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“Then bring near to you Aaron your brother, and his sons with him, from among the people of Israel, to serve me as priests—Aaron and Aaron's sons, Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar. And you shall make holy garments for Aaron your brother, for glory and for beauty. You shall speak to all the skillful, whom I have filled with a spirit of skill, that they make Aaron's garments to consecrate him for my priesthood. These are the garments that they shall make: a breastpiece, an ephod, a robe, a coat of checker work, a turban, and a sash. They shall make holy garments for Aaron your brother and his sons to serve me as priests. They shall receive gold, blue and purple and scarlet yarns, and fine twined linen. ... Goodnews Art
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Let your family know you hold them dear with this spiritual textual art plaque. “Bless this house,” the image reads, followed by a sentimental prayer about the joy and pride family brings. The words are printed in a charming mix of fonts over whitewashed reclaimed wood planks for a rustic, country-chic appearance. Made in the USA, this plaque measures 8.5" H x 6.5" W x 0.5" D, arrives individually boxed, unframed, and ready to hang with a keyhole cutout and wall mounting hardware included. Bible Christian Image
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Bring a sense of spirituality to any space in your home with this textual art print, showcasing scripture from 2 Corinthians 5:7 in scrolling font with an arrow accent below. Crafted from wood, its frame features a brown finish with distressed details for a warm and weathered touch. A brushed white background completes the neutral look, giving this design the versatility to complement most color palettes. Measures 13'' H x 37'' W.
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This rustic wood wall art will add farmhouse charm to your decor and serve as a visual reminder of you and your family's values every time you take a glance. The 'Be Still & Know That I Am God Bible Verse' rustic wall art decor features whimsical typography on a brushed white background framed in a clean yet vintage-inspired wood frame. Featuring scripture from Psalm 46:10, Be still and know that I am a god. It hangs securely to any wall surface with two industrial strength wall hangers and... Goodnews Art
“You shall make an altar on which to burn incense; you shall make it of acacia wood. A cubit shall be its length, and a cubit its breadth. It shall be square, and two cubits shall be its height. Its horns shall be of one piece with it. You shall overlay it with pure gold, its top and around its sides and its horns. And you shall make a molding of gold around it. And you shall make two golden rings for it. Under its molding on two opposite sides of it you shall make them, and they shall be holders for poles with which to carry it. You shall make the poles of acacia wood and overlay them with gold. ... Christian Wall Art


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March 14 (UPI) -- The Who announced a new residency in Las Vegas that begins July 29 at Caesar's Palace.
"Vegas! We're coming to rock The Colosseum at Caesars Palace with a six-show residency July 29 – Aug 11," the band said on Facebook Monday alongside a colorful concert flyer.
The residency period will include six shows at Caesar's Palace with The Who referring to the performances as a "first run."
Tickets go on sale starting Friday at noon.
The residency caps off a long-running goodbye tour that started in 2014 and is set to end in April in England.

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When it comes to regulating natural gas drilling, the state Oil and Gas Act trumps local ordinances - mostly.
As is the case with methadone clinics and adult entertainment venues, municipalities and counties can't keep natural gas wells out altogether. But local officials do have some power, such as the ability to limit wells to agricultural, manufacturing or industrial zones and bar them in residential districts.
"We - local land use authorities - can regulate the 'where;' we cannot regulate the 'how.' That power, to regulate the 'how' of natural gas drilling, rests entirely with the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania," Luzerne County Zoning Hearing Board Chairman Larry Newman said after last week's hearing on granting Encana Oil & Gas USA Inc. conditional use to drill 10 natural gas wells in Lake and Fairmount townships.
Municipal and county planning and zoning authorities do have some say in the matter of natural gas drilling in their communities, state officials say.
"They're not completely pre-empted by any means under state law," Department of Environmental Protection Secretary John Hanger said. "They do have a role."
Drilling processes, techniques and materials are beyond the power of local zoning authorities, Hanger said. For example, a zoning hearing board cannot tell a natural gas company what kind of cement can be used in a well casing, he said. Instead, the Oil and Gas Act gives DEP the authority to set drilling standards.
Denny Puko of the state Department of Community and Economic Development said the Oil and Gas Act generally not only pre-empts local regulations of any type except for the Municipalities Planning Code and the Flood Plain Act, but goes a step further: although municipalities and counties can do things under those two statutes, they can't regulate what the Oil and Gas Act regulates.
"They're limited," he said. "You can see there's not a whole lot of room."
But legal precedents are being set which can change that.
Puko cited three state court cases that clarified what counties and municipalities can and can't do when it comes to natural gas drilling: Huntley & Huntley vs. Oakmont Borough; Penneco Oil Co. and Range Resources vs. the County of Fayette; and Range Resources vs. Salem Township (Westmoreland County).
In the often-cited 2007 Huntley vs. Oakmont case, Huntley & Huntley sought to drill a natural gas well in a residential subdivision in Oakmont Borough. Borough council denied the company.
The upshot of the case was the Supreme Court unanimously ruled that while the conditional use permit had been improperly denied, companies cannot drill in areas where zoning ordinances do not allow them. The more recent Penneco case is similar in nature.
In the Range Resources vs. Salem Township decision, the court ruled that the township's ordinance overlapped and in some cases was more stringent than the Oil and Gas Act, making it "an attempt by the Township to enact a comprehensive regulatory scheme relative to oil and gas development within the municipality."
Unlike in Huntley vs. Oakmont, which was about the "where" of natural gas drilling, Salem Township was trying to regulate the "how." The court ruled against the township.
"It's kind of narrow what a municipality can do, according to the court precedent," Puko said. "I guess at this point, municipalities are left to interpret the law with their municipal solicitors, and act accordingly."
The court cases are leading zoning officials and solicitors through what Attorney Jeffrey Malak calls "new, uncharted waters."
Malak, who not only works with property on natural gas leases but also serves as the solicitor for several entities including the Back Mountain Community Partnership, has been researching the subject on behalf of the six member municipalities.
According to Malak, there are numerous provisions municipalities can try to get into their zoning ordinances, including:
> Locating wells in certain zoning districts with permission (conditional use).
> Keeping wells certain distances from occupied structures, public streets, roadways or lot lines.
> Screening, buffering and fencing requirements.
> Bonding the natural gas company to ensure responsibility for road maintenance and repair.
Ordinances to regulate dust, noise and light pollution are also possibilities.
However, Malak noted, "Just because we put it in the zoning ordinance doesn't mean that it's valid."
In one of the municipalities where Malak serves as solicitor, Dallas Borough, the zoning ordinance - which is available at www.dallasborough.org - restricts natural gas well drilling to industrial zones and highway business districts. It has requirements including that drilling cannot take place within 200 feet of any occupied structure or 100 feet of any stream, spring or wetland.
The 100-foot setback from water is a DEP regulation, but municipalities can include that and other state requirements in their zoning ordinances, Malak said.
"It's a lot of referencing state laws: 'Hey, the state has this, we're going to put this in too,'" he said.
As more cases and appeals make it through the state courts, they will give further guidance to municipalities, landowners and gas companies on what is permissible and what isn't, Malak said.
"It's an evolving field of law," he said.

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Cigarettes contain nicotine which is a powerful vasoconstrictor. This means the chemical chokes all of your blood vessels in your body.
Decreased blood supply means potentially delayed or poor healing and will increase your risk of infection, wound break down and possible need for additional surgery.
Our minimum recommendation for patients who smoke is to stop smoking at least 4 weeks before surgery and resume (hopefully never!) 4 weeks after surgery.
Please note nicotine gum, patch, and second hand smoke are just as bad.
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I’m not a fan of fracking. If it is done properly, the risks to the environment can be greatly minimized, but still, I believe this process is too risky, and I would prefer that we didn’t obtain sources of fuel this way.
Briefly, I am generally against anything that puts foreign substances into my body, my planet, my water and my food. Add to this, we really don’t need the fuel that fracking is yielding. The process is purely a financial/economical issue, and not one that significantly impacts our needs for fuel.
With that said, I am going to throw a bit of a twist into your day because when it comes to protecting the nation’s groundwater, I think we humans are just as irresponsible as some of the more careless Fracking companies. While we espouse the dangers of fracking, it seems that we overlook the risks to our groundwater that our very own well-drilling activities are presenting. Remember, regardless of what man drills into the earth in search of, we are still drilling into the planet’s crust and we are disturbing the natural order of things.
Congress is in motion to pass H.R. 3533, the – Water Systems Cost Savings Act – which aims to provide federal funds for those who want to remove themselves from using municipal water supplies in favor of drilling their own, private wells. Here in Memphis, TN, as well as in other cities with ample groundwater supplies, many industries avoid paying local water bills by tapping their own wells.
Do you see where I am going with this? Can you see the connection between irresponsible fracking and our well-drilling behavior? If not, let me illuminate my thoughts.
I like municipal water suppliers. In general they have chemists, engineers and trained operators. In general, their water activities are highly regulated and monitored. Conversely, homeowners, businesses and industries generally don’t have many regulations placed upon them with regards to drilling their own wells.
Ponder with me now just for a moment about the potential pollution, contamination and even terrorism susceptibility individual wells present to the nation’s groundwater. We must remember that when we drill a well, we are pulling water from a large underground source that is shared by a multitude of people. If just one well owner contaminated his well, it could literally ruin the entire aquifer.
If groundwater sustainability is something we really care about, then we need to develop a process that doesn’t just police the big, scary things like fracking, but also, places much higher standards, analytics and even regulatory licensing on anyone, individual or corporation who wants to drill their own well.


