Slopeside Hall Plaza Design at the Frisco Adventure Park- 80% Design and Cost Estimate
Council reviewed the design of the plaza and site work that will connect the existing Frisco Adventure Park Day Lodge to the planned Slopeside Hall building at the Frisco Adventure Park, as well as the 80% design and cost estimate for the construction of Slopeside Hall this fall. Council directed staff to move forward with the design team to produce 100% construction documents for all elements of the project, which include the new building, renovations at the Day Lodge, a new tube storage structure, and the site work. However, Council asked staff to revisit the remodel of the kitchen at the Day Lodge to ensure that the new design supports the intended use and goals of the Day Lodge.
During the December 14, 2021 Council meeting, Council discussed the updated Slopeside Hall design development plans, including value engineering options for the building and site design, a review of the sustainability and energy efficiency goals for the project, and feedback from the Planning Commission’s sketch plan review. During that meeting, Council directed staff to stay with the original vision for the building, rather than reducing the footprint, in order to be able to better serve community youth programs and camps, and to pursue a net-zero energy design for the Slopeside Hall Building.
The presented 80% design features a modified fire lane design to reduce the required grading and overall cost, and takes the Slopeside Hall building above the International Energy Conservation Code (IECC) requirements by featuring solar panels and a Variable Refrigerant Flow HVAC system to achieve net-zero impact.
Paid Parking at the Frisco Bay Marina
Council supported a contract with the Interstate Parking Company for paid parking services at the Frisco Bay Marina and parking enforcement on Main Street to be considered for approval during the April 26, 2022 Town Council meeting. Paid parking will be implemented from Memorial Day weekend to Labor Day weekend.
Under the new parking policy:
- Parking rates will remain consistent among all four Marina lots as follows:
- First 30 minutes always free, then $.75/half hour with a $10.00 maximum on Mondays to Thursdays from 10:00am to 5:00pm, and $.75/ half hour for the first 3 hours, $2.50 a half hour thereafter to a maximum of $15.00 on Fridays through Sundays and holidays.
- Overnight parking will still be available for boaters.
- A limited number of season parking passes will be available (up to 25% of available spaces), or 80 passes, with priority given to seasonal rack, slip, and mooring customers, on a first-come, first-served basis.
Availability of parking at the Marina has been identified as a major concern due to a substantial increase in visitors over the years. To alleviate the stress on the parking areas by encouraging visitors to use alternative modes of transportation when possible, and to limit time in spent in parking spaces, Council discussed implementing a paid parking system at the December 14, 2021 Council meeting at the Marina beginning with the 2022 summer season.
The Interstate Parking Company will provide implementation of paid parking at the Marina through a revenue share agreement during the height of the Marina’s operating season, and will enforce parking time limits on Main Street for a fee of $1,149 per month during the other months.
Housing Helps- In Town Water Rates
Council supported an amendment to Town Code that would allow current out-of-Town water customers who are adding a new deed restriction to an existing property to qualify for in-Town water rates rather than pay the double rates normally charged to customers outside of Town limits. The request came from a property owner with an interest in participating in the Housing Helps program in a subdivision adjacent to the Town of Frisco. The amendment would specify that Town Council could approve such a request on a case-by-case basis, only for affordable housing projects.
Over the last several months of workforce housing discussions, Town Council has provided direction to staff to identify opportunities to facilitate and support additional workforce housing properties. Frisco’s Housing Helps program has been gaining momentum and interest since its adoption in 2019. Further amendments in June 2021 and March 2022 have increased the availability of the program to more property owners, and added the option to partner with Summit County on Housing Helps deed restriction purchases.
Changes to Unified Development Code to Facilitate Workforce Housing Projects
Based on Town Council’s direction to staff to identify opportunities to facilitate and support additional workforce housing properties, Council heard and discussed a resident’s request for a proposed amendment to the Town’s Cabin Housing regulations, which would facilitate creation of new workforce housing on their property. The proposal would allow for larger home sizes in a Cabin Housing development than the current code allows, if the properties were deed restricted as “locals’ housing”.
Cabin Housing regulations are intended to “provide an opportunity for innovative development”, allowing for a 50% increase in density over the zone district base density, for small, compact homes.
Council directed staff to prepare a Code amendment that could have a broader benefit, such as creation of a Workforce Housing Overlay District, which could incorporate a variety of development standards or incentives including a density bonus, or a reduction in parking requirements, that would be applicable to multiple types of workforce housing developments in multiple zone districts. Council also asked staff to look further into the Cabin Housing regulations to identify if potential changes to those regulations would make it a more attractive option for workforce housing developers.
Contract for Owner’s Representative Services for Granite Park and Slopeside Hall Projects
Council supported a resolution to enter into contract with Diversified Consulting Solutions to oversee management and coordination of the Town’s two major upcoming capital projects, Granite Park Housing (619 Granite) and Slopeside Hall at the Frisco Adventures Park. While the Frisco Public Works staff usually oversee capital project management, these concurrent, larger scale projects are at a scale that they will benefit from an outside firm that manages projects of this size regularly, in addition to adding another layer of knowledge and advocacy to these projects.


