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BayHealth Walk-in Medical Center
Milford, DE 19963-1800
Hours of operation
- Monday 7:30 am - 7:00 pm
- Tuesday 7:30 am - 7:00 pm
- Wednesday 7:30 am - 7:00 pm
- Thursday 7:30 am - 7:00 pm
- Friday 7:30 am - 7:00 pm
- Saturday 9:00 am - 5:00 pm
- Sunday 8:00 am - 5:00 pm
About BayHealth Walk-in Medical Center
BayHealth Walk-in Medical Center is an urgent care center in Milford, DE located at 301 Jefferson Ave.. They are open 7 days a week seeing walk-in patients in Milford. BayHealth Walk-in Medical Center appears to be individually owned and operated and not part of a larger network of urgent care clinics. There are, however, 2 walk-in clinics within 20 miles of Milford in cities including Houston and Frederica.
As an urgent care center, BayHealth Walk-in Medical Center provides non-emergent medical care most typically referred to as urgent care services. This category of medicine includes the treatment of allergies, asthma, broken bones and sprains, burns, cold and flu symptoms, ear, sinus and respiratory infections, insect and animal bites, stomach viruses, skin rashes and most other non-life threatening injuries, illnesses and conditions. Additionally common health assessments are typical service offerings including annual and school physicals and Milford. While this urgent care does offer assistance with immediate health care needs, if you are suffering from a true medical emergency, go to the emergency room in Milford, DE or call 911 immediately.
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Steven H.
Posted on September 26, 2014 | Visited this location September 26, 2014
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Worst service of all time
I came here to get my DOT card which was a huge mistake. They messed it up then when I came back I had to wait over a half an hour for them to fill out my information they already had on my new DOT card. They were extreme unhelpful and couldn't give me any idea as to how long it would take, causing me to be late for work. Avoid this place at all costs, they will screw everything up then not care once they do.
Chrissy C.
Posted on March 14, 2017 | Visited this location March 13, 2017
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Good quality service
My daughter went in today with stomach issues. The staff seemed organized and very friendly. The nurse practicer was really great, she had diagnosed what it was and had her prescription sent directly to Walgreens in no time. It was busy but the wait time wasn't too bad.
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Four Nicknames I've had
1. Lanna
2. Lanni
3. Punky (only allowable if you are my parents
4. um…that's it. I don't have a very nickname-able name….
Four movies I've watched more than once
1. A Knight's Tale – I pretty much know every line.
2. The Rebound – It's on Netflix if you haven't seen it and it's hilarious!
3. I Love You, Man.
4. Every Disney movie imaginable.
Four Jobs I've had
1. Shampoo girl at a fancy salon. You would be surprised how well I got tipped!
2. College telemarketer (sorry! I know everyone hated me but it paid well!)
3. Leasing Agent aka every resident's bitch.
4. Meeting Planner.
|Hosting a BBQ at your apartment building? Yep, that'll be me grilling your hot dogs in heels and not getting paid enough for this job…
Four Things in my purse
1. Makeup bag
2. Eos lip balm
3. Pepper spray
4. Mints
Four Places I've Lived
1. Toronto, Canada
2. Washington, D.C.
I've only lived two places! Whoops
Four Places I've Visited
1. San Francisco
2. New Orleans
3. Chicago
4. Bahamas
Four Places on my travel bucket list
1. San Diego (this November!)
2. Greece
3. Australia
4. Galapagos
Four things I don't eat
1. Mushrooms
2. Olives
3. Veal
4. Any sort of weird animal part….like liver.
Four TV shows I watch
1. The Americans
2. Game of Thrones
3. Girls
4. KUWTK #noshame
4 Cars I've driven
1. Honda Accord
2. Acura TSX
3. Mercedes SLK
4 Things to Look Forward to in 2015
1. Lots of travel this year! Nashville later this week.
2. Growing my blog. It's almost five month's old now and I can't wait to grow it more!
3. This whole summer! It will be the first full summer with Starla and I'm looking forward to taking her out to the District, going to Nats games, living at a condo community that has the biggest pool in my city!
4. There are lots of changes happening in my life as I said in my post last week, but I shall not reveal them all yet!
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This blog is about all you have wanted to know about limousines. The term limousine has long been associated with luxury and wealth. It is easier to believe that each and every one of us would like to spin in these great vehicles. If you want to enjoy a ride that will make you feel much like a celebrity, limos are the best choice for you.
If you are planning to make an impressive entrance or just trying to enjoy a fun day around town, the limo is the only option to ride in style. Today, limousines are used by people across the world for many events including corporate travel, weddings, airport services, bachelor parties, promos among others.
This blog is created to help all limo fans, aspiring celebrities, those who like to live life to the fullest and all readers, in general, understand what it takes to ride a limo. A limousine is a large, luxurious car driven by a chauffeur who is separated from the passengers by a partition. It is always fun to rent a limo for special occasions, parties, anniversaries, proms and all forms of special outings.
Why Limousines?
Booking a limo comes with many advantages. These magnificent cars provide us with comfort and elegance that none other can. Today, they are more comfortable with the cost of hiring their services being way below the amount of comfort and value they provide. Traveling in a limo is an experience every one of us always wishes. Taking your loved ones on a drive in a hired limo is a great way to make them happy and create lasting memories.
We shall look at how the limo industry has changed chauffeured transportation and made it more affordable. We shall discuss tips on how to plan your next event to make it successful. This success comes with understanding limo etiquette and having the plan to guide you. We shall also look at how to choose the perfect limo company for your special events.
