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Minneapolis city attorneys believe a new state law intended to shine light on mysterious local government resignations doesn't apply to many of the city's top appointees, including a director who departed abruptly amid unknown allegations.
After only nine months as the city's head of regulatory services, Gregory Stubbs resigned in August and took home a $70,000 settlement. A complaint was pending against him, but the city has refused to release it because they say he does not fit the legal definition of a "public official."
Stubbs' departure came amid several high-profile shakeups in regulatory services, which oversees licensing and inspections. Two days before Stubbs resigned, Mayor R.T. Rybak announced plans to strip many of the department's core responsibilities. Just over a month later, two veteran department employees faced rare criminal charges for misusing driver's license data.
The Legislature took swift action this spring to address public resignations after the Burnsville school district's human resources director departed with a $250,000 payment and little explanation from the city. An amendment to the state's open records law expanded the definition of a "public official" to cover, among other employees, individuals in a management capacity who report to the equivalent of a city's chief administrative officer.
Under Minneapolis' reading of the law, however, the police and fire chiefs would not qualify as public officials because they don't report to the city coordinator. The city's 311 director would qualify, however.
"It's laughable on its face as a matter of policy," said Mark Anfinson, an attorney for the Minnesota Newspaper Association who was involved in crafting the legislation.
"There isn't the slightest question that the intent of the Legislature was to reach people like Stubbs," Anfinson said.
The author of the new law, Rep. Pam Myhra, R-Burnsville, said "the taxpayers have the right to know" this information. "It absolutely was the intent of the legislation that those people in those management positions would be included in this," Myhra said.
Minneapolis City Attorney Susan Segal said regardless of the author's intent, they are bound to follow the letter of the law.
"The language of this new amendment, as written, does not cover all managers in the city because of our management structure," Segal said in a statement. "Our intent is not to restrict access to information but simply to abide by the law."
The city believes that the city coordinator is their closest equivalent to a chief administrative officer. But that position has no authority over several department heads, including police chief, fire chief and regulatory services director. They report instead to the city's executive committee, which consists of four council members and the mayor. The coordinator also reports to that committee.
A Star Tribune attorney wrote to the city that the executive committee is therefore a closer match to chief administrative officer, but the city disagrees.
"Mr. Stubbs ... did not report to an individual acting in an equivalent position to a chief administrative officer and therefore did not meet the statutory definition of a public official," Deputy City Attorney Peter Ginder wrote.
The city has little incentive to hand over data it doesn't believe is public since there could be significant civil penalties for doing so.
Stubbs isn't Minneapolis' first regulatory services director whose resignation came with little explanation. His predecessor, Rocco Forte, resigned abruptly in 2011 with a complaint pending against him. The basis for that complaint was never revealed.
Resignations often allow charges against lower-level public employees to remain secret, since it usually precedes any discipline. When employees are terminated, suspended, or reprimanded, however, the basis for their discipline is a matter of public record.
Stubbs did not return messages seeking comment.
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Fuga Mundi (2015)
A new play by Spanish playwright Mar Gomez Glez.
Center Stage, Baltimore MD. 2015.
Juana is an artist. Sister Paula is an Abbess. They were both once lovers. Set in the ashes of the reconquista- 17th century Spain, Fuga Mundi examines the relationships women negotiate in a man's world, and explores the artist's connection to art.
Fuga Mundi was being developed at Center Stage in Baltimore, MD, and supported by the Spain-USA Foundation.
The Fuga Mundi team:
Playwright- Mar Gomez Glez, Dramaturg- Catherine Rodriguez, and Director- Jacob Janssen

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In human cells, the basal body (BB) core comprises a ninefold microtubule-triplet cylindrical structure. Distal and subdistal appendages are located at the distal end of BB, where they play indispensable roles in cilium formation and function. Most cells that arrest in the G0 stage of the cell cycle initiate BB docking at the plasma membrane followed by BB-mediated growth of a solitary primary cilium, a structure required for sensing the extracellular environment and cell signaling. In addition to the primary cilium, motile cilia are present in specialized cells, such as sperm and airway epithelium. Mutations that affect BB function result in cilia dysfunction. This can generate syndromic disorders, collectively called ciliopathies, for which there are no effective treatments. In this review, we focus on the features and functions of BBs and centrosomes in Homo sapiens.
Basal body, Centrosome, Ciliopathy, Cilium, Human
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Cilia. 2016 Mar 14;5:13. doi: 10.1186/s13630-016-0030-8. eCollection 2016. Link to article on publisher's site
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Vertii A, Hung H, Hehnly H, Doxsey SJ. (2016). Human basal body basics. Open Access Articles. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13630-016-0030-8. Retrieved from https://escholarship.umassmed.edu/oapubs/2893
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The perfect gift for a hostess or just liven up the dinner table conversations!
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Looking for a Few Good Males: Female Choice in Evolutionary Biology
Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010
Translated into Slovak as Zopár Správnych Chlapov: Ženský výber v evolučnej biológii (Bratislava: Hadart Publishing, 2019).
Looking for a Few Good Males is an intellectual and cultural history of Charles Darwin's theory of "female choice." Darwin proposed sexual selection as a theoretical stopgap to explain why variations within a species—including differences between males and females and racial variations—could persist for long periods of time. For Darwin, sexual selection also served as a naturalistic mechanism explaining beauty in the animal kingdom. By raising issues about mind and aesthetics at the animal-human boundary, female choice proved to be a highly controversial scientific theory. In the late 19th century, zoologists criticized descriptions of female choice in animals for being anthropomorphic—a female "compared" mating displays and "chose" the "prettiest" male with whom to mate. A century later, zoologists attacks accounts of female choice as an evolutionary mechanism in humans for being zoomorphic—a woman "instinctively" mated with the first man whose courtship "rituals" stimulated her above a minimum excitatory "threshold." Both formulations, conscious choice behavior in animals and the biological basis of behavior in humans, precipitated long-lasting disagreements among communities of biologists attempting to understand the relationship of behavior and evolution. By considering how changing conceptions of the animal-human boundary interweave with contemporaneous understandings of gendered behavior, Looking for a Few Good Males challenges the standard history of sexual selection. Rather than seeing the history of female choice as driven by male bias against the importance of female behavior, I suggest instead that biologists' discomfort with choice-based behaviors in animals was at least as important in shaping the history of Darwin's theory, which has become a cornerstone of modern evolution. I argue that when biologists have studied the sexual behavior of animals, their investigations were as much about what it means to be human as they were about animal nature.
How I came to the topic [link].
Preview the book [link].
Lee Ehrman, Reports of the National Center for Science Education 34/2 (2014): 28-30. [link]
Jesse Richmond, "Still Figuring Out Nature's Economy," Historical Studies of the Natural Sciences 42/1 (2012): 62-70. [Essay review with Mark Barrow, Nature's Ghosts: Confronting Extinction from the Age of Jefferson to the Age of Ecology; Mark Borello, Evolutionary Restraints: The Contentious History of Group Selection; and Amanda Rees, The Infanticide Controversy: Primatology and the Art of Field Science.]
Mara Flannery, Cosmos [Australia], Issue 43 (Feb-Mar 2012): 88.
Marion Thomas, Centaurus 53/3 (Aug 2011): 240-242.
Marga Vicedo, Isis 102/2 (Jun 2011): 352-353.
Mark Borello, Journal of the History of Biology 44/2 (May 2011): 365-367.
Kirsten Leng, Gender & History 23/1 (Apr 2011): 207-209.
Donald Dewsbury, Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences 47/2 (Spring 2011): 204-206.
Elen Oneal, Wilson Journal of Ornithology 123/1 (Mar 2011): 188-190.
Joan Roughgarden, "Beauty and the Beast," American Scientist 98/6 (Nov-Dec 2010): 507 [link].
Tim Birkhead, Quarterly Review of Biology 85/4 (December 2010): 505; see also, "What are you reading?" Times Higher Education Supplement, no. 1949 (27 May 2010): 51.
Margery Lucas, "Female Choice: Hidden in Plain Sight," PsycCRITIQUES 55/41 (2010).
J. E. Platz, Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries 48/1 (Sep 2010).
Karen Rader, "Looking at Sexual Selection," Science 328/5984 (10 Jun 2010): 1356-7 [link].


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It's a question I get every time after speaking about sex trafficking. This year, HopeChest is offering a first-ever sex trafficking prevention mission trip through our partners One Child Campaign and Man Up.
On October 4-14, you can visit Russia and Moldova on this special trip. While on the trip, you'll visit restoration homes for survivors of trafficking, engage in prevention efforts, and spend time ministering to women and children who are impacted by sex trafficking.
