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Imagine a small town on gently rolling hills covered with trees that remind you of the quaint New England towns pictured on seasonal cards. Your imagination brought you to Lake Ridge, a subdivision in Woodbridge, VA. Lake Ridge is a 4,400 acre community with 1,200 acres set aside as common ground. There are 38,000 people living in 7,000 residences that include detached homes, town homes and condominiums - all across a broad range of size and price.
Residents can participate in clubs that meet in the community centers. If you can’t find one that meets your interest, you are welcome to submit a proposal for a new club for review and approval. There are sports teams with training for youngsters. Lake Ridge has its' own youth swim team that competes throughout Northern Virginia. There are 5 pools and one Sprayground and seven tennis courts. The Fantasy Playground took 1,400 residents 4 days to assemble - it is a veritable kid favorite. Additionally, the Chinn Aquatics and Fitness Center, a year round county facility, is about 10 minutes from Lake Ridge.
Prince William County schools? There are 5 elementary schools, Lake Ridge Middle and Woodbridge High School in Lake Ridge. All of our students K through 12 complete their study close to home. Chinn Regional Library is about 10 minutes from Lake Ridge.
Lake Ridge is bordered on one side by the 2,100 acre Occoquan Reservoir. Lake Ridge Park and Marina, a county facility located in the community, has electric powered rowboats, canoes, kayaks and paddle boats for rent, a boat ramp for your boat, picnic areas, a large function tent rental, mini-golf and a 9-hole golf course which offers a First Tee training program for youngsters.
VDOT has a commuter parking lot at the Lake Ridge entrance where express commuter buses and carpools travel north to the Pentagon and Washington DC employment centers. The VRE commuter rail Woodbridge Station is about 15 to 20 minutes from Lake Ridge. There is local bus service in Lake Ridge and the Prince William County Parkway is moments away.
There are two emergency centers at the Lake Ridge entrance and Sentara Hospital is about a 15 minute drive. There is also a fully equipped county firehouse with ambulance service in Lake Ridge. There are two large neighborhood shopping centers in Lake Ridge and many others within 5 to 10 minutes. Potomac Mills, a major discount mall, is about a 10 minute drive.
There are numerous churches in Lake Ridge and the surrounding area. Lake Ridge has its' very own McDonald's, Taco Bell, Dunkin' Donuts, Baskin Robbins, Dairy Queen and other family dining options. The overall area has many restaurants. There are marinas and parks with ramps to launch your boat to the Potomac River and beyond. There are equestrian trails throughout the county and a horse boarding facility within 15 minutes. Finally, Prince William County is home to many historic sites and national parks such as Prince William Forest Park and Manassas National Battlefield Park. Our newest attraction is the National Museum of the Marine Corps.
Lake Ridge is a great place to live! I would love to show you the Lake Ridge area and the wonderful homes on the market. Call or email me today!

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Namrata Kath Hazarika | 30 Jun, 2012
Indian exporters are unable to reap much benefit from the
sliding rupee as many importers are asking for potential price discounts and
demanding to pass on the rupee depreciation benefit to them, said industry
"The rupee fall did not benefit us much as the buyers are demanding
discounts. They (importers) are creating problems such as putting penalties on
delayed shipments and creating unnecessary quality issues to get their share of
the rupee fall," said Arvind Vadhera, Chairman, Export Promotion Council
for Handicrafts (EPCH).
He added that the recession has pushed things further and has hurt their
business growth and profit margins.
Also, D. K. Nair, Secetary General, Confederation of Indian Textile Industry
(CITI) said rupee depreciation is by and large helpful to the textiles and
clothing industry since nearly 40 percent of its production is exported and the
sector has a very limited import intensity.
But, the higher cost for imported raw material and capital goods is more than
compensated by the higher rupee realisation on their exports, he added.
"In fact, there are reports that the importers are asking the exporters to
pass on the rupee depreciation benefit to them in view of the global economic
slowdown," he said.
R Maitra, Executive Director, Engineering Export Promotion Council (EEPC) also
see eye to eye with other experts on the impact of sliding rupee.
He said, "While many feel that a falling rupee is good for their exports,
they are also worried about the increasing input cost, higher import prices and
also the price discounts that is being sought by their buyers."
The Council has undergone a survey recently on the ongoing rupee fall. "We
did a survey of our members and we are receiving mixed signals," he said.
"Further, since many are unable to project the value of the rupee more
than a couple of months, many units are not seeking contracts for more than six
months. This is not a good sign since engineering exporters work on long term
contract," Maitra told SME Times.
"As the rupee is dipping sharply, they are unable to even figure out at
what rates to hedge. Apart from this, the slackening demand in the global
markets remain an area of worry," he opined.
He further said that the sector is facing immense trouble as it has made
imports costlier at the moment.
"For import intensive sectors like the auto sector, there is a cost push
effect. This coupled with high interest rates is impacting investment which is
clearly showing in the falling investment rates over the last year,"

