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How is your Summer Knit Along project going? We are all loving the extra texture of the single row stripes in luscious, variegated yarns. Send us a WIP photos! Or post one on Instagram, tagging Avenue Yarns.
Over the next few weeks, I’ll post a couple of little tutorials for knitting single row stripes. Full disclosure? I planned to have these all up and posted by now. But techniques like helical stripes are new to me. And I need a better handle on the new technique before I am able to write let alone teach about it.
I have a couple of patterns in the works too, for those of you who want easy practice in single row stripes before taking on a bigger project, like Joji’s Boxy po.
But for now, here’s a mini tutorial on single row stripes knitted flat. This technique is best for shawls and scarves, and anything you might seam to finish. It’s a super easy technique and produces a very interesting fabric.
For this swatch, I’m working on size 6 double pointed needles with two colors of Brooklyn Tweed Arbor, one in Sea glass, and the other in Treehouse (this combo of names has me up on the NorCal coast…). The double pointed needles are essential to this technique.
I’ve cast on 30 stitches and knitted 6 rows of garter stitch for the bottom edging. For the rest of the swatch, I’ll be knitting 3-stitch garter side selvedges to keep the piece from curling. Garter in these single row stripes ends up knitting columns of unusual—and charming— selvedges. It still works to stabilize the swatch. And look at the photo on Instagram for a couple of images of the interesting selvedge pattern this switcheroo makes!
So, after knitting the bottom main color (MC) garter selvedge, join the contrast color (CC), and knit one row.
Then instead of turning the work and purling, slide the work back to the other needle points and the MC working strand, and knit across with the MC. Now both the MC and CC strands are on the same side.
Now it’s time to turn your work. Purl across with the CC yarn, remembering to knit the KKPP side selvedges. Then slide your work back to the working strand of MC, and (with selvedges) purl across. And keep on going.
There is something about this technique that reminds me of the old children’s game, Red Rover. Red Rover, Red Rover, send MC on over! Red Rover, Red Rover, send CC on over! I find it to be almost as fun as that game.
So what do you do if you have to put your work down and get on with – Oh, maybe drafting important legislation, or being an ally and advocate to those who need one? Just look at your work to see which color comes next, and where you are in the pattern. If both colors are on the same side, you’re ready to turn the work. If the colors are on opposite sides, finish up with either a purl side or a knit side in the color that’s ready to be worked. It’s easy to pick your knitting up and go with this technique.
A few notes about the swatch here. To help me remember which size needles I knit with, I put a row of 6 eyelets (*YO, K2Tog* 6 times) in the upper right corner, just before knitting the MC garter selvedge for the top.
And there’s the matter of the little slub that is there in the fabric like a long leg. There was a wee flaw in the spinning, where for half an inch, the ply was loose and fluffy rather than Arbor's normally tight twist. To be honest, I appreciate wee things like that. It is a small, interesting reminder of the craft I am always learning.
I hope you enjoy this technique. And remember to show off your colors!


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How To Take Advantage Of Medicare Part D Merrimac MA
The only two new Medicare Supplement plans to be included the list of Medigap insurance this year both boasted lower premiums than some strategies that were already on the market. Medigap Plans M and N keep premiums low by requiring you to pay a part of Medicare’s charges.
Plan M just covers 50 percent of the Medicare Part A $1,100 deductible, which you must meet prior to Medicare picks up your health center expenses. If hospitalization is not likely, this may make good sense for you. Plan N minimizes premiums by needing you to spend for part of Medicare’s Part B co-insurance amounts for medical professional’s services. This strategy might work well if you typically spend little on Part B co-insurance.
Beyond these new inexpensive plans, among the greatest names in medical insurance has really proposed cutting Medicare Supplement Insurance coverage premiums where the requirement is biggest. A name you don’t often consider being a leader in inexpensive health insurance coverage, Blue Cross Blue Guard, wishes to use larger discount rates on Medicare Supplement plans to seniors with the least expensive earnings.
How Does Heaven Cross Plan Lower Medicare Supplemental Insurance coverage?
As the largest insurance company in, Blue Cross currently utilizes one percent of exactly what it collects in premiums to assist lower the rate for individuals with Medigap insurance coverage to supplement their Medicare protection. Blue Cross representatives say that this translates into a 39-percent discount rate, which is presently being equally distributed to those with Medigap policies. Blue Cross is asking for to skew that distribution in order to make the biggest discount rates readily available those who need the most help.
Representing Blue Cross, Andy Hetzel states that, “We’re asking some folks to pay about 50 cents a day more to assist people who are their age, however who have difficulty consuming or paying their mortgages or health insurance coverage.”
All seniors would still gain from discounts of at least 25 percent, but those with the best requirement in would get extra help. For instance, heaven Cross strategy would mean that a senior with an earnings of $16,245 would just have to spend for half of the $191 month-to-month premium.
If this modification is approved by the state Workplace of Financial and Insurance Guideline, more than 200,000 seniors might see a modification in their Blue Cross Medicare Supplement premiums. If you have an earnings above $32,600, you would see a boost, however all others would get a price decrease in their premiums. Will this idea spread to other states beyond?
How Can You Reduce Your Medicare Supplement Insurance Premiums?
No matter what state you reside in, there’s a basic way to keep your premiums low. One of the easiest methods to be sure you’re getting the very best Medicare Supplement value is to request an annual evaluation where independent agents compare your needs to other Medigap Policies.
You might discover a lower-priced plan that works better for you if your health makes it simple to change policies. It’s a great idea to request such a free policy evaluation as soon as a year so you don’t miss out when brand-new strategies become available. If your requirements change, obviously, anytime is the correct time to see if a different Medicare Supplement can save you cash.
What are Medigap Plans and Medigap policy and why do people buy it Merrimac MA
If you are 65 or older and eligible for Social Security, survivor’s or dependent’s advantages, you are immediately eligible for part A protection. Even people who are not eligible for Social Security advantages might be qualified for Part A when they turn 65. For a month-to-month premium, anybody 65 or over can register in Part B coverage, whether or not they are eligible for Part A.
One of the worst mistaken beliefs about Medicare is that it covers nursing facility care, The truth is that Medicare nursing center protection is really minimal which indicates that many people must pay for essentially all long-lasting care out of their own pockets.
Because house health care can be much more affordable than nursing center care, it would seem reasonable for the federal government to encourage home care by covering a sizable part of the expense. Medicare likewise pays absolutely nothing for custodial care in nursing centers or other residential long-lasting care centers.
It is essential to know what long-term care Medicare pays for so you can get the most from the coverage that is available to you. Bu it is simply as crucial to learn exactly what Medicare does not pay kind so you can be prepared to either collect the cash had to get most of your health care and protection for other resources.
Trying to figure out hat Medicare does and does not cover for long-term care on your own can be really complicated and discouraging. There are specialists such as a Geriatric Care Manager offered that can help make sense of it all.

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The spotlight, Innovative Governance, is where our 10 Beacons had diverging interests. Primarily, we focused on innovative governance’s spatial integration and territorial aspects. In particular, from the COACH perspective, the question arose of how new forms of governance could help collaboration on the territorial level. Those territorial approaches improve transparency in food chains/networks, leading to greater consumer trust and agency and enhancing market access for producers. Recently many overlapping concepts have been introduced in the academic literature to track this spatial integration and shed light on varied aspects of the territorial arrangements, such as foodsheds, bioregions, or city region food systems. Several governance tools and policy instruments can initiate the change in the territorial level of the food systems: urban agriculture, preservation of agricultural lands, and food self-provisioning. Our spotlight resource group encounters also revealed that such territorial developments are dependent on inclusive organisational structures. More recently, the UN FSS defined the territorial approach as the highest (horizontal) priority across the five action tracks (1. Ensuring access to safe and nutritious food, 2. Shifting to sustainable consumption patterns, 3. Boosting nature-positive production, 4. Advancing equitable livelihoods, and 5. Building resilience). It also stated the essential role of the territorial approach to sustainable food systems (UN FSS, 2021).
Governance is always considered a Janus-faced phenomenon: an internal process of decision-making and participation on the territorial level and an external activity to engage with other actors at the territorial level. This section presents what creates a favourable and hindering environment for the ten initiatives/Beacons below. How do decision-making structures help collaboration to flourish? What is the role of various actors (activists, academics, citizens, social entrepreneurs, governments, private sector)? In what way, innovative governance has challenged, altered, or replaced the dominant institutions?
TERRITORIAL GOVERNANCE – As a policy concept, the EC promotes the territorial governance approach as the basis of European Regional Policy (e.g., Smart Specialisation Strategies) (Moodie et al. 2021, Stead 2013). In this policy sense, it is the mobilisation of regional actors (and their groups) and the integration of indigenous knowledge into policymaking processes that entail bottom-up policymaking. Such collaboration on the territorial level could bring improved transparency in food provisioning, trigger greater consumer trust, better food literacy, foster food citizenship, and create better, more localised market opportunities and overall resilience for producers.Source 1: Moodie et al. (2021). Territorial governance and Smart Specialisation: empowering the sub-national level in EU regional policy. Territory, Politics, Governance, 1–21.
Source 2: Stead D. (2013). Dimensions of territorial governance, Planning Theory & Practice, 14:1, 142-147.
BEACONS’ WHO CONTRIBUTED TO THE INNOVATIVE GOVERNANCE SPOTLIGHT ANALYSIS

