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A missed call on WhatsApp was enough to infect some of the app users' phones with advanced spying software, the messaging platform has said. The malicious program was reportedly developed by Israel's NSO group.
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The US aerospace giant said it is "keeping our customers and suppliers informed" about the new software issue. Aviation regulators have grounded the 737 Max across the globe after two deadly crashes.
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WhatsApp's Dark Made has been made available to Android beta users.
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WhatsApp has reached 2 Billion users two years after announcing a 1.5 Billion mark. The free messaging service and ad-free application was purchased by Facebook in 2014 for $19 billion.
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A DW exclusive investigation shows thousands of links to private WhatsApp groups can still be easily found online, despite public outrage which led the company to change its stance and remove them from Google.
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Germany's data privacy chief has told federal bodies not to use WhatsApp, amid concerns that it feeds Facebook with data. Ulrich Kelber said it appeared that the government has failed to establish enough safe services.
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In a bold move, US antitrust watchdogs have sued Facebook, arguing the social media giant needs to be broken up. Momentum is on the regulators' side, experts say.
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US-based record label "Sahel Sounds", which specialises in music from Africa's semi-arid Sahel, releases monthly EPs online which local artists record on mobile phones and send to Portland, Oregon over WhatsApp.
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WhatsApp asked its users to agree to its new updated terms, which would allow the service to share users' data with Facebook and facilitate e-commerce.
18 Jan 2021
The messaging app WhatsApp has announced that it will postpone planned changes to its data-sharing policy after a widespread backlash. Also, a number of corporations in the US have paused political donations in the aftermath of the January 6 riot at the Capitol. And here in France, 2020 saw a record number of companies created.
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Trinity Hosts Middle School Diversity Conference
Trinity recently welcomed about 150 middle school students from Calvin Christian, Chicago West Side Christian, Deer Creek Christian, and Timothy Christian schools who took part in the Middle School Diversity Conference.
Activities during the day ranged from a praise time at the beginning of the day, activities and games that addressed diversity issues and helped the students both frame those issues and discuss how they could be leaders for change, and activities that were just fun and brought different students from different Christian schools together.
The day was organized by a team of students from each of the participating schools and led by Jeralyn Harris of Chicago West Side Christian. Students from Trinity’s Education 335 class, “Teaching in the Middle Grades,” also assisted throughout the event.
“I was deeply impressed with the depth of the middle school students’ commitment to diversity leadership and it was an amazing experience for my students, most of whom hope to teach middle school in another year or two, to interact with the middle school kids and get a sense of what they are capable of,” said Dr. Bill Boerman-Cornell, professor of education. “It was a great day.”


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SCOTT Co., Iowa (KWQC) - A man who is considered armed and dangerous is wanted out of Scott County. Law enforcement officials say he has also has violent tendencies.
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Living Legend and Dancehall veteran Bounty Killer, oc Rodney Pryce has recently criticized the Jamaican government for their lack of support towards Reggae & Dancehall music, and attempting to make the genres scapegoats for the country’s high crime rates.
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Josh Stewart will join Chris Pine and Casey Affleck in THE FINEST HOURS. Based on the book by Casey Sherman and Michael J. Tougias, the drama follows the story of a Coast Guard rescue that’s undertaken after two oil tankers are torn in half by treacherous waves during a deadly blizzard. Craig Gillespie is directing the project.
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Cyberdrama is the term used to describe a story told in digital format. Video games are the prime example of a cyberdrama. Janet Murray’s Hamlet on the Holodeck sheds some light on digitalized narratives. Her idea of a holodeck is the digital equivalent of a movie. The key aspect of these types of narratives is that they are interactive. The user will be involved and engaged directly with the story by making decisions that will influence the flow, direction, and outcome of the story. This type of engagement in the narrative submerges the user deeper into the story, triggering emotions into the user in new ways. Storytelling in itself possess the ability to give the reader, viewer or listener emotions that tie them into the narrative. The content of stories aren’t really going to change very drastically, storytelling has been around since cave drawings. It’s the medium, the container, through which the stories are told that is changing, and video games are the perhaps the gateway to the greatest medium of storytelling. The interactiveness of video games creates a unique experience that simply watching movie cannot match. For example, in a movie, a character makes a decision that turns out to be a mistake and they face a consequence. As a viewer, you realize that they made the wrong choice, but there’s nothing you could do about it, no matter how many times you watch that movie, the same mistake is going to happen because that is concrete in the story. However, in a video game, you have control of the character and you get to make the decision, and if you make the wrong decision, not only do you have to face the consequence, you also experience regret because you know you had the chance to make the right decision. Regret is an emotion that you didn’t get from the movie, but you do get from the game. The ability to cause additional emotions like this is why video games have more potential for storytelling. Additional support of my claim is backed up by Oliver Campbell in an article on escapistmagazine.com where he states, “Do not misunderstand me when I say that video games are the final frontier of storytelling.” He believes that video games, much like many other mediums of storytelling, will have many struggles through a long period of growth before they reach their full potential.
This aspect impacts new media because the technology used to play video games, and thus tell stories, is advancing. Virtual reality has made its way into video gaming, which creates a feeling that the user is actually in the game by moving around and the visuals around them moving in real time, rather than just playing the game on a stationary TV. Virtual reality then eliminates the need to press a button in order for the user to decide to take a certain path in the game, instead they can just walk down that path. This technology is taking the interactiveness of gaming to a whole new level. There’s really no predicting what the future might hold for new technologies for video gaming.

