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The Globe and Mail of Toronto, Canada's self-styled national newspaper, noted in its May 3 coverage of the election results that Prime Minister Harper's Conservatives now have "a secure majority". Indeed they do: 167 seats, 12 more than the 155 needed for a majority in the House of Commons.
Editorially the Globe referred to Harper's "truly national mandate". Hardly that except in the narrowest sense: the election gave the Conservatives a majority of MPs in the House which, while drawn from most of the provinces, was the product of Canada's unreformed 'first past the post' electoral system.
There is nothing that can convincingly be claimed to be "a truly national mandate" for Conservatives when more than 60% of voters chose other political parties. Nor in a system that hopes to maintain voter respect and gain increased participation should 39.6% of votes be able to provide a party with 54.2% of the MPs in the House of Commons.
The reality is that the splitting of votes in various constituencies between the Liberals and the New Democrats allowed the Tories to add enough seats to their 2008 total of 143 to gain a majority in the House.
What about the great ballyhooing of an electoral upswing in voter interest and turnout endlessly foretold by the talking heads in their media commentary? It jumped 'all the way up' to 61.4% of the eligible total from what it had been in 2008, an all time low of 58.8% [2006 - 64.7%]. Not all that much improvement.
For many years I was opposed to amending Canadian democracy to introduce proportional representation in order to give real meaning to the votes of all Canadians who chose to participate in the electoral process regardless of the political party for which they voted. I was concerned by the possibility of PR introducing to the Canadian system political instability of the Italian sort ( 61 governments since 1945) or the spawning of various small special interest parties which could end up exercising an unhealthy and disproportionate leverage on government ( e.g., the religious parties in Israel).
In arguing my view I chose for a time to ignore or downplay certain realities such as the fact that more than two political parties electing MPs in a 'first past the post' system too often serves to defeat the voter preference of the majority. I remained unconvinced, for example, by such evidence as the record of the Progressive Conservative Party in Ontario. It built an uninterrupted political dynasty from 1943 to 1985 without winning a majority of the total vote in any provincial election.
I did pause to take special note when the NDP formed a majority government in Ontario in 1990 having received only 37% of the vote but I was still loyal (sort of) to our unreformed Westminster parliamentary model. However, when the Quebec government was formed by the Parti Quebecois after the 1998 provincial election my doubts finally took full flight. The PQ won 76 seats in the Quebec Assembly having received 42.87% of the vote while the Liberals gained only 48 seats on the basis of having received more votes (43.55%).
The 'first past the post' system of determining how many seats a political party is to have in the Canadian House of Commons when the House is home to MPs of 5 political parties (as it will be in the next parliament) makes a farce out of claims that the elected majority government reflects the voting intentions of the public.
Meanwhile, to those Canadians who worried about what legislative and policy changes a Harper government would undertake if it won a majority on May 2: buckle up and watch the Tories enact what they could not pass through the House or would not even bother to introduce in the previous minority parliaments. The Conservative Party government will be unimpeded by the fact that 6 of 10 voters opposed them.
Those who decided to vote for the social democratic option and are elated with the NDP's meteoric ascent from 37 seats to 102 (based on 30.6% of the total vote on May 2) to become the official opposition will doubtless have been buoyed by leader Jack Layton's election night declaration of all the wonderful things the NDP will accomplish. In fact it will not be long after the next speech from the throne before it will be seen that the NDP will exercise less political leverage in the House during the next 4 years of Conservative majority rule than it did when it sat across from the Conservatives as the 4th largest party in the House -- but one facing a minority government.
The British held a referendum this week on the introduction of an "alternative voting" system for the Westminster parliament. The proposal was a version of the preferential ballot system and it failed miserably with 68% voting against it. Might this U.K. initiative stimulate some serious discussion in Canada about electoral reform? One can hope but don't hold your breath.
Is it likely that the Canadian electoral system will be revised by any federal majority government to include proportional representation? About as likely as Her Majesty The Queen appointing me the next Archbishop of Canterbury.
I wrote the following letter to the editor of the Globe and Mail on this same subject. It was published in the Globe on May 5 and appears below.
Margaret Wente (Here's Why Stephen harper Really Won -- May 5) declares the May 2 election to have been "a great day for Canada" and claims to understand why Stephen Harper won a "whopping" victory. I don't think she does.
Ignore the post-election analysis from the experts whose predictions were so far off. Mr. Harper's majority was the result of an unreformed electoral system that delivered 54.2% of the seats in the House of Commons to a party supported by 39.6% of the vote.
Alastair Rickard
Elmira, Ontario
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This listing is for 1 box of Antique Bronze jump rings with 5 different sizes.
Sizes range from approximately 3mm - 9mm
Each box contains approximately 1500 pieces.
Due to the width of the box these need to be posted as a parcel for $7.60. I am more than happy to pack each segment in little zip lock bags if you would prefer to reduce the shipping costs! Unfortunately its the size of the box that increases the postage price! Just leave a message for me at the checkout!
~Any excess postage paid will always be refunded~

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Homemade Charcoal Filter
What it Does
Good whiskey is charcoal filtered. For instance Jack Daniels filters there fine whiskey through sugar maple charcoal as does the finest rye whiskey makers. The flavor from sugar maple is what gives good whiskey that sweet mellow taste that goes down smooth without the stinging in your mouth you get from cheap whiskey or that shine your buddy made and did not get out all the fusels.
Charcoal filtering is going to remove off flavors and some of them nasty alcohols so your hooch is as fine as a Tennessee spring night.
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Home Depot has them for about $3.49 . To make it into a homemade charcoal filter to clean up whiskey of off flavors you need to :
- Remove one end cap.
2. Cut a piece of coffee filter and push it down to the bottom or just pull the cap and place it in and put cap back on.
3. Pour in a bag of Liquor Quik Distillers Activated Carbon. This is not necessary and might take out a bit of charcoal flavor but I like to use it as it makes it a smoother drink. It also slows down the whiskey pouring through.
4. The cap on the end of the tube has a wide slot I it . this allows too much whiskey to pour through too fast. Wrap the bottom of the tube in anything you want, I use aluminum foil, Then I tape it around the tube. Poke a couple small holes I the foil so the whiskey can only drip out. The longer it stays in that charcoal the better it is going to be.
$ 9.99 at Adventures in Homebrewing .
4. On top of the carbon add crushed sugar maple charcoal to fill up tube to maybe half way or whatever you want. I sell 1 Lb bags of it on eBay. It is 100% pure sugar maple lump charcoal from responsible sources. The same charcoal I use myself.
The charcoal needs to be crushed up so that it packs the tube. This is going to cause some waste as crushing it makes a lot of powder that you need to throw away. The smaller you make the charcoal the better this will work. It should be about the size of a peanut, not the whole nut in it's shell just one nut or even smaller.
Charcoal Preparation
Make sure you wash the charcoal until water runs clear before adding it to the tube or you will have black booze that you have to run through again to remove the fine charcoal. It would be best to rinse the charcoal in distilled water so all that nasty chlorine and other crap does not get in it. Allow it to dry out real good by setting in hot sun or baking in a oven at 100 degrees or so until dry.
This filter is very effective at removing off flavors and solids.
That was the quick easy method
Now if you want to ramp this up a bit and make it more efficient at filtering and adding in flavor you will need to modify the system. The quick and easy method is what I use but you might have more time and be more into detail than me.
The whiskey needs to remain in the filter for a while. How long ? Well that is subjective. You are not a distillery so I would say if it drips out a half gallon in an hour you at good. This is of course not the method a distillery uses.
You can go and read How to Charcoal Filter Your Hooch and learn how to do it in a more lengthy way that will make your liquor even better. It will just take more time and a bit more work to make a filter.