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On Sunday, Marco Valerio broke the news that the 300-member Iipay Nation of Santa Ysabel tribe is planning to launch a real-money online poker site as early as next week.
The original announcement was made via press release, in which the tribe’s Commission Chairman David Vialpando justified the move by stating that the Santa Ysabel were “exerting its sovereign right under the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act to regulate and conduct Class II gaming from the tribe’s reservation.” While most table games are considered Class III, poker – which is a non-house banked game – falls under Class II.
As of now, Santa Ysabel’s PrivateTable.com, which utilizes the same software as U.S-facing offshore network WPN, is offering players access to a play money version of the software.
In short, PrivateTable.com is up, it’s running and it at least looks real.
Yet, given the Santa Ysabel’s shaky history in the casino industry, the current condition of the software and the inevitable legal implications it would face by going rogue, I’m just as inclined to believe that Santa Ysabel’s foray into the online gaming biz is more an elaborate ruse to satisfy its own interests, or at best a move to facilitate the passage of one of the state’s existing iGaming bills, than it is a(n) (il)legitimate attempt to generate long-term revenue as an independent online poker company.
Who is Santa Ysabel?
A post by PokerXanadu on the Two Plus Two forums, sums up Santa Ysabel previous dealings in the casino industry quite sufficiently:
“So, to sum up, a 300-member California Indian tribe, that went bust on their b&m casino earlier this year and defaulted on tens of millions of dollars in related loans from the Apache Indian tribe of AZ, is going operational this week for real-money intrastate online poker despite having no clear legal precedent or permission from the CA State or US Federal governments, using the same software platform as one of the current US-facing offshore poker networks that is operating illegally in the eyes of the US DOJ, working in conjunction with the Kahnawakee Gaming Commission who was at a minimum complicit in the AP/UB superuser scandals, and using a payment processor whose web site could have been written by almost any high school student and currently contains no method for customers to sign up for their ewallet and whose owner has been lately embroiled in a couple of multi-million dollar court judgments against one of his financial processing companies for the Indian gaming industry, which judgments he tried to dodge by filing for bankruptcy but was denied by the court.
What could go wrong?”
A few points of clarification:
The casino that PokerXanadu is referring to was The Santa Ysabel Casino, which opened in 2007 and closed this past February.
The tribe cited local government’s unwillingness “to renegotiate its financial agreement with the Tribe in the face of economic hardship” as one of the primary reasons behind the closure – a claim which County Supervisor Dianne Jacobs called “absurd.”
Santa Ysabel Casino’s closing left the tribe tens-of-millions of dollars in debt, with little means to pay it off. An attempt to declare chapter 11 bankruptcy prior to the closure was denied by the court.
Point number two: Despite its assertions, the legality of the Santa Ysabel launching a casino with servers based on its grounds is questionable at best. The Indian Gaming Regulatory Act does not address Internet gambling, suggesting that it would have to be amended before the Santa Ysabel could roll out their operation.
Along the same lines, while sovereign nations are more than permitted to accept real-money wagers within their lands, some legal experts “believe that limitations in tribal-state regulatory compacts and provisions in the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act (IGRA) limit the ability of tribes to accept wagers from off Indian lands.” This according to an email from LA-based gaming lawyer sent to industry expert Chris Grove.
The obvious point of contention here is that the Santa Ysabel are readying to offer all California natives access to its real-money poker site, not just those geo-located within the reservation’s boundaries.
In short, even though there is no specific language necessarily prohibiting the Santa Ysabel from conducting iGaming operations, there’s no clause allowing it either.
Moving on, the payment processor mentioned is the Financial Payment Network, a company no one has ever heard of and which features a website that is currently under construction. Enough said.
And finally, the Kahnawakee Gaming Commission, which acted/acts as the regulatory committee for just about every online poker site that operated in the United States despite being in violation of the UIGEA, was in fact likely involved in the super user scandal that saw Absolute Poker and Ultimate Bet steal millions from its customers.
Given this, it’s hard to place any weight into Santa Ysabel’s claims that it’ll be launching a real-money poker site that abides by a similar set of regulations to those set forth by Delaware’s regulatory committee by next weekend.
And I have to think that on some level, the Santa Ysabel realizes this too. Either that or its level of ignorance is unfathomable.
So what’s really going on?
A few possibilities:
- PrivateTable.com is a shady attempt by a desperate tribe to generate some sort of short-term revenue.
Given the aforementioned legal murkiness of Santa Ysabel’s supposed real-money online poker site, it’s probably only a matter of time before the tribe would find themselves embroiled in a legal battle. But until then, the tribe will be happy to generate whatever income it can.
Should this be true, the Santa Ysabel will endanger the future prosperity of the US regulated market, and give iGaming opponents just another reason to oppose its expansion – all in the name of its own preservation.
Way to go Santa Ysabel.
- The whole thing is a ruse.
California’s smaller tribes, especially those facing debt, will hardly be able to prove that they can pay a $5 million deposit.
Recognizing this, the Santa Ysabel threaten to launch its own site, and encourage other sovereign nations to the same, in the hopes that the licensing requirements are relaxed.
The Santa Ysabel’s poker offering is so grossly in violation of everything the regulated markets stands for (identification verification, strong authentication, responsible gambling etc.) that the proposed bills are amended as to be more amenable to smaller tribes.
Admittedly, this theory is a bit of a stretch, but the idea that the Santa Ysabel are merely posturing is not.
- The Santa Ysabel are doing this to facilitate the passage of an iGaming bill.
Likely not, if only because government and the state’s most influential tribal factions are already in favor of iGaming legislation, with the “bad actor” language the only true dividing point.
At best, Santa Ysabel’s announcement may encourage the Morongo and the state’s other tribes to settle their differences before other tribes go rogue. But even if the Santa Ysabel manages to launch its site by next week, its chances of drawing a significant user base are so low that it will likely not instill lawmakers with any sense of urgency.
More to the point, how would the faster passage of an iGaming bill necessarily help the Santa Ysabel?
Short answer: it wouldn’t.
But it may spark a legal conflict that eventually sees sovereign nations gain the right to legally offer online poker, and that could certainly benefit the Santa Ysabel, as it would position itself as the pioneer of an alternative gaming market. Who knows, maybe by then the tribe would be in a position to host you know, a credible site.
In either case, here’s a warning to California poker players: Don’t play on PrivateTable.com – especially if it launches under the current conditions.

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Alia Bhatt, who’s all set to grace the display in Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s ‘Gangubai Kathiawadi‘, is busy selling the movie on social media platforms. The actor lately posted a collection of beautiful images channeling her look from the movie, albeit with a contemporary contact.
Taking to Instagram, she posed in an all-white look with a splash of daring purple. The actor wore an ivory-white sari, harking back to her look within the movie trailer, the place her feisty character seems to don a pristine white sari all through.
She let her hair free — sporting it in wavy curls and with a aspect parting — and accessorised with two purple roses tucked behind her ears. Her daring purple lips matched with that of the roses’ and we like that she stored her make-up — achieved by Puneet B Saini — delicate and dewy, permitting the contrasting colors of purple and white to conflict.
The actor accessorised with a number of assertion rings and wore a pair of spherical studded gemstone earrings. The one contact of recent was her sleeveless shirt that featured chikankari embroidery and sequins.
Gangubai Kathiawadi releases later this month, during which the actor performs the eponymous fiery matriarch, brothel proprietor and politician.
What do you consider this look?

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Both drugs affect the serotonin transporter (like an SSRI) but also affect other serotonin receptors to relieve major depression. Serotonin and norepinephrine reuptake inhibitors (SNRIs) are among the newer types of antidepressant. As the name implies, they block the reuptake of both serotonin and norepinephrine.
Besides, what does a SNRI do?
Depression is associated with low levels of serotonin and norepinephrine. It is thought that SNRIs help treat depression by keeping up the levels of these two chemical messengers in your brain. They do this by stopping serotonin and norepinephrine from going back into the cells that released them.
Is fluoxetine and SSRI?
Fluoxetine, also known by trade names Prozac and Sarafem, among others, is an antidepressant of the selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SSRI) class. It is used for the treatment of major depressive disorder, obsessive–compulsive disorder (OCD), bulimia nervosa, panic disorder and premenstrual dysphoric disorder.
Do SNRI’s cause weight gain?
In fact, Meridia, a weight-loss drug, is an SNRI. Another SNRI, Effexor, has no weight-loss properties, but it is an antidepressant. This shows that tiny changes in chemical structure can have big effects on the brain.” Fernstrom also adds that Prozac, Celexa, and Lexapro do not cause weight gain.

