the Educational Programs for the Boy Scouts with various other Clubs.
The Flint Captain shall be responsible for the Scalps and Skin shoots. This includes the setup, take down, the keeping of adequate records, and awarding the prizes at the Banquet.
He shall render a monthly report during the time of the Scalps and Skins Shoots to the Board of Directors. He may have other duties to conduct the program or may from time to time be prescribed by the Board of Directors.
Our Club Website describes it as a casual mini 3D made up of twelve 3-D targets having two different shooting stakes set at different distance and angles. It is held on Saturdays between 9:00 am and 12:00 pm during the months of March through July and may contain one Broadhead Optional shoot.
This shoot gets its name in part from the tradition of purchasing a "Scalp" (a leather circle about the size of a silver dollar with our Club's logo pressed into it) from the Flint Captain for $1.00 which traditionally has been used as a token for a friendly wager between two or more archers participating in the shoot. The loser is encouraged to sign and surrender their "Scalp" to the winner at the Monthly Club Meeting.
Except for the last two seasons, the Scalps and Skins has held to this tradition. Each Flint Captain has put their own unique spin on the event. For example, there have been shoots with one round of 24 targets or a shoot with a specific theme. However, for the most part it is known as a casual family friendly mini 3-D where there are no targets further than 50 yards and utilizing smaller 3-D targets placed at realistic distances and settings, which usually tends to accommodate the younger or less experienced archer.
However, it is my opinion and that of many in our Membership that the Scalps and Skins has turned into a mini Big Game Shoot and thus has lost much of its tradition.
I believe I am accurate in saying that very few if any "Scalps" have been sold at the shoots or awards presented at the Annual Banquet. I have also spoken with some of our previous Flint Captains and have learned that in the past, it was not unusual for there to be between 60 and 100 archers at each shoot with many of them staying for a second go around. I am not saying that it is all about the numbers, however due to the change in format, recent years have shown a sharp decline in participation.
To put it simply, if you remove the "Scalps" and other traditions attributed to the Scalps and Skins from the shoot, it is no longer the Scalps and Skins.
As Flint Captain, I pledge to honor our Club’s tradition and restore the Scalps and Skins to its former glory. To do this I will rely on our Membership and past Flint Captains for advice on proper setup and execution. I also pledge to promote the traditions that make the Scalps and Skins unique and to accurately record and maintain shoot scores and so that awards may be presented at the yearly Club Banquet.
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Archery targets can be expensive depending on how much you shoot and what you shoot into them. Coming up with a way to create your own targets can be a challenge. It has to be dense enough to stop your arrows from piercing through, but not so hard that they won’t penetrate.
Lucky for you, the guys at Antler Geeks have worked this out for you. They spend a lot of their time creating some pretty cool and useful DIY videos for all of us Macgyver outdoorsmen out there. This time, they found a pretty good way to make some tough, long-lasting targets from old carpet.
This Monster Montana elk is the largest ever taken with archery equipment. The hunting world lit up last September when news came out of Montana about a monster of a bull elk that was believed to be a potential world record.
Well, after the 60-day drying period, Boone & Crockett has confirmed the 8×7 bull is just that, the largest ever taken with a bow at 430 inches even. | 350612487 |
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April has brought new eateries and the announcement of ew flights to Ontario International Airport, but March was also busy, according to recent data released by the Ontario International Airport Authority.
The number of international passengers increased by more than 24 percent in March over a year ago, which airport officials say reflects the March 25 launch of China Airlines service between Ontario and Taipei, Taiwan.
“I’m very pleased of how quickly it’s taken off,” said San Bernardino County Supervisor Curt Hagman, who is also an OIAA commissioner.
The airport saw 10,673 international passengers last month, up from the 8,577 who traveled through the airport in March 2017.
“I believe that numbers are higher than expected for China Airlines as far as the new additional flight,” Hagman said.
China Airlines started roundtrip nonstop flights from ONT to Taiwan last month.
The airline is at 80 percent load capacity each way, according to Hagman, and it expects to see more passengers during the summer months.
Passenger volumes increased by more than 9 percent year over year and more than 415,000 passengers used the airport.
Since January, passenger traffic grew by 10 percent and cargo volumes were up by 16.4 percent when compared to last year.
JetBlue announced this week that it will return to Ontario International Aiport in September.
The latest traffic figures precedes other changes at the airport announced this week.
JetBlue this week announced it would begin nonstop service to John F. Kennedy International Airport in September. The airliner operated at the Ontario airport from 2000-08.
WPizza by Wolfgang Puck and Einstein Bros. Bagels opened at the airport this week, with several other new eateries coming soon. | 183773548 |
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Victims of slavery who have acted as witnesses in the prosecution of their traffickers are ending up destitute and homeless on the streets of Britain, campaigners have warned.
Other potential whistleblowers, left without accommodation or access to support services for weeks after being identified as victims of slavery, have been forced to return to their traffickers simply to keep a roof over their heads.
“We know that once they have been formally identified as victims of slavery, most victims are not given a secure immigration status or right to remain and so find themselves almost instantly destitute and without anywhere to live,” said Kate Roberts of the Human Trafficking Foundation.
She said there was a lack of reliable data on what happened to people following positive identification as victims of slavery under the government’s national referral mechanism (NRM).
“Anecdotally, we know that some victims who have done everything they have been asked to by the authorities are actively re-entering exploitation just to get a roof over their heads. Others who have helped secure the prosecution of their traffickers are finding themselves on the streets,” said Roberts.
Hope for Justice, which provides pro bono legal support to victims of slavery, said that in 2015, 70% of their clients faced homelessness and reported problems accessing welfare support.
“If someone disappears or is homeless and potentially re-trafficked, we have not only failed in a basic moral duty, we have also lost them as a potential prosecution witness,” said Phillipa Roberts, the organisation’s legal director.
Roberts said that while funding shortfalls since 2015 have meant the charity could only take on the “most at need” cases, the situation facing clients has become increasingly desperate.
Last year, a highly critical report by the House of Commons work and pensions committee said there was an “inexcusable” lack of support for the estimated 13,000 modern victims in the UK.
The committee recommended the introduction of a system to give all confirmed victims of slavery at least one year’s leave to remain, with recourse to benefits and services.
Currently, the Home Office provides victims of trafficking with 45 days of support while they go through the NRM process, with an additional two weeks if they receive a positive identification. Last October, the government announced it was extending post-identification support to 45 days.
