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Justin Bieber’s brief Thanksgiving stay at the New Jersey family home of pastor Carl Lentz of the Hillsong NYC Church is coming to an end, according to an Instagram he posted last night.
In a message tagged to Lentz’s wife Laura, who is also seen in the black and white pic, he wrote,
“Gonna miss u Laura but more so your breakfast,” jokingly adding hashtags which read, “#kidding #maybe.”
But before the 20-year-old singer heads back to a rumored Los Angeles, he met up with model Hailey Baldwin and Hillsong speaker Joe Termini for a playful game of ice-hockey at the Trump Rink in Central Park on Friday evening.
Like Justin, Hailey has been seen attending the Pentecostal church and counts Lentz as a friend. The pastor previously told the New York Post he is friends with the model’s father, the Hollywood actor Stephen Baldwin.
In an Instagram video posted by Hailey, the Biebs is not seen but is heard laughing in the background while Joe spins around on his rear on the ice, seemingly after falling.
The 18-year-old model, who is a longtime friend of the singer, captioned the clip,
“@joetermini finally scored a goal.”
Bystander-obtained pictures of Justin dressed in full ice-hockey gear popped up on Twitter on Friday.
“Friday night skate with justin bieber…,” wrote one employee at the rink.
The sports-loving superstar also posed with another employee.
@Julie9815’s caption read, “Friday night at work with Justin Bieber.”
Before meeting up Friday, Hailey and Justin exchanged greetings via Shots earlier that day.
Responding to a photo that the “Confident” singer posted with Lentz the day before, the pretty blonde pulled a silly face, adding a caption, “two of my favorite people!!!!”
To which, the Canadian made an equally funny face, replying, “We love u too.”
As reported, Justin arrived in New York the day before his former girlfriend Selena Gomez performed a breakup song about their relationship at the 2014 American Music Awards.
During his visit, he stayed at the family home Lentz shares with Laura and their two young daughters and son.
Previously, the singer stayed at Lentz’s from late October into early November, just a few weeks after his split with Selena. During that time the duo were seen at numerous church services, a Bible Study meet with the Pittsburgh Steelers and various basketball matches.
On Thanksgiving Eve, Justin shared a pic of him and one of the pastor’s daughters playing on the Lentz’s front lawn after making a snowman.
“Made a snowman with this little cutie. Make memories with the ones you love!” he noted alongside a pic, adding, “#HappyThanksgiving.”
To celebrate Thanksgiving day itself, Justin spent time at the New Jersey family home of pal, videographer Alfredo Flores.
Before heading off to a night spot on Saturday, Justin took time to hang out with a group of fans in New Jersey.
— ⠀ (@avonsrhythms) November 29, 2014
— sofia (@avon_drew) November 29, 2014
Guys i just met justin @Justinbieber I love you sooo much pic.twitter.com/TmURzjjjUw
— Belieber Forever (@BizzleIBelieber) November 29, 2014
Later on Saturday, singer posted the snap below, which he captioned, “Nyc with the clown posse.”
And it looks like he’s already missed. Laura posted a sweet message to her now departed, famous lodger in an Instagram note that read,
“Proud of you Jus…missing this face and the joy he brings!!… And please don’t comment if you are gunna judge– ain’t got time for that!! I will delete you & I’ll go MAD mumma bear on you #love.”
Meanwhile, according to an Instagram posted by the partner of her cousin, Selena went on a road trip the day after Thanksgiving.
Like her ex-boyfriend, the 22-year-old posted several festive pics during her break with her family in Dallas, Texas. Selena also shared a throwback pic of her former actress mother, Mandy Teefey, posing similarly to herself in a photoshoot.
“Werk momma #igetitfrommymomma,” the actress-singer quipped.
Although the former Jelena spent Thanksgiving separately, it seems both stars managed to have a good time.
[Images via Getty Images/Twitter/Shots/Instagram.]

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To determine the suitable size of filter you need for the vacuum output, measure the diameter of the vacuum knob.
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Carmichael Reveals The 2012 MEC Track
The 2012 Monster Energy Cup, taking place at Sam Boyd stadium in Las Vegas on October 20th, is on the horizon. Check out this video just released from FELD with the track designer, Ricky Carmichael, taking us through the MEC track lay-out. The track looks sick this year with the addition of some really innovative sections. Check out the SX/MX "hybrid" tack in the video below.


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The frequency of medical malpractice claims nationally has been stable for a number of years. The biggest challenge facing hospitals is claim severity: the increasing amounts of money paid to resolve malpractice claims. Social inflation affects jury attitudes as does the changing perception of the hospital industry, especially due to merger and acquisition activity. These factors result in multi-million dollar malpractice verdicts against hospitals which, in turn, drive up settlement values. Hospital professional liability premiums are rising as a result.
This session will explore national hospital malpractice claim trends, especially the large verdicts against hospitals, and the causes for those claims. The Harvard Risk Management Foundation/CRICO Comparative Benchmarking System database, perhaps the best in the industry, will be used to highlight national hospital claim trends.
- Use national hospital malpractice claim allegations to help focus risk management initiatives internally
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Paul has twenty years’ experience as an administrator, risk manager and attorney for major hospitals in Ohio, including Cleveland Clinic, University Hospitals of Cleveland, Columbus Children’s Hospital, and St. Luke’s Hospital. Paul also has twenty years’ experience in the health care professional liability industry as a broker and consultant. He worked as a broker and consultant for Willis for 19 years, primarily in the National Health Care Practice. He has also worked for two health care professional liability insurance companies including Medical Protective and Markel Specialty.
Paul joined Markel in September, 2018 and provides Markel staff and insureds with advice and research on a wide range of topics related to health care professional liability risk including claims and risk management and specific research requests.
Paul has authored numerous articles and textbook chapters, including medical textbooks on obstetrics, pediatrics and nursing, and spoken at many health care professional liability insurance industry conferences, such as the PLUS MPL Symposium, the Cayman Captive Conference, ASHRM, the Crittenden Medical Insurance Conference, Insurance ExecuSummit, and others.
Paul holds a B.A. from Ohio Wesleyan University and a Juris Doctor from Capital University School of Law.
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In part 1 of this series, we discussed some of challenges facing pump station owners—specifically the problem of “water hammer” vibration and the resultant maintenance issues that arise due to grease and solids in wastewater than can negatively impact air/vacuum valves. The placement of air/vacuum valves, usually at high elevated points in the pipeline, is especially critical based upon the minimum/maximum flow through the pipeline. This placement will also effect where the transient vacuum events occur in the force main. In order to resolve the important operational and maintenance issues on the force main with air/vacuum valves, the solution to the negative transient pressure wave is best addressed at the pump station itself. Since this was the point of origin for the wave during the pump trip, the solution will be most effective here.
A specification for transient mitigation equipment frequently calls out for a performance guarantee from the respective manufacturer. Whether it is for one day, two days or more of on-site testing and training, the manufacturer is required to “sign off” that the equipment is performing to the level called for in the specification. However without recording transient data at 100 Hz, how does a manufacturer meet its performance guarantee obligations? “Proof of Design” is critical to both understanding the normal operation of the pump station and the reactions of the force main.
As the force main reacts differently due to variations in pressure, flow rate, elevation changes and the presence of entrapped air, the force main system overall becomes increasingly complicated. Entrapped air in particular can produce not only pressure transients but also generate two phase flow with devastating results. Another notable is when pumping downhill which can create a condition whereby the force main may not have enough backpressure to keep the pump running correctly on its curve. Even when variations such as those noted previously are taken into consideration, unsteady flows can still occur as air is being vented from the force main. This is where “Proof of Design” through transient pressure monitoring comes sharply into focus.
