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Scouts Contribute to Social Cohesion and Sustainable Peace in Burundi
In the framework of the Project: "Investing in Youth For Social Cohesion and Sustainable Peace in Burundi 2018-2020" to meet the SDGs on peace, security and gender equality, the Scouts Association of Burundi is leading advocacy on conflicts identified in the community to contribute to peaceful management through activities involving young project beneficiaries and targeted peer educators in 13 communities of Kanyosha, Musaga, Buterere, Kamenge, Ngagara, Bubanza, Gihanga, Kabarore, Rango, Kayanza, Mugina, Rugombo and Buganda.
These activities consist of first of all identifying the existing conflicts which disturb the communities' peaceful cohabitation and social cohesion and then taking action to contribute to their peaceful management and reduction. In Kayanza Province alone the project benefited about 500 people.
In the Rango town, the advocacy actions on the identified conflicts took place at a football pitch. The young people, divided into 5 small groups, were able to identify the frequent conflicts in their localities. Using drawings, the participants proposed solutions to reduce these conflicts that threaten peace and peaceful coexistence. These drawings illustrate the behavior that must be adopted for better cohabitation to achieve better social cohesion.
A quiz on the management and peaceful resolution of conflicts and responsible citizenship followed. 94 young men and women present in 5 groups answered a series of questions and the best were encouraged with prizes.
In the town of Kabarore, at the Kabarore Youth Center, advocacy actions were carried out on the identified conflicts. A total, 94 young people, including 52 men and 42 girls from community different peace clubs took part. They used 10-minute skits to highlight the conflicts and their solutions.
In Kayanza town, another advocacy event took place at the Kayanza Area Trades Training Center. 243 people including 184 boys/men and 59 girls/women took part accompanied by 4 peer educators. These participants gave their contributions on the identification and management of conflicts through the traditional dances and songs while launching councils and messages of peace and social cohesion to the town's population that came to attend this spectacle.
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Darren Kavinoky is no stranger to the television cameras, courtroom, or the speaker's podium – he is an accomplished trial lawyer, a well-known television host and legal analyst, and a compelling keynote speaker.
Darren Kavinoky is the co-creator and host of the hit TV show Deadly Sins on Investigation Discovery. He is also a certified interventionist, attorney and legal analyst, and "misbehavior" expert who appears constantly on the Today show, The View, Entertainment Tonight, The Insider, Dr. Phil, Dr. Drew, CNN, HLN, Fox News, and countless other TV and radio shows.
He is the founder of 1.800.NoCuffs–The Kavinoky Law Firm and is known as an award-winning criminal defense attorney. The American Trial Lawyers Association has named him one of the "Top 100 Trial Lawyers in California" each year since 2007. Los Angeles magazine has identified Darren as a "SuperLawyer" every year since 2010. Darren received an "AV Preeminent Rating" by Martindale-Hubbell (a peer review ranking that signals the highest level of professional excellence and ethics); a perfect 10.0 Rating by Avvo.com (an independent attorney ranking site), and many other accolades. Darren has also authored three legal textbooks for major legal publishers in the field of criminal law.
Elissa has spent more than 20 years as a professional in the health, wellness, fitness and natural products industries in communications branding, sales management, and marketing. Elissa's prior public relations and marketing experience includes work on advancements in stem cell-related products and services.
She has worked as a consultant for integrative health companies. As a public relations and marketing consultant for international integrative health clinic Leonardis Klinik, she created promotional and educational materials and marketing strategies for and about Leonardis Klinik, their therapies and practices.
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Prompt: Do you have a favorite quote that you return to again and again? What is it, and why does it move you?
Life is much like writing in ink. All you can do is read over your past and look forward to a blank page for your future that will soon be filled with words that can never be erased – Unknown
This particular quote appealed to me as I have always enjoyed writing and found myself gifted in the area of writing. I acquired this quote when I was fourteen-years-old and 'My Space' was the big social network. I have had it on my profile on FB for years.
The quote makes me think, and continues to make me ponder life. What I realized after thinking about this quote was that you can read over the past and remember your memories, but you don't want to become stuck in the past. You may have had interesting events and fun times you would like to remember but there are also parts of people's lives in the past which were painful and difficult.
For this reason, it is a wonderful gift to have a blank future in front of you, a blank page every single day of your life. You cannot change the past but you can shape your own future. There are always unknowns who will have you write things you wished you hadn't and make you wish you'd never experienced an event. But you, as a writer of life, are the one writing in ink. You write in life what you decide, therefore, it is best write about what a terrific life you had. How you dealt gracefully in most times of hardship. Make yourself have a life you are excited to write about and look back on.
It is up to us to react to life in a way that is compassionate, caring, understanding, and helpful to others. And when life becomes problematic for us, that is the time to lean on others and write about them in your blank pages too. We all exist with the guidance of other people and their experiences in our lives. As John Donne wrote "no man is an island." The experience of life is one we live together and that is a blessing from God.
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Home Extension Plans Morphing 1920s Bungalow Into Spacious Family Crib
This modern home extension plans was aimed at attaining more space, more light and more happiness. And thanks to Preston Lane Architects, what used to be a 1920's Californian Bungalow has now morphed into this alluring home open to the outdoors. Now the interiors are better connected to the garden and have more natural light shining in.
Located in Sandy Bay, Australia, the house that helped flourish this home extension belongs to a growing family that neede more space, and a better organized one. Spreading over 260 square meters, the home extension plans comprise new living, kitchen, dining and bedroom spaces.
The Winscombe extension project imagined more living space on a compact footprint. Besides, the mix of concrete, timber and white lined walls make the interiors perfect for both observing the ever-changing garden and showcasing art. Architects wanted texture and color to be easily recustomized and still maintain the feeleing of the old: "Texture is layered into the space through repurposed timber floorboards utilised within the kitchen joinery and a feature brickwork wall to the kitchen all made with materials salvaged from the demolition works on site."
This compact floor plan is described by Preston Lane Architects: "The project consists of a rear extension to a 1920's Californian Bungalow in Hobart. A split level arrangement provides living spaces at the lower level and sleeping spaces at the upper level. The living spaces are light and open with good connections to the outside, whilst the upper level form is solid and the weatherboard cladding taking cues from the existing building, providing a balance between the old and new works. Splayed reveals at the upper level, broaden the view from within and provide a psychological connection with the backyard."
Photographed by Derek Swalwell, the modern home extension unfolds under our eyes. With a strong connection to outside on the lower level and a private opacity upstairs, this home extension beautifully reached its happiness target.


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Building muscle strength and flexibility is an important part of developing a horse's performance, and the principles of doing this are steeped in science and techniques based on results. In people, strength training has been reported to reduce sports injuries by half. Not only does muscle strength improve a horse's performance, but strong muscles also protect against musculoskeletal injury by stabilizing joints and reducing strain on tendons and ligaments. Muscles and connective tissue naturally tend to stiffen if they are overused or underused. Stiffness can result in injury, lead to inactivity, and eventually speed up the aging process of the musculoskeletal system. To remain supple, the connective tissue and muscles need regular stretching.
Essential to activating a horse's core is activating the abdominal muscles and the thoracic sling muscles, which are responsible for adjusting the position of the sternum, ribcage, and withers when the forelimbs are on the ground.
1. Hill training
Riding up and down hills is a great way to strengthen the muscles required for dressage and jumping, but it's also a fantastic way to fitten up your horse for eventing, endurance or any other discipline you take part in. Uphill work promotes engagement and abdominal wall contraction. Downhill work increases passive engagement and will be challenging for horses suffering from sacroiliac joint disease.
Resistance exercises are refined by altering difficulty and/or intensity by the angle of the slope, changing gaits, or urging more speed to negotiate the climb. Anytime you ask your horse to work in high-resistance conditions, you must gradually condition him to avoid straining tendons, ligaments, muscles, or joints.
2. Different footings
You can use different surfaces to provide drag on your horse's movement. Trotting your horse in shallow water or snow are excellent means of increasing his hind leg lift to increase flexion of joints and muscles in his hindquarters. Water or snow creates drag when the horse swings his leg forward. Sand training can develop muscle strength in a different way. Sand is a shifting medium; the grains move away from each hoofprint, causing your horse to have to step up his muscular effort to move himself along to overcome the "loss" of resistance as the sand gives way.
Firm footing will create more vibration and is not indicated for horses with joint or bone diseases such as kissing spines and facet joint disease.
3. Rein back
This is an exercise that when done properly each leg will be lifted off the ground and placed directly behind his body. Dragging, shuffling, resisting and rushing backward is an ineffective use of his body. Horses with tight or weak backs or injured hocks will have problems with the rein back.
4. Poles
Another useful technique to stimulate a greater increase in joint flexion and muscular strength involves using poles either on the ground or raised as high as 20 centimeters off the ground. Owners can adjust the poles' height and spacing to further challenge the horse's coordination.
5. Single leg standing
Hold a forelimb off the ground in a position that is comfortable for the horse. Push back on the point of the shoulder toward the hind limb on the same side. The goal is to push just hard enough to rock the horse's weight back but not hard enough to unbalance the horse. Hold for 5 seconds. This destabilizing technique stimulates the pelvic stabilizer muscles to control the weight shift and lateral balance.


