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Leahy introduces bill to block Trump’s attempt to withdraw from WHO
WASHINGTON (WCAX) - Vermont Sen. Patrick Leahy has introduced a bill to block President Trump from withdrawing the United States from the World Health Organization.
The U.S. has been a member of the organization since its founding in New York in 1946.
After 70 years of membership, the Trump administration told the WHO earlier this month that the U.S. would be cutting ties.
In a statement on the bill’s introduction, Leahy, D-Vermont, said: “The United States should be a strong supporter of WHO, both so it can do its job today, and to strengthen its ability to respond to the next pandemic. This is legislation to ensure that.”
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In late October, department store giant J C Penney Company Inc (NYSE:JCP) provided really ugly preliminary third-quarter numbers while significantly cutting its fiscal 2017 guide. JCP stock sold off big time from $3.50 to a low of $2.40 in a hurry.
Now, JCP has delivered third quarter numbers that are well above those prelim numbers the company gave just two weeks ago. Comparable sales rose 1.7% when management said they were going to rise just 0.7%. JCP stock is bouncing back to just over $3.
But there are a few catches.
One, the depressed full-year earnings guide didn’t change. Two, the positive sales performance is being driven almost entirely by heavy discounting, which is unsustainable. Three, there’s still $4 billion in long-term debt on the balance sheet.
Four, the bounce means JCP stock now trades at more than 60-times this year’s earnings. And five, sales are still moving online in a hurry.
All in all, I’m not biting on this JCP stock rally. I think its just a head-fake in a long-term down-and-out trajectory.
JCP Is Driving Sales Through Heavy Promotions
On the surface, the JCP numbers look pretty good. Comparable sales rose 1.7%, on top of a 0.8% decrease last year, so the 2-year stack is actually up 0.9%.
That is better than the 2-year stack comp at Macy’s Inc (NYSE:M) and Kohl’s Corporation (NYSE:KSS), but slightly worse than the 2-year stack comp at Nordstrom, Inc. (NYSE:JWN). In other words, in terms of comparable sales performance, JCP is the near the top of the department store industry.
But this strong sales performance is due mainly to one thing: heavy discounting. Gross margins at M, KSS, and JWN are largely flat year-over-year and stable with 2015 levels. But gross margins at JCP fell 320 basis points last quarter on top of a 10 basis point decline one year ago.
This isn’t a one-time thing, either. Gross margins fell 200 basis points last quarter.
When gross margins were stable (up 10 basis points in Q1), comparable sales were tanking (down 3.5%).
In other words, JCP can’t drive traffic unless it runs heavy promotions. That is especially troubling because other department stores are starting to drive positive comparable sales growth while preserving gross margins. That makes JCP stick out like an eyesore.
Moreover, the current retail backdrop won’t change anytime soon. In fact, it might just get more promotional as more sales go online and free shipping plus quick delivery becomes a standard. Because of this, it looks like the only way JCP will drive traffic into the foreseeable future is through heavy promotions.
Just look at the how the guide has changed. Yes, comparable sales are now expected to be positive (versus flat at the beginning of the year). But earnings per share are expected to be just 5 cents (versus more than 50 cents) due to a big shift in the gross margin guide (up 30 basis points to down 110 basis points).
Driving sales through heavy promotions is a tough place to be because earnings are already sitting at a narrowly positive 5-cents-per-share. Any more promotions and you risk turning that narrow profit into a loss. A company that loses money with a ton of debt is a recipe for a disaster.
Bottom Line on JCP Stock
This is just a dead-cat bounce because the headline Q3 comp number impressed the Street.
But the fundamental narrative remains little changed. JCP is using heavy promotions to drive sales, and has not shown an ability to drive sales without compromising gross margins. That is a dangerous place to be when earnings are narrowly positive and debt is more than 16x as big as this year’s projected free cash flow.
In the long-term, today’s big jump will look just like a head-fake in an otherwise down-and-out trajectory for JCP stock.
As of this writing, Luke Lango did not hold a position in any of the aforementioned securities.


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With etsy currently featuring a pets showcase, I thought I would create a Maine Team mini-showcase with just a few of our wicked cute pet friends & treats. From left to right featured are: Backwoods Creations, Barkwheats, Jesse Janes, Viridian Art, Calobee, Crown of Storms, One Keene Kat, Strong Arm Bindery and Suzees Jubileez.
While on the topic of pets, I also wanted to mention a local Maine dog rescue organization. I adopted my canine buddy from there and my aunt fosters many of their dogs in need. Almost Home is a 501c3 non-profit all-breed rescue organization dedicated to saving lives and finding forever homes for stray, abandoned and surrendered dogs in danger of euthanasia. They are strictly a volunteer run organization and have no paid staff or board members. If you are interested in adopting or fostering a canine friend, please check out Almost Home Rescue of Maine:
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Mohd Nizal Haniff
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Introductory book that explains the features and operation of the various financial markets available in Malaysia in simple terms. Is specifically provides readers with a working knowledge of the principles of the money market, capital market and derivatives market. It include basic elements of the Islamic Financial market and understanding of how it differs from conventional financial markets.

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Phobophilic - New Video Online
Death metallers Phobophilic have premiered a new song, entitled “Nauseating Despair”, taken from their upcoming debut album Enveloping Absurdity. The record will be out in stores on September 16th via Prosthetic Records. Check out the video, directed by Sam Claeys, below.
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Humans can use their arms to interact dexterously and dynamically with a wide range of environments. Present-day prosthetic arms have the physical capability to reproduce complex human motions, but their user feedback and control systems do not allow users to control their movement with the same ease and grace as natural human arms. This work addresses two important aspects of human arm control that are currently not matched in prosthesis control: impedance modulation (the ability to change the relationship between external forces applied to the limb and the resulting limb motion) and sensory feedback (proprioceptive motion feedback about the position and motion of one’s limbs and slip feedback about an object slipping out of one’s grasp). The goal of this work is to identify design requirements for advanced prosthetic limbs with user-selectable impedance and sensory feedback to improve a user’s ability to interact naturally with the physical world. Toward this end, we performed several able-bodied human subject studies with virtual and physical robotic systems in which we explored the potential benefits of user-selectable impedance and sensory feedback for prosthesis use. The studies of user-selectable impedance showed that task-dependent impedance improves user performance and that users can understand and quantify these changes in performance to a significant extent with both the virtual prosthesis and the robot. These studies also identified several factors that would affect subjects’ ability to modulate prosthesis impedance, including feedback scaling, training, and compensating for non-ideal characteristics of a physical system. The study of proprioceptive motion feedback showed that proprioceptive motion feedback improves targeting accuracy both with and without visual feedback. Furthermore, this study quantified performance with able-bodied users’ real proprioceptive motion feedback, providing a baseline for comparison of future artificial proprioceptive systems. The study of slip feedback showed that vibrotactile feedback of slip information improves a user’s ability to recover an object that is slipping from the grasp when visual feedback is not available. The results reported herein inform the future design of user-selectable impedance systems, artificial proprioceptive systems, and slip feedback systems for prosthetic arms to improve user performance in a variety of manipulation and interaction tasks.
Amy Blank completed B.S. degrees in Mechanical Engineering and Electrical Engineering at the Pennsylvania State University and M.S.E. and Ph.D. degrees in Mechanical Engineering the Johns Hopkins University. She is currently working as a postdoctoral researcher at Rice University. Her research interests are in theory and application for design, modeling, and control of robotic manipulators and human-robot interaction. Specific areas of interest include biologically inspired robotic sensing and control strategies, variable-impedance robot control, upper-limb prosthetics and rehabilitation, and user feedback for prosthesis control and teleoperation.