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Pernod Ricard’s Martell Cognac has partnered exclusively with men’s publisher DMARGE to help Australian spirits drinkers to ‘Flip the Sip’ on their home cocktail repertoire with Martell Blue Swift.
In what is a first major campaign in Australia for the French Cognac house, Martell hopes to dispel myths associated with dark spirits and inspire a new take on gifting and entertaining over the festive period – at the centre of the campaign is Martell Blue Swift, the latest and most unique creation from Martell.
Martell Blue Swift is the first-ever spirit drink made of cognac VSOP and then finished in Kentucky bourbon casks. Through Martell’s signature distillation process, the eau-de-vie absorbs the rich aromatic tones of the bourbon cask resulting in Martell’s hallmark style – delicate notes of candied fruit and plum – complemented by the subtle sweetness of vanilla and toasted oak from the casks.
It has been a game-changing innovation for Martell and is quickly becoming the fastest growing expression for the brand in Australia.
Research conducted by DMARGE in their annual survey uncovered that young Australian men have the car, the watch and the fully stocked drinks trolley, but the art of mixing a great cocktail often evades them. Combine this with Australian young professionals’ increasing interest in discovering premium dark spirit brands and exploring new ways of entertaining at home, it was an opportunity to ‘Flip the Sip’.
Partnering with cocktail specialist, Drinks Provisionist, Martell and DMARGE have developed a signature cocktail to rival the Negroni and Old Fashioned, The Swift was created as a smooth and easy-to-make cocktail that even those that have everything would want to make and drink at home.
The digitally-led media campaign has seen Martell and DMARGE produce a series of engaging video content that is hosted by the fictional yet relatable character ‘Mr Swift’ – your guide to drinking and gifting better in the lead up to the New Year.
Martell have also partnered with a number of venues across the country, which have graciously revealed their signature spin on The Swift as part of the video series, so that people can also try Martell Blue Swift at their local venues. Sydneysiders can try ‘The Swift’ in great venues such as Mary’s Newtown, The Cat’s Meow and Hendriks Cognac and Wine.
Ogilvy has announced David Fox will be promoted to the role of CEO for the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region, effective March 1, 2021. Based in Dubai the new role encompasses responsibility for nine countries and 10 offices across the region. The move to a new regional position follows six and a half […]
Holiday goers leaving Melbourne are being reminded to check Fire Danger Ratings (FDRs) to ensure they are fire safe and ready as they head out of the city and into regional Victoria. As part of the annual Victorian Fire Season campaign, the Victorian Government’s (Vic Gov) latest outdoor campaign harnesses the dynamic capability of digital […]
LinkedIn has unveiled its annual Jobs On The Rise report and – despite the usual suspects – it’s good news for those workers who possess digital skills and can work remotely. You can read the report in full here. As you’d expect, the report was headed by the always in-demand occupations such as health care […]
Henrik Isaksson is the regional managing director at Acast AU & NZ. In this opinion piece, he gives his top prediction on what 2021 will bring for the podcasting world. Despite a volatile media environment in 2020, podcasting has continued to grow from strength to strength. We have seen record listen numbers month-on-month and advertising […]
Lenovo has released a new campaign that applies a surprising creative twist to reviews of its products, combining them to form death metal songs. Yes, you read that correctly. The works come from Omnicom-owned Swedish agency Ehrenstrale, in a bid to target gamers, which Ad Age reports are an important audience for the brand, and […]
Outgoing and twice impeached President Donald Trump released a pre-recorded farewell as he departed Washington. But many of the US’ major networks didn’t show it. Trump was banned from Facebook and Twitter in the wake of his supporters’ attack on the US Capitol on 6 January. His personal account on YouTube has also been suspended […]
New data from Facebook shows that an initiative aimed at supporting local news publishers is showing early signs of success. Australian and New Zealand publishers participating in the Facebook Journalism Project’s Reader Revenue Accelerator in 2019 and through 2020 secured more than 24,000 new paying subscribers and more than 160,000 new loyal readers (whether through […]
Radio personality and comedian Kate Langbroek has returned from Italy to rediscover Melbourne’s iconic Chapel Street Precinct, which has seen a post-lockdown renaissance of business over summer. Langbroek has stitched the words ‘Support Local’ on her sleeve, making visits to many Chapel Street Precinct businesses with a film crew capturing each of the business owners […]
Paying homage to the Vincent Desiderio painting ‘Sleep’ and Kanye West’s ‘Famous’ music video, Koala Furniture’s new commercial shows a range of people all comfortably sleeping on their Koala Mattresses. Like the ‘Famous’ music video, the commercial for Koala’s new mattress begins with a close up of a single sleeping person and then slowly pulls […]
Pedestrian Group has announced it will be taking the third iteration of its national self-care festival Selfish online in 2021. Selfish Sessions, running virtually from February 24 – 26, will reflect on what self-worth means to young Aussies, focusing on long-term strategies to improve their intellectual, emotional and creative wellbeing off the back of a […]
This week, three A-League clubs will partner with Epic Games to celebrate global football in Fortnite, alongside more than 20 other top clubs from around the world. Starting on Sunday, players can choose from 10 different variants of new “Kickoff Set” outfits to represent their favorite club in-game. Each outfit can be swapped to any […]


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Eight years before R.H. Donnelley purchased the entire company outright for $345 million to compete with SuperPages and YellowPages, Business.com was owned by two friends who purchased the domain name to create a B2B site. Many laughed at the purchase, especially after the Internet bubble popped, but the two got the last laugh when they sold for 46 times what they originally paid.
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text: One of our favourite memories from Erin and Greg’s Canmore wedding, is ripping around the Silver Tip golf course on golf carts, chasing the last light of the Summer Solstice. Erin and Greg got married on the longest day of the year, surrounded by friends, family and snow-flanked mountains. Their adorable dog, Zoe, had a font row ‘perch’ for witnessing their vows high above Canmore, overlooking the Bow Valley’s rugged mountains. We had so much fun photographing the beautiful story of their day, from the anticipation of the morning, right through to the shenanigans on the dance floor. Thank you, Erin and Greg, for trusting us with this story.

