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Elevation Map Of Usa
Planning a trip to the United States? Look no further than the Elevation Map of USA, which offers stunning natural landscapes, vibrant cities, and endless opportunities for adventure. Whether you’re a foodie, history buff, or outdoor enthusiast, there’s something for everyone in this diverse country.
Start your trip with a visit to the Grand Canyon, one of the most iconic natural wonders in the world. Take a helicopter tour or hike to the bottom for a once-in-a-lifetime experience. Other must-see attractions include the Statue of Liberty, Golden Gate Bridge, and Yellowstone National Park.
For a unique and off-the-beaten-path experience, head to the Antelope Canyon in Arizona. This slot canyon is famous for its stunning rock formations and vibrant colors. Another hidden gem is the Great Sand Dunes National Park in Colorado, where you can hike up towering sand dunes and enjoy breathtaking views.
The United States is known for its diverse and delicious food scene. Don’t miss out on trying classic dishes like burgers, BBQ, and pizza. For a taste of the local cuisine, head to New Orleans for some Creole and Cajun dishes or to San Francisco for some fresh seafood.
Traveling on a budget? Consider staying in hostels or Airbnb rentals, which can save you money on accommodations. Take advantage of free activities like hiking and visiting national parks. Don’t forget to research discounts and coupons for attractions and restaurants.
The United States is home to some of the most beautiful natural landscapes in the world. Go hiking in the Rocky Mountains, rafting in the Grand Canyon, or skiing in Colorado. For something unique, try hot air ballooning in New Mexico or kayaking in Lake Tahoe.
From the Freedom Trail in Boston to the Alamo in San Antonio, the United States is steeped in history. Don’t miss out on visiting the Gettysburg Battlefield in Pennsylvania, the Independence Hall in Philadelphia, or the Mount Rushmore National Memorial in South Dakota.
The United States has plenty of activities for families, from amusement parks to zoos. Take the kids to Disneyland in California, SeaWorld in Florida, or the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History in Washington D.C. For some outdoor fun, head to the Great Smoky Mountains National Park in Tennessee.
Looking for something different? Consider visiting the quirky town of Roswell, New Mexico, famous for its UFO sightings. Take a road trip along Route 66, the iconic highway that stretches from Chicago to Santa Monica. Or visit the abandoned ghost town of Bodie, California.
The United States is home to some of the most awe-inspiring natural wonders in the world. Visit the Niagara Falls in New York, the Redwood National Park in California, or the Glacier National Park in Montana. For something truly unique, head to the Mammoth Cave National Park in Kentucky, the world’s longest cave system.
The United States has a lively nightlife scene, with plenty of bars, clubs, and music venues. Visit Miami for some beachfront partying, New York City for some world-class entertainment, or New Orleans for some jazz and blues.
For a taste of the local culture, head to one of the many farmers markets or street fairs in the United States. Visit Pike Place Market in Seattle for some fresh seafood and artisanal crafts, or the Union Square Greenmarket in New York City for some farm-fresh produce.
Beaches and Mountains
Whether you’re a beach bum or a mountain climber, the United States has it all. Visit the beaches in Hawaii or California for some sun and sand, or head to the Rocky Mountains for some skiing and snowboarding. For something in between, head to the Great Smoky Mountains or the Shenandoah National Park.
The United States is a melting pot of cultures, with plenty of opportunities for cultural immersion. Visit the Chinatown in San Francisco, Little Havana in Miami, or the French Quarter in New Orleans. Don’t forget to check out the museums and art galleries in major cities like New York and Washington D.C.
Art and Music Scene
The United States is home to some of the world’s best art and music scenes. Visit the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington D.C., or the Getty Center in Los Angeles. Catch a Broadway show in New York or Nashville, or head to Austin for some live music.
One of the best ways to explore a new city is on foot. Take a walking tour of historic neighborhoods like Beacon Hill in Boston, the French Quarter in New Orleans, or Old Town in San Diego. For something unique, take a ghost tour in Savannah or a food tour in Chicago.
The United States is home to some of the world’s most iconic and impressive buildings. Visit the Empire State Building in New York City, the Space Needle in Seattle, or the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco. For something truly awe-inspiring, visit the Frank Lloyd Wright-designed Fallingwater in Pennsylvania.
The United States has a rich history, with plenty of historical sites to explore. Visit the Plymouth Plantation in Massachusetts, the Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia, or the Pearl Harbor National Memorial in Hawaii. For something unique, visit the Monticello estate of Thomas Jefferson in Virginia.
The United States has plenty of biking routes for all skill levels. Take a leisurely ride along the Katy Trail in Missouri, the San Francisco Bay Trail in California, or the Great Allegheny Passage in Pennsylvania. For something more challenging, try the Going-to-the-Sun Road in Montana or the Maah Daah Hey Trail in North Dakota.
The United States has plenty of wellness retreats for those looking to unwind and relax. Visit the Miraval Arizona Resort & Spa for some yoga and meditation, or the Canyon Ranch in Massachusetts for some hiking and fitness classes. For something unique, try the hot springs in Colorado or the salt caves in New York.
The United States is a playground for adventure sports enthusiasts. Try rock climbing in Yosemite National Park, bungee jumping in Colorado, or white water rafting in West Virginia. For something truly extreme, try skydiving in Las Vegas or BASE jumping in Utah.

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CentralWorld to Host the first-ever Sumo Wrestling Competition in Thailand (17-18 Feb 2012, Bangkok)
The first-ever Sumo Wrestling Competition in Thailand (17-18 Feb 2012, Bangkok)
CentralWorld Shopping Center in cooperation with the Prime Minister’s Office, the Embassy of Japan and Canon Marketing (Thailand) Ltd., held a press conference to announce the first-ever sumo competition in Thailand, to be held on February 17-18 to commemorate HM the King’s 84th birthday anniversary and to promote Thai-Japanese Cultural Exchange.
Sumo is a Japanese style of wrestling and Japan’s national sport. It originated in ancient times as a performance to entertain the Shinto gods. Nine of Japan’s top sumo wrestlers will fly in to take part in the competition. Top sumo wrestlers Tochiozan, Tochinoshin, Tochinowaka, Kimurayama, Toshinonada and Kasugano Oyakata are scheduled to arrive at Suvarnabhumi Airport at 4 pm on February 16. All the rituals and ceremonies as well as the competition itself will be in accordance with ancient Japanese traditions. The sumo ring, equipment and performers will be brought in directly from Japan in order to maintain the authentic standards of the sport. The next day, the wrestlers will travel to Siriraj Hospital to formally sign their birthday wishes for HM the King.
The event also featured an appearance by top stars and celebrity fans of Japanese culture including actors Jirayu “Kao” Laongmanee and Saran “Porsche” Siriluksana, Nichabul Nakasai, Kunakom Polpanich and Jarospan Svasti Na Ayudhya, and a demonstration of the fundamentals of sumo by young sumo wrestlers.
The event’s official opening will take place in the late afternoon of February 17 with HRH Princess Soamsawali graciously presiding. The opening ceremony and related events will be broadcast live on Modernine TV from 5.30 pm -7.00 pm.

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World-class architecture is at the heart of 1 Blairgowrie Court, making it one of Brighton's most impressive homes. Its brilliance lies in its visionary design by architect Frank Macchia, crowned with the most magnificent rooftop garden that reveals panoramic views of Port Phillip Bay, the Dandenong Ranges and city skyscrapers. A series of deluxe living spaces and 4 bedrooms make this indulgent for everyday living and lavish entertaining. Every room reveals the best craftsmanship and innovative design, with custom-crafted furniture and joinery, heated polished concrete floors, and a 23-metre heated lap pool. The seamless integration of indoor-outdoor living is enhanced with large stacking doors, there's a series of sun-filled terraces, a barbecue area, and a wraparound aquatic pond on show from many rooms. The vast rooftop is a private retreat, revealing a heated spa, a series of decks, barbecue and unbeatable views. Designed to indulge your desire for spacious living, there's a multipurpose room with its own entrance that makes the perfect home office, gym, retreat or media room. Luxe fitout is state-of-the-art, with a Corian gourmet kitchen, suspended ceilings, zoned air conditioning, a downstairs guest wing, wet bar, significant storage options, and an open fireplace. A state of the art low maintenance residence, footsteps to the beach, close to Church Street, schools, Middle Brighton Baths and pier, and Royal Brighton Yacht Club. Land: 660sqm (approximately).
No information about nearby schools in this area.