“Obviously we welcome any extension but, while this is some help, it is still not sufficient to ensure that victims are not falling off a cliff-edge at the end of this period,” said Roberts.
Anti-trafficking charities have formed a new coalition, Free for Good, to support new victim support legislation written by Lord McColl of Dulwich, aiming to implement the recommendations of the Work and Pensions Committee in law.
“The government does not have an understanding of what happens to victims of modern slavery once they have been rescued, leaving them impoverished, homeless and often deported to a country where they have no friends or family,” said Frank Field, the Labour MP taking the bill through the House of Commons. | 257328184 |
Home→Blog→About This Author→Sherlock Holmes is Back!
About every five years or so, I read all the Sherlock Holmes stories again. And when I think of the actors who have portrayed him best, Basil Rathbone and Jeremy Brett are tied for that honor in my mind. These actors showed us the immortal Holmes as true to Conan Doyle’s master of deduction as closely as possible.
Right now, I’m happy to say, there is a new Holmes on NPT. Made in Britain of course, the title of the series is Sherlock! The hero is a young Holmes in modern-day London. He calls himself a consulting detective and lives at 221B Baker Street. His comrade is Dr. Watson, who is just back from Afghanistan. The series is shot in London so the milieu is stunning with its huge old buildings and red buses. The friends have strange murder cases to solve; Lestrade (oh, he is there too) is frank to admit that he depends on Sherlock for help with especially grotesue and puzzling crimes. We’ve even met Holmes’s brother Mycroft, who of course, is as brilliant as Sherlock. The actor who plays the detective, Benedict Cumberbatch, LOOKS LIKE a Sherlock Holmes, with an intelligent, sensitive face, high forehead, upward-slanting eyes, and the rather pasty complexion of a man who spends a lot of time with his books and chemistry experiments. Nevertheless, he is still the athletic Holmes of the stories.
Go to the BBC Sherlock web site for more information. Warning: there have only been three episodes made so far, and the third and last will be this Sunday evening on NPT.
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A historic high-rise building in the heart of Iran's capital caught fire and later collapsed Thursday, killing at least 30 firefighters and leaving their stunned colleagues and bystanders weeping in the streets.
The disaster at the 17-story Plasco building, inadvertently shown live on state television, came after authorities said they repeatedly warned tenants about blocking stairwells with fabric from cramped garment workshops on its upper floors.
Firefighters, soldiers and other emergency responders dug through the debris into the night, looking for survivors. While it was not clear how many people were in the steel-and-concrete building, witnesses said many had slipped through a police cordon while the fire burned to go back inside for their belongings.
"They asked us ... using loudspeakers to evacuate the building, but some people went inside again, saying their precious documents, their bank checks, their entire life was in their shops," said witness Masoud Hosseini. "They went inside to fetch those documents. I felt like they cared about their belongings, checks and money more than their lives.
"Firefighters went inside to bring them out, and then suddenly the building collapsed," Hosseini said.
Iran's state-run Press TV announced the firefighters' deaths, without giving a source for the information. Mayor Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf said more than 20 bodies of firefighters had been recovered by Thursday night.
Local state television said 30 civilians were injured, while the state-run IRNA news agency said 45 firefighters had been injured.
Firefighters began battling the blaze around 8 a.m., some 3 1/2 hours before the collapse. The fire appeared to be the most intense on the upper floors, the site of workshops where tailors cooked for themselves and used old kerosene heaters for warmth.
The building came down in seconds, shown live on state television , which had begun an interview with a journalist at the scene. One side collapsed first, tumbling perilously close to a firefighter perched on a ladder and spraying water on the blaze.
A thick plume of brown smoke rose over the site afterward, and onlookers wailed in grief.
"God willing, nothing happened to firefighters who were there," the journalist said, then began crying.
Watching the disaster unfold was Masoumeh Kazemi, who said she rushed to the building because her two sons and a brother worked in the garment workshops on the upper floors.
Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei expressed sorrow over the fire in a statement and praised the courage and sacrifice of the firefighters.
President Hassan Rouhani ordered Interior Minister Abdolreza Rahmani Fazli to investigate the disaster, IRNA reported. Rouhani also ordered the ministry to ensure the injured were cared for and immediately compensate those affected by the disaster. Rouhani, whose administration struck the nuclear deal with world powers, will probably be standing for re-election in May.
The cause of the blaze wasn't immediately known. However, fire department spokesman Jalal Maleki said authorities had visited the building often to warn tenants about conditions there.
"Everyone stacked up goods outside their shops and in the staircases and corridors," Maleki said. "We warned them many times, but they wouldn't listen."
In the hours after the collapse, authorities also described the building as having a "weak structure," without elaborating.
Another fire broke out later Thursday at a building next to the collapsed tower, according to the semi-official Fars news agency. Firefighters worked into the night to extinguish it.
The Plasco building was an iconic presence on Tehran's skyline, one of the first to rise against the backdrop of the snowcapped Mount Damavand. Opened in 1962, it was the first privately owned tower to be built during the era of the U.S.-backed shah, when oil money fueled the capital's rapid development.
The tower, the tallest in Tehran at the time and just north of the sprawling Grand Bazaar, got its name from the plastics manufacturing company owned by its builder, Iranian Jewish businessman Habib Elghanian.
After the 1979 Islamic Revolution that overthrew the shah, Iran's new clerical rulers had Elghanian tried on charges that included spying for Israel. He was executed by firing squad — an outcome that prompted many of the remaining members of the country's longstanding Jewish community to flee.
The state-controlled Islamic Revolution Mostazafan Foundation took ownership of the building. The foundation, which has ties to the powerful paramilitary Revolutionary Guard, made no immediate statement about the collapse.
The fire was the worst in Tehran since a 2005 blaze at a historic mosque killed 59 worshippers and injured nearly 200 others.
Thursday's disaster stunned the city. Firefighters openly wept on the streets, holding each other for support. Dozens of people lined up to donate blood.
"It is a humanitarian duty," said Gholamreza Heidari, a university student. "It is nothing compared to the dedication that our firefighters showed in rescuing people."
Iranians watch the Plasco building engulfed by a fire, in central Tehran, Iran, Thursday, Jan. 19, 2017. The high-rise building engulfed by a fire collapsed on Thursday as scores of firefighters battled the blaze.
In this image made from video, a high-rise residential building is collapsed following a large fire, Thursday, Jan. 19, 2017, in Tehran, Iran. Authorities said that over 20 people were injured in the blast that erupted in the morning hours.