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You should know that you can claim for financial compensation by filing for a diabetes drug lawsuit in case you or your loved one has been injured or have any experience with severe side effects after taking a medication that is antidiabetic.
The field of diabetes treatment has been shattered over the years that is why new diabetes medications have been invented and approved for the shortest period of time. A lot of these medications have already been causing serious harm that is why it has been discontinued however, there are other potentially harmful diabetes drugs that are still being marketed which is placing thousands or even millions of patients in a lot of risks. Any hospitalization is costly but people who have experienced severe side effects from any diabetes medications may need to have themselves admitted to the hospital to have extensive medical treatments that may even be the cause of death.
The qualification of diabetes drug lawsuit may be applied for in case you have a patient or a loved one who has been harmed in any way when taking diabetes medications. Medical injury lawsuits can be filed if the situation includes medical treatments, pain and suffering, lost wages, future medical treatments, and wrongful death. There have been positive effects of past diabetes lawsuits for family members or victims who were harmed by taking diabetes drugs that are harmful and this resulted in compensation settlements of about thousands or even millions of dollars.
Things You Need To Know About Diabetes
Diabetes is a disorder wherein the body is not able to produce insulin or is not able to use it efficiently. As a result of this, the body cells will continue to starve for energy because the sugar that is supposed to be consumed for cellular energy remains in the bloodstream.
As soon as the food is consumed and the nutrients will be absorbed, much of the food is going to be converted to glucose. When your blood glucose levels will be increased, it will trigger the pancreas to release insulin that is needed for the transportation of sugar into the cellular cells. There are times when the pancreas can no longer produce insulin and the body is not able to respond to insulin anymore, and this will result in the failure of transportation of glucose into the cells that are why diabetes will be acquired.
A number of symptoms can result to high blood sugar and this may become severe in no time. Diabetes that develop over time may give you a lot of negative effects that will do a lot of damage to your organs such as your eyes, kidneys, and extremities as well. Taking diabetes medications will enable you to increase the ability of the body to utilize sugar effectively and to lower the level of your blood glucose.

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A new taskforce to help improve housing options for older people will be headed by Professor Julienne Meyer.
Professor Meyer, a leading expert in care for older people, will chair the Older People’s Housing Taskforce, spearheading work to support the growth of a thriving older people’s housing sector across the country, according to the Department for Levelling up, Housing and Communities and the Department of Health and Social Care.
The taskforce will work across housing, heath, and care sectors to drive an increase in the volume and range of housing options and make recommendations to the Government.
The appointment was unveiled as part of the government’s Adult Social Care Implementation plan published by the Department of Health and Social Care on 4th April.
Housing Minister Rachel Maclean, said:
“Making sure older people can access the right homes that meet their needs later in life is a government priority. And by unlocking more housing for older people, we can also have a hugely beneficial impact on their health and wellbeing.
I am very excited to have Professor Meyer leading this taskforce, as we radically improve the choices available to older people, whether that’s retirement housing or support to help people live independently for longer.”
The taskforce will run for up to 12 months and will produce an independent report to DLUHC and DHSC Ministers, with interim findings available after six months.
The panel is expected to include up to 14 members with expertise from the social and private retirement sector, local government, adult social care, and from investors and developers.
Professor Meyer co-founded My Home Life, an international collaborative initiative to promote quality of life in care homes for older people. She will work with the government to finalise the Taskforce membership and the group’s Terms of Reference, with a first meeting to take place by Spring once all members are confirmed.
This work will be taken in partnership with the Department of Health and Social Care, building on the commitments set out in DHSC’s adult social care reforms today.
Minister for Care, Helen Whately, said:
“We want a thriving older people’s housing sector based on choice, quality and security. That’s why we’ve set up this new taskforce – to work out how we can deliver that across the country and make sure everyone has somewhere suitable to live in later life. The more housing options there are, the more choice people have over their care.”


An American Icon: The Idaho Potato
BY DOUG HARE
Where do home fries and hashbrowns, chips and French fries, gnocchi and mashed potatoes originate? You’ve probably never seen a packet of potato seeds for sale because potatoes don’t grow true to seed, like apples, they propagate vegetatively or asexually.
Every year, farmers have to plant small sprouting potatoes, or seed potatoes, in order to reproduce the specific varieties they want, of which there are over a thousand.
The Idaho Certified Seed Law prevents commercial potato growers from planting their own saved spuds, which have a higher probability of carrying disease. Instead, they’re required to purchase seed potatoes from certified seed potato growers to assure the health of their crop and the healthy proliferation of their specific varieties.
Seed potato management areas have special pest management measures and inspection and isolation requirements to assure plants are less exposed to diseases like blight and Potato Virus Y, or PVY. Commercial potato production is not allowed within seed potato management areas due to contamination risks.
Seed potatoes are tubers that are specifically grown to be free from disease, providing consistent and healthy yields when halved and replanted all across the country in warmer climates. The areas where seed potatoes can be grown are arefully selected from locations with cold, harsh winters that kill pests and mold spores, and warm summers with long sunshine hours and ample rainfall for optimal growth.
Chances are that the last loaded baked potato you ate had its origins in southern Idaho, a region that produces more seed potatoes than any other in the United States.
Nestled at the southern edge of the Yellowstone Caldera, the soil around Ashton, Idaho, is rich with volcanic ash and the altitude and snowpack help, providing a long winter deep freeze that cleanses the soil of mold spores and other pathogens.
Outside of Ashton in greater Fremont County lies the world’s largest seed potato farming area. Seed potatoes were not tried as a crop until 1920, but farmers quickly realized that their soil and climate conditions were ideal, similar to the Peruvian Andes where potatoes were first domesticated some 9,000 years ago. You might not get that impression driving through the quaint town of Ashton, but that’s because most of the action happens underground, off the beaten path with the scenic vistas, mountainous backdrops and the Henry’s Fork of the Snake River drawing the eye more than the endless, rolling, finely combed dirt fields fading into the distance.
On the first day of May, third-generation seed potato farmer Tom Howell is in downtown Ashton, where massive grain elevators tower over Main Street and an occasional freight train pulls directly into town for a grain refill. Many of the shops don’t look like they ever open for business.
Howell seems to make small talk with everyone who passes by on the sidewalk. It’s a small town with a population that hovers around 1,000. “Everybody knows each other ‘round here,” says Howell, as he pulls out his keys and opens one of the closed-up shops. Still, due to its geographic location near so many national parks and recreation areas, Ashton reports nearly 2 million visitors a year: sightseers, outdoorsmen and passers-though alike.
Letting me in, what looked like a thrift shop turns out to be a museum of sorts: Native American relics, souvenirs from the now-defunct Bear Gulch Ski Area, early 1900s newspaper articles about the American Dog Derby, WWII artifacts, and, of course, exhibits about the history of seed potato farming in southeastern Idaho are jam-packed into a space oozing with nostalgia. For a hardscrabble town founded in 1906, Ashton has acquired its fair share of history.
According to some dusty magazines on the counter, agriculture has always been the lifeblood of Ashton. Shortly after the first settlers arrived in the 1890s, several canals were developed to divert water from streams running off the Yellowstone Plateau and Teton Range. But soon, settlers discovered that some farmland, mostly to the east, is high enough and close enough to the Teton Range that crops can grow without irrigation due to increased rainfall making its way from a weather corridor extending to the Pacific coast.
After a brief tour, Howell tells me he has already sent the seed potatoes from his 1,500-acre farm to market, but he’s taking me up to Baum Farms to see the process of exporting certified disease-free seed potatoes—one of the busiest times of the year for farmers in the area. The regular growing season usually begins in mid-May, and harvesting starts mid- to late-September depending on soil temperatures.
On the ride out of town, Howell opens up, pointing out a new irrigation system and the names of all the farms we pass along the way. “Oh, we grow all kinds of potato varieties, but the farmers around here prefer to put Russet Burbanks on their own plates.” Although he worked in the ski industry in his younger years, Howell eventually returned to his roots as a third generation seed potato farmer and has been supporting his family since 1971, despite some years when the harvest barely paid the bills.
“For me, I enjoy the variety of tasks of seed potato farming. There is always something different to be doing,” Howell said as we pulled up to Baum Farms where a series of conveyors belts are moving an endless stream of seed potatoes through machines designed to remove rocks and other debris. “It’s really a family operation with my son and I doing most of the work until we hire migrant workers to help out during the busiest times of year.”
The inside of the cavernous potato cellar is a sight to behold, especially when filled with mountains of seed potatoes. The climate control system and ventilation apparatus are much more high-tech than the humble exterior of the cellar would suggest, but absolutely essential in keeping the crop from degrading during storage periods lasting up to a year.
The movement of seed potatoes from the cellar is nothing less than mesmerizing to watch. They travel through a series of conveyor belts, heavy machinery and a row of workers methodically picking out damaged and diseased specimens, past the watchful eyes of a state- certified inspector, and finally onto a truck filled to the brim with now-certified Idaho seed potatoes.
Driving home to Montana, after the hypnotic spell of thousands of dancing seed potatoes had worn off, I began to think about the how the seed potato farmers in Fremont County leave their old farming equipment in their fields on display as a salute to a bygone era—a museum exhibit in plein air.
While the technology of farming seed potatoes has visibly improved over the last century, so much about farming the humble seed potato remains the same. It offers a connection to the land, the dignity of a hard day’s work, continuity between generations of family members working the fields together and, at the end of the day, a delicious sustenance to help us persevere through the hard times. Pass the ketchup.
Doug Hare is a staff writer and the distribution director for Mountain Outlaw magazine.


