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well, it turns out the corner not fitting correctly was an alignment issue. WHEW, dodged that bullet!
Brian had the day off, so he was building this while I was trying to tweak the cab into the right shape.
All I ended up doing was tweaking my back though, UGH. Brian did an excellent job with the missing body panel though! We were kinda sweating that one, but it looks great! I think the a-pillar probably needs to come back 1/16'' by looking at the pic. I am just happy to have that corner figured out and that panel piece made, such a relief!


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Friday on "CBS This Morning," Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), a former candidate for the 2016 GOP presidential nomination, explained why he is now supporting Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) for president despite having criticized him in the past.
When asked how he would rally around Cruz, Graham said, "If I can do it, anybody can do it."
"Ted Cruz is Republican," Graham continued. "He's smart as hell. He's run a very effective campaign. And we have a lot in common, but we also have some real differences. He is a real Republican from the more ideological spectrum than I am but he would not destroy our party."
Graham to was asked if he thought Cruz could defeat Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton, to which Graham replied, "Yes sir."
He added that the other options, current GOP front-runner Donald Trump or a candidate not on the ballot like House Speaker Paul Ryan, would "destroy" the Republican Party.
"I'm trying to get us the most viable nominee for 2016 without destroying the party," he added. "I think Trump destroys the party and if you parachute somebody in and try to ignore millions of votes, you're going to destroy this party. So we go right back to Ted."
Follow Jeff Poor on Twitter @jeff_poor

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Enjoy an afternoon of safe and fun trick-or-treating at St. Mark's. The children will find a special treat waiting for them at every station throughout the building (while supplies last). Each station is decorated for the season, and of course has free candy.
FREE Community Event!
Admission is free for children
preschool age to 4th grade
Some shots from last year's Trick or Treat (click images to enlarge)


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Hi folks, I significant bug has poped up and been fixed since the last 4.0 build. It was possible to get a ClassCastException when using the failover transport and using temporary topics. Also some minor fixes were done to the stomp connector. The https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator/activemq/tags/activemq-4.0/activemq tag has been updated. The binary distributions are now at: http://people.apache.org/~chirino/incubator-activemq-4.0/maven1/incubator-activemq/distributions/ The maven 1 repository layout for this release is at: http://people.apache.org/~chirino/incubator-activemq-4.0/maven1/ The maven 2 repository layout for this release is at: http://people.apache.org/~chirino/incubator-activemq-4.0/maven2/ I think we are in the home stretch for this release. I think we just need to square away the JIRA and fix up some nice release notes on the wiki. Is anything else missing? -- Regards, Hiram
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BOYLE, John Wellington
At the Brampton Civic Hospital, Brampton, on Monday, December 5, 2016. John Boyle, age 85 of Bolton, was the beloved husband of Marie (Beddome) Boyle. Loving father of Vera Robinson (Peter Gunn) of Caledon East, Candice Plibersek of Etobicoke, Lori Nielsen (Paul) of British Columbia, Jack Boyle (Marilyn Doonan) of Brinston and Debbie Hulstein (Terry) of Alberta. Loving grandfather of Krysta (Mike), Daniel (Cass), Jack, William (Jaclyn), Andrew, Cody (Caitlin), Thomas, Amber-Lea, Curtis (Allie) and Tia (Calvin). Great-grandfather of Savannah, Elijah, Leelynd and Ivy. Son of the late George and Ruth Boyle. Brother of Ethel Ryan (Sidney) and the late Vera Laundry (Bill). Fondly remembered by many nieces, nephews and friends. A graveside service will take place at Emmanuel Cemetery, Maynooth, in the spring of 2017. As expressions of sympathy, donations to The Alzheimer Society of Hastings-Prince Edward would be appreciated by the family. Arrangements entrusted to M.G. Daly Funeral Home, Maynooth. Cards available at the funeral home 613-338-3259 or email condolences to email@example.com or visit www.mgdalyfuneralhome.com.
Although we will sadly miss him, his love will live on in his wise words, the ways he shaped who we are and in the memories of family times that will always be close to our hearts.


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4PawsTech LED Collars are Perfect for Dark Nights
- Details
- Category: Tracking Tech
- Written by Stacy Mantle
The days are getting shorter and the nights a bit longer, which makes finding our pets who need to come indoors at night a bit harder to find. Even in a yard, they can be difficult to track down if they don't run up to you. That's why we like the new LED collars from 4PawsTech.
- Variety of Colors
- LED-light is bright
- USB Rechargeable lithium ion battery
- 3 Modes: Fast Flash, Slow Flash, Constant On
- Great for walking or in yard
Way too many dogs are killed by cars at night because they escape from a yard and are nearly invisible in the dark. The 4PawsTech collar ensures you can see them during the day or on the darkest night.
Read more: 4PawsTech LED Collars are Perfect for Dark Nights


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Audio Visual System Integration
From the most basic AV control system system to state of the art interactive technologies, Wave Logic utilises the most reliable and advanced audio visual equipment. Each component is carefully selected by Wave Logic's team of experts to ensure the best possible performance of your audio visual installation.
To supply clients with the most advanced products Wave Logic works with some of the world's biggest AV equipment vendors including AMX, Creston, Extron, Hitachi, NEC, Panasonic, Samsung, SHARP, Sony, Sonance, Vivitek and others.
Our expertise in AV and Broadcast system integration
- Board room and meeting room automation
- Lecture theatres and training rooms
- Interactive technologies
- Intuitive control systems
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JetBlue has added two new routes to the Caribbean commencing from New York's JFK Airport. Starting January 17, 2008, the airline introduces service to St. Maarten, with a flight departing JFK at 9:35 a.m. and arriving in St. Maarten at 2:40 p.m. On January 10, 2008, JetBlue begins service to Puerto Plata in the Dominican Republic. That daily flight departs JFK at 10:30 a.m. and arrives in Puerto Plata at 3:20 p.m. This is good news for travelers who want a little beach time but who don't want to arrive at JFK at 5:30 a.m. to catch a plane. Additionally, the flight to St. Maarten should allow for some late-afternoon connections to St. Barths, Anguilla, Saba, and St. Eustatius. Puerto Plata is an increasingly popular point of entry to the Dominican Republic's north shore, within easy reach of resorts in Cabarete and Sosua, as well as a string of all-inclusives in Puerto Plata itself.
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Monday, 13 October 2014
New Release: Selene - Paradise Over (October 2014)
Northern Irish symphonic power metallers Selene will be releasing their new EP Paradise Over exclusively through Bandcamp on October 17th, followed by all major music platforms on October 24th.
Within the first week of release, their debut release Among the Frozen reached the top 15 in the Symphonic Metal, Power Metal and Gothic metal worldwide charts on Bandcamp, even managing to break the top 10 in Power metal. The Physical CD also reached number 3 in the metal category.
Paradise Over follows the trend Selene set on their debut EP while also creating a new heavier sound thanks in part to the new members Cameron Ashlund-Glass (Darkest Era) and Thomas Alford (Sandstone).
The EP features 6 tracks:
Facing the Mirror
Not Enough
Still Dreaming
Paradise Over
Fade Away
Hourglass Fading
The EP is incredibly beautiful with some really dark and heavy elements that make this release feel like a seasoned symphonic metal offering. The artwork is very striking and the attention to detail on this release is clearly evident. The band are still young, only forming in 2013.