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ALL those who are in business and want to succeed and the younger ones among them even study management in colleges that extol the virtues of Western style of management to rise up the corporate ladder.
Here we have a book which expounds on the Indian way of management as taught by Chanakya, who was also known as Vishnugupta and Kautilya. Born in the 3rd century BC, Chanakya became an expert in specialised fields like management, economics, politics, law, leadership, governance, warfare, military tactics, accounting system and other such areas. He documented his lifelong work in his book titled Kautilya’s Arthashastra which contains 6,000 sutras (aphorisms).
In the present book, the author simplifies the age-old formula of success for leaders of the corporate world. Dividing the book into three sections of leadership, management and training, he does not compare Indian concepts of management against Western ideas but says that both are complementary to each other. Kautilya had outlined the various factors that lead to true power and these are intellectual power, manpower, financial power and power of enthusiasm and morale.
This book should be read by current and prospective heads of organisations and business enterprises.
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ECKENTAL, October 31, 2016
The Bauer Water Technology Cup is celebrating its 20th birthday at the House of Sports in Eckental this week, presenting a stunning line-up led by world number 52 and Halle champion Florian Mayer. The 33-year-old German entered the 32-man-main draw with a wild card, taking on Aldin Setkic of Bosnia and Herzegovina in the opening round on Tuesday. Mayer eyes his 14th title on the ATP Challenger Tour and could clash with fellow German Tobias Kamke in a potential quarterfinal match-up.
Second seed at the €35,000 ATP Challenger event is Russia’s Daniil Medvedev, who captured his maiden title at this level in St. Remy earlier this season. The 20-year-old will face Ilya Ivashka from Belarus. German veteran Benjamin Becker was actually seeded third but was forced to withdraw from the tournament with a hip injury and will be replaced by his compatriot Kevin Krawietz. Fourth favourite Andrej Martin of Slovakia will open his Eckental campaign against wild card Matthias Bachinger from Germany.
The winner of this encounter will take on Mohamed Safwat. The world number 2014 from Egypt edged past Frenchman Albano Olivetti in the lone first round match on Monday evening, winning 7-6, 6-2. Safwat withstood 13 aces, firing 12 of his own and saved all of the three break points he faced to secure victory in one hour and 20 minutes.
Eckental Tournament Milestones
|1992||The inaugural tournament in Eckental has a prize money of DM5,ooo|
|Until 1996||The event increases to a tournament with one of the largest amounts of prize money in Germany with female, male and youth competitors. The total budget was DM150,000|
|1997||The OKAL-CUP was added to the worldwide ATP-TOUR with total prize money of US-$ 50,000|
|2001 and 2002||The tournament was voted by players and officials on position 15, out of the 140 Challenger tournaments|
|2004||€1.4 million were invested in the tennis venue. Since then the popularity by players, sponsors and visitors increases clearly|
|2005||Bauer Watertechnology became new title sponsor|
|2006||The tournament celebrates its 10th anniversary|
|2007||Davis-Cup players Rainer Schüttler and Alexander Waske played to Eckental|
|2008||Dennis Gremelmeyr has become the first and only player so far to capture a second title in Eckental|
|2009||The “Jamaican” year at the House of Sports with Dustin Brown appearing|
|2010||The tournament celebrates its best “Cut Off” and the strongest doubles competition in the history of the ATP tournament.|
|2011||15 years in Eckental with Rajeev Ram as the tournament’s champion|
|2015||Former top 10 player Mikhail Youzhny with comeback win|
|2016||…to be continued…|


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Expert Ken Tucker (Yahoo!) and Editor Chris Beachum are predicting Papa Pearson to beat Number Three of the Big Three. Ventimiglia also has the support of four of our Top 24 Users who topped last year’s predictions: tommyogorman99, Umur Cagin Tas, L_SAND and Lauren Z.
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“Tillage, Technology & Environmental Stewardship” is the theme for the 2009 Illinois Regional Tillage Seminars, to be held in January at three locations throughout Illinois.
“This year we’re going to focus on technology and environmental stewardship associated with adopting a no-till and strip-till farming system,” says Bob Frazee, University of Illinois Extension natural resources educator. “To that end, we’ve brought in three of the nation’s foremost experts on no-till/strip-till, to speak to our producers.”
Clay Mitchell, considered around the country to be an innovator in precision agriculture, will speak on how to manage no-till/strip-till for weed shifts and resistance, as well as the use of controlled-traffic, aligned farming systems with long-term no-till/strip-till and its effects on the soil. Mitchell farms on a 2,500-acre centennial farm in Northeast Iowa.
A second speaker, Dr. Jerry Hatfield, is the director of the National Soil Tilth Lab in Ames, Iowa. Hatfield will discuss the role of tillage on carbon sequestration.
“Conservation tillage stores, or sequesters, carbon in the soil as organic matter,” says Frazee. “It’s one of the most cost-effective ways to reduce the amount of carbon dioxide released into the atmosphere. It also saves labor and fuel costs, it reduces soil erosion and it preserves nutrients. It’s a win-win situation.”
Barry Fischer, state agronomist for the Indiana Natural Resources Conservation Service, will speak on no-till planter set-up and equipment modifications and no-till management.
“Barry has a passion for no-till that is contagious,” says Frazee. “His enthusiasm sells no-till and conservation on the farm.”
Other tillage seminar topics include discussions on the impact of climate on crops, the 2008 Farm Bill and conservation payments, state cost-share and technical assistance programs, as well as the 2008 cropping season in review.
Certified crop advisers can receive five continuing education credit hours (3.5 in soil and water management, one in pest management and .5 in crop management) for participation in a seminar. The seminar in Princeton will feature machinery dealers and seed, chemical and other agri-businesses as exhibitors.
Each seminar will run from 8 a.m. to 3:15 p.m. The fee for these seminars is $20/person and pre-registration is required. The deadline is one week prior to each scheduled meeting. Please send your name, address, county, location of meeting and registration fee to the appropriate Extension unit. Please make checks payable to University of Illinois. Online credit card registrations may be made at the Web sites listed below.
The dates and locations for the seminars are as follows:
Jan. 27: Interstate Center, Bloomington, IL. Send registrations to: McLean Extension, 402 N. Hershey Road, Bloomington, IL 61704. Phone: 309-663-8306. Online credit card registration: http://www.mcleanextension.org.
Jan. 28: The Galleria, Princeton, IL. Send registrations to: Bureau Extension, 850 Thompson St., Princeton, IL 61356. Phone: 815-875-2878. Online credit card registration: http://www.web.extension.uiuc.edu/bureau/.
Jan. 29: Kishwaukee College, Malta, IL. Send registrations to: Rockford Extension Center, 1601 Parkview Avenue, Rockford, IL 61107. Phone: 815-395-5710. Online credit card registration: http://web.extension.uiuc.edu/rockfordcenter/.
The 2009 Illinois Regional Tillage Seminars are sponsored by the Illinois Department of Agriculture, University of Illinois Extension, AISWCD, Natural Resources Conservation Service, and the Soil and Water Conservation Districts.
For more information, contact Frazee at 309-694-7501, Ext. 226; or Alan Gulso, water quality coordinator, Illinois Department of Agriculture, at 217-782-6297.