Smoke rises up from the Plasco building where firefighters work to extinguish fire in central Tehran, Iran, Thursday, Jan. 19, 2017. The high-rise building was engulfed by a fire then collapsed on Thursday as scores of firefighters battled the blaze.
Iranian firefighters work to extinguish fire of the Plasco building in central Tehran, Iran, Thursday, Jan. 19, 2017. A high-rise building in Tehran engulfed by a fire collapsed on Thursday as scores of firefighters battled the blaze.
Police officers direct people in front of the Plasco building engulfed by a fire, in central Tehran, Iran, Thursday, Jan. 19, 2017. A high-rise building in Tehran engulfed by a fire collapsed on Thursday as scores of firefighters battled the blaze.
Iranian firefighters run towards the Plasco building engulfed by fire in central Tehran, Iran, Thursday, Jan. 19, 2017. The high-rise building engulfed by a fire collapsed on Thursday, killing dozens of firefighters and injuring some 75 people, state media reported.
Iranian firefighters work at the scene of the collapsed Plasco building after being engulfed by a fire, in central Tehran, Iran, Thursday, Jan. 19, 2017. A high-rise building in Tehran engulfed by a fire collapsed on Thursday as scores of firefighters battled the blaze.
On lookers watch the Plasco building engulfed by a fire, in central Tehran, Iran, Thursday, Jan. 19, 2017. A high-rise building in Tehran engulfed by a fire collapsed on Thursday as scores of firefighters battled the blaze.
Iranian firefighters work at the scene of the collapsed Plasco building after being engulfed by a fire, in central Tehran, Iran, Thursday, Jan. 19, 2017. Iran's state-run Press TV says dozens of firefighters have been killed in the collapse of a burning high-rise building in Tehran. The collapse came just hours after the blaze erupted at the Plasco building, an iconic structure in central Tehran, just north of the capital's sprawling bazaar. Firefighters, soldiers and other emergency responders dug through the rubble, looking for survivors.
Firefighters work at the scene of the collapsed Plasco building after being engulfed by a fire, in central Tehran, Iran, Thursday, Jan. 19, 2017. Iran's state-run Press TV says dozens of firefighters have been killed in the collapse of a burning high-rise building in Tehran. The collapse came just hours after the blaze erupted at the Plasco building, an iconic structure in central Tehran, just north of the capital's sprawling bazaar. Firefighters, soldiers and other emergency responders dug through the rubble, looking for survivors.
An emotional firefighter, at left, stands next to his colleagues outside to the Plasco building that collapsed after being engulfed by a fire, in central Tehran, Iran, Thursday, Jan. 19, 2017. The disaster struck the Plasco building, an iconic structure in central Tehran just north of the Iranian capital's sprawling bazaar. Firefighters, soldiers and other emergency responders dug through the rubble, looking for survivors. Dozens of firefighters died in the line of duty. | 361840097 |
Regardless of what you conclude about Lions for Lambs -- whether you find it to be a thoughtful polemic, or an exegesis of things we already know, or a scolding for not already knowing them -- you'll have to admit that it's certainly the year's bravest Hollywood movie.
After fewer than 90 minutes, it ends -- just like that. It's almost all talk, and the part that isn't won't entertain you. And yet, it does exactly what it sets out to do, and it has no loose ends -- at least, no more than the evening news. Word for word it's articulate and absorbing; scene for scene it's beautifully acted and tightly strung.
The story, written by Matthew Michael Carnahan, unfolds simultaneously in three locations. A California college professor (Robert Redford, who also directed) commands a gifted but truant student to his office to convince the cynical kid of his potential, and to tell him about Ernest and Arian, two earlier students who promised great things. A rising young senator (Tom Cruise) invites a veteran TV news journalist (Meryl Streep) to his Capitol Hill office for an exclusive about a bold new initiative to win in Afghanistan. A soldier (Peter Berg) prepares his men -- Ernest and Arian among them -- to implement the senator's new battle plan.
In California and D.C., each pair talks, while in the icy Afghan mountains, Ernest and Arian end up wounded and pinned down. All we know for sure, as the story unfolds, is who won't die. A lot gets said between the master debaters back home, and nothing gets resolved. The question is whether anything can get resolved with so many people espousing strident ideologies and making safe choices.
All of this of course is highly contrived, as fable and metaphor must be. For a while I bristled at its cowardice: Why did they create fictional characters instead of naming names (although Cruise is Gumped into photos with Bush and Condi)? Why didn't they call people out, rather than creating a roman-à-feet-of-clef? But then it occurred to me: This movie doesn't want to explicate the past. It wants to rewrite the future.
Tim Robbins' Dead Man Walking is still the gold standard for social-issue movies that present both sides with compelling clarity and thrilling drama. Lions for Lambs speaks well. But I doubt it will change anything because, as I've said, it's all been out there. At the risk of sounding glib, if we don't know it by now -- and we don't -- then the time has come to kiss our asses good-bye. | 254095257 |
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The Gauley River rises on Gauley Mountain in western Pocahontas County in West Virginia, and drops nearly 4,000 feet along the 104-mile journey to its juncture with the New River. It meanders southwesterly through Webster County and turns to a more westerly direction through Nicholas County and into Fayette County, where it combines with the New to form the Kanawha River at Gauley Bridge.
The Gauley drains nearly 1,350 square miles, including the watersheds of several large tributaries that flow into it from the south across a wide, fan-shaped region. These are the Cherry, Meadow, Cranberry, Birch, and Williams rivers. The steep-sided walls of the Gauley and its tributaries are lined with massive rock outcrops. The hillsides are intermittently covered with tangles of rhododendron thickets and maturing forests.
Historically, the watershed remained mostly uninhabited due to its difficult terrain. Native Americans hunted in the region, as did the early European explorers. The first settlement of non-native people was at Peters Creek in Nicholas County at the end of the 1700s. Only a few settlements appeared along Gauley River until the coal and timber barons brought workers in at the end of the 19th century to extract the rich resources.