Fellow at Peterson Institute, a regressive-minded think tank, concedes the many benefits of a nation that provides universal access to healthcare.
If you are going to factcheck it is imperative that you get it right and WaPo needs to learn that in a quick manner lest it loses further credibility.
The Washington Post editorial page decided to lecture readers on the meaning of progressive. With Trump breathing at our backs, is this really what we need?
Sanders was out-polling Trump in the general election by an average of 10 or so points, whereas Clinton was only slightly ahead.
Bernie Sanders protesters who had taken vow of silence to criticize Democratic National Committee, walked out of convention hall to occupy media tent on Tuesday,
Sen. Sanders’ effect on the platform-drafting committee can be seen in the questions asked by many of the veteran activists serving on it.
The story about the cost of Bernie Sanders Secret Service detail is a perfect example of a derelict media that repeat talking points.
With his efforts to overhaul healthcare and crack down on Wall Street, President Obama has demonstrated the benefits of practicality and compromise
The candidates make appearances on the west coast, as Hillary Clinton doubts debate between Trump and Sanders will happen before 7 June primary
Expected to be the clear frontrunner but after a terrible week, Hillary Clinton is still trading blows with Bernie Sanders as the Donald Trump menace grows


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Collect this Jim Lorentz St. Louis Blues Topps 1971 hockey card for sale. This distinctive hockey card features an image of left wing Jim Lorentz of the St. Louis Blues on the front of the card and his statistics and biographical information on the back of the card. This exclusive card is manufactured only by Topps. The sports trading card is number #13 for the St. Louis Blues. Marked – Copyright T.C.G. Printed in the U.S.A.

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A teenager died engulfed in flames on a London street in the early hours of Sunday morning.
The 18-year-old was found by police and fire brigade crews at a level crossing on West Barnes Lane in New Malden at 1am outside a shop.
The fire was extinguished, but she died at the scene. A police spokeswoman said that she had suffered burns to every part of her body.
The woman has not been formally identified, but her next of kin have been informed of her death.
Police believe the fire started at a nearby residential property in Linkway. They believe she fled the house on fire, before collapsing onto the street.
Layla Hamid told the Daily Mail: "I heard initially what I thought was a fox making a noise or an animal in pain.
"I heard four separate screams - the first one right outside the house and then more screams in the road and then behind me on the level crossing.
"Now that I know what it was, I feel chilled to the bone. She must have been in so much pain."
A police spokesman said the death appeared "non-suspicious" but appealed for any witnesses.
The road was closed until midday whilst police combed the scene for clues.
The cause of the fire and circumstances of the death are being investigated by officers in Merton, and by London Fire Brigade.
A post-mortem examination has yet to be arranged.
Scotland Yard confirmed that the 18-year-old woman had a young son, who was being looked after by relatives when she died and remains in their care.

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Life can be challenging and we all need help at times to sort out and untangle the areas that hold us back. I believe it’s never too late to start again and take steps toward living a more abundant, fulfilling life. By meeting you wherever you may find yourself, my aim is to provide a caring, competent, professional atmosphere whereby meaningful growth and change can take place.
While I specialize in treating trauma and PTSD, I also work with a wide range of emotional and behavioral issues providing help for depression, self-esteem, anxiety, grief, parental support, stress, trauma and Christian counseling when requested. I also have experience counseling those who may be struggling with life transitions, addiction and spiritual identity issues. In a comfortable and supportive space, I offer a highly personalized approach tailored to meet my clients individual needs to help them attain the personal change and healing they’re working toward.
I am a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor in the State of Idaho and earned my Masters Degree in Counseling from Northwest Nazarene University. As a Certified Therapist in EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing), I am able to offer a treatment approach that has been primarily helpful in treating post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) as well as see many people find relief from psychological stress, and treat symptoms of anxiety and depression. More information about EMDR can be found in the following article. I hold memberships with the American Counseling Association (ACA), the American Association of Christian Counselors (AACC) and the EMDR International Association (EMDRIA).
Lastly, but certainly not least, I love helping others discover their unique purpose and passionate meaning for living this thing called life.

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About 350 meters east of the Okitsu
JR Station and the same distance west of the Okitsu river is a patch of
green with some massive pine trees. Sandwiched between Route 1 and the
JR Tokaido rail line, Munakata Shrine is a nice place to stroll or pray.
No one knows when this shrine began. One account suggests it moved from a region in northern Kyushu known as Munakata-gun during the Kamakura era. With many Taira sympathizers in that area and this region under much firmer Minamoto control, this explanation seems plausible. The Munakata Grand Shrine in Fukuoka prefecture is an important pilgrimage point in south western Japan. There tutelary shrines known as Hetsumiya, Nakatsumiya, and Okitsumiya which once associated with different family clans stand to this day. As the imperial family gained ascendancy, the role of the various tutelary deities changed: they became subservient to the Sun Goddess, just as the people became subservient to the Emperor.
According to a myth dating sometime after the 4th center, when a sage named Takahayasusanou-no-Mikoto made a promise to the Sun Goddess to purify himself, she broke his sword in three pieces and washed it in a heavenly well, then ate the broken pieces. When the Sun Goddess exhaled, three goddesses were born from her breath. She commanded these goddesses to promote harmony, trade, and prosperity. The Hetsumiya, Nakatsumiya, and Okitsumiya shrines inside the Munakata Grand Shrine precincts are each dedicated to one of those goddesses.
The Munakata shrine of Okitsu also honors these goddesses. The forest surrounding this shrine is known as nyotai no mori (tr.: female-body-forest) and Okitsujima-hime-no-mikoto is especially revered. By some accounts, she is a manifestation of the Okitsu river. Other accounts suggest she commands the ocean waves. In a land with over eight thousand deities, the identity of one kami sometimes blurs with others. Many residents of Okitsu aren't really sure who is enshrined at Munakata: they simply come to this place out of habit. Since 1947 Maruo Funio has been the head priest and his son performs many Shinto ceremonies.
Originally, the Munakata Shrine was located near the old Tokaido highway, closer to both the Suruga Bay and Okitsu river sometime prior to the Meiji era. To protect this shrine from floods and tidal waves, it was reputedly moved further inland. The records of this shrine, however, have been destroyed by many floods and fires. This shrine was damaged by earthquakes in 1703, 1854 and 1944. Moreover, in 1872 a fire swept through the area and the wooden structures in this shrine were reduced to ashes. Tanaka Mitsuaki, a prominent army officer, provided funds for reconstruction.
Within the shrine precincts are memorials to those who perished in both world wars and the Russo-Japanese War of 1905. Near the main building, a tablet commemorating the 60th year of the Emperor Showa also stands. At the center of the shrine is a towering black pine tree. Indeed, one of the nicest aspects of this shrine is its range of botanical specimens: it has many fine camphor, white cedar, fir, hackberry, oak, alder, and sasaki trees. At one time the tall trees from this shrine served as a beacon marks for local fishermen.
Festivals are here twice a year: on July 31 and Dec. 31. Both festivals occur late at night, at a time when thatched talismans are burnt and placed in a ceremonial bowl. During the summer festival fireworks are also launched. Like many Japanese festivals, there is a carnival-like atmosphere.