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MARION, Ill. (July 20, 2012)—Justin Peck drove to victory in the Friday feature of the Keizer Wheels 66 Mike Phillips Memorial, leading all 30 laps in the POWRi Speedway Motors 600cc Outlaw Micro Series race at Southern Illinois Raceway.
The 13-year-old from Monrovia, Ind., locked himself into Saturday’s grand finale feature. It pays $10,000 to win, one of the largest purses in Micro racing in the United States this year and the total payout of $35,000 includes $5,000 for second and $3,250 for third.
“I’m so happy right now,” Peck said.
Friday’s top-four finishers advanced to the Saturday feature. Chris Bell of Norman, Okla., was second, Kevin Bayer of Bixby, Okla., third and Daniel Robinson of Mt. Vernon, Ill., fourth. They’ll be joined by Friday’s top four, winner Chris Andrews of Tulsa, runner-up Trent Beckinger of Evansville, Ind., third-place Scott Sawyer of Broken Arrow, Okla., and fourth place Blake Hahn of Sapulpa, Okla. There will be a dash to determine the top-eight starting positions.
Peck became the youngest winner in POWRi history when he won the Micro feature on June 22 at Lincoln (Ill.) Speedway, but his win in the Phillips Memorial may be more impressive. There were 106 entries Friday and getting to the feature required finishing in the top three in one of the eight qualifying races, which had 13 or 14 cars.
Peck won his 20-lap qualifying race on the one-eighth mile track and combined with passing points and a second-place in his heat, started on the outside of the front row next to Ryan Greth of New Cumberland, Pa.
Peck drove his Sawyer-Yamaha to the front in the first corner and maintained a three or four car-length lead over Greth until the 11th lap. In turn three, Peck stayed on the outside and Greth went inside and tangled with a lapped car.
Bell was elevated to second and challenged Peck for the lead by attempting to slide past him on the restart.
“I knew it (passing attempt) was going to happen sooner or later,” Peck said. “I got on the brakes early to slow down and I was able to get on the throttle early and made a cross-over move.”
Peck faced one more restart, on lap 17, and pulled into a short lead over Bell that he held to the checkered flag.
“Peck was just good,” Bell said. “I was able to hang him, keep five to 10 car lengths from him, and I was able to close in end at the end.”
Bell won the inaugural Phillips Memorial $10,000-to-win feature a year ago. He led the opening 24 laps before a drive-chain failure forced him to drop out.
“Really, I’m relieved to be locked into the (Saturday) show,” Bell said. “Last night was pretty heartbreaking.”
Bayer, 32, ranks third on the all-time list for POWRi Micro wins with 12, but has been racing closer to home in recent seasons. His last POWRi victory was in 2007.
Bayer won his heat and qualifier to start third and ran in the top four for the entire 30 laps.
“It feels great to be in the top four,” Bayer said. “We missed the setup last night we worked hard all day on changing things. We’ve got just a little to go to have an awesome race car.”
Robinson also struggled Thursday, sixth in his heat, 14th in the qualifier, and didn’t make the feature. He asked to trade cars with McCreerey Motorsports’ teammate Jimmy Wells, who agreed. Robinson won his heat and qualifier and started sixth.
“The top four was the goal, the plan all along,” Robinson said. “It’s great to be able to be in the (Saturday) feature and race with guys like Kevin. We grew up racing with each other. I have to thank my teammate Jimmy Wells for switching cars with me.”
Sixteen cars will try to reach the finale Saturday through heat and qualifying races. They’ll start behind the eight who have advanced into it. There’s plenty of prestige and money on the line.
“The $10,000 check would be a nice one to take home,” Peck said.
POWRi Speedway Motors 600cc Outlaw Micro Series feature results (30 laps): 1. Justin Peck, 2. Chris Bell, 3. Kevin Bayer, 4. Daniel Robinson, 5. Joe B. Miller, 6. Tyler Courtney, 7. Mike Dicely, 8. Dereck King, 9. Cale Thomas, 10. Ryan Greth, 11. Todd Kirkman, 12 Henry Gustavus, 13. Carson Short, 14. Trey Marcham, 15. Nathan Benson, 16. Jake Palmisano, 17. Mike Rutherford, 18. Andrew Felker, 19. Steven Russell, 20. Sara Elrod, 21. Dusty Young, 22. Frank Galusha, 23. James Morris, 24. Austin Brown.
POWRi Speedway Motors 600cc Outlaw Micro Series 2012 race winners: Jacksonville, Ill.—Andrew Felker; Macon, Ill.—Alex Harris; Belleville, Ill.—Travis Senter; Peoria, Ill.—Andrew Felker; Brownstown, Ill.—Andrew Felker; Haubstadt, Ind.—Trent Beckinger; Lincoln, Ill.—Justin Peck; Macon, Ill.—Aaron Andruskevitch; Marion, Ill.—Chris Andrews; Marion, Ill.—Justin Peck.
For more information, go to www.POWRi.com.


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Kokoro – Hemoglobin
This is an absolutely slamming slice of peak-time techno right here from Kokoro which is out now via Contrast Recordings.
Based out in Los Angeles Kokoro is clearly a producer who knows exactly what it takes to move a dancefloor. Hemoglobin has a really graceful power, the sounds are all beautifully balanced to give a fully encompassing club feel without ever verging on being overpowering.
This one has a really timeless feel to it, excellent work!
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“Spider-Man” or “Spider-Man 2000” was originally developed by Neversoft in 2000 for Playstation & N64 and uses the “Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater” engine. It was later released on various other platforms such as Dreamcast and PC, and for a time, was heralded as the best Spider-Man game. Even to this day, it is still highly lauded and considered one of the best Spider-Man games.
A relatively short but sweet game, the game revolves around none other than Peter Parker, aka Spider-Man, who one day attends a scientific demonstration by the supposedly “reformed” Doctor Otto Octavius. While in the middle of his speech, the scene is sabotaged by a “fake” Spider-Man, Eddie Brock is frustrated to the point of being overcome by the symbiote (turning into Venom) and two not very mysterious figures go about a greater scheme. Meanwhile, everyone thinks the real Spider-Man disrupted the display and the police is on the lookout for him. The game involves clearing your name while doing everyday things Spider-Man would do while uncovering other plots in the process.
There are quite a few cheats and unlockables in the game, and the Dreamcast game has nice, crisp visuals and shorter load times if memory serves (from the Playstation game). Spider-Man also has a decent array of fighting moves at his disposal, but can most importantly swing from place to place! The game features good voice-overs from many original Spidey actors/fans, who reprised their roles to voice the respective characters, and the music isn’t too shabby either since it’s from Tommy Tallarico Studios. Spider-Man fans will likely get a kick out of this game, but its entertaining enough to enjoy even if you aren’t a fan. This is a video of some stuff in the game. Enjoy.
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One of the many things that might make me uncool as a music fan is that I have an affinity toward songs that are singles. I can't help it. Maybe I could, but I don't want to. That said, I also have a tendency to prefer singles that are largely considered follow-ups. This song, Lorde's follow-up single to the phenomenon that was "Royals", is definitely my favorite of hers and possibly an all-time favorite?
I compiled a list of all-time favorite songs, and it's far from done, and it contains a lot of songs that you might find familiar (as opposed to deep cuts), but you might be interested in it, anyway. Also, this particular song is good for ear-training, although most of your kids might respond, "Oh, Lorde? I forgot about her!" (I also do not personally vouch for showing this music video in your classroom.)
“Team” - Lorde
Intro: The youngest artist to appear on the Billboard charts since Tiffany in 1987, New Zealander singer-songwriter Lorde made a smash in 2013 with her debut album Pure Heroine. The album topped charts in New Zealand and Australia, and topped the Alternative Albums chart in the US. Essentially an alternative artist who crossed over to become a pop phenomenon, Lorde was the first female to hit #1 on the Billboard Alternative chart since 1996. “Team” was the second single released off of the album in the US, and the singer herself calls it a tribute to her less-than-glamorous but much beloved homeland.
Analysis: An outstanding example of the commonly found perfect fifth interval in popular music, the opening line to the chorus makes use of this interval as Lorde sings, “we live in ci-i-ties”, with the interval spanning the extended syllable of “ci-i". By the time she lands on the final syllable of the word, Lorde has outlined a major chord, returning to the third. This occurs again in the third line of the chorus on the word "ru-u-ins".
Considerations for Teaching: The song makes casual and fleeting reference to parties attended by her friends, but contains no offensive language or profanity.