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Learn more about Banana Nutrition Facts and Banana Facts in general, including the history of bananas.
Learn more about the dragon fruit plant, how to grow the dragon fruit plant, growing dragon fruit and dragon fruit nutrition.
Watch our how to cut, peel and dice an avocado video to become a pro in no time yourself. Also, learn about the health benefits of avocados.
Learn more about the aronia plant description and some growing techniques.
The acerola cherry (Malpighia glabra), also known as the Acerolla, Barbados cherry, or wild crapemyrtle, is a cherry type native to the West Indies and northern South America and is now being cultivated even in India.
Passion Fruit Names: Learn how Passion Fruit is called around the world

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In the U.S., the Democratic party is the party of government and fully embracing of progressivism. The Republican party’s message is muddled. They say they are for smaller government, more freedom, and constitutionally limited government, but they too crave control.
Politicians, government employees, political insiders crave control, certainty, and stability. You hear them talk about stability of financial markets, of job markets, of domestic social and global situations. When they complain about “market fundamentalism”, the break-up of the family, wealth disparities, etc. they are making a play for control over the lives of the citizenry.
With that in mind, view any issue from the perspective of politicians. Growing a government bureaucracy is one way of maintaining control. The people employed in government agencies hold jobs in the bureaucracy. They are voters as well, but they are just as self-interested in their job security, money, respect, social acceptance, celebrity, and public adoration as anyone else. You see, money is not the only form of recognition. So when anyone cites something other than money when they are recognized for some achievement, they are seeking recognition by other means — as I listed above. They may feel good about themselves for avoiding recognition via cash payment, but they, nonetheless, are still seeking something. They are not selfless.
Vincent Geloso examine’s the results.
I’ll quote one observation about Cuba’s supposed superior health care.
However, many researchers have pointed out important discrepancies in the data regarding infant mortality. They have showed that doctors often reclassified early neonatal deaths (before the 7th day of life) as late fetal deaths (before birth). Because late fetal deaths are not included in infant mortality calculations while early neonatal deaths are, this reclassification artificially reduces the infant mortality rate. . . .
This type of reclassification also has an effect on measured life expectancy because late fetal deaths are not counted in the life tables that are used to calculate life expectancy at birth. In research recently published with Gilbert Berdine and Benjamin Powell in Health Policy & Planning, I show that, in Cuba, this practice has reduced life expectancy at birth for men by somewhere between 0.22 and 0.55 years.
Bureaucratic manipulation of statistical data skews the results. Clever.
I am old enough to remember when almost everyone believed that the Russians were, as Khrushchev put it, going to “bury” us. Even leading economists such as Paul Samuelson were taken in by such nonsense. Of course, no such burial occurred, because just producing vast quantities of concrete, steel, and H-bombs is no evidence that anything of genuine value is being produced. Later Japan became the Godzilla that was going to eat the U.S. and European economies with its bureucratic setup for picking and subsidizing “winners.” Before long that setup too collapsed in a heap and gave way to perpetual stagnation. Now almost everyone quakes in his boots while beholding the mighty Chinese economy. Again the hysteria has no firm foundation. An economy shaped and guided by government bureaucrats and Communist bigwigs by means of tariffs, subsidies, state-controlled credit, and state-owned industries cannot be a real growth miracle for long. This too shall pass.
And when it does Americans will learn nothing from their most recent mistake. If people really understood sound economics, they would not continue to make this same mistake again and again.
Yes, that’s right. First it was the Russians, then the Japanese, now China. Russia and Japan are faltered under the weight of central planning. China is doing that, too.
Sun-Sentinel: “Two decades after Columbine and five years after Sandy Hook, educators and police still weren’t ready for Parkland.”
The article provides a minute-by-minute timeline of events at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.
Rep.-elect Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D–N.Y.) is at it again:
“This is going to be the New Deal, the Great Society, the moon shot, the civil rights movement of our generation,” . . . “We can use the transition to 100 percent renewable energy as the vehicle to establish economic, racial and social justice in America.”
Where does she get this nonsense from? Maybe she’s channeling the vision of Data for Progress. Ronald Bailey:
By their lights, the feds should aim for 100 percent renewable electricity by 2035 by shuttering all natural gas and coal-fired generation plants. All fossil fuel emissions should be ended by 2050. All new passenger automobiles for sale in 2030 should be zero emissions vehicles; all rail, vehicles, and aviation should be totally fossil-fuel free by 2050. Other parts of the Green New Deal include reforesting 40 million acres of public and private land by 2035, greatly expanding mass transit systems, upgrading local water supply and management infrastructure, expanding federal regulation of the waters of the U.S., and requiring that all materials be recyclable by 2040.
The financial cost is only one part of this stupidity. This will not be a peaceful transition; more like the equivalent of an-all out shooting war in its destruction. Imagine all the destruction, destitute, hollowing-out of towns, cities, suburbs, and entire swaths of the U.S. All the shuttered power plants, and discarded trains, subways, automobiles, jets, bridges. Imagine, millions of government bureaucrats invading your neighborhood, ordering the bulldozing of everything in sight. Think you’ll be safe in your home? Fagetaboutit. Midnight raids on your home if you resist. “This must be done!” Quartering of workers and soldiers in your house. Attempts to violate your rights will be commonplace, all to impose this “vision”, but really a nightmare.
All to finally, ultimately, and for good, “achieve economic, racial and social justice in America”. How quaint, how. . . just.
Whole thing here.
Following up on my post yesterday about France being the top taxed country in the OECD (Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development), the ever resourceful fiscal economist Dan Mitchell dives deeper into the data, including a table that compares the taxes AND spending as a percentage of GDP.
The US ranks in the lower percentages than most countries on both scales. Lower means lower tax and spending levels as a percentage of GDP. This is a positive development in my book because the government wastes a lot of resources and is less efficient. Dan also explains that. How does a government provide necessary services efficiently and effectively but keeps the politics and feeding of bureaucracy?
The French government caved in after Paris’ worst rioting in decades and delayed an increase in energy taxes Tuesday — but it was seen as “too little, too late” by many protesters whose anger seems increasingly focused on embattled President Emmanuel Macron.
The grievances widen:
The protests began Nov. 17 with motorists upset over the fuel tax increase, but have grown to encompass a range of complaints — the stagnant economy, social injustice and France’ tax system, one of the highest in Europe — and some now call for the government to resign. . . .
One unifying complaint among the leaderless protesters, who come from across the political and social spectrum, has been the anger at Macron and the perceived elitism of France’s aloof ruling class.
Me: taxes are the most visible expression of government control by greedy politicians and bureaucrats. But these same people are playing a con game. They convince the general population into thinking they are helping you by taxing and regulating some trumped up, anonymous, evil person or corporation. But, those same taxes and regulations come back to bite you because those regulations and taxes trickle down to you in the form of reduced choices and higher prices. This time, the French people caught on. But remember, regulations work the same way but are less visible, so don’t sign up for that. And, a tax on one is a tax on all.
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The City Council approved a plan Wednesday night to vie for up to $25 million for revitalizing downtown.
The vote was unanimous, 9-0, and public turnout for the hearing topped any other council meeting in recent months.
Although many supported the plan, including council members, there were dissenters.
The program, called the Local Infrastructure Financing Tool, allows a city to designate a specific area and keep a portion of taxes generated in that area to pay for bonds issued for improvement projects.
It's a competitive process, and the pool of tax dollars the state is willing to forgo is a total of $2.5 million. The most a city can get is $1 million, which is what Bremerton will ask for. The maximum amount an applicant can get through the program is $1 million a year for 25 years.
If approved, $17 million would go toward the following projects: building a 366-stall, underground parking garage at Park Avenue and Burwell Street, a waterfront boardwalk closing the loop between downtown and Evergreen-Rotary Park — plus sewer improvements, and changing Pacific Avenue into a pedestrian friendly "urban trail."
The remainder would go toward debt service.
The money would pay for the $8 million garage — which would also generate about $200,000 a year in parking fees — and $4 million for Pacific Avenue improvements, but the $24 million boardwalk would still have a funding gap of $6 million.
Phil Williams, director of the city's Public Works and Utilities Department, said the project has already banked $13 million in state and city dollars. With $5 million from LIFT, the remaining $6 million would be easier to get than the first.
The program doesn't increase property or sales taxes. Instead it allows the city to keep a portion of locally generated taxes that would otherwise go to the state to pay off bonds.
Mark Satterthwait, a resident who attended the meeting, said he is concerned how the plan, expected to raise property values, will affect his low-income neighbors.
If approved, "There isn't going to be a single low-income person in downtown Bremerton in 10 years, and some people think that's fine," he said.
The ordinance approved by the council created a Revenue Development Area, or RDA, which includes most of the downtown area. If the city's plan is not approved, or if council members change their minds, the city can back out of the program.
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Avicii gives fans the opportunity to reveal his next single and the album artwork for ‘True’
Following the huge no.1 success of ‘Wake Me Up!’, Avicii is set to release debut album ‘True’ on 16th September. Never one to do things by the book, he will be giving fans the opportunity to help reveal the artwork for the eagerly anticipated album along with the next single in unique fashion.
Here is how it will happen: Two giant speakers will be set up at an industrial location in his home town of Stockholm, surrounding a big, black glass pane; the cover art is hidden behind the opaque glass and it is the fans’ mission to break it. In order to do so, fans have to reveal a secret – a true story about themselves – using the hashtag #truereveal on Twitter. For each tweet the volume will be raised incrementally. The new track will be unlocked layer by layer, starting with the bass line and adding instruments as the tweets raise the volume, until the glass pane shatters and the track is played in whole to the public, and the artwork finally revealed.
Fans will be able to interact throughout the process via the True Reveal site, tweeting and monitoring the process via a live stream while they contribute to pumping up the volume. Tweets will be projected on the glass screen to show that everything is happening in real time.
This inventive approach is indicative of the ways in which Avicii continues to eschew traditional paths in order to push the envelope and challenge himself with every new move he makes. This personal and unprecedented approach is embodied in the album, which will be revealed when ‘True’ drops on 16th September.
‘True’ is due to be released by PRMD on 16th September 2013.