Figure 4 (Above): Surge model animation clearly shows a practical and verifiable solution to negative pressures resulting from a pump trip. In this example, the system’s force main was protected by the use of a bladder surge vessel with results confirmed and documented by a pressure transient monitoring system courtesy of Blacoh Surge Control.
Figure 5 (Featured Image): Example of a Transient Monitoring System that can send immediate notification emails when an abnormal system change has occurred.
Through utilization of a system such as Blacoh’s SurgeWave, with both pressure and flow inputs, the system communicates with the variable speed backpressure control valve and keeps the pump correctly on its curve. As the level of complexity in the force main system increases, a more comprehensive solution could emerge that requires surge vessels to give or receive energy, properly sized and positioned air/vacuum valves, check valves with closing speeds rates matched to the system, control valves and panels to bring it altogether.
An all too common occurrence for operators today is how to address pipeline failures during heavy rainfall when the pump(s) trip due to power failure. This is of particular interest when the system operates normally in low flows without noticeable surge issues. This is just another day in the life of surge mitigation equipment manufacturers who perform start-up/commissioning duties for calibration on a regular basis. However, a “regular basis” must also account for operating conditions that can vary significantly in the field and the effects could take months to be fully identified depending upon the unique aspects of each pump station’s system. A diversity of factors including but certainly not limited to wet well levels, the number of pumps in operation and force main variables are all potential contributors to pump and piping damage. For these reasons, it is recommended that the pump station start-up/commissioning requirements mandate design performance monitoring for a minimum of 30 continuous days of operation.
A brief example of this can be found when the flow rate in the computer surge model shows the steady state flow at 13,195 gallons per minute with a pressure at 72.2 psig with two pumps.
The pump station puts the two pumps into operation and the flow rate seen shows a marked decrease down to 9,375 gallons per minute with the pressure noted at 77 psig. The wet well simply does not have sufficient inflow to meet demand and the pump will turn off on a low level reading giving an operating time of approximately three minutes. When the wet well fills up, the pumps are again restarted but now the flow meter is not recording any flow at all so the pumps turn off in another three minutes. The wet well has been pumped down so why is the flow not seen? Should you be using a mag meter, please insure that it is not partially full. If your system is pumping downhill and only one of the two pumps is in operation, the pipeline may only be partially full.
In order to compare the actual field performance of the system with what the computer surge model projected, the pressure data must be captured and recorded. The rate of capture must be sufficiently high enough to provide sampling data necessary for the computer to present a true image of what is happening. With transient pressure wave speeds in excess of 3000 feet/second, a minimum of 100Hz data recorded is recommended.
For More Information
Frank Knowles Smith III leads the Blacoh Surge Control team as the executive vice president. Smith is a well-respected trailblazer in fluid dynamics with three decades of academic, design, and application experience. The foremost expert on surge control, Smith’s specialties include pump station/pipeline design and computer modeling, piping components, instrumentation, and electrical control panel design. Steve Mungari is the business development manager for Blacoh Surge Control. Mungari has over two decades of process control experience from industry leaders such as Parker Hannifin Corporation and Burkert Fluid Control, which specialize in the field of fluid measurement and control technologies. His background encompasses diverse markets in life science, gas analysis, hygienic processing, and water treatment industries. For more information, visit www.blacoh.com.
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Damn, but whilst I’ve been off lounging about the beach crapping about with artists, but people have only gone and bought stories and the like from her Lusciousness and myself.
Where, I hallucinate you asking? Funny you should bring it up….
This friendly little fellow is the cover to Midnight Echo 7, unfortunately harmless. He’s the official magazine of the Australian Horror Writer’s Association, and undoubtedly the nastiest little read you’ll read this year, at least until issue 8 comes out. It contains my short story Ghosts of You, which is quite unpleasant, and I say that with all the love in my heart.
Purchase ye here.
Next to him… the nasty Year’s Best Australian Fantasy & Horror 2011. His tiny fangs cause creeping ulcerations of the skin, and his pages contain Europe After the Rain, a story originally published in Fablecroft Publishing’s After The Rain anthology and which I thought had disappeared with a dull whoomph of disinterest, so I’m pleased to see it up and about and being appreciated.
YBAFH11 can be found at Ticonderoga Publications.
And coming soon… my prize, ASIM 56. Isn’t she lovely? And so deadly. Her pages contain twice as many Battersbys as that of other magazines. You see, her contents include The Blind Pig, that is to say a modern fable of the depression by my beautiful wife Luscious as well as my own Comfort Ghost, and eventually… oh sod it, i can’t keep that up.
Everyone knows ASIM is a ripper of a magazine. Their website is here, and I’ll let you know when the issue is due to come out. The Blind Pig is the best short Lyn has ever written, and if you know Lyn’s writing, you’ll know what that means: you want a copy of this magazine, and you want it ASAP.
And if that isn’t enough to make you wonder at just how many people you can fool all of the time, be sure to check out Bete Noire in July, where my poem Three Messages will appear.
That’s right, after all the chatter and begging you to be patient, the vulture has landed!
12 stories, 3 poems, artwork by 8 talented artists, an interview with Charlaine Harris (author of the Sookie Stackhouse novels), and featuring the creepiest cover known to mankind courtesy of the outstandingly talented Perth artist Justin Randall
Costing only $3.50 for a shiny pdf and only $10 if you want us to murder some flora on your behalf. It is, in my humble and entirely non-biased opinion, the single greatest collection of dark fiction in the history of mankind.
Look at those names: Jenny Blackford, Geoff Maloney, LL Hannett, Jason Crowe, Clarion South alumni and rising stars Dan Braum & Christopher Green…. Don’t you just feel your nipples hardening? Don’t you just want to reach for your mother’s credit card and sneak off to the AHWA shop while she lies comatose in front of Wife Swap clutching a half-empty bottle of cooking sherry?
You’ve really got no excuse have you?
There’s an interview with Horrorscope here if you’d like to know more about the hand inside the puppet behind the mind behind the issue, and I’ll even give you a taste of my editorial if it’ll help persuade you. Here, look:
As I reach the halfway point of my life I have seen monks immolate themselves to protest foreign wars; passenger aircraft driven into buildings; subway air-conditioning used as a tool of religious terrorism. My mother lived through the euphemistically named “Irish Troubles”: even after a decade of living in Australia she was afraid of being in a crowded cafe with a discarded backpack. She was born during The War. Which War? The one big enough and wide-ranging enough that we simply call it “The War”. Atomic science followed. It didn’t give us Godzilla, but Russian orphans with missing limbs and swollen jaws, acromegalic and cancer-shriven. Serial killers are celebrities: we watch movies about Gacy, Bundy, Zodiac, see Jack Unterweger live on television. Serial killers as legend—Hannibal the hero, jaded Jigsaw, delightfully ditzy Dexter. It puts the cream on its hands. It pays to watch vicariously.
What was once feared is risible.
I was nervous during the ceremony. Although I fumbled with the ring at one point, I managaed not to drop it, and my nervousness was accepted as part of the standard jitters. During the photographs I was ushered to the side as Alice and her bridesmaids took centre stage and hammed it up for the photographer, flouncing around in their silk dresses and looking, I thought, a little tarty. Feeling spare, I moved away and leant against the trunk of a weeping willow. From this aspect, I had an even better view of Charles than I had before. His body, still caught by the snag, bobbed gently up and down with the flow of the current. I admired the neat cut across his throat and the way his body had been sliced open to allow his intestines to swim free in the murky water of the Murray.