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Beijing+20 - Human Rights of Women
Human rights are women's rights. This ought to be a matter of course throughout the world since 1979. It was, after all, in December 1979, that the General Assembly of the United Nations (UN) adopted its UN Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW). The Convention prohibits discrimination against women in all areas of life and bound the nations to a plethora of measures that guarantee – legally and de facto – the equal participation of women in all areas of society. Despite this, women in many countries are still denied their rights. National legislation – for example, family law – frequently also contravenes CEDAW, and violence against women as a global problem in societies also represents an infringement of the human rights of women and their fundamental freedoms that frequently goes unpunished. With this in mind, the 1995 Beijing Platform for Action cited the following core demands:
- By governments: safeguard and promote the human rights of women
- Entrench the principle of gender equality in legislation
- Repeal discriminatory laws and legislation
- Access to information on human rights
Thus far, neither the rhetorical recognition of nor a call for women's rights has been forthcoming. At times, they have instead led to increased resistance.
It is an undeniable fact that CEDAW has since been ratified by 187 of the 193 UN member states and an Optional Protocol has been adopted. And thanks to UN Resolution 1325 et. seqq. on "Women, Peace and Security", sexualized violence has been defined as a crime against humanity and is therefore punishable before the International Criminal Court. In addition, the EU has also stepped up its efforts to counteract trafficking in women, whilst Arab countries have withdrawn some of their reservations against CEDAW.
However, Iran, Sudan and Somalia, for example, have not signed CEDAW and the USA has not ratified it. Some countries plead that their reservations are based on traditional, cultural or religious issues. The Optional Protocol granting women the right to submit complaints to the CEDAW Committee has not been signed by the majority of the Arab states.


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A GANG of four men abducted a 13-year-old girl, plied her with drugs and alcohol and forced her to become their sex slave, a court has heard.
The girl, from a "troubled" family, was subjected to a string of assaults over four days, after being trafficked from her home in London to Ipswich, Suffolk, prosecutor Riel Karmy-Jones told Norwich Crown Court.
Abdul Hammed, 46, Surin Uddin, 28, Hamza Ali, 38, and Mohamed Sheikh, 31, all deny offences including trafficking and raping the girl.
Miss Karmy-Jones told jurors: "These men deliberately targeted her. She was an unhappy and deeply troubled child.
"They enticed her to travel with them in order to set her up as a sex slave and to use her for their pleasure.
"In order to do so, they plied her with drugs and alcohol and made promises that they would take care of her and give her anything she wanted.
"Once at the property in Ipswich, she was treated as little more than a skivvy and she was raped over the course of four days."
She said that Sheikh in particular took advantage of the girl's "youth and naivety" and she became so attached to him that at first she found it difficult to accuse him of wrongdoing.
However, forensic examinations proved he had sexual contact with the victim, Miss Karmy-Jones said.
She added that, shortly before her abduction, the girl had been removed from her mother's care and was living with her father after concerns were raised for her welfare.
The alleged attacks took place in a house in Chevallier Street, Ipswich, which had been rented three days before the girl disappeared.
The defendants all deny conspiracy to traffick within the UK for sexual exploitation between July 1 and July 13 last year.
They also all deny conspiracy to rape, conspiracy to engage a child in sexual activity and being concerned in the supply of a controlled drug to the girl between the same dates.
Uddin, of St Matthew's Row, Bethnal Green, east London; Sheikh, of Seaton Point in Hackney, London; and Hammed, of Wellington Street, Ipswich, each deny two counts of rape.
Sheikh also denies causing a child to engage in sexual activity.
Ali, of Chingford Road, Waltham Forest, London, denies one count of rape and one of sexual assault.


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AGS Transact Technologies Limited (AGSTTL), India's only and one of the leading providers of end-to-end payment solutions, recently ventured into the mobility business to foster smart travel and will be responsible for end-to-end management of Automatic Fare Collection (AFC) system for Kochi Metro that is being inaugurated tomorrow. By offering an integrated structure of collection, compilation and computing for AFC system, the company aims to provide an efficient and hassle-free experience to the commuter.
AGSTTL's AFC system is a critical core component of the Kochi Metro system. It includes complex hardware and software installed at entry points of metro stations. This ticketing system uses a combination of Open Loop Smart Cards, Radio Frequency Identification Devices (RFID) and Quick Response Codes (QR Codes) to collect fares from the users minimising the need for cash transactions. This is the first time such an innovative model is being implemented in the country.
"We are delighted to be the technology partners of the ambitious first-of-its kind Kochi Metro Project. At AGSTTL, we believe that technology solutions such as the futuristic Automatic Fare Collection (AFC) System with Open Loop Smart Cards and QR Code tickets will establish a new benchmark for the transit industry and pave the way for smart travel in India", said Ravi B Goyal, Chairman & Managing Director, AGS Transact Technologies Limited. "By offering an integrated structure of collection, compilation and computing for AFC system, AGSTTL aims to ensure that the commuter has an efficient and hassle-free experience. Kochi Metro will lay the foundation to how future metro and public transportation projects are designed in our country with AFC being the preferred mode of transacting within the entire transportation structure", he added.
Kochi Metro Rail Limited (KMRL) had earlier signed a public-private partnership (PPP) pact with Axis Bank for the Automated Fare Collection (AFC) system. The bank has partnered with Asis electronik Ve Bilisim Sistemleri, AS, a Turkish company, for the infrastructure and AGS Transact Technologies Limited for the integration and maintenance in the system.
About AGSTTL Transit Business
Understanding the need for high efficiency solutions in the transit systems AGS Transact Technologies Limited ( AGSTTL) ventured into the transit business in 2016. Through its Automatic Fare Collection (AFC) and Electronic Toll Collection (ETC) offerings, AGSTTL brings together effective models of ticketing, payment and transparency that will lay the foundation for future metro and public transportation projects across the upcoming smart cities in the country.
About AGS Transact Technologies Limited
Established in 1992, AGSTTL transformed into transaction management business in 2002 and today, is one of India's leading end-to-end payment solutions provider with a wide spectrum of highly customised products instated with state-of-the-art technology for the Banking, Retail, Petroleum and Transit sectors. AGSTTL operates across 700 cities and towns reaching out to over 160,000 customer touch points across India and boasts of an impressive footprint in South East Asia.
Pioneering the change in financial technology space, our three major lines include Banking Automation Solutions, Banking Payment Solutions, Automation Solutions for the Retail, Petroleum and Colour sectors.
Our subsidiaries include Securevalue India Ltd. (SVIL) focused on cash management and vault services, India Transact Services Ltd. (ITSL) offering Omni-channel merchant digital payment solutions and Novus Technologies that offers banking automation and payment solutions in Singapore, Cambodia, the Philippines, Indonesia and Sri Lanka. With close to 8400 employees, round the clock customer service centers and two manufacturing & warehousing units located in Daman and Puducherry, AGSTTL is committed to provide clear, credible and contemporary solutions to steer how India transacts.


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This carrot coleslaw recipe was taken from the book Grub, written by Anna Lappe and Bryant Terry. Grub is part organic handbook/part cookbook and there are some really great tips on living an organic lifestyle. The recipes are organized by season and even include music ideas to make cooking even more fun!
Ingredients needed
1/2 small green cabbage, shredded
2 large carrots, grated
1/2 teaspoon whole-grain Dijon mustard
1/4 cup apple cider vinegar
1 teaspoon organic raw cane sugar
Coarse sea salt
3 tablespoons extra virgin olive-oil
2 tablespoons sesame seeds
Cooking instructions
In a large bowl combine the cabbage and carrots. In a medium bowl, combine the mustard, vinegar, sugar and 1 teaspoon salt. Slowly add the olive oil, whisking. Add the dressing to the cabbage and carrots and massage well for 3-5 minutes. Refrigerate slaw for at least 1 hour or overnight. Remove the slaw at least 15 minutes before serving and sprinkle with sesame seeds.
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I am trying to set up a store with grouped iteams
I am setting up a store for car parts:
category: MGA
Item 1: Starter
Item 2: Cross over Head
Item 3: Wire Wheel
My problem is the "Item 3: Wire Wheel" also fits a number of other (autos) categories.
How do I share the item or do I have to add it in as a new separate item.
I would like to share the item so when it comes to changing price it is only one item not multiple items.