A Civil War battle took place on the mountain above the juncture of the Meadow River with the Gauley, on September 10, 1861. On that day, Union troops routed a garrison of Confederate soldiers who held a position overlooking the rivers. This was a strategic victory for the Union Army as the ferry located at the tiny hamlet of Carnifex came under Northern control. Carnifex Ferry is now a state park and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Summersville Lake and Dam are located 34 miles above the mouth of Gauley River. The dam was constructed between 1960 and 1966, at a cost of $48 million, to reduce flooding along the heavily populated sections of the Kanawha and Ohio rivers downstream. Though its primary function is flood control, the lake is maintained for intensive recreational use including fishing, motorized boating, skiing, picnicking, sightseeing, hiking, and wildlife enhancement. During the late spring and early summer months, Summersville Lake provides 2,790 acres of surface water for recreation. During the fall and early winter, the water surface is lowered to allow for storage of spring floodwaters.
A 24-mile section of the Gauley River from the Summersville Dam downstream to the tiny town of Swiss is one of the premier whitewater rafting stretches in the eastern United States. The sport is facilitated by the release of lake water during the months of September and October, when thousands of rafters and kayakers pass through the river’s scenic gorge. Due to its scenic beauty and heavy recreation use, 25 miles of the Gauley River and six miles of Meadow River were added to the National Park System as the Gauley River National Recreation Area in 1988.
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Swim England and the RNLI are working in partnership to deliver Swim Safe for the fourth successive year. In 2016, this programme saw over 7,000 children participate and learn how to be safe in different water environments. This year we are also delivering a schools programme.
The programme offers free improver swimming sessions and beach safety advice for children aged 7-14. Most young people learn to swim in an indoor pool which is a safe and familiar environment. Swim Safe gives young people the opportunity to test and improve their swimming ability in a different aquatic environment.
Children are being offered the opportunity to attend the free 45 minute session which will include beach safety advice provided by RNLI lifeguards and up to 30 minutes in-water tuition with Swim England accredited teachers. The programme is weather dependent and sessions will be adjusted accordingly.
We are looking for enthusiastic volunteers who would like to get involved in a variety of different activities throughout the day to ensure that the events are successful and all children and parents have a great experience. For example, activities might include co-ordinating bookings and swimmer registrations, distributing goodie bags, assisting with feedback questionnaires and helping the children with their wetsuits and swimming equipment if required. Whether it’s one of these activities or more, your assistance will be very much appreciated and ensure that the Swim Safe Team are able to provide this fantastic opportunity to children to help to keep them safe in the water.
This is a great volunteer opportunity for someone who is friendly and approachable; if you have some of the skills mentioned or would like to gain experience in this type of role and would like to join a dedicated and motivated team, we would be delighted to hear from you.
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In the wake of recent disasters, local activists are looking to reverse Burma’s abysmal environmental protection record under a new government next year.
Such events have added urgency to public calls for more attention to be paid to the social impact of environmental neglect and rapacious resource extraction.
President Thein Sein’s decision to suspend the Chinese-backed Myitsone hydropower dam project in 2011 was an early positive gesture. The following year, the Environmental Conservation Law was enacted, supplemented with by-laws passed in 2014.
Yet these moves have hardly been a panacea for Burma’s environmental woes. On Wednesday, the Myanmar Alliance for Transparency and Accountability (MATA)—a collaboration among environmentalists, civil society groups, and environmental lawyers to push for better management of environmental resources—held a press briefing, urging for the 2012 conservation law to be amended.
According to MATA, the law does not stipulate punishments sufficient to deter offenders or compensation for victims; allows virtual impunity for projects that have Naypyidaw’s stamp of approval; and creates little incentive for conservation efforts.
People across the country are being adversely affected by deforestation, the unchecked extraction of natural resources, and water, air and soil pollution perpetrated by big business, MATA said in a statement.
Win Myo Thu, the director of prominent NGO EcoDev, said the law is too broad to be effective.
“It doesn’t clearly state people’s rights in relation to the environment,” Win Myo Thu said.
Aung Kyaw Lin, a lawyer and volunteer with MATA, concurred, arguing that the law was not effective in putting environmental concerns ahead of development interests. He also cited the need for better environmental awareness training in Burma’s rural areas, which account for 70 percent of the country’s population.
Davi Thant Zin, a prominent environmentalist and member of the Myanmar Green Network, said Burma was not alone in facing environmental challenges. What is key, she said, is implementing effective laws and policies.
“Our government has signed international treaties [to support environmental conservation], but these won’t be effective unless they—the people with the power to legislate and implement—work hard and listen to the public’s needs,” Davi Thant Zin said.
Tin Thit, a Lower House MP-elect for the National League for Democracy (NLD) in Pokebathiri Township, Naypyidaw, said he expects the new government to place more emphasis on preserving the environment.
“We will work more and try harder,” he declared.
Tin Thit, a poet and environmental activist who is a current advisor to local civil society group Sein Yaung So (Greenery) in Mandalay, argued that better law enforcement was needed to punish those who violate the law.
“We must monitor both the environmental conservation body [established under the conservation law] and the practice of the law,” he said.
Tin Thit has also been involved in the multi-stakeholder group (MSG) tasked with implementing the requirements of the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI), an international resource revenue reporting protocol. The group is required to submit its first annual EITI report to a team of independent auditors in 2016.
The new government will also be faced with addressing the unresolved Myitsone dam project.
While the NLD’s stance is unclear, public opinion is firmly against the project, according to Davi Thant Zin. The dam would be constructed at the confluence of the Maykha and Malikha tributaries which meet to form the Irrawaddy River. | 36117451 |
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In the course of my research for historical novels, I came across the subject of romantic friendships. That’s what makes research such fun. Sometimes you come across shocking or interesting topics. Romantic friendships are one of those topics.
From what I gather, romantic friendships are historically recorded in the 1700s. Marie Antoinette had them. Later, Abraham Lincoln did, too. He wrote Joshua Speed “passionate” letters. They slept in the same bed for 4 years in Springfield, Illinois, not uncommon for those days. When Speed married, Lincoln was depressed. Later, during the Civil War, Lincoln was found in bed with a Federal Army captain while his wife was out of town. Today historians debate whether Lincoln was gay, bi, or straight. Could this have been a romantic friendship? Possibly. We can’t judge yesterday’s standards with today’s morals. Times were different. People viewed life differently.
In the Civil War, women had romantic friendships. They hugged, kissed, and held hands. This wasn’t denounced as “lesbian acts.” The worst that was said about them was, “It looked downright foolish.” However, popular magazines gave advice on how to conduct a romantic friendship. Two rules of thumb: It had to be done indoors, and never before a gentleman caller. Best friends, cousins, teachers and students had these “affairs.” Most of them went on to marry. A diary found in Texas, dating from the Civil War, states that a teacher and her student couldn’t wait to sleep together. The teacher was married and preferred her student to her husband. The diary was amusing, to say the least. Not to mention, the poet Emily Dickinson had a romantic friendship with the woman who would become her sister-in-law.