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“Republican cuts kill;” that’s an ad run by the Agenda Project Action Fund. Of all the things in the world, liberals have decided to politicize a deadly, incurable infectious disease to attack Republicans. Guy and Katie have written about the absurdity of this claim; even the Washington Post gave it four pinocchios:
This ad is simply a more extreme version of a new Democratic talking point — that GOP budget cuts have harmed the nation’s ability to handle the Ebola outbreak. It mixes statistics — the budget for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) “cut” $585 million (the ad offers no date range) — with disturbing images of the outbreak and various Republican leaders saying variations of the word “cut.”
On many levels, this line of attack is absurd.
Obama’s Republican predecessor oversaw big increases in public-health sector spending, and both Democrats and Republicans in recent years have broadly supported efforts to rein in federal spending. Sequestration resulted from a bipartisan agreement. In some years, Congress has allocated more money for NIH and CDC than the Obama administration requested. Meanwhile, contrary to the suggestion of the DCCC ad, there never was a specific vote on funding to prevent Ebola.
If we are going to talk about spending, let’s bring in the CDC’s priorities, like why has more money gone to the “community transformation grant program” than programs that help fight and prevent infectious diseases. Also, as Guy wrote:
Republican budget "cuts" simply slow down the overall rate of spending increases. Even the dreaded sequester -- which was President Obama's idea, changes to which he vowed to veto -- barely dented spending at all. Reason's Nick Gillespie has an excellent post full of facts and charts to refute the DEADLY CUTS! hyperventilating. To put things in perspective, President Clinton's last budget (FY 2000) called for $1.77 trillion in federal spending. A decade-and-a-half later, we're steadily marching toward $4 trillion in outlays, having accrued well over $17 trillion in debt, with tens of trillions more looming in unpaid-for promises. The notion that the federal government is spending every single one of those dollars responsibly is laughable. The federal budget is rife with waste, inefficiencies and reckless long-term math. John Hayward's apt summary: "We don't have an under-funded government. We have a bad government." Republicans are right to fight for needed reforms and restraint -- and doing so does not entail far-fetched side effects such as aiding and abetting Ebola. And by the way, if that insane Ebola ad reminds you of this startling smear of Paul Ryan in 2011, it might be because both spots were produced by the same group.
So, let’s play by Agenda Project's rules for a second. Do they think cutting $72 million from the CDC for public health preparedness and response is a rational move? If not, they have to call the Obama White House to find out why they proposed such cuts in their 2012 budget (via Daily Caller):
Obama’s original budget plan for fiscal year 2012 cut funding for a CDC public health emergency preparedness program by $72 million. The proposed cuts would have taken money away from municipal and state health departments to hire health workers and monitor for public health hazards and disease outbreaks.
The CDC budget plan (p. 40) lists vast “Decreases” in funding for categories including public health preparedness and response, including the Public Health Emergency Preparedness Grant Program, as well as environmental health, chronic disease prevention, public health scientific services, and occupational safety and health.
In the end, both the White House and GOP budget plans failed, but the Obama administration seemed content with cutting some funds from the CDC. Now, in the end, both GOP and Obama budgets plans failed and sequestration was a bipartisan agreement, so one must wonder how the Agenda Project put this this Republicans=death narrative together. Frankly, I wouldn't waste your time on it.
Hopefully, this sort of overreach will kill future attack ads of this nature on both sides.
H/T Daily Caller


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Apple Shares Full Video of Fall 'Hey Siri' Event on YouTube
Two days after its jam-packed "Hey Siri" event that saw the debut of several new products, Apple has uploaded a full video of its presentation to its YouTube channel. The same video is also available on Apple's own event website.
Apple's "Hey Siri" event presentation was well-organized but fast-paced, as it covered the iPhone 6s and 6s Plus, the iPad Pro and its Pencil/Smart Keyboard accessories, the iPad mini 4, the Apple TV, and several new Apple Watch products, from new Rose Gold/Gold finishes for the Apple Watch Sport to exclusive Hermés Apple Watch models.
Rumors have suggested Apple's big fall extravaganza will be its final event this year, meaning there won't be a second event in October as there has been in years past. Apple has, however, split its upcoming product releases up over September, October, and November. The iPhone 6s and 6s Plus will launch on September 25, while the Apple TV will come in late October and the iPad Pro will launch in November.
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Relevant: I'm glad Apple doesn't allow comments on their YouTube publications. There are enough "wars" and trolls on other videos
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Bitcoin has broken its former all-time high and is now officially looking at price discovery. This comes on the back of serious developments in the industry – just today, the first-ever SEC-approved futures-backed Bitcoin ETF started trading.
The previous all-time high of Bitcoin’s price was set on April 14th, 2021 and it was at $64,895 trading on Bitstamp exchange – exactly 6 months and 6 days ago. As of writing these lines and shortly after breaking the ATH level, Bitcoin quickly reached a record high of $66,415.


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Originally envisaged as ‘islands of legal excellence to create a generation of ‘social engineers’ for ‘nation-building’, the National Law Universities (‘NLUs’) today are inefficiently administrated educational institutions that failed the cause of legal excellence in India. They have been unable to provide basic facilities like decent faculty, proper classrooms, proper residential areas, a functional library, hygienic environment and other such necessities despite charging a substantially high tuition fee from the students. Till date, student bodies of almost ten NLUs have come down in protest against their respective administrations for issues relating to poor infrastructure, stringent academic regulations, administrative irregularities, arbitrary actions and a continuing lack of transparency.More than half the NLUs do not even have NAAC accreditation.
One of foremost reasons for it has been the sheer lack of funds. NLUs are state universities and are formed under a statute passed by the respective state legislature. This means they rely primarily on their home states for funds and in absence of sufficient assistance from the same, run primarily on student fees and occasional UGC grants.
This lack of funds is further coupled with increasing state government interference in the administration of NLUs. In the recent years, almost all NLUs have witnessed a trend wherein state governments are increasing the domicile quota through state amendment bills. Today, ten NLUs have 50% state reservation and seven others have 20% or more.
The remaining older institutions like National Law School of India University, Bangalore and National University of Juridical Sciences, Kolkata have also recently been at the receiving end of such amendments. Last year, the Karnataka legislative assembly unanimously passed the National Law School of India (Amendment) Bill 2017 which proposes to reserve 50% seats in the premier institution for students who are residents of the state. Similarly, the West Bengal legislative assembly through an amendment bill (‘the Bill’), passed on November 20th, 2018, proposed to create a state reservation for a minimum of 30 per cent of seats in NUJS, Kolkata to ‘bring it in consonance with other National Law Schools’. The Bill also undermines the institution’s autonomy by conferring the power on the state government to determine the fee-structure and allow admissions on the basis of a qualifying exam, bypassing the nationally instituted Common Law Admission Test (CLAT). Given NUJS is a founding member of the CLAT consortium, such a provision could possibly set-off a similar trend among other NLUs to opt out of the CLAT framework. Such developments are not only alarming but also antithetical to the idea of National Law Universities.
Demands made by NLUs against such actions and state of affairs have also been repeatedly ignored by the state governments. It is in this context that we affirm to seek the change exogenously. To promote legal education in India, it is high-time that NLUs, being the premier institutes of the country in the field of law, be conferred with the status of national institutes.
On this twenty-sixth day of November (70th National Law Day) we, the students of all the NLUs, renew and reaffirm our call for reforms in legal education in India by urging the Union Government to take cognizance of the abysmal state of affairs and bring parity in the administration of NLUs, to make them at par with other national institutes. Being comparable to IITs, NITs, IIITs and IIMs (added earlier this year) in every respect, granting NLUs the status of ‘Institutes of National Importance’ (INI) must also be considered specially to tackle the perpetual lack of funds and issues faced by students.
Today on National Law Day, the NLUs Student Consortium - comprising of student body representatives of all National Law Universites - have come together in a Show of Solidarity in a renewed call for the Nationalization of all NLUs.
The following pictures are from the special events conducted on the lines of showcasing solidarity with the idea of nationalising NLUs:
Human chain formed along the words 'SOS' denoting the Show of Solidarity
Students calling for the nationalisation of National Law University with the chant 'Nationalise NLUs'
The President of the SJA, Arindum Nayak discussing the need to nationalise NLUs and the road ahead


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On occasion the New York City Department of Finance (DOF) makes calculation errors when assessing real estate taxes and/or processing the various tax benefit programs that it administers. These errors, when left uncorrected, can be very costly for property owners. At Sanchez & Polovetsky, PLLC, we represent clients contending with DOF mistakes such as inaccurate property tax assessments, failure to properly allocate assessed values among condominiums, failure to implement exemption and/or abatement benefits, tax class assignment errors, and correcting errors in vacant land data (e.g. size of tax lot), without limitation.
The firm also works to ensure that the DOF does not continue to assess real estate taxes and send tax bills to private owners whose property has been acquired by Condemnation via Eminent Domain; since in many cases, the DOF does not update its records even after title to a property has passed to a government agency (which is exempt from real estate taxation), and erroneously continues to bill the former property owner instead.