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By Eve Mykytyn
With all the attention on the political conventions, random terror attacks and the upcoming Olympics (where we Americans may have finally defeated the Russians without the inconveniences of competing in sports), Wall Street’s latest billion dollar fraud has gone little noticed.
Platinum Partners and its various funds claim a value of $1.25 billion and have stated average annual return rates of between 10 and 17% for at least ten years. The funds are primarily the creation of two men, Murray Huberfeld and Mark Nordlich. Platinum has run on a perpetual stream of unsavory, semi-legal and immoral investments that enriched the owners of Platinum, their families and their foundations.
Mr. Huberfeld pleaded ‘not guilty’ last week to charges that he paid $60,000 to the head of the union of New York City Corrections Officers in return for a union pension fund investment of twenty million dollars in Platinum Partners. According to The New York Times, the hedge fund also gave an $18,000 donation to a charity with ties to Jona Rechnitz, allegedly to thank him for making the connection. Rechnitz is one of the two Orthodox businessmen at the center of a widespread investigation into corruption in NYC.
So why did Mr. Huberfeld risk such an obvious bribe? It seems Platinum Partners, despite its claims of extraordinary results, was having trouble repaying its investors. The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) have not released the results of their investigations, so the full extent of the scandal is not yet known, but here’s what’s we do know.
Mr. Huberfeld is a former penny stock trader (the profession so beautifully amplified in ‘The Wolf of Wall Street,’ the movie, itself, the subject of a financial scandal). In 1992, Huberfeld and David Bodner pled guilty to sending other men to take their brokerage exams. According to Barrons, Each was sentenced to a minimum of one year's probation and fined $50,000. Question as to why that crime in itself did not bar the men from the brokerage industry.
Then in 1996, Huberfeld and David Bodner both individually and as co-owners of Broad Capital were ordered by the SEC to repay $4.7 million plus penalties for illegally selling restricted stock in 1993-4.
Mr. Nordlicht is a former commodities options trader. Between 1990 and 1998, various New York exchanges fined him small amounts for eight separate transgressions. In 2001 Nordlicht and another investor opened a commodities brokerage firm, ‘Optionable.’ Optionable later collapsed after it helped one of its clients conceal a 524 million dollar loss. Nordlicht was not directly implicated but his partner went to prison for 30 months.
In 2002 Huberfeld and Bodner were among the initial investors in a hedge fund started by Nordlicht. The following year, Nordlicht returned the favor and invested in Huberfeld’s first fund, presently renamed ‘Credit Opportunities,’ a fund that specializes in making poor credit loans or, minus the euphemism, high end loan sharking. The fund has claimed an average annual rate of return of 13.2%.
These two funds and various others have made up Platinum Partners since 2003.
In 2005, the men began soliciting investments for their funds from the Jewish community. They joined a trip to the Vatican sponsored by the Simon Wiesenthal Center and met a number of potential investors. Mr. Huberfeld recently resigned from the Center’s board. According to The Wall Street Journal, “Another investment source was Touro College, a Jewish-oriented New York college whose board of overseers Mr. Huberfeld joined in 2003. It invested endowment funds with Mr. Huberfeld’s fund in 2008 and received its investment back in 2011. Touro’s chief financial officer, Melvin Ness, said there was no correlation between Mr. Huberfeld’s listing on the Board of Overseers and Touro’s investment in the fund.”
Platinum specializes in ‘level 3’ investments. These are risky investments that the accounting profession will not value. Firms that own such investments are allowed to set the value as they see fit, and Platinum did so with a committee made up of its own employees.
Here are a few of the investments Platinum has made.
In 2007, one of Platinum’s funds (BDL) invested in insurance annuities that paid only after an investor died. A rabbi in Los Angeles working with the fund stole the personal information of hospice patients so that BDL could buy the annuities using the dying person’s name. Common law forbids one from buying insurance on the life of a person with whom you have no relationship because of the obvious temptation for malfeasance. Somehow, these annuities just skirted this rule. In January 2015 the SEC found that the fund had obtained and used confidential medical information. The fund and the rabbi were required to pay the SEC over four million dollars but not required to admit wrongdoing.
In August 2015, prosecutors in Louisiana filed criminal charges against an oil company that had been Platinum’s biggest investment in connection with an explosion that killed three workers. And in September 2015, the former head of an energy company in which the fund had a significant stake was arrested for tax evasion.
And yet, the business press continued to tout Platinum’s returns, marveling at how they could make profits from Singapore’s penny stocks or mini marts in China. Platinum invested with a number of payday lenders (high interest short term lenders) including one called ‘Cashcall’ that is the subject of a federal protection bureau suit. In February of this year, Reuters published a cautious but generally laudatory article on the Platinum funds, warning that they were risky but highly rewarding.
Some were better able to read the tealeaves. “Neither [Platinum Funds] has ever had a down year, and the credit fund has had only one losing month in its nearly 11 years. Even Bernie Madoff had a few down months sprinkled into his toxic cocktail.”
In November 2015, Platinum Partners received a default notice over a put option (a contractual obligation to sell at a certain price) involving $30 million of notes. Platinum stated that it was unable to pay for $7.5 million of notes it was legally required to repurchase.
That month, two prominent Jewish investors the Fruchthandler family, (real estate), and the foundation for one of the oldest Brooklyn yeshivas, Yeshiva Rabbi Chaim Berlin, reported Platinum to the SEC for non-payment of over $600,000 in redemptions dating back to 2014.
Then in July, Platinum Partners saw its second-largest public holding, Echo Therapeutics (glucose monitoring) plunge by 17.3 percent after Nasdaq informed it at the end of market trading on Friday that it would be delisted because it did not meet the minimum $2.5 million stockholders’ equity requirement.
Despite all these hits, Nordlicht has claimed that all will be made right, with “God’s help.” New York State Judge Salinann Scarpulla, who is handling Platinum’s default on $30 million in debt, is a bit less sanguine than Nordlicht that God is on Platinum’s side.
“I haven’t seen evidence that the fund is worth a billion dollars. For all I know the fund is worth five cents,” an exacerbated Scarpulla said after failing to get satisfactory answers to her questions about the hedge fund’s financial status. Judge Scarpulla ordered Platinum’s lawyer to call Platinum in the middle of a hearing to get someone on the phone to assure her that they have the money to repay their debt. Instead of assurance, Platinum’s in-house legal counsel requested 48 hours to make any kind of guarantee, which has of course, it has never done.
As redemption requests increased, probably beginning as early as 2012, the funds raised money by selling assets to a related insurance company and borrowing hundreds of millions of dollars at rates as high as 16.7%. Judge Scarpulla may well be correct; Platinum Partners may not be worth a nickel.
The firm has blocked redemptions and told investors they will not receive anything until at least 2017. Last week, Platinum hired Bart Schwartz, who distributed Madoff’s assets, to liquidate the funds. Madoff’s investors received about 63% recovery on assets and those who invested less than 1.1 million dollars were made whole. Investors in Platinum seem unlikely to do as well.
The scam was not particularly well concealed. Both partners had a history of shady practices and they promised returns unavailable anywhere else. Why after its multiple run-ins with the partners, wasn’t the SEC warning investors?
According to The Forward, Huberfeld alone gave “millions in grants a year to Jewish charities. In 2014 alone, the [Huberfeld’s] foundation gave out $3.1 million, much of it to synagogues linked to the Chabad-Lubavitch Hasidic group, and to ultra-Orthodox institutions in Boro Park.” The Forward praises Platinum’s charity while criticizing its methods. This is a bit like thanking a bank robber for the gift.
The Jewish newspaper, The Observer, provides some insight in discussing the reluctance of Jewish investors who complained to the SEC to make their complaints more public. “The Jewish community to which Huberfeld and all the players in this drama belong reserves special contempt for Jews who turn in other Jews. A moser—a collaborator or informer—is the worst thing a Jew can be. The Oxford Dictionary of the Jewish Religion defines informing as, “The most heinous crime in the Jewish community and the informer its most despicable character. Every step against him, even taking his life, was permitted in order to safeguard the interests of the community.” against informers…For the Fruchthandler family to go to the SEC with its complaint against Huberfeld, knowing how that would be viewed by their peers, indicates an escalation to the point where they must have seen no other option to get their money back.”
Then The Observer calmly states who among those wronged by Platinum matters the most. Referring to Platinum’s role in the New York City corruption scandal, the Observer notes, “Huberfeld….clearly has more to worry about than stuffing cash into a Salvatore Ferragamo bag on behalf of a Correction Officers Benevolent Association official with posh tastes.” Apparently, they believe that it is worse to harm your Jewish investors than investors who are New York City’s corrections officers.


