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Do you have a teen who loves roller skating and little bit of punk style? Then a roller derby birthday party may be the perfect theme!
Roller Derby is a contact sport played on roller skates where two teams of 5 battle each other in a race around a track. There are many different rules, regulations and special plays in roller derby. Click here to read all about it on Wikipedia.
Here you’ll find ideas for invitations, decorations, activities and treat bags.
Roller Derby Birthday – Invitations
When thinking of a roller derby party, there are a few things that come to mind…fun, roller skates, spunky, punk, and neon. These girl skeleton invitations are the perfect mixture of punk & fun. 1. Birthday party invitation, Punk Party
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Roller Derby Birthday – Decorations
Hot pink and black are fun colors for a roller derby birthday party. The feminine skull theme can be carried throughout the decor as well with balloons, banners, wall decals, tableware and cupcake wrappers. Black lights with white decor or a dim room with disco lights also helps to set the scene for this theme.
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Roller Derby Birthday – Activities
A roller skating rink or park would be a perfect place to hold a roller derby birthday. Outside of fun roller skating, another fun activity idea would be to dress the part of a spunky roller derby player. This could include:
- white or black tutus
- temporary tatoos
- knee high stockings
- under eye strips (like a football player look!)
- hair glitter
- funky shoelaces
The guests could having fun dressing up and then pose for a group birthday photo. This photo would be a great addition to a thank you card.
Roller Derby Birthday – Treat Bags
Some of the items in the dress up section would be great take home items as well. Here are a few other fun items that would pair nicely with a roller derby birthday party. 1. Sock It To Me Pirate Skull (Red)Striped Knee High Socks
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How are your roller skating skills? I haven’t been since I was a child…and I wasn’t too good at it back then so I can only imagine how I’d do today!
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Researchers from Japan have developed a new high-speed camera that can record events at a rate of more than 1-trillion-frames-per-second. That speed is more than one thousand times faster than conventional high-speed cameras. Called STAMP, for Sequentially Timed All-optical Mapping Photography, the new camera technology "holds great promise for studying a diverse range of previously unexplored complex ultrafast phenomena," said Keiichi Nakagawa, a research fellow at the University of Tokyo, who worked to develop the camera with colleagues from an array of Japanese research institutions.
Conventional high-speed cameras are limited by the processing speed of their mechanical and electrical components. STAMP overcomes these limitations by using only fast, optical components.
Another optical imaging technique, called the pump-probe method, can create movies with an even higher frame rate than STAMP, but can only capture one frame at a time -- limiting its use to processes that are exactly reproducible.
"Many physical and biological phenomena are difficult to reproduce," said Nakagawa. "This inspired me to work on an ultrafast camera that could take multiple frames in a single shot."
Nakagawa himself experienced the need for such a camera while he was a master's student studying how acoustic shock waves changed living cells. Scientists believe mechanical stress, like that caused by acoustic waves, might increase bone and blood vessel growth, but they had no tools for capturing the dynamics of such a fast, transient event as a shock wave passing through a cell.
"Since there was no suitable technique, I decided to develop a new high-speed imaging technique in my doctoral program," Nakagawa said.
STAMP relies on a property of light called dispersion that can be observed in the way a misty sky splits sunshine into a rainbow of colors. Similarly, STAMP splits an ultrashort pulse of light into a barrage of different colored flashes that hit the imaged object in rapid-fire succession. Each separate color flash can then be analyzed to string together a moving picture of what the object looked like over the time it took the dispersed light pulse to travel through the device.
In the first iteration of STAMP, which the team described in a paper published in Nature Photonics in August 2014, the number of frames that the camera could take in a single shot was limited to six.
Currently, the team is constructing an improved STAMP system that can acquire 25 sequential images. Nakagawa believes the number of frames could eventually be increased to 100 with current technology.
Nakagawa notes that because STAMP operates on the assumption that all the differently colored daughter pulses interact with the imaged object in the same way, the camera should not be used to image samples whose optical properties change over the range of wavelengths STAMP uses.
Even given STAMP's limitations, the technology has enormous potential, Nakagawa says. His team has already used it with image electronic motion and lattice vibrations in a crystal of lithium niobate and to observe how a laser focused onto a glass plate creates a hot, rapidly expanding plume of plasma.
Nakagawa notes that the camera could be used to explore a wide range of ultrafast phenomena for the first time, including the laser ignition of fusion, the phase transition of materials, and the dynamics of a Coulomb explosion, an event in which intense electromagnetic fields (for example from a narrow laser beam) can force a small amount of solid material to explode into a hot plasma of ionized atomic particles.
"I think it is important to note that there might be many potential applications of STAMP that I have not imagined," Nakagawa said. "I hope more researchers will become interested in STAMP."
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There is no shortage of controversial topics in the cannabis industry, but the intertwined issues of social justice and social equity reside near the top of the list.
Politicians, activists, and industry operators from coast to coast generally agree social justice should be prioritized on local, state, and federal levels, yet there are few, if any, meaningful programs to help people of color (POC) gain a financial stake in the fast-growing, multibillion-dollar industry. No matter how well-meaning existing programs are, POC still represent a tiny fraction of stakeholders in the industry, and individuals who were targeted during the drug war still face many of the same challenges they did during prohibition.
To this day, African-Americans and Latinx represent almost half the convictions for drug law violations in the United States, despite representing only 32 percent of the population, according to the Drug Policy Alliance. Some of the top priorities for social justice and equity proponents include expunging cannabis arrest records, initiating small business incubators and education/mentoring programs, and offering no-interest loans and grants to people who were adversely impacted by the drug war.
California was the first state to raise the social equity flag, but local and state programs have been lackluster even there. Promising signs in the Midwest and on the East Coast indicate meaningful reforms could make 2020 a breakthrough year.
A slow grind out west
Nobody said reform would be easy. Myriad political, economic, and social factors make designing and implementing programs challenging for both legislators and industry operators. That’s not to say success stories don’t exist, but they are few and far between in an industry that enjoyed more than $10 billion in sales during 2018 and is projected to surpass $12 billion this year, according to New Frontier Data.
Proposition 64, which legalized recreational sales and use in California, sparked lively discussions about social equity, protections for small farmers and other operators, and creating a fair and balanced industry. But despite proponents’ good intentions, the reality has been disappointing. Large corporations and investors with deep pockets flocked to the state to dominate the industry from top to bottom. Much the same is happening elsewhere.
Chaney Turner co-founded The People’s Dispensary (TPD) in San Francisco in 2017 with a mission to promote social equity and cater to marginalized communities including POC, queer, disabled, the formerly incarcerated, and economically disadvantaged people. When she looks at the competition now, in the Bay Area and beyond, she sees few other companies on the same track. The state needs to do more to promote social justice policies, she believes.
“They have not done that well, and they are not taking the lead in making [the social justice situation] better,” she said. “Equity isn’t that hard, and being socially responsible isn’t that hard. When elected officials and people in policy bring up equity, they want to make it a big math equation, but it’s not. Just give the people what they need.”
She explained California has not allocated enough funding to support equity programs. Paperwork from prospective POC businesses is piling up in San Francisco and Oakland. “These cities want to throw out the word ‘equity,’ but there isn’t any action behind it. I feel like the onus is put on small businesses of color to get things done. But we need some type of support from the state. If you look at all these cities, it’s POC with no capital.”
Turner and her POC and queer business partners who started TPD have developed a co-op-style business model, allowing investors from the community to have an ownership stake in the dispensary. Turner and her co-founders have offered to help people in other states open like-minded dispensaries and are actively pursuing projects across the country.
“We are invited to certain places and we partner with communities there, and we want to make sure we partner with people that are values-aligned with our mission,” she said. “Part of that is having non-accredited investment, reinvestment into employees and local communities. Whatever cities we operate in, those people do the civic engagement and hiring. Make sure the empowerment is into the community we serve, [because] the priorities are different in every city. TPD is about partnership when we go to outside communities.”
Plotting a new course
In the Midwest and on the East Coast, legislators and industry operators are watching social equity developments on the West Coast, duly noting the pitfalls and challenges. They’re optimistic they can do better.
Legislative initiatives in Illinois and Massachusetts are attempting to reach individuals who have been economically disadvantaged, disproportionately impacted by the war on drugs, or both. However, Massachusetts’s program has been slow to develop, and to date only 1 percent to 2 percent of cannabis businesses are owned by minorities. Illinois was the first state to legalize the sale and use of recreational marijuana through legislation, and activists have praised the law for its social equity components, which include reduced application fees and grants and loans. Some financing comes from existing cannabis companies. Of course, now the state must determine how the loan and grant program will work. The application process opens in October.
“There is a political will in Illinois,” said Kiana Hughes, educational director for the Chicago chapter of the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws (NORML). “We will be the flagship [equity program] in the Midwest, and the provision that passed is more comprehensive than anything out there across the U.S. It can happen and will happen here, but there is some confusion about how exactly it’s supposed to work.”
In Massachusetts, the state senate recently rejected Democratic Senator Sonia Chang-Díaz’s proposal to make zero-interest cannabis-related business loans available to benefit small businesses, diverse owners, and disenfranchised communities. A proposed budget of $1 million was meant to be self-sustaining through a portion of projected tax revenue and other sources.
In New York, lawmakers recently agreed to decriminalize cannabis by decreasing penalties and allowing expungement of previous arrests for small amounts of cannabis. The state legislature was unable to muster enough votes for a legalization bill, in part because the bill lacked enough social equity provisions.
“It looks like New York is on the social justice and decriminalization path but they are at a standstill, and I think it’s smart to hold off,” said Shanita Penny, president of the Minority Cannabis Business Association’s (MCBA) board of directors and a member of the New Jersey Cannabis Industry Association’s board of trustees. “I’m happy to see them being thoughtful. New Jersey has a deadline for four more vertically integrated licenses. That will require significant capital, and those opportunities are geared toward larger operations. But there are pending licenses that will be available without the requirement around vertical integration, and that will open the door for smaller operators.”
Nelson Guerrero is co-founder and executive director for the Cannabis Cultural Association, a New York-based nonprofit group that helps marginalized and underrepresented communities participate in the legal cannabis industry. “We’ve seen all these mistakes on the West Coast,” he said. “When I was in Governor [Andrew] Cuomo’s office, I reiterated we don’t want be a copy of the West Coast. That’s the opposite of what we need here. These programs have always been underfunded, and sometimes the equity applicants get sharked at the last minute—people getting offered $50,000 to $100,000 to be on the application as an equity applicant” even though they will have no role in the business.
Guerrero explained Latinx and African American communities have been disproportionately criminalized for marijuana possession, making individuals in those communities hesitant to use cannabis for medicine or participate in the industry at any level out of fear they may be prosecuted. Nonetheless, he believes the equity legislation proposed in New York and New Jersey will be impactful and said promising models that give equity applicants a legitimate ownership stake in the industry are being developed in other states.
“I’ve seen franchising models come up where there is a multi-state operator (MSO) and an equity applicant, and those seem to be working,” he said. “It’s not the most ideal model, because they are giving a large chunk of ownership to a private corporation. But if that gets you going to create a viable business, and there’s a way to have a buyout option, that’s one of the better solutions going forward. Hopefully, on the East Coast it will be enacted better. The last thing we want is a bunch of MSOs like MedMen with 100 locations.”
Putting corporations on the spot
Effecting real change by integrating social justice into the foundation of the industry will require MSOs and other large corporations to support meaningful programs that give drug war victims and POCs the education, training, and other tools to help them find long-term employment and a genuine financial stake in the industry.
Chicago-based Cresco Labs is one of the few major MSOs to initiate a comprehensive program. The company’s Social Equity & Educational Development (SEED) initiative, launched in May 2019, is designed to promote “inclusion, equality, and community engagement” and centers on three main components: social equity, a community impact incubator program, and workforce development/education.
Barrington Rutherford, senior vice president of community integration at Cresco, grew up on Chicago’s rough-and-tumble south side and knows all too well the drug war’s impact on urban communities. He explained social justice and equity are part of Cresco’s foundation. The company worked with Governor J.B. Pritzker, a Democrat, to design SEED and advocated the legislature mandate cannabis companies offer social justice programs.
“Our CEO [Charles Bachtell] told the governor that if you want to see diversity and equity, then force the industry to do it,” Rutherford said. “It’s a privilege to be in this business, and we should treat it that way. We were part of crafting what the minimum standard should be, and we will exceed that, but we are also thrilled to be able to help out and become an on-ramp for people who want to enter this industry.”
Cresco is mentoring eight equity groups, providing education and applied experience members will need to work in the industry or start their own businesses. The company plans to roll out similar programs in every state where it operates and scale up as they go. Cresco also hosts expungement events and partners with community organizations across the U.S., and it has secured large law firms’ commitment to help people through the process.
“The [Illinois] governor and the legislature did a phenomenal job of setting a standard saying everyone should be responsible for fixing this problem, and I think Illinois will be the model for the rest of the U.S.,” Rutherford said. “Everybody is responsible for making sure this nascent industry gets off on the right foot and people who were harmed by the drug war can participate in the industry in whatever way they can.”
NORML’s Hughes is cautiously optimistic about the social equity programs and incentives in place in Illinois, but she also is aware how starting any small business can be difficult in a highly regulated industry like cannabis.
“Think about living in an area where there are businesses owned and operated by black people. It’s so layered and multi-faceted,” she said. “A dispensary is a retail business, so there is some general understanding of entrepreneurial business stuff that is lacking. And then the people who do have the capital and business mindset, there is fear or trepidation about being in the cannabis industry or even being associated with it.”
Legislating social justice
Important reforms also are under discussion at the federal level. In February, Senator Cory Booker (D-N.J.) introduced the Marijuana Justice Act, which would remove cannabis from the federal list of controlled substances and expunge past convictions. Senators Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), Kamala Harris (D-Calif.), and Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) co-sponsor the bill.
The list of prominent Democrats who support some form of comprehensive cannabis reform grows by the day and includes presidential hopefuls Beto O’Rourke (former U.S. Representative, D-Texas) and Senator Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.). Whether federal legalization becomes a major campaign issue in 2020 remains to be seen, but advocates expect progress on issues including banking, expungement, and other aspects of the social justice equation. Three pending comprehensive reform bills call for removing cannabis from the Controlled Substances Act: the Marijuana Justice Act; the Ending Federal Prohibition Act, sponsored by Representatives Tulsi Gabbard (D-Hawaii) and Don Young (R-Alaska); and, the Marijuana Freedom and Opportunity Act, sponsored by Senator Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.).
On the federal level, MCBA’s Penny said the SAFE Banking Act may be the policy initiative that could have the biggest impact for people of color, because it would create new opportunities for small business owners who need loans, access to traditional banking services, and tax write-offs that every other business in the U.S. enjoys. Since most banks do not work with cannabis companies, operators often must come up with the capital to start a business themselves, which is another major challenge for POC looking to start a cannabis enterprise.
“SAFE Banking is definitely something that is going to tip the scales, and it is critically needed wherever you are in the industry,” she said. “The large MSOs are losing millions because of [inability to write off] business expenses and are having trouble operating at scale. So, the industry needs it, minority business owners need it, social equity participants need it, and I am very excited about it passing this year. It would be a big step in the right direction, and it has bipartisan support to give relief to states that are implementing programs.”
In July, a formidable group of civil rights and cannabis advocates formed a coalition in order to lobby for more social justice considerations as legislators begin debating legalization bills in the House and Senate. The coalition includes the Drug Policy Alliance, Human Rights Watch, NORML, American Civil Liberties Union, Center for American Progress, and Students for Sensible Drug Policy.
The coalition’s top agenda items include removing cannabis from the Controlled Substances Act, justice reform measures like expungement and resentencing, eliminating public-benefit penalties related to cannabis use, directing tax revenues to local governments to reinvest in communities most impacted by the war on drugs, and eliminating cannabis testing and arrests as factors for child welfare and immigration cases.
“Black and brown people have been traumatized by our racist marijuana laws and, as the federal government embraces reform, our groups will make sure any proposal will repair the damage done to those communities,” said Queen Adesuyi, policy coordinator at the Drug Policy Alliance.
Making their voices heard
While politicians and industry leaders talk a big game about social justice and equity, very few laws compel companies to make programs an integral part of the industry. The tide seems to be turning, though, as more attention and debate develops in states where legalization is on the horizon and legislators want to create equity from the beginning.
“New York almost had adult use in the budget but there was no social equity in the bill, so the legislature wasn’t for it,” said Guerrero. “Whatever eventually passes will be similar to what Illinois passed. We can’t avoid the social equity question, or there won’t be an industry here. We have yet to see one that is perfect, so it’s a work in progress.”
Regardless the slow progress thus far, activists fear criticizing current efforts will discourage people of color from continuing critical work that remains to be done.
“It’s really frustrating to see how equity is discussed in the media,” said Hughes. “The headlines are always salacious and emphasize that black people don’t think enough is being done to address the problems, and it becomes a negative narrative. But it’s off to a great start in Illinois, and way more than we’re seeing across the U.S.”
Penny agrees progress is being made, slowly but surely, and remains optimistic about the future for people of color at all levels. In some respects, the answer to further progress is the same as it always has been: activism and advocacy on the front lines, both locally and nationally. “You should see the lines to get into congressional hearings,” she said. “People are lined up so they can get a seat for those hearings and are becoming more educated and understanding their impact.”