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Even though I haven't written on this blog in a long time, sitting down to record the details of my baby birth stories has become one of my favorite postpartum traditions. Crosby Elliott Bennington was born on Sunday September 20th at 5:01am and, as one might expect, his entrance into the world was not like that of either of his siblings.
Tessa's story was long and bumpy, with a 36 hr NICU stay for her at the end. Charley's birth was short and exciting and he came very close to being born in our car. Crosby, like Goldilocks and the 3 bears....seemed just right.
On Saturday September 19th, I was 40 weeks and 3 days gestation and definitely ready to get the show on the road. Tessa and Charley had both come at 39 weeks so I had been expecting labor for well over a week at that point. Walking, evening primrose oil, labor salad...nothing could make him come except patience.
On that morning, Jeremy took the kids to lunch and dance class while I stayed back to be lazy. While he was gone, I started noticing light time-able contractions starting around noon. Soon it became obvious that they were consistently coming 10 minutes apart. Not painful, just consistent, which was music to my ears. I sat on the couch and tried to relax, wondering if I had a long evening ahead. I watched stupid mindless movies like Bring it On and The Wedding Ringer. When the kids got home we watched Home Alone 2 and cuddled on the couch.
Later I got into the tub for about 90 minutes, waiting for the contractions to pick up in pace, but they still seemed pretty slow. I told Jeremy that it was best to go ahead and feed the kids dinner and wait, since we didn't know what the evening would hold. Mom and Dad (our babysitters) were up at the Purdue game so I alerted them that things were happening, since that is a good 90 minute drive from our house. I told Mom to enjoy the game and have a beer, but plan to come our house instead of going home when they left.
We ate hot dogs for dinner and watched The Middle, while I watched the contraction timer get only slightly closer together, to 7 or 8 minutes. After everyone had eaten we decided to walk around outside on the cul-de-sac while the kids rode their bikes. I walked round and round the circle for at least and hour and noticed that the contractions were finally getting both more painful and closer together, at 3 minutes apart.
Once they were consistently 3 min apart for a while, we checked on Mom and Dad. They were a good hour away and since our hospital is 30 minutes from our house....we decided that it was best to go. I knew it wasn't yet TIME time, but since Charley's delivery had come so fast a furious, you could say I was a bit paranoid about waiting too long. So we decided to take the kids with us to the hospital and have Mom and Dad meet us there. The kids packed up snacks and iPads in a backpack while asking....'really? We're really going? Now???' They were quiet and excited in the car, not having expected such a trip that evening.
We got to hospital around 9pm and Mom and Dad (along with Andy and Whitney who were also at the game with them) came shortly behind us. We parted ways in the waiting area and they took the kids back to our house because it was obvious there would still be a long night ahead. We told them we'd see them in the morning with a baby brother or sister.
Upon admittance I was only 4 cm dilated and everything was looking good. Our awesome amazingly cool labor nurse Katie was a blessing. She was witty and funny but also very helpful and knowledgeable. She ended up staying with us all night until the end of her shift at 7am, and there were big hugs upon parting ways with her. So Katie informed us that she needed to strap me a heart and contraction monitor for 15 minutes out of every hour, and for the other 45 minutes we were free to do whatever we wanted for pain control. I was determined to once again try for an unmedicated birth and she basically said that my wish was her command in terms of how I wanted to handle that.
Since Tessa's birth was so much more closely monitored due to the meconium in the amniotic fluid, and my options for movement and freedom more limited (and with Charley I had done all the laboring at home)...this statement was a breath of fresh air. Once we were openly given 'free reign', I knew I'd be able to do it again.
*I should disclaim here that I am not fervently anti-epidural. I think women should make whatever choice is they need to during labor. I just know my personal preference after having done it both ways, and that I wanted to give natural birth the good college try again.*
So we started the night by walking the hospital hallways. Then moved to a birth ball while watching Saturday Night Live. After that the pain was increasing and I told Jeremy to take a nap so I could be alone with my music. Some people may lean heavily on their support person for massages and pep talks but me...I like to be left alone. Jeremy knows that so he snoozed for about 3 hrs while I listened to music in my earbuds.
Mostly standing up, swaying and slow dancing with songs like Beautiful Things, Elastic Heart and Cologne. Or bouncing and thumping my head to songs like Lose Yourself and Empire State of Mind. On repeat over and over in order to become one with the beat, I played each song at least 7 times. Closing my eyes with the ever increasing contractions, alternating between thanking God for the pain and the child or asking Him to help me through it.
By 3:30ish the pain was getting pretty bad, and my genius nurse Katie suggest I hit the shower. Before I got in she checked me and found out I was only 5cm. I was disheartened to hear that after all the time that had passed, and I was starting to get tired. In the shower, the pain hit the max level. The cool head I had while playing my songs was gone, and I think I started to growl and cry. Jeremy sprinkled lavender and peace and calming essential oils in the shower (later the doctor commented on how nice our room smelled).
At about 4:45 am I left the shower in a much different mental state than I had entered. I was done and when the nursed asked if I was doing okay, I told her I was not. I told her and Jeremy both that if I was still at only 5cm, then I was calling for an epidural. I believe I said...I need an epidural or a baby. Whichever way it went, something needed to change because I couldn't take much more. Then she checked me and said I was at 9cm. In the course of less than an hour, I had transitioned in the shower and it was almost time.
The doctor then entered the scene for the first time all night. She was the same doc that had caught Charley and we hadn't seen her since then. Yet the first thing she remarked upon entering our room?..."You guys are my snowstorm people!! I remember you!!". Apparently that had been a crazy and memorable night for her as well and she totally knew who we were.
Since I was at 9cm, the doc broke my water and everything else happened very fast. The insane fire in my hips and the urge to push, the doctor rushing to get everything ready.....Crosby was born about 5 minutes later, within the course of 3 or 4 pushes.
It was still dark outside and we had lowered the lights in our room (aside from the medical spotlight the doc had used), so the morning came in very peacefully. Crosby laid on my chest for about 90 minutes before they scooped him up for weights and measures. An hour later we were wheeled up to our postpartum room just as the sun was rising and Jeremy was sent on the task of finding us some biscuits and gravy down in the cafeteria.
By 9am, Mom and Dad arrived with Tessa and Charley who were the first to meet him and find out that he was a boy.I had texted Mom to come, telling her only that we had a baby but not revealing the sex until their arrival. The kids held him, gave him presents, and watched his first bath, then went out to lunch with Mom and Dad and on the important task of buying baby boy clothes.
We stayed 2 days in the hospital while Mom stayed at our house and took care of getting the kids to bed, to the bus, their homework done and of course shuttling them to the hospital to visit. Crosby has done very well at nursing, being very persistent in those first couple of days before the milk comes in. By last night, his 5th night, his belly was so full and content that he slept a couple of nice long stretches as did I. Finally our nursing rhythm is being established.
Tessa and Charley seem pretty fascinated and content with their new baby brother, as do Jess and Mike who arrived from New York early to meet him before his umbilical cord even fell off. Tomorrow we are all headed down to North Vernon to introduce him to even more family and watch his older siblings swim in Mom's pool. Creating memories and bonds in these early days of our new family, we feel extremely blessed that his birth was such a healthy and uneventful one. Welcome to the world Crosby.
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We just wrapped up the 6th Kananaskis Symposium on Molecular Simulation.
This three-day retreat is held in beautiful Kananaskis Country at the University of Calgary Biogeoscience Institute's Barrier Lake Field Station.
The retreat featured talks on a variety of simulation-related topics from group leaders, postdocs, and graduate students. There was also plenty of socializing and informal discussion.
This year, David Sivak of Simon Fraser University was our keynote speaker, who gave a fantastic overview of his group's research on non-equilibrium statistical mechanics and its application to biological systems.