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- Status Report
- January 27, 2023
Large Interferometer For Exoplanets (LIFE): III. Spectral resolution, wavelength range and sensitivity requirements based on atmospheric retrieval analyses of an exo-Earth
Temperate terrestrial exoplanets are likely common objects, but their discovery and characterization is very challenging.
Concepts for optimized space missions to overcome these challenges are being studied. The LIFE initiative focuses on the development of a space-based mid-infrared (MIR) nulling interferometer probing the thermal emission of a large sample of exoplanets.
We derive first estimates for the signal-to-noise (S/N), spectral resolution (R), and wavelength requirements for LIFE. Using an Earth-twin exoplanet as reference case, we quantify how well planetary/atmospheric properties can be constrained from MIR spectra of different quality.
We simulate LIFE observations of an Earth-twin orbiting a G2V star at 10 pc from the Sun with different levels of exozodiacal dust emissions. We combine a cloud-free 1D radiative transfer model and the nested sampling algorithm to retrieve planetary/atmospheric properties from input spectra of different wavelength coverage, R, and S/N.
We find that H2O, CO2, and O3 are detectable if S/N≥10 (uncertainty ≤±1.0 dex). We find upper limits for N2O (abundance ≤10−3). CO, N2, and O2 are unconstrained in all cases. The limit for a CH4 detection is R =50, S/N =10. We further correctly determine the exoplanet radius (uncertainty ≤±10%), surface temperature (uncertainty ≤±20K), and surface pressure (uncertainty ≤±0.5 dex). With the current LIFE design, the observation time required to reach the specified S/N amounts to ∼7 weeks with 4x2m apertures.
We conclude that a minimum wavelength coverage of 4−18.5μm, a R of 50 and an S/N of 10 is required. With the current assumptions, the atmospheric characterization of several Earth-like exoplanets at a distance of 10 pc and within a reasonable amount of observing time will require apertures ≥2 meters.
B.S. Konrad, E. Alei, D. Angerhausen, Ó. Carrión-González, J.J. Fortney, J.L. Grenfell, D. Kitzmann, P. Mollière, S. Rugheimer, F. Wunderlich, S.P. Quanz, the LIFE Collaboration
Comments: Re-submitted to A&A after a first iteration with referee; 18 pages (main text incl. 11 figures and 6 tables) + appendix; comments are welcome. This is the third paper of a series on the LIFE telescope. The first paper of the series is also available: arXiv:2101.07500
Subjects: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP); Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
Cite as: arXiv:2112.02054 [astro-ph.EP] (or arXiv:2112.02054v1 [astro-ph.EP] for this version)
From: Björn S. Konrad
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Giving a plywood subfloor a coat of paint transforms it from something that was once meant to be covered up into something worth displaying. The other reason the pattern is so key is that it helps hide the seams in the plywood floor. Once you’ve finished sanding, vacuum again and use a tack cloth to make sure all the dust is off the floor. I have to assume this is a treatment that is only practical for someone with the carpentry skills to install the floor himself. I used an old paint pan, stirred it up and poured it in. I dipped the pad in and went up and down and worked in sections going vertical. The extreme shininess of it also highlighted every single imperfection in the plywood – not pretty at all.
Since this was a floor paint, it didn’t require any top coat, so we simply let the paint cure” for about 36 hours before putting our furniture back! We ordered 45 plywood sheets and Home Depot cut them for us (for a nominal fee) to 8″ wide planks and delivered them (also for a fee) to the back door of our new retail space on a pallet. Finish off sections with smoothing strokes, rolled in the same direction, before the paint dries (the roller should be moist but not loaded with paint). The paint itself will not yield a surface hard enough to resist years of foot traffic.
The finish penetrates and withstands scuffing pretty well and ambers with time giving the shop a mellow wood grain look that I particularly like in a woodworking shop. DIY Dork – If you want the plywood diy installation guide to end all diy guides then head on over and visit Kevin at (great name!). Little did I know, after we painted the room 2 coats of Chalk Paint in Pure White, Matt and our good buddy, John, ripped up the (gross) carpet and pad. I hope this makes things easier if you’re deciding if you want to install your own plywood floor.
Within 20 minutes, all of the green carpet was gone and all that was left were the plywood subfloors (sheets of thick plywood), which were in GREAT shape. I’ve decided to paint the plywood floor on my tin Starcraft rather than go the carpet or vinyl etc route. I purchased this primer and made a mixture of 1 part primer // 3 parts water and white washed the floors using a paint roller with a broom handle. The surface of the plywood is a bit soft and prone to denting, but the tongue-and-grooving in all four sides makes it absolutely solid. I only sanded after the second coat because I didn’t want the floor to be too slippery.
Love this idea for a playroom; we want to build a subfloor downstairs to get the kids off of the concrete and to lay this as the floor would be perfect! This way I would feel comfortable sitting a wood project on the floor or even sliding it without gouging the project. I thought of that too arcy, but this is a seldom used guest room I’m wanting to put it in. We’ll use quite a few coats of a floor grade polyurethane on it so last for decades.
Again great step by step painting instructions make this another essential plywood flooring article. If you have a plywood subfloor over a concrete slab, check the moisture level of both floors. As a bonus, when we finally took up the floors to install hardwood, we stored the plywood in the garage and recycled it for numerous projects since then. We’re actually planning on installing a plywood floor in our new Delray Beach condo.
Like the girly bedroom overseen by Janis above, these floors give the space just a little hipster edge. The subfloors were just 3/4″ inch plywood, so we cut patches out of new 3/4″ ply to fit up to the floor joists, built some extra blocking underneath, and screwed them down. It seemed to depend on how much dust was actually rolling around between my boots and the floor.
Also using a clear finish showed all the marks in the plywood and even the paint showed along the edges so overall it gives the shop more character. We think the floor makes this room, which is really saying something as the overall design is superb, and that it was achieved on a budget is doubly impressive. Today the planks of hardwood range in widths anywhere from 2.5 inches all the way up to 7 inches, the most popular being around 3.5 inches.
Fieldstone Hill Design – It took us a while to find it but we’re glad we made the effort to track down Darlene Weir’s guide to painting the plywood floor of her boys’ bedroom. I have been careful to get step-by-step of the floor so far (I’m really bad about remembering these). Paint manufacturer Sherwin Williams offers a water-based epoxy primer-sealer that is ideal for use on wood substrates such as plywood.
Can i just put a primer over the plywood and paint it instead of sanding away the adhesive on the plywood. If you use a tung oil fortified oil it will harden the surface quite a bit, decreases wear, while maintaining the springy nature of the plywood. The walls and ceiling boards (the flat parts) were painted semi-gloss white, the ceiling batten trim was painted flat white, and the big floor to ceiling posts were painted gloss white. However, we’re finally at the point where we are going to put in a floor in there.
That’s when we ditched the idea of wall-to-wall carpeting and headed over to the paint department of the home center. Don’t forget to stir often, the paint will like to separate and keep your paint bucket on a towel to help with drips. Dutch Boy Latex Porch and Floor paint is scuff, chip and abrasion resistant, and dries to a hard, durable finish, while cleaning up with water.
To make it, I just poured a gallon can of left over flat white wall paint in an old 5 gallon bucket and then dumped in a little more than 2 cans full of water. If you so much as stray a tiny degree, the whole floor could look crooked and that made me super nervous. I’m WAY too lazy to take the many hours extra to float out the floor to make it completely smooth.
I made a point to take pictures of the family room to show you how much paint I put on the brush, to really give you a good idea of how this works. Seems silly to do all the work to install the floor and not take a few minutes to tape up some accidental mis-steps. After a pathetic parade of disappointments I marched to the paint counter and confessed to having no design sense. It now been 4 months since we painted the sub floor and I’m still LOVING the look!
If the wood floor gets taken out in the future, it will not be hard to fill the holes and cover the floor with an epoxy. I painted the plywood subfloor of our new house, upstairs and down, except for two tiled bathrooms. We calculated how many 4′ x 8′ sheets of plywood we’d need and headed off to Home Depot. I do like the look that the gaps give our floors, but if I do these floors again somewhere else, I’d make them much smaller. Structural guidelines require that some flooring be installed perpendicular to the floor joists.
For those looking to install plywood in a typical square room at home we think this guide gives a really good feel for what’s involved and also includes instructions for staining your plywood. If I painted or stained every plank beforehand, I would still be painting, and only half of our floors would be done. Leave it long at each end of the room – you’ll trim the length after the floor is installed.
You might want to look into the Floor Mechanics Store, they sell the professional grade floor finishing products (polys, stains, fillers, applicators, cleaners, etc.) to DIYers. Curious to your thoughts, all the CDX plywood at the local bigbox stores is in pretty terrible condition. It really helped keep the floors from turning super golden country pine cabin in the woods” yellow once the polyurethane was applied later.
I am not handy and I have seen some interesting painted plywood subfloors on the web. Adaptability – Like any wood flooring product you should let plywood sheets/planks acclimatise in your home for a day or two, but plywood does not present the same problems as solid hardwood when it comes to hot and cold climates. It was finally time to start clearing out the rest of the floor and making some repairs. That being said, I don’t mind anyone posting about the painted plywood floors on this thread, since others may very well be interested. Compare that to hardwood prices or engineered wood prices to get a very clear idea of the savings!
When we started this project, one of the things that made me a believer in plywood floors is the complete customization that is available. I JUST painted our hallway and kids’ room floor (both hardwood) with the chalkpaint and LOVE it. I didn’t purchase the lacquer…decided just to put a coat of polyurethane on it. So far no yellowing and it is wearing GREAT! There’s no mistaking what these floors are made from and we think they look fantastic.
The thought of covering any woodgrain (other than some knotty pines or low grain woods) up with paint brings me close to hyper ventilating and my eyes start to twitch. Although, we’ve had the floors done now for a month or two and there’s absolutely no wear or tear yet. My deck has: two coats of epoxy top, edges and bottom; one coat of Rustoleum Marine primer for wood and fiberglass all around; and two coats of Rustoleum Marine topside paint all around. We bought all our floor finishing products from them when we installed/finished our hardwood floors DIY and they were wonderful to work with, their staff is very knowledgable and so nice.