Understanding Limos
Getting the best limo service starts with understanding the different types of limos in the market. We shall explore the various types of these cars in the market and ways to save money when booking limo services. Chauffeurs drive limos. A chauffeured limo ride for a special occasion makes your day more magical and memorable. If you are satisfied by the services by the services of your chauffeur, it is always a good act to tip them.


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President Obama appeared at the White House this evening to announce that he had finally, after months of delay, caved to Republicans and allowed all of the Bush tax cuts to be extended for two years.
During a January 2009 meeting, Obama famously told Republicans "I won" when challenged on the amount of spending relative to tax cuts in the stimulus bill. Well, last month, he lost.
Obama of course said he had no choice but to be above politics and accept GOP demands for the good of the American people. ALL WHILE PLAYING POLITICS HIMSELF.
Instead of casting the deal as a launching pad for a future Land of Bipartisan Compromise he says he wants, the president basically accused Republicans of a politically motivated plot to hold the middle class hostage while seeking favors for the wealthy.
I know there's some people in my own party and in the other party who would rather prolong this battle, even if we can't reach a compromise. But I'm not willing to let working families across this country become collateral damage for political warfare here in Washington. And I'm not willing to let our economy slip backwards just as we're pulling ourselves out of this devastating recession.
I'm not willing to see 2 million Americans who stand to lose their unemployment insurance at the end of this month be put in a situation where they might lose their home or their car or suffer some additional economic catastrophe.
So, sympathetic as I am to those who prefer a fight over compromise, as much as the political wisdom may dictate fighting over solving problems, it would be the wrong thing to do. The American people didn't send us here to wage symbolic battles or win symbolic victories.
Awww. Obama didn't lose a fight. He just walked away.
This is very noble of Obama, since he's keenly aware that Republicans have no principles. Nevermind that Obama would have written his own Political Obituary if he had failed to reach a deal with Republicans and taxes had gone up.
The deal in fact included many items Obama sought, including a generous extension of unemployment benefits.
So if he really wants to, you know, act like a president, he would have said something like, "I didn't get everything I wanted, but that's life."
Here, courtesy of the Associated Press, is the rest of the deal.
Officials said that under the plan, unemployment benefits would remain in effect through the end of next year for workers who have been laid off for more than 26 weeks and less than 99 weeks. Without an extension, two million individuals would have lost their benefits over the holidays, the White House said, and seven million would have done so by the end of next year.
The Social Security tax cut would apply to workers, not employers, and would drop from 6.2 percent of pay to 4.2 percent for one year. The White House said the result would be to fatten take-home pay by $120 billion over the course of the year.
In addition, administration officials emphasized that the agreement would extend a variety of other tax breaks for lower and middle-income families, including the Earned Income Tax Credit and the child tax credit.
The estate tax provision under discussion would mean the first $5 million would pass tax-free to heirs. Anything over that would be taxed at a rate of 35 percent. Democrats favored a $3.5 million threshold, with a 45 percent tax on anything higher.


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The Nonprofit Business Committee engages the nonprofit sector within the Chamber linking nonprofit businesses with the broader business community. The Committee assists nonprofit businesses with issues management, recognizes nonprofit business management excellence through its NOVO Awards program, recognizes corporate social responsibility through its Julia Tuttle Award, develops strategic partnerships with the business community for their mutual benefit, and communicates nonprofit business accomplishments to the broader business community.
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Continue to spotlight innovative excellence in nonprofit programs as well as for-profit corporate citizenship by enhancing the profile of the NOVO Awards and its recipients as well as the program and the partnership with the Association of Fund Raising Professionals regarding the Julia Tuttle Award and Annual National Philanthropy Day.
- Enhance Corporate Social Responsibility among Chamber members
- Grow and improve nonprofit board development and board placement
Support the County's efforts to build the nonprofit training calendar and comprehensive capacity building initiative.
- Incorporate values of Connect Miami into the work of the Committee and the Chamber
Measures of Success:
- Foster greater attendance at both luncheons(Julia Tuttle in November and NOVO Awards in May), greater and more variety of applicants for awards and more finalists and winners engaging with the planning of the events, becoming Chamber members and engaging with the work of the Committee.
- Conduct successful ROI of Community Engagement Part II event and CSR Training in April
- Finalize the technology necessary to have an online board match process, confirm an organization to manage the process and develop a plan for board training possibly in collaboration with Leadership Miami and SEO by October
- Finalize the online nonprofit training calendar and advertise among nonprofit Chamber members and determine the Chamber's role in the capacity building efforts in the First Quarter
- Increase Chamber member knowledge of Connect Miami in May and incorporate into those existing events that are aligned
- Explore a collaboration with PRSA with GMCC nonprofits asking who might be interested in a year-long PR campaign by December


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Anne & Graham from West Kent have sent us a couple of images of their motorhome in its `regular habitat` a camp-site in France and themselves doing a little cycling, with pets of course .
Their message below:
We are really enjoying our new home . Thank You for all you did for us . I am sending a photo which David may like , showing how well the rail and awning all fit together . Also the greenhouse heater in the wardrobe dries our towels and heats up the red wine beautifully. We are off to France in 2 weeks before the next Grandchild arrives ! Will see you in the Autumn when the home needs a service. Have a good Summer.


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Japan's JANS launched its new flight data processing system named 'Flight-object Administration Centre system' (FACE), developed by NEC Corporation.
The FACE system – an essential feature of Japan's next-generation ATC systems – can manage FO (Flight Object) in XML format while processing a conventional flight plan format simultaneously.
The FACE system is installed in Fukuoka and has a backup system based in Tokyo in the event of disaster.