The line up consists of: Shonagh Lyons on vocals, John Connor on guitar and keyboards, Thomas Alford on bass and Cameron Åhslund-Glass on drums.
You can follow the band on:
Originally posted by Emma Sheridan on Femetalism.
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When a professional athlete tears a muscle or similar, it makes news. But
anyone who plays sport or is involved in hard physical effort can be injured
and the most vulnerable are children and adolescents, middle-aged athletes
and women. More and more sports and fitness enthusiasts include massage
as a part of their conditioning programmes. Deep Tissue Massage is
not just for the professional athlete or the person who is training for the
Olympics. It is for everyone and needs to be looked at as a health benefit
and not a luxury. People just like you and me are including deep tissue massage as part of
their regular healthy living programmes. Almost anyone can benefit from
treatment, athlete or not.
Whenever you exercise or exert yourself heavily, small amounts of swelling
occur in the muscle because of tiny tears. Therefore massage, after the event,
will help reduce the swelling, loosen tired, stiff muscles, help maintain
flexibility, promote circulation and more oxygen to the muscle, and
help to remove the waste products of energy generation. The deep neuro – muscular massage will help
speed up recovery time and alleviate any soreness. Below are descriptions
of the more common forms of deep tissue massage
Athletes from most sports use deep tissue massage Sports variant as part
of their training programme, before and after competition
and tailored specifically for that person and their sport. In
fact a number of athletes have attributed Sports Massage as
a primary reason for their performances and longevity. For
the athlete massage can help improve performance, increase
endurance, and help lower fatigue levels. By reducing
fatigue, athletes can train better with longer and more
effective workouts. When you choose to receive massage
between your workouts, there is a high increase in your
recovery time.
Most people who have not had a sports massage before will start with this. It includes the full body and is a
lighter form of neuro – muscular deep tissue massage penetrating just the top layer of your muscles. It is probably the most
common form of massage. Its main goal is to aid your relaxation and improve your circulation.
The therapist applies oil to your skin and uses flowing strokes and kneading movements to relieve
tension in your muscles. The treatment incorporates light and deep movements, allowing your
mind and body to unwind through the release of tension from your muscles, also stimulating your
body's circulatory systems. Long-term benefits can include an overall feeling of well-being and
increased confidence. It may also help to improve your muscle tone and the appearance of your
These forms of massage refer to styles of treatment that employ a variety of Deep Tissue
manipulation techniques to aid injury recovery. These styles get down into the muscles that are
under the top layer of your skin. They tend to be deeper, slower, and more muscle specific.
They are forms of massage that can help remedy specific acute and chronic conditions such as
frozen shoulder, neck pain, migraine and sciatica. This type of massage is more vigorous and
uses various movement strokes to loosen your muscles. It helps break patterns of tension,
relieves chronic pain, including inflammation-related pain such as tendonitis, and improves range
of motion.
Sports Massage therapy is a form of deep soft tissue manipulation that uses several specific
techniques to treat physically active individuals, anyone involved in heavy-duty physical activities
and sport performance who may be more vulnerable to injury because of the stresses placed on
their body by exertion. Sports massage can relieve niggling aches and pains before they develop
into more serious overuse injuries. It can also be great for post event relaxation and recovery,
and help to relieve stress, tension, and fatigue. Sports massage is generally used to provide
rehabilitation from soft tissue injury, to maintain muscular conditioning and joint flexibility for
competition, in order to maximise athletic potential. In addition it eases the effects caused by
severe exercise such as myofascial shortening i.e. restrictions in your body's contractile (muscle)
and non-contractile supportive (fascia) connective tissues. Therefore it can help keep your body
flexible, aid your performance, and assist you in rehabilitation from injuries.
Sports massage can be used to help you prepare for physical activity, assist in the prevention of
injuries, and aid in your recovery from physical exertion after competition or training. Although,
as its name implies, Sports massage is a form more geared towards the athlete, it is equally
effective in dealing with the problems caused by heavy work and the stresses of everyday living.
Commonly known benefits include relaxation, improved circulation and relief of muscle tension.
Fitness enthusiasts/athletes will find that these forms of deep tissue massage help to improve their
flexibility; muscles tend not to be as sore and stiff; it helps in their recovery time, and reduces the
anxiety of athletic competition.
Conditions, which in general respond well to deep tissue techniques are: muscle pain and
stiffness, strains, sprains, repetitive strain injuries, sore spots and muscle tension. It should be
noted that even though these forms of massage will help certain injuries to heal you should also
seek medical advice, as some injuries may need to be immobilised. Deep Tissue Massage is safe
and effective, and if performed correctly should have few side effects.
Our ability to refer between our specialists at The Welwyn and Hatfield Practice has lifted us above the usual single therapy clinics. Our experience and patient based care is unique. Our "triage" methods are often only available at " last resort" NHS Pain Clinics and again where all conventional methods have failed. Call us on 01707 888229.


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Found "professionary made" fake sweets are exquisit.
Really closely copied features of fruits and swets.
I love beautiful cakes and puddings, but don't need to eat them all. In such cases, fake sweets give me a pleasure of looking at faburous "sweet look" and more, never go off.
Actually, I might go and buy a real macron and have it with a nice cup of tea.
Earrings with Gothic Hearts
The combination of fake sweets and tsumami craft to make a matching bottole and a pair of earrings.
Originally, I thought this as a gift wrapping, but as the second thought, decided that this can be just a set of a container and earrings.
This rather sweet Gothic earrings can be used for Halloween parties, can't it?
Bunch of Flowers
Set up the space in Tokyu Hands in the Sunday morning.
It was raining heavily, and wasn't the best day to bring stuff to anywhere else.
But still...
They are there now!
This is one of the stuff I brought to Hands Garalley Market.
2 way clip with some flowers and a butterfly.
It may be handy when you use a stole or a scarf.
Crane the winter bird.
Morning rain drop the temperature, and brought autumn.... almost.
Yesterday, as I was watching the weekly weather forecast, the highest temperature of the day continue to reach 30'c till the end of September.
This gave me feel weird - over 30'c at the end of September?!
Global warming and climet change must be happening.
Small pins with a cherry blossom.
It supposed to represent Spring, and suitable only to wear in Spring.
This flower, however, is the national flower of Japan.
So, it is considered to use sakura motif all through the year as Kimono patterns.
These pins will be nice to be used with other hair accessories.
Plum Petals
This week end was filled with meetings with friends.
There were lots to be caught up.
Each one of them told me various stories related to their fileds, which most probably I will not experience.
After such lovely conversations, now I feel I must do what I need to do.
Faburous weekend with wonder food and drink!
Little Petals
Star Flower
Hair pins with blue flowers.
I feel that pins add their charm when it lined in various colours. So, more pins are on their way!
LIttle by little, talking to my schedule, preparations for the next events are making progress.
Hope the temprature falls a little bit more... temperature wise, still it's summer in Japan.


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Tosin is someone we've known for a while now and I think anyone who follows his Social Media pages will agree about his excellent taste in music. He finds the gems. So, we've asked Tosin to share with us his favourite album art and then create a playlist with songs from these albums. Enjoy!
I like to believe that artists try to convey a message with their album covers, I personally see them as soundless or better still visual tracks. Undoubtedly the quality of the music helps our mind set on the matter but there's also that little old thing called, subjectivity. I know I'm not the only one who's decided to get an album solely because of its cover art and nine out of ten times I'm glad I did.
