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During the last presidential campaign, Republicans were put in an awkward position by Missouri senatorial candidate Todd Akin's comments about "legitimate rape;" remember how Mitt Romney dodged a CBS4 question about it? Now, however, a Colorado Democrat, state rep Joe Salazar, is the person backpedaling from a rape comment (about college women and guns), and Republicans are the ones making hay. Get details and see the video below.
On Friday, Salazar was arguing in favor of HB 1226, a bill to ban guns on college campuses, when he said the following about what he characterized as "gender inequality" at such institutions:
It's why we have call boxes. It's why we have safe zones. That's why we have the whistles, because you just don't know who you're going to be shooting at. And you don't know if you feel like you're going to be raped, or if you feel like someone's been following you around or if you feel like you're in trouble when you may actually not be, that you pop out that gun and you pop...pop a round at somebody.
Here's the video of these comments:
Recognizing an opportunity, the folks at the conservative blog Revealing Politics jumped on these comments. The site's post previews the video via the following lead-in: "Feel like you're going to be raped? Well, maybe you're wrong. So goes the justification for Representative Joe Salazar (D-Thornton) to take a away the right for a woman with a concealed carry permit to defend herself while on a Colorado college campus."
The post adds:
House Bill 13-1226 to prohibit the lawful concealed carry on Colorado college campuses passed the Colorado House of Representatives this morning. Many of the arguments Democrats used to justify the bill included the alcohol and drug use common on campuses coupled with the age and immaturity of average college students. These arguments didn't resonate with many Republican lawmakers and opponents of the bill who cited Colorado's intensive training process for obtaining a concealed carry permit and the state's requirement that permit-holders be 21 years of age, as rebuttal.
Revealing Politics' implication? Dems fear female college students are so jittery -- or perhaps so frequently blitzed -- that they can't be trusted to pack heat.
Salazar quickly attempted to pour cold water on the controversy, telling 9News, "I'm sorry if I offended anyone. That was absolutely not my intention... If anyone thinks I'm not sensitive to the dangers women face, they're wrong." And House Speaker Mark Ferrandino defended his colleague in a statement that reads, ""Whatever his words may have been and however much those words are being taken out of context, he did the right thing to take responsibility.... I was there for the entire debate, and the overall point I understood him to be making is that guns on campus don't mean you're more safe."
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HB 1226 passed the House yesterday despite the controversy, and it seems on track to do likewise in the Senate. But Salazar's remarks have certainly fired up the opposition. Take this comment from the Revealing Politics item:
This guy needs to go to te next young lady that has just been violated and say those words to her when the diffence between being raped is the right to concealed carry for protection from a 300 pound brute. This guy is stuck on stupid in a major way.
More from our Politics archive: "Videos: Mitt Romney's Todd 'Legitimate Rape' Akin dodge overshadows CBS4 interview."


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By: Iain Ferguson
MOST of the top rated horses stood their ground at the forfeit stage of the William Hill Ayr Gold Cup this week, with the most notable scratching being Heeraat.
The William Haggas trained, Hamdan Al Maktoum owned horse had been allocated joint top weight with Jack Dexter (pictured above) from the Jim Goldie yard.
But now if the former Ayr Bronze Cup winner goes for the big one he will have to concede weight all round with a 9st 10lb burden to carry. Alben Star, trained by Richard Fahey in North Yorkshire, is on 9st 9lbs.
Other interesting entries include Irish raider Sun On The Run from the Jim Bolger yard with 9st 6lbs and last year's winner Highland Colori (9st 3lbs).
A total of 29 horses with a BHA rating of 100 or higher remain in the race.
For more information on the William Hill Ayr Gold Cup Festival call 01292 264179 or go online at www.ayr-racecourse.co.uk
For further information please contact Iain Ferguson on 01292 294972 or 07795 565691.
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Where does the recently married Disney-loving couple, who got engaged at Disneyland, go on their honeymoon? Disney World, of course!
John Stamos and his wife of one week, pregnant actress Caitlin McHugh, hopped over to Florida this weekend to celebrate their nuptials by honeymooning in Walt Disney World Resort in Orlando, FLA.
The Fuller House star posted an adorable photo of the newlyweds, along with the with the caption, "#oneweek (and they said it wouldn't last) #happiestmanonearth #happiestplaceonearth @waltdisneyworld."
The photo shows the actress wearing Minnie ears giving a kiss to her hubby, who is wearing Mickey ears with the word "Groom" on them.
Looks like John is the happiest man on Earth at the happiest place on Earth!
An eyewitness tells E! News that John and Caitlin were spotted enjoying dinner at The Hollywood Brown Derby inside Disney's Hollywood Studios on Friday night around 5:30 p.m. The onlooker said that John was all dressed up in a nice suit.
The couple have a well-documented history of loving all things Disney. Both of their Instagrams are filled with pictures of the two of them hitting up Disneyland in Anaheim, Calif., together on more than several occasions.


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March Makeup Favorites
Hello! Long time no write. 🙂 It's been a hot minute, I've been super busy at work and getting ready for this move has been –whoa– a lot of work! But anyway, I wanted to share some items I've been loving this past month (err…quarter? Where has 2019 gone?!) So lets get to it! Starting… Read More March Makeup Favorites


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Coconuts from different regions offer up different taste and flavor characteristics mainly due to weather and soil conditions.
Frequently Asked Questions
Coconuts are one of nature's most bountiful providers of vitality and refreshment.
We get our delicious coconut water fresh from Thailand, where for generations
they have known the coconut's restorative and energizing powers.
Yes, our entire product line is Gluten Free.
Coconut water is the clear liquid inside young green coconuts (fruits of the coconut palm).
Yes of course, we use flash pasteurization to maintain flavor and eliminate potential bacteria to make it safe for shipping and storage on the shelf at the store or your home.
It is the edible oil that is extracted from the meat of coconuts.
Well besides being very difficult to stop eating they are basically coconut meat cut into strips then roasted. We also offer coconut chips covered with dark chocolate and real honey flavored too!
We are glad you asked! It's all the flavor of aloe water and coconut water blended to make you come back for more.
Our coconuts while they are not organically certified use a time tested growing and harvesting methods that coconut farmers have been using for generations.


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Increases the Mileage Reimbursement Rate for Workers' Compensation Claimants
Effective for actual travel expenses incurred on or after October 1, 2001, this public act increases the mileage reimbursement rate for all workers' compensation claimants who use their private motor vehicles to travel to medical appointments necessitated by their work-related injuries. This rate increase applies to all claimants, regardless of injury date, and now coincides with the federal mileage reimbursement rate.
State Reference: C.G.S. §31-312(a)
Federal Reference: Federal Travel Regulation; Privately Owned Vehicle Mileage Reimbursement, 41 CFR Part 301-10 [FTR Amendment 95] RIN 3090-AH36
Effective October 1, 2001
Click here to read the full text of Public Act 01-33.
State of Connecticut
Workers' Compensation Commission
Page last revised: January 10, 2019
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I am glad to lend a hand with this situation! So the first thing I would have you do is click on "My Account" and then "My Settings." Now towards the top of the page you will see an option reading "Email Features." Once you select this option one of the main blocks in this next page will read "PayPal Setup."
From here you will enter your email address associated with your PayPal account and then save.
Now you can go into an email you're working on and select which block you'd like the button to go into. Now on the lefft hand side your options will read "Insert, Images, Social." Under insert about halfway down you will see an "PayPal" option. Click here and insert your button!
The code that is generated by PayPal has some aspects to it that don't work with our system so it is better to create your PayPal button directly from within our system! If you have any other questions about how to proceed, please don't hesitate to reach back out!
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why cant I find the box with the paypal in - the one that says image, social etc...
Please help me too! My home screen looks NOTHING like the one show here. Most of these options don't exist and I can't even get access to the "left-hand side optiosn" shown in the picture. That box simply doesn't exist!
Hello @SarahH74 and @MarkE700. It look like both of your accounts are using our new next-generation editor which certainly does look different from our previous editor! At this time, there is no option to include a PayPal button from within this editor. What I can suggest for the time being is to create a link from your PayPal account to include in your email. If you would like, you can also find an image of a PayPal button and make it linkable to your PayPal page like in the image below.
I am going to track your feedback with your request for a PayPal Payment option in our newer editor and send this over to our product team.
On the line to Constant contact right NOW and they have turned off the old editor which I think is rather ... sorry to offend. But they will give me back the old features which are so much better. Good luck to you and thanks to the nice chap who is helping me
Hi @SarahH74. I'm glad to hear that you are getting the help you need through our Support team. I did submit feedback for you in regards to the Paypal button. Please let us know if we can be of any more assistance.
How could this new editor in any way be descibed as 'next-generation' when it robs everyone of the functionality which we all signed up for?
Cut and paste links? Find a button? Really??? When the option to put a Paypal button should be (and used to be!!!!) right inside the editor? You must agree that this so-called update is a MASSIVE step backwards?
Please get your team to switch me to the old editor as soon as possible, or include all the old functions in the same way as they have for User @SarahH74 above...
Hello @MarkE700. I have just sent you an email to the contact email on your account in regards to this issue and with more information about what we can do to assist you. Thank you for using Constant Contact!