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No guarantor required! Weekly and monthly rates available. Good for short and long-term stay.
Furano Cheese Factory
Furano city, located in the center of Hokkaido, is a rural tourist area famous for agriculture and dairy production. Furano Cheese Factory is a leisure facility that sells cheese made with fresh milk from cows that grew up in the local area, and visitors can also experience interactive workshops. You can learn all about dairy products from different angles, such as watching the production process across the glass and participating in butter and ice cream making. Furthermore, in the cafe inside the factory, you can eat freshly made low fat ice cream and pizza baked in a stone oven.
- Nakago-ku, Furano-shi, Hokkaido
- Contact No.
- From JR Furano Station, take Furano Bus Goryo Line for 10 min, get off at 5 sen and walk for 20 min. *There are only 3 Furano Buses on the Goryo Line per day.
- Opening Hours / Holidays
- 9:00-17:00 (Nov-Mar is until 16:00)
Closed: Dec 31-Jan 3
- Official Website
- Time Required
- 2.5 hours
※ Some information is displayed in Japanese and machine-translated English, which may not be accurate.
For the latest information, please check the official website for each spot.
At Furano Cheese Factory, it is possible to observe the production room and the storage space from across the glass. There are so many new things you can learn by getting a chance to see the actual production process! There are also exhibits showing cheese packaging from around the world and the history of cheese, as well as a model cow for trial milking so that visitors can further discover the fascinating world of cheese.
In the on-premise pizza factory, you can eat a pizza that has been made with the commitment to use all locally grown ingredients including the cheese. The steaming hot pizza baked in the stone oven that was imported from Naples, the origin of pizza, is an absolute delight! The most popular is the Margherita with plenty of original mozzarella made inside the cheese factory (1,500 yen per piece).
Interactive Production Workshop
In the interactive workshop, classes are held everyday for handmade cheese, butter, bread and ice cream. It is a popular program, as you can experience making the products together as a family or couple. Walk-ins are welcome except for the bread workshop, so you can try spontaneously.

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That depends on if your Honda is fuel injected or has a cardeurator on it. If it has a carb then you can't read codes due to the fact that a carbbed model does not have a computer. If it is fuel injected then there is usually a blue two wire connector under the glovebox just inside the passenger door. You may have to dig for it. It may be taped to a wire harness and will not have anything plugged into it. When you find it, short the two wires together(a small custom bent paper-clip works perfectly), turn the ignition to the "run" position. Do not start the engine. And a "PGM" light should start flashing codes. Long flash for tens digit. Short flash for ones digit. Once the numbers repeat,you have all the stored codes. To clear codes after repair, just disconnect the neg. cable from the battery for approx 30 seconds.
I found this helpful: http://hondaswap.com/reference-materials/88-ecu-error-codes-29109/ Good luck.
No, the 88 is the 3rd generation and the 92 is the 4th generation.
Listed on driver's door post.
The computer is located underneath the driver's side seat
88 HONDA accord do not have a fuel pump reset button. If you replaced the fuel pump and still not getting fuel on your carburetor replace your fuel pump relay.
10w30 weight any major brand.
R12 And if you still have this change over to 134a instead of buy r12
see under hood direction, vehicle idle @750RPM in gear 15*
Try the technical dept of your library. I just got the complete wiring diagram for my 88 accord.


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From idea to solution
Guest blogger, Elena Tsalanidis, Co-founder and COO of Deeligence, offers advice on how to apply the principles of design thinking and lean startup to help develop the right legal tech.
Many of you out there: lawyers, legaltech vendors or innovation teams, may have a great idea brewing. An idea that will save time, money and make your colleague’s / customer’s lives better. So how do you go from an inkling to a potential solution?
At Deeligence, we’ve spent the last 6+ months on a product development journey using design thinking principles and lean startup methodology. Here’s what we’ve learned:
- Focus on the problem
- Speak to as many stakeholders as you can
- Be flexible about the solution
- Iterate at pace and continually test
Define your problem well
Design thinking involves solving complex problems in a customer-centric way eg. being downright obsessed with the problem.
But wait, what actually is the problem? You must define it clearly and be guided by it: think about what friction points and key themes keep popping up. If you can’t clearly describe the pain you’re alleviating in under 15 seconds, it needs refinement.
For us, we knew that due diligence delivery was awful (four separate M&A lawyers we interviewed called it “a nightmare”), but refining our problem statement was hard. We wanted to capture the archaic processes and inefficiencies that do a disservice to overworked lawyers and their clients. In the end, we synthesised the problem as:
Due diligence processes are largely unchanged from the 1990s. The work is tedious, time consuming and often loss leading. Firms struggle to efficiently coordinate teams, leading to cost blow-outs and a risk of missing deal-critical issues for clients.
It’s punchy, evocative and spotlights our customers’ main difficulties.
Speak to the right people
My co-founder and I wanted to test our assumptions about what we thought were the most problematic parts of due diligence. Using a design thinking approach we tested these through user research eg. lots of listening. We leaned on our networks to hold 50+ interviews across 4 continents.
The right people to interview are those with direct experience of the problem, ideally with differing profiles / geographies. More people = more perspectives. In our case, law firm Innovation Managers, Partners, Lawyers and Clients all have different motivations and issues.
When holding interviews, tailor non-leading questions to each persona. For example, most Partners rarely log into a virtual data room – while this is where Junior Lawyers live during a deal. Equally, Junior Lawyers aren’t aware of recovery rates, utilisation rates and cost blow outs – where Partners are judged and rewarded on these metrics. Ask questions your user knows and cares about.
Collate feedback critically
Often, an outline of a solution starts to appear once preliminary interviews are finished. But now you have a new hurdle: the very clever people you interviewed will have thoughts and advice on your proposal. Some is useful, some is not. To help sort signal from noise, our shorthand is: if one interviewee suggests something then note it and move on. But when three or more people give the same feedback it’s time to take it seriously.
For example, we had an interviewee suggest what our first feature should be. Surprised at his suggestion we drilled down with ‘five why’s’. That is, asking ‘why’ again and again to find his underlying reasoning. It turned out that our feature-suggester was actually thinking about how we could differentiate from other products (helpful, but misguided) rather than explaining the pain of the problem from their personal experience, which is always more truthful and reliable. Remember, no one is living the problem as deeply and broadly as you. Trust your gut.
To help collate the feedback we used tools like Miro to create process maps to better understand a usual workflow. We grouped comments regarding the problem into themes, triaging and sorting to show what users found most painful. This helped us build our product roadmap and know what features to build first.
Align and iterate, fast
With our mental model set, next we used lean start-up methodology to focus on experimenting, testing and iterating. We built cheap, scaled-down versions of our product to test our ideas before incurring any costs.
Our increasingly less embarrassing prototypes that we shared were:
- Some scribbles on a page. Feedback was brutal. Whole thing went in the bin, started again.
- A two day build in a no-code tool. This was something to show rather than anything functional. Feedback was still savage. Closer, but mostly binned. The no-code route was clearly not going to work for our product.
- A low-quality series of static screens in Figma (my first time using it). Feedback mixed. Closer now.
- Some higher quality screens created by a UX designer with some ‘clickable’ functionality. Feedback much better. Enough confidence to proceed to tech build.
At each stage, we showed the prototype to hear what people thought, and built in feedback into subsequent versions. We held onto the long-term vision and understanding of the product tightly but treated our views about how to get there more loosely.
It’s important to ensure your product or idea is useful and that you discover this quickly and cheaply. Design thinking and lean startup methodologies are problem-solving approaches that increase your probability of success for your innovative project.
Can’t wait to see what big ideas you generate and build next, one small, incremental piece at a time.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Elena Tsalanidis is the Co-founder and Chief Operating Officer of Deeligence. Deeligence equips corporate lawyers with modern workflow tools and helpful automation to save time and scale collaboration. Getting the deal done quicker from data room to final report.