Hitoshi Ishizaki, director general of JANS, said: "The activation of the FACE system, which will be the foundation of future technology, makes a great deal of sense to us. I am convinced that FACE will contribute to the tremendous demands of traffic not only in Fukuoka FIR but also in Asian Pacific region."
"This is an integrated control information processing system developed to support air safety of Japan and meet the demands of increasing air traffic. After five years of development and migration, today we successfully accomplished the first phase implementation of Flight Object Administration Center System (FACE)," said Yutaka Ukegawa, senior transport division vice president, NEC Corporation. "With all parties involved in air traffic control, NEC will continue to fulfill our responsibility with providing the world a safe and comfortable sky as a global leading ICT company."
JANS is also developeing 'trajectory based operations' (TBO) to manage the increasing air traffic around Japan and FACE system is expected to be a powerful tool of TBO. JANS plans to update all ATC systems so they are compatible with 'Flight Object' (FO) over the next five years.


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Breakfast is the most important meal of the day. So why not get more creative first thing in the morning? Start your day off right with these delicious wake up calls. They taste so good, they may turn you into a morning person. Be sure to check out our Pinterest Page, and find even more recipes to gobble up.
Chocolate Chip Pancakes
Try these warm, gooey chocolate chip pancakes. The secret to this recipe comes from the hint of cinnamon and vanilla added into the batter. Start by combining the flour, sugar, cinnamon, and baking powder in a large bowl.
In a separate bowl mix together your wet ingredients and then beat them into your dry ingredients. Finally fold in the chocolate chips. Cook on the griddle for about a minute on each side. These pancakes are so good, you won't even need syrup.
Breakfast Quesadillas
What could be better than a quesadillas? A breakfast quesadilla, of course! This recipe incorporates all of your favorite morning ingredients including eggs, bacon, and cheese. Start by whisking together and cooking your eggs. Then place your tortilla shells on the griddle and spoon the eggs, cheese, bacon, and onion on top. Fold over the tortilla and cook for 1-2 minutes on each side. When finished serve warm with sour cream and salsa.
Blueberry Scones
These lovely scones come together quickly using Bisquick Heart Healthy Mix. They are low in fat, so feel free to have an extra scone! In a large bowl combine the Bisquick Mix, sugar, and blueberries. Then whisk in the milk and eggs.
Mix all ingredients together gently and then portion out 8 large dollops. Bake at 400 degrees for 10 minutes, or until brown. To create the optional glaze combine lemon juice and confectioners sugar and drizzle the mixture over cooled scones.
Yogurt Berry Parfaits
From breakfast, to brunch, a delicious parfait can go a long way. Although it may seem like a strange mixture, the combination of using yogurt and vanilla pudding is makes for a creamy base. Over a dry skillet combine and roast oats, honey, and cinnamon.
Next layer together the yogurt, toppings, and berries. Be sure to use clear serving dishes so you can see the beautiful layers you are about to eat.
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Effects of Tween 80 on In Vitro Fermentation of Silages and Interactive Effects of Tween 80, Monensin and Exogenous Fibrolytic Enzymes on Growth Performance by Feedlot Cattle
Journal title :
Asian-Australasian Journal of Animal Sciences
Volume 16, Issue 7,
2003, pp.968-978
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Asian Australasian Association of Animal Production Societies
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Effects of Tween 80 on In Vitro Fermentation of Silages and Interactive Effects of Tween 80, Monensin and Exogenous Fibrolytic Enzymes on Growth Performance by Feedlot Cattle
Wang, Y.; McAllister, T.A.; Baah, J.; Wilde, R.; Beauchemin, K.A.; Rode, L.M.; Shelford, J.A.; Kamande, G.M.; Cheng, K.J.;
The effects of monensin, Tween 80 and exogenous fibrolytic enzymes on ruminal fermentation and animal performance were studied in vitro and in vivo. In Expt 1, the effects of the surfactant Tween 80 (0.2% wt/wt, DM basis) on ruminal fermentation of alfalfa, corn and orchardgrass silages were investigated using in vitro gas production techniques. Tween 80 did not affect (p>0.05) cumulative gas production at 24 h, but it reduced (p<0.05) the lag in fermentation of all three silages. With corn silage and orchardgrass silage, gas production rates and concentrations of total volatile fatty acids (VFA) were increased (p<0.05) by Tween 80; with alfalfa silage, they were reduced (p<0.05). Tween 80 increased (p<0.05) the proportion of propionate in total VFA, and reduced (p<0.05) acetate to propionate ratios (A:P) with all three silages. In Expt 2, exogenous fibrolytic enzymes (E; at 0, 37.5 or 75 g/tonne DM), monensin (M; at 0 or 25 ppm and Tween 80 (T; at 0 or 2 L/tonne DM) were added alone or in combination to backgrounding and finishing diets fed to 320 crossbred steers in a feeding trial with a
factorial arrangement of treatments. The backgrounding and finishing diets contained barley grain and barley silage in ratios of 57.8:42.2 and 93.5:6.5 (DM basis), respectively. Added alone, none of the additives affected DM intake (p>0.1) in the backgrounding or in the finishing period, but interactive
effects were observed in the finishing period (p=0.02) and overall (p=0.04). In the finishing period, T without M tended to reduce DM intake (p=0.11), but T with M increased (p=0.05) DM intake. Monensin increased average daily gain (ADG) during backgrounding (p=0.07) and finishing (p=0.01), and this ionophore also improved overall feed efficiency (p=0.02). Warm carcass weight was increased (p<0.001) by M, but dressing percentage was reduced (p=0.07). In the backgrounding period, T increased ADG by 7% (p=0.06). Enzymes increased (p=0.07) ADG by 5 and 6% (low and high application rates, respectively) during backgrounding, but did not affect (p>0.10) ADG during finishing, or overall feed efficiency. Whereas T enhanced the positive effects of M on ADG during backgrounding (p=0.04) and overall (p=0.05), it had no impact (p>0.1) on the effects of E. Interactions between M and T suggest that the surfactant may have potential for enhancing the positive effects of monensin on beef production, but this requires further research.