There are so many ways to categorize album covers little wonder why we call it artwork. Some Artists certainly put in effort to get the right one for an album (topic for another day). Just like the way we access our music, the act of album covers has also evolved over the years from the fold-out gatefolds of the vinyl era to pull-out liner notes in CD jewel cases to the small icon on a digital player to thumbnails on our personal computer's music player, but it still defines how we look at a particular album–photographic portraits, paintings, collages, etc.
The purpose of this post is to share a few of my favorite album covers from my vast collection and also my favorite tracks in them, some of those you may be a little puzzled by.
Originally just a protective cover for the fragile crackly goods beneath, it soon evolved into a space for artistic expression in its own right, very often becoming as important as the music itself.
PS: You will not find the most talked about album artworks on the internet. Oh well… 🙂 Feel free to share yours in the comments section.
Uncomfortable by Andy Mineo
Vidde by Atlanter
Pictures On Silence by Atu
Biblical EP by Biffy Clyro
The Bones of What You Believe by Chvrches
Bring Me Your Love by City and Colour
Your Sparkling Death Cometh by Falling Up
Control by Fyfe
Born Sinner by J. Cole
Wolf's Law by The Joy Formidable
Under the Iron Sea by Keane
Black & White America by Lenny Kravitz
Brave Enough by Lindsey Sterling
No Mythologies to Follow by MØ
Beneath the Skin by Of Monsters and Men
Native by One Republic
Black Roses by The Rasmus
Amaryllis by Shinedown
We Are Born by Sia
Vulnerable by The Used
Strange Love by We The Kings
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If you can't watch that, here's a Dropbox folder with the songs and the Song List below:
- I'll Follow You – Shinedown
- Wolves Without Teeth – Of Monsters & Men
- Watch – Biffy Clyro
- Liquid Jesus – Lenny Kravitz
- Ghost of Love – The Rasmus
- Recover – CHVRCHES
- Power Trip (feat. Miguel) – J. Cole
- First Light – Lindsey Sterling
- What Makes a Man – City and Colour
- Solace – Fyfe
- Preacher – One Republic
- Fire Rides – MØ
- Close – Atu
- She – We The Kings
- Make Me A Believer (feat. Mac Powell) – Andy Mineo
- A Bad Dream – Keane
- Tree Song – Atlanter
- Shine – The Used
- I'm in Here – Sia
- Tendons – The Joy Formidable
- Vates – Falling Up
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A selection of facts and expert opinions showing why schemes such as this are doomed to fail.
Shop closures
The number of town centre stores fell by almost 15,000 between 2000 and 2009 with an estimated further 10,000 losses over the past couple of years.
Department for Business, Innovation and Skills/Genecon and Partners (2011): Understanding High Street Performance
953 shops belonging to big retailers closed in the first half of 2012.
More than 30 chain stores closed every day in July and August 2012.
Local Data Company for PricewaterhouseCoopers. October 2012
"Estimated one fifth of shopping centres in financial difficulties
Companies with combined assets of £10 bn are in breach of their covenants and may default. Around 20 secondary shopping centres are already on the market.
Many assets were purchased at the top of the market. Selling them now will further depress prices. But banks like Lloyds are keen to get the no-hopers off their balance sheets."
British Council of Shopping Centres, 2012
Stores that have gone into administration since 2008
Growth in online spending
Annual online spending on clothing increased from £1 billion in 2001 to £12 billion in 2011.
Experian. 'Changing Face of Retail'.
• The average weekly spend online (Internet sales values non-seasonally adjusted) in December 2012 was estimated at £830.3 million, an increase of 15.5% compared with December 2011.
• The amount spent online accounted for 10.6% of all retail spending excluding automotive fuel. •
Office of National Statistics
Capital Shopping Centres, owner of Lakeside and the Trafford Centre, is creating a national brand for its centres and launching a retail website allowing customers to buy from a variety of retailers in one transaction.
"Within small shopping centres (sized between 5,000 sq m and 20,000 sq m) it is likely that the growth of online shopping could reduce turnover notwithstanding any growth in disposable income"
Cheshire retail study update by WYG for Cheshire East and West 2011
People aren't buying more
"The market isn't growing, it's about stealing market share if we're going to grow. I'm optimistic."
Debenhams boss Michael Sharp (The Guardian, Tuesday 8 January 2013)
It's not just about today's economic climate
"Our towns face complex structural problems …..we need to have a complete re-think about how vacant property could be redeveloped into new uses. …The alternative is a period of steady, inexorable and irreversible decline with unacceptable social consequences."
Liz Peace, Chief Executive of the British Property Federation
"The Taskforce recognises that our High Streets are going through a structural recalibration, rather than an economic cycle from which we will emerge over time. The wider economic, consumer and retail markets have moved at a pace that our High Streets and property in general, have not been fast enough to adapt. The reasons for this need careful examination as a way of understanding what the current property-related barriers to rejuvenation are, and what the range of options or solutions could be. "
Mark Williams, Chair of Distressed Town Centre Taskforce and partner at asset managers, Hark Group
Chain stores don't boost the local economy
"90% of spending from supermarkets and chain stores leaks out of the local economy almost immediately."
Sacks, J (2002) The Money Trail
"The problem is not necessarily that too little money flows into a neighbourhood. Rather it is what consumers, public services and businesses do with that money. Too often it is spent on services with no local presence, and so immediately leaves the area."
Government National Strategy for Neighbourhood Renewal 2000
Debenhams job ad info showing low levels of salary offered – not the type of jobs that will boost the local economy
"If every tourist, resident, or business in Cornwall switched just 1% of their spending to local items or services, that would put £52 million of additional direct spending into the local economy every year.
That is £4 million per year more than the money Cornwall gets from the European Union grant called 'Objective 1'."
New Economics Foundation, Plugging the Leaks
"Small businesses are the bedrock of the local economy and the engine of job creation in Manchester and the north west."
Sir Howard Bernstein, Chief Executive Manchester City Council
Lack of viability
Only a quarter of local authority development schemes are progressing as originally planned. The rest have been delayed (c. 30%), temporarily halted (c.20%), permanently stalled (8%) or are still at the concept/master planning stage (c.13%). Of the schemes which are progressing – either with an original or delayed start date – almost 75% are anchored by a food store.
The key problems stated by local authorities were development viability (45%), site assembly (28%), development financing and/or long term funding (27%) and weak occupier demand (23%).
From GVA: Unlocking Town Centre Retail Developments, 2012
In Macclesfield, the proposed anchor is not a food store, but a Debenhams department store. The developers Wilson Bowden were quoted in the Manchester Evening News in June 2012 as saying they did not know when they would secure finance for the scheme, with WB retail director Will Robinson, stating: "Eventually we will go to the financial markets to fund the development, but I do not know when. Once we have planning permission, we'll assess what is the right time."
A Survey by the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors(RICS) revealed a 13% fall in the net balance of businesses looking at retail premises to rent in the final 3 months of 2012. RICS Chief Economist Simon Rubinsohn said "yet another incredibly tough period for the high Street. This downbeat picture doesnt look like changing any time soon, with demand for retail space continuing to drop and more and more empty premises set to blight the country's Town Centres" The survey also found that a balance of 22% more Surveyors expected rents to continue to fall over the coming months.
As the demand for retail premises falls Landlords are urged to reduce rents to help retailers keep stores as customers flock to on-line sales. –
December 2012 – Survey by Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors (RICS).