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“I’ve got four aces. What are you holding?” exclaims the shoddy sharper as he takes a puff on his cheap cigar and lays his tattered cards on the table.
His opponent, a well-dressed gent, quietly leans forward, stares the professional cheat in the eye and calmly proclaims, “That’s a marked deck.”
Then he smiles and says, “And I’m holding a fifth ace. It’s under the table, and it’s aimed right at your gut!” cocking back the hammer of his Smith & Wesson Model 1½ pocket revolver.
Without another word, the cigar-puffing trickster slowly pushes back his chair, stands up and nervously utters, “Sir … it’s your game; I do believe you’ve bested me.”
Although this is the stuff of Western novels, the drama is drawn from real life where a pocket pistol often did make the difference in the outcome of an ugly affair.
One of the more popular concealed handguns in use in the 19th century was Smith & Wesson’s Model 1½, five-shot revolver, commonly called a .32 Single Action. Eventually replaced by more up-to-date pocket revolvers, this little Smith &?Wesson was a milestone in its day and was one of the many firearms that helped pave the way for future generations of handguns.
Produced from 1878-1892, with a total of 97,574 made, it combined features of Smith & Wesson’s “Model 1½ First Issue” (Old Model) with the “Model 1½ Second Issue” (New Model), along with a number of refinements of its own.
The five-shot revolver was the first small-bore Smith & Wesson to use “automatic” ejection via the now familiar star-type cylinder ejector and a rebounding hammer—making it safe for carrying with a fully loaded cylinder.
As a black powder, metallic-cased centerfire cartridge arm, it also differed from its predecessors in that its barrel pivoted on the bottom frame strap and the top strap latched to the frame behind the cylinder, instead of in front of it, as did earlier Smith & Wessons.
The .32 Smith & Wesson cartridge, which was designed for this revolver in 1878, is considered anemic by today’s standards, throwing its 85-grain lead bullet out of a three-inch barrel at about 705 feet per second and packing only 97 foot-pounds of muzzle energy. Yet given the short range intended for this “card table” or undercover gun, and the primitive state of medicine at the time, this sub-caliber handgun’s bite was indeed effective during the Old West era.
Gamblers, detectives, ladies of the evening and just about anyone who felt the need for a firearm—and discretion—favored this diminutive handgun. Whether hidden inside a coat, vest, trouser pocket, under a petticoat or among the voluminous folds of a Victorian-era skirt, this small but deadly sidearm added greatly to one’s sense of security—an important consideration in certain “professions.”
Smith & Wesson fans are sure to enjoy the book Smith & Wesson American Model: In U.S. and Foreign Service by Charles W. Pate. This tome provides in-depth coverage of the development, history, production and importance of this historic big-bore revolver that was the first successful large caliber revolver to be manufactured. Smith & Wesson’s revolver outsold the Colt in the 1870s West and set the tone for full-size handguns for generations. Good graphics and solid research make this a reference work to include in any firearms student’s library.