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FAQ - Equine Craniosacral Bodywork
Will this help my horse with other issues as well or is it just for head injuries?
Yes, problems can occur at any point of the body and since everything is connected via fascia and other tissues, problems with the hock can affect the poll and the other way around.
ECS allows for the practitioner to unravel the story of the restrictions. No matter how long ago if it left a mark in the body, it can be released. Sometimes it takes a while because it is usually not just one restriction, but there will be more to follow. The horse will try to balance its body in its imbalance. So the hock issue mentioned above my have had its root cause somewhere else in the body - usually along the spine. A healthy nervous system can fix just about everything. The body will know esactly where and when to send what cells to repair the compromised area?
How does Equine Craniosacral Bodywork (ECS) compare to massage therapy or other holistic bodywork?
They all complement each other well. Equine Craniosacral bodywork is the only modality that adressess nervous system at the sourde. That said, chiropractic adjustments at the right time can either kick start the healing process and enhance it if done after a session of deep reaching modality of ECS.
Massage Therapy should be scheduled regularly anyway for any working horse, especially the eventing ones. Just like the human athlete the equine athlete experiences muscle soreness and micro-tears and can benefit from an increase of blood flow to and from the muscles on a regular basis.
Acuscoping can help tendons and ligaments and also decrease muscle tension.
Acupuncture is very well received by horses as well and can support a healthy life style.
Are there any contraindications for Equine Craniosacral Bodywork?
Yes, any recent change in intra-cranial pressure due to trauma or other illness, fractures, fevers and contagious illnesses. Please check with treating veterinarian.
How many sessions will my horse need?
The horse's body has been holding itself in a state of organised dysfunction. A horse will carry itself in such a way to not show his dysfunction as horses are prey animals, so this compensation is for survival. With CranioSacral Therapy I essential disorganize the body's state, and ask it to reorganize in a more functional pattern. That is the same in humans. The change if this status can be unusual and confusing for the horse (or human after treatment), and it happens in an instant - yet the transformation to a more organized state is a process, and it takes time.
That's why I usually request a minimum of 3 sessions before judgement of the efficacy of the sessions.
I am taking good care of my horse and use biomechanically correct riding and training techniques - does my horse still need bodywork?
Yes, your horse will always benefit from equine bodywork and especially Craniosacral Bodywork. Horses are athletes and even with our best intentions and superb equipment and training - they will need our help:
horses are not designed to carry humans (they just look like it) and
they can be born with conformation challenges.
To avoid long term health issues it is important to address soft tissues on a regular basis.
Another great advantage of regular bodywork is that the therapist/bodyworker can monitor your horse's soft tissues as your training or other circumstances change. This way problems can be caught really early.
What is a good starting age of horses to receive equine bodywork?
The younger the better. The sooner the young horse gets used to kind and gentle touch the easier they adjust to the demands we put on them and the equipment we use. Also, starting out young means the we can get a baseline in regards to how the soft tissues work best and feel when they are at their healthiest. This is an important tool when more intense training starts and muscles, ligaments and tendons tighten.
What about geriatric horses - will they benefit from this work as well?
If the older horse has never received bodywork before it will very well have adapted to many strains and imbalances on his or her body. Working with an older horse generally means lighter sessions and careful monitoring or the results and changes. Since compensatory problems can be very complex and very wise - the intentions for these sessions are not to dismantle them all, but rather to support the horse as best we can and help them stay as supple as possible.
Why do you use some essential oils during the session and what are they good for?
Horses have a very fine sense of smell. Most of their environments lack exposure to different herbs and plants that they would naturally seek to cure themselves. Horses are their own best herbalists. Since they, in most cases, do not have the opportunity to find the herbs and plants they need to heal themselves, it has been my experience that horses love smelling the oils I offer them. I never offer more than three different high quality essential oils and pick them according to their health, behavior and circumstances. The effects are amazing. Some lick the oils off my hand, others start flehmen and hence sending the therapeutic essences right to their brains.
How much Do Equine sessions cost?
The fee for the initial session is $128.00 and follow-up sessions are $100.00


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Convention Games & Calling Cards
Here's a thought for publishers out there of the small press stuff. For the past several years, I've flown around from convention to convention running indie games for people. This is a repost from 2011, and seems topical since Gen Con is coming up soon! Many of them try several games, like sampling a buffet.


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I am in Rhode Island at an internet cafe, because I am without power following the Blizzard.
It has come to my attendtion that President Harrison of the LCMS has issued a statement apologizing for the firestorm surrounding last weeks controversy. You can view it here.
I believe it is genuine and that we should recipricate with grace, forgiveness and communicate that to him.


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The study of economics is driven by theories of economic behavior and economic performance, which have developed along the lines of the classical ideas, the Marxist idea, or a combination of both. In the process, various models were developed, each trying to explain such economic phenomena as wealth creation, value, prices, and growth from a separate intellectual and cultural setting, each considering certain variables and relationships more important than others. Within the aforementioned historical framework, economics has followed a trajectory that is characterized by a multiplicity of doctrines and schools of thought, usually identifiable with a thinker or thinkers whose ideas and theories form the foundation of the doctrine.
Classical economics.
Classical economic doctrine descended from Adam Smith and developed in the nineteenth century. It asserts that the power of the market system, if left alone, will ensure full employment of economic resources. Classical economists believed that although occasional deviations from full employment result from economic and political events, automatic adjustments in market prices, wages, and interest rates will restore the economy to full employment. The philosophical foundation of classical economics was provided by John Locke's (1632–1704) conception of the natural order, while the economic foundation was based on Adam Smith's theory of self-interest and Jean-Baptiste Say's (1767–1832) law of the equality of market demand and supply.
Classical economic theory is founded on two maxims. First, it presupposes that each individual maximizes his or her preference function under some constraints, where preferences and constraints are considered as given. Second, it presupposes the existence of interdependencies—expressed in the markets—between the actions of all individuals. Under the assumption of perfect and pure competition, these two features will determine resource allocation and income distribution. That is, they will regulate demand and supply, allocation of production, and the optimization of social organization.
Led by Adam Smith and David Ricardo with the support of Jean-Baptiste Say and Thomas Robert Malthus (1766–1834), the classical economists believed in Smith's invisible hand, self-interest, and a self-regulating economic system, as well as in the development of monetary institutions, capital accumulation based on surplus production, and free trade. They also believed in division of labor, the law of diminishing returns, and the ability of the economy to self-adjust in a laissez-faire system devoid of government intervention. The circular flow of the classical model indicates that wages may deviate, but will eventually return to their natural rate of subsistence.
Marxist economics.
Because of the social cost of capitalism as proposed by classical economics and the industrial revolution, socialist thought emerged within the classical liberal thought. To address the problems of classical capitalist economics, especially what he perceived as the neglect of history, Karl Marx (1818–1883), a German economic, social, and political philosopher, in his famous book titled Das Kapital or Capital (1867–1894) advanced his doctrine of dialectical materialism. Marx's dialectics was a dynamic system in which societies would evolve from primitive society to feudalism to capitalism to socialism and to communism. The basis of Marx's dialectical materialism was the application of history derived from Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770–1831), which maintained that history proceeds linearly by the triad of forces or dialectics called thesis, antithesis, and synthesis. This transition, in Marx's view, will result from changes in the ruling and the oppressed classes and their relationship with each other. He then envisaged conflict between forces of production, organization of production, relations of production, and societal thinking and ideology.
Marx predicts capitalist cycles that will ultimately lead to the collapse of capitalism. According to him, these cycles will be characterized by a reserve army of the unemployed, falling rate of profits, business crises, increasing concentration of industry into a few hands, and mounting misery and alienation of the proletariat. Whereas Adam Smith and David Ricardo had argued that the rational and calculating capitalists in following their self-interest promote social good, Marx argued that in rationally and purposefully pursuing their economic advantage, the capitalists will sow the seeds of their own destruction.
The economic thinking or school of economic thought that originated from Marx became known as Marxism. As the chief theorist of modern socialism and communism, Marx advocated fundamental revolution in society because of what he saw as the inherent exploitation of labor and economic injustice in the capitalist system. Marxist ideas were adopted as the political and economic systems in the former Soviet Union, China, Cuba, North Korea, and other parts of the world.


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The better alternative
The Aquamatic combines the benefits of both inboard as well as outboard systems. The combination of these benefits with the counter-rotating twin propellers, the duoprop, renders unrivaled and fuel-efficient performance with responsive handling and safe grip. The diesel engine crankshaft output ranges from 140 to 400 hp (single installations). High-performance diesel engines and sterndrives are designed and built expressly for the heavy maritime environment and professional usage.
Compared to outboards
- Diesel available from 140 hp — much lower fuel consumption
- Duoprop for better handling and performance
- Freshwater cooling as standard or option for longer service life
- Lower center of gravity – better sea-keeping
- Engine safely inside the boat – longer life and better theft protection
- Optional Powertrim assistant, Tow-mode and Joystick
- Uncluttered transom – easy access to the water
Compared to inboards
- Reduced sound and vibrations – better onboard comfort
- Improved handling and easier maneuvering
- Compact, integrated installation at the stern gives more onboard space
- Duoprop for better handling and performance
- Higher efficiency – better performance and lower fuel consumption
- Kick-up function on drive for impact protection
- Exhausts emitted through drive, into prop and washed away from the boat
- Powertrim and optional Powertrim assistant to automatically optimize ride


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The latest Chanel ads feature Lindsay Wixen and Sasha Luss. In the photo below of Lindsay she looks a lot like what the fashion editors are referring to as "Pebbles Flintstone" with her burnt orange hair, head topping ponytail, and those infamous runway extra-large pearls {obsessing over}, reminiscent of the ones Wilma made her signature, her high top pony tail has been replaced by a black bow instead of a dinosaur bone!
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text: Our first gaggle of geese have been relocated to the orchard. Our hopes are to use them as we do the chickens in the fields. We will move them throughout the orchard to graze the grasses and fertilize the soils. As you can see, they are fulfilling their role. They've all ready taken the grasses and weeds down to the ground within a couple of days. For those of you attending any upcoming events at the farm, you will get a chance to see (and hear) them yourselves.