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Resumed border blockade talks between Gambia and neighboring Senegal ended in the early hours of Monday with a note of uncertainty after delegates of both countries failed to reach an agreement.
"We are compelled to live together because of our geographical location. We should strive for an harmonious, peaceful coexistence through dialogue, permanent and constructive consultation. It is our common destiny," Senegal's Foreign Affairs Minister Mankeur NDIAYE told newsmen at the end of a 14-hour marathon meeting held in Dakar.
Last Sunday, Gambian Foreign Minister Neneh Macdouall Gaye held talks with her Senegalese counterpart Mankeur Ndiaye over the 12-week blockade that has left many businesses in dire shape. In February 2016, President Yahya Jammeh took a 'controversial decision' to increase the cost of ferry tickets across all the country's crossing points. The decision gave rise to significant political and public reactions in Senegal with the national transport union deciding to block the traffic within the borders in protest of Gambia move.
Mankeur Ndiaye revealed that Gambia and Senegal have agreed to meet in July in order to overcome obstacles and stumbling blocks. He welcomed the decision taken by Gambian authorities to rescind ferry crossing tickets prices which jumped from 4000 to 400000 CFA francs thanks to the Gambian leader whose self-bestowed nickname is Babili Mansa, "Bridge Builder"
On allegations made by his Gambian counterpart that ECOWAS transporters were being charged exorbitantly in Senegal, prompting Banjul to increase tickets prices in reciprocity as there have been Instances where Gambian drivers paid up to 400000 CFA francs, Senegal Foreign Affairs minister has this to say:" An investigation was carried out and we were able to confirm that these allegations are unfounded. It is not true."
The crippling trends regarding the construction of the bridge have compelled many experts to say the bridge on river Gambia that President Yahya Jammeh is not interested in the a project endorsed by African Development Bank (ADB) to the tune of 50 billions CFA.
When asked by this reporter whether the construction of the bridge poses a threat to Gambia's sovereignty, Neneh Macdouall Gaye dodged the question, but was quick to reiterate remarks made in plenary session indicating that the main problem for the Gambian side is about the navigability of river Gambia. "The design of the bridge does not llow navigability," she told reporters.
The final communique that was issued at the end of the meeting remained mute over the Banjul-based Senegalo-Gambian Secretariat tasked with the responsibility to address issues affecting the interests of both countries.
The two foreign affairs ministers reiterated their resolve to strive for the end of the border blockade. But their call is yet to be implemented as the standoff still continues….
Written by Abdoulie JOHN


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How To Be Stunning By The Poolside Yet Protected From UV
During summer being at the pool side is a perfect time to show off your fit, smooth body. But being exposed to the sun is the last thing you probably need. Sun exposure during summer, means your skin is loaded by UV radiation. Some tanning is nice for a healthy look, but with it comes UVA radiation which penetrates the skin and cause irreversible damage!
UV radiation is the main cause for skin aging, premature wrinkles, skin flopping, sun spots, dark spots, pigmentation and also.. cancer. So being by the pool side either at home or in vacation, is not a good excuse to get all these terrible things.
Even if you dip in the pool in a bikini, but when you are outside you are protected, you are minimizing your long term side UV effects. But most women have poolside clothes which do not block UV so being covered or not does not matter, the UV penetrates most fabrics anyway. So while the girl next to you which has a pool wrap thinks she is lowering her chance for skin aging and cancer, the truth is that she is not. Cotton clothes can filter 10%-20% of UVA radiation, all the rest will reach the skin and be absorbed by the cells.
Covered and Protected at the Beach or Pool
You need to wear poolside clothes and beach wraps which are made from special fabrics that can filter and block up to 99% of all UV! These clothes are known as UPF clothes.
The first sun blocking clothes and fabrics have been made 30 years ago for Australasian surfers which where dieing like flies from skin cancer. They were in the sun in the sea, with their skin exposed to harmful UV, and their skin cancer percentage was proportional to the rest of the population.
Today, the technology is so advanced UPF clothes look like regular clothes and you will not be able to tell the difference in any sort of way.
Click here and order your poolside UV protective hoodie. You can not afford the side effects of UV exposure.
When you are at the pool side or planning a fun day at the beach, you need to take a UV protective wrap or hoodie with you. You will be cool. you will be UV protected. You will look stunning thanks to the unique designs.


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Words reflect culture. And our Allies can help to create inclusive workplace environments, where all colleagues feel both that they are valued and that they belong.
Our friends at Catalyst are a leading nonprofit organization with a mission to accelerate progress and equality through workplace inclusion. They support women, LGBTQ and men in their programs, including these knowledge resources and thought-leadership white papers. June is a worldwide #LGBT #PrideMonth, and a great time to review and refresh on ways we can "#FlipTheScript ". Take a minute to check-in on how our words and workplace patterns may benefit from some mid-year review and reset.
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Tuesday, May 14, 2013
Breaking News: The Dissertation
Even though I still need to defend the thesis, on June 14th, in Delft the thesis gets printed and published before the actual date of the defense, which also serves as commencement ceremony.
Here's the metadata of my dissertation, which you can access here:
Author: Lantsoght, E.O.L.
Promotor: Walraven, J.C.
Faculty: Civil Engineering and Geosciences
Department: Structural Engineering
Type: Dissertation
Date: 2013-06-14
Keywords: reinforced concrete · slabs · effective width · shear · experiments · assessment of bridges
Rights: (c) 2013 Lantsoght, E.O.L. · Creative Commons BY NC SA
The capacity of existing solid slab bridges in the Netherlands is under discussion for two reasons: 1) the increased traffic loads and volumes and 2) the fact that the majority of the existing bridges were built before 1976, and are thus reaching the end of their original life span. Upon assessment according to the governing codes, a large number of slab bridges are found to be shear-critical. However, the shear capacity as prescribed by the codes is based on experiments on beams in shear. Slabs subjected to concentrated loads (such as truck wheel load) are assumed to have additional capacity as a result of transverse load redistribution. This thesis studies the capacity of slabs under concentrated loads close to supports. A literature review, resulting in a slab shear database with 215 experiments from the literature, is used to study the mechanisms at work in one-way and two-way shear. For this research, 156 experiments were carried out on 38 half-scale bridge deck specimens. The experimental results are studied by means of a parameter analysis. To determine the capacity of slabs in shear subjected to concentrated loads, two methods are proposed in the thesis: 1) the Modified Bond Model, a new theory to determine the capacity of slabs subjected to concentrated loads; and 2) by using a code extension proposal that results from probabilistic calculations following the safety philosophy of the Eurocodes. Finally, the link to the assessment practice is made by formulating recommendations, improving the Quick Scan assessment tool of the Ministry of Infrastructure and the Environment, and then applying this to cases of existing solid slab bridges.
Geplaatst door Eva Lantsoght op 6:07 PM
Labels: dissertation, publication, research
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Congratulations! (I should also soon sort out to get my thesis online.)ReplyDelete
What are you planning with those 250 print copies? While it's nice to have a handful, that seems a bit much in our digital age.
Best wishes,
- AnonymousMay 14, 2013 at 7:52 PM
Thanks! All colleagues, friends etc will get a nice copy of the book - I though 250 copies was a lot, but today I heard that 500 can go away quickly as well!ReplyDelete
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DAVE Edwards Double Glazing Ltd, Tameside's longest established window company, has evolved greatly in an ever-changing world.
Since its formation in 1973 to supply timber windows, its range today is huge and encompasses windows, doors, porches and conservatories.
The latest innovation is a blind that is fitted inside a double-glazed unit and which is far more practical to use.
Previous customers include Dame Kiri Te Kanawa, one of the most celebrated voices in opera, as they built a conservatory at her home in London.
Customers demand the highest standards of quality workmanship and Dave Edwards Double Glazing Ltd has stood the test of time in terms of reliability and durability to survive recessions and austerity.
And further proof of its trustworthiness is that the business is a member of Buy With Confidence, a scheme run by Tameside Trading Standards.
Sales administrator Jillian Edwards says business is booming, so much so that in the New Year they will be looking to take on a fitter and apprentice fitter to deal with an ever-increasing workload.
"We are already taking bookings into February which is really good in our line of business," she said.
Jillian added the feed-good factor has returned to the consumer market.
She explained: "Due to the recession many people did not spend on their homes, but now they are doing a full house in terms of replacing all windows and doors.
"There may be a lot of uncertainty about Brexit but we have been very busy in 2018 and have had a crazy couple of years."
Jillian explained nine out of 10 times their custom comes through word of mouth, adding her mantra is to treat people how she would like to be treated.
"We go over and beyond with our service and like to be pro-active," she said.
The business has received glowing reports on the HomePro website with feedback such as 'brilliant firm, customer friendly, good workmanship and hard working people', 'friendly local firm, no pressure sales' and 'from start to finish a very good company. No pushy salesmen. Did what they had to do very well'.
Jillian pointed out no job is too big or too small, varying from a couple of hundred pounds to a conservatory with a solid roof costing £20,000.
Though most of their customers are from Tameside and the surrounding area, the firm has done jobs as far afield as London and the Lake District.
It remains a family-run business that was founded by Dave Edwards who is managing director while his son Stephen is a director and sales and installation manager.
Dave's wife Sue is company secretary and office manager while Stephen's wife Jillian is sales administrator.
David and Sue's daughter Emma Wickham is showroom assistant and the only non-family member is installations assistant Matthew Norcliffe.
Dave Edwards Double Glazing Ltd has been based for the last 20 years on Katherine Street, Ashton, where it has a showroom that is open six days a week as well as an extensive warehouse.
There is free parking on the street outside.
For more information go online to: www.daveedwardsdoubleglazing.co.uk or telephone 0161 339 3350.