What is Man Up all about?
This trip calls men of God to man up to love, protect, and defend the fatherless. Take a few minutes to watch this video from Man Up, and visit their site to find out more.
Interested in the trip? Send us an e-mail and we'll get you the details.


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Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics researchers have recently synthesized a gold catalyst for chemoselective hydrogenation of functionalized nitroarenes. By using the Zinc-Aluminum hydrotalcite (ZnAl-HT) supported thiolated Au25 nanoclusters (NCs) as the precursor of the catalyst, they prepared the efficient Au catalyst with high selectivity for the selective hydrogenation of functionalized nitroarenes to the corresponding aromatic amines in wide temperature and time ranges.
Functionalized aromatic amines are important industrial intermediates for pharmaceuticals, agrochemicals, fine chemicals, dyes and polymers. They were generally synthesized by chemoselective hydrogenation of the corresponding functionalized nitroarenes. Generally, the most common problem for traditional noble-metal catalysts was that they were active not only for the reduction of the nitro group but also for the hydrogenation of other unsaturated functional groups existing in the same molecule.
Previoiusly, Prof. Zhang's group have developed a rationally designed FeOx supported Pt single-atom and pseudo single-atom catalyst for the hydrogenation of functionalized nitro groups. By precisely controlling the reaction time and temperature, they obtained the good activity and selectivity for this kind of reaction. But the problem was that the nitro group and the other unsaturated groups were competitively adsorbed on the catalyst so that excessive hydrogenation was inevitable while the concentration of the nitro group decreased.
Au catalyst was reported very selective for various oxidation and hydrogenation reactions because of the weak adsorption of reactant and product molecular. Catalysis by Au has been one of the most important research projects in Prof. Zhang's group in the last decade. They have done a series of important work on this topic. (Nano Today, 2013, 8, 403-416; J. Catal., 2013, 308, 258-271, 50th Anniversary Special Issue). This time they created a gold catalyst with amazingly high selectivity for the hydrogenation of functionalized nitroarenes to the target product.
In comparison with the traditional gold catalysts, the thiolated Au25 NCs supported on the ZnAl-hydrotalcite was highly resistant to sintering, with well controlled size (around 2.0 nm) even after calcination at 500 oC. The formation of the Au-S-Zn bond and the epitaxial interaction between gold and the support might contribute to the stabilization of the gold nanoclusters. Besides, the results of the control experiments suggested the catalyst was inert to adsorb other unsaturated groups, thus made it a potential candidate for selective hydrogenation reactions. This is very different from the behavior of the supported platinium-group metals.
This work was published on Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. (http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/anie.201610736).
The research work was financially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China, the National Key Projects for Fundamental Research and Development of China, the Youth Innovation Promotion Association CAS, and the Strategic Priority Research Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. The work was also supported by the BL 14W at the Shanghai Synchrotron Radiation Facility (SSRF) for the XAFS experiments.
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Eyeing this integration, a South Korean medical doctor-entrepreneur with more than 20 years of hospital operations under his belt, has set out to capitalize on the hospital-pharma business ties and synergies to make new drug R&D a faster and more efficient endeavor.
"Right now, it takes immense time and money for a firm to develop a new drug substance, conduct clinical tests to guarantee efficacy and safety, and to commercialize the drug for use by real patients," said Lee Wang-jun, chairman and CEO of Korea's Myongji Hospital, in an interview with The Korea Herald.
|Myongji Hospital Chairman Lee Wang-jun (Courtesy of Myongji Hospital)
"The time and costs involved in this process could be significantly cut when hospitals actively step into the ecosystem," he said. "We envision a future where hospitals form the foundation of the local biopharma business ecosystem -- the base camp for clinical research and trials."
Lee, a graduate of Seoul National University's College of Medicine, has been operating for decades multiple general hospitals across Korea, including Myongji Hospital in Goyang, Gyeonggi Province, and Jecheon, North Chungcheong Province, the Incheon Sarang Hospital and two medical facilities for seniors. He is also the founder and head publisher of Korean Doctor's Weekly, a Seoul-based medical newspaper formed in 1992.
According to the 54-year-old chairman, hospitals today are becoming more than mere health care service providers. They offer R&D resources, clinical trial support and more to drug developers working to develop and commercialize new drugs, taking an active role in the biopharma business chain.
Over the years, hospitals in the US have become more research-driven and more open to collaboration with biotech businesses. And Korea is also starting to follow in their footsteps, though it has yet to see many exemplary cases to date, Lee noted.
In light of this, the Myongji Hospital chairman said he wants to become among the first figures to successfully set this collaboration model in motion in Korea.
As part of the vision, Lee acquired the Kosdaq-listed molecular diagnostics firm MGMed -- now renamed as Cancer Rop -- from Korean genetic sequencing service firm Macrogen last October.
By leveraging the resources of Myongji Hospital as well as other Korean hospital networks, Cancer Rop expects to carry out its end-to-end drug R&D procedures in a speedier and more efficient manner compared to others, the chairman said.
As its name suggests, Cancer Rop will focus on developing next-generation drugs for cancer. It specifically wants to focus on developing new immunotherapies for cancer using peptide-related technologies.
To do this, the firm is looking into mergers and acquisitions. Cancer Rop wants to acquire biotech companies that possess new immune-oncology drugs and technologies, for which talks are currently ongoing, the chairman said.
|Myongji Hospital Chairman Lee Wang-jun (Courtesy of Myongji Hospital)
Potential acquisition candidates could include UK-based Oxford Vacmedix, a biotech venture spun off from Oxford University in 2012, which is already engaged in a joint research partnership with Myongji Hospital.
Oxford Vacmedix develops immune-therapy agents for cancer by leveraging its proprietary recombinant overlapping peptide technology. The agents are designed to deliver immunotherapies -- which activates the body's immune system to directly attack cancerous tumors -- more efficiently and economically.
Once Cancer Rop is able to secure a viable immune-oncology drug candidate, the company's drug development procedures will be carried out with Myongji Hospital as a base, Lee said.
"Leveraging Myongji Hospital as well as an array of other hospital networks, we want to carry out the development and clinical testing procedures faster than others," said the chairman.
Looking ahead, Cancer Rop hopes to get its pipeline ready to go this year, and begin initiating its phase 1 clinical trial process for its drug candidate by 2019, Lee said.
"Unlike many biotech venture founders whose goal is to develop a promising drug candidate, license out the substance, and make an exit, I have a more ambitious vision," said the chairman.
"My hope and vision is to act as an overarching coordinator who can reshape and upgrade Korea's biomedical ecosystem into a more collaborative model that merges the health care service business with the biopharma sector for the better."
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TORONTO — For this Toronto Maple Leafs team, despite the franchise's rich and storied past, it is not the time for history lessons.
The Leafs, of course, do not like talking about the Game 7 collapse against the Boston Bruins five years ago.
Coach Mike Babcock does not even want to reference the 1992-93 team, which was drubbed in its first two playoff games before going on a magical run to the conference finals.
"I don't go back, even when I'm coaching the team for a series here or a series there," Babcock said after practice on Wednesday. "To me, they're all different. As far as what happened to the Leafs in 1993, I don't know much about it."
Fans who have remained loyal through the tough times will remember. It was the closest the Leafs have come to reaching the Stanley Cup finals since winning the championship in 1967.
The 1993 team was beaten, 6-3 and 6-2, in the first two games in Detroit as the Red Wings neutralized Toronto's leader, Doug Gilmour, with strong, physical play, while the normally combative Wendel Clark received bad press for looking passive and disinterested.
This year, Toronto lost Games 1 and 2 in Boston, 5-1 and 7-3, and criticism was directed at Toronto's best player, Auston Matthews. Many were writing the Leafs' epitaph for a season in which they established a franchise record for wins (49) and points (105).
But in Game 3 at home on Monday, Toronto held off Boston, 4-2, to trim the Bruins' series lead to 2-1. Game 4 is Thursday.
Like the 2018 Leafs, the 1993 team cranked up the emotion and will to win in Game 3, charging back to beat the Red Wings, 4-2. Toronto then evened the series in Game 4, and eventually took Game 7 in Detroit on an overtime goal by Nikolai Borschevsky. Toronto advanced to the conference finals by beating the St. Louis Blues in seven games, but fell short of the Cup finals with a seven-game loss to the Los Angeles Kings.
Back in 1993, the Leafs relied on grit and experience. They were powered by Gilmour and Dave Andreychuk, who were approaching their 30th birthdays, and Clark, who was 26 and in his eighth N.H.L. season.