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Justin and Nibin of Maker Watch Company are two friends who’ve always wanted to work together - and based on the watches they make, you can tell they’re a dream team. Using Alumilite Clear Slow, they create and value work that’s made with the human touch.
Having them on the #KeepMaking Podcast was as insightful as it was inspiring. Their pieces are one of a kind - they make art you can wear and that they genuinely care about.
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The item is a simple and practical 150cm long pet dog lead leash traction rope, which is made of durable soft nylon and cotton rope materials and a little bit stretch and feels good and soft, and too strong to be bit and tore by dogs. The traction rope is perfect for training or walking your pet dog. Besides, it can also act as a pet dog collar, whose circumference is very large and can be adjusted freely.
- Color: mainly black.
- Material: durable soft nylon and cotton rope.
- Size: Length: about 150cm /59"; Thickness: about 1cm.
- 100% brand new and high quality Nylon Adjustable Loop Training Leash Slip Lead Collar Traction Rope.
- It is too strong to be bit and tore by dogs.
- It is a little bit stretch and feels good and soft.
- Perfect for training and walking your pet dog.
- This training leash lead can serve as a pet dog collar, whose circumference is very large and can be adjusted freely.
- Simple, practical and reusable design, and easy to use.
- Note: You'd better adjust the size of leash collar bigger than that of your pet's neck in case your dog is tightened.
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At Pet Club World, we truly offer the most stunning, trendy highest-quality products in the world.
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Dragons' former Wales and British and Irish Lions hooker Richard Hibbard retires with immediate effect.
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Welsh Rugby Union chief executive Steve Phillips is "delighted" that full crowds will be able to attend Wales' home Six Nations matches.
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True Blood has always celebrated the undead, but on Sunday night it was all about celebrating the actually dead.
Originally posted 07/14/2014 01:30AM
If all was happy in Bon Temps the last time you watched True Blood, then read no further … then again, things were never that happy in Bon Temps.
Sunday's episode of the HBO drama began with a few phone calls.
Still reeling from the deaths of her best friend Tara and her boyfriend, Alcide, Sookie (Anna Paquin) was tasked with breaking the news of the werewolf's death to his father, Jackson (Robert Patrick), while Jason (Ryan Kwanten) called up his former best friend, Hoyt Fortenberry (Jim Parrack, making his first appearance on the show since season 5), to inform him that his mother had been killed by a vampire.
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Participants are needed for the fourth annual "Cookin' on the Kaw BBQ Contest," a Kansas city Barbeque Society sanctioned BBQ contest sponsored by the De Soto Chamber of Commerce will take place Oct. 12 and 13 at Zimmerman's Kill Creek Farm, 9210 Kill Creek Road, De Soto.
The first 40 entries will be accepted, along with payment and a completed registration form, on a first-come, first-served basis. Registration is $225 and includes free power and ice.
Main contest categories include chicken, pork ribs, pork (Boston butt/picnic/whole shoulder) and beef brisket. Special contest categories include people's choice, honey barbecue sauce, chili contest and site decorations.
More than $2,500 in cash prizes will be given away. The grand champion will receive $500. The reserve champion will receive $400.
For more information about the BBQ contest, call the Chamber office at 583-1585 or e-mail Sara Ritter at email@example.com.
In addition to the BBQ contest, each team is invited to cook their best chili. There will be a $10 entry fee per team and each team will get five ballots that will be their ticket to allow them to taste all the other entries and vote on their favorite. The chili must be cooked on site and each team must make about two gallons.
For $3, the public will get to taste all the chili they want from 5 to 8 p.m. and vote for their favorite.
Half of the $10 entry frees goes to prize money. The other half goes to Kooker's Kare as well as 100 percent of the $3 fee the public pays.
Kooker's Kare is an organization that provides freshly cooked and non-perishable food to food pantries like the Harvesters Food Network.
For more information about the chili contest, call Sean at (785) 766-9709 or Gary at (816) 213-4363.


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It was the first camping trip for the Trail Blazers and little did they know they would be hiking directly into a battle between a dangerous bear and the mythical Bigfoot!It was the first camping trip for the newly formed, Trail Blazers club; little did they know that due to poor planning, they would be hiking on the first day of hunting season. The ill-equipped parents and their bullying children march into the den area of a female bear, bent on protecting her cubs at all costs. The mother bear attacks the Trail Blazers and when all seems lost, the mythical creature Bigfoot appears!Big Foot is a humorous theatrical play that deals with bullying and family issues.
Half-Light & Other Poems brings together the most important and enduring poems by this neglected writer, one of Russia's great 19th century poets. In a new translation by Peter France, the philosophical, social and literary struggles of Russia under Tsar Nicholas I are brought to vivid life in dazzling, often fantastical fashion.
Alamut takes place in 11th Century Persia, in the fortress of Alamut, where self-proclaimed prophet Hasan ibn Sabbah is setting up his mad but brilliant plan to rule the region with a handful elite fighters who are to become his "living daggers." By creating a virtual paradise at Alamut, filled with beautiful women, lush gardens, wine and hashish, Sabbah is able to convince his young fighters that they can reach paradise if they follow his commands. With parallels to Osama bin Laden, Alamut tells the story of how Sabbah was able to instill fear into the ruling class by creating a small army of devotees who were willing to kill, and be killed, in order to achieve paradise. Believing in the supreme Ismaili motto “Nothing is true, everything is permitted,” Sabbah wanted to “experiment” with how far he could manipulate religious devotion for his own political gain through appealing to what he called the stupidity and gullibility of people and their passion for pleasure and selfish desires.
The novel focuses on Sabbah as he unveils his plan to his inner circle, and on two of his young followers — the beautiful slave girl Halima, who has come to Alamut to join Sabbah's paradise on earth, and young ibn Tahir, Sabbah's most gifted fighter. As both Halima and ibn Tahir become disillusioned with Sabbah's vision, their lives take unexpected turns.
Alamut was originally written in 1938 as an allegory to Mussolini's fascist state. In the 1960's it became a cult favorite throughout Tito's Yugoslavia, and in the 1990s, during the Balkan's War, it was read as an allegory of the region's strife and became a bestseller in Germany, France and Spain. Following the attacks of September 11, 2001, the book once again took on a new life, selling more than 20,000 copies in a new Slovenian edition, and being translated around the world in more than 19 languages. This edition, translated by Michael Biggins, in the first-ever English translation.
As soon as Napoleon and his Grand Army entered Moscow, on 14 September 1812, the capital erupted in flames that eventually engulfed and destroyed two thirds of the city. The fiery devastation had a profound effect on the Grand Army, but for thirty-five days Napoleon stayed, making increasingly desperate efforts to achieve peace with Russia. Then, in October, almost surrounded by the Russians and with winter fast approaching, he abandoned the capital and embarked on the long, bitter retreat that destroyed his army. The month-long stay in Moscow was a pivotal moment in the war of 1812 – the moment when the initiative swung towards the Tsar’s armies and spelled doom for the invading Grand Army – yet it has rarely been studied in the same depth as the other key events of the campaign. Alexander Mikaberidze, in this third volume of his in-depth reassessment of the war between the French and Russian empires, emphasizes the importance of the Moscow fire and shows how Russian intransigence sealed the fate of the French army. He uses a vast array of French, German, Polish and Russian memoirs, letters and diaries as well as archival material in order to tell the dramatic story of the Moscow fire. Not only does he provide a comprehensive account of events, looking at them from both the French and Russian points of view, but he explores the Russians’ motives for leaving, then burning their capital. Using extensive eyewitness accounts, he paints a vivid picture of the harsh reality of life in the remains of the occupied city and describes military operations around Moscow at this turning point in the campaign.
Isaac Babel, Dmitry Shostakovich, and Anna Akhmatova star in this series of portraits of some of the greatest writers, artists, and composers of the twentieth century."We stopped and Shklovsky told me / quietly, but clearly, / 'Remember, we are on our way out. / On our way out.' And I recalled / ... the wall of books, / all written by a man / who lived / in times that were hard to bear." Lev Ozerov's finest book, Portraits Without Frames comprises fifty intimate, skillfully crafted accounts of meetings with important figures, ranging from fellow poets Anna Akhmatova and Boris Pasternak, to prose writers Isaac Babel and Andrey Platonov, to artists and composers Vladimir Tatlin and Dmitry Shostakovich. It is both a testament to an extraordinary life and a perceptive mini-encyclopedia of Soviet culture. Composed in delicate, rhythmic free verse, Ozerov's portraits are like nothing else in Russian poetry.
A young woman gets sold to a biker in exchange for her father's life...
Weakness. Hot, dominant Rocko can't stand it. But how can he resist the piece of sweet cherry pie who offers herself as an alternative to pummeling her gambling father’s ass?
When Lena meets Rocko, a fire ignites between her legs. The rugged, tattooed, muscled biker is too damn delicious...and the sex? Explosive.
All it took was one stolen kiss…and Lena was addicted. But when she discovers that Rocko’s life is on the line, will he trust her or push her away?
Lena and Rocko face the most important question of their lives—will they embrace danger for love?
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The biker needs a wife. She needs to save her brother's life.
Griffin Prentiss, the bad boy biker, needs a wife to secure his leadership in the motorcycle club mafia. When he comes across innocent Leah Rawlins, he knows she's the perfect woman for the job.
"Good Girl" Leah Rawlins will do anything to save her brother's life...even if it means marrying a bad mafia biker. When Leah marries Griffin, she realizes just how dangerous her decision really is...
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Base salary for SPD agents drops to nearly $ 42,000 next week – Salisbury Post
By Natalie Anderson
SALISBURY – With a 6.5% pay rise for police officers included in the 2021-22 budget and a cost of living increase to come, Salisbury Police Chief Jerry Stokes says he’s convinced the new the department’s base salary will be competitive with neighboring markets.
Members of Salisbury City Council last week approved a $ 47 million budget for the next fiscal year that includes increases for police. Initially, the city’s budget guaranteed a 5% increase for sworn officers, which Stokes told the Post was good, but not competitive with the neighboring market. In a meeting on May 26 to discuss the budget, City Manager Lane Bailey suggested that council members include an additional 1.5% increase, rising to $ 92,000, as he expected the forces nearby order would also increase their wages to remain competitive.
Council members ultimately agreed to use nearly $ 1.5 million of surplus funds from the current fiscal year to cover increases in police and public works employees for the 2021-2022 fiscal year.
Effective Thursday, July 1, the base salary for all officers will increase from $ 39,357 to $ 41,916, with another increase in effect on January 1 when all city employees receive a cost of living adjustment from 2%. After the 12-month probation period required by the city for officers, the salary would increase by 5% to $ 44,892.
To encourage new hires, the department’s compensation program also includes a 2.5% increase for bilingual candidates, a registration bonus of $ 750, bonuses of $ 5,000 for lateral transfers, an increase of 1 % per annum based on years of service and a $ 3,000 in Rowan County relocation bonus. . Additionally, educational bonuses include $ 1,000 for an associate’s degree, $ 2,000 for a bachelor’s degree and $ 2,500 for a master’s degree.
Officers will also receive a take-out vehicle if they live within 30 miles of the county, 8.5 hours of annual leave, 8.5 hours of sick leave per month, and 13 paid holidays. All officers would be eligible for the state pension system with medical benefits provided before 2012.
“It’s a very difficult hiring market for agents right now. The candidates are thin, and it’s nationwide, ”Stokes told the Post. “We are now competitive with (the surrounding agencies) with these adjustments.”
The previous compensation package also included a $ 3,000 relocation incentive, a $ 750 enrollment bonus for new hires, and up to $ 5,000 enrollment for lateral transfers. New hires were also enticed with 16 hours of annual leave, access to the town’s wellness clinic and free rides on Salisbury Transit. Access to the wellness clinic and free public transport rides remain in effect for Salisbury Police Officers.
At a city council meeting in February, Stokes said nine nearby agencies were offering higher starting salaries for officers, including Mooresville, Concord, High Point and the Cabarrus County Sheriff’s Office. Based on the exit interviews, Stokes said major concerns included the lack of career advancement opportunities, compression of salary scales and opportunities elsewhere to apply skills and abilities. Young staff and a low-quality pool of candidates are two other challenges facing the department.
Additionally, Stokes reported that 2020 saw the lowest number of students entering basic law enforcement training since 2016. Last year’s class produced 50% fewer students than it did. 2019, according to the NC Justice Standards Commission. The commission also estimates that there are at least 1,000 vacant positions in the North Carolina Police Department.
In an interview with the Post, Stokes noted a shortage of officers in 2017, when the department nearly resorted to the city’s interlocal agreement with surrounding law enforcement agencies for help. But the department is “still not at the point of having to appeal to the interlocal agreement,” he added.
For fiscal year 2017-18, new officers received a 15% increase, which increased base salary from $ 34,224 to $ 39,357 and then to $ 41,325 after a 12-month probation period. .
After receiving the salary increase in 2018, the ministry reported the departure of nine officers, but hired 22 additional employees. In 2020, the department lost 12 and hired four agents. The department reached the breakeven point with nine departures and nine hires in 2019.
The turnover rate was 14.5% in 2020, with the national rate set at 10.8%.
Stokes estimates that it takes up to $ 80,000 to replace each officer after taking into account salary, benefits, uniforms, equipment and training.
Stokes said recruiting officer Shaneesha Smith was able to present the new compensation package to potential recruits at the city’s annual Juneteenth celebration last week and was planning to attend the upcoming career fair. at the West End Plaza on Saturday.
The department is currently working to fill 13 vacant positions in the patrol division, but a few specialist positions are also open. This represents a vacancy rate of approximately 16%. Stokes is authorized by the city to have 83 budgeted positions filled in the department.
Currently, the department has a few candidates who look promising, the chief added.
Stokes said the greatest need right now is more patrol officers. These officers serve as first responders who answer 911 calls. With the shortage of officers right now, detectives are sometimes out of their business to help patrol.
“When we have vacancies like this, the calls may have to wait while (agents) process other emergency calls,” Stokes said.
Contact reporter Natalie Anderson at 704-797-4246.