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Albert Einstein came up with the Theory of Relativity while riding his bicycle.
For long-distance hikers, cyclists, runners, and enthusiasts of all kinds, their chosen activities offer a retreat that fosters moments of reflection and inspiration.
A Wise Bicycle is a collection of free verses, haiku, and prose that draws inspiration from the author's hours in the saddle, navigating the wilderness trails, bikeways, and roads of Southern California on his bicycle. Many of the reflections offer quirky observations, like the sight of a Roadrunner skillfully catching its lunch and immobilizing it before indulging — an image that oddly conjured thoughts of fresh sushi.
Other passages invite readers to envision the wild reasserting itself when humanity retreats, as animals reclaim their dominion. Writing in a style that evokes literary folk art, the author delves into his recollections of growing up in the Deep South, vividly describing a bygone time and place. Additional memories transport us to the picturesque coast of Maine and the bright lights of Paris.
A Wise Bicycle is spiritual, adventurous, biographical, and humorous. This book is, essentially, about seeing. Seeing our world, our environment, seeing others, and, hopefully, seeing ourselves within these spaces. This book gives fresh language to everyday experiences. A Wise Bicycle is a testament that profound inspiration is everywhere. And that thoughts and moments worth documenting are woven into the fabric of everyday life, waiting to be discovered.

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New 12" from a personal favourite, and underrated, producer - Annechoic, whose ultra-moody broken tekno / electro 12"s on Audiofugitives circa 2012-13 are essential listening.
Bookended by two atmospheric ambient / downtempo pieces, the protein of the EP is a trio of ruthless, relentless, for-the-ravers constructions, the most immediate being 'Sheut' - a hard-hitting, ruthlessly minimal drexciyan depth-charge primed for ripping their throats out in the club....but it's actually the bleepy, stripped-back jak-attak / belligerent one-note bassline of 'Ba' that I keep coming back to...SO GOOD. The same thing appeals to me about this 12" as did about her older stuff: it feels very well-honed and considered and classily put together, and can be emotionally eloquent when it wants to be, but also has a sorta no-frills, no-fucks, anti-fashion, end-of-the-world, free-party bad-nrg to it that you can't fake. It's the real stuff, basically.
Edition of 150 copies only!

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If you are trying to attract as much traffic as possible to your website, Search marketing is an essential tool. Google is one of the biggest search engines in the UK, but have you ever been greeted with a fabulously decorated Google logo when you are searching the web? These elaborate designs have been named Google Doodles. The search engine giants modify and adapt the original Google logo on special occasions, such as Christmas, New Year, Easter and Halloween. Google doodles also make an appearance on the birthdays of famous figures from the past including Andy Warhol, Albert Einstein, Leonardo da Vinci, John Lennon and Michael Jackson as well as to mark major events like the Olympic Games.
Larry Page and Sergey Brin designed the first ever Google doodle back in 1998 in honour of the Burning Man. Following the interest of the first doodle, contractors were brought in to design the special logos. However in 2000, the intern Dennis Hwang was asked to design a logo for Bastille Day and he has been designing the Google doodles ever since.
On Tuesday, Feb. 8, 2011, Google ran one of its most interactive Doodles in honour of Sci-Fi writer Jules Verne’s 183rd birthday. Users were able to pull on a virtual lever which allowed them to get a Nautilus submarine’s view undersea of everything from divers to treasure to sea creatures, including a coral formation in the shape of the logo. Moving on from this, Google displayed the first video doodle commemorating Charlie Chaplin’s 122nd birthday on April 15th 2011. This doodle was a black and white YouTube video that, when clicked upon, started playing before redirecting to the usual Google search featuring the doodle’s special occasion.
If search marketing is something your company requires you will be looking for a search marketing company with skills in the area of search engine optimisation and perhaps pay per click campaigns. At the Digital State Marketing we offer professional skills and expertise with an aim of getting you higher in the search engine rankings, we work closely with all of our clients in order to achieve the best results possible from our search marketing campaigns.


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Public opposition has scuttled a plan to introduce a new population of timber rattlesnakes, raised at Roger Williams Park Zoo, on Mt. Zion island in central Massachusetts’ Quabbin Reservoir. They will be released elsewhere in Massachusetts and Connecticut.
Sunday, April 23, 2017
The timber rattlesnake is disappearing. The last population in Rhode Island was seen in Tiverton 45 years ago.


Tuck Shop Take Away has been named Glen Eira City Council’s Shop of the Year.
Glen Eira City Council’s Integrated Transport Strategy has been adopted.
The Strategy recognises that Glen Eira should be a City that is easy to move around in, with a range of safe travel options and walkable neighbourhoods. This will be achieved through a range of projects, policies, pilots and advocacy items that will also work to address the increasing congestion and parking concerns facing the Glen Eira community and wider Melbourne.
Glen Eira Mayor Cr Tony Athanasopoulos said a goal has been established to strive for a 50:50 mode share of car and non-car trips by 2031.
"To achieve this goal, the Strategy has identified ways to increase walking, cycling and public transport trips and efficiency on key driving routes," he said.
The Strategy identifies the following four key transport infrastructure improvements that would support the transition onto non-car modes:
- New light rail services.
- A new premium bus service in Bentleigh East.
- Premium cycling infrastructure along key arterial roads.
- Significant upgrades to Caulfield Station and its wider precinct with the removal of remaining level crossings.
Cr Athanasopoulos said these are City-defining, once in a generation projects that will have lasting benefits for Glen Eira and wider Melbourne.
"Council will advocate for these projects to the appropriate levels of government," he said.
To view or download a copy of the Strategy, visit here.
For further information, contact Council’s City Futures Department on 9524 3333.


NORFOLK, Va. (AP) _ Fracking will be allowed in parts of the largest national forest on the East Coast under a new federal management plan. The U.S. Forest Service originally planned to ban fracking in the 1.1-million-acre George Washington National Forest. But energy companies cried foul after a draft of the plan was released in 2011. It would have been the first outright ban on the practice in a national forest. Robert Bonnie is the Agriculture Department’s undersecretary for natural resources and environment. He says fracking is already allowed at other national forests throughout the country, and the forest service didn’t want to change the policy. Environmental groups fear drilling could pollute mountain streams that provide drinking water to 250,000 people in the Shenandoah Valley.


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I wrote in my last post (months ago) that my mother had passed away and that I would be closing down her house where she raised 6 kids and lived for 70 years. It has been pretty overwhelming and totally consuming. And it’s not over yet.
Honestly, I’m so far behind that I think I may be first!
There have been so many things that I would’ve liked to write about during these past months, but I couldn’t concentrate on it; now I find that starting up again is kind of hard…. where to start?
So I think I’m going to write about a subject that totally grossed me out and shouldn’t take much energy to get me to squeak out a post…. namely… “meat”.
So what about meat? Am I a vegetarian or vegan? No. I like meat, eat meat, and I think it’s obvious that humans have eaten meat, fish, fowl since the beginning of their time on this earth. Seriously, acquiring adequate food was too hard to turn your nose up at anything… can you imagine.? “No, I won’t eat meat, may I please have a plate of pasta?”
I’m not making fun of vegetarians, I’m simply saying that we evolved by eating meat and it is a very natural food for humans to consume as part of their diet.
We didn’t even go through the agricultural revolution until around 12,000 years ago, so before that it was pretty much animal, seafood, fowl, seaweed, and seasonal eating of eggs, nuts, berries, honey, mushrooms, cooked tubers and safe wild greens.
So my stance is that it’s quite natural for us to eat meat. In fact, there are nutrients supplied in meat that are necessary for our growth, development and health. They can be furnished through a vegetarian diet, but it’s harder and it takes some care to get them.
What really isn’t natural for us to eat is meat that comes from animals fed food they were never meant to eat, confined in living conditions they were never meant to endure while being shot full of antibiotics, and chemicals while standing in each other’s waste products and filth .
All of this changes the quality of the meat we eat; it’s important, it matters, and it absolutely affects our health, to speak nothing of the cruelty to the animals. But I’ll save all of that for later… that’s not what I’m writing about today.
I’m writing about something that came to my attention over the last couple of months that blew me away.It’s the practice of using “meat glue” to turn scraps of unusable meat into steaks and other cuts of meat and passing them off without people’s knowledge of what it is.
Have you ever noticed the weird looking texture of processed meats? I’m wondering if this is how they make it. Maybe I’ll research that for my next post.
But repeating past comments, I’d say that I think we need to get sane about the subject and look to the past. We probably eat too much meat and most of it is not “natural” meat… raised the way nature intended for it to be raised and fed.
We should be figuring out how to eat less meat, but we should eat meat of the highest quality.
What this all comes down to is one of my mantras: we need to reconnect with our food and we need to know where it comes from, how it’s grown, raised and processed.
In looking at the below, I think you’ll agree with me that if this is the future, this need to reconnect isn’t going to get better… it’s going to be so important to start taking responsibility for our food and to know the source.
The following is from a news report in Australia:

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Regarding Mediterranean cuisine, it is one of those traditional recipes of surprising simplicity that stands the test of time without losing any of its flavors. Such is the case with aubergines à la Bonifacienne, an emblematic specialty of Corsican gastronomy that draws its secrets from the southernmost heights of the island’s beauty towns. Bonifacio is known for its houses that hang spectacularly on the cliffs of the Big Blue, as well as for this particularly gourmet recipe, which practically combines local ingredients with seasonal flavors. Indeed, in the context of thrift, this typical dish finds its origins, as the recipe is designed to avoid wasting stale bread and cheese while calling out vegetable garden products, such as basil, tomatoes and of course…eggplant. An expression of the nature of the Earth in its purest form, which has endured through the ages and seduced famous chefs, such as Pascal Caillou, who for ten years has been raising the bar for Corsican gastronomy in restaurants. Porto Vecchio.
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Corsica on a plate
As a follower of refined interpretations of great authentic classics, it is only natural that Pascal Caillou puts his expertise at the service of this generous recipe. Fond of fresh produce, the chef takes care of selecting ingredients straight from the vegetable garden in the Grand Hotel’s garden before dealing with the delicate preparation. Homemade slow-cooked tomato sauce, filling rich in sumptuous flavours, typical Corsican cheeses and meticulously controlled cooking: every step reflects a unique mastery, put to the service of a culinary heritage preserved. Enough to immerse your guests on a sensory journey into the heart of the Mediterranean, time for a few bites.
Aubergines Bonifacienne by Pascal Caio
Enough for 4 people
1 clove garlic
2 tomato beef steak
Few basil leaves
2 large eggplants or 4 small eggplants
Small tommy corsican to taste
200 grams of bread
Salt, pepper, split pepper or pepper to taste
Chop ½ onion. Chop garlic. Put the tomatoes in boiling water, peel them, as soon as they cool, cut them into cubes.
Fry the onion and garlic with a little 2 tbsp. A spoonful of olive oil. Add diced tomatoes, then 5 to 6 basil leaves. Leave to cook for 15 to 20 minutes over low heat.
Cut the eggplant in half. Finely chop and season with salt, pepper and olive oil. Put them in the oven.
After cooking, take the eggplant pulp. Cut it gently. Add the Corsican tome cheese, eggs, diced bread, and 5 to 6 chopped basil leaves. Season as you like
Put this filling back into the eggplant, then return it to the oven to brown it.


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A new study links chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, or COPD, with increased activity of cells that act as sentinels to activate the body's immune system.
The University of Michigan and Veterans Affairs research adds to growing awareness of the immune system's role in COPD, a serious, progressive lung disease that affects more than 12 million Americans with wheezing, shortness of breath, chest tightening and other symptoms. Understanding immune factors is key if doctors are to find better ways to detect and treat the disease early when patients might benefit most, believe some COPD researchers.
Nearly all people diagnosed with COPD have emphysema or chronic bronchitis or most commonly, both conditions. COPD is the fourth leading cause of death in the United States. Most people with COPD are smokers or former smokers.
"We found that dendritic cells, a type of immune cell that initiates immune responses, are in the lung interacting with lymphocytes, and that these dendritic cells seem to get more active as the disease goes on. If we could alter or stop their action, perhaps we could stop the disease from progressing," says the study's senior author Jeffrey L. Curtis, M.D., professor of internal medicine at the U-M Medical School and chief of the pulmonary and critical care medicine section at the VA Ann Arbor Healthcare System.
The study appears in the December 15 issue of the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine.
Lung damage occurs well before people with COPD are aware of symptoms. By the time they seek medical help, the destructive forces of chronic lung inflammation often have taken a heavy toll. Immune cells in repetitive overdrive play a key role in that inflammation response, COPD researchers increasingly believe.
Curtis and his research team analyzed the activity of dendritic cells and other immune cells in lung tissue from patients at early and more severe stages of COPD. They found that as the disease progresses, multiple types of dendritic cells located in different parts the lung produce more of a stimulatory molecule associated with increased immune system activity. They also found two significant signs of increased activity in CD4+ T cells, important immune cells that, when activated, communicate with and direct other immune cells.
"Our data suggest that CD4+ T cells are more activated in later stages of COPD," says Christine M. Freeman, the study's first author and a research investigator in internal medicine at U-M.
"This is not necessarily a good thing, because increased activation suggests that there is an inappropriate and excessive immune response taking place in the lungs of patients with severe COPD."
One strategy to help prevent COPD from worsening could be to make dendritic cells less inflammatory, says Curtis, adding that it is a significant challenge to intervene in the immune system without undermining its ability to fight infection.
Key facts about COPD
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, or COPD, is a leading cause of disability and killed more than 125,000 Americans over age 25 in 2005. It affects slightly more women than men.
Most people under the umbrella term COPD have emphysema or chronic bronchitis, or both. But asthma, respiratory infections, air pollutants and genetic factors also play a role.
People with emphysema suffer from severe shortness of breath that makes even simple daily tasks like dressing difficult. People with chronic bronchitis experience difficulty breathing, coughing and excessive mucus.
An estimated 40 percent of smokers get COPD. Recent research suggests the disease is more common than previously thought.
Ex-smokers remain at risk. It's common for symptoms to arise in ex-smokers even decades after they have quit smoking.
"Even if everyone in the world stopped smoking today, we would be dealing with the effects of this for 40 years," says Curtis.
Few treatments are very effective. Corticosteroids are of limited use in reducing inflammation.
People with COPD experience higher levels of depression and anxiety that those with other chronic diseases such as cancer and diabetes, studies have shown.
Note: U-M has a number of COPD clinical trials now enrolling patients. For more information, see https://www.umms.med.umich.edu/engage/ or email email@example.com
Additional authors: Fernando Martinez, M.D., M.S.; MeiLan K. Han, Theresa M. Ames, Stephen W. Chensue, Jill C. Todt, Douglas A. Arenberg, Catherine A. Meldrum, Christi Getty, Lisa McCloskey
Funding: U.S. Public Health Service, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, U-M Comprehensive Cancer Center
Patents/conflict disclosures: M.K.H. received up to $1,000 from Novartis in consultancy fees, $1,001–$5,000 for serving on an advisory board for CSL Behring, $5,001–$10,000 in lecture fees from GlaxoSmithKline, and up to$1,000 in royalties from UpToDate. J.L.C. received $10,001–$50,001 in capitation for a clinical trial from Boehringer Ingelheim.
Citation: American Journal of Respiratory Critical Care Medicine, December 15, 2009, volume 180, issue 12, page 1179
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Scientists reveal source of human heartbeat in 3-D
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Physicists at the University of Bonn have managed to create optical hollows and more complex patterns into which the light of a Bose-Einstein condensate flows. The creation of such highly low-loss structures for light is a prerequisite for complex light circuits, such as for quantum information processing for a new generation of computers. The researchers are now presenting their results in the journal Nature Photonics.
Light particles (photons) occur as tiny, indivisible portions. Many thousands of these light portions can be merged to form a single super-photon if they are...
For the first time, scientists have shown that circular RNA is linked to brain function. When a RNA molecule called Cdr1as was deleted from the genome of mice, the animals had problems filtering out unnecessary information – like patients suffering from neuropsychiatric disorders.
While hundreds of circular RNAs (circRNAs) are abundant in mammalian brains, one big question has remained unanswered: What are they actually good for? In the...
An experimental small satellite has successfully collected and delivered data on a key measurement for predicting changes in Earth's climate.
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A study led by scientists of the Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter (MPSD) at the Center for Free-Electron Laser Science in Hamburg presents evidence of the coexistence of superconductivity and “charge-density-waves” in compounds of the poorly-studied family of bismuthates. This observation opens up new perspectives for a deeper understanding of the phenomenon of high-temperature superconductivity, a topic which is at the core of condensed matter research since more than 30 years. The paper by Nicoletti et al has been published in the PNAS.
Since the beginning of the 20th century, superconductivity had been observed in some metals at temperatures only a few degrees above the absolute zero (minus...
Researchers from the University of Miami (UM) Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science, the Italian Space Agency (ASI), and the Instituto Geofisico--Escuela Politecnica Nacional (IGEPN) of Ecuador, showed an increasing volcanic danger on Cotopaxi in Ecuador using a powerful technique known as Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (InSAR).
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Tuesday, April 29, 2008
NEW Bootleg Batman Trailer; Not Due Out Till Sunday!!!
Get to it before someone pulls it down!
It's the new trailer (that's not supposed to appear until this Sunday) for Batman: The Dark Knight!!!!
Just click on the picture (if the Multimedia police haven't gotten to it before you did!
UPDATE: Warner Bros. has pulled the video from YouTube, so if you haven't seen it you most likely have to wait until Sunday.
UPDATE 2: I was able to find the trailer again, so check it out while you can. The quality sucks, but what can you say, it's bootleg.