Even the last time Toronto won a playoff series, in 2004 against the Ottawa Senators, the Leafs were loaded with veterans and future Hall of Famers like Mats Sundin, then 32; Joe Nieuwendyk, 37; Ron Francis, 40; and goaltender Ed Belfour, 38.
Youth and raw talent form the nucleus of this year's Leafs, which could be a vulnerability. Experience becomes a premium in the playoffs, when handling adversity is as important as handling a puck. Toronto's top two scorers in the regular season, Mitch Marner and Matthews, are only 20, and the third-leading scorer, William Nylander, is 21.
"What you've got to remember is these guys are young guys," Babcock said. "You've got to go through some of these slappings in your life and respond and learn how to play."
Boston's top line is well seasoned, with Brad Marchand, 29, and Patrice Bergeron, 32, who have 179 playoff games between them and have won a Stanley Cup. They are complemented by 21-year-old David Pastrnak, who entered Wednesday's games as the leading point scorer in the postseason with nine in three games.
Among the fresh-faced Leafs, 10 players made their postseason debuts last spring when Toronto lost to the Washington Capitals in six games in the first round. Trying to capitalize on the franchise's momentum, management sprinkled this year's lineup with veteran talent like 38-year-old Patrick Marleau, the 36-year-old defenseman Ron Hainsey and 35-year-old Tomas Plekanec.
"There was a little more of that wide-eyedness out of guys last year," forward James van Riemsdyk said. "Now, this year, there is more of that confidence."
Yet optimism started to fade quickly in the playoffs when Nazem Kadri, the team's shutdown center and 32-goal scorer, was suspended for three games for an illegal hit on Tommy Wingels in Game 1.
After the first two games, Toronto's critics zeroed in on Matthews, who had been held off the score sheet, defenseman Nikita Zaitsev and even Babcock for his matchup and lineup decisions. The coach took heat before Game 3 for promoting Plekanec from the fourth line to the second line between Marleau and Marner.
Plekanec had been a disappointment since coming from the Montreal Canadiens in a trade in late February. Yet on Monday, in the familiar checking role he specialized in with Montreal, Plekanec kept the Bruins' top line scoreless.
"He played his best game since he's been here," Babcock said. "Maybe just the fact that he maybe didn't feel as important as he should have when he got here affected his play."
That second line scored a pair of goals, off the stick of Marleau, while Matthews got his first goal of these playoffs.
"I thought Auston got the weight of the world off his back," Babcock said on Wednesday.
Despite 13 Stanley Cup championships, trailing only the Canadiens with 24, the Maple Leafs have been mostly a laughable band of losers. They have reached the playoffs only three times since the 2004-5 lockout and share the longest championship drought in the N.H.L.
The evidence of a glorious past is everywhere at the Air Canada Centre. The walls outside the dressing room are lined with photos depicting scenes of players from the 1960s like George Armstrong clutching the Stanley Cup and Coach Punch Imlach sipping Champagne in front of a blackboard on which is humorously scrawled, "No practice tomorrow."
Five years ago, Tim Leiweke, the team president at the time, created an uproar by threatening to remove the portraits of the old boys. "We want to put pressure on these guys," he said then. "I want it to be about them."
But the current team president, Brendan Shanahan, a Hall of Famer player who grew up in the Toronto area, preserved the photos and was a major influence in the creation of Legends Row, the bronze statues placed outside the arena that immortalize the Leafs' heroes of the past.
Babcock said, "I think we just have to keep building the product on the ice so it matches our history."


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Forget the reset-the-record street art campaign "Stop Telling Women to Smile." Not that it's forgettable, mind you (a torrent of media coverage will tell you otherwise), but because it's simply something born between the subway and the studio and not any kinda ultimate goal.
What would you do if your mind was set on one thing and troglodytes insisted on making you respond to their unwelcome advances?
Figure out a way to stop it, of course. While there's no hard evidence "Stop Telling Women to Smile" actually stopped knuckleheads from telling women to smile, the campaign did make the matter of some conversation. With luck, it also made a few men do what's good.
A year later Tatyana Fazlalizadeh is herself doing what she's set out to do all along — and that is paint portraits. With oil. In a scale she's found sufficient to be revelatory. And of folks she's found to be in some way or another inspiring. That there are no smiles among them is probably not a coincidence; for as much as Fazlalizadeh doesn't wanna be told what to do, she's equally unlikely to tell others.
And Thank Zeus for that too. Because rather than a portrait painted in some manipulative light, we've portraits guided by the inner light of those Fazlalizadeh has sighted. The capturing of that secret, all too elusive essence that portrait painters have been pursuing since the beginning of the form.
And make no mistake about it, with the portraits Fazlalizadeh is continuing on a sacred and profane tradition, a tradition that neither asks to nor warrants going viral or becoming part of the pop culture landscape. Yet a tradition that still exemplifies what it looks like to be who we are right this minute, whether we smile or not.
Tatyana Fazlalizadeh's Recent Work. Curated by Carter Jackson-Brown. Through February 28. At Butter Gallery. 2930 NW 7th Avenue Miami.
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If you ever find it hard to pick the right outdoor pool table for your backyard, we got just the right guide to help you. This article will not be just a guide to choosing the right pool table, but you will find other helpful things as well.
Finding an outdoor billiard table itself is not the tricky part. But picking the right one from the abundance of available products sometimes gets very confusing. Thus we provide this tips and tricks that have everything that you need to know about this outdoor table.
What are Outdoor pool tables made of?
Before we go with which one you should get or what kind of table that you should consider. You should know the differences between the outdoor pool table and the indoor one.
The differences are quite significant because you cannot use indoor pool table for outdoor purpose; here are the most important differences:
- Indoor pool table mostly uses the wooden material as a frame.
- It can get easily damaged while used outside.
- The playing field is very smooth and gives you the most power and spin.
- Do not need too many extra.
Meanwhile, the outside one is a lot more complicated. Not only that they will be exposed to the environmental damage, but they will also require more care. Here are what an outdoor table for playing pool use mostly as materials:
- The frames of the table are primarily made from aluminum or stainless steel. These two materials are the most common used because they are pretty resistant to corrosion and other kinds of damages. They also last pretty long and will not easily warp. Plastic and fiber are the other materials commonly used. While they are also durable, they are prone to warping if exposed to too much heat or cold weather. Regarding price, the stainless steel one is very expensive, but it most likely is a waterproof pool table.
- The playing surface of the outdoor pool table is not as smooth as the indoor one. It cannot generate as much power and spin, but it has a lot more durability. The materials used for the playing field are acrylic fabric with the marine grade. This kind of felt is adamant and will not get damaged easily no matter the weather, and it won't gather dust as well.
- Almost all of outdoor billiard table products use molded rubber for the tracks. Some use the rubber for both sides of the rails. It is believed that using more rubber for the rail will prevent it from going hardened on the inside. Unfortunately, there is no justification for that statement yet.
- An outside billiard playing table also usually comes with many extras. After all, this is a product that will be placed outside so that it will need a lot of protection items. The cover cloth is one extra that you must buy; this is an absolute rule of owning an outside table. The another kind added that you should strongly consider the built-in light so that you can play at night quickly. You can skip buying the extras if you think that you can make them yourself.
So, with those differences with the indoor one, how much do outdoor pool tables cost? Well, it is not going to be different, but several factors can affect the price:
- A grade of the materials; higher materials mean higher price points.
- The slate condition; most importantly, its thickness and pieces.
- The overall designs of the table
The overall prices are listed as these:
- The lowest one is the toy table; it cost about $600 to $1,200. The material for this grade is the lowest of them all; it mostly uses plastic, so it is prone to warping and constricting. This kind of table is of a poor quality and will last for half of a decade.
- The primary table that is available for $1,200 to $2,000 is the next grade. It uses higher material and can last for more than a decade. But it will require extensive care to keep the table as good for that long time. The materials used are still pretty average, and the designs are dull.
- The mid range tables are expensive with $2,100 to $3,500 price range, but they will last for a very long time. It uses the highest of quality materials and is mostly very easy to care. Most of them got the unique design and looked excellent, most also comes with extras and warranty.
- The most expensive one is the custom table; it can cost you $3,500 to $15,000. These different tables are worthy to be used as your family heirloom. Not only that they are using the highest quality of materials, but they also sport a unique design of them all. You will need to be very careful with the maintenance, though, as you do not want it to get even the slightest of damages.
How to clean outdoor pool table?
Taking care an all weather pool table will be super easy and will not take time. But you are obliged to use different kinds of maintenance for your regular outdoor pool playing table. And if you are having trouble finding the right and proper maintenance guide, we have one just for you.
- When doing the maintenance, put the other playing objects away; this includes the balls, chalk, cues and so on.