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The EAT Study is testing the hypothesis that the introduction of six allergenic foods into the diet of infants from 3 months of age, alongside continued breastfeeding, results in a reduced prevalence of food allergies by 3 years of age. This website explains why we are undertaking the EAT Study and what is involved for those participating. The Department of Health is fully aware of this study and recognizes this is an experimental study which is testing a scientifically important hypothesis. It is important to note that the study does not change the current general advice to mothers to exclusively breastfeed for around the first 6 months of an infant's life. For any non-participants we advise adherence to the government's current breastfeeding recommendations. Full details of these can be found at: www.breastfeeding.nhs.uk
What is the EAT Study?
The study is a randomized controlled trial of the early introduction of allergenic foods in a normal population. This means that the babies taking part in the study will be recruited from the general population and placed at random in one of two groups:
One group will introduce six allergenic foods from 3 months of age alongside continued breastfeeding, having been screened to check for pre-existing food allergy (Early Introduction Group).
The other group will follow present UK government weaning advice i.e. aim for exclusive breastfeeding for around six months (Standard Introduction Group).
The babies will be monitored until 3 years of age to see whether early diet has an effect in reducing the prevalence of food allergy. We initially aimed to have 2500 mothers and infants at 3 months of age enrolled into the study. The EAT Study is open to infants from the general population who meet the recruitment criteria. The majority of infants already taking part in the EAT Study are not from families with an increased risk of having children with allergies. A minority of partipating infants are from higher risk families and this has had the effect of reducing the number of mothers and infants we need to recruit to 1302.
All mothers will be encouraged to breastfeed exclusively until their infants are 3 months of age at which point they will attend the allergy research centre at St Thomas' Hospital in London. In launching this study we have drawn on experiences of people from all over the world. For example, there are countries in Asia, Africa and the Middle East where peanuts are a regular part of an infant's diet and yet peanut allergy is diagnosed far less often than in the UK, strengthening support for the hypothesis that the early introduction of allergenic foods may decrease the risk of food allergy. The study is being funded by two governmental bodies: the Food Standards Agency and the Medical Research Council. Because the EAT Study is a randomized study, assignment to one group or another is entirely left to chance, and neither parents nor doctors have any influence on this process.
What are the benefits of taking part in the study?
Ultimately we hope that all the treatments in this study will help your child; however there is no guarantee that your child will not develop a food allergy if they participate in the study. The information we get from this study may help us to prevent the development of food allergy in more children. In the same way as if they did not take part in the trial, any child who develops food allergy during the trial will be offered appropriate testing to confirm or refute the diagnosis. Usual follow up care with specialist doctors, nurses and dieticians will also be offered.
What happens if I take part?
If your child is assigned to the Early Introduction Group, you will be asked to continue to breastfeed your baby until at least 6 months of age. However, having checked that your baby has no evidence of having already developed a food allergy, you will also introduce first some baby rice and then some cow's milk based yoghurt from 3 months of age. Subsequently, you will be asked to introduce some other foods in defined quantities – peanut butter, fish, wheat, eggs and sesame. By 5 months of age, in addition to still being breastfed, your child will be eating these foods twice a week. One of our dedicated dieticians will offer practical advice and guidance to help you understand how to introduce these foods into your child's diet and in what quantities.
If your child is assigned to the Standard Introduction Group, you will be asked to follow the standard UK government weaning guidelines: aim for exclusive breastfeeding until around 6 months of age, and no early introduction (before six months) of certain allergenic foods (cow's milk, peanuts, wheat, eggs and fish).
Clinic visits
Participation in the EAT Study will last until your child is 3 years of age. All children participating in the study will make three visits to St Thomas'. The first visit is when children are enrolled onto the study at 3 months of age. The second visit takes place at 1 year of age. We will then see all the children again when they finish the study at 3 years of age. All visits will take place at the Evelina Children's Hospital at St Thomas' Hospital in London and will last approximately two hours. Clinic visits allow EAT Study specialists to assess the health of each child and their progress in the study, as well as provide an opportunity for parents to raise any questions or concerns directly with the clinical study team.
You and your child's participation in the EAT Study is voluntary and you will be free to withdraw at any time, without giving a reason and without the medical care given to you or your child or your legal rights being affected in any way.
Clinic procedures
A typical study visit will entail a physical examination including measuring your child's height and weight, tests to determine whether your child is allergic to the allergenic foods, and the collection of blood samples for routine medical tests and for laboratory tests to assess your child's immune system's reaction to the foods. The doctors may also ask about medical and dietary histories of your child and family.
Specific tests undertaken include:
Skin prick testing
This involves a small amount of the allergen being placed onto the skin and then pricking the skin (it does not draw blood) (see photograph). If your child is allergic to any of the allergens being tested a small bump (hive) will develop within 5-15 minutes. This disappears after about 30 minutes.
Blood test
The blood sample is used to help us to understand why some children develop food allergies and others do not. At the 3 month visit, mothers are encouraged to breast feed their baby prior to the blood test as this has been shown to be an effective way reducing the discomfort of the blood test for the baby. At the 1 year and 3 year visits, a local anaesthetic ('numbing cream') is applied to minimise discomfort and the blood will be taken by a dedicated paediatric phlebotomist (a specialist in taking blood) or a doctor (see photograph).
TEWL measurement
A baby's skin provides a natural barrier against water loss. There is some evidence to suggest that children who lose more water than others across their skin have a tendency to develop dry skin and eczema. We will use a simple non-invasive device to measure the amount of water your child looses across the skin. This does not cause any discomfort and requires the non-invasive device to be held in place for about 2 minutes, until a stable reading is produced (see photograph).
Infant microbiome – stool sample and skin swab
The microbiome is the name given to the collection of microorganisms that naturally live on our skin, in our saliva and mouth and in our bowels. There is growing evidence that the microbiome we have may be related to our chances of developing allergic conditions such as eczema. We wish to see whether it may be related to the chances of developing food allergies as well and what impact introducing foods early into the diet has on the microorgainisms that naturally live in our bowels.
With this in mind we are asking families to bring a dirty nappy with them to their 3 month and 1 year clinic visits where the study team will collect a stool sample from the nappy. This will be subsequently frozen and we plan to use modern techniques to look in detail at the pattern of microorganisms within it.
We would also like to collect one sample from when your infant is 5 months of age. For this we will give you a simple collection kit to use at home with full instructions. This will involve placing a sample from a fresh dirty nappy into a special container and posting it back to us using a prepaid guaranteed next day delivery service. This will require you taking the package to your local post office as the sample has to arrive with us as soon as possible after being produced by your infant!
As part of getting a clear a picture as possible of what your infant's microbiome consists of we will take a skin swab at the 3 month and 1 year visit. This is a completely painless process and will not cause your infant any distress at all.
Dietary assessments
A key part of the EAT Study is recording the diet of the mother (during pregnancy and breast feeding) and of the child.
Food diaries
Parents will be asked to complete a food diary recording everything their child has eaten over a five day period at three points during the study (6 months, 1 year and 3 years of age).
Interim dietary assessments
Parents will be asked to complete a short dietary questionnaire (which will take no more than 10 to 15 minutes to complete) on line from home on a monthly basis between 3 months and one year of age and then 3 monthly until 3 years of age..