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Federal Interest Rates Chart Prime rate, federal funds rate, COFI. The COFI (11th District cost of funds index) is a widely used benchmark for adjustable-rate mortgages. Click on the links below to find a fuller explanation of the term. WSJ Prime Rate 5.00 5.00 4.25 Federal Discount Rate 2.50 2.50 1.75 fed funds rate (current target rate 1.75-2.00) 2.00 2.00 1.25.
Are you paying more than 17% interest on your credit cards? SoFi Personal Loans could help you save thousands. With low personal loan interest rates and a fixed monthly payment, you can get loans to pay off credit cards, pay off high interest debt, or make a major purchase. It only takes minutes to apply.
Interest rates vary slightly depending on the state you live as well as whether you’re looking to purchase in a rural versus urban area. Some loan products like USDA loans offer generally lower rates than conventional mortgage options for eligible borrowers. Why does my mortgage interest rate matter?
Can you unlock a mortgage if interest rates fall before your closing day? How much commitment does locking a mortgage require from you and your lender?. most lenders will not give you a lower.
Lowest Morgage Interest Rates The unemployment rate in April and May was 3.6%, the lowest since December 1969. “When you’re talking about affordability, you’re not just talking about mortgage interest rates – you’re talking.
There’s no single lender that provides personal loans with low interest rates for everyone. But certain types of lenders tend to offer lower rates than others. For example, according to a National Credit Union Administration study , the average interest rate for a fixed 36-month unsecured loan from a credit union as of March 2018 was 9.22% versus 10.09% for banks.
Cash Out Refi Rates Rate: 4%. Background: A recently divorced client received. Since her debt-to-income ratio was already high, I quickly restructured to a cash-out refinance to lower her monthly obligations by paying.
On Friday, Aug. 30, 2019, the average rate on a 30-year fixed-rate mortgage fell two basis points to 3.83%, the rate on the 15-year fixed rose one basis point to 3.43% and the rate on the 5/1 ARM.
There’s no single lender that provides personal loans with low interest rates for everyone. But certain types of lenders tend to offer lower rates than others. For example, according to a National Credit Union Administration study , the average interest rate for a fixed 36-month unsecured loan from a credit union as of March 2018 was 9.22%.
The average 30-year fixed mortgage rate fell to 3.79%, down 6 basis points from 3.85% a week ago. 15-year fixed mortgage rates fell 4 basis points to 3.13% from 3.17% a week ago.
The payment reduction may come from a lower interest rate, a longer loan term, or a combination of both. By extending the loan term you may pay more in interest over the life of the loan. By understanding how consolidating your debt benefits you, you’ll be in a better position to decide if it is the right option for you.

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Videos of Teslas malfunctioning in sub-zero temperatures go viral
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Multiple stories of Tesla vehicles experiencing major malfunctions in freezing temperatures during the holidays have gone viral.
In a video uploaded to Twitter on December 23, Canadian meteorologist Rachel Modestino demonstrates her inability to open the driver’s side door of her vehicle because the latch, which must be pulled out of the door to be used, has jammed.
Her video garnered over 4.2 million views and 40,800 likes.
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“@elonmusk bet you didn’t think of ice in Tesla’s design,” Modestino wrote in his tweet.
Modestino’s video proved polarizing, with some Twitter users agreeing with his assessment of the vehicle while others reacted defensively and insulted its intelligence.
“There are these things called garages”, a user wrote.
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“A smart person in such weather starts his care from a distance and allows him to thaw for 20-30 minutes before entering, or he takes a jug of hot water from home and hoses down the front door before entering. come in,” wrote another.
“The handles aren’t the only problem, are they? Since the window doesn’t slide when frosted, I couldn’t close the door,” said one user. share. “I think you’re right Rachel, it’s a design error. They fix it with workarounds, but it starts with the error. I like the car too, but I agree with your remark.”
Modestino was finally able to get into his car through the use of a companion app.
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A TikTok video uploaded Dec. 25 shows another Tesla owner’s frustrations after his vehicle refused to charge in sub-zero temperatures on Christmas Eve.
“Tesla S won’t charge in the cold,” TikTok user Domenick Nati wrote in the video’s description. “Wrecked on Christmas Eve!”
In the video, Nati shows off her dashboard, which shows the outside temperature at 19 degrees Fahrenheit and indicates 19 miles to go before her battery dies.
Nati describes trying several different methods to charge his battery, but to no avail.
After plugging his car into a charging station, the vehicle screen says “Battery is heating up – Keep charging cable inserted”. After two hours, the message remains and his vehicle still reads 19 miles remaining.
Nati’s video has since garnered over a million views and 59,000 likes.
Commentators have criticized the vehicle for malfunctioning, with some expressing skepticism towards electric vehicles in general.
“I know what’s wrong [sic] “, commented one user. “There is no gas in it.”
“Thank you for convincing me never to buy Tesla,” wrote another.
“I live the idea of some electric vehicles but the technology is not advanced enough to be forced on people,” another commented.
In an update video, Nati says Tesla was able to tow his vehicle and provide him with a Tesla Model 3 while his was being serviced.
“I received several calls today from @Tesla Motors,” he wrote in the video’s description. “They have been very accommodating so far and tow my car 2 hours from Richmond to the service center at their own expense.”


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Spanish VAT reverse charge
The reverse charge mechanism is designed to reduce the frequency with which companies trading across Europe must VAT register. It works across the EU. Spain uses the reverse charge system less than most other EU states.
It allows any transactions to be recorded through the VAT return of the customer, so alleviating the need for the foreign supplier to VAT register in Spain.
When is the Spanish VAT reverse charge used?
The reverse charge mechanism is applied in the following circumstances:
- Buying and selling goods in Spain if the original supplier and customer are Spanish VAT registered
- The supply of services to a Spanish VAT registered business (2010 VAT package).
- Supply of certain types of power.
- Other various minor goods.
What is the tax point for the Spanish reverse charge?
The tax point (when the VAT is due) for the reverse charge is the end of the month following the month of supply. However, if the vendor raised an invoice prior to the supply, then it is that date which should be used.