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UFC majority owners Frank and Lorenzo Fertitta are looking to buy, not sell, UFC president Dana White says.
And they've got their eye on one very big purchase: an NFL team.
"Here's the thing — as you know you can't own an NFL team if you're involved with casinos. So if they were really making a serious move at the Raiders, they'd be selling Station Casinos not the UFC," White said about his partners on "The Jim Rome Show" on Friday (via FoxSports.com). "But it is 100 percent a fact, they are hardcore football fans, and I promise you one day the Fertitta brothers will own an NFL team. No doubt about it."
In fact, White says it's not a question of if, but when the Fertitta brothers will finally pay what it takes to buy an NFL team.
They have deep ties to Las Vegas, one reason their names have been linked to talk of the Raiders moving to Nevada. For now, though, they're just interested observers, as is White, who says relocating an NFL team to the city is a guaranteed success.
"I think it's a home run," White said of an NFL team in a stadium on the Strip. "If the Raiders or any other NFL team came here, it would be huge."

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The Loom Knit Double Ribbed Stitch is also called the box stitch. Using 2 pegs side by side to form the texture. Great stitch to know.
The way this is wrapped puts 2 pegs together to form a deep ridge between sections. It's a beautiful stitch and highly elastic. In fact, I have a new loom knit shawl coming out using this stitch. I cannot wait to show you.
For this type of stitch, a stretchy cast off is required to maintain the stretch of what the rib stitches can do.
In the tutorial below, learn how to cast on, knit and cast off using the stretchy method.
- Crochet Rib Stitch Scarf Pattern
- Loom Knitting: Adult Ribbed Hat Pattern
- Tunisian Rib Stitch Hat Pattern
- Charity Crochet Basic Ribbed Family Hat Pattern


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Being a Graphic Designer is not something that I intended, it was in my nature without knowing it. The ability to simplify and give the masses information, and messages gives is an incredible responsibility. This responsibility is something I take very seriously. Through careful usage of color theory, symbolism, and typography, and grid theories, I strive to deliver messages to my audience. Although mostly a commercial artist, I strive to apply all of these theories into visual form in any project I am faced with.
I was born and raised in Miami, FL. Right after college I moved to Missouri where I began to work as an exhibit designer as well as a graphic designer. I learned about so many niche needs for designers and, it opened my skill set tremendously. While in there, I started the eLearning program at Savannah College of Art and Design on track to attain the Master of Fine Arts, I knew I needed to be able to teach.
After moving back to , FL and settling into a new job, I was able to to finish my Thesis, and graduate in 2012. My goal of starting to teach graphic design came soon after that. When I joined the University of Miami in an adjunct capacity. Everything about the Strategic Communication department at UM made me feel right at home. In 2015, I left the full time exhibit designer behind, and had my second child, in the middle of the Fall semester. I grew so much in that time, and I learned that women can really do anything.
Early in 2016, I joined a group of strong minority women in Flourish Media. This all-women firm, focuses on aiding small businesses and minority driven businesses to go a step above in marketing. Through a more polished brand, and social media presence, our clients have really flourished (pun-very-much intended).
Currently I juggle, being mom to my two munchkins, being an inspiring instructor, and being a motivated creative.


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ResearchnReports has announced the top leading vendors in their Global Legal Analytics Market Report
Houston, TX -- (SBWIRE) -- 03/17/2018 -- The Global Legal Analytics Market is expected to grow from USD 451.1 Million in 2017 to USD 1,858.9 Million by 2022, at a Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of +33% from 2018 to 2022. The market is primarily driven by the growing demand for automation in legal analytics for data-driven decision-making, and increase in productivity and revenue of law firms.
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The Adventures of The Falcon: Introduction
The success of the Falcon films led to a radio series that premiered on the American Blue Network on April 10, 1943, and aired for the next ten years on various networks. The Falcon, called Michael Waring, worked as a private investigator, with no office and no secretary. Berry Kroeger was the first radio voice of the Falcon, followed by James Meighan, Les Tremayne, Les Damon, and George Petrie. Nearly all the shows were broadcast from New York.
Each show usually started out with a telephone call to The Falcon from a beautiful woman. Answering in his slightly British accent, he would reply to her and another adventure would follow. Waring was snappy and sarcastic with the incompetent police who were inevitably unable to solve the mysteries without his help. The radio plots mixed danger, romance and comedy in equal parts. A total of about 88 shows, representing the length of the run, are available today.
Excerpted in part from ThrillingDetective.
The Adventures of The Falcon: Introduction (current page)
The Adventures of The Falcon: Episodes 001 - 100 (Apr 10, 1943 - Aug 20, 1946)
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Killarney Adventure Race 2015 will take place in the picturesque tourist town of Killarney on October 3rd.
Thu, 03 Sep, 2015
A chance bus trip through Killarney National Park more than 20 years ago “mesmerised” a young landscape photographer and sparked a compulsion in him to picture its wonders in all their glory.
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WILDLIFE tourism is a term we will be hearing more often in the not too distant future, now that eagles have started to breed here again as part of what looks like being a successful reintroduction programme.
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WHITE-TAILED sea eagles are to be released in Killarney National Park next summer, the National Parks and Wildlife Service (NPWS) confirmed yesterday.
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WASHINGTON — States that toughened their voter identification laws saw steeper drops in election turnout than those that did not, with disproportionate falloffs among black and younger voters, a nonpartisan congressional study released Wednesday concluded.
As of June, 33 states have enacted laws obligating voters to show a photo ID at the polls, the study said. Republicans who have pushed the legislation say the requirement will reduce fraud, but Democrats insist the laws are a GOP effort to reduce Democratic turnout on Election Day.
The report by the Government Accountability Office, Congress’ investigative agency, was released less than a month from elections that will determine which party controls Congress.
The office compared election turnout in Kansas and Tennessee — which tightened voter ID requirements between the 2008 and 2012 elections — to voting in four states that didn’t change their identification requirements.
It estimated that reductions in voter turnout were about 2 percent greater in Kansas and from 2 to 3 percent steeper in Tennessee than they were in the other states examined. The four other states, which did not make their voter ID laws stricter, were Alabama, Arkansas, Delaware, and Maine.
“GAO’s analysis suggests that the turnout decreases in Kansas and Tennessee beyond decreases in the comparison states were attributable to changes in those two states’ voter ID requirements,” the report said.
The study cautioned that the results from Kansas and Tennessee don’t necessarily apply to other states with stricter ID laws. It also found that of 10 other studies that mostly focused on voting before 2008, five found no significant impact from voter ID laws, four found decreases and one found an increase.
The report said that in Kansas and Tennessee, reduced voter turnout was sharper among people aged 18 to 23 than among those from 44 to 53. The drop was also more pronounced among blacks than whites, Hispanics or Asians and was greater among newly registered voters than those registered at least 20 years.
Estimated falloff among black voters was nearly 4 percent greater than it was among whites in Kansas, and almost 2 percent larger among blacks than for whites in Tennessee, the report said.
Young people and blacks generally tend to support Democratic candidates.
A group of Democratic senators including Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., and Vermont independent Sen. Bernard Sanders requested the study and said Wednesday that it confirmed their arguments and reaffirmed the need to pass legislation making it harder to curb voting.
“This study confirms the real impact of Republican efforts to limit access to the ballot box. Playing politics with the right to vote is a shameful practice,” said Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y.
Republican officials did not immediately provide comments when they were asked for reaction by email.
The report also:
- Examined 10 other studies that found that the portion of registered voters with driver’s licenses or state ID’s ranged from 84 percent to 95 percent. In seven of the studies, blacks had a lower rate of ID ownership than whites;
- Found that in 17 states, the costs of acquiring the required ID’s ranged from $14.50 to $58.50;
- Evaluated multiple studies that detected few instances of in-person voter fraud, but said it is difficult to gather data that would produce a reliable overview of the problem.
ALAN FRAM, Associated Press


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Here’s another amazing music video from Flight404, Relentless, The REV.
Flight404’s Robert Hodgin explains:
The following video is a test render from The REV content creation tool. Please note this is not an official Relentless video. This is simply a test render we did to make sure the audio responsiveness was as we liked it. The audio is by The Flashbulb (”Six Months Without Light” off the album Kirlian Selections) but be aware that The Flashbulb has no affiliation with Relentless. The chosen audio was simply a test track. I chose The Flashbulb because he is my favorite artist to audio visualize and I love this track.