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Eggnog is the meeting of nutmeg and booze, and what a meeting it is. To capture the essence of eggnog, the nutmeg absolutely must be freshly grated – don’t use that pre-ground dead stuff in a jar – and the booze can be dark rum (my fave), brandy or bourbon, as you
prefer. Here I’ve featured the combination in a rich cheesecake that’s idea for a holiday dinner. The crust is made with cinnamon graham crackers, and is just the thing for the rich eggnog filling. The trick to achieving a perfectly textured cheesecake – creamy and
very smooth – is two-fold. First, once you’ve made the cake batter, pass it through a fine-mesh sieve right into the crust. This ensures there won’t be any little globs of undissolved cream cheese in the cake. Second, place the springform pan into a slightly larger pan to insulate it from the water bath. With this trick, you’ll never have another soggy crust. So, go ahead, indulge a little. ‘Tis the season, after all.
Makes 10 servings
Cinnamon Graham Cracker Crust:
1 1/4 cups (5.3 oz oz/150 g) cinnamon graham cracker crumbs
3 tablespoons (1.3 oz/37 g) granulated sugar
5 tablespoons (2.5 oz/70 g) unsalted butter, melted
1 1/2 pounds (680 g) cream cheese, softened
1 1/4 cups (8.8 oz/250 g) granulated sugar
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
Pinch of salt
1 ¼ teaspoons freshly grated nutmeg
1/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1/2 cup (120 ml) heavy cream (or sour cream, if you prefer)
1 tablespoon (.26 oz/7 g) cornstarch
4 large eggs, at room temperature
¼ cup brandy or dark rum
Sweetened whipped cream and freshly grated nutmeg for garnish
Make the crust:
1. Position a rack in the center of the oven and preheat the oven to 350°F. Grease the bottom and sides of an 8-inch springform pan. Place the pan inside a 9-inch cake pan and set aside.
2. In a medium bowl, combine the cracker crumbs, sugar, and melted butter. Pat the mixture into the bottom and 1 inch up the side of the prepared pan. Bake the crust for 8 minutes. Set the pan on a wire rack and cool the crust completely. Reduce the oven temperature to 325°F.
Make the cheese filling:
3. In the bowl of an electric mixer, using the paddle attachment, beat the cream cheese at medium-low speed until creamy and smooth, about 2 minutes. Gradually add the sugar and beat until blended. Add the vanilla extract, salt, nutmeg, cinnamon, cream, and cornstarch and mix until well blended. At low speed add the eggs, one at a time, mixing well after each addition and scraping down the sides of the bowl with a rubber spatula as needed. Add the rum or brandy and mix until blended.
4. Scrape the batter through a fine-mesh sieve into the crust (the sieve is optional, but makes such a difference!). Place the pans into a larger pan (such as a roasting pan). Pour enough hot water into the larger pan to come about an inch up the side of the outer cake pan. Bake the cake in the water bath for 75 to 88 minutes, until the center is set, but slightly wobbly. Remove the pan from the water bath and cool the cake in the pan, set on a wire rack, completely (the cake will continue to set up as it cools).
5. Refrigerate the cheesecake for at least 4 hours before serving.
6. Before serving, top the cake with whipped cream and freshly grated nutmeg.

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James Milner has had an excellent season so far, scoring a rare Reds goal from open play yesterday, and he extended a simply incredible personal record in the process.
When Milner has been on the scoresheet in the Premier League, his side have never lost the match.
Yesterday saw him notch his 50th career goal in England’s top flight; only once has he scored a brace, meaning in the 49 matches in which Milner has scored, he is undefeated.
Across that period, he has been on the winning side 38 times – in games against Manchester United and Swansea City, for example, for Liverpool – and there have been 11 draws, including yesterdays at the Emirates.
The record stretches all the way back to 2002 when Milner made his debut for Leeds United at the age of 16 when he scored his first in the Premier League.
The Reds’ midfield does need to contribute a few more goals – and if they can be undefeated when they do score, that would be a bonus!


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We offer expert dance and fitness tuition for ages 18 months through to adults.
AQDC is a New and creative studio who are dedicated to creating a fun and professional studio space for students of all ages to reach their full potential.
For the people who simply love to dance! Making new friends and keeping fit and healthy. We are dedicated, hard working and energetic. We are motivated, inspired and encouraged. We concentrate on technique and performance but never forget that dancing is fun! Children of all ages and abilities are nurtured to progress to their personal best performer,
The Studio prides itself in providing a professioanl studio in the local area of Wigan with 8 foot mirrors in both studios with ballet barres and sprung flooring.
So if this sounds like you? You're motivated and simply love to dance? Give me a call or pop down to the studio for more information about the fun and professional classes we have to offer.
On the 25th February 2017 the AQDC held a Charity Dance event including both students and parents in the fight against cancer!
I, Miss Amelia, am so pleased to announce we raised £1,459.16 for this incredible cause and have become an Official Hope Studio with the DAC Charity based in America along with Dance Moms Maddie, Mackenzie and Jojo.
In January 2017 the Amelia Quigley Dance Company will be officially opening 'Studio Two'. The second studio will be located in the same building we are located in now and, like Studio One, will be fully equipt with Ballet Barres, Mirrors and Lighting.
The Studio will be mainly used for Tap classes and also privates.
Studio Two will be opening on Saturday 7th January!


Yes, it is what you see, that’s Junaid Trimmer with the famous saying “trimmer lao iss B**** kay **** kay baal kateinge” Junaid is seen driving the car with Waqar Zaka in the passenger seat.
So what’s going on?
Don’t be fooled by this twist, now you must be thinking all of this was a game, a play, a script which was played by Waqar Zaka to test the media and the Pakistani society.
Well to our knowledge, what all happened in the past was real, Waqar got beaten up like a street dog, ALL THAT WAS REAL
It could be a public stunt as well, a pre-planned script to be a hot topic, and we must say, you did a good job with that.
Waqar Zaka and Junaid trimmer have now sorted things out and it turns out after all the hype for the MMA fight between both of them, it’s a truce.
Here the latest video released by Waqar Zaka:
Well good for you both, less for us.


[photogallerylink id=144358 align=right]Little Miss Katy Perry is on the rebound with some new and familiar tunes for your listening pleasure. Her smash 2010 release Teenage Dream has been so very good to Katy. Producing 6 number one hits now that her latest “The One That Got Away” finally crept all the way up the charts and breaking [lastfm link_type=”artist_info”]Michael Jackson[/lastfm]’s Bad record (no big).
So it’s been hard for her to let go of even the songs that didn’t make the final ct of the album. Luckily she didn’t have to let go of them for long because she is bringing them to the light with her new album Teenage Dream: The Complete Confection. This anthology of teenage dreaming will feature the 12 original tracks from the album as well as three brand new, never-before-heard songs.
Her producer, Tricky Stewart, clued us in to the fact that Katy was reworking some songs that never made it as well as remixing ones we already knew. Confection will also include “E.T.” with Kanye West and “T.G.I.F” with [lastfm link_type=”artist_info”]Missy Elliot[/lastfm]. “This is the complete story of ‘Teenage Dream,” Perry said in a statement. “It was an incredible honor to tie the King of Pop’s Billboard Hot 100 record, but I’m moving forward and had a few things left to get off my chest. So this is the complete special edition of my album for my fans.”
Katy Perry will release Teenage Dream: The Complete Confection on March 27th.
Katy Perry “Teenage Dream”
- Are you excited about Katy’s new release or would you prefer all new music? Sound off below!


