Bigg Boss season 12 is just a few hours away and the teasers of the show have already started doing the rounds on social media. Besides Salman Khan, Bigg Boss has given us several other reasons to just love it. Every year some new personalities get themselves locked in the Bigg Boss house and whatever they do inside the house make headlines outside. This year, the much-awaited reality show is different from the rest of the seasons in so many ways and one can’t deny the fact that entertainment is going to be multiplied. Bigg Boss 12 is going to be premiered from September 16 at 9:00 pm and if you are a fan then you definitely need to know what’s written down.
When and where to watch Salman Khan-hosted reality show
If you are wondering that where and when to watch it then no worries because we are here happy to help you. If you are staying at your home with a perfect set of television box then you can simply switch to Colors TV and watch the show live at 9 pm. Earlier, the show used to be broadcast at around 10:30 pm for the weekdays and it was only during the weekends when the viewers can watch the reality show at around 9:00 pm. On weekends, viewers used to watch the special episodes dubbed as Weekend Ka Vaar with Salman Khan.
Interestingly, this time the location of the Bigg Boss house has been switched to Goa from Lonavala. Now if you are among those who don’t have television screens or staying away from home and busy travelling then your smartphone is all that you need.
You can watch Colors TV channel on apps like Jio TV and if you don’t have that option too then don’t worry there are ample of other choices too. You can opt to watch the repeat telecast of the show next morning on Voot, Viacom 18’s OTT service. Also, if you are an Airtel subscriber then download the Airtel TV app where you can watch the Bigg Boss 12.


Published on September 4th, 2012 | by Charlotte0
Robbie Willliams Return
After a long summer we are now preparing for a new year full of music. Among these a return of Robbie Williams, who filed the reunion “Take That” for the album “Progress” and a sold out tour, returns to sing alone.
For the song “Candy”, forerunner of the new album, Robbie called his friend Gary Barlow with whom he worked on the composition of the song.
In an interview with “The Sun”, the singer explained how the parenthesis “Take That” was just “a vacation that I was charged in many ways, to return now with this new album.”
After the glories of the past and millions of records sold and some flop, Robbie Williams is back with “Take the crown”, the ninth studio album to be released on November 5. The album consists of eleven previously unreleased tracks recorded in Los Angeles among them the duet “Losers” with American singer Lissie. The album will be released in two versions, a standard version and a deluxe with added bonus tracks and different cover.
To promote the album the singer has decided to organize a small UK tour, which will start shortly after the launch of the disc, which will assist not more than 2 000 people per stage.


2015 Budget Guide: Pensions and savings
This year’s Budget has seen the Chancellor press on with yet more far-reaching reforms, some of which build on last year’s momentous changes.
Key changes to the pensions lifetime allowance and innovations in the Isa sector will have far-reaching ramifications for the way advisers handle long-term saving issues.
The 2015 Budget also introduced a revolutionary plan to create a secondary market for annuities, which creates both challenges and opportunities for advisers, and which beg questions about the government’s future approach to other secured benefits such as defined benefit. Trading annuities is not just about access to cash, but also about maximising the generous new death benefits that have just been introduced.
This Budget Guide is designed in partnership with Scottish Widows to give advisers access to some of the best thinking on the many varied issues raised by the Chancellor in his last Budget before the general election, to enable them to help their clients make the most of these far-reaching changes.
John Greenwood , Editor, Corporate Adviser
Click Here to download the Money Marketing Budget Guide.
For more insight and analysis into the 2015 Budget visit the Scottish Widows adviser hub .


text:
London: George Routledge and Sons, Limited. No Date . Re-Issue, First Published in 1794. Octavo, original blue cloth decorated in white, brown and black on spine and front panel, gilt titles. viii +  - 157 + 158 pp, two parts in one, separately paginated. Issued in the publisher's "Half-Forgotten Books" Series. Formerly, Howard Philips Lovecraft's copy, with his ink name and aquisition note "From George Willard Kirk, Esqr." in his own hand on front free endpaper along with his iconic "fanlight" bookplate on the front paste-down. Browning to endpapers, old price of 1- ($1.00) in pencil on front endpaper, light rubbing and a touch of soiling to the cloth, a very good, bright copy of an attractive book. Item #311053
¶ A seminal volume of early Gothic Fiction, the personal copy from the library of one of the greatest writers of Supernatural and Weird Fiction ever. Considered to be the archetypal Gothic novel, THE MYSTERIES OF UDOLPHO, originally published in 1794, follows the fortunes of Emily St. Aubert, who suffers, among other misadventures, the death of her father, supernatural terrors in a gloomy castle and the machinations of an Italian brigand. Lovecraft wrote extensively about this work in his long essay SUPERNATURAL HORROR IN LITERATURE (originally published in 1927), where he states (in Part III: The Early Gothic Novel) : Mrs. Radcliffe wrote six novels; The Castles of Athlin and Dunbayne (1789), A Sicilian Romance (1790), The Romance of the Forest (1792), The Mysteries of Udolpho (1794), The Italian (1797), and Gaston de Blondeville, composed in 1802 but first published posthumously in 1826. Of these Udolpho is by far the most famous, and may be taken as a type of the early Gothic tale at its best... Udolpho will always be a classic.
This copy was gifted to HPL by George Willard Kirk (1898 - 1962). Kirk was a bookseller, publisher, and good friend of HPL. Born in Akron, Ohio, he entered the book trade at an early age. He spent the years 1920–22 in California, where he became acquainted with Clark Ashton Smith. Kirk met Lovecraft when the latter came to Cleveland in August 1922; at that time Kirk gave HPL a copy of Smith’s Odes and Sonnets(1918), thereby encouraging Lovecraft to get in touch with Smith. In August 1924 Kirk came to New York to establish a bookshop. He participated in numerous all-night walks around New York with HPL and other members of the Kalem Club. In early 1925 Kirk moved into the same apartment house at 169 Clinton Street, Brooklyn, where Lovecraft was residing (prompting HPL’s poem, “To George Kirk, Esq., Upon His Entertaining a Company in His New-Decorated Chambers, 18th January 1925”), but stayed only a few months. From August to October 1925 Kirk resided at 317 West 17th Street in Manhattan; HPL later used the building as the setting for his short story “Cool Air” (1926). It is unclear at which date Kirk gave Lovecraft this copy of UDOLPHO, but in a letter written to Clark Ashton Smith on Dec 12, 1925 (on George W. Kirk's letterhead) Lovecraft writes: "W. Paul Cook's request for an article on weird literature from me - a request which he won't withdraw despite my emphatic disclaimers of all possible qualification - has imposed upon me the very pleasant task of reading up some of the matter I had long ago scheduled for perusal. I waded through the whole of "Udolpho" last week, & am now on the hunt for Maturin's "Melmoth"..." . Lovecraft also made a list of his weird fiction collection in a letter he sent to CAS on August 27, 1932; Radcliffe's "Udolpho" is on that list. Lovecraft had a fairly large library - but surprisingly little of it was weird fiction; to acquire such a significant book from his library is a rare opportunity indeed. Many of the books in Lovecraft's library were in fairly poor condition; that is certainly not the case here. See Joshi & Shultz, LOVECRAFT'S LIBRARY: A CATALOGUE, Fourth Edition, Revised & Enlarged (2017), Item No. 787.