Author Pearl S. Buck wrote about romantic friendships at her eastern college in the early 1900s. She said American women hugged and kissed, and “tore out each other’s hair with jealousy.” The majority were not lesbians; they were straight women who went on to marry. It was an accepted way of life.
Jane Addams of Hull House fame also had a romantic friendship with her best friend. The GBLT community is quick to point out that Jane was gay. Not so fast! Like many before her, Jane was engaged in a romantic friendship. Whether or not she was gay, cannot be proved unless we have definitive evidence, for romantic friendships were all the rage.
On a darker side, many prostitutes had romantic friendships with each other because some had never experienced love before. Many were runaways or castaways, leaving broken homes.
The British author Evelyn Waugh in Brideshead Revisited also writes about a romantic friendship between two men. That story takes place in the 1920s, about the time romantic friendships fell out of favor. Why? Times change.
When I lived in Italy in the early 1980s, Italian women walked down the street arm-in-arm. They kissed each other when they met. My daughter who lived in Florence last year said this was no longer the case.
In my novel The Preacher’s Daughters, Kathleen Sanderson and Dovile Gibson have a romantic friendship. The former is straight, the latter is gay. Are they in love? I’ll leave that for readers to decide. Finally, in my Civil War novel, Blood, Innocence and Glory, two cousins have a romantic encounter while they husbands are gone to war. Are they gay? Nope. They are straight as arrows, the talk of the town, great society beauties.
The great writing teacher Sol Stein said, Write about things people don’t like to talk about.
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Rocky Point’s Anthony Sciotto used his laser focus to come out with a 6-2 decision at 120 pounds in the county finals.
The senior’s victory over Eastport-South Manor’s Zach Redding propelled Rocky Point to the top of Division I at the Suffolk County wrestling finals at Suffolk County Community College’s Brentwood campus Feb. 11. The Eagles, which finished with 137.5 points, took home their second straight team title.
Sciotto will be heading to the Naval Academy after he graduates.
Five matches later, junior Corey Connolly faced off against Half Hollow Hills West’s Anthony Dushaj and pinned him in the final seconds of the third period (5:48) for his 49th of the season and 153rd of his career.
Rocky Point head coach Darren Goldstein said it was a tough competition, but he wasn’t surprised that Sciotto and Connolly were at the top of the podium.
Volpe was one of those Eagles to travel upstate in 2010, and won. The five-time league champion is one of only three Rocky Point wrestlers to eclipse 200 wins.
Hauppauge sophomore Danny Mauriello hit one of the biggest moves of the tournament when he reversed Patchogue-Medford junior Ryan Burgbacher with five seconds remaining for the 5-4 win and the 145-pound title.
Sophomore Thomas DiResta of Kings Park reeled off five straight wins from an unseeded position, including a 3-0 upset of top-seeded Luke Smith of Hauppauge to capture the 99-pound title. The two battled through two scoreless periods before DiResta scored a third period escape for a 1-0 lead with 1:35 left in the match. Smith went for a dump and DiResta countered the move and scored his own takedown with 15 seconds remaining.
It was redemption for DiResta, who was beaten by Smith, 8-0, during league action, and 11-2 in the League V finals.
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When you’re planning year-round planting schemes, it’s essential to include something that will fill that awkward gap which so often occurs between spring and summer. Following the excitement and colour explosion from bulbs like tulips and daffodils during spring, the last thing you want is to be left feeling deflated by a distinct lack of interest during May and June. The good news is, you can easily bridge this colour gap with alliums. Not only do they flower in late spring and early summer, but they’re just so fantastic looking.
If the words ‘striking’ and ‘impressive’ appeal to you, you’ll definitely want to get your hands on some giant alliums – they’re simply enormous! Either dot them throughout your borders or plant them in bold groups – any style of planting will provide a fabulous effect which will make the colour in your garden seamlessly flow from spring into summer, with true wow factor.
If you like to cut flowers from your garden to display in your home, alliums are an absolute must. They have a great vase life and are so easy to display - some of these giant varieties are so big, just one in a single-stem vase can make quite a feature! Alternatively, you can make a magnificent contemporary arrangement in tall vase or make one the centrepiece in a relaxed mixed bouquet.
As an extra plus, not only will these stand-out alliums look fantastic in your garden, but they’ll be a magnet for bees and butterflies too. With massive flower heads comprised of masses of tiny beautiful purple flowers, they’ll be a generous source of nectar for all your garden pollinators.
Your bulbs will be sent to you in autumn at the correct time for planting. They’re fully hardy and can be planted straight into borders.
Dig a deep hole, 2-3 times the depth of the bulb, for each bulb. Position the bulb with the pointed end facing upwards at the bottom of the hole and cover over with soil.
For best results, plant the bulbs in groups spaced at around 30-50cm apart from each other.
Give the planted area a thorough watering – the moist, warm soil will start the growing process before winter sets in.
After watering in, you can leave your alliums to their own devices. They’ll become dormant during the winter months and begin to grow the following spring.
With round pompon flower globes which sit on the top of tall, straight stalks, they’re possibly the most striking and impressive of all the spring bulbs and will effortlessly blend spring into summer each year without any fuss at all.
Growing to a stately height of up to 1.5m, and with large, dense globe-shaped flower heads, these fantastic purple alliums are a real winner. They’ll produce a great effect when planted in groups amongst mixed borders or dotted around in shrubberies. They’re very strong, reliable and healthy, too, supporting themselves on sturdy stems and with vibrant colour that lasts for ages.
The ultra-violet flower globes of this spectacular allium certainly won’t go amiss in any border. Sitting at the top of tall, straight stems (which often reach well over 1m in height) their glowing blooms will steal the show with their giant beauty. Full hardy and so easy to grow, simply plant them in groups or swathes in the border in autumn and wait to be truly awe-struck the following spring!
If you want to wow your friends and neighbours (and yourself!) with a real show-off plant, this is the one for you. Growing up to a whopping 2.5m in height, this amazing allium has got to be the king of all giants! Providing long-lasting interest, the huge round globes change appearance as they develop, opening from mauve-pink buds and becoming more white with age. This supersize allium is ideal for planting in groups at the back of the border or for adding bright pops of colour in shrubberies.