- The finish and fabric are very easy to clean. You can just use a combination of water and soap, but be sure to do it gently and let it thoroughly dry before you use it again.
- When drying, avoid UV ray as much as possible, it will damage your table.
- You can also use UV protection spray to prevent it from getting damaged from the UV rays.
- Using soft wet towel are preferable than just spraying water, as some areas are not exquisite with water.
There you go, these are the complete outdoor pool table guide that you need to know. Follow these guides, and you will have no problem.


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Eggsciting Easter Ideas
For many, Easter signifies the beginning of spring.
Easter eggs represent new birth, and the pastel colors – particularly the yellows and purples – are everywhere!
Make this Easter one to remember by making it the ultimate family celebration.
Easter Dates for 2020
It is said that the name "Easter" is derived from the name Eastre, the Teutonic goddess of Spring. Whatever the truth, Easter egg activities have become a part of Western culture.
Easter 2020 is on Sunday April 12th
In 2021 Easter will be on Sunday April 4th
Community Activities for Easter
Easter is a good time to think of others who are less fortunate or to get involved in a community project that would help your neighbourhood. If you belong to a church you can encourage others to participate. Below I have listed some possibilities, I'm sure you can come up with some of your own ideas for Easter.
- Organize a dinner for the homeless, less fortunate
- Get involved in your neighbourhood spring clean up
- Participate in a 10K run for charity
- Organize a blood drive
- Visit an elderly neighbour
Outdoor Easter Egg Hunt
Kids love waking up on Easter morning and taking part in an Easter Egg hunt. Start a new tradition by hosting a family, or neighbourhood, traditional outdoor Easter egg hunt!
The bonus? You won't find stale Easter eggs under the couch cushions in September!
Creating an outdoor hunt can be just as fun for adults as it is for the kids. Choose a location, such as a local park or a large backyard. Hide little eggs everywhere – under leaves, in flowers, on the park benches and play equipment. Larger items, such as chocolate bunnies, can be labelled so you don't have one little boy hogging all the big things! Call everyone together and set some ground rules, and then let the games begin.
Night Time Easter Egg Hunt
If the kids are older, consider holding your hunt at night time, with the help of flash lights to add a fun element of surprise to the evening! Adults will have fun with this one, as well!
Easter Egg Scavenger Hunt
A scavenger hunt is also a fun twist. Create a map and a set of clues and send everyone on their way! Make sure someone stays at home-base to greet any tired searchers!
Easter Brunch
Traditionally, many people choose to serve ham at Easter time. Carry on this tradition with a modern twist – a brunch!
Make it a potluck if you want to tie it in with your outdoor egg hunt. Serve fruit salad, ham, eggs, and pancakes – get creative and shape your pancakes into bunny ears! Devilled eggs, fresh bread, and lots of fresh veggies will make this a delicious late morning meal.
For the kids, serve chocolate milk, and for the adults, a nice sparkling wine will do the trick just fine!
Easter Crafts for Kids!
You may wish to work on decorating eggs a few days before Easter so on the special day, you already have your decorations completed!
Decorating real eggs is a fun way to pass the afternoon! You can either use hardboiled eggs (great for young kids) or blow the yolks out of fresh eggs to create a craft that will last.
To blow out the yolks, carefully prick each end of the egg with a sewing needle, lengthwise. Blow from one end, letting the contents drain into a bowl. Rinse the emptied eggshells to make sure that no egg residue is left to grow bacteria. Then, use water paints to create colourful creations! Note that if you use hardboiled eggs, they will rot within a couple of days.
Your works of art can be displayed in bowls, Easter baskets, or hung from an "Easter tree." Or, have your children give them to family members as gifts.
A Non-Traditional Easter
Typically, Easter offers a four-day weekend. This can be a great time to leave town for a few days!
Plan a romantic getaway, or a family trip to a city you've always wanted to visit. Pack up the car, or jump on a plane, and see how much you can pack into three or four days away from home.
Spend the long weekend visiting museums, trying new restaurants, and touring a new area. From aquariums to shopping, there's always something to do when you're new in town!
Return home rejuvenated, and ready to tackle that spring cleaning!
Easter Activities for the Whole Family
If your family attends church, Easter is a great time to talk to your kids about religious beliefs and practices. Make it fun by reading Easter-themed stories and working on coloring books together that depict Easter images.
If your family prefers to celebrate the spring aspect of Easter, consider planning a family trip to a local farm or petting zoo! The kids can enjoy pony rides and see the baby animals – a great way to learn about how spring represents new growth!
Hot Cross buns are another Easter favorite. Although they are now available year round they are traditionally eaten on Good Friday. Hot cross buns are made with currants or raisins and spiced with cinnamon, they are generallt eaten warm or toasted with butter. They are easily recognized by the marking of a cross on the top. The cross is a symbol of the crucifixion.
Hot Cross Buns Nursery RhymeHot Cross Buns
Hot Cross Buns
One a penny, two a penny
Hot Cross Buns
If you have no daughters,
Listen to your sons
One a penny, two a penny
Hot Cross Buns
From Easter eggs to scrambled eggs, Easter is a wonderful time to get the family together and enjoy a long weekend. Whether the kids are little tots or all grown up, planning a family get together over this spring celebration is the best way to celebrate!
Do your Kids Believe in the Easter Bunny?
For younger kids, they can have fun using the internet to find out where the Easter bunny is right now ? Learning how to track down the Easter bunny can help them understand and use the internet for something they are keen to discover, following him every day in the Lent period.
Easter Crafts & Activities for Kids
Younger children will enjoy having their own easter bunny to color, or download a range of printable items for this holiday season.
Easter activities for primary school students include creating an unusual bonnet or easter basket - why not make an easter bonnet specially for a parade for parents.
Older children might like to bring items for easter baskets to make in the class room.
Easter is a special time of year when we remember events of over 2000 years
ago, eat chocolate & candy and get an extra holiday!
Not only that, but on the Christian calendar it represents so much more - when Jesus Christ died and rose again.
Easter Resources:
Free printable coloring pages for Easter - Easter Coloring & Crafts
Inspirational Easter poems - Easter Poems
For some great ideas for Easter table linen, table runners and napkins.


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Day Two of Nissan360 started off with a spectacular gourmet breakfast and a walk around the hotel grounds… At a resort such as this, you're bound to see some impressive cars, and no car guy can resist snapping a few pictures!
It's about a 20-30 minute bus ride to El Toro, so I thought I'd do a little research on the place and learn about the history… Until the closure of the base in 1999, El Toro was the largest Marine Corps air installation in the western United States. The station was used for fighter jet training activities for almost 50 years, to support the operations and combat readiness of Fleet Marine Forces. El Toro MCAS is included on the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's National Priorities List of hazardous waste sites requiring cleanup, and the question of how to use the 4,700 acres of publicly owned land is one of the most controversial issues facing Orange County today.
Forget about all that – Today, all we care about it that it's a great place to host a HUGE automotive event! Rolling onto the property, we were greeted by columns of helpful Nissan360 staffers, handing out bottled water, helping people find their way around, and ready and eager to answer any questions we might have. Looking around, we could see the main Nissan360 headquarters.
Also on-site were the Nissan Performance and Technology Center, as well as stations for Trucks and Light Commercial Vehicles, an Autonomous Vehicle Station, the World and City Drive Station, and various other assorted facilities such as the Nissan Refreshment Van, an Information station, a Bose Audio and Technology demonstration tent, and even a Media station (with wi-fi and charging ports). Amazingly, ALL of these buildings and structures are temporary, constructed specifically for the Nissan360 event… The logistics of this project is enough to make your head spin!
Entering the main Nissan360 Headquarters for our first presentation, several of us grabbed some caffeine at the coffee bar – Go ahead, try and stump this young lady with your Starbucks-style order. She had it down to a science!
The first multimedia presentation gave us some in-depth insight into Nissan's role in emerging technologies, including safety systems, in-car connectivity and automation – all fields where Nissan has secured industry-leading positions. We also learned about how Nissan is aggressively extending its global presence through its longstanding alliance with Renault, complemented by more recent partnerships in different vehicle or engineering segments with Daimler, Mitsubishi Motors, AvtoVAZ, Dongfeng and Ashok Leyland.
With the presentation over, attendees were free to engage in their activity of choice, and I made an immediate beeline to the Nissan Performance and Technology Center, where I was able to get up-close and personal with some of Nissan's current motorsports hardware. Also in this area were the NISMO Test Track, and the GT Academy competition display.