— Sleeping Dogs by Geoffrey Maloney and Andrew Baker
Apologies for missing Wednesday– things and stuff and junk arose, which I’ll mention in the next post or two (it’s dead exciting). Until then, enjoy:
The problem with poison is that it can grow stale. The first one hundred times, you know, it was interesting. Then you start recycling. You start tasting the same poisons you’ve already had. You start having de ja vu.
“I’ve died this way before,” you think. And you have. That’s the problem. There are only so many poisons in the world, and so many ways to take them.
So you start to combine them. Mix hemlock and cypripedium. The first is cold, you remember, and the second burns. You combine the two, hoping for something crazy, something that will take your head clean off, separate your teeth from your jaw. All that happens, instead, is a mild burn. The fire from before, that first fire, it’s absent. All that’s left is something lame, something unoriginal, something worse than pure.
— Poison or the Knife by BL Hobson
Under a streetlight, no sudden moves. Looking like a lost motorist. Give directions, he thought, like a good girl. Don’t be scared, he said to himself.
She walked back and leaned over to peer into the window. Even with the streetlight, he flicked on the dome. The girl was a good yard onto the sidewalk, not getting within reach of the window. Not yet.
“Excuse me, ma’am,” he started. She smiled at that. Good.
God. He swallowed. Braces.
— Carnal Knowledge, by Don Norum
“This very day they descend on Paris.” The Monk stabbed a finger westward and heads swung around to follow his gesture. Odile shrank back against the wall. “Swathed in their black finery, borne on the backs of Catholic servants!” Pain flared in Odile’s head, the sickle-thorn burying deep.
“These crimes, this effrontery, can not–must not!–go unchallenged!” One of the strangers, a red-capped young man, leaned in to his neighbour. His neighbour nodded vigorously.
“The Calvinists and Lutherans have no desire to simply go their own mistaken way in peace.” The Monk’s face twisted into a snarl, baring yellowed teeth, and the thorn dug deeper with each word. “They would see us crushed in their wake, rent and devoured and shat upon the earth!”
— The Hand of God, by Jason Crowe
What did she think she was doing? She looked at her babies, snoring in their bassinets, and nearly abandoned her plan. They might not mind if we stay, she reasoned, as she got up to tuck blankets around their shoulders. They’ll never know what we’ve lost.
A few bars of ‘Happy Birthday’ drifted in from the other room; her mother warming up for later.
Theresa ran her tongue around the thick scars inside her mouth, then clenched her teeth. “Mum?”Her voice was too quiet. She inhaled, exhaled slowly, tried again. “Mum?”
“What?” came Evelyn’s voice, echoing from the kitchen.
“I forgot to get candles for the cake. Can you run out and get some? I’m going to give the kids a feed before everyone gets here– and we can’t have the party without candles.”
— Tiny Drops, by LL Hannett

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The original item was published from 7/14/2011 4:15:12 PM to 7/14/2011 4:15:52 PM.
Public Works News Flash
Posted on: July 14, 2011
[ARCHIVED] Construction work in the Montalvin Manor in the San Pablo and Richmond area
Work is expected to begin August 1, 2011 and be completed by October 21, 2011. Notification will be posted along Kay Road at least 48 hours in advance of a planned lane closure or traffic detour.


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A modern metropolis, Lagos is currently the main commercial and financial hub of Lagos. Lagos is one of the highly populated and modern places in the world, to which cheap flights to Lagos are ample and are heavily booked. According to the growth strata of sundry cities across the globe, Lagos is ranked at number seven and is rapidly growing day by day. The former name of the city was Eko and the natives or the inhabitants of Lagos were called as Yoruba.
Lagos carried a pivotal place in the African history ledger and the modern name Lagos was granted by the Portuguese and the word Lagos means a connection of land with the sea. The name evinces out the intrinsic meanings as the place is geographically one of the best known places on earth famous for its lush beaches, and natural sites and landscapes cheap flights to Lagos The current population of Lagos comprises of the early inhabitants and the immigrants too who at that time migrated here, and this has been over the years now.
The very first connection made by the Portuguese here was through a great explorer Rui de Sequeria who visited here in 1472 and named the city as Lago de Curami. And from the early 1400s to the late 1800s the city faced the darkest aspect in the history where slavery trade took place. Later, this trade was outlawed and the state now enjoys the designation of a lush metropolis, and one of the thriving most cities in the world where people love to travel for leisure and entertainment purposes. People book cheap flights to Lagos every year with their families and enjoy their trip in the most fantastic way which was never sought if you look back to its history.
Despite of tourism, Lagos serves as a main commercial hub where all major import and export trading takes place and thus provides a great opportunity for the foreign business travelers to book cheap flights to Lagos and come and visit this perfect place to expand their businesses. Business opportunities here are ample, and one can easily get to nurture his or her pertinent cause.

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Kapil Sharma-Ginni Chatrath, Shehnaaz Gill and others at the screening of Zwigato
Kapil Sharma Producer zvigato A special screening was held for celebs in Mumbai on Thursday. Kapil’s plus one at the screening was wife Ginni Chatrath. The couple looked very beautiful in white and black outfits. Director Nandita Das and actress Shahana Goswami. Other celebs who attended the screening included Suniel Shetty, Shehnaaz Gill, Ali Fazal-Richa Chadha, Sameera Reddy, Shabana Azmi, Sharman Joshi, Sonu Nigam, Rajkummar Rao and others. Helmed by Nandita Das, the film is scheduled to release on March 17. Check out photos from the screening below:
Jasmine Bhasin and Bharti Singh-Harsh Limbachiyaa also reached the screening and happily posed with Kapil Sharma. See picture below:
Helmed by Nandita Das, the film stars Kapil Sharma as a delivery agent. The film presents the story of continuity of life. Speaking at the trailer launch of his film, the comedian talks about playing the role of a delivery agent zvigatoHe said, “I do comedy for 2 hours a day in my show, but I am not like that 24 hours a day. There are many aspects of my personality which I want to show. I don’t think that will happen.” There will be no disappointment among the fans as they too will be eager to see what I bring to the table.”
Meanwhile, film critic Saibal Chatterjee in his review for NDTV gave 3.5 out of 5 stars and wrote, “The pace and rhythm of zvigato hinges on the flow of life that it portends. But unlike a food delivery boy whose future depends on making customers happy and getting five-star ratings in this line, Nandita Das doesn’t sugar-coat the film’s central message.

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Russian woman who went crazy after losing to Harlan humiliated at the World Fencing Championships
The judges of the World Fencing Championship rejected the appeal of Russian Anna Smirnova against the result of the match with Ukrainian Olha Kharlan. The representative of the aggressor country went crazy by refusing to accept defeat and leave the track after our compatriot did not shake her hand.
Championship.com informs about it. Smirnova appealed the outcome of the fight, insisting that Harlan violated the FIE regulations and should be disqualified. The Russian began to pretend to be an innocent victim of aggression from the Ukrainian and waited 50 minutes for the judges' decision.
In the end, the referees decided in Olha's favor. Harlan advanced to the next round of the competition where she will face Ioanna Ilieva from Bulgaria.