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FAO Director-General calls for approaches to prevent an even greater crisis at 33rd FAO Regional Conference in Poland
FAO Director-General at the Regional Conference for Europe
Lodz, Poland/Rome – Ministers and high-level representatives from across Europe and Central Asia met today at the FAO Regional Conference for Europe (ERC33) to discuss not only the implications of the war in Ukraine on global agrifood systems and world food security, but also ways of accelerating efforts to transform agrifood systems to assure inclusive and environmentally-friendly development and achieve better nutrition, both regionally and beyond.
“It is a key moment to discuss appropriate responses and to share proven solutions to support policy-makers across the region to address these challenges,” FAO Director-General QU Dongyu said in opening remarks at the Thirty-third Session of the Regional Conference.
The Europe and Central Asia region includes 53 high and middle-income countries that are home to more than 900 million people. The Director-General acknowledged that the region is in a “good position” as one of the world’s food baskets and a global leader in both the quantity and quality of agrifood production, even as hunger levels are rising from relatively low levels in the region.
The region “plays a key role in worldwide food security” and is an important “source of new ideas and inspiration for the whole world,” said Henryk Kowalczyk, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development of Poland in his opening remarks.
Participants elected Zbigniew Rau, Poland’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, as Chairperson of the Regional Conference.
The situation in Ukraine was a primary focus of FAO Members in the region, with a session dedicated to the impacts of the war on agriculture, including global food and fertilizer prices, arising from the hampered access to certain commodities and inputs.
“Peace is fundamental to protecting people from hunger,” Qu said, noting that FAO has been closely monitoring the implications of the war and pledged to continue to develop immediate, medium and longer-term analysis and policy recommendations to its Members.
Ukraine is obviously the most affected by the war, due to human suffering and destroyed value and supply chains, while others impacted include low-income food-importing countries dependent on the Russian Federation and Ukraine for food, feed, fuel and fertilizer supplies, as well as all consumers everywhere who are grappling with food prices having reached record highs, the Director-General said.
He urged FAO Members to seize the Regional Conference as an opportunity to discuss “potential approaches to prevent an even greater crisis in the future.”
FAO’s Ukraine team are on the ground with a rapid response plan for Ukraine, where one in five households are estimated to lack the resources to meet basic food needs, and to help smallholder farmers. Funds to support FAO’s $115 million plan to reach almost one million individuals in the country have not yet been received, Qu said.
Local action for the Four Betters
FAO Regional Conferences are held once every two years and serve as an opportunity to debate challenges and promote regional coherence in pursuing Members’ goals. More than 300 delegates were registered to participate in this year’s session, representing almost all countries of Europe and Central Asia, making it the most attended regional conference here.
Emphasizing the importance of political commitment to action plans, FAO’s Director-General emphasized that the Organization is committed to support the key priorities set by Members in the region: empowering smallholders, family farms and youth; transforming agrifood systems; and managing natural resources sustainably and preserving biodiversity; including the response to the war and the COVID-19 crisis.
Those goals are embedded in FAO’s Strategic Framework 2022-31 and articulated around the aspirations of the Four Betters: better production, better nutrition, a better environment, and a better life for all, leaving no one behind.
A key objective is to move beyond a pure focus on food and production to an agrifood systems approach that encompasses nutrition, health, social and environmental values. While undernourishment is relatively low, and access to high-value animal-sourced foods is higher than considered optimal, nutritional performance in the region faces challenges ranging from obesity and overweight, iron deficiency and exclusive below-average adoption of breastfeeding of infants in their first six months of life.
Efforts to reduce inequalities, between city and rural areas, as well as in gender and economic terms, are critical and require creating greater and more diverse opportunities in rural areas, Qu said. Today, households in 11 countries in the region spend more than 60 percent of their income on food, energy, housing and water, up from just one in 2017.
The Director-General highlighted that this week FAO will launch the Regional Technical Platform on Green Agriculture, providing a digital, user-friendly and open gateway for sharing information. He also said that three countries in the region have already joined FAO’s One Country One Priority Product Initiative, and another country is using the data-driven investment support system of FAO’s Hand-in-Hand Initiative.

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About Russell Thomas
Russell Thomas works out of Birdsong Studios, located on historic Elma Street in Okotoks, Alberta, Canada. Known for his use of colour in portraiture, Russell began his painting journey in 2014 at the age of 47. By the age of 50, he semi-retired from traditional employment to focus on art as a business and livelihood.
He loves using his painting passion to help charities and communities. In addition to donations of art, Russell has made dozens of live painting appearances throughout western Canada, raising tens of thousands of dollars for great causes. He is heavily involved in an international charity called Bracelets 4 Buildings, which builds homes for the poor in rural areas of southeast Asia. Russell also serves as President of the Okotoks Arts Council.
The gallery below is a small sampling of Russell’s bold, wild colour style. To view his chronological archive of paintings that date from 2014 to the present please click here.
*Want to learn to paint like this? We run regular workshops and painting adventures here in Birdsong Studio. *Interested in booking a class or ordering a commission – send us a note here.


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How do you grow hibiscus flowers?
Besides, how do you plant a hibiscus flower?
Select a site with full sun and well-drained soil. Hibiscus also adapt well to growing in containers. Plant in spring, summer, or fall, spacing plants 3 to 6 feet apart. Dig a hole only as deep as the root ball and 2 to 3 times as wide.
Additionally, is Miracle Grow good for hibiscus? Hibiscus plants with their big, bright, flowers need large amounts of nutrients during their growing season from spring through the fall. The best fertilizer formulas for hibiscus are low in phosphorous and high in potassium. Many fertilizers in the Miracle-Gro line have these qualities.
Herein, why is my hibiscus plant not flowering?
If your plants are babies, then it's normal for them not to bloom. Many hibiscus like to be 3-4 feet tall before they start to bloom, and a few varieties are very slow to start blooming. If your hibiscus is young and has not yet bloomed, then don't worry. If it isn't blooming, read on!
Are hibiscus easy to grow?
Hardy hibiscus plants are surprisingly easy to grow as long as you provide them with well-drained soil and a spot in full sunlight. Don't worry if your hardy hibiscus plants die to the ground after a hard frost in autumn.