domain: library


text:
Amid the Covid-19 pandemic, the world has had to confront the issues of racism and police brutality after the murder of George Floyd by police officers in the United States of America sparked protests, not just in that country but across the globe, with protesters calling for an end to racism and police brutality.
The global movement to end racism has gained so much support across the world, with leaders and key public figures showing their support both on social media and in joining protest marches to urge everyone across the globe to treat one another as equals.
The Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations, Amina J Mohammed, affirmed her support for the fight against racism in a recent tweet quoting the UN Secretary-General, Antonio Guterres. She wrote, ‘I stand with @UN SG @antonioguterres and will always fight against all forms of racism – and fight for a world where all people live with dignity. I stand with staff who are condemning racism. Together we stand in solidarity with the victims of racism everywhere’.
One of her followers, Mohamed Farahani, commented, ‘An opinion worthy of support. In fact, anti-discrimination is not war or hostile against a certain society; rather, it’s a matter of bringing mutual respect, social welfare and a better life for people regardless of skin colour, religion or ethnicity’.
Now more than ever, we all must come together to put an end to a plague that has continuously troubled mankind.
Photo source: UN Women

domain: politics


text:
Price: 15.00 euro
For sale at http://www.propagandaworld.org
Pennant made in the DDR, 1978.. The front the pennant, the logo reads:”For the protection of workers and farmers”, and below that:”25 years combat group of the working class”. And on the back:”Participants in the roll call in the capital of the DDR”. The Combat Groups of the Working Class (German: Kampfgruppen der Arbeiterklasse, KDA) was a paramilitary organization in the German Democratic Republic (GDR) from 1953 to 1989. The KDA served for the ruling Socialist Unity Party of Germany composed of party members and politically reliable working people, based on dictatorship of the proletariat principles, to be deployed locally to fight civil unrest or invasion. The KDA was a civil reserve force tied to the GDR’s Ministry of the Interior and the Volkspolizei, reaching 211,000 personnel at its peak in 1980. The KDA was disbanded after the opening of the Berlin Wall in late 1989.

domain: history


Oz woman let off for drink driving over lack of public transport!
Melbourne, Aug 4 (ANI): A woman in Australia has been acquitted of a drink driving charge because she lives in an area where there is no public transport.
Jasmin Clair Henley, 27, had recorded a blood-alcohol reading of 0.067 after police stopped her on the Cahill Expressway last month.
She told officers she had two glasses of wine over dinner in Paddington with colleagues.
Henley had her low-range drink driving charge dismissed without conviction, after the Downing Centre Local Court magistrate found she had no viable alternative to get back to her home at Cattai, north of Windsor, in Sydney's west.
"If she lived in any other suburb around Sydney . . . like Paddington . . . there's no way on earth I would consider dismissing the charge," the Courier Mail quoted magistrate Brian Maloney as saying.
Maloney said he would treat the case as if he was passing sentence in a country court, because there were not enough public transport options open to people living in the northwest corridor.
"It's not like she could jump on a 333 bus to Bondi," he said.
The magistrate noted that Henley claimed to have only had two drinks at the work function, held at the London Hotel, but he warned that alcohol could be "biased" in effecting women more than men due to their generally smaller body mass. (ANI)


