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Indian Army has recently published the latest army jobs notification about Indian Army Medical Corps Recruitment 2016-2017 to fill up the 400 short service commissioned officer jobs in the army department through its official website. Job seekers who are searching for the Indian Army jobs, those can apply for this Indian Army Notification 2016 through online mode. Indian Army is ready to hire the capable candidates in the medical sector jobs. Interested applicants must grab this opportunity and may apply for this notification on or before last date.
Vacancy Details about Indian Army Medical Corps Recruitment 2016-2017:
Total Number of vacancies: 400 Posts.
Name of the Posts: Short Service Commissioned Jobs.
Age Limit:
Candidates age should be below 45 years. Age relaxation will be applicable as per Indian Army rules and regulations.
Educational Qualification:
- Applicants must possess their graduation or diploma in relevant subjects such as MD/MS/MCh/DM/DNB/DLO/DOMS/DA.
- Candidates need to have completed its Medical qualification integrated in first/second schedule or Part II of the third schedule of IMC act 1956.
- Applicants should also have the permanent registration from any state medical council.
Selection Procedure:
Candidates will be selected based on the applicants performance in personal interview.
Application Fee:
All the applicants must pay the fee as Rs.200/-. Candidates should deposit the fee through online banking.
Important Dates:
- Starting date for online application form: Soon Available.
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How to exhibit an incredible Christmas
If you want to exhibit an incredible Christmas this year, stop listening to all the talking heads and all the propaganda. Get rid of all the stupid gifts you've blown way too much money on. Clothe yourself in humility, kindness toward fellow man, be a friend. Serve others. This is how society should be all year round. You don't have to be a product.
Throwing ballast overboard
Less is often more: Recently, more and more people are renouncing consumerism and exchanging possessions for freedom.
With the amount of 1.57 trillion euros worth of private expenditure in 2014, the Germans set a new record. The shopping spree is one of Germany's most popular leisure activities and consumption is generally looked upon as a path to fulfilment and satisfaction. Yet more and more German are seeking a recipe for a happier life beyond the amassing of possessions. Material affluence has long been a thorn in the side of idealists; now pragmatic young people are discovering their preference for fewer possessions.
Take, for example, Alex Rubenbauer. The young student from the Nuremberg area wanted to give his life more order and structure, and therefore resolved to take the step into simplification: "Relinquishing as many things, activities and relationships as possible helped me; my life now feels as simple and manageable as I would like it to be". A whole minimalist movement is seeking to simplify their lives by consistent omission. Minimalists break out of the circuit of consumption and hoarding, freeing themselves from the everyday constraints that consuming brings with it.
To own a lot of things can become a burden, because buying, maintaining, finding room and finally disposal cost time, money and energy. And last but not least, owning countless things means distraction, says Rubenbauer: he felt the clearing out of superfluous possessions as a "relief". Minimalists live according to the principle that "Less is more". But the letting go of things is not an end in itself. The thereby achieved gain in space and time should exercise a positive effect on life: less stress and obligations, lower costs, less tidying up, cleaning and maintenance – and more room for good relationships, ideas and experiences.
Focussing on the essential
For Rubenbauer and others minimalism is about focussing on the essential. "Not still more multi-tasking, but rather more and more single-tasking. More concentration instead of distraction. Minimalism is freedom and independence", says Rubenbauer, putting it in a nutshell. "Basically, it's about identifying what's important to you in life and getting rid of everything else."
But the motives for adopting the minimalist lifestyle are as various as its adherents: some want to trade unnecessary ballast for a clear head; others want to spare the environment or their purse; and for yet others it is about a critique of consumerism and an alternative to the consumerist society of excess. But minimalism invariably begins with mucking out superfluous or little-used things. How far this goes is left to each individual and is highly variable: some define a maximum number of possessions for themselves, while for others it suffices to set their face against consumer constraints. Many minimalists seek visibility and blog about their new-found lifestyle.
Alex Rubenbauer too would like his blog to "give people food for thought" and "make a contribution to a more sustainable world". The constant media coverage of minimalism has made it a trend topic. And yet materially reduced ways of life are by no means a manifestation peculiar modern life, but have existed for millennia, as for example in the form of asceticism or the life in many religious communities and monasteries.
Voluntary renunciation of options
Bernd Vonhoff, National Chairman of the Professional Association of German Sociologists, sees in minimalism an "antipole to social developments that find their expression in 'always higher, faster, further'". For a growing number of people there is "a discrepancy between the increasing number of options and the actual restrictions on their own possibilities of action". Minimalism, he says, is therefore a response to the increasing complexity of our world. Deliberate relinquishment can help cope with stress: "Voluntary renunciation of options simplifies choice and allows for self-determination."
In general, he continues, "self-determination is an important aspect of minimalism", and therefore only a rich country such as Germany can provide the ideal conditions for the minimalist form of life. Because this way of life always presupposes the conscious decision to live with less than you could actually afford. "Minimalism without a conscious decision would be poverty", Vorhoff notes, and "experience shows that a life lived in what is felt as lack doesn't lead to lasting satisfaction".
Digital have-nots
Minimalists are not necessarily consumption refuseniks. Alex Rubenbauer attaches importance to a "good material standard of living" and though he buys "less", what he buys is "of good quality". When they consume, minimalists see to it that the things purchased do in fact fulfil their purpose – ideally, that they make life simpler.
For most of them therefore laptops and smartphones are indispensable. These devices constitute access to the digital world, where to possess little need not always mean doing without. Books, magazines, photos and CD collections today are all non-material and stored on so-called "clouds". Through digitalization, thousands of things merge more or less into one: the smartphone.
Dave Bruno's The 100 Thing Challenge started a real race amongst minimalists to be able to call fewer than 100 things their own. Meticulously, many minimalists list their belongings on their blogs. The self-imposed rules sometimes bear strange fruits, as when, for example, the question is raised how many things are constituted by a pair of socks.
Largely undisputed, however, is that only material things should be counted. Digital wealth, which is only further enhanced by the fact that it enables you to have personal data, information and files constantly and everywhere at your disposal, is ignored. In digitalization Bernd Vonhoff sees a "very decisive influence on the possibilities of living minimalistically". But he also poses the question whether, with the aid of technology, possessions have only been transferred into the virtual realm.
Nora S. Stampfl is on the track of social change as an author, futurologist and organizational consultant.
Translated from the German by Jonathan Uhlaner for the Goethe-Institut.
Conditional eyes
You might have had a childhood in which it was not okay to be you. You may have been blamed for someone else's anger or chaos, and then learned to feel like you were a failure or a bad person.
Others were praised for everything they did and got a sense of entitlement and they walk around with a bloated sense of self, but underneath feel like they need to perform extremely well to get praised and affirmed.
Both suffer from negative self-esteem and self-image. Both are seeking approval from others rather than having a deep sense of being okay internally.
Having only experienced conditional acceptance means: if you do this I will approve of you.
Conditional acceptance means you can never do enough to get the approval you need from others.
Conditional eyes only see failures and judge. There is no shame in seeing this way. This is the only way you have been taught to see things. And you can learn to see differently if you want.
Unconditional eyes see the person's efforts to correct the failures and affirm these efforts to become healthier.
Maybe you messed up, but you can still pat yourself on the back telling you that you did a good job.
Teresa Maples is a sex addiction therapist practicing in Gig Harbor, Washington, USA.
As long as you are not yourself, you can not have self-esteem
This means that if you currently do not have self-esteem, you probably aren't yourself right now.
Instead, you are the story you're telling yourself.
In order to regain your self-esteem, you have to be yourself again, however you are.
Find out who you really are and then be it, whatever expectations from others or yourself there might be.
Inspired by Ajahn Brahm's talk No-Self Esteem.
Finding the middle way in minimalism
Sometimes we must embrace, at least temporarily, the discomfort of the other side of the spectrum. Sometimes we must hit both walls before we find the middle. Eventually, once the pendulum has traversed both extremes, we discover what works for us, and we end up somewhere completely different from where we started—somewhere in between both extremes.
This is what Joshua Fields Millburn says about his journey as a minimalist. And it's true. First, you think you need more in order to be happy. You try to accumulate stuff you believe would add lasting value to your life. Then you discover and explore a different mindset: What if you would be happier the less you own?
So you try to get rid of almost everything you own. Sometimes maybe more than necessary, until you reach a point where you think: Okay, I discarded all the unnecessary stuff in my life—maybe even more, I'm missing something. It's uncomfortable that way.
Then you are becoming less extreme until you are finally living in a way where you think: I have some superfluous things I could ditch, but it's fine that way. It doesn't bother me to possess some few superfluous things.
And this is the middle way, the healthy path where you wander between two extremes.
Because it is not about a minimal life, it's about a simple life.