This allium is a strong-growing classic and well known for its reliable garden performance. The large globe-shaped flower heads are made up of thousands of star-like blooms and can reach up to 20cm in diameter, so they’re as spectacular close up as they are from afar! The stems easily reach a height of over 1m so they’re ideal for growing either in groups in the middle of the border, or for running throughout a mixed planting scheme where the flowers will bob elegantly above everything else.
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I’m going to have a suit made soon. Naturally I’m considering what I’d like to have. Not suffering the burden of excessive wealth this is a rare happening, so some care must be taken with the selection of style and cloth.
Now, there are two schools of thought on this issue. These can be defined as my school, and everybody else’s.
Everybody else, probably wisely, argue that if you’re going to invest in bespoke or made to measure tailoring then get the basics sorted first. Those keystones of your wardrobe, the blue and the grey suit in classic styles, are by far the most versatile options, and you can always build in more interesting elements later. Sound fatherly advice.
My theory goes something like this; working one to one with a tailor opens up a world of possibility that the high street just can’t match. Why not have something a bit special, a bit different, something you’ve always wanted but which the high street isn’t offering. Keystone suits will be worn regularly and wear out, unless supplemented with high street offerings. In which case what’s the point?
First up, a suit I wrote about some posts ago. Referred to as the Kent style it wasn’t popular judging by the comments. But I’ve seen one or two more and I really like them. But as the previous article made clear, you can’t afford to buy this off the peg.
The single breasted peak lapel suit with a double breasted waistcoat. The fact that I couldn’t find an exact picture of what I want is the reason I’m considering getting one made. The pictures give a rough idea of the aesthetic I’m searching for, the lovely sharp lines and series of V’s. One to be done in a navy worsted cloth I think.
A large box check, ever so slightly reminiscent of Victorian dandies. Popular with the Duke of Windsor, here in the UK it went through a bit of a revival 10 years ago and was done to death. An ideal candidate for revival.
A subject I have written about ad nauseum, I continue my love affair with patch pockets. I’m toying with both the single breasted and a double breasted option. Interesting scoop by fellow columnist Simon Crompton here, shows I’m not alone in my thinking. I have it mind to go for Navy needle cord or grey flannel for the double breasted option. Alternatively, something similar to this. But I want to see the cloth books.
My most recent choice at the tailor was a chalkstripe flannel with peaked lapels and a double-breasted waistcoat with contrasting horn buttons. I think this combination is rare, elegant and consequently worth doing.
I do love patch pockets although it always depends on the material and the Kent option, since you brought it up, has always intrigued me but I would go for a combination of the box check and the peaked lapel/double-breasted waistcoat.
I hope we will get to see pictures of the suit. I’d forgotten about the possibility of contrast buttons.
This article echoes my own interest in commissioning a three-piece with a double-breasted weskit or a windowpane checked suit.
On a matter of personal taste, I think the DB waiscoats shown here work very well, but even the headless “morning suitor” shown highlights the problem with DB jackets, i.e. they must always be worn buttoned up. The approach to only do up the inner button in the jacket looks messy, in my view. (But the photograph makes the wearer more “portly” purely by reflecting a camera flash off the belly).
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When I was at school, I was taught a lot about trigonometry, geography, Australian history, physics, chemistry… and not a single thing about managing money – let alone running a business.
When asked in MYOB’s latest monthly SME Snapshot if today’s education system gave children the skills they need to run their own business, 66% of respondents disagreed (some strongly).
Like most small business owners, my business lessons were learned at the school of life. On the job. The hard way.
In fact, I didn’t even own a cheque book (remember those, kids?) until I started my business.
Absolutely critical. The best and worst of business is caused by communication – for customers, team members, suppliers and joint venture (JV) partners. Get it right, and your team will all be on the same page, charging together towards a common goal. Customers know the terms of your relationship, get no nasty surprises, value what you do for them, and feel valued. Suppliers and JV partners feel respected and connected.
Mess it up, and team members become staff, switch off, work for themselves, and do just what’s expected (and no more). Customers feel like a number, and are no longer advocates for your business. JV partners work with your competitors.
This goes without saying. It’s about bringing your people along with you – not forcing them. Leaders inspire by painting a vivid picture of where you want to get to, and providing a clear plan of action for how you’ll achieve it. Leaders use goodwill and enthusiasm as their motivation tools. Where a manager takes credit, places blame, and says my way or the highway, a leader gives credit, takes blame, and says let’s go together.
Business owners wear many hats – we sometimes need to think as shareholders, and other times as directors (or employees). But even before that, there’s another duality we need to master: strategist and executor.
The strategist needs to clearly articulate where the business is heading, and how you’ll get there, so that you can inspire others along on the journey. A key part of this is first understanding your purpose (mission statement), core values (what you stand for) and your why (why you do what you do).
The executor needs to make the strategy happen. This covers all the operational activities you need to get stuff done. Critical to these are your people – having the right mix of talent and experience to cover the service and budget needs of your customers. They then need clear, documented processes to follow, and the necessary training and mentoring to execute correctly. Finally, you need to develop a robust culture that embodies and embeds the beliefs and actions you want your people to exhibit.
Many business owners get frustrated because the business relies on them too much. No one could possibly care more, know more, or do a better job than they do. They make the mistake of thinking they’re indispensable to their business – and will therefore be forever trapped in a cage of their own making.
If you can show a little modesty – accept that your business doesn’t revolve around you, and that with the right training, mentoring and processes, someone could eventually fill your shoes – you’ll free yourself up to enjoy greater lifestyle flexibility, and also to work more strategically on your business.
Don’t try to be everything to your business. Get the right people involved – whether team members, or expert business advisers – and you’ll have a much greater chance of success.
This is also a critical step in building a business that’s highly sellable.
It takes cojones to leave the security of a weekly wage and go into business. It’s tough out there. Many fall by the wayside. You need to be tough and resilient to survive – but above all, smart. Sometimes, the bravest act a business owner can do is to let go. Involve good people, and listen to experts who have a proven track record of helping businesses succeed.
I believe you need a powerful motivator to succeed. If you can understand yours – whether financial, lifestyle, achievement, or you just want to change the world – you’ll be far more effective (and satisfied).
Growing up, my dad had a powerful enough motivator: he lost his business – everything – but rather than drop his bundle, he did whatever it took to provide for his family. He worked his backside off, and today is one of our more successful clients. It was the most powerful business lesson I’ve ever had, and has got me where I am today.