Water Surface Plotted in Cross Section Data Dialog Box
The user can now specify that the energy gradeline, water surface, and critical water surface be plotted in the cross section plot within the Cross Section Data dialog box and the roadway crossing plot within the Bridge & Culvert Data dialog box.
Build Bridge Opening
To speed up the creation and editing of bridge openings, the software can automatically construct the bridge opening by defining the basic dimensions and parameters for the opening. For example, the bridge opening can be defined by specifying a bridge span and a corresponding left abutment station, center station, or right abutment station, or by specifying a bridge abutment left and right station.
Bridge & Culvert Comparison Analysis
The software will display an analysis results comparison between a proposed and existing bridge or culvert structure, showing the computed energy grade elevation, water surface elevation, velocity, and flow area for the opening structure and for several upstream cross sections. The user can interactively adjust the proposed bridge or culvert design for the roadway crossing and the software will automatically update the comparison results.
Realistic 3D Rendering of Roadway Crossings
Near photorealistic real-time 3D rendering of roadway crossings, inline structures, and lateral structures are now constructed. Changing dimensions, culvert spacing, and elevations automatically updates the rendered structure. This allows the user to easily interact with, maneuver around, and change the structure design to gain perspectives impossible to capture in 2D. This improves how the HEC-RAS model is communicated inside and outside of the company. For example, it is simply easier to understand a bridge design when you can see it in 3D—as opposed to a 2D plot.
Online Elevation Data
The software will automatically stream elevation data to your computer for the area that you are working in. For the United States, available elevation resolution is 10 m (elevation grid point every 10 meters). For areas outside of the United States, elevation resolution is 30 m. The software will automatically merge online elevation data with higher resolution elevation data loaded from the local computer. Both US elevation units (ft) and metric elevation units (m) are provided.
Current Drawing Layer
Within the Map Data Layers panel the user can explicitly select the layer that new entities (other than HEC-RAS entities) are drawn to. This helps the user by “locking” the selected layer for digitizing new entities.
FEMA NFHL Shapefile Download
Download FEMA National Flood Hazard Layer (NFHL) data as shapefiles on to the local computer for a user-specified region. The NFHL provides users with the ability to determine the flood zone, base flood elevation and floodway status for a particular geographic location. It also has National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) community information, map panel information, cross section and hydraulic structure information, Coastal Barrier Resource System information (if applicable) and base map information, such as road, stream and public land survey data. A full list of available NFHL layers is provided in the download data dialog box.
Digital terrain models can be quickly constructed from bare-earth (Light Detection and Ranging) LAS and LAZ formatted LIDAR elevation data files. LIDAR data can often contain millions of points for a given area. The LIDAR elevation processing tools are extremely fast, utilizing multi-core processing for extremely large datasets.
MicroStation Drawing Support
Full support of Bentley MicroStation V8 (import and export) and V7 (import only) DGN drawing files is provided. The import process handles DGN objects and properties that have a direct correlation to DWG objects and properties without any issues. For example, levels in MicroStation translate directly to AutoCAD layers. However, DGN objects and properties that have no direct correlation to DWG objects and properties may not translate completely.
This command can be used to merge two or more adjoining and overlapping DEMs (Digital Elevation Model) into a single DEM. This is useful for creating contours, cutting cross sections, or generating a flood map from a single elevation source.
This command can be used to merge two or more adjoining polylines into a single polyline. This is useful, for example, when the user has stopped digitizing a long river reach and then started up again later. The user can merge the two river reaches into a single river reach.
HEC-RAS User-Defined Summary Profile Tables
User-defined summary profile tables are now supported. The software will automatically synchronize with any user-defined tables that are defined for the US Army Corps of Engineers HEC-RAS software.
Enhanced Flood Mapping
Several major and minor enhancements have been added to the flood mapping command. The software can now construct an approximate or precise flood map. The precise flood map takes longer to compute than the approximate flood map. The user can specify the clipping boundary limits as well as whether to clip out any building footprints. In addition, river junctions for large river network models are better supported. Finally, for large river models, the user can restrict the flood map to be created for smaller regions so that a detailed flood map can be created.
Incomplete HEC-RAS Model Profile Plots
The software is able to generate a river profile plot without the HEC-RAS model being completed. This allows the user to check that the defined cross section geometry and flow lengths are matching what was entered.
Metadata Tab for WMS Layers
A metadata tab is now provided for most WMS (Web Map Service) layers, which provide details of when the web map was created, the originating data, and contact information for the map data.
Bridge Plot for Hydraulic Parameters
The dialog box used for defining the unsteady flow hydraulic parameters for bridge structures now includes a plot of the bridge opening to assist the user in defining the necessary parameters.
Expansion and Contraction Coefficients Editing
The user can directly edit the expansion and contraction coefficients within a single table for the entire river reach. For example, this allows the user to quickly adjust expansion and contraction coefficients at a roadway crossing.
Flow Length Editing
The user can directly edit the left overbank, channel, and right overbank flow lengths within a single table for the entire river reach.
Data Grid Fill Handles
Data grids now provide a fill handle allowing the user to replicate an entry into the other rows within the data grid, similar to what is provided within Microsoft Excel. For example, the user can easily fill-in the same downstream boundary conditions for all of the defined profiles in the Steady Flow Data dialog box.
Map Layers Selection Locking
The Map Data Layers panel now allows the user to lock a layer from selection. This allows the user to still view the layer, but not be able to click on anything on that layer for selection. This eliminates the problem when there are a lot of elements from various layers displayed in the Map View, and the user wants to select only elements from a single layer.
Toggling of Map Layers While Digitizing
The software now allows the user to toggle various properties of the map layers within the Map Data Layers panel while digitizing. For example, the user can toggle the display of a layer ON or OFF file digitizing a polyline as long as the layer is not the layer being digitized.
Automatic Computing of Junction Flow Lengths
The software now automatically computes the flow distance at a junction between the upstream and downstream river reaches. The user does not need to manually measure the flow length unless the flow traverses a path different than the defined river reach.
Ortho Measure Tool in Cross Section Plot
The software provides an ortho measure tool for measuring distances in the Cross Section, Roadway Crossing, Inline Structure, and the Lateral Structure Plots.
Optional Geometry Extraction for Georeferenced Cross Sections
The software now provides an option to automatically extract the cross section geometry for georeferenced cross sections. In addition, the software will automatically update the flow lengths for the georeferenced cross section and the next upstream cross section.
Improved Display of Cross Section IDs
The software now takes into account the width and height of the cross section ID (river station) on the Map View, and will place the cross section ID slightly offset from the end of the cross section so that the ID does not overwrite the cross section line.
Linked Selection of Cross Section Geometry Points
Selecting a ground point within the Cross Section Plot will also highlight the selected ground point within the Cross Section Data dialog box data table. The same behavior occurs within the Roadway Crossing Plot, Inline Structure Plot, and Lateral Structure Plot, by highlighting the corresponding geometry point within the data table.
Delete Multiple Points in Cross Section Plot
The software allows the user to drag a window to select ground geometry points for deleting within the cross section plot of the Cross Section Data dialog box. The same can be done for roadway and bridge geometry points within the roadway crossing plot of the Bridge & Culvert Data dialog box, weir crest geometry within the inline structure plot of the Inline Structure Data dialog box, and levee weir geometry within the lateral structure plot of the Lateral Structure Data dialog box.
Real-Time Feedback while Measuring Distances and Areas
While measuring distances and areas on the Map View, the software now provides real-time feedback on the distance or area that has been measured. For example, this is helpful when attempting to accurately place a modeling element on the Map View.
Develop HEC-RAS Model from GIS Shapefiles
The software can construct complete HEC-RAS geometry models from external GIS shapefiles. For example, river reaches, cross sections, bank stations, flow lengths, Manning’s roughness, levees and more can be automatically assigned from GIS shapefiles. All the user needs to do is assign flow boundary conditions and the HEC-RAS model is completed.
Automatic Mapping of GIS Attributes
The software will now “guess” at which attribute field should be used based upon the field label name and field type. For example, assigning roughness regions using a GIS polygon shapefile using the Assign Manning’s Roughness command, the software will review all of the attributes contained within the shapefile and select what it thinks is the attribute to be used for assigning roughness to the cross sections.
Summary Profile Output Table User-Defined Locations
The summary profile output tables now allow the user to define specific locations (i.e., cross sections, roadway crossings, inline structures) to include in the output table. In that way, the user can specify only those locations that are of key interest and the software will not display results for any of the other locations.
Extract Cross Section Geometry from 3D Polylines
The software can generate the cross section geometry directly from 3D polylines. For example, 3D polylines from AutoCAD or MicroStation can be used to create the cross section geometry.
Map Scale Bar in Printed Output
The software will now optionally include a map scale bar in the 2D Map View that is printed. Work is going on to implement this same functionality with exported PDF files.
High Chord and Low Chord Drawing
The software allows the user to draw the high chord and low chord geometry on the roadway crossing plot in the Bridge & Culvert Data dialog box.
Double Click Middle Mouse Button to Zoom Extents
Similar to AutoCAD, double clicking the middle mouse button will cause the software to zoom extents for the current layer or HEC-RAS layer if there is HEC-RAS data defined.
Dynamic Loading of Geodatabases
To improve performance for large GIS geodatabases (i.e., GDB and MDB files), the software will load layers only when they are turned on. In that way, the software does not load the entire database at the time of selection, but only when necessary.


text:
Video ClipsSee all »
Watch See all »
Dr. John Zahina-Ramos (Just One Backyard) shows how to plant sweet potatoes in a wheelbarrow and make a wall garden; farmer Jojo Milano, who raises goats and makes goat cheese; fisherman Eric Finn, who dives for lionfish and spiny lobster; and chef Clay Co (more…)
Vegetable gardener Megan Cain shows how to make an herb spiral using re-purposed bricks; chef Christine Inthachith and her mother Bounyoung of Lao Laan-Xang restaurant (the first Laotian restaurant in Madison) make chicken laarp and fall squash curry; butc (more…)
Trending TonightSee all »
Who once caused a "clean up on Aisle 6" at the grocery store?