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|You Are a Coy Flirt
You may not seem like you're flirting, but you know exactly what you're doing.
You draw people in, very calculatingly, without them even knowing.
Subtle and understated, you know how to best leverage your sex appeal.
A sexy enigma, you easily become an object of obsession.
I didn't look much like the girl in the picture that came with this test so I deleted it!


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Use USB-Serial adapters via Windows Subsystem for Linux
Windows 10 Build 16176 (April 2017) brought support for
- USB ↔ serial adapters to Windows Subsystem for Linux
- non-NTFS, USB and Flash drives became mountable in WSL
Here's how to use USB-serial adapters in WSL:
- Plug USB ↔ serial adapter into the PC
- Look in Windows Device Manager under Ports to see the COM port number. See troubleshooting notes below if it doesn't show there. Let's assume it's COM 5 for this example. If the device doesn't show under USB Devices → Ports in Windows Device Manager, the following steps will not work!
in your WSL terminal, (assuming your device is on COM5 for this example), type
chmod 666 /dev/ttyS5
in serial communications, you must know a priori the baud rate your device communicates at, or nothing will work. Here we assume your device works at 115200 baud.
stty -F /dev/ttyS5 115200
You can connect to serial devices using PuTTY with WSL if you have X11 installed on WSL or using
screen /dev/ttyS5 115200
- COM port number can change upon plugging in the same device, especially if replugging into a different physical USB port on the PC.
- If plugging in a different unit of the same type of device, it may likely also get a new COM port number (e.g. two Red Pitayas, even if sequentially plugged into the same USB port, may well get different COM port numbers).
WSL USB-serial troubleshooting
If your device doesn't show up in Device Manager → Ports, see if it was mistakenly enabled as a Mouse or Human Interface Device. If so, unplug and replug your device.
If it still fails to show up as a Port, instead showing up as mouse or HID, try right-clicking and Disabling the device and unplug/plug it once more.
If it still fails, maybe you're lacking the Windows driver. Try it in a native Linux PC and see if the device works there.


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Why Were Medieval Sea Charts Still Being Produced Four Centuries Later? Does the Answer Lie in the Aegean?
Portolan charts have been studied for more than a century and a half, and intensively so in recent years. Yet several basic questions remain unanswered; indeed, some have never been asked. Publication of a major study by Ramon Pujades in 2007 was accompanied by a DVD with scans of all the charts up to 1469. For the first time it became possible to carry out a comprehensive analysis of the widely spread, and mostly un-reproduced, early charts. An investigation over the last few years, spurred on by that initiative, focused among other elements on the place-names, and the shapes of the medium and small islands. Those detailed findings have made it possible to propose answers to fundamental questions relating to the purpose and longevity of the medieval sea charts.
Portolan charts contain an unexpected mixture of surprising geometric accuracy and apparently frivolous invention. Their toponymy was static enough to include in 1600 three-quarters of the names that can be seen 300 years earlier. Yet at the same time they were dynamic enough to introduce many hundreds of new, and subsequently repeated, names over that period, and to jettison hundreds of others.
It will be demonstrated that the portolan charts - leaving aside their land-based roles as decorative or prestige objects - were an essential tool for sailors. Their uneven 'accuracy' can be explained in terms of three distinct seaboard uses: first, when on a long sea passage out of sight of land, second, when working from headland to headland along a coast, and third, when picking a way through an archipelago - particularly those in the Aegean Sea.
It is ironical that their continued relevance for merchant shipping can be attributed to the reverence with which every small hydrographical detail of the original workshop model was faithfully copied through perhaps eight generations, and not to their adaptability in the face of what we might have supposed were evolutionary pressures. Only the vital, and ever-changing toponymy contradicts that statement.


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Grace Central Coast is a growing body of believers committed to living the Gospel to the glory of God. We value expository preaching and teaching of God's Word, the doctrines of grace, God-centered family worship, and vibrant, authentic, inter-generational Christian community. We believe the Gospel is the power of God to transform individual lives, families, communities and cultures.
Grace was founded as an independent Bible believing and teaching church in 1931 by Pastor Leroy Persson who faithfully served the church for 37 years. In the 1930s, the church acquired and began construction on its downtown SLO campus in the heart of San Luis Obispo, on the corner of Pismo and Osos streets. The original and continuing vision of the church and its people was to "turn their community upside down for Jesus Christ."
In 1969, Johnny Boswell became Grace's second senior pastor and remained until 1977. Dean Keller served as the third senior pastor until 1994 and was followed by Ron Jones who served until 2001. Our present Lead Pastor, Tim Theule, was called by Grace, in March 2003.
Mindful of God's faithfulness over the years and the continuing command of Jesus to 'Go, and make disciples', Grace is now committed to moving outward from its historic downtown SLO campus as 'one church that meets in more than one location' as we seek to plant campuses throughout the Central Coast. Our second campus, Grace5Cities, launched in Fall 2015.


text: As stated in the title, I will be moving to Newport, RI for 6 months due to the Navy. While there, I would like to bike a few of the better trails in the region. Can anyone assist with good trails? If I have to travel more than an hour to get there, then it needs to have good camping (my wife and I will take the kids, camp, and she will watch them while I bike for a bit). The more remote the camping the better (willing to hike/bike in), prefer that dogs are allowed. Thanks in advance. (Cross posted in the Connecticut, Rhode Island forum).


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Worth Courtesan - For Her
By: Worth Released: 2006
Courtesan from Worth is a symphony of beautiful notes.
It opens with spicy notes of cinnamon, cardamom, clove, pineapple, red berry and bergamot which beautiful and skilful blends with the flowery heart of orange blossom, magnolia, jasmine and rose. The symphony ends with sandalwood, peach, raspberry, caramel, dark chocolate, cocoa, amber, vanilla and musk.
A heavenly blend that is worthy of a goddess.


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If I had a uniform, it would be all black. I wear all black so often that I find myself wondering why I even bother with buying colorful things. It always looks best, the most slimming, the most put together, and usually the most fashionable. Even when I buy something inexpensive, it always looks more expensive in black. It's hard to decide at the store given the choice of colors to actually go for something other than black. Here are some of my favorite all black outfits for work.
The key item here
Black patent leather shoes work great with all black.
Adding accessories in different colors like the stacked bracelets
The white button-down under the black sweater breaks the blacks apart and makes this look very cool.
Mixing materials like leather and fabric is a great way to wear all black.
Camel colored pumps are great for all black looks.
Tan pumps are great to make the look still neutral and with all black you can wear any color handbag you'd like.
A statement necklace can be a great detail to an all black look.
Another all black look that looks amazing with tan pumps.
This look is great because it adds several different details to make the all black outfit fun. The glasses, scarf, tan bag, cocktail ring, and fun sandals are all perfect ways to elevate the look.
Tan hat and burgundy clutch details.
Leather and knit mix well in black. Scarf and necklace details are great additions.
I love the watch and handbag details here.
Sleek and simple.


text: Become the life of the party with the power of virtual reality! Use your VR headset to escape your humdrum existence and celebrate with the XXX performers of WankzVR. Top adult starlets show us a playful side in our party-themed virtual narratives. In this festive video category, you'll find our holiday specials, group sex fun and a whole lot more. VR stands for virtual revelries in this pulse-pounding selection of VR titles. Put yourself in the hands of top adult performers like Kali Roses, Kenzie Reeves and Nikki Peach. Bring the after party to new heights in sensual one-on-one performances or redefine cocktail hour and turn your get-together into a wild orgy! Thanks to the technical wonder that is virtual reality, you can indulge in the untamed, sex-fueled lifestyle you've always wanted. Dive headset-first into out-of-control Sororities, cum-soaked Christmas specials or backyard booty banging at its best! Notable titles include, ' New Year's Wankin' Eve', 'Make America Cum Again' and 'Last Man Standing'. Don't miss out on your invitation to this box social... The emphasis is on box!