It should be noted that Olha became the first Ukrainian who fought with the representative of the Russian Federation in fencing after the lifting of the ban of the Ministry of Sport on duels against aggressors. The day before, Ihor Reizlin refused to fight Vadim Anokhin.
As OBOZREVATEL reported, the International Fencing Federation, which is headed by Russian oligarch Alisher Usmanov, was the first to allow representatives of Russia and RB to participate in international tournaments.

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Full range of freshly brewed coffees with a slice of homemade cake or tiffin
From a full English to a slice of toast or
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Try our fresh fish and chips
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With a latte or a freshly brewed tea, cappuccino
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Xbox, the video game business division of Microsoft, prepares a new accessory that will allow you to play streaming video games directly from the television, similar to Google Chromecast, Roku, or Amazon Fire Stick.
Subscribers to Microsoft’s “Netflix of Video Games”, Xbox Games Pass, they can play streaming video games from the service catalog xCloud, which at the moment allows it to be used by both Xbox and Windows PC and Android cell phones.
To expand the number of screens available, Xbox prepares an additional device that will also serve to play on tv. And they even promise that it will be compatible with the joysticks of the console.
“I think we are going to see lower priced devices as part of our ecosystem when we think about streaming players for televisions and other solutions for people who simply want to connect their television and play with xCloud, “Spencer said in an interview with Stratechery collected by The Verge.
Phil Spencer, the Xbox strongman and one of the leaders of the video game industry. Photo: Patrick T. Fallon / Bloomberg
It is not the first time that Xbox has worked on video game players for televisions, since in 2016 the American company canceled its project for streaming devices Xbox TV, which was never officially announced.
Likewise, Spencer has also ensured that Xbox works on new Xbox Games Pass subscriptions, as one known as ‘Platinum’, with guaranteed access to the company’s new ‘hardware’, which will be added to the Xbox All Access subscriptions, already announced, which include the Xbox Series X and S consoles and which will be released in 2021.
Xbox renewed its app to play remotely
On the other hand, Microsoft began to spread the new version of your Xbox console app for iPhone and iPad, which enables remote play from these Apple devices with Xbox consoles.
Microsoft’s video game unit, Xbox, had already launched the beta of its application for Android phones last September. This app was redesigned to provide a “unified experience” and introduce remote play.
The new Xbox app stands out especially for the introduction of the remote play function. In this way, iPhone and iPad users will be able to play Xbox One video games via streaming from the console.
The remote play feature works with both the current-generation Xbox One consoles and the new Xbox Series X and S, which Microsoft will put on sale globally on November 10.
The Xbox application also allows users to control their consoles from their mobile, being possible to turn on the console remotely, although without making noise or turning on the front light, as reported by The Verge.


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March 8, 2003
I updated Corey Sevier's and Rachel Skarsten's cast bio pages.
February 1, 2003
I added a few links to my Links page.
January 23, 2003
I updated the Characters, Page 2, Jason McSkimming's page, and Robin Dunne's page.
January 14, 2003
I updated the main page, Corey Sevier's, and Amy Price-Francis' cast info pages, and added a photo to Rachel Skarsten's cast info page. I also added Alexa Gilmour's (who played Sarah Ryan) cast info page.
January 11, 2003
I updated the main page, the Addresses page, and Adrian Hough's cast info page.
November 5, 2002
I added Part 3 to my fan fiction, Reawakened Pasts.
October 15, 2002
I updated Brittney Irvin's, Rachel Skarsten's, Corey Sevier's, Dov Tiefenbach's, and Trevor Blumas's cast pages.
October 5, 2002
I added Sierra's story, Independence Day, to the Fan Fiction Page. Thanks, Sierra!
September 9, 2002
I added Part 4 to the Rigmarole Story One. Thanks, ae!
August 27, 2002
I updated the main page and added a few new polls. Go try them out!
August 21, 2002
I added Tracy's story, Seeds of Doubt to my Fan Fiction page. Thank you, Tracy!
August 19, 2002
I added Part 2 to Reawakened Pasts! I also added some new photos of Brittney Irvin and experimental/artistic photos of Spencer Rochfort under my Photos page.
July 30, 2002
I added Part 3 to the Rigmarole Story One. Since no one was responding, I decided to write it.
July 27, 2002
Finally, Part 1 of Reawakened Pasts is up on my Fan Fiction page!
July 22, 2002
I added Sierra's Thoughts, Episode Thoughts, and a link to two Little Men reviews under my Articles and Thoughts page.
July 16, 2002
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After our Sarajevo trip back in 2021, which sparked my interest in the history of the Balkans, visiting Kosovo next felt like a natural course of action. I was initially going to title this post something along the lines of “best things to do in Europe’s youngest country”. But, even though it’s been 15 years since Kosovo officially declared its independence, many countries still don’t recognise it as a sovereign state.
Nestled in the heart of the Balkans, Kosovo is a land of striking contrasts and complex identity. The 1998-1999 war has left a lasting mark on its people and landscape. Nearly 25 years on, the struggle for independence isn’t over yet, with ethnic tensions flaring up again. This makes Kosovo the perfect destination for travellers who want to understand the complexities of modern-day Europe.
Last summer, we chose Kosovo’s capital city as the starting point of our 3-week Balkan trip. I feel like 3 days were more than enough to see the most interesting places it has to offer. With that said, here are all the best things to do in Pristina, including where to stay and the best restaurants to visit.
How to get from Pristina International Airport to the city centre
We flew directly from Warsaw to Pristina – and I’ve honestly never been on such an empty flight before! It genuinely looked like something you’d expect at the height of the pandemic. Apart from us, all other passengers were either locals or being picked up by locals. We’ve always known Kosovo is far from your average touristy destination, but seeing all the empty seats really drove this point home.
Right outside the terminal, there’s a bus stop from which you can go to the city centre. Unfortunately, buses don’t run very frequently, so you might have to catch a taxi instead. We read online that while most drivers will quote you €25-30 for a ride to the centre, you should never agree to pay more than €15. However, once we left the terminal, we saw a sign that there was now a fixed price of €25, so we didn’t bother to haggle.
As our driver hardly spoke any English, he asked for the phone number of our hostess. He then called her to double-check the address and dropped us off right outside her door, with a quick pit stop to get more petrol. It was interesting to see how laid-back the locals are – something we got to observe again a few days later, as our bus driver stopped in the middle of the road to high-five his friend walking past. While I highly value punctuality, we could all probably take a leaf out of their book in our rushed everyday lives 🙂
Where to stay in Pristina
When we were looking for accommodation in Pristina, it eventually came down to two centrally located flats. From the moment I first saw it, I was absolutely OBSESSED with the living room area of The Nest Urban – City Centre, to the point where I didn’t even feel like looking at any other flats.
Ultimately, it was the spacious terrace overlooking the city in this flat that won us over. We could totally picture ourselves sipping on a glass of wine after a long day of exploring, which is exactly what we did. There’s even a barbecue that you can use if you don’t fancy eating out.
But, the best part about this place is its perfect location on Shaban Polluzha street, right behind Skanderbeg Square and the National Theatre of Kosovo. The only thing to watch out for is that the flat is located on the 6th floor and the lift isn’t working properly, but the lovely hostess made us aware of both issues at the time of booking.
You can still send your luggage up, but the buttons inside the lift don’t work, so you need to stay behind to push them from the outside. The stairwell was really wide and clean, though, so the daily walks didn’t even bother us. At €123 for 3 nights, we would definitely consider staying there again!