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With HS2 (the proposed high speed rail link from London to Birmingham, Manchester and Leeds, reputed to cost £80 billion and the subject of considerable opposition from local people) in the news again, I thought I'd take a look at high speed trains because – guess what – that's something the Japanese are rather good at.
To begin at the beginning: before the 1964 Tokyo Olympics there was an unprecedented explosion of development that turned the city from the burnt-out husk left by the Second World War into the beginnings of the high-tech supercity we know today. Crucial to this transformation was the first bullet train (the 'O' series) which ran from Tokyo to Osaka on its own dedicated track (hence the name, Shinkansen or New Trunk Line) at a mind-boggling 210 miles an hour, shortening the previous six hour forty minute trip to a mere four hours (three hours ten minutes by 1965).
The 'O' series lasted an amazingly long time – the final set was retired in 2008 and the driver's cab from one is now on show at the National Railway Museum in York.
Nowadays the N700 series runs between Tokyo and Osaka with the fastest train, the Nozomi, taking two hours twenty-five minutes. They're famously punctual, which is partly due to the separate track they run on, meaning they don't get delayed by slower traffic. Though they do stop running for earthquakes and typhoons. (They have an earthquake detection system that stops them automatically).
But the E5 series bullet trains on the Tohoku line are faster than that. They began running at 320 miles an hour in March this year and there are plans to increase that to 360 miles an hour by 2020.
There are three main manufacturers of high speed trains in Japan – Hitachi, Nippon Sharyo and Kawasaki Heavy Industries.
You might expect the high speed trains that run though the channel tunnel to be Japanese, but you'd be wrong. The Eurostar trains are British Rail Class 373 and they aren't made by Hitachi – they're part of the TGV family, and they're built by Alstom in La Rochelle, Washwood Heath and Bruges.
Hitachi's first contract to supply trains in the UK was for the Javelin in 2005. The trains run on the Eurostar line, but it's a domestic service to Ashford and the Kent Coast. The Javelin service was a key transport link for the London Olympics in 2012, running from St Pancras to Stratford International.
Javelin trains are named after Olympic athletes, with the first one being named after Dame Kelly Holmes and the twenty-ninth after David Weir, ten times Paralympic medallist.
If you want a Hornby Javelin train set, the Sir Chris Hoy is available.
The Javelin trains weren't made in the UK. They were manufactured in Japan and shipped over, all twenty-nine of them. But the next generation, the class 800 series, which will run on the East Coast Main Line, starting in 2019, will be manufactured by Hitachi Rail Europe at a new purpose-built factory in Newton Aycliffe, County Durham. The new trains will cut journey times between London, Leeds, Newcastle and Edinburgh by up to 18 minutes.


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In response to a Post 40 Bloggers prompt…
Some people would consider that I haven't had the most exciting of lives, in fact a huge chunk of it could be considered mundane, but I come from a family with an interesting history.
I was born in a room that was used by the local undertaker as a workshop so the week my mother spent "laying in" meant the loss of income for our family.
The house was in a back street slum that was built to cope with the population explosion that turned a tiny village into a big town. The houses were shoved up as opposed to being built carefully and so were never much to begin with. My sister and I were the fourth generation of our family to live there (we moved when I was a baby just before it was pulled down so I have no memories of the house) and it belonged to a cousin by marriage who owned the shop next door.
In those days the family that I was born into was poor though my great grandmother came from a "good" family and had made the mistake of marrying down. Back in the annals of our family history there are mill owners who had servants and the degeneration of the family meant that, at the age of 14, my grandmother became a servant.
My great grandmother and her cousin were raised as sisters and while my great grandmother had 13 children her cousin could not conceive. The family story is that the cousin asked to adopt one of the children and the subsequent refusal caused a big family rift. The cousin's husband was a man who earned a title for his generosity to the town and yet they allowed my great grandmother and her children to live in poverty.


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The Archbishop of Chicago has blasted President Donald Trump over his executive order putting a moratorium on new refugees from terror-laden countries, calling it a "dark moment in U.S. history."
In a lengthy statement released on Sunday, progressive Cardinal Blase Cupich said that the executive order "is contrary to both Catholic and American values" and called the President's decision "rushed, chaotic, cruel and oblivious to the realities that will produce enduring security for the United States."
The Cardinal called Trump's prudential judgment on the refugee matter a repetition of "disastrous decisions of the past."
Last June, in a statement on the massacre of 50 people at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando (FL), the Archbishop carefully sidestepped the ideology of radical Islam behind the shooting and pointed the finger instead to "easy access" to deadly weapons.
"Our prayers and hearts are with the victims of the mass shooting in Orlando, their families and our gay and lesbian brothers and sisters," Cupich wrote in a Facebook post at the time.
Although the Archbishop proposed that Americans address the "causes" of the tragedy, in his superficial analysis of the sources underlying the heinous attack, Cupich only mentioned one: "easy access to deadly weapons," despite the fact that the Islamic State had already claimed responsibility for the attack.
Earlier last week, Cupich wrote about citizens' "moral obligation" to combat climate change, gushing over President Obama's leadership in the issue. He also briefly addressed participants in the Chicago March for Life, telling them that if they are to be serious about building a culture of life, that means "adequate health care legislation," "advocating for family leave policies in the work place," and "enacting laws that keep families together even if some have no documents."
Archbishop Cupich has a long history of dogmatic pronouncements on open, prudential questions coupled with ambiguous, halfhearted positions on decided moral issues such as abortion. By cozying up to the Democratic party during the election season, he rendered himself impotent to criticize Hillary Clinton despite her wholehearted support for Planned Parenthood and abortion on demand, the great social justice issue of the present age.
As bishop of Spokane, WA, Cupich discouraged priests and seminarians from praying outside Planned Parenthood abortion clinics, urging them to avoid confrontation that could contribute to a "polarizing" environment over the issue of abortion.
After the release of damning videos showing Planned Parenthood officials negotiating the sale of aborted baby parts, the Archbishop notoriously equated abortion with other social ills such as unemployment and the death penalty, suggesting that people should be just as appalled by a broken immigration system as they are by the gruesome ripping apart of unborn children and the sale of their organs.
For years Cupich kowtowed to the Obama administration, especially regarding Obamacare, and resisted the efforts of the U.S. Bishops to roll back the HHS mandate that bullied groups such as the Little Sisters of the Poor into providing reproductive services contrary to their Catholic faith.
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This prominent and dynamic area along the Blaak in Rotterdam, has long been a wide gap in the urban fabric. The location has an illustrious history where much has changed and for which various proposals have been put forward following the demolition of the original railway bridge and trainstation Rotterdam Blaak.
Both the restricted building footprint, as well as the comprehensive office program, have dictated an urban mass firmly anchored in the urban fabric of the Rotterdam Laurenskwartier; conditions that have resulted in a powerful and compact 70 meter high building, comprising 22,500 m² floor area. A range of sustainable measures has provided the building a Greencalc+, A-label.
The structure of a tree with its natural constructional logic, has been the inspiration for the facade design. At the top, where the forces are relatively small, the tree exists of thin twigs. At the bottom, where the forces from the entire crown come together and must be carried, the trunk of the tree looks broad and strong. It is this natural structure that has served as inspiration for the load-bearing facade of Blaak 8.
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Despite the wide variety of facade fragments as a result of the irregular shape of the 'tree structure', Group A has been able to minimise the number of elements. The smart use of a limited number of molds (7 window-options and 1 closed part) in the base-production mold of 7,20 m, provided a feasible and financially viable facade. Different concrete finishes enrich the way the building presents itself, depending on the ever changing light, weather conditions and season of the year.