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Well last weekend Clint was away on a work/boys weekend Golf Trip in Belfast. So I had the house to myself.
On the Friday night I went out for Jess' leaving do. Jess is a lovely girl I met while teaching at my last school. She's an aussie too and originally from Ballarat. We get along like a house on fire, 'get' each other and I must say I have really valued her friendship over here. She is heading over to volunteer in an orphanage in India for a couple of months and then heading back to aus. for christmas....she has quite an adventure ahead of her.
Only got one picture from the night out.....
We went to this cocktail bar in Covent Garden, and oh my the drinks were delish. Then we headed to the 'Walkabout' in Temple....was a fun night!
I got some teary movies to watch on the Sat. night and had a quiet night in. I watched the Reader with Kate Winslet and He's just not that into You. Both movies I really enjoyed, cried in both, as I do, haha.
Finished this layout during the week too.
Layout Title: Putting on the Ritz
Products: My Little Shoebox patterned paper, vintage music paper, Doodlebug Frills in Black, Hambly Screen Print transparency, Pink Paislee letter stickers, American Crafts Thickers, Making Memories letter stickers, black lace, rhinestones, Prima flowers, buttons, coaster from The Ritz, staples, black thread.
Sunday I spent the morning pottering around and the afternoon scrapping 2 pages! Both of the pages are of Clint, probably cos I missed him while he was gone. I'm happy with them both but the quality of the photos I took are terrible.....I really need to get Adobe Photoshop so I can edit my layout photos like I used to.
Layout Title: Your Essential Cure
Products: Scenic Route patterned paper, American Crafts patterned paper, American Crafts Thickers, Basic Grey letter stickers, Making Memories letter stickers, Hambly Screen Prints transparency, Doodlebug Frills in Black, Ladybug and Bumblebee, Scenic Route Cardstock stickers, Scenic Route journaling spot, staples, food stickers.
Layout Title: This smile....
Products: Scenic Route patterned paper, Bisous Bzoo patterned paper, Scenic Route letter stickers, Making Memories letter stickers, Bisous Bzoo chipboard accents, Scenic Route cardstock stickers, rhinestones.
Felt good to spend some time scrapping....hoping I can continue doing some here and there.
Clint is back at work, working long hours at the same hotel. I have tried to pick up supply teaching, but from what I can understand - there is not a lot of work available. I am going to just have to be patient, and be grateful for whatever work I can get.
Half term break begins this Friday.....I have gotten a nannying job for the 10 days. I will be living with this family in there house in Wiltshire for the whole of the half term. I am really looking forward to this challenge of looking after these 3 little kiddies (15 month old boy, 4.5yr old boy, 7 year old girl).
Hopefully will update soon with the last of our Europe trip photos.....xoxo


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Custom Orthotics
At Valhalla Physiotherapy we are pleased to offer the prescription and dispensing of custom orthotics. Orthotics are prescribed orthopaedic devices that fit inside your footwear and are made to treat or adjust various biomechanical disorders in the feet and throughout the body.
There are two different types of Orthotics Custom Orthotics and Commercial Orthotics. Commercial Orthotics are mass-produced insoles sold in chemists / supermarkets as a cushioning insole for the feet and have no medical function on the body. Custom Orthotics are custom made Orthotics specially prescribed to the biomechanical and medical needs of the patient. At Valhalla Physiotherapy we specialize in Custom Orthotics only.
Why Custom Orthotics
During standing and walking our bodies are subjected to the natural forces that can inflict mechanical stress and strain throughout our joints. When foot imbalance is present there is a negative impact in the knees / hips / back and neck this imbalance must be removed for to achieve improved posture and alignment. Orthotics help to correct this imbalance improving the biomechanics of the body leading to relief of pains throughout the body. You may need custom orthotics if you suffer from foot or ankle pain, knee pain, hip, or back pain.
At Valhalla Physiotherapy custom orthotics are provided following a thorough biomechanical and gait assessment by a qualified physiotherapist. Kirby Epp has been prescribing and producing custom orthotics since 1997. Following the assessment, if orthotics are determined to be necessary, specific measurements and a cast or foam imprint of the foot in its "subtalar neutral, non weightbearing" position is taken. The cast is sent to our affiliate laboratory in Calgary where the orthotic is constructed by qualified pedorthic technicians.
For more information on orthotics please visit www.aresorthotics.com
At Valhalla Physiotherapy we offer a wide range of braces from a number of major manufacturers. From soft neck collars and elbow straps, to patella/knee stabilizers and ankle braces we have you covered. We also carry aircast ankle immobilizers which Physicians often prescribe in place of the traditional plaster cast.
In addition to the "off the shelf" braces, Valhalla Physiotherapy is pleased to offer custom made knee braces by DonJoy. Custom knee braces are very effective for the treatment of ligament injuries (both non operative as well as post operative) as well as the treatment of arthritis.
For more information regarding DonJoy braces please visit www.donjoy.com


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CARLISLE, Pa. – Dickinson held McDaniel without a point for the final 6:18 of the first half, building a 25-point lead en route to a 77-63 in the 2014 Centennial Conference (CC) men's basketball semifinals on Friday.
Tim Stewart (Smyrna, Del./Smyrna) scored 16 points to lead the Green Terror (18-9), who will now await the announcement of the ECAC field on Monday to see if its season continues.
Ted Hinnenkamp netted 19 points to pace the top-seeded Red Devils (21-5), who will meet Johns Hopkins on Saturday for the championship.
Dickinson built a lead of as many as five in the first eight minutes of the game and McDaniel trimmed the deficit to one two different times.
A Cameron Royster (Derwood, Md./Magruder) free throw closed the deficit to 15-13 with 12:20 to play before Adam Honig drained a 3-pointer at the other end to spark a 16-3 run over the game's next nearly five minutes, stretching the advantage to 31-16.
Layups from Evan Pupelis (Manhasset, N.Y./Manhasset) and Phillip Perry (Crownsville, Md./Annapolis Area Christian) closed the deficit to 11 with 6:18 remaining before six straight Red Devil points stretched the lead out to 37-20 and force a Green Terror timeout with 4:08 on the clock.
The drought for McDaniel lasted the rest of the first half, allowing Dickinson to extend the advantage to 45-20 at the intermission.
The Red Devil lead swelled to 49-23 on a Gerry Wixted layup with 16:21 to play before the Green Terror reeled off seven straight points to close the margin to 19 just 1:40 later.
Dickinson, however, pushed the lead out to 27 on two Wixted free throws with 8:05 on the clock.
A Wesley Brooks (North Wales, Pa./North Penn) tripled sparked one last McDaniel run that closed the margin to 65-48 with 5:26 to play.
Pupelis finished with nine points and 10 rebounds while Perry added nine points.


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Nuffield STEM Futures
Cross-curricular skills-based project work for 11-14-year-olds based on the theme of sustainability
You can download the free films, presentations, activities and professional development modules pod by pod by following the links on the left, or Download all resources in one go (65mb).
Pupils are challenged to rethink a positive sustainable future based on the principles of closed loop systems in nature. They explore topics through skills-based Science, Maths and D&T activities culminating in an open, enquiry based project.
28 hours of teaching time include:
- 3-hour introductory pod
- Three 5-hour learning and skills development pods
10-hour pupil project pod
See also
- You can request the Futures resources on a disk, along with the SCORM compatible version for your Virtual learning environment by emailing us at firstname.lastname@example.com
or calling on 020 7631 0566.


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High School Sports
Hopewell names Brian Hurlocker as its new head football coach
Brian Hurlocker is the new head football coach at Hopewell High School. He replaces Charlie Gray, who was 1-10 last season.
Hurlocker is Hopewell's fourth coach in five years and takes over a program that has not had a winning record since 2010, when Chris Rust led the Titans to an 8-5 record.
Hurlocker played collegefootball at Austin Peay, where he was a two year starter and letter winner. After his sophomore season, Austin Peay dropped its football scholarships, forcing Hurlocker to transfer to Winston-Salem State. While at Winston-Salem, he was a two-year starter and offensive captain.
Hurlocker started coaching in 2001 as an assistant for the Arena Football League's Carolina Rhinos. From 2002 to 2004, he was an assistant at West Forsyth High. He then coached at Fork Union, where he served as offensive and defensive coordinator. In 2013, he was named head coach at Fork Union. In January, Hurlocker resigned after going 7-22 in three years at his alma mater, including 4-6 last season.
▪ The Hopewell Athletic Booster Club will have a meet and greet with Hurlocker on Wednesday at 7 p.m. in the school's media center.


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International Journal of Morphology
On-line version ISSN 0717-9502
MUNOZ, Patricia; ROA, Ignacio; ZAVANDO, Daniela and SUAZO GALDAMES, Iván. Observation of Sex Chromatin in Exhumed Bones, Evaluation of their Diagnosis Value. Int. J. Morphol. [online]. 2012, vol.30, n.2, pp.588-591. ISSN 0717-9502. http://dx.doi.org/10.4067/S0717-95022012000200038.
Observation of sexual chromatin has shown to be very helpful in gender forensic diagnosis. In the present study we analyzed the diagnosis performance of the method in, non-treated or treated with conventional bone techniques, exhumed bone pieces. We used long bones of male and female individuals, the method applied is described in Suazo et al. (2010). In the non-treated exhumed pieces, the general accuracy of the method was 75%, while in the treated pieces the method was inapplicable due to the lack of cells in the tissue. Our results suggest that it is possible to determine the sex of aged human bones buried under different conditions through a fast and simple histological method, but the treatment with physical and chemical means eliminates the remaining cells in the bone tissue.
Keywords : Sexual Chromatin; Determination of Sex; Bones; Forensic Analysis.