Best things to do in Pristina
Note: To deal with the energy crisis, in the summer of 2022, the government of Kosovo started enforcing rotating power cuts. This means that every 6 hours, the power goes out for 2 hours. In Pristina, these blackouts weren’t happening across the entire city simultaneously and were divided by areas. We asked our hostess if there were any fixed times, but she said it was random. It’s definitely something to watch out for, especially if you’re a remote worker!
Now, on to the actual city… With its mismatched brutalist architecture and post-socialist concrete blocks, Pristina might just be the ugliest capital city we’ve ever visited. But, beneath this surface, there’s also a lot of youthful energy and vibrancy, with the city centre bustling with people after sundown.
After visiting Pristina, I can finally truly understand what Rita Ora meant when she sang “we gold, we gold, we shine” 😉 All around the city, there are plenty of jewellery shops and display windows filled with the most opulent party gowns on every corner. This probably shouldn’t come as a major surprise, considering that two of my favourite fashion designers, sister-duo Lirika and Teuta Matoshi, are originally from Kosovo. I’ve already decided that if I ever need a show-stopping dress to wear to some fancy occasion, this country is definitely the place to go!
Even if you’re not necessarily a fashion enthusiast, the capital also has other attractions to offer (although you should definitely stay tuned for another fashion moment in this guide!).
Here’s my personal selection of the best things to do in and around Pristina:
Walk around Skanderbeg Square and down Mother Teresa Boulevard
With its equestrian statue and war memorial, Skanderbeg Square is a great place to start exploring Pristina. Skanderbeg was a 15th-century military commander, considered an Albanian national hero for leading a rebellion against, and ultimately defeating, Ottoman Turks. Pristina is one of the three Balkan capitals to have a Skanderbeg statue, alongside Skopje and Tirana. It was brought to Kosovo all the way from Albania 2 years after the conflict ended in 1999.
You can also find several government buildings around the square, along with a memorial dedicated to the victims of the Kosovo War. From there, you can turn into Mother Teresa Boulevard (Bulevardi Nënë Tereza), named after Mother Teresa of Calcutta. In the evenings, you can find crowds of people casually walking by or stopping at one of the cafés and restaurants for a meal and a nightcap.
Catch a performance at the National Theatre of Kosovo
If you’re lucky, you can also catch a performance at the National Theatre of Kosovo. I read there are free ballet performances on Thursday nights, which was perfect since we arrived the day before.
Unfortunately, once we got there on Wednesday afternoon, the building looked almost abandoned. We decided to come back the following morning. It was open, but what was even stranger, the people inside seemed to have no idea what we were talking about. And I don’t just mean free ballet nights – I mean theatre tickets in general. They just shook their heads, making us feel like we somehow ended up in the wrong place.
After I emailed them using the address I found on their website and it bounced, I lost all hope. There were some job ads pinned to the door, so we guessed that maybe they still hadn’t returned to normal post-pandemic. Judging by the official National Theatre of Kosovo website, they appear to finally be back and running, so maybe you’ll have more luck than we did!
Explore the city’s red past at the Pristina Spomenik
If you like to engage in some red tourism, i.e. tourism revolving around visiting places with a significant “red” past, this next spot is for you. There are thousands of spomenik monuments scattered around the countries of former Yugoslavia. They come in a variety of bizarre shapes and forms. I saw someone compare spomeniks to alien landings, which I think is oddly accurate! There’s even a website dedicated to spomeniks, including their history and a full database, if you’d like to plan an entire trip around them.
Following the breakup of Yugoslavia, many of these monuments were vandalised or destroyed. Today, some of them remain in good condition, while others are neglected and left to ruin. This mostly depends on their location, who they honour, or what ethnic groups live in their proximity.
Pristina’s Monument to Brotherhood and Unity, which is the official name of this spomenik, commemorates the soldiers who died during the People’s Liberation Struggle during WWII. For years, it had been in a pretty bad state, with its base starting to fall apart. Following concerns over its safety, there were some plans to demolish it and redevelop the square where it stands. Despite this, a full renovation project took place in August 2018.
When we were in Pristina in August 2022, the entire monument was wrapped in bright pink and purple foil as part of the Manifesta Biennial that was taking place in the city. I’m not sure whether the foil was removed following the end of the exhibition, but I personally much prefer the new version!
Challenge your aesthetic limits at the National Library of Kosovo
Quite possibly the most controversial building in Pristina, The National Library of Kosovo is often referred to as “one of the world’s ugliest buildings” – and I can see why! From the outside, I could never guess that this brutalist building houses a library. To me, it certainly looks more like a prison or a top-secret laboratory. I have to admit the structure looks way more impressive from a bird’s eye view than it does from the ground. See our drone shots for proof:
The inspiration behind the design was to blend Ottoman and Byzantine influences that are prevalent in Kosovan architecture. The library’s nearly 100 white acrylic domes represent the traditional Albanian national hats, or “plisi”. Interestingly enough, during the Kosovo war, the Serbian forces used this building as their headquarters. I suppose this explains the slurs we found on one of the library’s walls 😉
When you look to the side of the building, you may notice a small Serbian Orthodox church in the distance. The construction of Christ the Saviour Cathedral began in 1992 and came to a halt during the Kosovo war. Once the conflict ended, the locals vandalised the church, since they saw it as a reminder of the Milošević regime.
Nowadays, many people are calling for the church to be demolished or turned into a museum about the war crimes. But, following disputes over the land on which the building is located, its future remains uncertain.
Get up close and personal with the Bill Clinton Statue
The Kosovo Albanians’ deep admiration for Bill Clinton stems from the vital role he played in bringing the 1998-99 conflict to an end, ultimately leading to the signing of the Declaration of Independence 9 years later. The locals credit him with finally putting Kosovo on the map and shining some light on the struggles and suffering of its people.
As a way of saying thank you, they decided to erect a larger-than-life statue of Bill Clinton on a street named in his honour. What’s also interesting is that in Albanian, the spelling is a little different. So, if you’re going to visit, these are the street signs you should be looking out for 😉
Shop ’til you drop at the Hillary boutique
If you thought the locals’ admiration ends with the former US president, you’d be mistaken. Bill may have got a boulevard named after him, but it’s Hillary that got 2 fashion boutiques dedicated to her style, so who’s the real winner here?
One of them is located further down the street from the statue, inside a less-than-imposing shopping complex. We didn’t go inside, but it’s the go-to place for Hillary’s signature outfit, a two-piece trouser suit.
I read that the idea for these shops came from the owner’s father who’s always admired Hillary’s style. He assumed if he started selling clothes modelled after her wardrobe, she’d have to come to Pristina one day and meet him. Well, he wasn’t wrong about it! Hillary Clinton paid a surprise visit to the boutique back in 2010, during which she was gifted a navy-blue trouser suit. You can find photographic proof on the walls of both shops.
Celebrate freedom at Pristina’s Newborn Monument
The Newborn Monument is a statue that celebrates Kosovo’s status as Europe’s youngest country. Unveiled on the day the Declaration of Independence was signed, it’s a symbol of resilience, determination, and Kosovo’s newfound freedom. The statue itself consists of the word “Newborn” in capital block letters. It started out yellow and gets repainted every year on the anniversary of Kosovo’s independence movement.
When we were there in 2022, it was covered with faces of women to celebrate women’s successes around the world. With around 2,000 domestic abuse cases reported in Kosovo in 2021 alone, the wings painted on the ‘W’ letter are meant to give strength to the female victims, as well as empower successful women.