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Top Ten Holiday Mysteries
Having to work on a holiday has been known to put me in a horrible mood, yet Poirot, Holmes, and Inspector Alleyn seem to delight in having their holidays marred by the odd murder or theft. Here’s a list of the top ten novels and stories set during the holiday season which show what great sports these detectives are—after all they have the attitude that justice should never sleep!
This wonderful book has all the elements of a great country house murder and what’s more, it’s set during Christmas. Poirot ends up having his holiday ruined when Simeon Lee is found murdered—he was a hateful old badger but the Belgian detective won’t stop until he finds whodunit. This is probably one of the greatest holiday mysteries ever penned, with all the ingredients of a great classic—rounding off the cast is the rest of the Lee family, all of whom had an interest in seeing off the old man, including a very entertaining black sheep of a son!
By Georges Simenon
Okay, this isn’t a novel but it’s a delightful collection of short stories featuring the resolute and intrepid Jules Maigret. These stories aren’t that dark, unlike Simenon’s novels (if you can call those tiny books novels), and they show a more compassionate side of the inspector who, despite dealing with the seedy underside of Paris, always manages to show his human side.
“The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle”
By Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Reading this short story will have one looking more closely at holiday meals! In this case, a priceless jewel is found in a goose—very unlikely, but if you read the “oddly enough” section of newspapers, you’ll read even stranger stories. In this charming little adventure, Holmes and Watson set about trying to uncover the answer to the vexing question about how the blue carbuncle was fed to a goose—I mean, at that time I doubt the board of health and sanitation existed!
Tied Up in Tinsel
By Ngaio Marsh
Sadly, this book is out of print and despite the recent decline in popularity of Marsh, she still remains one of the grand old dames of the Golden Age of Crime Fiction. In this novel, Inspector Alleyn is called to the scene of the disappearance of one of the guests—one can only hope that after having his holiday ruined, the inspector asked to be paid for overtime!
By Jo Nesbo
Here we have a contemporary novel that has all the makings of a classic. During a Salvation Army concert, one of the singers is shot and killed. The intrepid and tenacious Harry Hole finds he’s in a heck of a pickle: it’s all well and good to sleuth when you have a suspect, a motive, and some clues—but this time he has none of the above.
The Spy Who Came for Christmas
By David Morrell
Don’t expect any steaming chimneys, icicles, or snow stained with blood in this thriller by the brilliant David Morrell. This thriller is set in Santa Fe and, you have a story about a baby with some very special powers and a group of ruthless criminals out to find and kidnap this special tot.
By Mary Higgins Clark
Who says that we don’t have a Grand dame of Crime Fiction in the United States who can, with her pen or typewriter, leave readers puzzled, gripped by fear, and begging for more? In this delightful novel, which is set—yes, you guessed it—during the Christmas season, a young boy plays a game of cat-and-mouse with a pickpocket who stole his mom’s wallet. The stakes get very high in this novel by Clark who, after writing dozens of novels, is still going strong!
A Christmas Promise
By Anne Perry
Prolific and yet always delivering a great pot-boiler even if it’s set in Victorian England, Anne Perry provides this evocative and warm little novel that has two girls looking for a donkey, which has been missing since the day one of the girls’ uncle Alf was killed.
Holiday in Death
By J.D. Robb
Yes, the dating world can be frustrating but in Robb’s thriller, it is not only frustrating but deadly. That’s right. Lieutenant Eve Dallas, while searching for clues, finds that a string of homicides is traced to a dating service (so don’t listen to Mom when she tells you to sign up for one of those free online dating service accounts).
The culmination of this book is vintage Robb: surprising, chilling, and hopeful.
The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding
By Agatha Christie
Why not end with Dame Agatha? I know after reading the passage about “The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle,” you’re going to see some similarities between the two stories but trust me—this one is different. Hercule Poirot is celebrating a typical English Christmas and receives a note that reads: “DON’T EAT NONE OF THE PLUM PUDDING. ONE WHO WISHES YOU WELL.”
With that, I’d like to conclude by wishing you all a happy holiday and warning you to look closely in your holiday meals and make sure you crush your plum pudding with a fork before ingesting it—after all, you may find a fortune in your plate!
Top Ten Films Set During the Holidays… with a dose of Mayhem!
- Die Hard
I know the film had a share of those wonderful ‘80s hairstyles and those prominent shoulders pads. This 1988 classic also had holiday party to die for (pun intended) which was crashed by a motley group of German villains led by Alan Rickman.
- Three Days of The Condor
When I think of Christmas films, I think of the colors of the holidays—red and green and this film has Robert Redford showcasing his mop of red hair while fighting a government conspiracy. And the movie is set at the backdrop of the holidays in the Big Apple. And the guy pooping the party is the masterful Max Von Sydow—an urbane yet lethal assassin.
- Trading Places
Okay, okay, this one doesn’t have a villain who has sympathy for his victims before sending them off this mortal coil or a fancy haircut and controlled German accent and the biggest crime in this film is fraud! But, having said that there is some mayhem and two old villains making sure that Dan Aykroyd and Eddie Murphy have a holiday never to be forgotten!
- LA Confidential
All blood and gore set in the 50s against the backdrop of those huge Christmas tree lights while the three protagonists were probably hearing the tune of “I’m dreading a dry Christmas in the background.” A fine film, adapted from James Elroy’s tour de force with some huge performances by Russell Crowe, Guy Pearce, Kim Basinger, and James Cromwell.
- Murder by Death
Now we have a theme here, another film with James Cromwell, this time he has a minor role as the assistant to a poor portrayal of Hercule Poirot played by James Coco. I don’t know why, but this film due to the wonderful cast from Alec Guinness, David Niven, Maggie Smith, Peter Falk, is always turned on in the background in my majestic estate during Christmas! Maybe it’s the setting, maybe it was because my parents had it on TV when I was a kid, or maybe it’s because I like Truman Capote!
- The Ref
Denis Leary is a cat burglar with a problem, instead of hijacking Mr. Ward and June Cleaver, he happens to find himself in the middle of a bickering couple played by Judy Davis and Kevin Spacey. And the poor guy while refereeing their fights and dodging the law starts questioning the enterprise of crime.
- The Thin Man
The classic and most over-watched film in history (I exaggerate) has a wonderful Christmas party, the charm of William Powell, the grace and turns of phrase of Myrna Loy, and a cute little pooch names Asta, and some black and white Christmas trees. Contrary to popular belief people in the 30s didn’t live a black and white life, so you’ll just have to use your imagination to fill in the colors while watching this classic which was based on a novel by Dashiell Hammett.
- Lady in the Lake
No offense to anyone, but this was a bad film, but a bad film worth seeing. You have Robert Montgomery acting like Philip Marlowe while narrating a case of a missing person, murder, conspiracy, it has it all, only we hardly get to see Marlowe because the story is told through his eyes. We even get to see how it’s like to get a big smooch (from the visual perspective of Montgomery of course). He must have felt that directing the film exonerated him from having to show that handsome face—I disagree! I mean who would want to see Hitchcock as a leading man…Montgomery on the other hand…
- Batman Returns
Kids out there don’t think it was Christian Bale who restarted the Batman enterprise, it was Michael Keaton. And in this film, we have a political campaign in Gotham led by the menacing Penguin played by Danny DeVito who is backed by a the corrupt, criminal, creepy business mogul Max Shreck
(Christopher Walken). And the question is, can Batman save Gotham and everyone’s holiday from the corrupt group? Big spoiler: he saves the day!
- Home Alone
I know, it was more funny than creepy, but this charming film is a classic and will always be a classic. I mean what kid growing up didn’t wish that they were forgotten by their folks and had a chance to grocery shop, lock horns with a criminal, raid the fridge at all hours, have a whole pizza for dinner while scaring the daylights out of the pizza delivery guy.
And since I added Murder by Death and it isn’t a Christmas film, I am giving you a bonus, “Back For Christmas” with Richard Johnson. This appeared in the English half hour drama series Tales of the Unexpected and has a pretty horrible guy committing a pretty nasty crime during the holidays. If you can track it down, please do.
Happy Holidays to all and maybe you’d like to see one of the films after putting getting tired of all the heartwarming films!