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Mississauga Forklift Staffing Agency
Placing Experienced, Skilled & Certified Forklift Operators
When you find yourself in need of temporary forklift operators for your warehouse, finding an agency that can find skilled operators can be difficult. Lift Temp Inc is the only staffing agency that evaluates all operators on a real forklift! This ensures your company will only receive skilled and certified operators every time! Our specialty is placing and filling positions very quickly for forklift operators and other warehouse jobs because we have the LARGEST supply of certified forklift operators in Ontario! Our proven method reduces product damage and increases productivity. Give us a call today at (905) 949-2929 to find out more about our staffing agency!
As a job placement agency, we are known for a number of exceptional qualities, including the following:
- We train and certify or conduct practical evaluations on all forklift operators
- We extensively test each and every candidate to ensure, not only their skill level, but the proper fit for your company
- We have 20+years of experience and knowledge in material handling and staffing
- We hire highly trained recruiters and instructors with extensive practical knowledge
- We have a continuous supply of operators for your business
- Providing Industrial Staffing Solutions to Your Business
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Throughout the years we have been in business, our combined experience has given us a high level of knowledge and expertise. We can provide a staffing solution for your business whether you are looking for contract, temporary, permanent or temp to perm forklift operators or warehouse general labour positions. Be confident, when you chose Lift Temp, that we go to great lengths to ensure you only receive the best associates for your team. Our team is committed to exceeding your expectations and to helping you create a safer workplace.
We offer the following information for employees:
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- Industry Leader in Forklift Staffing and Training
- All Candidates come fully certified with all documents!
- Committed to the Safety of Our Associates and Our Clients


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Who We Are
787 Developers was founded in 2012 by Jonathan Lee after several years spent in property management and construction. The goal was to use his extensive knowledge of the emerging neighborhoods in the Austin Area to strategically create high returning infill redevelopment projects. As time has gone on, the company has found it's identity in doing highly creative urban development projects that focus on enriching local community.
To date, 787 Developers has completed the redevelopment of 10 units in Austin, 1 in Dallas, and currently has over 150,000 square feet of residential and commercial projects in development. Going forward we hope to grow our experience in larger mixed-use urban development projects as well as expand our development efforts into additional high-growth cities throughout the country.
Our Heart-Beat for Development
Trust. Create an unparalleled experience for our investors that involves consistent transparency, outstanding returns, and a commitment toward a long-term relationships with them.
Creativity. Use creativity and cleverness to develop in a way that adds personality, energy, and rich ambiance to the neighborhood.
Community. Use development as a tool to encourage socialization and the proliferation of rich community.
Our Strategy
Much of our development strategy revolves around identifying isolated, disconnected areas of the city and then adding new development that creates amenities, connectivity, vibrancy, social interaction, and value for the surrounding neighborhood. In the long-run this creates high demand for a neighborhood that previously had very little.
This strategy allows to be both a blessing to the community and to provide strong profits for our investors - a win/win for everyone.
What Makes Us Successful?
Repeat Clients. All of our investors to date have become repeat investors. This simplifies our lives greatly as trust increases and greater momentum begins to build. It also allows us to focus more of our time and resources on running development projects and less of it on marketing and selling our services.
Talented Subcontractors. We've spent a number of years culling through many companies to build a very solid team of subcontractors - some of which we have had continuing relationships with us for as long as 9 years now. Maintaining consistent crews that know how to work with one another massively increases our speed and efficiency.
Strong Knowledge of The Code. In our industry, projects live and die by the land development code. We've made knowing the land development code intimately into a strength that allows us to analyze deals faster and to be able to get more bang for our buck on the land that we do acquire.
Wholesaler Network. We have built relationships with a number of wholesalers throughout the years that allow us to purchase off market listings quite regularly. The savings that we get through acquiring property in this way can often lead to purchase prices that are discounted by 20% or more of what we would pay to buy them off the public real estate listing services.
Intensely Organized. Our projects often involve many months of design, complicated maneuvering of an ever increasing amount of bureaucracy, managing dozens of crews throughout construction, and showcasing the end result to a myriad of buyers and investors. Handling this much responsibility requires an intense amount of organization. To try and gain an edge over our competition, we are constantly making moves to new technology and processes that allow us to increase our company organization and to accomplish more with resources.


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Know your account Dashboard
Call me Clarification, Captain Clarification. Today I'm going to show you how to update your profile in your Murfie account. Good golly why? Because naysayer (yeah, you! you with the naysay attitude), all Murfie members are Persons Of Interest to me, and it looks like not everyone is in the loop on this particular procedure. Here's how to complete it, in three easy peasy steps.
#1 – Log into your Murfie account, and visit your account Dashboard (definition: that place in your account where you can manage your discs, downloads…and profile).
#2 – Roll your cursor over the "Profile" tab (which is the most right-hand tab on your Dashboard), where you'll see sections for "Your Info," "Billing," "Shipping," and "Balance."
#3 – To update anything in your Profile, just click into the appropriate section. For the sensitive data (like your email or credit card), you should receive a notification email from us following an update.
OK, that's all she wrote. Stay tuned for more Murfie how-tos! Being learned is fun. :)


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The old proverb that every dark cloud has a silver lining continues to gather supporting evidence. Today's example is the rise in gasoline prices. While high fuel prices have been blamed for everything from inflating costs of food to anemic U.S. economic health, researchers at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have found something positive. A few weeks ago, they announced that costly fuel has been keeping teenagers off the roads—and this, in turn, has meant fewer teenage drunk driving incidents. Overall, the study suggests that teenagers drive after drinking half as often as they did 20 years ago.
Even if drunk driving rates are falling nationwide, New Hanover County (and the nearby communities in Pender, Robeson, Columbus, and Brunswick Counties) has certainly seen plenty of cases of teenagers driving after drinking. Too often these cases become occasions for severe auto accidents in Wilmington, North Carolina. Even if no accident occurs, a teenager pulled over on suspicion of drunk driving can face severe consequences—not just a loss of driving privileges, but diminished prospects for employment and education in the future.
Four key facts to bear in mind about teen drinking and driving in North Carolina
Of course, other factors have come into play in suppressing teenage drunk driving. Pro-sobriety campaigns by advocacy groups such as MADD have been influential, and state laws have become less lenient toward intoxicated teenagers behind the wheel. North Carolina legislators and law enforcement officers have been part of this movement to hold teenage drunk drivers accountable.
It's important to remember these four essential points about the legal consequences of driving after drinking:
1. There is no "safe" blood-alcohol limit for teen drivers. There is no legal limit for intoxication for drivers under age 21 in North Carolina. A one-year license suspension will occur for any teenager who registers any blood-alcohol concentration above zero on a Breathalyzer or blood test.
2. A teen can be detained or arrested even after passing a roadside Breathalyzer test. Law enforcement officials are allowed to use their professional judgment when they believe a driver is intoxicated. If a driver is believed to be "appreciably impaired," he can be required to come to the police station or sheriff's office for a blood test.
3. The alcohol alone may be worth a misdemeanor charge. A minor aged 16 or older who has violated the state laws against purchase, possession, or consumption of alcohol can be charged with a Class 1 misdemeanor. A conviction can carry a penalty of up to 45 days probation and a possible fine. Teenagers under age 16 will not be charged in criminal court for alcohol offenses, but they may face adult criminal charges if their drunk driving led to serious injury or death.
4. Minors may be able to avoid having a criminal record at all. The specific details of the case are critical, and so is representation by an experienced DWI defense attorney. Consult with your lawyer about the available options for your case—or your minor child's case.
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Statistics show that, in 2009, driving after underage drinking was a factor in 41 motor vehicle fatalities and 1,693 nonfatal traffic injuries in North Carolina. In the face of this record, our lawmakers are not going to go easy on young people believed to be driving while intoxicated.
If your child is arrested in Wilmington or any nearby town for driving under the influence, call 877-593-4233 to connect to our DWI defense lawyers at Speaks Law Firm. We have extensive experience providing successful defenses for adults and teenagers accused of drinking and driving in North Carolina. Contact us today to learn about how our legal representation can make a crucial difference for your child's future.