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At six months you have come so far from the little helpless blanket-wrapped baby I brought home from the hospital that sometimes I have to look back at pictures to even wrap my head around it. You are big and strong and growing so fast! Everyday you start to show a little more of this amazing bubbly little personality that I only saw glimpses of a few months ago. You are a happy energetic little girl. You are curious and interested in everything you see. There is no doubt that you are taking it all in and learning so much... You laugh all the time! You love to be tickled. You love anything that surprises you, like peek-a-boo, and bouncy airplane rides keep you entertained for as long as I can keep them up until my arms turn to jello! Did I mention you are already so big! I like to carry you in our Moby wrap when we go for walks but sometimes you are so squirmy and heavy that we have to resort to a stroller for longer excursions. You love to look at things and you try to touch everything and everything you hold, you inevitably want to taste.
|Oh, what is this? A book? What do books taste like??
You stare at strangers on bus rides and everyone who sees you can't help but smile.
It's like carrying joy around with me everywhere we go...
you are literally a bundle of joy.
People have dropped what they are doing just to come over and look at you. Others have called their friends and coworkers over just to see how pretty you are, even at the doctor's office, and they see babies all day! People are just drawn to you, it's amazing really. I used to avoid talking to strangers and now I can't help but show you off and be so proud knowing that no one can help but love you. It seems I'm not the only one who has fallen under your charming little spell...
When you were born and for those first few precious and precarious days I thought that my life was forever changed. I knew I would never be the same, I knew that I had never loved anyone or anything as wholly and completely as I loved you and I thought I could never love more than that.
I was wrong.


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This week we're talking about "pre-workouts" – those supplements you see advertised mostly for guys to "elevate performance" and otherwise activate beast mode. Are they for chicks, too? Plus my training update is at the end of this post.
To participate in next week's mailbag, post your question on my Facebook page, ping me on Twitter, or just drop me a line.
Q: I have seen on social media more women saying they are taking pre-workout supplements before a session, which I always thought was more of a male thing to do. What's your take on pre-workouts, are they really needed?
A. I get it – when you see other women, particularly fitness competitors, taking supplements to boost energy and burn fat, you wonder if it's actually legit. And when you see the persuasive ads for pre-workouts, you question whether you, too, could maximize your gainz by using them.
But there ain't shortcuts, ladies. Guys and gals build muscle the same way – with consistent, progressive strength training and the right nutrition. If you're getting enough sleep, allowing for adequate recovery, eating enough high-quality protein and veggies, and fueling up before your workouts, you will be able to push hard enough in your workouts to see results.
The fact that you do not need pre-workout supplements to lose fat and/or build muscle is only part of the reason why you shouldn't use them. Here's a few other reasons:
- Pre-workout supplements in the U.S. are not regulated by the FDA, and the safety of the ingredients is not always clear. Many contain cardiac and central nervous system stimulants, which elevate your heart rate and can make you pretty damn jittery (let's work OUT!). Do you know and understand all the ingredients used in these products? Probably not, because like most people, you don't read and interpret all the latest research.
- Swolemates may swear by this pre-workout high, but there are reports of dependence, heart issues, and a built-up tolerance that requires increased serving sizes. There's no reason to be alarmist, but ingredients like -3 dimethylamylamine (DMAA), a synthetically derived amphetamine-like molecule, aren't something I want to fool around with. Plus, does this stuff build up in your tissues over time? Who really knows at this point?
- This brings me to the main reason not to use advertised pre-workouts: These chemicals are simply not part of a clean-eating lifestyle.
- Getting super stimulated before every workout can lead to overtraining. You shouldn't push to the max every session – it's just not healthy for your joints and soft tissues.
With that said, the following low-cost supplements can be beneficial (but they're not required!). These recommendations apply to men and women. And you don't need a lot of post-workout supplements either – just a good meal with protein and slow-digesting carbs or a protein shake and a piece of fruit (plus see my note about BCAAs).
I have no qualms with caffeine before some workouts if you like an extra shot of energy for lifting that makes you push harder. But if you're addicted to a pre-workout stimulant, I challenge you to try doing without sometime. If you eliminate the artificial stimulation and let your body normalize, you might find out you're really not getting enough sleep, or that you need more iron, carbohydrates, or another nutrient.
Cycling in creatine has a place for women who are serious about muscle building. You can learn all about creatine and how to take it HERE.
Branched Chain Amino Acids (BCAAs)
BCAAs are essential amino acids (leucine, isoleucine, and valine), meaning they are not manufactured by your body. BCAAs may help with muscle recovery and exercise performance, among other possible benefits. If you're over 35, BCAA supplements may help with recovery between workouts. BCAAs may also help you to retain muscle during a calorie deficit.
However, there is evidence that if you're getting enough protein through diet (meat, dairy, legumes), BCAA supplements are unnecessary. If you choose to take BCAAs to aid in recovery and maintain muscle mass, follow the instructions on the packaging (I personally take BCAA capsules before and after my workouts).
Protein Powder
The main benefits of whey protein powder are that it's (1) fast-digesting, which some say is important pre- and post-workout, (2) convenient and portable, and (3) can be part of a clean-eating diet if it has a short ingredient list with no or minimal sugar, fat, and fillers (look for natural powders). But you can also get protein through diet, obviously.
Whenever you find yourself tempted to supplement, ask yourself: Do the ingredients in this product fit into my clean-eating lifestyle? Am I trying to cover up some other deficiency, like a sleep deficit or junky diet? Then you'll have your answer about whether to take pre-workout supplements (or any supplement).
Training Update
I was on vacation for the last five days in Crested Butte and Telluride, Colorado, and as usual, it was a seriously active vacay. We hiked more than 15 miles and climbed over 2,300 feet in elevation, all while enjoying epic mountain scenery. I love these types of getaways because my water weight vanishes with cardiovascular exercise, which I loathe doing indoors. I even took this picture of my abs, which have been on hiatus since my last surgery!
Frickin' badass.
Next week I'm off all post-surgery restrictions, so I'll slowly begin training upper body again. I'm already on a lower-body routine that I'll also continue to progress slowly – I don't like being so sore I can't walk, ya know? I'm nervous-excited to be sure, but will continue to TRUST the process and my ability to progress myself at the appropriate speed. I'll show you just how I get back to my previous condition, so stay tuned!
It's one adventure I can't start soon enough.
Til next time,
This article originally appeared on www.workoutnirvana.com.


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Remember libraries? If you're under 25, perhaps not, but for those who do, recall that they used to loan CDs as well as books. It seems more than a little antiquated when compared to the touch-of-a-buttonness of the iTunes store or Spotify, but it was an important method of discovering new music nonetheless. Especially since without that process, we might not have rising Finnish singer-songwriter Mirel Wagner, whose haunting, self-titled debut album is released later this month. It was while browsing the library in her hometown of Espoo that a thirteen-year-old Wagner, who was born in Ethiopia but moved to Finland as a baby, found herself drawn to records by blues legends like Skip James, Son House, Jr., and Robert Johnson.
"I just liked the song titles," the now-24-year-old explains from Finland (she's getting ready to leave for Austin, where she'll be making her U.S. debut at South by Southwest on Wednesday). "They were called things like 'Devil Got My Woman' and 'Hard Time Killing Floor Blues'," she continues. "I like anything dark like that."
Inspired by her new Delta-blues heroes, Wagner, who has been playing the violin since she was seven, began writing her own doom-laden tales of woe. But out of fear that this new hobby would alienate her from her Spice Girls– and Backstreet Boys–listening friends, Wagner decided to keep the whole thing under wraps. "I never told my friends I listened to the blues," she says. "I didn't think some old dude moaning about whiskey and women would be that interesting to them, so I was a Spice Girls fan on the outside."
After she began performing at an open-mic club in Helsinki, Wagner was finally able to shed her facade and is now "much more confident as a songwriter." But, those hoping to sample her moody acoustic ballads should be warned. Just like the bluesmen who first motivated her to pick up a guitar, Wagner doesn't shy away from morbid topics like murder, depression, and death. "My songs were always dark," Wagner explains. "I was never going to write about girl power, or anything like that."
WATCH: "No Death," by Mirel Wagner