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Invest.com have ceased offering online trading of any description. To view a list of the best online brokers, in your region, visit the brokers page.
Invest.com was founded in 2014 and has grown in the last three years into a well-established CFD broker. Their slogan reads ‘smart investing, made simple’. This page is here to put that slogan to the test. This in-depth Invest.com review will consider the platform, apps, fees, regulation, features, account types, and more. The page will then offer a final verdict.
An Israeli venture capital firm by the name of Singulariteam took control of the domain name in 2014. It brought with them an affiliate, in the form of Renren, the Chinese social network. A quick look at Invest.com Crunchbase shows that together they invested $20m into the new platform.
That investment has brought with it more than a clean new logo. Operations have expanded across the globe. Invest.com now offers a multitude of trading features to day-traders from all over. It’s headquartered in Limassol, Cyprus and more importantly, it’s regulated by CySEC, but more on that later.
Let’s cut to the chase. What is the minimum initial deposit you will need? The amount will vary depending on payment method. However, for e-wallets, it’s $100. For credit cards, it’s $250, and for bank transfers, it’s $500. The variation in charges is mainly down to the processing costs of different payment methods. However, there are other brokers out there who offer minimums as low as $50. So, this may deter some first time traders.
It’s also important to note that whether you’re day trading on Invest.com for futures, forex, bitcoin, crude oil, or natural gas, the minimum requirements will not change.
Many customer reviews of Invest.com will disappointingly point out that the spreads are not fully disclosed upfront. You get access to two different platforms (more on that below). The ‘Simple’ platform offers some of the characteristics of options trading, whilst the ‘Pro’ version provides a more classic trading environment.
Unfortunately, Invest.com has variable spreads on the ‘Pro’ version which leave a lot to be desired. They are significantly worse than the current industry standard. For example, the EUR/USD spread has been found to be as high as 5.2 pips. Normally anything above 2 pips is considered high.
Another essential component of any Invest.com review has to be leverage offerings. The greatest leverage on offer is 1:200. Although, the initial leverage is 1:50, in line with CySEC regulations. This is fairly industry standard. However, if you go elsewhere you can find brokers that will offer up to 1:500.
It is worth highlighting though, that if you’re new to trading, opting for low leverage is often a wise decision. This will prevent you taking considerable losses. CySEC enforced a 1:50 leverage rule specifically to protect new traders.
As a day trader making a high volume of trades, fees can quickly add up. You may have seen in Invest.com news that they’ve tried to make their fee structure as transparent as possible. Invest.com is following the ‘two and twenty’ structure often seen in hedge funds. This means they charge you a flat 1.5% annual fee for accounts under $10,000, and .99% fee on accounts over $10,000. You will then pay 15% on profits.
Day traders have the choice of two trading platforms for CFDs and Forex. The first is called ‘Simple Invest’ and the second ‘Pro Invest’. You’ll benefit from a selection of over 60 common underlying assets for trading currencies, shares, indices, and commodities.
With the simple platform, you get a clear break down of all the CFD instruments available.
Once you hit the ‘invest’ button the potential actions are presented and you can select which one you’d like to go for, such as ‘up’ or ‘down’. You’ll also see a small chart area with time frames ranging from 5-minutes up to 1 month. You’ll also get a newsfeed and information about the asset in question.
Whilst some platforms display investment rates that are generated by derivative values of market prices, at Invest.com you get real-time market rates. In addition, you’ll never be trading against your broker. This means you don’t need to worry about the price manipulation associated with some unregulated brokers.
The ‘Pro’ version offers advanced charting and over 100 technical indicators. The charting package comes from TradingView. This is a highlight of the Invest.com review. TradingView is widely agreed to be one of the best and a worthy competitor of MetaTrader4. You can choose between bars, candles, hollow candles, line, and, Heikin-Ashi charts.
There are generous customisability options, plus the platform is sleek and straightforward to navigate. It takes just a couple of clicks to bring up oil price, for example. You can also reverse, double your position, and close all trades with a single click. You’ll also benefit from the liquidity you’d want to see in your platform.
On top of that, you get an Invest.com economic calendar in the form of a news feed. Just click the ‘Financial Updates’ button. You’ll also get market commentary along with the news.
The ‘Simple’ version is perhaps best for novice day traders, and the ‘Pro’ version will tick most boxes for experienced traders.
However, whilst the platform is relatively reliable, it does lack in some areas. Other more sophisticated platforms offer enhanced functionality and additional features.
Both versions of the web-based platforms also come with mobile apps, which can be used on both iOS and Android devices. When you place an order you are faced with a simple panel that allows you to enter in the parameters of the deal.
This technique of applying risk management, however, is not ideal. Normally you would pick a level on a chart. This will show you whether your trading idea is valid and determine the position size, based on the distance to both their entry point and account balance. However, with the Invest.com app interface you have no such option. This makes implementing effective risk levels trickier.
It’s also worth noting that most Invest.com app reviews from customers point out the ‘Pro’ trading app is what most brokers deem a standard app. So, their app offerings will suffice, but by no means do they go above and beyond.
This means wherever you’re based, transferring funds should be a walk in the park. Really, it’s only Bitcoin users that are left out, for now.
A strong point of Invest.com is their demo account. This is a totally free practice account, ideal for beginners looking to get familiar with the markets. You’ll receive $10,000 in simulated money, plus you don’t have to worry that the results you see are manipulated. Unfortunately, some brokers have been known to fiddle with demo account results to encourage you to start live trading with them. However, because Invest.com is regulated by a reputable body, this is not an issue.
With the demo account on Invest.com, you can trade gold, silver, and a whole host of other assets. Plus, the rates are in real-time and you can match them with rates from the financial markets. This means you know the results you achieve with their practice account can be replicated in live mode.
There are a number of other advantages this review of Invest.com has found. These include opting for investment strategies and portfolio advisers, plus automated account trading.
The strategies above are totally free. You’ll also benefit from the detailed explanations of how they can help you. The break down will cover their effectiveness, risk, and the assets they are most commonly used with.
This is a topic that divides opinion amongst traders. Invest.com have managed accounts which see a professional money manager oversee your capital. Whilst you do still own the funds, in theory, these accounts will tailor portfolios specifically to your needs. You should not confuse these accounts with Expert Advisors.
However, as Invest.com customer reviews have highlighted, there are a couple of issues. Firstly, using such a system will bring with it its own set of fees. These will vary depending on what you choose to trade and in what volume.