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SANTA PAULA, Calif. - His Eminence Marc Cardinal Ouellet will preside over commencement ceremonies at Thomas Aquinas College on Saturday May 16, 2009. The Archbishop of Quebec, Canada, Cardinal Ouellet will serve as principal celebrant and homilist of the Baccalaureate Mass, and he will deliver the commencement address.
By resolution of Thomas Aquinas College's Board of Governors, Cardinal Ouellet will also be awarded the Saint Thomas Aquinas Medallion, the college's highest honor, established by its Board of Governors in 1975. The resolution is given in recognition that "His Eminence Marc Cardinal Ouellet has shown an exemplary loyalty and devotion to the Holy Father and the magisterium of the Church and has worked tirelessly to proclaim, support, and defend the teachings of the Church, and to advance the mission of Christ on earth."
The college has a newly appointed interim president following the tragic death of Dr. Thomas E. Dillon in an automobile accident in Ireland last month. Says President Peter DeLuca, "We very much look forward to welcoming His Eminence Cardinal Ouellet to our campus for this joyful occasion. Our graduating seniors, their families, and all our guests will be blessed by his priestly presence and edified by the words of wisdom he will share with us. We will also be greatly honored to have His Eminence offer, on the morning of commencement, what will be the first Baccalaureate Mass on the new altar of Our Lady of the Most Holy Trinity Chapel." The Chapel was dedicated by the Archbishop of Los Angeles, Cardinal Roger Mahony, on March 7, 2009.
Thomas Aquinas College expects each of its 71 seniors, who hail from 22 states and three foreign countries, to receive a bachelor of arts degree in liberal arts this year. The Baccalaureate Mass will begin at 9:00 a.m., and will be followed by commencement exercises at 11:00 a.m.
ABOUT CARDINAL OUELLET: His Eminence Cardinal Marc Ouellet holds a bachelor of arts in education from Université Laval, a licence in theology from the Université de Montréal, a licence in philosophy at St. Thomas Aquinas Pontifical University, and a doctorate in dogmatic theology from the Gregorian University. He was ordained to the priesthood in 1968, and in 2001 His Holiness Pope John Paul II ordained him a bishop and appointed him secretary to the Pontifical Council for the Promotion of Christian Unity.
Cardinal Ouellet has served as consultor to the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith and to the Congregation for the Clergy. He is currently consultor to the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments, a member of the Pontifical Committee for International Eucharistic Congresses, and an advisor to the Pontifical Commission for Latin America. He is also a member of the Pontifical Academy of Theology, the Congregation for Catholic Education, and the Pontifical Council of Cardinals for the study of the organizational and economic affairs of the Holy See.
Cardinal Ouellet was appointed Metropolitan Archbishop of Quebec in 2002, and Pope John Paul II elevated him to the Sacred College of Cardinals in 2003. In 2008, Pope Benedict XVI appointed him as General Relator to the 12th Ordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops on the word of God in the life and mission of the Church.


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Founded in 1898, Thomas Publishing Company connects manufacturing buyers and suppliers worldwide. For buyers, Thomas offers timely and comprehensive content and data about industrial products and suppliers. For suppliers, the company provides proprietary technology and platforms to fill sales pipelines and increase marketplace exposure. Thomas offers print and web-based content including buying guides and magazines as well as ThomasNet.com, a website that connects buyers and sellers.
To stay competitive, Thomas Publishing strives to launch new products frequently. However, the company wanted the agility to bring its offerings to market faster.
"We relied on on-premises data centers, and we didn't want the costs of operating those ourselves and trying to maintain high uptime for our products," says Hans Wald, CTO of Thomas Publishing. "Rather than putting resources into our data centers, we wanted to invest more in improving our products."
Thomas also wanted to upgrade its Oracle E-Business Suite (EBS) applications. "We knew we had to create temporary new environments to support the upgrade, but we didn't want to have to procure new hardware in order to have the capacity to do it," Wald says.
Similarly, Thomas needed a better way to take advantage of newer infrastructure to increase the performance of its additional Oracle applications and database technologies without the need for investment in physical hardware. "We depend on Oracle for our core content management and publishing systems, and demand for faster production schedules and reduced processing times is growing fast. Using the best infrastructure allows us to get the most out of Oracle without having to scale up Oracle CPU licenses."
Seeking to reduce operational costs and maintenance while smoothly upgrading its Oracle environment, Thomas chose the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud platform. "AWS was by far the most attractive option for us, as far as the services and the flexibility of the platform are concerned," says Wald.
After deciding to move to AWS, Thomas was introduced to Apps Associates, an AWS Premier Consulting Partner that provides global business and IT services. "We liked the fact that Apps Associates had a lot of experience moving Oracle databases and applications to AWS," Wald says.
Apps Associates initially helped Thomas migrate its Oracle EBS platform to AWS. Thomas runs Oracle EBS on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances. The company also uses Elastic Load Balancing to distribute traffic across its Amazon EC2 instances.
Next, Thomas moved its ThomasNet.com website onto AWS. Wald says, "Our first AWS solutions were very successful for us, so we felt confident moving additional parts of our environment to AWS."
Thomas then chose to migrate its key content management and publishing applications to Amazon Aurora on Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS). Amazon Aurora is a fully managed, MySQL-compatible relational database engine, and Amazon RDS provides administration for Amazon Aurora by managing database tasks such as provisioning, patching, and backup and recovery.
"We wanted to move to Aurora, and we felt we could migrate our database schema and data, but we were concerned about migrating our code," says Wald. "We thought we might have to refactor our code into something that could run on a different application server."
Apps Associates has developed proprietary migration tools based on years of experience and deep Oracle expertise. Using these tools and the Amazon RDS Migration and AWS Schema Conversion Tools, both part of the AWS Database Migration Service, Apps Associates successfully converted the Thomas Publishing content management and publishing application schema, database, and code to Aurora.
"The data migration was seamless and easy using the AWS Schema Conversion Tools," says Wald. "The code migration was the complex part, but it definitely exceeded our expectations for minimizing the amount of manual effort required."
Since moving to AWS, Thomas Publishing has significantly reduced its costs. "After moving to AWS, we were able to shut down our largest data center, eliminating hundreds of thousands of dollars in associated real estate, facility operations, and power and cooling costs," says Wald.
The company also gained the agility to bring new products to market faster. "Traditionally, if we wanted to build a new website to publish new product information, we would spend a lot of time on infrastructure design, hardware procurement, and implementation and provisioning," says Wald. "Using AWS, our developers can spin up resources for a new website in one day, instead of the weeks it used to take. As a result, we can publish new product information for our customers faster."
Additionally, Thomas easily migrated key applications to Aurora, with help from Apps Associates and its expertise as well as the Amazon RDS Migration Tool and Schema Conversion Tool. "Using the Amazon tools to migrate our code from SQL Server into Aurora, Apps Associates eliminated what would have been a very difficult process for us," says Wald. "We would have had to go through a time-consuming and costly manual process to rewrite all our SQL code for the new solution."
Thomas can now dynamically scale its applications as needed. "Using AWS, we can scale up instance sizes to add compute power for overnight batch processing," says Wald. "That means we pay only for those larger resources, which doesn't cost nearly as much as doubling the number of servers would be. Our ability to dynamically scale resources in the cloud gives us much more flexibility."
More recently, Thomas has started to use Amazon Redshift to analyze web access data. "We're doing ad hoc analysis in Amazon Redshift, and it's working well enough that we're going to expand our usage," says Wald. The company also plans to continue moving data from Oracle to AWS. "Moving additional Oracle applications and databases is definitely on our roadmap," Wald says. "Going through the process with Apps Associates showed us what we can do. We're just getting started on our movement to the cloud."
Apps Associates, a Premier Partner in the AWS Partner Network (APN), is a global technology and business services organization that provides solutions for cloud analytics and integration. Its mission is to partner with customers to enable business improvement by streamlining business processes using advanced technology. The company innovates by constantly launching new services and solutions and it differentiates through a relentless attention to delivery excellence and customer care. Apps Associates is a Premier Consulting Partner with Amazon Web Services, an Oracle Platinum Partner, and a Salesforce Cloud Alliance Partner, Apps Associates also partners with MuleSoft and Tibco. For more information about how Apps Associates can help your company build and manage an AWS environment, see the Apps Associates listing in the AWS Partner Directory.
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text: In our recent review of French door refrigerators one model, the Samsung # RF268ABRS really stood out from the pack for its ability to maintain steady temperatures and its ease of use. However, what particularly impressed us was the way it kept produce fresh whether we stored it in the crisper or on a shelf. In fact, we swear, a head of Boston lettuce looked perkier after six days than when we bought it! Because this unit performed so well we've given it a permanent space in our Kitchen Appliances & Technology Lab. And it's helped reinforce our faith in our own testing. On December 21, 2009, our product tester, Paul Hope, stashed a package of baby lettuce leaves in the Samsung and then forgot about it...until January 12, more than three weeks later, and as you can see in the picture, the dainty leaves looked fresh-picked. There wasn't one of those nasty little mushy leaves that typically you'd find within a week in prewashed greens! Shopping for a new fridge? Consider the Samsung, especially if in your house way too many fruits and veggies spoil before they're eaten. For the complete write-up on the RF268ABRS and other French door fridges be sure to check out our report.