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The Living Wage benefits local economies as much as employees
For many years now, Citizens UK leaders have campaigned for more employers to pay the real Living Wage. There are countless benefits for the employees who are paid the real Living Wage instead of the government minimum; employees are paid a fair wage for the work they do, a wage which is vital for employees to keep their heads above water. Read more about the research behind this here.
New research revealed this week shows that it’s not just employees who stand to benefit from being paid a Living Wage. Research findings published this week by the Living Wage Foundation and The Smith Institute establishes that wider adoption of the real Living Wage could create enormous economic benefits - up to £1.1bn in total - to the UK’s top 10 city regions.
The report explains that if a quarter of low paid workers in the UK’s top ten city regions were uplifted to the real Living Wage (£10.20 in London, £8.75 in the rest of the UK) not only would employees receive an average annual pay rise of over £1,700, but the wider economy would benefit too:
- UK city regions would benefit from a £560m boost; as well as a more inclusive local economy;
- The Treasury would benefit from £350m in increased tax receipts and benefit savings;
- And, if half of this £350m boost to the Treasury was returned by central government to city regions, the local economic benefit – a “Local Living Wage Dividend” - could increase to £1.1bn, when taking into account wider economic benefits such as increased local spending by low paid workers and government driving further economic activity.
When considering these findings, it’s hard to justify why employers don’t pay the real Living Wage. Our campaigners across the UK are urging anchor institutions - such as universities, hospitals, football clubs and city airports – to take leadership on the Living Wage. Those institutions, together with the metro mayors and local authorities, have a responsibility to drive the Living Wage in their towns, cities and regions, and to integrate the Living Wage into their economic development strategies.
Everton FC is setting an example in Liverpool. This week the Liverpool Echo reported on the findings, claiming that “Liverpool’s economy could get a £55 million boost if more employers followed Everton FC’s model and adopted the “real Living Wage”.
This important research gives our community leaders across the UK the hard evidence to support their campaigns in towns and cities across the UK. At Citizens UK, we believe it is imperative that more local employers and institutions pay the real Living Wage: it’s now clearer than ever that this is the right thing to do, both morally and for the sake of stronger local economies.