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COVID-19 has also accelerated digitization of the traditionally less digitized part of the Chinese economy, such as areas requiring physical interactions, and B2B.
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Kings County's chief administrative officer Tom MacEwan speaks to council June 16.
UARB hearing set for June 19
The Municipality of Kings County will seek formal standing at the Nova Scotia Utility and Review Board hearings into the dissolution of the Town of Hantsport.
County councillors voted unanimously June 16 at a special meeting.
On April 16, Hantsport voted to submit an application to the review board to formally dissolve the town and annex the community to either Kings or West Hants.
Kings County chief administrative officer Tom MacEwen said in his presentation that preliminary hearings are set for June 19 “to canvass procedural issues and to consider what information is required in advance of the full hearing.”
At the preliminary hearing, the board is entitled to hear from “a representative of any municipality to which the area of the town, if dissolved, might be annexed to or form part of.”
At the full hearing, the UARB will hear from the parties, any witnesses who prepared studies, and any other witnesses called by the parties. The public will also be provided with an opportunity to comment.
After the hearing, the board may dissolve the town and annex it to either of the neighbouring municipalities, as well as determine whether the area is to be an additional polling district or part of an existing polling district.
The board will also determine whether the area should continue as a village or as part of the municipality, and, if the former, provide for whatever is necessary to convert the former town to a village. The director of assessment will be directed to make any necessary adjustments in the assessment roll applicable to the area.
MacEwen confirmed that, if the dissolved town becoming an additional polling district in the receiving municipality, the mayor of the dissolved town is the councillor for the new district until the next election.
The assets and liabilities of a dissolved town become the assets and liabilities of the receiving municipality.
“Given that a potential outcome of the dissolution process is an order of the UARB that the Town of Hantsport is dissolved and annexed to the Municipality of the County of Kings, it is important that (municipality) be included in all aspects of the application process, including the hearings,” MacEwen said.
The councillors also passed a motion that in the interests of keeping the citizens of Kings County “in the loop” regarding the UARB proceedings, public meetings be scheduled as required in various parts of the county, at the discretion of the CAO.
“As the third largest municipality in the province, we shouldn’t be leaving our constituents in the dark as to what effect this might have on them,” Coun. Mike Ennis, who represents the area of the county closest to the county line, said in making the motion.
Coun. Wayne Atwater, who represents the other end of the county, agreed that this process is something that could end up impacting the entire county.
“Kings County has to be on notice that something might end up happening here,” Atwater said. “We need these meetings. There’s a lot in the mix here. We definitely need to keep all of Kings County in the loop.”
Coun. Pauline Raven said she felt the need for communication was twofold – “not only to keep people informed, but to hear any input our citizens might have that might help us.”
It was also agreed that, as one of the possible scenarios might see Hantsport become a Kings County village, the current villages in the county should be notified of the meeting schedule.


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Self-organising Action for Food Equity (SAFE)
During 2018 and 2019, SAFE engaged reseachers in 3 cities (Sheffield, Greater Manchester and Gothenburg), each of which had been developing comprehensive food strategies.
Action Research Teams (ARTs) were set up in each of the participating cities to manage a small budget for meetings, events, and learning exchange visits between the cities, and help shape the appropriate digital infrastructure for their city. The idea behind the project was that by supporting self-organising social networks, we can increase participation in initiatives which enhance food quality, affordability and access in low income communities.
The project was funded by Mistra Urban Futures in Sweden, an international research centre with the aim of producing knowledge to develop sustainable urban futures.
- where we got our inspiration
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True Homosexual Experiences: Boyd McDonald and Straight to Hell (We Heard You Like Books)
A World War II veteran from the Great Plains, Boyd McDonald (1925-1993) had the makings of a successful career in the 1950s—an education at Harvard, jobs at Time/Life and IBM—but things didn’t turn out as planned. After 20 years of resentful conformity and worsening alcoholism, McDonald dried out, pawned all of his suits, and went on welfare. It was then that his life truly began. From a tiny room in a New York SRO hotel, McDonald published Straight to Hell, a series of chapbooks collecting readers’ “true homosexual experiences.” Following the example of Alfred Kinsey, McDonald obsessively pursued the truth about sex between men just as gay liberation began to tame America’s sexual outlaws for the sake of legal recognition. Admired by such figures as Gore Vidal and William S. Burroughs, Straight to Hell combined a vigorous contempt for authority with a keen literary style, and was the precursor of queer ’zines decades later. Even after his death, Boyd McDonald continued to trouble the powers that be—he was the subject of a 2006 opinion by U. S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor, who ruled that one of his books was pornographic while acknowledging that this question is ultimately vague and subjective.
William E. Jones conducted in-depth interviews with many people from McDonald’s life, including friends, colleagues, and most unexpectedly, family members who revealed that he was a loving uncle who doted on his nieces and great-nieces. A complex portrait drawn from a wealth of previously unpublished material, True Homosexual Experiences: Boyd McDonald and Straight to Hell is the first biography devoted to a key figure of the American underground.
Praise for True Homosexual Experiences
“Move over Maxwell Perkins - here's another literary editor who deserves to be more famous than you. Boyd McDonald may have been an alcoholic, sex-obsessed lunatic who masturbated chronically while encouraging his perverted readers to send in endless descriptions of their gay sex lives with heterosexual men but he remained pure in spirit. His “Straight To Hell” chapbooks join Valerie Solanas’s “SCUM Manifesto” as the most radical (and hilarious) filth classics in modern literature.” -- John Waters
William E. Jones was born in Canton, Ohio. He received a B. A. from Yale University and an M. F. A. from California Institute of the Arts. He has made the films Massillon (1991) and Finished (1997), which won a Los Angeles Film Critics Association award, the documentary Is It Really So Strange? (2004), and many videos including The Fall of Communism as Seen in Gay Pornography (1998). His work was included in the 1993 and 2008 Whitney Biennials, and he has had retrospectives at Tate Modern (2005), Anthology Film Archives (2010), and the Austrian Film Museum (2011). Jones has received a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grant, two California Community Foundation Fellowships, and most recently, a Creative Capital/Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant. His books include "Killed": Rejected Images of the Farm Security Administration (2010), Halsted Plays Himself (2011), Between Artists: Thom Andersen and William E. Jones (2013), Imitation of Christ, named one of the best photo books of 2013 by Time magazine, and Flesh and the Cosmos (2014). He lives in Los Angeles.


Major League Baseball Announces MVP Award Winners
Major League Baseball has wrapped up their end of the season award announcements with the recognition of the league's most valuable player awards. In the American League, the winner was outfielder for the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim, Mike Trout. Trout received nineteen of a possible thirty first place votes. Trout now becomes just the second player in Major League Baseball history to win two Most Valuable Player Awards before his twenty seventh birthday. Since Trout has entered the league five years ago, he has yet to finish any lower than third in the voting for the league's Most Valuable Player award.
The National League award for Most Valuable Player was rewarded to Kris Bryant. Bryant was a key part following the regular season in helping lead the Chicago Cubs to their first World Series championship in one hundred and eight years. Bryant received twenty nine of a possible thirty first place votes. Bryant won the NL Rookie of the Year award last season.