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This cute little gnome has come to live in my studio!
He's only a few inches tall, but just look at the detail on the back of his tiny cape. Thank you, Cecile! What a lovely reminder of my time spent with the Reston Chapter of Quilters Unlimited.
I presented my lecture and shared my quilts the evening before at the Guild meeting. The workshop the following day was held in this wonderful light filled room. The quilts hanging on the walls were made by Cindy Grisdela and the paintings are by Jennifer Duncan.
This quilter chose a palatte of soft greens that looked like budding leaves on this spring day, visible through the large windows.
These quilters did not shy away from creativity. I love how the directional fabric was used so effectively here.
I have never seen a quilter choose such vibrant fabric for this project before. Those three spools of thread with the colors selected from the fabric are making me smile. I really hope I get to see how this quilt turns out. I'm inspired!
It got quiet for a bit, with machines humming, everyone quilting on the background blocks.
This is my time to walk around and admire the fabric choices and design decisions. Every time I teach this technique, I learn things and I can't wait to get home and sew some blocks myself.
The Reston Chapter is part of Quilters Unlimited that has over 1,000 members, comprised of 11 chapters and a parent organization (affectionately called "Big QU"). The chapters are spread over the Northern Virginia area from Arlington to Haymarket. They put on a fantastic Quilt Show, coming up soon, May 29 through 31, at the Dulles Expo and Conference Center, in Chantilly, Virginia. Thanks Anne, for inviting me, and I sure hope I get to the quilt show!


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Above, Cristian Sanchez '16, far left, and friends after a hike at Morro Dois Irmaos in Brazil. Below, riding a bike in Shanghai and at the Great Wall of China.
An International Education
Cristian Sanchez '16 of Becket, Mass., got a great boost to his future career in international business as he spent his entire junior year abroad, studying in China and Brazil, at Shanghai University and the Universidade do Sul de Santa Catarina in Florianopolis.
"Many of the products in the United States are made in China," Sanchez said. "So, I thought I'd go learn how the Chinese do business."
In China for the 2014 fall semester, his first trip there happened just a few months earlier, over spring break with a travel course. "We stopped by the School of International Business Administration at Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, so it made sense to study there."
His choice for the second part of his junior year was Brazil.
In addition to being affordable, Brazil is an emerging country within the field of international business. What's more, going to Brazil meant Sanchez could learn to speak Portuguese. Born in Bogota, Columbia, Sanchez is fluent in Spanish, making Portuguese is his fourth language.
While he is nearly fluent in Portuguese because of its similarity to Spanish, Sanchez learned how to hold a conversation and respond to basic questions in Chinese because of the need he had to use that language every day in downtown Shanghai.
"I feel it's most important to know how to speak a different language. If you can talk to someone in person, then you can make a difference," Sanchez explained.
In China, besides taking a language course in Chinese, he took classes in logistics, how to conduct international business in China, math as it relates to Asian banks, and also a course on Chinese law.
"You can learn all you want about a country from a course, but when you're actually there, living and spending time in the downtown with the people and businesses, it pushes you. It's nothing you can learn in a classroom," Sanchez said.
In Brazil, he took a course in Portuguese, as well as classes in how to do business in Brazil, international economics and globalization, and another that focused on tourism.
"In every class you learn theory, but in my business class we had the opportunity to work with this huge international surfing and lifestyle company called Morr Maii. We had to propose an idea for an addition to their line of products and create a promotional event. We split the class into five groups and found out about manufacturers, logistics and all the things you need to know to propose an idea to a business," Sanchez explained.
"We went to Morr Maii and made a presentation. It was unlike anything I've ever done," he added. "Most everything you learn in college is theory, but this was reality."
Sanchez said his dream job may include serving as an international negotiator for a company's product or service. "They could send me anywhere in the world. It could be France. It could be China or Brazil."
At MCLA, Sanchez has enjoyed the courses he's taken. "They were very interesting and I learned a lot. Now that I'm back, I feel like I need to get all that I can out of the business administration courses."
He added, "MCLA was very economical, compared to other schools. Honestly, it's an excellent education. The professors really focus on their students' education. That's something I really enjoy."


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"In 2010, everybody said you can't dare let guns go into the national parks, and of course the rapes, murders, robberies and assaults are down about 85 percent since we did that."
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on Thursday, May 9th, 2013
There are at least 25 times as many
There are "10 or 20 deaths a year from foodborne illness" in the United States.
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on Thursday, December 9th, 2010
Not under Obama's plan
"Under the Obama plan . . . all the health care in this country is eventually going to be run by the government."
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I love reading fiction about places I know, have visited or plan to visit and TRIPFICTION is a one stop shop to find out what's available.
You can search for books by location, by author, by genre – and cross reference across all three. So, apart from just selecting by setting, you can see which countries feature in your favourite author's books.
Fiction can help you get under the skin of a location in a way that a conventional travel guide can't. And when you are on holiday you always need to pack a good book or three.
So if you were going to Rome, say, you have over 70 books to choose from such as The Women of Rome by Alberto Moravia. Set during Mussolini's era in the 1930s and 40s, the story focuses on Adriana, a poor artist's model, loved by a revolutionary and a fascist policeman. Or instead you could read The Silver Pigs by Lindsey Davis, detective stories set in Ancient Rome featuring Marcus Didius Falco. Or a light-hearted romance, or a dark thriller…