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Terms of Engagement: Strategies for Engendering Critical Online Discussions of Literature
Analysis of linguistic and rhetorical strategies used by students in online literature courses that demonstrate engagement. Suggestions for teachers on how to encourage engaged dialogue.
||Teaching and Learning of Literature, Online Teaching, Online Discussion Forums, Virtual Communities, Rhetorical Analysis of Online Discussion Forums
International Journal of the Humanities, Volume 3, Issue 2, pp.165-170.
Article: Print (Spiral Bound).
Article: Electronic (PDF File; 699.048KB).
Dr Mary Minock has been leading online discussions for many years, participating in pioneering efforts in computer conferencing while teaching at the University of Michigan in 1986, and extending those efforts to procuring and administering a FIPSE Grant for computer conferencing in courses across the curriculum while in Wayne State University's Interdisciplinary Studies Program. She is currently teaching online courses in rhetoric and literature online, particularly advanced composition, modern American poetry, women and literature, and ethnic-American literature to English majors and undergraduates across the curriculum at Madonna University, a Catholic liberal arts institution with a diverse ethnic population. Aside from observing her own and other teachers' strategies as they experiment with online teaching, she is interested in the rhetorical education, and rhetorical dimensions of literature. She has several articles published on composition and rhetoric teaching, and writing across the curriculum. She is also a poet, with one published book of poetry and several poems in literary journals. She is currently working on a new project: the teaching and writing of memoir. Dr Minock holds a doctorate in English from the University of Michigan.
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Think that The Beatles and Metallica are musically worlds apart? Beatallica will prove you wrong with Sgt. Hetfield’s Motorbreath Pub Band!”
Although the Beatles certainly had some “heavy” moments (e.g. “Helter Skelter,” “Revolution,” or “I Want You (She’s So Heavy)”) they are certainly not considered a metal band. And on the other side of the coin, Metallica is not considered a pop band. But then along comes Beatallica, and the lines between both acts have been erased – as heard throughout their first official, fully authorized album Sgt. Hetfield’s Motorbreath Pub Band. Comprised of members Jaymz Lennfield (vocals, guitar), Grg Hammettson (guitar), Kliff McBurtney (bass), and Ringo Larz (drums), Beatallica has been converting naysayers into believers for years, having made fans throughout the world with such renowned head-bangers as Dream Theater’s Mike Portnoy and Anthrax’s Scott Ian.
Originally coming to the attention of head-bangers everywhere with their internet story, which resulted in a million hits to their website and a legion of supporters, Beatallica has signed on with the Universal/Fontana distributed label Oglio Records, to release the fully authorized and newly recorded Sgt. Hetfield’s Motorbreath Pub Band. As evidenced by such song titles as “…And Justice For All My Loving,” “Leper Madonna,” and “Ktulu (He’s So Heavy),” the quartet’s knack for combining both of these music giants together remains as sharp as ever. Not just a studio creation, Beatallica has amassed a huge following throughout the world due to their fun, hard rocking live shows. They’ve played shows with such metal heavyweights as Motorhead, and have even headlined open-air festivals themselves.
Intended for ages 16 and up.
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22 May - 31 October 2015 - This exhibition brings together key works from across Corbett’s career, together with some of his poetic writing.
Words by Kirsten Hawkins Culture Warrington presents the work of two emerging artists from the North West at the Pyramid Arts Centre. The exhibition includes...
dot-art has new evening and weekend courses for adults starting in city centre locations, in a variety of creative subjects from Oil Painting to Life Drawing and Jewellery Making to Building Your Own Camera.
This delightful, colourful exhibition is on for just one week. The two artists, both Liverpool-based, have not collaborated or exhibited together before.