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Things I'm Loving...
By PaisleyJade - Thursday, September 30, 2010
The last couple of weeks have had their ups and downs, but as I always say... there is always something to be thankful for!!
Here are a few of the things I'm loving at the moment...
Catching Miss 3 trying to convince Barney the cat to have a sip of her juice...
Reminiscing our fun family night, and looking forward to the next one!!
Yummy things (including some sweets sent over from this sweet lady in Canada)...
These really handy free printable lists!!
Having fun with the fancy settings on my new camera...
And of course I couldn't leave out the arrival of Boo now could I!!
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Ohhh what great photos!! And boo looks like the PERECT dog for the Jade family! Love those russian doll pics! And the cat with the sippy starw. TOO FUNNY PJ!!ReplyDelete
Thanks for the encouragement to be thankful, and to count mah blessings! :)ReplyDelete
Love your photos!
What nice things to be thankful for. :-) And I think you should also be thankful that you have really nice looking grass!!! I keep noticing it! Its so LUSH!!ReplyDelete
Hoping you are having more ups than downs. Lovely photos...and having some matryoshka envy here! CxReplyDelete
Love that link to Mommy Tracked!ReplyDelete


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By Cameron McCaig, MD
I love being an emergency physician and I love motorsports. I never expected to combine two of my passions.
AMR was recently named the official emergency medical services partner of NASCAR. AMR now provides on-track safety teams to respond to incidents during all NASCAR race weekends. Through the partnership, Envision Healthcare clinicians provide initial assessment, treatment and transfer services trackside, as needed, in the event of a crash.
I recently had the opportunity to serve as a track physician on February 18 and 19 during the time trials and races leading up to the Daytona 500. It was an incredible experience that allowed me to cross another item off my bucket list!
After a thorough orientation to the track and the medical team's responsibilities, I was paired up with two AMR paramedics in a chase truck and was given a helmet and fire suit like the drivers wear. While there was a lot of downtime during the two days of racing, it was exciting just to hear the sound of the cars' engines as they hit the banking in each turn.
NASCAR has committed to a focus on evaluation and management of concussion. A newly revised consensus approach to managing concussion was rolled out at the Daytona 500 race. The organization has committed to having an experienced provider available on the track at all times, and every driver who is in a crash must be examined by a physician. When there was a crash on the track, we were immediately deployed to the scene, sometimes even as the cars were still skidding.
There were a few minor crashes during the day, and a large nine-car crash Saturday night during the Clash, a non-NASCAR racing event. During the time trials on Sunday, we responded to incidents involving drivers Kurt Busch and Jimmie Johnson, who has won a record-tying seven championship titles in the sport. When Johnson dropped the netting down in the window of his car, the signal to medical staff that he was OK, I truly understood the importance of having trained medical staff on track; this can be a very dangerous sport.
Since this is a new partnership, I didn't know what to expect. I was part-medical doctor, part-fan and part-awestruck student. I give a lot of credit to the fire rescue personnel who graciously took us under their wings and showed us the ropes. It was fascinating to watch the scope of the operation, and the AMR and NASCAR teams were very supportive.
As a member of Envision Healthcare's physician travel team, I am credentialed in 10 states, so I'm hoping I'll be able to provide my services at the Brickyard 400 in Indianapolis!
Cameron McCaig, MD, is an emergency physician with Envision Healthcare's physician travel team. He has been with the company for five years.
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Herbert F. Johnson House
|Nearest city
|33 East Four Mile Road, Wind Point, Wisconsin
|Frank Lloyd Wright
|Architectural style
|Prairie School, Other
|Governing body
|NRHP Reference #
|Significant dates
|Added to NRHP
|January 08, 1975[1]
|Designated NHL
|June 29, 1989[2]
Wingspread, also known as the Herbert F. Johnson House, is a house designed by architect Frank Lloyd Wright for Herbert Fisk Johnson, Jr. and built in 1938-1939 in the village of Wind Point near Racine, Wisconsin. Its construction was overseen by a young John Lautner. The living room is the center of the home, and four wings extend from it to four "zones": the master bedroom, the children's rooms, the kitchen and servants' quarters, and the guestrooms/garage. The living room resembles a gigantic dome, and features a tall stone multiple fireplace rising from its center.
Johnson was also Wright's client for the Johnson Wax Headquarters Building in Racine, which was built at about the same time.
Wingspread is no longer a residence; it was donated by Johnson and his wife to The Johnson Foundation in 1959 as an international educational conference facility.
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975,[1] and designated a National Historic Landmark in 1989.[2][3]
It is at 33 East Four Mile Road in Racine.
Interior view of chimney seeper and ceiling in main living area
- ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places.
- ^ a b "Herbert F. Johnson House". National Historic Landmark summary listing. National Park Service. Retrieved 2007-12-31.
- ^ Carolyn Pitts (January 29, 1989). "National Register of Historic Places Registration: Wingspread / Herbert F. Johnson House". National Park Service. and Accompanying 14 photos, exterior and interior and of Frank Lloyd Wright with model, from 1980 and undated. PDF (3.13 MB)
External links
- Wingspread
- Photos on Arcaid


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First look at new 'Forbidden Forest' and 'Knight Bus' LEGOs
14 February 2011 at 06:08 GMT
Last week was Battle for Hogwarts, and now this week we have your first look at the other two HP sets that LEGO will be releasing this summer.
LEGO 4866, The Knight Bus, will cost $34.99 and is slated for release in June. Additionally, LEGO 4865, The Forbidden Forest, will cost $11.99 and will be released in August.
You can see pictures of all three sets below. Additional close-ups can be found at ActionFigs.com.
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As some of you know very well, Lithuania is home to the kingdom of basketball and Kaunas is its unbeatable capital. We love our BC Žalgiris Kaunas and we can fill in Žalgirio arena on any day of the week. Of course, this means Kaunasians are generally sports-friendly, so it's about time we explore some of the other options for a die-hard sports fan. As footballers are now on holidays, why don't we take a look at ice hockey?
A 104-year old all-around legendary Kaunasian Jonas Murauskas, by all means the oldest ice hockey player in the country (he was among the very first ones, too!) participated in the first game of Kaunas Hockey in Autumn.
P.S. Ever wondered how hockey players look without their armour? That's how.
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The effects of aging and gravity are not always kind to your spine, and one of the conditions that limits mobility and increases pain is spinal stenosis. Spinal stenosis means that your spinal canal, which contains your spinal cord, is narrowing. Spinal stenosis has a variety of causes, including:
The pain of spinal stenosis comes from the limited room in your spinal column creating pressure on the spinal cord and the nerves that run into and out of it. You can feel the effect of these pinched nerves in your back, arms and legs. If you have spinal stenosis near your neck, looking up or lifting above your head becomes painful. Standing and walking become painful with spinal stenosis of the lower back.
Some of the common symptoms of spinal stenosis that you should discuss with your chiropractor include:
Sitting or lying in a fetal position can ease the pain by opening up your spinal canal, but who wants to live like that?
Do not put off investigating the symptoms of spinal stenosis with your chiropractor. At Stouffville Health Centre, we perform a thorough assessment and history to rule out other causes for your pain and mobility problems, such as a herniated disc or sciatica. An accurate diagnosis is vital to the appropriate treatment.
Surgery for spinal stenosis can leave scar tissue that can worsen the condition. Anti-inflammatory medications work temporarily. Exercises must be the correct ones to avoid further spinal injury.
At our Stouffville chiropractic clinic, non-surgical spinal decompression is preferable because it is both non-invasive and focused on long-term rehabilitation. We invite you to schedule a consultation with us for an assessment and to discuss the possible positive outcomes of spinal decompression for spinal stenosis, including:


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Clean the electrical ground contact
Photo 1: Clean the contacts
Remove the ground cable at the firewall or fender and clean both the steel and the ring with a wire brush.
Photo 2: Apply special grease
Coat the bare steel with dielectric grease and reassemble the connection. Then smear a dab of grease around the entire connection.
Do the needles on your gauges jump around, sweep from side to side or just plain refuse to budge? How about your other electrical accessories—do they work intermittently or so strangely that you swear they're possessed? If so, it's time to clean your ground cables.
The pros always start by cleaning the ground cables. Carmakers use the steel body as the return "ground" electrical path, so when the cables corrode (and they will corrode), the stray current can cause all sorts of strange behavior.
A rotary tool with a wire brush works great. But you can also use sandpaper. The key is to get shiny metal on all the connections. Use a shop manual to find the locations of the other ground connections in your vehicle.
Required Tools for this Project
Have the necessary tools for this DIY project lined up before you start—you'll save time and frustration.
- Adjustable wrench
Required Materials for this Project
Avoid last-minute shopping trips by having all your materials ready ahead of time. Here's a list.
- Dielectric grease


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1. Privacy Policy at a glance
General Information
The following information give a simple summary f what happens to your person related data if you visit our web site. Person related data are all data with which you can be identified personally. You can get detailed information about the data protection topic can be found in following text below.
Data collection on our web site
Who is responsible for the data collection on this web site?
The data collection on this site will be done from the operator of this site. You can get the contact details from our Imprint.
How do we collect your data?
On one hand, your data are collected as you inform us about these. It can be for E.g. personal dates which you have entered into our contact form. Other data are collected automatically by our IT systems when you visiting our web site. These are primarily technical dates like internet brwoser, operating system or time of the web site visit). The collection of these data is carried out automatically as soon as you enter our web site.
For what do we use your data?
Some of these data is collected to ensure a fault free presentation of the web site. Other data can be used for analysis of your user behavior.
Which right do you have regarding your data collection?
At any time, you have the right to receive a cost-free information about origin, consignees and purpose of your stored personal data. Moreover, you have also the right to request the correction, blocking or deletion of these data. For this reason and for any further questions regarding the privacy topic you can contact us anytime under the address which is indicated on our Imprint site. Furthermore, you have also the right to complain at the responsible supervisory authority.
Analysis tools and tools of third party providers
At visiting our web site, your surfing behavior can be statistically evaluated. This happens primarily with cookis and so-called analyzers. In general, the analysis of your surfing behavior is carried out anonymously and cannot be traced back to you. You can contradict this analysis or prevent it by the non-use of specific tools. You can find detailed information about it in the following privacy statement.
You can contradict this analysis. In the follwoing privacy statement we inform you about the possibilities.
2. General information and mandatory information
The operators of these sides take the protection of your personal data very seriously. We treat your personal data confidentially and according to te legal privacy regulations as well as this privacy statement.
If you use this web site, different person-related dates are collected. Person-related dates are data with which you can be identified personally. The following privacy statement explains what kind of data we collect and for what these data will be used. It is also explained to what purpose this is done.
Please note that data transmitted via the internet (e.g. via email communication) may be subject to security breaches. Complete protection of your data from third-party access is not possible.
Notice concerning the party responsible for this website
The party responsible for processing data on this website is:
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E-Mail: email@example.com
The responsible party is the natural or legal person who alone or jointly with others decides on the purposes and means of processing personal data (names, email addresses, etc.).
Revocation of your consent to the processing of your data
Many data processing operations are only possible with your express consent. You may revoke your consent at any time with future effect. An informal email making this request is sufficient. The data processed before we receive your request may still be legally processed.
Right to file complaints with regulatory authorities
If there has been a breach of data protection legislation, the person affected may file a complaint with the competent regulatory authorities. The competent regulatory authority for matters related to data protection legislation is the data protection officer of the German state in which our company is headquartered. A list of data protection officers and their contact details can be found at the following link:: https://www.bfdi.bund.de/DE/Infothek/Anschriften_Links/anschriften_linksnode.html
Right to data portability
You have the right to have data which we process based on your consent or in fulfillment of a contract automatically delivered to yourself or to a third party in a standard, machine-readable format. If you require the direct transfer of data to another responsible party, this will only be done to the extent technically feasible.
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For safety reasons, this side is using SSL or TLS encoding to protect confidential contents like orders or requests which will be send from you to us. You can recognize a SSL or TLS encoded connectionin your browser headline when it swaps from "http://" to "https://" and when lock symbol is shown in your browser line.
If the SSL or TLS encoding is active, the data which you transmit to us can be not read by third parties.
Information, Blocking, Deletion
In accordance with applicable legal requirements you have the right to request free of charge information about your stored personal data, their origin, consignee and the purpose of data collection and if necessary you have the right of correction, blocking or deletion of these data. For this reason and for any further questions regarding the privacy topic you can contact us anytime under the address which is indicated on our Imprint site. Furthermore, you have also the right to complain at the responsible supervisory authority.
Opposition to promotional emails
We hereby expressly prohibit the use of contact data published in the context of website legal notice requirements with regard to sending promotional and informational materials not expressly requested. The website operator reserves the right to take specific legal action if unsolicited advertising material, such as email spam, is received.
3. Data collection on our website
Some of our web pages use cookies. Cookies do not harm your computer and do not contain any viruses. Cookies help make our website more user-friendly, efficient, and secure. Cookies are small text files that are stored on your computer and saved by your browser.
Most of the cookies we use are so-called "session cookies." They are automatically deleted after your visit. Other cookies remain in your device's memory until you delete them. These cookies make it possible to recognize your browser when you next visit the site.
You can configure your browser to inform you about the use of cookies so that you can decide on a case-by-case basis whether to accept or reject a cookie. Alternatively, your browser can be configured to automatically accept cookies under certain conditions or to always reject them, or to automatically delete cookies when closing your browser. Disabling cookies may limit the functionality of this website.
Cookies which are necessary to allow electronic communications or to provide certain functions you wish to use (such as the shopping cart) are stored pursuant to Art. 6 paragraph 1, letter f of DSGVO. The website operator has a legitimate interest in the storage of cookies to ensure an optimized service provided free of technical errors. If other cookies (such as those used to analyze your surfing behavior) are also stored, they will be treated separately in this privacy policy.
The website provider automatically collects and stores information that your browser automatically transmits to us in "server log files". These are:
• Browser type and version
• Used operating system
• Referrer URL
• Host name of the accessing computer
• Time of the server request
• IP address
These data will not be combined with data from other sources.
The basis for data processing is Art. 6 (1) (f) DSGVO, which allows the processing of data to fulfill a contract or for measures preliminary to a contract.
Contact Form
If you send us requiries via our contact form, your details from the form incl. your contact details indicated by you will be stored for the purpose of processing your enquiry and in the case of further questions to you. We do not pass these data on without your consent.
The processing of the given data from the contact form is therefore exclusively carried out on basis of your consent (article 6, para 1 lit. a GDPR). You can revoke this consent at any time by sending us an e-mail. The legitimacy of the data collection having een done before the revocation remains untouched of the revocation..
The data entered by you in the contact form remains with us until you request the deletion or until we receive your revokation for the data collection or the purpose is dropped (e.g. after closing your request). Mandatory legal regulations - especially retention times - remain untouched.
Registration on this web site
You can register on our web site to use additonal functions on the sde. We will use the entered data only for the purpose of a respective offer or service for which you have registered. Mandatory details which are requested during the registration must be indicated completely, otherwise we decline the registration.
For important changes for e.g. at changes of the offer scope or tor technically required changes, we will use the e-mail adress indicated at the registration to inform your correspondingly.
The processing of the given data from the contact form is therefore exclusively carried out on basis of your consent (article 6, para 1 lit. a GDPR). You can revoke this consent at any time by sending us an e-mail. The legitimacy of the data collection having een done before the revocation remains untouched of the revocation..
The data entered by you in the contact form remains with us until you request the deletion or until we receive your revokation for the data collection or the purpose is dropped (e.g. after closing your request). Mandatory legal regulations - especially retention times - remain untouched.
The data recorded during the registration are saved by us as long as you are registered on our site and will be deleted then. Legal retention teimes remain untouched.
4. Analysis tools and advertising
Google Analytics
This web site is using functions of the web analysis service Google Analytics. Provider for this service is Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA.
Google Analytics uses so-called "cookis". These are text files which are saved on your computer and which allows the analysis of the use of the web site through you. These gathered information about your surfing behavior will be send usually to a server by Google in the USA and gets stored there.
Google guarantees that it will follow the EU's data protection regulations when processing data in the United States.
The Google Analytics service is used to analyse how our website is used. The legal basis is Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. f) GDPR. Our legitimate interest lies in the analysis, optimization, and economic operation of our site.
However, we use Google Analytics with the so-called anonymization function, whereby Google truncates the IP address within the EU or the EEA before it is transmitted to the US.
The data collected in this way is in turn used by Google to provide us with an evaluation of visits to our website and what visitors do once there. This data can also be used to provide other services related to the use of our website and of the internet in general.
Google states that it will not connect your IP address to other data. In addition, Google provides further information with regard to its data protection practices at https://www.google.com/intl/de/policies/privacy/partners including options you can exercise to prevent such use of your data.
IP Anonymization
We have activated the function IP anonymization on this web site. Through this your IP-address is shortened by Google within member states of the European Union or in other contract states of the agreement on the European economic area to the USA before the transmission. Only in exceptions the full IP-address is transmitted in the USA and shortened there by Google to a server. On behalf of the operator of this web site Google will use this information to evaluate your use of the web site, to arrange reports on the web site activities and to render further services connected to the web site use and the Internet use opposite the web site operator. The IP-address transmitted by your browser in the context of Google Analytics is not brought together by Google with other data.
Browser Plugin
You can prevent the storage of the cookies by a corresponding adjustment of your browser software; however, we want to point out that in this case not all functions of this web site can be used by you in full scope. Furthermore, you can prevent the collection of the cookies and your browsing behaviors as well as the collection of your personal data like your IP address to Google as well as the data collection by Google by downloading and installation the browser plugin under the following link: https:tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout//?hl = de.
Opposition to the data collection
You can prevent the recording of your data by Google Analytics by clicking on the following link. An Opt out cookie is set which prevents the data collection for future visits of this web site
You get more information about the handling of user data at Google Analytics in the privacy of Google: https:support.google.com/analytics/answer///6004245?hl = de.
Order processing
We have concluded a contract with Google for the order processing and implement completely the severe specifications of the German data protection authorities in the field of use of Google Analytics.