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Bed Leveling problems and possible Z-Offset issue, Please Help!!
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Thanks for allowing me to join this group. I am fairly new to 3D Printing and have a problem with my Ender 3 (Not Ender 3 Pro or V2). I have been using my Ender 3 for sometime and decided to upgrade the mainboard and display to the BigTreeTech SKR Mini V2.0 and the TFT35 E3 V3.0. I have installed both and adjusted my printer accordingly. It has been printing wonderfully for the past few months. I left the printer and didn't use it for about a month and decided to print something the other day and ran into a problem I can't seem to figure out. The first layer was printing at least 1mm or 2 layers higher than the bed surface. I tried to adjust/level the bed using the bed leveling program (has a glass build surface) and when I began the bed leveling sequence the nozzle pushed down into the build plate/glass. I adjusted the endstop switch and manually (no power applied) adjusted/leveled the build plate and the surface was relatively even all around. However when I went to use the leveling program (4 points leveling) that was included with the BigTreeTechs SKR Mini E3 v2.0, the nozzle again pushed down onto the build surface. I tried to use the Mesh Leveling (9 point system) within the Marlin (LCD) side of the program (there are 2 to select from with the BigTreeTech board) and again the nozzle pushed down into the build surface. I believe the problem I'm having is a Z offset issue, but I'm not sure. I reviewed the firmware build using Visual Studio Code, however I am not sure if the Z-offset is set right as I really don't know what I'm looking for. Currently I'm unable to print or properly level my build surface/bed and really need someone's help to explain what I can do to fix this issue. Thanks in advance for any help you can provide me.

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Since the implementation of the Affordable Care Act’s Medicaid expansion in 2014, 23 states have refused the federal money to offer health insurance to their low-income residents, depriving almost 4 million people of coverage. Slowly, some of the holdout red states are finding a way to say yes, but only if they can claim a conservative twist on expanding coverage. Tennessee last week became the latest state to release details on a proposal for its own unique version of Medicaid expansion via a waiver of Medicaid rules (known as an 1115 waiver). "We made the decision in Tennessee nearly two years ago not to expand traditional Medicaid," Gov. Bill Haslam, a Republican, has said. "This is an alternative approach that forges a different path and is a unique Tennessee solution.”
Versions of Haslam’s statement are common among Republican lawmakers who have negotiated with the Obama administration to pursue this path: They’re willing to accept Obamacare money so long as they can plausibly sell it as not Obamacare, and they want to use their leverage to attach conservative reform ideas to Medicaid. At the Washington Post, Sarah Kliff has called these measures “making Medicaid more Republican.” Arkansas, Iowa, Michigan and Pennsylvania have already advanced unique versions of Medicaid expansion thanks to waivers that feature GOP-backed wrinkles to the program; Indiana has submitted a waiver pending approval from the federal Department of Health and Human Services, while Tennessee, Wyoming and Utah have developed proposals after active negotiations with the feds; and lots of other states are taking a look, including North Carolina, Georgia, and even Texas.
That’s good news for those states' poorer residents, who have been left to fend for themselves while state legislatures offer massive resistance to Obamacare. In practice, however, crafting plans that are ostensibly more conservative has tended to add layers of bureaucracy and administrative complexity. The Republicanized versions of Medicaid thus far have ended up more complicated, confusing, and possibly costlier than the program Republicans refused to expand in the first place.
Take, for example, Arkansas—the state that got the ball rolling for red states seeking GOP twists on Medicaid expansion with its privatized version known as the “private option.” Last month the state got approval for a byzantine new program, called Health Independence Accounts, that imposes co-pays on some beneficiaries unless they pay a small monthly fee. Those who have paid their fees are eligible, under certain conditions, for up to $200 to pay for the costs of private health insurance if their income goes up and they transition off of Medicaid. To run the program, the state will pay a third-party administrator about $15 million annually (covered by the feds as part of the cost of expansion).
Meanwhile, Iowa is now imposing low premiums, tied to a wellness program, on some beneficiaries. “The administrative complexity of the system the state is contemplating is somewhat mind-boggling,” Joan Alker of the Georgetown University Health Policy Institute commented when Iowa’s waiver was approved, adding that “[t]he wellness program is of questionable policy value.” Indiana’s proposal includes small premiums and savings accounts tied to different benefits packages, leaving advocates for beneficiaries worried that low-income adults "face categorization into a bewildering array of benefit plans and options.”
These schemes will put additional bureaucratic pressure on state agencies to implement (or outsource) them. “What we’re talking about does add a layer of complexity to an already complex program,” Matt Salo, executive director of the National Association of Medicaid Directors, told me. However, he added, the additional administrative burdens were the only way to gain coverage for hundreds of thousands of people. “It’s all part of the quid pro quo," he said. "In Arkansas, in Iowa, in Michigan, would the expansion have happened at all if not for these types of things? I think the answer is pretty clearly no."
To expand access to health insurance to low-income Americans, the ACA raised Medicaid eligibility up to 138 percent of the federal poverty level (around $16,000 for an individual, $33,000 for a family of four). Or, that was the plan. Then the Supreme Court threw a curveball with its 2012 ruling: the law was upheld, but each individual state would choose whether to expand Medicaid or not. Many observers thought states would take the deal, since the feds would pay most of the costs—100 percent for the first three years, gradually falling to 90 percent by 2020. But statehouses were packed with lawmakers saying things like “our view is that supporting Medicaid expansion is really embracing President Obama’s law.”
The politics were toxic enough that many GOP-controlled states declined billions of dollars. The refusnik states left a mammoth gap in Obamacare’s intended coverage expansion, pushing the administration to the negotiating table. This opened up a divide within the Republican Party in state legislatures. Some conservatives stuck with middle-finger federalism. Others sought to make a deal.
Critics from both the left and the right suggest that Republicans pushing for alternative versions of Medicaid expansion are simply looking for political cover to accept federal dollars their states need. David Sanders, an Arkansas state senator and one of the key Republican architects of the private option, counters that they were using their leverage to enact conservative reform ideas never envisioned in the ACA. “It’s an opportunity to fundamentally transform the system,” he told me in a phone interview.
Whatever their motivation, red states have been lining up to expand coverage via these demonstration waivers, which are meant to allow states to experiment with the Medicaid program. The experiments red states propose align neatly with GOP talking points, typically focusing on one or more of these ideas: offering private health insurance plans rather than the traditional Medicaid program; “skin in the game” such as cost-sharing or charging even the impoverished some kind of premium; tying coverage to wellness programs; tying coverage to work programs (thus far the Obama administration has drawn a line in the sand and won’t allow work requirements); programs, such as savings accounts, aimed at trying to get poor beneficiaries to act more like consumers with regard to their health care services.
“All of those ideas, leaving aside their policy merits, they all presuppose a pretty intensive level of government involvement in people’s lives,” Alker, an expert on Medicaid waivers, told me by phone. Alker points out that the original proposal by Pennsylvania suggested that the state would eventually be tracking everything from cholesterol level to work history to legal record. (In the end, the feds accepted just four of Pennsylvania’s initial 24 waiver requests.) The implicit bargain has been to offer a social safety net for the poor, but only via an intrusive nanny state.
This is a familiar story: see Florida’s program to drug-test welfare recipients, which lost money and was struck down by the courts. When it comes to programs for poor Americans, some conservative reform efforts lean toward administratively cumbersome, paternalistic programs. Backers of these programs argue that they encourage “personal responsibility,” but implementing them does carry a price tag.
“There’s no question in my mind that the administrative costs associated with these approaches are something that we need to keep a very close eye on,” Alker said. “Fundamentally we know that Medicaid has much lower administrative costs than private insurance. Then you add on top of it all of these different policy objectives that are driven by intense politics. Intense politics don’t usually make for good policy.”
More complex programs can also be more confusing for beneficiaries. State officials in Arkansas have suggested that the Health Independence Accounts would serve as an educational tool, modeling how to be consumers of private insurance, but it's just as likely that beneficiaries will simply be baffled by the genuinely confusing structure and rules. Trying to latch GOP hobby horses onto Medicaid and low-income beneficiaries can make for an awkward fit—in practice, the HIAs aren’t much like private insurance, aren’t much like Health Savings Accounts, and don’t clearly incentivize the most cost-effective ways of using the health care system. To make matters worse, state Republicans have banned state-appropriated outreach funds to help eligible beneficiaries enroll in the private option and navigate the system.
Ultimately, the $15 million a year the HIAs will cost to run is a pittance relative to the total cost of Medicaid expansion. But there are real concerns about whether the private option itself could turn out to be significantly more costly than traditional Medicaid. It’s too early to come to any definitive conclusions on that front, but it’s a huge question for the federal budget as other states explore similar schemes.
Sanders told me that the HIAs are just a “first iteration” and emphasizes that the private option will evolve over time. Part of the goal, he said, was to encourage red states to piggyback off of one other with conservative reform ideas, with an eye toward a second round of waivers that the ACA will make available in 2017 to give states more room to tailor changes. “The ultimate goal is to reach state-based innovation,” Sanders said.
In the meantime, Alker worries that the complexities may discourage people in these states from accessing care. “I don’t have any confidence on the ground that beneficiaries will be clear on what’s going on because the policy itself is very, very complicated,” she said. “I think what’s disheartening about the situation is that the research is very clear that charging premiums to very low-income people will deter enrollment and that charging co-payments will deter them from getting needed care.”
The various GOP-led reforms and the added bureaucratic complexity that come with them are the price for the Obama administration to bring red states into the fold. For Obamacare to broaden coverage, Medicaid programs across the country will look very different from what the law's backers—and its detractors—first imagined.