You can’t actually tell from the photo, but I was absolutely TERRIFIED when it was taken. From the moment we left our flat, we were being followed by a pack of stray dogs. As you walk around, you can often see them roaming the capital’s streets. It has been a massive problem in Pristina for a long time, with many incidents of attacks on its citizens. Thankfully, we were safe and sound, as they eventually found another pack to play with. Last year the authorities decided to allocate €350,000 to help deal with the issue, so fingers crossed it will soon be a thing of the past!
Join the fight for animal rights at the Pristina Bear Sanctuary
Out of all the places we visited in Kosovo, the Pristina Bear Sanctuary was hands down my favourite. The sanctuary is a haven for brown bears that have been rescued from abusive situations. Unfortunately, many bears in Kosovo and Albania are subject to cruelty and neglect. They are kept as ‘restaurant bears’ in tiny battered cages next to restaurants to attract more customers. The most shocking statistic we learned during our visit was that one of the bears was forced to drink as many as 20 (!) bottles of beer each day for people’s entertainment.
Thankfully, the police have been working to put an end to this despicable practice. They have been confiscating bears and bringing them to the Pristina Bear Sanctuary. So far, 20 brown bears got a second chance in life, free from the suffering they once endured.
By visiting the sanctuary, not only will you be able to experience the natural beauty of Kosovo, but also support a vitally important cause. It serves as a place of healing and rehabilitation, providing these animals with the support they need to recover from their traumatic pasts. You can witness their playful antics and observe their daily routines, all while knowing that your visit is helping to fund their ongoing care.
When we were there in August 2022, a single ticket cost €2. There was also a donation box, as well as a gift shop where you could support the cause with a purchase. You can also pay for a guided tour or enjoy a meal inside their restaurant. Overall, if you want to explore at your own pace, I’d say you need around 2 hours.
How to get to the Pristina Bear Sanctuary
The Pristina Bear Sanctuary is located near the village of Mramor, around 20 km away from Pristina. To get there, you can catch a bus from Pristina Bus Station towards Mramor or Gjilan for €1.
Whether it’s a local or regional bus, in Kosovo, you always buy tickets on board. There’s a separate employee who will approach you once the bus leaves the station. We found it’s good practice to always tell them where we wanted to go when buying our tickets. As we were usually the only tourists on the bus, they always remembered and kindly made sure we got off at the right stop as there were no bus stop announcements.
In this case, there isn’t a specific bus stop, so our driver dropped us off next to a petrol station. You should then turn left onto a smaller road towards Mramor and follow the signs. From there, it’s a 2.5 km walk along the edge of Badovc Lake. If you’re lucky, you can catch a sanctuary shuttle that runs every 2 hours on weekdays, or every hour on the weekends, starting from 10:30 am. It operates on a donation basis, with a small red box attached to the side.
A much easier option is getting a taxi. The Pristina Bear Sanctuary has a partnership with a local taxi company, Blue Taxi. It costs €12 one way, or €25 return with one hour waiting time. We asked the lady at the ticket office if she could call us a taxi back to Pristina, and it was there within half an hour – just enough time for a pint at the restaurant and some touristy photos!
Go on a day trip to Prizren
Should you have some spare time, I’d highly recommend venturing outside of Pristina. For us, it was a toss-up between a day trip to Mitrovica or Prizren. We eventually settled on the latter, mainly due to Prizren’s standing as one of the oldest cities in the entire Balkan region.
From its Ottoman-era architecture to the Bronze Age fortress towering over the city, it’s the ideal place to roam and absorb Kosovo’s rich cultural heritage. If you’re searching for things to add to your Kosovo itinerary, read my post on how to plan the perfect day trip to Prizren!
Best restaurants to visit in Pristina
When you see the same restaurant appear in every travel guide, it usually means one of two things. Either it’s incredibly good or massively overhyped. As Pristina isn’t a tourist hotspot, I had a strong hunch about this one, and I wasn’t disappointed!
If you want to try traditional Albanian cuisine, Liburnia is definitely the place to visit. Tucked away on a cobbled side street, it can be a bit tricky to locate, but it’s totally worth the effort. The rustic Ottoman-style building that houses the restaurant is as atmospheric inside as it is from the outside. With wicker chairs, patterned tablecloths, and greenery peeking out from every corner, it makes you feel right at home.
But, the real highlight here is the food. Liburnia is the type of restaurant where you have to restrain yourself from ordering every single item on the menu. From various kinds of fresh bread and hearty soups to sizzling meat plates served in skillets, it’s foodie heaven.
I’d particularly recommend the oven-baked cheese or paqe soup for a starter, and the Liburnia meat patty for your main.
We loved Liburnia so much that we returned 2 days in a row to sample more dishes. Honestly, we would’ve returned on our last day too if we hadn’t decided to give other places a chance.
And the best part? We never spent more than €20 each, even when we ordered a couple of starters to share, a main, and a dessert each, and washed it down with a carafe of house wine.
Liburnia isn’t just my favourite restaurant in Pristina, but one of my favourites in general – and I don’t say that lightly! So, if you only have time to eat in one place in Pristina, make sure it’s this one. You can thank me later!
Dit’ e Nat’
The name of this bookshop/café translates to “day and night”, and that’s the exact order in which we chose to experience it. What immediately caught my eye were cats absolutely everywhere – in the logo, on the walls, even on the little sugar packets. As a cat lover myself, they got bonus points from me for the donation box on the counter.
When we sat down on the open-air terrace, there was even a resident cat adorably napping in one of the chairs – those morning shifts can indeed be truly exhausting…
It’s also worth mentioning that all dishes on the menu are vegetarian. I opted for their crunchy sandwich with cornflakes-fried courgette, sweetcorn, tomatoes, and pickled cucumber, and a side of carrots and potato wedges. Mac went for an Albanian breakfast, which consisted of fried dough (called petulla in Albanian) with white cheese, pepper spread, and jam.
Everything was delicious, filling, and super affordable – I only paid €4.70, including a cappuccino. When we returned for some evening drinks, the place was bustling with people. Aside from beer and wine, there were only 6 cocktails on the menu ranging from €4 to €5.50. It sadly didn’t include any of my favourites (*cough* Aperol Spritz *cough*), but I still couldn’t recommend it enough. The laid-back vibe is amazing, and you even get some decor inspiration included in the price 😉
Soma Book Station
The next morning, we decided to hit up another highly recommended place. With an industrial feel, a large central bar, and ample garden space where you can relax with one of the books available inside, I can see why it’s instantly become a favourite hangout spot for locals.
Sadly, when we went there early in the morning, it turned out they didn’t serve breakfast until 10 am. As we were heading to Prizren for the day, we couldn’t return later. It’s all good, though – this just means we need to visit Pristina again, am I right…?
Half & Half Café
At this point, you may be wondering why we didn’t at least stay at Soma for some coffee… That’s because, in true Dominika fashion, I had another coffee place on my list!
One thing you should know about the people of Kosovo is that they take great pride in their macchiato-making skills. If you ever want to wind up a Kosovar, just tell them that Italians make much better macchiatos, and you’ve got yourself a perfect storm brewing (pun very much intended).
In all seriousness, though, even Yahoo rated the macchiato in Kosovo the best in the world. Apparently, the difference lies in the way they foam the milk, with the end result impressing even some Italians. You can get your macchiato pretty much anywhere, but Half & Half Café on Mother Teresa Boulevard is said to be the go-to place in Pristina.