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How much does it cost to bury a swimming pool? The average cost to remove an inground pool ranges from $3,500 to $15,000 for a medium size pool with relatively easy access. Costs can rise to well over $10,000 for a large pool with a large deck and difficult pool access.
How much does it cost to cover a pool with dirt? The average cost to fill in an inground pool is $4,000 to $16,000 for full demolition or $2,000 to $10,000 to fill in with dirt. An above ground pool removal costs $300 to $800, or $2,500 with a deck. The cost to get rid of a swimming pool depends on the size, depth, material, and accessibility.
Can you just fill in a pool with dirt? Option 1: Filling in a Pool (Partial Removal)
Filling in a pool involves draining the pool, punching holes in the bottom, demolishing the top layer of the pool (18′ – 36′), placing the rubble in the bottom, filling in the pool with additional dirt and topsoil, and compacting the soil.
How much does it cost to fill in a pool with concrete? On average, it will cost you between $3,500 and $5,000 to fill in your concrete swimming pool. The price will also depend on the contractor, the size of your pool, and the materials that you use to complete the work.
12×24 Inground Pool Cost
A 12-foot by 24-foot pool is considered medium-sized, and is suitable for swimming laps. The cost for this size, on average, will be between $26,000 and $38,000, depending on the type of material used.
Pool Maintenance Cost
The average cost to maintain a pool is $80 to $150 monthly or about $960 to $1,800 yearly. For a first-time pool cleaning service, expect to spend $150 to $350 on average. The annual cost to own a pool is $3,000 to $5,000, which includes maintenance, repairs, electricity, and water.
It is not advised to leave a pool empty for extended periods: Depending on the level of the water shelf, sustained pressure on an in-ground pool without water can cause external damage. Additionally, a drained above-ground pool can receive structural damage from the elements.
The short answer is yes. If you add a pool to your home, its value will likely rise. Under optimal circumstances, a pool could boost your home’s value by as much as 7%, according to Houselogic. Because of this general limit, you’re unlikely to increase the value of your home by the amount that the pool costs.
Standard pool dimensions usually measure something like 10 x 20, 15 x 30, and 20 x 40, with an average depth around 5.5 feet. 10 x 20 is considered a small in-ground pool, while a 20 x 40-foot pool is on the larger side of things. Therefore, it’s important to consider the shape of the pool that’ll best fit your needs.
How many years is a typical pool loan? With a personal loan or home equity loan, you can generally target the length of time to pay back your loan. This will usually be between two and 10 years. The longer the loan, the lower each month’s payment will be but the more interest you’ll pay overall.
Usually, this event occurs after a demand or supply shock. In this case, the good is above ground pools. This has started happening because there are very low levels of these in stock now and there is a very high demand for them. This situation has thus created a higher demand for above ground pools.
You may be paying for weekly service but the guy is coming every other week, or even every three weeks. Since pool guys usually come when you’re at work, you have very little way of verifying if and when they’re there. 7. Saltwater pools don’t take care of themselves.
The average swimming pool will cost between $660 and $1,000 to run annually – consuming between 2,000 and 3,000 kilowatt hours of electricity. That’s about $23 each week! This cost takes into account the ongoing cost of your pool pump, but does not include heating – that’s going to be extra!
How much does an above ground pool cost to run? It costs about $115 per month to maintain your above ground pool. You can expect to pay an additional $30 to $250 per month on your electric bill to run the pump, filter and heater.
Using that simple math, it stands to reason that your water bill will at least double when you fill your pool for the first time from a hose. For just a few more pennies per gallon, you could enjoy more time splashing with the family and alleviate any hassle associated with the task at hand.
If necessary, clean the pool so that you will have clean water right from the start. When you are ready to begin adding water, make sure you start with a low pressure source such as a garden hose. It is never recommended to leave your home during this time or to fill your pool overnight.
With a typical 1/2 inch garden hose, about 18 hours. At 540 gallons per hour, it will take about 9 hours to fill a 5,000 gallon pool with a 1/2-inch garden hose… So by those calculations & doubling them, about 18 hours.
It’s not good to leave your pool empty when the weather gets cold. You may naturally assume it’s best to completely drain your pool of water for the winter months, because you fear the water will freeze and cause damage. Actually, it’s not good to leave your pool empty when the weather gets cold.
A well-maintained concrete pool should last around 50 years or more. And a well constructed in-ground concrete swimming pool should last a lifetime. But, a pool’s liner or finish won’t last long. And thus, an in-ground concrete pool will need to be resurfaced every 10 to 15 years.
The Problem With An Empty Pool
When that amount of weight and pressure is removed from the structure, the pool can actually pop out of the ground due to ground pressure forcing it up. This can compromise its structural integrity, damaging the walls, floor, liners, and even the deck itself.
A pool can increase not only your social worth but also the value of your home. However, the increase is probably not as much as you think. According to HouseLogic, there’s no real guarantee that you’ll make your money back. In fact, adding a swimming pool may only increase your home’s value by 7%.
For a family of 8 people, a pool size of 18 by 36 feet is adequate. Even if you all decide to swim at the same time, there will be enough space for everyone. A rectangular shape is the best choice for this size of the pool. If there are six or less in your family, a pool size of 16 by 32 feet will be sufficient.
An above-ground pool is, by far, the least-expensive option for a pool. Kids love them, and built-in fencing and locking gate options make them safe as long as an adult monitors them. The main disadvantage of an above-ground pool is that it generally adds no value to your home.
How much do pool cleaning services cost? The national average cost for a pool cleaner is $86 a month for weekly service or about $1,032 per year. Expect to spend $150-$300 for a one-time pool cleaning service and $175-$255 for acid washing your pool.
$1.36 per day x 365 days = $496 per year to Operate a 1-½ HP Variable Speed Pump. Cost to Operate 1-½ HP Single Speed Pool Pump $1,062 / yr Vs. Cost of Variable Speed Pump $496 / year.

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By Susan Hayden Kennedy
Despite the untimely death of Eight Belles following her historic second-place finish in the 134th Kentucky Derby Presented by Yum! Brands (gr. I), trainer Larry Jones believed “Eight Belles did not die in vain. I don’t know why, but the good Lord has a plan for all things.”
More than a year later, a young lady named Maria Rose Michalak understood, at least in part, why Eight Belles died. “With every improvement racing makes in her honor and with every horse rescued in her name, Eight Belles crosses the wire in the lead, winning yet again.”
Despite being only 16, Michalak has just written and published her first book, Eight Belles: Triumph Beyond the Wire.
The idea for the book was born with Eight Belles’ inspiring run in the Derby. “She was a sweet filly who ran an amazing race, and I thought she deserved to have her story told. I also thought she and her human family deserved to have their story told with love,” Michalak explained.
Ten months after Michalak’s father suggested she write the book, she handed the first copy of the biography to Larry and Cindy Jones at Churchill Downs the morning of the 135th Kentucky Derby.
While Michalak’s book chronicles Eight Belles’ days as a foal, as well as her lineage, training, and racing career, it also recounts the positive changes that have occurred in Thoroughbred racing as a result of Eight Belles’ death.
Several adoption stories are chronicled, including the story of MidAtlantic Horse Rescue, which has purchased several former racehorses and prepared them for new lives with sales proceeds from the red wristbands embossed with Eight Belles’ name.
Others are Wheels of Stars, who has been adopted by a Maryland woman; Dr. Hector, taken in by a 13-year-old girl in Ohio; and Fast Movin Fini, adopted by an outrider at Belmont Park and retrained as a trail horse. All of them rescued, Michalak said, in Eight Belles’ name.
One adopted horse now lives in Michalak’s backyard. Jones, renamed in honor of Larry and Cindy, is a former lead pony at Delaware Park. The 12-year-old gelding retired with a shoulder injury, and his owner sought a nice retirement for him. Cindy Jones immediately thought of Maria.
“She knew he’d be happy here,” Michalak said. “I was teaching riding and she thought he’d be good on light duty with the kids. Or, he’d be a good horse for me, since I love trail riding and light trail riding is just what Jones needed.”
Michalak, home-schooled in the foothills of North Carolina, has had her own horse since she was 4. “I liked horses and racing, but (2007 Derby contender) Hard Spun was my first love in the racing world. I started out calling Larry (Jones) ‘the smiling man with the cowboy hat.’ He seemed to have a lot of faith; he seemed to really care about horses and people.”
Then Maria fell in love with Eight Belles. “The first time I saw her was on Oaks day. Cindy was feeding her treats. Eight Belles looked so sweet, calm, and content. The next time I saw her I laughed out loud. It was her (pre-Derby) workout with Larry riding her, which is still one of my favorite things to watch. She looked like she was having so much fun on the track.
“Eight Belles showed courage, heart, and how much one life can touch others. She brought change to the Sport of Kings; she made a difference. There’s a lot of love in Eight Belles’ biography. I want her to be remembered, and I would love for others to be able to enjoy her story like I did.”

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Inspired by the success of organizers at the University of Missouri, students are rising up in anti-racism protests at their institutions across the nation. The awareness of structural and physical violence against African Americans--in particular--has reached a point where students are not going to take it any more.
On November 12, at Brandeis University in Waltham, MA, 300 students marched in solidarity with the students of University of Missouri and occupied the Campus Student Center. One week later, on November 19, they marched to the office of interim President Lisa Lynch and issued a list of 13 demands, holding the administration accountable "to analyze and address the ways in which social, cultural and economic inequalities affect power and privilege in the larger society and at Brandeis itself." These demands include: increasing the numbers of Black faculty, staff and students on campus; altering the curriculum across all schools to promote "awareness and inclusion;" hiring clinical staff of color within the Psychological Counseling Center; and increasing the minimum wage for all university staff to $15/hour. Students are occupying the Bernstein-Marcus administrative building until an action plan for meeting the demands is agreed upon by all parties and published.
It might be tempting for some to dismiss these student efforts as the product of youthful idealism and naiveté. After all, protests were held in the 60s, and where did they get us? They got us African American, Latin American, Asian and Native American Studies departments, Women's Studies, diversity officers, affirmative action, funding for student events and groups related to cultural minority issues, and all kinds of awareness and equity-building practices that helped integrate campuses and improved learning for all. Alas, many of these gains have faded in the last decade or so, impacted in part by challenges to affirmative action. And as college costs rise ever higher, a degree is out of reach for many qualified students from low-income backgrounds.
As a university professor myself and as the mother of a Brandeis student, I am heartened by this burst of student activism. The Brandeis administration is presented with a profound opportunity to live up to its mission of social justice and interdisciplinary learning by meeting these demands. Brandeis administrators should grasp this opportunity to assert its leadership among peer institutions. This new wave of intensified campus activism is an opportunity for all campuses to live up to the United States ideals of liberty and justice for all.
The Brandeis Student of Color demands are far-reaching, addressing the needs of campus workers as well as students. They understand their struggles are part of a broader battle for justice for oppressed people in the United States and around the world. In fact, one of the Brandeis protest organizers, senior student Bronte Velez, explicitly connects their action to the anniversary of the shooting death of 12 year-old Tamir Rice exactly a year ago:
"As we occupy Brandeis University's administration building, holding this institution accountable for their injustices in our demands for equity, we carry Tamir and his family with us. We carry all of the premature deaths of Black lives with us as we stand in community for justice; not only for the Black folks on this campus but everywhere in the larger diaspora. We are tired of asking what morning, what afternoon, what night, what traffic stop, what sidewalk, what neighborhood, what campus, our bodies will be used as weapons or become them. We are tired of death. We demand the fullness of life today!"
I wish for all students at Brandeis and around the country, and those who work on campuses and those who long to partake in the American Dream of college but whose dreams remain out of reach--the "fullness" of life that Velez so poetically names; the "fullness of life" that comes from an education, from justice, and from fairness. These protests make me hopeful about the future of our country. Embedded within protests is optimism--that change can happen. With their energy and determination, change is gonna come. March on!