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ALABS is an audio technology brand founded by a group of music geeks from Singapore in 2021. We are passionate about our work and carry forward the genes of Singapore's technology leadership and cultural diversity.
"A" stands for Ace, representing excellence, while "LABS" represents innovative technology and our continuous exploration and adventure in the industry. This name represents the vision of these music geeks. We hope to become a top brand in the industry, constantly innovate in the field of technology research and development, and ultimately revolutionize the industry.


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There either is or is not, that’s the way things are. The colour of the day. The way it felt to be a child. The saltwater on your sunburnt legs. Sometimes the water is yellow, sometimes it’s red. But what colour it may be in memory, depends on the day. I’m not going to tell you the story the way it happened. I’m going to tell it the way I remember it.
The Lizzie Bennet Diaries is an innovative, original episodic video and social media series produced for the web. Adapting Pride and Prejudice to the modern era, Lizzie Bennet tells the classic Jane Austen tale from the point of view of an Elizabeth “Lizzie” Bennet who grew up in a world of cell phones, video cameras, and social media. The series was created by popular YouTube personality Hank Green and Streamy Award winning web video writer Bernie Su.
The holiday season is bringing more than cheer for actress Jessica Capshaw. The Grey’s Anatomy star announced on Monday that she and her husband, Honest Company co-founder Christopher Gavigan, are expecting their fourth child. “The holidays have certainly arrived … All of our lives are being added to by the lights, the music and cheer!!” she captioned a photo of her family at a Christmas tree farm on Instagram. “This year our family has reason to further broaden our smile … baby number four is on the way!! I am a lucky, lucky girl…”
The quickest way to tell whether an actor is serious about his or her career is to look at their “headshot”.Is it a professional photo? Or is it a snapshot taken on prom night? If you’re using a snapshot, it’s like showing up to race the Indy 500 in a VW Beetle. Nobody is going to take you seriously. I’m sorry, people… you can send me as much angry e-mail as you want about this, but it’s true! Don’t tell me you’re destined to be a major Hollywood star but you cannot scrape together the cash to get professional headshots.
The Grinch from Dr. Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas! The Musical stole the spotlight at the Empire State Building’s 86th Floor Observatory December 14, 2012, to promote the musical’s limited holiday engagement. Discover the magic of Dr. Seuss’ classic holiday tale as it comes to life on stage. Featuring the hit songs “You’re A Mean One, Mr. Grinch” and “Welcome Christmas,” The Grinch discovers there’s more to Christmas then he bargained for in this heart-warming holiday classic.
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ASML Holdings: Consolidate before Next Rally
George Lam August 21, 2020 3:51 AM
ASML Holdings' share price shows a lack of upward momentum since July, possibility suggesting a consolidation before the next rally...
In July, Dutch semiconductor equipment manufacturer ASML Holdings reported better than expected 2Q net sales that increased 36.3% on year to 3.33 billion euros. However, Investment bank UBS said it struggles to see "compelling upside" to company's share price on a 12-month view and downgraded it to "neutral" from "buy".
From a technical point of view, ASML Holdings is likely to have entered into a consolidation range as shown on the daily chart. It has broken above a bullish cup and handle pattern last week, but remains capped by the 38.2% Fibonacci retracement resistance of the decline started from July. The level at E294.00 might be considered as the nearest support level, while the 1st and 2nd resistances are expected to be located at E335.80 and E355.50 respectively. Alternatively, losing E294.00 may suggest that the next support at E267.00 would be challenged.
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How to optimize your router
For most people, installing a new router is a quick, painless experience. And yet, few people know that wireless performance can be significantly improved by applying a few less known, and yet very effective tips. Advanced users can replace the router antennas, or just reposition them using long sma extension cables and adapters, thus getting a significant signal strength increase, for example. But we'll just focus on simple tips for this article.
Everything begins with choosing the proper router. Spend as much time as you need to determine the best product that fits your budget and wish list. You don't have to purchase a new router, of course. Sometimes it is enough to upgrade its firmware! And if new firmware isn't available, you can easily install a third-party router OS, which will breathe new life into it.
But let's assume that you want to buy a new router. It is a wise decision, because new routers have more useful features and benefit from firmware patches more often, in comparison with the older models. Your ISP may have already bundled a router with its Internet package, of course, but don't expect it to be a top-of-the-line product.
No matter what route you choose, the minute you are online, you've got a few things to take care of. Begin by logging into your router admin panel; the manual will tell you how to get there. If you don't have the manual, you can look it up online, using the Internet connection provided by your smart phone.
Once that you are logged in, it is time to change the router admin password. In fact, while you are here, why not change the user name as well? This will make it much harder for hackers to get access to your network.
Then, upgrade the router firmware. Modern routers allow you to do that from within their admin panels, and most of them can even be upgraded remotely. Nevertheless, this is a feature that I cannot recommend, because it also introduces some serious security vulnerabilities.
It's time to activate your Wi-Fi network. If your router is a dual band version, it can broadcast signal using both 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz frequencies. Of course, both networks need to be configured independently. If you need good quality signal that is able to travel at longer distances, you should pick the 2.4 GHz network. However, if your device is really close to the router, the 5 GHz frequency will do, and will provide a higher data throughput.
Choose the network name, also known as SSID, wisely. You want to give away as little information as possible. So, choose a network name such as Tim24 or so. Don't ever include the router name and/or model into the SSID.
Then, it is time to choose the wireless encryption protocol. There is a single option that is secure: WPA2 in conjunction with the AES data encryption algorithm. In fact, even WPA2 has some serious security issues, but that's the only option we've got until the products which utilize WPA3 will be launched on the market.
Choose a strong password for your wireless network; it's a very powerful method of keeping hackers away from your Wi-Fi. The password can have up to 63 characters, and should consist of a mixture of lowercase and uppercase letters, special characters and numbers. Since you won't have to remember this password, it's easy to create a complex one, and then store it in a document. This way, you will have easy access to the password anytime you need it.
What about Wi-Fi channels? Most routers use the default #6 or #11 channels, so signal interference will be quite big, especially if you live in an apartment building. To fix that, install a Wi-Fi analyzer app on your smart phone, and then change the channel to the least used one.
Modern routers utilize WPS, a useful feature that allows you to easily add new devices to your Wi-Fi network. However, Wi-Fi Protected Setup has proven to be vulnerable, so it's best to disable it. You can add each new wireless device manually, and my guess is that you are only going to do this a few times per year, at most.
The same thing happens with guest networks. You may be tempted to create one and keep it on at all times, but that would be a huge mistake. It is best to create a guest network, but only keep it active while your friends or family are visiting. In fact, modern routers will give you the option of creating guest networks that will self-destruct after a few hours.
Armed with these tips, I am confident that you will be able to squeeze the biggest performance out of your router, while keeping the unwanted visitors away from your network.