domain: food


text:
- The Buchan Companion
This first in the projected series of the McFarland Companions to Mystery Fiction is of unquestioned interest to the ELT readership. The extensive annotated bibliography, for example, builds upon the "immense and invaluable" Buchan bibliography created by J. Randolph Cox in volume 9 of ELT (1966) and notes several other essays and sketches in this journal's pages over the past several decades. The bibliography's fifteen pages (double columns) is itself both a monumental study and a starting place for further scholarship.
Buchan was at the center of numerous literary movements and moments in the 1880–1920 era. Among his first jobs while on scholarship at Brasenose College (Oxford) beginning in 1895 was to read submissions for The Yellow Book where his first collection of stories and poems subsequently appeared. His reading of as many as four manuscripts each week more than familiarized him with contemporary styles and fashions in literature and also gave him a sense of what was marketable.
Macdonald's preface and "Brief Biography" provide good general information for those new to Buchan and his works and also contain several pointers about Buchan's love of the inexplicable, his grounding in Scottish language and history, his political aspirations that culminated in his election to a barony as Lord Tweedsmuir and appointment as Governor General of Canada in 1935. In addition, a recapitulation of Buchan's wartime experiences in the Boer War and World War I illustrates the extent to which these experiences shaped his mystery fiction and other writing. [End Page 369]
The Companion is a reference guide to Buchan's fiction for general readers and also for scholars, containing not only the usual factual matter of such guides but also comprehensive analyses of Buchan's themes and influences in his fiction. So, for example, the extensive entry "Buchan Writing About Women" rightly characterizes his treatment of women as figures providing chances of redemption or improvement (a Victorian byword) or as prizes for the hero; the women seem not to go beyond stereotypes. In a body of work nearly devoid of sex, this seems remarkable even for its time and leads to examining gender-related entries.
Macdonald's treatment of "Buchan and Homoerotics" presents not the usual perspective one might expect given his portraits of women. She actually takes issue with those who ascribe homoerotic elements to Buchan's texts, offers exact instances of critics' embellishing upon the statements of Buchan's fictional characters (embellishments that he did not write), and concludes that some critics have set out to find in the text what they wished to find rather than what the text has to offer.
She also takes on the received critical sense of Buchan's reputation as an anti-Semite in "Buchan and Anti-Semitism," setting the record straight by adducing his work as a supporter of Zionism and the other pro-Jewish elements of his public works and private letters. Moreover, she points out some critics' anachronisms that disregard the chronology of the composition of his writings and their publication dates as well as their lack of attention to the details of his actual writings (and the words he did write). Indeed, as she astutely points out, the Jews of Buchan's works have subtleties and complexities others have overlooked, perhaps by not letting the facts get in the way of telling a good story or getting something published. These are but a few of Macdonald's tightly argued commentaries on the themes of Buchan's work.
The Companion includes a lengthy section on the radio, screen and stage adaptations of his most famous work, The Thirty-Nine Steps. The numerous BBC adaptations, the famous Alfred Hitchcock film treatment and adaptation, and the recent stagings of the novel's story (London, 2008; New York, 2009) illustrate that Buchan's popularity, at least in that tale, abides. If viewers are led back to the corpus of his mystery works, this is a most convenient and nicely illustrated guide for them to follow.
Buchan is, of course...

domain: artistic


text:
Source: Travel News
Some of the workers at Uplift, a travel financial technology startup, that has raised a $123 million Series C round. In the left corner, seated in a blue shirt, is Brian Barth, chairman and CEO of Uplift. Seated next to him is Rob Soderbery, president of Uplift. Uplift
Skift Take: The old idea of payments in monthly installments is seeing new life in the U.S. online travel sector. Uplift is one of the leading tech vendors powering loans to travelers for buying from airlines such as Spirit and search sites like Kayak. Expect a lot of marketing around this in 2019.
Read the Complete Story On Skift

domain: economics


Table of Contents
In a competitive job market, it can be tough to write a resume that really stands out. But when you’re trying to get your next job, your resume is often your only shot at introducing yourself and your qualifications to a hiring manager or recruiter. Our section-by-section writing guide and machine operator resume template for Word will explain all the parts of a compelling document and show you how to create your own sections for your professional summary statement, skills, work experience and education.
Writing Your Summary Statement
Your summary statement will be at the top of your resume, so it’s the first thing a hiring manager sees and your best chance to make a good first impression. A strong summary will introduce you to a potential employer, so you need to include a relevant overview of your professional identity. Our machine operator resume template for Word can help you easily craft this important section. Include the following:
• Your current professional title and level, such as “apprentice” or “senior”
• Two or three top skills
• Any professional traits that make you stand out
Here are some example summary statements for machine operators:
Experienced machine operator with broad knowledge of progressive and transfer presses, robotic welders, resistance welders and roll mill machines. Flexible and adaptable with great teamwork and communication skills. Familiar with plant and packing environments.
Apprentice machine operator with two years of experience in manufacturing and packaging environments. Facility with packaging systems, rewinders, slitting machines and forklift operation. Currently enrolled in operating engineer apprenticeship program.
Experienced screening machine operator deeply familiar with aluminum and copper stranding. Strong mechanical skills and adept at human-machine interface software applications. Able to make complex machine adjustments with minimal supervision.
• 12 years of experience in high-speed production environments
• Proficient with a variety of machinery, including blow molds, conveyor systems, grinders and trimmers
• Attentive to maintenance needs and process problem resolution
Writing Your Skills Section
The skills section of your resume provides a clear and concise overview of your strongest skills and abilities that you’ve collected through education, training and employment experience. It pays to spend time making sure the skills you include match up with those mentioned in the job posting, emphasizing that you have the abilities a potential employer is seeking, and avoiding skills that aren’t related. You can customize our machine operator resume template for Word and use the following tips to create your own skills section.
• Write skills word for word from the job description to make it through ATS scanning software
• Give an overview of your abilities, including technical skills
• Include relevant people skills such as good communication and teamwork
Here are some common skills for machine operators:
• Error and accident reduction
• Experience with operation and maintenance of equipment
• Dexterity and hand-eye coordination
• Ability to reach production goals consistently
• Attention to safety and detail
Writing Your Work History Section
Your work history section is the place to showcase specific details about your technical abilities and experience. Here, you’ll back up the summary of your qualifications you provided earlier in your resume with concrete metrics and accomplishments. When creating this portion of your resume, focus on explaining the problems you solved or the results you got at each job. Our machine operator resume template for Word and the following tips can help you create an effective work history section.
• Provide work history using reverse chronological order
• Include metrics to show specific accomplishments
• Use strong action words like “completed” and “produced” to start each entry
Here are some sample work history bullet points for machine operators:
• Trained new operators in producing skid sheets and static solutions
• Increased production yields by 15 percent within first year
• Reduced downtime by redesigning preventative maintenance scheduling
• Received plant Safety Award for leading crew to eight consecutive accident-free quarters
Writing Your Education Section
Apprenticeship programs and on-the-job training are usually more common than college degrees for those in machine operator jobs, but you still need a concise and relevant education section. Include any licensing programs or safety certification training you’ve completed. If you do have a college degree, you can omit high school from your resume. Customize your education section with our machine operator resume template for Word so you can showcase your qualifications in an easy-to-read format. Here are a few tips:
• Don’t include your GPA unless you are a very recent graduate
• Do include any honors or awards
• List certifications and education in reverse chronological order
Here are two examples of education sections for machine operators:
Associate of Applied Science in Machine Tool Technology – in progress
Pennsylvania College of Technology, Williamsport, PA
National Institute for Metalworking Skills Certification – 2016
Heavy Equipment Operator Apprenticeship Program – 2017
International Union of Operating Engineers, Hinckley, MN
Received 89 percent score on Ramsey Job Skills Assessment
Diploma – 2011
Fishtail High School, Hinckley, MN