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Episode 97: Woodworker Claire Desmarais
Welcome to Episode 97; the November 2013 podcast of My Yukon Life podcast radio. This episode features special guest Claire Desmarais, woodworker extraordinaire and one of the founders of Paddlers Abreast, the Voyageur canoe team representing breast cancer survivors. This … Continue reading
Episode 96, September 2013: Wild Wise & Musician Fawn Fritzen
The Yukon has a large bear population compared to most places down south. As towns increase in size, so do the number of interactions between humans and bears. In 2012, 17 bears were relocated, 16 bears had to be shot by … Continue reading
Episode 95: Alan Fry, Yukon Survival Expert
Do you have what it takes to survive in the Yukon with only the bare essentials? Could you last the night in a tent when the temperature drops to minus 60? Well, meet a man who's done all of the … Continue reading
Episode 94: Takhini Hot Springs
On this episode of My Yukon Life podcast radio, guest host Patrick Brown takes us to the Takhini Hot Springs outside of Whitehorse to dip our toes in the hot springs and discover the fascinating history of this local landmark. … Continue reading
Episode 93: Yukon Outfitter Chris Widrig
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Truck kills 12 in Germany, police call it terror attack
Berlin: German police on Tuesday said they were probing a "suspected terrorist attack" after a man ploughed a lorry into a Christmas market in Berlin that left 12 dead.
Shortly after the attack at Breitscheidplatz on Monday night, Berlin police arrested the suspected attacker who was reportedly from Pakistan and entered the country in February this year, the Guardian reported.
The 23-year-old Naved B has been registered at the refugee centre at the disused Tempelhof airport and held several identities, police said. He was known to the police for minor crimes but not terror links.
"All police measures related to the suspected terrorist attack are progressing at full steam and with the necessary diligence," Berlin Police said.
At least 48 people were injured, some seriously, in the attack after the vehicle mounted a pavement at about 40 mph (65 kmph) and crashed into them.
The carnage came just hours after the Russian ambassador to Turkey was shot dead in Ankara by a policeman who claimed to be taking revenge for Moscow's involvement in the battle for Aleppo.
It followed warnings from intelligence agencies that the Islamic State militants may target Christmas markets in Europe.
Witnesses in Berlin described scenes of panic and horror as the lorry veered off the street and ploughed into the crowded Christmas market just off the famous shopping street of Kurfürstendamm at around 8 p.m.
Jan Hollitzer, 36, heard screams as the vehicle made its way through the stalls.
A journalist said he saw destroyed stalls, broken glass, crockery and tables — and injured people lying on the ground. "There were people under the truck and it was really scary, really terrifying."
German Chancellor Angela Merkel expressed sympathy for the victims. "We must assume it was a terrorist attack," she said. "This unspeakable event will be as severely punished."
Germany was put on high alert for a major terror attack in the months after Merkel opened its borders to more than one million refugees from the Middle East.
The incident echoed an attack in Nice, France, in July where 86 people were killed by a truck driven by a man inspired by the Islamic State.
The latest attack site is near a famous Berlin landmark — the Gedaechtniskirche, or memorial church, built in 1891-95. The market at Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church has existed for 33 years.
US President-elect Donald Trump blamed "Islamist terrorists" for the "slaughter" of Christians. "Today there were terror attacks in Turkey, Switzerland and Germany – and it is only getting worse. The civilized world must change thinking!"
A series of small-scale terror attacks alarmed Germany earlier this year.


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Loving tender and smiling true unlike the baby sucking his very first lemon slice
We love Interview's short stories, maybe more than its main ones lately despite the high quality of those. Agnes Sokolowska's laundrette pictures were our highlights and delights some weeks ago, a twisted swimsuit series bringing to the table a new view on sweet summer sweatdrops. We may just praise this bedtime tale with the same might, on a day that calls for closed shutters at this time of the year everyone is warmly waiting for the night to fall or the storm to wash away their sunny gloom.
Yap, the fact it stars Katie Moore does a lot too but the bright-haired lil'miss does have more than these five photographs going on at the moment and if it was just a matter of prestige and giving her more exposure, we could have gone for some other stuff instead. But you have to count on other ingredients here, besides Moore's performance: Hans Neumann holding the camera (while Tallulah Harlech took care of the clothes or the smart lack of garments in some cases), a motel room, the pale pink blanket and tender lighting of that very same motel room. Loving this and smiling true, and having nothing more to add might be the best about it.


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This Tank Doesn't Need a Gun
A taxonomy of armored vehicles, volume one—the Assault Breacher
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The U.S. occupation of Iraq is over. The Afghanistan war is winding down. Today America faces "emerging threats in an increasingly sophisticated technological environment," according to Gen. John Campbell, the Army vice chief of staff.
For the U.S. ground combat branches that means a renewed emphasis on fast-moving armored warfare. The Army and Marines are dusting off heavy vehicles that played a minor role in Iraq and Afghanistan.
In this series, we spotlight some of the more obscure, and fearsome, armored behemoths. The battle wagons of a new era of warfare. First up—the Marines' Assault Breacher. An M-1 tank that doesn't need a gun.
During World War II, the Allies fitted tanks with a bewildering array of plows, flails and demolition mortars to help clear German minefields and smash through terrain and fortifications. "Funnies," the Allies called them.
The concept proved eminently useful. And throughout the Cold War, all the major armies on both sides of the Iron Curtain built special engineering vehicles—often based on their dominant tank types.
The U.S. military modified M-60 tanks. But when the M-1 replaced the M-60, the Americans needed an engineering vehicle to keep pace. Enter the Grizzly, a two-man M-1 with no main cannon and an added nine-foot bulldozer blade. "With the fielding of the Grizzly in … 2004, the U.S. Army will have a survivable, mobile, complex-obstacle-reduction system," the official Armor magazine predicted in 1998.
But the Cold War's end—and commensurate budget cuts—compelled the Army to kill off the Grizzly in 2001. That left the Army using what one Armor contributor described as a "a ballet of farm implements" such as traditional bulldozers to shove through defensive walls, dunes and barricades.
Fortunately, the Marines kept working on Grizzly—and even added a mine-clearing system that throws an explosive line up to 150 yards to set off buried munitions. The Corps bought around 50 Grizzlies.
"The tank chassis are used Army M-1s that are overhauled by Anniston Army Deport," Defense Industry Daily noted, "but the turret is fabricated and added in-house by civilians working for the Pentagon."
The Marines put the breachers to good use … in Afghanistan.
"On Dec. 3, 2009, the Marine Corps' newest vehicle detonated its first path-clearing line charge in Afghanistan," the Marines boasted, calling the vehicle's debut a "happy occasion."
That happy occasion was Operation Cobra's Anger, the Marines' attack on a Taliban stronghold in Now Zad in southern Afghanistan. The breachers fired their line charges to clear IEDs. "Assault breacher vehicles ensure Marines can get to the battlefield without going through a minefield," the Corps explained.
Observing the Marines' success, the Army looped back around and uncancelled its own Grizzlies—purchasing a combined 17 in 2013 and 2014 and requesting another seven in 2015, at a cost of around $5 million apiece. As recently as 2010, the Army said it wanted 187 Grizzlies.
Finally, the Army can punch through barriers and minefields as well as the Marines can—and clear paths for formations of M-1s and other vehicles.