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Award-winning filmmaker, social worker and behavioral journalist Joey Huertas interviews dissident anti-communist blogger Yoani Sanchez at the March 2013 journalist closed PRESS CONFERENCE at New York University , New York City during her 80 day world travel visit.
This is an EXCERPT clip from an hour-long press conference interview sponsored by the State Department and NYU.
Sanchez arrived in the United States for the first time on an 80-day, 12-country tour that has so far taken her to cities in Brazil, Mexico and various European countries since late February. She had been denied a VISA permission to leave Cuba 21 times in the last five years (due to her reputation as a political activist).
Blogger Yoani Sánchez ended her three-day participation in technology and information seminars in New York remembering the impact of the Black Spring, a wave of massive detentions that took place in Cuba a decade ago. “I want to honor and remember those independent journalists, activists and peaceful opponents. They opened a road that we now continue to tread,” Sánchez said on Sunday. “They presented an opposition to which we feel we are heirs despite all the censorship and repression.”
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Wednesday, December 14, 2016
I'm feel a little like Indiana Jones in regards to this year's ornament: Cats. Why did it have to be cats? I love kitties, but have yet to create one with Sculpey that looks right. I've been proud of the ornaments I've made my nephew in past years. I fear this isn't going to be one of them. I'll be glad when it's done.
I sewed! For all of five minutes. I finished a few more string triangles. I'm so close to having that whole pile completed (and then I can make something with it!). My sewing backlog contains clothing fixes for my sister and making some Frankenstein batting. Need to finish those before I can return to applique and other fun stuff. Inspiration and motivation are at a low ebb.
I received a cute little square ironing board for Christmas from a thoughtful friend. Perfect for paper piecing or small seams. Will come in handy when I tackle my next NYB quilt, although it will mean far less steps on my fitbit if I don't have to walk to the other room to iron seams. Who knew that piecing could be such a workout?
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The Chazen Museum of Art (formerly the Elvehjem Museum of Art), one of America's leading university museums, has a permanent collection of more than 19,000 works of art dating from 2300 B.C. to the present. Of special note are the collections of ancient art, Indian miniature paintings, Japanese woodblock prints, Renaissance medals, and Russian and Soviet paintings. In addition to the permanent collection, the Chazen offers about twelve temporary exhibitions from its own collections and from other museums throughout the year.
Lectures, gallery talks, and tours are available to the public; admission to exhibitions and all programs is free.
Drop-in guided tours for groups of 10 or fewer are available on Sundays at 2 pm and Thursdays at 12:30 pm, and last 40 minutes. No reservation is required.
Beginning in 2016, the Chazen will once again host it's long-lived concert series Sunday Afternoon Live at the Chazen. On the first Sunday of every month except January chamber music performances are presented in Brittingham Gallery III of the Conrad A. Elvehjem Building. Concerts begin at 12:30 pm, are free and open to the public, and are streamed live on the Internet. Chazen Museum of Art members may call 608-263-2246 to reserve seating the week before the concert. Unclaimed seats are relased at 12:20 pm.


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Gua sha is a Chinese medical therapy that is a gentle scraping technique. It involved using a smooth edge to apply repeated pressured strokes over lubricated skin. Massage oil is rubbed into the skin and then a smooth edge of a ceramic or metal tool is then placed down firmly and moved along the muscle, usually following the meridian pathways. This technique releases heat and toxins trapped in the skin and invigorates the blood flow to the area. Gua sha can be used to help patients with pain and is also helpful when a patient is working through a bad cold or similar illness.
Gua sha is similar to cupping but differs in some ways. Like cupping, gua sha can result in redness on the skin and can produce a feeling of release. The tools are different and the reasons we might chose the techniques vary. I tend to use cupping to help move stagnation but may choose gua sha when I think the condition is related to excess heat in the body.