When I was a newspaper beat reporter, one of my first big assignments was covering a murder trial. The case: A mother and her daughter had killed their mother/grandmother while she slept. Stabbed her 57 times. Planned it for two months. Sounds compelling, right? While the crime was sensational, the five days in court were not. This murder trial was tedious, dull, and not at all like the movies.
The funny thing is, I have yet to see a film that accurately portrays what it’s like inside a real courtroom. Yet we let these movies get away with it. Why? Because when done right, few things are more compelling than a solidly written courtroom drama.
Note: The only rule for this list was that the majority of the film’s running time had to be set in a courtroom. Movies with compelling single trial scenes were not considered.
By far the most hilariously amusing film ever set in a courtroom. My Cousin Vinny is one of those flicks I can watch over and over, and never grow tired of. Marisa Tomei received a lot of flak when she surprisingly won the Oscar for her performance as Mona Lisa Vito. Me personally, I don’t think the detractors’ defense holds water.
The trial sequences in Kramer vs. Kramer have got to be some of the most brutal scenes ever featured in a PG-rated movie. As Ted and Joanna Kramer suffer tumultuous custody battle, their respective lawyers rip the other Kramer to shreds. The result is simply horrifying. It makes me weep for anyone who has endured something like this.
Philadelphia wasn’t the first film to openly discuss AIDS, but it was the first mainstream Hollywood movie to do so. In that regard, I’ve always considered this film the most daring one Jonathan Demme ever made. It’s also one hell of a gripping courtroom thriller, with tension and emotion achieved through a tight script and Oscar-worthy acting. Few movies hit me like this one.
Sidney Lumet’s The Verdict doesn’t spend nearly as much time in a courtroom as some of the other films on this list, but what it achieves during its trial scenes is something few movies do. Take, for instance, Paul Newman’s lengthy closing summation, in which he presents his definitive case to the jury, while also proving his life worth. The scene is a technical ballet of non-editing, camerawork, and an actor who always knew how to hit his mark.
Judgment at Nuremberg is a tough ride. It’s emotionally taxing and tediously precise, resulting in as epic a courtroom drama ever made. Every single player of the impressive cast is on point here, but the standout is Montgomery Clift. Nearly unrecognizable after suffering a debilitating car accident a few years earlier, Clift’s problems off screen nearly forced director Stanley Kramer to recast him. But the director stuck with his star, and encouraged some of Clift’s best work. It breaks my heart every time.
I’m a huge fan of Gregory Hoblit’s Primal Fear. Richard Gere, the wise ass. Edward Norton, the tortured white trash. Laura Linney, the cunning career woman. John Mahoney, the relentless jerk. And that’s just the acting; there is much more that makes Primal Fear worthy, including twisting and turning courtroom battles that always keep you guessing. The final courtroom scene, in which Gere berates Norton into a psychological episode, is pure manic joy.
Sure, by the end of Witness for the Prosecution, the movie seems more interested in shock than anything else, but by and large, most everything about Billy Wilder’s film shines like cinematic gold. You’ve got Charles Laughton seriously hamming it up as a master barrister, Tyrone Power as a convincing deer in the headlights and the great Marlene Dietrich as the blonde puppeteer playfully controlling the strings. The script is bold, the acting is persuasive, the direction is tight – the whole film just sings.
There’s a horrifying acceptance that kicks in about halfway through To Kill a Mockingbird. It’s when the audience realizes that, despite Atticus Finch’s best efforts, his black client is going to be wrongly convicted of raping a white girl. At this point, we can’t help but ask ourselves – if a similar crime occurred today, would the people deciding the fate be so quick to judge? To Kill a Mockingbird was released more than half a century ago, but it remains as topical as ever. And that is damn hard to stomach.
Otto Preminger pulled out all the stops for Anatomy of a Murder. He assembled a perfect cast, pushed for a wildly audacious script and secured a running time that was usually reserved for period piece epics. The result is as extended, complex, and deceitful a film that has ever been set inside a courtroom. For me, Ben Gazzara is the main selling point, I never know when to trust him, when to fear him, and when to follow him. A cold and calculating master of deception.
I can hear cries afoul already, but give me a moment to save face. Do I think Rob Reiner’s A Few Good Men is a better movie than To Kill a Mockingbird? No, I do not. Is it better than Kramer vs. Kramer, The Verdict, or Anatomy of a Murder? Nope. But I do think it is the most entertaining and engaging film ever set inside of a courtroom. The best way I can describe how I feel when I watch A Few Good Men is charged. I feel charged by the energy of Aaron Sorkin’s script, by the sarcasm in everything Tom Cruise says, by the fear Jack Nicholson instills with a look. I love this movie and I love the impact it has on me. Everytime, all the time.
Did I leave anything out? Share your thoughts in the comment section below.