So yeah, not a huge list of things wrong with the car, but the most substantial was that it was generally a car you could commute with, but it wasn't *nice*. It was fun to drive everywhere with the top down, but it was a pain to get into gear sometimes (I imagine the clutch was dragging just a little, or that the synchros just needed to be replaced after when the clutch WAS dragging - Nick replaced the clutch master and slave cylinder at one point in time, and also had the clutch replaced in it, so it should have been fine), and in general was a little too cold for Michigan weather. In any case, I drove the car to work more than a dozen times over the summer that I got it. The car actually had only like 97,000 miles on it.
Anyway, I enjoyed the car. I drove it out and didn't care that I left the top down in the parking lot at Best Buy. I didn't care about it being stolen, or broken into (they could, after all, just open the door) and I didn't care about the car. It was certainly more enjoyable, but at the time it didn't matter to me that the car was considered by many people to be kind of a beater. It was fun :-)


text: Jackie Kendall’s childhood was a horror story of abuse. A counselor deemed her family “one of the top-ten most dysfunctional in America.” Family members have dealt with this trauma in different ways: Two siblings committed suicide. Some siblings ran wild. When Jackie decided that she wanted to break the mold and be a healthy, loving woman, to forgive or not to forgive was not a question. Simply put: one can’t love freely without the developed skill of forgiving freely. In Free Yourself to Love, Jackie shares her own story and struggle to learn this vital life skill. She also reveals the reasons for — and results of — refusing to forgive. In passionate, empathetic prose, Jackie urges her readers to exchange free-floating bitterness for the freedom to love and be loved.

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At Foremarke School, we believe in developing the whole child and both our nurses take an active role in health education of the children by teaching them how to look after themselves. This may include caring for a small injury, how to eat healthily or emotional support for a friend who is hurt.
Our nurses can be found each morning welcoming the children into the school at the beginning of their day, and they are always on hand to discuss any routine health issues with parents at the beginning or the end of the school day.
The health and wellbeing of the children is of upmost importance to the medical team, and so too the health and wellbeing of our staff. At Foremarke School a regular health clinic is offered to our staff with health checks and advice as required.

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Mervyn King’s evidence to the House of Commons Treasury Select Committee two days ago was a defining moment in this recession. In warning that the country couldn’t afford a second fiscal stimulus, he vindicated the argument of the Conservative Party that the priority must be tackling debt. We have been clear, consistent and right about the dangers of a large, discretionary fiscal stimulus in the circumstances that Gordon Brown has created.
That’s why, in the teeth of considerable opposition last Autumn we opposed the government’s £12.5 billion VAT cut. It’s a tough decision for any centre right politician to oppose a tax cut, but we knew that the country couldn’t afford it and so it would do more harm than good.
Back then, Labour liked to say that we in the Conservative Party were isolated in our opposition to their fiscal stimulus. Today, it is Gordon Brown who is isolated, with the CBI, the German Government, the European Central Bank, independent forecasters – and now the Bank of England all saying we can’t afford a further discretionary fiscal stimulus because of the disastrous state of the public finances and the scale of Labour’s Debt Crisis.
But the vindication of our position does not just go back to last Autumn. It goes right back to the start of my leadership of the Conservative Party, when I made clear my rejection of unfunded tax cuts and my belief that economic stability must always come first. Of course I believe in cutting taxes but if you promise it, or indeed do it, when you can’t afford it you just end up letting people down.
Today it is not just a question of economic stability; it is a question of recovery from a deep recession, and I believe as strongly as ever that fiscal responsibility is an essential step. Fiscal responsibility is an absolutely non-negotiable part of my kind of conservatism. Here’s why: there’s a moral case, an economic case and a political case.
Fiscal responsibility is morally right because it’s wrong to live like there’s no tomorrow and burden future generations with our debts. Thanks to Gordon Brown’s reckless and irresponsible spending, every child in Britain is now born owing at least £17,000, and servicing just the interest on that debt will cost more than educating those children.
Fiscal responsibility is economically right too. The conventional wisdom is that in a recession governments have to step in to stimulate the economy with spending increases and tax cuts. That might be right for countries that built up surpluses when times were good or those with modest deficits. And it’s easier if you have a reserve currency like America. But that argument gets turned on its head when the government is already living way beyond its means as in the UK.
As Mervyn King himself says: “we entered this crisis with levels of public borrowing which were too high”. The IMF say we’re going to have easily the highest borrowing of any G20 economy. In these circumstances, a further fiscal stimulus will do the opposite of what Gordon Brown claims. Instead of making things better – stimulating demand, reducing unemployment and increasing growth – it will make things worse – undermining confidence with the certainty of higher taxes and the risk of higher interest rates. As one leading retailer told me recently, consumers are sorting out their own finances and they’ll only be confident when the Government does the same.
Just look at what happened yesterday when the Government failed to find enough investors willing to buy its debt – something that hasn’t happened for many years. The markets took fright and long term interest rates began to rise. That’s a worrying sign, because higher interest rates will increase the cost of paying for the national debt and could deter the investment we need to get us out of this recession. That would make the recession longer.
Instead, we’ve argued that monetary policy should take the lead in tackling the recession. That’s why we called for a National Loan Guarantee Scheme back in October to get credit flowing. Government can help in other ways too. We’ve called for the Government to slow the growth of spending and use the money, £4.1 billion, properly costed, to help the innocent victims of the recession by abolishing the basic rate of tax on savings income and cutting taxes for pensioners.
But fiscal responsibility is not just morally and economically right, it’s right politically too because it’s a vital part of the Conservative belief in personal and social responsibility. We’re never going to build the kind of country where people save for their future and where families take responsibility for their children’s future if people see a Government that throws responsibility to the wind and expects future generations to pick up the bill. Government should lead by example, and that’s why fiscal responsibility should be such an important part of Conservative politics.
The only way to restore confidence in our public finances and our economy – at home and abroad – is to set out a credible strategy for living within our means. That’s why what the country needs right now is straight talk and a strong lead. Straight talk on the debt crisis, because we've got to start solving it in order to get our economy out of recession and into recovery. And a strong lead on the economy, because everyone's going to have to take their fair share of the burden for putting right what Labour have got wrong. That’s what the Conservative Party is offering the country, and fiscal responsibility is at the very heart of it.