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If you're suffering from neck pain, you're not alone. Almost everyone will experience this discomfort at some point in their lives, and two-thirds of desk workers experience chronic neck pain. If you have neck pain, a chiropractor in Denver may be the best option for finding relief.
Chiropractic medicine and physical therapy often go hand in hand when it comes to health and wellness. Many people utilize these types of alternative treatments and therapies to resolve chronic pain, injuries, and other problems they may be facing. At our chiropractic office, we get a ton of recurring questions from clients new and old about the connections between physical therapy and the chiropractic practice. Should you get a chiropractic adjustment and physical therapy manipulation the same day? Would one therapy offer more benefits over the other? As a top option for chiropractic and physical therapy in Denver, we wanted to clear the air on these two topics and how they’re related.
If you’re experiencing chronic back pain or bodily pain, then a chiropractic adjustment could be exactly what you need to find pain relief. Chiropractic care involves the subtle manipulation of your bones and joints. Your chiropractor will expertly adjust your neck, spine, and other joints to promote proper alignment within the body. Chiropractic adjustments are not aggressive or rough by any means, but they are often quick. In fact, most chiropractic adjustments do not last longer than 15 minutes. This manipulation often requires fast, precise movements.
Physical Therapy Modalities
The general public is often more familiar with what they can expect at a massage appointment - more so than they are with what to expect at a chiropractor appointment. When you receive a massage, your therapist works with the soft tissue to break down edema and other aggravations that may be a source of your pain. This is done through deep, long strokes that break down the build up of fluid or tissue in the body.
While a chiropractic adjustment can help alleviate pain, sometimes it just isn’t enough to address the underlying factors and causes of your pain. In some cases, your pain may be derived from the soft tissues of your muscles, which cannot be properly addressed by chiropractic care. That’s where physical therapy can come in handy.
At Ideal Health Chiropractic, we additionally offer a number of physical therapy modalities to pair with our chiropractic care. These modalities include:
- Ultrasound therapy/Electric stimulation therapy
- Cupping therapy
- Foam rollers
- Handheld massagers
- And more
These physical therapies are commonly used to address the underlying problems in your soft tissues. And these modalities have been shown to be effective treatments for a number of conditions and pain problems.
Should You Seek Chiropractic And Physical Therapy In Denver?
Clearly both chiropractic care and physical therapy have a lot of benefits to offer you. And there is honestly no reason why you should prefer one treatment over the other. In fact, when you merge both therapies together, you’ll reap the maximum benefits possible from both treatments.
For instance, let’s assume you receive a chiropractic adjustment and e-stim therapy in quick succession. In this scenario, your skeletal system would become properly aligned once more and the pain you endure will be alleviated thanks to the electrical currents delivered directly to your soft tissue. This is essentially a one-two punch to boost your well-being and address your pain problems right at the source.
Do You Really Need A Physical Therapy Modality?
Not necessarily. On any given day, we see plenty of patients for simple chiropractic adjustments. For many people, they only need a monthly visit to the chiropractor to achieve the pain relief they need. For many others, the quick manipulation of the spine just simply isn’t enough to properly address their pain issues.
If you’re on the fence about which method will prove best for you, then you should speak with our chiropractor at Ideal Health Chiropractic. Our highly experienced chiropractor, Dr. Gregory Funk, has extensive knowledge of the human body and he will be able to properly assess your pain problems. After a quick consultation, Dr. Funk will develop a personalized treatment plan for your needs to help get your body in proper alignment and address the underlying pain problems in your muscular system. If needed, your plan will involve both chiropractic care and physical therapy. And believe us: after your appointment, you will notice the enhanced benefits from both types of treatments as they work together to keep your body in a healthy, properly functioning state.
Schedule Your First Appointment Today
If you’re interested in leveraging the benefits of chiropractic and physical therapy in Denver, it’s time to schedule your first visit with Ideal Health Chiropractic. Book your first appointment with us today to start feeling your best.

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This thesis deals with the detection of aeroacoustic sound sources on aircraft and wind turbines using phased microphone arrays. First, the reliability of the array technique is assessed using airframe noise measurements in open and closed wind tunnels. It is demonstrated that quantitative acoustic measurements are possible in both wind tunnels. Then, the array technique is applied to characterize the noise sources on two modern large wind turbines. It is shown that practically all noise emitted to the ground is produced by the outer part of the blades during their downward movement. This asymmetric source pattern, which causes the typical swishing noise during the passage of the blades, can be explained by trailing edge noise directivity and convective amplification. Next, a semi-empirical prediction method is developed for the noise from large wind turbines. The prediction code is successfully validated against the experimental results, not only with regard to sound levels, spectra, and directivity, but also with regard to the noise source distribution in the rotor plane and the temporal variation in sound level (swish). The validated prediction method is then applied to calculate wind turbine noise footprints, which show that large swish amplitudes can occur even at large distance. The influence of airfoil shape on blade noise is investigated through acoustic wind tunnel tests on a series of wind turbine airfoils. Measurements are carried out at various wind speeds and angles of attack, with and without upstream turbulence and boundary layer tripping. The speed dependence, directivity, and tonal behaviour are determined for both trailing edge noise and inflow turbulence noise. Finally, two noise reduction concepts are tested on a large wind turbine: acoustically optimized airfoils and trailing edge serrations. Both blade modifications yield a significant trailing edge noise reduction at low frequencies, but also cause increased tip noise at high frequencies. Nevertheless, it is demonstrated that using trailing edge serrations wind turbine noise can be halved without adverse effects on the aerodynamic performance.
|Qualification||Doctor of Philosophy|
|Award date||4 Sep 2009|
|Place of Publication||Enschede|
|Publication status||Published - 4 Sep 2009|


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Thomas Robert Ward deposited Coloniality and the Rise of Liberation Thinking during the Sixteenth Century on Humanities Commons 2 years, 6 months ago
This book delves into the inadequately explored, liberative side of Humanism during the late Renaissance. While some long-sixteenth-century thinking anticipates twentieth-century Liberation Theology, a broader description is simply “liberation thinking,” which embraces its diverse, timeless, and sometimes nontheological aspects.
Two moments frame the treatment of American colonialism’s physical and mental pathways and the liberative response to them, known as liberation thinking. These are St. Thomas More’s Utopia, published in 1516, and the demise of Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala in 1616, who had just completed his thousand-page Nueva crónica y buen gobierno. These works and others by Erasmus and Bartolomé de las Casas trace the development of the antihegemonic idea of human liberation in the face of degrading chattel and encomienda slavery as well as the peonage that gave rise to the hacienda system in the Americas. Catholic humanists such as More, Erasmus, Las Casas, and Guaman Poma developed arguments, theories, and even theology that attempted to deconstruct those subordinating structures.