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text: New Year New Furrr O'keevia Howard 0 Comments Happy New Year Loves!!!I hope everyone had a fun and safe new year. I wanted to start the year off right with a fashion post. I Know I Know I am always saying i'm going to do more fashion post well this year I plan to be more active with my blog and my channel so I can improve them both. So I will posting a fashion post on here every week and uploading on my channel Monday-Friday. I am going to try my best to keep to this but I will go into more details about blog/channel changes in a video soon. For now I wanted to share with you guys my outfit from New Years Day. So I hope you enjoy and until time.Stay Blessed. Stay Cool. Peace. Vest: Belk, Shirt: Old Navy, Pants: WetSeal, Boots: Forever21, Purse: JustFab Lips: Mac RubyWoo XOXO O'keevia Howard


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Many industrial awards provide that employees are entitled to payment for "standing by" – ie periods of time where they are not at work but must be ready to be called in to work.
A recent Federal Court of Australia decision held that an employer owed four electricians for time "standing by" (Manildra Flour Mills (Manufacturing) Pty Limited v National Union of Workers [2012] FCA 1010).
Manildra's flour mill operated 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. There was a roster which nominated one of the mill electricians as the "after hours" electrician to be contacted by staff if something went wrong. The question was whether the electricians were "standing by" when they were the "after hours" electrician.
Under the Milling Industry – General Award 1999 the employees were entitled to payment for time on standby:
25.3 Standing By
An employee required by the employer to hold in readiness for call back to work shall be paid standby time at ordinary award rates of pay from the time the employee is required to so hold in readiness until released by the employer from the requirement to.
Manildra claimed that the employees were not entitled to any standing by time as there had been no management directive requesting them to be on standby.
The Magistrate concluded that the evidence established:
that if a breakdown occurred it was the task of the electricians as maintenance electricians to attend at the mill if the maintenance fitters identified the problem as one that required an electrician to rectify the fault.i
The "after hours" electrician had to carry a pager and a mobile phone provided by Manildra so they could be contacted, had to remain within a certain distance of the mill and were not to drink alcohol in case they were called in to the mill.
The Magistrate held the roster thus had the effect of requiring the electricians to be on standby despite the fact that, in a strict sense, Manildra had never formally required the employees to be on standby. Manildra was ordered to pay the electricians for that time.
In the Federal Court, Justice Cowdroy held that the Magistrate at first instance had ignored the evidence of a senior Manildra employee, Mr Chilcott. As a result, instead of sending the matter back to be reconsidered (and causing delay) Justice Cowdroy considered the issue of standing by anew.ii
Manildra maintained that although the employees might have been "called back" to work if required and available, this was different from being required to be "on standby" pending call back to work.
In considering the relevant clause in the Award, his Honour reviewed and stated the principles of interpretation for industrial awards: first, they must be approached focussing on the actual words, using their plain, ordinary English meaningiii secondly, if the words of the clause are ambiguous then the context in which they appear must be considerediv, and lastly, the overall document and its purpose must be considered.v
Using these principles, his Honour held that, under clause 25.2 of the Award, there must be:
It was really the first condition which was in issue. Justice Cowdroy looked at the decision of Chief Commissioner of Police v Kerley (2008) 171 IR 420 which concerned a police officer allowance for standing by. In that case, the officers had to nominate themselves to be standing by on the roster. It was held that being on standby could be voluntary and did not have to be specifically ordered by the employer. Summing up that decision, Justice Cowdroy stated
Provided that the management knew and approved of the formation of the roster, that was sufficient to amount to an authorisation for the employee on call to hold himself or herself in readiness.vii
It followed that the fact that the four Manildra electricians could change the roster among themselves did not go against the "existence of the roster as a form of tacit instruction" to hold themselves available for after hours calls.viii Further, the existence of very rare occasions when the nominated electrician did not attend did not change the general effect of the roster. Thus, Manildra had required its electricians to be standing by and the first part of the Award clause was met.
Justice Cowdroy held that the requirement for the "after hours" electrician to be fit for work (by not drinking alcohol) restricted their social activities. It was significant that Manildra benefitted from having someone responsible for responding to any problem and organising a response. The electricians were required to be in a position to respond to Manildra's call for a period. This period would end when the morning shift began, so meeting the second and third conditions of the Award clause.
Accordingly, Manildra's appeal was dismissed. The Court affirmed that the electricians were on standby and should have been paid for that time.
iManildra Flour Mills (Manufacturing) Pty Limited v National Union of Workers [2012] FCA 1010 at 9.
iiManildra Flour Mills (Manufacturing) Pty Limited v National Union of Workers [2012] FCA 1010 at 44.
iiiBryce v Apperley (1998) 82 IR 448 at 452.
ivKucks v CSR Ltd (1996) 66 IR 182 at 184.
vAmcor v CFWEU (2005) 222 CLR 241 at [95].
viManildra Flour Mills (Manufacturing) Pty Limited v National Union of Workers [2012] FCA 1010 at 55.
viiManildra Flour Mills (Manufacturing) Pty Limited v National Union of Workers [2012] FCA 1010 at 74.
viiiManildra Flour Mills (Manufacturing) Pty Limited v National Union of Workers [2012] FCA 1010 at 78.
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Saturday, January 16, 2016
Review: Truth About Love & Murder (Love & Murder #1) by Edie Ramer
Book Blurb:
The truth is that life is uncertain.