In addition, there are concerns over conflicts of interest. Some feel that strategies used by Invest.com trade too often. This allows them to generate greater revenue via commissions. Giving Invest.com such control with a blatant financial motivation to excessively trade should make customers proceed with caution.
Invest.com security is high. In an era when some traders have lost serious capital to scams, prioritising security is sensible. Any review of Invest.com would be impressed with the most advanced SSL encryption they use to protect your data and personal information. They routinely update their systems to ensure they are employing the most intelligent fraud detection systems.
Head over to Invest.com LinkedIn and you’ll see they are proud to be licensed in Europe by the CySEC Securities and Exchange Commission. Their license number is 262/14.
Too many day traders have fallen victims to online scams. That is why brokers today have to be regulated by credible bodies, such asCySEC. Such a reputable regulator allows you to relax in the knowledge your capital is secure.
CySEC has made promising steps in recent times to monitor the behaviour of brokers under their watch. They have cracked down on broker bonuses that can tie customers in. They have also enforced more prominent risk warnings.
The Invest.com CEO has also ensured they remain within ‘segregated accounts’ guidelines. This means the broker cannot freely access your funds. Specific protocols have to be followed before funds can be transferred.
All CySEC regulated brokers must also take part in the local investor compensation scheme. This protects customers from brokers going insolvent. The scene will cover investments of up to €20,000, per account.
So, it would be unfair not to mention in this review of Invest.com that they have taken appropriate steps to stay in line with regulations and to ensure they do not misrepresent any of their products.
Equities – Varies depending on the instrument in question, but in line with competitors.
Invest.com customer support is strong. Customer feedback shows they reply to queries as quickly as possible and extend numerous support channels. Their email address is [email protected] and the phone number from the UK is +44 203 608 8025.
Alternatively, you can write to Invest.com. The address is, GS Sharestocks Ltd, 1 Chrysanthou Mylona and Griva Digeni Street, Panayides Building, 3030 Limassol, Cyprus.
Part of extending their global reach and being accessible is offering their platform and support in a number of languages. So, their website is available in English, Spanish, Arabic, French, Polish, Russian, Slovenian, and, Bulgarian.
This review of Invest.com has highlighted the benefits on offer. Sophisticated portfolio customisation and reputable regulation are the biggest attractions. Having said that, they fall short with high spreads, managed accounts, plus a relatively basic trading platform. Overall, Invest.com can facilitate safe and secure access to the market. However, if you’re looking for low cost and a more advanced trading platform, you may be better off elsewhere.
Invest.com accepts traders from Australia, Thailand, South Africa, Singapore, Hong Kong, India, France, Germany, Norway, Sweden, Italy, Denmark, United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Luxembourg, Qatar and most other countries.
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Google Shopping Actions is, hands-down, the most significant shopping channel for authorized retailers and brands to diversify exposure away from Amazon, acquire new customers, and generate substantial revenue growth.
Most online merchants hunker down heading into the holiday season. I'm here to tell you that it's not too late to add this powerful new channel to your mix.
Google Shopping Actions is Google's hosted checkout experience which we like to think about as a distributed marketplace where consumers can buy products across multiple interfaces including Search and Voice assistant. Most notably, Shopping Actions features the Express shopping mall.
As of the date of this post, there are 200 stores live on Google Shopping Actions. This time next year I would be shocked if there weren't 5,000 stores live on the program. In the meantime, the early movers are taking full advantage of Google's affinity-weighted buy box. This means Google will surface merchants that already have an order history with a consumer.
Google has done a remarkable job making the consumer comfortable with and aware of the merchant you are purchasing from. I've made 5 purchases on Google Express and I can tell you exactly who I purchased each order from.
Google has done a fantastic job increasing average units per order and average order values by making it very easy to understand when Free Shipping kicks in. Since most consumers have a Google Account, checkout is just a couple clicks away.
If you have not done so already, the first step to get started with Google Shopping Actions is to complete the Interest Form. If you're working with Zentail, be sure to select Zentail as your Channel Partner. You will be asked to provide your Merchant Center ID. If you do not already have a Google Merchant Center account - the Seller Central equivalent - take a few minutes to create one.
Zentail is working closely with Google to onboard strategic merchants, to learn more about our rapid onboarding service, complete this request form. You can be live, launched and selling on Google Shopping Actions in under 2 weeks. Let's get started!
Zentail is the fastest and easiest way to sell on Google Shopping Actions which includes the Express shopping mall. Leading retailers and brands trust Zentail for centralized product information, inventory, order and pricing management for Google Shopping Actions. | 142103610 |
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In Destiny 2, each of the playable zones will have three daily challenges. One of the EDZ challenges can be to find and open Cabal supply caches. If you are new to the game this can be a bit confusing, so this guide aims to give you a quick rundown on how to find them.
Each of the playable areas is broken into smaller regions which are populated by different factions. The Cabal can be found near Firebase Hades and the Sunken Isles on Earth. All sub-regions contain small supply caches which can be found and opened. To get your hands on the Cabal ones, you will need to head for one of the Cabal occupied areas. Note, this challenge can pop up on any planet, and for any enemy groups supply caches, so learn to identify the different ones.
Once there, equip the Ghost shell that Devrim Kay gave you when you first met him during the story mission. This will detect caches that are within a thirty meter range and highlight them on the screen for you with a small chest symbol.
The Cabal Supply caches are red and black and will be very easy to spot using the EDZ Shell.
A great tip for finding these caches is that the range of your ghost is extended by your weapon range when you are aiming down sight. Equip a weapon with good range and you can scan an area to find as many caches as you can. This will work even through objects and terrain, as you can see in the comparison shots below.
As already said, all the sub-regions in all the playable areas (EDZ, Titan, Nessus, Io) will contain these caches, and you may need to hunt them down on any given day as part of that region’s challenges. During the course of play you will hopefully earn plenty of Bright Engrams, which can contain new Ghost shells. Many of these shells will have a perk to find caches in the different playable areas, so pay attention to what you are getting from Tess.
Supply caches normally contain a Token for that region which can be traded in for loot to NPC vendors, a small amount of Glimmer, and may sometimes drop weapons and armor. If you have yet to unlock your subclasses, you can sometimes receive the Relic needed to gain access to those missions from the supply caches as well.
Now that you know how to to find Cabal Supply Caches, be sure to visit our Destiny 2 Guide Hub for more guides. | 14930133 |
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