text:
Beta-cell Management in Type 2 Diabetes: Beneficial Role of Nutraceuticals
Inadequate functional beta cell mass seems to be the primary cause of type 2 diabetes. Increased oxidative stress and inflammation are the leading causes of betacell death. Preservation of functional beta-cell mass in type 2 diabetes is a critical target for type 2 diabetes management. Numerous studies have demonstrated beneficial effects of dietary components on beta cell management in type 2 diabetes, through multiple mechanisms. These dietary components modulate intercellular cascades that inhibit inflammatory molecule synthesis, the formation of free radicals, and nuclear damage, as well as induce antioxidant enzyme expression. The present review article focuses on dietary components and seeks to summarize their mechanism(s) in the prevention of diabetes initiation and progression through beta-cell management in type 2 diabetes.
No Supplementary Data
No Article Media
Document Type: Research Article
Publication date: June 1, 2016
More about this publication?
- This journal is devoted to timely reviews of experimental and clinical studies in the field of endocrine, metabolic, and immune disorders. Specific emphasis is placed on humoral and cellular targets for natural, synthetic, and genetically engineered drugs that enhance or impair endocrine, metabolic, and immune parameters and functions. Topics related to the neuroendocrine-immune axis are given special emphasis in view of the growing interest in stress-related, inflammatory, autoimmune, and degenerative disorders.
- Editorial Board
- Information for Authors
- Subscribe to this Title
- Ingenta Connect is not responsible for the content or availability of external websites

domain: literature


text:
Later this summer, the city of Chicago will lean heavily on a massive borrowing package as it attempts to dig its way out of its dire financial situation. The City Council signed off on borrowing $1.1 billion in general obligation bonds Wednesday, without any further discussion.
“I think most of us pinched our noses,” Ald. Brendan Reilly (42) said after the vote. Reilly said the city inherited a mess from a past administration, and called the borrowing the “best of the worst options.”
“Certainly no one wants to be pushing obligations further down the road, but the alternative is a massive tax increase that I’m fairly certain the citizens of Chicago can’t shoulder all at once,” he said.
The mayor’s office argues that without this borrowing, the city would be forced to pay around $900 million to the banks because of the recent credit downgrade by Moody’s. The package is also expected to pay down past judgments, settlements, 2 years of interest on the bond, and convert some of the city’s variable rate debt to fixed rate.
But three progressive aldermen — Scott Waguespack (34), John Arena (45) and newcomer Carlos Ramirez Rosa (35) — voted against the mayor’s plan, as they said the mayor’s office should also be putting forth a revenue proposal.
“The best way to pay people back is not to borrow money, it’s to generate revenue. It’s to come up with a plan,” Rosa said. “Let’s lead with revenue, let’s not lead with borrowing.”
Two aldermen, Alderman Ed. Burke (14) and Ald. Patrick Daley Thompson (11), abstained from voting.
In other council news:
- Longtime Ald. Ed Burke (14) is proposing an ordinance that would force Chicago airports to provide lactation rooms for nursing mothers. The legislation, which is co-sponsored by Ald. Leslie Hairston (5), is a quicker Chicago version of state legislation that’s on Gov. Bruce Rauner’s desk that would require breastfeeding accommodations at airports statewide by 2017. In a statement, Burke said mothers “should not have to wait” that long.
- Navy Pier patrons will soon be able carry take their mixed drinks both inside and outside the major tourist attraction. The City Council approved a measure that would allow open containers of alcohol both indoors and outdoors at the Pier, so long as they’re purchased on site.
- Ginger Evans was confirmed as the city’s new Aviation Commissioner. Evans came from Washington, D.C., where she most recently served as vice president of engineering at the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority. She replaces Rosemarie Andolino.
Lauren Chooljian is WBEZ’s city politics reporter. Follow her @laurenchooljian.

domain: news


Fireproofing Young Palates
By ELAINE LOUIE
Published: August 16, 1995
FEARLESS, curious eaters aren't born. They're educated.
Depending on the culture in which they're raised, children will either learn to love garlic and jalapenos and curry and ginger without so much as a wail, or they will recoil at the same flavors.
People whose cuisines are full of spice and fire -- Mexicans, Koreans, Thais, Jamaicans and Ethiopians, for instance -- introduce the flavors gradually to their children. "We want them to eat our foods because it is their cultural roots," said Keum Ja Kang, the owner of the Kang Collection, a Korean art gallery on the Upper East Side. "It's the food from their motherland."
When each of her two sons turned a year old, the age at which she thought it appropriate for them to eat what their parents ate, Mrs. Kang took the cornerstone of Korean cuisine, kimchi -- that fiery combination of cabbage, radishes or other vegetables fermented with garlic, ginger and usually, red peppers -- and washed it to lessen its heat. Then she chopped it up and mixed it with rice. She did this at each meal for six months, then she gave the children the same kimchi, often flecked with red pepper flakes, that the adults ate. "My children were enchanted by it," Mrs. Kang said. By age 2, they were enjoying savory, spicy barbecued beef.
Vishal Sahni's introduction to chilies was sudden and startling -- and unplanned. He was only 10 weeks old when his mother, Julie Sahni, the chef and author of "Classic Indian Cooking" (Morrow, 1980), gave him some white rice mixed with the sauce from some Chinese food she had on hand -- orange-flavored beef seasoned with dried red chili peppers and dried orange peel. That, she decided, would make a tasty side dish to mother's milk. "We believe that a child should develop a palate," Ms. Sahni said, "and a palate has nothing to do with nourishment in India. They are two separate things."
But fate intervened. "By mistake, a piece of chili had gotten in," Ms. Sahni said, "and his eyes popped out." But he didn't fuss.
"He has never looked back," Ms. Sahni added.
Normally, Indian children start eating spicy foods at around age 1 or 2. Their first dish is often spiced lentils mixed with rice and mellowed with a spoonful of clarified butter. "Clarified butter is considered healthy and nurturing and is almost equated with intelligence in India," Ms. Sahni said. Sometimes, if chicken is cooked in a spicy sauce, parents rinse the sauce off the meat, as Koreans do with kimchi, and then feed it to the children.
But the real education of the culinary adventurer, the baby epicure starts even earlier -- in utero.
"Some newborns smell of curry and cumin," said Dr. Julie Mennella, a researcher at the Monell Chemical Senses Center, a nonprofit research center on taste and smell in Philadelphia. "Whatever their mothers had eaten just prior to delivery went into the amniotic fluid."
Once born, many babies go on to mother's milk, which Dr. Mennella calls a "flavor bridge between exposure to the flavors of the amniotic fluid and the foods the infant feeds upon at the table." As the mother's diet is, so is the milk likely to taste -- and so are the child's tastes formed. But whether or not a child goes on to delight in spicy or fiery foods also depends on culture and on the child's physiological makeup.
"Getting to like chili peppers is like playing with fire," said Dr. Paul Rozin, a professor of psychology at the University of Pennsylvania. "Humans tend to put themselves voluntarily in situations which their body tells them to avoid -- but humans tend to get pleasures out of these things, such as eating chili peppers or going on roller coaster rides. We are the only species that enjoys such things. No one has ever found an animal that likes to frighten itself."
Culture alone can't persuade a child to eat foods spiked with chilies. Dr. Barry G. Green, another researcher at the Monell center, said: "Culture can lead people to try hot foods, and provide pressures to like them -- but in the end, culture can't make them like hot foods. It depends on their physiological response. Tolerance is separate from ethnicity, when it's a behavior with physiological roots."
Some children simply hate spicy foods. Sandra Riley of Elmont, L.I., who comes from Jamaica, gave a bit of curried chicken to her 3 1/2-year-old daughter, Danielle. "Danielle complained bitterly," Mrs. Riley said. "She said it burned her tongue." Not only does Danielle dislike spicy foods, she dislikes most any food.
"Up until three months ago, she wouldn't eat at all," Mrs. Riley said. "No meat. No nothing." As her parents savor jerk chicken or curried goat, Danielle eats porridge, rice and peas, the blander side of Jamaican cuisine. "Danielle's a special case," her mother said, in a voice tinged with resignation.
For babies in the nation of Eritrea, formerly part of Ethiopia, porridge is not the bland creamy cereal that American babies eat. When mothers make porridge from barley and wheat flour even for their 6-month-old children, they also make a side dish of butter spiced with ginger, garlic, onions, fenugreek, cumin and basil. To these are added berbere -- hot red peppers mixed with garlic, ginger and onions.