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The Screen Actors Guild Awards is the ceremony most actors hold dearest to their hearts. This is primarily because the winners are voted on by fellow SAG-AFTRA members - “It’s our people,” Brad Pitt simply said. The love is palpable in the effort stars put forth in getting dolled up for the big show, from glam squads to blasting favorite tunes. See how Catherine Zeta-Jones and more celebrities got red carpet ready for the 2020 SAG Awards in L.A.!


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(LifeSiteNews) – Dissident Jesuit priest Fr. James Martin received criticism from a Spanish priest for his defense of the so-called “marriage” between U.S. Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg and his “husband” Chasten.
Fr. Francisco Jose Delgado of the Archdiocese of Toledo commented on a series of tweets posted by Martin earlier this week in which the pro-LGBT Jesuit reacted to a tweet by the Catholic League that said Buttigieg’s “marriage” to Chasten was a “legal fiction.” Delgado tweeted to Martin: “You can go to his ‘church’ and stop sullying that of Christ, prophet of Satan.”
No. You are not following, again, the teaching of the Catholic Church, who never calls “marriage” to a legally recognized homosexual union and states that all catholics should have “clear and emphatic opposition” to it.https://t.co/XKoEzFztWA pic.twitter.com/D5klBz7pG6
— Francisco J. Delgado (@PadreFJD) January 24, 2023
Delgado defended his tweet in a statement to ACI Presna, a Spanish news station partnered with the Catholic News Agency, saying, “Father James Martin, an American Jesuit, has the habit of speaking out on social media in a scandalous way against the Catholic faith.”
“‘Pete Buttigieg is married.’ Faced with such an outrageous statement, many Catholics have reminded him that it is against Church teaching and have even asked him if he would be consistent and confer the sacrament of marriage (although Buttigieg is not Catholic but an Episcopalian),” Delgado added.
Delgado also stated that while Martin’s defense of same-sex “marriage” would be excusable on on account of ignorance, requiring a simple rebuke, since Martin is a Jesuit and a member of the Vatican’s Dicastery for Communications, “there is room for correction that … many other Catholics have already tried to make to him.”
“[W]hat we Catholics and especially priests feel is terrible indignation at the attitude of this priest openly contrary to the teaching that he should defend and communicate,” the Spanish priest continued.
“By doing so, he causes serious damage to the Church and to the simpler faithful, who, considering his priestly status, think that what he says corresponds to the official position of the Church.”
Delgado also referenced a document produced by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF) in 2003 called “Considerations regarding proposals to give legal recognition of unions between homosexual persons,” which states, “In those situations where homosexual unions have been legally recognized or have been given the legal status and rights belonging to marriage, clear and emphatic opposition is a duty.”
Delgado concluded his remarks to the outlet, saying “the priest James Martin, if he is not willing to stop sullying the face of Mother Church with his poisoned doctrine, to leave as soon as possible, since it doesn’t seem that those who have authority over him want to do anything about it.”
Last week, the Catholic League tweeted that “It is true that Pete Buttigieg is legally married, but that is a legal fiction.” Martin responded, tweeting “Pete Buttigieg is married.” Martin continued, tweeting “Like it or not, and whether or not you support same-sex marriage, @SecretaryPete is legally married to @Chasten Buttigieg,” offering a “meditation on rage, love, social media, homophobia, respect, tolerance, and Jesus.”
Delgado is not alone in his criticism of the tweet. Cardinal Wilfred Napier, Archbishop emeritus of Durban, South Africa, tweeted that “Not so long ago people of colour were considered by the State to be less than human & so denied them their human rights! Sorry! That did not make people of colour less than human! In fact only God, our Creator, could do that. Instead he chose to become human to prove his point!”
Bishop Joseph Strickland of Tyler, Texas, also criticized Martin, tweeting, “Marriage is between 1 man & 1 woman, committed for life & open to children. … If an element of the above definition is altered then no marriage exists no matter what words are used. Living a fiction is unhealthy.”
Fr. Martin is notorious for his open and heretical promotion of homosexual lifestyles and his celebration of homosexuality as a great “gift” for the Church. As LifeSiteNews’ Michael Haynes has previously reported, Martin has a longstanding record of promoting LGBT ideology in dissent from Catholic teaching and is described as ‘arguably the most prominent activist’ in the Church for LGBT issues.
As Haynes states, “Among his most notorious actions, Martin has promoted an image drawn from a series of blasphemous, homoerotic works, showing Christ as a homosexual, promoted same-sex civil unions, and has described viewing God as male as ‘damaging.’”