Now, I’m no expert when it comes to macchiatos, so I can’t tell you if it really is the best, but I certainly enjoyed mine. There’s only one way to find out – you just need to visit Half & Half Café yourself and be the judge 😉
On our last evening in the city, we wanted to have a late-night meal. We were initially going to go to Pishat, but there were no available tables due to a private event. With it being a Friday night, many other restaurants in the city centre were packed too. So, what do you do in such situations? When all else fails, I find a burger is always a great idea!
After a quick search, we decided to check out BUFFÁLO’s American-style burgers. Again, it was a little challenging to locate at first, as you have to enter an inner courtyard, but the absence of crowds made it worth the effort. I opted for their Felix burger with garlic chips, and it was the ultimate comfort food.
I’d say the prices were a little high for Pristina (I paid €6.80 with a Coke), but they offer a meal deal with regular chips that allows you to save some money. While the burger wouldn’t make my personal top ranking, I believe it could be tough to beat in Pristina. Overall, I would definitely return!
Which of these spots would you add to your Pristina itinerary? Also, what’s the most unique place you’ve ever been to, and why?


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This paper has been used to inform guidelines for developing effective pre-16 early identification systems.
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Focusing on indicators where data are routinely collected in Wales, this paper aims to assess the extent to which demographic characteristics and school-based indicators would be effective in predicting young people at risk of becoming NEET in Wales. Although personal or attitudinal indicators are important, as data on these are not routinely available at a national level, they are out of scope of this paper. The paper begins with a literature review on the variables for predicting young people at risk of disengaging from learning and becoming NEET. This was used to inform the design of an analysis of Careers Wales destination data and Pupil Level Annual School Census data.
Early identification of young people at risk of disengagement is the foundation of the Youth Engagement and Progression Framework. As part of implementing these actions for early identification of young people, the Welsh Government is setting core standards for early identification to support local authorities in developing their own approach.
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A New World No. 1 Headlines The Field
Ariya Jutanugarn tops the field at the TOTO Japan Classic as the new Rolex Rankings’ world No. 1 player. Monday, Jutanugarn returned to the top of the rankings for the third time in her career. She took off last week in preparation for the season’s final stretch and is making her fourth appearance in Japan, where she’s finished in the top 10 in two of her previous three starts. Jutanugarn is joined in the field by world No. 3 So Yeon Ryu, who is also making her fourth start in Japan, where she picked up a T3 finish in 2016. World No. 5 Minjee Lee will tee it up again his week, fresh off her third runner-up finish of the season. She has also played well in Japan, where she finished in the top 10 in her last two starts. World No. 7 Lexi Thompson, No. 8 Brooke Henderson, No. 9 Shanshan Feng and No. 10 Jin Young Ko round out the top 10 in the world that will tee it up in Japan.
Third Time’s A Charm?
Back-to-back defending champion Shanshan Feng returns to Japan in search of her third consecutive victory. Feng is also looking to keep her winning streak alive, having won multiple times each of the last two seasons on Tour, she remains in search of her first win of 2018. But the Olympic bronze medalist tends to hit her stride late in the season as 7 of her 9 victories on Tour have come during the latter half of the season. In addition to her two victories in Japan, she has two more top 10 finishes in the event.
Back in Action
Choosing when and where to play is a delicate balance for players as the Tour winds into the final stretch of the season. Those who chose to take off some of the earlier weeks of the Asia swing, like Lexi Thompson and In-Kyung Kim, are back in action this week in Japan. Thompson is making her first start since the LPGA KEB Hana Bank Championship where she finished 13th. She’s making her fourth appearance in Japan, where she recorded her best finish in a T6 in 2015. Kim has played a limited schedule during this year’s Asia swing, competing in Korea and Shanghai, where she made her last start. She’ll tee it up this week in Japan for the seventh time in her career and twice has finished inside the top 10.
Shin Makes Rare Return to LPGA
The TOTO Japan Classic is a 54-hole event, which is co-sanctioned with the Japan LPGA and makes the field slightly different than an average Tour event. This week, there are 35 members of the JLPGA who are in the field, including Sun-Ju Ahn, the 2015 TOTO Japan Classic champion. Ahn defeated Angela Stanford and Ji Hee Lee in a playoff for her first victory on the LPGA Tour but elected not to take up membership, which she earned with her win. Jiyai Shin, an 11-time winner and 2-time major champion on the LPGA Tour, is also in the field this week.


Plowing and Salting Plan
It is our goal to have all streets in the City plowed within 24 hours of a storm ending.
It is our goal to have all streets in the City plowed within 24 hours of a storm ending. The Hills and Main roads are a priority and are first to be plowed. Secondary roads are plowed once the Main roads are safe. This includes heavily traveled side streets and roads around schools. The side streets are plowed next starting in the areas of heaviest snowfall. During snow events of 1” or more per hour, main roads will be plowed as frequently as possible
During periods of snowfall between approximately 11:00 pm – 4:00 am salting is kept to a minimum due to low traffic volumes. Only intersections, hills, curves and bridges will be salted on main roads between these hours. During snow events of 1” or more per hour from 4:00 am – 11:00 pm only intersections, hills, curves, bridges, and school zones will be salted on main roads. Secondary roads will not be salted except for 200ft. at each intersection, and at hills, curves, bridges and school zones.


Online platform to help oversea job hunters
Updated: 2016-02-05 20:29
By WANG HONGYI in Shanghai(chinadaily.com.cn)
Shanghai recently launched a public foreign labor service account at WeChat, an online message platform, which works to provide effective and quality service for people who seek overseas work.
The official account, roughly translated as "going abroad express"，was launched by the Shanghai Foreign Labor Cooperation Service Platform, a department under the Shanghai Commerce Commission. It will not only provide transparent information, standardized management and effective service, but also introduce overseas professional training institutes to help improve the comprehensive quality of foreign labor personnel.
In 2015, about 18,800 workers were dispatched to overseas countries from Shanghai. Preliminary investigation showed that about 7 million of the city's 15 million migrants are suitable for working overseas，according to officials.
Many people who seek overseas work often fail to find suitable ways to do so due to the confusion in the labor-export market caused by a number of unqualified companies, officials said.
So far, there are 28 qualified foreign labor service cooperation companies in Shanghai, according to Shanghai Commerce Commission.
By leveraging the resources of these qualified companies, the commission plans to launch an app that will connect to the overseas employers directly. It will reduce the unnecessary intermediary links and lower the cost of looking for overseas work, officials said.
Besides that, it also plans to enhance specialized training for the overseas labor market.
In 2015, Shanghai foreign labor service cooperation business was involved with more than 70 countries and areas, with Asia accounting for nearly 70 percent. Among them, the key markets were Hong Kong, Japan and Singapore.
Meanwhile, transportation, construction, textile and garment manufacturing were the major industries for labor export. Nurses， carers and cooks were also popular for labor-export, officials said.
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Your website header is the first impression site visitors have of your brand. If you don’t grab their interest in those first few moments, you risk losing their attention. The header must be attractive, unique, reflect your brand values and have space for other information. Excellent website header design requires attention to detail and knowing which features stand out from the rest.
There are 1.5 billion websites in existence, but just under 200,000 are active. The numbers show there is a lot of competition for user interest. Your website header design must hit all the points needed if you have any hope of capturing users and keeping them on your page.
Your header appears on every single page of your website, making it a crucial design element at your disposal. You need a balance of images, text, colors and appeal. We’ve thought about some of the best tips for creating a fantastic header and chosen eight essential elements to website header design.