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Yesterday I gave you a glimpse of my childhood. If you want to see me when I was little, take a look and you will also get my no-fail pie crust recipe. Today I just made Chocolate Espresso Pecan Pie. I baked mine for tomorrow and I just pulled it out of the oven.
Here is how I rolled out the dough before putting it into the pie plate. Once you have the pie dough in the plate, don't mess with it. Just work around the edge to do the crimping.
Here is how I crimped it. I also scored the pie with a fork.
After I toasted the pecans, I added them into the crust. I then added the best looking whole pecans as a border. After that, I poured in the chocolate espresso mixture. It is really nice to see the pecans on the border rise as the mixture is poured in and the chopped pecans stayed pretty much flat on the bottom.
Chocolate Espresso Pecan Pie
adapted from Fine Cooking
For the crust:
6 oz. (1-1/3 cups) unbleached all-purpose flour; more for rolling out the crust
1 tsp. granulated sugar
1/4 tsp. plus 1/8 tsp. kosher salt
2 oz. (4 Tbs.) chilled unsalted butter, cut into 1/2-inch pieces
2 oz. (4 Tbs.) vegetable shortening, chilled and cut into 1/2-inch pieces (put it in the freezer for 15 minutes before cutting)
For the filling:
3 oz. unsweetened chocolate, coarsely chopped
2 oz. (4 Tbs.) unsalted butter
4 large eggs
1 cup light corn syrup
1 cup granulated sugar
1/4 tsp. kosher salt
2 Tbs. instant espresso powder (or instant coffee) (I used 2 tablespoons of fresh espresso I just made. I let it cool)
2 Tbs. coffee liqueur (Kahlúa or Caffé Lolita) (I didn't have any coffee liqueur and omitted this part)
2 cups lightly toasted, coarsely chopped pecans
About 1/2 cup perfect pecan halves
Make the filling:
Whisk to blend.
Bake the pie until the filling puffs up, just starts to crack, and appears fairly set, 45 to 55 minutes. Transfer it to a rack and allow it to cool completely (at least 4 hours) before serving.


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Learning all the safety measures and also avoiding any hazardous incident from happening is a very important thing for the kids. Gameiva brings a special collection of games which features all kinds of kid's activities in the school as well as some safety learning games. Also enjoy an amazing visit to the animal fun fair for kids having lots of thrilling rides and animals to watch and then help the princess with her salon activities for her wedding.
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1) Safety Learning For Kids
Learning about safety and being alert is very important for all the kids to be safe all the time from any kind of trouble. This latest educational game by Gameiva is specially made to teach the kids about all the different safety learning activities and methods which will help them to protect themselves in all kinds of unsafe situations that we see in our day to day lives.
Look for the water on the floor so that you don't slip and fall on it. Close all the pipes so that the water doesn't leak through them. When the doorbell rings first check the person behind the door before opening it.
2) Fiasco at the School
The naughty and the mischievous school children had been up to lots of trouble in the school and now they need your help to get back everything right. Help all the naughty kids from their trouble in your school kid's hospital. Few kids had been attacked by the bees while they were playing on the streets. Use the Antiseptic and other medicines to relieve them from their pain. Remove the thorn from their feet and stitch it with a plaster. Hospitalize all the other kids from their injuries on different parts of their body and apply medicines and plasters on them.
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The princess has to go for a date with the prince of a foreign country and she needs a complete makeover at your salon. Help her to look perfectly beautiful for the date with all your skills in the makeovers. Give a complete hair wash and make it totally smooth and silky. Then start with the face wash and you have to make sure that you remove all the pimples from her face using the pimple remover and also the dark marks using the different cosmetic creams. Give some stunning hair design for her hair which will give her a totally royal princess look. Make a beautiful wedding ring by yourself and decorate it with a shining diamond.
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Mary Benson, better-known as "Minnie" or "Ben", was the small, fat, widely adored wife of Edward Benson, Archbishop of Canterbury (1883-96). Four of their children became writers. Insofar as they went in for intimate relations, they favoured their own sex. Maggie Benson, a philosopher turned Egyptologist, summarised their dilemma: "I cannot imagine anyone man enough to marry and woman enough to love."
"Ben" loved several women during her difficult, but never distant, marriage to the startlingly handsome and depressive Bishop. After his death she moved Lucy Tait, who was already living at Lambeth Palace, into her bed. Tait was the daughter of a previous Archbishop of Canterbury and sister-in-law of another.
Was the relationship carnal? Ben agonised to her diary over the "stain" of physical desire, and referred, often, to "falling again". In 1896 Tait professed to feeling spurned "like a sea anemone when its feelers are touched" adding "it's no earthly good you and me having anything together except just the very thing we have always wanted from the beginning and no other relationship is the slightest good, not even only as a temporary for a few days".
She was still around 10 years later, when the two women shared a rambling Jacobean house called Tremens, near the Sussex Downs. Maggie, best-beloved of the children, lived with them till she attacked Tait in a fit of homicidal mania for having bewitched Ben. Maggie was removed to an asylum; Tait stayed in the marital bed and helped with the medical bills.
Edward Benson, a distinguished broad churchman was also, in contemporary parlance, first a "groomer" and then a rapist. He was 24 when he proposed to his 12-year-old cousin Minnie Sidgwick and proceeded to bind her to him with caresses about which she was afraid to tell her mother. They married six years later.
Sex was abhorrent to her, but six babies followed at short intervals. Their early marriage was marred by dreadful battles; Ben struggled with bills, secretarials and her husband's tendency to dark rages and unreachable glooms. Behind his back she would play at raising the dead but she recovered her Christian faith when she fell in love with the evangelical wife of a theological pupil of her husband.
This was after she had suffered a breakdown and left her husband for the best part of a year, only returning on terms which precluded the possibility of any more pregnancies. As time passed, the early misery in the marriage turned to something like pity on her part and ogreish dependence on his.
Ben lived till 1918, living at Tremens with Tait and remaining close to her prolifically writing sons, but she never stooped to admire A C's prosy platitudes, E F's smart social satires or the Catholic convert Hugh's violent historical revisions.
There have been scores of books about the Benson family (not all by Bensons). Here Rodney Bolt injects into the narrative of Mary's life scraps of other stories culled from newspaper reports, vaguely relevant novels or contemporary advice books.
His aim is to thicken the stew, but the result is too much gravy and not enough meat. There is precious little about Ben's brothers, one of whom, Henry Sidgwick, married Arthur Balfour's sister. As a tribe the Sidgwicks were almost as gay as the Bensons, but brainier and more robust.
Penelope Fitzgerald observed that "no one who has written about the Bensons has been able to help making Minnie the heroine of the story", but this is the first book to place her centre stage since E F Benson's Mother (1925). How odd then that in Bolt's version it is Edward Benson, the tortured tyrant who lost the two children he loved best because they feared him least, procured women for his wife and brooked no nonsense about not sending clever girls to university, who steals the show.
Mrs Benson remains elusive, the retrospective diary, which she wrote under the evangelical influence of the student's wife, frustrates more than it attracts with its mixture of self-reproach and self-pity. And yet her power over other people is not in doubt.
Ethel Smyth, a comic figure in books about other people, but a vivid portraitist in her own, was a friend of several Benson children and paid tribute to their mother's "care of souls… kept going by words of counsel and comfort written on letter paper so diminutive that it inevitably suggested a prescription". Would that Bolt had gone in for more prescription notes.
As Good as God, as Clever as the Devil: The Impossible Life of Mary Benson
by Rodney Bolt
320pp, Atlantic, £22
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Melissa Gira Grant
March 2014
New York
134 pages
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Melissa Gira Grant's Playing the Whore: The Work of Sex Work is a slender, not narrow, book, though Gira Grant admits that her scope of investigation is, in fact, limited. Purposely. An admission, lest anyone think she attempts to speak beyond her purview. Grant is quite clear on this point: She will not make the singular plural, or make sweeping statements in order to "make clearer" or simpler some argument that is neither clear nor simple.