Wake up Macc note: If rents continue to fall the proposed development is likely to be unviable/unfundable making it too costly to build against likely return on investment. The expected portion of rent return to the Council will also be much reduced.
Independent stores a better bet than national chains?
"Despite the dip in consumer spending, over 2,500 more independent shops were opened in 2011 than were closed down, according to research by the Local Data Company (LDC).
The LDC data shows that although 12,669 independent shops closed last year (2011), 15,233 shops opened. This means that the total number of stores grew by 2,564.
Meanwhile, multiple chains opened 5,094 shops but shut 5,268, leading to a decline of 174 stores."
Too many shops
Space contracts from oversupply
- Since the recession hit there has been a decline in space growth as secondary and tertiary locations have lost out to larger and new shopping locations. Casualties have released space too. The stores in good locations and with large enough space have been taken by competitors,but stores in irrelevant or poor performing locations have closed or moved out of retail entirely.This has hit the smaller store formats and independents particularly.
- Planned shopping centre projects have been put on hold but more will come through over the next five years, however new centres tend to pull from older surrounding ones so displacing demand rather than creating new demand.
- Meanwhile retailers are closing non-profitable stores, shifting to larger stores in better, more relevant locations which is increasing the average store size but reducing the number of stores.
- The main losers are small independents who cannot generate the footfall to cover their increasing costs, and secondary and tertiary centres.
- In addition the internet reduces the need for more stores and a new location model is emerging.
Verdict/SAS: UK retail 2012 and beyond
Matthew Hopkinson, director of the Local Data Company, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: "We probably have 20,000 too many shops.
Retailers run too many outlets amid rise of online shopping, survey found
Deloitte estimates that online sales account for the equivalent of more than 60m square feet of retail space. This is set to increase further and could render large amounts of shop space obsolete. The firm predicted in March that up to four out of 10 shops would have to shut in the next five years. The ones that remain will have to adapt to suit customers' changing habits. Retail experts believe the high street will change beyond recognition, and be lined with coffee shops and internet kiosks.
Hugo Clark, director in Deloitte's real estate team and author of the report, says: "The death of the high street is far from being a reality, yet stores are now just one part of a larger, more connected customer experience. Shops now represent a potentially clumsy, fixed point in an increasingly mobile world. In many cases, they are slow and costly to adapt, expensive to operate and difficult to relinquish once surplus to requirements."
LDC Report Warns: Too Many Shops
The LDC's report, entitled, "Too Many Shops," collected data from 145,000 shops in 506 town centres. The conclusion reached after the results were analysed was that falling consumer spending and the global financial crisis are key factors in the current retail slump.
Consumers are cautious about their spending and are looking for the best prices when they shop, which means their habits have changed over time. More buyers are turning to the Web when making purchases, which means brick and mortar stores have even more competition than the shop down the street or across town. According to the Centre for Retail Research, online retail sales in the UK are expected to reach £57.39 billion in 2012, representing an increase of 14 per cent over 2011 figures. With this shift in buying habits, the face of retail shopping may be changed forever.
Successful town centres of the future
"A town or city centre that offers its own diverse and distinctive environment, with a strong sense of place, is a magnet that attracts people to work, visit and live. But it has to meet several key challenges in order to survive and succeed.
It must have its own unique identity, using architecture, events, marketing and all forms of media to reinforce vital points of difference.
We believe a successful town centre generates an abundance of opportunities for growth, local employment, wealth and social interactions that are invaluable to the nation. Town centres are a focal point for a huge range of activity; the 'service centre' for each local community. This goes way beyond just retailing and includes public services, arts, culture and commercial and office-based businesses as well as educational institutions, tourism, hospitality and leisure (including the night time economy) and much more."
Association of Town Centre Management: A Manifesto for Town Centres and High Streets
"Build on existing strengths. A local historic specialisation, a natural amenity or community feature may set a destination apart. New developments should make the most of these assets to create a unique sense of place.
There is no escaping the fact that Britain's high streets will continue to be impacted by the growth of multi-channel, out of town and regional centres over the long term, and in the medium term by reduced consumer expenditure in uncertain economic times.
In many locations retail is only part of the answer for high street viability and needs to be complemented by a range of leisure and cultural activities. The way in which high street policy is viewed has been altered by the economic downturn but structural changes to the retail sector, and the high street in particular, have been apparent for many years. Government figures show that the number of town centre stores fell by almost 15,000 between 2000 and 2009, with estimates of a further 10,000 losses over the past couple of years.
The challenges high streets face are structural not cyclical and policy makers must not assume a return to previous economic models. Even if the economy recovers quickly, this does not mean our high streets will automatically prosper."
British Retail Consortium: 21st Century High Streets: What Next For Britain's Town Centres?
The Portas Review 2012: Independent review into the future of the High Street
"High streets are about so much more than shopping. This review isn't just about retail or what's in the interests of the local shopkeeper. High streets should be seen as a civic not a private space. A shared resource in which people come together to create value and share experiences.
My vision for the future of high streets is of multifunctional and social places which offer a clear and compelling purpose and experience that's not available elsewhere, and which meets the interests and needs of the local people. We need to start a conversation about what we need and what we want our high streets to be. To put the heart back into our high streets, inspire that connection between local people and their home town, and instill pride in belonging to a unique place.
This may sound hopelessly idealistic. But those who see high streets purely as a commercial retail mix need to think again.
Let me spell out my vision of the future.
I don't want to live in a Britain that doesn't care about community.
And I believe that our high streets are a really important part of building communities and pulling people together in a way that a supermarket or shopping mall, however convenient, however entertaining and however slick, just never can.
I want to put the heart back into the centre of our high streets, re-imagined as destinations for socialising, culture, health, wellbeing, creativity and learning. Places that will develop and sustain new and existing markets and businesses. The new high streets won't just be about selling goods. The mix will include shops but could also include housing, offices, sport, schools or other social, commercial and cultural enterprises and meeting places. They should become places where we go to engage with other people in our communities, where shopping is just one small part of a rich mix of activities.
This will be the new value.
High streets must be ready to experiment, try new things, take risks and become destinations again. They need to be spaces and places that people want to be in. High streets of the future must be a hub of the community that local people are proud of and want to protect."
Mary Portas
Government response to the Portas review
Rt. Hon David Cameron MP, Prime Minister:
"Mary's review made the challenge crystal clear. Internet shopping and out-of-town shopping centres are not going to go away – they offer the convenience and choice that customers welcome. So for our high streets to thrive they must offer something new and different.
But for this to happen it is local people who must take control, developing the vision for the future of their high streets and putting their energy and enthusiasm into making it a reality."
Rt. Hon Grant Shapps MP, Minister for Housing and Local Government:
"Over the past few decades, the way we shop has changed dramatically. Far from the high street being our first choice, we now have the option to visit out-of-town centres offering free parking and a range of outlets under one roof, and to buy our goods and services online from the comfort of our sofas.
These two key challenges have left our high streets in a fragile state, and all too often the closure of one key store can trigger the downfall of a whole town centre. So our high streets cannot simply rely on retail – they have to offer something new and different that neither shopping centres nor the internet can match. Supporting local co-operatives and social enterprises, for example, should be part of an approach to ensure diverse and competitive high streets."
Twenty-First Century Town Centres
"High streets and town centres that are fit for the 21st century need to be multifunctional social centres, not simply competitors for stretched consumers. They must offer irresistible opportunities and experiences that do not exist elsewhere, are rooted in the interests and needs of local people, and will meet the demands of a rapidly changing world."