This paper presents a piezoelectric energy harvester (PEH) to convert vibrations to electrical power. A unimorph cantilever beam is used to generate voltage on piezoelectric material bonded close to the anchor of the cantilever beam. A 4.85 x 1 x 0.04 cm structural layer with piezoelectric material yields peak-to-peak voltage of 64 V at the resonance frequency of the structure. The empirically confirmed maximum power output is close to 0.5 mW. The results from validation data on the observed structure has been correlated to the simulations in finite element method (FEM) program using piezoelectric analysis tools.


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The 2022 Spooky Shapes Game Jam is a fun Halloween event for all Brock students. It is the fourth annual Spooky Shapes Game Jam challenge.
Hosted by the Centre for Digital Humanities, along with the Faculty of Humanities and Brock LINC, the event is a two-day game jam where teams will be given a pair of randomly assigned, Halloween-derived “spooky shapes” that are to be significantly showcased in their digital spooky game.
Each team’s goal is to generate a thematically spooky game that both engages and entertains their audience. The games are to be developed with the sample model assets provided at the start of the challenge, which are an array of simple primitive shapes from the game engine: Unity. The assets will be provided by a USB key drive, which is a takeaway keepsake for the event.
Teams will consist of two to three participants with no exceptions. The host organizations are aiming for about 20 to 30 teams in total. Teams are to maintain the policy of working within the set times only, and all development will take place during the allotted times with no inclusion of prior assets.
The game jam is designed to be friendly to newcomers and more experienced developers. Judging criteria for the event will be based upon how the team adhered to the game’s constraints, if the product is an engaging game experience, if the result is tonal effective at being “spooky,” and if the team’s project meets their stated goals and elevator pitch.
The Spooky Shapes Game Jam will take place from Friday, Oct. 28, at 5 p.m. to Saturday, Oct. 29 at 6 p.m. in TH 269. Complementary food and drinks will be provided for lunch at the Saturday session. Members of teams are required to RSVP the event through ExperienceBU. The team captain is required to register the members of their team with the Centre for Digital Humanities project coordinator, Jeremy Leipert.
The project coordinator’s email, where to RSVP the event, and the event’s full rules can be found here.

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Today (Nov 19), JJ Heller releases new music with “Joy To The World.” Heller shares on social media:
A few years ago I made a Spotify playlist called Peaceful Christmas (go have a listen if you haven’t already!). Near the top of the list was Joy to the World by Sufjan. It’s a simple, approachable arrangement of a very classic Christmas hymn. I love his version so much that I wanted to sing it myself. ☺
My version is almost identical except for the addition of a British boys choir (yes, they’re legit from England), and of course, my voice instead of Sufjan’s. There’s just something about it that makes me feel like I’m listening to a cozy little Christmas concert at church. I can picture all the kids filing in on stage and doing their best not to fidget.
Heller began releasing monthly singles in April 2017 that together have amassed over 55 million combined streams to date (through August 2020). The songstress will continue to announce a brand-new song on the first Friday of each month.


Apparatus for sending cryptographic key information through a turbulent medium features a radiation generator in a first enclosure for emitting radiation at a predetermined wavelength through first launching means for launching the radiation into turbulent media. A second launching means in a second enclosure is located a distance from the first enclosure for receiving the radiation launched from the first launching means after the radiation has traversed the turbulent media, and focusing the radiation onto detection means for determining a unique cryptographic key.
 The present invention generally relates to secure cryptographic key exchange, and, more specifically to use of natural ambient turbulence to generate and share cryptographic keys. This invention was made with Government support under Contract No. W-7405-ENG-36 awarded by the U.S. Department of Energy. The Government has certain rights in the invention.