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The results of the upcoming presidential election could offer striking changes at the National Labor Relations Board, including reversals of some recent employer-friendly rulings and more favorable attention to union complaints.
This year's election will bring about many changes. One government entity that will be affected by the upcoming change in administration is the National Labor Relations Board, the agency responsible for guiding the nation's labor relations policy by interpreting the National Labor Relations Act.
While we can expect a marked shift in NLRB ideology if Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., is elected to the White House, it is difficult to predict the change under the leadership of Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz.
But, the first change we will see at the NLRB -- regardless of which candidate is elected in November -- is a full complement of five members.
The NLRB has been operating with only two of its five seats filled since the end of 2007. The two current members are Chairman Peter Carey Schaumberg, a Republican appointed by President George W. Bush, and member Wilma B. Liebman, a Democrat first appointed by President Bill Clinton and then reappointed by Bush.
Each of their terms will expire within the next four years. That means our next president will appoint, subject to Senate confirmation, three board members to fill current vacancies and two more down the road. Each appointment will be for a five-year term.
Traditionally, the political party of the current president has a three-person board majority. If Obama is elected, for example, we can expect to see two new Democratic and one new Republican appointees in the short-term. So, regardless of who either candidate would appoint, the victor's political party will have a three-to-two board majority.
Perhaps more significant than who the new president appoints to the board is who he will choose to serve as general counsel when the current GC's term expires in August 2010.
The GC has the sole authority to reverse any decision from regional NLRB offices dismissing unfair labor practice (ULP) charges. The GC also has the ultimate say in whether or not to prosecute ULP charges; only if the GC files a complaint will the NLRB rule on whether a certain practice constitutes a ULP.
This is significant because if the GC decides not to prosecute, there is no decision for an aggrieved party to appeal. With an Obama-appointed GC, we will likely see a high level of prosecutorial activity against employers and, combined with a more union-friendly board, more decisions finding employer's actions to be ULPs.
The general counsel also has authority to seek board authorization for pursuing temporary injunctive relief in federal court under section 10(j) of the NLRA. Because it often takes a considerable time for the board to rule on a complaint, 10(j) injunctions are used when an alleged ULP could be so harmful that the damage incurred while the board considers the case is irreversible.
Such injunctions can be used both to freeze union activity, such as secondary boycotts and recognitional picketing, as well as employer misconduct. An Obama-appointed pro-union GC will be more likely to seek 10(j) injunctions against employers than a GC appointed by McCain.
One of the most profound ways the next board can shape U.S. labor policy is in its interpretation of legislation like the Employee Free Choice Act. EFCA, which was given the OK in the House of Representatives during its 2007 session but stopped short by an expected filibuster in the Senate, essentially would move the country from the time-honored tradition of secret-ballot elections to a card-check recognition system.
Obama has promised to put an EFCA bill front and center on the Congressional agenda if he is elected president. If passed, the legislation would prohibit employers from requesting a secret-ballot election when a majority of employees in a bargaining unit signs union-authorization cards.
The proposed law would also impose mandatory mediation and arbitration in first-contract negotiations and stiffen penalties on employers for labor-law violations during organizing campaigns and first -ontract efforts.
Canada has a card-recognition system like that proposed in EFCA. The questions labor boards in Canada had to answer illustrate some of the issues EFCA will require the new NLRB to address including: What is the date for determining when the card-signing count is official? What is the process for verifying the validity of authorization cards? How does an employee revoke a card he or she has already signed? What happens when an employer argues certain cards are fraudulent? What "evidence" of union commitment will the board seek when it investigates potential fraud?
The board's resolution of these procedural issues would significantly impact current U.S. labor law.
The viability of several pro-employer decisions issued the past few years also will rest in the hands of the new board and general counsel. For example, the NLRB's 2006 decisions in the Kentucky River trilogy of cases made it easier to classify certain employees as supervisors exempt from federal labor law protection.
Obama has already co-sponsored legislation which would overturn the board's decisions in those cases. Similarly, he has promised he will "work to ban the permanent replacement of striking workers," which the Bush-appointed board also made easier in a three-to-two decision.
Other decisions that may be at risk under an Obama-appointed board include Register-Guard, Dana Corp. and Epilepsy Foundation.
In Register-Guard, a three-member board majority broke with precedent, ruling that employers could legally prohibit employees from using company e-mail systems for personal and other non-job-related reasons, including union solicitations.
The Dana Corp. decision altered the "recognition bar" doctrine by creating a window of opportunity for employees to file decertification petitions. Under the "recognition bar" doctrine, employers were prohibited from filing petitions for decertification or rival union representation for a reasonable period of time.
In the 2004 Epilepsy Foundation decision, a three-person board majority said nonunion employees do not have the right to have a representative present during an interview that might reasonably lead to disciplinary action; four years earlier, the Clinton-appointed board said they did.
Employers should be prepared for an Obama-appointed board -- and an active GC looking to prosecute alleged employer ULPs -- to limit or reverse recent employer-friendly NLRB decisions.
Under McCain's leadership we are less likely to see any of these decisions limited or overturned. We also can expect an Obama-appointed board to issue decisions more favorable to unions if called upon to resolve procedural issues under EFCA legislation.
Though change in national labor policy will be greater under Obama's leadership, enactment of EFCA could have an enormous effect on labor relations in the United States even if McCain becomes our next president.
Michael J. Lotito is a partner in the San Francisco office of Jackson Lewis, a firm specializing in employment, labor, immigration and benefits law. He is regularly interviewed by the national news media regarding workplace and labor law issues and events, and has appeared on PBS's NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, FOX News, Cavuto on FOX Business Network and is frequently heard on National Public Radio.


So I'm a old school HPI RS4 lover/collector. I have a Super Electric, a Rally. an original Pro (which is actually my 1st true hobby grade RC) and most recently I have been getting into the RS4 Mini Electrics. I also have a WR8 for my daily bashing/rally running.
The RS4 Mini electric is basically a shrunk down, mini 1:10 or 1:12 scale RS4. It has a shorter chassis and narrower a-arms. It shares all other parts with the regular RS4, which makes it a good choice for me because I have plenty of spares and hop ups in my parts boxes...
Anyway I recently picked up a Mini Pro (the coveted rare woven graphite version), I have been rocking a regular Mini for the past 6 months or so and when the opportunity arose to pick this up I jumped on it.
When I picked it up it was fitted with a pretty nice Honda Civic body and wheels. It was pretty sharp but I had other plans.
The chassis was in great condition with minimal wear, it looked like it had only been run a number of times.
Off the bat I started to transfer all my electronics and goodies from my other Mini to the new chassis. The parts consisted of a brushless combo (Sidewinder/Tekin 6300kv!, I'm looking into a sensored combo because this is some kind of overkill), Savox SC1251MG servo, HPI alloy finned heat skink motor plate, a Robinson Racing alloy spur gear hub, a HPI Cup Racer T-Drift wheel set and miscellaneous bits that kind of dressed it up a bit.
The result was a pretty sweet little Mini RS4.
The next step was to finally pull out and paint up the HPI Cup Racer Datsun 510 body set I had been sitting on for a year and a half. The Cup Racer shares the same dimensions as the RS4 Mini and installing the body set and wheels basically give you a sweet true ten scale HPI belt drive car ;-)
I decided to test fit the body and mark the post holes, funny enough that turned into me full on painting and finishing the body.
I masked it up and set up my paint station (drop cloth and a fan in the basement window).
Here is the 1st coat sprayed.
And here it is before stickers, at this point I'm getting psyched! It is looking great.
And finally yesterday I finished it up! The body set is really nice, containing LED brackets for the front and rear and chrome bits all around.
It looks sweet with the 3mm rear/ 0mm front wheels set.
One more shot, I'm looking forward to running it and knocking the mirrors off ;-)
What do you all think?