Action for Market Towns (2011)
"Wanting to go into town is different from wanting or needing to shop. It is about an experience. It is about sociability and relaxation, creativity and being part of something you cannot get at home or work."
Jan Gehl (2010): Cities for People
Don't abandon retail. People will always want the High Street
"No one is under any illusion that the high street model of today is sustainable. There are 46,000 empty shops and that's way too many. Yes, the model of yesterday has gone and town centres will never be the same in an era of omni-channel retailing. But that's still no reason to throw the baby out with the bathwater and give up on retail.
With reduced consumer spending, too many failed local authority regeneration efforts and counterproductive car parking rises, increased overheads in the form of unrealistic business rates has made retail simply no longer viable in many places.
If we want to see diverse high streets with great shops once again at the heart of our communities then Government seriously needs to take a radical approach to business rates, which are proving to be a hindrance to entrepreneurial drive. We're becoming a nation that takes a lot in taxes but gives nothing back."
Paul Turner-Mitchell: The Northerner Blog (The Guardian) 21 September 2012


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Marie Brémont
Brémont's first husband, Constant LeMaitre, was killed in World War I, and Brémont remarried, to Florentin Brémont, who was a taxi driver. He died in 1967.
During her life, Brémont worked in a pharmaceutical factory, as a seamstress, and as a nanny. She was hit by a car in 1989 when she was 103, and broke her arm.
For her 115th birthday party on 25 April 2001, Brémont donned a red dress, and shared strawberry cake as well as a glass of white wine with her friends at the retirement home. She listened as three girls, born a century after Brémont, sang a song written by nursing home staff. By that time, Brémont's hearing and sight had been reported to have deteriorated; Brémont, however, told the nursing home director after her party that she was "proud to be the doyenne of humanity".
Born to a poor rural family, Brémont went to Paris in 1906 at 20 to find work. As she says, "My eyes were wide open. I marvelled at everything. Oh, the Eiffel Tower! In the workshop, with my colleagues, we often talked about a strange invention: the television".
Brémont settled in western France, where she lived until 106. She moved into a Cande nursing home in 1992 upon the insistence of her doctor. Brémont initially contested the move, but later confessed, "I'm well cared for here".
On 3 January 1999, when 1886-born Jeanne Durmaine died after a 300-day reign as the oldest living Frenchwoman, Brémont became the oldest living French, four months before her 113th birthday.
Brémont died on 6 June 2001 at age 115 years, 42 days, ending her 216-day reign as the world's oldest person and her 2-year, 154-day reign as the oldest living Frenchwoman. She was succeeded as the world's oldest person on the day before her death by Maude Farris-Luse, who was born on 21 January 1887 and who herself died the next year. When Brémont died at 2.15am on 6 June, it was 8.15pm on 5 June 2001 when Maude Farris-Luse took the title, meaning she took on the eve of her predecessor's death in her own time zone. Brémont currently ranks as the 25th oldest person on record, behind Farris-Luse.


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In general, it's hard to fault someone who tries to pay as little in taxes as possible as long as it's legal -- and, no matter how rigged (to use a Trumpism) the tax system is for the rich, Trump has at least so far never been convicted of tax fraud.
But what is revolting is that Trump has shown no remorse about, much less any willingness to help, all those people he stiffed. And given what we now about his self-described tactics, it's hard not to suspect that he knew he was going to screw all those people who believed in him from the beginning.
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Authorities said no foul play is suspected in the death of a missing San Francisco man found Wednesday morning in Mendocino County.
The body of Joshua Piszczek, 35, was spotted by a deputy around 7:18 a.m. in a lake at Laytonville's Mendocino Magic campground, the Mendocino County Sheriff's Office said. Piszczek was attending a music festival at the 600-acre Branscomb Road property when he went missing.
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A massive fraud case involving the federal government's Lifeline Program, which doles out "Obamaphones," is beginning to unravel. A group of individuals, including a Mexican national from Cancun, stole more than $27 million from the government welfare program.
On November 7, the Mexican national, Oscar Enrique Perez-Zumaeta, admitted to a prominent role in the scheme; he plead guilty to laundering proceeds to defraud the federal government through the Obamaphone program. According to the FBI, five months ago the owner of ICON Telecom, Inc., Wes Yui Chew, plead guilty to illegally taking more than $27 million from the program.
Perez-Zumaeta and Chew allegedly worked together in the scheme.
The Lifeline program was created during the Reagan administration in 1985 to help poor Americans get access to telephones. It was dubbed the "Obamaphone" program because it has been significantly increased in size and scope since Obama became president. U.S. taxpayers shelled out $2.189 billion for the program in 2012, up from about $800 million prior to 2008 (when Lifeline began offering subsidized cellphones).
Critics have pointed out that the government-subsidized phone program is rife with fraud. According to the Wall Street Journal, in 2012 nearly half of the 6 million people who received the government-funded cell phones "either couldn't demonstrate their eligibility or didn't respond to requests for certification."
Despite the fact that the federal government often fails to verify eligibility for the program, there are rules in place to ensure only the needy receive the welfare.
Lifeline gives subsidies to telephone companies who participate in the program. Before receiving such funds, participating companies are required to report the number of eligible Lifeline customers they have served to Obama's Federal Communications Commission (FCC). The phone companies are then asked to file additional reports by January 31, every year, "to certify that customers who received Lifeline service at an earlier date remain eligible for the program," according to the FBI.
ICON Telecom, owned by Chew exclusively, participated in the Lifeline Program. In late 2011, ICON reported having fewer than 12,000 customers who qualified for the subsidized phones. By that same time next year, however, the company reported having more than 135,000 customers who qualified. Between 2011 and 2013, ICON received $58,283,329 from the federal government for its involvement in Lifeline.
Chew allegedly worked with Perez-Zumaeta to rip off the feds. According to the FBI, Perez-Zumaeta owned PSPS Sales LCC, which supposedly recruited low-income individuals to apply for government-subsidized phones. ICON paid PSPS over $1 million between 2011 and 2013.
Perez-Zumaeta allegedly instructed his employees to enroll fake people in the Obamaphone program on behalf of ICON. The Mexican man did this by "forging Lifeline application forms" from names he found using a phone book, the FBI reported. He additionally instructed colleagues in Mexico to "falsify approximately 40,000 Lifeline recertification forms for use in ICON's fraudulent scheme."
On Friday, Perez-Zumaeta plead guilty to laundering $52,000 received from ICON.
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Hester Prynne, sympathetic heroine of The Scarlet Letter; Nathaniel Hawthorne, suffered fictional but historically accurate indignities for her adultery. The novel was set in 1642. It now seems as if the Tea Party, ALEC, and the Koch Brothers are leading us on a sentimental (for them) journey for the country back to that time of intrusive intolerance, misogyny and brutality towards women and everyone else that is not a member of the white male fraternity of the self important.
Fetal ultrasound legislation is being expedited or has already passed in seven states and is being considered in 18 others. Planned Parenthood has been defunded in nine states that have a GOP-controlled government.