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Our friendly classes cover techniques for fitness and grace, choreographed routines, and some dancing to live music.
When? Wednesdays 7.30 pm – 9 pm, with optional dancing to live music until 10 pm. Pub to follow.
Where? New Marston Primary School, Copse Lane, Oxford OX3 0AY, UK
How much? £5 (£3 students, unemployed, concessions). First session free.
Wear comfortable clothing and shoes with a light and flexible sole, a good hold on your feet, and ideally some cushioning of the heel. Please no black soles. Hooped skirts will be provided.
Can you contribute?
Can you contribute to our technique and choreographies? Would you like to lead a class? We are always on the lookout for special and guest teachers, for single classes or courses. If you have something in mind, get in touch!


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Our mission is founded on the tenets of honor, pride, and happiness.
The Anand-Martin Foundation seeks to open the doors once unavailable to many of Chattanooga's residents and veterans. With compassion and understanding we seek to serve our neighbors through housing, empowerment, advocacy, and outreach.
Our mission encompasses funding contributions of the City of Chattanooga's Department of Economic and Community Development with respect to Mayor Andy Berke's vision to address the needs of our homeless veterans.
The Anand-Martin Foundation looks to foster growth in Chattanooga through training and economic opportunity with our veterans while honoring those who honored our nation through their service.
The foundation purpose was inspired towards accepting community challenges of the nation;'s mayors as proposed by the First Lady Obama, a program in which Chattanooga Mayor Andy Burke was the first to accept.
The Foundations purposes are to:
- Create,maintain, and manage short-term and long-term housing solutions in partnership with local, regional, and national housing authorities and organizations.
- Renovate/rehab single family homes, duplexes, complexes, and other housing facilities such as hotels to meet local, state, and housing authority regulations for family housing.
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- Homes: the foundation purchases or acquires local properties (empty lots, single family homes, multi-unit housing units) in order to rehab the properties, if necessary, to comply with the guideline requirements of government and local housing agencies. The foundation will manage and maintain these homes for the duration required by the various housing authorities under which they were rehabilitated. The foundation will comply with all home and facility inspection requirements for all involved housing, VA, and social services involved in each property. All homes under the Chattanooga housing authority umbrella will comply with handicap access regulations. The foundation is working with the local VA case managers and the Tennessee valley district VA homeless coordinator in providing viable and safe housing solutions for homeless veterans.
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Swoon: Top 8 Cary Grant Movies
An interviewer once said to Cary Grant, "Everybody would like to be Cary Grant", Grant is said to have replied, "So would I." I love a man who has every reason to take himself too seriously but doesn't.
And so, without further ado, my Top 8 Favorite Cary Grant Movies...
1.) The Philadelphia Story
2.) His Girl Friday
3.) Bringing Up Baby
4.) My Favorite Wife
5.) Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House
6.) Arsenic and Old Lace
7.) The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer
8.) North by NorthwestThis was the first time I was really tempted to make my Top 8 a Top 10, since it seems a sin to leave To Catch a Theif and An Affair to Remember off my list. But I found a way to mention them without technically breaking any self-imposed rules, so there you go. If you haven't seen these movies, get thee to a Blockbuster, ASAP!
I recently discovered some interesting tidbits of information about Cary Grant:
- he has only one front tooth (lost one in a childhood acident and got someone at a dental college to squish the others together so he wouldn't get in trouble with his father)
- he turned down the role of James Bond
- during World War II, he donated his salaries from two of his biggest films to war relief efforts
- he was devoted to his stepson, and continued to play a paternal role in his life for nearly 30 years after he and Barbara Hutton divorced (Lance's death in a plane crash devastated him, but he helped Barbara arrange the funeral)
- he named his dog Archie Leech (which was his birth name)
- he very wisely retired from film at the age of 62 (while he was still far more attractive than a mortal man should be), thus preserving his persona instead of hanging around too long and becoming a shell of his former self
I'm sure he was capable of being a right bastard in real life (I've heard he, um, wasn't easy to live with), but knowing these little things about him makes me swoon over him just a little more than I did before. And I was already pretty swoony in the first place. I'm just glad he chose a screen name--it would be embarrassing to be this besotted over a guy named Archie Leech.


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SACRAMENTO, CA --Governor Schwarzenegger's office has just released details about how federal stimulus dollars are being put to work in California.
The state is getting a total of about $85 billion.
The largest part, $30 billion, will go directly to individuals and corporations in the form of tax credits, tax rebates and increased exemptions and deductions on tax returns.
$20 billion will be used for health programs such as Medi-Cal.
The Department of Education is getting about $21 billion, the governor says that will save 21,000 teacher jobs.


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When Stevie Wonder needs a musician -- namely you -- life's pace can quicken a beat. Glenn Caldwell, a music instructor at Western Maryland College, got such a call last spring.
It wasn't Stevie Wonder on the line, but Dr. Henry Panion, a music theory teacher at the University of Alabama in Birmingham.
Dr. Panion had 20 songs by Mr. Wonder to arrange for backup musicians. Mr. Wonder would leave for a 15-city European tour in two weeks. Would Mr. Caldwell be able to help?


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President Obama is signaling urgency on the issue of closing Guantanamo Bay, insisting that the prison holding radical Islamic terrorists is a key reason ISIS is committing acts of terror.
"Guantanamo has been an enormous recruitment tool for organizations like ISIL," he said. "It's part of how they rationalize and justify their demented, sick perpetration of violence on innocent people."
Obama made his remarks about the prison after a meeting with newly elected Prime Minister Trudeau of Canada during the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation in the Philippines.
During the press conference, he lectured American political leaders for blocking his desire to close the prison, which he argued alienated Muslim Americans.
"We can keep the American people safe while shutting down that operation," he said, noting that he had already drastically reduced the population.
Obama has already postponed his plan to close the prison, and admitted that it would be a difficult conversation to have so soon after the terrorist attacks in Paris.
"I guarantee you there will be strong resistance, because in the aftermath of Paris, I think that there is just a very strong tendency for us to get worked up around issues that don't actually make us safer but make for good political sound bites," he said.