Playing the Whore begins with a scene of a vice bust—undercover operations that uncover more about the law and law enforcement than the purportedly seamy side of sex for sale. Gira Grant not only walks us through a scene (soon to be a crime scene) in order to show us with words what might otherwise be watched on a screen, but also to lead us to her thesis:
The undercover police, perpetually arresting in these videos, enact a form of sustained violence on these women's bodies [ … ] To produce a prostitute where before there had been only a woman is the purpose of such policing. It is a socially acceptable way to discipline women, fueled by a lust for law and order that is at the core of what I call the "prostitute imaginary"—the ways in which we conceptualize and make arguments about prostitution. The prostitute imaginary compels those who seek to control, abolish, or other-wise profit from prostitution, and is also the rhetorical product of their efforts. It is driven by both fantasies and fear about sex and the value of human life. (4)
With statistics to back her claim that police violence is the most frequent and fear-inducing violence sex workers face, both inside and out of doors in the US and globally, she situates her arguments against those whose argument is this: "Opponents of sex work decry prostitution as a violent institution, yet concede that violence is also useful to keep people from it." (8)
While Gira Grant doesn't waste much space dissecting the whys of fears to which opponents react, she does do a steady-handed surgical job on what of prostitution is at stake and at close range for targeting: She claims that prostitution is more about intent than resultant action; that it is "much of the time, a talking crime [ ... ] it's a walking crime." (9) And it becomes more than intent while working—the crime becomes intent always, as if prostitution were a way of being and identifying, not work, which one leaves in order to live personal lives of quotidian banality and other desirous endeavors that have nothing whatsoever to do with sex and monetary transactions.
One of the focuses of the book is how the "helping class" and others tend to generalize and lump all categories having to do with sex and profit, such as human trafficking and sex slavery, street walking, escort servicing, brothels, and more. Gira Grant, and other voices she includes, present a clear correction: The work that is chosen sex work cannot be thrown into the same category with other sex-related practices that are illegal and may truly be human rights crimes, nor can the women who are involved.
Along these same lines, those who want to help and understand what led a woman to such measures seem to want either a traumatic history to be the cause of prostituting: the whole story of abuse, self-loathing—psychoanalytic tropes of the stories we tell ourselves to justify a woman falling into such a profession, as if it weren't a real choice—or that it was a carefully thought out emphatic choice of empowerment. What Gira Grant so necessarily points out is that very few of us can make a blanket statement about loving our jobs, feeling empowered by the career choices we've made, but neither do we feel abused and exploited every day; it changes, given the day and circumstance. So to expect that a sex worker chooses between feeling degraded or empowered about her work as a whole is to apply an unfair expectation on an experience that is merely work. This point was quite poignant to me. The following paragraph piqued my own understanding and delivered a punch that should hit home to all women, self-identifying as feminist or not:
But what if being sexualized is neither dehumanizing nor empowering, and is simply value neutral? That the harms here reside not in the looking or feeling but in what actually impacts the body? Should women be more concerned that men want to fuck us or to fuck us and fuck us up? These (sex workers still find themselves insisting) are not the same. (89)
Gira Grant knows of what she speaks: She has done the work of sex work. And while working in San Francisco's red-light district in North Beach, she observed how sex work was just one of many businesses that was being carried out in the area. Diversity of enterprise: "Forget the particulars of the work performed inside The Hungry I or the Lusty Lady or the Garden of Eden and appreciate the conditions of our shared neighborhood [ … ] you had, all throughout your workday or night, the opportunity for human contact outside your workplace itself." (69)
The segregation factor, the mandatory testing, Nevada (for an inside look at Nevada's Mustang Ranch, see Alexa Albert's Brothel (2001, Random House)). Even those places which have legalized it, Gira Grant says, offer a problematic to the way we perceive prostitution. To be granted the legal right to perform the labor of sex work, but to be regulated in such a way is to still remain in clear view of the carceral eye, and even under a carceral thumb.
Playing the Whore is filled with such important and pointed questions. This small book should generate big conversation, and waves of it. Gira Grant asks:
How different might our analysis of the relationship between sex, value, and womanhood be if we could see through the panic of sexualization to the tectonic social and economic shifts that have pushed commercial sex and its representations to the surface? If we let go of the desire to diagnose and pathologize what's been called sexualization, we could observe and describe women's lives more fully and describe more precisely how power and sex shape us. (98)
If we are indeed in the Fourth Wave, Gira Grant isn't riding on it—she's helping to create it. Let's hope it is a tsunami that washes away many of the misconceptions, biases, and harmful perceptions that women continue to disenfranchise themselves by figuring out how to not only survive, but also to live. Let's hope it raises more questions about how laws and those who "save" are operating under false pretenses, and also razes the idea that to sexualize and support oneself is a crime.
Michaela Mullin
Nomadic Press
Mullin resides in Des Moines, Iowa, with her husband, Bill, and her dog, Beatrice (no, not named after Dante's Beatrice, but the divine French actress Dalle). Mullin is currently a media and communications doctoral candidate at European Graduate School, Saas-Fee, Switzerland.


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BOSS4SME www.boss4sme.com (Boosting Online cross-border Sales for furniture and household SMEs) will improve the furniture and home interior sector companies competitiveness, by developing a new "Online Sales Manager" professional profile. A professional capable of creating e-Commerce strategies that increase cross-border sales using Internet as a sales channel. It is a two years project (December 2016 – December 2018) co-funded by the Erasmus+ Program of the European Union as a Strategic Partnership for vocational training.
BOSS4SME is aimed to SMEs in the furniture and home interior sector – manufacturers and retailers -. It is a very dynamic sector in countries such as Spain and Italy, with a significant number of jobs associated to it. Main project aims are the following:
– Develop a complete online course for the professional profile of "Online Sales Manager".
– Improve VET providers offer for e-Commerce in furniture and home furnishings.
– Improve the furniture and home furnishings companies competences in online sales.
– Lead SMEs companies to a substantial sales growth through cross-border e-Commerce strategies.
- Analysis of the current e-Commerce practices in the participating countries and comparison with leading European e-Commerce countries practices in the sector.
- Identification of training and skills needs, and the related opportunities, to implement e-Commerce successful practices.
- Elaboration of the necessary training contents to allow the "Online Sales Manager" obtaining the required competences.
- Validation of training contents according to ECVET criteria and tools.
- Implementation of training contents in an e-learning platform called e-Commerce Genie, which will deliver adapted training paths to users, according to their existing competences, and their companies features and needs.
- Organization of different events to present, validate and disseminate the results.
Abridged project workplan:
The partners represent four countries: Spain, Greece, Italy and Poland.
The project participants are: CENFIM – Furnishing Cluster and Innovation Hub as project coordinator, the Spanish furniture business associations AMIC and AMUEBLA, the educational software developer CRYSTAL CLEAR SOFT, the training quality expert EUROCREA MERCHANT and the e-learning developer DANMAR COMPUTERS.
CENFIM (Spain) / Furnishing Cluster and Innovation Hub, project coordinator & VET provider
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We're back this week with the latest TodCast. This time, Tod breaks down the fundamentals adding multiple levels to an assembly in order to easily create complex animation movements in 3DVIA Composer. Who knows, you might even be able to pick up a few new skateboarding tricks as well!
5 comments to TodCast #7: Complex Animation Movements Made Easy!
Really amazing 3D creation here. Just found out on how the 3D movies and other animated work with it… Hope to find more tricks on 3D here.. Am interested and fun watching the video presentation here. Thanks!
Does it matter what you call each assembly?
Naming does not matter. Its just for your reference.
great video.
im pretty sure its called an "Ollie" though, not holly 😉
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Welcome to the Surprise District 3 website! This is a place where you can find updates on what's happening in the district and what your council is working on city-wide.
D3 is located in southwest Surprise and includes Sierra Montana, Legacy Parc and other great neighborhoods. It also includes the section of the 303 freeway south of Greenway.
Join Councilmember Patrick Duffy to discuss the issues that are important to you and learn more about what's happening across the city.
- Where: Jim's Burger and Eggs
17019 W. Greenway Road, Surprise, AZ 85388
- Time: 8-10 a.m.
- When: First Saturday each month


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Wednesday Devotional
James 1:21
Therefore put away all filthiness and rampant wickedness and receive with
meekness the implanted word, which is able to save your souls.
Humility is at the core of Christianity. Our sinful nature rebels against rules, regulations, and commands. We want to do what we want to do, and we don't want anyone interfering with our wants and needs. However, James calls us to submit to the authority of scripture, which calls us to much greater desires. Today, evaluate what it means to have filthiness and rampant wickedness in your life—do you let the world seep in you and out of you? Pray that the Lord root in your heart his word and his commands.


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- Colonial Gothic : Morbid Anatomy, Commodification and Critique in Marcus Clarke's 'The Mystery of Major Molineux'
Gothic fiction, at least as it developed in Britain during the late eighteenth . and early nineteenth centuries, typically stages an encounter with difference. In this encounter an established set of social relations is shown to be premised on events…1 October 2000


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Trickling Springs Organic and Trickling Springs FarmFriend product withdrawal
At Trickling Springs Creamery, we are dedicated to producing dairy products that meet the highest standards from our grass fed cows to your table. During the week of March 21 we had a mechanical error in our production plant that resulted in a gap in our pasteurization records. This gap was discovered on Friday morning, March 25 during a daily inspection of the records. We immediately notified our local regulatory plant inspector and implemented a product withdrawal process. All of the milk in question was safely pasteurized and bottled, but out of an abundance of caution we voluntarily withdrew all affected products. All stores that had received these products were immediately contacted.