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Use the Waiting Room to manage patients as they attend the practice and ensure they are billed correctly. You can also quick attend walk-ins and doctors can hide patients they have seen.
Using the Waiting Room
The Waiting Room is used in conjunction with the Appointment Display Grid, which we call the Appointment Book, to manage patient visits and initiate payments.
A common workflow is:
- Patient arrives at reception.
- Open the patient from the Appointment book (right-click patient and select Patient Details).
- Do an Online PV check to confirm the patient is eligible for Medicare claims.
- Return to the Appointment book (select Appointments from the patient record menu).
- Right-click the patient in the Appointment book and select Attend to put them into the Waiting Room.
- The patient has their consultation and returns to reception.
- From the Waiting Room, right-click the patient and select Bill. If Appointment book's open, select Waiting Room from menu.
- Raise an invoice using information provided by the doctor and process the payment.
To open the Waiting Room:
- Go to Zedmed's Reception tab.
- Select Waiting Room.
The Waiting Room screen will open.
If you are in the Appointments book you can select Waiting Room from the menu.
- Open a patient record
Right-click the patient and select Patient Details. Select Waiting Room from the top of the Patient Record to return to the Waiting Room.
- Complete a Patient Verification.
Right-click the patient and select Patient, and in their record, select Patient Verification. Select OK on the dialog and a check will run to make sure the patient's eligible for Medicare claims. If applicable, review our Easyclaim eligibility guide.
- Bill a patient
Right-click the patient and select Bill. This opens the Account Payer Selector and the New Invoice screen. You can then raise the patient's bill. To learn more, see the Bill a patient article.
- View attendance details
Right-click the patient and select Attendance Details
- Open a patient record
- Select Appts to close the Waiting Room and open the Appointments book, or select Close.
Navigating the Waiting Room
By default, the Waiting Room opens on the current day and shows all patients who have been attended and not billed. Patients are displayed in order of their appointment time or arrival time. Unbilled patients as far back as the Default lookback setting are shown . When a patient is billed, they are removed from the Waiting Room.
Time and lookback
These are located below the date. The lookback determines how long an unbilled patient is shown for. We suggest setting the lookback to 23 in the Branch Setup. By selecting 23, you will see patients waiting to be billed when you start Zedmed the next day.
Important menu items
- The Branch field shows the branch you are logged into, and you can select other branches or all branches.
- The Doctor field shows All by default and you can use it as a filter to only show a specific doctor's patients.
- Order by defaults to Appointment Time. Select the drop-down to review or select the other options.
- Filter - The default is Not Billed. This is an important setting and helps ensure that all patients are billed because they will show up in the Waiting Room until they are billed.
- Status column displays an icon if there is a patient alert. It will show $ if the patient has paid.
- Patient Alerts column shows details of alert indicated in Status column.
- Appt column shows the time the appointment was booked for.
- Attend column shows the time the patient was attended (When they arrived and were added to the Waiting Room).
- Admit time is when the doctor opened the patient in Clinical. If a time is shown, reception knows the doctor's with a patient.
- Appt Type comes over from the appointment book and shows the type of appointment the patient is booked in for.
- BR code is the branch code and allows you to see what branch the patient is attending if all branches are displayed.
- Notes field shows the attendance notes that the doctor or reception entered.
To review all the menus and options available, see the Waiting Room screen article.
Clinics that accept walk-in patients can attend the patient without them having a prior appointment.
To quick attend a patient:
- Select Quick Attend from the Waiting Room screen's top menu.
This will open the Patient Search screen.
- Locate the patient and open their record.
To learn more, see the find a patient's record article.
The Attendance Details screen will open. The Doctor field will default to Doctor, Unknown. The doctor will be whoever is available to see the patient.
- Select Close.
- The patient will be added to the Waiting Room.
The DOC column will show "???". Doctors will see this and the first to admit the patient will have their code under DOC.
Hide a patient
You can hide a patient so they don't show up in the Waiting Room. Doctors can do this to hide patients they've seen but still show because they have not been billed. To hide a patient, right-click them and select Hide. To show all hidden patients, select Show Hidden from the top menu.
Delete a patient
You can delete a patient from the Waiting Room if they have left before seeing the doctor. To delete an attendance, double-click the patient to open the Attendance Details, and select Delete. It is recommended, where possible, appointments are cancelled and an appropriate reason selected. This information will be included in the patient appointment history.

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A recipe for success
In 2011 husband and wife team, Phil and Sue Ambrose, took the brave decision to invest in recreating an old secret family sausage recipe. Known as the Ambrose Sausage, it was first created and sold by Phil's grandfather Gilbert Ambrose in 1920. Gilbert sold the popular sausages from his butchers shop in Westbourne in West Sussex.
Phil spent much of his childhood helping his grandfather to make and sell the sausages. He was inspired by the work and later decided to train to be a master butcher at Smithfield Meat College. For many years Phil worked in the meat industry but it was when he inherited the secret recipe book from his grandfather that he decided one day he would bring the Ambrose Sausage back into production.
Today's reinvented Ambrose Sausages is located in the stunning Hampshire countryside near Upham. It is here that Phil and Sue rear their own herd of traditional and rare breed pigs. The animals benefit from living outdoors in large paddocks where they enjoy rooting and wallowing in the mud. They are fed a diet of fruit, vegetables and cereals and live a contented and stress free life growing slowly and naturally.
The lifestyle of the herd is evident in the quality of the meat. It has a distinctive rich flavour with proper crackling. The meat has more fat than commercial pork but as all good cooks know, that is where the tenderness and succulence comes from. Phil explains the importance of the quality of the meat, 'We had the secret recipe and we knew it was special and would be popular. However, it is the quality of the pork meat which sets our sausages apart from other sausages on the market today.'
After much hard work, dedication and long days the past two years have seen Ambrose Sausages become an established business with a growing range of products. The views of their customers are central to their business development, 'We listen to customer feedback and act on it. Our range of different sausage flavours and pork products including haslet, faggots, bacon and black pudding has come about based on what our customers have told us. They make requests and suggestions which we combine with our ideas to shape our business.'
Sue is passionate about using as much seasonal produce as possible in their products, 'I love using ingredients which are tricky to find in shops but we have growing on our smallholding. We make delicious wild garlic sausages and pork and damson chutney sausages.' Their customers have plenty of choice when it comes to sausage flavour with more than ten varieties available at one time. However, it seems right that is the traditional pork Ambrose Sausage, which was the motivation for starting the business, remains the firm favourite.
Making a success of pig farming in the current climate is an achievement as is starting up a new business. What was the best advice given to them during the early days of the business? 'Persevere and stay positive. We deal with so many variables in our business so it can be a bit of a roller coaster. A bad week can be followed by a fantastic week and you have to learn to take the rough with the smooth,' explains Phil. 'It's been hard graft and a steep learning curve but we are now lucky to be working in a business that we both enjoy. One of my favourite elements of what we do is creating great products and then showcasing them at events. For Sue, it's definitely the farming aspect that she loves - she would spend all her time with the pigs if she could!'
For Phil and Sue the day begins at 5.30am and often doesn't end until 10pm. They tend to the pigs and other livestock twice a day. They make their pork products fresh each day to meet online and telephone orders from individuals and local pubs, restaurants and shops. Most weekends are spent at markets and events selling their produce so it can be easy to find themselves working a seven day week. You would never guess all the work and long days that happen behind the scenes when you are greeted by their smiley faces at local markets.
So would Phil's grandfather be proud of Ambrose Sausages of today? 'My grandfather was a man of few words,' Phil admits, 'so I doubt he would ever have said he was proud but I would like to think that he would have been pleased to know that the Ambrose Sausage lives on. We have received numerous emails from customers who used to buy the original sausages from his shop and they are delighted they can buy Ambrose Sausages again.'
Ambrose Sausages are available to buy directly from Phil and Sue either online or over the phone. Orders can be collected, sent by post or even delivered free locally. Alternatively you can find them at Hampshire Farmers' Markets and Winchester Produce Market (Wednesdays). Visit www.ambrosesausages.co.uk , call 02380 620984 or 07979 024268 or email firstname.lastname@example.org. Follow them on Twitter @AmbroseSausages for their latest news.


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A scene from the 2017 Columbia Gorge Windsurfing Association Beach Bash.
As of Wednesday, June 28, 2017
Prayers for wind largely went unanswered last weekend, but that didn’t stop people from getting on the water in the hot, sunny weather during the Columbia Gorge Windsurfing Association’s Beach Bash celebration, held on and around the Hood River Waterfront June 22-25.
Without the wind, many individuals’ preferred method of transportation was by stand-up paddleboard, see above photo.
The annual event put on by the CGWA featured SUP clinics, demos, food, beer, and live music.


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The sun stretches over the mountains
ready to offer this day a heartfelt hug.
Songs bounce on the wind from bird to bird to bird
to land in the ear of the Holy One.
Buds peak out of branches,
blushing against their grayish limbs.
Flowers – still waiting for showers of wind and rain
to baptize their petals – shout “Alleluia” nonetheless.
It’s the season of Lent – the world around me rejoices.
It’s the season of Lent – I shall join their chorus directed by God.
Based on Isaiah 49:8-15
© 2014, Scott Sears


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