Meg Quinn hasn't been to war, but her father has, and it changed their lives for the bad—and for the good. Now she has a sharp tongue and a mind to match ... and she doesn't trust easily. The best person she knows is losing a fight with death, and Meg is guardian of her friend's seven-year-old son.
Easy MacLean, the co-guardian, is Meg's dying friend's brother. The former Marine has been hibernating in his Colorado mountain home, and Meg lets him know that he needs to be by his sister's side in Milwaukee now.
Easy is attracted to his sister's clever friend, but life gets complicated when he gets involved in a search for a missing veteran. After living alone with his rescue dog for so long, Easy and his dog are now sharing a home with a beautiful woman, a boy, and a cat. Even as he watches his sister die a little each day, he's finding out the truth about love and life ... and murder.
My Review:
Wow!! That pretty well sums up how I felt reading Truth About Love & Murder by Edie Ramer.
Truth About Love & Murder is has a complex, multi focal plot that flowed smoothly, pulled me in, and grabbed my heart in a way few books can. Edie effortlessly blends together mystery, suspense, love, death, sadness and happiness in Truth About Love & Murder in a way that felt so real, so true.
I liked how she pulled together realistic, life altering circumstances and wrote with believable characters that made me feel. Edie uses real issues that evoke strong emotions because as I read I knew that these things can and do happen.
Easy and Meg are powerful main characters that quickly worked their way into my heart and mind. I liked the maturity they both had and the lack of angst. They are refreshingly real, and what they had gone through and were presently going through was written so well I felt I was right there with them.
The secondary characters in Truth About Love & Murder were just as compelling, and I liked how Edie works in some of their POV's.
Truth About Love & Murder made my heart ache good and bad. I am so glad I picked this up, then I couldn't put it down.
I'd highly recommend Truth About Love & Murder to any romantic suspense reader.
5/5 Super Stars!
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Mesa THINKspot Brings Back ETSY Program
Mesa THINKspot at Red Mountain Library is repeating it's most popular program over the past year, Success with an Etsy Business: Build Your Business. This workshop is held in THINKspot on Tues., Feb. 23 from 5:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m.
This free event will feature a panel of successful Etsy sellers from Mesa. Hear their stories, tips and tricks, and share things you've learned! Ask questions and meet others who are also navigating the business world using Etsy. Chat and ask questions about how you too can create an Etsy business.
Light refreshments and coffee will be provided at this free event. Mesa THINKspot is located inside the Red Mountain Library, 635 N. Power Road.
Seating is limited, so be sure to register online at: www.MesaLibrary.org and click under the "Events" calendar. For more information call (480) 644-3100.
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Having signed a Nature Refuge agreement for the 8100 hectare Edgbaston Reserve on the 9th of September, Bush Heritage Australia became the largest Nature Refuge landholder in the state of Queensland.
Bush Heritage's eight Queensland reserves with Nature Refuge agreements protect over 500,000 hectares of high conservation land. Edgbaston is unique in that it protects an abundance of endemic species associated with artisan springs. Currently Bush Heritage science staff and their partners have recorded 24 invertebrate, 13 plant, and 2 fish species that are endemic to the Reserve.
The Queensland Minister for the Environment & Heritage in signing off on the deed of agreement made special note to thank Bush Heritage for its "ongoing support & participation in the Nature Refuge program since 2002". Minister Powell congratulated Bush Heritage on the declaration of the 'Edgbaston Nature Refuge' and said that he "looked forward to continuing to work in partnership to protect Queensland biodiversity for future generations".


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(Senior Research Fellow, Academic Director of the Mediterranean Unit, The Van Leer Jerusalem Institute)
Copyright: www.cceia.unic.ac.cy - Cyprus Center for European and International Affairs
Note: Dr. Anat Lapidot-Firilla first delivered this paper at the Cyprus Center for European and International Affairs at the University of Nicosia.
Since the rise of AK Party to power, in November 2002, and the appointment of Ahmet Davutoglu to the post of senior adviser on foreign affairs, the process of devolution of the strategic alliance with Israel began. Moreover, it should be noted that the dismantling is not the result of Turkish discomfort or dissatisfaction with a specific Israeli policy but the result of a specific, new strategic outlook: which is directly linked to Davutoghlu theory of how foreign policy should be handled, adopted by the AKP regime.
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(Dr. Joseph Fitsanakis teaches politics and history at King College, USA. He is Senior Editor of intelNews.org.)
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The vast majority of Western and Israeli defense and intelligence agencies agree that Iran's ultimate aim is to fortify its military posture with nuclear weapons. Cross-agency --let along cross-national-- consensus on matters of nuclear intelligence is rare, but there is nothing profound about this particular agreement. Only a cursory look on a world map is sufficient to confirm --even strategically justify, some would say-- Iran's nuclear intentions.
IRAN's GEOPOLITICS IN MIDST OF THE US-RUSSIA-CHINA ENERGY SECURITY STRUGGLE FOR THE GEO-STRATEGIC CONTROL OF EURASIA
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This paper examines Russia's Central Asian policy in the context of the continued Iranian – American confrontation which affects Central Asian geopolitics and the Eurasian approach dominating Russia's foreign policy (which presupposes Russia-Iran partnership in Central Asia). It is absolutely clear that the nature, content, and pace of Russia's involvement in the region, as well as cooperation between the two countries, directly depend on the state and level of Iranian – American relations. Read more
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On 20 May 2009, the Guardian Council of Iran officially announced a list of approved candidates, while rejecting a number of registered nominees. Only four candidates were approved by the Guardian Council, out of the 476 men and women who had applied to seek the Presidency of Iran in the 2009 election.