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Cosplayer Leon Chiro has a slight twist on Leon Kennedy cosplay, going for his appearance in next year's animated Resident Evil movie, Vendetta. Though I guess that's also very similar to how he looked in Resident Evil 6.
Leon Kennedy, At Your Service
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Whenever I’ve interviewed a games industry executive over the past few months, I’ve asked them what single thing will revolutionise video games in the next five years.
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Lucas Hobbs absolutely loves food—he’s a 12-year-old, self-professed foodie.
He couldn’t eat much while undergoing treatment for Hodgkin’s lymphoma, but now that he’s feeling better, he decided to express his gratitude by using his “Make-A-Wish” to feed others.
“When I was sick, people brought me food from our church, and it was really nice of them,” Lucas told WCCO-TV.
That’s why he asked for his very own food truck—ChefLucasFood— and the chance to feed a number of different people with it.
His truck stops included a homeless shelter, senior center, church, and the Minneapolis Police Department, which shot some video of the Lucas’s visit.
Lucas, who lives in Eagan, Minnesota, told WCCO News that he was first inspired to start a food truck after watching the movie “Chef,” a movie about a father and son who run a food truck together.
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That was over 8 years ago in 2012.
Today he is 54, and has starred in 27 movies in total, 3 since The Iceman was released.
In The Iceman, I think David Schwimmer looks:
The Iceman scores 6.4 out of 10 on The Movie Database.
David Schwimmer's first acting role was as 'Rob Cuccio' in A Deadly Silence, released in 1989 when he was 22.
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We’re back and today we’re sharing the answers to frequently asked questions (after which paint should I use) and that is about brushes!
Our friend Lisa, owner of The Painted Pineapple in Moncton and paint and brush expert, has put together this great list of frequently asked questions about brushes and her answers for you.
First up…the big question…
Why do I need a “fancy” brush?
Brushes are tools. They are designed to help the user achieve a better, more appealing result while at the same time making the task at hand, easier and more efficient.
There are all kinds of brushes on the market for different applications. Artist brushes for example come in dozens of shapes, sizes, and bristle types to choose according to the medium she uses or the style of her artwork. Deck brushes, trim brushes, and even make-up brushes are all designed and manufactured with their intended use at the forefront. Better quality brushes will last for years and should not shed their bristles.
Why so many choices? Sizes and shapes, handles, and bristles!!
To use a makeup reference, you wouldn’t put your eyeshadow on with a blush brush for instance! Even these brushes are created for the specific contours of our faces, eyelids, and lips.
The brushes we carry in our shops as furniture painters are no different. They are designed for furniture painting so that we can achieve the best results in the most efficient and pleasurable way for the many shapes, sizes, and contours of furniture. For instance, a large flat surface might be best serviced using a flat brush or roller, whereas the spindles on a chair or the lovely turned legs on a table would love to be painted with a round brush.
There are also different bristles available to help you achieve the look you are trying to create. Wanting a very rustic, textured surface? Use a natural bristle.
Looking for a flawless finish? Seek out the softest synthetic pigment you can find.
Working inside a cabinet or a very tight opening? Try a bent handle brush called a “radiator brush”.
How do I hold my brush? How do I apply the paint?
Brushes are best held from the ferrule. Grab that fella by the neck and you will have more control over it. It will also be easier on your hand. By holding it like a pencil from the handle, you will quickly stress your hand.
Damp bristles work best, so pop your brush in some water and wring out the access so it isn’t wet…just damp. By laying your paint in long, consistent pressure stokes, you will achieve a more uniform surface. The trick is to have enough paint on your brush to “push around”. If you are working with too little paint, your brush will “drag” and feel dry. Avoid starting off with a fully loaded brush on the “edge” of your piece. Imagine a rectangle – start from the center and work your way outward, skimming your brush off the edges. Working quickly and confidently, finish off that rectangle by lightly going over your work again with your brush from top to bottom, side to side. When in doubt, start painting on the backside of your piece or the inside of a door until you get your paint groove on!
How long will my brush last?
A lifetime if you care for it properly! Let’s face it, none of us love to wash brushes, but proper care will ensure your bristles are soft and keep their shape. Work with a jar of room temperature water next to you and pop that brush into the water if you need a break or are waiting for your coat to dry. Make sure the water level remains below the ferrule or strings so as not to damage the glues that bind the bristles together. It will be safe to leave your brushes like this overnight and will also help pull the colour from deep in the centre of your brush. Wash with cool (not hot) water and use a brush soap to keep your bristles soft. It is preferable to hang your brush to dry so the water escapes by the brush tip, or lay it flat, do not stand with bristles up as the water will seep into the ferrule and the handle causing your brush to disintegrate over time.
Doesn’t this all make sense now? Lisa is brilliant and amazing at helping you pick out the right brush.
Lisa carries several different styles and brushes in our Moncton location, 179 Bonaccord Street Moncton, if she doesn’t have what you need, or if the brush you already have is fine, she will honestly tell you, I pink swear.
Do you have a favorite paintbrush? We’d love to know.
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Every September, Apple reveals a new iPhone. And every year, Apple watchers wonder if this will be the new iPhone to which consumers say, “Nah, we’re good.” 2019 was not that year. With a little help from the iPhone 11 lineup, Apple made a $US22.2 ($33) billion profit on $US91.8 ($136) billion in revenue over the holiday quarter. (In case you were wondering, that is indeed an absolutely insane amount of money.)
Apple’s other products and services, which include everything from the Apple Watch and AirPods Pro to Apple Music and Apple Pay, also raked in a ton of money in the holiday quarter that ended Dec. 28th. But iPhone revenue was up 8% year-over-year, accounting for $US55.97 ($83) billion of that record-breaking $US91.8 ($136) billion in revenue. People are clearly not tiring of Apple’s signature device, despite incremental design tweaks.
“We are thrilled to report Apple’s highest quarterly revenue ever, fuelled by strong demand for our iPhone 11 and iPhone 11 Pro models, and all-time records for services and wearables,” Apple CEO Tim Cook said in the company’s earnings report. “During the holiday quarter our active installed base of devices grew in each of our geographic segments and has now reached over 1.5 billion.”
Services pulled in $US12.7 ($19) billion, and Apple’s other products category, which includes wearables, accounted for $US10 ($15) billion.
It is a little bit wild that Apple continues to set profit and revenue records with a flagship smartphone at a time when smartphone sales are flagging (though that trend is expected to reverse with the full launch of 5G networks and 5G phones in 2020).
But it’s not all sunshine in Apple-land. The iPad and Mac aren’t selling as well these days—iPad revenue was down 11% and Mac revenue down 3.4%.


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How about Ares? He is the God of courage.
He's also the god of war and violence, so maybe not, but I do see where you're coming from, as Ares is sarcastic and courageous. Maybe you the son of one of the gods of healing? Possibly Asclepius, son of Apollo.
May I request help?
I'm quite good at music, and I love it very much. I'm not a good fighter, I've never even tried archery or fencing or anything of the such. I wouldn't describe myself as beautiful, but I feel I'm attractive enough (wow, anyway I've tried to write that it sounds quite conceded.) I'm a pacifist, but I'm quite mean sometimes if I'm grumpy. I'm not athletic at all, I love literature and movies. I've been described as extremely intelligent, but I don't believe it to be so. Especially since I've made some stupid decisions in the past. I'm clumsy and silly and small.
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Ryan, you could be son of Mnemosyne (goddess of writing and memory)
I've always loved the skill and grace it took to be an archer, so maybe.
I'm also thinking Hebe, the goddess of youth and forgiveness. She was also the cupbearer for the Olympians. I believe myself to be very forgiving, and I love helping others as she helped the Olympians. I don't know if she would ever have children with a mortal, though.
I'm an archer in Skyrim, too. Well, I was. I stopped playing a while back because I lost touch with my only friend that had the game. :/