Our firm has a long history of handling boat accident cases caused by irresponsible people at the helm, but not all boating accidents, injuries and deaths are the operators’ fault. Many times, a boat’s design, manufacture, maintenance or lack of proper warnings and instructions, are the real cause of tragedy on the water.
Because many boat manufacturers are large companies doing business throughout the United States or the world, the public is led to believe that boats certainly must be highly engineered, well-tested, products that undergo rigorous safety testing.
What the boating Industry Doesn’t Want You to Know
Unfortunately, this is usually not true. Boats are not subject to the performance and crash testing that we are accustomed to seeing regarding motor vehicles. There is no 5-star safety rating system for boats. In fact, there are virtually no mandatory performance safety standards for boats at all. Manufacturers often tout that impressive sounding organizations such as the United States Coast Guard, National Marine Manufacturers Association (NMMA) and the American Boat and Yacht Counsel (ABYC), have endorsed their boat, but the truth is that none of these organizations test boats, and if any inspections actually occur at all during the manufacturing process the boats are typically inspected when they are not even in the water! The NMMA and the ABYC are captive industry organizations staffed and run by industry insiders whose purpose is to help their member organizations sell more boats.
As incredible as it may seem, the boating industry is largely self-regulated and subject only to voluntary performance standards for which they self-test and self-certify compliance, if they even test at all.
Additionally, boat design techniques typically lag decades or even generations behind motor vehicle design. Whereas cars and trucks are designed and even tested in electronic and digital domains, many boats are designed on the shop floor with carpenters rather than engineers and computer designers. It is common to create boat designs by physically cutting pieces from or adding pieces of existing boats and changing the dimensions or reassembling pieces into new a configuration.
Important Information for Public Passengers
So, what does all this mean for the public? For starters perception is not reality. Although the boat your friend invited you on last weekend has a placard that says the boat has a capacity of 12 people, there is better than a 90% chance that the boat has never been tested with even 5 people on board, and the stated 12-person capacity was simply calculated from a non-performance based formula regarding the likely ability of the boat to remain afloat while not moving in still water.
It also means that if a death or injury occurs the design and the evolution of the design of the boat must be thoroughly examined to determine if faulty engineering or manufacturing caused of the injury. Although Florida is ground zero for virtually all types of boating and water sports, there are very few law firms that focus on getting to the bottom of what really happened in a boating incident.
Determining the true cause requires real engineers and experts to evaluate all aspects of the design. Over the years, our investigations have uncovered a variety of design and manufacturing shortcomings from adding seating areas without ever considering the effect on performance of the weight of passengers sitting in designated seats to creating a design that allows a boat to turn so sharp that occupants seated in a specific area can be ejected, and everything in between.
The boating industry has been very slow to use on product warnings because labels just aren’t “sexy” and don’t sell boats. As a result, occupants are never advised of known hazards, let alone how to avoid them.
How We Can Help
If you were injured in a boating accident, or you suspect that a design issue may exist, do not wait to contact us at Clark Fountain. Our West Palm Beach boat accident attorneys are committed to holding negligent manufacturers, designers, and other industry “experts” accountable. Backed by more than a billion dollars in recoveries and over 220 years of combined legal experience, we are confident in our ability to help you recover maximum compensation after any type of boating-related accident.
Consultations are free until your case is successfully resolved. Call now: (561) 922-0258.


SSHE Commitment to Women
The State System of Higher Education recognizes the significant contribution made by women at all levels to the University culture. It also recognizes the responsibility to address specific needs of this segment of the University population, to address inequities in the treatment of students and faculty due to gender, and to encourage and support new and emerging roles for women.
Within the aforementioned context, it is recommended that University affirmative action plans reflect a commitment to meeting the educational needs of women students and a commitment to assuring upward mobility in areas of University leadership and employment.
The emphasis on addressing the status of women within the State System is consistent with prevailing thoughts on the status of women nationwide. Such thought, as stated in The New Agenda of Women in Higher Education - A Report of the American Council of Education (ACE) Commission on Women in Higher Education, establishes three primary reasons why colleges and universities should become "responsive to the values, ideas, hopes, dreams, and visions of women." They are:
- Our global society is facing problems of potentially catastrophic proportions. We need the best and brightest minds to attend to these problems. Women constitute half of the human resources available. They have the potential of providing at least half the answers.
- Higher education has a special responsibility to be a progressive, enlightening social force. This is our heritage, and this is our role. We should be a model for others to emulate. How can we expect society to do what we cannot do for ourselves?
- Theory, knowledge, and practice have been developed by and about women to help us rethink our institutional priorities, plans, and programs, and reshape the process. It is intellectually irresponsible not to use this new body of knowledge and grasp its implications for all our institutions.
It is recommended that the State System of Higher Education adopt the following guidelines developed by the ACE Commission on Women in Higher Education as standards against which to develop policy and procedures. It is further recommended that these guidelines be used as a checklist for assessing the current status of women. The commission recommends that institutional leadership:
- Demonstrate a strong commitment to understanding and addressing the concerns of women students, faculty, staff, and administrators.
- Identify and correct inequities that may exist in hiring, promotion, tenure, and salary of women faculty, administrators, and staff.
- Provide a supportive campus climate for women in the classroom and in employment settings.
- Establish or reaffirm an institutional commitment to women's studies.
- Review university policies for their effect on majority women and minority women.
- Support a university planning process that addresses at each stage the question of impact on minority and majority women.
- Review/develop and implement effective policies to address the problem of sexual harassment.
- Prepare an annual status report for the total university community.
- Initiate a campus values inventory intended to examine value issues which continue to prevent the inclusion of women in certain areas of university life.
- Develop policies, procedures, and programs that support children and families in the broadest sense.
- Promote activities which demonstrate the value of diversity to the campus life.
- Make leadership development and commitment to fostering women's leadership joint priorities.
- Establish or reaffirm the commitment to a Commission on Women.
- Appoint a high-level person whose formal responsibilities include advocacy for women on campus.
- Provide leadership in fostering an environment which encourages the discussion of and attention to sex equity issues.
While no single University may find it feasible to address all areas of concern articulated in the Commission's report, it is expected that over the five years of the Plan, all universities will establish priorities and time frames to address those areas which most need attention on individual campuses.
To facilitate the timely accomplishment of measures intended to improve the status of women, it is recommended that each President consider the establishment of a commission on the status of women as an initial priority.
Further, each University and the Office of the Chancellor is required to develop and implement a sexual harassment policy. The policy and implementation procedures shall be included in University and central administration affirmative action plans.