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Sonya Sones has written six novels in verse: Stop Pretending: What Happened When My Big Sister Went Crazy; What My Mother Doesn’t Know and its companion, What My Girlfriend Doesn’t Know; One of Those Hideous Books Where the Mother Dies; To Be Perfectly Honest; and her latest, Saving Red. Her books have been honored with a Christopher Award, the Myra Cohn Livingston Award for Poetry, and the Claudia Lewis Award. But Sonya was especially thrilled when she learned that she was on the American Library Association’s list of the Most Frequently Challenged Authors of the 21st Century. She lives near the beach in California. You can visit her online at www.sonyasones.com, or follow her on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, and Instagram @sonyasones.
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Karen Cuneo Ramirez. cruzo; 2 videos; 41 views; Last updated on Nov 23, Chord Structure: Scales and Key Signatures. by Karen Ramirez. Popular internet teacher Karen Ramirez shows you how to play the piano or keyboard. Sep 26, Part 2: Playing by Ear by Karen Cuneo Ramirez.
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He brings musical life to an almost rmirez era. Karen started playing in church at age 13 and was teaching young students while still in high school. These are the books that Karen refers to in her YouTube videos; now you can order them and learn the easy basics of playing chords.
Some of Karen’s printed books are raamirez available digitally as PDFs. Web Hosting by Yahoo! Download links are sent manually by our staff, not by an automated system; please watch for an email from Sacramento Music Group after you place your order.
Karen’s new book combines popular lesson material from two earlier books into one. She was one of the first professionally trained group teachers on the west coast and now travels around the country, training teachers to make playing music both fun and easy.
The book rairez reading notes, finding the notes on a keyboard, counting, scales, basic chords, key signatures, bass clef, music terminology and much more.
To order more than one of each book, type in the desired quantities in the shopping cart. His love of silent films is evident when he performs one of his silent film concerts.
After college, karen was trained to teach group classes while working in the piano retail business. With this new 3 DVD set, you can learn the concepts ucneo Karen’s latest book by watching her 7 classes on video. When you purchase a PDF, we will send you an email with a link to download the file s within 24 hours of receiving your order. For more kaen about the album and audio samples, visit www. This set is a good supplement when used with the second half of Karen’s “Emergency Chord Book”.
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When he is not leading workshops, giving concerts or teaching music, Gregg always makes time for causes that he believes will further music appreciation. Karen divided ccuneo book into sections and talks in detail about the basics of music.
In college, karen studied classical music, but decided that karenn was a lot more satisfying to teach popular music to adults who just want to have fun After college, karen was trained to teach group classes while working in the piano retail business. He just completed his fourth CD, scheduled for release in the summer of ‘ Lots of fun hints and shortcuts you can apply to playing a keyboard, karren piano, or an organ. She now works here at Music Exchange and teaches many students a week in group classes.
You can learn to play the piano, organ, or keyboard and have fun! Witness the many students who have learned to play with great satisfaction over the years and continue to take group lessons at Music Exchange. This new book contains everything you need to know about music.
There are ramirea refunds or returns on books that have been shipped or downloaded. His extensive repetoire continues to delight audiences wherever he plays.
If you’ve decided to start learning how to play a keyboard instrument, you’ve probably had questions like “Should I armirez a piano, digital piano, or keyboard? She has written several books on short cuts to playing music, and her fun, energetic approach using humor and entertainment will make everyone’s desire to play a musical instrument become a reality. The 2 DVD set contains 8 classes that take you through the book in detail. Karen says, “Most people think music is complicated and they are too old to learn, so they never try it.

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In spite of the widespread availability of step feed configurations in activated sludge systems, little use has been made of their control potential. The main aim of this study is to provide a better understanding of applying step feed control considering the role of biomass activity in the settler. The control strategy was evaluated by simulating the dynamics of an activated sludge system. The model contains both biomass activity in the settler and step feed capabilities. The model and the strategy then have been evaluated against pilot scale and full scale experimental data.
Potential Use of Step Feed Control Using the Biomass in the Settler
M. T. Sorour, G. Olsson, L. Somlyody; Potential Use of Step Feed Control Using the Biomass in the Settler. Water Sci Technol 1 December 1993; 28 (11-12): 239–248. doi: https://doi.org/10.2166/wst.1993.0663
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The Chevy Chase Village Board of Managers is committed to meaningful and wide-spread participation of Village residents in the governance of our community. Committees of residents serve as advisors to the Board. They provide a critical interface between the residents and the Board by generating a wealth of ideas, research and analysis for the policy initiatives that underlie good governance.
The Board relies on the support of two types of committees:
Standing Committees oversee the broad categories of Village governance, policy and resident enrichment. These are the Committee for Seniors, Community Relations Committee, Election Supervisors, Environment & Energy Committee, Financial Review Committee, Historic Preservation Commission Local Advisory Panel, Parks & Greenspaces Committee, Public Safety Committee, Traffic Committee, and Tree Committee.
ad hoc or Single Purpose Committees are dedicated to meeting a single, Board-referred objective and are of limited duration. The Board assignment defines the work of the committee and indicates whether the Board seeks advice whether to address a problem or issue facing the Village or advice on how to resolve a problem or issue.
To strengthen the role of Village committees and to ensure that their work is transparent and a model of democratic practice, the Board has adopted guidelines for Village committees (adopted January 2012).
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Environment & Energy Committee
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Présentation du schéma de fonctionnement d’une administration publique
This drawing shows in a few lines, the general context in which a country’s Public Administration functions, as well as its place, duties, responsibilities and finalities, in a State apparatus and works. Public Administration is in fact the secular branch of the State, its tool for actual enactment of laws from the parliament, carrying out of judicial decisions, and of executive regulations in a country. This means that it is subservient to the historically and legitimately established classical powers centers that are the Legislative, Executive and the Judicial branches, although this general institutional architecture is not either adapted or well entrenched everywhere in the world. Consequently, it is in need of some rethinking, taking into consideration the differences around the world in historical, social and political contexts that produce self-regulating, public mechanisms and institutions. This is what I develop in my essays on "rethinking governance".
This drawing may at first, be seen as simple, if not simplistic. However, in countries where democracy and governance are not exactly the rules of the game in Public policies, in which Public Administrations have become personal and patrimonial – if not exclusive – tools in the hands of present Executive Branch power holders, it intends at reminding the essential missions, the objective place and the t actual integration of Public Administrations in a State as Public and indivisible Good, at the service of all and every citizen, without any favoritism or bias.

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It took 22 seconds for the text of the web page to load, then another 78 seconds for the images. The registration form took 90 seconds to load. On the first attempt my registration failed with:
The requested URL /regNumber2.cfm was not found on this server.It worked on the second attempt. The conformation email message arrived three minutes later. Spam Assassin rated the message 2.3, with tests:
BAYES_05 -0.207, HTML_40_50 0.496, HTML_MESSAGE 0.001,This is a low Spam rating but higher than it should be.
HTML_MIME_NO_HTML_TAG 1.082, MIME_HTML_ONLY 0.001, NO_REAL_NAME 0.961.
Clicking on the requested link in the conformation message resulted in:
"The requested URL /regNumberActivate.cfm was not found on this server."On the second attempt a blank white screen was displayed. The third attempt displayed the not found message again. The fourth attempt displayed the blank white screen again. AT that point I gave up.
Those responsible appear to have made several fundamental mistakes in launching the site. These are things I teach second year ANU web design students not to do.
The DNC home page consists of:
- HTML 6kbytes
- CSS 4kbytes dncr.css
- Commonwealth Arms 7kbytes: images/coatofarms.jpg
- DNC logo 10kbytes: images/dncr_logo_padded_sml.jpg
- Three ways 5kbytes: images/three_ways.jpg
- Mouse 1kbyte: images/mouse.jpg
- Phone 1kbyte: images/phone_icon.jpg
- Evelope 1kbyte: images/envelope.jpg
- Navigation bar background 2 kbytes: images/navbar_fat.jpg
WHAT TO DO:
- VALIDATE CODE: The DNC home page failed a W3C Validate test with one syntax error.
- TEST ACCESSIBILITY: The DNC home page failed an automated accessibility test, with four level 2 (AA) errors. In addition no alternative to reading text in the security image is provided. As a result the web site fails a level 1 (A) test. The web site may breech Australian anti-discrimination law as a result.
- ONLY SECURE SENSITIVE PAGES: All the pages on the DNC web site seems to use HTTPS secure protocol. As a result each copy of the text and images on the home page will have to be individually encrypted when sent to each user. As well as slowing down the server which has to encrypt, this may prevent the information being cached. This encryption should only be used for the pages containing sensitive data, such as the forms the user fills in.
- MINIMIZE GRAPHICS: While the graphics used are small, there are a lot of them on the home page. The "Three ways" graphic contains text and should not be used. If the other graphics are to be used they should be highly optimized and ideally reused from a common Commonwealth server of images.
- SMALL FORMS: The PDF form is 144kbytes for a one page document, which is excessive.
- PRIME CACHES WITH PRE-LAUNCH PAGES: The web site appears to not have been placed online until the launch day. As a result none of the content will have been cached. Therefore there will be a large initial load on the system. The designers should have put a placeholder web site up in advance, announcing the site would be available. The images, style sheets and other material to be used would then have been cached on web servers around Australia. When the real site went live, only the changed text would need to be downloaded (which makes a small part of a web site).
- STAGED LAUNCH: The register appears to have been launched nationwide. A staged introduction, allowing registration for smaller regions first would have allowed the bugs to have been shaken out of the system and for the caches to be loaded.