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Fire in house in UP kills five siblings, all minors
Aligarh (Uttar Padesh): Five children of a rickshaw-puller, all aged between 12 and 14, were burnt to death here when a fire broke out in their house while they were sleeping, police said Saturday.
The incident took place late Friday in Pala Sahibabad area of Aligarh, some 300 km from state capital Lucknow, when the house with a thatched roof caught fire.
"Those killed in the fire include four boys and a girl - all aged between 12 and 14 years," Superintendent of Police (City) Maan Singh said on phone from Aligarh.
"The small house belonged to a rickshaw-puller whose five children were sleeping inside the room when the fire erupted. All the five children died on the spot," he said.
According to police, the rickshaw-puller and his wife were sleeping in another room when the fire broke out. The two managed to get out with the help of locals who started rescue operations before fire-fighting officials and police could reach the spot.
"Preliminary investigations indicate the fire was caused either by a candle or an earthen lamp that was lit in the room where the five siblings were sleeping," said Singh.
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Hey guys long time no see. I’ve been very busy and as a result, this site was put on the backburner for a year. Hopefully, Semprebologna will become a bit more active in the time ahead, so stay tuned.
Bologna had another mediocre season, finished 12th, and the rumours are circulating about players leaving and players coming in.
Thus far Bologna have secured the services of two new players. Kevin Bonifazi, officially a Spal player, but last season on loan at Udinese, has switched from one Emilia-Romagna club to another. The big defender will most likely replace Danilo, who’s contract expired in June.
We’ve also secured the services of dutch attacker Sidney van Hooijdonk, and, as expected, Bologna also exercised their options on Adama Soumaoro and Musa Barrow.
Then there is Marko «when will he Arriveovic» Arnautovic. He was rumored to be of interest to Bologna already in January, but the club was unsuccessful. Now, however, his Chinese club Shanghai Port are apparently open to rescinding his contract, paving way for him coming to Bologna. The deal has taken an incredible amount of time, firstly because of Austria’s participation in the Euros. A couple of days ago, suddenly Turkish clubs were interested in him, but he is still expected to chose Bologna having talked to both Sinisa Mihajlovic and Walter Sabatini.
We’ve also had several senior departures. Alongside the aforementioned Danilo, both Angelo da Costa and Rodrigo Palacio have left as their contracts expired.
Unfortunately, there might be a major departure this summer. Jerdy Schouten, Riccardo Orsolini, Mattias Svanberg, and, in particular, Takehiro Tomiyasu have all been linked to bigger clubs of late. Mihajlovic has gone on record saying that the club has promised him that only one major player will leave, and that player will most likely be the Japanese defender. He has been linked to Atalanta, Arsenal and Tottenham, and with the latter having secured the services of former Juventus sporting director Fabio Paratici, it now seems as that will be Tomiyasu’s next club.
It was always expected that Tomiyasu would leave. His potential is enormous, and it was just a question of time. Now the big question is, how will he be replaced? A year ago, Mihajlovic said that the defender would be moved from right-back to central defence. Lorenzo De Silvestri came on a free transfer, and Tomiyasu moved into central defence. During the season, Tomiyasu still played a lot on the right side. Now, Gabriele Zappa of Cagliari has been linked as a potential replacement. Lyanco continues to be a hot name in central defence, and position which must be strengthened in addition to Kevin Bonifazi and Adama Soumaoro.
Then there is the question of the striker. With Arnautovic likely arriving, and the club spending considerably to acquire Barrow, will the club prioritize a striker? Arnautovic is similar to Palacio in many ways, but is way more aggressive than the Argentinian. Will Mihajlovic play Barrow out wide and the Austrian up front? Van Hooijdonk will not be ready to lead the line this season. The club has been rumored to be interested in Giovanni Simeone, a profile I like. With Tomiyasu likely to leave and fetching a considerable amount of money, the funds should be there to acquire both a new central defender, a right back, and a striker. Only time will tell.
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From the tills at Tesco to the Board at Asda. Interview with Hayley Tatum,Senior Vice President, People, Asda. We talk career, confidence, work life balance.
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Guest photographer Tom Miller captured today’s beautiful image of valley fog. His description:
A photo of Mill Creek and our Valley Fog that doesn’t want to go away.
I’m kind of glad it doesn’t, because it gives talented photographers like Tom the opportunity to take photos like this. Thanks, Tom!
We have a treat today! Guest photographer Denny Barnes took today’s photos perfectly showcasing the temperature inversion we here the Willamette Valley have been experiencing. If you don’t know what an inversion is, read on:
I know you’re down there somewhere..lol….This is what the valley looks like from about 1300′. There is sunshine above all that fog. When I left the house on my walk it was 30°F and by the time I got to the top of the hill it was over 50°F so there was about a 20° difference in temperature in just 500′. By the time I got back home I was back in the fog and cold again.
Be sure to click on the thumbnail at right to see an addition photo. Thanks so much, Denny!
My goodness, it was foggy yesterday. I tried to take a picture which would show how foggy it was, but it was really cold, so I did it quickly and moved on. This photo is of one of the Little League fields on the corner of 1st Ave. and Regis St.
A request to everyone everywhere — turn on your headlights when it’s foggy (or any other conditions where there’s low visibility). It helps others see you, which is always a good thing. Thanks.
Guest photographer Rita Elkins beautifully captured today’s scene. Her description:
As the fog was rolling in on the water…it was making such a beautiful cover over the top of the river…and it was so amazing just to be able to stand there and watch the fog rolling in…and being wrapped up in its beautiful mist…
Thank you so much, Rita!
Guest photographer Jim Mullhouland sent in today’s beautiful fog photo of fog drifting around the lowlands after 4 days of heavy rain. Well, technically, I begged Jim to let me post this photo, because he tends to post gorgeous photos such as this to his Facebook page. He lets me, because he’s nice like that. I have another of his for tomorrow. Stay tuned.


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By Oren Izenberg
"Because i'm really not silent," George Oppen wrote, "the poems are bad." What does it suggest for the goodness of an artwork to depend on its disappearance? In Being Numerous, Oren Izenberg deals a brand new strategy to comprehend the divisions that manage twentieth-century poetry. He argues that crucial clash isn't among kinds or aesthetic politics, yet among poets who search to maintain or produce the incommensurable particularity of expertise through making robust items, and poets whose radical dedication to summary personhood turns out altogether incompatible with experience--and with poems.
Reading around the obvious gulf that separates conventional and avant-garde poets, Izenberg unearths the typical philosophical urgency that lies in the back of different varieties of poetic difficulty--from Yeats's esoteric symbolism and Oppen's minimalism and silence to O'Hara's cheerful slightness and the Language poets' rejection of conventional aesthetic satisfactions. For those poets, what starts off as a realistic query in regards to the behavior of literary life--what distinguishes a poet or crew of poets?--ends up as an ontological inquiry approximately social existence: what's somebody and the way is a group attainable? within the face of the violence and dislocation of the 20th century, those poets face up to their will to mastery, draw back from the sensual richness in their most powerful paintings, and undermine the particularity in their resourceful and ethical visions--all on the way to let personhood itself to grow to be an indisputable fact making an unrefusable claim.


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Adam Sandler A Star?
ADAM SANDLER was the star of the show at the Hollywood Walk of Fame on Tuesday. He received the 2,431st star on the famed sidewalk. His wife, his kids, his pal and frequent co-star KEVIN JAMES, as well as his Waterboy co-star HENRY WINKLER, attended the ceremony.
When informed that his films have collectively made more than three billion dollars worldwide, Sandler told ABC News Radio, "It used to mean more, now it's nice. I'm happy for the people who back me up. I'm like, 'All right, you took a chance on that and thank you.'"
Sandler's next film, the comedy Just Go with It, opens February 11th. It also stars JENNIFER ANISTON. (ABC NEWS)


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When it comes to cultivating elite talent, women’s hockey is always not a big city sport.
As Canada’s women play for a fifth straight Olympic gold, four of Canada’s largest cities won’t have bragging rights of being hometown to any of this year’s medal winners in Pyeongchang.
There are six women on the current roster who won gold at the 2010 Vancouver Games, but not a single player on the current Olympic squad is from the home of the Canucks, according to Hockey Canada’s roster. Montreal has our nation’s most storied hockey history, yet it’s without a single representative on this year’s team. How about Calgary and Ottawa? Both were shut out. And there’s only one player, Natalie Spooner, on the team from Toronto. (Even then, the team’s publicity material lists her hometown as Scarborough, Ont.)
Together, these five cities account for a population of more than 7 million, or 21 per cent of the entire country, and they managed to produce fewer players on the national team than Ste. Anne, Man., pop. 2,000, give or take.
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So where is Canada’s hockey talent pipeline, if not Ste. Anne? If Canada’s women’s Olympic hockey team were to take a cross-country road trip to visit everyone’s hometown, they’d put a pin in Stellarton, N.S.; La Malbaie, Que. Ruthven, Ont.; Mallard, Man. and St. Albert, Alta. Only trips through Hamilton and Edmonton would mark a visit to cities with more than 500,000.
For researchers, that’s not altogether surprising.
It’s known as “the birthplace effect.” In a 2006 study, Canadian researchers found that cities with populations greater than 500,000 were severely underrepresented when it came to producing talent that reached North America’s biggest sporting leagues, be it pro hockey, basketball, baseball or golf. Instead, it was cities with populations between 50,000 and 100,000 that had the best odds of producing a player to reach the most elite leagues.
The study also looked at Canadians reaching the NHL and found similar results: the bigger cities just weren’t producing as much talent when you take the population difference into consideration.
And while the data shows a clear link between city size and sporting achievement, “we don’t know the exact reason,” says Dany MacDonald, chair of department of applied human sciences at the University of Prince Edward Island, and one of the study’s co-authors. “We speculated that it could be an opportunity-and-demand situation.”
In Toronto, for example, there are plenty of hockey arenas, but there are also plenty more people begging for ice time, which would explain the parents arriving at arenas at 5 a.m., MacDonald says. “In those medium-sized cities, there’s a better ratio of resources to number of people who want to use them.”
Of course, the city must be of a certain size to at least offer those resources—and enough kids to play against.
A second hypothesis from MacDonald is that in a smaller or mid-size city, there is more outdoor time and less structured play. Instead of parents driving their children to the rink to play other kids who are the same age and relative skill level, smaller cities afford more opportunities to go to the local outdoor rink to play against others who could be of vastly different ages and skill levels in an unstructured environment.
“If you’ve got seven-year olds [living in a big city], you’re probably not inclined to let them go play for a few hours after dark, whereas if you’re in a small area, you might be willing to do so,” MacDonald says. “It’s a safety thing.”
Before big-city families with Olympic dreams start looking at real estate in Flin Flon, Man., “the idea is not that anyone should move to a small community,” says Jennifer Turnnidge, a post-doctoral student at Queen’s University who has studied the influence of birthplace on development in youth sport. Instead, she says, we need to figure out how to re-create whatever makes smaller cities so successful in cultivating elite athletes, which can then be applied in major urban areas “so everyone has the opportunity to experience the appropriate environment.”
Until then, though, Canada’s smaller cities will be the ones truly worth their weight in gold.