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Carole Hinders learned the Internal Revenue Service took the entire contents of her restaurant's checking account in the time between breakfast with her grandchildren and her morning crossword puzzle.
She hadn't been charged with a crime, but the two IRS agents who stood at her front door in May of 2013 said they'd already seized her nearly $33,000 from her bank.
"They started to leave, and I kind of freaked out. I said, 'How am I supposed to pay my bills? How am I supposed to pay my people?' And they go, 'We don't know.'"
Hinders owned and operated Mrs. Lady's Mexican Restaurant in Arnold's Park, Iowa for 38 years. The restaurant didn't accept credit or debit cards.
Hinders deposited all of the cash and checks at the same bank the entire time she was open. When cash deposits exceed $10,000, banks are required to report the deposit to the federal government, but Hinders' deposits never exceeded that amount.
"What the IRS said is that because she deposited less than $10,000 frequently, they suspected that she might be trying to evade that reporting requirement," Larry Salzman, Hinder's Attorney with the Institute For Justice said.
Suddenly, Hinders was running a restaurant without any money to pay her employees.
She said the only way they got through was because of the Memorial Day weekend rush in the Iowa Great Lakes.
"The reason that they don't have to read you your rights, or advise you that you can have a lawyer, or do any of the things that the constitution is supposed to provide for us, is that they don't charge the person with the crime, they charge your money with the crime," Hinders said.
Hinders teamed up with the Institute For Justice out of Arlington, Virginia. The public interest law firm represented her for free, because they're currently advocating to get the US forfeiture laws changed so these cases don't happen.
Salzman, who works for the Institute For Justice, says the forfeiture laws were originally written for drug lords, terrorists, and serious criminals.
Hinders said just hours after the IRS took her deposition, they dropped the case.
Hinders says that after a year and a half of fighting the IRS, while still running her restaurant, it's not about the money anymore. It's about the principle.
"They came in and they took my money. Now, they're giving it back after a year and a half, but there's nothing happening to them," Hinders said.
Hinders says most in her place don't have enough money or resources to fight for their money, so they walk away and close their businesses.
She says she hopes her story will help change the forfeiture laws responsible for good.
Mrs. Lady's is now closed, but not because of the IRS seizure of Hinders' bank account. She was preparing to sell her business months before the money was taken.
Salzman says the Institute For Justice is still working on the issue, and that Congress may consider several proposals to change the forfeiture laws responsible for Hinders' case.
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With this app you'll be able to control your computer through the iPad, just like a remote, only that you actually see and touch what's on the computer screen. But that's not all, it includes functions that you would normally find with an interactive whiteboard.
You'll be able to highlight, annotate, draw, spotlight, save the screen, and more! This is great if you don't have an interactive whiteboard and if you are doing a presentation, so you can stand away from your computer.
Besides downloading the app to your iPad device, you will need to download the Splashtop streamer to your computer. Here's the cool part, the streamer is available for Macs, PC's and Linux computers. The connection will be done via Wifi.
The instructions are pretty simple, and come along in the web site and in the quick guides that will show up when you first open up the applications.
The description of the app says you can control your computer from anywhere, even your home, that's something I have yet to try out.
Here's a recommendation of something I discovered. You'll find the sound output coming through the iPad. That's not good if you have a large audience and want to hook up speakers. Don't worry. Go to the computer's system preferences and make sure the sound output is set to built-in speakers, after that you can hook up the speakers to the computer.
The app costs $19.99, but that's a very small price, compared to what a full interactive whiteboard would cost.
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Lions pick up CFL all-star in Odell Willis
The B.C. Lions just made their biggest acquisition of the off-season.
The CFL club acquired six-foot-2, 255-pound defensive end Odell Willis from the Ottawa Redblacks in exchange for a fourth-round pick in the upcoming draft, as well as a player currently on B.C.'s negotiation list.
Willis had just been sent to the Redblacks from Edmonton in exchange for defensive lineman Jake Ceresna. Ottawa turned around and sent him to Vancouver.
"This is the kind of addition to our roster that I believe our fans expect and deserve heading into this season," Lions general manager Ed Hervey said in a release.
"Odell is a player who can change the complexion of a game in a single play. He makes the players around him better and he will be a significant addition to our defence this season."
Willis has played 155 CFL regular-season games with Calgary, Winnipeg, Saskatchewan and, most recently, Edmonton, racking up 86 career sacks, 218 tackles and 22 forced fumbles. He's a two-time all-star — in 2011 with the Bombers and again with the Eskimos in 2014 — and won a Grey Cup with Edmonton in 2015.
Willis played four seasons for the University of West Georgia, twice being named was twice named an All-Gulf South Conference selection, and racked up 126 tackles, 20.5 sacks and six forced fumbles.
After college, he took an unusual route to the pros, playing with the arena league's (AF2) Spokane Shock, then moving on to the signed Huntington Heroes, Peoria Pirates and Green Bay Blizzard. He signed with the Calgary Stampeders in 2009, recording six sacks in his first nine games.