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The experience of disabled people is often overlooked and undervalued in our society. However, the stories and testimonials of disabled people are incredibly powerful and inspiring. In this article, we will take a look at the experiences of disabled people and the powerful testimonials they have to offer. From the perspective of those living with disabilities, we will gain an understanding of how their lives have been affected by their disabilities and how they have worked to overcome the challenges that come with them.
We will also explore how user testimonials can be used to inform and support accessibility initiatives, helping to make sure that the needs of disabled people are met in our society. By reading this article, you will gain a better understanding of the importance of user testimonials from disabled people and the impact they can have on our society.
Testimonials from Disabled Users:Disabled users of Reacher Grabber products have a lot to say about the product. Many have found it to be an incredibly useful tool in their day-to-day lives, allowing them greater independence and freedom of movement. Their experiences with the product, and the benefits they have found in using it, have been overwhelmingly positive. One disabled user described the product as "an absolute godsend" for him, enabling him to carry out tasks that he would otherwise have found impossible.
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Benefits for Disabled UsersThe Reacher Grabber product offers numerous benefits for disabled users, from improving access to everyday items to providing a greater degree of independence. For instance, the product can be used to pick up items that are otherwise out of reach, such as items on high shelves, or items that have been dropped on the floor.
This makes life easier and more convenient for those with limited mobility. Additionally, the product has been designed with features such as an ergonomic handle and adjustable gripping jaws, making it easier and more comfortable to use. The product also provides greater independence for disabled users. By allowing them to complete tasks that they would otherwise have difficulty with, they can enjoy a greater sense of autonomy in their daily lives. Furthermore, the product is lightweight and easy to transport, making it ideal for those who need to take it with them when they are out and about. Finally, the product has been designed with accessibility in mind.
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However, there are still some issues that need to be addressed, such as the cost of the product and its lack of availability in certain areas. Ultimately, it is up to the consumer to decide if Reacher Grabber is worth the investment. Overall, testimonials from disabled users serve as an informative and engaging look at what these individuals have to say about the product. This article has provided a comprehensive overview of these testimonials, highlighting the positives and negatives that users have experienced.


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Posted on Friday, July 26th, 2013 by Germain Lussier
Briefly: MTV’s Scream TV series is moving forward. The network announced the show at their upfront this past Spring and Friday, at the Television Critics Association event, they revealed Jay Beattie and Dan Dworkin would be writing the show. Beattie and Dworkin worked together on Criminal Minds, Revenge and The Event.
There’s still no word on how, or if, the show will tie into the movies or when we might see a pilot. Either way, the show is aiming to “reinvent” the franchise. [Variety]


A lack of female volunteer leaders in Richmond has forced a Girl Guides unit in East Richmond to close, leaving numerous girls on the waitlist for other units.
But while Richmond’s two Girl Guides districts – Ocean Vista and River’s Edge districts – scramble to find more volunteer leaders, the organization will still kick off its new “guiding” year with a welcome-back campfire Sept. 27 at Garry Point Park.
“We have quite a few girls on our waitlist, and we can’t accept any more girls until we have some volunteers to sign up and be leaders,” said Stephanie Bell, Girl Guides’ Ocean Vista district commissioner in Richmond.
She added that the Guides association welcomes “all sorts of people, but because (it is) an all-female organization, (it) can only accept women volunteer applications.”
Bell believes that “lots of young people and families moving out of Richmond” as well as people “not having enough time to volunteer,” are the reasons for the dearth of leaders.
But despite the leadership challenges in Richmond, the Girl Guides of Canada is returning this year with a new program called Girls First, which replaces the “well-known badge system” with an online and interactive platform.
Through the new platform, girls will decide what activities they would like to do, what adventures they want to experience and what things they want to learn about. This provides leaders with a better idea of how to plan activities.
“The new program highlights the girls doing their own programming by choosing what they like to do best,” said Bell.
Girl Guides of Canada also announced that girls who earn two specific awards – pathfinder and ranger awards –can receive two high school credits, similar to Scouts Canada.
For those who are looking forward to Girl Guides’ chocolate mint cookies, they will be on sale for $5 starting Oct. 1 with Ocean Vista district selling them at Cambie Plaza on Oct. 5 and Seafair Shopping Centre and Terra Nova Village on Oct. 26.
For more information visit GirlGuides.ca


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Oral Electrolyte for Horses
Stress-Dex® is a balanced electrolyte powder for horses, to be used as a supplemental source of calcium, phosphorus, salt and potassium.
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Highly palatable, appetizing orange flavor - easily mixed with drinking water
Provide ample drinking water. Horses: 1-2 ounces per day, in one dose or divided into 2 doses. Mix with feed or water.

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Befuddled is a short, sharp mystery novel from the Love Inc. Mystery series, and was penned by author Anita Bombard. This charming and light mystery novel provides a fast-paced read when our plucky heroine AJ Love finds herself on the arm of the studly Detective Stone on a date with both him and disaster. The appearance of an impossible body puts them onto a trail to seek out a killer that should never have been able to escape the scene, and the pair investigates with plenty of hijinks and sizzle of their own along the way. What results is an intriguing and playful caper centered on relationships and mysteries.
With plenty of humor and sparkle thrown in for luck, Befuddled is far from serious, but also highly infectious as a playful chick-lit mystery novel. AJ is an excellent central figure for the tale to play around, with a bright, quirky nature and a feisty attitude at just the right moments. Author Anita Bombard describes the gorgeous but hard-boiled Detective Stone with all the right notes for an alpha male romance lead, and their personal interplay gets them into all sorts of fun situations which both help and hinder the case. The plot is solid and not easy to predict, making for plenty of surprises and an interesting and satisfying conclusion to a seemingly impossible problem. Overall, Befuddled is a recommended read for all cozy mystery fans, as well as those chick-lit readers looking for a new genre with the same sense of fun.
BIOGRAPHY Anita Bombard is a fervent reader; mysteries being a favorite since reading Agatha Christie's Crooked House at eleven years old. To this day Anita continues reading mysteries (and other genre's) and enjoys a little humor mixed in.
You'll find this refreshing new author shows that even when characters have murder on their mind, life has some humorous twists on the road to catching a killer.
When she isn't writing or reading, she enjoys time spent with family and friends playing cards or enjoying a meal and just having some laughs.
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