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This Means War: $1K Reward Offered for Info on the Heathens Who Vandalized Pearland's Football Field
The Rig, damaged.
Photo via KTRK
Messing with The Rig? Have people no sense of decency these days?
The Rig, which is what they call Pearland High School's football stadium, has been attacked by persons who somehow do not hold Pearland football in the high esteem it has earned.
We're thinking someone from Friendswood.
The Texas-map logo in the center of the field has been partly torn up -- which means these people hate Texas, too. Note to police: Look for any recent Oklahoma immigrants living in Friendswood.
No damage estimate has been given out, but the sacrilege will not be taken lightly: An anonymous donor has offered $1,000 for information leading to the conviction of the culprits.
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They comprehensively failed to agree on anything at all
Kitty Miv, Editor
27 June, 2013
Kitty's Kountry Rankings are below, with a description of how they are kompiled. This week, as every week, I give out three Encomiums to countries which have done Good Things, and award three Execrations for countries which according to my highly personal and partial views have done Bad Things.
Goody two-shoes the British Virgin Islands (offshore? moi?) jumped smartly onto the G8 bandwagon, saying that anyway it had been doing all the right things all along. It's pretty easy to say that you agree with everything when nothing was said, which was the case at David Cameron's summer country house party, where they comprehensively failed to agree on anything at all. I'm sure they all had a lovely time doing nothing in the hazy sunshine, and they didn't even have to stay up all night arguing. Shamefully, I don't have any gossip for you; WAGs do get to come along on these affairs, and there is a kind of alternative social program for them, but apart from the anodyne photo shoots outside Harrods you'd need your own spy satellite to have any chance of getting real dope on the goings-on, and you'd end up as a lifelong refugee in a hotel in Hong Kong if you tried. In fact the BVI, along with other ex-Empire specks of rock, had a good week in public perception, with a report from venerable think-tank the Institute of Economic Affairs lauding their contribution to the UK's economy, and calling the Government's attitude "hypocritical," which it certainly is. The usefulness of "tax havens" is exemplified by Labuan another ex-British speck of rock which once was a bug-infested coaling station, and now plays a symbiotic role in Malaysian financial growth, and is involved more widely in East Asia. Oh, but how we need another word to describe tax havens, shorn of the accumulated political chaff that sticks to them: IOFCs (International Offshore Financial Centers) made a brave try, but it has the "O" word in it, which disqualifies it. Do you like AFTICs? Ancillary Financial Trading and Investment Centers. They do nothing but grow, anyway, both in number and in scale, despite the mounting wall of hysterical anti-AFTIC propaganda, which says more about the desperate straits of Western finance ministers than it says about the AFTICs. Notice that you never hear the Prime Minister of Malaysia, or for that matter China's leaders, attacking Labuan as an unacceptable excrescence.
While Rome burns, Cameron castigates and the G8 goes wool-gathering, in a more business-like part of the world governments continue to reduce corporate taxes, this week specifically in Vietnam, which is heading for a 20 percent rate by 2016. To be fair to Mr Cameron, this will only be the same as in the UK. Vietnam doesn't shine as a beacon of democracy or liberalism, remaining, like China, a one-party state, but it is now relentlessly capitalist. Anyway, that's not why the 20 percent rate is so interesting: 20 percent, which is less than half the individual tax rate for most reasonably well-off individuals in most parts of the world, is getting intruigingly close to zero, and that is where it will end up, in the foreseeable future. Putting the AFTICs out of business? That's a tough call to make. They will have had plenty of time by then to assemble a critical mass of capital and professional competence, and will be much nicer places to live than densely populated capitals such as Beijing, Paris, Sao Paolo or Toronto, and for the most part warmer as well. That's if you are allowed to live there most of them have fairly high barriers to entry for individuals. And that's an issue for them, since if they want to fight the established centers on equal terms, they will have to attract large numbers of professionals, and they are mostly too small to do that successfully without becoming uncomfortably over-crowded.
I was going to give France two cheers for improving the access process for SMEs for its CICE tax credit, until I realized that they were only doing it because their flagship project is actually not working, with a mere 5,000 firms having applied for the advance credit, to a magnificent total of EUR700m. The scheme is supposed to generate EUR25bn in total savings for businesses. Probably the process is too bureaucratic. The Government claims that a surprisingly large number of small firms are applying, but if that's the case, why change the terms? So I was going to leave France alone, until the Government announced that it was expanding its black-list of AFTICs, meaning that the EU's parent/subsidiary Directive would be suspended for firms with subsidiaries in AFTICs if they didn't immediately consent to automatic information-sharing (not yet the law, by the way), and they would pay a 55 percent withholding tax. Ouch! Clearly the French Government thinks that AFTICs are a blot on the landscape, and indeed it has said it wants to exterminate them. At least Mr Cameron doesn't believe his own propaganda; but the French do!
Hungary continues on its perverse path of increasing taxation, despite recommendations to the contrary by the IMF and the European Commission (on the right side, for a change). In January, the Commission encouraged the government to review its increased reliance on revenue side measures, and, in particular sectoral taxes. These, the Commission warns, are "likely to be harmful for business confidence, economic growth and employment, not just in the short run, but even more so in the medium and longer term." Such sectoral taxes have been used by the Hungarian Government to extract additional revenue from the telecommunications, banking and retail sectors, and it's just these that are now being increased, even. The root of the problem, apart from the absence of belt-tightening measures, which are never mentioned, is the failure of the Financial Transactions Tax to generate anywhere near its intended level of receipts. Hungary, along with France and Italy, rushed to impose an FTT ahead of the EU's 11-country version due to be implemented next year, but now probably deferred at least until 2015. All three countries have seen their FTTs fail to perform as expected, but this doesn't deter the European Parliament, of course, which this week proposed "enhancements" to the tax which would actually worsen it in various ways, including a highly illiberal and probably illegal suggestion that owners of securities would lose title to them if the tax was not paid. We should ship them lock, stock and all 754 smoking barrels to Belarus.
The East African Community member nations, Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania and Rwanda, seem to be firmly wedded to the "tax and spend" model of fiscal governance, using their communal June budget to raise taxes on trade, transport, gaming and minerals. It's not that easy to get reliable figures for government finances in that region, but in Kenya, for instance, the deficit is 7.9 percent of GDP and debt is about 55 percent. Those figures don't look that scary when set alongside European figures; but these are undeveloped countries without substantial indigenous wealth, so they are highly dependent on trade and exports, and those sectors ought to be sacrosanct, instead of which the governments seem to be milking them to support ever-increasing spending. "To fund growing infrastructure and economic development expenditure," says the hand-out, blandly. The perennial problem in Africa is corruption, of course, and many recent reports have emphasized the damage that is being done to development by rent-seeking behaviour, whether official or private (and it's often hard to discern the difference). Just when Africa has started to drag itself out of post-colonial desuetude, it would be a catastrophe if runaway government was allowed to spike progress. The signs are worrying.
Kitty's Encomiums and Execrations
Methodology: each week (this is the 58th) two or three countries are given encomiums and two or three are given execrations. Those are the entries below with descriptive links. In the following week, each encomium counts as + 1 for that country, and each execration counts as 1, being added to that country's existing score. Over time, therefore, a ranking will build up for each country, and further countries will join the listing. Germany is on + 2, since in the second week it had an execration and in the first week it had an encomium, leaving it at neutral; then it had an execration in week four, thus dropping to 1, and another one in week six, dropping to 2; finally in week 13 it got something right, so it went back up to 1; then in week 16 it gained a further star, so then it was in neutral territory until week 23 when it dropped back to minus one, but reverting to neutral territory in the following week, then dropping to minus one in week 50, and back up to plus one in week 51, then to plus two in week 52.
The rankings are intended to be a proxy for business friendliness; evidently they are highly partisan, but as time goes by they are becoming useful for decision-making. For any country in negative territory, you should think carefully before starting a business there.
BVI top of the class
Vietnam cuts tax
And Kitty's Execrations:
East African Community loves tax
France ices the cake
Hungary still hungry
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One of the last posts Bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamato wrote before he disappeared made a direct reference to the emerging story of WikiLeaks."The project needs to grow gradually so the software can be strengthened along the way. I make this appeal to WikiLeaks not to try to use Bitcoin. Bitcoin is a small beta community in its infancy. You would not stand to get more than pocket change, and the heat you would bring would likely destroy us at this stage." he wrote in 2010.
"It would have been nice to get this attention in any other context. WikiLeaks has kicked the hornet’s nest, and the swarm is headed towards us." Satoshi would add later on, before vanishing, leaving behind one of the most enduring mysteries of our times.
Julian Assange and WikiLeaks would agree. They would establish a payments channel in Bitcoin on June 14, 2011. This was after the price had boomed and a growing community of miners and users started gathering, but not before the same political pressure that caused major financial institutions to submit to censure could be applied to the nascent Bitcoin community. The Bitcoin WikiLeaks would receive after would, in Julian's words, "[see] us through the extralegal US banking blockade."
WikiLeaks, at the time, had just been kicked off of major payment platforms for posting confidential military information, including a video that showed civilian casualties, and a detailed log of the Afghan War similar in scope to the Pentagon Papers. Paypal, under mounting pressure, would freeze a foundation account associated with WikiLeaks that was funding the operation, claiming that "[Paypal] cannot be used for any activities that encourage, promote, facilitate or instruct others to engage in illegal activity,".
Most of the $1 million in contributions WikiLeaks received came through that Paypal account and was managed by the Wau Holland Foundation, which managed most of the funds that were coming to support WikiLeaks. Struggling under the burden of DDoS attacks on the Amazon servers that hosted its content and its domain-name service provider kicking it off (later on, Amazon would also boot WikiLeaks off of its hosting service), the Paypal freeze represented an existential risk to the fledgling WikiLeaks.
At the time, many liberal activists cheered the release of documents that undermined the Bush Administration's behavior in two long-standing wars. Meanwhile, American leadership reached out to choke any point of support for the organization. Senator Joe Lieberman reached out personally to pressure Tableau Software to drop visualization support for WikiLeaks. The Swiss bank PostFinance froze the personal account that belonged to Julian Assange. MasterCard and Visa refused to process any more transactions for WikiLeaks.
WikiLeaks turned to Bitcoin donations because it couldn't raise and store funds in any other manner. Bitcoin and WikiLeaks became somewhat intertwined, early fledging movements that both had their roots in the cypherpunk community. Bitcoin funding allowed the organization to continue and to post, among other things, secret files about Guantanamo Bay, secret correspondence from the Syrian government, Saudi Arabian diplomatic cables, and the intellectual property component of the Trans-Pacific Partnership deal, which had been negotiated in secret up until then. WikiLeaks would also then publish internal CIA documents talking about how the agency can hack into smartphones, routers, computers and internet-enabled devices such as smart TVs.
And at the very end of the 2016 Presidential Election Campaign in the United States, WikiLeaks would publish John Podesta's emails, drawing the ire of many of the same liberal activists who had cheered it nearly a decade ago.
Much of this may not have been possible without the Bitcoin donated to WikiLeaks. Julian Assange commented that he made close to a 50000% return on Bitcoin as a direct result of the US government imposed financial blockade on WikiLeaks. He would also go on to opine that it was the "real Occupy Wall Street", referring to how Bitcoin could displace the same financial-political banking institutions protesters were furious about.
WikiLeaks saved an emerging Bitcoin community from excessive political pressure and heat its creator did not think it would survive. In turn, Bitcoin saved WikiLeaks from plunging into financial dissolution thanks to a US-based financial and services blockade that looked to tear it down, a legacy it continues through Bitcoin donations to Julian Assange's legal defense fund.
Julian Assange and WikiLeaks can be criticized for numerous things, from a certain cruelty to those working earnestly with the American state to achieve reform in their own states -- from Afghans who worked with the American forces on the ground to Tibetan activists who engaged in dialogue with embassy officials --to an array of biases on which documents it chooses to publish.
The fact remains that for those who believe in the fundamental tenet of true net neutrality and non-violent content free from censorship through business incentives or through government force, WikiLeaks is the Pentagon Papers of our age, the trial case that will define how wide Internet freedom truly stretches. And in this effort, Wikleaks has saved Bitcoin and been saved by Bitcoin in turn.