Each of the affected products in question has been tested to confirm that they were effectively pasteurized, and there are no food safety concerns at this time. As a part of our commitment to bringing the best products possible to the marketplace, processes to ensure that an occurrence like this is prevented in the future has been implemented.
Trickling Springs Creamery has been processing fresh, grass fed dairy products using milk from their community of family farms since 2001. They have led the industry in establishing high standards for their farms to follow in taking the best care of their animals and land. Their dairy products are Non-GMO Project Verified and/or Certified Organic. Today their products are sold throughout the eastern United States from Connecticut to Florida. To learn more about Trickling Springs Creamery, please visit us online at www.TricklingSpringsCreamery.com.
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Presets are extremely useful if you want to store snapshots of your work with one click.
You can save a preset (thus saving all current CSS customizations made with CSS Hero) and recall (load) it whenever you want. Presets can be stored locally (in your site's database) or "on the cloud" (in your CSS Hero account).
Like in the History menu, you can PREVIEW and ACTIVATE the presets you have stored locally with the "eye" and the "A" button.
Remote Presets
Storing presets on the CSS Hero Cloud allows you to pass presets cross-site, that's great news for those used to develop on dev servers wanting to migrate the whole edits block to production.
Similar functionality can be achieved using the "export to file" backup function.


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What do you think of Montford Park's new neighborhood logo?
As rapidly growing areas in Charlotte try on new identities, they're coming up with new logos and names to mark out who they are. Now, the newest, Montford Park, has a logo and official nonprofit association.
The Montford Park area is centered along Park Road, between Selwyn Avenue and Reece Road. It's not quite SouthPark, Madison Park, Dilworth, Sedgefield or any of the longer-established areas with better-known names. Now, new development is bringing more than 1,500 new apartments, and the residents, developers and businesses who operate there want a brand to quickly identify the place.
"The neighborhood's lack of a unified identity became apparent in community meetings held by real estate developer Grubb Properties," the newly formed Montford Park Partners said in a statement.
Montford Park is hardly alone: Check out MoRA, FreeMoreWest and other new neighborhoods trying to establish identities in the city's rapidly shifting landscape in this column I wrote earlier this month. But Montford Park's population influx is going to be particularly big. There are currently about 620 residents in the one square mile covered. With 1,500 new apartments, that could increase six-fold, assuming an average of two people per apartment, to more than 3,600.
"Montford Park has a strong foundation of diverse businesses and residents in an incredible location. I can't wait to watch the neighborhood elevate even more with its renewed brand and organized advocacy," said Rachel Russell, vice president of development Milhaus and chair of Montford Park Partners. She led the effort to form the Montford Park association, where she worked until recently.
There's a happy hour scheduled for local business owners and managers about the neighborhood's future at Sir Edmond Halley's on Tuesday, September 27 at 5:00 p.m. A neighborhood-wide event is planned for the winter.
Here's the board of Montford Park Partners:
▪ Rachel Russell (Chair), Milhaus
▪ Tracy Espy (Vice Chair), Pfeiffer University
▪ Chris Parker (Treasurer), Pfeiffer University
▪ Marcie Williams (Secretary), Rivergate KW Residential
▪ Bob Moore, Bank of the Ozarks
▪ Michael Tubridy, Crescent Communities
▪ Laura White, Grubb Properties
▪ Adam Williams, Legacy Real Estate Advisors
▪ Cindy Wolfe, Bank of the Ozarks
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Bio: Writer for SIGT since September of 2016. Favorite Bands include: Umphrey's McGee, The Motet, Lettuce, Turkuaz, The New Mastersounds, and The Polish Ambassador. When I'm not writing about music, I'm still listening to music. Its a beautiful thing, because when it hits you, you feel no pain.
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Let's face it—our daily lives are a grind. Adulting isn't easy and responsibilities take up our time.
Music is subjective. Everyone likes their own style and genres, it's what makes music great! No band is really
For more than 20 years this fist pumping six-piece has specialized in music of drama, twists, and turns. They continue to
It's the middle of summer in Jacksonville, Florida and guess what, it's hot. Like, I just broke a sweat
UMPH lovers rejoice!! The Boys of South Bend are coming back to Florida! August 15th, 16th, and 17th (in St. Pete, Miami, and St.
Suwannee Hulaween dropped a monstrous phase one lineup once again which includes a ton of strong up-and-coming artists as well as
It's Christmas in July! Today we have the 2019 Suwannee Hulaween official lineup! It's out! The
***UPDATED 7/24/19 | 8:02 PM*** Suwannee Hulaween is the most exciting festival in the Southeast. So exciting in fact,
Summer months are usually a time for tanktops and Reggae music. This weekend is a little different. The "Wheels
Cocoa Riverfont Park is a great place to forget about your troubles. It's a stormy day, so most of them will wash
You can pick your friends, and you can pick your nose. But you can't pick your friend's nose. Well, at least
Help! Help! Music fans in St. Pete are starving for a hero to save them from another boring Wednesday night.
I set sail for Crowbar in Tampa for an evening with Turkuaz, a colorful collections of nine power-funk musicians from Brooklyn,
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Story Sets
Download Information
Extension and Learning
Development Activities
The Snowy Day
Word-Picture Strips
Use these large (7"x 2") cards for flash cards, in
pocket charts, or on word walls. Simply cut the
picture from the word, and children can have a
matching activity. (vocabulary development)
Cold or Hot Sorting
This is a great opportunity for students to
explore "hot and cold." Two work mats (7.5"
x 10") are included for sorting the "hot" and
"cold" cards. (develop and extend idea of
"hot" and "cold")
Name That Color
Peter has more than one snowsuit
and only one is red! Students match
color names with the colorful
snowsuits. (color recognition;
matching colors with color words)
Snowflake Patterning Cards
Complete the pattern. Set includes 9
strips (10.5" x 2.5") and pattern card
answers to complete the patterns.
Number Flip Book
Just flip and match story images with
numerals and their words in a sturdy
bound booklet. (1-10 numeral, word,
and quantity matching)
Included, but not pictured, in The Snowy Day activity download:
Simple, fun counting game. Two sets of
materials are included for game play. Roll the
die, look on the chart to see what snowman
part the number indicates, and put the
snowman piece on the snowman outline mat.
First player to make a snowman is the winner.
(counting; one-to-one correspondence)
Mitten Match
Mittens are constructed the same, but their
patterns and colors vary. Students match
the cut-out mittens with the mittens in the
file folder. (visual discrimination; colors)
All activities are designed to be instructional, hands-on, easy-to-make, and fun for
students. Each activity has a targeted skill and complete directions. Books and
stories are not included. The download is formatted so you only need to print the
pages that you select. Your purchase and payment are handled securely through
Paypal. The download is handled through Digital Product Delivery. Upon
purchase, an email will be sent to you by Digital Product Delivery that directs you
to a site where you can download your activity and contact information.
Emergent Reader—Snowy Day
Children read and color an easy version
of the story. Included are the finished
bound teacher booklet example and all
the pages needed to make the booklet.
(read and color an easy book)
Snowman Counting Mats
Each snowman provides a work mat.
Students put the number of snowflakes on
each snowman mat to match its numeral
and number word. Set includes 10
snowman mats (7.5" x 10.5")
Snowball Melting Investigations Sheet
Pocket Activity Sheet
Snowman Glyph
Snowball/Pocket Letter Match
Stationery (2 designs)
Snowy Day Picture Sheet
Visualization Activity Sheet
5 Little Snowmen Interactive Booklet
As students read this familiar rhyme,
they get the opportunity of counting
snowmen and attaching the correct
number to each page.
Snowy Day Patterning Cards
Complete the pattern. Set includes 9 strips
(10.5" x 2.5") and pattern card answers to
complete the patterns.
City or Country
Peter lived in the city. The story did not say
that he did, but there were clues. Students
explore this idea by sorting "city" and
"country" cards in two labeled sorting
bowls. (develop and extend idea of "city"
and "country")
Players turn up two cards at a time. If the
pairsmatch, the player continues. If they do
notmatch, play is passed to the next player.
24 cards (visual discrimination; thinking;
remembering; matching)
Let It Snow Board Game
Students have the opportunity to play a
simple game identifying words that rhyme
with "snow" and those that do not.
(rhyming words).