text:
File(s) not publicly available
(500453) William McDougal [MacDougal]
online resourceposted on 2022-10-27, 15:34 authored by Victorian ProfessionsVictorian Professions
This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
The Professions in Nineteenth-Century Britain
Economic and Social Research CouncilFind out more...
Full NameWilliam McDougal [MacDougal]
Date of Birth21 May 1794
Place of OriginAlnwick, Northumberland, England
Date of DeathJan-Feb-Mar 1875
Place of DeathAlnwick (reg district), Northumberland, England
Relationships501582 (Mary Keen : wife), 500454 (George McDougal : child), 501583 (Jane Elizabeth McDougal : child), 501584 (John McDougal : child), 501585 (Hannah McDougal : child), 501586 (Mary McDougal : child), 501587 (Hannah McDougal : child), 501589 (Ann [McDougal or MacDougal] : mother), 501588 (George McDougal [MacDougal] : father), 501590 (James Muirs Fittis : son-in-law), 501594 (James Fittis : grandson), 501596 (William McDougal Fittis : grandson), 501591 (Mary McDougall Fittis : granddaughter), 501592 (Hannah Muirs Fittis : granddaughter), 501593 (Frances Jane Fittis : granddaughter), 501595 (Louisa Jessie Fittis : granddaughter), 501597 (Stephen Stoker Purdie : grandson-in-law)
Access Full Dataset
AlnwickLAW CLERKGeneration: 1500339William McDougal [MacDougal] (500453)Mary Keen (501582)George McDougal (500454)Jane Elizabeth McDougal (501583)John McDougal (501584)Hannah McDougal (501585)Mary McDougal (501586)Hannah McDougal (501587)Ann [McDougal or MacDougal] (501589)George McDougal [MacDougal] (501588)James Muirs Fittis (501590)James Fittis (501594)William McDougal Fittis (501596)Mary McDougall Fittis (501591)Hannah Muirs Fittis (501592)Frances Jane Fittis (501593)Louisa Jessie Fittis (501595)Stephen Stoker Purdie (501597)Business and Labour HistoryHistoryEconomic History