In Tennessee, the legislative cultural conservatives now intend to brand a woman, exercising her judgment and informed by her own doctor, with a Scalet Letter "A" for abortion -- almost literally. A bill to publicly brand, figuratively but still dangerously, doctors participating in an abortion or even women electing to have an abortion is making its way to law. They propose that the state government publish names and locations and medical histories of people that offend their 17th-century puritanical morality. This is utterly the last straw. It's a violation of habeas corpus, the 14th amendment right to privacy and in its intent, slander, as the purpose of this government "revenge" is to impugn the reputations of all concerned so much so that they may end up targets of the extremely violent right-to-life zealots. The GOP has declared war on women and I for one will now reciprocate in kind on women's behalf. Violence toward women is utterly and completely unacceptable from an individual and as a political movement it's well beyond vile.
In this legislative rush in GOP-controlled state governments, more is revealed than a seemingly righteous semi-respectable pro-life philosophy though. Frankly, everyone is pro-life, the pro-choice maybe even more so --they probably having thought more about it than the knee-jerk doctrinaires who man the pickets outside our nation's Planned Parenthood facilities. Pro choice is pro life. It's pro life in the affirmative sense of making sure your life doesn't end up a cascade of tragedy heaped on your disabled child, your unintended child, yourself, your family, your immediate community and your government.
I can though, thoroughly, respect anguish at the thought of an aborted fetus. It is a personal choice. More accurately it's a personal agony of self doubt and anguish that's not known to any who've not made the choice. The consequences of choice don't stop with the making of a choice. The consequences go on and on. Any of the three roads that is chosen for an unplanned pregnancy has lifelong consequences. I have first hand knowledge of all three of those roads. The choice to abort leads to a lifetime of guilt and what ifs. The choice to carry to term and surrender to adoption instills self recrimination and wondering but more intensely. In the former case a fetus was terminated and the latter a human being was abandoned. The latter is harder, much, much harder. That latter will break even the strongest spirit. The third path is to keep and commit to a life with an unplanned or disabled child, which is as perilous and laborious an undertaking as most people will ever attempt.
Most, if not all people and certainly every woman, understand that the bringing of a life to term or the abortion of a fetus is a life-changing event. "Informed consent" is the rationale conservatives have cut and sewn out of whole cloth to heap pain on people, pain onto women, who are, already in the crossroads of choice, embracing the certainty of a lifetime of degrees of regret. "Informed consent" is not intended to inform. It is a euphemism for inflicting humiliation on those that dare to defy the mores of a moribund religious establishment that cannot give up the reigns of running everyone's life down to the molecules of a woman's fertility. "Informed consent" is the sadistic grin on the faces of old self righteous men who in their lifetimes will never understand that life and death choices are and always were the near exclusive business of women.
Abortion is not new. It's been practiced ever since mankind figured out how to do it. It was done in biblical times and the Bible does not mention the practice at all. Mostly, fetuses are considered property up until they are five years old. The penalty for killing a child up to five years old seems to be a civil matter in the Bible. The Catholic Church, for one, wants to assert that life begins at conception even though the only evidence of that as message included in the Bible is that biblical figures themselves were fashioned by God in the womb of some woman or another. Regular folks are not accorded that status. Simply, there's no explicit support in the Bible for the notion that life begins at conception. Religious authorities have just made this up. Their motives in abhorring abortion seem partnered with opposition to contraception. Both appear to be adopted policy in order to grow the flock in order to grow power and wealth and influence. At certain points in history that might have seemed justified, but no longer. All it is now is anachronistic, cruelly anachronistic.
The legislative agenda of the right-to-life legislatures is to brand women as social outcasts just as Hester Prynne was branded and humiliated by her Puritan theocracy. These throwback Puritans are the social conservatives. Social conservatives, effectively, are all Republicans.
Moderate Republicans drove conservatives from the control room of the party 50 years ago. The radical social conservatives never went away though, they just stayed quiet and dutifully voted Republican for 50 years. Now they are back and with 50 years of insane frustration to vent and the time to vent it is now. Their frustrated cause is manifest in the virtual coup d' etat they are attempting on the 80 years of progressive thought and legislation that business, most of the clergy, nearly all of main stream political organizations have accepted for what it is, right and rational. The long dormant conservatives, powered by the billions of the Koch brothers whose father was a founder of the John Birch Society, seem determined to be the the new Puritans. Godless communism is the titular enemy of the conservatives, but in some zealotry stew, women, blacks, Latinos, science and education, along with the democracy they purport to defend, appear to be threats to them. They are lashing out at all these threats at once and now. The breadth and depth and speed of these attacks has not abated since they were bought office in 2010. Thank you SCOTUS.
But then conservatism was never about democracy. It was about a impunity of self-serving white men and feudalism for everyone else. Conservatism is bigotry, the definition of it. Conservatism is sexism, the definition of it. Conservatism is plutocratic rule dressed up in theocratic dogma. I know; I was recruited by the John Birch Society when I was 16 years old.
Left up to the conservatives, there will be 21st-century Hester Prynnes as there were 17th-century Hester Prynnes, pilloried and shunned and humiliated at the pleasure of old white men with nothing better to do than pry and judge and punish in seeking a new world order of religious utopia, a cold white-knuckled lonely heartless frustrated utopia for themselves and no one else.
The brutality of the Puritans is legendary. Expect no less from the 21st-century conservative. Prepare to be branded or prepare to be political.


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Although the technology and engineering industries are constantly changing, employment in their niche sectors remains steady. Over the next decade, however, jobs in these industries won't remain steady any longer – they'll actually experience significant growth. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, tech job creation will outpace total job creation at 12 percent growth compared to the nation's 6.5 percent growth over the next decade. Engineering will also see positive growth with a steady 2.7 percent increase through 2024.
Which specific tech jobs and engineering jobs will see the most growth in the next ten years? Look no further than the comprehensive list below!
Wind Turbine Service Technicians
The boom in alternate energy is only sustainable if there are skilled workers to support it. These technicians ensure that wind turbines maintain maximum performance, helping society to harvest wind power efficiently. Supporting a plethora of engineers in the energy sector, this job is projected to see 108 percent growth by 2024.
Software Developers, Applications
It's not just smartphones users that are finding the value in applications! Industries ranging from banking to entertainment are pursuing opportunities with applications, both on mobile devices and on desktop. As the Internet of Things continues to flourish, applications will only see further growth. These professionals are expected to increase by 18.8 percent in the next decade.
Computer Systems Analysts
An important but often underutilized role, Computer Systems Analysts will experience 21 percent growth through 2024. These tech professionals find efficiencies in computer systems and procedures, then design solutions that will help the business. A true intersection of business and IT, this role is one we're glad to see make the list!
Biomedical Engineers
These professionals are one of the cornerstones of the healthcare industry. They combine medical knowledge and engineering science to create a variety of tools to aid in medical care. As the general population ages, these positions will become even more needed. That's just one of the reasons why the BLS anticipates 23 percent job growth for these engineers.
Website Developers
From design to technical specs, Web Developers are typically the leads on website creation and maintenance. As we shift from a pen and pencil technology to a digital realm, websites are increasing in importance for businesses and individuals alike. Website Developers can expect to see 27 percent job growth over the next ten years.
Computer Support Specialists
As long as people are using computers, they will need support when issues arise. Computer Support Specialists are there to save the day and help users when computer issues arise. They're vital in maintaining optimum performance with staff, especially when new programs and systems are installed. These IT pros will see 12 percent job growth through 2024.