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The 300 page advanced rulebook ties together 16 years of playtesting. We've painstakingly combed all of the Battlestations books to redesign this masterpiece. The basic game is great. This hardcover tome brings it to the next level.
30 Character Species
143 Special Abilities
120+ Personal Items
50 Cargo Bay Items
25 Standard Missions
35 Guest Star Missions contributed or inspired by gaming legends
21 New Planets updating a complete map of the known galaxy
100+ Ship Layouts
200+ Treasure Items
Solitaire play rules
Rules for Fighters, Mine Layers, and Cloaking Device modules
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Release Date: 17/08/2012
Catalogue No.: PH002
Record Label: Independent/Green Media
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Catalogue No.: PH002
Record Label: Independent/Green Media
Format: CD
The Prehistorics have been delivering a scorching trail of hard-hitting, melodic, alternative rock 'n' roll across Australia's east coast, for several years now. Their latest offering "Subterranean Nightmare" is the second full length album from the band where we see a unique mix of tightly constructed songs with pacey rhythms, overlayed with witty lyrics that question everything from bent-out-of shape relationships, to fashion faux pas. This one's guaranteed to be all-killer and no filler folks!
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NOBLE GCC Joins the TAKE 25 Initiative
NOBLE GCC wins top recruitment Award
From the NOBLE National Office:
Congratulations Interim President Carolyn Williams and the Greater Cleveland Chapter!
The national office of NOBLE has informed me that the Greater Cleveland Chapter has won the grand prize for the 2013 NOBLE Membership Recruitment Drive. This entitles you and your members to:
- Plaque for being NOBLE's top chapter for recruiting.
- Free full page b/w ad for the annual conference journal. Start designing.
- Special recognition in the annual conference journal.
- Special recognition at the annual conference in Pittsburgh, PA.
- Reserved table at the annual dinner banquet.
- 2 free conference registrations for the 2013 annual training conference in Pittsburgh, PA.
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Those who are experiencing premature ejaculation are usually secretive about their condition. There are only a few men who actually consult their doctors for treatment of early ejaculation. Most men usually go about looking for treatments like herbal remedies for premature ejaculation on their own. Herbal remedies for pre ejaculation are often preferred by premature ejaculators, as they do not require prescriptions and are usually delivered in discrete packages.
There is no treatment for pre mature ejaculation, whether herbal or chemical, that has been approved by the US Food and Drugs Administration just yet. This has not stopped those who have ejaculatory problems and their doctors from experimenting with these natural and home remedies to help men last longer in bed during sexual intercourse. It may sound surprising to you, but it is a fact. You can find out more about this yourself.
There is a wide range of herbal remedies for premature ejaculation and other penile dysfunctions available from a number of venues. These herbal remedies have not been clinically tested but are popularly used nonetheless by men who want to discover how to make sex last longer. These herbal remedies are mostly in cream or spray forms. These herbal remedies work by desensitizing the penis and holding the ejaculatory response.
Among these herbal remedies include Kwang's Solution, Iron Wood, and Wonder Drug. Again, there are no clinical studies proving the effectivity of these herbal remedies. There are users who have testified to the positive effects of these products in their own cases. It is always best to check with your doctor first before trying out anything for your premature ejaculation treatment. You need to determine what the cause of your pre ejaculation first to be able to get the right remedy for your condition without aggravating your condition or causing any other harmful health effects.


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Location, amenities like its own water park and aquarium, elegant yet whimsical decor and award winning restaurants make a stay at the Atlantis, The Palm, in Dubai, United Arab Emirates a unique experience in a destination that boasts many luxurious resort options. It has become one of my favorite resort stays anywhere.
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Thursday is GURPSDay, and much like Christmas time, I was gifted with the transcript that someone did of the conversation between Hunter Shelburne and +Rev. Pee Kitty (PK Levine, Jason Levine) regarding the GURPS worked-example series After the End.
For an absolutely shameless set of plugs, if you want some comprehensive reviews of each volume, check out After the End 1: Wastelanders (review) and After the End 2: The New World (review) that I did previously.
But what was the interview, you ask? It was part of SJGamesLive.
(I should note that these transcripts, whether it be this one or those on The Firing Squad, are pretty intense piece of work. As an example, the AtE transcript is just shy of 10,000 words long. That'd be about a 12-page Pyramid article, which is on the longer side of things. So there's a lot of content here.) Continue reading "Transcript: Hunter and PK talk After the End"


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Simple Tricks And Tips To Taking Pictures
When developing your photography skills, you must be able to effectively highlight the subject of every shot. Good photography tips can help you do that. Some good ideas can spark your imagination and result in amazing photographs to impress your friends and family. Follow the advice below to become a taker of stellar photos.
When you have to make a choice on what photos you want to show off, pick the best ones! Do not display all of your pictures or too many on one topic. Those viewing your photos are sure to quickly bore from seeing the same subject repeatedly. Keep it fresh by showing different facets of your photography.
Start shooting pictures right away when you leave for a trip. You will find many opportunities to take good pictures once on location, but you should also look at the trip itself as an opportunity to take original shots. Try documenting your journey. For example, an airport has many wonderful photo opportunities.
Take photographs of insignificant items while you are travelling to, and visiting, your destination. These photographs might feel unimportant, or even a bit silly, as you're taking the pictures; but they can add to your memories and help recreate an interesting story. You could take photographs of street and road signs, foreign grocery products, coins and travel tickets.
While you are traveling, photograph memorable souvenirs that you have purchased on-the-go. You may take a photo of the store it was bought in or shoot the object with a unique background. This helps you create an interesting photo essay around the souvenirs you selected that can increase your enjoyment of the photos once you return home.
If you want to experience old-fashioned film photography, try going to a second-hand store to find a film camera. You can use ISO 200 rated black and white film to get some very dramatic looking photographs. You can print film photographs on a number of mediums, including fiber-based paper.
In most parts of life, we are trained to make things even and centered. To create photographs that are more interesting, try aiming your camera so that your subject is slightly off center. Be careful with auto-focus that locks into any object in the lens center. Focus manually, and lock focus just before shooting the picture.
Are you attempting to capture your subjects as if they'd been caught out in the rain? Try to create the effect of rain on your own by carrying a rain bottle with you.
Take the time to read and understand the manual that comes with your camera. Manuals can be intimidatingly long. They usually get shoved in the back of a drawer or just thrown away. Actually spend some time reading your manual instead of tossing it. This is a great way to learn the ins and outs of your particular camera.
Usually, you need to choose whether you'd like to expose shadows of a subject or whether you'd like to expose highlights instead. You can take 2 pictures of the same subject and expose one of each. Then you would need to use a software program such as Photoshop to blend them together.
Attempt to capture your subject from a different angle to change the effect. Framing a photograph head-on may be simple, but you lose the nuance of the environment around you. Instead, try shooting a subject from up above, or look for a way to get below the subject and shoot from the ground. Another angle is to shoot from the side for an interesting composition.
Red Eye
While red-eye seems like a minor flaw, it can make all the difference when it comes to frame-worthy photos. Red eye is the result of using flash, so turn off the flash feature if you don't need it. If the use of flash is required, try to have your subjects avoid looking directly into the camera lens. Many cameras have a special setting that prevents red eye.
Your tripod is your best friend when taking photos. Even small movements can affect your images, particularly if the subjects are in motion or the photographs are being taken at a low shutter speed You can avoid blurring your pictures with use of any tripod. A sturdy tripod will help you avoid unexpected results and your shots will look more professional as well.
Make full use of all your camera's features. You can blur backgrounds out to focus attention on the photo subject by applying a shallower depth of field.
There are times when the available light is far from ideal for shooting a great landscape photo. In some cases, finding an area with better lighting is impossible. What should you do in this situation? You may want to utilize gradient filters in photographic programs, such as Photoshop, in order to correct lighting imbalances.
If you are taking pictures of a moving object, apply the correct settings to your camera, so that your subject does not appear as a blur. You can solve this issue preemptively by increase your ISO settings. This setting will make your fast moving subjects clearer and more detailed.
Taking great pictures is a useful skill that will offer a lifetime of special memories. It is a skill worth having. It takes a lot of research, a lot of practicing, and a lot of bettering your shots, but it is all worth it in the end to becomes a better photographer.