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Located in the heart of one of the fastest growing neighborhoods in Langley, The Butcher is excited to open its premier location at 8045 204th - part of the Yorkson Village complex in the Willoughby Slope area. As residents of Willoughby themselves, Kai and Heather often talked over the years while making dinner for their family, about how what the neighborhood was missing was a great butcher shop that sold quality, local, and sustainable products for an affordable price. With the help of their long-time friend and colleague Jeevan, the 3 spent many long nights dreaming up just that.
Working with local farmers from around the Fraser Valley, the Butcher is proud to offer locally and ethically raised meats for a true farm to table experience right in your own home. We have worked hard to make sure that most of our products come from local pastures, so that you truly know where what you are eating comes from. We offer a wide selection of fresh meats daily at our butcher counter, sandwiches soups and salads from the deli counter, and ready-made take home meals in our freezer section. What sets us apart from everyone else is that not only does our head butcher have a wide variety of experience in butchery and sausage making, but our owners also have vast chef backgrounds working in restaurants, hotels, and you’ve got it – butcher shops!
The Butcher also offers bundle meat packs, a wide selection of house made charcuterie, custom cutting, game cutting during hunting season, and the option to have us come to your farm and put down/process your animal for you, making us the one stop shop for all your butchery needs. This neighborhood is home to us, and we are thrilled to have the opportunity to provide you with excellent products and customer service to match. Please reach out to us with any questions or butchery needs you may have. From our community, for our community.
Kai has cut meat as a butcher for over 10 years and has been head butcher/store manager at prominant butcher shops in both Vancouver and the Fraser Valley. Kai also spent some time working at a high-end sausage making company where he picked up a strong love and a skill set to match for house-made charcuteries. Over the years Kai has perfected his custom cutting and whole animal butchery which also makes us a great choice to bring your animals to come hunting season. Prior to Butchery Kai worked in the Vancouver food scene for 10+ years which included being named executive chef at hotels and busy restaurants, fine dining restaurants, and he even had the honour of being named runner up for Best Chef in Vancouver! Kai dreams of owning a farm right here in the Fraser Valley one day so that he can complete the whole cycle of raising animals, preparing the meat, and selling it to the community. This dream is what propelled Kai to make the switch from cooking to cutting, and every day it reinforces his respect for simple, local, quality ingredients.
Jeevan comes to the table with 15+ years of restaurant experience, including but not limited to hotels, cafes, butcher shops, and even owning and running his own successful pizza shop in Beaumont Alberta. This widespread variety of both hands-on cooking/cutting experience, and multiple managerial roles gives Jeevan a unique level of expertise where he is comfortable and at home tackling any of the needs our customers may have. Born in the Philippines to Indian parents and growing up in Vancouver Jeevan has grown up with many different foods and cultures, and to Jeevan food IS culture. Jeevan truly believes it is very important that we know where our food comes from and he is so excited to share his appreciation for healthy local ingredients with you all. He promises everything that goes out our doors will be of the utmost quality.
As both a local to the neighbourhood and a working mom, Heather knows how busy life can be and how much we needed something in our area to help bring quick but healthy meals to our tables. With over 20 years experience in the food industry (as a cook, chef, pastry chef, butcher) Heather is passionate about creating a great take home heat and serve ready made meal program at The Butcher with food that is not only restaurant quality, but still affordable for everyday families. Spending her childhood on Vancouver Island gave Heather a real appreciation for the farm to table experience and she is using that knowledge and experience to ensure our products are created from scratch using some of the freshest local bountry our area has to offer. Heathers wide array of experience in all things food guarantees everything from our pot pie crusts, to our beef tenderloin steaks are prepared with the utmost expertise and care. Most days youll find Heather behind the deli counter so please pop in and say Hello!
We will come out to your farm or location. Once there we will put your animal down using a humane method to make it quick and painless for your animal.
Once we have harvested your animal at your location, we will bring it back to the shop to hang in our cooler where we will age your animals for a set number of days.
Now that your animal has been processed and thoroughly frozen for 1-2 days, it’s ready to come home! You will receive a phone call from our office letting you know that your meat is ready and what the total is for the butcher fees.