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Over the years the Albury Wodonga Community College has maintained a unique position as a cross border Education provider, registered in Victoria and New South Wales as an ACE provider and RTO. The AWCC supports other smaller Victorian rural towns with Affiliated Centres who maintain their local autonomy. The AWCC works with a wide range of education providers, community and government agencies and links with community services providing a holistic network of delivery and referral.
Building upon past history and experience AWCC has undertaken an extensive renewal process to establish a sound and innovative base to enter the new millennium.
The AWCC has developed a leadership style, which is quite demanding. The goals for the organisation are broad to enable quick responses to needs as they are expressed across the community. As a community based provider the AWCC has faced and taken on challenges, responding with both innovation and vigour to greet the coming years ahead.


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Before starting a business based on an old brand, make sure the trademarks are "dead."
That's the advice of some intellectual-property lawyers, citing a pending lawsuit brought by department-store giant Macy's Inc. against Strategic Marks LLC, a start-up founded by Ellia Kassoff of Newport Coast, Calif.
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SAS workplace again heralded among Europe's best multinationals
Great Place to Work® recognises companies exhibiting high-trust workplace cultures
For decades, analytics powerhouse SAS has been acknowledged worldwide as a leader and innovator in workplace culture, putting people first as a business imperative. As yet another testament to this approach, the company has again been listed among Europe's top multinational workplaces by Great Place to Work®.
In 2016, more than 2,250 companies participated in surveys spanning 19 countries. SAS emerged among European leaders, having ranked among the top 10 in Switzerland, Spain, Portugal, Ireland and Greece over the past year. SAS has appeared on the European list since its inception in 2002.
"It's great that SAS has once again been recognised as a top European employer. The overall result is based on strong employee satisfaction scores, as well as the in-depth assessment of the talent management strategy," said Sue Warman, Human Resources Director, Northern Europe and Russia/CIS. "I'm especially pleased about the investment made in our Inside Sales and Customer Contact Centre based in Dublin, supporting sales into markets across EMEA. This has grown substantially and caters for a different employee demographic. We now have a substantial presence there just a year on and a range of Ireland specific policies and employment offerings, including a refined flexible benefits package. We have also established a dedicated HR and recruitment presence to focus on the specific needs of the Ireland based teams."
SAS, a perennial on best workplace lists, ranked #2 among multinational workplaces worldwide in 2015. The company has also earned honours as an attractive workplace for millennials, women, and recent graduates. Celebrating its 40th anniversary alongside 40 years of consecutive growth and profitability, SAS reaffirms the commitment to work/life balance that began 40 years ago, before such policies were commonplace.
"I'm particularly pleased that the excellent results of Spain and Portugal directly contributed to the European GPTW award this year," said Gunter Cools, SAS Human Resource Director for South West Europe. "Two-and-a-half years ago, we created a new Iberia region; these rankings represent the success of the transition. SAS' employee-oriented culture is based on trust, camaraderie and pride. Our employees came together into a fantastic Iberia organisation in which we can maximise cross-country collaboration while keeping country identity in place."
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I'm looking for a Store that sells electronic components, breadboards, capacitors, antennas, mounts, ect.
I'm looking for a Store that sells electronic components, breadboards, capacitors, antennas, mounts, ect.
I am having so much fun, I don't know how to act ... Living the Dream, every day is an adventure, every night a honeymoon, every meal a banquet, every paycheck a bonus!
I am in the same boat since RS closed next to the Winn Dixie
Isn't there one in Ormond Beach?
Mon - Sat 9:00AM - 9:00PM
Sun 10:00AM
And St Augustine ?
Mon - Thu 9:00AM - 8:00PM
Fri - Sat 9:00AM - 9:00PM
Sun 10:00AM - 7:00PM
Or check here for other areas (hint: set mileage higher)
There is always on-line but you have to wait for your parts to arrive in the mail.
I'm a black and white type of guy, the only gray in my life is the hair on my head!
I heard that there is a 'sublet' store in Bunnell that bought Radio Shack's 'sell-out supply' and just changed it's name. I will see if I can find it. I think they are on SR 100. I was glad to hear about them, but didn't need them as of yet as i still have a decent supply of parts and gadgets for my radio room. Anyone going to this called 'Ham Fest' in Flagler Beach?
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I was buying all my D' addario guitar strings there. Guess I will go back out Old kings rd to z music.
In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary act. George Orwell
~Don't even think about it! ~
Z Music isn't so bad in prices for strings but you should check out the pawn store on SR 100 just west of Belle Terre on the north side of the road in that long ranch style house w/ the ramp and railing. I found a good supply of stuff there! Just an idea. Much cheaper and quality seems to be par still!
Here: http://siliconangle.com/blog/2015/02...ll-diy-ers-go/
Hint: The best may be: http://www.youdoitelectronics.com/products.html
And this one: http://www.frys.com/template/ecomponents
Learn to GOOGLE!!!! It does work, or so it seems....
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Google is fine and dandy and we all know it's there,but I like asking for help and giving help................ And besides, I cannot get GOOGLE to locate local suppliers sometimes........
Love that ROOT, so direct! I stand ashamed! Thanks....
Google did not give any local outlets. Not everyone wants to shop online. Some like to walk in and touch and look and perhaps ask questions before buying.
VV that was rude. Did something crawl up your ass and die?
You might also consider that someone less tolerant might consider such a recommendation to "Learn" to be a bit condescending and possibly out right rude.
Of course that is just my opinion and of no real consequence, unlike your opinion which clearly carries the weight of the all powerful Oz.
No place like home . No place like home. Crap is that a flying monkey emerging from your butt? O E O O O
I am having so much fun, I don't know how to act ... Living the Dream, every day is an adventure, every night a honeymoon, every meal a banquet, every paycheck a bonus!
I Find the sites I frequent and trust are better than a long Google search Let's not throw out the human element just yet, Let us not give up the power of the human mind to computer algorithms just yet Content is created by people, and people helping other people is what a place like crackercoast.com was made for. Not some cold entry in Wikipedia or a list of search results.
@NinjaNed Did you find a local source for components yet?
I was on my phone before and away from the Main PC. so the links I put up are the only ones I had in recall.
I never depended on RS cause they never had what I needed.
Nothing like the huge warehouse of parts that was available in OKC like http://www.electroenterprises.com/
and https://www.carltonbates.com/ OH I see they have a branch in JAX Thanks for getting me to look that up.
CSC Jacksonville Fl
6500 Bowden Rd Ste 303
Jacksonville, FL 32216-8068 US
Branch Id: 1980
Ascending: CSC
Phone: (904)732-9200
Fax: (904)732-9220
Also I found these which I did not know about
LOCAL Electronic and LED suppliers
Admired Electronic Components
1216 Vista Cove Rd
St. Augustine, FL 32084
(904) 547-2647
American Electronic Components Inc
1203 N US Highway 1
Ormond Beach, FL 32174
(386) 671-0100
Also some of the better national suppliers you may know of already are Mouser and Digikey
The thing about Google is that it's like a horse hair linseed oil and a bunch of rocks ! all the components are there but it take an artist to put them together into a masterpiece oil painting. some folks are just better at using Google than others. the thing is if you search for electronics you will get the consumer product stores mostly , if you search electronic components a whole different world opens.
we are vastly more focused on what divides us than what unites us
Thanks. Nothing local. I will have to check these two out.