1. Study Other Websites
Start by looking at the sites of your competitors. What do they have in their headers, and do you feel it is effective or needs improvement? Your goal isn’t to copy what others have done but to get an idea of which things work best for your target audience. Also, look at some award-winning sites through places such as Awwwards.com to see stellar designs.
2. Know Your Purpose
The one thing website header design should do is help accomplish your goals for your website. Do you want to provide easy information to visitors or drive them toward taking action? Whatever your purpose, your header must focus on the objective and move people through the buyer’s journey.
Some vital elements in a website header include navigation, calls-to-action (CTAs) and contact information. You should also have a company logo for branding and a tagline to explain what your mission is.
3. Use Readable Fonts
One mistake amateurs make in website header design is choosing a pretty but not readable font. It’s more important your text is clear and viewable on different size screens than gorgeous looking.
What percentage of web users are mobile these days? The World Advertising Research Center (WARC) predicts 72.6% of people will access the internet via smartphone only by 2025. As you design your header, make sure it works on both mobile and desktop. The most readable fonts scale automatically and are simple serif or sans-serif type.
4. Fill the Screen With a Photo
One of the trends we’ve seen in recent years is a full-width hero image for a site’s header. The style works exceptionally well for travel-related websites or companies with unique ties to the natural world. Keep in mind if you use a picture for your background, you need to use some transparency effects for navigational features not to distract. Your tabs may have a transparent background, and the letters be a vivid white.
Also, be careful in your website header design to choose a photo with some light or dark areas where text appears. Similar colored sections prevent words from blending into the background and becoming unreadable. Another option is to place a background on buttons and behind text and make it partially transparent, so parts of the photograph still show through.
5. Choose Changing Headers
Another trend in the last few years is website header design with changing height as the user scrolls. The header stays at the top of the screen at all times in a fixed position, but the larger elements, such as the tagline or hero shot, disappear into a thin bar for navigation and with the company logo.
Narrow headers work well because they keep key elements where the user can access them without overtaking the entire page. E-commerce sites may benefit from this type of design. The focus goes to the product description. The fixed bar still allows the user to navigate back to the home page or categories with a single click.
6. Enhance User Experience with Special Effects
Your header serves as a map of your site. You can show visitors where they are, no matter how deep into the hierarchy they travel. Use animated underlines, changing colors on tabs and other shifts to indicate if a person is on a specific page.
There are dozens of different ways you can create special effects for your site’s roadmap, but they should trigger on hover or click and use a consistent method throughout the site and not just in the website header design. The more predictable your design, the easier time consumers have of utilizing the functions.
7. Focus on Your Logo
Your logo is the most essential branding effort you have. You want people to see your logo before they see anything else. You also want them to remember your brand image, so when they come across it again, they associate it with your site. Your header is where your logo lives. You have to figure out the best sizing, placement and white space around it.
Traditionally, logos go in the upper left or the top center of the page. You probably shouldn’t stray too far from the norm in this area, but play around with the size to make sure you can see the logo and use it as a place marker for the homepage. Allow enough white space, so the logo draws the eye, but not so much it creates awkward spacing. Align other elements in your header with your logo.
Test Different Versions
Your website header design isn’t something you create once and forget. As your company grows, you may need to add categories. Technology also shifts and advances every year, so you may need to update to take advantage of new trends or better serve your customers’ needs.
Keep trying new things. Split test changes to see what your users respond best to. With a little extra effort, your header will rise above any of your competitors’ websites and help gain you new fans.
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Connect is an easy-to-use and free online tool allowing users to instantly calculate how smart location, affordable homes and traffic reduction strategies can reduce driving and greenhouse gas emissions from residential development throughout California. It also calculates how much money and space can be saved from right-sized parking in the Bay Area.
As many as 34,000 homes constructed in northeastern Connecticut between 1983 and 2000 may have concrete foundations containing pyrrhotite and are at risk of cracking or crumbling. Pyrrhotite is an iron sulfide that can be found naturally in aggregates, or rocky materials such as gravel, sand, or stone that are added to cement to make concrete. When iron sulfides are exposed to oxygen and water, a series of chemical reactions convert the iron sulfides into other compounds.
Passive solar design refers to the use of the sun’s energy for the heating and cooling of living spaces. In this approach, the building itself or some element of it takes advantage of natural energy characteristics in materials and air created by exposure to the sun. Passive systems are simple, have few moving parts, and require minimal maintenance and require no mechanical systems. Operable windows, thermal mass, and thermal chimneys are common elements found in passive design. Operable windows are simply windows that can be opened.
Passive solar heating is one of several design approaches collectively called passive solar design. When combined properly, these strategies can contribute to the heating, cooling, and daylighting of nearly any building. The types of buildings that benefit from the application of passive solar heating range from barracks to large maintenance facilities.
Typically, passive solar heating involves:
In 2012, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) recognized the value of performance-based passive building standards when it joined with Passive House Institute US (PHIUS) to promote DOE’s Challenge Home program in tandem with the PHIUS+ Certification program. Since then, the number of passive building projects that have been certified under the partnership has grown exponentially because of some synergy.
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Building America program has developed a series of technology-specific case studies and best practices guides that may be applicable to all climate zones.
Climate change is playing a bigger role in determining where and how we live, and is limiting access to and availability of affordable healthy housing, healthy food choices, transportation choices, and social networks, which is forcing displacement of individuals and communities. Displacement—whether temporary or permanent, forced or voluntary—is an issue rooted in inequity and exacerbated by climate change.
The Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC), the San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission (BCDC), the California Department of Transportation, District 4 (Caltrans) and San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District (BART) have partnered on a collaborative sub-regional pilot project to assess adaptation options for a subset of key transportation assets vulnerable to sea level rise (SLR) in Alameda County.
Many state, regional, and local governments are beginning to explore how potential climate change impacts could affect their natural and man-made resources. Damage to transportation infrastructure from extreme weather events can be physically and fiscally difficult to repair. This plan outlines key strategies and actions the Sacramento region can take to ensure its transportation assets are adaptable to potential climate related events.


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Italian club AC Milan have continued their summer spending today with the signing of Portuguese striker Andre Silva from F.C. Porto.
The deal is thought to be worth around €38 million with Silva signing a contract until 2022.
Porto have confirmed the deal could increase to €40m with incentives taken into account.
Silva scored 16 goals in 32 games in the Portuguese League last season and has been capped eight times by his country, with a record of seven goals in eight games for Portugal.
The 21-year-old follows Mateo Musacchio, Franck Kessie and Ricardo Rodriguez in joining Milan, who have now spent over €135m so far this summer.
These signings come after the clubs takeover by Chinese investors earlier this year.


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The Scream actress has parted ways with champion heavyweight boxer Wladimir Klitschko after 18-months. Don’t be alarmed, we hear there’s been no clandestine nookie-getting going on on the side. In a joint statement issued to the press on Thursday, the former couple blamed long-distance for their sudden bust-up. Hayden, 21, lives in the US, while the 35-year-old Ukrainian resides in Hamburg, Germany.
“While we decided to split, we feel great sympathy and respect for each other and will surely stay close friends,” Hayden tells the press.
“We had a great time together. But more and more we realized how difficult it is to maintain a relationship when living on two continents. I cherish Hayden as a person and woman. I’m sure we will stay friends,” Wladimir adds.
Of course, Wladimir won’t have much time for sulking in his room. The fighter is currently in training for a heavyweight title unification bout with British fighter David Haye.


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