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Over the years I’ve received several requests for a copy of my preprinted grocery list. I’m happy to oblige. For the past 15 years I have used some variation of this list. Every week I put a blank copy of the list on my refrigerator. I circle any staples I run out of during the week and I use the same list when I make my weekly plan for our meals. All I do is circle anything I need to buy.
The order the ingredients are listed matches the aisles of the grocery store where I shop. The food isn’t organized in specific categories. In my grocery store the toilet paper and paper towels are not in the same aisle as the napkins, so on my list they are in different aisles, rather than in a section headed “Paper Goods”. My list also contains mostly ingredients, not many processed or ready-to-eat foods. For these reasons you may need to customize the list. Let me know if you see anything I need to add to the list. You can download the grocery list HERE.


Check out this super cool video highlighting how radically the modern, social web differs from both written text and “read-only” online text. By breaking down the barriers to publishing, the social web has transformed all of us from consumers to active co-creators of the world.
Also amazing: this Wired article chronicling the birth and evolution of the internet: http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/13.08/tech.html
As a 28 year-old, who experienced the mainstreaming of the internet during my pre-teen years, these issues are fascinating and deeply personal. I am curious how people in different age groups react to the video and the article.
If you were born before 1975, does the shift toward a social, connected world seem radical to you? Is the social web simply an extension of the connections we’ve always had with one another? Or is it actually a new form of connection? Do you long for a past age of face-to-face interaction?
For those of you born after 1995, how has growing up with the internet affected your view of its importance? Do you take it for granted or appreciate how it helps us all connect?
As we move forward and adapt in this rapidly changing technological landscape, we also need to look back at where we have come from and make sure the changes we experience are the changes we want. The more we can reflect, the smarter and wiser we will become.


In this week’s issue of USA Today, we take a look at the future of mobile devices, which will rely heavily on automation.
With the emergence of IoT and smart home devices, we need to focus on developing solutions that are highly automated.
It may seem like a daunting task, but the potential is there to transform a wide variety of industries.
Automation could revolutionize a range of industries, including agriculture, construction, transportation, and even the healthcare sector.
To be successful, these industries will need to embrace the power of automation and make it part of their development strategy.
In this article, we’ll look at how Dynamatic technologies will help us build smart, connected devices.
Dynamatic technologies can build a range to smart, home-based devices Dynamics technologies are an emerging trend that enable us to build smart devices with ease.
While most of these technologies are not fully automated, they allow us to automate a variety of aspects of the device, including the battery life, battery level, and screen size.
For example, a home hub that connects to a home’s Wi-Fi network can use a single Dynamatic device to connect to an Internet-connected device.
In some cases, the hub can automatically turn on the device and turn off the other devices connected to the hub.
These automation capabilities allow us, for example, to monitor our home’s heating, air conditioners, and lighting remotely.
This enables us to maintain control over the home’s environment and avoid having to set up and maintain separate, connected homes in different areas of the house.
Dynamatic devices can be built with simple, easy to understand interfaces, and can be easily extended to support more complex automation needs.
Automated home automation technology Dynamical devices can include simple sensors or switches, which enable us, even in small or remote areas, to control the automation of many different kinds of home automation devices.
These devices are called home automation systems (HASs), and they use the same basic interface to connect a Dynamatic unit to a remote home automation system.
The interface is called a Dynamic Hub.
To learn more about home automation technologies, read our article about Home Automation Technology.
Home automation systems have become increasingly popular for two reasons.
First, home automation has a very low barrier to entry.
Many people can build these systems in a few weeks or hours, which makes it easy for consumers to get involved.
Second, home systems can be remotely controlled, which helps them to better meet the needs of homeowners and provide them with the tools they need to effectively manage their home.
To understand how home automation can help homeowners, read the following articles: How Home Automations Can Help You Start Living More Productively with Home Automated Controls Home Automators: Building a Smart Home System With Home Automatics Home Automates and the Internet Home Automator is the new home automation solution that allows homeowners to control and manage their homes remotely using the Internet.
Home Automata, the company behind Home Automate, is an Internet of Things (IoT) company that has a goal to create a better home system.
HomeAutomata has built a new smart home platform that enables homeowners to automate, manage, and monitor their home using a simple interface.
The platform integrates the built-in sensors and smart switches to provide a smart home experience.
For the most part, home Automate can be controlled remotely with one of its thousands of products.
But the company is also developing a new way to make it easy to connect the Dynamatic Hubs and Smart Home Automats to the Internet so that the devices can communicate with other Dynamatic systems in the home.
Using the new Dynamatic hub, Home Automasis can connect to the Dynamic Home Automat, which can communicate directly with the Dynamatial Hub, a connected home automation device.
Dynamatials can also control Dynamatical devices remotely.
HomeDynamics: Dynamatic IoT Home Automating with HomeDynosource.com HomeDYNOSource.net is a home automation company that specializes in home automation products that connect to a single hub and automate many devices and appliances.
Dynamic is a smart, open source technology that allows consumers to build and customize their own home automation solutions.
Dynamics are an open source software platform that makes it easier to build, modify, and test new devices and automation solutions with a simple set of programming interfaces.
Dynamys can be used to control multiple Dynamatias in a single home or home automation project.
Dynamy also provides a built-up ecosystem for third-party developers, allowing consumers to quickly and easily build products that use Dynamy.
HomeKit: The HomeKit Platform HomeKit is a new open source platform that allows users to build home automation and smart lighting solutions.
HomeLink is a powerful set of open source home automation SDKs, the SDKs for which can be embedded into any smart home product.
HomeLabs: HomeKit Smart