I am having so much fun, I don't know how to act ... Living the Dream, every day is an adventure, every night a honeymoon, every meal a banquet, every paycheck a bonus!
just saw this and thought it was appropriate for the thread
we are vastly more focused on what divides us than what unites us


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On my way back from the Balkans to Israel, I experienced another vivid example of outsourced sovereignty, (see earlier post: "welcome to the borderland"). Because of a lack of alternatives and for the first time in my life, I booked a flight with EL AL, the Israeli Airline. While the outbound flight was pretty easy compared to what I have experienced earlier with Israeli border authorities, the flight back has once again shown that a state´s borders are not necessarily just around it´s actual territory. In this case Israeli territory stretched out towards the check-in area at Sofia airport.
Source: http://www.elal.co.il/ELAL/English/States/General/WidthHomePage
Arriving at the airport more than two hours ahead of departure, and heading towards the EL AL counters for check in, a friendly woman asked me whether I have an Israeli passport. Answering no, she asked whether I have been flying with the airline before, and that there are "special procedures", due to security reasons. The spatial situation is that there are several speakers' desks in the waiting area before the actual check-in counters, and at these desks people without Israeli passports are filtered out and have to undergo precisely these 'special procedures'.
Along with the obligatory questions like: "Is this your luggage?", "Have you packed it yourself?", "Did anyone access it after you packed it?", "Did anyone ask you to carry something for him/her?", and "Are you carrying a weapon?", I had to explain what I was doing in the Balkans, why I am going to and what I am going to do in Israel. Saying I was doing research was the correct answer, but maybe not the one making the situation easier. The still friendly woman wanted to see pictures from my trip, plans (as an architect, one has to carry plans!), pictures, notes, and sketches from my earlier visits to Israel. Obviously my answers were suspicious, because with my passport, my student card, and the letter from my university, saying I was doing research, she headed off, talking to her male colleagues, a couple of meters away. After a while, she came back with more requests, like providing a list of people I know in Israel, a list of people I know who speak Hebrew, a list of people I know who speak Arabic, and so forth. After answering the questions and giving the requested information, the woman left for the second time, only to come back with a male colleague of hers who eventually took over. The not so friendly – to put it mildly – man, who had no idea about architecture, started asking ridiculous questions about Serbian-, Balkans-, and Israeli architecture, trying to convict me of lying, or at least not being an architect. He also wanted to know what the world gains of my thesis. While this is a profound, legitimate question, my answer apparently did not satisfy him, as, according to him, there is no "concrete result" from what I am doing. All this has used up at least three quarters of an hour. I don't know whether I finally convinced him that I actually am an architect, and to explain to him that the research I am doing will hopefully be a contribution to knowledge. Either way, all of a sudden another colleague of theirs appeared and asked me to follow him.
We went through narrow corridors into an even narrower (maybe 2 square meters) cubicle, where I had to take off my shoes and my jacket. My hand-luggage (I did not have booked luggage), which has been taken away from me earlier, was taken to a small room beyond the cubicle. I was asked to wait in the tiny cubicel and everything that was not on my body at that time was brought to this screening room next door. The room had the usual scanning devices, which I could see because the door was half-open. I saw that all my belongings were poured out of my suitcase and separately screened. At one point, two officers approached me, asking to pull down my pants. On my request if they are serious with this, they said they were. I complained that this is ridiculous and humiliating and they said they know, but that it was a necessary procedure.
After seemingly endless waiting time, one of the officers came with my computer, asking me to open it and type in my password to unlock it. Then I had to demonstrate it can show pictures (which had already been checked in the check-in area), and that it can play music. After shutting it down, the officer left with it and while I still saw all my clothes and other stuff near the scanner, I did not see the part of the room where they were busy with my computer. After another 45 minutes or so, I finally realised, I was already checked in and therefore I will eventually get on the flight. The officers said, I cannot have the charger and other electronic stuff in the same suitcase as my computer, and they packed these things into a box. Also the hand-luggage was no hand-luggage anymore, but was checked in.
To my surprise, one of the officers said, he was coming with me, because if I was left alone before boarding, they would have to check me again (we were already within the security area). I turned down his offer to buy a coffee or something from the Duty Free area under his supervision. Hence, we went straight to the gate, where I, together with the officer, jumped the line and was one of the first on board. I knew that there are armed security people on board of every EL AL flight, but that I was privileged with the company of my own security guard came as a surprise. However, he explained that the fact he was going to Tel Aviv as well had nothing to do with me, but was a coincidence.
I have to say that almost all the individuals I have been in touch with during these two hours were friendly and apologising. They were excusing what they did with instructions and regulations, but at least noticed what they did might exceed the limits of what is humane and acceptable. It is alarming however that there is a situation in which people do what they are told to, even if it is discriminatory and humiliating. This is the year 2013, and what happened to me has been done in the name of a state that calls itself a democracy. As I also said in an earlier post, with a European Passport I am still highly priviledged. What happened to me however, certainly gives a taste of how Palestinians are being treated in similar situations.
Although I was assured this had nothing to do with discrimination, a procedure that is called `ethnic profiling´ filters out all non-Jews and treats them as highly dangerous, potential terrorists or as collaborators with Israel´s enemies. Furthermore, in light of the recent scandals in terms of large scale monitoring and surveillance (see Guardian article on XKeystore, a NSA spying tool revealed in course of the case Edward Snowden) , my experiences with Israeli border authorities shows that the state of Israel can be named in the same breath with NSA, Google or any other large-scale data-collector. I am sure my file provides them with a pretty comprehensive overview of my life. On top of the information stored in my passport, they know about my family background, my places of living, my work, my telephone numbers and email addresses, people I know in Israel and in Jordan, and so forth. Being aware what is possible with only a few data, I imagine that the Israeli authorities are able to find out almost anything about me if they want to.
This whole procedure was a clear sign that EL AL does not want passengers other than Jews, as much as Israel does not want people other than Jews, or make it as hard as possible for them to enter the country or live in it. Even if tourism seems to be an important economic factor for the country, I have heard similar stories from many who are not Jewish and have been visiting Israel.
As much as one understands increased security measures because of the geopolitical situation of Israel, as much is such a treatment inappropriate and unworthy a state that calls itself modern, liberal, and democratic. While huge parts of the academic world are boycotting Israel, this is obviously what people who still visit the country, try to contribute to knowledge about it and attempt to be a communicator and connector, get in return.
To wrap up, I would like to quote some of the statements of the airline and its representatives. Elyezer Shkedy, EL AL President and CEO states in a press release from May 27, 2013: "We are committed to offering our clientele the very finest services and products." In a press conference in 2010, Shkedy tellingly also said that EL AL are "the civilian wings of the Jewish nation and the State of Israel".
Moreover, here are two interesting bullet points out of EL AL´s corporation responsibility:
"At home anywhere in the world"
"We seek to exceed our clients' expectations with the service we provide, and continually monitor and enhance our customers' experience. We strive to provide a home to all of our clients and people by attending to their needs and treating them with respect and appreciation."
"Safety and security"
"Safety and security are pivotal values for EL AL. We implement them in every activity area to ensure our customers, people and suppliers are safe and secure at the outmost."
I was certainly missing respect and appreciation during the check-in in Sofia, as stated in the airline's CR. And that the 'wings' of Israel reach far beyond its physical borders is not only evindent through what this post conveys, but is demonstrated by the airline saying to implement safety and security measures in every activity area, even if it is a place at another state's airport. An interesting question is why other states, cities, and airports allow these special conditions.
© Sigi Atteneder, 2013