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Quench Your Thirst with the Living Water
First Lesson: Genesis 12:1-8; Second Lesson: Romans 4:1-5, 13-17; Gospel Lesson: John 4:5-26
Our Savior found us when we were lost and dying of spiritual thirst and now offers us to drink continually from his living waters, a drink that refreshes our very souls.
Sermon Message: Copyright 2020, Prince of Peace Lutheran Church, Fairport NY
Bible readings from: THE HOLY BIBLE, NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION, NIV Copyright 1973, 1978, 1984 by Biblica, Inc. Used by permission. All rights reserved worldwide.

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We don’t see short term rentals affecting affordable housing in Daytona Beach. The vast majority of wanna be vacation rentals are 1) rooms or apartments in private homes where the owner would not ever rent full time 2) vacation homes that are empty part of the year and the owner wants to rent when they are not using it or 3) run down, vacant properties rehabbed by enterprising individuals. None of these units would ever be in affordable housing inventory.
In fact, short term rentals have in some cases made homeownership possible, with the extra income allowing an owner to make ends meet and pay mortgages, taxes and maintenance. This income is sometimes the difference between hanging on and losing the property to foreclosure.
Other than the length of stay, short term residential use should be like any other residential use. A long term tenant or an owner should be respectful of their neighbors with regard to noise, parking and garbage, as should a short term tenant.
The owner of a short term rental will probably have high maintenance standards and will very likely have one of the best looking properties on the street. A vacation rental isn't likely to be successful if it isn't well maintained.
The same thing that you would do if an owner or long term renter caused an issue. It all depends on the circumstance.
A call to the owner or owner's representative may be the best option. Vacation rental owners often provide contact information to neighbors for just that purpose. They normally want to be notified so they can resolve any complaint.
Keep in mind that most vacation rental owners are far more motivated than owners of long term rentals to make sure that neighbors are not disturbed. If a guest is renting through Airbnb or a similar platform, they are also motivated to keep their hosts happy. Hosts review guests and a guest with bad reviews will find it difficult to use the service in the future.
Maybe. But sales to new owners and long term rentals can change things also. Property owners should have the legal ability to use their property as it suits their needs.
And change can be positive. Vacant and unused properties can be fixed up and become productive. Or short term rentals might provide income for a resident owner to make improvements or stay in a property when it is otherwise not possible.
We see vacation rentals serving a different type of customer. Vacation rental visitors are families and friends that want an affordable residential experience.
They want a gathering place with separate bedrooms, multiple bedrooms and a kitchen. This is a different type of visitor than one that will stay in a hotel or even a condo. If vacation rentals are not an option in our city, these visitors will simply take their dollars elsewhere.
Tourists who can find reasonably priced, residential accommodations stay longer and spend more at restaurants, shops and other local businesses. Can we afford to ignore an entire segment of tourist business?
Our efforts center on asking the City to change zoning in SFR-5 and Residential Redevelopment areas that are not in deed restricted subdivisions or condos.
To the extent that properties are governed by associations, the City changes won't affect those rules. Each association has its own process for changing its rules and they would not be affected by the zoning change we are requesting.