Demo graphic features at Google Analytics
This web site uses the function "demo graphic features" of Google Analytics. Through this reports which contain statements concerning age, gender and interests of the side visitors can be prepared. These data will be collected from interest-related advertising of Google as well as from visitor data of third party suppliers. These data cannot be assigned to any particular person. You can deactivate this function about the report attitudes in your Google account any time or forbid the recording of your data by Google Analytics generally as represented in the point "contradiction against data acquisition".
Google AdWords and Google Conversion-Tracking
This web site uses Google AdWords. AdWords is an online advertising program of Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, United States ("Google").
In the context of Google AdWords we use the so-called conversion tracking. If you click on a Google advertisement a cookie will be placed for the conversion tracking. Cookies are little text files which will be saved from the internet browser on the user computer. These cookies lose their validity after 30 days and do not serve to the personal identification of the users. If the user visits certain sides of this web site and the cookie has not expired yet, Google and we can recognize that the user has clicked on the advertisement and was routed on to this side.
Every Google AdWords customer gets another cookie. The cookies cannot be pursued over the web sites of AdWords customers. The information gathered with the help of the conversion cookie serves to make conversion statistics for AdWords customers who have decided to use conversion tracking. The customers get the complete number of users who have clicked on their advertisement and were passed on to a side provided with a conversion tracking tag. However, they will not get information with which users can be personally identified. If you did not like to take part of the tracking, you can contradict easily this by deactivating the cookie of the Google conversion tracking in your internet browser under user settings. You are not included in the conversion tracking statistics thereupon.
The storage of "conversion cookies" and the use of this tracking tool are carried out on basis of article 6, para. 1 literary f GDPR. The web site operator has a legitimate interest in the analysis of the user behavior to optimize both his web offer and his advertisement.
You find more information about Google AdWords and Google conversion tracking in the data collection regulations of Google: https:www.google.de//policies/privacy//.
You can adjust your browser so that you get a notification when a cookie is placed and you can choose then individually the permition for the cookie as well as the automatic deletion of the cookies when closing the browser.At the deactivation of cookies the functionality of this web site can be restricted.
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If you liked to obtain the newsletter offered on the web page, we need an e-mail address as well as information which allows us the check that you are the owner of the indicated e-mail address and that you agree to receive the newsletter. To guarantee a mutually agreed newsletter consignment we use a so-called Double-Opt In process. With this, potential consignees can be included to our e-mail list. After this, the user gets the possibility to confirm the registration legally by clicking the confirmation button in the confirmation e-mail. Only if the confirmation is carried out, the address is actively included in the e-mail list.
We use these data exclusively for the dispatch of the requested information and offers.
We use Newsletter2Go as newsletter software. For this reason, your data are transmitted to the Newsletter2Go GmbH. For Newsletter2Go it is forbidden to sell your data for any other purposes, but to use for the dispatch of newsletters. Newsletter2Go is a German, certified newsletter supplier who was selected according to the requirements of the GDPR and the Federal Data protection Law.
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Furthermore, we can recognize after opening/clicking whether certain actions defined before were carried out (Conversion-Rate). We can also see whether you have completed a purchses after clicking our newsletter.
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Below is a letter sent by Tony Bennett of the Madeleine Foundation to Bates, Wells and Braithwaite, the solicitors for the McCanns regarding the fake contact details on the official Find Madeleine website.
Should anyone wish to contact them with information then they will find nothing works - except the Paypal donation button.
The Madeleine Foundation
Combating child neglect
66 Chippingfield HARLOW
Tel: 01279 635789
e-mail: email@example.com
Website: http://www.madeleinefoundation.org
Bates Wells & Braithwaite Monday 11 May 2009
2-6 Cannon Street
Attn: Ms Rosamund McCarthy, Solicitor to Dr Gerald McCann and Dr Kate McCann. Sent by e-mail and hard copy
Dear Sirs
re: Find Madeleine website: Ineffective link for members of the public wishing to supply information to the McCanns' private investigators
We write to you as Solicitors for the Find Madeleine Trust. You will be aware that we have corresponded with you before, raising many issues about the operation of the Trust.
It has come to our attention that, until the last few days, the website http://www.findmadeleine.com has been configured in such a way that it appears to have prevented the gathering of intelligence from members of the public about the possible whereabouts of Madeleine McCann. The configuration directly threatens two of the major objectives of Madeleine's fund, namely: 1) "To secure the safe return to her family of Madeleine McCann" and 2) "To procure that Madeleine's abduction is thoroughly investigated". If there was any major fault in that configuration, it must therefore be treated very seriously.
It appears that similar configurations have also been identified on the 'sister' websites to http://www.findmadeleine.com - namely, http://www.bringmadeleinehome.com and http://www.procuremadeleine.com.pt.
At the time of writing, whilst we are aware that some changes have been made to the website recently, the errors are still present on http://www.bringmadeleinehome.com. Any mis-configurations will be documented through publicly accessible internet archives.
Dealing mainly with the http://www.findmadeleine.com site, it appears from reports we have received from several technical experts that major corrective work took place on the website on 2 and 3 May. However, it is still far from certain that the Find Madeleine website can in fact receive anonymous information.
It is clear from the technical experts who have been in touch with us that people wishing to provide new and vital clues who clicked on the very prominent link labelled "email@example.com" (which is presented at the top of each page on the http://www.findmadeleine.com website) will have, in fact, sent an email to an address "firstname.lastname@example.com".
Enquiries by a number of people have concluded that the e-mail addresses associated with the domain madeleine.com are in no way connected to the McCanns, the Fund or any of their agents and consequently any information sent to those addresses will have, effectively, disappeared into a 'black hole', at least so far as the investigation is concerned.
In addition to the e-mail configuration error, there has also been a question mark about the integrity of the anonymous information submission form on the 'contact_us' page. It appears that the Captcha device (the collection of partially scrambled letters that is used to verify that a human, rather than a computer, has submitted the information) was not operating correctly. This would be very likely to prevent potentially useful information reaching you. In any case, any confusion that might deter the offering of genuine information is surely unacceptable.
In addition, .the bringmadeleinehome site still has a form that does not work and a 'fake' Captcha anti-spam device. The two addresses, firstname.lastname@example.com and email@example.com, return error messages that the address is unresolvable. That means those addresses do not exist. If you were a person who really did have information, and you didn't want to go to the police, you would get a message back, telling you your e-mail has been rejected. That is bound to deter potential informants.
At present, the two main sites run by the Find Madeleine Fund seem to capture string information from their forms, but there continues to be no verification or error handling at all on this form. It's perfectly possible to send them a completely blank form. You get no error message telling you that you haven't filled in a field correctly. That suggests that despite recent changes made to the website, the
'firstname.lastname@example.com' address remains, in essence, a fake.
The McCanns and their chief public relations spokesman Mr Clarence Mitchell have repeatedly stressed that one, single communication, from an anonymous source or otherwise, could be all that is needed to secure the safe return of Madeleine to her parents. It follows therefore that since people were invited by the McCanns to send potentially useful information via this link, that link needs to be 100% reliable.
In case you are in any doubt that the configuration of your website has indeed been unable to accept anonymous information, here are comments we have received about your website from a range of technical experts:
· I tried leaving some information, but nothing happened, I was just told to input the code. It shows that it is fixed/a picture and NOT a self-refreshing code
· A message should be sent to Leicestershire Police that there is no longer a reason for them to link to the page as it is not possible to supply anonymous information
· I cannot believe that it is simple incompetence, surely if someone constructs a web page the very first thing they do is try it out?
· I remain convinced that this is an important discovery, not just a minor cockup in the web site code
· I have just checked both the British and the Portugese websites and they both look similar. They have an input command for the captcha text but not for the message window so they are both not set up for sending a message back
· This is unforgivable. A website promoted on all their posters, and across the media as being where new information can be left doesn't work...unforgivable.
· http://www.madeleine.com is registered to a guy called James Marciano in New Jersey
· here is the MX record for http://www.madeleine.com:
smtp.fenzi.com 184.108.40.206.
fenzi are based in California and my guess is that the domain name itself is 'parked' pending a good cash offer. So the title of this thread is 100% correct: 'Contact us'…IS A FAKE. Let me spell it out. Clicking on the email link firstname.lastname@example.com in the pink banner at the top right of the page will NOT send critical information to the McCanns. It will create an email that will go to some web development agency in California.
In summary, even if, since the work done on your website on 2 and 3 May, the website is able now to receive such information, it is clear that there has been a wholesale failure of the previous mis-configuration to allow useful information to be received and that this has possibly persisted for many months.
If there is even a possibility that any single clue from a member of the public has been lost, what action does the Fund propose to take to ensure that that information is finally captured? Given the scale and significance of this failure, we suggest that the McCanns or their chief P.R. spokesman should appear on television to acknowledge the mistake and appeal for information to be re-submitted.
Accountability for the choice of all service providers used by the Fund for helping to find the whereabouts of Madeleine McCann lies with the Fund Directors and yourselves as the Solicitors advising them. Having observed the high calibre of litigation and extradition lawyers engaged by the fund, an outside observer might view the Fund's choice of web-designer to be disproportionately inexperienced, if it is the web-designer's inability, carelessness or negligence that is responsible for the mis-configuration.
We await hearing what action you propose to take.
Yours sincerely
Tony Bennett
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About The Bauhaus Center
Bauhaus Center Tel Aviv was established in 2000 by Dr. Asher Ben-Shmuel, Shlomit Gross and Dr. Micha Gross. Its goal is to expand public recognition of the "White City" as a unique architectural and cultural site.
To achieve this, the center holds a gallery with a permanent collection and changing exhibitions, conducts tours of the city and is a publisher dedicated to the Bauhaus subject. The center cooperates with the Israeli Committee for UNESCO and the municipality of Tel Aviv-Yafo as well as with various institutions, museums and galleries.
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Bauhaus School in Dessau, Germany
The Bauhaus was a school which operated in Germany between 1919 and 1933 and was devoted to art, architecture and design.
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A significant approach in the school was the search for the basic ingredients of art and design. Thus evolved the "Bauhaus Style" in architecture and design—in which primary forms and colors are given great importance.
The Bauhaus had a great impact on the Modern Movement in architecture, embracing functionalism and rationality and condemning ornament. The architectural style of the modern movement is called "The International Style" or "Bauhaus Style". This style is characterized by asymmetry, compositions of primary volumes—cubic and rounded, ribbon windows, pilots, thermometer windows, balconies, roof terraces and plays of shadow and light.
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Six Israeli architects studied in the Bauhaus school: Shlomo Bernstein, Munio Gitai (Weinraub), Edgar Hed (Hecht), Shmuel Mestechkin, Chanan Frenkel and Arieh Sharon. A seventh architect, Philip Hütt, probably also attended courses at the Bauhaus school in Weimar. However, the influence of the Bauhaus on the architecture built in Israel in the 20's, 30's and 40's was by far wider than just by those architects only.
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In Tel Aviv only, more than 4,000 "Bauhaus Style" buildings were built. Thousands more were built in Haifa, Jerusalem, the Kibbutzim and elsewhere in Israel. The main question is, therfore—how, in an era when this new style was still unpopular, did it reach such magnitude in the built work in Israel? The main answer is that the social-cultural ideology behind the "Bauhaus Style" fit like a glove to the socialist-Zionist movement and to the striving of this movement to create a new world. White houses, in every sense—form, style, material, functionality, color—grew from the sands without a past, towards a future.