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Schooner CANTON.* U.S. No. 125164. Of 320.62 tons gross; 304.59 tons net. Built 1873 at Trenton, Mich. Home port, Detroit, Mich. 137.4 x 26.2 x 11.8
* formerly schooner CHINA.
Merchant Vessel List, U.S., 1889
Schooner CANTON. U.S. No. 125164. Of 320.62 tons gross, 304.59 tons net. Built Trenton, Mich., in 1873. Home port, Detroit, Mich.
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Schooner CANTON. Of 320 tons. Built at Trenton in 1873 by A.A. Turner. Owned by Cheesbrough et al. Home port, Detroit. Value, $17,000. Class A 2. REMARKS formerly CHINA. [renamed summer 1874]
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Schooner CHINA.* U. S. No. 125164. Built Trenton, Mi., 1873. 142.0 x 26.0 x 12.1
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Here is a very comprehensive database of gun laws of every state compiled by the Boston University School of Public Health. To see their findings click here.
Here is a very comprehensive database of gun laws of every state compiled by the Boston University School of Public Health. To see their findings click here.
The San Francisco based Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence has issued their annual rankings on the strength of states' gun laws, and again for the fourth straight year Connecticut has ranked second in the nation. Click here for results of all states.
For more than twenty years, CT Against Gun Violence has led the fight to strengthen Connecticut gun laws because we believe that smart gun laws work, that smart gun laws save lives. So we are very proud of this distinction.
We are often asked what the difference is between Connecticut's ability to do this while many other states and the U.S. Congress too often cannot. Our answer is simple: the difference is you.
Our supporters have been relentless and uncompromising in holding our elected officials accountable for passing legislation that helps keep our communities and families safe from gun violence; the most recent example being our Domestic Violence Temporary Restraining Order bill passed in the 2016 session that removes firearms from domestic abusers within 24 hours of service of a temporary restraining order.
So we are pleased to share this honor with you, and we extend our best wishes of the holiday season to all.
Gun violence takes many forms so solutions to the problems don't lend themselves to "one size-fits-all" remedies. Here is our list of the top ten priorities for attacking the gun violence problem.
Smart gun technologies, in which Smart guns, or personalized guns, are designed to be useless unless unlocked by radio signal or a biometric authenticator such as voice activation, fingerprints, or a retina scan could help prevent gun deaths in many important ways including:
The term smart gun has been trademarked by the gun manufacturer Mossberg.
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End of 2013 Legislative Session Summary
It is encouraging that the 2013 session closed with a focus on promoting economic growth. End of session action produced a new business incentive program, expanded small business assistance through the Excelsior jobs program, and – subject to voter approval – allowed new gaming venues upstate. Each of these measures will promote new investments and jobs.
Unfortunately, the legislature missed opportunities to adopt other broad-based, pro-growth measures. As example, both the Administration and the Senate majority coalition supported legislation to reform the state's wage theft prevention act, and ease restrictions on the storage and transportation of liquefied natural gas. However, both proposals were rejected by the Assembly majority.
Earlier New York had another on-time, low-growth budget, and beneficial reforms to the state's unemployment insurance and workers' compensation programs. Those positive steps were offset by energy tax extensions and a minimum wage increase that will eventually add a $1 billion a year to business cost.
Several positive bills receiving two-house approval included eligibility expansion under the at-risk youth jobs tax credit, reforms in the assessment of utility properties, regulatory streamlining for state-chartered banks, and simplified administrative adjudication for small business.
On the other hand, the legislature approved several bills of concern to the Council, including a new "biofuel" mandate for downstate business and residents that will add millions to annual heating costs, and the so-called "transportation fair pay act" that will impose new compliance standards on independent truckers and their business customers.
The final "StartupNY" legislation contained several major modifications from earlier drafts, including annual caps on the number of employees that would be allowed income tax exemptions, increased opportunity for participation by downstate campuses, and more specific business sector targeting in the metropolitan New York area. The final bill also included reforms to the existing Excelsior jobs tax credit program that will expand opportunities for small business looking to invest and grow in New York.
Overall, the 2013 session provided mixed messages to New York's business community. While New York is moving in the right direction on big issues such as balanced budgets and controlled spending growth, more needs to be done to make New York economically competitive, and to reduce compliance burdens on business.
The following provides our issue-by-issue summary of key legislation addressed during the 2013 regular session. Please feel free to contact Business Council staff regarding any of these proposals, or for information on other legislative issues of concern to your business.
Campaign Finance Reform
Not Approved
- "2013 Fair Elections Act"
S.4705-A (Stewart-Cousins)/A.4980-C (Silver)
The so-called"2013 Fair Elections Act" would have created a campaign finance system, similar to the NYC model, using taxpayer money and additional surcharges on businesses.
- "Integrity in Elections Act of 2013"
S.4897 (Klein)
Would create a campaign finance model based on the NYC model, using taxpayer money and additional surcharges on businesses. This bill did limit party transfers and capped housekeeping contributions, but would have prohibited any political contribution from a business entity.
- "Campaign Finance Reform Act of 2013"
Governor's Program Bill #12
The language was introduced towards the end of session and was never picked up by a Senate or Assembly sponsor. This bill, like the others mentioned above, would have created a campaign finance system funded by taxpayer money and additional surcharges on businesses.
- The "Public Trust Act"
Governor's Program Bill #3 - would have enhanced civil and criminal penalties for bribery and public corruption.
- Nominations
Governor's Program Bill #4
This bill would have made changes to the nominating system by removing the Wilson-Pakula requirement that gives extraordinary power to party bosses. This bill would have also created an enforcement unit within the State Board of Elections.
- NYC Public Construction Contractor Claims
S.3551 (Ranzenhofer)/A.5443 (Brennan)
Brings the process of filing construction claims on public works projects in NYC in line with that same process throughout the rest of the state.
- Transportation Industry Fair Play Act
S.5867 (Savino)/A.5237-B (Wright)
Establishes independent contractordetermination tests for the trucking industry when engaged in transportation of commercial goods.
- Job Order Contracts
S.3564-A (Bonacic)/A.4810-A (Abbate)
Places new conditions and restrictions on the use of job order contracts (JOC) in public work bids.
Not Approved
- Street Cutter Prevailing Wage
S.1075 (Maziarz)/A.5234 (Wright)
Mandate utility companies and their contractors to pay public works-related prevailing wage to all their employees working on projects requiring street opening permits. Not passed by either house.
- Public Construction Savings Pilot Act
S.3484-A (Ranzenhofer)/A.6523 (Schimminger)
Authorizes a pilot project to demonstrate the benefits of changing current requirements for public works projects and project labor agreements (PLAs).
Contract Procurement
- Piggyback Contracts
S.3766-A (Little)/A.5119-A (Russell)
This bill provides necessary clarification to Ch. 308 of the Laws of 2012 which expanded local governments' ability to piggyback of off other governmental entities contracts. This chapter amendment will allow them to use contracts let by best value.
- BOCES Telecomm Contracts
S.5706 (Valesky)/A.1398-A (Gunther)
This gives BOCES the ability to enter into contracts with public libraries to provide telecommunications services.
Not Approved
- Cost Comparisons
S.5643 (Robach)/A.7506 (Bronson)
This bill would have required cost comparison studies to be conducted for any consultant work being procured by an agency equal to or above $250,000.
- Procurement Council
S.4915 (Golden)/A.7148 (Camara)
This bill would have expanded the NYS Procurement Council to include representatives from a statewide business trade organization and a local government association and would have also required the Office of General Services to make periodic reports on any major initiatives (IE Strategic Sourcing Initiative) to the Procurement Council.
Economic Development
- "Start-Up NY"
S.5903 (Libous)/A.8113 (Silver), Part A
Creates university-based tax free zones for new economic growth projects; provides business income, personal income, sales/use and, in most cases, real property tax exemptions to businesses locating on designated tax free zones; up to 10,000 new employees per year to receive personal income tax exemption. Tax free period runs for 10 years for approved businesses; the program is closed to new business applications on 12/31/2020.
- Excelsior Jobs program reforms
S.5903 (Libous)/A.8113 (Silver), Part C
Excelsior amendments include: a 50% reduction in the job creation threshold for program eligibility; a new 25 jobs threshold (10 for manufacturers) for eligibility in the program's investment track; allowance for a proportional reduction in tax credits if a business does not achieve 100 percent of its jobs target; and the ability for ESDC to roll over 50% of any unallocated credits to future program years.
- Casinos – See Tourism section below.
- NYC Angel Investor Credit
S.5238 (Golden)/A.2355 (Scarborough)
Authorizes NYC to adopt a an angel investor credit against the city's unincorporated business and personal income tax, for investment in certain qualified emerging companies.
- Biodiesel Heating Oil
S.1184A (Maziarz)/A.7906 (Sweeney)
Mandate a two percent biodiesel requirement for all heating oil sold in the MTA region by October 1, 2013 and statewide by July 1, 2014.
S.5844 (RULES)/A.8073 (Sweeney)
Amends the powers and duties of the department of public service and the Long Island power authority; reconstitutes the makeup of the board of trustees of LIPA.
Not Approved
- Natural Gas Transportation and Storage
S.5536-A (Maziarz)
Promotes the extension of natural gas service to business, institutional and residential customers with permitting, financial assistance, real property tax abatement provisions as well as project financing. A less acceptable alternative was presented in S.5846-A Maziarz/A.8110 (Camara), which required criteria for siting and the transportation of liquefied natural and petroleum gas by the end of 2013.
- Solar Funding
A.5060-B (Englebright)
Requires the PSC to mandate a minimum $150 million per year solar program for 10 years.
- "Transco"
S.5861 (Maziarz) /A.8095 (Brennan)
Authorizes the power authority of the state of New York and the Long Island power authority to enter into public-private partnerships for the improvement of the state's electric transmission grid.
- Mercury-containing Thermostats
S.1676A (Grisanti) / A.8084 (Sweeney)
Requires manufacturers of thermostats to collect mercury-containing thermostats; requires educational outreach; establishes collection goals; requires reporting of collection efforts.
Not Approved
- Sea-level Rise
S.5138 (Fuschillo)/A.6558 (Sweeney)
Among other things, this bill would require certain major permits issued pursuant to the Uniform Procedures Act to include consideration of climate risk.
Financial Services
- Credit Union Memberships and Membership Powers
S.2089 (Griffo)/A.3510 (Robinson)
Expands qualifications for membership into credit unions and creates parity with federal credit unions in the areas of investing and branching.
- Foster Expansion of the Commercial Insurance Market in New York State
S.4327 (Seward)/A.6918 (Steck)
Extends the exemption from rate and form filing requirements for large commercial insureds for two additional years.
- Foreign Investments by Life Insurance Companies
S.2890 (Seward)/A.2130 (Simotas)
Increases the permitted foreign investments by life insurers from 16% to 20% of the insurers assets.
- Regulatory Update
S.4366-A (Griffo)/A.7213-A (Robinson)
This bill updates the statutory framework for the regulation of banking and related entities subject to the jurisdiction of the Department of Financial Services.
Not Approved
- Expedited Foreclosure
S.5719 (Skelos)/A.7871 (Weinstein)
Provides for summary action to foreclose upon vacant and abandoned real property.
- Foreclosure Fraud Prevention Act of 2013
S.5251 (Klein)/A.7395 (Weinstein)
Creates criminal penalties for residential mortgage businesses and agents who intentionally engage in foreclosure fraud.
- Credit Union Deposit Program
S.5016 (Maziarz)/A.7198 (Rodriguez)
Allows the State Comptroller and the Commissioner of Taxation and Finance to place state funds into local credit unions.
- Employer Retaliation Protections
S.4453 (Savino)/A.815 (Abinanti)
Prohibits employer retaliation against employees in financial services industry who report violations of laws, rules and regulations.
- Post Sandy Insurance "Reform" Bills
A number of bills were proposed, but none received two-house approval. Significant bills included: S3045 (Lanza) /A.2287-A (Silver), homeowners' bill of rights; S.3413-A (Carlucci)/A.1092-A (Skoufis), expedited claim investigation and settlement; S.2032 (Lavalle)/A.2729 (Weisenberg), homeowners deductibles triggers for windstorm; A.5780 (Weinstein), private right of action for unfair claim settlements; S.5580 (Seward)/A.7452 (Moya), regarding denial of business interruption insurance; A.7455-A (Goldfeder), anti-concurrent causation clauses; and S.5582 (Seward)/A.7456 (Brook-Krasny), requires the Superintendent of DFS to prepare report cards on how insurers performed during an emergency or disaster.
- Freelancer's Union Insurance program
S.4526 (Hannon) / A.6519 (Silver)
This creates a new exempts the Freelancers Union's Health Insurance product from the community rating law and other ACA related mandates, allowing only that organization the opportunity to offer experience rated insurance products at a steep discount compared to other carriers, decreasing the pool of customers from the soon to be established State Exchange and creating an imbalance.
- Anti-subrogation
S.5715 (Bonacic)/A.7828 (Weinstein)
Will deny health plans the ability to engage in subrogation for third-party source payments made in the context of a settlement, thus removing the ability of health plans to remedy improper settlements ultimately charged to New York's employers as the primary payers of health insurance premiums.
Not Approved
- Mail Order Pharma
S.3995 (Maziarz) / A.5723 (Heastie)
Limited pharmacy mail order options for health insurance purchasers and would have both reduced competition and raised prices for health insurance consumers. Passed the Assembly.
- Out of Network Providers
S.2551 (Hannon) / A.7253 (Montesano)
Would have required health plans which cover out-of-network services to reimburse out-of-network medical services as a percentage of the 80th percentile of the actual charges billed for that service by an out-of-network provider in the same specialty and in the same geographic area. It also requires that health plans make available a policy in each geographic region of the state that would provide out-of-network coverage for at least 80% of the FAIR Health UCR. Passed Senate.
Not approved
- Repeal of WTPA Annual Notice
S.2313 (DeFrancisco)/A.2482 (Gabryszak)
This bill would repeal the annual notice requirement of the Wage Theft Prevention Act of 2010. It passed the Senate only.
- Women's Equality Act (Governor's Program Bill #19)
This legislation contained all ten points of the Governor's proposed Woman's Equality Act. It passed the Assembly.
- Women's Equality Act
The Senate introduced the act as ten separate bills, and passed all ten. Of particular interest to Business Council members are: S.5872 (Savino), modifies sex-based wage discrimination provisions, prohibits restrictions on wage disclosure, and increases penalties for wage discrimination; S.5873 (Valesky), extends existing sexual harassment prohibitions to employers of fewer than four; S.5874 (Little), authorizes awarding attorney fees to either prevailing party in sex discrimination cases; S.5875 (Little), prohibits family status-based discrimination by employers; and S.5880 (Hannon), clarifies existing reasonable accommodation provisions related to pregnancy-related medical conditions. These are all Governor's Program Bills, and have not been individually introduced in the Assembly. These proposals largely reflect amendments recommended by The Business Council.
- Whistle blower protections
S.3862-A (Klein)/A.5696-A (Benedetto)
Would expand current protections for whistleblowers by defining illegal business activity very broadly and subjecting employers to limitless exposure. It passed the Assembly.
- Direct Relationship in Corrections Law
S.3357 (Hassell-Thompson)/A.4887 (Sepulveda)
This bill prohibits an employer from denying employment due to a prior criminal conviction, unless the employer determines a connection between the crime and the job or determines the hiring would create an unreasonable safety risk to people or property. It passed the Assembly.
- Reasonable Accommodation for Victims of Domestic Violence
S.3385 (Hassell-Thompson)/A.898 (Weinstein)
The bill would require employers to extend "reasonable accommodation" to victims of domestic violence. It passed the Assembly.
- Credit privacy in Employment Act
Would prohibit employers from using a consumer credit report in any hiring or employment related decisions. It passed the Assembly.
- Tax credits – See Economic Development section above for summary of business development-related tax credit legislation.
- Youth Tax Credit
S.4762 (DeFrancisco)/A.7928-A (Roberts)
Amends the eligibility provisions of the New York Youth Works Tax Credit, which was previously extended to cover 2014 through 2018, by reduce the minimum hours a week an full time student needed to work from 20 hours to 10 hours in order for the employer to qualify for the tax credit.
- Utility Property Assessments
S.2644 (Little)/A.5503 (Galef)
Authorizes the State Board of Real Property Tax Services to establish a process for the determination and utilization of assessment ceilings to be used in the local assessment of public utility mass properties.
- Rapid Response to Declared State Disaster
S.5323-A (Maziarz)/A.7340-A (Farrell)
Removes thresholds for establishing residency or doing business in New York for out-of-state companies that temporarily provide resources and personnel in the state during a state declared emergency.
- Assessment Ceilings for Public Utility Mass Real Property
S.2644 (Little)/A.5503 (Galef)
Creates a uniform assessment standard for utility transmission property located on public or private land.
- Publication of Rate Schedules by Telephone Corporations
S.2512-B (Maziarz)/A.5466-A (Morelle)
Eliminates telephone corporation rate schedule filings with the PSC for non-basic services. Companies can post schedules on their websites.
Not Approved
- Broadband Tax Credits
S.5481 (Maziarz)/A.7588 (Magee)
Provides a refundable tax credit for small businesses and residents who install broadband.
- Telecommunications Call Centers
S.4434-B (Maziarz)/A.7144-A (Rosenthal)
Prevents telecommunications providers from using call centers out of state.
- Employee Personal Account Disclosures
S.2434-B (Klein)/A.443-B (Dinowitz)
Prohibits employer from requesting an employee to disclose their personal account credentials.
- "Upstate Economic Development Act of 2013"
S.5883 (Bonacic)/ A.8101 (Pretlow)
Provides for a system governing the application and siting process for casino gaming licenses.
- Casino Constitutional Amendment
S.5898 (Bonacic)/A.8068 (Pretlow)
This was the required second passage of this bill for a constitutional amendment necessary to allow for casino gaming at up to seven facilities in New York State. This issue will now go before voters in a public referendum before full casino gaming can be legalized (outside of the Native American run gaming facilities).
Not Approved
- Sunday Sales
S.2227 (Grisanti)/A.3735 (Benedetto)
This bill would have allowed alcohol sales for on-site consumption to begin at 11AM on Sundays.
- Service Charges
S.3109-A (Martins) and A.2179-D (Goldfeder)
These bills would have clarified in Labor Law the treatment of service charges that are not gratuities and would have also created an affirmative defense for employers facing lawsuits that stem from DOL advisory opinions that were contrary to a court ruling (World Yacht v. Samiento).
Workers' Compensation
- Acupuncturists
S.3131-B (Martins) / A.5940 (Bronson)
Mandates the Comp Board to include treatment by duly licensed or certified acupuncturists under the Workers' Compensation Law, like leading to a proliferation of acupuncture treatment under the comp system, increasing costs for employers.
- Surviving Spouses
S.4090 (Savino) / A.6559 (Wright)
Allows for the continuation of workers' compensation death benefits to a surviving spouse and children regardless of remarriage.
Not Approved
- Pharma networks
S.1754 (Robach) / A.2653 (Simotas)
Would have reversed one of the cost reductions included in the 2007 workers' compensation reform package, allowing an injured employee to utilize any pharmacy that charges below the state's "published prices," a price typically considerably higher than an in-network negotiated price, regardless of whether such pharmacy was in the employer's network. Passed Assembly, died in Senate Rules Committee.
- PPD Claimants in DOL Programs
S.5294 (Savino) / A.7961 (Heastie)
Would have mandated payment of comp awards in cases former employees with partial disabilities who have voluntarily withdrawn from the labor market and enrolled in one of the Department of Labor's reemployment services or educational institutions. Did not pass either house.
- Collateral Estoppel
S.5754 (Nozzolio)/A.7757-A (Heastie)
Would have reversed the recent Court of Appeals decision in Auqui v. Seven Thirty One Limited Partnership, which clarified the usage of "collateral estoppel" on a Workers Comp Board proceeding's findings of fact in the context of civil suits on the same set of facts. Passed the Assembly.
- Massage Therapy
S.1114-A (Maziarz)/A.6634 (Wright)
Would have created a fee schedule for massage therapy services, essentially expanding the comp system to include yet another group of workers' compensation providers and mandating that employers and insurers pay for the services of licensed massage therapists (LMTs) under the Workers' Compensation Law. Did not pass either house.