How much the Allies had managed to learn about the ingenious German enemy's devilish V-2 rocket bomb was a security secret last week. But it was no secret that they believed they knew one source of its superspeedy power: its fuel. They did something about it.
In sleet-streaked weather a fleet of 400 U.S. Eighth Air Force fighters ripped out to strafe oil storage depots in the Munich area and at Hanau (near Frankfurt). To the Germans the targets were important enough to send up fightersfor the first big-scale air battle in three weeks. Results: 86 Nazi aircraft destroyed; 16 U.S. lost. The same day a fleet of 650 U.S. heavy bombers, protected by 300 fighters, flew up from Italy to the Vienna area. Again the target was rocket-bomb fuel supplies.
These were serious strategic measures against the threat that German rockets might become something more than haphazard morale and propaganda weapons of the future. Patently the Allies could see serious consequences if V-2 were not beaten down.
Whatever military intelligence might have gleaned about V2, the Allied public was given almost no inkling of what got it off the ground, what made it zip to 60-plus mile altitude, what actual damage it was doing. Launchings in The Netherlands were in sight of Allied front lines (at night there were gigantic flashes and a cometlike streak of light through the sky). Some of the rockets fizzled at about 20,000 feet, exploded behind German lines.
On the Rocket Coast. Hollanders on liberated Walcheren island told of the German's careful guarding of V-2 launchings; the enemy hustled all civilians indoors when rockets were brought to the island on long, covered truck trailers. Related the Dutch: sometimes the V-2s soared in half-circles before being sent away.
One U.S. reconnaissance pilot was astonished at finding a V-2 zooming toward his plane over Europe, close enough for him to try for a picture. But the whooshing rocket was too quick for his camera and his plates showed only V-2's trail of vapor"like a Bronx cheer in smoke."
London took it one more week. Fifteen persons were killed in one night of repeated salvos (the Germans were sending over V-1 as well as the wingless rocket). October's toll (172 civilians killed, 416 injured) was considerably less than in the early days of V-1 last summer, included an unspecified number of V-2 victims.


Paris Saint-Germain star Neymar labelled reports linking him with a move to Real Madrid as "nonsense".
Neymar, 26, has been linked with a shock switch to Madrid in the close-season despite being contracted with the Ligue 1 champions until 2022.
The Brazil international is returning from foot surgery ahead of the World Cup, but his club future remains a talking point.
However, speaking to reporters on Sunday, Neymar dismissed the rumours linking him to Madrid.
"The focus is now on the Brazilian team," he said.
"They are saying nonsense. It's not worth answering."
Neymar scored 28 goals for PSG in his first campaign with the French giants, who won Ligue 1, the Coupe de France and Coupe de la Ligue.


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Fisker Automotive CEO Tom LaSorda has quickly come to the defense of his company's Fisker Karma plug-in hybrid sports sedan after Consumer Reports reported its car stopped working after just 200 miles of use.
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And just like that, the 2013 North American International Auto Show has come and gone.
California is looking to an old friend (or foe, depending how you look at it) to help it dramatically cut greenhouse gases.
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03 Jul 2019 in GuitarThe new Catalinbread Limited-Edition Dirty Little Secret Red Mod pedal is limited to 100 units worldwide and gives you even more Plexi tone options compared to the standard edition.
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03 Jun 2019 in GuitarLimited to 73 units, Dwarfcraft's Gold Standard Eau Claire Thunder pedal has less gain and a warmer, woollier sound than the standard version. Ideal for down-tuned riffs and sludgy guitar chords?
15 May 2019 in GuitarThe updated Drone Tone MK III from Mattoverse Electronics lets guitarists add a synth drone to their guitar sound from this compact, easy-to-use pedal, which now has a tap tempo control.
15 May 2019 in SynthsKith Ruina is here to prove that Eurorack is the new rock and roll with a classic guitar tonestack of single-knob distortion and a simple EQ. Rock on.
28 Apr 2019 in GuitarDesigned by Shin Suzuki, the MXR Raijin Drive has two circuits (one drive and one distortion) inspired by two legendary pedals. But which ones? A clue: One pedal was green, the other orange...
12 Apr 2019 in GuitarThe new Way Huge Conspiracy Theory Professional Overdrive is based on the famous Klon Overdrive pedal, possibly one of the most expensive boutique pedals around. But this new clone is a lot cheaper!
05 Apr 2019 in GuitarMojotone promises that its new hand-wired, boutique combo, the BlackOut Select, will deliver some classic 1950s Fender Tweed tones and has given it a sleek, sleathy look that we like. A lot.
10 Feb 2019 in GuitarWhen does the 'Brown Sound' get too, well, brown? Guitar tone chaser Joan Segeborn has taken an old Marshall head and cabs and run them through a Variac, taking us brown sound tone adventure.
05 Feb 2019 in GuitarMany associate the "Civil War" Big Muff with David Gilmour's sound on Pink Floyd's Pulse. Now you can get closer with the Patriot MkII fuzz - without having to shell out wads on the used pedal market.
25 Jan 2019 in GuitarIbanez has collaborated with another Japanese company, boutique pedal maker Vemuram, on the new TSV808. An amalgamation of TS and Jay Ray circuits
24 Jan 2019 in GuitarA new hybrid all tube valve head designed by Suhr with Pete Thorn. The Suhr PT15 IR combines Impulse Response technology and a built-in load to make this modern-day amp super versatile.
24 Jan 2019 in GuitarThe Keeley Synth-1 is a signal-triggered synth wave generator, the DDR is a Delay, Drive and Reverb, the Fuzz Bender is a three transistor hybrid-fuzz and the Eccos is a vintage tape flanged delay!
21 Jan 2019 in GuitarTwo more Fender effects pedals have been leaked by CME. These pedals use DSP to mimic some of the company's classic amp tones and one adds a stereo rotary speaker emulator to its pedal range.
20 Jan 2019 in GuitarNexi Industries and Skunk Anansie's Ace collaborate on two new analogue signature pedals for the Nexi pedalboard system: Skunkdrive and Octavius are ready to rock!
17 Jan 2019 in GuitarIK Multimedia is launching its new AXE I/O high-end guitar audio interface at NAMM 2019 and comes with a stack of neat features to help guitarists get great recorded guitar tones.
14 Jan 2019 in StudioIK Multimedia get the tease machine working on the run up to NAMM 2019 with what appears to be the AXE I/O audio interface with some "Z-TONE" guitar tone built in.