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Dear AMFA Brothers and Sisters:
The Negotiating Committee is providing this update to the AMFA Membership at Alaska Airlines. This report is the only official authorized source of negotiating communications by the Committee.
We are now two and a half months since you voiced your disappointment in the offer to integrate the Airbus (Virgin) Technicians into our group. We have since surveyed our group and analyzed the membership’s feedback. The survey and the comments received during the roadshow highlight the top three items leading to the package being rejected: 1) the additional year to the contract, 2) not enough economic incentive, and 3) disparate treatment overall compared to what the Pilot and Flight Attendant groups received for integration. We would like to thank all of you who participated in the survey.
On September 7, 2018, we had a discussion with the Company regarding the findings of the survey. We explained the issues above and the Company asked what it would take to guarantee the next tentative agreement (TA) would pass. We explained we cannot “guarantee,” but believe addressing these issues will be a positive step towards getting another TA passed. The Company did not give us any idea as to what they could do or would do to get us closer.
Last week the Company asked us to work up a proposal to present during our scheduled wage review. We have no scheduled, dedicated sessions at this time.
Your Negotiating Committee

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I have yet to see Bright but the film certainly has a bit of a divide between general audiences and critics. The movie currently sits at a 27% on Rotten Tomatoes, but Netflix claims it’s one of their most popular movies, and the streaming giant is already developing Bright 2 with David Ayer set to write and direct and Will Smith and Joel Edgerton expected to reprise their roles as L.A. cops Daryl Ward and Nick Jakoby, respectively.
Edgerton is currently doing press for his new movie Red Sparrow, and during his conversation with Collider’s own Steve Weintraub, he talked about the response to Bright and his thoughts on the upcoming sequel.
When it comes to the reaction to Bright, Edgerton is a bit harsh on critics, and makes a spurious argument that the film got “extra critical hate” because putting a blockbuster on Netflix is about “changing the landscape of the movie business”:
“All I know is what was reported, which was something like—whatever number was reported—something like 11 million that first weekend. Whatever it was, it amounted to a $100 million-plus opening weekend. But, I have to be honest, that’s considering that people don’t have to get in their car, go buy a ticket, go buy the popcorn. There’s a certain age where you can roll over and press play on the remote control. But, according to them, the numbers were there. And I think that would be supported by the wild discrepancy between the audience score and the Rotten Tomatoes aggregate score, it’s almost the inverse of Star Wars [The Last Jedi]. You’ve got critics at 93 or 92%, and the audience gave it a 50-something, and you get to Bright, which is sort of slammed by critics, but it has a 90% audience score. I think there was a little bit of extra critical hate towards it because it’s changing the landscape of the movie business, but I think Bright is maybe a movie that needs to be reviewed by public opinion rather than viewed through the highbrow prism of film criticism.”
I think that’s a little ridiculous, and you can look at the critical raves for Netflix movies like Beasts of No Nation, Okja, and Mudbound to see that critics really don’t care what platform the movie is on; it’s about evaluating the movie itself. Additionally, it’s a bit of a cop-out to cite audience scores versus critical scores when it suits you. Edgerton’s feature directorial debut The Gift has a 92% on Rotten Tomatoes, but only 75% from viewers. So which score should we use?
As for what’s cooking with Bright 2, Edgerton doesn’t have any firm details, but he’s eager to return to playing Nick and possibly seeing the story branch out beyond L.A.:
“The world is very interesting, and I think there’s a certain depth and detail to that world that’s really wonderful. I think on the one hand it’s interesting that some of the criticisms of the film is that some of the analogies about race didn’t go deep enough, and other people said it was obvious and didn’t need to go too far with it because it was there on the surface. I think there’s a lot of fun to be had, there’s more to discover with the characters. I don’t know exactly where they’re going to take it. I got the sense from David that he might take it to a new setting, which I think would be cool to see. I personally was most curious of what was happening outside of Los Angeles, and obviously the world at large is populated by similar characters and how does that affect other cities? I think it’d be awesome to have a look at that. It’s interesting where do Daryl and Nick go now that they’ve had that experience. Is Jacoby now suddenly more accepted because he went through that experience, or is he going to go back to work on Monday and have people mistreat him?
I always think the best of anything and it’s the filmmakers or Netflix or any us learn from the response to the movie—and I’m talking about the negative responses to the movie and what people out there on the street loved about the movie—I think if you take all that information it puts you in a nice spot to make a second and maybe a third movie perhaps. It’s always worth listening to the fans and the good and bad responses to it. I don’t know much, and I can tell you why I signed on for a sequel. I had a good time with the people; I had a tough time in the prosthetics for sure, but I loved playing the character. Between ‘action’ and ‘cut’, it was one of the most exciting characters I ever got to play just because of the complete freedom. I love improvising, it was my version of like playing Chunk in Goonies or Shrek or something—the big, kicked-to-the-curb, ugly, misunderstood, monster character.”
Outside his misunderstood monster role in the Bright universe, Edgerton is keeping busy as usual. He’ll next appear as a CIA agent in the spy thriller Red Sparrow alongside Jennifer Lawrence and his brother Nash Edgerton‘s comedy Gringo alongside Charlize Theron and David Oyelowo. Later this year, he’ll debut his sophomore feature, the conversation therapy drama Boy Erased, for which Edgerton once again writes, directs and stars.
What do you think about Edgerton’s thoughts on the Bright reaction? What do you want to see in Bright 2? Where would you like to see the characters go? Sound off in the comments with your thoughts.


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Diverse Recruitment Sources
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In accordance with the Proactive Recruiting Policy, departments and campus units will be required to use at least three recruitment activities within
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The opening of a brand new Trader Joe’s grocery store chain in Los Angeles took a turn after a woman was caught going on an angry rant after being asked to wear a mask. Several videos were taken of the incident and shared on Twitter by @ItsRellzWorld. In the first, the woman is already in the middle of screaming at employees, which the man who recorded the videos says came after someone asked her to leave for not wearing a mask. “Y’all, Karen is showing out in Trader Joe’s,” he says. “She does not have on a mask, and somebody said ‘Fuck you, leave,’ and she is having it out.”
— D. Giles (@ItsRellzWorld) June 27, 2020
Subsequent videos show her escalating the situation as employees appear to repeatedly ask her to leave. “You fucking pigs!” she screams, slamming her empty shopping basket down. “You’re fucking Democratic pigs, all of you!” Speaking directly to the camera, she continues to scream, claiming that she has a breathing problem and her doctor “won’t let” her wear a mask. “So anyone harassing me to wear a mask, you guys are violating federal law! Do you get that? Get that on camera!”
— D. Giles (@ItsRellzWorld) June 27, 2020
The claim of a “medical exemption” to wearing a mask has been popularized among anti-maskers lately.
Websites pushing fake “face mask exempt” cards for folks to print out and hand to store managers in order to threaten a lawsuit have been popping up over the past couple of months. While many of these cards, and many of the people rushing into stores refusing to wear a mask, cite the Americans with Disabilities Act as why they should be allowed to shop without a small piece of cloth that would help prevent others from getting sick, folks have often stepped in to correct their misconception.
Important and useful details, since we'll probably be hearing these claims of "my doctor!" and "the ADA!" from Freedom-To-Infect-Others Fighters more often. https://t.co/jzbzz8gvN3
— No more "leadership" in healthcare's pocket! #M4A (@a9ymous) June 27, 2020
But people are questioning this woman’s claim to a “medical exemption” for a number of reasons.
For someone with a ‘breathing problem’ she sure has a lot of air to waste while screaming. 🤷🏻♂
— Abel Pinedo (@knight101a) June 27, 2020
I’m a doctor and myself and every doctor friend I have literally cannot think of a reason in which a mask is contraindicated. There is zero disease process that makes wearing a face mask injurious. These cult members are insane.
— Amanda (@mandertwin) June 27, 2020
These are the same people who are totally fine with the Patriot Act.
— gpmic (@trucritic) June 27, 2020
Let’s just assume the Trader Joe’s Karen did have some sort of ‘breathing problem,” call me crazy but isn’t that all the more reason for her to wear a mask?
This would qualify as an underlying health condition, right?
— Yashar Ali 🐘 یاشار (@yashar) June 28, 2020
This crazy woman who filled out at Trader Joe's and said "I have a breathing problem" and therefore cannot wear a mask WAS LYING.
Even people with COPD can wear one.
Please, stop the bullshit and WEAR A MASK.pic.twitter.com/PY2vGw4HHS
— BrooklynDad_Defiant! (@mmpadellan) June 27, 2020
Yeah. I know disabilities can be invisible, but given the way she’s freely yelling, the fact that people have been coached to claim physical disability in order to be mask non-compliant, and the way she’s clearly invoking a political frame, I’m betting her lungs are fine.
— spooky stuff meads (@capnjoy) June 27, 2020
Some folks who claimed to be at Trader Joe’s when this Karen went off said it seemed as though she was looking for a fight.
While some folks said they saw the woman wearing a mask waiting in line to get into the store, and that she subsequently took it off once inside, one account, in particular, added that she “walked around with a basket, but not putting anything into it.” “Instead she was roaming the aisles and getting up in people’s faces, getting as close as possible, waiting for someone to inevitably tell her to put her mask back on,” the post reads. “And when a dude finally did — which didn’t take long I’m guessing, because she was being super aggressive — she lost it.”
My friend’s account pic.twitter.com/d7jynj0ruH
— lindseyss , MA (@lindseyss) June 27, 2020
I saw someone post earlier who seemed credibly in that area and whose past tweets were otherwise normal that she had watched the woman stand outside for a while waiting for the moment and then put nothing in her basket while shopping (which is obvious in the video too).
— Glenn Fleishman (@GlennF) June 28, 2020
The overall mood with this woman online was just pure frustration.
Masks are meant to keep others protected from the wearer, in case they have COVID-19 and don’t know it. When people refuse to wear masks, it often makes others around them, who are being conscious of everyone else, feel unsafe. Plus there’s the whole thing where wearing a mask outside of one’s home is currently a requirement in California, where the Trader Joe’s incident took place.
She cares enough about her own health to shop at Trader Joe’s, but not enough about anyone else’s to cover her dumb face. We are reaching peak entitlement.
— Steve Hofstetter (@SteveHofstetter) June 27, 2020
It's one thing to not wear a mask. It's next level to broadcast your projectile yelling particles all over the store.
— Mollie Katzen (@MollieKatzen) June 27, 2020
— 𝓡ᏋƬƦᎧ ƔƛꪑᎮᎥཞᏋ (@Retro__Vampire) June 27, 2020
I have to wear all of this for 10 hrs a day now to perform my job. We are on our last box of N95s that fit me. I had a panic attack wearing the alternative during my fit test. The more people refuse to wear masks for a grocery run, the longer I am confined to this PPE lifestyle. pic.twitter.com/7ARyAdeXy1
— squirrelmoonfever (@tamaralynn_g) June 27, 2020
— Miss I. 🔊 (@LotteVR29) June 27, 2020
Black people can't breathe when a cop kneels on their necks. White people can't breathe when someone asks them to wear a mask at Trader Joe's.
— Untucked with Jeremy Newberger (@jeremynewberger) June 27, 2020
Who knows if this Karen was eventually able to do her grocery shopping in one of those silly stores prohibiting people who ARE wearing masks from entering — or if she was actually even looking to buy groceries at all when it comes down to it. But if she was looking to pick a fight and get ridiculed online for her selfishness, then she certainly had a successful day out on the town.