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Share the joy of Easter with spring flowers in a stunning glass vase inside a silver-plated sleeve graced with a beautiful cross motif. Contemporary yet classic, it is lovely way to commemorate this very special holiday and other religious occasions like first communions and weddings.
- The elegant bouquet includes hot pink roses, pink asiatic lilies, yellow alstroemeria, lavender stock and lavender daisy spray chrysanthemums accented with assorted greenery.
- Delivered in a stunning glass vase encased in a silver-plated metal sleeve with a cut-out cross.
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JazzWise Magazine – Gonzalo Rubalcaba and Mark Dresser suitably masterful at Umea's Swedish summit
- March 30th, 2017
- Posted in Charlie Haden . Critical Acclaim
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– Kevin Le Gendre
– Photo by Melina-Hägglund
…..Among the other big names on the bill the pick of the bunch is the outstanding Cuban pianist Gonzalo Rubalcaba (pictured top) whose American quartet, bolstered by the presence of New York-based British alto saxophonist Will Vinson is imperious, playing a Charlie Haden tribute that captures the particular quality of soulful, shadowy lament that pervaded much of the music of the late American (and former Rubalcaba collaborator). The pianist's sound, created both by his articulation and masterful manipulation of pedals, bewitches at times, as does his ornate phrasing and interaction with a fine rhythm section anchored by drummer Jeff Ballard and bassist Matt Brewer.


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Top Ten Fielders of Zimbabwe in Test-ODI-T20 Cricket
by MairaS on September 7, 2010
in Best of the Best, Zimbabwe
Top Ten Fielders of Zimbabwe in Test Cricket
Zimbabwe, in the first place, plays hardly any test matches. In the last four years, they have played only one series against Bangladesh which they had won, and that provided them with a good start. They plan on becoming more regular at test matches in a few years from now.
When it comes to fielding, they are again good at it, but once on the field, they tend to make silly errors. They cannot handle pressure on the field and end up dropping quite a few catches during testing times. Zimbabwe's ground fielding is good, but on the boundary line they are not that great.
With tougher teams, they tend to underestimate themselves which is quite visible on the field. Here is the list of top ten fielders of Zimbabwe in test cricket:
1. ADR Campbell
2. GW Flower
3. SV Carlisle
4. GJ Whittall
5. DL Houghton
6. HH Streak
7. DD Ebrahim
8. PA Strang
9. CB Wishart
10. TR Gripper
Top Ten Fielders of Zimbabwe in ODI Cricket
Zimbabwe has had some good matches in One Day Internationals. Defeating India was one of its biggest feats in their last One Day International. Their fielding contributed in a big way and they managed to hold on to most of the catches that came their way.
Zimbabwe players are very committed when it comes to One Day Internationals. They jump around on the field but when it comes to playing with bigger oppositions, they lack the lustre again.
They are low on confidence which is seen on the field by the way they drop catches, which indirectly leads to misfielding, and this has happened on more than one occasion. When they are dominated by the other side, they tend to give up very easily.Here is the list of top ten fielders of Zimbabwe in ODI :
1. GW Flower
2. ADR Campbell
3. HH Streak
4. H Masakadza
5. SV Carlisle
6. E Chigumbura
7. S Matsikenyeri
8. GJ Whittall
9. P Utseya
10. PA Strang
Top Ten Fielders of Zimbabwe in T20 Cricket
In the shorter version of the game, Zimbabwe hasn't got much opportunity to display its skills, but of whatever little has been seen of them, they have proved to be outstanding.
They have tried to save the game many a times by saving all the possible singles, which matters a lot in the long run in this version because of the small time limit of the game.
Against their series with India, they gave it their best in the fielding department and were exceptional in it and the reason for their slowdown was their batting, where they were not able to give it their best shot.
Each new individual, who has got a chance to play in this, threw himself around and tried saving the important runs, which, if complimented with good batting, would have got them on the batting side. Here is the list of top ten fielders of Zimbabwe in T20:
1. S Matsikenyeri
2. E Chigumbura
3. H Masakadza
4. P Utseya
5. CJ Chibhabha
6. GB Brent
7. T Maruma
8. AG Cremer
9. KM Dabengwa
10. CB Mpofu


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Cindi Ross Scoppe
Scoppe: Why should a private company be able to make you sell your land?
ABOUT A DECADE AGO, after the U.S. Supreme Court said the Constitution does not prohibit governments from forcing people to sell their property to a business the government favors, there was a mad rush to change state constitutions to outlaw such for-profit condemnations.
The madness rushed into South Carolina, where it was already pretty clear that government could not use this power of eminent domain to benefit private companies; it could only be used to buy property for "public use." Still, we amended our constitution to make it extra clear.
Some libertarians tried to go further and eliminate eminent domain, even when it's used, say, to purchase land for highways; that effort was derailed. Some tried to go further still and confuse the public by talking about "regulatory takings," which most of us call zoning. Rational people recognize that, unless it's an island, a piece of property isn't … well, an island; its value is contingent in part on the value and use of nearby property, and efforts to outlaw this were derailed as well.
I've been thinking about the anti-takings crusaders lately and wondering, where are those folks when you need them?
For all of their efforts to restrict how government could condemn property, or simply limit its use, opponents somehow overlooked something that is much more egregious: Our state has granted some businesses the power to force people to sell their property.
This came to light when Houston energy giant Kinder Morgan announced that it planned to build a 360-mile petroleum pipeline from Florida to South Carolina. Although officials said they would negotiate in good faith to purchase land outright or to purchase easements that allow it to plunk down a pipe in the middle of someone else's property, they also made it clear that they would use the power of eminent domain to purchase property that owners didn't want to sell.
That means that if you own a piece of property on Kinder Morgan's route, and you don't want to sell it, or you don't think Kinder Morgan is offering you a fair price, your only option is to spend your money taking the company to court. Otherwise, it can cut you a check for the amount it sees fit, and bulldoze through your property.
And people are worried about the government forcing them to sell land for a highway? Really?
The government is run by people we elect, who we have the opportunity to unelect. Kinder Morgan is run by people in Texas who have no reason to care what we think.
This is where we need to pause and think about precisely what it is that we are discussing, because the word "pipeline" has gotten so politicized that it's easy to take our ideas about a little pipeline called Keystone XL and apply them to any project that includes the "P" word.
We are not discussing whether a petroleum pipeline would be good or bad for the economy or national security or the environment or anything else. We are not discussing whether Kinder Morgan should be allowed to build the pipeline; there certainly isn't anyone in South Carolina who's going to stop it.
We are talking about whether Kinder Morgan should be able to force you to sell your land — or whether it should be forced to negotiate with you like anyone else who wants to buy your land.
The good news is that S.C. Solicitor General Bob Cook wrote an attorney general's opinion this month that raised serious doubts about whether state law actually gives Kinder Morgan this authority. The opinion is significantly hedged, owing to language in state law that on the surface looks as though it gives Kinder Morgan the same authority that state law gives regulated utilities. But Mr. Cook has an excellent track record with such opinions, and if you've spent much time reading state Supreme Court orders, it's hard to come away from the opinion believing that Kinder Morgan would prevail in a lawsuit challenging its authority.
Using the rules of statutory construction that the court regularly uses, the opinion concludes that the "pipelines" for which property can be condemned are natural gas pipelines, not petroleum pipelines. (Yes, that seems an odd distinction, but it's based in both law and history.)
The bad news is that it's up to property owners to take the company to court to stop it from forcing them to sell their property. I can understand forcing the property owner to file suit when government is forcing a sale, but it doesn't seem right for landowners to have to spend money filing and fighting a lawsuit to keep private companies from seizing their land. If it gets to that, I would hope that the attorney general's office could find a way to represent them.
Better still, the Legislature needs to fix this. And by fix, I don't mean mimic a Georgia law that requires the state to find that a project would serve a public need or purpose before a pipeline company can force people to sell their property. That's better than giving companies unrestricted, unrestrained eminent domain powers — and Georgia has blocked Kinder Morgan's condemnation based on that law — and it's what bills that were filled this spring would do.
But those bills were filed before the attorney general's opinion was written. If that opinion is correct — and I'll put my money on Mr. Cook's opinions any day — then these bills wouldn't restrict a current power; they would grant a power that doesn't exist right now.
What lawmakers need to do is rewrite the law we already have to make it more than clear that petroleum companies can't force people to sell their land.
It's unclear to me whether our regulatory system is muscular enough to justify allowing regulated utilities to do this. The idea that an unregulated business could be able to do it is simply beyond the pale.
Ms. Scoppe can be reached at email@example.com or at (803) 771-8571. Follow her on Twitter @CindiScoppe.