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Stillman Valley baseball delivered the program’s first sectional title in grand style, beating Burlington Central 3-2 in Sterling in a thriller to advance to the 3-A Super-Sectional.
The Cardinals got a complete game gem from senior Andrew Wilhite – the future Minnesota Golden Gopher threw a complete game with ten strikeouts.
After falling behind 1-0, Wilhtie helped himself out with a sacrifice fly in the top of the third. The game stayed tied at one until the top of the fifth, when Jack Riley’s grounder ate up the Rockets’ infield, and scored Austin Dowty. After Burlington Central ended the threat with a strike ’em out, throw ’em out double play, they tied the game in the bottom of the fifth after a dropped strike three with the bases loaded.
The Cardinals regrouped, and retook the lead on an Adam Wenberg RBI single – Austin Dowty scored for the third time, and Stillman Valley handed Wilhite a 3-2 lead for the final two innings. A Jacob Rose to Jack Riley groundout, eerily similar to the Kris Bryant to Anthony Rizzo Game 7 final out for the Cubs in the 2016 World Series, sealed the victory for Stillman Valley.
Now the Cardinals head to Augustana College in the Quad Cities on Monday for the 3-A Super-Sectional against Morton. First pitch is scheduled for 6:00 pm with the winner advancing to the 3-A state semifinals in Joliet.

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New Minnesota Stadium Bringing Most Advanced Experience to Vikings Fans' Phones
US Bank Stadium, the new home of the Minnesota Vikings, will host some of the most advanced and phone-centric technology ever deployed in a sports venue. Bluetooth beacons throughout the building will communicate with the new Vikings app to provide precise indoor location info. The system will automatically sense when guests are in a long line at a gate or bathroom, and push a notification letting them know the nearest gate or bathroom with a shorter line. Guests can also use the Vikings app to access instant replays and NFL Red Zone video, order food, and navigate using a detailed stadium map. The app is the first in NFL to integrate both venue and team services (schedule, stats, roster, etc.) in a single app. The app also links with a TicketMaster account and the Vikings loyalty program. VenueNext is developing the new app, which is expected to launch in time for the 2016 NFL Draft. US Bank Stadium will also be the first stadium in the U.S. with Wi-Fi access points (1,300 of them, covering all sections) integrated into handrails, providing better coverage than typical under-seat access points. The venue also includes a distributed antenna system (DAS) for cellular service, supporting all major wireless carriers. The stadium will open in July, and host Super Bowl LII in 2018.
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For natural glow and well-being we must eat at least 5 portions of fruits and vegetables per day.
Drink at least 8-10 glasses of water every day. You can add some lemon and mint to make it more refreshing.
Try hard to eat whole fruits or a nice fresh and cool fruitsalad instead of dessert.
Whenever we eat is an opportunity to nourish our body. We prefer food rich in nutrients.
Say good morning to your body by drinking a warm cup of water, lemon juice and a slice of fresh ginger. Your liver will benefit from the antioxidants properties of this combination and you will feel refreshed.
Count nutrients in your food, not the calories.
Live, love and eat healthy!
Ιt’s not a diet, it’s called healthy eating!
Let food be your medicine and medicine be your food-Hippocrates.
Eat well, live well, laugh often!
Dill is an excellent food to eat to get rid of excess water.
Valeriana is an ideal salad for calming the nervous system and for the protection of the bowel from indigestion and colics.
One day detox: we can eat up to 1 kilogram of grapes and drink plenty of water.
Grapefruit boosts the metabolism and is low in calories.
Did you know that tomato was initially considered a fruit and not a vegetable in botanology?
Spinach is the ideal salad for women in reproductive age and increases fertility. Rich in calcium and phosphorus, it strengthens the bones and is nutritious for the eyes.
An apple a day, keeps the doctor away.
We like arugula because: it has very few calories, is rich in fibre, is a good protein source, helps in losing weight.
Leek has a diuretic effect against water retention and cellulite and protects the heart.
Iceberg is very low in calories, has a high content in vitamis A,C and K and is a very good fibre source.
Carrot is a natural source of beta-carotene (vitamin A) which helps in eye conditions, of vitamin C and folic acid.

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Did you all have a good weekend? Mine was relaxing and so productive! My man was in town which is rare for a weekend, so I enjoyed spending time with him, as always.
- Chocolate on chocolate cupcakes with sprinkles celebrating Jessica’s birthday.
- Thinking about using some Martha Stewart glitter for an upcoming Manicure Monday.
- Pillsbury raspberry cream cheese coffee cake in progress. It was so good! Recipe coming later this week.
- I can’t wait to share my winter tablescape with you all. More pics and details coming soon.
- Had a Saturday afternoon Starbucks candy cane hot chocolate which went perfectly with my candy cane manicure.
- It was 70 degrees and blue skies here in Florida on Sunday.
Did you do anything fun this weekend?


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Tourists sneak into 'world's most dangerous ghost town' removed from maps
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Hill Country pride of land ownership in an established and gated community is waiting for you. Take your time planning your next home, as there are no time restrictions to start construction of your new home. Minimum home size allowed is 1,800 square feet. No city taxes and desirable schools are some of the perks in choosing this community to call your home. Close to Canyon Lake, Blanco State Park, Guadalupe River, Pedernales Falls State Park and LBJ Lake just a short drive away, you will always have choices of things to do while enjoying outdoor life.
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Australia's banking watchdog has released a paper on the measures it has in its toolkit to promote the stability of the nation's financial system.
Australian Prudential Regulation Authority chair Wayne Byres said macroprudential policies were an essential part of the authority's toolkit aimed at fulfilling its statutory objective to promote financial stability.
"Unlike our day-to-day supervision of individual entities, macroprudential policies allow us to target risks to the entire financial system," he said.
"Whether it be curbing excessive risk-taking in a buoyant market, or conversely encouraging investment and economic activity during a downturn."
He said the paper was intended to give financial industry stakeholders a better understanding of the factors APRA considers in making decisions to use these tools and the types of it could deploy in the future.
However, the paper released on Thursday emphasised there is no mechanical link between any indicator and APRA's decisions on introducing macroprudential measures.
For example, strong growth in asset prices alone could present limited risks to financial stability where lending standards remain prudent and the banking sector is strongly capitalised.
"In contrast, growth that is driven by weak lending standards or higher risk loans would likely be a strong indicator that risks to financial stability are rising," the report says.
Among its toolkit it says imposing lending limits would be to restrain certain types of higher-risk lending, where these are contributing to risks to financial stability.
Adjustments to lending standards can also provide a targeted response to financial stability risks.
Last month APRA increased the minimum interest buffer it expects banks to use when assessing the serviceability of home loan applications.
It wants banks to assess applications at a rate three percentage points above the interest rate product being offered rather than 2.5 percentage points previously.
The decision came against the backdrop of house prices rising at their fastest pace in more than 30 years and strong demand for mortgages, with more than one in five new loans approved in the June quarter at more than six times the borrowers' income.