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by Michael Stone
I browse the net and read all I can find on construction related topics. I attend conventions, both as a participant and as a speaker. There is good information available about construction. Unfortunately there is some not-so-good stuff available, also.
I think the issue that bothers me more than any other is the nonsense from "industry experts" declaring that we must be competitive.
You do not have to be COMPETITIVE. What you have to be, what you must be, is PROFITABLE. If you are not profitable, you and your business are going to go away. Period, end of conversation.
There are a few speakers and writers who understand the concept of being competitive, but they are few and far between. Most experts focus on price.
In today's market, there are a lot of little things that matter more than price. Some of those little things are returning phone calls, dressing properly, haircut and shoes shined, keeping your appointments and on time, providing solid answers to the customer's questions.
Bigger things matter, too. They include following through on what you say, starting and finishing jobs on time, communicating clearly and frequently with your customer, keeping jobs clean from start to finish. These details are included in all of our Markup & Profit products.
Your customers rank price 7th or 8th in their list of considerations when they select the company that will do their remodeling work, new home, or specialty service work. That has been shown by a number of different studies, including one by the National Association of Home Builders.
Let me give you an example of how powerful intangibles are in this business. I am currently working with a small specialty company in our local area. The company provides air duct cleaning service to residential and light commercial customers. We do all of the above, religiously. Do we try to be competitive in our bidding? Not on your life. Our price per opening (grill or register) is anywhere from 1.5 to 2.5 times higher than any other business of our type in the entire metropolitan area. And yes, we do check our competition's prices regularly.
As I write this article, we are closing better than one out of every two sales calls (almost 60%). The major difference between what we do and what our competitors are doing are the intangibles. There are only so many ways to take dust, dirt, and other debris out of an air duct or a furnace.
So, the next time you start worrying about your price being too high, or that you must be competitive, remember, it is in your head, not your customers. They don't know if your price is too high or not. If they did, they wouldn't have called you in the first place. They would have done the job themselves. Polish up your sales skills, stay on top of the intangibles, and forget about being price competitive. Let the other guy be competitive and go broke. Focus on being profitable and focus on doing the intangibles.
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Hey everyone! I hope you all had a restful weekend and are ready for a new week.I had a pretty good weekend: Girls on the Run 5K, trip to Whole Foods with my sister-in-law, a couple movies, a walk with my brother and Molly, food-prep for the week and some solid procrastination…
And guess what? Only TEN DAYS until Thanksgiving!!! How crazy is that?! Haha kind of scaring me now that I know how much work I have to get done. Oh, did I mention I forgot that I have a test tomorrow? Awesome.
So it's time to re-cap last week's workouts and take a look at this week. We are on Week 4 of Tina's Best Body Bootcamp, which has the same layout as week 3.
Here were my workouts for week 3:
Monday – workout A plus intervals A. I LOVED this workout because we used a technique called ladders, which means you do 1 exercise with 5 reps, rest, then 6 reps, rest, 7 reps, rest, 8 reps, rest, 9 reps, rest, 10 reps. Then move on to the next exercise. It was fun!
Tuesday – BLAH. Lol that's how the whole day was. I found out that morning that I'm all twisty and need to see a physical therapist (appointment is today). I did 20 minutes on the elliptical hoping I'd get into the mood to workout as I got warmed up, but no. I was so done. I wanted out.
Wednesday – Workout B plus 25 minutes on 2 different elliptical machines.
Thursday – 50 minutes on various cardio machines. BORING. I would have swam, but Thursdays are such a busy day for me that I'd have to be there super early and our pool tends to be busy really early. I don't handle lane sharing well.
Friday – Workout C (ladders again!). No elliptical because my knees were bothering me.
Saturday – Girls on the Run 5K! I jog/walked it with one of our girls who needed a running buddy and luckily I held together alright! I also walked a total of 4 miles to get to and from the school.
Sunday – 45 minute walk with Molly and my brother, then 35 minutes on various cardio machines plus some ab work.
Notice a lot of elliptical on there? Yea… me too. I finally figured out why it's so boring though: I can't zone out! When I'm running my mind wanders, but for some reason that just doesn't happen on the elliptical. My brain is there for every grueling moment.
Here are this week's workouts:
I'm leaving Tuesday and Thursday somewhat open since I don't know how things will go with the physical therapist today. Obviously I'm praying that she'll magically cure me so I can run again… But more likely I won't be running and I'll do elliptical or swim.
Also, I never really took a rest day this past week (I considered Tuesday's failed attempt a rest day) so I have a feeling one of these days (possibly today…) I'm going to decide to make a rest day and the push back the rest of my workouts. Whatever works, just have to be flexible!
Can you zone out on the elliptical?
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Zick and Rain Crows Alerts!
Tuesday, July 15, 2014
Akron, Cleveland and Columbus area folks please note, I'll be appearing at
Author Day
Hudson Library & Historical Society
96 Library Street
Hudson, OH 44236
Saturday, July 19, 2014
from 1-4 pm.
I'll have many copies of The Bluebird Effect, some other bling,
and my signing pen with me. I'd love to meet you and yak.
And on July 20, The Rain Crows will have a rare, full-band engagement at the Summer Music Garden series in Mount Vernon, Ohio. We'll play two sets of all-original music, much of it brand new, in the
Children's Garden,
Knox County Career Center,
Martinsburg Road, Mount Vernon, Ohio.
Sunday, July 20, 2014
from 4-6 pm.
We'll miss our exquisite fiddler, Jessie Munson, but we'll be enjoying the fabulous pedal steel and dobro wizard John Borchard in her stead.
Thanks to Nelle and Jeff Howard for these shots from a private concert we played at their Dance Barn at the end of June. We're stoked to have another gig--they're few and far between, and we love bringing brand new originals out into the light.
If you can, please come see us! We now return to our regularly scheduled blogging.
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How lucky for us! We are planning to attend. Looking forward to seeing and hearing you all! The picture of you here is so gorgeous, by the way.
Posted by Amy G July 15, 2014 at 6:15 PM
I would love to go to both the signing and the singing! Live way too far away. pout. Will Chet Baker be making an appearance at the book signing?!! :-) Hope so.
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GOOGLE'S MONUMENTAL PLAN TO invest in green technologies, and the company's ambitious goal of producing "one gigawatt of renewable energy — enough to power the city of San Francisco," are both admirable and unprecedented. When I saw the news, I took it as a hopeful sign of big business moving towards sustainable practices.
And then came the naysayers from the financial district:
"My first reaction when I read about this was, 'Is this a joke?'" said Jordan Rohan of RBC Capital Markets. "I've written off Google's competition as a threat to Google's long-term market share gains. But I haven't written off Google's own ability to stretch too far and try to do too much. Ultimately, that is the biggest risk in the Google story."
Robert Peck of Bear Stearns agreed that "the headlines were a little scary at first" and said investors were initially worried that this was another example of Google "trying to bite off more than they can chew." […]
Rohan of RBC Capital Markets said that the returns were not obvious. "The only positive byproduct of this project that would be anything other than environmental," he said, "is that it might make Google managers and executives even prouder of the fact that they work there, and it may help retain key employees who think their goal is to do good in the world. But I'm really stretching." [read full]
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More than 2,200 Reach Out to Travelers Aid Via WebsiteTravelers Aid International is a central clearing house for information and referrals for our 44 members and locations. One feature of this website is our E-Help form, an online request for assistance. In the last 9 months of 2015, more than 2,286 individuals filled out this digital form requesting some assistance. In addition, we received more than 100 phone calls and 45 messages via our Facebook page.
2,286Our staff reviews these requests daily. In 2015, acting on specific E-Help requests, we referred 943 individuals to a Travelers Aid member in their area. There are many corners of this country lacking a Travelers Aid, in those cases we referred these individuals to their local 2-1-1 hotline or other national social service agencies. In 2015, we received 35 requests to provide assistance to a U.S. citizen encountering problems getting back to the U.S. We referred these individuals to the U.S. Embassy or nearest U.S. Consulate. The State Department does have a program to assist stranded U.S. citizens traveling abroad. As the clearinghouse for member information, Travelers Aid International, based in Washington, D.C., unfortunately does not have the funds to provide direct financial assistance to those individuals not directly served by a Travelers Aid member. Elsewhere on this website, Travelers Aid provides a list of other resources, including phone numbers of national organizations who specialize in providing direct assistance in specific situations, such as domestic violence, runways or human trafficking.