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Alien Data
Gary Wolf
October 1, 2008
A column by Olivia Judson in today's New York Times touches on both scientific and literary testimony about the self-blindness of human beings. In "Wanted: Intelligent Aliens, for a Research Project," Judson points out that we are terrible self-analyzers, at least using the tools of our ordinary understanding and perception.
If there is anything living on Mars, it's going to be weird bacteria or the like, not little green men. Which is a pity. Because what we humans really need is a group of friendly, intelligent aliens to study us, and give us a report on what they find.
The problem is, in many respects it's difficult for us to study ourselves.
First, there are practical problems. It's easier, for example, to study organisms with much shorter lives than our own: when organisms have short lives, we can accumulate lots of knowledge about them in a single human lifetime. Hence, we know far more about bacteria, fruit flies and mice than we do about elephants, giant tortoises or sequoia trees.
Another difficulty: it's hard to do certain sorts of experiments. Many of the experiments we can do on fruit flies would be impractical or unethical to do on people.
But there's a deeper problem as well: it's hard for us to see ourselves in an objective way.
Judson gives some good scientific references and some literary testimony about human bias. She even quotes the 18th century novel Moll Flanders, whose heroine warns young women about the dangers of vanity. I appreciated this mention of Moll Flanders, one of the great instructive books about self-delusion, because from its author comes an answer to Judson's appeal: we ourselves can be the aliens we seek. Moll Flanders, of course, was not written by an elderly adventuress, but by Daniel Defoe, a novelist, journalist, and connoisseur of human blindness. Moll Flanders is a fictional human, and the words on the page – highly abstract instruments, when you think about it – let us see ourselves as if from the outside.
Among the papers Judson mentions is one by Emily Pronin: "How we see ourselves and how we see others." Science 320: 1177-1180. (PDF). This is a review article whose footnotes contain an entire education on human nature, and whose moral is that we owe each other a good deal of charity. We tend to judge others based on their outward behavior, not awarding much extra credit for any inward feeling of goodness, which – since we are not inside their head – we cannot perceive. Pronin asks us to perform novelist's trick of imagination; to indirectly perceive our own self-blindness in the evident self-blindness of others.
Pronin is a psychology professor at Princeton. In another paper, called "Doing Unto Future Selves As You Would Do Unto Others: Psychological Distance and Decision Making" (PDF), Pronin uses some experiments to show that when we make decisions about things that will affect us in the future, we discount the subjective feelings of this future version of our self in much the same way as we discount the subjective feelings of other people in the present. We choose good experiences today even if they will lead to bad experiences tomorrow, because we can't feel tomorrow. Our future self is a stranger to us.
Many self-quantifiers collect data because they believe it will have some value in guiding their experiments, and in informing their choices. Through collecting data, we fight bias. But by stepping outside ourselves, we also step away from what Pronin, quoting William James, calls the "warmth and intimacy" of our thoughts and feelings. This may be why so much personal data sits around unused. Such data may have implications, but it doesn't have rewards. I wrote about this problem in my profile of Piotr Wozniak, the inventor of a tool to make people learn things faster. Wozniak thought his software would take over the world. Instead, it is used by a relatively small number of highly motivated, scientifically oriented students; for everybody else, such a tool is not rewarding enough. Most people prefer something like Rosetta Stone, which doesn't really teach you very much, but which provides a great subjective feeling of learning.
How can we take the experiences of our future selves, and make them subjectively real for ourselves in the present? This is a great problem for self-quantifiers to try to solve. It is key to making our data meaningful. Novelists taught us to feel the inner experiences of strangers. Now, who will make the future feel real?


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A palatable quest for panfish
Thu., April 24, 2014
Panfish – perch, bluegills and crappie – are among the tastiest morsels naturally reproducing in the region's lakes.
The Spokane region's perch lakes include panfishing lakes include Eloika, Bonnie, Downs, Liberty, Newman and Bear Lake, which is off Highway 2 and open only to youth and disabled anglers.
"Perch are plentiful at Liberty and Silver Lakes, not much in the way of size, though, with a 7-8 inch average size," said Marc Divens, Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife warmwater fisheries biologist. "Perch are typically larger at Downs Lake," he said, noting that the fishery tends to be most productive in the late summer and early fall.
Bluegill opportunities are strong in Liberty, Silver, and Clear Lakes, he said.
Top crappie lakes include Downs, Eloika, Newman, and Long (Lake Spokane), he said, noting that regulations vary among these waters.
Sprague Lake's reintroduced bluegill and crappie fisheries have not matured as expected, he said, calling them "still pretty weak."
Idaho Panhandle lakes have excellent year-round panfishing.
Bluegills are prolific at Rose, Kelso, Robinson, Rush and Avondale lakes, while good size perch to 10 inches catch angler attention at Cocolalla.
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Robinson R22 Beta, G-OHSL, 30 January 2008
Robinson R22 Beta, G-OHSL
During the flare recovery manoeuvre during a practise forced landing, the helicopter made contact with the ground. The ground was soft and the helicopter skids sank into the mud, causing the helicopter to pitch forward. The main rotor blades struck the ground, and the helicopter turned over, coming to rest on its left side.
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|Gold bullion given to Brigadier General Jefferson T. Tubman.
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Tubman's Gold is an item found in Red Dead Redemption.
There is no other use for the gold bullion except to sell it for $175.
- Note: prices listed on this page are based upon the player having neutral honor and playing the game on Normal difficulty. If the player has high honor, the selling price will be Increased by 50% everywhere except Thieves' Landing. Low Honor decreases selling price by 50% everywhere except Thieves' Landing. While playing the game on Hardcore difficulty, money is more scarce and the base, neutral honor price of each item will be slightly lower.
Gold Bars can be sold at Blackwater Doctor's Office or MacFarlane's Ranch General Store for full price.
Tubman's gold can be found just north of Rio Del Toro, along the small horse track, during the Treasure Hunter Challenge.
The name of this gold is a possible reference to the president of the Confederate States of America, Jefferson Davis, and the escaped slave and head of the underground railroad, Harriet Tubman.
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Maine Music News: The first think I have to ask – Who is Lance Lopez and what journey did you take to bring you to where you are today?
LL: Well I could be here all day talking about my journey! (laughs) I was born in Louisiana, grew up in Texas, and have been playing the Blues since I was 12 years old. I started playing professionally in the bars of the French Quarter of New Orleans when I was 14. Was a sideman for many legendary R&B, Blues, Rock & Soul musicians throughout my teens and early 20's before starting my solo career in my early 20s. I have released seven or eight albums and have toured extensively all over the world on my own for the last fifteen years. Now I have a new band, Supersonic Blues Machine. We formed out in LA, and I continue to work on my solo career…
Maine Music News: What brought you to the blues?
LL: My early childhood. I grew up in Shreveport, Louisiana. I can remember driving through an area called Cedar Grove, which is primarily African-American, and I remember seeing elderly gentleman sitting on the front porches with acoustic guitars playing what I would later discover to be Delta Blues. I thought it was the greatest sound I'd ever heard even at three years old. A couple of years later I saw BB King on Sanford & Son and my dad told me he was the greatest Blues singer of all time. When I was 12, my mother and I moved over to Dallas, Texas, from Louisiana. Two weeks after we moved there BB King was playing in concert so I asked her to take me. Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble were also on the bill. Seeing SRV perform was life changing and seeing Stevie Ray and B.B. jam together thrust me into wanting to play the Blues for the rest of my life!
Maine Music News: I see you play primarily Gibsons. Did you have an idol who played Gibsons growing up that led you to that choice or is there another reason?
LL: Well the 1959 Les Paul is a force of nature and anybody who plays one can really achieve some amazing things with it. Billy F. Gibbons and his 1959 Les Paul "Pearly Gates" pretty much wrote the gospel of Texas Blues Rock in the early 1970's, and it was Billy that heard me play all kinds of guitars and gave me the nudge that the fatter the tone the better. Also, very early on, B.B. King encouraged me greatly to play Gibsons and said "LL, I would like to hear you on a good old Gibson one day"
Maine Music News: Looks like you do all your own song writing. Where do you pull inspiration from and can you give a couple of examples?
LL: Actually I write a lot with some great collaborators of mine -keyboardist, Eric "Scorch" Scortia in Dallas, Fabrizio Grossi and Joey Sykes in L.A., and Eric Gales. I like to draw from real life which is what the Blues is – real life
Maine Music News: The cover photo of your latest release is great – it appears to be a live photo, and as a concert photographer myself, I have a great appreciation for a good live photo. Where was that taken and who is Mark Brickham, a friend? a concert photographer? (See photo above)
LL: Thanks Man! Yeah, Mark Bickham is great! He's a Dallas-based photographer and photographs a lot of Texas and Oklahoma bands – Red Dirt, Country, Blues & Rock guys! He's always at our shows in Texas and gets some great shots! Check him out on Facebook.
Maine Music News: How far will a tour extend in support of this album?
LL: Who knows? We hope all over the world. We're still working on it…
Maine Music News: Well man, that's about all I got for ya. I Really do love the album. Great Texas Blues style stuff there. I hope to catch you on the road soon.


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Watch Live: Microsoft's October Windows Event
UPDATE: Microsoft today revealed a "Creators Update" for Windows 10, a new AIO, dubbed the Surface Studio, and a more powerful Surface Book.
Microsoft is hosting a Windows event this morning in New York City, where it's expected to discuss some upcoming improvements to Windows 10 and possibly show off a Surface desktop.
PCMag's Matt Buzzi and Juan Martinez are there, and they'll get hands-on time with whatever Redmond announces after the event. Things kick off at 10 a.m. ET and you can watch live in the video below.
Until then, check out What to Expect at Microsoft's Windows event.