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Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee has reacted sharply to Home Minister Amit Shah’s satire on her nephew Abhishek Banerjee.
Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee has reacted sharply to Home Minister Amit Shah’s satire on her nephew Abhishek Banerjee. (It is noteworthy that Amit Shah sarcastically commented on Bengali as Didi-Bhai Po). Mamata threw down the gauntlet that you want to compete against my nephew first and then on yourself. She said that day and night you are talking about Didi-Bhatija and first you have to compete and win over Abhishek Banerjee. She defended her nephew at a rally on Thursday in Pylon, South 24 Parganas district. She said he would be elected to the Rajya Sabha and become an MP, but would contest and win the Lok Sabha elections for a referendum.
She asked Amit Shah if your son will be the BCCI secretary in 2019 and earn crores of rupees. Didi also challenged whether he had the guts to bring him into politics. The BJP’s transformation drive in Bengal continues. Along with Amit Shah, several state BJP leaders are participating in these trips. So far five expeditions have been completed.
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So, you've read Robert Jordan and Terry Goodkind and you're looking for that next fantasy epic… well, try Patrick Rothfuss. The 1st book of his Kingkiller Chronicles, The Name of the Wind, revolves around the legendary Kvothe recounting his life story, and what a life it is. Musician. Actor. Magician. University prodigy. Assassin. Thief. Expelled student. Innkepper… All these contradictory rumors can't be true, can they? With some very original mythology and a fiendishly clever hero, this book is all entertainment. Check it out.


Imagine what flying will be like when the promises of NextGen come to fruition in a way that can make a difference for general aviation. Think of a place and time when airplanes will be able to tell air traffic controllers and other airplanes exactly where they are. Controllers and pilots will be able to see this information, updated every second, on screens in front of them. You won’t have to guess the altitude of that distant speck and wonder if it poses a potential conflict, you’ll know.
With such frequent position updates and GPS accuracy, controllers will be able to better manage traffic, reducing congestion and separation in busy airspace.
Pilots flying in the VFR environment will have an added valuable situational awareness tool. ADS-B (automatic dependent surveillance-broadcast) can deliver real-time weather to the cockpit where you’ll be able to get text and graphical depictions to help you make wise route and altitude choices. Combined with a GPS database, you’ll have terrain information to help avoid surprises in low ceilings and visibility. You’ll save time, money, and frustration. And you’ll be safer.
Because controllers will have a far better sense of where your aircraft is, including its altitude and its flight path, search-and-rescue operations will be improved. If an aircraft stops transmitting, ATC will be able to tell rescuers exactly where it was at the time of the last transmission, significantly narrowing the search area.
And all of this will be available regardless of whether you are in an isolated area far from today’s radar coverage or in the middle of a large urban center. And because being tied to radar will be a thing of the past, a broader network of stations will improve your ability to get ATC services in areas never seen by radar.
This is more than a distant dream. Thanks to federal investment in avionics and ground infrastructure, in large areas of Alaska, it’s a reality—and has been for nearly a decade.
A few weeks ago, I had the chance to fly to Anchorage to participate in the Alaska State Aviation Trade Show and Conference, and the trip was so much more than I could have anticipated. This was my first opportunity to fly myself to Alaska and my first chance to really sit down with representatives of many different segments of aviation in the state. They welcomed me warmly and heartily endorsed the goals of AOPA’s General Aviation Serves America campaign to educate decision makers and the public about the true value of general aviation to all Americans. After all, no group has a better or more personal understanding of that value than Alaskans who are dependent on GA for so many of their transportation needs.
At a dinner arranged by AOPA Regional Representative for Alaska Tom George, we spoke about the many issues facing general aviation and the importance of NextGen modernization. These aviation leaders shared with me their insights, generated by years of actually flying with ADS-B. Some viewed ADS-B equipage as a competitive advantage, and everyone saw it as a vital enhancement to safety. And all of their comments made me think, “What are we waiting for?” The technology is here. It works. Let’s get going.
Back in Washington, D.C., the debate continues over the relative merits of ADS-B technology. In Alaska, they know just how effective it is because they use it every day. And while the Washington crowd agonizes over the challenges of integrating this relatively new technology into the air traffic control system, controllers in Alaska have been looking at integrated displays with ADS-B information since 2001 and the equipment has been in some aircraft since 2000.
All this came about through significant federal support for the Capstone program, which made Alaska a test bed for ADS-B technology and implementation. The aviation system users there have proven its value and effectiveness. It has even saved lives, getting rescuers to the scene of remote accidents in time to help downed pilots.
The Capstone program is over, but Alaska ATC and airplanes are still ADS-B equipped, so pilots continue to enjoy its benefits.
AOPA has actively and vocally supported the goals of ADS-B and advocated for the technology that makes it possible, even installing the equipment in AOPA aircraft and taking Washington decision makers on flights to demonstrate exactly how it works. We have also been pushing for financial support such as that offered in Alaska to help general aviation pilots take advantage of this new technology.
Of course, we continue to advocate for rational implementation that will maximize the benefits and minimize the equipage costs for general aviation. And though we have not always seen eye to eye with the FAA on these issues, I am optimistic that we can overcome these challenges.
We must. The benefits to safety and efficiency of this proven technology are too important to pass up. We know it can be done. We know it works. Now we just need to do it.
E-mail AOPA President Craig Fuller at [email protected].