Municipal utility districts continue to grow outside Round Rock; annexation unlikely
As a matter of necessity, the employees of the Round Rock Public Library have become experts on city residency laws.
That is because with increasing frequency the city's librarians have found themselves informing first-time visitors that they are not actually residents of the city of Round Rock but instead reside within a municipal utility district, or MUD. The discrepancy in addresses not only affects people's ability to gain a free library card, but also the property taxes they pay, the fire and police services they receive and in which elections they are allowed to participate.
"We have a lot of people ... who don't know they are purchasing a house in a MUD or understand what a municipal utility district is," Round Rock Library Director Michelle Cervantes said.
There are approximately 37,000 people living in the 13 MUDs that lie within the city of Round Rock's extraterritorial jurisdiction, or ETJ—unincorporated areas the city holds the rights to annex but is under no obligation to do so.
Those living within the MUDs share the same Round Rock mailing address as the city's residents but are excluded from municipal services such as police, fire department and water services as well as street maintenance. If a family living in a MUD wishes to obtain a city of Round Rock library card, the family is required to pay a $40 annual fee—a service that is free for city residents—and if the family uses a city pool or signs up for a parks and recreation program, it pays nonresident rates.
Another surprise to many new MUD residents comes in the form of taxes. Because MUDs fund and maintain their own water and wastewater infrastructures, their property tax rates can more than double Round Rock's. In addition, MUD residents must also pay a Williamson County emergency services district tax for fire protection, and in some cases, separate homeowners association fees for parks and pools maintenance.
"When you buy a home in a utility district, you actually get a form that is called a notice of disclosure, [that informs people they are living in a MUD]" said Mike Petter, general manager for the Brushy Creek MUD.
"But the reality is it is one of [approximately] 40 forms you sign when you close on your property. So people move in and they look at the mailing address that says Round Rock, and they assume that is where they live. The reality is that is just where the post office is."
Defining a MUD
By its most basic definition, a MUD is a funding mechanism used to spur residential development.
Created by either the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality or by an act of the Texas Legislature, MUDs are technically state-regulated water districts. Individual MUDs are overseen by an elected board of directors that is responsible for the management, finances and policies within the MUD's defined area.
"When these MUDs are created, they issue debt to help develop their own infrastructure," Round Rock Finance Director Cheryl Delaney said. "They are their own taxing entity. They usually provide their own water, wastewater and solid waste services. They are kind of like a mini city themselves."
The advantage of MUDs for developers lies in the districts' ability to take on debt by issuing bonds. The bonds allow developers to pass on the cost of building road and water infrastructure to the future homeowners, who pay off the MUD's bond debt with property tax revenue.
Cities such as Round Rock also benefit from the residential populations MUDs bring into their immediate area. Essentially, MUD residents help build up the city's commercial property and sales tax bases by providing a workforce and consumers while at the same time saving the city the cost of funding police, fire and municipal services to new neighborhoods.
"The common knowledge is that cities typically lose money on rooftops," said Mike Freeman, owner of Mike Freeman Properties, a Round Rock real estate firm. "If any development wants to happen outside [the city limits], it's pretty much going to need to be a MUD."
Benefits of a MUD
There are approximately 15,000 people residing within the Brushy Creek MUD in Round Rock's southwestern ETJ. Founded in 1977, Brushy Creek's board of directors has injected millions of dollars into the district's parks, recreation and infrastructure.
Rebecca Tullos, a Brushy Creek resident since 1992, has served on the board of directors off and on for 10 years and as board president since 2012. Tullos believes some of the advantages of living in a MUD include a closer-knit community and greater access to parks and recreation.
"The quality of life for our residents is at the top of the list of goals for the board of directors," Tullos said.
Williamson County Commissioner Lisa Birkman is also a resident of Brushy Creek and formerly served on the district's board of directors.
"Generally speaking, it's a great place to raise your kids," she said. "Usually the MUDs are a little more affluent neighborhoods with really nice homes and a good quality of life for living here."
By financing MUDs' infrastructure through bonds, developers are also able to lower housing costs by avoiding the impact fees cities charge for new construction. Homeowners are also usually allowed to use their MUD property tax payments as a deduction on their federal income taxes.
As a county commissioner representing many of the MUDs in Round Rock's unincorporated areas, Birkman said she often deals with residents frustrated with the lack of regulations in the districts. Birkman has dealt with a wide range of complaints, ranging from semitrailers being parked on residential streets to the use of fireworks to poorly maintained yards and houses. In most cases, however, the county is limited in its ability to act on residential complaints in the unincorporated areas.
"State laws are written to give certain protections for neighborhoods in cities, not [in ETJs]," Birkman said. "If you live in many places in Texas where [land] is unincorporated, it is just farmland and rural, so those restrictions aren't needed. But we are under different circumstances in a MUD."
For most residents living in MUDs, their ability to uphold standards in their neighborhood is limited to whether they belong to a homeowners association, or HOA. As opposed to city ordinances, which carry police authority, however, an HOA's powers are limited to fines and warning letters.
"You don't have police power with an HOA," Freeman said. "With the city of Round Rock, if I try to park my car on the grass, they drive by and write me a ticket and tell me to move my car. In an HOA, they notify [residents] and tell them they have a time period to rectify the situation."
While the residents and leadership of the MUDs surrounding Round Rock have worked in different ways to improve their amenities and quality of life, many recognize there would be advantages to being annexed into the city of Round Rock.
The city of Round Rock, however, has never annexed a MUD, and if it were ever to do so it would require a significant analysis of the costs and benefits of what could be gained by adding hundreds, if not thousands, of new rooftops to the city.
The obstacles to annexation for MUDs are numerous.
For one, MUDs are built on debt used to pay for their infrastructure. If the city were to annex a MUD, state law mandates the city would also assume any debt the district was carrying. There are also the additional factors of the city taking on the financial burden of maintaining any parks and recreation systems the respective MUDs have created. Finally, the city would have to consider the cost of the additional police and fire services.
Much of the costs for maintaining these services within the city of Round Rock are offset by commercial property and sales taxes. MUDs, however, typically contain little to no commercial properties.
The Teravista communities are divided into three MUDs—two located within Round Rock's northern ETJ and one within Georgetown's ETJ. Founded in 1998, the districts' management has developed a long-term strategy it believes could one day help the chance of its residents being annexed. In Teravista, all of the costs of building and maintaining the pools, parks and golf course are funded by the HOA, not the MUD, as is the case in Brushy Creek.
"Where it makes it sometimes challenging for cities to annex districts is when districts get a little bit convoluted with the recreation stuff," said Rainer Ficken, senior project manager for Newland Communities, the developer for Teravista. "That is why we purposely keep [Teravista MUDs] focused only on providing the water and wastewater and drainage infrastructure.
"Long term, when the city does enter the point they would want to annex that area, they are truly just annexing the utilities. The city is not taking over any of the swimming pools or open space or amenities."
Before considering annexing a MUD, the city of Round Rock will also have to determine the costs and benefits to the residents already living within the city's limits. For a MUD such as Brushy Creek, which currently carries a debt of more than $40 million and an annual operating budget of $11 million, the chances of annexation are "zero," Round Rock Mayor Alan McGraw said.
"It boils down to the dollars-and-cents discussion," he said. "If you bring [MUDs] in and the services and debt far outweigh the revenue, then it is the rest of the city that is having to make up the difference, and that is not fair to them."


Tammy Delacruz. Door Hinges. November 21st , 2017.
Thank goodness that the hinge came to be. Some even say it is the second most important invention after the wheel. Today there are a wide variety of door hinges available. The best way to browse this large selection is to shop online. Dont waste time dragging yourself to hardware store after hardware store only to find they dont have enough or any of the kind you need. Youll find the best selection and the best prices online. Amongst all the different door hinges out there one of the most common types is the butt hinge. It is two leaves with screw holes held together by a pin or a rod. Both leaves are recessed, one end into the door and the other into the frame. When the door is closed all you see is the pin. With this type of door hinge it is easy to take the door down because all you have to do is remove the pin.
Eventually the Romans adapted the hinge from the large sizes used for city gates to a smaller size to use in the home. So, now we have the cabinet door hinge. Available in a vast array of styles and finishes the cabinet door hinge is an important part of any décor. Dont get frustrated bouncing from store to store like a pinball to find the hinges you need. Instead shop online and youll find the best selection as well as the best prices. Typically the type of cabinet door hinge you need is dictated by the type of cabinet door you have. There are three types of cabinet door; lipped, flush and overlay. A lipped door has a lip cut all the way around it. A flush door rests within the door frame and an overlay door rests on the door frame.
When it comes to cabinet door hinges the right ones depend on the type of door you have. Basically there are three types of doors lipped, overlay and flush. The lipped door is one in which a lip has been cut completely around the door. The overlay door is cut larger than the opening so that its edges rest on the door frame. Flush doors sit inside the frame with their faces flush within it. Each type of door dictates different types of hinges. Pivot hinges, one of the most popular styles, are designed for overlay doors. One hinge is mounted on top the other on the bottom with portions of each screwed into the frame resulting in a concealed hinge.
So youve decided to give your kitchen a facelift. Youve decided on a paint color, picked out a new counter top and are re-facing your cabinets. Heck you might even throw in a new fridge or range. Once youve decided on the big items like stainless steel appliances and granite countertops it is important not to forget the little things that make your kitchen complete. Cabinet hardware can make or break the look you just spent so much money to achieve. For example if you want a sleek and modern kitchen you would not want traditional cabinet door hinges or decorative hinges that will take away from the streamlined look you worked so hard to achieve. You also want yours to match your knobs and pulls in finish and style.
The easy way to install the door and door hinges is to install the new door hinges where the old ones were. This only works if you selected the same size door hinges as you previously had on the door with proper hole-spacing. If not, you may have to use some wood putty to fill the old holes, and then put the new hinges wherever you would like. When deciding where the door hinges will go remember, doors are supposed to open into the room, they are also traditionally expected to open to a wall, not to flap in the open area of the room. If you have someone handy, you may want to bring them into play at this time. Line up the door where you think it should be placed, using shims to balance it off the ground enough that it will open and close.
Any content, trademark/s, or other material that might be found on this site that is not this site property remains the copyright of its respective owner/s. In no way does NewsPressRelease claim ownership or responsibility for such items, and you should seek legal consent for any use of such materials from its owner.