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The New York Knicks are in the running for landing Utah Jazz star Donovan Mitchell, and if that happens then they might be able to flip a former All-Star in the process.
With the Jazz listening to offers for Mitchell, the Knicks are expected to be the frontrunners in landing him as they have the best selection of young players and picks to offer.
If the Knicks pull it off, the Los Angeles Lakers could emerge and take on Julius Randle in a reunion with their former draft pick.
According to NBA insider Marc Stein, there is a real possibility this could happen and he said as much on a Spotify Live session. Transcribed by Twitter user RichStapless, Stein cites a “plugged in” source that says trade talks could begin.
Randle Back to Lakers
The Lakers are looking to retool their roster and go on another championship run before LeBron James hits retirement, so time is running out. The Russell Westbrook experiment didn’t work out, but it looks like they might have to run it back with him unless they find some way to offload him.
One such way could be a swap for Julius Randle. Stein says if the Knicks pull off the Mitchell trade, the Lakers would open up talks with New York about bringing back Randle. Despite Randle’s four-year, $117 million extension that kicks in this season, the Lakers seem okay with paying him that for the long haul.
Randle is a consistent 20/10/5 threat, and although he regressed from his All-NBA season last year, he still put up big numbers. If he goes from being the lead option like he is in New York to being the third option, that contract could turn into a steal and his productivity won’t be under the same scrutiny.
There’s no guarantee this trade would ever come to fruition, but the door seems to be open for the possibility.
Is Randle Being Shopped?
Randle always seemed like he’d be the odd man out in a trade for the Knicks, and while players like Nerlens Noel, Kemba Walker and Alec Burks have already been traded, those contracts didn’t carry the same weight Randle’s did.
Stein argues the Knicks can’t afford to pay a bunch of players over $100 million, and bringing in Mitchell would add another player to that group.
“Keep an eye on them because the Knicks will have to look to get off salary, realistically,” Stein said. “They’re taking on [Donovan Mitchell’s] contract, they just made Brunson $100 million player, and they’re going to extend RJ Barrett. They can’t have four guys making $100 million realistically if you want any flexibility to improve the team beyond that. So that has led other teams to the belief that the Knicks would look into trading Julius Randle. And I’ve also been led to believe that Julius Randle is right on that line.”
Brunson isn’t going anywhere, Barrett doesn’t appear to be going anywhere, and that would leave Randle as the player who could be moved. Perhaps a reunion with the Lakers isn’t all that impossible.


Opinion: Breaking: Charlie Sheen demands Obama meeting on 9/11 cover-up
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Normally, when an A-/B+ celebrity issues some political pronouncement at the start of a new television season or just before a movie release, people might suspect it has something to do with publicity.
A lot of rich, pretty people speak out on causes they support at times like that and the world goes, So what?
But when someone with the gravitas of a Charlie Sheen issues a statement, anyone is forced to listen.
In an exclusive contact with the PrisonPlanet.com website, Sheen reveals 1) that he voted for Barack Obama in November and 2) that he [Sheen] has become convinced that the 9/11 attacks were an inside government job perpetrated by people inside government for inside and no doubt nefarious reasons.
The idea being that Osama bin Laden and his posse were (maybe still are?) really working for the U.S. government to help justify faraway wars. (This might also explain why the U.S. government has “so far” been “unable” to capture or kill ObL.)
Sheen apparently figures that if Obama can waste all that time talking to American schoolchildren who can’t even vote or pay $2,500 for a Democratic fundraiser yet, the president who garnered so many millions from Hollywood people ought to make time to talk with one of them. Or at least read their letter.
Just in case he doesn’t get the Oval Office confab, Sheen has published the fictional transcript of a hypothetical 20-minute conversation with Obama in which the actor instructs the president on the ins and outs of the conspiracy and presents irrefutable evidence on “that bottomless warren of unanswered questions surrounding that day and its aftermath.”
As the self-professed agent of change to believe in, Obama, Sheen reasons, should be burrowing into this obvious conspiracy to uncover the truth, unlike previous administrations.
Raising such questions about a 9/11 coverup recently cost green aide Van Jones his White House job. Or the other way around.
Oh and coincidentally, Charlie will appear today on the Alex Jones radio show to discuss his charges.
-- Andrew Malcolm
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We offer dog walking, dog boarding (crate-free at our home), pet sitting (at your home), feedings, and transportation. Additional services are listed on our website. We will take care of each pet as if our own. In order to ensure each client feels that their pet is in safe hands, we send updates on our visits.
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The Welsh National Opera return for a Spring season at The Bristol Hippodrome! (10 - 13 April 2019)Posted on: 06 Feb 2019
The Welsh National Opera has just announced details of its Spring season in Bristol! Catch breath-taking performances between 10 - 13 April 2019 at the Bristol Hippodrome. Click the links below to get your ticket.
The Welsh National Opera is preparing a fantastic operatic season of masks, monarchy and magic for its return to Bristol Hippodrome this Spring. The Opera’s Verdi trilogy continues with a new production of Un Ballo in Maschera, which will also see a revival of Mozart’s The Magic Flute and Donizetti’s Roberto Devereux.
Directed by David Pountney and conducted by Gareth Jones, Un Ballo in Maschera is an icon opera by the late composer Verdi; a tale which sees the collision of love, power and politics in a story of deception and revenge. The story unfolds around a tragic love triangle between Amelia, her husband Renato and her lover the King (Riccardo), Renato’s best friend. The King is obsessed with theatre and disguise, and this builds climactically to a masked ball in a backdrop of the growing conspiracy against him from his political and personal enemies.
With a stage-design prepped to reflect the deceit of characters, and the cast including highly regarded Welsh tenor Gwyn Hughes Jones who will sing Riccardo with Mary Elizabeth Williams as Amelia, this performance looks truly unmissable. See Un Ballo in Maschera at the Bristol Hippodrome Wednesday 10 April at 19:30.
Alongside a performance of Un Ballo in Maschera, the season will also welcome an opera loosely based on the life of Robert Devereux, the Second Earl of Essex and his close relationship with Queen Elizabeth I. Sung in Italian; the story places temper and love life at its heart. See Roberto Devereux at the Bristol Hippodrome on Friday 12 April at 19:30.
Bringing another tale of royal adventure, the Welsh National Opera is also ready to deliver a performance of Mozart’s ever-popular The Magic Flute to the Bristol stage. This Magritte-inspired production places Prince Tamino's quest to rescue a princess and find true love into a surreal, dream-like world that features an angry lobster, a newspaper-reading lion and a fish transformed into a bicycle. A witty, colourful narrative, the performance welcomes back Samantha Hay as Queen of the Night alongside other acclaimed cast members. See The Magic Flute at The Bristol Hippodrome on Thursday 11 April at 19:15 and Saturday 13 April at 15:00.
Get your tickets before they sell out. The Bristol Hippodrome is located: St Augustine's Parade, Bristol BS1 4UZ.
Kate is a second-year Philosophy student at the University of Bristol. Alongside helping to run the online side of the university's independent student newspaper, Kate regularly contributes to music platforms in the city. You can follow Kate on Twitter at @katefhutchison.

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