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Korn Bring Legendary Show to The Piece Hall
Alt-metal pioneers, KORN are bringing their explosive live show to The Piece Hall, Halifax.
The US band who gave the world such anthems as Blind, Falling Away From Me, Here To Stay, Freak On A Leash, Twisted Transistor, Make Me Bad and Did My Time, and more headline Live at The Piece Hall on Friday 9 August.
KORN will be joined on the night by very special guests Loathe.
Tickets go on sale at 10am on Friday 10 January via ticketmaster.co.uk
Since forming in California in 1993, KORN have sold 40 million albums worldwide, collected two Grammys, toured the world countless times, and set many records in the process that will likely never be surpassed.
They have continued to push the limits of the rock, alternative and metal genres, while remaining a pillar of influence for legions of fans and generations of artists around the globe.
KORN join Tom Jones, Nile Rodgers & CHIC, Sheryl Crow, Underworld, Rick Astley, Jess Glynne, Fatboy Slim, PJ Harvey, Underworld, Tom Odell, Pixies, IDLES, Richard Ashcroft, McFly, Loyle Carner and Status Quoamong the headliners for Live at The Piece Hall 2024 – with many more to be announced.
The Halifax show is co-promoted by The Piece Hall Trust and Cuffe and Taylor.
Nicky Chance-Thompson MBE DL, CEO of The Piece Hall Trust, said: “I wasn’t sure the courtyard could get any wilder after some of last year’s explosive shows – but if anyone can equal that energy it’s this band!
“I can’t wait to see fans going crazy to the true pioneers of that alt-metal sound loved by so many. Halifax, get ready to rock!”
For tickets and more information about Live at The Piece Hall 2024 please visit thepiecehall.co.uk


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KUALA LUMPUR (Aug 30): Hong Leong IB (HLIB) Research has maintained its “hold” rating on QL Resources Bhd at RM5.07 with a higher target price (TP) of RM5.46 (from RM3.73) and said QL’s 1QFY23 core profit after tax and minority interests (PATAMI) of RM82.4 million (q-o-q: + 19%; y-o-y: 95%) came in above house (36%) and consensus (31%) estimates.
In a note on Tuesday (Aug 30), the research house said that save for the palm oil and clean energy (POCE) division, sales across the board picked up steadily with the full resumption of economic activities.
“We take comfort on marine products manufacturing (MPM) recovery after the drag registered in 4QFY22.
“Note that the MPM segment has historically dubbed as the earnings driver which contributes about 60-63% of the group's pre-tax profit,” it said.
HLIB revised its FY23/24 earnings projections for QL upwards by +15%/+10% and introduced FY25 figures.
“After earnings adjustment, our TP increases from RM4.73 to RM5.46 based on an unchanged 50 times P/E of FY23 EPS.
“We opine QL’s current risk reward profile to be fair while its rich valuation is justified by its status as a key consumer staple,” it said.


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Social Security: By the Numbers
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The National Center of Meteorology (NCM) has warned that a number of Saudi Arabia’s regions will be affected on Monday by winds that may lead to the possibility of a dust storm.
The NCM had earlier expected that the northern border regions, Al-Jouf and Hail would be affected on Sunday by winds of up to 55 km/h. Qassim, Riyadh and the Eastern Province may be affected on Monday by the winds that have hit the regions of the Kingdom on Sunday. Tabuk, Makkah and Madinah may be affected by raised dust and high waves.
The Kuwait Meteorological Department has stated that May has become the month with the highest number of sandstorms recorded in 30 days in 25 years.
A dense dust storm is forecast to hit Kuwait on Monday, raging from the west and rolling toward inner regions in the country, amid very low visibility, forecast at less than 1,000 meters. Northwesterly winds of 60 km/h will cause high waves at sea. The dust is expected to prevail throughout the night until the early hours of Tuesday.


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Constellation tattoos are done in a simple yet stylish way using only line- and dotwork techniques. To spice it up, tattoo artists add colors or different symbols such as the moon, stars, flowers, animals representing a certain zodiac sign, etc...
There is definitely room for being creative - everyone can customize their constellation design as they please. The whole galaxy can be the source of inspiration... stars or zodiac signs - you pick!
Here is a small collection of my favorite constellation tattoos that, perhaps, will give inspiration for your next minimalistic tattoo.
In case you are not that into minimalism, have a look at our previous article 15 Enchanting Constellation Tattoos.