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Roving Cheese Shop
Bringing cheese to the people
Let's face it I love cheese! I love to eat it. I love to talk about it. Most of all, I love the look on peoples faces when they taste an amazing cheese. You know what I mean - your eye's close, a smile spreads across your face and totally right there, in the moment experiencing the magic of cheese. Listening to the story it tells you of the pasture the animals were feeding in, the farmer who milked them, the care of the cheesemakers and secret action of the cultures.
I bring the Roving Cheese Shop out to shops with an ever-changing selection of cheeses based on the season and what's inspiring me at the moment.
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The last Sunday of the month
9/30, 10/28, 11/18
Heirloom Cookshop 8200 Railroad Pl N., Snoqualmie
9:30 - 1:00
One Saturday of the month (except for August)
9/29, 10/27, 11/10
The Feed Store 2809 Rainier Dr S., Seattle
5:30 - 7:30
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Nintendo hardware, especially its handhelds, are known to be tough. Game Boys have survived bombings, and the original model DS was designed from the start to survive a fall from chest height (Nintendo assumed people would drop their DS while placing the handheld in their breast pocket). YouTube channel UnlockRiver.com decided to take things a little further, or more appropriately, a lot further, by flying their Switch 1000 feet into the air and dropping it. I won't spoil the ending, but it's worth seeing what happens.
At the beginning of the video, the host expresses fear at dropping his Switch from the sky as he has put some time into Zelda. You know what would alleviate that fear? The ability to transfer or back up save files!
[Source: UnlockRiver.com on YouTube via NeoGAF]