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(Click image for high resolution .JPG)Teacher/Presenter bio for Laura Pritchett:
Laura Pritchett is an American author whose work is rooted in the natural world. She began her writing journey with the short story collection Hell’s Bottom, Colorado, which won the PEN USA Award for Fiction and the Milkweed National Fiction Prize. This was followed by the novels Sky Bridge, Stars Go Blue, and Red Lightning, which garnered numerous literary awards, including the High Plains Book Award and the WILLA. Her newest novel, The Blue Hour, is shortly forthcoming.
She also has two nonfiction books: Great Colorado Bear Stories and Making Friends with Death, Kind Of, set to be released in September 2017 by Viva Editions.
She’s also editor of three anthologies: Pulse of the River, Home Land, and Going Green: True Tales from Gleaners, Scavengers, and Dumpster Divers.
Her work has appeared in The New York Times, O Magazine, Salon, High Country News, The Sun, Orion, Pinch, High Desert Journal, The Normal School, Writers on the Range, OnEarth, Brain, Teen, and many others. She has been recognized by several organizations for environmental stewardship. She holds a PhD from Purdue University and teaches around the country. When not writing or teaching, she can generally be found outside in Colorado’s mountains.
You can reach Laura at L_Pritchett@msn.com.
Follow Pritchett on twitter at @authorlaura
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recorded sessions from the ISFP online meeting on November 19.The International Society for Fertility Preservation
is an international nonprofit organization, wholly independent of government.
The Boy Who Could Bee - A children's book by Roger Gosden
Roger Gosden recently published a children's novel under the pen name Rowan Gordon.
Dr. Gosden has pledged profits from the book sale to pediatric cancer.
This is Dr. Gosden’s way of helping to fund research for children with cancer.
The book can be found on most online book seller sites.
Dr. Gosden is a founding member of the ISFP and currently holds the position of ISFP Board Member Emeritus.
Fertility Preservation in Women: Where are we in 2020 ?
IVF Worldwide & ISFP Webinar by Prof. Marie-Madeleine Dolmans
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QHD (Quad HD, often referred to as 2K) resolution, with 1440 x 2560 pixels, will become a standard for 2015 flagship smartphones, according to industry observers cited by a recent DigiTimes report. In 2014, we’ve seen smartphone manufacturers experiment with both screen technologies as well as the market’s reaction to smartphones incorporating higher-than-1080p-resolution. LG, Samsung, and Oppo, just to name a few, all have offerings with Quad HD resolutions. Good reception on the market, as well as a decrease in prices for such display panels, will make us see more QHD phones this year, says the report.
However, manufacturers will continue to push the envelope as the competition in 2015 will be, again, about the OEM that has products with better specs. The report mentions that, towards the second half (or the end) of 2015, we will start seeing smartphones with 4K displays. As curved display devices, like those from LG and Samsung, start becoming more and more popular, we can expect, according to the report, more manufacturers to adopt these panels.
The competition will also be on in the camera department. While manufacturers are not expected to push the megapixel limit further than 20 megapixels, said sources claim that we’ll start seeing improvements on the optics side, with dual-lens and/or optical zoom systems becoming more and more popular this year. And, as selfies become more and more popular, we can see an increase in front-facer specifications to eight-megapixels, in some cases even 13MP.


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Unformatted text preview: is) In addition to scientific article, it may be useful to know how to find a good reference book about the subject of your research. In this paragraph will see how to find a book of interest and locate it in the Morisset library. To do so, we first need to connect to the Library network catalogue. Perform a search using the library catalogue. To do so, from the library network homepage, click on “switch to classic catalogue” located under the search field. 47 Lab 2 ‐ Scientific Literature Figure 10. Library catalogue home page and search fields To perform a basic search, enter all your keywords directly in the search field as shown above. If you wish to restrict the results per year or type of medium, click on “Advanced Search”. The search from figure 10 gave us 3 references. Figure 11. Results of the book search by keywords in the Library Catalogue. Click on the title of any reference to get more information about this book, such as its location. For instance the 1st result...
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– Spot The Trend: The Richest 1% Are About To Own Over Half Of Global Wealth (ZeroHedge, Jan 19, 2015):
Still not clear? The following two charts should help:
In short: the rich get richer; the poor get poorer, and the middle class is going extinct.
What happens next? The NYT explains in “Oxfam Study Finds Richest 1% Is Likely to Control Half of Global Wealth by 2016”
The richest 1 percent are likely to control more than half of the globe’s total wealth by next year, the charity Oxfam reported in a study released on Monday. The warning about deepening global inequality comes just as the world’s business elite prepare to meet this week at the annual World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.
The 80 wealthiest people in the world altogether own $1.9 trillion, the report found, nearly the same amount shared by the 3.5 billion people who occupy the bottom half of the world’s income scale. (Last year, it took 85 billionaires to equal that figure.) And the richest 1 percent of the population, who number in the millions, control nearly half of the world’s total wealth, a share that is also increasing.
The type of inequality that currently characterizes the world’s economies is unlike anything seen in recent years, the report explained. “Between 2002 and 2010 the total wealth of the poorest half of the world in current U.S. dollars had been increasing more or less at the same rate as that of billionaires,” it said. “However since 2010, it has been decreasing over that time.”
“Do we really want to live in a world where the 1 percent own more than the rest of us combined?” Ms. Byanyima said. “The scale of global inequality is quite simply staggering.”
What happens after that, once the world’s 99% realize that the “recovery” was nothing but the era of the most brazen middle-class destruction around the globe, one which also saw the greatest wealth transfer period from everyone else to the uber-rich in the history of mankind, covered by endless daily talk of “imminent recovery”? Think French revolution, only on a global scale, and on steroids.
Thank you Fed, and your tenured economist groupies.
Source: Credit Suisse


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Postpartum support in physiotherapy is a crucial aspect of women’s healthcare that is often overlooked.
After childbirth, women experience significant changes in their bodies, including weakened pelvic floor muscles, abdominal muscle separation, and changes in posture. Unfortunately, women’s postpartum experiences are often disregarded, leading to a lack of knowledge and understanding around the importance of postpartum care. This issue is compounded by societal expectations around women’s bodies, which prioritize appearance over function and health. Feminism advocates for the recognition and affirmation of women’s experiences, including their bodily functions and health. Postpartum support in physiotherapy is an important aspect of feminist healthcare that empowers women to take control of their bodies and overcome the limitations placed on them by societal norms. By providing individualized care and support, postpartum physiotherapy helps women regain strength and function, allowing them to fully participate in their lives as mothers, partners, and members of society.