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A new study by the Norwegian Directorate of Children, Youth and Family Affairs found that bisexual women had more health problems than any other gender or orientation (via The Daily Mail). They are more prone to poorer general health, mental health issues (such as depression and suicide), and sexually transmitted diseases.
Their research showed that, while their last study in 1999 showed that LGBT people had a lower quality of life than heterosexuals, the differences are now considered negligible. But bisexuals are more likely to hide their sexual orientation from their coworkers, and the stress of keeping that secret could contribute to health problems. Only about 25 percent of bisexuals reveal their sexuality in the workplace, while 82 percent of gays and lesbians come out to coworkers.
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Cunningham Lopez LLP creates a personalized estate plans for each of our clients based on their specifics needs, we go through your goals and we take a careful analysis to serve your needs. We offer many estate planning options based on our experience with:
- Asset Protection: Asset Protection is not about giving in to fear. It is about empowering yourself in the face of it. Our firm works with clients to implement proven, legally-sound strategies that help preserve their wealth and safeguard their assets. We represent professionals, small business owners, property owners, and other clients with the goal of protecting their assets against potential litigation, judgments, liens, and fraud. Insurance alone does not always adequately protect against all of these threats. We help clients protect their wealth using a variety of strategies including the use of special trusts, business entities and other legal arrangements.
- Business Succession: Business succession planning is essential to the future of any business. That applies to the founders, owners and their families. The existence of a succession plan emphasizes the commitment to the business's long-term growth and continuation. Lenders often require that business owners have proper planning in place for the succession of a business. Families hope that proper planning is done to assure the continuation of the business and the maximization of returns to the family.
- General Powers of Attorney: A power of attorney is a legal document giving one person the power to act for another person (the principal). The agent can have broad legal authority or limited authority to make legal decisions about the principal's property, finances or medical care. The power of attorney is frequently used in the event of a principal's illness or disability, or when the principal can't be present to sign necessary legal documents for financial transactions.
- Estate Tax Issues: There are a variety of legitimate estate planning tools and techniques available to help you reduce or avoid estate taxes. These techniques include strategies that utilize irrevocable trusts, charitable trusts, life insurance trusts, family partnerships, LLCs and other legitimate legal transactions. These strategies may seem complicated, but with proper counseling and analysis, we may be able to find perfect solutions for each individual estate tax situation. Estate tax planning is just one of several issues that need to be addressed as part of a comprehensive estate plan.
- Estate Administration: When a person dies, all his or her possessions real estate, money, stocks, personal belongings, etc. become a part of his or her estate. Estate administration refers to the process of collecting and managing the estate, paying any debts and taxes, and distributing the remaining property to the heirs of the estate. The heirs of an estate are determined by will, and if there isn't a will, by the intestacy (which means dying without a will) laws of each state.
- Health Care Directives: An Advance Directive for Health Care is a written legal document which allows you to instruct your attending physician whether or not you wish to be given life-sustaining treatments and artificially administered nutrition (food) and hydration (water) and to give other medical directions that impact the end of life. Its purpose is to recognize your right to control some aspects of your medical care and treatment, primarily the right to decline medical treatment or direct that it be withdrawn even if death ensues
- Medical Powers of Attorney: Is the authorization under which a natural or legal person designates another as medical legal representative. Depending on the type of power, this representative may act in certain legal acts and under different contexts and frameworks of action.
- Probate Litigation: Is often used in a legal sense to refer to disputes that arise over the assets or property that some deceased individual leaves behind. Because these types of disputes often involve family members, emotions tend to run high and can interfere with the ability of individuals to think clearly in a court of law, it often proves essential to retain the services of experienced legal counsel during these situations.
- Revocable and Irrevocable Trusts: A Revocable living trust is created when a Grantor (the person who creates the trust) transfers assets into a trust during their lifetime and when the trust can be changed or revoked by the Grantor at any time during his or her lifetime. An Irrevocable Trust is created by a Grantor when he or she transfers assets into a trust, the terms of which cannot be changed by the Grantor. It cannot be changed, and it says so in the document. Our attorneys can help you determine, which, if any, of theses trusts is appropriate for you.
- Simple and Complex Wills: Cunningham Lopez LLP will help you prepare the formal document by which you order what will be the destination of your assets and your rights from the moment of the production of your death, making clear the full freedom of who or who inherited and in what form their assets. A will is a completely customizable document that can address a variety of specific issues as designate property distribution, designate beneficiaries, name guardians of minor children, etc. A will is the most basic component of an estate plan. It can be customized to address the specific requirements and wishes of the individual it represents. Our firm can help you create an effective will, and explain additional ways in which to build your estate plan.
- Special Needs Planning: Planning for the future is vital when you have a dependent with special needs. Distributing assets after death can have a huge impact on the individual's quality of life, including any benefits they receive from government assistance programs. Don't make the mistake of thinking that a will is all you need. A complete estate plan, including a trust that legally provides for a special need individual is important to fully protect their best interests


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60th Annual Greens Show at the Hart-Cluett House
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Wander through the beautiful Holiday Lights in Bloom Display. Fri-Sun Nov. 24 - Dec. 23, 5-8pm, daily Dec. 26-31, 5-8pm. *CLOSED Christmas Eve 12/24 & Christmas Day-12/25. The Arboretum will be in "full bloom" with beautiful, garden themed light displays in the forms of flowers, animals and insects. Stroll many […]Find out more »


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The IDEO + BerkleeICE Summer Lab will run from July 11 through 29, 2016 in Boston. The joint program will explore the challenge of capturing quality information about the creation of music for use in blockchains, digital ledger technology, and decentralized systems. Of particular focus will be the experience of capturing and interacting with the data in two use cases:
New, creative workflows to gather this critical data; and
Emergent fan experiences resulting from data collection.
Interns will be placed on interdisciplinary teams, taught fundamental design-thinking methodologies by IDEO designers, and be given access to emerging technology and music industry experts in the Open Music Initiative. These teams will be guided through a three-week design sprint methodology resulting in prototypes of new consumer and creator experiences.


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That Awkward Moment looks to be set to dethrone the Universal Pictures surprise hit, Ride Along. The Zac Efron vehicle That Awkward Moment is currently tracking to win the Super Bowl weekend in what may end up being the slowest box office weekend of the year. Super Bowl weekend is notoriously slow with this year proving to be no exception.
That Awkward Moment also stars Michael B. Jordan and Miles Teller. The R-rated bro-centric Zac Efron comedy made was made for a mere $8 million. The comedy will be the first release by the newly consolidated Focus Features after they acquired the rights for $1.5 million. The film is currently on pace to make around $15 million for the weekend. Though the popularity of the young stars could strike a strong chord with teenage girls despite the rating. Even after marketing, Focus Features should still see profit following this weekend.
The only other new wide release will not prove to be much competition. Jason Reitman's fifth film Labor Day starring Kate Winslet and Josh Brolin is currently tracking to make between five and six million for the weekend. Far more serious than his previous efforts, the film may suffer due to the first disappointing reviews of Reitman's career. The romantic drama sits at 38 percent on Rotten Tomatoes. Reitman's box office career has been all over the place with Juno and Up In The Air becoming runaway smash successes while Young Adult and Thank You For Smoking received a milder response from audiences.
There are two re-releases scheduled to open this weekend. The first is Disney's singalong version of Frozen. So far, the animated hit has grossed over eight hundred million worldwide and is one of the studio's top grossing films of all time.
Warner Brothers is also putting their blockbuster hit Gravity back into IMAX theaters following the Academy award nominations it received last week. So far, the science fiction survival story has grossed nearly $700 million worldwide. That Awkward Moment still is expected to win this Super Bowl weekend despite the re-releases.
Playing in limited release is the critically acclaimed documentary Tim's Vermeer. Directed by Teller and narrated by his long-time partner Penn, the documentary explores how 17th century painter Johannes Vermeer manage to paint so photo-realistically when he lived nearly 150 years before the dawn of photography. Magnolia Pictures also plans to release the lowbrow female-targeted comedy Best Night Ever in select theaters and on Video-On-Demand. Directed by the duo responsible for Date Movie, Meet The Spartans and Vampires Suck, the comedy is their first that does not lampoon an existing film.
Universal's Ride Along is expected to hold over well in its third weekend. The breakout hit is currently on pace to gross just under $10 million for the weekend. The buddy-cop comedy starring Ice Cube and Kevin Hart has grossed over $80 million to date off of a $25 million production budget after its record-shattering opening weekend of $41 million. Ride Along should be able cross $100 million domestically before the end of its theatrical run.
This time last year saw the release of the romantic zombie comedy Warm Bodies. Warm Bodies surpassed many expectations and opened to just over $20 million over the weekend. While the raunchy comedy is not tracking as well, That Awkward Moment should still have enough momentum to win the box office during slow Super Bowl weekend.
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pokoko partners with Tilting Point.
Andre Hornung
We are happy to announce that pokoko partnered with Tilting Point, the New York based publishing partner, who is well known for their Apple Design Award winning hit, Leo's Fortune and the popular word game Languinis. Tilting Point and pokoko will together launch and operate pokoko's mobile game "Dino Bash". Tilting Point will support pokoko on marketing, user acquisition, analytics, quality assurance, and localization.