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(On Cable TV, September 2017) I suppose it was only a matter of time before the Marquis de Sade became a romantic figure for our so-called enlightened age, portrayed as fighting the true monsters of social righteousness. Yeah … have they even tried reading de Sade’s stuff? Of course, having Geoffrey Rush in the lead role helps a lot in making de Sade’s sympathetic … and measuring him to even-worse antagonists is just stacking the deck unfairly. At its best, Quills is a meditation on freedom of speech, and how obscenity (from a writer) isn’t quite as bad as outright demonstrated sadism (from his jailers). It’s generally OK at portraying this point, although I really was not pleased with the death of a character during the film’s third act—it seemed cruel even in a film built around cruelty. Executed with some competence, it does celebrate the written word no matter its medium or intent and as such gets some mild built-in interest. Still, it’s Rush’s performance that’s most interesting here, and director Philip Kaufman’s handling of difficult material that becomes efficient to the point of invisibility. Quills is really not supposed to be historically accurate, so any criticism in this direction becomes relatively moot. Fans of Jasper Fforde’s fantasy novels will be happy to see his name in the end credits—before becoming a best-selling author, Fforde was a film crewmember and he worked on movies such as Quills.
(Second or third viewing, On DVD, September 2017) I’ve been on a semi-streak of American space program movies lately and revisiting The Right Stuff was practically mandatory as a bookend to Apollo 13. Adapting Tom Wolfe’s superlative docufiction book, writer/director Philip Kaufman’s film is epic in length (nearly three hours) and clearly in myth-making mode as it draws a line leading from cowboys to astronauts by way of test pilots. It’s a long sit, but it’s filled with great moments, enlivened by a surprising amount of humour and a joy to watch from beginning to end. It helps that it can depend on great performances, whether it’s Ed Harris as a clean-cut John Glenn to Fred Ward as Gus Grissom, among many other known actors in small roles. It’s an astonishing ensemble cast for a wide-spectrum film, though, and it manages to compress quite a bit of material in even its unusually long running time. As a homage to the space program, it remains a point of reference—even the special effects are still credible. Despite a generous amount of dramatic licence (including the infamous Liberty Bell 7 incident, now thoroughly debunked thanks to the 1999 recovery of the capsule), the film seems generally well regarded when it comes to historical accuracy. From our perspective, it credibly humanizes yet mythologizes the test pilots who were crazy enough to go atop rockets when they were known to explode shortly after launch. It’s a stirring bit of filmmaking for viewers with a fascination for technological topics and the history of spaceflight, and it has aged rather gracefully. I loved the movie when I first saw it (in French, on regular TV interspaced between ads) and I still love it now. As suggested above, The Right Stuff is an essential double feature with Apollo 13, and both movies even feature Ed Harris in pivotal roles.
(On Cable TV, June 2017) on the one hand, there isn’t much in Invasion of the Body Snatchers that hasn’t been done elsewhere. The idea of seeing neighbours becoming alien is pure paranoia fuel, and it’s exactly the kind of stuff that leads to remakes (2007’s rather dull The Invasion), uncredited rip-offs or overall spiritual successors. Still, what it does here is done well, whether it’s Donald Sutherland’s eccentric protagonist, Brooke Adams as a decoy heroine, the steadily mounting sense of tension or the various set-pieces. Plus, hey, there are minor but solid roles for Jeff Goldblum and Leonard Nimoy. Late-seventies San Francisco is worth a look no matter how long it’s been, the special effects aren’t bad (wow, that mutant dog!) and director Philip Kaufman knows what he’s doing in steadily cranking up the tension. The paranoia grows throughout the film, and perhaps the best thing about it is that its third act does not shy away from consequences or magically resolves the increasing bleakness of its plot. Frankly, Invasion of the Body Snatchers’ ending is still very effective—and is likely to remain so even as modern studio-driven movies desperately try to avoid anything that may upset audiences.


text: subject line: emerge February 02, 2017 by Hannah Brencher Redding, California I spent the last season of my life spread thin and brittle, busier than I ever dreamed that I would be, tending to everyone else’s needs, nodding annoyingly when others would tell me to take time for myself.When you’re spread thin and brittle, taking time for yourself feels like one more thing you’ve got to accomplish.But I’m in a different season now. One with quite an empty schedule - less connections, less obligations. It feels lonely a lot of the time, If I’m honest.I’ve noticed something, though - if I will sit in the lonely, resist the urge to do and schedule and busy my heart, I find my desires emerging again. It is wild how quickly you can lose yourself to busy-ness, forgetting what you love, forgetting what your heart beats for. But these days, I welcome the lonely; the space in my schedule. In the quiet, I feel my heart remembering. In the quiet, I feel my heart rekindling excitement and burning with passion. I never lost anything - I was never broken beyond repair - I only needed space to remember.


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Document: Dan Faith WCMC presentations
Presentations at the Biodiversity Indicators for Global Biodiversity Models workshop, 4th October 2010, Cambridge, UK.
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This was a workshop on biodiversity indicators for global biodiversity models, convened by the Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency (PBL) and UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre. The workshop explored the choice of biodiversity indicators to use in global biodiversity models. My talks highlighted strategies to model overall biodiversity (report cards for loss of overall species richness) and also functional diversity.

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What is Trauma-Informed Care?
The seminal research on trauma’s effects on children was the CDC-Kaiser Permanente Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) Study
The ACE study, conducted between 1995 and 1997, surveyed more than 17,000 people on their childhood experiences and current health status and behaviors.
A growing body of research has since developed on Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs).
Defining Trauma-Informed Care
Trauma-informed care is defined less by specific measures than by general principles. According to the National Child Traumatic Stress Network, a trauma-informed child and family service system is one in which agencies, programs, and service providers:
- Routinely screen for trauma exposure and related symptoms
- Use evidence-based, culturally responsive assessment and treatment for traumatic stress and associated mental health symptoms
- Make resources available to children, families, and providers on trauma exposure, its impact, and treatment
- Engage in efforts to strengthen the resilience and protective factors of children and families impacted by and vulnerable to trauma
- Address parent and caregiver trauma and its impact on the family system
- Emphasize continuity of care and collaboration across child-service systems; and
- Maintain an environment of care for staff that addresses, minimizes, and treats secondary traumatic stress, and that increases staff wellness.


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Accident claims relating to work place injuries are relative common although this case is an extreme example. A police officer who was shot during a training course has been awarded a substantial amount in compensation although the exact amount hasn’t been disclosed.
Accident At Thames Valley Police Headquarters In Kidlington
The accident happened at Thames Valley Police’s headquarters in Kidlington in 2007. The officer suffered physical and psychological injury and hasn’t been able to return to work since.
Thames Valley Police Admitted Liability
Thames Valley Police admitted liability for the accident and has since improved its training procedure.
Accident At Work? – Make A Claim
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In March 2016, we released the third volume in the series entitled, “Global Research on Teaching and Learning English,” which is co-published with Routledge/Taylor & Francis.
This volume is co-edited by TIRF Trustees JoAnn (Jodi) Crandall and MaryAnn Christison. It presents new empirical research situated in different contexts around the world, including Canada, Denmark, Israel, Japan, Korea, Qatar, Sudan, and the U.S. It is framed by the volume editors’ insightful overview and analyses of previous and ongoing work in a variety of related domains and an epilogue by David Nunan. The chapter studies are organized around three themes: teacher identity in ESL/EFL teacher education and professional development programs, second language teacher education programs for diverse contexts, and professional development for diverse contexts.
For more information about the book, including how to order, please click here. Please note that all royalties earned from the sale of the book will be donated to TIRF to help fund our programs.