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The Rise of Experience Stores
Remember the lovely way Wilson Mizener described it? “The amount of sleep required by the average person is five minutes more.”
Imagine what it is like being in a mattress store? There is a plethora of options to pick from, with most of them looking indistinguishable and equally-boring. There is, perhaps, a salesperson breathing down a customer’s neck. There is no privacy or time to actually sleep on a mattress and experience how it feels.
How can any customer determine the hardness or softness or the real feel and body-compatibility of a mattress – something that is going to define his/her sleep experience – in a store that is nothing short of a shelf?
Guess Neil Saunders, the managing director of GlobalData Retail was hitting the nail precisely on its head when he said in a media report: “Many mattress stores are old-fashioned and take a hard approach to selling.”
Saunders pointed out how and why ‘fun’ was the main thing lacking in these stores; and why buying a mattress should not be a dull event even if it is a serious and expensive purchase that consumers are going to use for years. Some players have heard these bells of alarm and opportunity even if old-school mattress sellers have been sleeping.
The New Avatar of a Mattress Store
Look at Sleep Number’s brand-new store in Manhattan. The place is nothing like a typical mattress showroom. There is a lovely dance between technology and a thoughtful, open design flowing here. It is a place where New Yorkers can come and select what they like from an experience context – not from a commodity context.
Something that Casper has also been up to in the USA. Its radical concept called ‘The Dreamery’ is where it has been seen charging $25 for 45-minute naps, and providing fancy pyjamas, Instagram-brand-favorite facewash, and meditative soundtrack plug-ins for people who walk into these stores. It is fine selling a nap over a mattress because eventually, it is going to be about sleep.
Anything and everything from design, to technology accessories to mock bedrooms (complete with duvets, pillows and sheets along with a mattress), aesthetic designs to the luxurious ambience is being tried and invested in by futuristic players. The experience stores that are emerging fast in markets like the USA and the UK are not selling sleep ‘as a product’ anymore. They are selling sleep ‘as an experience’. It is not hard to guess why.
Time for India to get out of bed
Leading Indian players have realized the inevitable power of experience stores. Names like Kurlon and Sleepwell knows the impact and difference that an experience store can usher in. These pioneers have started entering this new playground of experience stores in their continuous pursuit of adding customer-centric innovation in the space. They are strongly exploring this new concept with notable investments and compelling strategies. Sell better sleep. This is what David Perry concluded in his ‘A retail bedding report card’ in 2013 when he graded the shopping experience of mattress buyers. In that report, it was noted that 85 percent customers would return to buy for wide/good selection, a clean store, and a knowledgeable salesperson.
Cut to 2020 and it is not just the US market but also the Indian mattress market (estimated to touch Rs 10,000 crore by 2020) that is witnessing customers who want more reasons to even visit a store.
This is evident in the influx of digital natives and foreign experience maestros like IKEA. The frayed market is about to confront a totally unexpected, but long-overdue, game-changer in the form of experience stores. That’s the weapon that new players are going to use to challenge legacy brands with.
The free trials and innovative models that start-ups like Wakefit have embraced are just the tips of the iceberg here. Wakefit took note of how it takes at least 7 to 15 days to adjust to a new sleeping surface and thus, offered a 100-day trial policy. It never suffered huge returns (almost less than two percent) and that shows why getting to experience a mattress is a huge unmet need of the Indian customer too. The company has been in pilot with an experience centre in Bengaluru.
Then there is SleepyCat which is aiming to make a dent in the Indian market by addressing the overwhelming mattress shopping experience here. Its founder, as shared in some media bytes, started this company after watching the confusion that a typical Indian customer faces. The confusion can be so daunting that s/he may also end up buying the mattress that s/he hates, and that’s only a good sign for someone new in the market to leverage, not for an established player.
It is time to really reflect on why Sleep Experience stores are all the rage in the US, UK and Australian markets. What makes people ready to book slots of 45 minutes to take a nap in sleep modules? Why are the lounges that Sleep Number is putting uprising? Why is a new player like Sunday enjoying the same love for lounges in India?
These are clear signs that the industry needs to flip the mattress of complacency and invest in selling ‘sleep as an experience’. Players like Sleepwell, Peps etc have started to tweak their retail stores to give an experience to their customers. “We need to combine selling sleep and putting up experience stores in order to attract consumers towards branded mattresses,” as Raghav Menon, CEO Mattress Division at Sobha Ltd stresses upon so rightly.
But good sound sleep, as a concept, has not caught up with the bulk of the population. They all still depend on their local neighbourhood gaddi-wala for coir or cotton-filled beds which are then spread on the floor or on a cot.
The only way that the industry can match the onslaught of online retail and digital challengers as well as shake people off the fatigue of mattress buying is by changing the way it looks at sleep – and across the value chain, from labs to factories to stores to customer beds.
As Casper CEO Philip Krim quipped in a media interview once, “Casper stores are the antithesis of traditional mattress store experience that is notorious for sky-high markups and aggressive sales tactics. We are reimagining how people shop for sleep by listening to customers to create an atmosphere where they actually want to visit.” Experience stores are more than mattresses. They are about sleep. They are about immersion. They are about creating a community. Now when the online market is already capturing around five to 7 percent share of the entire industry, legacy players have all the more reason to reckon experience stores as more than ‘another annoying’ investment. It is an investment into those precious ‘five more minutes’. And those minutes always count.


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On January 1st the NTR, Dutch Public Radio & Televison station leading in Arts & Culture, launched a brand new radio show on Radio 6 Soul & Jazz with Co de Kloet. Together with presenter Mijke van Wijk, Co & a small but dedicated team make a daily show from 22.00-01.00 hrs called “MIJKE & CO LIVE!”
As this show is all about Great Live Music and having worked with Co before, the coverage of Steve Vai music as we know it in Holland will be safe in this new set-up!
For more info see www.facebook.com/mijkecolive
and please LIKE the page since they depend on the audience as well as the performers!


Snooki Slammed After Her Kids Use Strollers At Disneyland Instead Of Walking – She Defends Herself!
Snooki showed up at Disneyland with her kids in strollers despite being perfectly capable of walking at their age and received some backlash! Now, the Jersey Shore star defended herself against the criticism. Check out what she had to say!
As fans know, the reality TV celeb’s kids, Lorenzo, and Giovanna are 6 and 4 respectively, which means that they can walk!
That being said, a lot of people on social media were confused as to why she would put them in strollers instead.
It all started when Snooki shared a pic featuring her, her husband, Jionni LaValle and the young ones looking excited to be at Disneyland.
Soon after, people started to express their outrage at her choice of ‘transportation’ for the children.
A couple of the comments read: ‘Omg my kids would never be in a stroller that big,’ / ‘All of them kids know how to walk.’
The mother could not help but clap back, writing: ‘They walk! But in large crowds I prefer they sit their asses down. Saves me the stress of not losing my offspring.’
But regardless of her explanation, one user argued that it’s not an excuse.
‘3 kids and have done Disney 3 times. If you’re over 2, you’re walking. And I’ve never lost anyone,’ they commented.
Meanwhile, there were also a lot of fans who defended Snooki, arguing that it’s nobody’s business if the kids walk or not.
‘Who the hell cares if they are in a stroller. I’m pretty sure she’s the mother, not y’all? Maybe they were tired.’
Unbothered by the whole controversy, Snooki went ahead to share some more snaps from the family vacation.
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In his closing statement the prosecutor at Yury DMITRIEV’s trial in Petrozavodsk has demanded that he be sentenced to 15 years imprisonment in a strict regime penal colony.
Dmitriev’s defence attorney, in this trial as in that which ended in April 2018, is Victor Anufriev. He will now present the closing statement for the defence.
The last of the currently scheduled hearings at the City Court in the capital of Karelia is due to take place on Thursday this week. It seems unlikely that the verdict will be announced that day.
At any rate, Memorial will hold a press conference the following day in Moscow, entitled “On the Eve of a Verdict”. This suggests that a further date will be scheduled on Thursday for the announcement of the verdict. This should be sometime before Dmitriev’s current term of custody ends on 25 July. But can anyone guarantee that custody will not be prolonged again, for another month?


Vinyl LP pressing. Reissue of 2013 release. Can't Talk Medicine is the highly anticipated debut full length from Seattle-based (and KEXP radio favorites) Pickwick. The band released a 7' series called Myths in 2011, and have gained attention in the Northwest with their stunning live shows and a host of sold out tour dates. Can't Talk Medicine was recorded in the band's living room to 1/2 inch tape on an 8-track to achieve the raw sound that the band has come to be recognized for. From the piano-heavy soul of opener 'Halls of Columbia', to the stand out duet with Sharon van Etten, 'Lady Luck,' Pickwick s Can't Talk Medicine takes listeners on a journey filled with raw instrumentation, huge vocals, found sounds and themes of mental illness.


Lovers of Celtic rock music are in for a treat on Saturday June 18th. I will be introducing live on stage Dave Bainbridge of Celtic Rock Giants IONA. Appearing with him will be The mega talented multi-instrumentalist Sally Minnear. The venue is St Georges church Hartlepool. Tickets available from www.brownpapertickets.com Don't miss this great opportunity to see these great musicians live in the North East. Tickets also available on the door.


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Family is Everything!
Such a beautiful afternoon photographing Natalie & Stephanie, and their beautiful families. Loved all the colors they choose for the shoot. They even brought their parents and grandfather. Love taking photos like this , making beautiful memories that will last a lifetime. It’s so important to have family photographs.

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