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ive a 1.35 k/d it would have been alot better if it wasnt for my g/f playing it
I have a 3.0 K/D. It would have been lower if my GF wasn't boosting it for me.
Considering the horrid connection in this game I wouldn't put much weight in KD.....especially if you're a rusher. Mine is 1.04, but I'm a full map rusher. I don't hold down a section of the map. I am constantly circling it.
Me too. I do laps around the maps, guns blazing lol... I have a 1.18 K/D to show for it, far from what many would consider good. But I've noticed that many of these "good players" with 2+ K/D ratios are mostly objective campers, even tho they would argue that they're not.
That is not true my k/d is 1.54 (370 spm) and I rush, gun's blazing. Occasionally I used to get smashed up a bit but there is a difference between rushing straight into the other spawn, and doing it and figuring out were the campers on the other team are hiding.
I do agree with the fact that the majority of k/d's over 2 are campers though. I would guess that 90% of +2 k/d are campers, maybe more. I have only ever met a cpouple of players with a k/d that high and thought that they were really good.
1.54 K/D and 370 SPM is pretty good for a rusher... Actually, I think it's pretty good for any type of player. I wouldn't mind having your stats at all. I've been rushing recklessly (I'm new to CoD) and going straight for the spawns. It's actually the campers that always catch me slipping. Now that I know the maps better and have a better feel for the weapons, I might do a Fresh Start and rush a little smarter.
If it's above 1.0 in tdm then you are helping your team, in objective games it doesn't matter. CoD`s problem is the overall kd. It should only be viewable in tdm, ffa, and kc maybe. Everything else shouldn't count. Overall kd ruins objective games imo.
Hard to tell for many reasons, most of which are stated above. I've been a solid 2k/d player in the last three CODs but this game I hover around 1.5. Pretty sure the difference in my case is a mix of connection issues and added incentive for objective play which makes the pace of games generally faster. I never tried to cap the other teams home flag in Dom on other CODs but now it's pretty tempting. I heard that the official average in COD is around 1 and with skill-based matchmaking that might have even gone down a bit in BO2.
Anything above 1 is good - because on average you're killing people more than you're dying.
That said KD is irrelevant in this game, because skill based matchmaking hasn't worked (surprise surprise) - Most lobbies consist of 1 or 2 players that have a 2+kd, about 6 will have around 1KD then the rest will have below 1 KD... So with such a wide range, this is not skill based matchmaking, and all you're showing with a high KD is that you've taken advantage of the weak skill based matchmaking, and probably only played in lobbies with negative KD players and backed out of any that show a challenge.
NOTHING! if your playing if your playing objective based game modes then KDR means bugger all...
Take KDR out of everything but TDM and FFA imho..
Its ruining the game with killwhores and campers...
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This week I have scans from another Scrapbook/Album to share with you. This one is from
After leaving East Orange, NJ in 1935 to take a position at the Oriental Institute at the University of Chicago, then a position at the University itself, my grandfather was eventually called back to Wesleyan University, his alma mater, when he was offered the position of Vice President of Business Affairs and Treasurer. It seems as though Dad took these photos shortly after their move east. My captions are his captions.
|M.H.S. Band in the Parade
|Isn't it a little cold up there, brother?
|Float in the Parade
|2nd governor's footguard in the parade.
|2nd governor's footguarde in the parade.
The drum reads 2nd Co. Gov's Foot Guard
Field Music
New Haven, CT
|State Police in the parade
|Some band in the parade
|A float in the parade
|Old time hose cart in the parade
|Sam Mattis and ex Mayor Bill in the parade
|Dinosaur Footprints in Middlefield, Connecticut
|Pennie 8 wks.
|Pennie in a basket - 8 wks
|8 wks Pennie asleep in the kitchen.
|8 wks Pennie lying on the lawn.
The rest of this album are photos from Middletown High School but those will have to wait a couple of weeks. Next week I'll be sharing something of my mother's in honor of her 79th birthday.


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Letter from a gay son to Romney-Supporting Dad
Sharing this letter because like the author, I believe that while the quest for acceptance may be a long one, we are at the verge of making history. Soon, humanity will finally recognize that we are all equal regardless of race and gender orientation. Beyond the tradition of hate and fear promoted by those crippled by ignorance and closed-mindedness, there are leaders that believe that equality is a birth right that we should all share.
In a lot of nations, including ours, homophobia and hate is promoted by the very churches and personalities that are supposed to set a moral example to the rest of the people. The same morality that has resulted in hate crimes, suicide and legalized persecution.
This letter is a bit long, but it is worth reading. I know it will not automatically change the minds of people, but I hope that as the President of the United States has gone through an evolution in thinking about the issue (you have to watch the video above til the end to see this), it will at least open your minds up to possibilities.
I saw your recent post on Facebook "liking" Mitt Romney and had to write. (Admittedly, I'm still getting used to my 66 year-old father using Facebook, but given what I'm about to write, I assure you I'm quite supportive of it.)
Though your public support for Romney doesn't surprise me, given how open you've been about your dislike of President Obama, it does bother me. Since coming out to you and mom nineteen years ago, I've watched you vote for the Republican candidates in every major race. Save for the occasional mealtime argument or sarcastic Fox News barb, I've held my tongue, despite the hurt and anger that came from watching you vote for a party that has made a sport out of demonizing gay and lesbian people, like me, for political gain. I did so because I never had a solid enough argument that the Democratic Party was wholly different. They often stopped short of institutionalizing discrimination of gays, but were sadly lax on standing on principle and advocating for its eradication. Until now.
For the first time in our nation's history, a U.S. President and his party have publicly stated that gays and lesbians are equal citizens and should be such under the law. I know you're aware that Obama believes gays and lesbians, like me, should have the rights and responsibilities of marriage and that the 2012 Democratic Party Platform will include marriage equality as one of its tenets. You will never know what it is to be gay in this world at this moment, but I'd bet at some point in your life you've known how it felt to have your essential worth validated by someone with authority. I can't overstate the power of having my president and his party say to me, and the nation, that I am not less than, but equal to, and validate my inherent right to pursue my life with liberty and unimpeded happiness. Never before has this happened. So, never before have I made the argument that you should vote for the Democrat. But, today's a new day.
Four months ago, I sat at my younger brother's wedding and watched you well up, speaking publicly with pride for the man he's become and the woman he chose. His life, though certain to have unexpected turns ahead, has a clear path, one available to him simply because of his sexual orientation at birth. Mine has never been so clear. Oftentimes, being gay feels like being a salmon swimming upstream. Our relationships aren't supported by tradition or institution, any models we may have remain hidden, as openness invites derision, and the pressures to carve a life out with another person, minimally as equally affected by the ever-present fear, instilled in us from our earliest memories that we're different and unlovable and bad, can often be too much to bear. And yet, not always. The resiliency of my community, in the face of such misunderstanding and hate, is astonishing and inspiring. They've taught me to think twice before underestimating the will of the human spirit in its slow march toward progress, whatever the circumstances.
I'm almost forty. Both of my younger brothers are married, enjoying all the rights and responsibilities of that government-issued status. Do you want that for me? Do you believe I should have someone beside me on life's journey, legally recognized as my spouse, able to visit me in the hospital, able to make my end-of-life decisions, with whom I'm able to build a financially interdependent life? I have to believe you do. I have to believe you're too good a man not to. Because if you don't… If, like the candidate you're supporting, you believe marriage should only be between one man and one woman, I feel sorry for us both: you, because it means you're on the wrong side of history and your own son's happiness and me, because it means my father does believe I'm "less than."
In any other election, given any other choice, I'd stay quiet. If you, and others like you, wanted to believe the worst about Obama – a good man, trying to do good work – and vote against your interests (Romney's tax and Medicare plans won't help you), I'd shake my head in wonder and watch you do it anyway. But this isn't any other election. This election presents a clear choice between two people whose policy beliefs directly affect the course of my life. Let me be clear: A vote for Mitt Romney is a vote against me. There is no argument to counter that fact.
You might want to argue that you're not a single-issue voter, but when the single-issue is your own son's equality under the law, I wouldn't recommend that argument. You might want to argue that, because you live in New York State, your vote won't ultimately matter since Obama will carry the state anyway. You're correct. He will. In that way, I suppose, your vote won't matter. But it matters to me. You might want to argue just because you don't like the idea of your son telling you what you ought to do. But, whatever else, you know I'm a good man. It's been said, "All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing;" and I'm a good man who's never been good at that.
Will I change your mind? I hope so. I'm sure Mom would tell me it's a lost cause. And maybe she's right. But that would be sad. Because it might be nice to one day have my father stand up at my wedding, realizing he helped make it happen.
Your Son


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Asian Shoppers Get Digital Along the Path to Purchase
Dec 03, 2014 by Mark Baltazar
Are you looking to connect with Chinese, other East Asian, and South Asian shoppers in Canada? These fast growing segments of the population have piqued the interest of marketers, who are looking for ways to connect with them. While the role of digital media continues to increase in the lives of Canadians overall, it has an even larger role to play in connecting with Asian Canadians.Read More