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The bill, which incorporates provisions reminiscent of imprisoning immigrants who attempt to enter the UK illegally and stripping residents of their citizenship with out their discover, was passed by the House of Lords by a vote of 212 to 157.
The bill will turn into regulation with the approval of Queen Elizabeth II of England.
Britain needs to cease the uncontrolled movement of immigration
Final yr, greater than 8,000 migrants, together with ladies and youngsters, reached the UK by illegally crossing the English Channel.
Content material of the Nationality and Boundaries Bill
In line with the information of AA; In July 2021, the British parliament dropped at its agenda the controversial “Nationwide and Borders Bill”, which makes it against the law to enter the nation illegally for asylum. The bill supplies for jail sentences for anybody who reaches the UK irregularly.
It’s said that the regulation, which features a clause that exempts the authorities interfering with small boats carrying refugees from potential prison proceedings, could result in deaths throughout push-backs.
An article added later to the bill paves the best way for British residents who grew to become residents or had household ties to different nations to have their citizenship revoked with out informing them. The federal government, alternatively, didn’t again down on the discriminatory and racist article, regardless of all of the reactions.
“A depressing day for these fleeing battle and persecution”
Steve Valdez-Symonds, UK Refugee and Immigrant Rights Director at London-based Amnesty Worldwide, stated in an announcement after the bill was permitted in the House of Lords, “A really bleak day for refugees fleeing battle and persecution.” made its evaluation.
Stating that the British authorities tore up the long-standing worldwide settlement, the Refugee Conference, and shamefully deserted the accountability it owed to refugees, Valdez-Symonds stated:
“It’s clear that xenophobia underlies this bill. It’s merciless to the victims of oppression, torture and exploitation, in addition to exploiting the racism and prejudice they face. If the asylum measures in this bill are carried out, these entitled to asylum will turn into extra susceptible to human smugglers and abusers,” he stated. England’s repute is tarnished.”
#antirefugee #bill #passed #House #Lords
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Submitted by Maria.Kapsalaki on Wed, 11/06/2013 - 09:16
The Spanish Technical Building Code is one of the three royal decrees that were approved in Spain as a consequence of the transposition of the European Directive on the energy performance of buildings (2002/91/EU) . One basic document of the Technical Building Code deals with the limitations in the energy demand of buildings. Nowadays, due to the recast of the European Directive on the energy performance of buildings (2010/31/EU) , a revision process of the current regulations has begun, starting with the Technical Building Code, with its first revision envisaged for 2012.
The present work concerns the measurement and the computational fluid dynamics (CFD) modeling of buoyancy-driven air flow through a stairwell that connects the two individual floors of a residential building. A series of experiments was performed in order to study the mas and heal transfer between the two floors. Air flow rates through this stairwell were measured using a single tracer gas decay technique. The analysis of results provided relations which can predict the mass and heat flow rate as a function of the inter-zonal average temperature difference.


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HUGEL & Quarterhead “Eyes On You”
Multi gold and platinum certified DJ HUGEL has been bubbling at the top for some time, landing residencies in the world’s slickest, most renowned clubs including Ushuaïa and Pacha, as well as having an array of A-List collaborations under his belt.
HUGEL now keeps the momentum going uniting with dynamic DJ duo Quarterhead; a German pair consisting of Josh Tapen and Janik Riegert who have been successfully been taking Europe by storm.
The artists join the D4 D4NCE crew bringing ‘Eyes On You’ to the table, a bumping house track accompanied by a tantalising hook; what can only be described as a hands-in-the-air record ready to be blared loudly across dancefloors far and wide.
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Chorus Master: prof. Krzysztof Kusiel-Moroz
Ewa Kuryłowicz – inspektor
Diana Paulina Gemborys
The Vocal Ensemble of the Warszawska Opera Kameralna consists of 24 professional singers, performing both choral and ensemble parts as well as solo parts in opera performances and oratorio concerts.
The ensemble in its present form was founded in 2013 as a continuation of the Soloist Ensemble, operating since the 1980s, and the Warszawska Opera Kameralna Chamber Choir established in 1983. For nearly 60 years of operation, the artistic management was led by prof. Józef Bok, prof. Ryszard Zimak, prof. Wanda Tchórzewska-Kapała, Andrzej Borzym, Liliana Krych, and since 2017 it has been entrusted to prof. Krzysztof Kusiel-Moroz.
Over the years, the artists of the Vocal Ensemble has worked with such conductors as Jacek Kaspszyk, Jerzy Maksymiuk, Kai Bumann, Jose Florencio, Benjamin Bayle, Friedrich Haider, and Paul Esswood, visiting almost all European countries during numerous tours, as well as repeatedly visiting Japan.
The versatility of the ensemble’s singers is reflected in extremely extensive and demanding repertoire which included works broadly defined as early music, i.a. both J. S. Bach’s Passions, operas by J. P. Rameau, J. B. Lully, G. F. Handel, operas and classical oratorios, especially those of W. A. Mozart such as Idomeneo, Cosi fan tutte, Don Giovanni, The Magic Flute, Requiem and Great Mass in C minor, romantic operas by G. Rossini, G. Donizetti, C. M. Weber, P. Tchaikovsky, G. Verdi, as well as works of the 20th and 21st century such as – Jenufa Janaczek, The Rake’s Progress by I. Stravinsky, Balthazar and Antigone by Z. Krauze, Quo Vadis by B. Matuszczak, Orpheus by D. Przybylski, Tango by M. Dobrzyński.
Whilst working on the stage works, the Vocal Ensemble cooperated with the following notable directors: Jerzy Dejmek, Ryszard Peryt, Jarosław Kilian, Marek Weiss, Jitka Stokalska, Michał Znaniecki, Deda Ch. Colonna.
Many of the performed works have been recorded, and has been broadcast recently on television and on the Internet.
Both the conductors and directors, who has been working with the artists of the Vocal Ensemble have repeatedly emphasized their high-class vocal professionalism as well as excellent acting skills, flexibility and personal commitment to the ongoing projects.


Branding and advertising are two different types of marketing strategies. Some people think that advertising is tactical while branding is strategic. These two works closely together and both only has one goal, to persuade an audience in availing your product or service. But in today’s time, why can branding be the new advertising? Let’s find out.
Branding vs Advertising
Before starting off on answering on why branding is the new advertising, we are going to differentiate the two.
Advertising is a form of marketing communication to persuade an audience. It focuses on creating content to sell a product, idea or service to a customer. This focuses more on creative, persuasive copy of work that the media would buy to bring the message to your customers. This often works as campaigns in selling your product or service. Advertising aims to persuade potential or existing customers to buy a product or service. It’s one means of communicating the story of the brand.
Meanwhile, according to the American Marketing Association, branding is anything that helps get potential buyers to remain loyal to your product such as the logo, symbol, name or design. Branding creates an association between the potential buyer’s ideals and the product. It is about creating repeat impressions which makes a connection to your audience.
Advertising and branding can sometimes bring confusion to some people, but they are simple components of the marketing process that has the same goal on increasing sales and enhancing the company’s reputation.
Why is Branding the New Advertising?
When done right, branding will address the messages in your advertising campaign. While advertising is a form of marketing communication to persuade an audience, it creates a perception in the customer’s mind. It can make the customer remember the company and its product and creates an emotional connection between your customer and what you offer.
Some people today often buy into an emotion. Some choose into buying a brand and are no longer impressed on advertised products. Why? It’s simply because of the brand! No matter how many times a product is advertised, if the buyer knows that this brand works, since it is about understanding the customer’s needs and wants, they will prefer a brand that they have always trusted as they have built an emotional connection to it.
Branding differentiates what a company offers from other similar products and creates a unique identity of the service or product.
It may seem subtle to find the difference between the two but the ideas are different from each other. But in today’s transparent world, people buy into people, into emotions and what the company stands for and purpose. A brand is not just a logo, it contains your company’s story to connect with your potential buyers.
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Ubuntu 9.10 laptop
chris.j.taylor at optusnet.com.au
Mon Mar 29 04:32:45 BST 2010
I'm off to the Philippines to visit my wife's family.
they only have a dialup prepaid service in the house
On Mon, 29 Mar 2010 11:37:50 +1100, Dave Hall wrote:
> Hi Chris,
> On Sun, 2010-03-28 at 22:11 +0000, Chris Taylor wrote:
>> Hi I'm off on a holiday soon overseas and I don't know the first thing
>> about setting up a Dialup internet can some kind person help me out
> The modem in your laptop is most likely a winmodem, and either need
> nonfree software or not work at all. Dialup is really annoying to use
> when overseas, and really expensive if using iPass.
> Where are you off to? In Europe and North America wifi is everywhere.
> Get the right deal and wifi can be a cost effective way to to stay in
> touch while away.
> 3G roaming fees are insane too.
I think I had it working with 8.10 live cd
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