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Widely regarded as the most popular classical voice in the world, legendary Italian singer Andrea Bocelli will be performing with the SF Symphony and Chorus at San Francisco’s new Chase Center, December 5. Kicking off his 2019 tour, this performance marks Bocelli’s first-ever appearance in the city of San Francisco and his debut with the SF Symphony. Experience Bocelli fill the arena with his soaring arias, famed love songs, and other masterpieces from his unmatched repertoire, along with music from his newest release and Billboard chart-topping record Sì.
The Chase Center, a new 18,064-seat privately financed sports and entertainment arena in San Francisco’s Mission Bay neighborhood, is the new home of the back-to-back NBA Champion Golden State Warriors.
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"People call me a socialist sometimes, but you’ve got to meet real
socialists, and you’ll have a sense of what a socialist is. I’m talking
about lowering the corporate tax rates. My healthcare reform is based on
the private marketplace. Stock market is looking pretty good last time I
checked... My simple point is this. If we can get beyond the tactical advantages
that parties perceive in painting folks as extreme and trying to keep an
eye always on the next election, and for a while at least just focus
on governing then there is probably seventy percent overlap on a whole
range of issues." - Barack Obama, November 19, 2013
Yesterday, at the annual Wall Street Journal
CEO Council meeting, Barack Obama showed just what a master of deception he's been since he was a Senator by coming clean with the well-heeled. In his 46 minute-long speech, he essentially, as Jason Easley points out, "shreds Republicans" for calling him a Socialist. But, while I've admired my colleague Mr. Easley for years, as with virtually all liberals on "the professional left", he completely misses the point. And he begins doing this by failing to note that Obama has done far, far more for the 1% than he has for the bottom 99%.
Basically, what Obama had said was, "Hey, guys, I'm one of you! Look at all I've done for you and this is how you pay me back?" No doubt, the upholstered cellulite in attendance walked away at the end of the President's 46 minute-long speech still clinging to their beliefs that Mr. Obama is still redder than Karl Marx's asshole.
But Easley falls into the same trap as even more misinformed people who are cheering this man on as if he was the greatest thing to come out of Hawaii since Don Ho. Spend just five minutes on Twitter or Facebook and you'll be inundated with all sorts of clever little memes such as this one:
Yes, very clever, OccupyDemocrats.com. Give yourselves a cookie or a high energy bar if you can still buy one with your EBT card.
Because Obama could've stretched his 46 minute-long speech into an hour and a half detailing what else he's done for Wall Street, like packing the Treasury
Departments with many of the Goldman Sachs and other bankster and lobbyist scumbags that made the 2008 bailout "necessary" according to Wall Street and its lobbyists, jittery economists and panicked Democrats whose re-election chances depended heavily on keeping the money spigots flowing. Section 6 of the TARP bailout
stipulates that a future Treasury Secretary is authorized to buy up to another $700,000,000,000 in corporate debt should the need arise again.
And, knowing those charmingly incorrigible
Wall Street types that Obama addressed yesterday afternoon, the need will
The president then could've stretched his speech further by detailing all the things he has not done for Main Street. While the TARP bailout's Section 6 essentially immunizes Wall Street banks and other white shoe firms from comeuppance for their misdeeds, this past November 1st, both the executive and legislative branches allowed the 2009 ARRA (or Recovery Act) expire with nary a word from either branch. This triggered $5,000,000,000 in cuts
to the food stamp, or SNAP, program.
While this was screamed about by a few liberals, what was completely lost on the professional left was the other losses that were automatically triggered when ARRA died a quiet, ignominious death. ARRA also subsidized up to two thirds of COBRA payments
that newly-unemployed people would have had to ordinarily pay with no income. And anyone who's ever been forced into a COBRA plan on losing their job knows just how outrageous the rates are. They might as well be handed a real cobra by HR directors during their exit interviews that would at least get the farce over with. This is an irony that's consistently and invariably missed, that this so-called oversight is coming from a man being lauded to the heavens for a vastly imperfect health care bill that, as he reminds us, is based on the free market and not human need and economy.
Obama could've continued by reminding the well-heeled and gentry that always seems to land on the necks of the poor and middle class that his so-called jobs czar
, Jeffrey Immelt, is also the CEO of GE, a company that has outsourced so many American jobs
overseas and to "right to work" states it would make Mitt Romney's Bain capital dollar-green with envy. Or that, Jamie Dimon, the Chairman of the criminal syndicate JP Morgan that launders drug money
and steals homes
, an organized crime entity guilty of such outrageous crimes that even a wet-legged milksop like Eric Holder had to go after them and fine them $13 billion
, regularly sits in on Cabinet meetings with President Marx. Or that these same corporations have benefited not from Obama's lowered corporate tax rate but have paid no
taxes at all since anyone can remember.
Yes, he's done wonders for Wall Street, sure. And, yes, it's the height of absurdity to try to claim that the black Gordon Gecko is a Socialist and incredibly ignorant that the Tea Party holds up signs that say, "Get your gubmint hands off our Medicare!" Absolutely, Mr, Easley, no doubt about it. And, sure it's sheer chutzpah for the GOP that wanted to impeach him for a Dow Jones Average that was under 8000
on inauguration day still wants to impeach him even though the Dow has literally doubled under his administration.
Too many people are harping on these facts while ignoring that unemployment is still way too high for a nation whose financial nerve center is still so prosperous. Too many people are cheering on the president and the unprecedented fortunes of the rich and not enough are listening to my senior senator Elizabeth Warren when she reminds us that the "Too Big to Fail
" banks on Wall Street are now 30% bigger
than they were before TARP or how a greater percentage of the nation's wealth is concentrated in the hands of these banks. Not too many liberals want to be reminded by Warren that if the minimum wage kept pace with production over the last three decades, it would be $22 per hour
. Bernie Sanders' jeremiads against the 1% are little more than political entertainment for most people and Alan Grayson's snide comments in the well of the House a financial wonk's standup routine.
Instead, the president is busting a nut to make sure that not only do these banks not get prosecuted for inspiring the global financial meltdown of five years ago, they continue going unpunished. And Obama is timidly proposing raising the minimum wage to a mere $9 an hour (which made even Forbes
, for fuck's sake, the happy, shiny twin of the Wall Street Journal
, ask aloud, "Why is President Obama So Stingy?"), which is still below the poverty line even at 40 hours a week, which no one gets a chance to work, anymore.
Liberals are also blithely unaware or stubbornly insensible to the fact that unemployment still remains deceptively high (when one factors in the long-term unemployed who have stopped looking for work and the underemployed, that stubborn 7.3% unemployment figure
(.pdf file) jumps to 17% or more). It also ought to be noted by liberals who pride themselves on their financial wonkiness that, according to the BLS, "(t)he civilian labor force was down by 720,000 in October."
That's largely thanks to the captains of industry that Obama addressed yesterday who are keeping a keen eye on third world countries whose inhabitants would love to have those US jobs and would, and do, toil at them for pennies on the dollar. Yet, all Obama has done is cluck his tongue from time to time during this outsourcing orgy that make the national work force hemorrhage jobs by the millions each year while still collecting massive tax breaks while shipping our job overseas by the millions (something else Obama clucks his tongue about but not as often).
And I'm only talking about the economy. I haven't mentioned drone strikes or the NSA basically spying on the entire planet earth without its permission and costing us our credibility. I also haven't mentioned the Transpacific "Partnership"
that Obama's been working on almost from Day One which would essentially hand over our human rights to the grasping hands of corporations and would be more ruinous than a dozen NAFTAs or CAFTAs.
Bottom line: We have become the Tea Party. We have been duped into cheering on the continued and record-setting fortunes of Wall Street just as we cheered on two years ago the long-dead Occupy movement that had ineffectively protested corporate greed that's being enabled more effectively by Obama than Bush ever had. The difference is the ignoramuses of the Tea Party can claim they were blinded by Koch Brothers money and propaganda. We cannot.
So, when will it be time for liberals to wake up and begin wondering why over 11,000,000 of their fellow Americans are still unemployed, why we're still losing over 700,000 private sector jobs a month for months running, why people on SNAP have to make do with five billion dollars less, why people on COBRA are now forced to drop their obscenely expensive health coverage before Obamacare kicks in on New Year's Day, why he still thinks raising the minimum wage from $7.25 to $9 after all these years is a wonderful compromise despite it not coming close to keeping pace with the consumer price index since the minimum wage was last raised in 2007
, why he froze pay for federal workers for two years
solid, why he was the one who actually proposed cuts to Social Security
and Medicare for absolutely no reason and why student loans doubled to nearly 7%
. It's not as if any of these facts are ill-informed opinions. Obama came right out and said it yesterday: "I'm on your side and your side will win before theirs, any day."
These are questions few on the professional left ask and that fewer can honestly and unflinchingly answer.


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Qwixx is a quick-playing dice game with no waiting as even when you're not the active player, akin to bingo but with a twist. This is a German game, English rules are avaiable on boardgamegeek, or I can email them to you
Qwixx Gemixxt Zusatzblock
Qwixx gemixxt consists of two new blocks of scoresheets for use with Qwixx. The rules of the game remain the same — with players trying to mark off as many numbers as possible from left to right — but one pad has the colors split across the rows of numbers while the other pad has the numbers in non-numerical order
Qwixx is a quick-playing dice game with no waiting as even when you're not the active player, akin to bingo but with a twist. Qwixx XL is a larger Edition. This is a German game, English rules are available on boardgamegeek
Rory's Story Cubes : Actions
Rory’s Story Cubes®: Actions is the first expansion set for the Rory’s Story Cubes® range. 54 unique icons (or picto-verbs™) that depict the most important verbs (action words) to be learned in second language development.
Rory's Story Cubes : Voyages
“Far, far away...” Let every roll of Rory’s StoryCubes: Voyages inspire tales of epic adventure. This visual story generator offers non-competitive play for one or more players. Can be played alone or combined with other sets of Rory's Story Cubes®.


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Got a bit of an issue with my 1995 318ti.
Initially I had an issue with a grinding sound when my clutch was depressed. I was told that it was my thrush bearing. Reading around, it looks like it could be my throw bearing (or are they the same thing with different names). From what I understand is that I need to remove the entire gear box to replace it. Hence may as well replace the clutch and clutch plate.
I kept driving with this for a while and now the car is making a squeaking/squealing sound. Kinda similar to a slipping belt. This sound is not present all the time. The squealing sound is defiantly influenced but the depression of the clutch. The squealing sound is sometimes present at idle and depressing the clutch will dramatically increase the sound. However this sound does not go away when the clutch is not engaged. Sometimes the sound is not present at all. Sometimes it is not present at idle but will make noise when the clutch is depressed. The majority of the time some sort of squealing sound is present.
This this squealing sound due to a worn pilot bearing? Or could it be a transmission bearing? Or is it related to the Throw bearing?
What is involved in fixing this….
If you keep driving the car like that you will have to get towed or if you know how to drive the car clutch less, than that will be the only way you will get home and believe me you don't want to time starting the car and pulling off with the flow of traffic you will embarrasses yourself. the throw out bearing will give completely and you will not have any pedal action, the car will be stuck in-gear and if you come to a complete stop you have to turn the car off anyway because clutch disc in constantly pressing against the Flywheel. you can pull it into neutral to stop but will have to turn the car off to put back into first gear.