The official results of the June 12, 2009 Iranian Presidential Election provoked the reaction of the Iranian reformists in many major cities. These reactions increased dramatically when the Musavi side accused President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad for election fraud.
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Iran is currently a focus of attention for politicians and experts worldwide. The nuclear programme of Iran, alongside Kosovo, the recognition of Abkhazia and South Ossetia, and energy security, has risen to the top of the international political agenda. The 2006 Israel–Lebanon war Israeli-HAMAS clashes (December, 2008) demonstrated the increased potential of Iran as an actor in the Middle East "big game". Iran's military-political success (the first defeat of Israel since its foundation) brought home to the whole world Teheran's skills and abilities to strike its main geopolitical opponents by waging a successful "proxy war". According to Georgiy Mirskiy, a Russian expert on the Middle East Security issues, «Iran is the only state in the world that is able to be completely happy with the situation that has arisen?"
In this connection topics such as Iran's "Caucasus strategy" have remained without the attention they deserve. At the same time Iran, like Turkey, is a long-standing participant in the Caucasian geopolitical competition. In antiquity and during the medieval period various lands that are now in the Caucasus were under the power of the Persian monarchs. In the 16th-18th centuries Turkey and Iran were continually waging war over domination in the Caucasus region. However, Iran's ouster from the South and North Caucasus was due to imperial Russia's policy. As a result of a series of Russo-Persian wars at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th centuries Russia established control over Southern Dagestan, Eastern Armenia, and Northern Azerbaijan. But, even after losing its former influence, Iran remained and continues to be an important participant in Caucasian political processes.
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When Donald Rumsfeld was still US Secretary of Defense, many officials and soldiers criticized his willingness to focus the US military budget and strategic decisions on low intensity conflicts and terrorism by favouring the use of Special Forces, intelligence and high technology. His departure and the arrival of former CIA director Robert Gates was to change all that and make the improvement of the situation in Iraq the top priority. It was mostly about breaking with the Rumsfeld era by providing the armed forces with more conventional means and by sending more troops on the ground for a better control of the territory, especially in Iraq. It was « The Surge » and the arrival of reinforcements, inter alia supported by US Senator John McCain, that led to the significant and current improvement of the security situation in Iraq.
Although there are still murderous attacks, the number of attacks has been decreased. While the internal difficulties related to sectarian, religious and political beliefs are far from being settled, Iraq seems on the path of greater stability. The resumption of dialogue between Iraq and Iran proved essential. The situation got worse in Afghanistan at the same time of a growing destabilization of Pakistan plagued by very serious political difficulties and the worst seems yet to come. The Taliban and their Al Qaeda allies have won several major victories: the official establishment of Sharia in the valley of Swat, greater freedom of movement on both sides of the border between Afghanistan and Pakistan and finally the offering hand of President Karzai and his western allies to «win over» the « moderates » among them. Such a scenario would have been unthinkable in 2002 when only the all-out war on terrorism was the valid strategy and that in a few months, Mullah Omar and his friends had been swept from the Afghan scene, in appearance at least.


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My Experience
I have always wondered how I could help my students of English become independent learners. I teach one-to-one classes and group classes. In the case of the one-to-one students, it is easy to encourage them to go on practising after class because in general, they are adults who don't have time to learn English in a language school and so decide to take classes alone and do their best to progress through the learning experience. My group classes are adolescents at upper intermediate level who, in general, are sent by their parents to learn English so as to be better prepared for their future careers. These students go to high school and many times they use this fact as an excuse not to do their homework or study. In this case, it is difficult to motivate them go on practising English outside the classroom.
Internet as a Useful Tool
The use of the Internet has been great help for me to be able to make my students expand on what they are learning. Outside the classroom, they are able to:
- Watch videos of films made on the books we are reading
- Do interactive grammar exercises to further the practice of a certain grammar point
- Create mind-maps so as to organise their material
- Ask teachers questions so as to solve their doubts as to the tasks they are supposed to do at home
- Use dictionaries
- Express their messages at any time instead of waiting for the next class
- Upload their homework for teachers to correct
- Solve queries they do not feel like asking in class. This has been specially useful for weak students who feel embarrassed to show their difficulties among their peers.
Plans for This Year
For all the advantages I have mentioned above and many others I am planning to make my students have their individual blogs this year. In this way, they will succeed in becoming autonomous as they will select the material they think they need for their learning experience with their teachers supervision. I hope this way, they will feel motivated to see some English outside the classroom.


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This is a very special segment of #TheLookout! We teamed up with Urban Outfitters Asheville for this entire look. Anticipating fall, we dressed our friend Taylor in a denim (of course) & natural-toned get up for the upcoming chillier evenings. Foundation Skatepark is one of the most magical places in Asheville. It's covered wall-to-wall in beautiful murals and graffiti. It's like a village of art. Located near River Arts District's Depot Street (West Asheville area). Go over there and explore for yourself on a sunny day. 🙂 Bring your camera! Help document all the beautiful; it might not be there for long.
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Imagine being launched into an unexplored world, without food or shelter, all alone and with an overarching fear for your hunger, sanity and health. That's the context to Don't Starve, a game all about surviving in a procedurally-generated wilderness made up of the resources you'll need to survive and the dangers you'll need to avoid. It's a game that's taken the Steam marketplace by storm, but most surprisingly, it's also available as a web app in the Chrome Web Store.
It's not everyday that a hyped Steam game is also available as game that'll run in your browser, so we had to check it out.