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Rabbit School Trailer (2017)
16 March 2017 Animated, Family 79 mins
Rabbit Max, a juvenile shoplifter, gets trapped in an old-fashioned school. With rabbit girl Emmy, he acquires Easter Rabbits' secret skills, battles a sneaky fox family and learns about friendship.
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Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 141429
Evolution quits while scrolling an html message in the forwarding window
Last modified: 2008-05-01 11:38:06 EDT
Description of problem:
Very strange
Attempting to scroll the window of a specific html message being
forwarded results in the folowing pop-up.
The Application "evolution" has quit unexpectedly.
You can inform the developers of what happened to help them fix
it. Or you can restart the application right now.
This also occurs if the cursor is place in the message text moved
downward resulting in the window attempting to scroll.
This does not occur for standard text message nor for most html
messages. The messages in question can be successfully forwarded if
the message is NOT scrolled.
Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
Evolution 2.0.2 on latest kernel with all updates applied as of
30 Nov 2004
How reproducible:
The hard part is having a problematic message. I do have the message
and can forward it (provided I don't scroll of course).
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Click on the message in the in-box
2. Press forward
3. Scroll the window containing the message being forwarded
Actual results:
The Application "evolution" has quit unexpectedly.
You can inform the developers of what happened to help them fix
it. Or you can restart the application right now.
Expected results:
Forward the message successfully.
Additional info:
The primary message in question is from the Eclipse News mail list.
From: Eclipse News <email@example.com>
To: firstname.lastname@example.com
Subject: Eclipse News - Eclipse Pollinates Beehive
Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2004 10:00:25 -0500 (EST)
Fedora Core 3 is now maintained by the Fedora Legacy project for security
updates only. If this problem is a security issue, please reopen and
reassign to the Fedora Legacy product. If it is not a security issue and
hasn't been resolved in the current FC5 updates or in the FC6 test
release, reopen and change the version to match.
Thank you!
Closing per lack of response to previous request for information.
This bug was originally filed against a much earlier version of Fedora
Core, and significant changes have taken place since the last version
for which this bug is confirmed.
Note that FC3 and FC4 are supported by Fedora Legacy for security
fixes only. Please install a still supported version and retest. If
it still occurs on FC5 or FC6, please reopen and assign to the correct
version. Otherwise, if this a security issue, please change the
product to Fedora Legacy. Thanks, and we are sorry that we did not
get to this bug earlier.