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Mill is expanding residential compost collections, offering subscription services nationwide since January 2023. USPS picks up most of the compost food scraps, but now Mill is teaming with a farm on a new delivery model to bring more residents into the fold in the Phoenix, Arizona metro area.
January 2, 2024
About 510 U.S. communities have food scrap collection programs, reaching 10 million homes, according to a 2021 BioCycle report (the latest available data). But plenty more infrastructure is needed to manage the estimated tens of millions of tons of food tossed yearly at the household level. Private and nonprofit subscription services are popping up to pick up some of the slack.
Compost recycling machine manufacturer Mill is among companies that is off to a small but determined start to expand residential collections, offering subscription services nationwide since January 2023. USPS picks up most of the compost, but now Mill is teaming with a farm on a new delivery model to bring more residents into the fold in the Phoenix, Arizona metro area. Plans are to take the concept further if the program goes well.
Phoenix residents put bones, pits, meat, dairy, and other scraps into Mill’s home processor, which dries and grinds them, reducing them by 70 percent to 80 percent in mass and volume. Partner R.City picks up the preprocessed material monthly and takes it back to its farm to use as chicken feed, soil amendment and for composting.
The farm operation has done curbside compost food scrap collection in the Phoenix area for years but through this new collaboration can go longer between pickups and with less work because the material is more concentrated, shelf stable, and rendered odorless by filtration technology.
So far, the new service offering has been well received. Leveraging sensors on the bins connected to the Internet, Mill has found that 99% of customers interact with the bin more than twice a day and on average seven times a day, according to Alyssa Pollack, head of Business at Mill.
Key to getting buy in is asking little of customers, says Matt Rogers, the company’s cofounder and CEO.
“If the success of a solution relies on people radically changing what they’re used to, it is less likely to achieve systems-level impact. The onus should be on the technology—not on the person—to change.
“The Mill kitchen bin has a pedal you step on, and the lid lifts up so you can throw in your kitchen scraps. The behavior change isn’t that different. The real magic happens inside,” Rogers says.
Mill and R.City are playing up on the concept of a local loop to further engage residents, beginning with offering a “farm box” filled with R.City-grown produce.
Customers toss cucumber and carrot tops as well as other scraps from food in their farm boxes into their compost bins, which hold up to 35 to 45 pounds at a time. The scraps ultimately go back into the soil to grow more food.
“We are seeing that this feels powerful for many folks. It’s exciting to them to know they are supporting a local food system,” Pollack says.
Customers get periodic impact reports based on information retrieved from their bins showing how much food they have diverted from landfill and avoided greenhouse gas emissions. The household-level data is aggregated to reflect citywide impact.
R.City Founder J.D. Hill says while his company has done compost food scrap collections for more than ten years, this new project with Mill is generating more interest especially from municipalities and multifamily property owners and managers.
“Our collection method builds the local food system whereas industrial models do not - they are not connected with the food system. The Mill partnership supercharges this model by bringing more households into it that otherwise would not participate,” he says.
Multifamily buildings remain a tough nut to crack, mainly due to the ick factor and smell when consolidating pick up for hundreds of households on one floor or in one dumpster in a basement. Adding to the challenge is that it’s no easy charge to get people to separate food scraps in their apartment and take it to receptacles in communal areas.
Mill has a few pilots in the works hoping to break through the barriers, Pollack says.
The company is also engaging in a pilot in Tacoma, Washington who has long done organics collections but is looking to boost participation.
The city did a waste characterization study several years ago, finding that food waste comprised less than 5% of material by weight in the residential organics collected while it comprised 29% of the garbage stream.
“Anecdotally, the primary barriers to residential customers diverting food scraps into the organics collection system are lack of education about the program, inconvenience, potential for vectors, and the general ‘yuck’ factor,” says Lewis Griffith, division manager, Solid Waste Management, City of Tacoma Environmental Services.
The pilot is focused on raising awareness around food waste and educating residents on the city’s pay as you throw model, showing them how much they can save in both waste and service fees.
“We would like to see how much customers using the Mill are able to reduce their garbage volume, and potentially reduce their garbage service level as a result,” Griffith says, adding the city is looking to gauge greenhouse gas impact of using the Mill and will have an eye out “to see if the technology mitigates barriers to diverting food waste and how much customers change behavior because of it.”
“Without a doubt, subscription services for household food scraps collection is a ‘growth industry’ in the U.S. In some states, subscription services are the only providers of residential food scraps collection,” notes BioCycle’s Nora Goldstein.
Service providers are hard pressed to make a go of it, reporting route density, costs to collect, and tipping fees at processing facilities as pain points.
But they are holding out for policy breaks as food waste reduction rules evolve. So far five states—California, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Vermont—have passed laws to divert food from landfills. Policy makers in these regions, and increasingly in others, are eying compost as they look for new homes for the material.
Freelance writer, Waste360
Arlene Karidis has 30 years’ cumulative experience reporting on health and environmental topics for B2B and consumer publications of a global, national and/or regional reach, including Waste360, Washington Post, The Atlantic, Huffington Post, Baltimore Sun and lifestyle and parenting magazines. In between her assignments, Arlene does yoga, Pilates, takes long walks, and works her body in other ways that won’t bang up her somewhat challenged knees; drinks wine; hangs with her family and other good friends and on really slow weekends, entertains herself watching her cat get happy on catnip and play with new toys.
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