Sydney: India's leading fast bowler in the tournament Mohammed Shami today took a break from training session as a part of the recovery process after bowling full tilt in the quarter-final match against Bangladesh in Melbourne last week.
While there were some murmurs about the state of his knee, which has taken a lot of pounding on the hard Australian grounds, but team's media manager RN Baba clarified that there are no reasons for worry as far as the Bengal pacer is concerned.
"Shami is 100 hundred percent fit and is available for selection in the semi-final against Australia," Baba told
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“Gasoline prices are on the rise and Republicans are licking their chops.” Are the Republicans licking their chops? Let’s see who really is.
I see the vultures circling.
Steven Chu said, “we have to figure out how to boost the price of gasoline to the levels in Europe.” and then Obama appointed him Energy secretary.
If you put someone in charge of energy who said that he wants energy prices to rise; when those prices rise; how can you say that your opposition is licking their chops?
$12/gallon? Isn’t that too much? How will we handle that?
But it still costs $50 to fill my Chevy Voltswagon™.
Oh, a gradual adjustment.
Even with a gradual rise in prices; $12/gallon still sounds too expensive. What’s wrong with building the Keystone XL Pipeline? What’s wrong with drill baby drill? Why can’t we drill in ANWR, the California coast, and the Gulf of Mexico?
“The American People aren’t stupid. They know that’s not a plan…That’s a bumper sticker.That’s not a strategy to solve our energy challenge…You know there are no quick fixes to this problem. You know we can’t just drill our way to lower gas prices.” – Barack Obama
So, Mr. President; what’s the plan?
Algae? Will it work?
I want to help too, Mr. President. Here’s an energy source you may have overlooked: Human body fat.
“According to a much-quoted 2009 press briefing from the Centers for Disease Control, American adults collectively are hauling around at least 4.6 billion extra pounds of fat. That’s the equivalent of four trillion BTUs of energy — an impressive number, but what does it mean in practical terms? The following may give a sense. The same amount of energy would be contained in:
700,000 barrels of crude oil, or
35 million gallons of gasoline, or
nearly 15 freight trains loaded with coal.” – The Straight Dope
From where are we going to get our energy; unicorn dreams, children’s laughter, fairy dust? Just don’t make me do this:


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Haha Prepare to die!
17th October 2004
Hey guys, I have just finnished my map and it is ready for shipping, but, I "paked" it up in a PK3 with Pakscape and then put it inside my COD main folder just as it should be, I also included in the Pk3 all the texture files, arena file, and everything that the COD builder kicked out after compiling. After I had it in I started up the game and brought down the console and put in the name of my map. After it brought up the loading screen the whole game shut off, why?
People say I post too much
22nd January 2004
did it return you to the multiplayer menu of CoD/UO or did it crash to the desktop?? If it took you back to the multiplayer menu try bringing down the console and see what the error message is, if any.


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One of the Bay Area’s most literally earth-shaking events — or at least the commemoration thereof — is happening Monday: The gathering marking the 116th anniversary of San Francisco’s 1906 earthquake and fire.
For decades, city officials — this year, Mayor London Breed, former mayor Willie Brown and Fire Chief Jeanine Nicholson, among others — and hundreds of other hardy souls have met at an ornate water fountain downtown known as Lotta’s Fountain in the very early hours of April 18 to mark the anniversary.
Ranked as one of the most significant earthquakes of all time, the April 18, 1906 earthquake registered 7.9 on the Richter scale, killed more than 3,000 people, rendered about 225,000 people homeless, and destroyed 28,000 buildings. The latter was mostly the result of the fire that raged in the quake’s wake, according to the U.S. Geological Survey Earthquake Hazards Program.
In order to attend the free event, it is necessary to arise early enough to arrive at 4:45 a.m., an experience that might be equally earth-shaking for some. After a round of speeches, a wreath will be laid at the fountain on Market Street at the junction of Kearny, Third and Geary streets.
“This year’s Lotta’s Fountain wreath will be dedicated to the memory of those who died 116 years ago and those who lived to rebuild San Francisco from the ashes,” said Lee Houskeeper, who has produced the 1906 commemoration event for the last 34 years.
Legend has it that Lotta’s Fountain was where the city’s stunned populace gathered to search for lost loved ones and signs of hope after the earthquake. The quake itself is estimated to have lasted no more than one minute; but it ruptured gas lines in the city, and leaking gas was the catalyst for more than 30 fires that destroyed the financial district and the city center.
At 5:11 a.m., the crowd will observe a moment of silence. As is not unusual with historic events, the exact time the quake hit is somewhat less than universally agreed upon; the USGS puts it at 5:12 a.m., for example.
After that, at 5:40 a.m., the event will move to 20th and Church streets at Dolores Park for the annual gilding of the fire hydrant said to have saved the city’s Mission District.
The official celebration did not take place in 2020 due to the pandemic. The event did take place in 2021.


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Spleen (Gr. σπλήν), the largest of the vascular or ductless glands, whose probable function is subsidiary to the process of sanguification. It is situated in the left hypochondriac region, below the diaphragm, above the descending colon, between the cartilages of the false ribs and the cardiac extremity of the stomach, to which it is united by short vessels. It is in health from 4 to 5 in. long, and 1½ in. thick, of an elongated flattened form, and about 6 oz. in weight; on the inner surface is a longitudinal groove in which are the blood vessels, posteriorly resting on the vertebral column; below, it is in relation with the left kidney and capsule, and with the pancreas behind. It is soft and spongy, and dusky red.
A portion of the Splenic Artery, its ramifications being studded with Malpighian corpuscles (from the dog). (Magnified 10 diameters).
Its external surface is covered with the peritoneum; beneath this is a coat of white fibrous tissue with some elastic fibres, from the inner surface of which extends through the entire organ a network of fibrous bands and threads, the trabecular tissue. The splenic artery comes from the coeliac axis, the trunks not anastomosing, but subdividing like the branches of a tree, to which the Malpighian corpuscles are attached as fruits on short peduncles, and ending generally in capillaries with very thin walls, passing in every direction through the organ and into the interior of the corpuscles. The veins are branched like the arteries, have no valves, and their principal stem is one of the trunks of the vena portae; the nerves form the splenic plexus, and proceed from the solar plexus of the great sympathetic; the lymphatics are few and superficial. The parenchyma consists of a homogeneous mass of colorless nucleated corpuscles and cells imbedded in a granular plasma. The splenic corpuscles, or Malpighian bodies of the spleen, are whitish spherical bodies, about 1/70 of an inch in diameter, attached to the smaller ramifications of the splenic artery.
Each corpuscle consists of a closed sac or capsule, containing in its interior a viscid semi-solid mass of cells, cell nuclei, and homogeneous substance. Each Malpighian body is covered with a network of capillary blood vessels; and small blood vessels also penetrate into its interior, through the investing capsule, and form a vascular capillary plexus in the substance of the body itself. - The precise details of the function of the spleen are unknown. It belongs to the class of "ductless glands," that is, of organs having a glandular texture but no outlet or duct, and not supplying any distinct secretion like those of the glands proper. Their purpose undoubtedly is to effect some necessary change in the blood itself, producing in their glandular tissue some substance which is appropriated and carried away by the blood vessels distributed to them. Thus the veins of these organs are supposed to serve as their excretory ducts. The spleen, though so large, is not directly essential to life, and has been several times removed in the lower animals without an immediately fatal result.
It is liable to acute and chronic enlargements in various forms of typhoid and intermittent fevers, and is sometimes excessively enlarged and solidified in the strumous diseases of infancy and childhood.

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Establishment of the Cherokee Woman’s Club, now known as the Cartersville Woman’s Club.
Cartersville Woman’s Club was formed in the late 1890’s with the original name of Cherokee Woman’s Club. It was the first woman’s club in the City of Cartersville. At that time their mission was to establish a library, to promote the Cause of Fellowship among women, Education and Charity, and all things that went to the betterment of the Community. Judge A.W. Fite granted this Charter in 1896 and at that time the Club became a part of the Georgia Federation of Women’s Clubs.
The Seventh District of the Georgia Federation of Women’s Clubs was organized at Calhoun in 1909. The Cherokee Club was one of the five original clubs. The second meeting was held in the Clubroom in August of 1910 and 14 clubs were represented at the 7th District meeting.
1928-1947 – Cartersville Service League. Efforts were made during 1928-1947 to revive the Cherokee Woman’s Club. By this time the clubhouse had fallen into disrepair and the ladies focused their efforts to raise money to successfully restore the clubhouse, however, efforts to reactivate the Cherokee Woman’s Club membership were not and the club became inactive.
In 1940 the Cartersville Woman’s Club was organized. This group took over the many responsibilities of the Cherokee Woman’s Club. They continued their volunteer efforts within the community, but in 1947 they attempted to offer their library and clubhouse to the City, however the City could not accept the offer.
In 1962 the City offered to purchase the Bill Peoples property on Cherokee Avenue, renovate the house and use it for the Cartersville City Library. This was in exchange for the Cherokee Club Building. The new facility of opened in February 17, 1963. Due recognition was given to the Cherokee Woman’s Club, Cartersville Service League and others that assisted in establishing the library.
In 1967 the name of the Club changed once again to the Cartersville Woman’s Club. The Cartersville Woman’s Club has been living the volunteer spirit through its various chapters for well over 100 years. Today, our club woman find needs in the community that need to be filled. They work with various nonprofits within the City of Cartersville to help make a difference in their community. Click here to read our entire history.
Feel free to contact us to join our club, sponsor or partner with us during special events. “Volunteerism is the vice of the people put into action. These actions shape and mold the present into a future of which we can all be proud.” Helen Dyer