Survival, Survival, Survival
Don't Starve is a game all about survival. It's a hardcore game so when you die, all your progress is lost and you'll never revisit the lands you once explored, although your playtime will be recognized in levelling up to unlock new characters to play with. In order to avoid death and the loss of your game, players are obliged to keep an eye on three metrics — hunger, sanity and health — as when they deplete, you'll either outright die or your insanity will get the better of you and your hallucinations will attack.
Naturally, the game presents numerous opportunities to avoid extreme hunger, insanity and death. The procedurally-generated world hosts a variety of resources with their own benefits (and disadvantages) to the three metrics. For example, picking flowers will help your sanity and eating food will refill your hunger. Keep these figures up and you'll survive another day. There are, of course, dangers in the game world too. Mobs, each with their own unique features, can spawn and attack players, damaging health when they do, although a successful execution is a recipe for valuable loot and, in some cases, vital sanity.
You'll want to setup camp and there's craftable items which can let you live in some sort of luxury out in the middle of nowhere. It's nothing like Minecraft or any other survival game that has a focus on building, but you can eventually build complexes of farms and machinery… if you're able to survive that long.
Storybook Style
Part of Don't Starve's just appeal comes in it's presentation. The game takes on a visual style reminiscent of illustrations in a book and there's a magical aura to some of the less-than-realistic entities in the game. The sea is a great example of this, where it resembles layers of paper being moved by hand.
All-in-all, Don't Starve has a notably unique style that is executed to a level of polish above the norm. Performance-wise, Don't Starve in the browser runs surprisingly well and provides a seamless, straightforward and foremost enjoyable experience.
Don't Starve is a hardcore, permadeath experience. There's a few legitimate, in-game means of resurrection, but generally the rule is that once you die, it's game over. This can present a disheartening affair when you realise all your hard-work is eventually going to go to waste. Add to this the fact that collecting resources — prior to moving them into a more efficient, densely-popular space later in the game — is a tedious process and you get a disappointing sense that the game isn't that replayable.
This isn't always the case, though. Sure, after dying you probably won't want to jump right into a new game and start fresh, but when you get around to having another go, you may well have new characters unlocked and even more knowledge about the game's mechanics.
A Browser Game? Really?
Don't Starve doesn't look like your average web app, and that's because it's not entirely. From the initial setup, it definitely seems that Don't Starve relies on local, downloaded files rather than running entirely on the web and reports suggest not all, if any, Chromebooks are supported.
However, the game does come from the Chrome Web Store meaning you don't need to download and install any native clients yourself and it's pretty easy to jump into your game by simply opening a new tab. Hopefully it might be possible to solve some of the issues with Chromebook compatibility which would make this an excellent game for users of the browser-only platform.
Final Thoughts
Don't Starve is a really fun game. At times collecting resources and performing tasks like batch crafting can be tedious, but the constant tension that comes with avoiding nearby death keeps you on the edge. The game is still receiving content updates on a regular basis, however, so future changes could see some of the repetitiveness addressed. Being spawned into a unique world each time, Don't Starve certainly is replayable, but it's not the sort of game you'll jump right back into once you do end up dead.
Don't Starve is available through the Humble Store, Steam or within the Chrome app for around $14.99. Whichever platform you choose to buy it through, you'll get access to the PC/Mac/Linux and Chrome versions, so you can even use those few dollars lying in your Steam Wallet to buy the game to run in Chrome. A version for PlayStation 4 is also planned, although it'll most likely be sold separately.
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Second in the Cedar Cove series. In typical DM style there is quite a bit of repetition of the story and the character's thoughts. At times, it can be quite annoying. Other than that, it is a cute story. Just wish the women were not so whiny and disagreeable. I mean...how many times are these women going to continually reject good men who love them. It is frustrating. However, I guess there would be no story if things ran smoothly.
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This is a rush transcript from "Special Report," July 29, 2014. This copy may not be in its final form and may be updated.
REP. BARBARA LEE, D - CA: We need to stop this politically motivated extreme and disturbing march toward impeachment, because that's where this is going.
REP. XAVIER BECERRA, D - CA: It's probably percolating in the Republican conference, this notion that the lawsuit is not enough; we got to get rid of this guy. It's impeachment time.
REP. JOHN BOEHNER, R – OH, HOUSE SPEAKER: This whole talk of impeachment is coming from the president's own staff and coming from Democrats on Capitol Hill. Why? Because they are trying to rally their people to give money and to show up in this year's elections. We have no plans to impeach the president. We have no future plans. Listen, it's all a scam started by Democrats at the White House.
BRET BAIER, ANCHOR: The House speaker talking about possible plans for impeachment. We did hear the White House senior aide Dan Pfeiffer speaking about the seriousness the White House took this possibility. You also see this tweet from Steve Israel, congressman, the head of the Democratic campaign -- Congressional Campaign Committee yesterday, "The DCC had our single biggest online fundraising day of the cycle, bringing in more than $1 million from more than 50,000 donations." They tied that directly to impeachment talk.
And take a look at our latest Fox poll about this question of impeaching President Obama. You see in favor 36 percent, oppose 61 percent. Let's bring in our panel, Juan Williams, columnist with The Hill, A.B. Stoddard, associate editor of The Hill, and syndicated columnist Charles Krauthammer. OK, Charles, thoughts?
CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER, SYNDICATED COLUMNIST: Well, look, this clearly is a concoction of Democrats. It shows how desperate they are. They know mid- terms are coming up. They know that in 1998 the party was saved, the sixth year of the administration, it was saved by impeachment, overreaching on impeachment by Republicans. And this is a good issue. It's a good way to raise money.