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And yet as I said this is nearly over and when the children go back to School and we get back into our normal routine we'll stop eating in the garden (mainly because of the expected cold weather and rain that the UK is famous for in Autumn and Winter). We will stop doing a special thing a day because homework and housework and after school clubs will move back into focus. I don't want to lose this sense of fun, this laid back feeling, this make the most of everyday attitude however so I'm going to try to make sure that the 100 Days of Play campaign that Chad Valley has been focusing on doesn't end for us.
So whilst Top Ender will continue playing with her Doll and Big Boy will no doubt continue to drive me crazy bouncing all over the living room, I like 45% of parents surveyed will continue to scour the internet for fun ideas and inspiration of what fun things we can do.
Playtime to me isn't just a few minutes a day at School, it isn't just a few minutes of time to be squeezed in around homework and after School chores. Playtime to me is going to be a way of life.
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Thomas (Tom) Dale Palmer, 73, passed away on June 7, 2017, at his home in East Wenatchee, Washington. Tom was born in Portland, Oregon on July 19, 1943, son of Frank and Hazel Palmer. Tom graduated from Jenkins High School in Chewelah in 1961. In 1963 he met Janice Derby and on October 9, 1964 the two were married and made their home in Atlantic, Iowa.
Tom's job would eventually lead the family to settle in Kirkland, WA in 1982. In 1990, Tom and Jan established "Dance Time" dance studio. In 2005, Tom's passion for music led him to form D2F Covers, an online business manufacturing protective covers for instruments and amplifiers.
Tom is survived by his twin brother Timothy Palmer, son Franklin Palmer (Christy), daughter Danielle Chan (Barry), granddaughters Kasee Palmer, Heather Palmer, Anabelle Chan and grandson Bailey Chan.
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