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DJI Mavic Car Charger - Now you can charge your DJI Mavic Intelligent Lipo Batteries on the move from your cars cigarette lighter port.
It comes with low-voltage protection to ensure enough starting battery voltage for the car. Overheating protection will automatically cut off charging if your cigarette lighter port exceeds a certain temperature.
Product Model: C3S78
Operating Temperature: 41° to 104° F (5° to 40° C)
Input Voltage: 12.3-16 V (Sedan); 25-30 V (Coach)
DC Output: 13.05 V; 6 A; 78 W
Charge Time*: 54 min
* The charge time was tested in a lab environment at room temperature and should be taken as reference only.
BRAND: DJI Innovations


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Here at Stackify, there is an ethos that you will find common to every member of the engineering teams: we love building software. By the same token, we love developer tools that make building software faster, easier, more fun, more accurate, etc. One of those indispensable tools is Joseph Albahari's LINQPad, which as it turns out, is handy for all kinds of rapid prototyping in .NET.
Last week while I was working on some top-secret new bits for Prefix, I needed to implement an algorithm to find the first instance of any of a given series of bytes inside of a larger byte array. The algorithm needed to be entirely accurate and extremely quick since it will be called often and from performance-critical sections of code. Armed with a few different ideas of how the algorithm might be implemented, I dusted off my copy of LINQPad and went to work.
LINQPad FTW!
I cannot overstate the value of LINQPad for knocking out rapid C# development tasks in an informal context. It saves me time almost every day of the week, and answers questions without having to compile and run my whole project (e.g. "does this date format string give me the outcome I expect?"). By some scratch math, I figure this adds up to a couple weeks a year of extra productivity for Stackify, just from one developer.
When it comes to comparing the performance between multiple implementation strategies, I'd like to share with you a boilerplate template that I've refined over time. The goal is to make extremely light work of the "comparison" part of the job, leaving only the implementation of strategies you wish to test.
As you can see in the example, we define a delegate that matches the signature of the various strategies we want to compare, as well as a compact custom return type that encapsulates some values that summarize the results and timing of a particular strategy. Included in the return type is a checksum value that, while not particularly foolproof, helps to identify at a glance if a particular strategy might be mis-implemented in a way that could affect its results.
Interestingly, the strategy that performed best in our string search tests (several intermediately slow strategies are omitted from the example for clarity) is a hybrid strategy that relies on some highly-optimized (mapped to native) methods from the .NET Framework for the heavy lifting of seeking quickly through a large string to a position of interest, then comparing the various combinations of bytes that could match one of our target patterns. In another test not included here, this strategy outperformed even classic multi-pattern string search algorithms like Rabin-Karp, likely due to the efficiency of Array.IndexOf().
Final Note on LINQPad:
On Stackify's .NET Client Tools team, it's extremely important that the code we create is lightweight and high performance, because sometimes that same code is in libraries that may execute inside of your applications! It turns out that implementing performant algorithms in managed code is an interesting challenge; often times well understood algorithms like Rabin-Karp, executed in managed code, have worse performance than using more direct strategies with simple but efficient BCL features like String.IndexOf() and Array.IndexOf(), since those .NET features often map to native code.
While software developers are often warned of the perils of "premature optimization," I believe the more sage advice is that optimization should be early, but highly focused. Critically, optimization efforts should be restricted to areas where experience or intuition suggests there are benefits to be gained, its goal should be choosing between strategies that are quickly identifiable rather than inventing new paradigms, and above all, optimizations should support an already-defined design, rather than re-orienting design around a particular optimization.
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Flooding and Drainage Issues in Burscough
BRAILLE version of Newsletter Now Available
Neighbourhood Planning
WLBC Planning Pages
Burscough Business Network Meeting
Burscough Community Farm Event
Richmond Park - Have your say
4 X VACANCIES which are in the following Wards
2 x Ellerbook Ward
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1x St Johns Ward
Would you like to be a part of making decisions that affect Burscough?
Would you consider being a Parish Councillor and putting yourself forward for co-option to Burscough Parish Council?
To apply, you must be over eighteen and a resident of, or live within three miles of, Burscough (or work at a business in the area). Suitable candidates will have strong interest in the community and be prepared to give their time and take responsibility for helping to look after the concerns of local residents.
We provide training and support for new councillors. Meetings normally take place once per month on Wednesday evenings and there may be other meetings to attend.
If you would like to know more about this opportunity, please call for an informal discussion on 01704 894914. Your interest will be most welcome. contact :- Jackie Maguire, Clerk to the Parish Council, Office 17, Martland Mill, Mart Lane, Burscough L40 OSD. Email:- email@example.com
Burscough is a thriving community of about 10,000 residents located by the Leeds to Liverpool Canal on the A59 about half way between Liverpool and Preston. Burscough is home to Martin Mere Wildfowl and Wetlands Centre, Merseyside Passenger Transport Trust, the Wharf and much more.
We have a rich history from the 12th Century Priory, the Leeds and Liverpool canal and HMS Ringtail, two railway stations, lots of pleasant walks, the best places to eat and drink, and a great welcome. Burscough is a small town that feels like a village, with a range of excellent shops and the best industrial space you can find. The town is set for major growth in the coming years and there is always lots for a Parish Council to do.
Use the Menu above to find details of how the Parish Council works. You can look up Councillors details and how to get in touch; agendas and minutes of meetings, news and items of interest.
If you would like to get involved with the work of the Parish Council, or comment on any issue of Parish Council business, your contribution will be most welcome. Come to any of our meetings or contact us whichever way suits you best.


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Dear Dale: My wife and I are both 62 years old. We are property managers and work together. We each make $17,000 annually.We are considering partially retiring this year. Here are our questions:1. What happens if we start taking Social Security and are working part time and make more than the $9,600 we are allowed to make?2. Do we pay income tax on the Social Security income?3. If we make more than $9,600, what kind of income tax do we pay on that amount?4. Do we pay Social Security on either amount?5. What happens if we draw Social Security and decide to "unretire"?
-- J. R., Davie
Dear J.R.: Here are the answers: 1. If you retire early, but continue to work part time and earn more than $9600 (the maximum you're allowed to make if you're under 65), $1 for every $2 you earn over $9,600 will be deducted from your Social Security benefits. (People who are between the ages of 65 and 69 can earn a maximum of $15,500 this year; if they go over the maximum, $1 for every $3 is deducted from their benefits. People age 70 and older can earn as much as they want and still collect full benefits.)
2. You can be required to pay income taxes on up to 80 percent of your Social Security benefits.
3. The amount you earn, whether it's $9,600, under $9,600, or over $9,600, is still regarded as earned income by the Internal Revenue Service.
4. Yes, you pay Social Security on any amount of money you earn -- whether or not you're retired and collecting Social Security benefits.
5. If you retire early, you cannot unretire, then retire again when you're 65 and get full benefits. You would still be considered retired and entitled to your benefits, even though you might earn so much over the $9,600 that potentially you could offset your entire monthly benefits checks. If you think that's going to happen, I suggest that you wait to retire, so that when you do start collecting, you will be entitled to more (because you'll be older).
Send questions and tips to Dale Koppel, Social Security, Sun-Sentinel, 200 E. Las Olas Blvd., Fort Lauderdale, FL 33301. Send copies of documents -- NOT originals. Sorry, no personal replies.