But I like Boehner's contempt, sort of the tone, the sneering tone he had about all of this. It's like Harry Reid saying, look, a couple of years ago, he had been told that Romney hadn't paid any taxes, you know [INAUDIBLE] as a rumor.
There's only one real thing here, and that is that Obama is said to, or there are reports from the White House, that he's going to do something by executive order about immigration. If he were to do something like legalize, five -- say half, which is what's been talked about, huge numbers of illegal immigrants, to do it by executive order, which would be clearly lawless and would be the biggest domestic overreach of a president in memory, it would be an impeachable offense. I would be 100 percent against impeachment because it's political suicide, but it really would be the basis for that.
That's what I think the White House may actually be softening people up for, an executive order that reaches impeachable offense, but it's a way of, it's like a preemptive strike.
BAIER: Let's be year. There have been some Republicans who talked about it. Sarah Palin on this channel said impeachment. There have been other contributors on this channel who have called for impeachment. There have been lawmakers who have mentioned it. Scalise, Congressman Scalise this weekend pressed by Chris Wallace, "is impeachment off the table?" -- would not answer that fully.
A.B. STODDARD, ASSOCIATE EDITOR, THE HILL: When you saw House Speaker Boehner in that response today, he said we have no plans, we have no future plans, which is what presidential wannabes say. They say I have no plans to run for president because they are not going to rule it out. John Boehner is not allowed to rule it out. His conference won't let him.
I speak to Republican members all the time, and they increasingly hear sometimes in phone town halls or in person, on the most on the topic of President Obama's executive overreach, and people in the audience ask if he should be impeached. Why can't he? People have asked me why he can't be impeached. So it's not that it isn't out there.
I think Charles is right. Steve King of Iowa, the congressman, predicts that with very far reaching amnesty executive actions it could reach critical mass and the conference could, you know, take Boehner aside and proceed with something. It's a real possibility. It is also at the same time a scam by the White House. You can see the Democrats, they can barely contain their giggles when they're talking about this. It's a fundraising bonanza. But until you see John Boehner literally put a stake in it, there's going to be smoke and they're going to tell their donors this is a fire.
BAIER: Well, here's conservative talk show host Rush Limbaugh and his take on all of this back and forth.
RUSH LIMBAUGH, RADIO TALK SHOW HOST: CNN and other drive by media are going to report this not as something Obama is trying to make happen. They are going to report this as something the Republicans want to happen so that they get creamed by it even if they do nothing. It's a strategy.
BAIER: It is fair to say that most Republicans are not pushing for this.
Isn't that true, Juan?
JUAN WILLIAMS, SENIOR EDITOR, THE HILL: No. If you look at the polls right now --
BAIER: I just showed a poll.
WILLIAMS: No, you showed a poll overall what Americans want, 33, 36 percent I think you had. But if you just ask Republican voters, it's as high as 68 -- CNN had 57 percent.
BAIER: I'm talking about lawmakers here who are pushing impeachment.
WILLIAMS: No. Pushing is a soft word. But I mean, if you ask people on the record right now, you get what Boehner said today, which is we have no plans, et cetera, you get what Scalise said on Sunday on "Fox News Sunday," which is kind of evasive, Bret. What he's trying to do is say yes to the base, and I'm not ruling it out to the base, because the base and a lot of talk radio hosts, Limbaugh included, are saying Obama is a tyrant, he's exceeding his authority, he's a bad man, et cetera, deserving of impeachment. You know, impeachment is supposed to be for high crimes and misdemeanors. But that is out there. There has to be some way, will someone take care of this horrible man in some way.
BAIER: It's not horrible man. It's the executive actions overreaching --
WILLIAMS: Right. If that's what they believe -- and that's what they seem to believe -- somebody do something. And what they are looking at first is the lawsuit. The lawsuit has real trouble because it lacks standing, et cetera. The real remedy in terms of if the president has exceeded authority, as we heard it described, would be to say that this president is deserving of a vote by the House on impeachment. And so while the Democrats are just exploiting this --
BAIER: Do you think this administration is exploiting this issue?
WILLIAMS: Of course they are.
BAIER: And almost kind of ginning it up?
WILLIAMS: I don't think you have to gin it up. As we said from the polls that you shown that I've cited, there's a real element within the Republican Party, especially in the hard core energizer Tea Party base that just loathes Obama and is anxious to throw him out.
KRAUTHAMMER: As for impeachment, it is coming from real actions the president has taken. Lawlessly changing the ObamaCare law, his own law, lawlessly changing the drug laws, stuff you might want to do but Congress has to do it. Lawlessly changing our energy policy, essentially enacting cap and trade after the Congress had said no by executive orders. These as Jonathan Turley among other principled liberals have said is an assault on the separation of powers. It is a serious constitutional offense. It isn't a policy issue. It isn't a matter of he being a bad man. It's a violation of our constitutional law.
And if he does it on immigration, I could see this president, who said he would be the one who would bring us together. I can see him being cynical enough as a way to gin up feelings against the Democrats over immigration, by executive order calling for the non-enforcement of the immigration laws, which would be an invitation to impeachment, that I think would help him politically. He could do that, and that is part of this kabuki dance.
STODDARD: Bret's point is right, Juan, that there's not a critical mass of Republican lawmakers in the Congress who believe that's the right thing to do. But the lawsuit exists because of the pressure from the base and some lawmakers to address this head on. It could reach critical mass with that issue, but right now, no, everyone knows it's a political loser with the exception of a few rogue members.
BAIER: We're talking about the politics here. Charles is talking about the substance.
STODDARD: The politics are so bad that even Boehner and, I believe, under any immigration executive order this summer will still beg them not to pursue impeachment.
BAIER: Next up, President Obama says he's not starting a new Cold War with Russia.
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