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Warner Robins, Ga. – Ronald Greene, a Business Management student with Central Georgia Technical College (CGTC), has a lengthy record.
As a formerly incarcerated citizen, one might presume that to be the case, but it is his post-incarceration list of accolades that have earned Greene the award of the fall 2019 Re-Entry Scholarship for Educational Transition (RESET).
Greene, president of the Georgia and CGTC Phi Beta Lambda Chapters, motivational speaker, pastor, and youth mentor made it out of a life of addiction, Read More
December 6, 2019
Warner Robins, Ga. – Students at Walker State Prison in the Welding program of Central Georgia Technical College’s (CGTC) Office of Re-entry Services recently sent Gov. Nathan Deal and first lady Sandra Deal handcrafted gifts. The items are a token of appreciation to the couple for their commitment to the state’s prison reform, as the two students discussed in reflection notes shared with the College.
Gov. Deal’s tenure included early and sustained efforts to combat recidivism through criminal justice reform allowing inmates at Walker State Prison, Read More
December 27, 2018
Warner Robins, Ga. – The Office of Re-entry Services at Central Georgia Technical College (CGTC) has teamed up with the College’s Marketing and Public Relations staff to create a blog devoted to telling the success stories of formerly incarcerated citizens who took advantage of technical education programs while incarcerated.
Re-entry Services at CGTC is a division committed to the educational and training component of criminal justice reform and recidivism rate reduction among Georgia’s incarcerated citizens, and through its efforts, Read More
February 9, 2018
Warner Robins, Ga. – Central Georgia Technical College (CGTC) and its Office of Re-Entry Services recently began a pilot Maintenance Electrical Plumbing (MEP) program at Wilcox and Whitworth State Prisons; and in just a few short months, it has already seen participants meet standards.
“We really wanted to support Wilcox and Whitworth State Prison in their need for maintaining inmate living areas and employee work spaces,” said, Dr. Brittany Lucas, the executive director of Re-entry Services at CGTC. Read More
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Presentation on theme: "Broken Britain, the Big Society and implications for housing policy John Flint University of Sheffield The Big Society, Localism and Housing Policy: An."— Presentation transcript:
Broken Britain, the Big Society and implications for housing policy John Flint University of Sheffield The Big Society, Localism and Housing Policy: An ESRC Seminar Series Seminar 2: Localism, Welfare Reform and Tenure Restructuring in the UK Queens University, Belfast 24-25 October 2013
Outline Broken Britain and the 2011 riots The Big Society and Localism Redefining government and reframing crisis as norm Housing, localism and the Big Society “Middle-class young ‘will fare worse than their parents.’” Headline in The Observer, 12 October 2013 (based on the report of The Social Mobility and Child Poverty Commission, see Boffey, 2013)
Broken Britain: New Labour and domo-politics New Labour’s social exclusion paradigm: cultural (and moral) dynamics of material poverty and social capital New Labour and the Respect Agenda: “Values necessary to support respect are becoming less widely held” (Respect Task Force, 2006:5) Walters (2004) and domo-politics: a move from (rational)political economy to governance through emotion and belonging: ‘expectation’ ‘fairness’ and ‘localness’ rather than ‘need’, ‘strategy’ and ‘calculation’
The Right and Broken Britain Social Justice Policy Group (2006) Breakdown Britain: underclass Alan Duncan MP, 2007: a need to ‘re-civilise Britain’ to counter ‘a real life Lord of the Flies’ Browne (2008): ‘Despite some moral improvements’, family breakdown, drug and alcohol abuse and welfare dependency have ‘unequivocally increased’ in the last two decades with ‘an evident’ decline in social capital Conservative Party (2010): Labour’s Two Nations David Cameron (2010): “Huge cultural changes will be required within communities lacking the abilities to cope with modern life” (emphasis added)
The 2011 Riots David Cameron (2011): ‘A complete absence of self-restraint’ and a ‘slow motion moral collapse that has taken place in parts of our country these past few generations.’ Emphasis on geography and generations Cameron (2011): “A social fight back.”
A perpetual crisis of the present “age of insecurity”, “loss of ontological security”, “age of anxiety”, “angst society”, “governmentality of unease”; “liquid life”, vertigo of modernity” (Judt, 2010; Scott, 2000; Giddens, 1990; Gilbert,2009; Beck, 1992; Young, 2007) Advanced urban marginality (Wacquant, 2008) and the precariat (Standing, 2011) BUT… Perceived periods of crisis are ubiquitous in urban history (Beatrice Webb on the 1920s:‘moral miasma…atmosphere of morbid alcoholism and sexuality, furtive larceny and unashamed mendacity…a barbarous underclass.’) Empirical evidence contested (see Griffith et al., 2011 and Mooney, 2009).
The Big Society and Localism New Labour’s ‘double devolution’: returning power to (and from) town halls Stock transfer and community ownership (GHA and second stage transfer) “For too long central government has hoarded and concentrated power” (CLG, 2011) “The time has come to disperse power more widely in Britain today…and to pass power back to where it belongs” (CLG, 2011)
Big Society as an associative figuration Big Society is an ‘associative figuration’ (Barker, 1960), implying contracts of governance (as with the ‘nation’ and ‘welfare’ state) A mechanism for naming the world (Bourdieu, 1984) Based on a perceived subversion of the welfare state and the underpinning social contract Premised on Victorian (not welfare state)philanthropy and voluntarism and laissez faire/elite localism, not municipalism Localism Act: Neighbourhood planning; influence on planning decisions; right to build; community infrastructure levy Autonomy and flexibility for local authorities and “localness” in social housing allocations Enhanced role for private landlords
Dispersing power? Treasure Islands and PFI (Shaxson, 2011; Raco, 2012) The Victorian ‘Big Society’ built upon elites sharing a fate in space and place (disease, unrest, crime) with those that they sought to govern: Museums, parks, prisons, schools and, eventually, housing for the working classes, were inherently local as well as urban, based on a localised social contract (see Hunt, 2004) A wider project of demunicipalisation Overseas ownership of property in London (Hodkinson, 2013; Watt, 2013a, 2013b) Corporate landlordism (Minton, 2012; Hodkinson, 2013; Watt; 2013a, 2013b)
Redefining government Liberal Party in Canada describing the 1995 Budget that devolved responsibility for social housing provision to the Provinces: “the very redefinition of government itself” (Martin, 1995, p6). “A new contract with the British people on work and welfare” (HM Government, 2012) “The days of big government are over”(CLG, 2011, p2)
Crisis as norm “The housing benefit system has almost created an expectation that you could almost live anywhere, and that’s what has to stop.” Grant Shapps, Former Housing Minister, 2010 (quoted in Ramesh et al., 2010) “Those within [the welfare system] grow up with a series of expectations: you can have a home of your own…” David Cameron, June 2012
Reframing the crisis “Why does the single mother get the council housing straightaway when the hard-working couple have been waiting years?...” “There are currently 210,000 people aged 16-24 who are social housing tenants…and this is happening when there is a growing phenomenon of young people living with their parents into their 30s because they can’t afford their own place- almost 3 million between the ages of 20 and 34. So for literally millions, the passage to independence is several years living in their childhood bedroom as they save up to move out.
Re-naming the world Reframing the expectations of populations (and by extension their expectations of government) A home of one’s own (never mind home ownership!) becomes fanciful Doxa (Bourdieu, 1984): taken for granted- the way things are Young people’s desire for independent living is problematised The transformation, within a generation, of expected pathways and timescales to having a home of one’s own is a ‘phenomenon’; divorced from governmental and societal processes and priorities Denying the possibility of alternative (Jacobs and Manzi, 2013) An implacable system beyond governmental reach
The causes of apprehension… “The causes of apprehension and complaint among populations lie not within constitutions or governments but in their own conduct” (Edmund Burke, 1790) The location of the contemporary crisis (including its housing dimensions) at the individual household level is a defining feature of the Big Society and Localism agendas The inevitable result: Yarlington Housing Group’s Household Ambition Plan and Edinburgh City Council’s ‘fag and booze tests’ for Discretionary Housing Payments (see Johnson, 2013; Brown, 2013)
Localism and residential fixivity A temporal and spatial compression of the expectations of, and right to, housing Localism as a site of desperate efforts to stay put and the right to place (Watt, 2013a;Hodkinson, 2013) The permanency of residence is removed (Goetz, 2013), reducing elective fixivity (Paton, 2012) for lower income households and generating forms of urban transience reminiscent of both the contemporary global south and Victorian urban Britain In a mirror image, new forms of forced fixivity for young people required to remain in the parental home (McKee, 2012; Pennington et al., 2012 ) The attempt of the Big Society and localism to realign the ‘locus of control’ (Fitzpatrick and Pawson, 2013)to local communities coincides with a loss of this control over fixivity in locale for ever larger groups of the population
The end of the ‘actual existing right to the city’? For Big Society and localism to have any sense of coherence they require belonging and commitment to place But housing and welfare reforms act to reduce the ‘right to the city’: to access and occupy urban space (at domestic and neighbourhood scales) Raquel Rolnick (UN rapporteur on adequate housing): UK has a housing crisis; the localism of social housing (not only aggregate provision) matters; and there is a retrogression in human- housing rights (see Gentleman, 2013)
Seceding from the future A reinvigorated belief in the power of planning to shape cities and to control the future? (Judt, 2010) “With the destruction of the sixties, at least they had the excuse they were building the new Jerusalem” (resident quoted in Minton, 2012) The crisis now conceptualised at individual household levels A reduction in the centralising authority of public housing through the growth of private (increasingly corporate) landlordism
The ‘wobbly pillars’ of social contract (Malpass, 2004) Housing was a mechanism of insulation from the vagaries of capitalism Those in power have lost control of the future (Judt, 2010) Inability to provide centralising authority and to offer protection and predictability: the key pillars of the social contract A pre-emptive response to the consequences of a new generation having less housing (and life) opportunities than their parents (Colic-Peisker and Johnson, 2012; McKee; 2012; Pennington et al., 2012; Boffey, 2013)
Back to the future? Lays claim to recapturing a previous era of civic engagement and the dynamism of provincial cities and towns (Hunt, 2004) Precarious and transient existence of lower income households; a housing crisis: laissez faire landlordism and a deliberate distancing (through moralisation of poverty) of state and government from the crisis “An urban modernity haunted by that which it sought to overcome” (Crook, 2008, p. 429) The key historical lesson is that voluntary endeavour, local mercantile philanthropy (including the pioneers of housing philanthropy) and self regulation exposed the limitations of these forms of governance and their inadequacies to grapple with the scale of the urban crisis (Birch and Gardner, 1981) The modern project, in response, extended the social contract through municipal and subsequently national state intervention, culminating in the welfare state and the great housing programmes of the 20 th Century The Big Society, as a form of enacting responsibility and obligation to act, requires the responsibilisation of government.
Conclusions A broken state, not a broken society? (Slater, 2011) The Big Society and localism articulates a form of governing without government (Jacobs and Manzi, 2013) that conceals realigned class and generational relationships: The old political economy that underpinned public housing is obsolete (Goetz, 2013) The Big Society is a response to a structural crisis in housing, affecting new populations (including the middle class) that seeks to deny or reframe the nature of the crisis Housing represents a governmental spatial fix for the uncertainties engendered by a generational decline in housing opportunities (Mann, 2012; McKee, 2012) An emaciated form of housing and urban governance and ambition for what the city could and should be
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We are proud to announce our 2021 Gamers Vs MS Streamer Ambassador: rosedoodle! The ambassador is someone who represents everything that makes GvM what it is -- a passion for gaming, streaming, and using that to make a difference in the lives of those affected by MS. Rose is an artist as well as a vtuber personality on Twitch and Youtube who resides in Canada! From the day she picked up a crayon as a little girl, creating visual art has been her number one passion.
Rosedoodle has participated in four relays to date and her community has raised over $25,000 in the fight against Multiple Sclerosis. We are proud to have rosedoodle as our ambassador this year and know she’ll provide amazing entertainment while raising awareness and funds for MS!